Re: How can I reconfigure network settings?
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Generation NeXT wrote: Hi, I'm desperately trying to get stuff to work. I am relatively new to Linux, and Mandrake is highly recommended. So I installed Mandrake 9.1. I'm not able to configure my networking setup. I try the netconf from the KDE Start Applications menu, and it says I need root. I then tried to setup a log in for root through KDE, but couldn't figure it out (also heard this wasn't recommended). I then noticed that netconf uses linuxconf, so I went to the terminal, and typed in linuxconf and got the following: --- Error message from remadmin :Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Error message from remadmin :Xlib: No protocol specified Error message from remadmin : Error message from remadmin : Error message from remadmin :Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 --- (1) So, how do I launch linuxconf? (2) Why doesn't launching linuxconf work? (3) How can I configure the network from the command line? - Joaquin mcc or drakconf is the solution we're really trying to point people to for gui configuration. linuxconf has been moved to contribs. drakconnect is the subsystem of drakconf for networking accessible either from the command line as root (or /usr/sbin/drakconnect as a normal user). This is also available within the mcc/drakconf gui. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Cooker dependencies
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, [iso-8859-1] Gaétan QUENTIN wrote: Hi, I don't know what your problem is, but i was wondering, about ppc cooker: i have installed mandrake 9.1 on my imac and pc. Then i have updated them, from 9.1 to cooker. Since that day, i update my systems (pc and ppc) daily and i can say that if the i586 cooker version is moving fast (there is a lot of new packages daily), the ppc version is far behind. For an example: impossible to update kde, since there is no new kde binary packages for a very long time... So my question is: is ppc cooker abandonned and how many cookers are working on it? Cooker-ppc is a community/volunteer effort. Currently there is one person, I believe, building the packages, and the lag behind x86 is partically just physics. x86 packages are built on a multi-machine cluster in Paris, which builds many times faster than the single machines that I was using when I was doing the official builds. Complicating this is when there are rapid-fire releases of large packages, say kde* in one day. You might be in the middle of one build and another comes out before you even finish it. There have been occasions where I've had to kill these builds 3 or 4 times and blown a whole day of machine time with no packages built. So, no, it's not abandoned, but it doesn't have the same level of resources committed to it as the official platforms. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Cooker dependencies
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Ray Auge wrote: Go Stew, Give me till May-June, at that time I will hopefully be in a position to help with the builds (PPC cluster time). till then, good luck and keep it up Thanks, But the one person I was referring to isn't me. All I've done aside from support here is the brief cooker HOWTO/Status I did a few weeks back, as well as packaging a 2.6benh kernel, available on my webspace. More/faster hardware would certainly help, but you need to coordinate your effort with those already doing the work, as well as get blessing/access to be able to upload packages through the Paris cluster. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Cooker dependencies
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Olivier Grisel wrote: Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my ibook 2.2 from 9.1 to cooker using urpmi (urpmi urpmi and urpmi --auto-select --no-verify-rpm) and most of the system got upgraded after manually desinstalling some conflicting packages with urpme but I can't get the draktools back : quote # urpmi drakxtools-9.2-0.3mdk.ppc Certains paquetages demandés ne peuvent pas être installés : drakxtools-9.2-0.3mdk.ppc (perl-GTK2[= 0.0.cvs.2003.04.04.1] non satisfait) /quote However I have the following version installed on my system : perl-Gtk2-0.26.cvs.2003.07.07.1-1mdk Is it a problem with with capitalized letters in the perl-GTK2 package name ? How to solve this problem ? They aren't the same package. The perl-gtk2 api changed. I wrote a summary of my cooker-ppc experience abotu a month ago and posted packages I found to be lacking here: http://peoples.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/ The summary in in this list's archives, as well as the PPC forum on mandrakeclub. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Cooker dependencies
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Olivier Grisel wrote: If you lack computing power wouldn't it be possible to write some scripts to download cooker SRPMs, build ppc-RPMs and upload them back on a repository automatically. Volunteers could launch the script on their idle cooker-ppc machines and that way easily contribute to the cooker-ppc effort. Sure, We just need to: 1) Manage the work, so folks aren't duplicating the work, and make sure package B gets built after package A, etc. 2) Have some system of trust/control so the folks using the stuff can have some degree of confidence that what they're downloading is in fact what it represents itself to be. Possibly some other issues I haven't thought of. I think spreading the build too thin across machines would tend the aggravate any build sequencing issues, unless everyone involved stayed in very close sync with each other. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Cooker dependencies
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Pascal Gagnon wrote: That would be great but how ? It's often more complicated than that to build something working. Example: I've just finished to build mozilla-firebird-0.7... Everything fine, the rpm, the install, the icons... BUT It just don't work. It seems to launch ok then.. stop. Nothing. I haven't find yet the problem. So It could bring more problems to automatic the thing. Although, if somebody could bring a script à la gentoo to build easy, then upload back, I'm all ears. I'd like something that do the: wget ftp://., urpmi -s ..., rpm --rebuild , urpmi ..., (maybe upload) then clean the mess left behind. rpm-rebuilder does much of this. There are other solutions/scripts used on some of the other alternative arch builds. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: 9.1 and ATI Rage 128 Pro
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Mike 'yomcat' Welsh wrote: 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? fbdev is normally the fallback when a specific driver doesn't work on an Apple machine. I thought I had r128 so that it would setup properly. In that specific case, it has been: Driver ati and then Option UseFBDev true -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Cannot boot 9.1 after OSX installation
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Andreas wrote: Today I tried mkofboot, no errors but no bootmanager too. After reboot always OSX is starting What had I best do? New installation? You looked at the link fleny68 posted also? I'm not quite sure how the kernel would have anything to do with it, since the kernel isn't active yet at that point, but worth a try I suppose. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Cannot boot 9.1 after OSX installation
Fwiw, I've read of occasions where MacOS* has renumbered the partitions also, so perhaps your partitions are no longer arranged as you think they are. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: note on Dual G4 benh install vs. rescue ultra-ATA device
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Isaac Csandl wrote: A few months ago, I was having trouble with the Ultra-ATA drive in a dual G4 tower. The 9.1 system would install, but not boot. Eventually I gave up and moved the HD to the normal ATA bus on the motherboard. The drive won't show up at all in the normal mdk kernels, smp or enterprise, if it's connected to the Ultra ATA bus. But recently I figured out what seems to be a strange quirk. The Ultra drive shows up as /dev/hde when you boot the rescue CD with 'install-gui-benh rescue text video=ofonly', but when I booted the machine from the HD with the benh kernel, it shows up as /dev/hda. Odd. On the HD, I've installed the recent benh kernel from Mandrake Club, version: 2.4.21-1bh-mdksmp, which is working well (it feels as fast as before, although only one CPU shows in gkrellm -- i'm curious if this is correct, but content that it works for now... thoughts, anyone?). Probably just x86-ism in gkrellm. cat /proc/cpuinfo output is different on ppc than x86. BenH kernel will generally be better on newer hardware. There is a considerable lag before Ben's stuff makes it into kernel.org. I just thought I'd share the experience in case anyone else bumps into this problem, because I wasted a lot of time editing /etc/fstab and /etc/yaboot.conf (and doing the accompanying chroot, mount /proc, ybin procedure in rescue mode) to change everything to /dev/hde, before figuring out what was happening, that it should be /dev/hda, not /dev/hde. Thanks! -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: note on Dual G4 benh install vs. rescue ultra-ATA device
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Isaac Csandl wrote: On Monday 03 November 2003 01:36 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Isaac Csandl wrote: On the HD, I've installed the recent benh kernel from Mandrake Club, version: 2.4.21-1bh-mdksmp, which is working well (it feels as fast as before, although only one CPU shows in gkrellm -- i'm curious if this is correct, but content that it works for now... thoughts, anyone?). Probably just x86-ism in gkrellm. cat /proc/cpuinfo output is different on ppc than x86. -- $ cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : 7455, altivec supported clock : 866MHz revision: 2.1 (pvr 8001 0201) bogomips: 865.07 machine : PowerMac3,6 motherboard : PowerMac3,6 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh board revision : detected as : 129 (PowerMac G4 Windtunnel) pmac flags : L2 cache: 256K unified memory : 256MB pmac-generation : NewWorld Looks like a up kernel. I thought there were multiple stanzas on smp (not positive, since I don't have one). -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Resolution 800x600 problem to install MDK 9.1
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 ? gui-old should not care about an X config, it uses Xpmac 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 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 You installed 9.1 on this machine once? Did you note the r128 message at the yaboot prompt? install-gui gui-old video=aty128fb -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: PowerBook G4 12inch
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Tomas Taylor wrote: Stew, In 9.3 could could Bamboo, if it's still called Bamboo then, detect configurations with special keyboards and adjust accordingly? Tomas I don't know that the hardware reports whether the keyboard is qwerty, azerty etc. Your dmesg output should show something if it does. If it does, sure something could be done, but we would need to build up a database of mappings of keyboards maps to keyboard types. If it doesn't, I'm not sure how one could do that. No, it wouldn't be Bamboo, each release get's a new code name. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Cooker on PPC: 2.6.0-test7-benh
Just a basic packaging, no supermount or other non-benh tree patches. Perhaps a starting point if someone wants to enhance it. Issues I was having were due to the iProRaid card in my iMac and some strange module loading that shouldn't have been happening. The configuration was there before going to the 2.6 kernel, and once I cleaned that up it stabilized. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ppc]$ uname -a Linux imac.linuxcontrol.org 2.6.0test7-benh-1mdk #1 Wed Oct 22 07:33:56 EDT 2003 ppc unknown unknown GNU/Linux http://peoples.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/kernel-benh-2.6.0test7-1mdk.ppc.rpm http://peoples.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/kernel-benh-2.6.0test7-1mdk.src.rpm SMP build seems broken. I spent a little time with it but gave up for the moment. I also see that detectloader spews out some errors. I saw this same problem during 9.1 development and had to work around it in the perl packaging. Despite the errors the yaboot entry and initrd get created correctly. PS: You need module-init-tools. The kernel package should require it. Have Fun! -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: iBook 800, CDRW (Nov. 2002): X-problems for me too!
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Ted Johansson wrote: If I use video=radeonfb as boot parameters (using yaboot.conf), I get the virtual terminals correct. Other combinations of kernel video-parameters work less good. But for XFree, I can not find a working set of parameters. Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 runs happily directly on this machine, but since I use MDK9.1 9.2 on my two i586 machines, I really like to see the 9.1 ppc version also running on the iBook. Dual-booting it with OSX. Please, any suggestions from the list that I can test to get XFree working for this machine? You've tried adding Option UseFBDev true To /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
HowTo: Cooker on PPC
Had a lite period so I decided to look at cooker-ppc and see how usable it was. Things are a little rough, and Olivier has had some other things to tend to, so PPC fell behind a little bit, but I've currently got a functional PPC system running 9.2/Cooker with KDE and the drak tools. (Gnome has some issues too, but I didn't get that far). First off, the bits you'll need that aren't on the mirrors are on my web space: http://peoples.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc Look for files dated Oct-2003 I've also been experimenting with benh's 2.6.0-test7 tree. First pass booted with no console or keyboard, but got me into X. 2nd pass resolved the console/keyboard issues, but I keep getting kernel panics on modprobe, so I need to look at that a bit more. Anyway back to cooker. I took fairly good notes, but may have missed something. If you try this and get stuck, post to the list and we can work through it. Where I mention having to build something, the resulting files should be on my web space, so you shouldn't need those steps. I used ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc as my urpmi source, removing my 9.1 updates and CD sources: addmedia from redbox urpmi glibc perl urpme perl-GTK2 perl-Gtk2 urpmi yaboot XFree86 removed update_source and CD1-3 sources urpme kdebase urpme kdevelop kdemultimedia-devel urpme koffice kdegraphics-devel arts kdelibs-common coreutils add signature to urpmi.cfg --auto-select - still key issues gpg --armor --export 70771FF3 70771FF3.asc rpm --import 70771FF3.asc rpm -q gpg-pubkey --auto-select 349 packages shut down for the day resume: resumed auto-select on imac - 101 packages urpme gnumeric, gnucash, Guppi, xemacs --auto-select 6 packages no kdebase in PPC tree, get SRPM and build it (see my web space) watch arts - there is a mixture of old/new packages on the mirrors rpm -ivh libkdebase4-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm urpmi galaxy-kde-kwin urpmi kdebase-servicemenu mdklaunchhelp --allow-force killed download before the old kdebase came down rpm -ivh libkdebase4-konsole-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm libkdebase4-kate-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm libkdebase4-nsplugins-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm kdebase-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm kdebase-progs-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm kdebase-konsole-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm kdebase-kdeprintfax-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm kdebase-common-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm kdebase-kate-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm kdebase-kdm-config-file-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/partial/kdebase-servicemenu-1.0-11mdk.noarch.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/partial/mdklaunchhelp-9.2-6mdk.ppc.rpm rpm -ivh kdebase-kdm-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm telinit 5 still can't login rpm -e mdkkdm telinit 3 telinit 5 login works Had some strange issues at this point with urpmi saying it couldn't install things due to lacking files which were already present in the system. I decided to rebuild the drak tools since the mirror files were old, and subsequently had to build quite a bit of stuff to make this happen. build pango-devel rpm -Uvh libpango1.0_0-* pango-1.2.5-2mdk.ppc.rpm build gtk+2.0 rpm -Uvh /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.2.4-2mdk.ppc.rpm /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/libgtk+2.0_0-2.2.4-2mdk.ppc.rpm /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/gtk+2.0-2.2.4-2mdk.ppc.rpm /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/libgtk+-x11-2.0_0-2.2.4-2mdk.ppc.rpm /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0-* build perl-Gtk2 rpm -Uvh /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/perl-Gtk2-0.95-6mdk.ppc.rpm build drakxtools build urpmi (gurpmi missing on mirror) build python rpm -Uvh /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/libpython2.3-* /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/python-2.3-4mdk.ppc.rpm /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/python-base-2.3-4mdk.ppc.rpm build libuser rpm -Uvh /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/libuser* userdrake build get mandrake_doc-common from x86 tree rpm -Uvh /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/noarch/gurpmi-4.4-37mdk.noarch.rpm /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/drakxtools-newt-9.2-16mdk.ppc.rpm /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/drakxtools-9.2-16mdk.ppc.rpm /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/userdrake-0.92-24mdk.ppc.rpm /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/mandrake_doc-common-9.2-1mdk.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/harddrake-* urpmi mdkkdm urpmi drakconf update-menus Now mdkkdm runlevel 5 login works, drakconf works, KDE works. Additional urpmi --auto-select now complains about nautilus and other Gnome related packages. If I get the 2.6 kernel to be reasonably stable, I'll post a package for it too. Hope this is useful. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: mount hfs+ partition
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Andreas wrote: Hi all! I use benh-10mdk kernel. Is there a way to mount my hfs+ partition with this kernel? greetings Andreas hfsplusutils, or the konqueror mac kio slave -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: mount hfs+ partition
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Andreas wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Andreas wrote: Hi all! I use benh-10mdk kernel. Is there a way to mount my hfs+ partition with this kernel? greetings Andreas hfsplusutils, or the konqueror mac kio slave How can I use this tools? Docs help :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] stew]$ rpm -ql hfsplusutils | grep doc /usr/share/doc/hfsplusutils-1.0.2 /usr/share/doc/hfsplusutils-1.0.2/bugs.html /usr/share/doc/hfsplusutils-1.0.2/faq.html /usr/share/doc/hfsplusutils-1.0.2/hfsp.html /usr/share/doc/hfsplusutils-1.0.2/hfsp.sgml /usr/share/doc/hfsplusutils-1.0.2/libhfsp.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] stew]$ hpmount /dev/hda14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] stew]$ hpls Applications Library mach_kernel Users automount mach Systemvar etc mach.sym tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED] stew]$ hpumount kio slave: mac:/?dev=/dev/hda14 Is a kernel-rpm with hfs+ support available for mdk 9.1 Danny's benh kernel on club has the patches I believe. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: 9.2
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Walt Costanza wrote: Any projection as to when? A formal 9.2 PPC release hasn't ever been in the plan. In the past, PPC has skipped every other release. The community has been building cooker for PPC if you want to go that route. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: It won't boot - unknow or corrupted file system
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello I am trying to install 9.1 ppc on an Ibook. The installation went fine, despite some problems with bootstrap (I created an Applet boot partition or something like that). When I try to boot the ibook, I first get a menu linux (l) cdrom (c) openfirmware (o) If I choose ¨l¨ yaboot comes out. When boot finally tries to load the kernel, the following error message comes out: hd:8,/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk: unknown or corrupedt filesystem. What did I do wrong? My guess is you setup the bootstrap mounted at /boot. For some reason quite a few folks are inclined to do this. The kernel path for /boot part of / would be hd:8,/boot/vmlinuz Bootstrap partition should never be one of the mount points. Most folks I've helped on IRC are able to recover from this by booting rescue and fixing the yaboot.conf. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: It won't boot - unknow or corrupted file system
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello again I am rather confused with the way 9.1 uses the partitions. Using pdisk I've got: 1..7 - several unknow partitions Mac driver partitions 8 - unknow partition but this was the one I chose as Apple Bootstrap and mounting point /boot. bootstrap good - /boot bad 9 - ext3 - / 10 - Swap 11 - /home In yaboot.conf I have boot=/dev/hda8 This is OK image=hd8,/vmlinuz -- hd:9,/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 initrd=hd:8,/initrd -- hd:9,/boot/initrd Verify /boot exists on hda9 and that the kernel and initrd are there. Again, what is wrong? and how to change it? Do I have to run lilo -v -t? Or something similar? ybin -v - see my previous message for all the steps. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: RpmDrake crashes on 9.1
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Andreas wrote: Hi all! Yesterday: RpmDrake worked fine and I could install a couple of packages. Today: After I launched RpmDrake and selected my packages for installation RpmDrake crashed without error message. No idea why? Regards Andreas You would need to lauch it from a terminal to see any error output, or check your ~/.xsession-errors. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: iBook700 CDROM,16vram, radeon (M7) X-Problems
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Andreas wrote: 2b: Wheelmouse don't work. no idea, i only use the tappad. What kind of mouse is it? I use an Logitech Cordless Desktop. My /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (I believe it was setup this way by selecting a wheelmouse in mousedrake/installer, but it's been a long time since this system was installed) has this: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/usbmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection I use the usb mouse and/or the trackpad simultaneously. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: iBook700 CDROM,16vram, radeon (M7) X-Problems
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Andreas wrote: Am Dienstag, 16. September 2003 21:12 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Andreas wrote: Here is my modules.conf probeall usb-interface usb-ohci alias eth0 gmac alias sound-slot-0 dmasound_pmac - Should work, what's the error? No error. Just noise. launch xmms without soundwrapper (cmdline in a terminal vs menu) -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Linux-MacOS Ethernet Crossover - text version
Umm, Tomas, you didn't need to move over to the netatalk list. All you had to do is 'urpmi netatalk' on the Linux box, and use it. Maybe read some of the included docs to refine the setup as needed. You're making this stuff a lot more complicated than it needs to be. The work has aleady been done for you. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Mdk 9.1 updates : wrong architecture for libphp_common430 other PHP RPMs
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just noticed somed errors in the PPC updates directory (for instance http://public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/Mandrake/updates/ppc/9.1/RPMS/) The updated RPM for libphp_common430 is : libphp_common430-430-11.1mdk.i586.rpm (i586 binary instead of ppc binary). Same goes for other PHP modules : php-cgi-4.3.1-11.1mdk.i586.rpm 29-Jul-2003 06:0133k php-cli-4.3.1-11.1mdk.i586.rpm 29-Jul-2003 06:0132k php430-devel-430-11.1mdk.i586.rpm 29-Jul-2003 06:01 3.9M Can someone with some connections at Mandrake get that fixed ? Passed to someone with the power to fix it. He's taking care of it now. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Linux-MacOS Ethernet Crossover - text version
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Tomas Taylor wrote: Daouda, Before I give you verbose background, let me ask you a simple question. When I click on *Connection** *in* Rfbdrake 0.8.2* the window disappears. Does that mean a failure or a success? I suspect you won't get an answer from daouda. The rest of the Mandrake developers have little interest in PPC. At the highest level I am developing Java applications on MacOS 10.2 using a PowerBook G4. I am using Bamboo on a PowerBook G3 for deployment of these Java apps. I prefer the GNU license. For each release from MacOS to Bamboo, rather burning a CD, I would like for Bamboo to connect to the Mac and grab the new release with a drag and drop operation. As I thought I tried to tell you before, your cleanest solution is to run netatalk on the linux box, and drop the files their from the MacOS machine. Either that or run an nfs server on the MacOS box and mount it in Linux. Unless I'm confused about rfbdrake and vnc (I use vnc fairly often), it's not going to do any file moving for you. It gives you remote control of the desktop on another machine. The PowerBook G3 had MacOS 8.6 on it, until two weeks ago when I overwrote it with Bamboo. In the previous configuration, the 10.2 to 8.6 ethernet crossover worked great. MacOS 8.6 was the server with MacOS 10.2 as the client. When I connected from 10.2 to 8.6, I would login as *guest *and the icon for the harddrive on 8.6 would pop-up on my desktop. Draging and dropping was a breeze. Turning on *file sharing* on 8.6 was a requirement. netatalk on the Llinux machine gives identical functionality as this Final Questions: Is there a way on a G4 Bamboo boot to configure the ethernet as a server rather than a client? Or after booting to perform this configuation? In MacOS 10.2 I just turn *internet sharing **on *to configure the G4 as a server. On the G4 Bamboo could I just use the *server* option in *Rfbdrake 0.8.2? *Which Bamboo would I boot up first? I think someone told you before. There really isn't any distinction between client and server. Any linux machine can run server apps, and still function as a client to another machine. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: iBook700 CDROM,16vram, radeon (M7) X-Problems
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Andreas wrote: Hi! 1: Excuse my impatience! 2: X works fine. Stew had the right clue for me, I changed video driver ati radeon to fbdev and it worked. Thank you Stew! You might get better performance using the other suggestion. I'm not sure though. 3: Now I can't mount my hdf+ partitions. What is hdf+? You mean hfs+? Konqueror has a kio slave that has worked for me in the past: mac:/?dev=/dev/hda14 or as someone mentioned, there are kernels with hfs+ support built in 4: I can't install new RPMs with RpmDrake. He eject always the CDs. can you read the CD's by other means? 5: Can't configure the sources for netinstall. I always get the error message FTP cant execute RETR. Maybe I use the wrong FTP-Server? (ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandrake/9.1/ppc/Mandrake/base) Not sure, try another mirror if you suspect that's the issue. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: iBook700 CDROM,16vram, radeon (M7) X-Problems
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I capitulate!! After many instaltions with anymore configurations I think it's impossible for me to install MandrakePPC 9.1 at my fu iBook. More precisely to get the Xserver running without flickering stripes on the screen. So far I installed benh-10mdk kernel. After this I boot with video=radeonfb but no effect flickering stripes on the screen again. Then I used drakboot for configure yaboot. I add video=radeonfb in the append line but on the next reboot it takes no effect too. Everytime I look at drakboot in the append line acpi=off is listed. Why? Who play drakboot, DrakBoot in MandrakeControlcenter and yaboot.conf together? If I used one of this tools to add an new kernel for boot this kernel is never listet at startup. I can't select him for booting the system. Why? Drakboot is guilty. Someone didn't consider other arches when they added the acpi stuff. Is there anybody with exact the same iBook and has Xserver running? PLEASE HELP ME!! The usual fallback when the native driver doesn't work is to use Driver fbdev in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 rather than ati or radeon How can you say no-one has helped you if you just joined the list? -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Modem Configuration
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Tomas Taylor wrote: Hi there, Thanks for the feedback on ethernetting. I'm going to postpone that project until I get Java and gcc up, spattered with some JNI. It seems I just have to find a free server for MacOS X. (On the other hand the MacOS 8.6 functions great as a server without server software!) For the short term, all of my development files will fit on one CD. ___ The immediate problem is modem configuration: The gnome-ppc gives this error: The pppd daemon died unexpectedly. kppp goes like this: kppp can not find: /dev/modem Please make sure you have setup your modem device properly and/or adjust the location of the modem device on the modem tab of the setup dialog. Hardware of Control Center shows five PCI devices on the PowerBook G3. I can do some research to find out which PCI device is the modem. If you would like this information let me know. I didn't look real hard, but I didn't see any help or links to Modem Configuration? Tomás [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# modprobe macserial [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# dmesg | grep tty tty00 at 0xd5a52020 (irq = 15) is a Z8530 ESCC (internal modem) tty01 at 0xd5a59000 (irq = 16) is a Z8530 ESCC (IrDA) add an alias if this grants access to your modem in /etc/modules.conf: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# grep serial /etc/modules.conf alias serial macserial If the programs only accept /dev/modem, you may to make a symlink for the device: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -l /dev/modem lr-xr-xr-x1 root root5 Sep 3 18:40 /dev/modem - ttyS0 -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Modem Configuration
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Tomas Taylor wrote: Stew, Thanks alot for this important information. I have had MacOS X for a number of months. I have yet to figure out the dual-password system: a password for the Graphic interface and a second password for Terminal interface. I still don't know how to become a superuser from Darwin. What's the password? Beats me, I'm a Linux guy. I just discovered Konsole - Super User Mode. Will you please tell me the default password is and how to change password from Terminal interface? (I know from doing this in RedHat that the # in the prompt means superuser.) There is no default root password. You were prompted for one during install, no? If you were able to get the konsole, super user mode without entering one, then perhgaps yours is null. To change it use the command passwd, while in the root console. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Dual PowerBooks
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Tomas Taylor wrote: Hello All, I have changed my mind. I don't want Linux on my G4 after all. Instead I want it on my PowerBook G3. This way I'll have a separate laptop for each platform. The 4GB hard drive easily fit on the 40GB G4 and OS9 will run all of it. I imported all my mail stuff into my browser. Do I have to do anything else to prepare my G3 for a Linux install? Having free space on the drive is key. If you don't you'll bump into warnings about not being able to create bootstrap, etc. Also Erase All probably should have been completely disabled on PPC. Macs use the 1st partition to store the partition table itself, so you end up losing the partition table as well as the bootstrap, if it had room to be created. Best plan is to resize the partition in MacOS initially, and leave some space (probably at least 2GB) unallocated for Linux. If you want a Linux only system, then either remove the partition in MacOS and leave everything free or delete it in diskdrake. You'll probably then either want to reboot/restart, or if you're comfortable enough with partitioning, manually redo the bootstrap and format it. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: second stage: PB G4
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, [iso-8859-1] Tomás Taylor wrote: Hello again, I tried: install-gui hda=16383,16,64 and also hda=0,0,0. No luck. Below are my instalation notes. Which disk/scsi driver should I try? from system profiler: ATA Device Type: ata Device Model: FUJITSU MHS2040AT D Device Revion 8105 names of device drivers from Google: 8139cp 8139too above 2 are NICs UMDA100 ATA DISK E-IDE Have you tried the benh kernel in the installer? -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
RE: MDK 9.1 Boot problem on PPC 9600
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Ben Martin wrote: We I try to boot with the MDK kernel it tells me that there is a problem with my /dev/hde8 and that can not repair it. When I reinstalled MDK I set the drives up with ext2. Quite odd. Still sounds like your initrd doesn't match your root filesystem. I guess the next thing I would try would be to boot rescue and try to urpmi kernel-benh from a chroot of /. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
RE: MDK 9.1 Boot problem on PPC 9600
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Ben Martin wrote: Thanks Stew, I have reinstall MDK with the benh kernel and now it boots fine. The only problem that have found with the install is that it can not find the modules for the benh kernel. There is no /lib/modules/2.4.20-benh-9mdk directory, only a /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk. Probably would have booted with the Mandrake kernel with the correct initrd also. You need to install kernel-benh, which will probably require booting at least once with the Mandrake kernel to have the necessary modules available. urpmi kernel-benh -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
RE: MDK 9.1 Boot problem on PPC 9600
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Ben Martin wrote: Yes the '/' is ext3, I checked it with the mac version of pdisk. Here is some of the output: 7: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Linux ext3 6368832 @ 2098368 ( 3.0G) OK, I guess my vague hint about using the correct initrd didn't help? /me goes looking for PPC CD1: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls /mnt/cdrom/BootX/ initrd-2.4.20-benh-9mdk.ext2 initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.jfs initrd-2.4.20-benh-9mdk.ext3 initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.rfs initrd-2.4.20-benh-9mdk.jfs initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.xfs initrd-2.4.20-benh-9mdk.rfs Mandrake_Linux_Install.sit initrd-2.4.20-benh-9mdk.xfs vmlinuz-2.4.20-benh-9mdk* initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.ext2vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk* initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.ext3 I provided initrd images for all the various filesystems. The drivers are modular, so you need the correct initrd to be able to mount / and finish the boot. Are you using the ext3 one? -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: PPC in sync with x86
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know the main-real-big reason why the ppc version took so much lag behind the i586 one ? I run cooker on those both platform to be up to date with the developpement of gnome (2.3) for example. But I'm definitly not on ppc. I think Olivier builds as fast as his little TiBook can go. There are a few reasons: 1) 1 measley PPC box vs the x86 build cluster is a losing battle. Builds when I was doing them can take 10 times as long, and in the interim, another new release has come out. 2) Not everything builds cleanly on PPC, so then someone has to figure out why. Since Olivier is doing this freely in his own spare time, he may not have time to do that, and then 1 failed build can block a whole series of other packages. Once you figure out why, you may have to negotiate a fix with the package owner, who may or may not be open to PPC patches. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: PPC in sync with x86
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, if I rebuilt on my ibook with success rpm from a SRPM, should I try to upload it somewhere for everyone else ? I though that most of the stuff was automatically rebuild but I guess that I was wrong (since gnome-packages are still mostly 2.2 ones). I'll be happy to learn how to submit it if it may be useful for others. Forgot this bit. I don't have any issue with you partipating in building PPC cooker. There is a group of community people that are overseeing the builds for the alternate architectures. Your best bet would be to get in touch with them and see where you can help. If you follow main cooker, you've probably seen the folks involved posting there. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: MDK 9.1 Boot problem on PPC 9600
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Ben Martin wrote: Hello, I have installed MDK 9,1 on my PPC 9600. It has a scsi 4GB HD and scsi CD-ROM with PCI ATA-100 control which has a 20GB IDE HD attached. I have installed the root '/' on the scsi hd with a 3GB partition '/dev/sda7'. There is a 1GB partition for mac os 9. The 20GB ide hd has been setup for '/home' I have setup BootX with the following settings: Kernel: vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk ramdisk: initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img arguments: root=/dev/sda7 devfs=mount When MKD boots, the scsi drives are found with the mesh driver. However the Kernel ends in a panic. Here is the output: Mounting /proc filesystem Creating root device Mounting root filesystem with flags noatime mount: error 6 mounting ext3 flags noatime well, Retrying without the option flags mount: error 6 mounting ext3 well, Retrying read-only without the option flags mount: error 6 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 Remounting devfs at correct place if necessary Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 160k init 4k chrp 8k prep Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. 0Rebooting in 180 seconds.. Is / ext3? You should be using the appropriate initrd for the root filesystem. I believe I shipped one for each filesystem. Don't have the CD handy to check atm. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: A new benh kernel
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used video=radeonfb ; the linux bootstrap was in text mode. Everything was [OK]. I then started X and it works but when I put the machine to sleep, and wake it up the sreen displays kind of an ugly zoom on the top left corner of the former screen and the system is frozen. When I use the former benh kernel (2.4.20-benh9) the system wakes up, the display is reactive (although not usable) with a messy display (3 mouse cursors, horizontal blinky lines everywhere, ...). Are you using apm_emu? I understand it is needed for clean sleep recovery in X. You can add it to /etc/modules to have it load at boot, just: apm_emu as the last line of the file. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: A new benh kernel
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally I got round to making a new benh kernel. For people with club access, it is here (announcement also below): http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Splatt_Forumfile=viewtopictopic=9957forum=5 Thanks, I got installed the normal one (not the smp). But when I added a yaboot entry with drakboot, it put lines such as: image=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:13,/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/at [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:13,/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:13,/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:13,/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk instead of: image=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:13,/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk I suspect this is more likely an installkernel but than a kernel bug, but what you report is very weird: vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk is not my kernel, it is the normal main kernel. Can you check again what exactly happened? And if you are really using newest benh? Drakboot shouldn't have needed to be used, should it? Doesn't your %post run installkernel? I would supect drakboot trashed the file. It was ppc aware for 8.2. Last time I ran in on 9.1, it tried to setup acpid or some such foolishness. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: A new benh kernel
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am thinking about improving installkernel a bit anyway, but not sure how I can fit all kernels (mosix, multimedia, 2.6, benh) +version +compileoptions (smp,up,enterprise,etc) into an 8 char name. Actually I think it's lilo that's forcing the limitation. I don't know what yaboot's limit is, but I'm pretty sure I've had longer names in the past when I've made manual entries. I know I saw a comment in the installer about name lengths, referencing lilo. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: A new benh kernel
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stew, some patches of the old benh kernel i did not put in the patches tarball (like mainkernel), but still in the SPEC. I'm not really sure about whether to remove them or not, it is not always clear to me why they were applied. No need to keep them on my account. If you don't feel they are needed then drop them. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Ethernet Card Recognition under PPC 8.2 on OldWorld G3
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le jeu 24/07/2003 à 17:55, Stew Benedict a écrit : Still using the installer stuff. There should be system kernels and initrds in the BootX folder on the CD - no? (memeory is fading on 8.2, and I don't have a disk handy). Yep. I copied these (well I had to unstuff the img initrd file first) from the BootX folder on the CD into the folder where bootx presumably looks for them, but it didn't appear to find them. I could still only choose vmlinuz or vmlinuz2.2 from the bootx menu. You shouldn't have had to unstuff anything. The only thing I stuffed in MacOS is the Mandrake Linux Install.Sit. Everything else was created under Linux and should be ready to use. I'm not sure how you have your particular machine setup, but normally there is a linux kernels folder under BootX, and that's where I put kernels and initrds. Sounds like your BootX is looking at a different folder than the one you're placing the items in. I found an 8.2 repository. Looks like I mislead you a little on where to find the items: ncftp /Mandrake-old/8.2/ppc pwd ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-old/8.2/ppc/ ncftp /Mandrake-old/8.2/ppc ls misc/BootX-kernels/ initrd-2.2.19-14mdk.img vmlinuz-2.2.19-14mdk initrd-2.4.4-6.2mdk.img vmlinuz-2.4.4-6.2mdk You should have misc/BootX-kernels on your CD also. I'll have to wait until next week now to try again - it's a good job that this is the first machine I'm trying this on, since it's also the oldest. THe others are more recent, so with any luck the installation process should be a bit easier. Old World machines are the worst. The whole boot linux from MacOS concept seems to really throw a lot of people. Especially if they are new to linux, and now all of a sudden they need to deal with kernels, initrds, kernel arguments etc. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Ethernet Card Recognition under PPC 8.2 on OldWorld G3
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le lun 21/07/2003 à 02:54, Stew Benedict a écrit : Could be. Try using drakconnect without going through harddrake. Harddrake isn't too terrible useful on PPC anyway. Hi Stew, Sorry this is taking so long, but I've only got access to the machine 1 day per week. I've just noticed that when I start draknet from a console as root, I get the following message : Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.18-4mdkBOOT/modules.dep I've also noticed this error message on boot up of the machine. It turns out that something somewhere is telling the programs look in 2.4.18-4mdkBOOT whereas this doesn't actually exist at all. My question then is this : where can I change the path to the correct modules.dep file ? Do I have to use depmod and specify the path ? If so, how do I get that to work on every boot ? Ahh, Seems we all overlooked the obvious. This is the core of all your various issues with network, sound etc. You're booting with the installer kernel (BOOT is the clue, although INSTALL would probably be better). Get the appropriate system kernel and initrd from the BootX folder on CD1 to boot the system. There are no modules for the install kernel installed on the system. It's only intended use is for the installer. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Ethernet Card Recognition under PPC 8.2 on OldWorld G3
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le jeu 24/07/2003 à 14:51, Stew Benedict a écrit : Ahh, Seems we all overlooked the obvious. This is the core of all your various issues with network, sound etc. You're booting with the installer kernel (BOOT is the clue, although INSTALL would probably be better). Get the appropriate system kernel and initrd from the BootX folder on CD1 to boot the system. There are no modules for the install kernel installed on the system. It's only intended use is for the installer. When you say get, do you mean set via the BootX config panel, or do you mean copy the kernel and initrd from the CD1 on to the hard disk ? Get from CD - wherever you keep kernels in MacOS Or do I have to set the kernel boot options from within PPC via DrakConf ? Nope - MacOS only thing. In BootX all the boot parameters are controlled from the MacOS side. In the BootX config panel, I can only choose to boot vmlinuz or vmlinuz 2.2, and if I choose RAMDISK, I have a choice of four possibilities, none of which correspond to the 2.4.18 kernel (unless I'm missing something obvious here). Still using the installer stuff. There should be system kernels and initrds in the BootX folder on the CD - no? (memeory is fading on 8.2, and I don't have a disk handy). -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: 8.2 PPC CD1 and CD2 not recognized file systems
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stew Benedict wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install more software via GRPMI, CUPS among others, from the official 8.2 CDs. However, when asked to insert the relevant CDs, it doesn't seem to recognize them and just keeps throwing open the CD player draw with a request to insert the appropriate CD. I've noticed that from the console, an error message is given that the file system type of the CD is incorrect. What does this mean ? Is there something wrong with my fstab config, or is there something wrong with the CDs ? Post your fstab line. Can you see files on /mnt/cdrom using any CD? Just my 2 cents, Disk 1 is an HFS disk (Stew correct me if I am wrong), where Disk 2 is a Unix (Rockridge) disk. I have seen this, and had to do the mount manually in the past (mount -t hfs /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom). But that was before I installed 9.1 which has a really nice line in the fstab: none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hde,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0,user 0 0 Actually disk1 is a hybrid hfs and iso9660. You should be able to mount it either way. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Ethernet Card Recognition under PPC 8.2 on OldWorld G3
On Sun, 21 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le dim 20/07/2003 à 13:17, Christiaan Welvaart a écrit : On 18 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: Internel ethernet on beige G3s is called bmac. That's odd. When I click on the configuration tool in the Hardware section of DrakConf, this is what it displays as the module, but the configuration tool that appears is the one used for configuring a sound card. Sounds (pardon the pun) like a bug ? Could be. Try using drakconnect without going through harddrake. Harddrake isn't too terrible useful on PPC anyway. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: 8.2 PPC CD1 and CD2 not recognized file systems
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install more software via GRPMI, CUPS among others, from the official 8.2 CDs. However, when asked to insert the relevant CDs, it doesn't seem to recognize them and just keeps throwing open the CD player draw with a request to insert the appropriate CD. I've noticed that from the console, an error message is given that the file system type of the CD is incorrect. What does this mean ? Is there something wrong with my fstab config, or is there something wrong with the CDs ? Post your fstab line. Can you see files on /mnt/cdrom using any CD? -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Philippe legay wrote: Alex Thurgood wrote: 1) when you create the accounts initially, the keyboard is mapped with US style mappings (I think, but would anyone care to confirm), but when you reboot, the mappings are changed to the locale you have selected - in my case French, and now I can't for the life of me get into the root account (well I will be able to eventually, once I've found out where the keys I typed initially have been moved to) - aarrgh, frustration city !! I have the same problem (but I have thinked at this problem before, so my password is querty and azerty compatible). As, I have the same problem, I am tring to solve it, I can explain How to do it, but as I have no HTTP site, wher can I put this information ? And is the list interessted in this kind of problem ? Post it to the list, and then it goes to the archives where people can find it. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Philippe legay wrote: Stew Benedict wrote: Yes, exactly. If you install BootX into the system folder, you can set the default to either roll into MacOS or Linux, but you'll always be a bit of the way into MacOS before that happens. Just to avoid mistake, what kind of Mac OS partition HFS or HFS + For MacOS? Doesn't matter much unless you want to access it from Linux. If you do, then hfs has better support than hfs+. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: Ok, finally got it to install, but I now have two problems : 1) when you create the accounts initially, the keyboard is mapped with US style mappings (I think, but would anyone care to confirm), but when you reboot, the mappings are changed to the locale you have selected - in my case French, and now I can't for the life of me get into the root account (well I will be able to eventually, once I've found out where the keys I typed initially have been moved to) - aarrgh, frustration city !! Sorry about that. Boot into single user mode and reset the root password. (append single to your kernel arguments in BootX.) 2) THe video config parameters didn't work, so init 5 doesn't get started. Of course, you need to be root to use XConfigurator or Drakconf. BTW, what's the difference between pmac and the supplied ATI driver module ? It appears that it didn't want to play with my ATI settings. Quite a bit of difference. I would not recommend XFree86-pmac unless you're really desparate, especially with a non-US keyboard. I'd use fbdev driver in XFree4 if the ati driver doesn't work. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install PPC 8.2 from the Mandrake CDs on a beige G3. I've got 1.5 Gig free space on the disk drive, and 256 Mb ram. Although I've read the readme.html file in the doc folder on the CD, nothing I've tried so far has got the machine to boot from the CD. I've tried simply pressing and holding C after turning on the switch. I've tried Command-C, Alt-C, Command-Alt-C, Command-Ctrl-Alt-C : all to no avail, the hard disk just kicks in and boots OS9.2. I tried Command-O-F and that gives me an error message on my monitor screen saying SIGNAL OUT OF BOUNDS. I even tried installing the Mandrake Linux Install.sit file, from CD, or copying to disk and then starting. In both cases, I get the error message The application Mandrake Linux Install.sit can not be opened because an error of type -39 has occurred. I all out of ideas ? Any advice ? Alex BootX - I don't believe that machine can boot the CD. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le ven 11/07/2003 à 15:35, Alex Thurgood a écrit : You were right about the install scripts, they didn't work. I started BootX and chose all.gz as the ramdisk, and set the value to 34000. The installation starts, asks for the install media, chose CDROM. THen the program starts to load from memory (as with the other MDK installs on other platforms), but when the graphical interface comes up for the install, the screen is corrupted : monochrome, huge text, buttons displaced, impossible to select anything. Is there a way around this other than via a text install ? I'll reply to myself because I found out how, by ticking the don't use video driver box in BootX. I chose the Recommende option and well, the install went rather smoothly, but at the end, the installer told me that I couldn't use yaboot and that I'd have to use BootX instead. This is all very well, but where is BootX installed ? On my MacHFS partition or somewhere else ? When I try and start the Mac now, it just stops at the little smiling monitor. I don't get a choice of boot. I think my system's hosed. Advice, admonishments, etc, gratefully taken... Yes, BootX does all it's work from the MacOS side. kernels and initrd's for the installed system are provided. Did you delete your MacOS partition or something? -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le ven 11/07/2003 à 17:28, Stew Benedict a écrit : Yes, BootX does all it's work from the MacOS side. kernels and initrd's for the installed system are provided. Did you delete your MacOS partition or something? Ah that would explain a lot. The obvious answer is that I did of course when I resized the partitions with the Drake utility (doh !!). Does this mean that I always have to boot into MacOS9 first before booting Linux ? Yes, exactly. If you install BootX into the system folder, you can set the default to either roll into MacOS or Linux, but you'll always be a bit of the way into MacOS before that happens. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Linux PPC User Digest V56 #9 (fwd)
FYI -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:00:33 -0500 From: Linux PPC User Digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Linux PPC User Digest V56 #9 Linux PPC User Digest Wednesday, July 9 2003 Volume 56 Number 009 In this issue: IBM 1.4.1 PPC processor workaround: people mi... James Gunning James.Gunn -- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:06:40 +1000 From: James Gunning [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IBM 1.4.1 PPC processor workaround: people might like to know this Folks, the new IBM 1.4.1 jit dies on many PPC machines: here's the workaround (simpler than Kevin's funky kernel recompile). James. - Original Message From: Neil Masson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IBM 1.4.1 PPC Core Dumps Erik R. Jensen wrote: I get core dumps with the new IBM 1.4.1 PPC 32bit version. I have the IBM 1.3.1 PPC and Blackdown's 1.3.1 PPC working perfectly on the same machine. The system is a G3 powerbook (pismo). The kernel version is 2.4.20, and the libc version is 2.2.5. Does anyone know what the problem is? People I have talked with on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list are having similar problems with the same JVM on their PPC boxes. There is a workaround, which is to set the following environment variable: export JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE= 6 which will force the 604 class cpu code to be employed. -- End of Linux PPC User Digest V56 #9 *** ** Sent via the linuxppc-user-digest mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
Re: Anyone cooking? Cooker install ISO?
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Micah Buckley-Farlee wrote: I might be able to host it, depending on the demand. Would 2000MB/month bandwidth be enough? --Micah OK, Thanks everyone for the hosting offers. I had several offers to host, but little interest in using cooker, so perhaps it's a wasted effort anyway. I forgot I don't even need that much space, just kernels and stage1. I put it on my web space: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/MandrakeLinux-cooker.ppc.iso http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/MandrakeLinux-cooker.ppc.md5 My experience: Couldn't get stage2 from a mirror site, even though it was there. Local ftp worked fine. So, I mirrored one of the mirrors locally yesterday and did an install tonight. Issues: old advertising graphics package errors: popt rpm perl-URPM dosfstools sawfish libsoup3 libqtvision1 librep rep-gtk abiword MHonArc librep9 tcptraceroute kvirc sawfish-themes gnome-tiles sympa kwintv gnome-network popt and rpm showed up each time it was time to install additional packages (dhcp setup, X setup etc.) On boot, I dropped into maintenance mode, due to no devfsd. I also discovered the was no /etc/yaboot.conf, just the example one. There was no error related to setting up the bootloader during install. I couldn't mount my bootstrap to grab my original one, as I was booting a different kernel than the installed one, so no modules. (shared /boot). I have to believe the above issues are due to either the packages errors or a mismatch between the installer libs and the cooker system, as the installer stage1/stage2 are the same images as 9.1, with just edited text for 9.2. Anyway, it's out there if anyone wants it. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Install problem on G4 powerbook
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Ken Simpson wrote: Hi, I have installed ML 9.1 successfully on my desktop G4 - all going well there. However my TiBook (2001) is giving me real problems. I can start up the install disk holding down C, and choose the install options. install-gui and install-gui-old both give unusable screens (that are nonetheless obviously distorted graphical login screens). install-text is fine until I select the keyboard type, when it fails with a file not found error. These are the exact same disks I have used for my other install. md5's seem fine. Can anyone suggest a next step for me (YDL installed without a hitch...!) install-gui-benh or install-gui-benh text plain install-text is broken -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Anyone cooking? Cooker install ISO?
Hi folks, Haven't seen any cooker-ppc related traffic on here. Is anyone running cooker, or interested in doing so? Olivier and Christiaan who hang out on IRC have been busy building and submitting patches for PPC and I believe it's more or less up to date with x86. If there is any interest, I could probably make up a mini install ISO for net/hd installs, based on the 9.1 code. Anyone have a place to host it? It would be about 70MB or so. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Install 9.1 on Starmax3000/PM4400 with Sonnet G3/L2 card :install problems and tips
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Bertrand wrote: I've managed to install Mdk9.1 on my computer. After numerous tries, crashes, freezes and nervous breakdowns, I've succeeded :-p Set up : -Starmax3000, 603e cpu., 180 Mgz, upgraded with a Sonnet G3 400mhz on the L2 connector, and a rage128 pci card. This computer ran Mdk8.2 well. First problems : - with the G3 card, the boot of the two install kernel (benh or not) freezes just after the early boot messages, before switching to the rage128 console. This occurs only when I set up bootx to load the install ramdisk (all.gz) - on my system, there is a conflict between the rage128 macos inits and bootx, which let linux freeze on random several minutes after boot. Be sure that Bootx init loads before the video inits. So : I've disabled the Sonnet Crescendo init and removed the Sonnet card for the install. One can reenable them after the install. Second problems : - there is a problem with the given install kernel (benh or not). Just after stage 1, I've got the following messages : E : could not set new controlling tty E : could not open /tmp/syslog with the following messages from the kernel in console 4 : *spawning a shell *cannot open shell - /tmp/sh doesn't exist. The kernel gives error messages int console 4 for each insmod action, for instance : * have to insmod pcmcia_core * needs pcmcia_core */tmp/pcmcia_core.o : Read-only filesystem *warning : insmod failed (pcmcia_core (null))(1) Glad it worked for you eventually, but it sounds like you went through a lot of extra work to avoid what looks like a core issue in booting stage 1. Doesn't look like it's mounted to /dev/ram3. The read-only filesystem is the big hint. It cannot create /dev/hdc for the same reason. This doesn't occur if I use the Mdk8.2 install kernel, but this one cannot load its modules from all.gz. = My solution : - a 2.4.21 kernel I had compiled on mdk8.2 didn't work. So I've used the mdk-8.0 (you can find it on the net, don't you ?) install kernell (2.4.4 - the mdk8.2 kernel crashes oftently on 603e cpu) and a modified mdk-9.2 all.gz ramdisk. If I remember well (worked a long time before success...), the 8.0 ramdisk didn't work. So, I've recreated a ramdisk (myall.gz) from the 9.1 one, with the 2.4.4 modules inside in the following way on a linux system : 1- gunzip the mdk8.0 all.gz ramdisk and mount it somewhere on you system. cp the file modules.cz-2.4.4mdk to your hard disk. Unmount the ramdisk 2 - gunzip the mdk9.2 all.gz ramdisk and mount it somewhere on you system. 3- create an empty image-disk file (named here myall - I've used bochs's bximage, but dd should work, isn't it ?) of 8mb (to have enough space). Format it in ext2 with ext2fs. 4- mount this second ramdisk, copy the content of the mounted first ramdisk inside and copy modules.cz-2.4.4mdk in it, for instance in modules/ 5- umount the ramdisks and gzip myall into myall.gz. Put it where you can find it with Bootx on the Macos side (I've got a Linux kernels folder on my macos partition, with all my kernels and ramdisks). Then you can proceed the install in the following way : 1- boot the 8.0 install kernel with myall.gz via bootx with the options install-gui gui-old and the video options you want 2 - when the install switches to stage2, go to the second console (CTRL ALT F2) and do : $cp /modules/modules.cz-2.4.4mdk /lib/ Now the kernel can load its modules 3- switch back to the graphic console (5th) and begin the install steps. Caution : the 2.4.4 kernel doesn't ships ext3, so format your disks in ext2 during the install. Once the system is installed, you can boot using the mdk8.0 boot disk and initrd. I've switched without problem to the 2.4.21 kernel I had compiled on Mandrake8.2 from kernel.org sources. And with it, I've switched my disks to ext3. And now, it rocks with my G3 card :-)) Bertrand Dekoninck -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Boot Problems on Powerbook G4
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, John G. Cole wrote: I could not get Mandrake 9.1 PPC to install on my 12 Powerbook G4 (NVIDIA GeForce4) using any of the gui setups. When I went to install-text the installation failed with a keyboard ioctl error (early in the installation). When I installed with install-gui-benh text the installation seemed to go fine. (Allocated all remaining free space in the installation ~ 15G) When I choose linux on the bootloader and boot linux the boot fails with errors starting with mount: error 6 mounting ext3 flags (null) well, retrying read-only without any flag mount: error 6 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 Remounting devfs at correct place if necessary Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 160k init 4k chrp 8k prep Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel / isn't getting mounted, although it looks like the initrd loaded I don't know what init= option to pass to the kernel -- by the way at the top of the screen (above the logo) the kernel is listed as Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdk -- is it possible that the benh kernel was not installed somehow? Quite possible. It doesn't install automatically, and in text mode, even if you explicitily select a package, it doesn't install. If you check the list archives, there are various workarounds. If I understand the situation correctly, rescue won't work either, as the Mandrake kernel doesn't see the hard drive. Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2 -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: iMac and Mandrake 9.1 installation
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Douglas Sandoval wrote: at the console (as root): urpmi XFree86-server XFdrake Then follow up if you're still stuck. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OK this is what i found : (at the console) urpmi XFree86-server The following packages have bad signatures: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/XFree86-server-4.3mdk.ppc.rpm Do you want to continue installation? (y/N) if I choose y(es) the system says installing but it hangs after a few pair of seconds. OK, I supposed that probably the media was damaged so I made a new CD but it fails too. What do I have to do? Download the complete CD again or can I download just the XFree86 server? Again, thanks a lot... That doesn't sound right? XFree86-server-4.3-5mdk.ppc.rpm is what I have here. Yes, you can get just the server package. find a 9.1 ppc mirror and grab it. Since it's pulling from /var/cache, it doesn't appear to be using the CD media. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: iMac and Mandrake 9.1 installation
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Douglas Sandoval wrote: Hi Everyone, I´m trying to install Mandrake 9.1 for PPC in an old iMac (iMac 350 MHz and an ati rage video card) but having a lot of trouble at the end of the installation. I followed the instructions to use: install-gui-benh gui-old (install-gui fail to display correctly the initial screen,install-text doesn´t work neither), with benh the installation process works fine, ejects the cd1 an cd2 and load the cd3, but at the stage of summary says that the graphic interface its not configured, if I choose to configure, it recommends: imac monitor and ati rage video card, Xfree86 3d accel, when I choose next, appears the same screen that appears when it is copying files, seems like its going to load or configure anything else but it hangs, no errors no beep, nothing, the only option then is to reboot, I have tried the same with other XF86 video cards. If I reboot, Linux loads but no in graphical mode, if I type startx it says there is an (errno 2). There is no /var/log/XFree86.0.log file Please help me, I´m sad because I have 6 iMacs that i want to load with Mandrake...but i have to probe that it is possible...Thanks a lot at the console (as root): urpmi XFree86-server XFdrake Then follow up if you're still stuck. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: detectloader fix
Not seeing bad behavior here. Fairly clean 9.1 install: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# /usr/sbin/detectloader no bootloader on MBR, trying partitions! YABOOT [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -qf /usr/sbin/detectloader initscripts-7.06-11mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# grep lilo /usr/sbin/detectloader @known_boot_loaders = qw(lilo grub yaboot); [ 'lilo', 0x2, LILO ], [ 'lilo', 0x6, LILO ], -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: detectloader fix
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Vincent Danen wrote: On Thu Jun 19, 2003 at 10:08:24PM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote: Not seeing bad behavior here. Fairly clean 9.1 install: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# /usr/sbin/detectloader no bootloader on MBR, trying partitions! YABOOT [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -qf /usr/sbin/detectloader initscripts-7.06-11mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# grep lilo /usr/sbin/detectloader @known_boot_loaders = qw(lilo grub yaboot); [ 'lilo', 0x2, LILO ], [ 'lilo', 0x6, LILO ], [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# /usr/sbin/detectloader Can't open /etc/lilo.conf: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -q initscripts initscripts-7.06-12.1mdk Can you try with the initscripts update that we put out for 9.1? It shouldn't make a difference I don't think.. it was a bugfix for a minilog race condition, but it's best to be sure. My bad - I didn't have the update installed. Also, do you have, perchance, a /etc/lilo.conf file on your system? Oh noo - that's an x86 thing :) -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: 9.1 Installation problems...
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Micah Buckley-Farlee wrote: OK I've searched the archives, can't seem to find a fix, so here goes... Alright, I start installing, and it installs all of the packages fine, and then the problems occur. After i have entered the root password, created my password, and set the auto-login, it tries to install the bootloader. At first i get an error box that says: Installation of bootloader failed. The following error occured: :Cannot create temp file. aborting. ybin: An error occured while building first stage loader. aborting... After dismissing this box, the following text shows up in the background: Can't do inplace edit on /mnt/etc/modules.conf: No space left on device at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/MDK/Common/File.pm line 226. Sounds pretty straightforward - you're out of space. What size partitions did you use? Missed you on IRC, I was wondering why you opted to use a 6 ramdisk? -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Oldworld install problems
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Ben Donovan wrote: I haven't noticed any problems with it. Can you suggest a way of checking it, or is the only way to remove chips until it works? I know there are bootable memcheck programs for x86. Don't know that I've seen PPC versions. Might have something to do with your upgrade card also. You definitely need the ramdisk to be able to proceed. You could try playing with ramdisk_size, making something less like 36000 and see if that does anything for you. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: 9.1 Installation problems...
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micah Buckley-Farlee wrote: Sounds pretty straightforward - you're out of space. What size partitions did you use? I used the erase hard drive option, which appears to just partition everything using the defaults. I tried messing around with the custom partitioning a bit, but I would always get a no bootstrap error when I try to save the partitioning scheme. If anyone could give me a fix for this, but also give me a good way to partition a 38GB hard drive for Mandrake, please tell me. I am sure Stew will have better ideas, but I have encountered that dreaded no bootstrap error (stew it is darn irritating). The reason you get that is because you have no free space less that 10MB (or maybe it is 1MB). If you create a partition table like any sane individual you would create partitions for whatever you need on the MacOS side, and then a /, /boot, /usr (maybe), /home, /opt (if you have a really big disk), /usr/local (if you are an old timer and don't use /opt. Of course you don't need all those, but those are the more popular. Then you have filled the disk with all of these partitions with no free space (after all that is what the partition game is all about, making sure that all the disk is allocated). The Mandrake installer, however complains bitterly if you didn't leave any free space for it to automagically create a bootstrap partition (which will be used by ybin). As best as I understand it, you (the user) can't create this bootstrap partion, the install has to do it. So make sure you have some free space at the end, if you are manually partitioning. You can create it manually. The tools are there, and I've done it myself. I guess I didn't really envision people creating all their linux partitions outside of the installer, since it's designed to do that. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Oldworld install problems
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Ben Donovan wrote: I added root=/dev/ram3 to the kernel arguments and now I'm getting the same error as if I just run through the default options in the Install madrake linux application. Here's where it looks like it goes wrong: Crc error6Freeing initrd memory:2517k freed Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:03 0 Rebooting in 180 seconds Don't care much for that Crc error. Bad RAM? -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Oldworld install problems
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Ben Donovan wrote: I have a Motorola Starmax which I am trying to rejuvinate by installing linux on it. System specs: Starmax 3000/240 Sonnet G3 upgrade 128mb RAM 2.3gb IDE HD (2 HFS mac partitions) 4.3gb SCSI HD (for linux) SCSI ID 2 Teac SCSI CD-ROM (ID 3) Teac SCSI CDR (ID 4) I have unstuffed the bootx installer to the desktop and run it choosing the default options. If I do this I get the following error when trying to boot linux: ³kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 01:03² I¹ve tried putting the CD in both drives with the same result. I¹ve also tried specifying the kernal and ramdisk (using the ones inside the un-stuffed directory on my desktop) I get the same result with both: it can¹t find the CD. After some searching through the archives I found that mac53c94.o seems to be the option to choose, it the asks for options to give to the kernal, and I¹m not sure what to put here, if anything. After that it always gives the ³Insmod failed² error and that¹s it. I know this seems to be a very common newbie problem, but I couldn¹t find a solution in the archives that worked. Switch to VT3 or 4 (cmd-ctl-F3/F4) and see the additional messages from insmod. You should not need any additional arguments for the module. That's mostly for ISA cards. You could also try the mesh driver. I don't know what that machine has as a controller. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Oldworld install problems
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Ben Donovan wrote: Actually I did try the mesh driver too, with the same results. The machine is basically the same as a powermac 4400, I don't know if that is any help. Not to me. I haven't had hands-on on either one of them. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Oldworld install problems
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Ben Donovan wrote: I switched to VT3 and here¹s what I got using the mac53c94 module (mesh produced the same errors, only withmesh instead of mac53c94): Warning, insmod failed (ide-cd (null)) (1) Have to insmod sr_mod Needs cd-rom /tmp/cdrom.o: Read-only file system Needs sr_mod /tmp/sr_mod.o: Read-only file system Warning, insmod failed (sr_mod (null)) (1) Looking for IDE media IDE/1: had is a ST52520A Looking for SCSI media Looking for Compaq smart array media Looking for DAC960 Unsetting automatic Have to insmod mac53c94 Needs mac53c94 /tmp/mac53c94.o: Read-only file system Warning, insmod failed (mac53c94) (1) Unsetting automatic Bingo! Read-only file system Settings in bootX as follows: Kernel = vmlinux (or vmlinux-benh) Ramdisk = all.gz (or all-benh.gz) Kernel arguments = ramdisk_size=4 Are there any specific options I should turn on/off in the bootX options screen? I'm not sure what else to try. add root=/dev/ram3 to your kernel arguments This is only for the install. To boot the system use root=/dev/sdXX, where XX=a6, etc. (your linux /). -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: GWorkspace SRPM
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Bertrand wrote: I've done a very first SRPM for GWorkspace-0.5.1, the gnustep clone of the NeXT filemanager. I'm not very sure of my specfile and I've still got one problem : it can only compile on PowerPC (so x86 users will come after, this time ;-))) ) My problem is at the beginning of the spec file : %define host_cpu $GNUSTEP_HOST_CPU I want to use the GNUSTEP_HOST_CPU environnement variable to list some files at the build stage in the %file section of the spec file : %files %gs_install_dir/Tools/%host_cpu/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/findfile %gs_install_dir/Tools/%host_cpu/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/fopexec %gs_install_dir/Tools/%host_cpu/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/wopen Problem : when I build the rpm, this fails with the following : RPM build errors: File not found by glob: /var/tmp/GWorkspace-0.5.1/usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/$GNUSTEP_HOST_CPU/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/libGWorkspace.so* File not found: /var/tmp/GWorkspace-0.5.1/usr/GNUstep/System/Tools/$GNUSTEP_HOST_CPU/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/findfile http://perso.wanadoo.fr/bertrand.dekoninck/ File not found: /var/tmp/GWorkspace-0.5.1/usr/GNUstep/System/Tools/$GNUSTEP_HOST_CPU/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/fopexec File not found: /var/tmp/GWorkspace-0.5.1/usr/GNUstep/System/Tools/$GNUSTEP_HOST_CPU/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/wopen So I've replace $GNUSTEP_HOST_CPU by it's value on my system : powerpc. Then it builds. But it won't on x86. Can someone help me ? I've placed a srpm on my web space : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/bertrand.dekoninck/ You'll need a complete gnustep install to build it. Bertrand Dekoninck PS : here's the specfile attached Bertrand. There is a macro that might do what you want already: rpm --eval=%_host_cpu powerpc -- 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: GWorkspace SRPM
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Bertrand wrote: $GNUSTEP_HOST_CPU is gnustep specific. If %_target_cpu or %_host_cpu returns the same results, I could use them, but is it the case ? Here on PPC : [EMAIL PROTECTED] tranber]$ rpm --eval %_target_cpu ppc [EMAIL PROTECTED] tranber]$ rpm --eval %_host_cpu powerpc So it's clearly %_host_cpu to use. Can someone compare the results on other achitectures ? Thanks, Olivier posted some sparc output. On my laptop (AMD Duron), %_host_cpu = i686 %_target_cpu = i586 -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: PPP problems
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Jakob Malm wrote: I'm having a very difficult time getting my modem ppp connection working. I' m running Mandrake Linux 9.1 on an iMac 400 DV. At one time I did have it somewhat working using gnome-ppp, having written my own log on script, but after reinstalling Linux (for various reasons) I can't even get that to work. I would like to be able to use Kppp, because it worked nice for me on Yellowdog Linux, and I have installed kde-network-kppp and also wvdial. The way that the problem shows up is, using: -kppp:Modem not responding, when trying to dial out For kppp, play with the pre/post init delays. Something around 50ms or so has worked in the past. -gnome-ppp: pppd breaks down unexpectedly -wvdial: the modem deosn't answer to the ATZ command Haven't used these on PPC myself. Anyone? -- 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: dual g4 install - progress
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Isaac wrote: Just to share the experience... Moving the drive to the ATA-66 bus allowed me to complete the install and then boot it up. XFDrake then got the GUI working (but now the consoles are invisible if XFree is up, odd) Note: there appears to be a bug in the text installer because I selected the benh kernel (in individual package selection), but it was not installed. I had to install it later with rpmdrake. Yes. Reported several times. I don't believe any manual package selections in text install actually happen. Now the next step is to move the drive back to the Ultra ATA bus. This will change the drive from /dev/hda to /dev/hde. so to get past this, i have to change yaboot.conf to reflect the change in device and make the benh kernel default, change the open firmware boot-device, and /etc/fstab ... did i miss anything? Sounds right. -- 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: eMac problem
On Sat, 31 May 2003, Jeffrey Hergan wrote: On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 10:58 AM, Jeffrey Hergan wrote: On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 03:35 PM, Stew Benedict wrote: On Fri, 30 May 2003, Jeffrey Hergan wrote: I searched the lists and it said that to install 9.1 on an eMac I should try: installgui-benh text That doesn't work/exist. So I try: install-gui-benh text which leaves me with a black screen after some text scrolls quickly by. So what's the secret to installing on an eMac? Don't know for sure this will work but try adding video=ofonly to your boot arguments Good call, Stew! If I use: install-gui-benh text video=ofonly I can get into the installation process. And the install went off flawlessly. It boots up into yaboot, and I click the 'l' for linux, and it boots linux. And then (surprise!!) the screen goes blank. SO: from yaboot, or open firmware, how do I tell it: video=ofonly I'm assuming that will at least get me to the point where I can log in and look at logs and whatnot. same idea. Pick l then tab to see your kernel choices one is probably linux linux video=ofonly You can add this to the append arguments in /etc/yaboot.conf and rerun ybin to make it permanent for now, until you work things out -- 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: Trouble with pivotroot while installing on 1998 Powerbook G3
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Ted Lemon wrote: There are only 2 install kernels in 9.1. Your output looks like you are using one of the kernels/initrd's for the installed system. The install kernels, initrd are in /boot or in the BootX .sit file: I got the install kernel out of the BootX .sit file. It seems completely plausible that I am booting the wrong ramdisk, but I see no way to distinguish among them. What appears in the BootX.sit file are a bunch of ramdisks with names that all start with initrd-2.4.20-benh-9mdk, followed by an extension that seems to be the name of a Linux filesystem format. There are similar initrd files for the non-BenH kernel. That's your problem. You don't use the initrd's for the install. You use the appropriate all.gz file that goes with the kernel, placed in the same dir as the kernels. Again, I was pretty sure I composed a whole doc in that .sit file discussing using BootX for both the install and post install. I am booting a kernel from the same directory. I also tried booting a kernel from the /boot directory on the CD-ROM, but to no avail. I couldn't find any ramdisk images on the CD other than the ones in the BootX.sit file. -- 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: eMac problem
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Jeffrey Hergan wrote: I searched the lists and it said that to install 9.1 on an eMac I should try: installgui-benh text That doesn't work/exist. So I try: install-gui-benh text which leaves me with a black screen after some text scrolls quickly by. So what's the secret to installing on an eMac? Don't know for sure this will work but try adding video=ofonly to your boot arguments -- 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: 2.4 benh - patches
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Alexander Klosch wrote: ola, I'm updating to latest benh (2.4.20-benh-10). and i want to use the supermount patch. (peoples.mandrakesoft.com/~quintela/supermount/2.4.20-2) but some patches fail. does anyone have a link to a matching patch? regards kloschi You might want to look at my or danny's benh srpm. Mine is at: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/ or http://peoples.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/ (they are movin servers around) -- 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: bamboo can't boot
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Alan wrote: Thanks you very much, Stew! I didn't even check /BootX directory cos I thought that's BootX stuff. I thought the doc covered that, but maybe not. Now the system fires up like a dream(of course other benh-kernel related files are also installed for its full commissioning. I just used the rpm) One more question: what are the main differences between 2.4.21.0-13 and benh-2.4.20-9? 2.4.21-13mdk is kernel.org +200 or more mandrake patches *-benh is Ben Herrenschmidt's PPC specific kernel tree. Ben's tuff ends up in kernel.org eventually, but it takes a while, so Ben's tree usually supports the new machines much better. -- 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: Trouble with pivotroot while installing on 1998 Powerbook G3
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Ted Lemon wrote: I'm having trouble getting a BootX-loaded kernel to get to the point of doing an install. I've set up BootX to boot one of the non-BenH kernels off of the install CD, and I've set it up to install a RAMdisk image that corresponds to that kernel. The parameters I am passing in are just what came by default: There are only 2 install kernels in 9.1. Your output looks like you are using one of the kernels/initrd's for the installed system. The install kernels, initrd are in /boot or in the BootX .sit file: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SOURCES]$ ls /mnt/disk/export/boot/ all-benh.gz all.gz ofboot.b vmlinux* vmlinux-benh* yaboot yaboot.conf yaboot.msg Unless I omitted it, there is also a fairly detailed doc on how to setup BootX for both the install and the installed system in the .sit file: Mandrake_Linux_Install.sit in the BootX folder. If that doc is missing, let me know and I'll have vdanen add it to the errata and I'll put it on my web space. -- 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: iMac G4 2003 modem
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Michele Monteferrante wrote: I should like to know if it's possible to configure Apple Internal modem v92 on iMac G4 2003 Thanks It's a soft modem. This may work: http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/hcf _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- 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: RC1 and gui installer on a Pismo
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2003 02:52, Stew Benedict wrote: You would have to setup an install image on HD or another machine using the tree from the mirrors, where it's been fixed. Otherwise install-text. Could you be a bit more specific? How do I do this? Is ther esom howto to read? Couple of ways. 1) Use your existing ISO files, put them on another Linux machine or a partition on the same machine (VFAT or ext2). Then replace Mandrake/mdkinst Mandrake/base with same files from the mirrors 2) Get the whole tree from the mirrors. Again place on a partition somewhere. Now boot from the CD, use install-gui-old, but point it to the local partition (HD Install), or to the partition on another machine (ftp, nfs). -- 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: new user
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Nicholas Henke wrote: Hey guys -- I am a current gentoo ppc user ( ex developer ), and was interested in checking out ppc support for Mandrake. Is there a good place to start ? I have found the devel ( cooker ) branch rc1 iso's. What is the best option ? Is there any easy way to make new iso's from the cooker ftp stuffs ? RC1 isos are probably the easiest way to start. After that urpmi will update your system to the latest. If you want to make your own ISOs, use mkdcd_ppc.pl. For instance my tree is on /mnt/disk/export: cd /mnt/disk/export/misc ./mkcd_ppc.pl /mnt/disk/export /mnt/disk -- 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: package installation and
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Walt Costanza wrote: I carefully went through the entire app list and tried to add many packages. They then all failed to install for no signature, including netatalk. Is this just a function of this being rc and not final? Do the the ISOs being built here, and not from the official Paris repository. I could build them from there, but then things would really be broken, as those sources aren't too good. I probably should have reprocessed all the packages and signed them, but I neglected to do so. With the default look and feel windows can only be grabbed from the top and bottom. Not PPC specific I don't believe. Window manager behavior. When gimp installs and also a main page somewhere within linuxconfig the defualt screen height is much greater than the 768 of this lcd and many monitors. As a result it is not possible to complete the install of gimp or use the functions from the linuxconfig page untill one figures out how to use move because the action buttons are off the bottom of the screen. Many a new user will be completely frustrated by this. A much smaller default window size would be best or at least resizing of windows from top corners on by default. You lost me completely on this one. Gimp here opens with 3 small windows and the hint screen. I don't really use linuxconf, as Mandrake's tools provide most of that functionality. Or are you talking about rpmdrake in all this? I uninstalled gimp and linuxconf and reinstalled using rpmdrake, and yes, I observed the gpg signature issue, but at no time during the install was anything off screen (1024x768). This is using KDE. I also removed my ~/.gimp* directory and went back through the initially user setup of gimp, and did not find any windows off screen there either. Unless I'm missing something, linuxconf still looks to be a console app than runs in a terminal, unless you're talking about gnome-linuxconf? Again, that app was fully on-screen here at 1024x768. At any rate, I don't believe any of this is PPC specific. -- 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: ibook XFree86
On Wed, 7 Jan 1970, A. Klosch wrote: hi, ibook2 ati radeon mobility, XFree86 _with_ DRI solved by using latest XFree86-4.3-5mdk. regards. alex Holy smokes, why weren't you using it before? It was built over 2 weeks ago. Not on the mirrors? -- 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: RC1 and gui installer on a Pismo
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Stew Benedict wrote: install-gui-old was broken on RC1. That's the workaround for r128. So how do I install in GUI-mode (if possible)? You would have to setup an install image on HD or another machine using the tree from the mirrors, where it's been fixed. Otherwise install-text. -- 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: MOL 0.9.68
Minor change - added OSX mode to menus: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/mol-0.9.68-5mdk.ppc.rpm http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/mol-0.9.68-5mdk.src.rpm -- 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: broken koffice/karbon
Patched this, it had a fairly obvious endian issue, once I realized it needed to be looked at. I'm not entirly sure the colors are right, and I get some interesting trailing affects here on moving items, but it does run and print preview looks good. http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/koffice-1.2.1-8.1mdk.ppc.rpm http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/koffice-devel-1.2.1-8.1mdk.ppc.rpm http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/koffice-1.2.1-8.1mdk.src.rpm Talking to other folks, apparently it was also broken on other PPC distributions, but no-one noticed. Thanks for the report Walt! -- 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: ibook XFree86
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, A. Klosch wrote: Well, after everything was running, a process died and i had to do a hard reboot, which obviously destroyed parts of my XFS file system. is there a shortcut for softreboot with the mac-keyboard? and how do i enable the 'Y' key during boot, to enble the fsck? while reinstalling I'm having installing XFree86. editing the XFree86Config-4 by hand is the same result as doing it with XFdrake: the screen turns black, logged in over ssh I have a look on the XFree86.0.log - which says no warnings or errors, _and_ the xfree86 process takes 99,9% of CPU and is not killable. what can i do? regards alex 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. Using a journalled filesystem is supposed to help overcome those issues, but I have heard more than a couple of horror stories. Remove /etc/sysconfig/console/default.kmap for the y issue. The installer was creating that file. I disabled it. For your current X issue, I'm not sure what's going on. Does /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages give any clue? Are any subsequent processes running after X, like kde*? Is this runlevel 3 or 5? If you telinit 3 and do startx, perhaps initailly as root, maybe you can get a better handle on what is going on. Ctl-Alt-Backspace should be able to kill X. This is now a clean re-install after your xfs issue, of RC1? -- 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: 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: DHCP questions
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Alex Horvath wrote:
hi all,
first, PPC 8500 w/ 2 nic, eth0 net, eth1 loc. not quite at routing yet, still
trying to set up dhcp.
First thing, I have dhclient working, and it can get an address from my current
router 192.168.0.1 (it grabs 192.168.0.238). If I disconnect it (i.e. halt the
machine, disconnect the cable) then plug in the cable from my cable modem, I can't
get an address. dhclient works, it sends out DHCPDISCOVER, and it gets a DHCPOFFER
back from the isp, but it times out and says that no offers were recieved.
Any ideas on that one ?
Don't have any hands on with that one, I use a hardware router to the ISP.
Also, I have dhcpd installed, and am trying to get the computer to be a dhcp server
on eth1 (internal). I set up the dhcpd.conf file, and it says that it is listening,
but when I try to request an address from another computer, it times out. The
client is running win2k and I am using ipconfig /renew. This client can renew from
another linux box on another network.
Again, any ideas ?
I serve up IP's to macs and 'doze machines here. In fact just moved the
whole setup to the powerbook running 9.1 and shut down my old server. I do
use static IP's per machine:
ddns-update-style none;
subnet 192.168.192.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
# default gateway - hardware router
option routers 192.168.192.11;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option domain-name linuxcontrol.org;
option domain-name-servers192.168.192.45, 66.73.20.40, 206.141.193.55;
# 192.168.192.45 is the dhcpd/nameserver/samba server/netatalk etc.
default-lease-time 21600;
max-lease-time 43200;
#this is another laptop, x86 running either WindowsXP or Linux, wired or
#wireless. I used to use the same hostname for both, but current dhcpd
#doesn't care for that.
host presario {
hardware ethernet 00:90:96:19:60:20;
fixed-address 192.168.192.33;
}
host presariow {
# wireless setup
hardware ethernet 00:06:25:0b:97:97;
fixed-address 192.168.192.33;
}
That's it - more of the above for different machines.
HTH,
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Re: Setting the clock
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Alex Horvath wrote: OK, fist, no X on this machine, it is strictly a router with CLI. Second, got ntpdate to work, so I now have the correct time. I think I can do it this way, if someone can help me on how to program it. use ntpdate to set the clock BEFORE loading ntpd, otherwise ntpdate will fail saying that the ntp socket is already in use. Question is, where should i put the command for ntpdate so it gets executed (preferably right after the internet stuff is loaded) before ntpd ? rc.local will be too late I think. You could hack the ntpd initscript to run it before the daemon. rc.sysinit is probably too early. -- 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: MOL 0.9.68
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Christian Walther wrote: It seems that Samuel was right about the bug being fixed in the release 0.9.68. I extracted the kernel headers for benh-9mdk with rpm -bp and compiled the source tarball from http://www.maconlinux.org/download.html , and this version doesn't exhibit the problem (the easiest method to test it is booting from the Max OS X install CD, opening the Reset Password utility from the Installer menu, and using the text field for resetting the root password of the CD itself). I'm pretty sure that's the same place I downloaded from, but apparently there must be multiple 0.9.68 releases. I'll do an update. Did you only update mol, not mol-kmods? -- 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
Flash for Linux PPC
Read in another list: Hi. Mark Jaffe has put up an on-line petition to have Macromedia release a PPC Linux version of their Flash plugin. I don't know about you, but I would certainly like to have such a player on my machine. If you feel the same, please drop by and sign the thing. The URL is http://www.wizdev.net/Flash-PPC.php Cheers, Stefan -- 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: MOL 0.9.68
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Christian Walther wrote: Did you only update mol, not mol-kmods? Both, the source tarball contains both. And to be sure, I urpmed everything mol-related (i.e. mol and mol-kmods-benh) before installing the newly built mol. So I don't know if it would have worked with your kmods (and I'm not in Linux right now to test it). I think I ansered my own question. I rebuilt just mol using the referenced tarball, as an rpm. Same problem here. -- 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: MOL 0.9.68
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Christian Walther wrote: Did you only update mol, not mol-kmods? Both, the source tarball contains both. And to be sure, I urpmed everything mol-related (i.e. mol and mol-kmods-benh) before installing the newly built mol. So I don't know if it would have worked with your kmods (and I'm not in Linux right now to test it). -Christian I may have fixed this now. At least it's working here (TM). http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/mol-0.9.68-4mdk.ppc.rpm http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/mol-0.9.68-4mdk.src.rpm mol-kmods look like they can remain as is. Feedback welcome. -- 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: MOL 0.9.68
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Christian Walther wrote: If you build kernel-benh from the source rpm, and then leave the tree in your rpm/BUILD dir... How do I do that? rpm --rebuild and rpm --recompile delete the files in BUILD after rebuilding the packages, and in the rpm man page I haven't found any option to disable this. I'm sure there's an easier way than waiting for the right moment and copying the files out just before they get deleted. rpm -i kernel-benh cd rpm/SPECS rpm -bb kernel-2.4.spec (you may not even need to build it, -bp may be enough to drop the tree in BUILD for mol*) -- 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: MOL 0.9.68
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Christian Walther wrote: If you build kernel-benh from the source rpm, and then leave the tree in your rpm/BUILD dir... How do I do that? rpm --rebuild and rpm --recompile delete the files in BUILD after rebuilding the packages, and in the rpm man page I haven't found any option to disable this. I'm sure there's an easier way than waiting for the right moment and copying the files out just before they get deleted. Another way, that might insure you're not inheriting any corruption from the Mandrake'd BenH kernel, would be to use a pure BenH code: cd /usr/src mkdir linux rsync -avz rsync.penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh linux Then build mol/kmods up using that, and a clean kernel. You're still stuck with our gcc and libs, but by the time you strip those away you may as well switch distro's :) -- 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
