May 2001 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: strange kernel messages
by MAHRF＠de.ibm.com 10 May '01

10 May '01

Hi! Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't 40cm (about 16") the maximum cable length for EIDE cables? Especially for UDMA connections? That would explain that your drives work now. Ferdinand Mahr Am Mit, 09 Mai 2001 schrieb Olaf Hering: > What kernel do you use? > I recommend the 2.4.2 kernel, the used CMD646 controller is broken and > works only with 2.2.16 and 2.4.2. > > > Gruss Olaf Until now I tried 2.2.16, 2.2.18 and 2.4.2! I got a hint from Jochen Hoffmann. He told me they had similar problems with two IBM DTLA-305040 (same family as mine) on AMD K7 computers running SuSE 6.4. Kernel update from 2.2.18 to 2.2.19 solved his problem and as a work around he turned off dma support. So I installed 2.2.18 and 2.4.2 but the error messages still occurred. Then I turned off UDMA of the DTLA-307030 and for the first time these kernel messages disappeared (with kernel 2.2.16 or 2.4.2). It must be a data transfer problem. After shortening the UltraATA cable from 24" to 12" I turned on again UDMA Mode 2. It works well since five hours. I only get a nfsserver failure during bootup with kernel 2.4.2: Starting kernel based NFS serverlockdsvc: Invalid argument .....failed and a few new kernel messages: May 9 19:46:46 MacHu8 inetd[395]: swat/tcp (2): bind: Address already in use May 9 19:47:37 MacHu8 /usr/sbin/gpm[637]: Error in protocol I'm not sure why this cable shortening works. Why should a longer cable support one UDMA/33 drive and another on the same cable won't work? And what about my CMD646? In which way is it broken? Regards, Micha

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Re: Sound and Boot Priority for 7.1
by Michel Pape 10 May '01

10 May '01

Hi Ola, > Second: with 7.0 I changed the boot priority to MacOS by > swapping lines in the os.chooser file so I had to press the space bar > to launch Linux. This doesn't seem to function anymore with 7.1. In > fact 7.1 seems to ignore the os.chooser file. I'm currently stuck > with Linux as the default OS. How do I switch it to default to MacOS? I experienced the same problem just recently when I updated from 7.0 to 7.1 and wanted to re-use my old os.chooser file. I managed to have the open firmware become aware of my os.chooser file by removing the Mac OS Rom file from the suseboot folder (and of course marking the os.chooser file as tbxi). At least this worked for me on my Powerbook G3 Pismo. It does indeed seem that the os.chooser file was ignored when the Mac OS Rom file was present. Cheers, Michel Visual Systems GmbH Email: pape(a)vsys.de Web: www.vsys.de

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trouble running smc etherpower II (9432TX) under suse 6.4 and 7.1
by Timo Sch=?ISO-8859-1?B?9g==?=ler 10 May '01

10 May '01

hello out there, i have lots of trouble trying to use my second eth interface under suse linux, both 6.4 and 7.1. this is concerning my home server (and every other mac i set up with suse linux 'til now) with the following unspectacular config: power mac 8200/120, one 1,2gb scsi hd (apple built in), one 4,5gb scsi hd (/home), 64 megs of ram (ok ok, it's not my g4 with 1gig ;), on board 10mbit eth (=eth0, works fine unless its pretty slow), one smc etherpower 10/100 (9432TX/MP) via the 'epic 100' module. (if i does work after your hints i guess i'll give it a second to manage nfs for my sun machine... ;) this seems to be pretty normal. everything works fine until you try to activate this smc card to work as the eth1 interface -- there's no difference trying device eth0 for the card. restarting the network (to enable eth1=smc) results in a hanging machine which is not only dead on the console, but also doesn't answer pings nor is reachable via telnet. you have to reset the machine. ***my question now is: did anyone successful use this card under (suse) linux?*** i tried to use this card on a power mac with netbsd -- no problem there... because it's a pretty good card, i think ;) tia for your answers and greetz, timo (aka Pansen)

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[suse-ppc] for mail filter
by Achim Kleinmann 10 May '01

10 May '01

hello, wouldn't it be nice, to have a subject, that begins with for example [suse-ppc] or so, please, please, please... it makes things so much easier ciao achim kleinmann

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PPC-irDA and mobile phones
by Martin Kloss 10 May '01

10 May '01

Hi everyone, I'm trying to collect some information on Linux-irDA and using it in connection with mobile phones. I checked the irDA project site at sourceforge but couldn't really find any helpful information on this subject. As I understood the current kernel already supports the irDA protocols (not sure which ones, though), but couldn't find any tools apart from Palm related stuff. In this case, I'm using a nokia 8210 and I'd love to connect through the irDA port. Does anyone know of any tools or libs (so I can roll my own) around? cheers, Martin. Martin Kloss martin.kloss(a)triquart.de ************************ Triquart, Hamburg Bellealliancestr.17 20259 Hamburg Germany Tel.+49 (40)432 923-0 Fax +49 (40)432 923-23 ************************* "Lingo objektorientiert" Das Buch zum Autor jetzt bestellen unter: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3934358322/lingmmugd

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Trouble running SuSE7.0 with OrangeLink Firewire/USB PCI Card installed
by Marc Jaeckle 10 May '01

10 May '01

Hi everyone, a couple of days ago I installed an OrangeLink Firewire/USB PCI Card in my beige G3 (266MT). Since then I haven't been able to boot into an existing SuSE 7.0 installation. I tried quite a few precompiled kernels (SuSE 2.2.14, SuSE 2.2.16, SuSE 2.2.18, SuSE 2.4.1, SuSE, 2.4.2, a couple of kernels from Benjamin Herrenschmidt and others) and none did work except for the official 2.2.19 kernel. Even that one only works after a cold restart. I wouldn't mind using that kernel but since using it my mouse stopped working under linux completly and I can't convince it to work. Any ideas? (I only want my mouse back - I'm not asking for a way how to use USB or Firewire under Linux) Gruss Marc

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HFS+
by Doug Edwards 10 May '01

10 May '01

Is there any way of reading HFS+ partitions from linux? -- Dr Doug Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science Room IT 210, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, U.K. Tel: (+44) 161 275 6191 Mobile: 07968 799 336 email: doug(a)cs.man.ac.uk FAX: (+44) 161 275 6204 The box said 'Requires Windows 95, or better.' So I bought a Macintosh.

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emulation mouse button
by Tomek 10 May '01

10 May '01

Hi! I have a question: How to emulate 2 and 3 mouse button on iMac and PowerMac G3? Thomas

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insmod keybdev failed
by Bernd Ulrich 10 May '01

10 May '01

Hi, as i connected an USB barcode reader on the USB-port, i got the following error message: unresolved symbol mac_hid_mouse_emulate_buttons unresolved symbol macv_hid_keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes insmod /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/input/keybdev.o failed insmod keybdev failed i'm using an iBook with SuSE 7.1 and Kernel 2.4.2 What can i do to let it work ? The barcode reader works with keyboard emulation and works fine on MacOS. thanks for reply, Bernd Ulrich

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PM 9600 and 7.1
by alexei＠surfhorse.tailie.net 10 May '01

10 May '01

Much to my shock and surprise, when I purchased SuSE 7.0, it was only -after- I made the purchase that I found out that the kernel as shipped didn't support both PCI busses in my PM 9600. So now, I guess I have to ask: is it supported? I can't, for the life of me, find an entry in any of the knowledgebases, so I'm wondering- anyone out there know? Alexei

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