Re: Installing alternative browser
Hi there. You can use Opera by making a symlink from the existing libstdc++ library to the one Opera is looking for ... it should be happy enough then :) Opera works well enough, but you might want to give Galeon a try as well. I believe it is Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine (truly probably the best around) embedded within a very light-weight GTK+ app, w/o all the XUL fluff that Mozilla has (fluff is a relative term ... I happen to like Mozilla) Hope this helps Brice J. B. Schatz wrote: Has anyone experimented with installing alternate internet browsers into the GNOME desktop environment? I'm looking for a slim and trim (young and beautiful..?) replacement for Mozilla -- a lumbering monster indeed! I experimented with the KDE environment for a couple of weeks but now I've moved over to GNOME and like it much better except that one of the disappointments has been the default internet browsers. I decided to try the latest available version of Opera (opera-static-5.0-1.ppc.rpm) but rpm installation in bash advises that the required libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is missing. Other than not having found this missing component, I'm not sure what other problems I might end up facing so I decided to query the good gurus of the Cooker-PPC. Thanks for any advise and insight. Barry -- WebProjkt, Inc. VP, Director of Internet Technology http://www.webprojkt.com/
Re: Newer kernel?
Hi Brian, That would be great. Thank you. Brice Brian Alston wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Brice D Ruth wrote: Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:34:14 -0500 From: Brice D Ruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newer kernel? I'm looking for a Mandrake/PPC kernel more recent than 2.4.4-6.2 - I checked on rpmfind.net and saw a src.rpm for 2.4.8 - will this work?? I'm having serious stability issues between Mac-on-Linux, kernel 2.4.4-6.2 and MacOS 9.1 ... don't know exaclty who is the culprit, but I believe it may me the mm context stuff which changed in 2.4.6 - MOL has adapted to the latest kernel series, so I have a feeling that what's in there for older 2.4.x kernels is a kludge and that's causing the instability. I tried grabbing benh's 2.4 tree, but penguinppc is unreachable and Ben says it probably won't be until next week when its available again. If someone has a recent 2.4 sync of benh's kernel that they wouldn't mind packaging up ... or if Stew has a newer PPC kernel squirreled away that's had the mdk patches applied ... either way, lemme know. Thanks, Brice I have a sync of BenH's 2.4 kernel that's about 10 days old. If you are interested I'll put it up on our anon ftp site. Brian Brian Alston, Applications and Academic Support, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Systems - EISD, phone: +44 207 679 7359 University College London
Newer kernel?
I'm looking for a Mandrake/PPC kernel more recent than 2.4.4-6.2 - I checked on rpmfind.net and saw a src.rpm for 2.4.8 - will this work?? I'm having serious stability issues between Mac-on-Linux, kernel 2.4.4-6.2 and MacOS 9.1 ... don't know exaclty who is the culprit, but I believe it may me the mm context stuff which changed in 2.4.6 - MOL has adapted to the latest kernel series, so I have a feeling that what's in there for older 2.4.x kernels is a kludge and that's causing the instability. I tried grabbing benh's 2.4 tree, but penguinppc is unreachable and Ben says it probably won't be until next week when its available again. If someone has a recent 2.4 sync of benh's kernel that they wouldn't mind packaging up ... or if Stew has a newer PPC kernel squirreled away that's had the mdk patches applied ... either way, lemme know. Thanks, Brice
Re: Sound, printing and cdrw
I run in runlevel 5 and switching between VTs works fine - even w/ MOL. Since I have linux keycodes enabled, ctrl-alt(option)-Fx does the trick for me, previously, ctrl-command-Fx was necessary. This is on beta1, not RC1 - still haven't taken the time to do that ... still haven't taken the time to update Mac OS X, either ... *blech* too much work! -Brice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Jeff Hergan wrote: On Monday 20 August 2001 09:13, Brice D Ruth wrote: The problem doesn't seem to be the driver, in this case - it appears to be the format that the data is sent to the printer. From what Vincent wrote, the USB system picks up the wrong format to send the data - hence the problem. That's right. And the solution is to rebuild the kernel with a minor hack on printer.c. But if the make modules part of the kernel build fails... well, you're just outta luck. And that's what's happening to me. Seems the kver stuff from the original kernel build is the issue. I was getting the same error here on a clean kernel install: rm -f /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/* make dep make vmlinux make modules seems to do the trick rpm -e kernel-source and rpm -i: or more traditionally: make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make vmlinux make modules also seems to work BTW - I switch back and forth from the VT to X fine using XFree - I think when running runlevel 5 though, it kills your X session. Stew Benedict
Re: Sound, printing and cdrw
OK, now for the sound - this can get a bit tricky, so bear with me, 'k? I have an iMac DV (late 2000) w/ sound working fine - so have hope :) First, you should know that I use alsa for sound - so if you have something against alsa, this won't work for you. Step one - configure /etc/modules.conf My modules.conf looks like this: # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore # ALSA portion alias snd-card-0 snd-card-awacs # OSS/Free portion alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # OSS/Free portion - card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss snip I left out entries for my network card, usb, and usb-storage drivers. These are probably already in your modules.conf So, getting this in and restarting should get alsa loaded - you also need to make sure that you have the alsa RPMs. I have the following versions: alsa-lib-devel-0.5.10-2mdk alsa-utils-0.5.10-2mdk alsa-lib-0.5.10-2mdk you probably don't need the first, -devel-, but it won't hurt to have it installed, either. Get to this point write back! -Brice Jeff Hergan wrote: Can someone help me with this? I'm trying to get an HP Laserjet 1200s (USB) running, using cups. During the install, it showed a list of drivers but HP Laserjet 1200s was not among them. There's even an HP Laserjet utility in the Printing setup menu--but it just won't work. And the sound thing--when I start kde I hear that awful static noise. How does one get sound up and running? Finally the built-in cdrw in a new iMac. But I haven't looked for info yet--so maybe I'll read the friendly manual before I ask for help on that. But the printing and sound are two biggies that I gotta get working asap, if someone would be so kind. Thanks (and great job, Stew!) Jeff Jeffrey P. Hergan, Ph. D. Adjunct Professor of Philosophy Saint Xavier University Chicago
Re: oldworld computers
Hey Stew, Does this mean I could use the new ISOs to install on my Performa 6290CD (603e Processor)?? -Brice Stew Benedict wrote: On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Mikko Västi wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if I can somehow skip installing yaboot(because I couldn't use it anyways) Yours Mikko VS(sti btw. Can you install this rc1 on pmac 4400 with g3 upgrade-card? The new ISO's should adapt for your OldWorld machine and bypass setting up yaboot. As to your specific machine, I don't have any idea. Anyone else? Stew Benedict
Re: RC1 installation report
Stew, Yep - I'll try this. But it'll have to wait until this afternoon/evening or tomorrow. Got some things on my plate that will keep me away from my computers for most of the day. -Brice Stew Benedict wrote: On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Brice D Ruth wrote: I get the same behaviour. Might this be because no certificate is installed? I haven't actually checked the configuration ... I know a little about Apache, so I might take a look at this tomorrow or the day after. I do run a web design/production company, so I should know something about this, right? :) -Brice The times I've installed mod_ssl from the command line, a certificate is generated post install. I just tried it agin here using konqueror instead of links and 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost and it still worked for both http and https. This is with the pending security update for apache/php. Can you verify the following in /etc/http/conf/ssl/mod_ssl.conf: # Semaphore: # Configure the path to the mutual explusion semaphore the # SSL engine uses internally for inter-process synchronization. SSLMutex file:logs/ssl_mutex It should not say sem, as that does not seem to work for PPC. I just uninstall all that stuff and went back to the distributed versions and my patch to change the above does not seem to happen. Looking at the spec again, it looks like I need the change in 2 places - 1 for an upgrade, and one for a clean install. Sorry about that. Anyway, changing the above line should work, although I think Phil tried that before and still had issues. Brice can you try that? Stew Benedict
Re: RC1 installation report
I get the same behaviour. Might this be because no certificate is installed? I haven't actually checked the configuration ... I know a little about Apache, so I might take a look at this tomorrow or the day after. I do run a web design/production company, so I should know something about this, right? :) -Brice Phil Lavigna wrote: Hi, On Sunday 12 August 2001 05:34, Stew Benedict wrote: On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Phil Lavigna wrote: 1) Apache isn't working properly when mod_ssl is installed. There are no errors in Apache's error_log, and apachectl restart *seems* to work OK (aside from an extra long pause while starting up), but calling up Apache in a web browser returns Connection was refused when attempting to contact 127.0.0.1. I think you and I went over this in private mail when I patched mod_ssl. I never have been able to duplicate your error. I just went through the same set of patches in the pending security updates for 8.0 of apache/php, and I was able to connect to http://localhost as well as https://localhost? I'm experiencing the same problem on a different machine after a brand-new installation; this time it's an iMac. Can anyone on this list see if it's reproduceable on their machine? All I do is select the Web/FTP software group as seen here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/Test/Install/Reco/pages/reco10.html Then from the desktop, try to access 127.0.0.1 in a web browser: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Demo/Mandrake8.0/QuickLook/pages/features18.php3 If the browser displays an error message such as Could not connect to host, try uninstalling mod_ssl; then see if 127.0.0.1 displays Apache's default page. Thank you in advance for any help. I also don't see the long startup delay. Here is apachectl restart with mod_ssl installed: [root@localhost root]# apachectl restart Shutting down httpd-perl: [ OK ] Starting httpd-perl: [ OK ] Starting httpd:[ OK ] [ OK ] [ OK ] Those last two blank lines are where the delay is happening. And it's missing the step Shutting down httpd. -- Here is apachectl restart with the mod_ssl package removed: [root@localhost root]# apachectl restart Shutting down httpd-perl: [ OK ] Shutting down httpd: [ OK ] Starting httpd-perl: [ OK ] Starting httpd:[ OK ] [root@localhost root]# Bye, Phil
Re: Mac-On-Linux
Hi Sylvain - I was able to get MOL working w/o much of a problem. I might be able to help you a little bit, but your best bet is to post to the Mac-on-Linux mailing list - see the homepage for details. (http://www.mac-on-linux.org/ -Brice Sylvain OBEGI wrote: Hello Does anyone have reach make MOL work under Mdk PPC? (Mdk or mol rpm) I have a _kernel_init() returns an error or something like that.. Sylvain OBEGI Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vtr-hardware.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 661913
Re: iBook and XFree + French Keyboard + AirPort
Hi Sylvain, I can't really help you with the first two questions - sorry ;( As for airport stuff, the first place to start is loading the module that supports the airport card, airport.o - the maintainer of this code is Ben Herrenschmidt, his site is a good place to start if you start running into problems. You'll also need the iwtools package - this package works similarly to ifconfig, with the distinction being its configuration of wireless capabilities. Once you have a system that loads the airport module correctly (which Mandrake should - I didn't have any problems with it) something to the following effect should get things going for you: /sbin/modprobe airport /sbin/ifconfig eth1 up /sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid webprojkt rate 5.5M /sbin/dhcpcd -d eth1 The first line loads the airport driver. The second line brings up the interface, the third line configures its wireless capabilities - my airport base station id is 'webprojkt' and I the 'rate 5.5M' is optional - this is what I have my speed set to. Finally, running the dhcp client retrieves an IP address from the base station - if you don't have DHCP enabled on your base station, you'll have to use ifconfig to configure the broadcast/netmask/IP address of the interface as well as setting things like DNS servers, default routes, etc. I don't use WEP on my network, so if you need WEP, you'll need to check out the various resources on line - just search for WEP and airport and Linux and you should find some decent pages. HTH Brice Sylvain OBEGI wrote: Hello Does someone use XFree with a new iBook? With the latest files it doesn't work on my iBook.. Does someone use (I think i will copy and paste 'Does someone use' from now ;-) French layout for keyboard? For me q=a and a=a.. So I can't write 'q' (not cool to do rpm -qa :-) By the way, where do I find informations on how to configure a wireless network (airport) ? Thanks for your help Sylvain OBEGI Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vtr-hardware.com - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 661913
Re: Beta 2/RC1 + AirPort config/encryption?
Hi Sylvain, A new release is in the works, but to my knowledge, it has not yet been released. The only way I could fathom installing directly by net would be to attempt to net-boot the installer and then choose to install via FTP and have the files from the ISOs mounted somewhere that you can FTP to. I'm not entirely sure how you'd go about doing this, but I can't imagine that it'd be easy! As for AirPort stuff - should be compiled in the kernel, you'll need the iwtools package, though - much like you do for wireless access under x86 Linux. There are quite a few HOWTOs out there for setting up wireless using iwtools - check those out, if you still have problems, let us know. From my experiences, setting up using AirPort works the same as most other wireless cards. Regards, Brice Ruth Sylvain OBEGI wrote: Hello I was on holidays for the last two weeks, and I'll receive my new iBook in 2-3 days (coz it was lost by the transporter, thanks TNT, computer ordered 1 month ago..grr), and this is my first mac... Since the beta 1 is very old, I was wondering if there will be a new version released soon. If not, how can I install cooker, directly by the net if possible..? By the way, what is the address of the faq on cooker/mdk ppc please? Is there any special tricks to do to configure the AirPort connection, and particulary the encryption? Thank you very much for your answers Sylvain OBEGI Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vtr-hardware.com - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 661913
Re: G4 PCI install problems
LinuxPPC is certainly no longer the benchmark for PPC Linux distributions. My current Mandrake install splits a 5.2G partition into two partitions, one 3.1G, the other 2.1G. I don't believe YDL 2.0 has any limitation on the size of partitions, either. With the current installer, it is best to install Mandrake to the END of your physical drive - otherwise the installer gets confused, this is fixed in the ISOs to be released soon. To download the ISOs for PPC Mandrake, see: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3#ppc HTH Brice Eric Laing wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Mikael, I might be totally wrong here but does Mandrake allow larger linux partitions than the 2 GB max of linuxPPC? and for the people here that know, where would i find the download link for mandrake? It's beta right? mac, G3 rev. A, 266 MHz, 30GB, 5 partitions..., Eric Mikael Barbo wrote: I have been trying to get mandrake to install on a G4 PCI, this is the only computer I have available to put mandrake on so I haven't had any success yet. My computer's Configuration is as follows: Ram: 256 MBHardware: Model name: Power Mac G4 (PCI graphics) |Machine speed: 400 MHz Drives:Internal ATA 1ID = 0 Hard drive | Driver version: 3.2.6Mac OS partitions:1 | Capacity: 9.55 GB ID = 1 Hard drive | Driver version: 3.2.6Mac OS partitions:2 | Capacity: 42 GBPartition 1Volume format:Mac OS Extended (HFS+) | Capacity: 29 GBPartition 2Volume format:Mac OS Extended (HFS+) | Capacity: 9 GBDisplay card:Card type: display | Card name: ATI Rage128yCard model: ATI Rage128 | VRAM size: 16 MBSorry about the length of that there, just giving all relevant data.Anyway, I have the ISO images burned on to 2 CDs. My goal is to get mandrake to install on the 5GB that are remaining on the ATA 1 ID 1 45GB drive. I am able to boot of the CD either from open firmware or by holding down the C key. The problem exists once I choose an install type, no matter what type of install I chose it starts to load, then I get the following as the text scrolls by. "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 1832 (error 4200)" shortly after followed by "Kernel Panic: kernel access of bad area PC c00a44fc lr c0004c50 address 1832 tsh swapper /1". And this is where I am stuck, any ideas?
Re: Memory support - FYI
No big problems after high mem support was compiled in - no need to specify boot flags or anything of the like. Only a cosmetic problem - when creating the login message (/etc/rc.d/rc.local) using linux_logo - the available RAM comes out to be 512M instead of 1024M (which is correctly reported in /proc/meminfo). So, I created a patch against the latest version of linux_logo. I only patched the PPC specific file because I don't have an x86 machine w/ 1G of RAM! Apparently the problem is the way linux_logo goes about determining the RAM size (stat /proc/kcore). I'm not sure why kcore is only 512M, didn't look too deep into that, but in any case - it is. So, I kept the bit about statting kcore and added a look into /proc/meminfo to see what was being reported as 'high memory' (HighTotal:) and added that in. I imagine this is prone to bugs, though I don't have a diverse number of systems to test against! In any case - (Stew) - the patch is attached. I integrated the patch into the .spec file, and created an RPM for those of you out there who'd like it - but I'm not sure how to create a src.rpm now. If someone would like to enlighten me, I'd be happy to learn :) download location: http://www.webprojkt.com/mandrake.html Cheers, Brice Brice D Ruth wrote: Hi there. Back again with some news. I recently got my new memory (2 sticks of 512MB each) for my iMac DV (memory is so incredibly inexpensive now!). I installed the memory booted into Linux - only to find that only 512MB was detected. Damn. My first thought was that it was a hardware problem - maybe my iMac wasn't *really* capable of handling 1G of memory. So, I booted into MacOS (native) - and it saw 1G of memory, no hardware problem here, apparently. Rebooted and somehow OS 9.1 had scrambled my bootstrap, because I only got a '?' folder - then a boot into MacOS :( - this happened before and I knew how to take care of it - boot into rescue from the CD and chroot/ybin - no problem. Except that apparently the kernel on the CD (2.2.19) can't handle having that much memory around - I didn't really know what to do at first, then I hit on some notes and booted into rescue mode with the flag 'mem=128M' - which worked fine. I did my thing and got back into Linux. I supplied my 2.4.4-6.2 kernel with the flag 'mem=1024M' - but it still didn't see the 1G of memory, only 512MB. So, I'm recompiling the kernel w/ High Memory Support enabled - hopefully that's what I need and hopefully it works well on Mandrake PPC :) I'll report back if I have any problems - just wanted to throw this out in case (a) anyone else runs into the problem or (b) you want to specify something in the install instructions or modify the boot kernel in some way shape or form to automagically figure this out. Basically an FYI like the subject says :) -Brice linux_logo-mem.patch.bz2
Re: Memory support - FYI
I just checked on eBay for RAM for my Dell laptop and even if I get it there, it looks like I'll pay as much as I could sell the entire laptop for. No thank you. Brice Nick Meyer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> *sigh* I just love outdated systems... I'm trying to find _32_ megs for my Powerbook 5300, and unless I eBay it, I'm going to pay at least $77 bucks. Oh well... better than slapping down $1299 for a new iBook. Nick On Monday, July 23, 2001, at 05:27 PM, Brice D Ruth wrote: Hi Stew, Thanx for the tip on creating the src.rpm :) Check out ramseeker.com - that's where I go for links to cheap Mac Memory. I'm not sure what kind of powerbook the lombard is, but here's an excerpt from the bottom of the page: G4 (PC133) 16mb: | 32mb 19.00 | 64mb 6.33 | 128mb 14.00 | 256mb 26.50 | 512mb 62.50 iMac (slot loading) 16mb: | 32mb 8.00 | 64mb 6.23 | 128mb 14.00 | 256mb 27.00 512mb 62.99 PowerBook G4 16mb: | 32mb 9.00 | 64mb 13.00 | 128mb 15.94 | 256mb 44.25 | 512mb 153.00 iBook 16mb: | 32mb 7.00 | 64mb 13.00 | 128mb 15.93 | 256mb 44.25 | 512mb 825.00 if its a G4 Powerbook, $153 for 512MB doesn't seem to bad :) More than the $62.99 (I paid $69) for the iMac, but still not bad :) For my x86 laptop (Dell Latitude CPi D266XT) 128MB costs roughly $400 ... a rip-off if I've ever seen one! -Brice Stew Benedict wrote: Thanks Brice, Creating the source RPM: rpm -bs some-spec-file You spurred me into looking to see if cheap RAM was to be had for my Powerbook Lombard, now that I've got drive space, but it doesn't look to be so cheap in the couple of places I looked ;^) I'll be sure to enable high memory in the next kernel I patch up for PPC. Thx, Stew Benedict
Re: Memory support - FYI
Hi Stew, Thanx for the tip on creating the src.rpm :) Check out ramseeker.com - that's where I go for links to cheap Mac Memory. I'm not sure what kind of powerbook the lombard is, but here's an excerpt from the bottom of the page: G4 (PC133) 16mb: | 32mb 19.00 | 64mb 6.33 | 128mb 14.00 | 256mb 26.50 | 512mb 62.50 iMac (slot loading) 16mb: | 32mb 8.00 | 64mb 6.23 | 128mb 14.00 | 256mb 27.00512mb 62.99 PowerBook G4 16mb: | 32mb 9.00 | 64mb 13.00 | 128mb 15.94 | 256mb 44.25 | 512mb 153.00 iBook 16mb: | 32mb 7.00 | 64mb 13.00 | 128mb 15.93 | 256mb 44.25 | 512mb 825.00 if its a G4 Powerbook, $153 for 512MB doesn't seem to bad :) More than the $62.99 (I paid $69) for the iMac, but still not bad :) For my x86 laptop (Dell Latitude CPi D266XT) 128MB costs roughly $400 ... a rip-off if I've ever seen one! -Brice Stew Benedict wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Thanks Brice,Creating the source RPM:rpm -bs some-spec-fileYou spurred me into looking to see if cheap RAM was to be had for myPowerbook Lombard, now that I've got drive space, but it doesn't look tobe so cheap in the couple of places I looked ;^)I'll be sure to enable high memory in the next kernel I patch up for PPC.Thx,Stew Benedict
Open Office 663 (Linux/PPC port)
Excellent, excellent, excellent ;) Only one thing that I've noticed 'amiss' so far - my previous default color depth was 15bpp (not 16bpp) - with this color depth, the colors in OpenOffice were wrong - very pink, very blue. I upped my depth to 24bpp and all is good :) My configuration: iMac DV, ATI Rage 128 PR, Linux 2.4.4-6.2mdk, XFree86-4.1, 1024x768 Otherwise, absolutely fabulous :) With sincere regards, Brice D. Ruth
Memory support - FYI
Hi there. Back again with some news. I recently got my new memory (2 sticks of 512MB each) for my iMac DV (memory is so incredibly inexpensive now!). I installed the memory booted into Linux - only to find that only 512MB was detected. Damn. My first thought was that it was a hardware problem - maybe my iMac wasn't *really* capable of handling 1G of memory. So, I booted into MacOS (native) - and it saw 1G of memory, no hardware problem here, apparently. Rebooted and somehow OS 9.1 had scrambled my bootstrap, because I only got a '?' folder - then a boot into MacOS :( - this happened before and I knew how to take care of it - boot into rescue from the CD and chroot/ybin - no problem. Except that apparently the kernel on the CD (2.2.19) can't handle having that much memory around - I didn't really know what to do at first, then I hit on some notes and booted into rescue mode with the flag 'mem=128M' - which worked fine. I did my thing and got back into Linux. I supplied my 2.4.4-6.2 kernel with the flag 'mem=1024M' - but it still didn't see the 1G of memory, only 512MB. So, I'm recompiling the kernel w/ High Memory Support enabled - hopefully that's what I need and hopefully it works well on Mandrake PPC :) I'll report back if I have any problems - just wanted to throw this out in case (a) anyone else runs into the problem or (b) you want to specify something in the install instructions or modify the boot kernel in some way shape or form to automagically figure this out. Basically an FYI like the subject says :) -Brice -- WebProjkt, Inc. (ph) 773.562.1008 (fax) 608.204.7004 http://www.webprojkt.com/
Re: unsubscribing
I don't believe the sympa address is actually working - I recall that a message got bounced back to me because it was interpreted as possibly having commands in it, but when I wrote sympa, the user was not found - very annoying. However - for the folks that need to get off the list - set up a filter (Mozilla/Evolution/Outlook Express/etc.) to trash messages with to: or cc: of cooker-ppc - that should keep you from seeing the messages until sympa is fixed. I realize this isn't an ideal solution - but it works if the messages are causing havoc in some way. -Brice p.s. as a previous poster state - I'm not affiliated w/ Mandrake, just trying to help. Dippy Black wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]">hmmm average in the last week about 7 messages a day. that could cause alot of damageOn Sunday 22 July 2001 10:08, you wrote: Ryan you have no Idea..what damage this list has causedso keep out of it...Unless you have a better Idea.- Original Message -From: "Ryan Koerber" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 9:10 AMSubject: Re: unsubscribing reported as abuse?very nice...Sending [somewhat] threatening messages is sure to encourage someone tobe *pleased* to help you as soon as possible.---constructive criticism - I must note that I am an outsider/beta tester (not connected with mandrake what-so-ever) that is expressing my ownthoughts/comments. Feel free to contact me personally. From: Dave Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 20:24:36 -0400To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: unsubscribingDitto that!Usubscribe doesn't seem to work. I'm being flooded by emails that I really don't need or want at this time. please correct this before it is reported as abuse.ThanksDave From: "steve" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 01:03:17 +0100To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: unsubscribingDOES ANY ONE KNOW HOW I CAN GET OF THE COOKER..LIST PLEASE -- WebProjkt, Inc. (ph) 773.562.1008 (fax) 608.204.7004 http://www.webprojkt.com/
FYI for upgrading to XFree86-4.1 on iMac DV (Rage 128 PR)
I recently tried (again) to upgrade my XFree86-4.0.3 to 4.1 using Stew's kindly provided packages. There are two gotcha's that I noticed - (1) You won't get into X at all w/ a Rage 128 PR, because the r128 driver does not recognize this card - you need to masquerade it as a different (but very similar) card to get it to detect your device. Insert the line: ChipID 0x5046 in the section labeled "Device" in your /etc/X11/XF86Config and the same config from 4.0.3 should now work in 4.1 (2) Apparently 4.1 doesn't support the XkbModel "macintosh" - maybe this has been phased out. In any case, what you need to do in this case to have a usable keyboard is run the following as root (I'd recommend putting it in a startup script - /etc/rc.d/rc.local works for me :) # echo 1 /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes and change the line: Option "XkbModel" "macintosh" to Option "XkbModel" "pc101" in the "InputDevice" section of your XF86Config file. I believe this is all I needed to do to get things cooking. HTH :) Brice
Re: SanDisk SDDR-09 - can't use :(
My problem isn't so much that the usb-storage driver isn't loaded - I load it by hand - but rather that even when it is loaded, when the device is inserted, the USB stack claims that no active driver is available. -Brice Stew Benedict wrote: Followup - just tried it on a Mandrake system with my CDDR-31. If it was connected at boot, the usb-storage driver is loaded, but you still need sd_mod for SCSI disk support. You could pick this up by adding: above usb-storage sd_mod in /etc/modules.conf HTH, Stew Benedict
Re: SanDisk SDDR-09 - can't use :(
Hi Stew, This is with the Mandrake kernel (2.4.4-6.2mdk). I'll check out the link you have ... I take it imaclinux.net is up again? :) Brice Stew Benedict wrote: You'll also need SCSI support setup, as it emulates a SCSI device. Here's a link to a piece I wrote on a CDDR-31 I setup a while back: http://www.imaclinux.net/php/imaclinux_g_h.php3?single=47+index=0 Is this your own kernel or a Mandrake one? You may have to coax some modules to load. Stew Benedict -- WebProjkt, Inc. (ph) 773.562.1008 (fax) 608.204.7004 http://www.webprojkt.com/
Re: Sound Issues
Hi Dippy, No - I don't believe I did. I don't think I had any sound whatsoever. As far as alsa aRts goes, the following RPMs are installed here: libarts2-devel-2.1.2-2mdk arts-2.1.2-2mdk libarts2-2.1.2-2mdk alsa-lib-devel-0.5.10-2mdk alsa-utils-0.5.10-2mdk alsa-lib-0.5.10-2mdk Probably anything w/ -devel you won't need (then again, maybe you will if you need to recompile any sound apps ;). And as for XMMS - the version on the CD is BAD ... get Stew's recompile from the mirrors (should be in Mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc/Mandrake/RPMS/ - just look for a version more recent than yours. See if that gets you going. If not - write back. Seeing as that I have the exact same machine you do (assuming your's is a 400MHz iMac DV) - I'm sure we can get this figured out ;) -Brice Dippy Black wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> I will try adding that. I assume I need to download the alsa drivers first and install them. Just curious. did you have the static problems at the beginning in kde and absence of any other sounds.On Thursday 12 July 2001 16:47, you wrote: Hi Dippy,I also have an iMac DV and I've gotten sound to work fine. I'll writemore in a bit (I'm on my way out to dinner) - but basically, I'm usingthe aRts and alsa systems. I have the following lines in my/etc/modules.conf:# ALSA portionalias char-major-116 snd# OSS/Free portionalias char-major-14 soundcore# ALSA portionalias snd-card-0 snd-card-awacs# OSS/Free portionalias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0# OSS/Free portion - card #1alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-ossalias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-ossalias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-ossalias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-ossGet that in there and see if that gets you going. If not - wait for mynext installment ;)-BriceDippy Black wrote: I thought since it had been awhile since it was first brought up, I wouldbring it up again. I have no sound at all on my Imac DV. If starting upwith the KDE desktop I get a really annoying blast of static. If I usegnome there is nothing. I get no system sounds at all.
Re: Where is webmin ???!!!???!!!
To my knowledge, webmin is architecture independent (since it doesn't use any binaries) - hence, you need an RPM with the 'noarch' designation. Here's one: ftp://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/alpha/Mandrake/RPMS/webmin-0.87-1mdk.noarch.rpm If you have any problems with this, post back to the list. -Brice Larry Blodgett wrote: Anyone know where an rpm for webmin is for mandrake ppc beta? Did I miss it some way? How about some instructions on how to create it from a ppc source?
Net Boot for Linux Mandrake ...
One of the things I've been tossing around in my head is how I might go about setting up a Linux Mandrake image to be net booted ... it'd be a pretty sweet accomplishment, I would think. If anyone knows of anything that might snafu this, let me know ... my first order of business will be to attempt to netboot MacOS 9.1 - once I've accomplished this, I'll move on to more interesting endeavors! ;) Cheers! Brice
Mandrake/PPC on 603e
I've installed LM8/PPC successfully on my iMac DV (Summer 2000) and I'd like to install it now on an old Performa I have (603e) - what do I need to do to get this rolling? From what I can tell, the Performa doesn't have Open Firmware, so I need to do something else to boot ... I'm not real familiar in this area I saw your post to the cooker-ppc list, so I thought you could possibly assist me! If you have any advice, please let me know. -Brice
Re: Miscellaneous bugs
In this particular respect, not much has changed since my YDL-1.2 install ... a particular function 'flush_cache' is missing, so agpgart support cannot be compiled. Someone on the #linuxppc channel told me that enabling 'DRI' in your kernel is enough - though I'm not entirely sure I believe him ... it seems that w/o choosing the card you have, it won't do you any good! -Brice Brice D Ruth wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> OK - I checked the config for Stew's 2.4.4-6.2 kernel and indeed, DRI is not enabled. So, you'll have to recompile to get it (and it may not recompile - I was having issues under YDL-1.2). In any case - in theory, in the 'Character devices' section of the kernel, scroll all the way to the bottom and select '/dev/agpgart (AGP Support)' - then select 'Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 DRI support)' and in its submenu, select your graphics card (hopefully its there - mine is, ATI Rage 128). Save your new config compile. Wish for the best ;) -Brice Brice D Ruth wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> I personally am speaking entirely hypothetically, just so ya know ;) However - I'm pretty sure that you need to have DRI compiled for your kernel (which it may or may not be for Stew's 2.4.4-6.2) before XF-4.1 can access it. This may be the problem. Regards, Brice Ruth Ian White wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]">On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: I'll check all those out and get back to the list. We may not have GLXextensions in X, like some of those messages say, but I'll verify. I'mheaded down to TN, so I won't be back online until tomorrow most likely. What did you find out about GLX? I've got mine enabled and mostapplications are running.. although slowly.I've enabled it in my config, but glxinfo tells me:direct rendering: No...OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc.OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX IndirectOpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4And during the starting of X it says:(II) LoadModule: "glx"(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a(II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project"compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 1.0.0ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1(II) Loading extension GLX(II) Loading sub module "GLcore"(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a(II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project"compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 1.0.0ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1(II) Lo! ad!!Mo!dule: "dri"(WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri(II) UnloadModule: "dri"(EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0)The release notes for 4.1.0 claim there is support for DRI under linux/ppcwith that version.Ian---Ian Whiteemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CD Audio on iMac DV?
I'm at somewhat of a loss ... I appear to have audio working, however I cannot play my CDs. I'm using the ALSA system - and if I test the audio by going into Look'NFeel in the Control Center - I can play the system sounds just fine. However, neither kscd nor freeamp seem to be able to play CD audio. Why is this? -Brice
Missing (PPC) feature in KDE Control Center
Just thought I'd mention this since I just got SCREWED by it ... ;-) In KDE Control Center, in the section 'Personalization', subsection 'Keyboard layout' - for the menu 'keyboard model' there isn't a selection for 'macintosh' which is what the XkbModel line in my XF86Config is set to ... now mind you, I didn't need to set anything about my keyboard model, since it was working - I merely wanted to add German as a keyboard layout. Well, apparently you can't do one w/o the other, since as soon as I hit 'Apply' I was switched to PC104 keyboard which doesn't actually allow me to type anything coherent (iMac DV; Summer 2000). Solution: edit ~/.kde/share/config/kxkbrc and change the model back to macintosh - all set. I didn't file a config file for the Control Center that controlled what options that menu contained, so I'm guessing its compiled in - if I get a chance, I'll grab the src.rpm and get a patch to you. -Brice
Re: Linux newbie.
Hey there ;-) I did a quick search on the UMAX Pulsar and found the following page where they describe getting LinuxPPC to work on a UMAX Pulsar: http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/4/1998/8/0/58721/ So, I think the first order of business would be getting Mandrake to work on your base config (w/o the G3 Upgrade card). I'm unfamiliar with how the kernel handles upgrade cards, but my feeling is that you ought to be able to get the upgrade card to work if you can get the base unit to work. As for your Matrox card, that should be fine - Matrox cards are supported relatively well under XFree86, if I recall. Now - it may not be a flawless, seemless installation, but if you're willing to do some testing, I'm sure Stew can probably accomodate some things in the ISOs to make life a bit easier ;-). Check out that link and write back w/ what you think. -Brice Brian Durant wrote: Hi, I am a Linux newbie. I am looking for a Linux flavor that works with a UMAX Pulsar with a G3 upgrade and a Matrox graphics card. I am hoping that Mandrake PPC will become the flavor that I want. Any chance of getting in at the ground level and making sure that I my machine is included? Cheers, Brian --
Re: Linux newbie.
Here's another tidbit: Q: Will Linux/PPC work on my PowerMac with a G3 processor upgrade card? Yes, if your PowerMac already can run Linux/PPC, it will work fine with a G3 upgrade card, with full support for the cache. That's from the FAQ at the following link: http://old.linuxppc.org/faq/ So, basically - you should be all right. From the previous message, apparently the UMAX Pulsar has Open Firmware support, which is what you need to be able to do all this Linux stuff ;-). Have you tried grabbing the Mandrake/PPC ISOs and installing? Is this a machine that you need for work or is this something you can play around with? -Brice Brian Durant wrote: Hi,I am a Linux newbie. I am looking for a Linux flavor that works with a UMAXPulsar with a G3 upgrade and a Matrox graphics card. I am hoping thatMandrake PPC will become the flavor that I want. Any chance of getting in atthe ground level and making sure that I my machine is included?Cheers,Brian--
Patch for 'Welcome' boot graphic
Could someone point me to a patch to the kernel that replaces its standard 'penguin' boot graphic with the Mandrake 'Welcome' graphic? Much obliged. -- WebProjkt, Inc. (ph) 773.562.1008 (fax) 608.204.7004 http://www.webprojkt.com/
Re: Aurora: purple boot screen?
All right - I was just thinking that something was fsck'd up with my fb video config for the kernel. About the only thing I've accomplished so far is getting the entire thing to take on a green hue ... :) Stew Benedict wrote: That's typical. It didn't work at all before I patched it, and then the colors were all reversed. It's still not quite right, looks like only 8bpp, but I didn't want to spend too much more time on it with the other issues I'm covering. I'll get back to it eventually. =( Stew Benedict -- WebProjkt, Inc. (ph) 773.562.1008 (fax) 608.204.7004 http://www.webprojkt.com/
Re: FYI
Got the MacOS version - sweet. Now I just need to save my XF86Config file (not that I don't trust the Mandrake install - I just don't trust it :)). -Brice Brice D Ruth wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Apparently I have the most recent version - 0.8-1. Don't know what the deal is exactly. I'm looking for the MacOS version now :) -Brice Brice D Ruth wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> OK, gimme some more information on this :) I'm in YDL and something's wrong w/ pdisk - maybe its got issues w/ 2.4 kernels or something (2.4.5-pre5 is what I'm running, from the linuxppc BK tree). I get the following message: [ root@tank-imac /root]# pdisk /dev/hda pdisk: Can't read block 0 from '/dev/hda' Edit /dev/hda - Command (? for help): p No partition map exists I know I've been able to use pdisk from w/in YDL before - so I'm guessing the problem is the kernel. I'm gonna see about tracking down a new version of pdisk. Your message aluded that there is a version of pdisk that runs in MacOS? -Brice jeff wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]">On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Brice D Ruth wrote: Stew,Thanx for the quick response. My situation I guess is that I don't want to repartition (again). My current partitioning looks like so:'boot' : 100MB HFS, contains yaboot System Folder'untitled' : 4GB or so, contains YDL 1.2'Macintosh HD' : 5GB or so, contains OS 9.1It seems as though I cannot simply remove 'boot' and 'untitled' to let Mandrake do with as it pleases, w/o erasing 'Macintosh HD' as well :( This is what I'd like to avoid! Sure you can.Run your YDL install disk and using their disk partitioning tool, justdelete the partitions you don't want.Or do it MacOS with pdisk.I did that 50 times in the past 2 weeks :-\Jeff -- WebProjkt, Inc.(ph) 773.562.1008(fax) 608.204.7004http://www.webprojkt.com/ -- WebProjkt, Inc.(ph) 773.562.1008(fax) 608.204.7004http://www.webprojkt.com/ -- WebProjkt, Inc. (ph) 773.562.1008 (fax) 608.204.7004 http://www.webprojkt.com/
