Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta2 on Pismo
Hi now I am writing from Mozilla from Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta2 on my Pismo, so it works!! Good news: Graphic enviroments are great and fast after installation. All new Drak* software works well (local tcp printers are located better than MacOsX, network configurator setup my net in a snap) Sound works perfectly!! (dmasound) Problems Graphic enviroment is not working during install in any combination (2.2 2.4 old or new gui): blue screen with freezed X-pointer. So Text installation, but in some steps is not possible to select anything so only F12 to proceed. also TEST of Xserver failed (libc++ cant be found!) but after reboot all was ok. Powerbook special keys are not understood so for instance sound level cant be modify from the keyboard. By default only root can mount cdrom...not a good thing in a easy-is-my-name distribution like Mandrake. I would also ask you: why qzerty powerbook keyboard are never presents? or even Mac ones? in my Linux experience only Debian recognises qzerty powerbook keyboard even in Italian (or other) languages. If would make the mapping could I send it to anyone to be included in final release? which is the best url for updated Cooker Mandrake rpms to use in Software Sources Manager. but after all I would to say that this beta is very good. thank you for all you have done, congratulations! Silvano Piazza
Re: Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta2 on Pismo
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Silvano Piazza wrote: Problems Graphic enviroment is not working during install in any combination (2.2 2.4 old or new gui): blue screen with freezed X-pointer. So Text installation, but in some steps is not possible to select anything so only F12 to proceed. Too bad. There always are some difficult ones out there. But X works on the installed system? Can you send me the XF86Config-4 that was setup? Text install seems to have taken a step backwards from the code in 8.0. I don't think there's much I'm going to be able to do about it. also TEST of Xserver failed (libc++ cant be found!) but after reboot all was ok. Odd, I don't know why a different lib would be required for you that wasn't called when I did an install and tested X. I don't even currently have any libc++ installed on my running system. Can you send me ddebug.log under root's dir? Powerbook special keys are not understood so for instance sound level cant be modify from the keyboard. Special software is required to enable this. I believe Ben Reser has something packaged up on his site. I'll see if I can get it into the final ISOs, but I can't really add new software to main in the distribution. By default only root can mount cdrom...not a good thing in a easy-is-my-name distribution like Mandrake. Supermount isn't enabled? You shouldn't need to mount CD's at all. I would also ask you: why qzerty powerbook keyboard are never presents? or even Mac ones? in my Linux experience only Debian recognises qzerty powerbook keyboard even in Italian (or other) languages. If would make the mapping could I send it to anyone to be included in final release? If you have keymaps, certainly pass them on. Personally I have no experience with non-US keyboards, so I wouldn't know a good one from a bad one. By default we use linux keycodes, not mac ones, which enables the drak and kde keyboard selectors to actually work. I did add a large nummber of mac keymaps, but you won;t see them available in those gui tools, which is the best url for updated Cooker Mandrake rpms to use in Software Sources Manager. People always ask me this, but I really have no idea. I spend most of my time trying to get the stuff built and uploaded, and don't really go around chacking which mirrors are up to date etc. but after all I would to say that this beta is very good. thank you for all you have done, congratulations! Thanks :) Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2
Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta2 on Wallstreet
Woo hooo!! I don't even know which X server is going, but KDE looks great and it's fast enough for the arcade games. Sound Dammit!! The only scary moment was the mouse, it didn't look right, but usb1buttonusbcore and magically the 3 buttons are emulated, with tap on! Thanks Stew. Now, if I could just make POOF work on this Wallstreet! cheers, Dan
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: Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta2
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 #later on Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName ATI BoardName ATI Radeon Driver radeon BusID PCI:0:16:0 Option DPMS Option AGPMode true EndSection -Bounty __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
Re: Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta2
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, 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 #later on Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName ATI BoardName ATI Radeon Driver radeon BusID PCI:0:16:0 Option DPMS Option AGPMode true EndSection You could fall back to fbdev instead of radeon in the Driver line. You won't have any acceleration, but it beats lines I guess. Sound is interesting. There really is only 1 kernel driver these days. The mandrake kernel has alsa drivers, also. Is dmasound_pmac loaded? (/sbin/lsmod) Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2
Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta2
I'm pleased to announce the release of Beta2 Mandrake's PPC version of 9.1. The package content should be roughly equivalent to x86's beta3, but reduced to 2 CD's. 3ab903f7960b50f915042758f5ab0090 MandrakeLinux-9.1beta2-1.ppc.iso 9017d49fab8a9702e8d0f0a1353a2e9f MandrakeLinux-9.1beta2-2.ppc.iso Images should be available at a mirror near you soon. Specific features: Improved support for newer Radeon-based machines with included BenH based kernel and installer kernel (install-gui-benh). KDE3.1, Gnome2 Latest XFree86 Most of the other great new stuff in Cooker. Working drak tools this time :) I've intentionally left a fair amount of space free on the ISOs so there is room to add anything folks feel is exceptionally important, or that I missed, without having to bump anything else. Please give the beta a run-through and report any issues, either directly to me or through the normal channels of IRC, cooker-ppc mail list or bugzilla (bugzilla may not be all that appropriate for PPC specific issues, as all the content goes to the main cooker list). Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2
