I've tried simply pressing and holding C after turning on the switch.
I've tried Command-C, Alt-C, Command-Alt-C, Command-Ctrl-Alt-C : all to
no avail, the hard disk just kicks in and boots OS9.2.
I tried Command-O-F and that gives me an error message on my monitor
screen saying SIGNAL OUT OF
i copied all my OS X stuff over to the 1394 drive
How did you do that? Are you aware of the fact that just copying all
the files using the finder does not yield a bootable Mac OS X
installation (because the finder messes up file ownership and
permissions)? See
Is the ModeLine for PB G4 (Radeon 9000) still missing
from XF86Config-4?
I believe it's there.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] perl-install]$ grep 854 Xconfig/*
Xconfig/xfreeX.pm:ModeLine 1280x854 79.816 1280 1296 1408 1536
854 855 858 866 -hsync -vsync
It's there, but XFdrake doesn't offer that
I'm having a problem with zcip on a Powerbook G4 Ti 867MHz with 9.1
(final). It might already have been there in RC1, but I didn't
encounter it then. When I start up without any network connection (i.e.
no ethernet cable connected and no airport network in range), zcip
assigns a 169.254.x.x
Almost half the time, it boots then a blank screen when X is suppose
to start.
I can't go to the console, I have to hard reboot.
I think your problem might be the same that I had: It was CUPS crashing
in the background while X is already starting. You can check by booting
to runlevel 3 (add 3
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/mol-0.9.68-
5mdk.ppc.rpm
Works. I just installed 10.2 to a disk image and everything seems to
work.
-Christian
Did you only update mol, not mol-kmods?
Both, the source tarball contains both. And to be sure, I urpmed
everything mol-related (i.e. mol and mol-kmods-benh) before installing
the newly built mol. So I don't know if it would have worked with your
kmods (and I'm not in Linux right now to test
If you build kernel-benh from the source rpm, and then leave the tree
in
your rpm/BUILD dir...
How do I do that? rpm --rebuild and rpm --recompile delete the files in
BUILD after rebuilding the packages, and in the rpm man page I haven't
found any option to disable this. I'm sure there's an
Stew, what sources are you using to build mol-0.9.68-3mdk.ppc.rpm (and
-2mdk and kmods for benh-7mdk and benh-9mdk)? I'm having a problem with
it that its author Samuel Rydh says has been fixed in the release
0.9.68 version (keyboard behaving as if keys were still down after
releasing them
I can ping local and remote IP addresses from the terminal window,
both as root and as a regular user, but Mozilla and the other network
apps do not work either in KDE or Gnome. IFCONFIG reports up and
running built-in (eth0) or wireless (eth1) with appropriate IP's
provided by DHCP in my
I haven't tried a full install on my PowerBook G4 Ti 867MHz yet because
I'm still downloading CD 2 and 3, but the graphical installer comes up
with both the benh and mdk kernels and seems to work well (and look
great - much better that the old one!).
I can however already report that it
How did you boot the install? The Read-only file system is the issue
above - no modules are loading.
Did you specify kernel-options root=/dev/ram3 and
ramdisk_size=36000
(after selecting the right kernel initrd)?
Thanks for the hint... adding root=/dev/ram3 did it. (RTFM?) But I
wonder, why
On my PowerBook G4 Ti 867MHz with 2.4.20-benh-5mdk it's there and
works. It allows setting the frequency between 667 and 867 MHz, and in
a quick test with the Mesa demos (without hardware accelerations) it
shows.
-Christian
Another thing: Recently, I'm frequently having freezes at startup,
sometimes at the black screen before X comes up, sometimes at the blue
X startup screen before any windows appear. Mouse is frozen, no
reaction to any key presses (including screen brightness, which works
from very early on with
My experiences with the two new kernels on an 867MHz TiBook (Radeon
Mobility 9000):
kernel-2.4.21.0.pre4.5mdk-1-1mdk.ppc.rpm
Doesn't work very well. Sound seems to work (no error message at
startup), but X doesn't: all I get is a flickering brown mess instead
of the login screen on blue
o install-gui-benh works, except for the colors, which are still
wrong.
I'm trying to remember. Did we try different bit depths on you machine
for install to see if the color issue was corrected? If we can narrow
down the machine ID, I could force an appropriate bit depth if that is
the
My experiences with 9.1 beta 2 on a Novermber 2002 Ti PowerBook G4:
Most things work out of the box, but not everything. Here is a random
list of problems:
Installer:
o install-gui-benh works, except for the colors, which are still wrong.
o The Choose a monitor step doesn't list a TiBook
kernel-benh-2.4.20-3mdk.ppc.rpm
Works well on my Nov 02 PowerBook G4. In fact, I don't see any difference
compared to benh-2.4.20-2mdk. I still have the error messages at startup about
IP Virtual Server not being available as a module or built into the kernel.
Moreover (I don't know if that's
I'm using 15bpp by default, which seems OK on a number of machines. You
could try editing line 362 of install_gtk.pm
(mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install) and change it to see if 16bpp is better for
you. I could then force this the same way I do the resolution, up at line
278.
I've tried with
Stew,
as you're making ISOs again, this could be the time for some contribution to
enhance the user experience on the Mac side of the hybrid CD, namely the
type and creator properties that tell the Mac OS Finder what application to
launch when one double-clicks a file.
From examining the latest
If you have the latest yaboot (yaboot-1.3.8-2mdk.ppc.rpm), I patched the
issue I mentioned before.
Where do I get this? The mirrors I use, and they are up to date otherwise,
only habe 1.3.8-1mdk.
Thanks, I'll report how it goes.
HD install works now. See below for the rest...
I'm using
My bad on this one. I had devfs enabled. New kernel is at:
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/install-benh/vmlinux-benh
You need new all-benh.gz, and modules.cz-2.4.20-benh-2mdkBOOT since
module symbols changed too.
I did both an nfs and HD install with it. If you
That was fast, thanks! I hope you didn't sacrifice your whole enjoying the
holidays for it?
I have not come very far with it however. I have installed the kernel and
stuff on my HD, set up yaboot, and the installer starts fine. When I choose
to install from HD, it says no partitions found. VT3
Some tidbits from my efforts to get Linux onto my new PowerBook G4 867MHz:
o Kernel 2.4.20-benh-2mdk works fine. Not more or less sleep or X issues
than before: colors on the X console are wrong after waking up, right again
after switching to a text console and back. X only works in 16bit
Another thought: maybe run it from rescue, if I could get the proper bits
on the rescue image (if they're not already there)
I've run into this problem too, and also had the idea of trying it from
rescue, either with the 8.2 CD or with the first cooker install ISO (don't
remember), but it
kernel-benh-2.4.20-1mdk.ppc.rpm
Works mostly fine. Only troubles so far were:
o When installing it with urpmi, it complains about unresolved symbols in
lib/modules/2.4.20-benh-1mdk/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.o
o When booting it for the first time, it complains about not being able to
write to
OK - so it sounds like we need the radeon driver from Ben's kernel, or an
alternate kernel. I've been putting together an alternative Benh-Mdk
kernel, which I think I'll provide as an alternative install/system
kernel. Would you like to test it?
Sure. Just tell me where to get it.
clock : 667MHz
bogomips: 665.19
(That 667MHz puzzles me. This machine is supposed to run at 867MHz - is this
some power saving feature that only MacOS knows how to turn off?)
I wouldn't sweat the bogomips, it's not all that reliable anyway.
I wasn't referring to the
Hmm, cat /proc/fb should also be informative.
Here:
0 OFfb /pci@f000/ATY,XiaParent@10/ATY,
I can't make much sense of this, can you?
Looks like your booting with some video=ofonly arguments or something?
o An excerpt from dmesg:
...
Using unsupported 1280x854 ATY,Xia_A at
If you happen to be up and running, could you post the output of:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
I'm halfways up and running. Enough to have a look at cpuinfo. Here:
cpu : 7455, altivec supported
temperature : 53 C (uncalibrated)
clock : 667MHz
revision: 3.2 (pvr 8001
There is radeon support for the card/display in the first TiBooks that
used radeon, that was the latest machine ( th eLCD iMac) at the time 8.2
was created. I have an Xconfig for the 1280x854 if you want it, but I
don't think it will help you in terms of the install.
Yes, there have also been
5) The BootX installer package doesn't work with languages other than English.
Error scenario: The BootX installer is an AppleScript that is used for
automating the BootX settings; when it is run on a Macintosh that uses a
language other than English, an error message appears: Sorry, can't
The ramdisk size is setup by the current Applescript
Size yes, but not location. The location of the ramdisk is stored as an
absolute path in the BootX Settings file, so this only works if the user by
accident has the ramdisk in the same place as you had it when you made the
settings file,
Because of the various flaws of the OldWorld-Installer-Applescript I've
decided to write my own version:
http://www.n.ethz.ch/student/walthec/mandrake-install.sit
Have a look at it. It should have no problems with international systems, it
should find the necessary files on its own (and asks
I have a PowerMac 440/160, when I lunch Mandrake Linx Install.sit, I have
an error -39... what do I must do ??
I've seen this on the 7600 too. Not sure what it means, but I was able to
open the .sit by dropping it on Stuffit Expander, or opening Stuffit
Expander and then selecting the
In the case of Gnome, the 'bonobo-moniker' keeps crashing. Whatever that is.
And of course, that brings down other things such as the background applet,
etc... But at least Gnome doesn't really crash. Anyway, that's unacceptable.
I'm having this problem too. Everytime I start Gnome, I get a
I must admit I'm not an expert in keycodes, but anyway, what I wrote
works! ;-)
Examining your proposition, it seems you can either use macintosh and
macintosh/xx or macintosh_old and xx, respectively for XkbModel and
XkbLayout. But you can't use macintosh_old and macintosh/xx it seems, as
I just finished configuring my keyboard to my full contentment, but it
involved a bit of hacking on which the experts out there might want to
comment. I'm quite a newbie concerning Linux, so I might have done some
things in a less-than-optimal way.
I want my keyboard (Swiss German layout, by the
some apps will launch from a shell or the run command dialog but not from
the menu... particularly galeon and mozilla do this.
Same thing for me. I've just deleted soundwrapper from the menu command in
menu editor, and now it works. I've never tried playing sound in mozilla
though.
But when i try to burn CD ROM with toast, it does work .
First i see that name is too long (BEWARE ANY NAME event in CD should be
less than 32 caracters).
two what option should i use ? (alias resolution ?) and repertorie name
? )
What is the name of CD ROM (? i get CD ROM ?)
o Does Linux have any way of knowing the hostname that was set in MacOS X??
When starting Linux, my Powerbook suddenly had the hostname CWalthers
PowerBook G3 that I had given it in MacOS X instead of the normal
localhost, and I'm pretty sure that I had never mentioned CWalthers
PowerBook G3
Two issues that I recently encountered with 8.2b1 on my Wallstreet
Powerbook:
o Does Linux have any way of knowing the hostname that was set in MacOS X??
When starting Linux, my Powerbook suddenly had the hostname CWalthers
PowerBook G3 that I had given it in MacOS X instead of the normal
I am not able to boot the 82 beta cdrom I verified the checksums of the
iso's prior to burning and they appeared to burn ok If I hold the C key,
the mac os (81) on the hd still boots If I hold the C key and have the
mac os cd in, the mac os cd boots
HW Config:
PowerMac 7600/132 with
I just downloaded what i thought was a disk image of a cd
(MandrakePPC-8.0-inst.ppc.iso) but it comes up as a netscape file which
is pure code.
That does not necessarily mean it's corrupted. Check the MD5 sums! A utility
for mac that can do this is Shorten, available from
If you were using SCSI drives, you would need the initrd. You can get
around it by specifying root=/dev/XXX in the kernel arguments.
Ah, OK. Thanks for the info.
Gnome is known to be broken in the beta. Apparently it was on x86 too,
and I inherted some of their issues, plus some libraries
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