Re: Re: 9.1 and ATI Rage 128 Pro
Well, if you can get to the console (ctrl-alt-F1), you could try two things: 1- Use Xdrake (which you probably already did) 2- Test it (init 3 then init 5) or 1- run XFree86 -configure 2- Test it 3- Try to change the driver in the config file (fbdev, r128, ati...) 4- Make sure you got the line: Option useFBDev 5- Test 6- Try to disable DRI stuff (just put a # at the begining of the lines) 7- Try Any of the above possible combinaisons I just have a rage128 mobility so I can be much help for the Pro. Wherever it works or you stop too try, you could post here the log from /var/log/XFree.0.log Then we would know much more where too look to solve your challenge... Happy testing Pascal De: Mike 'yomcat' Welsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/11/09 dim. PM 11:41:39 GMT-05:00 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 9.1 and ATI Rage 128 Pro on 10/11/03 7:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the error message from the console? Is it usuable or XFree86 just don't want start (like no backgroung color, no cursor...) ? Its the black screen of death... -- yomcat http://yomcat.geek.nz
Re: Re: 9.1 and ATI Rage 128 Pro
What is the error message from the console? Is it usuable or XFree86 just don't want start (like no backgroung color, no cursor...) ? Pascal De: Mike 'yomcat' Welsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/11/07 ven. PM 02:23:46 GMT-05:00 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 9.1 and ATI Rage 128 Pro on 8/11/03 3:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More details would be appreciated... Computer model, monitor resolution, what you have tried up to now... Model: G4 PowerMac 466Mhz, http://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/stats/powermac_g4_466.html with extra RAM. The screen is an 17 Apple Display from the same time period. Res is anything from 1600x1200 to 800x600. None of them work. -- Mike yomcat Welsh NZ Tuatara http://www.nztuatara.com
Re: 9.1 and ATI Rage 128 Pro
More details would be appreciated... Computer model, monitor resolution, what you have tried up to now... Anyway, for what is worth, here's my config for a ATI rage128 MOBILITY. The thing with the r128 is that you must specify the use of the fbdev. Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName ATI BoardName ATI Rage 128 Mobility Driver r128 BusID PCI:0:16:0 Option DPMS Option ForcePCIMode true Option UseFBDev true Option UseCCEFor2D false EndSection (...) Hint: see the line Option ...UseFBDev true... ? That's probably the solution. You can also remplace r128 with fbdev if it's not working. Hope it helps. Pascal De: Mike 'yomcat' Welsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/11/07 ven. AM 03:24:07 GMT-05:00 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 9.1 and ATI Rage 128 Pro I've got Linux installed on my comp. The only problem is a lack of a GUI, because my graphics card isn't supported. When we tried VGA, it didn't work either. I'v got the 9.1 PPC CDs, brought from Mandrake, so nothing wrong there. Anyone know a solution? -- Mike http://yomcat.geek.nz http://www.nztuatara.com
Re: Re: PowerBook G4 12inch
De: Stuart Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/23 jeu. PM 11:59:39 GMT-04:00 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PowerBook G4 12inch No I haven't checked them out. To be honest with you, I didn't actually know that they existed. I'm just taking a look through them now. Thanks heaps. Stu :-) On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 07:19 PM, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Stuart Guthrie wrote: Hi Stew, My name is Stuart Guthrie and I'm subscribed to the PPC Mandrake Linux mailing list. I've been having a lot of problems installing Mandrake linux on my 12 PowerBook for some strange reason. I've tried doing it in text mode however there are incompatibilities with my keyboard (or something like that) because I'm unable to select the I accept button on the license agreement.Do you by any chance know of anyway that I can bypass this and simply install Linux? I do agree with all of the terms presented in the text. For the text install (the only one that has ever works on my ibook 366) use: install-gui-benh text You can then almost normally, ie you may have some problem if you choose a custom partition format (just reboot and restart) and no individual package selection, just the basic categories ( use rpmdrake-remove after all) Tadam, magica. Pascal Also I have tried to boot into the old graphics installer by going install-gui gui-old graphics=nvidia (geforce 420go) however once everything starts up it is all unclear and fuzzy. What can I do? Sorry to hassle you. Yours truly, STuart Guthrie No hassle, that's why I'm here :) So TAB doesn't allow you to move from field to field in the text install? I suspect if you can't get past accepting the license, you'll have additional problems, because there are several screen in the install that will require you to move about the screen, in particular disk partitioning. graphics=nvidia isn't really a valid argument to pass. It expects something like video=, perhaps video=nv or video=fbdev. I would probably also use the benh kernel. I thought there was a thread on installs on the 12, but I could be mistaken. Have you checked the list archives at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2 -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Re: Resolution 800x600 problem to install MDK 9.1
gui-old should not care about an X config, it uses Xpmac And Xpmac seems to not like my aty rage 128 mobility and my lcd [EMAIL PROTECTED] there is no editor available during install, unless you create your own install image do an HD install and drop something into the tree, you could also modify the perl source if you were going to do this Aye, perl. Well someday maybe. The text installation seem too broken to pass the license page. There is a problem with can't load the keyboard 115 or 114, etc. I did the text install with 8.2, long ago. I though it worth to mention and I could try different thing to debug it if you want Stew but I don't know what. text install is broken, the common workaround is: install-gui-benh text Bingo. Fantastic. You found the good combinaison. I though i read it somewhere at the begining of the summer but couldnt find it. It works just like 8.2, ie not perfect but can install something.. Theres still a probleme with partionning if you try to create or change a reiserfs. There is a error with « unable to umount the proc You have to manually format then reboot, restart the installation without changing the partition table. Also, the individual package selection just dont care of what you want or not. You installed 9.1 on this machine once? It was a 8.2 - cooker since over a year. Did you note the r128 message at the yaboot prompt? Hum ? install-gui gui-old video=aty128fb Try that and every other combinaisons but the problem is the default 1024x768.that I get. I think that my ibook firewire 366 is always detected as a Powerbook/imac 1024x768. That is, that all. Could it be change? What info you need ? Pascal
Resolution 800x600 problem to install MDK 9.1
Hi, I try to make a clean reinstall of mdk 9.1 on my old ibook 366. The maximum screen resolution is 800x600 and the card is the Ati rage mobility 128. My big problem is that whatever I try to pass(benh, gui-old, atyfb128, aty128fb, fbdev, force-fbdev, vmode:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.), the gui install is not usable. Sometime, my cursor seem normal but that is all. I looked the /tmp/Xconf and I really think that my problem lies with the default 1024x768. Can I change live the screen resolution for 800x600? If I kill anything, the install stop. Also, apart cat what else can I use to edit during the install ? The text installation seem too broken to pass the license page. There is a problem with can't load the keyboard 115 or 114, etc. I did the text install with 8.2, long ago. I though it worth to mention and I could try different thing to debug it if you want Stew but I don't know what.
Re: iBook700 CDROM,16vram, radeon (M7) X-Problems
Which model exactly your ibook ? Pascal De: Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/09/12 ven. AM 04:52:39 GMT-04:00 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: iBook700 CDROM,16vram, radeon (M7) X-Problems Hi all! I´m very frustrated because: I have installed Mandrake 9.1 and the benh-kernel-rpm from MandrakePPC 9.1 CD´s. After reboot I got an Xserver running but with flickering stripes all over the screen. Until now I have read many articles in the mailinglist and tried much that configurations i.e. viedeo=ofonly but nothing worked. Is anybody out there with the same iBook who solved this problem? Best Andreas PS: Apologise my english.
Re: iBook700 CDROM,16vram, radeon (M7) X-Problems
Oh sorry, just read your subjet... shame on me Pascal De: Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/09/12 ven. AM 04:52:39 GMT-04:00 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: iBook700 CDROM,16vram, radeon (M7) X-Problems Hi all! I´m very frustrated because: I have installed Mandrake 9.1 and the benh-kernel-rpm from MandrakePPC 9.1 CD´s. After reboot I got an Xserver running but with flickering stripes all over the screen. Until now I have read many articles in the mailinglist and tried much that configurations i.e. viedeo=ofonly but nothing worked. Is anybody out there with the same iBook who solved this problem? Best Andreas PS: Apologise my english.
Re: Is cooker PPC dead ?
Hope not. The contrib are still there tough. I hope that, maybe, , it's just a big clean up... finally. When the mirrors will all be empty they might repopulate with a up-to-date lists. It was easier to do it like this that to try to remove obsolete packages. But I don't know. Crossed fingers Pascal De: Brice Figureau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/08/21 jeu. AM 09:50:02 GMT-04:00 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is cooker PPC dead ? There seems to be nothing in the ppc subdirs on every mirror I tried, including: ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc/Mandrake/RPMS As anyone noticed the same problem ? I hope this is a temporary rsync problem... -- Brice
Re: Re: PPC in sync with x86
Things will be better now I hope, cooker will be freeze soon. C'est ce que je sentais arriver et le freeze me parait toujours trop long alors... Je voulais juste aider si je le pouvais en mettant à contribution les quelques 366Mhz de mon ibook. Je voulais aussi savoir si un SRPM qui se compile sans problèmes avec toute les parametres par défaut sur mon ordi, est-ce que ca aiderait que je l'offre ? Ca fait par exemple des semaines que j'ai un RPM d'évolution-1.3 fonctionnant parfaitement. Pourquoi je suis le seul à en profiter ? ETK, lachez pas. Pascal
Re: Re: PPC in sync with x86
I assume you did check that your mirror is up-to-date, since mdk mirrors seem to be having some problems now. Yeah, I know. And I change frequently and try to find the most up-to-date. I really would like to keep in sync. with all the goodies on the ibook. Am I alone ? You're not alone (: I build some packages locally, so my ppc box is pretty close to cooker/i586. Me too but not enough for my taste. If someone knows how I can automatically remove old RPMs and SRPMs I may be able to generate a hdlist for this and make it available over http and/or ftp. It's not a complete set of packages, however - only packages I use (so no kde for example). Local server ? I don't know for you but I don't have the bandwidth to be a server. And the question about who can clean the mess on the mirrors is sadly a old frustration for no-x86 folks. I would not like to raise the dust on this (again). oh well... Pascal
Re: Mandrake for PPC - the secret distribution?
There is some announce: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/9.1/91ppc.php3 But we are so few compare to the importance of i586 for them. Guess the ppc-side of mandrake is just in the shadow of the i586 for the press. (Just like they keep associate Mandrake to mainly-only KDE-desktop sigh! I almost only use their just-enough-customn-but-so-good-Gnome. Oh well... So spread the Good News: Mandrake do PPC, Mandrake do Gnome !!! Longue Vie à Mandrake !!! P. De: Janus Sandsgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/08/01 ven. PM 01:07:42 GMT-04:00 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mandrake for PPC - the secret distribution? First: Thanks to Mandrake for making a great distribution available for Macintosh. And thanks to Stew for being so active on this mailinglist. The Mandrake comunity mist be one of the best. There is something I don't understand: Why is the PPC-edition of Mandrake kept as a kind of the secret distrobution? I meet a lot of Apple-users who never heard that a version 9.1 is out (tehy know YDL). Why dosen't Mandrake make it available in a boxed edition? Why don't Mandrake make any PR for the PPC-edition? Which leads me to: Why does Mandrake spand resources developing and supporting a new PPC-version without making PR and money on it? I don't get it. -j -- Janus Sandsgaard http://janus.dk
Build Evolution 1.4.3
Anyone had more success that me to build evolution 1.4.3 for the ppc ? I did it for the 1.3 version but I'm cursed by the POP3-server-seurity-bug (sympatico) so I need the 1.4.3 but so far not so good. (sorry, english is not my first nature) 8-) P.
Re: Re: ibook XFree86
Ctl-Alt-Del, indeed but it doesn't work. In fact, even when X is running normally, in gdm for example after a X change, I can't Ctl-Alt-Del. There's no del on a ibook. And it doesn't work with the backspace. May it be the fr_ca configuration ? Where could I change just this shortcut combinaison cause it's hard for my heart to hard-reboot, even if I use reiserfs. Anyway, when I want a console, i use alt-F1, F2, F3. But when X stay blank at boot, those don't work neither. So the keyboard is probably freeze-up too. P. Normally Ctl-Alt-Del, just like a PeeCee. Sometimes X may not pass this through and you need to try to get to a console to do it, which can be a problem if X has also borked your keyboard.
Re: Re: ibook XFree86
I could't find time to test last benh yet. Sorry. Probably tomorow It seem pretty random. Cold boot. I don't use MacOS anymore so it's not that. I'll send you the X config too tomorrow, P. De: Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/03/27 jeu. AM 10:48:55 GMT-05:00 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ibook XFree86 On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same problem over here. Almost half the time, it boots then a blank screen when X is suppose to start. I can't go to the console, I have to hard reboot. It's with the last regular kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk (not benh). Ibook 2.2 r128 updated with cooker. So... Does using the BenH kernel make any difference? What do you have in the driver section of XFree86Config-4? In this 50/50 scenario, is there something different about the boot process, are you warmbooting from MacOS or something? I need a little something to go on. I don't have access to that hardware. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2
Re: Re: Networking Difficulty in RC1
Did you set up a firewall (shorewall) ? It could be too strong. P. De: Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/03/18 mar. PM 01:30:35 GMT-05:00 À: Bob Sams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Networking Difficulty in RC1 On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Bob Sams wrote: I have successfully installed RC1 on my PowerBook Wallstreet, but I can't get networking to function in the desktop environments. I can ping local and remote IP addresses from the terminal window, both as root and as a regular user, but Mozilla and the other network apps do not work either in KDE or Gnome. IFCONFIG reports up and running built-in (eth0) or wireless (eth1) with appropriate IP's provided by DHCP in my router. I must have done something wrong. Any suggestions? Bob Sams Can't say I've ever heard of such a thing. Networking is independant of the GUI. I can't imagine why it would work in a terminal but not for an app. If ifconfig and route look good, as well as DNS entries in /etc/resolv.cf, then I can't think of anything else offhand. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2
Re: Re: Playing Audio CD without Ripping to a file first?
People have had varying success with the xmms cdreader plugin also. I'm one of them and I find it simpler that the CDparanoia stuff. You'll get a AudioCD reader plug-in in XMMS. Just change, in options, the Default CD Device for /dev/hdc and that's all. Pascal Gagnon
Re: Re: UDMA 2 -- UDMA 4
I haven't find anything helpful yet on google. So, what's the workaround ? P. Date: 2002/11/27 mer. AM 01:28:37 GMT-05:00 Oh yes I see it. These exact two lines. So, is it bad doctor ? Pills for that ? I have not try any other kernel on this ppc. After a little search, I guessed it was the same kind of problem that the VIA chipset on PC (or also the AGP unsupported=1). Solution: wait for a next version of the kernel. But if you know a trick... P. Date: 2002/11/26 mar. PM 08:16:20 GMT-05:00 Did you happen to see this message in dmesg? Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx 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-ppcr=1w=2
Re: Re: UDMA 2 -- UDMA 4
Date: 2002/11/27 mer. PM 05:43:42 GMT-05:00 On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't find anything helpful yet on google. So, what's the workaround ? I answered you. Try to pass the option to the kernel like dmesg says, Sorry, didn't get it at first. I passed linux idebus=66 at boot. See the dmesg below. Still don't work, nor at boot, nor with hdparm. I'm not sure what are the exact specs of this model (newbie to the mac world) but a simple 66Mhz at boot is not enough to make the drive spin for me. ship me your machine to work on it. I don't have your hardware. Yeah right! Then what I'm suppose to say to my girlfriend about her ibook!?! *8) P. Memory BAT mapping: BAT2=128Mb, BAT3=0Mb, residual: 0Mb Total memory = 128MB; using 512kB for hash table (at c030) Linux version 2.4.19-16mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2-2mdk)) #1 Thu Oct 17 14:22:28 EDT 2002 Found Uninorth memory controller host bridge, revision: 8 Found a Keylargo mac-io controller, rev: 3, mapped at 0xfdee9000 Processor NAP mode on idle enabled. PowerMac motherboard: iBook FireWire Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0xf000. Firmware bus number: 0-0 Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0xf200. Firmware bus number: 0-0 Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0xf400. Firmware bus number: 0-0 PMU driver 2 initialized for Core99, firmware: 0c On node 0 totalpages: 32768 zone(0): 32768 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda12 ro devfs=mount idebus=66 ide_setup: idebus=66 PowerMac using OpenPIC irq controller OpenPIC Version 1.2 (4 CPUs and 64 IRQ sources) at fc69b000 OpenPIC timer frequency is 4.161221 MHz GMT Delta read from XPRAM: -300 minutes, DST: off time_init: decrementer frequency = 16.644884 MHz Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 730.72 BogoMIPS Memory: 125532k available (1636k kernel code, 972k data, 180k init, 0k highmem) AGP special page: 0xc7fff000 Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing PCI hardware Fixup res 1 (101) of dev 00:10.0: 400 - 802400 PCI-OF bus map: 0 - 0 1 - 0 2 - 0 PCI:00:10.0: Resource 0: 9400-97ff (f=1208) PCI:00:10.0: Resource 2: 9000-90003fff (f=200) PCI:01:17.0: Resource 0: 8000-8007 (f=200) PCI:02:0f.0: Resource 0: f520-f53f (f=200) PCI:00:10.0: Resource 1: 00802400-008024ff (f=101) PCI:01:18.0: Resource 0: 8008-80080fff (f=200) PCI:02:0e.0: Resource 0: f500-f5000fff (f=200) Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Thermal assist unit using interrupts, shrink_timer: 200 jiffies Starting kswapd VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized devfs: v1.12a (20020514) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 PCI: Enabling device 00:10.0 (0086 - 0087) aty128fb: Rage Mobility M3 (AGP) [chip rev 0x0] 8M 128-bit SDR SGRAM (1:1) Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37 Registered ati backlight controller, level: 15/15 fb0: ATY Rage128 frame buffer device on PCI input0: Macintosh mouse button emulation pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 66MHz system bus speed for PIO modes pmac_ide: enabling IDE bus ID 2 pmac_ide: enabling IDE bus ID 0 pmac_ide: enabling IDE bus ID 1 hda: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive hdc: MATSHITA CR-175, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0xcc997000-0xcc997007,0xcc997160 on irq 19 ide1 at 0xcc99b000-0xcc99b007,0xcc99b160 on irq 20 hda: Enabling Ultra DMA 2 ide_pmac: Set UDMA timing for mode 2, reg: 0x1090038c hda: 19640880 sectors (10056 MB) w/384KiB Cache, CHS=19485/16/63, UDMA(33) ide-floppy driver 0.99b Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [mac] p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 p11 p12 p13 p14 devfs_mk_dir(floppy): using old entry in dir: c02f5820 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M IN from bad port 3f4 at c009f550 floppy0: no floppy controllers found RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize ide-floppy driver 0.99b SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 mesh: configured for synchronous 5 MB/s kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 Macintosh non-volatile memory driver v1.0 usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub PCI: Enabling device 01:18.0 ( - 0002) usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc9889000, IRQ 27 usb-ohci.c: usb-01:18.0, Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB adb: starting probe task... usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb.c: registered new driver hiddev usb.c: registered new
Re: X Freezing upon Wake Up from Sleep? (Pismo G3)
Got the same problem here when I'm using r128 in XFconfig-4. Everything looks OK with fbdev instead. It's on a ibook SE. Pascal Gagnon Date: 2002/11/26 mar. AM 10:13:38 GMT-05:00 Hello All, I recently installed Mandrake 8.2 on my Powerbook (Pismo). I have discovered a problem, which I hope there is an answer for. X freezes upon wake up. The rest of the machine is fine (I can ssh into the powerbook and reboot it). If I am just in the console (read: not X), wake up works just fine. Here's what I have done to try to narrow the problem down (rebooting each time): 1. Installed my old YDL 2.3 Kernel (2.4.19-4a) - wake up works fine! 2. Installed the latest cooker-ppc kernel (2.4.19-19) - X Freezes :( 1. removed all kernel modules (that could be removed) -X still Freezes :( 3. Decided to ask you folks I have been a YellowDog user for quite some time, but lately I have been disappointed by the older packages included in YDL. So I thought I would give Mandrake another go (I tried 8.0 about a year ago). If anyone has any tips on getting the PCMCIA slot to work (with an IDE Flash card), I would appreciate that as well. TIA, Craig
UDMA 2 -- UDMA 4
Installed cooker on a ibook SE. When I look to dmesg I see: hda: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive hdc: MATSHITA CR-175, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0xcc997000-0xcc997007,0xcc997160 on irq 19 ide1 at 0xcc99b000-0xcc99b007,0xcc99b160 on irq 20 hda: Enabling Ultra DMA 2 ide_pmac: Set UDMA timing for mode 2, reg: 0x1090038c hda: 19640880 sectors (10056 MB) w/384KiB Cache, CHS=19485/16/63, UDMA(33) ide-floppy driver 0.99b Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [mac] p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 p11 p12 p13 p14 devfs_mk_dir(floppy): using old entry in dir: c02f5820 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M First: Why there is floppy stuff. It doesn't a floppy drive. Drakconf also complain about not finding the floppy module when it start. Could I disable this floppy thing? Where? Secondo: As you see, the drive is a IBM-DJSA-210 which is suppose to support udma 4 (66). If I try to change this setting with hdparm -d1 -X68 /dev/hda nothing seems to change. The * stay beside the udma2. Why ? Where could I change this directly during the boot. I tried to put this in the rc.local file but it doesn't change the dmesg nor the hdparm -i /dev/hda information. Where is the configuration file related to the dmesg ? Pascal
Re: Re: UDMA 2 -- UDMA 4
Oh yes I see it. These exact two lines. So, is it bad doctor ? Pills for that ? I have not try any other kernel on this ppc. After a little search, I guessed it was the same kind of problem that the VIA chipset on PC (or also the AGP unsupported=1). Solution: wait for a next version of the kernel. But if you know a trick... P. Date: 2002/11/26 mar. PM 08:16:20 GMT-05:00 Did you happen to see this message in dmesg? Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx 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-ppcr=1w=2
Re: RE: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.
If you have devfs=mount in your yaboot, you shouldn't need the links, they're created dynamically. Otherwise, probably a broken MAKEDEV or dev rpm. There was a lot of this occuring during x86 cooker betas. Bingo! I did a fresh-formated-cooker install then I reboot in rescue, change devfs=mount in the yaboot.conf to devfs=nomount, chroot, ybin and... It worked on the next reboot. I'am 100% cooker ! Yé! Thank you So there is effectively a problem with devfs and not the installer. Sounds like you are at least functional then with cooker? Once the remaining packages appear, things should get better. Any idea when ? Days or weeks ? Also, I didn't figure out yet what's wrong with the ADSL stuff but it doesn't work. I just pass by a ssh through my PC. P.
Re: RE: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.
I think I'm lost on what you're trying to accomplish. Working 8.2 or cooker? As I said, cooker will have issues. I doubt kde or gnome will be fully functional, as a number of the needed files are not present on the mirrors. You should be able to get a functional command line environment though, and probably X with a more basic window manager. Your other alternative is to use the 8.2 update packages available on the club, to get the newer apps. Since a clean cooker install doesn't work for me, I try first to install 8.2 then upgrade. I don't really want a minimal install (I want X to work at least) but I just wanted to report the bug with minimal 8.2 -- It crash in text mode. For the clean cooker install, the problem seems to be in one of the script during the installation. When I reboot, there's no hdaxx inside the /dev/ so it can't be mount. I tried to make a ln -s to the /dev/ide/../partxx but doesn't survive a reboot. Is it a devfs problem ? The only problem to install gnome2 seems to be the sgml-common package. It is not recent enough four the taste of doc-dtd412, so scrollkeeper. So I got a /etc/xml/catalog missing or empty. Icewm-light works well but I'm using fbdev. P.
