On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Christian Walther wrote: > Some tidbits from my efforts to get Linux onto my new PowerBook G4 867MHz: > > o Kernel 2.4.20-benh-2mdk works fine. Not more or less sleep or X issues > than before: colors on the X console are wrong after waking up, right again > after switching to a text console and back. X only works in 16bit frambuffer > mode, but that's probably XF86's fault. > > o Sound works after I "modprobe dmasound_pmac". Why is this not done on > startup? >
Should have been an entry in /etc/modules.conf: alias sound-slot-0 dmasound_pmac > o Sometimes (but as far as I remember not always), gnome-panel segfaults > when logging out of gnome. > Haven't seen this one. I did have a weird gnome experience the other day, but I had upgraded a lot of while it was running, so it didn't suprise me too much. > o I've found this page from someone who uses yellowdog on such a powerbook: > http://www.staikos.on.ca/~staikos/tibook/ > Checking it out now. Doesn't seem to want to come up for some reason. > o Recently, something went wrong with my linux install (I did so many > experiments that I've no idea what it was): Files have vanished. perl is > gone, xinetd is gone, bzip2 is gone, wget is gone, which is gone, and > probably some more that I didn't discover yet. Trying to urpmi them again > just says "everything already installed". So my system is now in a pretty > unusable state (which is no catastrophe because it's a purely experimental > system anyway), and I'm in for a reinstall. However, I'd like to wait until > an installer with a benh kernel is out, so that I can try out the graphical > install, is that going to happen anytime soon? Or can I easily build such an > installer myself? > I did build up a kernel-benh-BOOT and added it to my installer tree, I wanted to update my core 2.4 kernel also and then possibly make another ISO. I'm going to try and enjoy the holiday a bit, but I may be able to have a stage1/kernel and some instructions on merging it with the 2nd ISO up on Thurs or Fri. Not sure what happened with your missing files. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
