FC4 - PPC64 - Sound / Yum updates?

[Joe.Hoot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Has anyone had luck getting sound working
either with arts or alsa on PPC64?  I have a dual 1.8ghz g5 that I've
currently using running FC4.  Here are the issues that I currently
have.  If anyone has any suggestions to help me to get this working
properly, I'd greatly appreciate it.

1) No sound - I've read some things
on yellow-dog linux 4.0 and fedora ppc stuff that talks about snd-powermac.
 I've looked for this in /lib/modules and don't see it available,
even though when I look in the kernel config in /usr/src/kernels/ I see
them checked as modules.  I've tried going in there and doing a "make
modules_install", which returns very quckly.

2) No way to run citrix java client
since I get https errors in my java console from konqueror with java: set
to /usr/bin/java  - I've read a lot about java on ppc and it seems
that I'm outta luck here... so for now, I will use a vncsession to an x86
machine to read my lotus notes stuff.

3) yum update seems to have issues resolving
dependencies -  It seems that either packages are missing (unavailable)
or the rpm needs something from gcc-ppc32 as a dependency.  I'm using
only the /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-devel.repo

Importing Additional filelist information for dependency
resolution
--> Processing Dependency: gcc = 4.0.0-0.40 for package: gcc-ppc32
--> Processing Conflict: python-devel conflicts python < 2.4.1-1
--> Processing Dependency: gcc = 4.0.0-0.40 for package: gcc-java
--> Processing Dependency: gcc = 4.0.0-0.40 for package: gcc-c++
--> Processing Dependency: gcc = 4.0.0-0.40 for package: gcc-gfortran
--> Processing Conflict: glibc-common conflicts glibc < 2.3.5
--> Processing Dependency: system-config-printer = 0.6.128-1 for package:
system-config-printer-gui
--> Processing Conflict: glibc-common conflicts glibc > 2.3.4
--> Processing Conflict: gnome-session conflicts gdm < 1:2.6.0.8-5
--> Processing Dependency: libdbi-drivers = 0.7.1-2 for package: libdbi-dbd-mysql
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++-devel = 4.0.0-0.40 for package:
gcc-c++
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
--> Running transaction check
Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/gcc/ppc64-redhat-linux/4.0.0/64/libgcc.a
is needed by package gcc-ppc32
Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 4.0.0-0.40 is needed by package gcc-ppc32
Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies
Error: Package gcc-java needs libgcj-devel = 4.0.0-0.40, this is not available.
Error: Package glibc-devel needs glibc-headers = 2.3.4-21, this is not
available.
Error: Package gcc-ppc32 needs /usr/lib/gcc/ppc64-redhat-linux/4.0.0/64/libgcc.a,
this is not available.
Error: Package gcc-ppc32 needs gcc = 4.0.0-0.40, this is not available.
Error: Package python-devel needs python < 2.4.1-1, this is not available.
Error: Package gcc-java needs gcc = 4.0.0-0.40, this is not available.
Error: Package gcc-c++ needs gcc = 4.0.0-0.40, this is not available.
Error: Package gcc-gfortran needs gcc = 4.0.0-0.40, this is not available.
Error: Package glibc-common needs glibc < 2.3.5, this is not available.
Error: Package system-config-printer-gui needs system-config-printer =
0.6.128-1, this is not available.
Error: Package glibc-common needs glibc > 2.3.4, this is not available.
Error: Package gnome-session needs gdm < 1:2.6.0.8-5, this is not available.
Error: Package libdbi-dbd-mysql needs libdbi-drivers = 0.7.1-2, this is
not available.
Error: Package gcc-c++ needs libstdc++-devel = 4.0.0-0.40, this is not
available.



Thanks,
Joe

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