Re: sleep mode
On Wednesday 29 August 2001 23:08, you wrote: QM pmud is for (older) laptops; I am almost certain that you will need QM somet other solution for a desktop... RE: desktop power management APM kernel stuff maybe ? I do not know whether this is supported on PPC architecture. There is an emulation in latest Benh kernels. What kind of power (battery, processor, screen) montor should I use for my iBook2? RE: portables You need two separate things: 1) something to put the machine to sleep, detect low-battery, report battery levels. This is pmud 2) some cool widget for your desktop which waves/flashes/makes sounds/draws ace pictures etc which includes some battery level report. I would recommend gkrellm w/ the gkrellm-pmu plugin for this. Apparently bronxe-key powerbooks, Titaniums are supported by pmud now. /.../ But for Titanium, you also need a recent kernel (2.4.8-benh0 or higher) if you want use sleep function on a Titanium. -- MandrakeSofthttp://www.mandrakesoft.com Paris, FRANCE --David
Re: sleep mode
You need two separate things: 1) something to put the machine to sleep, detect low-battery, report battery levels. This is pmud 2) some cool widget for your desktop which waves/flashes/makes sounds/draws ace pictures etc which includes some battery level report. I would recommend gkrellm w/ the gkrellm-pmu plugin for this. Apparently bronxe-key powerbooks, Titaniums are supported by pmud now. /.../ But for Titanium, you also need a recent kernel (2.4.8-benh0 or higher) if you want use sleep function on a Titanium. For Titanium and iBook 2. Sylvain OBEGI Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 661913
Re: Problems getting XFree working
At 5:12 -0700 27/8/01, you wrote: [root@powerbook root]# XFdrake This is Mandrake's X configuration tool. I doubt the generic SVGA will do much for you. Do you know what video card is in this machine? In some cases adding the: Option UseFBDev is the trick to getting X working - I've added this as default now for Rage128. Thanks for this advice, but I can't seem to find XFdrake. I have used locate and can find a html doc and a .png file, but no XFdrake executable. When I type XFdrake at my input prompt - it tells me there is no such command. This is getting a bit annoying I am afraid. Yes I have an ATI Rage Pro 128 in the G4, but so far all I can use is a console. Any help would be most appreciated (using M8.0 rc1 PPC) Standard install. -- Regards Ken mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Transferring from MacOS to MD Linux
Hi, is there a ways of mounting a macos partition under Mandrake so that I can transfer files without having to run mol? Works easy enough under YDL. How does it work in MD8? Thanks again! -- Regards Ken mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation on BW G3 problems: aic7xxx driver
I've been trying to install mandrake on a BW G3 with an Adaptec SCSI controller and a SCSI hard drive, and it stops at the disk partitioning stage every time. It says it can't find a hard drive to install to. Looking at some of the other VT's, it appears that the aic7xxx driver doesn't get loaded properly. An manual 'insmod aic7xxx' complains about not being able to find a module archive or something. As a side note, Yellow Dog and Debian seemed to find the controller OK, so I'm sure it's not a hardware problem. I apologize for the sketchy description, but I'm not at the computer at the moment. If anyone else has encountered this problem, I'd appreciate any info... --Winston
Re: Problems getting XFree working
On Thursday 30 August 2001 11:33, you wrote: At 5:12 -0700 27/8/01, you wrote: [root@powerbook root]# XFdrake This is Mandrake's X configuration tool. I doubt the generic SVGA will do much for you. Do you know what video card is in this machine? In some cases adding the: Option UseFBDev is the trick to getting X working - I've added this as default now for Rage128. Thanks for this advice, but I can't seem to find XFdrake. I have used locate and can find a html doc and a .png file, but no XFdrake executable. When I type XFdrake at my input prompt - it tells me there is no such command. This is getting a bit annoying I am afraid. Yes I have an ATI Rage Pro 128 in the G4, but so far all I can use is a console. Install it using: urpmi drakxtools-newt -- MandrakeSofthttp://www.mandrakesoft.com Paris, FRANCE --David
Re: Installing RC1 on a 8600
Josh Bonczkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded the RC1 ISOs over the weekend and attempted an install last night. I'm very glad I started to read the old messages of this list yesterday through the archives as it helped me get past a few problems. First, the supplied kernel images allowed me to boot mostly properly. Because this is an older SCSI machine, I had to load two modules by hand. One was for the SCSI controlled itself (I don't remember the name). The other was the MESH module. Once both of these modules were loaded the SCSI CD was found and the installation would begin. Same here, although I only needed to load the MESH module. I've got a PowerTower Pro 200 (604e-based clone with the same guts as the Apple 9600, IIRC). I used the RC1 CD's, the supplied 2.4 kernel and ramdisk image all.gz. Now we get to my problems. The display during the install is awful in one of two ways depending on if I check the 'Force video' option on BootX. I either get a nice looking display but the ADB mouse responds extremely slowly or I get a squished display with odd colors, the images wrap strangely on the screen, but the mouse functions fine. When the mouse is unresponsive, the keyboard also responds poorly (very, very slow). I saw this too. I'm not sure, but I think that X drawing performance is also horrible. It takes a couple/few minutes for the Mandrake install screen to show up with the language selection step. I'm installing off of a Yamaha 8x4x24 CDRW, but it doesn't look like that could be the bottleneck. FWIW, I have an IMS TwinTurbo 4M video card. I've always had issues with the video driver. I usually run in 8-bit 1280x1024 on my Sony 20 Multiscan with the following kernel args: video=imsttb:vmode:20,cmode:8 -mach64 I've run both with and without the No video driver checked, and with and without the above kernel args. I get the same behavior with the on board (Chaos) controller as well as with a Matrox Millenium II PCI card. Well, I'm glad it isn't just *my* video card, since there aren't that many of them around it seems, and it doesn't seem likely that I'll get the fixes I need if the problem only occurs with them. I also noticed several messages on the first console. The same message kept scrolling by which basically said the default locale was set incorrectly in a gtk module (perl I think?) and it could not find the correct information. I doubt that has anything to do with the problems I have but it could be something to clean up later. I get this too. Here's what it says, many times over on VT #1: ...Gdk WARNING **: locale not supported by C library at /usr/bin/perl-install/my_gtk.pm line 279 ...Gdk WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C at /usr/bin/perl-install/my_gtk.pm line 279 ...Gdk WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers at /usr/bin/perl-install/my_gtk.pm line 279 Also, on VT #3, I see the following messages: * warning rm of /usr/share/locale failed: No such file or directory * getFile VERSION: * Trying with server Xpmac * starting step 'selectLanguage' * getFile Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install/po/en_US.po: * errorOpeningFile Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install/po/en_US.po * getFile Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install/po/en.po: * errorOpeningFile Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install/po/en.po Sure enough, those two files are missing on the RC1 install CD. And finally, on VT #4, I noticed the following kernel oops: [...] 6 Partition check: 6 sda: [mac] sda1 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 4 4 NIP: C01C3980 XER: 2100 LR: C027E7A4 SP: C8C53C60 REGS: C8C53BB0 TRAP: 0700 4 MSR: 00089032 EE: 1 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11 4 TASK = C8C52000 [20] 'insmod_' Last syscall: 128 [...] I doubt this is related to the horribly slow X performance, but it looks wrong, particularly since it never seems to get to checking partitions the other disks (I've got 2 other hard drives at sdb and sdc). Admittedly, I initialized the Mac partition map for this physical drive using the recipe I saw somewhere (dd the 1st 16 blocks from the raw device /dev/sda and use emacs/hexl to hex-edit the info into place). pdisk seemed to think the partition map was ok enough to work on, so I assumed everything was fine. Was that too hasty a conclusion? On the other hand, aren't I suppose to get a shell on VT #2? I don't see one. Perhaps this is the reason? - Smooth Jazz is no jazz at all... Dr. Robert M. Fuhrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM T.J. Watson Research Center -
Re: sleep mode
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Toby Givens wrote: TG Yes...but so was OSX. :-) TG TG Ain't life fun? Well OSX is a non-Free product so you expect it be useless, faulty and forbidden for use... :-) I noticed an 8.1 beta release for x86 now, can we expect a simultaneous 8.1ppc stable release together with 8.1x86? Is MandrakeSoft making a commitment to PPC as it has to x86 or is this just a test-run to test the market? I am considering a complete move from x86 architecture to PPC as I am tired of badly integrated hardware. I considered SuSE a few weeks ago, but their commitment to the PPC platform seems to be very low, not having released 7.2ppc for many months. Maybe a bit off-topic for the cooker list, but I don't believe MandrakeSoft provides any other list for PPC discussions? Regards, Henrik -- Henrik Edlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.edlund.org/ You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens. -- Angelina Jolie
RE: Problems getting XFree working
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What's uprmi? - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David BAUDENS Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 10:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems getting XFree working On Thursday 30 August 2001 11:33, you wrote: At 5:12 -0700 27/8/01, you wrote: [root@powerbook root]# XFdrake This is Mandrake's X configuration tool. I doubt the generic SVGA will do much for you. Do you know what video card is in this machine? In some cases adding the: Option UseFBDev is the trick to getting X working - I've added this as default now for Rage128. Thanks for this advice, but I can't seem to find XFdrake. I have used locate and can find a html doc and a .png file, but no XFdrake executable. When I type XFdrake at my input prompt - it tells me there is no such command. This is getting a bit annoying I am afraid. Yes I have an ATI Rage Pro 128 in the G4, but so far all I can use is a console. Install it using: urpmi drakxtools-newt - -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com Paris, FRANCE - --David -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBO465d90IbHN+6I/YEQKfuQCg9ar63drECNldtv28/TUk6fguaowAn11m VH9/3Rh7eE0LKun+p5HFDv0r =8hlz -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: sleep mode
I hope Mandrake continues to provide parallel release support for x86 and ppc. I've used Mandrake-Linux on the dreaded x86 platform for some time, usually with good results. I would imagine that it will take a bit of time for the ppc port to mature as it continues to do on the x86 platform. In the meantime...we must keep on cooking. Fortunately I haven't leap into the OSX debacle. Man...what was Apple thinking when they used the BSD kernel??? No flames please! I can't help myself...I'm a Linux man. What does this have to do with sleep mode? I don't know either. BTW - I don't have a fresh copy of 8.1 ppc yet but soonvery soon. tkg On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Toby Givens wrote: TG Yes...but so was OSX. :-) TG TG Ain't life fun? Well OSX is a non-Free product so you expect it be useless, faulty and forbidden for use... :-) I noticed an 8.1 beta release for x86 now, can we expect a simultaneous 8.1ppc stable release together with 8.1x86? Is MandrakeSoft making a commitment to PPC as it has to x86 or is this just a test-run to test the market? I am considering a complete move from x86 architecture to PPC as I am tired of badly integrated hardware. I considered SuSE a few weeks ago, but their commitment to the PPC platform seems to be very low, not having released 7.2ppc for many months. Maybe a bit off-topic for the cooker list, but I don't believe MandrakeSoft provides any other list for PPC discussions? Regards, Henrik -- Henrik Edlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.edlund.org/ You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens. -- Angelina Jolie -- T.K. Givens 3467 Confederate Highway Lodge, SC 29082
Re: sleep mode
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:48:42AM +0200, Henrik Edlund wrote: Do anyone feel that 8.0ppc was rushed out the door? Sadly, given that there are problems with MandrakeUpdate (lack of archetecture path in the updates dir path). Among other little things. However, IMHO it's still the best PPC distribution out there. -- Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.reser.org Wizard's First Rule - People are stupid, they will believe anything if they want it to be true or they fear it is true - Terry Goodkind
Newer kernel?
I'm looking for a Mandrake/PPC kernel more recent than 2.4.4-6.2 - I checked on rpmfind.net and saw a src.rpm for 2.4.8 - will this work?? I'm having serious stability issues between Mac-on-Linux, kernel 2.4.4-6.2 and MacOS 9.1 ... don't know exaclty who is the culprit, but I believe it may me the mm context stuff which changed in 2.4.6 - MOL has adapted to the latest kernel series, so I have a feeling that what's in there for older 2.4.x kernels is a kludge and that's causing the instability. I tried grabbing benh's 2.4 tree, but penguinppc is unreachable and Ben says it probably won't be until next week when its available again. If someone has a recent 2.4 sync of benh's kernel that they wouldn't mind packaging up ... or if Stew has a newer PPC kernel squirreled away that's had the mdk patches applied ... either way, lemme know. Thanks, Brice
RE: sleep mode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just my luck - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sylvain OBEGI Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 5:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sleep mode You need two separate things: 1) something to put the machine to sleep, detect low-battery, report battery levels. This is pmud 2) some cool widget for your desktop which waves/flashes/makes sounds/draws ace pictures etc which includes some battery level report. I would recommend gkrellm w/ the gkrellm-pmu plugin for this. Apparently bronxe-key powerbooks, Titaniums are supported by pmud now. /.../ But for Titanium, you also need a recent kernel (2.4.8-benh0 or higher) if you want use sleep function on a Titanium. For Titanium and iBook 2. Sylvain OBEGI Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 661913 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBO4648d0IbHN+6I/YEQIMawCg8YaryOkGozAahYGTPxyiTBvBIcUAoNdg J5P1hknfBRj5967w1TPwHI4j =9Qml -END PGP SIGNATURE-
