e issues as winmodems.
> 3) I sometimes use an external monitor. The monitor plugs into a port that
> sort of looks like a USB port. Works fine under OS/X but is not recognized by
> Linux.
>
No experience with that, sorry.
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On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Brook Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 14 April 2002 11:24 am, Stew Benedict wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Brook Humphrey wrote:
> > > On Sunday 14 April 2002 10:31 am, Stew Benedict wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Brook Humphrey wrote:
>
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Brook Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 14 April 2002 10:31 am, Stew Benedict wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Brook Humphrey wrote:
> > > I've been doing linux for at least 5 years now but never on the ppc.
> > >
> > > Having said that n
://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/temp/tutorialsPPC/Install/pages/install5B.html
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#x27;s hfsplusutils. Yes I
believe it is read only, although I thought Dan Burcaw of YDL told me he
was using it to write files to an iPod (maybe a newer version?)
Name: hfsplusutils
Version : 1.0.2
Description :
A portable, free implementation of routines for accessing HFS+ volumes.
appears disk access of any sort leads to a pnaic.
> Still some time left this weekend.."the show must go on"
> Michael
>
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On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Anne et Bertrand wrote:
> Le 2002.04.12 21:12, Stew Benedict a écrit :
> > On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Kener, Andy wrote:
> >
> > > Is there support in the default 2.4 kernel included in 8.2rc2 for ext3
> > > filesystems? if no one knows, ho
buttons. By default it's F11, F12.
[stew@powerbook-cooker bin]$ cat /etc/sysctl.conf
dev.mac_hid.mouse_button_emulation = 1
dev.mac_hid.mouse_button2_keycode = 87
dev.mac_hid.mouse_button3_keycode = 88
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Linux
can't mount those partitions, only HFS.
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ason for trying
> Mandrake on this box as it is unsupported in OSX. Not only was this old
> workhorse auto detected by name at boot, it worked in Kooka the first
> time I tried it!
>
> Some little oddities here and there, but I haven't really spent enough
> time on it to tr
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Kener, Andy wrote:
> Is there support in the default 2.4 kernel included in 8.2rc2 for ext3
> filesystems? if no one knows, how do i check?
>
ext3, reiser, jfs and xfs
You just need to be careful on Oldworld if you setup "/" as journal
grep fileutils
> fileutils-4.1.5-2mdk
>
>
It's very common that the kernels don't always compile on PPC, until I
submit patches back to Juan for the next iteration. Since I haven't been
pursuing cooker, I haven't even looked at them. At a rough estimate, I'd
sa
But
> since x86 cooker has marched on I doubt the SRPM is still on the
> mirrors.
>
I still have it (6.1mdk actually), if you need it. Or build from
kernel-source.
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ps
might be available for PPC Linux, those references would be great too.
Thanks!
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e someone will be dissappointed in their favorite
being missing, but a fair amount of stuff is there.
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his a few times, there is no room. We are
frozen at 2 ISO's, and there won't be any new pakages added.
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gt;
I used to host it there, then was told I shouldn't be hosting large files
from that location, and it was moved. I never updated to the latest
version, so you'll need to download from yellowdog or SuSE. It's all the
same package anyway, we were just all hosting it
oot prompt:
"install-gui hda=16383,16,64"
HTH,
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ernel
options that can be passed for ide:
hda=noprobe
ide0=dma
There are others, looking at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt, but
these seemed the most appropriate. If we're not picking anything up for
ide0/hda in dmesg, then all bets are off to continue the install.
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-
oned. You should probably do an expert install and and add this
to your kernel arguments for yaboot too, if that's the case.
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On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
> I will have a look at it one of these days, do you happen to have the link for
> the (old) netatalk homepage ?
>
> Thank you !
>
man pap
On your system, after netatlk is installed. Thanks Christiaan, I didn't
know about
vice sda: 78165360 512-byte hdwr sectors (40021 MB)
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4
If you get this far, then "cdrecord -scanbus" will give you the info as to
which device to use for recording.
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t. It's quite sizable and takes
some time, but if it works we can put it up on the mirrors.
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-6mdk versioning. Everything but headers is generated from
1 build, headers are built with glibc.
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zilla is called with soundwrapper, which
seems to never return. You can remove the soundwrapper prefix for now,
I'll look at it tomorrow and see what's up with it.
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On 11 Apr 2002, Nick Texidor wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 11:08, Stew Benedict wrote:
> > Umm, I meant from what is already there on the mirrors - no new packages.
> > there's a flash player out there on the net, but it's not real great.
>
> Yeah, I figu
as primarily working
with the ati drivers. It just happens that everything gets rebuilt in the
process.
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the CD's for me. They
> charge for this service, and I was wondering whether a new set of ISO's
> would be made available soon, or whether it was worth paying for the
> ones released a couple of weeks ago.
>
I'd wait.
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ourse start the
> Navigator, too.
>
Haven't seen this myself, but I'll check on the last install I did.
> - The text cursor seems to be less jumpy after having typed "trackpad
> notap" in the console. Obviously there is a connection :-)
>
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he fact that the hda device was missing :(
> If I get a chance I'll try an install again and post all the ide
> messages.
>
Interesting. One way to keep folks from putting Linux on their Apples ;^)
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pmud?i
> ask because i've found a number of files relating to pmud.
>
/etc/power/pwrctl, where you'll read about creating a local
/etc/power/pwrctl-local
also /etc/sysconfig/power
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On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Johanna Pink wrote:
> Ben Reser wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:57:35AM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote:
> >
> >>Colin (and anyone else that cares to try it),
> >>
> >>I patched in some power management items from Ben's
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Paul Sabatino wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Paul Sabatino wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Stew Benedict wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On 10 Apr 2002, Paul Sabatino wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm trying to install 8.2b2
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Johanna Pink wrote:
> Johanna Pink wrote:
>
> > Ben Reser wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:57:35AM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote:
> >>
> >>> Colin (and anyone else that cares to try it),
> >>>
> >&
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Ben Reser wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:57:35AM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote:
> >
> > Colin (and anyone else that cares to try it),
> >
> > I patched in some power management items from Ben's latest rsync. I tried
> > to li
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Ben Reser wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 07:20:54AM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote:
> >
> > For those of you concerned with conventional pc-style apm, apm_emu is
> > built as a kernel module. You can have this loaded at boot by adding i
ded.
Note: I'm not entertaining any suggestions of moving items from CD1 to
CD2, CD1 is pretty much frozen.
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/rpmslist
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which allows a piece of hardware I own to
work. Snooze is working here (but it did before for me).
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/kernel-2.4.18.6.2mdk-1-1mdk.ppc.rpm
Feedback appreciated,
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On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Colin Ward wrote:
> Ben Reser wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:50:22AM +0100, Colin Ward wrote:
> >
> >>>Stew Benedict
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Yes steve, would love to do that for you. Let m
option that might help it find the correct device?
>
Generally there is no magic involved in finding an IDE hard drive. IDE
support is built into the kernel. hdb on the iBook is the CD right?
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u may need to add this to modules.conf:
below sbp2 ohci1394
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don't know of any method to speak directly to an Appletalk
printer. I have mine hanging off a print server, connected to ethernet.
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er 1.4, it
doesn't use bonobo-moniker-archiver, just plain flat files for config
data, so that aspect goes away, although some other gnome programs still
use it, I believe.
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l/contrib/ppc/
> and there are a number of things that begin cd-, but i'm not sure whats
> what. Sorry to be a pain
> Colin
>
No Prob, I'm not seeing it either. Try this:
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/xmms-cdread-0.14a-2mdk.ppc.rpm
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cording to artsd --help. What I did to change it is use the
kde control center, then a kcmartsrc file is created with those settings.
KDE Control Center | Sound | Sound Server | Sound I/O | Sound Quality
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know that they're involved in your problem or not, but it's worth
a try.
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CD's.
> > It's also known that xmms and supermount are somewhat less than
> > compatible. These issues also exist on x86. I tested the cdreader plugin
> > on the TiBook Phil lent me, and it seemed to work fine.
> >
> Ok, where do i get the CD reader plug-in
tp ...Mandrake-devel/contrib > ls
RPMS/SRPMS/ alpha/ i586@others/ ppc/ sparc/
ncftp ...Mandrake-devel/contrib > pwd
ftp://ftp.proxad.net/mirrors/ftp.mandrake-linux.com/Mandrake-devel/contrib/
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>
> k, finally in X with the right resolution.
> try to open evolution and it gave me some cryptic message:
> libcamellocal.so could not be loaded...
> whatever that was.
>
Evolution has been shakey all along. Half the releases didn't build at
all. Ximian just a few days ago responded to my bug report of 2002-02-12
07:46 with little more advice than to try building with gcc3.x, which
isn't really an option. I have seen that once you get your local mailboxes
setup this seems to go away.
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e fixes, none worked. I'm trying some others at present time.
But he thought it was isolated to the iMacs. Do you have dri enabled?
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tries a bulk transfer to the printer, which failed, then tried a
couple of passes of setting controls to re-attempt the data transfer. If
you're getting your print jobs OK, I wouldn't worry about it too much,
it's just debugging information.
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tion between the CDROM and soundcard
on newer machines and you have to use the cdreader plugin to play CD's.
It's also known that xmms and supermount are somewhat less than
compatible. These issues also exist on x86. I tested the cdreader plugin
on the TiBook Phil lent me, and it seemed to work fine.
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For those of you concerned with conventional pc-style apm, apm_emu is
built as a kernel module. You can have this loaded at boot by adding it
in /etc/modules:
apm_emu
This enables you to use the KDE battery monitor etc.
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ep USB
There should be a printer driver module loaded:
/lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/printer.o.gz
(use /sbin/lsmod to verify)
Anyone else with USB printers that are working?
> I haven't tried burning CDs yet - I hope that works without too much
> hassle? Mandrake
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Henrik Edlund wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Stew Benedict wrote:
>
> SB> Also added "Enter" as a mouse button emulation choice.
>
> I believe the designation of that key is "KP_ENTER", so naming it "Keypad
> Enter" would
ages? I just ran it here on a clean install as of this morning
(essentially beta2, but with the gnome-control-center fix), and it seems
to be working. (iMac RevB)
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try, looks like fallout from the
supermount syntax in fstab:
[Desktop Entry]
Dev=fs=iso9660
Change this to something more realistic, like /dev/cdrom, and eject will
work. Still looking for the root cause for a permanent fix.
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eo=arguments for some time. You certainly
don't need them just to boot the machine. What is the problem - X?
Please send:
dmesg | grep fb
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RSET=vim ... and later
> after that where it says: loadkeys it will load compose.vim.inc.gz .
> That would be great for us Vim users who already know our diagraphs :-)
>
Don't know - isn't anything PPC specific.
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gt;
> As a result line 243 in util-linux.spec should be changed from:
> %ifnarch s390 s390x
> to
> %ifnarch s390 s390x ppc
>
> to prevent kbdrate from being built on ppc.
>
Will do - thanks Ben.
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you add the Enter key (key code 96) to the installer (I
> think the Apple key is there but if it isn't would you add that too...
> 125)
>
Will do Ben, Thanks!
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512 @ 800
> 8:Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1312
> 9:Apple_HFS ibook_119534128 @ 1824 (
> 9.3G)
>10: Apple_Free 0+@ 19535952
>
0 bytes of Apple_Free would tend to be a problem.
nstall? There isn't even a login nor a prompt like
that. Or are you in OSX?
> So, I tried using some other devices, and it seems that this actually
> returned something:
>
> [cmimac:~] molnarc% sudo pdisk /dev/rdisk0 -diskSize
> 19077
> [cmimac:~] molnarc%
>
St
eatly from the
physical keyboard markings on non-US keyboards, making for a confusing
experience. I mistakenly assumed the physical layout, of say a French
keyboard, would be similar on a Mac, as it is on a PC, but that is not the
case apparently.
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/dev/hda
in the console shell?
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rl-alt-F1...).
>
> I thought all of these keystrokes were made consistent with x86 in this
> version?
>
I didn't change the keymapping on the install, it's still
Command(Apple)-Control-F1, F2 etc (also Fn is needed on a laptop).
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hardware, and have gotten some, for brief periods of time, but nowhere
near the kind of lab you really need to solidly support the platform.
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ng to X
working properly on a handful of ATI cards. You should also see that from
the people talking about kernel panics with mac53c94, when I can load up
the same kernel/driver on a 7600 with no issue.
I see plenty of horror stories on the x86 side too, and have experienced
them myself. I don't think any OS is going to be flawless on every
piece of hardware out there.
That said, I do appreciate any feedback that's given here. Sometime's the
timing's not right to fully address the issue, but I do what I can.
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it may be. If you know for sure
it's not then go for it. On the 7600, the external SCSI connector is
mac53c94.
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> IMO it's not nearly ready for a final release because
> of the many problems, but I think others don't feel
> that way (and of course, it's not my decision anyway).
>
I guess I'm not aware of the many problems. I believe I've addressed most
everything repor
stalled? What package
> do I have to chose in order to get them? I chose the scientific one,
> office etc. but Lyx/Latex don't seem to have been installed.
>
You can always install additional packages from the CDs.
> My printer (lexmark Z42) wasn't detected - I suppose I
rnel/installer to succesfully install on the 7600 that Phil sent me.
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ackdrake
command to remove something from the archive, so you may have a probelm
there.
In both cases, depending on the type of install, you may need to bunzip2
mdkinst_stage2.bz2 and make the same changes there.
If you don't already have a linux environment of some type, both of th
controller, it may be one of the hard
drives that's triggering the panic.
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On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Michael Hamlin wrote:
>
> On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Stew Benedict wrote:
>
> > Have you verified that the CD can be read from LinuxPPC? Are there any
> > other special drivers that are being loaded in LinuxPPC for that drive?
>
> I have verified th
est challenge among the masses in userland is trying to
> get meaningful bug reports in a timely manner... I mean, people are always
> mentioning how fast linux developers patch things. I'll say! Normally, it's
> me who's behind *G*.
>
> Stew, you don't by a
weeks. You are correct though, the module name has changed
again.
>
> Keep up the great work on this awesome distro! People's jaws drop went I
> open up this G3 Powerbook and proceed to administer the network, control an
> NT domain, and db web apps.
>
> Love it!
some time on various partitions,
both get hit pretty hard as I'm building the distro on them. No issues
to date. The one downside of xfs is the size of the kernel module, nearly
4MB.
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able to get a reboot
>(init 6) when I
> hit a key combination, but was unable to kill the application with CTRL/C.
>
No lockup here on the 7600, but it switches VT's doing some sort of
EGA/VGA probe, then segfaults. Runs OK on the NewWorld machines. Looks
like it could use some more refinement on OldWorld.
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e 2 CD's isn't omitting any
libraries or packages that may be getting masked when I do and NFS install
using the whole tree.
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gt; michael
>
> PS I have a working LinuxPPC distribution on other partitions...
> and I have no hardware problems.
>
Have you verified that the CD can be read from LinuxPPC? Are there any
other special drivers that are being loaded in LinuxPPC for that drive?
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System Folder, or hand edit ofboot.b. (you'll
then need to remember a ybin run will wipe it out). Then as long as you
never run the MacOS routine to switch back and forth, you would be OK.
Another option would be a MacOS based app, like nvsetenv that we use in
Linux (build it for OSX?), that can fix the OF entry to point back to
ofboot.b.
HTH,
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please tell me I'm wrong!
>
I suspect it's a mistake. Definitely not an "out-of-the-box" supported
machine. I don't recall anyone on here mentioning success with one.
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USB printers, mine are networked, but they got setup OK.
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27;ll need to
put a disk in and do:
pdisk -l /dev/sda
and see what partition has the data (there may be some MacOS driver
partitions, like on your hard drive)
hopefully it's formatted hfs, then you can cahnge the fstab entry
appropriately, with hfs as the filesystem type, rather than vfa
er the number was ( in my case I had
> memory so I just put 32768 and that did it ).
>
If you use the Applescript wrapper, you don't need to change the ramdisk
size, note the "ramdisk_size=34000" in the kernel arguments. BootX does
not save that setting, so this was my wor
video=" options, with no
improvement, before I remembered making that change in MacOS a couple of
days ago. I went back to MacOS and put it back to 1024x768, rebooted into
the installer and things were fine again.
HTH,
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On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, rami wrote:
> Stew Benedict wrote:
>
> >You don't say what kind of Mac, but only NewWorld machines can boot from
> >the CD.
> >
> >Stew Benedict
> >
> Stew, in that case what are the options for an owner of an Old World
> mac
y if they are on seperate
partitions. I haven't used OSX myself. Have you tried the method of
holding down "Option" at boot and see if OS9 and OSX and Linux are
offered?
Stew Benedict
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suggestions?
>
You don't say what kind of Mac, but only NewWorld machines can boot from
the CD.
Stew Benedict
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On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Stephen wrote:
> Got it. Thanks heaps for your help.
>
> Running very sweet.
>
> Stew Benedict wrote:
>
>
> >>Install BootX: move the BootX entension, Linux kernels and ?? to the
> >>System Folder. See the BootX docs.
> >>
of XFree or both with
appropriate patches or compile options, but what those are for your
particular case, I don't know.
Stew Benedict
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mdk 8.0 installed, but when it runs Aurora it locks up. I have tryed
> to enter 'single' and 'linux single' in bootx kernel args but I can't get
> into single user mode.
>
Adding "textboot" to your kernel arguments will bypass Aurora.
Stew Benedict
--
MandrakeSoft
PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
;/usr/bin/sound-properties-control" Segfaults, and Crashes.
Same problem as above.
(if I start
> in KDE I get the error "SNDCTL_DSP_SETMFT" Failed -Invalid Argument, the
> sound server will continue to use the null output device.)
>
Switch artsd to 8 bit sound.
>
No such file or directory)
>
> Please advise, how to fix the module loading problem?
>
Use the correct kernel and initrd. You're using the installer kernel to
boot the system. See the BootX folder for the kernel and initrd to use
for the installed system.
Stew Benedict
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MandrakeSoft
PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
t of drivers to choose from. I have no clue which one but one of
> them describes my machine correctly but it still does not accept it. My
> machine BTW cannot boot into open firmware
>
> Any idea what to do any one?
Typically mesh or mac53c94 are good choices on older machines.
Stew
dk --with=ext3
I just checked the script and it checks /proc/mounts, rather than fstab,
so to be sure, you should probably call for ext3 specifically.
Stew Benedict
--
MandrakeSoft
PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
st me/my ISP, but this URL isn't working.I'd
> love to
> test this though.
>
He has the full packages up there now:
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/~baudens/ppc/
Stew Benedict
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On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Henrik Farre wrote:
> Yello
>
> On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 14:19:43 -0500 (EST)
> Stew Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > That should be enough. It could be something in the mdk kernel and your
> > hardware, or something else going on.
load up, via yaboot or whatever. You might be able to do
> this from an hfs partition and OF:
>
> Make an hfs partition.
> Put the contents of /boot of the CD on it. (ftp from another machine?)
> Boot from OF using boot hd:X,\\:yaboot (X=partition number you created)
>
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