PPC Installation Overview -- Request for comments

2002-04-01 Thread Phil Lavigna
Hello, Some new pages have been posted that provide an overview of installing 8.2 PPC. If anyone is interested in reviewing them, I would appreciate your comments and suggestions. These pages are scheduled to be included on the Installation CD.

Re: New Mandrake ppc Beta 2

2002-04-01 Thread Arto Leskinen
I changed the display resolution with mandrake and it worked. Sorry? This was first time it worked for me. This was very good news. So after first try only problem I found was missing sound. My computer is dual processor G4 with ATI rage 128 pro. Only in KDE or in the whole system?

Re: Beta2 Old World Mac failed to load Adaptec SCSI card driver

2002-04-01 Thread Xavier de Cardenas
Stew, Once again you were right. There were two Linux Kernal folders one was in the control panel folder and the other in the system folder. And this solved the Adaptec driver problem. I got around the gray screen when doing the graphical install by doing a textual install instead. The

Re: Beta2 Old World Mac failed to load Adaptec SCSI card driver

2002-04-01 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Xavier de Cardenas wrote: Stew, Once again you were right. There were two Linux Kernal folders one was in the control panel folder and the other in the system folder. And this solved the Adaptec driver problem. Good, I was just looking at the kernel/modules

Re: French keyboard - Console

2002-04-01 Thread eric
i try on my G4 newword with USB keyboard. i get the same thinks as the loadkeys before the problem is an inversion § print _ = prnt ! i test under X. Olivier Thauvin wrote: Le Lundi 1 Avril 2002 04:46, David BAUDENS a écrit : Can people using a french keyboard with linux keys test the

Bad iso images ??? Newbie needs help....

2002-04-01 Thread James White
I've tried to burn several Iso's from both ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-iso/ppc/ ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/mandrake-iso/ppc/ In both cases, I've used MSIE, from my G4/733 with OS 10.1.3. I click on the link and the download manager successfully

Re: TiBook Radeon, XFree86...

2002-04-01 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 09:17:05AM -0500, Matt Aronoff wrote: Hi all, Well, this beta is wonderful. Everything is SO much easier than any other distro I've tried for the PB G4. My only problem (this is sort of a repeat post, but I never heard back last time) is that I cannot get DRI

Re: TiBook Radeon, XFree86...

2002-04-01 Thread Matt Aronoff
The ones David posted. I get the same performance out of the stock RPMs, though, so I don't think that's the problem. On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 01:29 PM, Ben Reser wrote: On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 09:17:05AM -0500, Matt Aronoff wrote: Hi all, Well, this beta is wonderful. Everything is

white/dead pixle with r128

2002-04-01 Thread Colin Ward
Just thought i should let you know that just now i noticed a dead/white pixle on the left side of the screen. The bottom of my dmesg gave [drm:r128_cce_indirect]*ERROR* process 4072 using buffer owned bt 0 [drm:r128_cce_indirect]*ERROR* process 4072 using buffer owned bt 0 [colin@colinsbox

Re: Bad iso images ??? Newbie needs help....

2002-04-01 Thread sharon
James White wrote: I've tried to burn several Iso's from both ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-iso/ppc/ ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/mandrake-iso/ppc/ In both cases, I've used MSIE, from my G4/733 with OS 10.1.3. I click on the link and the download

Re: PPC Installation Overview -- Request for comments

2002-04-01 Thread Justin Christopher
Phil, I just ran through this, and nothing jumped out at me as wrong or misleading. Seems pretty decent. As a side benefit, reading your docs clued me in on how to choose file systems (please make ext3 the default!) when partitioning my drives. Should have read your guide before installing :)

Re: Bad iso images ??? Newbie needs help....

2002-04-01 Thread James White
sharon wrote: Also, never mount the image before burning, just open DiskCopy and go to the image menu, pick Burn Image and use the dialog box to point to the iso. I think this is the key. I'm pretty sure I mounted the images, just to check that they looked 'reasonable'. I

Re: PPC Installation Overview -- Request for comments

2002-04-01 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Justin Christopher wrote: Phil, I just ran through this, and nothing jumped out at me as wrong or misleading. Seems pretty decent. As a side benefit, reading your docs clued me in on how to choose file systems (please make ext3 the default!) when partitioning my

Install on Beige G3 fails

2002-04-01 Thread Stephen
Hi there First off, please forgive me if everyone else has posted the same problem. I've looked for list archives in the Mandrake Forum and around but haven't found any. Specs: Beige G3 with 128MB RAM and a 4GB Hard Drive. Here is the problem. When I run the script Install Mandrake PPC 8.2 I