sound

[Colin Ward]

>                   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)

What help is that?
Why do you KEEP on plugging Ubuntu, this is a YDL group.
As for the YDL sound,it is broken, but I guess it will be fixed with the
first errata. I've had some success on my G3 ibook, will post here when I'm
satisfied.
Colin