Apple Bootstrap/Sound?

[yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]

On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 04:33, mascarasnake wrote:
> Howdy Ho to all!
> 
> I'm running a PPC 7500 w/ a 604e upgrade, 2 HDDs (30GB Maxtor with 9.1
> and an 80GB IBM Deskstar for linux).
> I partitioned the 80GB Drive for 70GB for the linux and 10GB as hfs+
> (old world machines, I've gathered, won't stand alone w/ linux).I'm
> Running BootX off the other HDD.
> During Installation of YDL, Disk Druid doesn't allow for an Apple
> Bootstrap (ext2, ext3, swap are the only partition types available), so
> I have it set to a 320 MB swap (twice my RAM) aand the rest as ext3.
> Everything seems to be working fine except for sound. The linux system
> isn't recognizing my soundcard - 
The same thing happened to me during installation, but since I was
booting OS9 from a second hard drive as well, I figured it was ok.

> 
> "device /dev/dsp/ can't be opened (no such device)
> The sound server will continue, using the null output device"
> 
> is the dialog box I get during startx
> 
> Anyone with similar issues and/or a fix?
This I would love to see a fix to. I have a very similar problem on this
machine (beige G3, YDL 3.0, KDE). I have tried evertyhing on the
FAQ/Work around page, and no go for sound.

I don't have much to help, sorry James, but I do want to ask the list
the same things.

~Ben