June 2001 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [suse-ppc] XFree 4.1 for PPC - when ? [Resend]
by Olaf Hering 19 Jun '01

19 Jun '01

On Tue, Jun 19, Andrei Verovski wrote: > >>>> This is a resend of a message originally sent on > >>>> Saturday, June 16, 2001 13:20:42 > > >I will hack that PCI id into the driver, but I dont know if it works. > >Maybe I can get one of these macs to test it. > > > > I will test on iBook Indigo r128 mobility and report back (4.02 doe not > work on myiBook, but 4.01 does). > > > I am STRONGLY recommend to create XF86Config submission directory for > Power Macs and Apple Portables, since sax2 and all other aut-config tools > produce nothing but garbled screen. I would rather fix sax2 to to the right thing on the given machine. Can you send me a few files? dmesg output the file /var/log/SaX.log after a `sax2 -af` run lspci -n output cat /proc/cpuinfo output cat /proc/version output Does startx work after a `sax2 -af` run? Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

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XFree 4.1 - no luck again
by Andrei Verovski 19 Jun '01

19 Jun '01

Hi, I am just upgraded from XFree 4.01 to 4.1 (4.02 did not work at all), and got almost the same problem, however, I went a little bit further. Modules libramdac and libxaa seem to be loaded fine. The log says it all: Symbol drmScatterGatherFree from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol drmScatterGatherAlloc from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved! Please note that I have installed ALL SuSE XFree packages. Its seems drm is something like direct rendering manager? I do not have dri compiled into my kernel, is that the cause of this problem? If yes, how to disable it at all? I am need X just working, no blazing fast video required. Also, I have specified r128 driver in my xf86config, not r128_drv. If I enable usefbdev option in config, XFree seem to be do not correctly recognize resolution or refresh, screen is garbled with diagonal colored lines. This all happens on Apple iBook Indigo wir rage 128 mobility and 8 mb vram. Thanks in advance for any suggestion. ************************************************* * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * e-mail --- mac.guru(a)bigfoot.com * * * * Personal Home Page * * http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/ * *************************************************

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Re: [suse-ppc] 7.2 for PowerPC
by Andrei Verovski 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

Hi, If dual booting work, and MacOS is booted only if space kay is pressed, you need just edit os-chooser and swap two lines, or download my os-chooser script (from my web site) and change partition numbers accordingly. Please only make sure you really know what you are doing, i.e. you should be FULLY familiar with syntax of os-chooser. >At 2:49 PM +0200 6/15/01, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: >>I think this method is OK. An alternative is to set Linux as >>default-bootOS and use [alt] to choose MacOS. It's a bit slow, but works >>fine if you are only using MacOS a few times. > >Speaking of which ... A while back I posted that I could no longer >change the default boot OS using OS-chooser when I upgraded from 7.0 >to 7.1 on my G4. I received various suggestions none of which worked >and still live with Linux as the default system. Has there been any >change since two months ago to alter this situation. I currently use >the Mac more than Linux and would enjoy not having to press the space >bar every time. ******************************************************** * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * e-mail --- andrei.verovski(a)bigfoot.com * * * * Personal Home Page * * http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/ * ********************************************************

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Re: [suse-ppc] XFree 4.1 for PPC - when ?
by Andrei Verovski 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

>I will hack that PCI id into the driver, but I dont know if it works. >Maybe I can get one of these macs to test it. > I will test on iBook Indigo r128 mobility and report back (4.02 doe not work on myiBook, but 4.01 does). I am STRONGLY recommend to create XF86Config submission directory for Power Macs and Apple Portables, since sax2 and all other aut-config tools produce nothing but garbled screen. ******************************************************** * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * e-mail --- andrei.verovski(a)bigfoot.com * * * * Personal Home Page * * http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/ * ********************************************************

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X4.1
by Joss Winn 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

I see that x4.1 is now available from SUSE for PPC. Are there any 'issues' with it. Will it work ok to upgrade on a Summer 2000 iMac? Would be nice to have DRI and anti-aliasing :-) Joss

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7.2 for PowerPC
by Joel Rodrigues 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

Hi, Anyone know if SUSE 7.2 will be available for PowerPC anytime soon ? I'm assuming here that the versions of included packages will match those in 7.2 for Intel. Cheers, Rodrigues _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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[suse-ppc] First Install SuSE 7.1 PPC on PowerMac4400
by Carolus 16 Jun '01

16 Jun '01

First Install SuSE 7.1 PPC on PowerMac4400 / MOUNT ERROR (trying to follow SuSE's manual from their whitebox SuSE Linux 7.1 PPC) On Sat, 16 Jun 2001,John A. Ure (john(a)jaure.demon.co.uk) replied to my initial posting earlier today and wrote : >>>>> I've had the same problem - I couldn't get the mount point to "stick". Try changing the filesystem to "reiserfs" then change it back to "ext2". You might have to repeat this, but I eventually got it to work. >>>>>> John's advice indeed solved this "MOUNT ERROR" immediately, after just one time changing the filetype. Thanks a lot ! ( after four days I'm getting closer to the installation itself ;-) cheers, Carolus van Soest (carolus(a)mac.com)

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First Install SuSE 7.1 PPC on PowerMac4400
by John A Ure 16 Jun '01

16 Jun '01

On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 Carolus <carolus(a)mac.com> wrote: ----SNIP---- First Install SuSE 7.1 PPC on PowerMac4400 / MOUNT ERROR As a Linux newbie (but experienced Mac user) I wonder if there's anybody who can give me some advice when installing SuSE Linux 7.1 PPC on a PowerMac4400 ("Oldworld Mac"), standard system with 2 GB ATA HDD. ----END SNIP---- I've had the same problem - I couldn't get the mount point to "stick". Try changing the filesystem to "reiserfs" then change it back to "ext2". You might have to repeat this, but I eventually got it to work. -- John A. Ure (john(a)jaure.demon.co.uk) Fax(UK): 0870 056 8174; Fax(Outside UK): +44 870 056 8174

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First Install SuSE 7.1 PPC on PowerMac4400
by Carolus 16 Jun '01

16 Jun '01

First Install SuSE 7.1 PPC on PowerMac4400 / MOUNT ERROR As a Linux newbie (but experienced Mac user) I wonder if there's anybody who can give me some advice when installing SuSE Linux 7.1 PPC on a PowerMac4400 ("Oldworld Mac"), standard system with 2 GB ATA HDD. I did the following so far (following the manual), but keep getting stuck at the "installation preparations"; linuxrc / YaST wants me to set a MOUNTPOINT, but it then keeps giving a MOUNT ERROR -message: (see also : page 25 and 60 of manual) > HDD (2051 MB) configured with Drive setup (v.9.0) to 4 partitions: > A/UX-Root partition (1692 MB). > A/UX-Swap partition (96 MB). > MacOS Extended partition (32 MB) for Linux Boot. > MacOS Extended partition (232 MB) + Mac OS 9.0 installed. cq. linuxrc gives : swap partition : /dev/hda7 (98304 blocks). "do not partition" (hard drives) (allready did this: DriveSetUp OS 9 mac). CREATING FILESYSTEMS shows : hda6 1732608 4096 no ext2 Apple_UNIX_SVR hda8 32768 no hfs Apple_HFS hda9 236379 no hfs Apple_HFS hda10 5 2048 no ext2 Apple_Free Than I selected the hda6 to set the mountpoint " / " (root) at the hda6 partition, >>> BUT when I pressed enter to mount this, I got the following error message : MOUNT ERROR An error occurred mounting the filesystem of partition "/dev/hda8" to the directory "/mnt". Here is the error message of the "mount" command: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda8, or too many mounted file systems. I could choose "repeat again", which I did and the same message appeared again. (I can only choose "abort" now) I even re-partitioned my entire HDD with Drive SetUp and changed the order of the partitions, but I keep getting the same errors at this stage. WHAT can I do now to try to install this Linux at my old mac ? Thanks for any help ;-) Carolus carolus(a)mac.com

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Problem with Segate Barracuda
by Tomek 16 Jun '01

16 Jun '01

Hi!!!! I have Powwer Macintosh G3 266 and two hard Drive 1. Segate Baracuda Ultra ATA 66 20 GB ST320420S - as first disk 2. Standard disk G3 as slave I have partitioned 20 GB disk with Apple Disk Tools Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda' #: type name length base ( size ) 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 2: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 54 @ 64 3: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 74 @ 118 4: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 192 5: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 704 6: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 A/UX Root 17203200 @ 1216 ( 8.2G) 7: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Swap 409600 @ 17204416 (200.0M) 8: Apple_HFS untitled 3 22237734 @ 17614016 ( 10.6G) 9: Apple_Free Extra 10 @ 39851750 Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=39851759 (19.0G) DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 Drivers- 1: @ 64 for 20, type=0x701 2: @ 118 for 33, type=0xf8ff When I start Suse Linux 7.0 installation Installer not see this disk, Only is recognized second disk as /dev/hdd When I have partitioning with HDT I see it in installer but I can only install on all disk. What can I do to install Linux on partition 8GB Tom

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