Subject: Re: Linux laptops
From: Shawn Dunn (osirusg@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 12:48:32 MST
You know, call me crazy, but on all of my ancient old tanks that I've got
YDL or MkLinux running on, (Everything from a 6100/60 to my Performa 6205,
and my desktop, a Performa 6360) the video/sound/scsi/usb/whatever has
worked fine on the default install, did apple go to some odd chipsets or
something in the later machines? because frankly, I've never experienced
any of these problems with the install, and if it was later in the life of
the install, it was usually operator error i.e. "I'll push this button as
root, and see what happens" Just my two cents on the issue, maybe I'm way
off base here.
--Shawn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Hocker" <hocker@fnal.gov>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: Linux laptops
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Paul Guba wrote:
>
> Out of the box Sound did not work on my Pismo 400 this machine is two
> years old. I have posted to the list but no one seems to have a
> solution. Frankly building a custom kernel is not very appealing. If
> something as basic as the sound does not work call it beta.
>
>
I just want to add to the moan-fest about sound. There seem to
be so many ways for it to not work ("it's the drivers -- use ALSA,"
"it's KDE's sound server -- use GNOME," "it's the kernel -- upgrade,"
"it's the chipset -- you're screwed") that it becomes impossible
to know what the right path to a solution is. I'm probably
showing my naivete here, but I wish Terra Soft would just hire
somebody for a month and say "You -- you're gong to get this
whole sound thing straightened out once and for all. We're sick
of people like Andy whining about it on the yellowdog list."
Andy
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