Apple Bootstrap/Sound?

[mascarasnake]

On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 09:17, magicpenguin@torpedobird.com wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the input, Ben. Misery does love company. After a couple
reboots, my sound decided that it wanted to work after all. Wish I knew
how that happened so I could share the wealth.now, If i can only make
MOL recognize my MacOS HDD, My Linux would be complete