Fedora Core 4 on iMac G5

[Paul Nasrat]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 00:14 +0200, Dominik Epple wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since I found some questions about this with google, but no answers,
> this might be valuable to someone...
> 
> This is about running Fedora Core 4 on the current Apple iMac G5.
> 
> There are reports of gdm freezing the machine. I experienced this also,
> and furthermore random crashes while using the console only.


> It turned out this was because of the bell of the shell... every attempt
> to play sound made the machine crash. Disabling sound completely by not
> loading the sound driver modules solves this. On fedora you can do so by
> adding them to /etc/hotplug/blacklist.


Thanks for the detail.

Do you have any details that could be used for debugging? Kernel oops
output, dmesg, etc?

Paul