by southpawami » 21 Dec 2004, 12:49
I think you all are right... I've got everything to work fine in my atleast 5 different installs of YDL 4.0 now... except sound. I have a G3 iBook 900. I have played with the different options in customizing sound which seems dissappointing in that there does not seem to be a way to specify a specific brand, appearing like it's taking away some bit of ability within the GUI.
The absolute, most annoying thing about this sound issue, is that it works fine during install, and never works when actually running it. I've fiddled with services a little, to no avail.
I'll try that sound trick mentioned, and I hope it works, as there doesn't seem to be another fix that I haven't tried yet. Thank you for sharing it. Nobody's given a sure winner in the shell from what I've read yet, although I haven't read everything in the yellow dog forum yet.
However, let me give some of you G3 iBook 8/900MHz people some bit of advice. The installer does NOT detect the LCD properly. It detects mobility graphics card, and yet does not logically deduce that it might have an LCD. So, when you are in the installer, DO NOT set the graphics to millions of colors with 1024x768... just trust me on this... unless you really like a forced command line, that is. Change the settings to thousands of colors, and setting the 1024x768 will work fine. Why not set it to LCD?? Because for some oddball reason, the installer tries to be so friendly, it doesn't let you get specific enough when you really need to be. I've run the 'installer' 'installer-safe' and 'installer text', and every one of them has that... 'glitch'. So, all you have to do, is after you install, go to the command control(i think thats the name of it in KDE) or the Display settings in one of the system menus, and change the display type to LCD, then after that, change colors to millions of colors. (Oh, and blender and wings3d do not come with it, so just be ready to download after install for those into those applications.)
All in all though... if YDL 4.0 only had sound on my laptop... it'd be a great all around os. It seems to run wireless networking great, and dsl through average hardware fine... although through antique hardware for dsl don't trust it with a 10ft stick... and sets up nicely and easily, with the only obstacle that you can't be specific enough during install on any part when you need to be.