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 Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Thierry de Coulon wrote: 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 The only thing I see significant there is the kernel, so it probably goes back to me needing to rsync benh's stuff. Thanks! Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2
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
Re: ppc beta1 on ibook2.rev2
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Thierry de Coulon wrote: 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. What video adapter is in these machines, and did you try the benh kernel option? Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2
Re: ppc beta1 on ibook2.rev2
Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Thierry de Coulon wrote: 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. What video adapter is in these machines, and did you try the benh kernel option? it's the ati radeon mobility 7500, the name on the pci bus was something like LT7 (or similar, i don't have the ibook here now) and yes, i tried the benh kernel, but with the same result - a black screen. wolfgang
Re: ppc beta1 on ibook2.rev2
Hi, I also have an iBook 800 with the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 32MB (which is what they come with now) Using the beta I was able to do a gui install, the screen was extremely distorted, but I could make enough of it out to go through it (it showed 2 cursors, one real one on the left and a ghost of it to the right, everything was like this). I had to configure X with a screen type of Ibook2 1024x768 16bit color X starts, and I can use it sort of. The cursor is white, and the screen has bouncing horizontal lines running through it where ever there is a color change. I also have to drag up the KDE bar from the bottom of the screen. It's hard to describe. When I tried to do a screen shot the lines didn't show up. If I start X then close it, my screen completely trashes up with lots of horizontal white lines etc. Maybe I can take a picture of it with my digital camera if anyone is interested. Also I don't know which USB driver I should load, and I get a sound error when I start X. Then tEthernetthe ethernet interface, which seems to get dedoesn't, but doesnt work, and the Airport interface that I also can't get to work. (I did read the letters about changing the lines in the .pm files in the /usr/lib/libDrakX folder, but when I try to run drakconnect it cusses at me and tells me something about newt) 8P Sorry about the length of this, but I thought I should sharesuccessilure and succes so far. -Bounty --- Wolfgang Hovest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi there, i recently bought an ibook800 (which is my first apple-computer since my appleII !), 'cause I need a linux notebook, and i decided not to buy an i386 one; those are too heavy; or too short in on-time; or too big; or too expensive if you want all above... but now to the point: with the old (8.2) ppc-linux this ibook has problems with the gui. something in the hardware of the new ibook must be different to the elder ones, i couldn't use any of the gui-installs. only the text-install worked. but even then, when i start xfree the tft is flickering with horizontal lines with a few hertz. 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... i tried to change the driver in XF86config-4 to ati or fbdev, and i tried to comment out the dri option - but nothing of these helps... i hope this gives some hints on the way to a stable release; if you need more details, i'll try to follow this list regularly... wolfgang __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
Re: ppc beta1 on ibook2.rev2
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Wolfgang Hovest wrote: Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Thierry de Coulon wrote: 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. What video adapter is in these machines, and did you try the benh kernel option? it's the ati radeon mobility 7500, the name on the pci bus was something like LT7 (or similar, i don't have the ibook here now) and yes, i tried the benh kernel, but with the same result - a black screen. Just talked to a friend who works on Gentoo PPC today at LWE, he says Ben has overcome a number of radeon issues recently, so it looks like I need to update the benh-mdk kernel. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2
Re: ppc beta1 on ibook2.rev2
Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Wolfgang Hovest wrote: Stew Benedict wrote: What video adapter is in these machines, and did you try the benh kernel option? it's the ati radeon mobility 7500, the name on the pci bus was something like LT7 (or similar, i don't have the ibook here now) and yes, i tried the benh kernel, but with the same result - a black screen. Just talked to a friend who works on Gentoo PPC today at LWE, he says Ben has overcome a number of radeon issues recently, so it looks like I need to update the benh-mdk kernel. hey, this sounds pretty promising to me. so what i need now seems to be some patience... thank you very much again, wolfgang
