Re: timeline
On Thursday, July 25, 2002, at 07:28 AM, Ben Reser wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 11:56:11PM +0200, Giovanni A.D. wrote: Talking about 9.0 .. Does anyone know if 9.0 will include Gnome 2.0 and Kde 3(/3.1) ? Is there something about this on the mandrake web site ? thanks. Yes and yes. But I'm not sure there is going to be a 9.0 for PPC but rather it will skip a release like we did for 8.1. Stew of course knows more (or maybe he doesn't grin). Yes, I forgot to write PPC after 9.0 Thanks. Giovanni
XFdrake and Xpmac
I've used XFdrake and now I can't open X11 cause I get only a black screen. I can't try other configurations cause any time I test it I get the black screen and I've to reset via hardware (and the filesystem isn't happy ;).. So I would like to go back and use Xpmac again, but .. how do I have to do it ? Thanks, Giovanni P.S. About my problem with the internet.. I've found (thanks to a friend) wich was the problem: I must set up, once connected, the default route to ppp0 using the command route add -net default dev ppp0 as super user. But I don't know why the ppp0 interface doesn't start at startup as eth0 and lo .. so I've to do this thing any time I connect to the internet.
Re: XFdrake and Xpmac
On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 01:32 PM, Stew Benedict wrote: On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Giovanni A.D. wrote: So I would like to go back and use Xpmac again, but .. how do I have to do it ? rpm -e or urpme XFree86-Xpmac (just in case) urpmi XFree86-Xpmac This should change the symlink to allow Xpmac to run. What video card in this machine? Ati Rage 128 Bye and thanks, Giovanni
Re: XFdrake and Xpmac
On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 02:05 PM, Yvon Thoraval wrote: for me ctrl+alt=backspace works in order to reboot cleanly now. but you have also to wait enough time... with old-iMac style keyboard it doesn't works. It is also an italian keyboard .. P.S. About my problem with the internet.. I've found (thanks to a friend) wich was the problem: I must set up, once connected, the default route to ppp0 using the command route add -net default dev ppp0 as super user. But I don't know why the ppp0 interface doesn't start at startup as eth0 and lo .. so I've to do this thing any time I connect to the internet. i do have something the like. kppp isn't working (pppd time out) however a : I use kppp to connect, but after connected i've to type the command I told you to visit a site, download mail and so on.. ifup/ifdown ppp0 works well, again as root... Thanks! bye, Giovanni
Re: Keyboard, modem, X11, and other problems..
On Saturday, July 13, 2002, at 08:20 PM, Ben Reser wrote: I mean that there should be at least one alias that opens for you XFdrake when you run a command like XConfig .. Ok, I know that the tab button on the keyboad is very useful, but... ;-) Umm Xconfigurator is just a redhat specific command that some other distributions have picked up. So basically what you're saying is we should just always copy redhat which is silly. nope, I mean that there should be a command like Xconfigure that runs, according to the distro, Xconfigurator, XFdrake and so on.. For command I mean what you use to launch a program, not necessary the same program, expecially in the open source world ;-) (imho) what is tail ? A program. man tail for more information. ok, thanks using Mac OS X I don't need them.. but .. in Linux PPC I had to insert them to make it works, on Mandrake linux ppc no way: I can get connected but I can't visit any site or download mail.. (as when you don't insert dns and they are needed, but i've inserted them, also tryed to disable local dns and other options..) So do you or don't you have your modem working? I'm trying to using internal modem for now, and it works. But once connected I can't access to any remote content. Just an FYI. Linux on PPC is not very easy compared to on PC hardware. So just get used to the little issues... you'll have plenty of them. ;) Bye Thanks again, Giovanni
