Sound??

[Jeff Yowell]

One would have thought they might have worked out such a major issue in the
operating system before they released it...........hmm...


> 
>>                   I have recently  installed YDL4 on my G4 1GHZ  imac (
>> 768 mb ram) and have been playing with it lately but I have had some
>> little problems with it.
>> Firstly, I can't seem to get any sound as I previously encountered with
>> version 3, I get a message as follows " Error while initializing sound
>> driver" SNDCTL_DSP_SETMT failed  Sound server continues using the null
>> output device. When using the Music Player I also get the message ALSA
>> device "defAULT" does not exist.
>> 
> 
> With the migration fro OSS to ALSA the sound got jack'd. As per the
> Yellow Dog site.
> 
> Ubuntu Linux works very well and easy to install (IMHO)
> 
> 
> 
>> Secondly, I am trying to mount my MacOSX partition and "Hfsutils" was
>> not installed so I copied it from the number three cd of YDL and used
>> the rpm -i   command to install it , I got the message it was already
>> installed after I repeated the operation so therefore I did the
>> modprobe hfsutils command but nothing was detected.
>> 
>> Anyone have any suggestions? I gave up using YDL 3 for these very
>> reasons but at least now I can connect to the internet as I recently
>> acquired cable broadband which just works!
>> 
> 
> assuming you know which partition has the Mac OS
> 
> Login to a shell or terminal as root.
> $ mkdir /mnt/macosx [RETURN]
> 
> $ mount /dev/hdxy /mnt/macosx -thfsplus [RETURN]
> 
> $ cd /mnt/macosx [RETURN]
> 
> http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_4.0/hfsplus.shtml
> 
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