On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Justin Christopher wrote:
> Okay, here's my beta report from memory. There may be > a few more, I'll check when I get home. > > Let me preface this by saying that this is easily the > best Linux I've tried for PowerPC. I hope these, and > the other issues I've seen can be resolved, because > the speed puts OS X to shame, and I'll gladly pay the > $100 or whatever the suggested donation is. A LOT of > stuff seems to work. It picked up my modem, network > card, and Airport card, a USB wheel mouse, and even > the sound works! > > My system: Apple iBook2 (dual USB, 500mhz, 640 MB RAM, > Airport, 56k modem, ethernet), Mandrake 8.2 PPC Beta > > Bugs/Suggestions: > > 1. The installer picked up both my ethernet and > Airport card, and offered to configure both. Great! I > chose DHCP for both of them. But when I reboot, > neither eth0 or eth1 gets an IP address from my > Airport base station. Gotta get this fixed, because > with no network connection, can't get updated RPMs. > (Windows and OS X clients get IPs from the base > station, no problem). > As wireless becomes more mainstream on x86, I imagine this will be better addressed. There are folks using airport successfully, so I'm sure someone will chime in with what needs to be done to fix it. > 2. As reported by someone else this morning, I also > have the "palette problem" on the GUI login box. It's > pretty bad - only by having previously used it on > another system would you know where to type and click > -new users would be out of luck... Note that I believe > my system has the same video card (ATI Rage128) as the > previous poster who also has the same problem. > Noted. > 3. On x86, the installers seem to recognize that it's > a laptop and give you a battery monitor. 8.2 beta did > not. I went into the KDE control center's battery > section (Where you choose to have an icon displayed), > and it indicated that I did not have APM, and would > have to compile it. That's beyond me at this point. It > would be nice if this "just worked". > apm is an entirely different animal than power management on PPC. Pmud should have been installed, and there's a GUI app that goes with it called batmon. Support is in the kernel as installed. > 4. Can't get into Gnome, it just dumps you back to the > login screen. Probably related to the missing packages > from the CD #2 rejection problem? > known prob - missing/broken libs > 5. Unfortunately, there is a major showstopper: on the > second reboot after the install, there was a line > about "looking for internet connections to start at > boot". It just hangs there, forever. :( Something I > did "wrong"? > I'm not familiar with this message. Normally you see each interface come up, and if it's dhcp and it doesn't find a server there will be a looong timeout. > Let me know if you need me to do any testing on these > issues, I'll be happy to help if it can improve the > final product. > Thanks 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
