On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Colin Ward wrote:
> > > > I also don't know why pmud is so problematic for you. If I recall you > > don't have the latest greatest ibook right? Power management did not work > > correctly on the new TiBook, but these things are a matter of letting the > > development catch up with the hardware. The new pmud is up on my web > > space, if anyone want's to try it. > > > > http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict > > > i have been testing teh latest version. One thing, the other day i again > tried one of benh's kernels and pmud seemed to work perfectly. It would > sleep and wake up very quickly and didn't crash. Problem was though > after installing it i couldn't get my USB modem to work, and DRI wasn't > enabled. I have last years (may 2001)ibook2. The first one released, > luckily with the hard modem. > tradeoffs I guess ;^) > >>i also can't play audio CD's. I can if i rip them to MP3s and burn > >>them to cd, and the sound is perfect. I know there was a issue with this > >>but thought it had been fixed? > >> > >> > > > > I wasn't aware of anything that needed to be fixed. It's a known issue > > that Apple removed the analog connection between the CDROM and soundcard > > on newer machines and you have to use the cdreader plugin to play CD's. > > It's also known that xmms and supermount are somewhat less than > > compatible. These issues also exist on x86. I tested the cdreader plugin > > on the TiBook Phil lent me, and it seemed to work fine. > > > Ok, where do i get the CD reader plug-in? i haven't seen it anyware. > It's in contribs on the mirrors. I moved into main for the final PPC release though. I tried to package it as part of xmms, but the maintainer would have no part of it. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
