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 It sounds like the iso's are seriously out of date now, at what stage will we be able to get updated iso's? Yes a bit out of date.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]
Installing 8.2b on PB 3400
Hello, I wanted to give the Mandrake distro a try, so I downloaded the 8.2 beta ISOs and tried installing. First, let me say `Thanks!' (or would that be `Merci!') for offering OldWorld support. I had avoided Mandrake previously because of the `G3 optimized' phrase on the PPC page. I'm using a PowerBook 3400c (603e) as a single-user machine. I tried running the AppleScript to install the appropriate bits. The script died when trying to change the name of the appropriate BootX preference file. Don't know why. I figured it was faster to manually install everything instead of analyse the script. Every time I manage to get a GUI install screen, my X settings are wrong. I get a split screen what should be the middle of the screen is on the far right and what should be the left of the screen is in the middle. It's also kind of fuzzy, perhaps set to the wrong frequency. I thought/hoped I could work with this, but when I formatted one of Mac partitions because I couldn't quite make out what the screen said, I decided that I'd better try to get the screen right before proceeding. Problem is, I still can't get the screen right. I tried the `no video driver' and `force video settings' options on and off (eight? tries), same problem. I tried a couple of the BootX preferences files and notice each manually sets the video settings, but I couldn't figure out how to manipulate those settings to match my machine (boring 800x600 16-bit, unsure of frequency). I also tried the text-only option. It gave me an error of the wrong keymap or something (mentioned earlier in the archives here) and wouldn't let me proceed. Let me outline specifically what I've done: Copy `vmlinux' and kernels into `Linux Kernels' folder in my MacOS System Folder. Copy `all.gz', `all2-2.gz' and the other ramdisk images into the `Linux Kernels' folder. Copy `BootX Extension' to the Extensions of my System Folder Copy BootX to my Control Panels. Run BootX, save my settings (32000 ramdisk, select `all.gz' ramdisk) Exit back into MacOS. Restart and select Linux at BootX prompt. Select CDROM at the ncurses (?) prompt for medium. What am I doing wrong? Is it just a case of finding the right kernel argument(s) regarding screen to put into BootX? If so, does anybody have the magic formula? Or is Mandrake just not meant to run on my machine? TIA, Aaron
Re: Keyboard (Mac keycodes) issues
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Christian Walther wrote: I just finished configuring my keyboard to my full contentment, but it involved a bit of hacking on which the experts out there might want to comment. I'm quite a newbie concerning Linux, so I might have done some things in a less-than-optimal way. Loading keymap: mac-de_CH-latin1 [ OK ] Loading compose keys: compose.latin1.inc [ OK ] The BackSpace key sends: ^? [FAILED] What does this [FAILED] mean? I always thought that thing about the BackSpace key was an informational message only, how can this fail? This happened with the the supplied mac keymaps too, but not when using Linux keycodes. It is supposed to be loading the backspace.inc keycodes: /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/include/backspace.inc.gz /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/mac/backspace.inc.gz Second, X keymap. Sylvain's guide says: in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Option «XkbModel» pc105 (default) : Linux keycodes macintosh : mac keycodes Option «XkbLayout» xx (default) : keymap for Linux keycodes macintosh/xx : keymap for mac keycodes (is it exists, see /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/) This is (in my opinion - but I don't understand that whole xkb system very well) not entirely correct. First, if you are using Linux keycodes, you can use macintosh as XkbModel as well, because ...xkb/rules/xfree86 maps model macintosh to keycodes xfree86. (But this still doesn't give you a fully usable MacOS-like keyboard, because the Mac keyboard has no AltGr key and thus you can't reach the secondary characters. Also, the Command key doesn't seem to be mapped to anything (but I couldn't verify this as I didn't have xev installed).) Second, if you are using Mac keycodes, you should not use XkbModel macintosh, but macintosh_old, because ...xkb/rules/xfree86 maps model macintosh to keycodes xfree86 (Linux keycodes) and macintosh_old to keycodes macintosh (Mac keycodes). Third, if you specify macintosh/xx as XkbLayout, the X server complains about not finding macintosh/macintosh/xx. You just have to use xx because the macintosh/ directoy part gets added automatically by ...xkb/rules/xfree86. Except for those errors, Sylvain's guide was very helpful. I made some changes to the supplied ..xkb/symbols/macintosh/de_CH as well to make it as faithful as possible to the MacOS keyboard behavior. The most important one is that the key that it calls COIN (the additional key on european keyboards, Mac keycode 18, produces [section, degree] in swiss german layout) is actually called LSGT (in the keycodes file and in all other european symbol files). If you feel your changes would be useful to others, I could patch the de_CH file with your mods. Thanks, Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc
Re: Installing 8.2b on PB 3400
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I wanted to give the Mandrake distro a try, so I downloaded the 8.2 beta ISOs and tried installing. First, let me say `Thanks!' (or would that be `Merci!') for offering OldWorld support. I had avoided Mandrake previously because of the `G3 optimized' phrase on the PPC page. I'm using a PowerBook 3400c (603e) as a single-user machine. I tried running the AppleScript to install the appropriate bits. The script died when trying to change the name of the appropriate BootX preference file. Don't know why. I figured it was faster to manually install everything instead of analyse the script. Every time I manage to get a GUI install screen, my X settings are wrong. I get a split screen what should be the middle of the screen is on the far right and what should be the left of the screen is in the middle. It's also kind of fuzzy, perhaps set to the wrong frequency. I thought/hoped I could work with this, but when I formatted one of Mac partitions because I couldn't quite make out what the screen said, I decided that I'd better try to get the screen right before proceeding. Problem is, I still can't get the screen right. I tried the `no video driver' and `force video settings' options on and off (eight? tries), same problem. I tried a couple of the BootX preferences files and notice each manually sets the video settings, but I couldn't figure out how to manipulate those settings to match my machine (boring 800x600 16-bit, unsure of frequency). I also tried the text-only option. It gave me an error of the wrong keymap or something (mentioned earlier in the archives here) and wouldn't let me proceed. Let me outline specifically what I've done: Copy `vmlinux' and kernels into `Linux Kernels' folder in my MacOS System Folder. Copy `all.gz', `all2-2.gz' and the other ramdisk images into the `Linux Kernels' folder. Copy `BootX Extension' to the Extensions of my System Folder Copy BootX to my Control Panels. Run BootX, save my settings (32000 ramdisk, select `all.gz' ramdisk) Exit back into MacOS. Restart and select Linux at BootX prompt. Select CDROM at the ncurses (?) prompt for medium. What am I doing wrong? Is it just a case of finding the right kernel argument(s) regarding screen to put into BootX? If so, does anybody have the magic formula? Or is Mandrake just not meant to run on my machine? Not intentionally meant to not run on your machine. I just have limited access to hardware. I've addressed the text-mode magic error, so that should go away in the next ISO. FWIW, on the 7600, I uncheck both of the BootX boxes for altering the video settings (Force Video, NoVideo), and don't specify any kernel arguments, using the 2.4 kernel (plain vmlinux, all.gz), and I can get the graphical installer to come up in a usable mode. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc
Re: Installing 8.2b on PB 3400
Problem is, I still can't get the screen right. I tried the `no video driver' and `force video settings' options on and off (eight? tries), same try the install-text option over the install-novideo option, they are 2 differrent things(well at least on new world install!) mike _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
New X RPM's
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/new-X/ tested OK here on a Lombard Powerbook, iMac revB, 7600, and a Radeon based TiBook. You can probably get away with just XFree-4.2.xxx and XFree-server, but I put everything up just in case. Rage128 users, in particular, please test. I think this is the only thing holding me back from making new ISO's. Thanks, Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc
Re: some apps launch from shell, but not menu
FYI--Updating kde's sound libs, arts, libarts, menu, and menudrake fixed this. Not sure which one actually did the trick but I suspect menudrake was it. -i
Re: New X RPM's
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:48:15AM -0500, Stew Benedict wrote: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/new-X/ tested OK here on a Lombard Powerbook, iMac revB, 7600, and a Radeon based TiBook. You can probably get away with just XFree-4.2.xxx and XFree-server, but I put everything up just in case. Rage128 users, in particular, please test. I think this is the only thing holding me back from making new ISO's. Works fine on my r128 titanium. But I wasn't having problems before. -- Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.reser.org What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi
harddrake
the hardrake i installed a few days ago crashes everytime i look for new hardware manually and somtimes crashed when checking for new hardware on bootup. after i installed my internal airportcard manually(and it was working). i reboot, and checking for new hardware crashes everyting on every boot. i had to manually add eth1 to /etc/modules.conf before the computer reconized it but once i added it, harddrake dies... mike _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
Re: New X RPM's
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Ben Reser wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:48:15AM -0500, Stew Benedict wrote: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/new-X/ tested OK here on a Lombard Powerbook, iMac revB, 7600, and a Radeon based TiBook. You can probably get away with just XFree-4.2.xxx and XFree-server, but I put everything up just in case. Rage128 users, in particular, please test. I think this is the only thing holding me back from making new ISO's. Works fine on my r128 titanium. But I wasn't having problems before. Thanks Ben, The version on the beta1 ISO was OK, around 7mdk or so I think it broke. Looks like this version is a keeper. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc
MDK8.2b1 / xosview patch
Hello Here is the patch I promised. It works against the xosview-1.7.3-11mdk.src.rpm sources ; this patch has to be applied after all the others. Purpose : add a new meter to monitor the battery state, alias the PMUmeter. Activate with '+pmu' on the xosview command line. Stew, has it a chance to make in mdk8.2ppc ? If I have to make changes, please tell me. bye -- Jean-Christophe Jicé Cardot - http://lea-linux.org xosview-PMUmeter-1.7.3.patch.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
