Sound??

[John Davis]

So you guys are saying YDL4 is a bit lacking and you should try some  
other OS? I will fiddle with this for a while until I can get my hands  
on FC3 as my original intention, I only tried this as it was easy to  
acquire and I thought my former problems with YDL3 were resolved, oh  
well c'est la vie.
     Thanks anyway guys,
              John.
On 06/12/2004, at 6:10 AM, Jeff Yowell wrote:

> 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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