cooker install

2002-05-03 Thread Olivier Thauvin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Be quiet, I am working on a chrooted-install but there are problems with missing libraries: [root@orion lib]# rpm -qf /lib/ld.so.1 glibc-2.2.4-25mdk on my 8.2 ppc, this file is missing when upgrade to cooker, fixed by symlink it to /lib/ld-2.2.5.so

Re: Mouse/Trackpad problem & Airport question

2002-05-03 Thread Ben Reser
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 09:11:01PM +1000, Nick Texidor wrote: > you're a legend Stew!! > > Out of curiosity, is there anywhere that has these little bits of > information? Any websites somewhere? If not, then I might look at > adding a page to mine that answers a lot of these (basic?) questions

A thought re-PPC-specific settings

2002-05-03 Thread Nick Texidor
Stew & co, Considering the things we need to be aware of with regards to PPC specific settings (e.g., mouse, mouse-emulation buttons, airport settings etc), do you think that a Webmin module would be worth considering for these sorts of things?? I could possibly look into doing something like t

Re: Mouse/Trackpad problem & Airport question

2002-05-03 Thread Nick Texidor
you're a legend Stew!! Out of curiosity, is there anywhere that has these little bits of information? Any websites somewhere? If not, then I might look at adding a page to mine that answers a lot of these (basic?) questions, i.e., the little anomalies such as mouse problems require a reboot, an

Re: Mouse/Trackpad problem & Airport question

2002-05-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On 4 May 2002, Nick Texidor wrote: > > hmmm.. interesting!! I tried the one button usb mouse before, and it > didn't work. However, this time, after checking all the above, and then > rebooting it worked. So it seems that I can't reconfigure the mouse > without a reboot... no wonder I couldn

Re: Mouse/Trackpad problem & Airport question

2002-05-03 Thread Nick Texidor
On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 09:33, Stew Benedict wrote: > > On 4 May 2002, Nick Texidor wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a couple of problems that I can't seem to figure out, the first > > making it almost impossible to go and look for the answer to the > > second. So I apologise in advance if these

Re: Playing CDs on 8.2

2002-05-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Henrik Edlund wrote: > On Fri, 3 May 2002, Stew Benedict wrote: > > SB> supermount -i disable (as root) > SB> > SB> This will change the /etc/fstab entries, or you can do so manually. > > After disabling and rebooting, still no success. Still get "No CD in > /dev/cdrom" fro

Pb to make package on 8.2

2002-05-03 Thread Olivier Thauvin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David: do you remember ? On 8.2 Beta2, I asked on the cooker list for ppc about a problem to build package, you answered me to do cd /usr/lib/rpm; ln - -s ppc-mandrake-linux ppcpseries-linux. This solved the problem. I just reinstall my titanium, a

Re: Playing CDs on 8.2

2002-05-03 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Stew Benedict wrote: SB> supermount -i disable (as root) SB> SB> This will change the /etc/fstab entries, or you can do so manually. After disabling and rebooting, still no success. Still get "No CD in /dev/cdrom" from XMMS. -- http://www.edlund.org/

Re: Mouse/Trackpad problem & Airport question

2002-05-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On 4 May 2002, Nick Texidor wrote: > Hi, > > I have a couple of problems that I can't seem to figure out, the first > making it almost impossible to go and look for the answer to the > second. So I apologise in advance if these are questions I could go and > find myself! :^) > > 1) My trac

Re: Mouse/Trackpad problem & Airport question

2002-05-03 Thread Nick Texidor
Hi Ben > > 1) My trackpad has stopped responding and I can't get it back. > > Anything I select in Mousedrake doesn't seem to make any difference. If > > I run mousedrake, what should I select to get the trackpad working? Or > > is there more to it than that? This is on a G3 Powerbook.

Re: Playing CDs on 8.2

2002-05-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Henrik Edlund wrote: > On Fri, 3 May 2002, Stew Benedict wrote: > > SB> It is if you want to play CD's with xmms - they don't play well > SB> together. I've got the same thing on this Presario, with or without > SB> supermount and with or without ide-scsi. > SB> > SB> The on

Re: Mouse/Trackpad problem & Airport question

2002-05-03 Thread Ben Reser
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 07:03:08PM +1000, Nick Texidor wrote: > 1) My trackpad has stopped responding and I can't get it back. > Anything I select in Mousedrake doesn't seem to make any difference. If > I run mousedrake, what should I select to get the trackpad working? Or > is there more to

Re: Playing CDs on 8.2

2002-05-03 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Stew Benedict wrote: SB> It is if you want to play CD's with xmms - they don't play well SB> together. I've got the same thing on this Presario, with or without SB> supermount and with or without ide-scsi. SB> SB> The only difference you'll see with the cdread plugin, is you'l

Re: Playing CDs on 8.2

2002-05-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On 3 May 2002, Stephan Haller wrote: > Hey, > > I know this problem. Supermount is active but will mount any audio CD > and no HFS formatted CDs. But this is hard-coded error in supermount.c > where hfs in not in the "try" list. What about a dynamic solution via > /etc/fstab.supermount or somet

Re: Playing CDs on 8.2

2002-05-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Henrik Edlund wrote: > On Fri, 3 May 2002, Stew Benedict wrote: > > SB> supermount disabled? > > supermount is enabled. Is that wrong? It is the default on 8.2. > It is if you want to play CD's with xmms - they don't play well together. I've got the same thing on this Pre

Mouse/Trackpad problem & Airport question

2002-05-03 Thread Nick Texidor
Hi, I have a couple of problems that I can't seem to figure out, the first making it almost impossible to go and look for the answer to the second. So I apologise in advance if these are questions I could go and find myself! :^) 1) My trackpad has stopped responding and I can't get it back.

Re: Playing CDs on 8.2

2002-05-03 Thread Stephan Haller
Hey, I know this problem. Supermount is active but will mount any audio CD and no HFS formatted CDs. But this is hard-coded error in supermount.c where hfs in not in the "try" list. What about a dynamic solution via /etc/fstab.supermount or something like this. But back to the audio CD problem.

Re: Playing CDs on 8.2

2002-05-03 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Stew Benedict wrote: SB> supermount disabled? supermount is enabled. Is that wrong? It is the default on 8.2. -- http://www.edlund.org/

Re: Playing CDs on 8.2

2002-05-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Henrik Edlund wrote: > I have disabled XMMS's normal CD playing plug-in and enabled the cd reader > plug-in and its play option, but XMMS still says it can't find any CD in > the drive. What am I doing wrong? > supermount disabled? Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC

Playing CDs on 8.2

2002-05-03 Thread Henrik Edlund
I have disabled XMMS's normal CD playing plug-in and enabled the cd reader plug-in and its play option, but XMMS still says it can't find any CD in the drive. What am I doing wrong? -- http://www.edlund.org/

ALSA 0.9.0rc1

2002-05-03 Thread Stephan Haller
Hello! Does anybody have the alsa 0.9.0rc1 compiled successfully again kernel 2.4.18(-6mdk)? I wanted to give it a try because Alsa 0.5.12 can play through my speakers (and turning off the internal speakers :)) Now I wanted to hear the improvements of this release. How about it? Or can somebody

Re: 8.2 PPC Errata -- Request for comments

2002-05-03 Thread Ben Reser
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 01:44:10PM -0700, Phil Lavigna wrote: > I've collected several of the most important bugs/problems with 8.2 PPC to > create the beginnings of an errata page. Many of the solutions were taken > directly from this mailing list, so I'd like to thank everyone for their help

8.2 PPC Errata -- Request for comments

2002-05-03 Thread Phil Lavigna
Hello, I've collected several of the most important bugs/problems with 8.2 PPC to create the beginnings of an errata page. Many of the solutions were taken directly from this mailing list, so I'd like to thank everyone for their help. If anyone has comments/suggestions on ways to improve

Re: Problems burning iso, smp kernel compilation and java1.3.1

2002-05-03 Thread Joseph Vidal-Rosset
Stew, I 'm sorry but there is a real problem with the bootstrap of the 8.2 CD. I have finished the installation, finally all seems fine, but at restarting, the screen was with the ? and the Mac icon folder... and that's all. Maybe I have to do something more, but what? Best, Jo.

Re: Contrib make for ppc

2002-05-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > > Stew, my idea is > - - devellop and test rpm for ppc on my machine (faster to work by ssh, 500Mhz > and 256 Mo Ram) > - - doing last check and rebuild on official mdk machine (yours, this can be > slow) > > After I transfert the file on compil.m

Re: Contrib make for ppc

2002-05-03 Thread Olivier Thauvin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le Vendredi 3 Mai 2002 18:26, Stew Benedict a écrit : > On Fri, 3 May 2002, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Le Vendredi 3 Mai 2002 16:36, Stew Benedict a écrit : > > > On Fri, 3 May 2002, Olivier Th

Re: libsasl plugins?

2002-05-03 Thread Ben Reser
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 07:25:34AM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote: > No good reason. I asked for preferred packagess to fill the last 20M or > so I had on CD2, and not getting any responses, I arbitrarily grabbed a > few. For the most part the selection was based on the x86 2CD list. Yeah well I jus

Re: Contrib make for ppc

2002-05-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le Vendredi 3 Mai 2002 16:36, Stew Benedict a écrit : > > On Fri, 3 May 2002, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Lenny open an account on co

Re: keyboard problem during install

2002-05-03 Thread Ben Reser
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:24:01AM -0400, Peter R.Wood wrote: > I noticed this too, with the 8.2 install. Right around the time I had to > set up my bootloader, my keyboard mappings became completely screwed up. > I tried to type in the message that I wanted to appear on yaboot, but I > ended u

Re: Contrib make for ppc

2002-05-03 Thread Olivier Thauvin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le Vendredi 3 Mai 2002 16:36, Stew Benedict a écrit : > On Fri, 3 May 2002, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Lenny open an account on compil to build and upload contrib packages, but > > I can only m

Re: kernel Oops and panic at end of istall on old world g3

2002-05-03 Thread Thomas Geenen
still no luck i will explain what i do to boot to be sure that that is not the problem. I put initrd and vmlinuz in /system/linux kernels/ i choose vmlinuz-2.4.18-6.1 in the kernel option i choose options and select use specific ramdisk i select initrd-2.4.18-6.1mkd.img ramdisk size is 8192 and bo

Re: keyboard problem during install+modem

2002-05-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Emmanuel FAVRE-NICOLIN wrote: > I also have a problem with the modem (internal imac modem). It has been > working in the first time (very well) and then it was never found any more. > Is module macserial loaded and an alias for it in /etc/modules.conf? [stew@powerbook-coo

Re: Contrib make for ppc

2002-05-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Lenny open an account on compil to build and upload contrib packages, but I > can only make it for i586. > I think Stew have already a lot of things to do. > How can I build my contrib also for ppc

Re: keyboard problem during install+modem

2002-05-03 Thread Emmanuel FAVRE-NICOLIN
Le Vendredi 3 Mai 2002 13:10, vous avez écrit : > On Fri, 3 May 2002, Ben Reser wrote: > > During a fresh 8.2 install my keyboard freaked out on me right around > > the summary page. At least that's when I noticed it wasn't working > > right anymore. I finished the install just with the mouse an

Re: keyboard problem during install

2002-05-03 Thread Peter R.Wood
> > A couple of other folks have mentioned similar behavior. I don't know > what's happening there. The keyboard is setup pretty early on in the > install, and as far as I know it's not modified, unless some package > install is doing something. I noticed this too, with the 8.2 install. Right a

Contrib make for ppc

2002-05-03 Thread Olivier Thauvin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lenny open an account on compil to build and upload contrib packages, but I can only make it for i586. I think Stew have already a lot of things to do. How can I build my contrib also for ppc ? - -- Linux pour Mac !? Enfin le moyen de transformer u

Re: TiBook video mode.

2002-05-03 Thread Peter R.Wood
> Don't think this is PPC specific. There are a bunch of rules in the X > setup portion of drakx that allow/disallow certain modes for certain > cards. I had a similar experience on this x86laptop, where it didn't > want > to give me a mode I new the card could do. I think the entries for all

Re: At last... back to 8.2!

2002-05-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On 4 May 2002, Nick Texidor wrote: > Well I've finally got my powerbook up and running with 8.2.. great job > Stew, thanks! > thank-you! > I had a couple of issues with the install that got me into a fine old > mess i.e. the problem with configuring ethernet, airport and modem, > and choo

8.2 fresh install misc comments.

2002-05-03 Thread Ben Reser
WOW! I did a fresh install, first real fresh install since 8.2b2 tonight. The graphics in the installer look marvelous. And here I thought the old one looked nice. It also seems to fix the annoying slowness I was experiencing with KDE apps starting. Problems are posted under separate emails.

Re: everybuddy

2002-05-03 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Ben Reser wrote: BR> everybuddy requires libjabber1 and libxode1. Neither are on the CDs but BR> everybuddy is. Which is kinda pointless. So for the next version BR> either both of these need to be on there or everybuddy should be left BR> out (though I vote for the former)

Re: kernel Oops and panic at end of istall on old world g3

2002-05-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Thomas Geenen wrote: > oke booted with intrd and kernel as explained in doc section on cd > now when booting it starts oke but very soon after my keyboard is detected > it prompts > > freeing initrd memory 482k freed freeing unused kernel memory 292k init 4k > chrp 8k prep >

At last... back to 8.2!

2002-05-03 Thread Nick Texidor
Well I've finally got my powerbook up and running with 8.2.. great job Stew, thanks! I had a couple of issues with the install that got me into a fine old mess i.e. the problem with configuring ethernet, airport and modem, and choosing the option to start an internet connection on boot... it

everybuddy

2002-05-03 Thread Ben Reser
everybuddy requires libjabber1 and libxode1. Neither are on the CDs but everybuddy is. Which is kinda pointless. So for the next version either both of these need to be on there or everybuddy should be left out (though I vote for the former). -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.

Re: AGPMode 2 on iBook2?

2002-05-03 Thread Ben Reser
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 03:31:25AM +0200, Henrik Edlund wrote: > AGPMode is set to 1 in XF86Config-4 after install on my iBook2. Is there a > thought behind this? The iBook2 does support AGPMode 2 doesn't it? > > Also, is X optimized for 16 bit mode? I switched to 24 bit mode and it is > terrible

Re: TiBook video mode.

2002-05-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Ben Reser wrote: > Why is the video depths only providing an option for 16bit video when > there are lots more in the XF86Config file that it generates and I know > 24bit works fine? > Don't think this is PPC specific. There are a bunch of rules in the X setup portion of

Re: libsasl plugins?

2002-05-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Ben Reser wrote: > Is there a point to including libsasl without at least some of the > plugins that go with it? > No good reason. I asked for preferred packagess to fill the last 20M or so I had on CD2, and not getting any responses, I arbitrarily grabbed a few. For the m

Re: kernel Oops and panic at end of istall on old world g3

2002-05-03 Thread Thomas Geenen
oke booted with intrd and kernel as explained in doc section on cd now when booting it starts oke but very soon after my keyboard is detected it prompts freeing initrd memory 482k freed freeing unused kernel memory 292k init 4k chrp 8k prep kernel panic no init found try passing init=options to k

Re: new Cooker uploads

2002-05-03 Thread Ben Reser
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:36:31AM +0200, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > Stew, do you know http://plf.zarb.org ? > If you don't know it, go to immediattely ! You will see I don't forget ppc > arch ;-) You know I went there this morning and didn't find any ppc stuff so I went back. And I found the toy

Re: keyboard problem during install

2002-05-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Ben Reser wrote: > During a fresh 8.2 install my keyboard freaked out on me right around > the summary page. At least that's when I noticed it wasn't working > right anymore. I finished the install just with the mouse and it worked > fine after I rebooted. So I have no ide

8.2 stage 1 typo...

2002-05-03 Thread Ben Reser
stage 1 in 8.2 final still says it's cooker. No big deal just thought I'd point it out. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the

TiBook video mode.

2002-05-03 Thread Ben Reser
Why is the video depths only providing an option for 16bit video when there are lots more in the XF86Config file that it generates and I know 24bit works fine? FYI the XServer claims the card isn't capable of 32bit (no idea if this is really true). -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.

Re: 8.2 stage 1 typo...

2002-05-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Ben Reser wrote: > stage 1 in 8.2 final still says it's cooker. No big deal just thought > I'd point it out. > /me kicks self Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/

libsasl plugins?

2002-05-03 Thread Ben Reser
Is there a point to including libsasl without at least some of the plugins that go with it? -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or

keyboard problem during install

2002-05-03 Thread Ben Reser
During a fresh 8.2 install my keyboard freaked out on me right around the summary page. At least that's when I noticed it wasn't working right anymore. I finished the install just with the mouse and it worked fine after I rebooted. So I have no idea what the deal was... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL P

Re: kernel Oops and panic at end of istall on old world g3

2002-05-03 Thread Thomas Geenen
not a good sign hmm i moved de initrd-2.4.18-6.1.mdk.img and vmlinuz...mdk the bootx application and the bootx extension to my systems folder and put /sda6 as root device as is mentioned in the bootx documentation. what else do i need to do to boot 8.2 Thomas Geenen On Fri, 3 May 2002, Stew

Re: kernel Oops and panic at end of istall on old world g3

2002-05-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Thomas Geenen wrote: > I installed mandrake 8.2 on my old world g3 with 128 mb ram > installation was no problem until the last part. > the installer prompted the following > install succeeded > sending termination signals...done > sending kill sigals...done > unmounting file

kernel Oops and panic at end of istall on old world g3

2002-05-03 Thread Thomas Geenen
I installed mandrake 8.2 on my old world g3 with 128 mb ram installation was no problem until the last part. the installer prompted the following install succeeded sending termination signals...done sending kill sigals...done unmounting filesystems /proc /tmp/stage2 /mnt/usr /mnt/home /mnt/proc /m