Re: May I ask?
On 17/9/02 8:00 am, Jeroen Diederen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I live in Leiden, The Netherlands, about 35 km south west of Amsterdam. Sounds like a nice idea. Stephan Haller wrote: May I ask you all on the list where you are coming from? Perhaps we are all in range of 400 or 500 km to meet? Was only an thought!?! Does anybody come to a meeting of PPC users? For myself, it does not matter if in France or in the Netherlands or in Germany or somewher else in a radius of 400 km around Colone (oops who you know wher I am ;)===) Stephan Haller Currently a PPC user I'm in London, although I always find an excuse to go to Amsterdam ;-) COlin
Re: 8.2 install report
on 24/4/02 11:35 pm, Henrik Edlund at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I am now running 8.2 on my iBook-2001. I have a few comments though: The yaboot-setup during install setup yaboot.conf to have append= devfs=mount . This made the first boot to fail (can not find /dev/hda5). I had to reset the machine and boot with linux devfs=nomount and then remove this append line deom yaboot.conf and then run ybin. I am running ext3 on all my file systems. Install program should ask if you want to use Linux or Mac keycodes. What is the way to change to Mac keycodes now? Airport is so easy to get working it really should be automatically setup during install. I just added alias eth1 airport to /etc/modules.conf, copied /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to ifcfg-eth1, added a ESSID line to it. Then I just can do ifup eth1 and Airport is working without hazzle. When I close the lid or press a sleep button (in some program) and then wake the computer up, either by opening lid or pressing a key, then the screen is frozen (I can see this by that the clock in WindowMaker is not ticking), and the keyboard has no effect. I can move the mouse cursor though, but clicking has no effect. I had to do a hard reset. Known problem? I've had those same pmud problems since the 8.2beta1 release. I did post them here and there was a pmud update, it didn't fix the problem for me. The only way i can get pmud to work on the ibook is to use one of benh's kernels. You even get a nice little bat meter in status bar and acurate readout for charging-useage etc. But if i use that kernel my Speed touch modem refuses to work, which sucks. Everything eles works though, very well. COlin
Problems burning iso
Is anyone having problems burning the 8.2 final iso image? I've tried a few times now and it always fails when trying to verify the disk after burning. I always use the disk-burning utility in OSX as its never given me many coasters in the past, only when the iso's are faulty. I will try a different mirror but they should all be the same yes? Colin
Re: Problems burning iso
On 25/4/02 2:19 pm, Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Colin Ward wrote: Is anyone having problems burning the 8.2 final iso image? I've tried a few times now and it always fails when trying to verify the disk after burning. I always use the disk-burning utility in OSX as its never given me many coasters in the past, only when the iso's are faulty. I will try a different mirror but they should all be the same yes? Colin That's why we publish md5sums. There was one report of bad ISO's at carroll.cac.psu.edu. Stew Benedict Ok, wanna tell me how to use them? And do I need any special software or anything. Sorry to be dim, never had to use them or come across them before. Thanks Colin
Re: Problems burning iso
On 25/4/02 4:09 pm, James White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm no expert, but here's what I did (from memory). The ftp sites include files named, like, md5sums-8.2.ppc. Look in these file and note the numbers. Write them down. Get the application md5app for OSX. Here's a link: http://www.macosxapps.com/article.php?story=200201240826062 MD5APP against the downloaded iso's. Compare the number. It should match. For some reason the the check Thanks, for some reason the MD5sums where not matching from the ftp.mirror.ac.uk site. I have ADSL and always get ISOs in one session, I never resume. I went to a danish mirror and things worked out straight away. I don't think it was a error on my part because I downloaded them twice on different macs, and and the bad sums where the same on each mac, both times.Anyways I've got them now and its running great on my ibook. Still can't get x on the G4 though :-(. Many thanks Colin
Re: update to G4 install, please help
On 4/19/02 11:47 PM, Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:33:33 +0100 Colin Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At text install there wasn't a listing of my monitor (apple 15in flat screen 1024x768, dpi 72x72). I didn't know what to pick so i tried a generic one. After install x didnt start and i was left with the choice to login to terminal. When trying startx i got a flicker and this (EE) r128 (0): no DFPz FBIOPUT_VSCRREENFO invalid argument fatal server error addserver/screenlink x server or something very close to that. What can i try? i really need help with this Colin There are only listing for monitors folks have given me specs for. Essentially I need resoultion and horz and vertical ranges. You could try backing down to fbdev instead of r128 in /etcX11/Xf86Config-4, and see if that does anything for you. I'm not familar with those messages above, but it almost looks like X is asking the display for capabilities and not liking the answer. Stew Benedict Ok stew, remember I'm a nubie so I need to know a few things. Firstly the exact monitor I have is a Apple Studio Display 15, and it runs up to 1024x768. The res (DPI) is72x72. You could try backing down to fbdev instead of r128 in /etcX11/Xf86Config-4, and see if that does anything for you. I'm not familar with those messages above, but it almost looks like X is asking the display for capabilities and not liking the answer How do I edit XF86Config-4 from within the terminal. I can navigate through the file system ok, but don't know how to edit a particular file from with in it. (I know I should). Also someone just wanting to try ML wouldn't know what to do if they where new to it. There are more of these apple monitors sold with pre silver G4s than any others. But any help is appreciated Thanks
Re: update to G4 install, please help
On 4/20/02 9:17 AM, Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 08:53:27AM +0100, Colin Ward wrote: How do I edit XF86Config-4 from within the terminal. I can navigate through the file system ok, but don't know how to edit a particular file from with in it. (I know I should). Also someone just wanting to try ML wouldn't know what to do if they where new to it. There are more of these apple monitors sold with pre silver G4s than any others. But any help is appreciated Short Answer: pico /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 I get pico command not found. I obviously don't have it installed (although I picked everything from the test install). How do I do this? I take is I would have to get it from one of the cd's? Which one and how ( I am new to CLI) Longer Answer is well pretty hard to answer without knowing preciously what needs to be done or going into a really long explanation of how the XF86 Config files are setup. However, have you tried adding: append=video=ofonly (if you already have append= devfs=mount then it would be, append= devfs=mount video=ofonly) You can add that to your yaboot.conf via; pico /etc/yaboot.conf When you're done run (as root): ybin ybin installs the bootloder options from the yaboot.conf config file. Just ybin , or ybin -v ? Yes i need to get in there to ad my osx line. The installer didn't ask me if I wanted to do this (add another os). I got the ofonly thing from this mailing list post: http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/2/2002/1/0/7690737/ Otherwise searching for a prewritten XF86Config-4 file (which is what I started to do when I found the above link) for your video card + monitor should resolve your problem. Then all you'd need to do is copy it over the existing /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. You probably will want to copy the existing one to save it in case the new one doesn't work. I usually do: cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.mdk HTH I just wish I have the right line to put in so I could get a graphical install. I have thought about putting in my radeon card and seeing if it will pick it up from install with install-radeon. I may need to get back to few times with this, so please be patient with me. Many thanks.
need help with G4 install
Having trouble installing 8.2 beta2. i have a G4 500 (sawtooth) with a 15in flat screen apple monitor. It has the defult ATI rage pro graphics card.(i also have a radion mac edition 32 but i want to keep this as simple as possilble). I've tried to do a graphical install but none of the options i pick seem to work. I've tried install-atyfb, aty128fb, infact i tried most of the options given (execpt 2.2 options). The screen just goes blank if i try any of above, the screen light also flashes as if in sleep. if i try the no video mode i actuly get to a blue screen after the cdrom has loaded, but thats it. I am now trying a text install, but i don't think theres a 15in apple monitor listed (1024x768), what would be the best to choose?. I will post result of this but any help would be very welcome. For your info i'm installing onto a 10gig partition on a 25GBHD, i have already installed OS9/X, they work fine. many thanks Colin
update to G4 install, please help
Having trouble installing 8.2 beta2. i have a G4 500 (sawtooth) with a 15in flat screen apple monitor. It has the defult ATI rage pro graphics card.(i also have a radion mac edition 32 but i want to keep this as simple as possilble). I've tried to do a graphical install but none of the options i pick seem to work. I've tried install-atyfb, aty128fb, infact i tried most of the options given (execpt 2.2 options). The screen just goes blank if i try any of above, the screen light also flashes as if in sleep. if i try the no video mode i actuly get to a blue screen after the cdrom has loaded, but thats it. I am now trying a text install, but i don't think theres a 15in apple monitor listed (1024x768), what would be the best to choose?. I will post result of this but any help would be very welcome. For your info i'm installing onto a 10gig partition on a 25GBHD, i have already installed OS9/X, they work fine. many thanks Colin update At text install there wasn't a listing of my monitor (apple 15in flat screen 1024x768, dpi 72x72). I didn't know what to pick so i tried a generic one. After install x didnt start and i was left with the choice to login to terminal. When trying startx i got a flicker and this (EE) r128 (0): no DFPz FBIOPUT_VSCRREENFO invalid argument fatal server error addserver/screenlink x server or something very close to that. What can i try? i really need help with this Colin
Re: Missing /dev/hda during install
On 4/10/02 10:09 PM, Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Paul Sabatino wrote: Just for the heck of it I grabbed the YDL 2.2 iso, and tried it on the same iBook with exactly the same results. No /dev/hda and no mention of /dev/hda in the dmesg output. Nothing seemed unusual in the dmesg output, except for the fact that the hda device was missing :( If I get a chance I'll try an install again and post all the ide messages. Interesting. One way to keep folks from putting Linux on their Apples ;^) Stew Benedict Stupid I know, but I've seen it done before. You are making your linux partition as 'free space when partitioning the drive? Colin
Re: 8.2 beta issues (again), and some
Johanna wrote: Okay, I've given it another try and spent yesterday on re-installing Mandrake and trying to tweak. Not very successfully, but at leat I understand a little more of Linux now, I believe :-) Three main issues remain unsolved for me, and I'd really, REALLY appreciate any help on them, as I'm quite keen on getting at least a Linux system I can work with for the beginning on my iBook2: - The text cursor still tends to jump away to where the mouse cursor is, which is REALLY REALLY annoying when typing text. As I want to use Linux in order to write research papers and theses on Lyx, I somehow have to resolve that issue. Could it have anything to do with poor trackpad control? I.e., that I possible touch the trackpad lightly while typing and the system interprets this as a mouse click? How could I find out if this is the case and possibly fix it? - I've followed Sylvain's HowTo on changing the keyboard layout. The result was that NEITHER the alt nor the Apple/AltGr button produced any secondary signs like , EUR etc. My problem was not the keyboard mapping in itself - that's basically identical between PC and Mac in Germany (perhaps I've expressed myself unclearly previously) but the function of the other keys, ESP. the alt key and the wonderful signs it produces in MacOS. Is there any way to change it (I know, it might interfere with lots of shortcuts) and how do I do it? - My printer still doesn't work, and I don't know why. It's a Lexmark Z 42 which is supported by Gimp-print. I could chose it in the printer menu in the Mandrake Control center. I tried chosing all the USB ports (actually, it's in USB #2), several resolutions etc., but to no avail. I don't get any error messages; Linux seems to be under the impression that the printer works, there are no print jobs on queue left when I check, but no printed page cames out. The printer works perfectly under MacOS, so I'm a bit at a loss. Being able to print would be quite important for me... I'll try Stew's suggestion re the CD-drive as soon as I've booted Mandrake again - at the moment, a huge download is running under MacOS which I don't want to interrupt for too long. Modem is fortunately not so important for me (anyway, not Mandrake's fault it doesn't work), I've got ADSL, which works just fine. I haven't tried burning CDs yet - I hope that works without too much hassle? Mandrake obviously recognizes my CD-RW as a Sony RW XYZ, so that seems to be fine. Johanna I hadn't noticed this as i don't do to much typing. Yesterday my wife was in a hurry and was writing some emails in ML. She would normaly boot into macos or use her compaq laptop. Well she reported to same thing while writing emails in a web browser. At first i thought she must be accidently touching the trak-pad or something, but shes a 90wpm person and after wacthing for a while i saw that she wasn't touching the pad at all. So could that be looked into. Another bug i've found is with the ADSLspeed touch pro modem setup. I've managed to get mine working now for a few weeks, and it took some trial and error. When i want to connect i always have to load the modem microcode manuly by doing 'modem_run -m -f /usr/share/speedtouch/mgmt.o'. Using the 'connect'tab in CC does nothing. i then have to go through the 'wizard' to re-enter my isp details. I'm then told that i'm not connected, but really i am .(i've read that the pc version sometimes does this) From there it stays connected for days if need be and is very stable(i also get a faster download speed than macos9/x or wintel), its just a hassle having to go through the whole process if for some reason i have to disconect. Can this be looked at, the Alcatel USB modem is very populer and i know a number of people that want to use it with linux of any kind. I still can't get pmud to start and boot, and it still won't wake from sleep after i have started it manuly. i also can't play audio CD's. I can if i rip them to MP3s and burn them to cd, and the sound is perfect. I know there was a issue with this but thought it had been fixed? Apart from the probems i have mentiond my ibook is working very well under this latest beta. The disply is so sharp and crisp and it runs very fast, faster than macos. It also runs a lot cooler under linux. It used to get so hot when using os9/x. It also very stable as in Keep up the good work stew, i for one really appreciate all the hard work that you've done. Colin
Re: 8.2 beta issues (again), and some
I also don't know why pmud is so problematic for you. If I recall you don't have the latest greatest ibook right? Power management did not work correctly on the new TiBook, but these things are a matter of letting the development catch up with the hardware. The new pmud is up on my web space, if anyone want's to try it. http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict i have been testing teh latest version. One thing, the other day i again tried one of benh's kernels and pmud seemed to work perfectly. It would sleep and wake up very quickly and didn't crash. Problem was though after installing it i couldn't get my USB modem to work, and DRI wasn't enabled. I have last years (may 2001)ibook2. The first one released, luckily with the hard modem. i also can't play audio CD's. I can if i rip them to MP3s and burn them to cd, and the sound is perfect. I know there was a issue with this but thought it had been fixed? I wasn't aware of anything that needed to be fixed. It's a known issue that Apple removed the analog connection between the CDROM and soundcard on newer machines and you have to use the cdreader plugin to play CD's. It's also known that xmms and supermount are somewhat less than compatible. These issues also exist on x86. I tested the cdreader plugin on the TiBook Phil lent me, and it seemed to work fine. Ok, where do i get the CD reader plug-in? i haven't seen it anyware. COlin
Re: 8.2 beta issues (again), and some
Stew Benedict wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Colin Ward wrote: I also don't know why pmud is so problematic for you. If I recall you don't have the latest greatest ibook right? Power management did not work correctly on the new TiBook, but these things are a matter of letting the development catch up with the hardware. The new pmud is up on my web space, if anyone want's to try it. http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict i have been testing teh latest version. One thing, the other day i again tried one of benh's kernels and pmud seemed to work perfectly. It would sleep and wake up very quickly and didn't crash. Problem was though after installing it i couldn't get my USB modem to work, and DRI wasn't enabled. I have last years (may 2001)ibook2. The first one released, luckily with the hard modem. tradeoffs I guess ;^) i also can't play audio CD's. I can if i rip them to MP3s and burn them to cd, and the sound is perfect. I know there was a issue with this but thought it had been fixed? I wasn't aware of anything that needed to be fixed. It's a known issue that Apple removed the analog connection between the CDROM and soundcard on newer machines and you have to use the cdreader plugin to play CD's. It's also known that xmms and supermount are somewhat less than compatible. These issues also exist on x86. I tested the cdreader plugin on the TiBook Phil lent me, and it seemed to work fine. Ok, where do i get the CD reader plug-in? i haven't seen it anyware. It's in contribs on the mirrors. I moved into main for the final PPC release though. I tried to package it as part of xmms, but the maintainer would have no part of it. Stew Benedict Sorry steve but whats the file called? i've looked here ftp://ftp.proxad.net/mirrors/ftp.mandrake-linux.com/Mandrake-devel/contrib/ppc/ and there are a number of things that begin cd-, but i'm not sure whats what. Sorry to be a pain Colin
Re: 8.2 beta issues (again), and some
Stew Benedict wrote: On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Colin Ward wrote: i have been testing teh latest version. One thing, the other day i again tried one of benh's kernels and pmud seemed to work perfectly. It would sleep and wake up very quickly and didn't crash. Problem was though after installing it i couldn't get my USB modem to work, and DRI wasn't enabled. I have last years (may 2001)ibook2. The first one released, luckily with the hard modem. Colin, I can look at Ben's kernel and see if I can pull in any new power management stuff into the Mandrake kernel, without impacting too many other things. Would you be willing to test it? Sorry steve but whats the file called? i've looked here ftp://ftp.proxad.net/mirrors/ftp.mandrake-linux.com/Mandrake-devel/contrib/ppc/ and there are a number of things that begin cd-, but i'm not sure whats what. Sorry to be a pain Colin No Prob, I'm not seeing it either. Try this: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/xmms-cdread-0.14a-2mdk.ppc.rpm Stew Benedict Yes steve, would love to do that for you. Let me know when you've got something. And thanks for the link COlin
pmud, can't wake from sleep
Steve well i've been trying out the latest pmud that you directed me to. I can only get it to start if i do it manuly, it doesn't seem to want to start at startup, i get a failed message. I can get the ibook to sleep mode, but when i try and wake it things go bad. The screen comes back up, but nothing can be selected or used. It just hangs there and i have to power down. I then had problems booting, but managed to get back up with failsafe. THis has now happend a few times, i can get suspend though. What info do you need to see whats going on? Colin
Re: pmud, can't wake from sleep
Ben Reser wrote: On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:45:48PM +0100, Colin Ward wrote: Steve well i've been trying out the latest pmud that you directed me to. I can only get it to start if i do it manuly, it doesn't seem to want to start at startup, i get a failed message. I can get the ibook to sleep mode, but when i try and wake it things go bad. The screen comes back up, but nothing can be selected or used. It just hangs there and i have to power down. I then had problems booting, but managed to get back up with failsafe. THis has now happend a few times, i can get suspend though. What info do you need to see whats going on? Actually come to think of it my Titanium is doing this too. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. Perhaps the newer PMUD fixes this. At least the 0.10 version says something about lid opening and closing in it's changes. I haven't specifically tried it to see if it resolves the issue. But then again it's probably too late to change to 0.10. i am using 0.10. It does go to sleep if i close the lid, it just won't wake? It beeps when the screen comes back, then just hangs there. on the plus side though the ibook runds a lot cooler than it does with OSX/9, infact it hardly gets hot at all even after being on all day. WOuld be nice to get it working though. I did also try in today with a benh kernel (2.4.19-pre4-ben0). While it does give you a battery/charging icon in the kicker, pmud still has to be started manuly and it still hangs when comming out of sleep. So i'm at a loss. I have the may2001 ibook 2 500, 384, 10. With a real hard modem :-) Colin
Re: problems with beta2 on white ibook
Christopher Molnar wrote: Doesn't seem to be. If I hold down the ctrl-alt (actually Option)-F1 keys I start messing with my video settings (makes screen dimmer). I am new to the ibook, so I may be missing something. -Chris On Sunday, April 7, 2002, at 06:36 PM, Ben Reser wrote: On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 05:42:54PM -0400, Christopher Molnar wrote: I am also wondering what keys do I need to press to get to the install log window and other great information (like in the i586 version I can use ctrl-alt-F1...). I thought all of these keystrokes were made consistent with x86 in this version? -- Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.reser.org What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi You also have to use the funtion key (fn) to use F1 -F10 in the normal ways. Colin
Re: 8.2 beta report - several problems
Henrik Edlund wrote: On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Justin Christopher wrote: JC Sleeping an iBook2 by closing the lid or using the JC 'snooze' command does not work. When you awaken the JC computer, it does not accept keyboard or mouse input. JC Colin Ward has the same problem so it's not just me. I had this working under 8.0 with a BenH kernel back in October last year. Must have been 2.4.10 or something like that. As i said in a post earlier tonight, i tried the latest benh kernel today. While it did give me a battery meter in the kicker it didn't help the wakeing from sleep problem. Colin
Re: Mac OS gives boot problems
On 4/4/02 9:41 AM, Tom Hutchinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realize that i can make a partition for os 9 and X and it will be fine but i dont use 9 much so i dont like wasting space with a big partition for it(plus it just takes away soem flexibility) -Tom Hutchinson It's probably better to have a separate partition for each. I have three partitions and the OS9 one is only 1gig, OS9 doesn't really need much space. In fact a basic install is only around 3-400MB. This is how I have my ibook (dual usb 500, 384MB, 10GB, CDRW) OS9 =1GB OSX =5GB Mandrake-linux=4GIG This works perfectly for me. Colin
Re: KDM and ATI Rage 128
Peter R. Wood wrote: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/~baudens/ppc/ I installed these packages on my PowerBook Pismo with an ATI Rage Mobility 128, commented the DRI modules back into my XF86Config-4, and everything works beautifully now. Tried the OpenGL xscreensaver modules - they run as smooth as silk with hardware acceleration! Amazing... I haven't tried OpenGL on here for some time, so maybe it's been good for a while, but this is the best I've seen it. :-) Peter Yes, i can say the same. I can still only get 16bit color though (ibook2 500). I must say though that the disply is still very nice and crisp and DRI seems to be working very well. Colin
Re: Unable to eject CDROM... and why two zip devices....
James M. White wrote: I am a Linux newbie, but have installed on (perhaps) four machines. Here's my current. PM G4/733 Quick ATI radeon 7500 32M hda = IBM 60gig hdb = WD 20 gig Linux installed in 4 gig partition at the end of this drive logitech wheel mouse SCSI Zip 100 drive Internal CD-RW Apple 1705 multiscan monitor Epson Color SW 740 printer How do I open my CDROM drawer ? It won't open when I press the 'eject' button on my keyboard. It won't open when I click the 'eject' button of the CD player application It won't open when I right click on the CDROM deskop icon and then left click on the 'Eject' option. The device is NOT mounted and evidenced by [root@localhost etc]# umount /mnt/cdrom umount: /mnt/cdrom: not mounted Here's my /etc/fstab file.. [root@localhost etc]# cat fstab /dev/hdb4 / ext2 noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /home ext2 noatime 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /mnt/zip2 /mnt/zip2 supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Also why two zip devices? Not sure how that may have happened? I can't seem to mount either... perhaps because disks were formatted on Mac OS8. [root@localhost etc]# mount /mnt/zip [root@localhost etc]# cd /mnt/zip bash: cd: /mnt/zip: Input/output error Thanks for any help provided. In general the 8.2 beta install went fine. Of course, Gnome control panel is fubar, but that has been reported earlier. I needed to fuss around to get 1024*768 resolution configured... thought my monitor specs clearly indicate it's within spec. CUPS did not, initially, install correctly. Had some problems defining my epson printer.. but most bugs have been worked out. Jim I do this [colin@colinsbox colin]$ cd /mnt/cdrom [colin@colinsbox colin]$ eject should work Colin
white/dead pixle with r128
Just thought i should let you know that just now i noticed a dead/white pixle on the left side of the screen. The bottom of my dmesg gave [drm:r128_cce_indirect]*ERROR* process 4072 using buffer owned bt 0 [drm:r128_cce_indirect]*ERROR* process 4072 using buffer owned bt 0 [colin@colinsbox colin]$ After restating x it went and the error went from the dmesg. I'm using the latest x rmps that where posted a few days ago. This won't cause any damage to my screen will it? Colin
Re: Ati cards: new XFree to test
David BAUDENS wrote: Can people using Ati card(s) can test new XFree86 packages available here: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/~baudens/ppc/ and report bug at cooker-ppc@. I'm very interesting to know: - if X works ;-), especially with Mach64 and Radeon cards (and other Ati cards if you have one). Rage128 should work but I will be very happy if someone can confirm that - if dri is used - if dri is used, then if the problem with KDM is fixed People using other video cards than Ati cards doesn't need to test these new packages because I have only modified Ati support. Thanks for your help. Yes dri is enabled and the kdm login screen seems to be fixed. Heres the end of my xfree86.0log (II) R128(0): Reinitializing Xvideo subsystems (II) R128(0): X context handle = 0x0001 (II) R128(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler (II) R128(0): [DRI] installation complete (II) R128(0): [drm] Added 128 16384 byte vertex/indirect buffers (II) R128(0): [drm] Mapped 128 vertex/indirect buffers (II) R128(0): Direct rendering enabled i have also swithced back to default kernel (remember i put in 2.4.19-pre4)dri wasn't being enabled with it. All seems fine now (ibook2) Colin
Re: 8.2beta 2 and ibook2 install, everything working, almost
On 3/30/02 6:48 AM, David BAUDENS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 30 March 2002 01:46, Colin Ward wrote: /.../ Another thing was the login screen, it won't display right and looks ugly, and its hard to pick a different manager as well as password/login information. This was fixed though once I installed a newer kernel (2.4.19-pre4). /.../ Please give more information here. It seems (I'm sure) that the r128/KDM/dri problem is related to the r128.o kernel module. I tried to use 2.4.19-pre4 like you did and I saw like you that KDM looked nice. But, it looked nice only because r128 module was not used (even if it was loaded). Did your r128 module was used? What contains your /var/log/XFree86.0.log when you use 2.4.19-pre4? From what I can see yes it is. I can even get the openGL screen savers to work. The display seems fine to me, only 16bit color, but its crystal clear. If you tell me what I'm looking for I could give you more info My main problem is with Gnome, I get bonobo-moniker- rchive(process 2005) has caused crash), anyone else getting this? I don't really use gnome anyway, but I'm one of those people that has to have everything working. Otherwise I'm pretty pleased. It's only been a few days and I'm still testing, but its looking good guys. Colin
Re: 8.2beta 2 and ibook2 install, everything working, almost
On 3/30/02 12:46 AM, Colin Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well after a few days uptime and a little tweaking (new kernel and such) I have a working ibook2(may 2001), 500/CDRW/384/10. Most things working straight from install including sound, 16bit color, modem, network, printing, CD burning. Also have a working control center (seemed to be broken in 1st beta), but if I use hardware detection most of the information is blacked/grayed out. Everything in KDE seem to work fine, but gnomes not so good. Only spent 10 minuets in there because everything kept crashing, I didn't write down what the prompt kept telling me, but I will later and report here so it can maybe get fixed. Enlightenment seems to work very well though, not my type of thing but it looks and sounds very pretty. Another thing was the login screen, it won't display right and looks ugly, and its hard to pick a different manager as well as password/login information. This was fixed though once I installed a newer kernel (2.4.19-pre4). I also have a working battery monitor/APM after the new kernel install, very useful. That¹s about all I've done so far. Will get the gnome info to you all after I've had another look. Overall this is a huge improvement on the 1st beta. One thing though, in the graphical installer you don't get the choice of adding OSX or another OS to your boot menu in yaboot (you do in 8). I had to manually do it once install had finished. All in all though I'm pretty please with it. Keep up the great work Colin The gnome error I get is bonobo-moniker-archive (process 2005) has crashed, please send bug report or something of that nature. Mainly happens in the gnome config panel. Colin
8.2beta 2 and ibook2 install, everything working, almost
Well after a few days uptime and a little tweaking (new kernel and such) I have a working ibook2(may 2001), 500/CDRW/384/10. Most things working straight from install including sound, 16bit color, modem, network, printing, CD burning. Also have a working control center (seemed to be broken in 1st beta), but if I use hardware detection most of the information is blacked/grayed out. Everything in KDE seem to work fine, but gnomes not so good. Only spent 10 minuets in there because everything kept crashing, I didn't write down what the prompt kept telling me, but I will later and report here so it can maybe get fixed. Enlightenment seems to work very well though, not my type of thing but it looks and sounds very pretty. Another thing was the login screen, it won't display right and looks ugly, and its hard to pick a different manager as well as password/login information. This was fixed though once I installed a newer kernel (2.4.19-pre4). I also have a working battery monitor/APM after the new kernel install, very useful. That¹s about all I've done so far. Will get the gnome info to you all after I've had another look. Overall this is a huge improvement on the 1st beta. One thing though, in the graphical installer you don't get the choice of adding OSX or another OS to your boot menu in yaboot (you do in 8). I had to manually do it once install had finished. All in all though I'm pretty please with it. Keep up the great work Colin
Re: iBook2 modem configuration issue
On 3/28/02 5:47 PM, Justin Christopher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Early versions of the iBook2 have an internal hardware modem that is known to work with Linux. However, the user has to change some timeout values in the dialer setup in order for the OS to see the modem. From comp.os.linux.powerpc - I had lots of trouble myself on a mandrake distribution (see earlier thread/s). If you try the KDE internet dialer, set the pre-int delay to 126, and the post init to around 100. It should pick it up then. Colin There is no way to guess these numbers, if you don't know them, you're screwed. The search for modems function included with the various dialers will not find the internal modem. It would be nice if those numbers could be set properly by default so that the modem will show up. Why? Because a big obstacle to setting up Linux is getting internet access going. (Can't get online, then you can't search how-to's, usenet, google, etc.) If we can help people get online, that goes a long way. If it can't be done dynamically, well, at least folks know if anyone else is trying to get things going on iBook. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards? http://movies.yahoo.com/ I thought that looked like something I wrote in a NG :-), yes I had to mess around quite a lot and also had to do the same with 8.2beta2. The latest beta is a lot beta, but the login dialog screen is still messed up. I've still got testing to do but will post info on how my ibook is running over the next few days. Colin
