Re: Modem Configuration
On Thursday 04 September 2003 18:56, Tomas Taylor wrote: 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? There isn't one. The root account is disabled by default in OS X. No root account = No root exploits. Simple, huh? I couldn't tell you how to enable it. Apple probably knows. Maybe they'll tell you, maybe they won't. -HTH Go to check darvin (or macosxmanaxer for example) discussion lists in www.apple.com. There is an easy solution, which I do not remember right now. Still, you do not really need it for anything. Use sudo instead. Arto -- :^) - (^: - Arto Leskinen Tel. +358 9 2291 2242 Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK Fax. +358 9 2291 2911 Ratavartijankatu 2, FIN-00520 Helsinki GSM +358 40 553 9474 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Opinions on 700MB ISOs?
... Any opinions on using 700MB ISOs? ... Thx, Stew Benedict Fine with me. Arto -- :^) - (^: - Arto Leskinen Tel. +358 9 2291 2242 Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK Fax. +358 9 2291 2911 Ratavartijankatu 2, FIN-00520 Helsinki GSM +358 40 553 9474 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla 1.0-PPC
On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 07:21 PM, Henrik Edlund wrote: On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, targon wrote: t is a very fast an stable OS. After a few days use i think its slower t than OS X on my Dual 500 G4. Aside from the speed issue's i must say im t a little disappointed in the usability of the OS. Well, on my iBook2-500 (384MB) Mandrake 8.2 is about 10 times as fast doing most operations compared to MacOSX 1.1.5. Also MacOSX is so damn unstable it can hardly be used. I have at least one application crasch every day I run it, and I hate having to reboot after doing certain upgrades. MacOSX really sucks - let's see if Apple can release something usable within a few years maybe. Interesting, there must be something terribly wrong with mandrake on my Dual G4 then. It often takes up to 10 seconds to open a new window up from the item in the right mouse click menu. I fresh installed and only installed the packages on the left side of the mandrake package installer..that is the workstation packages (not games tho or scientific), i didn't install any of the server packages. Often the Mandrake control center just hangs an becomes unresponsive. BTW what is the command to force quit an app? Control,Alt, Delete seems to force quit the window manager an then logs me out. Sometimes other apps just hang an the system becomes unresponsive. I use Gnome, could this be the place where the problems stem from? I don't think Linux it self has crashed. I do not have lot of experienc of MDK 8.2 PPC or OSX yet, but I think that there are a lot more problems with dual processor support in mdk 8.2 than in OSX or single processor. I have experimented with both OSX and MDK. I have not had any problems with OSX. My best experiences with MDK and dual processor support were with 8.2 B when I compiled kernel 2.4.18(I think) myself. Then everything seemed to work all right. With ready compiled kernels I had a lot of problems. Now with latest kernel versions I have not had time to try yet. t Is it just me having a miserable time with it or is this a standard t life in Linux on PPC? As Obi-Wan said, it all depends on your point of view. To me OSX is miserable unusable, while Linux is perfect. And in the spririt of free software - if you don't like something - just dig in and fix it... :-) Best regards, Henrik While i agree OS X is far from perfect, for a first time user experience it's significantly smoother to install an start using without any hicupps. at least in my experience. Under Linux, the first 2 apps i tryed to configure (mandrake center, evolution mail) either hung an became unresponsive, or threw up an error at launch time. Thats not a very good start. When i decided to uninstall Mozilla from the mandrake software uninstaller i was forced to log out and the machine wouldn't let me log in resulting in a re-installation. Maybe im just very unlucky an my hardware is not suitable for mandrake linux but on the whole i get the feeling that Linux is no better than windows. It just seems to be unpredictable an does many freaky things. I Shall investigate Linux under AMD hardware, perhaps things are a little smoother and easier access to the newest versions of software. I think that important factors between OSX and Linux is, that linux is significally lighter at least if you do not need graphical interface all the time. With OSX I think that it is not possible to shut down graphical part and the graphics demands more resources. Other fact is to what os you can find easier the software you want to work with. These are just my opinions. Regards, Arto I have totally become very much attached to the Galeon web browser, altho the version with 8.2 mandrakeppc is very old and buggy i assume the newer version is much more mature. But the newer versions seems unlikely to work on PPC due to it's dependence on Mozilla 1.0. Hopefully on the x86 side things are rosier. I like the UI customization in Gnome using Sawfish but i was curious as to if it is possible to customize it further? Im a long time mac user an find it unsettling to see the cancel button on the far right corner of dialogs. I'd like to be able to swap the buttons around so the ok button is on the far right. Additionally, i'd like some global way of assigning specific key commands to every app system wide.. eg Command+Q for quit. I notice some apps use alt+f4 while others use control+q and others respond to nothing. Are these things possible to anyones knowledge? Does anyone think Gnome 2.0 will be a significant improvement on the version shipped with 8.2 Mandrake PPC? Regards -- -- :^) - (^: --- Arto Leskinen Tel. +358 9 2291 2242Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK Fax. +358 9 2291 2911Ratavartijankatu 2, FIN-00520 Helsinki GSM+358 40 553 9474E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lost interrupts - need a non-dma kernel for Sonnet G3/L2 upgraded ...
This is with Toast 4.1, not Titanium, so it may not apply to your situation, but if you tell Toast to use Disk Image instead of 9660 or Hybrid format, it doesn't try to mount the image. Look under the Format menu in the tool bar at the top of the screen for the various source formats. Then use the Data button to browse to the ISO image you want to burn. That worked for me. Rick I have not been able tu use this with versions newer than 4.1. Support for disk images other than dvd (and one other) seems to be removed. I still have 4.1 so I have not been so eager to try to find other solution. Arto -- -- :^) - (^: --- Arto Leskinen Tel. +358 9 2291 2242Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK Fax. +358 9 2291 2911Ratavartijankatu 2, FIN-00520 Helsinki GSM+358 40 553 9474E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using two processors
Hi All, Thank you for earlier answers you have given. Now I have one more. I tried to install 2.4.18 smp kernel from rpm. The installation went well, and it updated also the yaboot.conf properly. When I then restarted and tried to use smp kernel, the start up process froze. It did showed two stars, so it found two processors. But it did not get far enough to write anything into logs. The last messages on the screen were: Ramdisk Driver initilized. 16 Ramdisks of 4096 K size 1024 block size. Uniform multi-platform E-IDE driver Revision 6.31. IDE: Assuming 33 Mhz system bus speed for PIO modes: override with ide bus = xx. Then nothing happens. I had similar symptoms in earlier version. At that time I compiled kernel version 2.4.19 successfully without ramdisk support. Can there be some problem related with ramdisks because I could get that part compiled when I tried last time? Also I could not get ramdisk and initrd support with 2.4.18 kernel. How can I get more exact information wha happens, because the logs are not used yet. Thank you for any information, Arto -- -- :^) - (^: --- Arto Leskinen Tel. +358 9 2291 2242Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK Fax. +358 9 2291 2911Ratavartijankatu 2, FIN-00520 Helsinki GSM+358 40 553 9474E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems burning iso, smp kernel compilation and java1.3.1
Is anyone having problems burning the 8.2 final iso image? I've tried a few times now and it always fails when trying to verify the disk after burning. I always use the disk-burning utility in OSX as its never given me many coasters in the past, only when the iso's are faulty. I will try a different mirror but they should all be the same yes? Colin I downloaded the images yesterday with ie. It claimed that both images were corrupt, but their size seemed right and I decided to burn them anyway. Only problem with installation was that I could not install printer during mandrake installation because at that point keyboard was totally messed up. After restart I typed printtool in console and everything worked like charm. I am using dualprocessor G4 450 MHz. Then I tried to compile kernel for two processors, but could not compile it with loopback device support. Without it the compilation went well. When I started the kernel, I got many complaints about sound modules and when starting X I got error that screens were found but none of them was usable. Have to try again when I have more time. What I wandered was that why after compiling the kernel the old kernel also complained about sounds and rage 128 module. X was still operational but before compuiling the new kernel, there were no errors. Can compilation of new kernel of same version remove something from kernel modules? I tried to install J2sdk1.3.1_2b and it installed all right. Then I added the j2sdk1.3.1/bin to path. I also defined JAVAHOME and CLASSPATH. When I tried to install together control center the linux version complained about missing javalib.so. The general java version (java -jar togetherzzz.jar)complained about missing manifest. Is this because I have problems with Java isntallation? Can anyone give introductions how J2sdk should be installed to MDK 8.2 PPC? I am new with Java. Thank you for any help, Arto -- -- :^) - (^: --- Arto Leskinen Tel. +358 9 2291 2242Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK Fax. +358 9 2291 2911Ratavartijankatu 2, FIN-00520 Helsinki GSM+358 40 553 9474E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems burning iso, smp kernel compilation and java1.3.1
What I wandered was that why after compiling the kernel the old kernel also complained about sounds and rage 128 module. X was still operational but before compuiling the new kernel, there were no errors. Can compilation of new kernel of same version remove something from kernel modules? Did you change the version before make modules_install (top level Makefile - EXTRAVERSION)? If not, you overwrote the modules from the rpm installed kernel. There has been talk about shipping the kernel-source with this changed, to avoid bug reports on home compiled kernels that could be confused with the shipped binary kernel. I fromgot to reply to this. I did not changed anything in version. I thought that this was the isuue. Should have known it beforehand actually. But first time for everything. Nothing is lost, just maximum of two hours work. No big deal. Arto -- -- :^) - (^: --- Arto Leskinen Tel. +358 9 2291 2242Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK Fax. +358 9 2291 2911Ratavartijankatu 2, FIN-00520 Helsinki GSM+358 40 553 9474E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vote for packages
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Nick Texidor wrote: Sorry Stew, I misunderstood what you meant when you said you had a little space on the 2nd CD. sorry for the mixup! N No problems. I picked a few things that were left out and maxed them both out at 650M. I'm sure someone will be dissappointed in their favorite being missing, but a fair amount of stuff is there. Stew Benedict For the next release, wouldn't it be nice to make up a email/web wote what packages people want included in next distro. The basic stuff + peoples hopes + dependencies would then be start up for next distro. Could be common for inter and ppc users. Chears, Arto -- -- :^) - (^: --- Arto Leskinen Tel. +358 9 2291 2242Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK Fax. +358 9 2291 2911Ratavartijankatu 2, FIN-00520 Helsinki GSM+358 40 553 9474E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Mandrake ppc Beta 2
I changed the display resolution with mandrake and it worked. Sorry? This was first time it worked for me. This was very good news. So after first try only problem I found was missing sound. My computer is dual processor G4 with ATI rage 128 pro. Only in KDE or in the whole system? I have not tried sound outside KDE. -- David BAUDENS MandrakeSoft - http://www.mandrakesoft.com -- -- :^) - (^: --- Arto Leskinen Tel. +358 9 2291 2242Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK Fax. +358 9 2291 2911Ratavartijankatu 2, FIN-00520 Helsinki GSM+358 40 553 9474E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 8.2 app testing... kdebattleships crashes!!!
On 18 Mar 2002, Nick Texidor wrote: Hi Stew... No, that didn't work.. if it's ok for you, I must be missing something, or have an older version of something or other. I'm still using the beta iso's, with the exception of the file you mentioned below. It sounds like the iso's are seriously out of date now, at what stage will we be able to get updated iso's? Yes a bit out of date. I need to rework XFree for the r128 folks, and get some testers, then we can probably do another beta or rc iso. I'll rebuild X tomorrow and test it on all the machines I have access to here, but unfortunately none are r128, and those are the problem children at the moment. Stew Benedict I can try to install it G4/DualProcessor 450 Mhz with Rage 128 Pro. I have X srewed up at this moment any way, so new install can not harm anything. Just tell me when I can try to download it. Arto -- -- :^) - (^: --- Arto Leskinen Tel. +358 9 2291 2242Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK Fax. +358 9 2291 2911Ratavartijankatu 2, FIN-00520 Helsinki GSM+358 40 553 9474E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PB t get CD boot from mac 9.1 (fwd)
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 19:45:38 +0100 From: coin eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PB t get CD boot from mac 9.1 Hello i try to get mandrake 8.2beta1 for test. I get .iso and with shortent check if it good. I get the same number for two CD. But when i try to burn CD ROM with toast, it does work . First i see that name is too long (BEWARE ANY NAME event in CD should be less than 32 caracters). two what option should i use ? (alias resolution ?) and repertorie name ? ) What is the name of CD ROM (? i get CD ROM ?) did you try to make cd under 9.1 ? How to do this correctly ? Could you please tell my your option ? Why don't you explain on you web how to to with standard ? i use a firewire burner. it could running under 9.1 our mac os X. i have toast titanium for 9.1. Thanks Best regards E.COIN I has no problems after I got two isos downloaded. I have toast 5.01. I selected other from tabs and dragged iso on top of text drag iso image here. Then I burned. I used internal CDRW drive and I have also done it with Yamaha external SCSI drive. Same thing worked with os 9.04 and 9.2, so I do not thing that MacOs is issue. The cd 1 is bootable as it is supposed to be. Arto Leskinen -- -- :^) - (^: --- Arto Leskinen Tel. +358 9 2291 2242Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK Fax. +358 9 2291 2911Ratavartijankatu 2, FIN-00520 Helsinki GSM+358 40 553 9474E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dualprosesso with smp kernel
I downloaded smp kernel from cooker, but when I try to start with it, the machine freezes after saying to use 33 Mhz bus as default? This was after ide message. Can not verify exact saying, because I am using now os 9, not linux. Chears, Arto -- -- :^) - (^: --- Arto Leskinen Tel. +358 9 2291 2242Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK Fax. +358 9 2291 2911Ratavartijankatu 2, FIN-00520 Helsinki GSM+358 40 547 9474E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
G4/733MHZ w nVidia
I sent earlier a message about not being able to get this to usable form without rescue cd. After new expert mode install-text I have it running successfully in text mode with US keyboard. When I try to star up X, the computer freezes screen black. Also sshd stops responding. Arto -- -- :^) - (^: --- Arto Leskinen Tel. +358 9 2291 2242Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK Fax. +358 9 2291 2911Ratavartijankatu 2, FIN-00520 Helsinki GSM+358 40 547 9474E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting CD-rom
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Arto Leskinen wrote: Now when I installed Mandrake 8.2beta, I can not mount cdrom. In fstab there is a device scd0, but in dev directeroy there is empty cdrom directory. How should I mount cd? Mandrake can not help. And I have new cdrom that came with G4/733Mhz installed. How I get cd out, when ecect button in keyboard does not seem to work? Is the CD IDE or SCSI? /dev/scd0 would indicate SCSI, but I thought the newer machines are mostly IDE. Normally the IDE CD resides at /dev/hdc The eject key generally will not work in Linux, although there are various programs folks are working on to enable these special keys. Once we determine what you actual deviceis, you should be able to eject it using the eject command. In some cases it may just work without specifying a device: Please forward: grep cdrom /etc/fstab /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 dmesg | grep CD nothing. ls /dev/h* gives following list: /dev/hda@ /dev/hda1@ /dev/hda10@ /dev/hda11@ /dev/hda12@ /dev/hda13@ /dev/hda14@ /dev/hda15@ /dev/hda16@ /dev/hda2@ /dev/hda3@ /dev/hda4@ /dev/hda5@ /dev/hda6@ /dev/hda7@ /dev/hda8@ /dev/hda9@ ls /dev/ide/ gives this: hd/ host0/ host1/ Is it possible to do nework install from cooker with ftp? When I have open firmware set up to ask where to boot from, I alwasy get error file system map broken when I try to boot to MacOS 9.2.2. When I clear parameter ram, everything is ok. Whats up? Thank you for helping me, Arto Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ -- -- :^) - (^: --- Arto Leskinen Tel. +358 9 2291 2242Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK Fax. +358 9 2291 2911Ratavartijankatu 2, FIN-00520 Helsinki GSM+358 40 547 9474E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mounting CD-rom
Now when I installed Mandrake 8.2beta, I can not mount cdrom. In fstab there is a device scd0, but in dev directeroy there is empty cdrom directory. How should I mount cd? Mandrake can not help. And I have new cdrom that came with G4/733Mhz installed. How I get cd out, when ecect button in keyboard does not seem to work? Thank you of any help, Arto -- -- :^) - (^: --- Arto Leskinen Tel. +358 9 2291 2242Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK Fax. +358 9 2291 2911Ratavartijankatu 2, FIN-00520 Helsinki GSM+358 40 547 9474E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
