Re: Is this the appropriate list?
Yes, LXDE is much zippier than Gnome on this old beast. I set it up to boot into the command-line interface and only use startx occasionally. I have given up on getting the sound card working as it will just be a development machine anyway. Any suggestions for a good development environment other than the standard GNU/GCC compiler tools collection? Cheers, Tom On Dec 17, 2009, at 11:07 PM, Risto Suominen wrote: 2009/12/17, Gombang Nan Cengka gomb...@gmail.com: On Thursday 17 December 2009 22:35:56 Thomas Carlson wrote: Is this the appropriate list to ask why Debian Lenny doesn't recognize the sound card on my PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio)? Everything else works fine. Definitely. Since Apple stopped supporting OS X Tiger I have been trying out various Linux flavors. Any recommendations? As the computer is not especially powerful measured with today's standards, I would recommend Debian with LXDE desktop. I don't have PowerMac G4, but I guess the fix will be to load snd_powermac kernel module. It works on my iBook G4. -- Yes, snd_powermac should work (G4 Silver): http://wiki.debian.org/PowerpcSoundcards Risto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Is this the appropriate list?
On 12/19/09, Thomas Carlson tcarl...@sharedcup.com wrote: I have given up on getting the sound card working as it will just be a development machine anyway. Any suggestions for a good development environment other than the standard GNU/GCC compiler tools collection? Perl. Lisp (lots of choices here, some are smaller than others). Python. Reasons: scripting interactive development. Perl has lots useful modules and easy to do advanced stuff. Lisp teaches you a lot about programming, and has led innovation several generations. Python is objective, and fast. Some people like java. because partly maybe it is easy to develop GUIs. if you want that. Python has TCL/TK interface. Perl has C interface, etc etch. many other languages available in Debian ... As far as powerpc goes, the scripted languages are probably more portable, as the language itself contains more in the core that is already ported. Some languages that are not are more portable, some work better on powerpc -- particularly in the Lisp section. Java was bad for a long time because IBM was sort of closed and did the powerpc but now the standard Sun java is available it may be better, however apple still uses their own java for MacOSX My opinion/ experience ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Is this the appropriate list?
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:04:19AM -0700, Thomas Carlson wrote: Still no sound. Any suggestions Have you checked that the sound channels are not muted? I remember having to enable manually some of them with alsamixer. Best regards, Cédric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Is this the appropriate list?
Is this the appropriate list to ask why Debian Lenny doesn't recognize the sound card on my PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio)? Everything else works fine. Since Apple stopped supporting OS X Tiger I have been trying out various Linux flavors. Any recommendations? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Is this the appropriate list?
On Thursday 17 December 2009 22:35:56 Thomas Carlson wrote: Is this the appropriate list to ask why Debian Lenny doesn't recognize the sound card on my PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio)? Everything else works fine. Since Apple stopped supporting OS X Tiger I have been trying out various Linux flavors. Any recommendations? Tom I don't have PowerMac G4, but I guess the fix will be to load snd_powermac kernel module. It works on my iBook G4. -- Surel/e-mail: gomb...@gmail.com Blog: http://gombang.blogspot.com (Bahasa Indonesia)| http://gombang.wordpress.com (English) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Is this the appropriate list?
2009/12/17, Gombang Nan Cengka gomb...@gmail.com: On Thursday 17 December 2009 22:35:56 Thomas Carlson wrote: Is this the appropriate list to ask why Debian Lenny doesn't recognize the sound card on my PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio)? Everything else works fine. Definitely. Since Apple stopped supporting OS X Tiger I have been trying out various Linux flavors. Any recommendations? As the computer is not especially powerful measured with today's standards, I would recommend Debian with LXDE desktop. I don't have PowerMac G4, but I guess the fix will be to load snd_powermac kernel module. It works on my iBook G4. -- Yes, snd_powermac should work (G4 Silver): http://wiki.debian.org/PowerpcSoundcards Risto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
