Fedora Core 3 works on the Mac Mini

[Colin Charles]

On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 23:15 +1100, Mike MacCana wrote:
> Fedora Core 3 works on the Mac Mini. Went through Colin's instructions
> last night and got it installed. X, Apple Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard,
> dual booting, DVD playing, etc. all work seamlessly. Thanks for all your
> work.

Rock! We have a kernel that works

Was this rawhide or FC-3 (fedorappc release)?

> Some questions:
> 1. Colin, I'm gonna send you a diff of your instructions to contain
> stuff for Mini users, as well as clear some things up I found confusing.
> Before I finish, though, I have to know: is the boot.iso askmethod
> install mandatory for all installs? I did a network install for various
> reasons.

Sure, diff away.

Not really; linux askmethod was so we could get CDROM installs going. I
think we need to fix anaconda, so the doco in place at hte moment makes
room for that

> 2. Wade: installed system-config-soundcard-1.2.10-2wm (thanks for your
> work), the soundcard is detected (the tools says it'll use snd_powermac)
> but I can't hear anything when the test sound is played (I hear there's
> something weird with volume control on the card - maybe that's it?). On
> the console, I get
> 'amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device'
> I know this sounds silly, but running strace doesn't seem to show the
> device its looking for. Maybe I'm blind.

What does your /etc/modprobe.conf look for sound? Paste the output here
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