Re: RC1 ISOs

2003-03-07 Thread Robert Shade
ISOs went to Paris, someone may even move them to the mirrors someday :) Thank you! (And I thought I wouldn't have anything to do this weekend. ;) ) rob

Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2

2003-03-05 Thread Robert Shade
going through drakconnect, i use the wizard, and select only adsl (is this right?) and put in my details... the same one's that work fine in OS X. it tries to connect, after 15seconds or so fails. it sends some data upstream and i can see it on the net monitor as well as the data led on the

Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2

2003-03-05 Thread Robert Shade
does the network need to be restarted? can this make a difference? Yes it does. If it ever asks you to do this (unless you actually have a good connection and are downloading something) do it. There are some network configuration changes that can only be applied by restarting the network.

Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2

2003-03-05 Thread Robert Shade
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:21 am, entropy wrote: i'm not sure i have the line you're talking about in my conf file i defintetly don't have anything that says NOTFOUND there are a couple of lines near the end that are for pppd extra arguments and pppoe extra arguments, but i don't think

Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2

2003-03-05 Thread Robert Shade
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:58 am, entropy wrote: i get a repeating execvp: no such file or directory Yeah that's what I got when the PPPD entry was wrong. Are you sure that there is no PPPD= line in /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf? If there isn't then you could try putting one in there, or wait for

Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2

2003-03-05 Thread Robert Shade
i just dumred pppd=/usr/sbin/pppd into the pppoe.conf and everything is sweet! Great! i was wondering, should i be doing to the kernal? i want hfsplus support, and i'm a little confused about what exactly is going on there. all the references i checked in google are really old. the binary of

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-04 Thread Robert Shade
Up now: Thanks. Built up from ben7 Works Great! Running at full power now. :) Robert, If you have the time/inclination, it would be nice to get the graphical install working on the 12. If you have a space to setup an nfs or HD install, we could work with the perl code a bit and see if

Re: pppoe on mandrake 9.1b2

2003-03-04 Thread Robert Shade
I am having trouble making the pppoe connection at install time. it goes into hard lock as soon as i press ok... i have tried with both ethernet and adsl enabled as well as just adsl. Yeah I had this happen with my PowerBook. (Stew: Could this possibly turn out to be a laptop specific

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Shade
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/kernel-benh-2.4.20-5mdk.ppc.rpm Thanks. I updated to this, but /proc/cpufreq is still not there. Could there be some kind of boot option I'm missing? I checked for any relavent modules, but didn't find any. FYI: I was reading

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Shade
Serge Blondin wrote: Steve refer to me, when he talk about getting this work... And I'm pretty sure that is machine dependant like Steve said beceause not all mainboard could support this What kind of hardware do you have? Are there any other laptop users that out there that can

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Shade
Christian Walther wrote: 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. Hmm.. That's really strange. I have the 12 version of

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Shade
Hmm.. That's really strange. I have the 12 version of that (non-Ti) I wouldn't think that the MB hardware could be that different. Well to answer my own question, I guess they might. http://www.brodo.de/cpufreq/kernel_ppc.html rob (Wishing he was a kernel guru)

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Shade
I apologize for spamming. I should learn to research more before pushing Send. According to this: http://ppc.bkbits.net:8080/linuxppc_2_4_benh/diffs/arch/ppc/platforms/[EMAIL PROTECTED]|src/|src/arch|src/arch/ppc|src/arch/ppc/platforms|hist/arch/ppc/platforms/pmac_cpufreq.c 4 weeks ago cpufreq

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Shade
Sure, Thanks. I'm not updating the BOOT kernel though, unless absolutely necessary. I'm trying to get an RC1 ISO out, and I don't want to go back over that portion, as I currently seem to have 2 good BOOT kernels (benh mdk, 3 I guess counting rs6k). Yeah sure. Installation shouldn't be resouce

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Shade
rsyncing from BenH now. Where are the kernel-benh packages? I can't find them in the RPMS or contrib RPMS directories of my mirror (carroll). rob

Re: Bugzilla

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Shade
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/drakxtools-9.1-11mdk.p pc.rpm http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/drakxtools-newt-9.1-11 mdk.ppc.rpm http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/libeel2_2-2.2.1-1mdk.p pc.rpm

Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Shade
I was reading through the gentoo ppc faq at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-faq.xml If you look at part 2 (Laptop Support) you'll see that when apple's laptops boot up they're automatically set at reduced processor speed. I won't repeat what is already in that document but what I can

Bugzilla

2003-03-01 Thread Robert Shade
Does Mandrakesoft have a bugzilla system set up? I have some issues to report and I wasn't sure of the proper place to send them. rob

Re: Bugzilla

2003-03-01 Thread Robert Shade
And the discussion comes full circle. :( Sorry. I wasn't reading the other thread because it seemed more political/philisophical then technological. I would have uploaded that yesterday. I do it in batches by day. Where it goes after that, who knows? (Actually, I do know, it ends up in

Re: Bugzilla

2003-03-01 Thread Robert Shade
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/XFree86-4.3-1mdk.ppc.r pm Thanks. I'm bailing on the rest of the discussion. I really don't need to be re-aggravating myself over this stuff. If you find other critical things you're lacking, let me know and I'll throw them on my web

Re: Bugzilla

2003-03-01 Thread Robert Shade
If you find other critical things you're lacking, let me know and I'll throw them on my web space. Need these as well. drakxtools-newt == 9.1-7mdk is needed by drakxtools-9.1-7mdk libeel2_2 = 2.2.1 is needed by nautilus-2.2.1-4mdk ldetect-lst = 0.1.7-3mdk is needed by

Re: 9.1 on Powerbook G4 12'

2003-02-28 Thread Robert Shade
yes, the portion for the video adapter. lspcidrake -v unknown : unknown (106b/0034//) unknown : unknown (10de/0179/de10/1000) unknown : unknown (106b/0035//) unknown : unknown (106b/003e//) unknown : unknown (106b/003f//)

Re: 9.1 on Powerbook G4 12'

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Shade
Mostly I'm interested in the video card line. Sounds like ldetect-lst has a bad entry for it. (From /proc/pci) Bus 0, device 16, function 0: VGA Compatable controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go 64M] (rev 163). IRQ 48. Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=5.Max

Re: 9.1 on Powerbook G4 12

2003-02-25 Thread Robert Shade
PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 Just thinking that you might want to update the FAQ to say something about all previous releases (Any previous Linux PPC distro for that matter) will not work with these New New World machines. The 14 and 17 powerbooks are the only ones i