Re: Cannot power off
Well, check that APM (Advanced Power Managment, or is it PMUD on PPC?) is working. You'll need this to hav an auto-power-down. It works on an iBook, so it should on an iMac. Thierry On Thursday 06 March 2003 12:49, Matthieu Amiguet wrote: > I installed Mandrake 8.2 on a iMac DV 400 (slot loading) and things work > pretty well (see my preceeding mails), but I am not able to power off the > machine. > halt, shutdown -h and poweroff do work in the sense that they cleanly stop > the system, but they do not really power off the hardware and I have to do > it by hand. > I know it's not that serious, but I would really prefer if software power > off was available. > Anyone knowing what to do? > > Matthieu -- "I heard if you play the Windows XP CD backwards, you get a satanic message." "That's nothing, if you play it forward, it installs Windows XP"
Re: Beta 2 on white ibook??
On Saturday 08 February 2003 16:54, Christopher Molnar wrote: > > In the meantime OS/X seems pretty stable for my needs - just a little > slower than I would like it. > > -Chris Well, I have both and choose at boot time. I am pretty happy with YDL 2.3 at the time. I do like Mandrake (on my PC) but for the time being YDL runs better (at least on a rev2 iBook). Power Managment works mostly (however not closing the screen), my camera works (but it's an Olympus and connects as usb-storage - I don't use gPhoto but wrote a small tcl/tk program instead). I'm afraid the modem problem will remain as long as Apple does not disclose the informations Thierry -- "I heard if you play the Windows XP CD backwards, you get a satanic message." "That's nothing, if you play it forward, it installs Windows XP"
Re: Beta 2 on white ibook??
On Saturday 08 February 2003 14:58, Christopher Molnar wrote: > Before I go and once again blow away a working OS/X install and install > Beta 2 can anyone tell me (hopefully someone with a white ibook) if the > following items are working properly: > > 1) Internal modem Did not try but I doubt. AFAIK the modem in the new iBook is a software modem. Does not work on Yellow Dog (video output does not either) > 2) Power management (I need to be able to close lid, re-open, have a > working kde session and not a loud feedback sound over the speaker) > > 3) USB Ports recognizing things like a mobile phone (motorola) and HP > Digital Camera. Basically (should not be mandrake-dependent) it depends on HOW your camera works: - if it conforms to usb-storage there should be no problem - if it uses a proprietary way (such as Canon cameras) it "might" work with gphoto2, but then I was never able to compile the latest version on ppc > If anyone has any experience with any of this I'd like to hear about it. > > Thanks, > -Chris Thierry -- "I heard if you play the Windows XP CD backwards, you get a satanic message." "That's nothing, if you play it forward, it installs Windows XP"
Re: Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta2
Well, lets compare with my (working) configuration on YDL. Could you try ot? On Friday 07 February 2003 00:56, Adrian Rawlings wrote: > Hi all... I have an ibook 2.2 (released in Nov 2002?) With the beta2 it > does a wonderful job autodetecting my ethernet port and my airport card. > Congrats! Now the bad news... still no sound and the video (with or without > benh) still shows thin black scrolling horizontal lines in X. If anyone > has any ideas as to where I'm screwing up, or ? lemme know. Thanks! > XF86Config-4 sample: > > Identifier "monitor1" > VendorName "Apple" > ModelName "iBook2 1024x768" > HorizSync 28.0-49.0 > VertRefresh 43.0-72.0 I have: HorizSync 31.5-57.0 VertRefresh 50-70 > #later on > Section "Device" > Identifier "device1" > VendorName "ATI" > BoardName "ATI Radeon" > Driver "radeon" > BusID "PCI:0:16:0" > Option "DPMS" > Option "AGPMode" "true" > EndSection Here I have Driver "fbdev", as Stew pointed out this may be the central point Thierry -- "I heard if you play the Windows XP CD backwards, you get a satanic message." "That's nothing, if you play it forward, it installs Windows XP"
Re: New benh-mdk kernel build
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 00:13, Stew Benedict wrote: > > On my Lombard, the trackpad is adb, not sure on the newer machines. On the iBook2.rev2 as well. I know that because on YDL I have to run a mouse configuration utility at the command line if I forget the USB mouse to get X to use the touchpad (not a trackpad unfortunately... I love IBM's trackpad). Did not have time to test the new kernel yet. Will try to do it some time. Thierry -- "I heard if you play the Windows XP CD backwards, you get a satanic message." "That's nothing, if you play it forward, it installs Windows XP"
Re: ppc beta1 on ibook2.rev2
On Thursday 23 January 2003 23:35, wolfgang wrote: > i tried yellow dog too, but when i booted from the cd the ibook was > powering off after some seconds instead of installing anything... > did i do something wrong? (i'm a newbie on macintosh...) > > thanks, wolfgang and Daniel wrote > I don't think the Radeon 7500 is supported with ydl. The "Radeon > Mobility" (the 600 and 700mhz machines shipped before the lastest ibook > update) is supported by Ydl 2.3 and I suppose mdk 9.1 beta also (tried a > pretty recent cooker release on my radeon mobility ibook some weeks ago, > successfully). OK so it first depends on what we call "YDL 2.3". The download / retail version installs, but with a distorted screen (both console and X). However, you can download a series of files from YDL's site. You install those rpms and everything works (including the iBooks buttons for sound, screen and CD eject but I don't know if that's a YDL or a Linux-PPC feature. The list of the "new" rpms is: dev-3.3.1-1a.ppc.rpm iptables-1.2.6a-2.ppc.rpm iptables-ipv6-1.2.6a-2.ppc.rpm kernel-2.4.20-0.7d.ppc.rpm MAKEDEV-3.3.1-1a.ppc.rpm mkinitrd-3.4.24-1b.ppc.rpm modutils-2.4.18-2.ppc.rpm modutils-devel-2.4.18-2.ppc.rpm mol-0.9.65-1a.ppc.rpm mol-kmods-0.9.65-1b.ppc.rpm don't know if this give a clue. Anyway my iBook 800Mhz (12") is happily running YDL "2.3+". If there is any data I can provide to help, just ask. AFAIK YDL is "Red Hat based", and so is (was?) Mandrake, so I suppose what works for them should work for us (or am I just speaking nonsense??). Thierry -- "I heard if you play the Windows XP CD backwards, you get a satanic message." "That's nothing, if you play it forward, it installs Windows XP"
Re: ppc beta1 on ibook2.rev2
On Thursday 23 January 2003 16:05, Wolfgang Hovest wrote: > hi there, > > i recently bought an ibook800 (...) > with the 9.1-beta-release it's even worse. the tft is getting black > immediately when i try the gui-install, and if i choose intall-text, at > the time the installer asks for the resolution, it starts the xserver > (which i'm able to see), asks if it's ok - thats the last i can see > regardless i answer yes or no - it's getting black again, and i can't > complete the install... > wolfgang I've got an iBook2.rev2 as well. I tried 8.2 with the same results. I'd welcome Mandrake on my iBook because I use it on my main machine. To Wolfgang (if you want "Linux now"), and to the developpers if you're looking for a solution: Yellow Dog Linux release 2.3 works perfectly on the iBook (but you have to download and install a few "new" rpms to get Xfree running fine. I am not able to get any informations out of this (except they upgraded the kernel) but developpers may. Thierry -- "I heard if you play the Windows XP CD backwards, you get a satanic message." "That's nothing, if you play it forward, it installs Windows XP"
