Re: Beta 2 on white ibook??
On Saturday 08 February 2003 16:54, Christopher Molnar wrote: > > In the meantime OS/X seems pretty stable for my needs - just a little > slower than I would like it. > > -Chris Well, I have both and choose at boot time. I am pretty happy with YDL 2.3 at the time. I do like Mandrake (on my PC) but for the time being YDL runs better (at least on a rev2 iBook). Power Managment works mostly (however not closing the screen), my camera works (but it's an Olympus and connects as usb-storage - I don't use gPhoto but wrote a small tcl/tk program instead). I'm afraid the modem problem will remain as long as Apple does not disclose the informations Thierry -- "I heard if you play the Windows XP CD backwards, you get a satanic message." "That's nothing, if you play it forward, it installs Windows XP"
Re: Install 8.2 PPC on a 3400C
Hi Alex, On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 20:31, Alex Thurgood wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've finally managed to get my copy of 8.2 PPC sent to me after 4 months > wait, you can tell things are bad at Mandrakesoft eh ? Now I need to try > and install it, but the only problem is, I don't have a CDROM drive (and > can't get one). I presume it must be possible to install it some other > way on my 3400C Mac ? FTP, Boot diskette then FTP ? > Although I've installed various flavours of Mandrake on x86 > architectures, I have absolutely no experience with Macs whatsoever, so > please don't flame me for asking any dumb questions that might seem > obvious. I see from the current discussions that people are > experimenting with the latest 9.1 cooker, but I'd like to try my hand at > 8.2 first. > > Any hints ? > Can you copy the contents of the CD to a local FTP server? If so, you can install using bootX (is 3400 an old-world Mac?, read the instructions on the CD, in the doc-dir) and an FTP-connection (that's how I do it, I don't even burn CD's but mount the ISO-files on an FTP-server) > > BTW, the MAC only has 48 MB RAM and 1.9 Gb disk space free. Will that be > sufficient to install a workstation and network client access, a > graphical desktop or two etc, etc ? > No problem, could be a little slow, but would work. > TIA, > > > Alex THurgood > > > Good luck, Bob
Install 8.2 PPC on a 3400C
Hi everyone, I've finally managed to get my copy of 8.2 PPC sent to me after 4 months wait, you can tell things are bad at Mandrakesoft eh ? Now I need to try and install it, but the only problem is, I don't have a CDROM drive (and can't get one). I presume it must be possible to install it some other way on my 3400C Mac ? FTP, Boot diskette then FTP ? Although I've installed various flavours of Mandrake on x86 architectures, I have absolutely no experience with Macs whatsoever, so please don't flame me for asking any dumb questions that might seem obvious. I see from the current discussions that people are experimenting with the latest 9.1 cooker, but I'd like to try my hand at 8.2 first. Any hints ? BTW, the MAC only has 48 MB RAM and 1.9 Gb disk space free. Will that be sufficient to install a workstation and network client access, a graphical desktop or two etc, etc ? TIA, Alex THurgood
Re: Beta 2 on white ibook??
Thanks, Sort of what I was afraid of. I had problems with Yellow-dog and I much prefer Mandrake, but to go back to Linux on my iBook I need to be able to use power management, internal modem, and gphoto without problems. I work as a Heating and Air Conditioning tech and my iBook is considered a tool. I am on the road all day and have to constantly unplug, close cover, take into service calls, data entry, go back to truck, plug into printer, print, transmit information and so on. Unfortunately the last few times I tried Linux this is not happening, though I wish it would. I miss my Mandrake desktop :-( In the meantime OS/X seems pretty stable for my needs - just a little slower than I would like it. -Chris On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 12:44 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote: On Saturday 08 February 2003 14:58, Christopher Molnar wrote: Before I go and once again blow away a working OS/X install and install Beta 2 can anyone tell me (hopefully someone with a white ibook) if the following items are working properly: 1) Internal modem Did not try but I doubt. AFAIK the modem in the new iBook is a software modem. Does not work on Yellow Dog (video output does not either) 2) Power management (I need to be able to close lid, re-open, have a working kde session and not a loud feedback sound over the speaker) 3) USB Ports recognizing things like a mobile phone (motorola) and HP Digital Camera. Basically (should not be mandrake-dependent) it depends on HOW your camera works: - if it conforms to usb-storage there should be no problem - if it uses a proprietary way (such as Canon cameras) it "might" work with gphoto2, but then I was never able to compile the latest version on ppc If anyone has any experience with any of this I'd like to hear about it. Thanks, -Chris Thierry -- "I heard if you play the Windows XP CD backwards, you get a satanic message." "That's nothing, if you play it forward, it installs Windows XP"
Re: Beta 2 on white ibook??
On Saturday 08 February 2003 14:58, Christopher Molnar wrote: > Before I go and once again blow away a working OS/X install and install > Beta 2 can anyone tell me (hopefully someone with a white ibook) if the > following items are working properly: > > 1) Internal modem Did not try but I doubt. AFAIK the modem in the new iBook is a software modem. Does not work on Yellow Dog (video output does not either) > 2) Power management (I need to be able to close lid, re-open, have a > working kde session and not a loud feedback sound over the speaker) > > 3) USB Ports recognizing things like a mobile phone (motorola) and HP > Digital Camera. Basically (should not be mandrake-dependent) it depends on HOW your camera works: - if it conforms to usb-storage there should be no problem - if it uses a proprietary way (such as Canon cameras) it "might" work with gphoto2, but then I was never able to compile the latest version on ppc > If anyone has any experience with any of this I'd like to hear about it. > > Thanks, > -Chris Thierry -- "I heard if you play the Windows XP CD backwards, you get a satanic message." "That's nothing, if you play it forward, it installs Windows XP"
9.1b2 on Nov 02 Powerbook
My experiences with 9.1 beta 2 on a Novermber 2002 Ti PowerBook G4: Most things work out of the box, but not everything. Here is a random list of problems: Installer: o install-gui-benh works, except for the colors, which are still wrong. o The "Choose a monitor" step doesn't list a TiBook 1280x854, so I chose a TiBook 1152x768. o I chose the radeon X driver and 1280x854 in 24bit, testing the configuration works, and after the testing, the colors in the installer are right! Installed system with Mandrake kernel: o X works, using the radeon driver and 24bit color, even 2D accelerated. o When switching from the X console to a text console, I don't get a console display but some strange moving multicolored northern lights. o The powerbook doesn't sleep when the lid is closed, even after manually installing pmud which wasn't installed by default. o Adding 'Load "dri"' to XF86Config-4 produces the following error message in the XF86 log: (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIScreenInit failed because of a version mismatch. [dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.2.0 but version 1.5.0 or newer is needed. [dri] Disabling DRI. o Sound doesn't work: At startup, there are some error messages that I can't read because they go away so fast, when I manually "modprobe dmasound_pmac" I get the following error message: /lib/modules/2.4.20-2mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/dmasound/ dmasound_pmac.o.gz: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-2mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/dmasound/ dmasound_pmac.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod dmasound_pmac failed o Adjusting the display brightness (with the keys whose secondary functions are F1 and F2) doesn't work (this works with the benh kernel). With 2.4.20-benh-4mdk kernel: o When switching from the X console to a text console, I get a row of 4 (unreadably) small copies of the console display at the top of the screen, the rest of the screen doesn't change. o When waking up from sleep, I just get a black screen and no sign of any reaction to key presses, so I have to reboot. (these two things worked with the 2.4.20-benh-3mdk kernel on my cooker system) o Adding 'Load "dri"' to XF86Config-4 produces the following error message in the XF86 log: (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. Independent of kernel: o gedit doesn't work: When I start it from the command line, it says: gedit: error while loading shared libraries: libgnomeprintui-2-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory o No XFree86-75dpi-fonts are installed, which causes GTK applications that don't use antialiased fonts, such as GIMP, to use an ugly monospaced font everywhere. o When installing additional packages with rpmdrake, I get an error message 'Medium "Cooker_CD_1 (cdrom1)" is not selected' when that CD is not inserted, although it is selected in the media selection dialog. When the CD is inserted, everything works. o On the subject of missing packages, one thing I missed is Evolution. -Christian
