On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Peter R. Wood (Lists) wrote:
> Greetings Cookers, > > Here is the longer installation report I promised. This is not intended to > try and solve my problems; rather, it is for reference in the list archives > and for information to the developers. I have not made any attempts to fix > the problems I encountered (obviously I will do this later), I just wanted > to write an objective report of my installation and first run. > > Installation System: > Apple PowerBook G3 2000 (Pismo) > > Stock Config: > 400 MHz G3, 10 gig hdd, 24x cd/dvd-rom, ATI Rage Mobility 128 w/16 megs vram > > Non-Stock Config: > 320 megs ram, Apple Airport card > > Peripherals (some tested, some not): > Microsoft Intellimouse Optical (4 buttons + scroll wheel, USB) (tested) > Dazzle USB CF card reader (somewhat tested) > Nikon Coolpix 775 direct USB connect (not tested) > Handspring Visor USB sync (not tested, but it will probably work fine) > HP DeskJet 940c USB (somewhat tested) > CanoScan N650U USB scanner (not tested, probably won't work as it uses a > proprietary interface, not SANE) > iPod in firewire disk mode (not tested) > > Installed via: > CD-ROM [burned with Roxio EasyCD Creator 5 under Windows XP, from 8.2 beta > ISO's] > > Install method: > install-aty128fb > > Notes on install process: > Booted up by inserting Cooker CD 1 and holding down 'c' key. Booted up into > install-chooser screen just fine. Chose install-aty128fb option. Then, > chose CD install option. Install app loaded from CD ok. > Graphics and video looked good - no video card problems using the aty128fb > installer. > Went with expert installation. Setup of peripherals went ok, except that the > mouse config does not seem to acknowledge the scrolling of my scroll wheel. > It does acknowledge the clicking of the scroll wheel, but not the scrolling. > [Note: once system was up and running, scroll wheel worked fine under X] > I think I've seen this reported on x86 too. Seemed the resonse was you need to keep rolling it a looong time? > The package installation went fine. I chose the packages I wanted and they > installed without problems, it prompted me properly for the second CD when > needed. I periodically switched to VT3 to check on the installer progress, > and saw no problems there. > > In the post-install config, most things went ok. The only thing that I > noticed, and this is not so much a bug but an annoyance, is that I can't > seem to *not* configure existing network interfaces. What I mean is this: I > have an Airport card as well as built-in GMAC ethernet. I don't use the > GMAC ethernet at all; I only use the airport. Both of them are properly > detected, but when I go to configure LAN interfaces, there is no option to > simply *not* use the GMAC. So I configure it with a dummy IP address. I > would rather have an option to omit this device from configuration. > > Video configuration went great. My display was detected just fine and I > chose X 4.2.0. > > Configuration of yaboot/ybin within the installer was extremely easy and > painless. It let me set up my triple boot the way I wanted it, and I have > had to make no changed to my yaboot.conf after configuring in the installer. > > Rebooting the system was the 'biggest' problem - the boot device was not > properly set to the bootstrap partition. Maybe ybin could do this somehow > within the installer? Luckily, Ben Reser had advised me on how to fix this. > (Boot with Apple+Option+O+F; Type: setenv boot-device hd:n,\\:tbxi Where n > is the partition number your boot strap is on.) With his fix, my system is > now properly set up to bring up the bootloader. > I think I've addressed this now. > Notes on system startup: > Did not boot into the Aurora graphical boot monitor. I seem to recall that > this was the default in Mandrake 8.0, but it just did the regular text boot > here. Maybe this is intended. > It seems that various libraries were not found, and there were some errors > in files: > usb-ohci not found known usb-ohci is built into ppc kernel - Ben posted an initscripts fix > cardmgr ./config-opts error on line 8 known error in pcmcia scripts > YP map server: execvp: no such file > httpd-perl & httpd: couldn't find libmm.so.1 > SMB & NMB: couldn't find libacl.so.1 > may bad - missing libs on CD's > Notes on graphical login: > The background on the graphical login screen looked good, however the login > box itself did not look good. The buttons looked like normal GDK platinum, > but the background of the login box seemed to be nonexistent. Instead, it > was the checkerboard-grey of the default X server background. The user icons > were displayed on top of it, and there was black text that was barely > visible due to the grey background. It looks like perhaps it tried to load > a pixmap for the login box, but was unsuccessful? After logging in and out > several times, I got various results: sometimes the login box background was > dark blue, sometimes, black, sometimes the text was clear, sometimes there > was a moire effect. Errm. For the moment I have switched to runlevel 3 as > the boot default and am starting X manually. > There have been similar reports on x86, kde* has been going through many revisions, so hopefully these things will be fixed. > Notes on various window managers: > > GNOME: > When attempting to start GNOME either manually or through the GUI login, it > kicks back out with an error message to the effect that it can't find > libgnomecanvaspixbuf.so.1. > I couldn't test GNOME because of this. > my bad - missing libs > KDE: > KDE started OK and performed as expected. > > WindowMaker: > WindowMaker started OK and performed as expected > > Other apps: > Mozilla: worked as expected > Evolution: would not start up due to missing library file: > libbonobo_conf.so.0 evolution on beta1 was broken anyway, even with the right libs, seems to be wokring now > Mandrake Control Center: > Most control center pieces worked surprisingly well. There were only a few > things I noticed: > HardDrake: won't start up. Says it's starting up, but then it doesn't... > Printer config: It didn't detect my USB printer. I ran a manual setup for a > printer on USB 0, but when trying to print a test page, I got nothing. I am > sure that there is more I will need to do in order to get this working, but > from a new-user perspective it would not be trivial. > hardrake/detect are now fixed. I don't have any usb printers, but I've seen messages detailing a lot of issues on main cooker list > Kernel: > I get frequent errors of the format: > [drm:r128_cce_indirect] *ERROR* process 2511 using buffer owned by 0 > I don't seem to notice any problems with my display or with graphical > performance. Is this a serious issue or just a normal error to be expected > from the DRM module? > r128 is big fun. Works on some machines, not on others. beta1 would not do a graphical install on slot-loading iMacs with r128. I'm told now that latest XFree just dies with sig11 on ibook2. > That's my report. Hopefully in this upcoming week I will be able to do more > testing and fix some of the problems. One thing I would like to try is to > see if I can use my iPod as a firewire hard drive under Linux. Anyone tried > this? > I use a standard firewire IDE drive on my Lombard. No fancy iPod here =( Thanks for the report. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc
