Fedora Core 3 works on the Mac Mini

[Mike MacCana]

Colin Charles wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 23:15 +1100, Mike MacCana wrote:
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>>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.
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>Rock! We have a kernel that works
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>Was this rawhide or FC-3 (fedorappc release)?
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Stock FC3 (well, FC 2.91 test) as specified in your doco.

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>>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.
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>Sure, diff away.
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>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
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Cool. I'll focus on doing a regular instal then (but also show how to do 
a network install in a seperate section).

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>>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.
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>What does your /etc/modprobe.conf look for sound? Paste the output here
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hahahaha. I just looked inside it - it seems s-c-s may have a bug where 
it keeps writing the same post module load scripts over and over again...

install snd_powermac /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd_powermac && 
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 ||:
remove snd_powermac { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; 
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd_powermac
install snd_powermac /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd_powermac && 
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 ||:
remove snd_powermac { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; 
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd_powermac
install snd_powermac /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd_powermac && 
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 ||:
remove snd_powermac { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; 
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd_powermac
install snd_powermac /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd_powermac && 
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 ||:
remove snd_powermac { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; 
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd_powermac
alias snd-card-0 snd_powermac
install snd_powermac /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd_powermac && 
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 ||:
remove snd_powermac { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; 
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd_powermac

Might get rid of the duplicates and retest...

Mike