Sound??

[Jeff Yowell]

Mandrake 10.1 is also an option.  Problem is, when you kind of counted on
YDL 4.0, with all the HYPE, being the best solution for the PPC, and you've
got your 60GB drive partitioned according to how YDL wants it partitioned,
then it's not too convenient to back up everything and reinstall, folks.
Took me six hours last week - three to figure out why the "everything"
install wouldn't fit on a 9.4GB partition.... Turns out it needs a 9.5GB
partition (to install 6GB worth of software)..................anybody
discover that little gem yet?




> I agree. Especially since Terra Soft solutions sells Apple machines with YDL 4
> pre-installed. I suspect that when you buy the hardware with the OS installed,
> there's no error. At least I hope that's the case...
> 
> I'm going to try Ubuntu, but that's not exactly a solution to a problem with
> YDL 4....
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: yellowdog-newbie-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com on behalf of Jeff
> Yowell
> Sent: Sun 12/5/2004 10:57 AM
> To: Yellow Dog Linux Newbie List
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: Sound??
> 
> 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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