I have installed SUSE 10.3 on my powerbook G4 Ti and it seems like most things are working well but I have no WIFI and no sound.
WIFI: This could well be that I don't know what I am doing but I can connect to my AP with my other wifi enabled system just fine. I have tried yast2 - no connection, knetwork manager- no connection and manual configuring via iwconfig although I really don't know how to use this (I have a WPA-PSK key and it seems impossible to set this in iwconfig). So I don't necessarily think there is a fault but I haven't a clue how to proceed and fix it. Hints, high level tools and iwconfig scripts would all be handy and failing that a suggestion as to find out what yast is trying to do and how to debug would be great! I have some sort of mac airport card installed but I don't know what. SOUND: I have had a really hard time here, the installed kernel / sound / yast system gave no sound but showed a PowerMac Tumbler card. The updated system shows 2 sound cards, PowerMac Tumbler and AWACS. I can't edit the PowerMac Tumbler card, yast just crashes when I try (although I have been able to delete it). Before I deleted the PMT the AWACS couldn't be configured. Since then it can be. Problem is that when I play something via aplay, amarok etc I get a burst of sound between 1-5 seconds long and then silence. The sound I hear is correct (but truncated). The length of the burst is seemingly random. Amarok looks like it is still playing oblivious to the silence. In KDE I get no sound from ARTs at all. I have also tried alsaconf (same result). I have also tried the latest alsa driver but this would not compile. Incidently amarok just freezes if I use the gstreamer engine but appears ok with xine. Any ideas please? One of my main reasons for installing linux was to get amarok! Here are some minor irritations rather than major I would like to fix or understand... X11: This is fine provided I change nothing - if I do I instantly get a wierd gray blobbly screen and have to reset the xorg.conf to the previous settings and telinit 3; telinit 5. I think the graphics card has limitations that yast and sax don't understand - it certainly runs at a resolution they don't know (1152*768). I would be happy to leave it but I need to enable thrre button emulation for the trackpad... Trackpad: I would like to turn off the tap to click setting. yast: focus stealing and autoraising - is there anyway to stop this? it is always bloody annoying but on this slow, slow laptop it is excruciating to be rudely interrupted by yast every 15 seconds while it takes 5 minutes to get going... X11 locking when the lid is closed - never had a linux laptop before so never encountered this, how do I turn the locking off? Thanks, SA PS yast wasn't too clever during the partition section of the install so here is what I did for the record in case it is usefull for anyone else: Problem: Yast fails to provide a sensible solution for partioning the disk and fails to carry out the partition plan once you set it up reporting errors that it can't fix. Solution for me: using the install disk boot so a shell (install start_shell at the command line prompt). Then use pdisk to delete the partiions you don't want. My disk had to small "driver" partitions which I had to leave well alone - I think they might contain disk firmware - in any event they were very small so it hardly mattered. and then add: a 32mb mac hfs partition a swap partition and partitions for your install (I like 10Gb ext3 for / and the remaining disk (20Gb) for /home (ext3)). Then exit pdisk, exit the shell and the install starts as usual. When yast gets to the partition section it highlights the partitioning as a problem, which is depressing because this is what it did before. However, provided you don't adjust the partitions in yast it just works - yast formats the partitions with no bother. If you try to change something here it just produces errors as before. Note the small HFS partition is essential! the mac firmware can only boot hfs and this is where the boot loader will go. Regardless of single or dual boot it looks like you must have this! _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
