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Hi ! What about RS 6000 machines ? Especially 43P-150 :-) Will they be able to boot and install from the 9.2 I would love to get these machines runing on Linux and Mandrake Since i already have a couple of x86 doing that ! Regards Kjell A -- __ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Search Smarter - get the new eXact Search Bar for free! http://www.exactsearchbar.com/
Mandrake on RS 6000
Hi ! What about RS 6000 machines ? Especially 43P-150 :-) Will they be able to boot and install from the 9.2 I would love to get these machines runing on Linux and Mandrake Since i already have a couple of x86 doing that ! Regards Kjell A -- __ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Search Smarter - get the new eXact Search Bar for free! http://www.exactsearchbar.com/
Re: Mandrake on RS 6000
A Dimecres 19 Novembre 2003 12:19, Kjell Andersson va escriure: What about RS 6000 machines ? Especially 43P-150 :-) Will they be able to boot and install from the 9.2 I would love to get these machines runing on Linux and Mandrake Since i already have a couple of x86 doing that ! I heard that 9.1 would boot and install on a RS/6000, but I couldn't manage to do it. Did you try? Anyway, I would also like to have Linux on my good old 43P-150 :-) I guess we can share impressions and ideas when the time to test arrives. -- _ |!rs Tirs Abril i Sanz e-Commerce Dept. Management System Solutions Galileo, 303, Atic 08028 - Barcelona (Spain) Tf: (+34) 934 196 343 Fax: (+34) 934 196 561 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I reconfigure network settings?
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Generation NeXT wrote: Hi, I'm desperately trying to get stuff to work. I am relatively new to Linux, and Mandrake is highly recommended. So I installed Mandrake 9.1. I'm not able to configure my networking setup. I try the netconf from the KDE Start Applications menu, and it says I need root. I then tried to setup a log in for root through KDE, but couldn't figure it out (also heard this wasn't recommended). I then noticed that netconf uses linuxconf, so I went to the terminal, and typed in linuxconf and got the following: --- Error message from remadmin :Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Error message from remadmin :Xlib: No protocol specified Error message from remadmin : Error message from remadmin : Error message from remadmin :Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 --- (1) So, how do I launch linuxconf? (2) Why doesn't launching linuxconf work? (3) How can I configure the network from the command line? - Joaquin mcc or drakconf is the solution we're really trying to point people to for gui configuration. linuxconf has been moved to contribs. drakconnect is the subsystem of drakconf for networking accessible either from the command line as root (or /usr/sbin/drakconnect as a normal user). This is also available within the mcc/drakconf gui. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: your mail
A Dimecres 19 Novembre 2003 15:42, Stew Benedict va escriure: 9.1 was tested and mostly built on an RS6000 43P-150. Hum... maybe I should try again when I get some spare time again. I tried to install 9.1 for a short while but unfortunately I couldn't dedicate all the necessary time to it (well, actually I prefer to say fortunately, since the reason is that I am getting married in two weeks!) There is no official 9.2 PPC. Well, I was actually thinking about cooker. I expected some unofficial 9.2 PPC to come up, but now you tell me that it might be a mix of 9.2/10.0/whatever. Well, as Deng Hsiao Ping said, it doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white as long as it chases mice. Thanks for your answer! -- _ |!rs Tirs Abril i Sanz e-Commerce Dept. Management System Solutions Galileo, 303, Atic 08028 - Barcelona (Spain) Tf: (+34) 934 196 343 Fax: (+34) 934 196 561 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
Hi,
I don't know what your problem is, but i was wondering, about ppc cooker:
i have installed mandrake 9.1 on my imac and pc. Then i have updated them,
from 9.1 to cooker.
Since that day, i update my systems (pc and ppc) daily and i can say that if
the i586 cooker version is moving fast (there is a lot of new packages
daily), the ppc version is far behind. For an example: impossible to update
kde, since there is no new kde binary packages for a very long time...
So my question is: is ppc cooker abandonned and how many cookers are working
on it?
Regards,
Gaetan.
Le Mercredi 19 Novembre 2003 16:44, Olivier Grisel a écrit :
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
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, [iso-8859-1] Gaétan QUENTIN wrote: Hi, I don't know what your problem is, but i was wondering, about ppc cooker: i have installed mandrake 9.1 on my imac and pc. Then i have updated them, from 9.1 to cooker. Since that day, i update my systems (pc and ppc) daily and i can say that if the i586 cooker version is moving fast (there is a lot of new packages daily), the ppc version is far behind. For an example: impossible to update kde, since there is no new kde binary packages for a very long time... So my question is: is ppc cooker abandonned and how many cookers are working on it? Cooker-ppc is a community/volunteer effort. Currently there is one person, I believe, building the packages, and the lag behind x86 is partically just physics. x86 packages are built on a multi-machine cluster in Paris, which builds many times faster than the single machines that I was using when I was doing the official builds. Complicating this is when there are rapid-fire releases of large packages, say kde* in one day. You might be in the middle of one build and another comes out before you even finish it. There have been occasions where I've had to kill these builds 3 or 4 times and blown a whole day of machine time with no packages built. So, no, it's not abandoned, but it doesn't have the same level of resources committed to it as the official platforms. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Cooker dependencies
Go Stew, Give me till May-June, at that time I will hopefully be in a position to help with the builds (PPC cluster time). till then, good luck and keep it up Ray On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 12:35, Stew Benedict wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, [iso-8859-1] Gaétan QUENTIN wrote: Hi, I don't know what your problem is, but i was wondering, about ppc cooker: i have installed mandrake 9.1 on my imac and pc. Then i have updated them, from 9.1 to cooker. Since that day, i update my systems (pc and ppc) daily and i can say that if the i586 cooker version is moving fast (there is a lot of new packages daily), the ppc version is far behind. For an example: impossible to update kde, since there is no new kde binary packages for a very long time... So my question is: is ppc cooker abandonned and how many cookers are working on it? Cooker-ppc is a community/volunteer effort. Currently there is one person, I believe, building the packages, and the lag behind x86 is partically just physics. x86 packages are built on a multi-machine cluster in Paris, which builds many times faster than the single machines that I was using when I was doing the official builds. Complicating this is when there are rapid-fire releases of large packages, say kde* in one day. You might be in the middle of one build and another comes out before you even finish it. There have been occasions where I've had to kill these builds 3 or 4 times and blown a whole day of machine time with no packages built. So, no, it's not abandoned, but it doesn't have the same level of resources committed to it as the official platforms.
Re: Cooker dependencies
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Ray Auge wrote: Go Stew, Give me till May-June, at that time I will hopefully be in a position to help with the builds (PPC cluster time). till then, good luck and keep it up 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. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Cooker dependencies
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Olivier Grisel wrote: 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 ? 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. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
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: Cooker dependencies
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Olivier Grisel wrote: 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. Sure, We just need to: 1) Manage the work, so folks aren't duplicating the work, and make sure package B gets built after package A, etc. 2) Have some system of trust/control so the folks using the stuff can have some degree of confidence that what they're downloading is in fact what it represents itself to be. Possibly some other issues I haven't thought of. I think spreading the build too thin across machines would tend the aggravate any build sequencing issues, unless everyone involved stayed in very close sync with each other. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Cooker dependencies
It's not the respond that you would like but I started to build for
myself from the SRPMS (mainly gnome specific) when I find that my iboolk
lag too much from my i586.
I understood long ago that there is only one machine that try to keep
ppc in sync at mandrake and we just have to be patient around
freeze-release since the proprio must also work on other stuff (that
brings more $$$, ie i586). That's fine with me.
The ppc freeze (...) should be over soon. There is always SRPMS anyway.
Pascal
Le mer 19/11/2003 à 12:02, Gaétan QUENTIN a écrit :
Hi,
I don't know what your problem is, but i was wondering, about ppc cooker:
i have installed mandrake 9.1 on my imac and pc. Then i have updated them,
from 9.1 to cooker.
Since that day, i update my systems (pc and ppc) daily and i can say that if
the i586 cooker version is moving fast (there is a lot of new packages
daily), the ppc version is far behind. For an example: impossible to update
kde, since there is no new kde binary packages for a very long time...
So my question is: is ppc cooker abandonned and how many cookers are working
on it?
Regards,
Gaetan.
Le Mercredi 19 Novembre 2003 16:44, Olivier Grisel a écrit :
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
That would be great but how ? It's often more complicated than that to build something working. Example: I've just finished to build mozilla-firebird-0.7... Everything fine, the rpm, the install, the icons... BUT It just don't work. It seems to launch ok then.. stop. Nothing. I haven't find yet the problem. So It could bring more problems to automatic the thing. Although, if somebody could bring a script à la gentoo to build easy, then upload back, I'm all ears. I'd like something that do the: wget ftp://., urpmi -s ..., rpm --rebuild , urpmi ..., (maybe upload) then clean the mess left behind. Pascal 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: Cooker dependencies
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Pascal Gagnon wrote: That would be great but how ? It's often more complicated than that to build something working. Example: I've just finished to build mozilla-firebird-0.7... Everything fine, the rpm, the install, the icons... BUT It just don't work. It seems to launch ok then.. stop. Nothing. I haven't find yet the problem. So It could bring more problems to automatic the thing. Although, if somebody could bring a script à la gentoo to build easy, then upload back, I'm all ears. I'd like something that do the: wget ftp://., urpmi -s ..., rpm --rebuild , urpmi ..., (maybe upload) then clean the mess left behind. rpm-rebuilder does much of this. There are other solutions/scripts used on some of the other alternative arch builds. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Windows in the second partition?
Selon Tomas Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Windows on PowerPC ...what do you mean ? Hi there all, I would like to install Windows in the second partition of my PowerBook G3. Do you any of you have a lead on performing this installation.? Tomas Note: A Windows emulator running on top of bamboo might be even better. It would be analogous to running Unix on top of Windows: link Thought for the the day: Would I have to repartition my G3 with a vfat partition?
Re: Windows in the second partition?
What is you're stuff ?!? I want some !!! I'm eager to see if it's possible but IMHO, windows binairies just won't like the ppc CPU. That's it, vfat or not. A emulator would be a better bet. But how? which one ? Someone knows... ? Pascal Le sam 15/11/2003 à 18:33, Tomas Taylor a écrit : Hi there all, I would like to install Windows in the second partition of my PowerBook G3. Do you any of you have a lead on performing this installation.? Tomas Note: A Windows emulator running on top of bamboo might be even better. It would be analogous to running Unix on top of Windows: link __ Thought for the the day: Would I have to repartition my G3 with a vfat partition?
Windows in the second partition?
Hi there all, I would like to install Windows in the second partition of my PowerBook G3. Do you any of you have a lead on performing this installation.? Tomas Note: A Windows emulator running on top of bamboo might be even better. It would be analogous to running Unix on top of Windows: link Thought for the the day: Would I have to repartition my G3 with a vfat partition?
Dumb Date Format Question?
Hi All, Sorry to bother the list on this one, but I haven't figured out what I did (and how to un do it) on my date format. Where does one set the location for Mandrake. It was US, and I foolishly set it to Montreal. I say foolishly, because all my dates are not in Canadian format (dd/mm/yy) and I would like them to go back to US format (mm/dd/yy). This date format shows up in Apps such as Mozilla OpenOffice. What does one use in Mandrake to set the date format back to US format? TIA, Craig...
G4 Cube Install
Hello Stew and others. I did look at the archives ... but maybe I was not using the right 'key-words' in my search... What alternative whould I choose to complete an install of Mandrake 9.1 on a G4 350 MHz cube Mac? The screen is one of those 17 inch Apple LCD devices. I have 512 Meg of Ram ... and apart from that the machine is standard. I believe they were fitted with a 128M rage (pro?) video card. At installation each choice I have made has resulted in one of: * bright flashing LED on bottom of my 17 inch LCD screen * error message (text install) * horrible figures with unreal cloours ... attempt at framebuffer... ... and my install comes to a halt. Can you please assist/direct me to the answer to this issue. Thanks Richard -- -- + Irena and Richard Jenkins VK1NDV VK1RJ Canberra, AUSTRALIA +
Re: Re: 9.1 and ATI Rage 128 Pro
Well, if you can get to the console (ctrl-alt-F1), you could try two things: 1- Use Xdrake (which you probably already did) 2- Test it (init 3 then init 5) or 1- run XFree86 -configure 2- Test it 3- Try to change the driver in the config file (fbdev, r128, ati...) 4- Make sure you got the line: Option useFBDev 5- Test 6- Try to disable DRI stuff (just put a # at the begining of the lines) 7- Try Any of the above possible combinaisons I just have a rage128 mobility so I can be much help for the Pro. Wherever it works or you stop too try, you could post here the log from /var/log/XFree.0.log Then we would know much more where too look to solve your challenge... Happy testing Pascal De: Mike 'yomcat' Welsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/11/09 dim. PM 11:41:39 GMT-05:00 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 9.1 and ATI Rage 128 Pro on 10/11/03 7:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the error message from the console? Is it usuable or XFree86 just don't want start (like no backgroung color, no cursor...) ? Its the black screen of death... -- yomcat http://yomcat.geek.nz
Re: Cannot boot 9.1 after OSX installation
Hi all! mount /dev/hda13 /mnt and chroot /mnt ybin -v .. After reboot no bootmanager again. I'm surprised ybin didn't complain about no /proc mounted. Normally you need to mount /proc in the chroot also. You wouldn't normally want to mount the bootstrap, if that's what you're referring to on hda11. Yes, Stew is right, you must mount your root partition AND /proc to the chroot if you want to run ybin (yaboot needs to access to the nvram to update the boot-device): boot in rescue from the CD $ mount /dev/hdaXX /mnt where XX is the partition number of / if /usr is on another partition, mount it too $ mount /dev/hdaYY /mnt/usr $ mount -t proc proc /mnt/proc to mount the /proc partition $ chroot mnt /usr/sbin/ybin -v Is the right path (can't remember exactly where is ybin, I don't have my mac here at work). Send us the output of the last command if it failed. $ umount /mnt/proc $ umount /mnt/usr $ umount /mnt $ reboot I hope this will help you, Brice Thanks Brice! All works fine again. Andreas
Re: Re: 9.1 and ATI Rage 128 Pro
What is the error message from the console? Is it usuable or XFree86 just don't want start (like no backgroung color, no cursor...) ? Pascal De: Mike 'yomcat' Welsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/11/07 ven. PM 02:23:46 GMT-05:00 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 9.1 and ATI Rage 128 Pro on 8/11/03 3:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More details would be appreciated... Computer model, monitor resolution, what you have tried up to now... Model: G4 PowerMac 466Mhz, http://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/stats/powermac_g4_466.html with extra RAM. The screen is an 17 Apple Display from the same time period. Res is anything from 1600x1200 to 800x600. None of them work. -- Mike yomcat Welsh NZ Tuatara http://www.nztuatara.com
Re: 9.1 and ATI Rage 128 Pro
on 10/11/03 7:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the error message from the console? Is it usuable or XFree86 just don't want start (like no backgroung color, no cursor...) ? Its the black screen of death... -- yomcat http://yomcat.geek.nz
9.1 and ATI Rage 128 Pro
I've got Linux installed on my comp. The only problem is a lack of a GUI, because my graphics card isn't supported. When we tried VGA, it didn't work either. I'v got the 9.1 PPC CDs, brought from Mandrake, so nothing wrong there. Anyone know a solution? -- Mike http://yomcat.geek.nz http://www.nztuatara.com
Re: 9.1 and ATI Rage 128 Pro
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Mike 'yomcat' Welsh wrote: I've got Linux installed on my comp. The only problem is a lack of a GUI, because my graphics card isn't supported. When we tried VGA, it didn't work either. I'v got the 9.1 PPC CDs, brought from Mandrake, so nothing wrong there. Anyone know a solution? fbdev is normally the fallback when a specific driver doesn't work on an Apple machine. I thought I had r128 so that it would setup properly. In that specific case, it has been: Driver ati and then Option UseFBDev true -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: 9.1 and ATI Rage 128 Pro
More details would be appreciated... Computer model, monitor resolution, what you have tried up to now... Anyway, for what is worth, here's my config for a ATI rage128 MOBILITY. The thing with the r128 is that you must specify the use of the fbdev. Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName ATI BoardName ATI Rage 128 Mobility Driver r128 BusID PCI:0:16:0 Option DPMS Option ForcePCIMode true Option UseFBDev true Option UseCCEFor2D false EndSection (...) Hint: see the line Option ...UseFBDev true... ? That's probably the solution. You can also remplace r128 with fbdev if it's not working. Hope it helps. Pascal De: Mike 'yomcat' Welsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/11/07 ven. AM 03:24:07 GMT-05:00 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 9.1 and ATI Rage 128 Pro I've got Linux installed on my comp. The only problem is a lack of a GUI, because my graphics card isn't supported. When we tried VGA, it didn't work either. I'v got the 9.1 PPC CDs, brought from Mandrake, so nothing wrong there. Anyone know a solution? -- Mike http://yomcat.geek.nz http://www.nztuatara.com
Re: 9.1 and ATI Rage 128 Pro
on 8/11/03 3:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More details would be appreciated... Computer model, monitor resolution, what you have tried up to now... Model: G4 PowerMac 466Mhz, http://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/stats/powermac_g4_466.html with extra RAM. The screen is an 17 Apple Display from the same time period. Res is anything from 1600x1200 to 800x600. None of them work. -- Mike yomcat Welsh NZ Tuatara http://www.nztuatara.com
Hum anybody here?
Hello, Looks like there is not a lot of cookers here hum? lol Regards, Gaetan.
Re: Cannot boot 9.1 after OSX installation
Hi all! Yesterday I installed the new OSX Panther on my ibook. Now I cannot boot Linux. My boot partition is on /dev/hda11, swap on 12 and my system on 13. I tried the rescue-system with mount /dev/hda11 /mnt -- dont work, because must specifie the partition type then mount /dev/hda13 /mnt and chroot /mnt ybin -v .. After reboot no bootmanager again. Any ideas? I'm surprised ybin didn't complain about no /proc mounted. Normally you need to mount /proc in the chroot also. You wouldn't normally want to mount the bootstrap, if that's what you're referring to on hda11. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft Today I tried mkofboot, no errors but no bootmanager too. After reboot always OSX is starting What had I best do? New installation? Bye! Andreas
Re: Cannot boot 9.1 after OSX installation
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:19, Andreas wrote: Hi all! Yesterday I installed the new OSX Panther on my ibook. Now I cannot boot Linux. My boot partition is on /dev/hda11, swap on 12 and my system on 13. I tried the rescue-system with mount /dev/hda11 /mnt -- dont work, because must specifie the partition type then mount /dev/hda13 /mnt and chroot /mnt ybin -v .. After reboot no bootmanager again. Any ideas? I'm surprised ybin didn't complain about no /proc mounted. Normally you need to mount /proc in the chroot also. You wouldn't normally want to mount the bootstrap, if that's what you're referring to on hda11. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft Today I tried mkofboot, no errors but no bootmanager too. After reboot always OSX is starting What had I best do? New installation? No. It seems ybin didn't write to the OF the right command for the boot, so do it yourself: Jump to Open Firmware by pressing COMMAND-OPTION-O-F (apple key + alt key and the O and F key depressed) and reboot. This will bring you the Open Firmware 'shell', then enter the following command: printenv locate the boot-device entry then enter the following command (from memory, basically the last part should be the same as what is shown by the printenv except that the partition number is added (aka 11 in your case)): setenv boot-device hd:11,:\\tbxi Then reboot by entering the mac-shutdown command (or something like that)... Brice
Re: Cannot boot 9.1 after OSX installation
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:19, Andreas wrote: Hi all! Yesterday I installed the new OSX Panther on my ibook. Now I cannot boot Linux. My boot partition is on /dev/hda11, swap on 12 and my system on 13. I tried the rescue-system with mount /dev/hda11 /mnt -- dont work, because must specifie the partition type then mount /dev/hda13 /mnt and chroot /mnt ybin -v .. After reboot no bootmanager again. Any ideas? I'm surprised ybin didn't complain about no /proc mounted. Normally you need to mount /proc in the chroot also. You wouldn't normally want to mount the bootstrap, if that's what you're referring to on hda11. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft Today I tried mkofboot, no errors but no bootmanager too. After reboot always OSX is starting What had I best do? New installation? No. It seems ybin didn't write to the OF the right command for the boot, so do it yourself: Jump to Open Firmware by pressing COMMAND-OPTION-O-F (apple key + alt key and the O and F key depressed) and reboot. This will bring you the Open Firmware 'shell', then enter the following command: printenv locate the boot-device entry then enter the following command (from memory, basically the last part should be the same as what is shown by the printenv except that the partition number is added (aka 11 in your case)): setenv boot-device hd:11,:\\tbxi Then reboot by entering the mac-shutdown command (or something like that)... Brice Won´t work! After reboot now there is a little folder-icon with an question mark on it, than the mac-icon, and than the apple in the middle of the screen for booting OSX. I have done the same procedure (installing new system) before, but i forgot how it functioned ;-( Andreas
Re: Cannot boot 9.1 after OSX installation
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Andreas wrote: Today I tried mkofboot, no errors but no bootmanager too. After reboot always OSX is starting What had I best do? New installation? You looked at the link fleny68 posted also? I'm not quite sure how the kernel would have anything to do with it, since the kernel isn't active yet at that point, but worth a try I suppose. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Cannot boot 9.1 after OSX installation
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:19, Andreas wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:19, Andreas wrote: What had I best do? New installation? No. It seems ybin didn't write to the OF the right command for the boot, so do it yourself: Jump to Open Firmware by pressing COMMAND-OPTION-O-F (apple key + alt key and the O and F key depressed) and reboot. This will bring you the Open Firmware 'shell', then enter the following command: printenv locate the boot-device entry then enter the following command (from memory, basically the last part should be the same as what is shown by the printenv except that the partition number is added (aka 11 in your case)): setenv boot-device hd:11,:\\tbxi Then reboot by entering the mac-shutdown command (or something like that)... Won´t work! After reboot now there is a little folder-icon with an question mark on it, than the mac-icon, and than the apple in the middle of the screen for booting OSX. It means that there are no usable yaboot files on your hda11 partition. Are you sure your boot (I mean the apple bootstrap partition, not the partition where vmlinux (usually /boot)) partition is hda11 ? Try the setenv thing and change the partition number... Can you still boot MacOSX ? If yes mount hda11 under MacOSX and have a look to see if it contains the yaboot files... Brice
Re: Cannot boot 9.1 after OSX installation
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:19, Andreas wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:19, Andreas wrote: Hi all! mount /dev/hda13 /mnt and chroot /mnt ybin -v .. After reboot no bootmanager again. I'm surprised ybin didn't complain about no /proc mounted. Normally you need to mount /proc in the chroot also. You wouldn't normally want to mount the bootstrap, if that's what you're referring to on hda11. Yes, Stew is right, you must mount your root partition AND /proc to the chroot if you want to run ybin (yaboot needs to access to the nvram to update the boot-device): boot in rescue from the CD $ mount /dev/hdaXX /mnt where XX is the partition number of / if /usr is on another partition, mount it too $ mount /dev/hdaYY /mnt/usr $ mount -t proc proc /mnt/proc to mount the /proc partition $ chroot mnt /usr/sbin/ybin -v (can't remember exactly where is ybin, I don't have my mac here at work). Send us the output of the last command if it failed. $ umount /mnt/proc $ umount /mnt/usr $ umount /mnt $ reboot I hope this will help you, Brice
Re: Cannot boot 9.1 after OSX installation
Fwiw, I've read of occasions where MacOS* has renumbered the partitions also, so perhaps your partitions are no longer arranged as you think they are. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Cannot boot 9.1 after OSX installation
Hi all! Yesterday I installed the new OSX Panther on my ibook. Now I cannot boot Linux. My boot partition is on /dev/hda11, swap on 12 and my system on 13. I tried the rescue-system with mount /dev/hda11 /mnt -- dont work, because must specifie the partition type then mount /dev/hda13 /mnt and chroot /mnt ybin -v .. After reboot no bootmanager again. Any ideas? Cheers Andreas
note on Dual G4 benh install vs. rescue ultra-ATA device
A few months ago, I was having trouble with the Ultra-ATA drive in a dual G4 tower. The 9.1 system would install, but not boot. Eventually I gave up and moved the HD to the normal ATA bus on the motherboard. The drive won't show up at all in the normal mdk kernels, smp or enterprise, if it's connected to the Ultra ATA bus. But recently I figured out what seems to be a strange quirk. The Ultra drive shows up as /dev/hde when you boot the rescue CD with 'install-gui-benh rescue text video=ofonly', but when I booted the machine from the HD with the benh kernel, it shows up as /dev/hda. Odd. On the HD, I've installed the recent benh kernel from Mandrake Club, version: 2.4.21-1bh-mdksmp, which is working well (it feels as fast as before, although only one CPU shows in gkrellm -- i'm curious if this is correct, but content that it works for now... thoughts, anyone?). I just thought I'd share the experience in case anyone else bumps into this problem, because I wasted a lot of time editing /etc/fstab and /etc/yaboot.conf (and doing the accompanying chroot, mount /proc, ybin procedure in rescue mode) to change everything to /dev/hde, before figuring out what was happening, that it should be /dev/hda, not /dev/hde. --i
Re: note on Dual G4 benh install vs. rescue ultra-ATA device
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Isaac Csandl wrote: A few months ago, I was having trouble with the Ultra-ATA drive in a dual G4 tower. The 9.1 system would install, but not boot. Eventually I gave up and moved the HD to the normal ATA bus on the motherboard. The drive won't show up at all in the normal mdk kernels, smp or enterprise, if it's connected to the Ultra ATA bus. But recently I figured out what seems to be a strange quirk. The Ultra drive shows up as /dev/hde when you boot the rescue CD with 'install-gui-benh rescue text video=ofonly', but when I booted the machine from the HD with the benh kernel, it shows up as /dev/hda. Odd. On the HD, I've installed the recent benh kernel from Mandrake Club, version: 2.4.21-1bh-mdksmp, which is working well (it feels as fast as before, although only one CPU shows in gkrellm -- i'm curious if this is correct, but content that it works for now... thoughts, anyone?). Probably just x86-ism in gkrellm. cat /proc/cpuinfo output is different on ppc than x86. BenH kernel will generally be better on newer hardware. There is a considerable lag before Ben's stuff makes it into kernel.org. I just thought I'd share the experience in case anyone else bumps into this problem, because I wasted a lot of time editing /etc/fstab and /etc/yaboot.conf (and doing the accompanying chroot, mount /proc, ybin procedure in rescue mode) to change everything to /dev/hde, before figuring out what was happening, that it should be /dev/hda, not /dev/hde. Thanks! -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: note on Dual G4 benh install vs. rescue ultra-ATA device
On Monday 03 November 2003 01:36 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Isaac Csandl wrote: On the HD, I've installed the recent benh kernel from Mandrake Club, version: 2.4.21-1bh-mdksmp, which is working well (it feels as fast as before, although only one CPU shows in gkrellm -- i'm curious if this is correct, but content that it works for now... thoughts, anyone?). Probably just x86-ism in gkrellm. cat /proc/cpuinfo output is different on ppc than x86. -- $ cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : 7455, altivec supported clock : 866MHz revision: 2.1 (pvr 8001 0201) bogomips: 865.07 machine : PowerMac3,6 motherboard : PowerMac3,6 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh board revision : detected as : 129 (PowerMac G4 Windtunnel) pmac flags : L2 cache: 256K unified memory : 256MB pmac-generation : NewWorld H... !
Re: note on Dual G4 benh install vs. rescue ultra-ATA device
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:16:25PM -0600, Isaac Csandl wrote: A few months ago, I was having trouble with the Ultra-ATA drive in a dual G4 tower. The 9.1 system would install, but not boot. Eventually I gave up and moved the HD to the normal ATA bus on the motherboard. The drive won't show up at all in the normal mdk kernels, smp or enterprise, if it's connected to the Ultra ATA bus. But recently I figured out what seems to be a strange quirk. The Ultra drive shows up as /dev/hde when you boot the rescue CD with 'install-gui-benh rescue text video=ofonly', but when I booted the machine from the HD with the benh kernel, it shows up as /dev/hda. Odd. Could be as simple as a bootloader configuration that's changing the order it is seeing the IDE buses in. Which order things are seen in is pretty much always subject to change. Even moving a card from one slot to another can change it. On the HD, I've installed the recent benh kernel from Mandrake Club, version: 2.4.21-1bh-mdksmp, which is working well (it feels as fast as before, although only one CPU shows in gkrellm -- i'm curious if this is correct, but content that it works for now... thoughts, anyone?). What's the output of /proc/cpuinfo? -- Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.reser.org Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking. - H.L. Mencken
Re: note on Dual G4 benh install vs. rescue ultra-ATA device
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Isaac Csandl wrote: On Monday 03 November 2003 01:36 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Isaac Csandl wrote: On the HD, I've installed the recent benh kernel from Mandrake Club, version: 2.4.21-1bh-mdksmp, which is working well (it feels as fast as before, although only one CPU shows in gkrellm -- i'm curious if this is correct, but content that it works for now... thoughts, anyone?). Probably just x86-ism in gkrellm. cat /proc/cpuinfo output is different on ppc than x86. -- $ cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : 7455, altivec supported clock : 866MHz revision: 2.1 (pvr 8001 0201) bogomips: 865.07 machine : PowerMac3,6 motherboard : PowerMac3,6 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh board revision : detected as : 129 (PowerMac G4 Windtunnel) pmac flags : L2 cache: 256K unified memory : 256MB pmac-generation : NewWorld Looks like a up kernel. I thought there were multiple stanzas on smp (not positive, since I don't have one). -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: note on Dual G4 benh install vs. rescue ultra-ATA device
Le Lundi 3 Novembre 2003 20:58, Ben Reser a écrit : But recently I figured out what seems to be a strange quirk. The Ultra drive shows up as /dev/hde when you boot the rescue CD with 'install-gui-benh rescue text video=ofonly', but when I booted the machine from the HD with the benh kernel, it shows up as /dev/hda. Odd. Could be as simple as a bootloader configuration that's changing the order it is seeing the IDE buses in. Which order things are seen in is pretty much always subject to change. Even moving a card from one slot to another can change it. it's in the kernel configuration. CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC_ATA100FIRST=y without ata100 give hde, with hda. As long as the first disk is usually hda, it's normal to leave y. AFAIR Changes are in /etc/yaboot.conf and in /etc/fstab. But when this driver was first in the kernel, it was tested after the normal ide ones. and gave hde. The same paramater is in the 2.6.0 I suppose a boot with root=/dev/hdax and -s option permits changes yaboot.conf and fstab? Regards, -- Fleny68
Re: note on Dual G4 benh install vs. rescue ultra-ATA device
Le Lundi 3 Novembre 2003 21:11, Stew Benedict a écrit : Looks like a up kernel. I thought there were multiple stanzas on smp (not positive, since I don't have one). $cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7455, altivec supported clock : 866MHz revision: 2.1 (pvr 8001 0201) bogomips: 865.07 processor : 1 cpu : 7455, altivec supported clock : 866MHz revision: 2.1 (pvr 8001 0201) bogomips: 865.07 total bogomips : 1730.15 machine : PowerMac3,6 motherboard : PowerMac3,6 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh board revision : detected as : 129 (PowerMac G4 Windtunnel) pmac flags : L2 cache: 256K unified memory : 256MB pmac-generation : NewWorld -- Fleny68
Re: note on Dual G4 benh install vs. rescue ultra-ATA device
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Isaac Csandl wrote: On Monday 03 November 2003 01:36 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Isaac Csandl wrote: On the HD, I've installed the recent benh kernel from Mandrake Club, version: 2.4.21-1bh-mdksmp, which is working well (it feels as fast as before, although only one CPU shows in gkrellm -- i'm curious if this is correct, but content that it works for now... thoughts, anyone?). Probably just x86-ism in gkrellm. cat /proc/cpuinfo output is different on ppc than x86. -- $ cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : 7455, altivec supported clock : 866MHz revision: 2.1 (pvr 8001 0201) bogomips: 865.07 machine : PowerMac3,6 motherboard : PowerMac3,6 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh board revision : detected as : 129 (PowerMac G4 Windtunnel) pmac flags : L2 cache: 256K unified memory : 256MB pmac-generation : NewWorld H... ! that's strange. Either that machine is weird or my kernel is broke. Anyone else tried the club kernel on an smp machine? An update for the benh kernel is long overdue anyway, i have 2.4.22-ben2 sitting here, but i still need to redo the xfs patch, hopefully i get some time this week. d.
JNI apps
PPC Developers, I have a small JNI application that I have developed in MacOS X. I have ported it over to both RedHat Linux and Windows 2000, In both cases it fails when it tries the load the shared-library with the native code. I have just read in the Mac documentation that the naming convention for the shared-library is non-standard in MacOS X and this is most likely the cause of the Linux and Windows failures. This new information has reminded me that I have not even attempted to port the over to Mandrake Linux for PPC. I have assumed that Java is not yet mature enough for JNI applications? Is this a correct assumption? If not, do I have to join the CLUB in order to port my JNI app over to Mandrake? (I ain't got no money to join the CLUB!) Tomas Taylor Below is the link to the website for the Pure Java version of the application: http://web2.airmail.net/tomaste/LogicCalc/LogicCalc.html I am using bamboo for website management and deployment of Java apps. Panther has just been released!
Update Experience
Machine ... 350MHz iMac with 256 Meg of RAM. Otherwise standard excepte for external usb//parallel converter for the Laserjet printer. Very little progress until I read the instructions!! Follwed up on Stew Benedict's advice ... to NOT label the bootstrap partition as /boot! Also (after reading the instructions) decided to follow them ... installing MacOS and leaving the rest of the drive unallocated. Linux installer found and used all the newly created vacant space ... and the installer went ahead. The installer still 'barfed' on testing the video display ... but I was ready amd knew the correct entries for my iMac. Very good ... and am delighted to be 'playing' with it now. Only other 'wrinkle' was to entry a longer delay into 'post-init delay' ... as suggested elsewhere in the list. Thanks for the help people... RIchard -- -- + Irena and Richard Jenkins VK1NDV VK1RJ Canberra, AUSTRALIA +
Re: Re: PowerBook G4 12inch
De: Stuart Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/23 jeu. PM 11:59:39 GMT-04:00 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PowerBook G4 12inch No I haven't checked them out. To be honest with you, I didn't actually know that they existed. I'm just taking a look through them now. Thanks heaps. Stu :-) On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 07:19 PM, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Stuart Guthrie wrote: Hi Stew, My name is Stuart Guthrie and I'm subscribed to the PPC Mandrake Linux mailing list. I've been having a lot of problems installing Mandrake linux on my 12 PowerBook for some strange reason. I've tried doing it in text mode however there are incompatibilities with my keyboard (or something like that) because I'm unable to select the I accept button on the license agreement.Do you by any chance know of anyway that I can bypass this and simply install Linux? I do agree with all of the terms presented in the text. For the text install (the only one that has ever works on my ibook 366) use: install-gui-benh text You can then almost normally, ie you may have some problem if you choose a custom partition format (just reboot and restart) and no individual package selection, just the basic categories ( use rpmdrake-remove after all) Tadam, magica. Pascal Also I have tried to boot into the old graphics installer by going install-gui gui-old graphics=nvidia (geforce 420go) however once everything starts up it is all unclear and fuzzy. What can I do? Sorry to hassle you. Yours truly, STuart Guthrie No hassle, that's why I'm here :) So TAB doesn't allow you to move from field to field in the text install? I suspect if you can't get past accepting the license, you'll have additional problems, because there are several screen in the install that will require you to move about the screen, in particular disk partitioning. graphics=nvidia isn't really a valid argument to pass. It expects something like video=, perhaps video=nv or video=fbdev. I would probably also use the benh kernel. I thought there was a thread on installs on the 12, but I could be mistaken. Have you checked the list archives at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2 -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Re: Resolution 800x600 problem to install MDK 9.1
gui-old should not care about an X config, it uses Xpmac And Xpmac seems to not like my aty rage 128 mobility and my lcd [EMAIL PROTECTED] there is no editor available during install, unless you create your own install image do an HD install and drop something into the tree, you could also modify the perl source if you were going to do this Aye, perl. Well someday maybe. The text installation seem too broken to pass the license page. There is a problem with can't load the keyboard 115 or 114, etc. I did the text install with 8.2, long ago. I though it worth to mention and I could try different thing to debug it if you want Stew but I don't know what. text install is broken, the common workaround is: install-gui-benh text Bingo. Fantastic. You found the good combinaison. I though i read it somewhere at the begining of the summer but couldnt find it. It works just like 8.2, ie not perfect but can install something.. Theres still a probleme with partionning if you try to create or change a reiserfs. There is a error with « unable to umount the proc You have to manually format then reboot, restart the installation without changing the partition table. Also, the individual package selection just dont care of what you want or not. You installed 9.1 on this machine once? It was a 8.2 - cooker since over a year. Did you note the r128 message at the yaboot prompt? Hum ? install-gui gui-old video=aty128fb Try that and every other combinaisons but the problem is the default 1024x768.that I get. I think that my ibook firewire 366 is always detected as a Powerbook/imac 1024x768. That is, that all. Could it be change? What info you need ? Pascal
Re: PowerBook G4 12inch
I had a thread on the list about my installation on a 12 g4 powerbook -- but unfortunately the post that I made after I had solved most of the problems did not end up on the archive -- here is the relevant section -- which I think will also solve the tab problem from June 2003 post: just an update on my progress -- indeed the benh kernel is not installed -- i am trying to follow a work around suggested by Nic Doebelin on the comp.os.linux.powerpc list which is based on the translation of an article from a German magazine. Like Isaac I had the problem that when I switched to the console mode during text installation my 'a' key became a ^B so umount /dev/hda and eject /dev/hda became difficult -- the work around for that problem is: # echo 'keycode 30 = \0141' key # mount /dev/hdcX /mnt--- where X is your root partition #/mnt/bin/lo*dkeys key That gives you an 'a' key again then unmount the cd umount /tmp/hda chroot /mnt mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom I then copied the kernel-benh-2*.rpm file from the cd Mandrake/RPMS1/kern*benh-2* to /var the next problem came when I tried to install the rpm file rpm -Uvh --nodeps /var/kern* installation went file (hash marks marched to 100%) then I became stuck in an endless loop error about cannot write to /proc/mounts no such file or directory exists -- had to restart the machine to get out of it This rpm installation gets the vmlinuz-*benh file loaded into boot, but did not create the required initrd*.img file. I went back through the installation disk boot process again until the language page -- hit apple - right arrow to get to the console mode then copied the appropriate image file from the boot disk # mount /dev/hdc5 /mnt # cp /tmp/image/BootX/*benh*ext3 /mnt/boot/initrd-2.4.20-benh-9mdk.img then edit the /etc/yaboot.conf file changing the vmlinuz and initrd files to those you just created then execute ybin to make the yaboot.conf changes take place # ybin -v # exit # umount /mnt hold control - apple and push the power button to restart If the x server fails during startup -- which mine did just exit the xconfigurator, su to root and edit the XF86Config-4 file # emacs /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 change the driver in the Device section from fbdev to nv since the 12 powerbook G4 uses the nVidia geForce4 video card # exit $ startx and the Mandrake X wizard should startup and run Only thing not working at this point is my built-in airport extreme card To Stew and the guys on the cooker-ppc list -- you have done a great job of porting linux to the ppc -- congratulations and thanks a lot. Stew Benedict wrote: I thought there was a thread on installs on the 12, but I could be mistaken. Have you checked the list archives at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2
Re: PowerBook G4 12inch
Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Stuart Guthrie wrote: Hi Stew, My name is Stuart Guthrie and I'm subscribed to the PPC Mandrake Linux mailing list. I've been having a lot of problems installing Mandrake linux on my 12 PowerBook for some strange reason. I've tried doing it in text mode however there are incompatibilities with my keyboard (or something like that) because I'm unable to select the I accept button on the license agreement. Do you by any chance know of anyway that I can bypass this and simply install Linux? I do agree with all of the terms presented in the text. Also I have tried to boot into the old graphics installer by going install-gui gui-old graphics=nvidia (geforce 420go) however once everything starts up it is all unclear and fuzzy. What can I do? Sorry to hassle you. Yours truly, STuart Guthrie No hassle, that's why I'm here :) So TAB doesn't allow you to move from field to field in the text install? I suspect if you can't get past accepting the license, you'll have additional problems, because there are several screen in the install that will require you to move about the screen, in particular disk partitioning. Perhaps I am out in left field, but I had a similar problem with Suse PPC a while back, and it was a keyboard mapping problem. The situation was a little different in that I was able to install, but unable to use the system once it was booted (the mapping of the keyboard was _way_ bad, and I couldn't even log in). Perhaps Stuart should select a different keyboard (assuming he is getting that far) initially. I hope this helps, Craig...
Resolution 800x600 problem to install MDK 9.1
Hi, I try to make a clean reinstall of mdk 9.1 on my old ibook 366. The maximum screen resolution is 800x600 and the card is the Ati rage mobility 128. My big problem is that whatever I try to pass(benh, gui-old, atyfb128, aty128fb, fbdev, force-fbdev, vmode:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.), the gui install is not usable. Sometime, my cursor seem normal but that is all. I looked the /tmp/Xconf and I really think that my problem lies with the default 1024x768. Can I change live the screen resolution for 800x600? If I kill anything, the install stop. Also, apart cat what else can I use to edit during the install ? The text installation seem too broken to pass the license page. There is a problem with can't load the keyboard 115 or 114, etc. I did the text install with 8.2, long ago. I though it worth to mention and I could try different thing to debug it if you want Stew but I don't know what.
Re: PowerBook G4 12inch
Stew, In 9.3 could could Bamboo, if it's still called Bamboo then, detect configurations with special keyboards and adjust accordingly? Tomas ___ On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 09:34 AM, Craig Miller wrote: Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Stuart Guthrie wrote: Hi Stew, My name is Stuart Guthrie and I'm subscribed to the PPC Mandrake Linux mailing list. I've been having a lot of problems installing Mandrake linux on my 12 PowerBook for some strange reason. I've tried doing it in text mode however there are incompatibilities with my keyboard (or something like that) because I'm unable to select the I accept button on the license agreement. Do you by any chance know of anyway that I can bypass this and simply install Linux? I do agree with all of the terms presented in the text. Also I have tried to boot into the old graphics installer by going install-gui gui-old graphics=nvidia (geforce 420go) however once everything starts up it is all unclear and fuzzy. What can I do? Sorry to hassle you. Yours truly, STuart Guthrie No hassle, that's why I'm here :) So TAB doesn't allow you to move from field to field in the text install? I suspect if you can't get past accepting the license, you'll have additional problems, because there are several screen in the install that will require you to move about the screen, in particular disk partitioning. Perhaps I am out in left field, but I had a similar problem with Suse PPC a while back, and it was a keyboard mapping problem. The situation was a little different in that I was able to install, but unable to use the system once it was booted (the mapping of the keyboard was _way_ bad, and I couldn't even log in). Perhaps Stuart should select a different keyboard (assuming he is getting that far) initially. I hope this helps, Craig...
Re: Resolution 800x600 problem to install MDK 9.1
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I try to make a clean reinstall of mdk 9.1 on my old ibook 366. The maximum screen resolution is 800x600 and the card is the Ati rage mobility 128. My big problem is that whatever I try to pass(benh, gui-old, atyfb128, aty128fb, fbdev, force-fbdev, vmode:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.), the gui install is not usable. Sometime, my cursor seem normal but that is all. I looked the /tmp/Xconf and I really think that my problem lies with the default 1024x768. Can I change live the screen resolution for 800x600? If I kill anything, the install stop. Also, apart cat what else can I use to edit during the install ? gui-old should not care about an X config, it uses Xpmac there is no editor available during install, unless you create your own install image do an HD install and drop something into the tree, you could also modify the perl source if you were going to do this The text installation seem too broken to pass the license page. There is a problem with can't load the keyboard 115 or 114, etc. I did the text install with 8.2, long ago. I though it worth to mention and I could try different thing to debug it if you want Stew but I don't know what. text install is broken, the common workaround is: install-gui-benh text You installed 9.1 on this machine once? Did you note the r128 message at the yaboot prompt? install-gui gui-old video=aty128fb -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: PowerBook G4 12inch
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Tomas Taylor wrote: Stew, In 9.3 could could Bamboo, if it's still called Bamboo then, detect configurations with special keyboards and adjust accordingly? Tomas I don't know that the hardware reports whether the keyboard is qwerty, azerty etc. Your dmesg output should show something if it does. If it does, sure something could be done, but we would need to build up a database of mappings of keyboards maps to keyboard types. If it doesn't, I'm not sure how one could do that. No, it wouldn't be Bamboo, each release get's a new code name. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
New pbbuttonsd and powerprefs packages
Packaged for 9.1 are up on my breser tree. You can find the tree at: http://mirror.brain.org/linux/breser/ppc/9.1/ You can add the tree as a urpmi source via: urpmi.addmedia breser http://mirror.brain.org/linux/breser/ppc/9.1/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz pbbuttonsd has been upgraded to 0.5.5 and powerprefs to 0.4.0. The new interface on powerprefs seems to be much improved. pbbcmd has been merged into pbbuttonsd. For more details on what has changed from your current version check out the pbbuttonsd website at: http://www.cymes.de/members/joker/projects/pbbuttons/pbbuttons.html I'll upload the packages to cooker as soon as klama stops being hosed. Until then cooker people will have to wait. How's that for different, released distro people get something new first. :) -- Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.reser.org Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking. - H.L. Mencken
Re: PowerBook G4 12inch
No I haven't checked them out. To be honest with you, I didn't actually know that they existed. I'm just taking a look through them now. Thanks heaps. Stu :-) On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 07:19 PM, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Stuart Guthrie wrote: Hi Stew, My name is Stuart Guthrie and I'm subscribed to the PPC Mandrake Linux mailing list. I've been having a lot of problems installing Mandrake linux on my 12 PowerBook for some strange reason. I've tried doing it in text mode however there are incompatibilities with my keyboard (or something like that) because I'm unable to select the I accept button on the license agreement. Do you by any chance know of anyway that I can bypass this and simply install Linux? I do agree with all of the terms presented in the text. Also I have tried to boot into the old graphics installer by going install-gui gui-old graphics=nvidia (geforce 420go) however once everything starts up it is all unclear and fuzzy. What can I do? Sorry to hassle you. Yours truly, STuart Guthrie No hassle, that's why I'm here :) So TAB doesn't allow you to move from field to field in the text install? I suspect if you can't get past accepting the license, you'll have additional problems, because there are several screen in the install that will require you to move about the screen, in particular disk partitioning. graphics=nvidia isn't really a valid argument to pass. It expects something like video=, perhaps video=nv or video=fbdev. I would probably also use the benh kernel. I thought there was a thread on installs on the 12, but I could be mistaken. Have you checked the list archives at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2 -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: What year is it, anyway?
Pascal, My configuration is single boot MacOS on a PB G4 and single boot Linux on a PB G3. (I use Samba to exchange files in a 4GB HFS partition on the G4.) Does this mean I stuck in 1969 until Mandrake 9.3? Tomas ___ On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 10:06 AM, Pascal Gagnon wrote: Finally, ever since I installed Mandrake Linux I haven't been able toset the date. Bamboo thinks that it's 1969. Is there a way to letBamboo know that it's really 2003. You can boot once with MacOS and change the date and time. I never had much luck changing the date under linux/ppc. Pascal
Re: What year is it, anyway?
Tomas, Yes, there _has_ to be a way to do in in a linux only system. I got tired of Mandrake setting the clock wrong upon boot, and have added this to the end of my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file: # set clock back to HW clock value upon boot /sbin/hwclock -s Of course, this assumes you have set the hardware clock to the right date and time in the first place. Use hwclock to do this (see man pages for the options). I hope this helps, Craig... Tomas Taylor wrote: Pascal, My configuration is single boot MacOS on a PB G4 and single boot Linux on a PB G3. (I use Samba to exchange files in a 4GB HFS partition on the G4.) Does this mean I stuck in 1969 until Mandrake 9.3? Tomas ___ On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 10:06 AM, Pascal Gagnon wrote: Finally, ever since I installed Mandrake Linux I haven't been able toset the date. Bamboo thinks that it's 1969. Is there a way to letBamboo know that it's really 2003. You can boot once with MacOS and change the date and time. I never had much luck changing the date under linux/ppc. Pascal .
Cooker on PPC: 2.6.0-test7-benh
Just a basic packaging, no supermount or other non-benh tree patches. Perhaps a starting point if someone wants to enhance it. Issues I was having were due to the iProRaid card in my iMac and some strange module loading that shouldn't have been happening. The configuration was there before going to the 2.6 kernel, and once I cleaned that up it stabilized. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ppc]$ uname -a Linux imac.linuxcontrol.org 2.6.0test7-benh-1mdk #1 Wed Oct 22 07:33:56 EDT 2003 ppc unknown unknown GNU/Linux http://peoples.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/kernel-benh-2.6.0test7-1mdk.ppc.rpm http://peoples.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/kernel-benh-2.6.0test7-1mdk.src.rpm SMP build seems broken. I spent a little time with it but gave up for the moment. I also see that detectloader spews out some errors. I saw this same problem during 9.1 development and had to work around it in the perl packaging. Despite the errors the yaboot entry and initrd get created correctly. PS: You need module-init-tools. The kernel package should require it. Have Fun! -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Staying with 8.2
Hi there folks... I have just got this iMac running with 8.2 ... after a bit of a struggle. I am wondering: 1. Is there a major benefit by struggling to install version 9 on my machine (slot load with 256Meg of RAM)? 2. What are the significatant security upgrades to this distribution that I should look for/download and install? Is there an idiot-prof upgrade system which works for version 8.2 (PPC)? Cheers for now Richard -- -- + Irena and Richard Jenkins VK1NDV VK1RJ Canberra, AUSTRALIA +
PowerBook G4 12inch
Hi Stew, My name is Stuart Guthrie and I'm subscribed to the PPC Mandrake Linux mailing list. I've been having a lot of problems installing Mandrake linux on my 12" PowerBook for some strange reason. I've tried doing it in text mode however there are incompatibilities with my keyboard (or something like that) because I'm unable to select the "I accept" button on the license agreement. Do you by any chance know of anyway that I can bypass this and simply install Linux? I do agree with all of the terms presented in the text. Also I have tried to boot into the old graphics installer by going install-gui gui-old graphics=nvidia (geforce 420go) however once everything starts up it is all unclear and fuzzy. What can I do? Sorry to hassle you.Yours truly, STuart GuthrieWant to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger
Re: iBook 800, CDRW (Nov. 2002): X-problems for me too!
Andreas wrote: Hi Ted! This are my settings: yaboot.conf: .. image=hd:13,/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-benh-10mdk label=2420-benh root=/dev/hda13 read-only append= devfs=mount video=radeonfb ... and XF86Config:: Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName ATI BoardName ATI Radeon Driver radeon BusID PCI:0:16:0 Option usefbdev EndSection For me it works. Hopefully for you too!? Andreas Got it working now! The trick was to use the benh-kernel. I installed the version supplied on the 9.1 install disks and after reboot (with video=radeonfb set, have not tested without) it worked just fine. The XF86Config looks also exactly like above. Thanks for the help! /Ted
What year is it, anyway?
Howdy, Everytime I boot up the first thing I do is Log Out and Log back In as KDE. Is there a way to elimanate this extra step? Also I have corrupted KDE in a away that the tool bars are blank. As I point the cursor to them they change names as I move the cursor. How do I re-enble display of the tool bars? Finally, ever since I installed Mandrake Linux I haven't been able to set the date. Bamboo thinks that it's 1969. Is there a way to let Bamboo know that it's really 2003. Tomás hasta la victoria siempre! che
Re: What year is it, anyway?
Finally, ever since I installed Mandrake Linux I haven't been able toset the date. Bamboo thinks that it's 1969. Is there a way to letBamboo know that it's really 2003. You can boot once with MacOS and change the date and time. I never had much luck changing the date under linux/ppc. Pascal
iBook 800, CDRW (Nov. 2002): X-problems for me too!
Hello list, the problem with my machine is similar to Andreas' 700 MHz-problem discussed on this list during September (as can be found in the archives), but my machine is the iBook 800 MHz combo version from Nov. 2002 with 512 MB of RAM, and graphics is (according to OSX system information) ATY,RageM7, with 32 MB of memory. It may be mostly the same hardware as the 700 CD-version but the tricks suggested in the thread does not work for me. I wonder if this is another of Apple's updated hardware that needs additional tuning. I am testing with Mandrake 9.1, the downloaded ISO version, with the mandrake (not benh) kernel. Managed to install it although the constant flickering of the screen (it is like two flickering parallel images), since I know the i586 version install quite well. No one of the suggested video=xxx produced a working graphics setup. The text mode crashes when it identifies the keyboard. If I use video=radeonfb as boot parameters (using yaboot.conf), I get the virtual terminals correct. Other combinations of kernel video-parameters work less good. But for XFree, I can not find a working set of parameters. Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 runs happily directly on this machine, but since I use MDK9.1 9.2 on my two i586 machines, I really like to see the 9.1 ppc version also running on the iBook. Dual-booting it with OSX. Please, any suggestions from the list that I can test to get XFree working for this machine? /Ted
Re: iBook 800, CDRW (Nov. 2002): X-problems for me too!
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Ted Johansson wrote: If I use video=radeonfb as boot parameters (using yaboot.conf), I get the virtual terminals correct. Other combinations of kernel video-parameters work less good. But for XFree, I can not find a working set of parameters. Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 runs happily directly on this machine, but since I use MDK9.1 9.2 on my two i586 machines, I really like to see the 9.1 ppc version also running on the iBook. Dual-booting it with OSX. Please, any suggestions from the list that I can test to get XFree working for this machine? You've tried adding Option UseFBDev true To /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: iBook 800, CDRW (Nov. 2002): X-problems for me too!
Stew Benedict wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Ted Johansson wrote: If I use video=radeonfb as boot parameters (using yaboot.conf), I get the virtual terminals correct. Other combinations of kernel video-parameters work less good. But for XFree, I can not find a working set of parameters. Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 runs happily directly on this machine, but since I use MDK9.1 9.2 on my two i586 machines, I really like to see the 9.1 ppc version also running on the iBook. Dual-booting it with OSX. Please, any suggestions from the list that I can test to get XFree working for this machine? You've tried adding Option UseFBDev true To /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? I tested but no success. X starts, but there is a distinct flickering in rightmost part of the screen. When I log out from X (in the case I did not boot directly into X, instead used startx), the screen turns in-side out white/grey/colored and it is impossible to see anything or switch to text mode. Checking /var/log/XFree86.0.log shows in the middle of the large log an error message like: (EE) RADEON(): Failed to open framebuffer device, consult... and (WW) RADEON(0): fbdevHWInit failed, not using framebuffer device (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW (AGP) (ChipID = 0x4c57) if this can be of any help. Below is the complete XF86Config-4 that was used. /Ted # File generated by XFdrake. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** Section Files # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath unix/:-1 EndSection Section ServerFlags #DontZap # disable CrtlAltBS (server abort) #DontZoom # disable CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- (resolution switching) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work EndSection Section Module Load dbe # Double-Buffering Extension Load v4l # Video for Linux Load extmod Load type1 Load freetype Load glx # 3D layer EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver Keyboard Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout se Option XkbCompat Option XkbOptions EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/usbmouse Option Emulate3Buttons Option Emulate3Timeout 50 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier monitor1 VendorName Apple ModelName iBook2 1024x768 HorizSync 28.0-49.0 VertRefresh 43.0-72.0 # Apple iMac modes ModeLine 1024x768 78.525 1024 1049 1145 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync ModeLine 800x60062.357 800 821 901 1040 600 601 604 632 +hsync +vsync ModeLine 640x48049.886 640 661 725 832 480 481 484 514 +hsync +vsync # Apple monitors tend to do 832x624 ModeLine 832x62457 832 876 940 1152 624 625 628 667 -hsync -vsync # Apple PowerBook G3 ModeLine 800x600100 800 816 824 840 600 616 624 640 -hsync -vsync # Apple TI Powerbook ModeLine 1152x768 78.741 1152 1173 1269 1440 768 769 772 800 +vsync +vsync # Pismo Firewire G3 ModeLine 1024x768 65 1024 1032 1176 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync # iBook2 ModeLine 1024x768 65 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync # 17 Apple Studio Display ModeLine 1024x768 112.62 1024 1076 1248 1420 768 768 780 808 +hsync +vsync # HiRes Apple Studio Display ModeLine 1280x1024 1351280 1288 1392 1664 1024 1027 1030 1064 # Another variation ModeLine 1280x1024 134.989 1280 1317 1429 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync EndSection Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName ATI BoardName ATI Radeon Driver radeon BusID PCI:0:16:0 Option DPMS Option UseFBDev true EndSection Section Screen Identifier screen1 Device device1 Monitor monitor1 DefaultColorDepth 16 Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 15 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier layout1 InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard InputDevice Mouse1 CorePointer Screen screen1 EndSection
Re: iBook 800, CDRW (Nov. 2002): X-problems for me too!
Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2003 23:28 schrieb Ted Johansson: Stew Benedict wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Ted Johansson wrote: If I use video=radeonfb as boot parameters (using yaboot.conf), I get the virtual terminals correct. Other combinations of kernel video-parameters work less good. But for XFree, I can not find a working set of parameters. Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 runs happily directly on this machine, but since I use MDK9.1 9.2 on my two i586 machines, I really like to see the 9.1 ppc version also running on the iBook. Dual-booting it with OSX. Please, any suggestions from the list that I can test to get XFree working for this machine? You've tried adding Option UseFBDev true To /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? I tested but no success. X starts, but there is a distinct flickering in rightmost part of the screen. When I log out from X (in the case I did not boot directly into X, instead used startx), the screen turns in-side out white/grey/colored and it is impossible to see anything or switch to text mode. Checking /var/log/XFree86.0.log shows in the middle of the large log an error message like: (EE) RADEON(): Failed to open framebuffer device, consult... and (WW) RADEON(0): fbdevHWInit failed, not using framebuffer device (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW (AGP) (ChipID = 0x4c57) if this can be of any help. Below is the complete XF86Config-4 that was used. /Ted # File generated by XFdrake. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** Section Files # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath unix/:-1 EndSection Section ServerFlags #DontZap # disable CrtlAltBS (server abort) #DontZoom # disable CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- (resolution switching) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work EndSection Section Module Load dbe # Double-Buffering Extension Load v4l # Video for Linux Load extmod Load type1 Load freetype Load glx # 3D layer EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver Keyboard Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout se Option XkbCompat Option XkbOptions EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/usbmouse Option Emulate3Buttons Option Emulate3Timeout 50 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier monitor1 VendorName Apple ModelName iBook2 1024x768 HorizSync 28.0-49.0 VertRefresh 43.0-72.0 # Apple iMac modes ModeLine 1024x768 78.525 1024 1049 1145 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync ModeLine 800x60062.357 800 821 901 1040 600 601 604 632 +hsync +vsync ModeLine 640x48049.886 640 661 725 832 480 481 484 514 +hsync +vsync # Apple monitors tend to do 832x624 ModeLine 832x62457 832 876 940 1152 624 625 628 667 -hsync -vsync # Apple PowerBook G3 ModeLine 800x600100 800 816 824 840 600 616 624 640 -hsync -vsync # Apple TI Powerbook ModeLine 1152x768 78.741 1152 1173 1269 1440 768 769 772 800 +vsync +vsync # Pismo Firewire G3 ModeLine 1024x768 65 1024 1032 1176 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync # iBook2 ModeLine 1024x768 65 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync # 17 Apple Studio Display ModeLine 1024x768 112.62 1024 1076 1248 1420 768 768 780 808 +hsync +vsync # HiRes Apple Studio Display ModeLine 1280x1024 1351280 1288 1392 1664 1024 1027 1030 1064 # Another variation ModeLine 1280x1024 134.989 1280 1317 1429 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync EndSection Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName ATI BoardName ATI Radeon Driver radeon BusID PCI:0:16:0 Option DPMS Option UseFBDev true EndSection Section Screen Identifier screen1 Device device1 Monitor monitor1 DefaultColorDepth 16 Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 15 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier layout1 InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard InputDevice Mouse1 CorePointer Screen screen1
HowTo: Cooker on PPC
Had a lite period so I decided to look at cooker-ppc and see how usable it was. Things are a little rough, and Olivier has had some other things to tend to, so PPC fell behind a little bit, but I've currently got a functional PPC system running 9.2/Cooker with KDE and the drak tools. (Gnome has some issues too, but I didn't get that far). First off, the bits you'll need that aren't on the mirrors are on my web space: http://peoples.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc Look for files dated Oct-2003 I've also been experimenting with benh's 2.6.0-test7 tree. First pass booted with no console or keyboard, but got me into X. 2nd pass resolved the console/keyboard issues, but I keep getting kernel panics on modprobe, so I need to look at that a bit more. Anyway back to cooker. I took fairly good notes, but may have missed something. If you try this and get stuck, post to the list and we can work through it. Where I mention having to build something, the resulting files should be on my web space, so you shouldn't need those steps. I used ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc as my urpmi source, removing my 9.1 updates and CD sources: addmedia from redbox urpmi glibc perl urpme perl-GTK2 perl-Gtk2 urpmi yaboot XFree86 removed update_source and CD1-3 sources urpme kdebase urpme kdevelop kdemultimedia-devel urpme koffice kdegraphics-devel arts kdelibs-common coreutils add signature to urpmi.cfg --auto-select - still key issues gpg --armor --export 70771FF3 70771FF3.asc rpm --import 70771FF3.asc rpm -q gpg-pubkey --auto-select 349 packages shut down for the day resume: resumed auto-select on imac - 101 packages urpme gnumeric, gnucash, Guppi, xemacs --auto-select 6 packages no kdebase in PPC tree, get SRPM and build it (see my web space) watch arts - there is a mixture of old/new packages on the mirrors rpm -ivh libkdebase4-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm urpmi galaxy-kde-kwin urpmi kdebase-servicemenu mdklaunchhelp --allow-force killed download before the old kdebase came down rpm -ivh libkdebase4-konsole-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm libkdebase4-kate-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm libkdebase4-nsplugins-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm kdebase-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm kdebase-progs-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm kdebase-konsole-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm kdebase-kdeprintfax-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm kdebase-common-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm kdebase-kate-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm kdebase-kdm-config-file-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/partial/kdebase-servicemenu-1.0-11mdk.noarch.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/partial/mdklaunchhelp-9.2-6mdk.ppc.rpm rpm -ivh kdebase-kdm-3.1.3-79mdk.ppc.rpm telinit 5 still can't login rpm -e mdkkdm telinit 3 telinit 5 login works Had some strange issues at this point with urpmi saying it couldn't install things due to lacking files which were already present in the system. I decided to rebuild the drak tools since the mirror files were old, and subsequently had to build quite a bit of stuff to make this happen. build pango-devel rpm -Uvh libpango1.0_0-* pango-1.2.5-2mdk.ppc.rpm build gtk+2.0 rpm -Uvh /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.2.4-2mdk.ppc.rpm /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/libgtk+2.0_0-2.2.4-2mdk.ppc.rpm /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/gtk+2.0-2.2.4-2mdk.ppc.rpm /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/libgtk+-x11-2.0_0-2.2.4-2mdk.ppc.rpm /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0-* build perl-Gtk2 rpm -Uvh /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/perl-Gtk2-0.95-6mdk.ppc.rpm build drakxtools build urpmi (gurpmi missing on mirror) build python rpm -Uvh /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/libpython2.3-* /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/python-2.3-4mdk.ppc.rpm /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/python-base-2.3-4mdk.ppc.rpm build libuser rpm -Uvh /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/libuser* userdrake build get mandrake_doc-common from x86 tree rpm -Uvh /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/noarch/gurpmi-4.4-37mdk.noarch.rpm /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/drakxtools-newt-9.2-16mdk.ppc.rpm /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/drakxtools-9.2-16mdk.ppc.rpm /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/userdrake-0.92-24mdk.ppc.rpm /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/mandrake_doc-common-9.2-1mdk.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh /home/stew/rpm/RPMS/ppc/harddrake-* urpmi mdkkdm urpmi drakconf update-menus Now mdkkdm runlevel 5 login works, drakconf works, KDE works. Additional urpmi --auto-select now complains about nautilus and other Gnome related packages. If I get the 2.6 kernel to be reasonably stable, I'll post a package for it too. Hope this is useful. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
iMac and pmud
Are there any risks with running pmud on an iMac 400 DV? Almost everywhere I look it is only mentioned in connection to Apple portables. I have been using it for a little while now, and sometimes (not very frequently) after having issued the snooze command it goes to sleep, but makes funny noises. Sometimes it just shuts off the hard disk and not the screen (it goes black, but is still on). Can I do something about it? /Jakob Malm
mount hfs+ partition
Hi all! I use benh-10mdk kernel. Is there a way to mount my hfs+ partition with this kernel? greetings Andreas
Re: mount hfs+ partition
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Andreas wrote: Hi all! I use benh-10mdk kernel. Is there a way to mount my hfs+ partition with this kernel? greetings Andreas hfsplusutils, or the konqueror mac kio slave -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: mount hfs+ partition
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Andreas wrote: Hi all! I use benh-10mdk kernel. Is there a way to mount my hfs+ partition with this kernel? greetings Andreas hfsplusutils, or the konqueror mac kio slave How can I use this tools? Is a kernel-rpm with hfs+ support available for mdk 9.1
Re: mount hfs+ partition
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Andreas wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Andreas wrote: Hi all! I use benh-10mdk kernel. Is there a way to mount my hfs+ partition with this kernel? greetings Andreas hfsplusutils, or the konqueror mac kio slave How can I use this tools? Docs help :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] stew]$ rpm -ql hfsplusutils | grep doc /usr/share/doc/hfsplusutils-1.0.2 /usr/share/doc/hfsplusutils-1.0.2/bugs.html /usr/share/doc/hfsplusutils-1.0.2/faq.html /usr/share/doc/hfsplusutils-1.0.2/hfsp.html /usr/share/doc/hfsplusutils-1.0.2/hfsp.sgml /usr/share/doc/hfsplusutils-1.0.2/libhfsp.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] stew]$ hpmount /dev/hda14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] stew]$ hpls Applications Library mach_kernel Users automount mach Systemvar etc mach.sym tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED] stew]$ hpumount kio slave: mac:/?dev=/dev/hda14 Is a kernel-rpm with hfs+ support available for mdk 9.1 Danny's benh kernel on club has the patches I believe. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: mount hfs+ partition
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Andreas wrote: Is a kernel-rpm with hfs+ support available for mdk 9.1 yes, on club. d.
Re: 9.2
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Walt Costanza wrote: Any projection as to when? A formal 9.2 PPC release hasn't ever been in the plan. In the past, PPC has skipped every other release. The community has been building cooker for PPC if you want to go that route. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Tweeking X Win Modline
Hello All, I have an iMac which has video card issues. Fortunately it runs well enough to run Linux and X windows on it. But the screen is shifted a little the left so that the first couple of characters (in non X) are cut off. Since I run X on it all the time, I would like to tweak the Modeline parameter to shift the screen a little to the left. So my question is this: 1) any know of a utility which will do this? 2) if there is no utility, anyone have expertise in messing with XF86Config-4 to accomplish shifting the screen to the right? TIA, Craig...
Re: Tweeking X Win Modline
Craig Miller wrote: Hello All, I have an iMac which has video card issues. Fortunately it runs well enough to run Linux and X windows on it. But the screen is shifted a little the left so that the first couple of characters (in non X) are cut off. Since I run X on it all the time, I would like to tweak the Modeline parameter to shift the screen a little to the left. So my question is this: 1) any know of a utility which will do this? 2) if there is no utility, anyone have expertise in messing with XF86Config-4 to accomplish shifting the screen to the right? TIA, Craig... xvidtune
Re: AbiWord 2.0?
I've compiled it from source on cooker repository on my 9.1ppc. No problem (maybe some dependances against gnome24, I don't remember) but it crashes from time to times. Bertrand Dekoninck On 2003.10.06 03:20, Craig Miller wrote: Hello All, Anyone working on making this one work with Mandrake (preferably 9.1)? Just thought I'd ask before I started trying to get it to compile on Mandrake. Thanks, Craig...
AbiWord 2.0?
Hello All, Anyone working on making this one work with Mandrake (preferably 9.1)? Just thought I'd ask before I started trying to get it to compile on Mandrake. Thanks, Craig...
Re: It won't boot - unknow or corrupted file system
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello I am trying to install 9.1 ppc on an Ibook. The installation went fine, despite some problems with bootstrap (I created an Applet boot partition or something like that). When I try to boot the ibook, I first get a menu linux (l) cdrom (c) openfirmware (o) If I choose ¨l¨ yaboot comes out. When boot finally tries to load the kernel, the following error message comes out: hd:8,/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk: unknown or corrupedt filesystem. What did I do wrong? My guess is you setup the bootstrap mounted at /boot. For some reason quite a few folks are inclined to do this. The kernel path for /boot part of / would be hd:8,/boot/vmlinuz Bootstrap partition should never be one of the mount points. Most folks I've helped on IRC are able to recover from this by booting rescue and fixing the yaboot.conf. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: It won't boot - unknow or corrupted file system
Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello I am trying to install 9.1 ppc on an Ibook. The installation went fine, despite some problems with bootstrap (I created an Applet boot partition or something like that). When I try to boot the ibook, I first get a menu linux (l) cdrom (c) openfirmware (o) If I choose ¨l¨ yaboot comes out. When boot finally tries to load the kernel, the following error message comes out: hd:8,/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk: unknown or corrupedt filesystem. What did I do wrong? Many thanks Ed Ed, My guess is that the Linux kernel is not on hd:8. You will need to get your ibook booted (probably with the Mandrake CD) and then run as root: pdisk -l /dev/hda That should show you the partition table for your internal hard drive. You will have to determine which partition holds the kernel. Here is a sample of my pdisk ouput: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# pdisk -l /dev/hda Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda' #:type name length base ( size ) 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 54 @ 64 3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 74 @ 118 4:Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 54 @ 192 5:Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 74 @ 246 6: Apple_FWDriver Macintosh200 @ 320 7: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh512 @ 520 8: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1032 9: Apple_HFS pikake 8192000 @ 1544 ( 3.9G) 10: Apple_HFS lilikoi400 @ 8193544 ( 1.9G) 11: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 boot 173824 @ 12193544 ( 84.9M) 12: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 YDL 4096000 @ 12367368 ( 2.0G) 13: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled12288000 @ 16463368 ( 5.9G) I have /boot on my powerbook as a separate partition. So my /etc/yaboot.conf looks like: #yaboot.conf - generated by DrakX init-message=\nWelcome to Mandrake Linux!\n boot=/dev/hda16 ofboot=hd:16 delay=30 timeout=50 install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot enablecdboot enableofboot defaultos=linux default=linux.ext3 image=hd:11,/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk label=linux root=/dev/hda13 append= devfs=mount read-only So you can see that I am booting off of partition hda11 (aka hd:11) and then it switches to my real root which is on parition 13 You may be able to run Mandrake tools directly. I being a terminal kind of guy would use chroot and edit the yaboot.conf file directly. I hope this helps, Craig...
Re: It won't boot - unknow or corrupted file system
Hello again I am rather confused with the way 9.1 uses the partitions. Using pdisk I've got: 1..7 - several unknow partitions 8 - unknow partition but this was the one I chose as Apple Bootstrap and mounting point /boot. 9 - ext3 - / 10 - Swap 11 - /home In yaboot.conf I have boot=/dev/hda8 image=hd8,/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 initrd=hd:8,/initrd Again, what is wrong? and how to change it? Do I have to run lilo -v -t? Or something similar? Many thanks for your help and patience. Ed
Re: It won't boot - unknow or corrupted file system
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello again I am rather confused with the way 9.1 uses the partitions. Using pdisk I've got: 1..7 - several unknow partitions Mac driver partitions 8 - unknow partition but this was the one I chose as Apple Bootstrap and mounting point /boot. bootstrap good - /boot bad 9 - ext3 - / 10 - Swap 11 - /home In yaboot.conf I have boot=/dev/hda8 This is OK image=hd8,/vmlinuz -- hd:9,/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 initrd=hd:8,/initrd -- hd:9,/boot/initrd Verify /boot exists on hda9 and that the kernel and initrd are there. Again, what is wrong? and how to change it? Do I have to run lilo -v -t? Or something similar? ybin -v - see my previous message for all the steps. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: It won't boot - unknow or corrupted file system
Hi Got it! Many thanks Now my ibook is running linux. I had no problem to set up the adsl connection. Thank you ver os much. Regards Eduardo On Saturday 04 October 2003 07:30 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: My guess is you setup the bootstrap mounted at /boot. For some reason quite a few folks are inclined to do this. The kernel path for /boot part of / would be hd:8,/boot/vmlinuz Yes, I did. Sorry ... Bootstrap partition should never be one of the mount points. I am confused here. When I click to create a partition and choose Apple Bootstrap, I have to (haven't I) to choose a mounting point. I don't see a way around for not choosing a mounting point. I'm pretty sure there's an empty selection in the list of mount points. Most folks I've helped on IRC are able to recover from this by booting rescue and fixing the yaboot.conf. I am a newbie. How to do that? I am booting under rescue and there are three different options: mount under /mnt/, console and help. Which one do I have to go for? Once I tried console but couldn't find yaboot.conf. Is it under /etc? Yes, go ahead and let the rescue mount. Go to console chroot /mnt mount /proc /proc -t proc check that there is a kernel and initrd in /boot cd /etc vi yaboot.conf (or vim) fix the entries, save ybin -v umount /proc exit to exit the chroot sync; sync (just to be sure) umount /mnt (if this fails don't fret) reboot or shutdown -h now
Re: Setup system time over network?
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Andreas wrote: Am Donnerstag, 25. September 2003 18:24 schrieb Christiaan Welvaart: On Thu, 1 Jan 1970, Andreas wrote: How can I synchronize my clock over network with timeserver? Install ntp package. Refer to: http://www.ntp.org/ for configuration instructions. I'm working on an iBook and use it mostly as my desktop PC. So I removed my battery. Now for me is every day the 1.1.1970. Just like the movie Groundhog Day. The ntpd will not run with such a big time difference. Use ntpdate for that. I think the ntpd start up script will run it for you if you put an ntp server in the file /etc/ntp/step-tickers . How, in the same way I done this in ntp.conf? The file has an abnormal file-format, PCX ? just the name of one server, no format at all, like: ntp.example.com You could try running ntpdate manually, that should give you an idea. It basically takes the name of 1 server as argument: ntpdate ntp.example.com Christiaan
mboot 3.0-0.1
i need help to test this package please send comments thanks mr -- Adira já ao Net Dialup Light. Acesso profissional gratuito. NovisNet, a Internet de quem trabalha. http://www.novisnet.pt mboot-3.0-0.1.ppc.rpm Description: Binary data
Re: Setup system time over network?
On Thu, 1 Jan 1970, Andreas wrote: How can I synchronize my clock over network with timeserver? Install ntp package. Refer to: http://www.ntp.org/ for configuration instructions. I'm working on an iBook and use it mostly as my desktop PC. So I removed my battery. Now for me is every day the 1.1.1970. Just like the movie Groundhog Day. The ntpd will not run with such a big time difference. Use ntpdate for that. I think the ntpd start up script will run it for you if you put an ntp server in the file /etc/ntp/step-tickers . The script is /etc/init.d/ntpd - you can run it manually as root after you created the file /etc/ntp/step-tickers: /etc/init.d/ntpd start or just reboot (: (If ntpd is configured to run but the time is way off you should see it complaining in /var/log/syslog ...) Christiaan
Re: Setup system time over network?
Am Donnerstag, 25. September 2003 18:24 schrieb Christiaan Welvaart: On Thu, 1 Jan 1970, Andreas wrote: How can I synchronize my clock over network with timeserver? Install ntp package. Refer to: http://www.ntp.org/ for configuration instructions. I'm working on an iBook and use it mostly as my desktop PC. So I removed my battery. Now for me is every day the 1.1.1970. Just like the movie Groundhog Day. The ntpd will not run with such a big time difference. Use ntpdate for that. I think the ntpd start up script will run it for you if you put an ntp server in the file /etc/ntp/step-tickers . How, in the same way I done this in ntp.conf? The file has an abnormal file-format, PCX ? The script is /etc/init.d/ntpd - you can run it manually as root after you created the file /etc/ntp/step-tickers: /etc/init.d/ntpd start or just reboot (: (If ntpd is configured to run but the time is way off you should see it complaining in /var/log/syslog ...) Christiaan
Re: Setup system time over network?
How can I synchronize my clock over network with timeserver? Install ntp package. Refer to: http://www.ntp.org/ for configuration instructions. I'm working on an iBook and use it mostly as my desktop PC. So I removed my battery. Now for me is every day the 1.1.1970. Just like the movie Groundhog Day. ntp-package is already installed. I configured the ntp.conf. Here is a short section: ... #... modifications are in use and declare an unsynchronized condition. # server 127.127.1.0 # local clock fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 server ntp0.fau.de prefer server ntps1-0.cs.tu-berlin.de server 131.188.3.222 broadcastclient # # Drift file. Put this in a directory which the daemon can write to. # No symbolic links allowed, either, since the daemon updates the file # by creating a temporary in the same directory and then rename()'ing # it to the file. # driftfile /etc/ntp/drift #multicastclient# listen on default 224.0.1.1 broadcastdelay 0.008 # # Authentication delay. If you use, or plan to use someday, the # authentication facility you should make the programs in the auth_stuff # directory and figure out what this number should be on your machine. # authenticate no # # Keys file. If you want to diddle your server at run time, make a # keys file (mode 600 for sure) and define the key number to be # used for making requests. # PLEASE DO NOT USE THE DEFAULT VALUES HERE. Pick your own, or remote # systems might be able to reset your clock at will. # #keys /etc/ntp/keys #trustedkey 65535 #requestkey 65535 #controlkey 65535 #restrict default ignore ... With OSX as OS it is possible to sync time over internet and with YDL 3.0 it is possible too. Is there no way to configure ntp with MandrakeControlCenter? Best Andreas
Re: do the samba!
Chris, I'm glad that the future holds for us a much better way of do this samba. I don't know if your interested not, but I have attached the BASH script of the very first step. Who knows, history may has been made with this first step for our mac-to-mac samba (tango). cmds Description: Binary data Tomás Note: There just ain't that many folks out there with hfs partitions on their cougar systems. I had to repartition my drive with three partitions: HFS+, HFS, and empty (waiting for bamboo), then reinstall cougar from CD. I created the HFS partition for transfers between HFS+ and the future bamboo. Final Note: On the other hand, maybe lots of folks have HFS partitions and history was made long, long ago in a galaxy far, far way, Conclusion: I have decided against installing bamboo in that empty third partition. Just one bamboo is plenty for me. ___ On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 09:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Tomas Taylor wrote: Hi Chr I got cougar and bamboo doing the samba! I'm sure you are well aware, Linux understands *hfs* but not *hfs+. *It wasn't untill I made an *hfs partition* the *samba* *mountpoint* that *the dance began.* not completely true, there are patches, and a mdk club kernel that work with hfs+. After 9.2 is out I will upload it to ppc-cooker as well. d.
Re: Setup system time over network?
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 05:39:51PM +0100, Andreas wrote: How can I synchronize my clock over network with timeserver? Install ntp package. Refer to: http://www.ntp.org/ for configuration instructions. -- Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.reser.org Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking. - H.L. Mencken
do the samba!
Hi Chris, I got cougar and bamboo doing the samba! I'm sure you are well aware, Linux understands hfs but not hfs+. It wasn't untill I made an hfs partition the samba mountpoint that the dance began. So please let everyone know that a requirement for a cougar/bamboo samba is an hfs partition. Thanks, Toms Note: Next I am going down the bamboo komba path. If you have any words of wisdom to share with me, then please feel free to do so. glossary: cougar MacOS 10.2 - PowerBook G4 - server bamboo Mandrake Linux for PPC 9.1 - PowerBook G3 - client samba SMB - ethernet crossover komba KDE graphical interface to samba tango Mac-to-Mac samba Hello Tomas, With 10.2 and Mandrake, you will be better of to use Samba instead of AppleTalk. Please consider these URLs for information: OS X - http://xamba.sourceforge.net/ssp/index.shtml Linux - http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html I hope this information helps. Thanks. Kind regards, __ Chris Slothouber Threshold Internet Solutions http://thresholdinternet.com ph: +1.888.762.6164 x84 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: do the samba!
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Tomas Taylor wrote: Hi Chris, I got cougar and bamboo doing the samba! I'm sure you are well aware, Linux understands *hfs* but not *hfs+. *It wasn't untill I made an *hfs partition* the *samba* *mountpoint* that *the dance began.* not completely true, there are patches, and a mdk club kernel that work with hfs+. After 9.2 is out I will upload it to ppc-cooker as well. d.
Re: RpmDrake crashes on 9.1
Am Samstag, 20. September 2003 02:50 schrieb Stew Benedict: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Andreas wrote: Am Freitag, 19. September 2003 12:07 schrieb Stew Benedict: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Andreas wrote: Hi all! Yesterday: RpmDrake worked fine and I could install a couple of packages. Today: After I launched RpmDrake and selected my packages for installation RpmDrake crashed without error message. No idea why? Regards Andreas You would need to lauch it from a terminal to see any error output, or check your ~/.xsession-errors. Ok, I launched rpmdrake in a terminal and this is the output: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] stonie]# rpmdrake unable to retrieve pathname for removable medium CD1 examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.base1_irland.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.base2_irland.cz] perl: rpmio_internal.h:447: c2f: Assertion `fd fd-magic == 0x04463138' failed. Aborted Andreas Try clearing out /var/cache/urpmi I worked again. Thank you!
do the samba!
Hi Chris, I got cougar and bamboo doing the samba! I'm sure you are well aware, Linux understands hfs but not hfs+. It wasn't untill I made an hfs partition the samba mountpoint that the dance began. So please let everyone know that a requirement for a cougar/bamboo samba is an hfs partition. Thanks, Toms Note: Next I am going down the bamboo komba path. If you have any words of wisdom to share with me, then please feel free to do so. glossary: cougar MacOS 10.2 - PowerBook G4 - server bamboo Mandrake Linux for PPC 9.1 - PowerBook G3 - client samba SMB - ethernet crossover komba KDE graphical interface to samba tango Mac-to-Mac samba Hello Tomas, With 10.2 and Mandrake, you will be better of to use Samba instead of AppleTalk. Please consider these URLs for information: OS X - http://xamba.sourceforge.net/ssp/index.shtml Linux - http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html I hope this information helps. Thanks. Kind regards, __ Chris Slothouber Threshold Internet Solutions http://thresholdinternet.com ph: +1.888.762.6164 x84 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
RpmDrake crashes on 9.1
Hi all! Yesterday: RpmDrake worked fine and I could install a couple of packages. Today: After I launched RpmDrake and selected my packages for installation RpmDrake crashed without error message. No idea why? Regards Andreas
