Stew Benedict wrote: > 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 > >
Sorry steve but whats the file called? i've looked here ftp://ftp.proxad.net/mirrors/ftp.mandrake-linux.com/Mandrake-devel/contrib/ppc/ and there are a number of things that begin cd-, but i'm not sure whats what. Sorry to be a pain Colin
