Just installed yellowdog, but my problems with the Sound card drives me MAD!
Can't say i find any master controll on the sound... And KDE is the only thing i can run..

Xmms doesent play MP3 any more so what to do?
Help??

XzIt of Apathy

Hi XzIt,

you can install Gnome (witch has better mixer controls) by logging in as root and typing
yum install gnome

yum works like apt-get and will find the latest version of gnome for yellow dog.
you can also update your yellow dog install to 4.0.1 with
yum update

As for playing mp3's, xine does a nice job. to install xine you need to edit /etc/yum.conf and add
then type yum install xine
after xine is installed a link needs to be made to play dvd's, type
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd

hope this helps
nels

This helps a little
The problem is know where can i choose gnome??? the Session button in the login give me KDE only...
The apt-get, tells me gnome is already in, so does yum.

Help no, sound either


XzIt of Apathy

Make sure the sound card is setup.
click on start > system settings > soundcard detection
click on a sound card (for Pegasos donot choose Apple computer Inc. )
click on play test sound
if you hear sound choose a primary sound card at bottom of window and click ok.

click start > control center
click on sound & multimedia > sound system
click enable the sound system check box
click on apply

nels

Can't get sound out of Soundblaster Live!!
It's really psycho.
What about GNOME??
When i use The sound detection prog i get NO sound.

Wierd

XzIt of Apathy

@XzIt
can you open the mixer controls?

if you get an error when opening the mixer (ie. start > sound & video > volume control)

make a link to mixer
ln -s /dev/mixer /dev/mixer0

nels

edit: sorry I wrote the link command backwards, it's ok now

are u guys using Pegasos 2???
I can't switch Desktop, the program tells me that i don't have gnome...
But both Yum and Apt tells me its installed..

Volume Controll don't have that one...

XzIt of Apathy

@XzIt
Sorry i was working in gnome when i wrote that post, the mixer program in KDE is kmix.
and yes I have a Pegasos 2 G4 512M and SBlive sound card.

Iwas just looking back through the root's cli history buffer and found the comand that was used to install
Gnome on my Ydl install
yum install gnome*

nels

I got Gnome working..
After using yum install *gnome* it found the package....
Now sound remains a problem,
Heard maybe my kernel was a problem...
any ideas?

XzIt of Apathy

try to link the mixer (in the post i last suggested this i wrote the command wrong )
ln -s /dev/mixer /dev/mixer0

nels

I wrote: ln -s /dev/mixer /dev/mixer0
It wrote ln: `/dev/mixer0': File exists



XzIt of Apathy

Still got no sound, just on AC97 card. Sound detection wil not give me output???

XzIt of Apathy

Any-1 got the link to the right Gentoo linux version then???
Want link to the Pegasos verison dir.
Not www.gentoo.org

whould like to use yellow dog, if any-1 could help me.

XzIt of Apathy

http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/rele ... 2005.0.iso
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml