Cooker dependencies
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 ?
Thanks,
Olivier
PS: Here are my urpmi sources :
plf http://mirrors.zoreil.com/www.plf.org/mandrake/cooker {
hdlist: hdlist.plf.cz
with_hdlist: hdlist.cz
list: list.plf
}
main ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc/Mandrake/RPMS {
hdlist: hdlist.main.cz
with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
}
contrib ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/contrib/ppc {
hdlist: hdlist.contrib.cz
with_hdlist: ../../cooker/ppc/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz
}
Re: Cooker dependencies
Stew Benedict wrote: 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. Thanks for the hint and the packages. I'll let you know about the result of my migration to cooker. Regards, Olivier
Re: Cooker dependencies
Stew Benedict wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Ray Auge wrote: 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. 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. Best, Olivier
Re: iBook700 CDROM,16vram, radeon (M7) X-Problems
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Andreas wrote: Hi all! Welcome to Cooker-PPC. I´m very frustrated because: I have installed Mandrake 9.1 and the benh-kernel-rpm from MandrakePPC 9.1 CD´s. After reboot I got an Xserver running but with flickering stripes all over the screen. Until now I have read many articles in the mailinglist and tried much that configurations i.e. viedeo=ofonly but nothing worked. Is anybody out there with the same iBook who solved this problem? Andreas and I had a couple of private email exchanges before he got its subscription to cooker-ppc working. We have exactly the same laptop except the video card. - I have a radeon M6 LY which is pefectly working with 2.4.20-benh (from the CDs) as well as the testing 2.4.21-benh from MDK Club. - his card is a radeon M7 and any benh previously mentioned kernel can't get it properly working (even with my XF86Config-4). So the problem obviously comes from the M7 revision. Danny reported success with the video=radeonfb kernel option: http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker-ppc/2003-04/msg00196.php Cheers, Olivier
Re: odd gurpmi problem
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Brice Figureau wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 16:23, Isaac wrote: anyone know what this could be? i just get this error and can't install anything via rpmdrake: perl: rpmio_internal.h:447: c2f: Assertion `fd fd-magic == 0x04463138' failed. Aborted i get the same message if i just run gurpmi at the command line. manually installing rpms at the command line works though. Most of the time urpmi --clean works. Best Olivier
CPUDYN on ibook works great
Hello,
Just to let you know that I've tested cpudyn on my ibook and it works
great:
http://mnm.uib.es/~gallir/cpudyn/
This programm switches the cpu clock to 400 MHz when the cpu load is low
and back to 700 MHz (for my machine) when launching OpenOffice for
instance. It should save battery without affecting the system
performance (and also keep the temperature as low as possible in such a
warm season - NB: I live in Europe).
It should also manage HD activity (not tested yet).
It's really easy to install:
more README make sudo make install
It also launches an init script:
Usage: /etc/init.d/cpudynd {start|stop|restart}
A mdk-RPM and a default installation on ppc-laptops could be a good idea
for the next MDK release, isn't it ?
Best,
Olivier
Re: linux on powerbook
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi there! i'm running linux on my ibook (500MHz/CD) for about a year now. i'd love to buy a new powerbook 12 some day, but not without being able to run linux on it, too. in some stores i find a comment on some powerbooks last one booting with OS9. what changed with the newer ones? I don't remember what but they do are hardware changes. has anyone experiences installing and running linux (i prefer debian) on Have a look at the debian PPC mailing list. I think some people tried but I don't remember whether they were successfull or not. that hardware? how's about built-in components like sound, airport, bluetooth, external-monitor, .. probably we'll have to wait for knoppix_ppc. :o) The MiB version of Knoppix is at alpha2 stage for PPC but already working on many apple laptops (at least with knoppix xmodule=fbdev for my ibook 2.2 radeon): http://ftp.crihan.fr/mirrors/knoppix-mib.org/knoppix-MiB-PPC-alpha-2e.iso Best, Olivier
Re: A new benh kernel
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 for instance. The boostraping did a parse error and I couldn't boot anything. I had to use a knoppix live CD and correct the yaboot.conf file manually. Then it worked. I hope for some feedback on people with more experience with PPC machines than I have. I have tried to keep config options close to old benh kernel. I'm not experienced but anyway here is my first feedback: machine: ibook 2 rev 2 G3 700 combo with radeon M6 system: MDK9.1-ppc 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, ...). Other problem, I still get a the very-very-dark console mode problem with this new kernel. ie before starting X I can switch to and use every virtual consoles but once X is started their display is so dark that I can use them anylonger. I don't know if its a X configuration problem or a kernel/driver related one. (...) note that if you got a radeon 7500, you may want to boot with video=radeonfb Is the radeon of ibook 2.2 700MHz 7500 or not ? (It is actually a Radeon Mobility M6 LY). Should I use radeonfb or ofonly ? Cheers, Olivier
Re: A new benh kernel
Hello, Some more feedback: On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Latest benh is really nice 2.4.21 with things like the sleep-indicator showing disk activity, Ok, tested laptop-mode patch, what is it ? hfsplus read and write support, firewire update and a lot of bugfixes. Not yet tested In addition, I added to following stuff: - latest xfs from cooker (carefully try, not extensively tested) - supermount-ng 1.2.8 - ALSA 0.9.2 (will update to 0.9.6 or later in next release) Idem I would like to use alsa but the RPM version of libalsa2 is 0.9.0-0.14rc7.1mdk. Do you use the 0.9.2 src tarball or this rpm ? - kernel drm drivers to get DRI working (from Michel Danzer) on Radeon cards Thank you, glxgears runs at 549 FPS which is much better than before. (X is in 16 bits, video=radeonfb passed to the kernel) Cheers, Olivier
Re: A new benh kernel
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. I have several kernel installed such as vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk, 2.4.20-benh9 and know 2.4.21-bh1-mdk1. But when I installed yours and added a new entry for the new kernel with drakboot, it modified the other entries such as vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk by adding several times the string /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:13, which made yaboot parse error at bootstrap. Can you check again what exactly happened? And if you are really using newest benh? Since I corrected the yaboot file, I'm able to use your kernel. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ogrisel]$ uname -a Linux ibook 2.4.21-1bh-mdk #1 Sat Jul 26 14:43:13 CEST 2003 ppc unknown unknown GNU/Linux 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, ...). yes, as Stew says, you need apm_emu. Perhaps I compile it into kernel instead of module to make sure everyone has it. I'll try that at next boot and let you know. Cheers, Olivier
Re: A new benh kernel
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Stew Benedict wrote: 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. Ok now it works. Thank you very much. Including this module in the kernel might be a good idea if it doesn't disturb non-laptop machines. Cheers, Olivier
Re: Ibook 600 mdk 9.1 ppc
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Michael A Dewey wrote: On Wednesday 09 July 2003 09:16 am, you wrote: Hi Olivier: Well, I tried to add Mac OS X using the drakboot in mcc. It did not work. I tried to boot into OS X but all I got was a blank screen. When I booted into mdk , kde opened up the Kscd player so that kept me from using the eject command. Once I closed Kscd off my taskbar. Eject in a term worked. I now have Mac OS X installed and I will do mdk 9.1 soon. I get cable next week for my internet so I would like to try cooker later. I did notice when I shut down 9.1 I see nothing on the screen? Yes, I have the same behaviour on my ibook 2rev2 700 combo (MDK9.1). More precisely I boot in text mode (with video=ofonly) and every think is fine but when I start X with [sudo /etc/init.d/dm start], X 4.3 with dri works but the virtual text consoles (alt-ctrl-function keys) aren't useable any longer (the screen is really dark) and it seems to be a contrast problem since the luminosity setting can't fix the problem. There might be a problem with the radeon driver or the screen settings. If I kill X, the console remains dark and I can't use the machine any longuer (except remotely). Does anyone has a clue on how to fix it? For info I use Knoppix-MiB edition for ppc(alpha2 with xmodule=fbdev on my ibook) as a rescue CD for my ppc machine. I is already useable although it is still alpha. Yves Combes the main developer for the ppc edition is looking for testers: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200306/msg00624.html Best, Olivier
Re: Ibook 600 mdk 9.1 ppc
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Brice Figureau wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 13:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I have the same behaviour on my ibook 2rev2 700 combo (MDK9.1). More precisely I boot in text mode (with video=ofonly) and every think is fine but when I start X with [sudo /etc/init.d/dm start], X 4.3 with dri works but the virtual text consoles (alt-ctrl-function keys) aren't useable any longer (the screen is really dark) and it seems to be a contrast problem since the luminosity setting can't fix the problem. There might be a problem with the radeon driver or the screen settings. If I kill X, the console remains dark and I can't use the machine any longuer (except remotely). Does anyone has a clue on how to fix it? Use a recent benh kernel (2.4.21-ben0 or more) to fix that problem. Mandrake Club have a downloadable version. Great but: I've found this, but no benh 2.4.21 in rpm: http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/MandrakeClub/test/9.1/ppc/kernel-benh-2.4.20-10mdk.ppc.html Google can't find anything as well. So where is it? Which source should I add to my urpmi settings? Is it in the 9.1 or the Cooker branch? (I'm a MandrakeClub member) Cheers, Olivier
Re: Ibook 600 mdk 9.1 ppc
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Michael A Dewey wrote: Hi All: I have an ibook 600Mhz w/ 256 megs ram. I have the first 2 cds for Mandrake 9.1 PPC. I started my install using install-text and that crashed at my keyboard. I then went with install-gui-benh and that worked. The install went like it should have. The install went all the way through with no problems. At the list of video cards I chose Radeon and first I went with 4.3.0 X with 3d and 16bits and then the ibook rebooted and I chose Linux and received a blank screen. I then did another install and chose for X 4.3.0 without 3d and 24 bits and ended up with another blank screen at reboot. During the install when I tested each one of the above they worked. I dual boot with OS X. install-gui-benh video=ofonly For X, I use X 4.3.0 with dri (3d) and 24 bits on my ibook 2.2 (2002) 700MHz with dual usb CDR/DVD ati radeon and so on. Then when you reboot use to start linux: linux video=ofonly You may want to install the benh kernel (with rpmdrake or urpmi) and add an entry in yaboot for it with drakboot ; i use the following kernel option to get a better pmud experience : video=ofonly devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off I also needed to do: % cd /dev % sudo ln -s scd0 cdrom to be able to eject my CD driver with the eject command. I still have some problem with system time (was first blocked at 1904, now get stuck in 1970, and I don't remember why it changed ...) Best, Olivier
Re: Ibook 600 mdk 9.1 ppc - Time
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /sbin/hwclock -s That grabs the time from the hardware clock, and shoves it into the system time. I hope this helps, Strange: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# /sbin/hwclock -s date time in rtc is Sun Jan 10 12:37:51 1904 jeu jan 1 00:59:59 BST 1970 I don't really understand, looks like something is setting back 1970 at any attempt to change the system clock. BTW, Sun Jan 10 12:37:51 1904 is strange too. Is it a pmud side-effect?
