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Dual G4 and sound
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Sydney, NSW Australia
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Has anyone gotten sound working on the Dual 533 G4? I recently got the machine, and have compiled a working 2.4.4 SMP kernel. Everything works great. I'm dual-booting with 9.1 at the moment (Woz doesn't use X and that's good enough for me =). I'm running YDL 2.0, which, for my money, is the best at the moment. Up-to-date KDE packaged and lots of fun stuff.
This machine isn't very well suited to Linux in it's present form, though, I've gotta say. I had to swap the video card out (the NVIDIA drivers won't compile on PPC, big endian issues), and the sound isn't working at all. In fact, it locks the machine hard whenever I try to load the driver.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Bard
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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Oh, I was really looking forward to triple-booting (OS9, YDLinux, and OSX). I have 9.1 installed and tried OSX, but wanted to repartition and allow all the OSes to work. I used YDL on my 8500 before and it is a great distro for Mac. The people of Yellow Dog are great.
Do you know if the Radeon card I have in my machine will work? I've only compiled my own kernel once on a much older 6100 and MkLinux. I wasn't confident in what I was doing then, hopefully with time and a little more knowledge I'll get this done soon.
I really think the sound on this generation of G4s is a little funky. I thought it would be fixed with software updates, but perhaps its something more since we're having trouble with other OSes.
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Sydney, NSW Australia
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actually, OSX is there to boot, i just don't use it (see: woz comment in earlier message). I think the Radeon card will work, but your best bet is to just look around for drivers. I'm dying to use the GeForce2 and will certainly swap it out whenever someone over at NVidia takes their thumb out and big-endian-izes the driver.
If you're really wanting to compile an SMP kernel, I can send you my kernel config file. It took me a few tries, because I'm not used to mac hardware (i'm a recent convert), so I'd be glad to share the value of my experience.
I agree that YDL seems like a great distro. We use it on all of our B&W G3 servers at work (and our recent acquisition: a Dual g4533 DB server) and I'm thinking of putting it on my desktop if I can find a good reason to take LinuxPPC 2000 Q4 off.
cheers,
Bard
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