June 2001 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

XFree 4.1 for PPC - when ?
by Andrei Verovski 15 Jun '01

15 Jun '01

Hi, Anyone knows when XFree 4.1 RPMs will be available for PPC Macs? Or I can take SuSE SRPMs for i386 and just recompile them on PPC? with best regards Andrei

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Followup: Dual Boot MacOS/Linux
by Andrei Verovski 15 Jun '01

15 Jun '01

Hi, I have seen dual-boot related problems there. I recommend to do all boot configuration manually, all so-called automated tools just sucks and deserved trash can. Manual boot is really simple and really works. See "Linux tips and tricks" on my web site. PS. Zap your PRAM and reset open firmware before. ******************************************************** * 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] 7.2 for PowerPC
by Rachel Greenham 15 Jun '01

15 Jun '01

Let's try this again... :-} Janus Sandsgaard wrote: >On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Rachel Greenham wrote: > >[dual-boot] > >>Yes, that's the way it's supposed to work, but it just plain doesn't. >>Invariably goes right through to yaBoot. :-( Revision B iMac >>(strawberry) with Mac OS 9.1 >> > >Maybe we should have a look at your yaboot.conf, os-chooser and LILO >files? > Hope people aren't annoyed by little attachments (see attached) >>It's a shame BootX doesn't work any more. That's a much nicer way of >>dual-booting. >> > >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. > I think I tried that and it didn't work either. -- Rachel

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Network failure
by Rachel Greenham 15 Jun '01

15 Jun '01

I'm getting unreliability in the network system - when under heavy load it will tend to lose connection with the outside world. Network interrupts are still being received, but nothing's getting through to the actual stack. Just restarting the network (rcnetwork restart, rcroute restart) lets me resume, and we now have a watchdog script running to do this, but it's annoying all the same. Anyone else getting this/got a fix? -- Rachel

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RE: [suse-ppc] Booting, sound and graphics!
by Smith, Bradley 15 Jun '01

15 Jun '01

Thanks. Just for everyone's info here's what SuSE had to say (this appears under SuSE 6.4 in the online help so I hadn't read it): - The nice people from Apple, once again, changed a small thing. In the controll panel, only partitions which contain a "Mac OS ROM" file, are shown (with exactly this name). Currently, SuSE's faked "Mac OS ROM" file has the name "os-chooser". Solution Rename the file "os-chooser", within the folder "suseboot", to "Mac OS ROM". After you have done this, you should be able to choose the linuxboot partition as your startup disk. Important: Remember to rename this file (the one changed to "Mac OS ROM") back to "os-chooser" again, otherwise lilo will not be able to find and configure this file later. It is only necessary for this file to be called "Mac OS ROM" when changing the startup disk. Sounds reasonable. I'll try both ways, see what happens :-) > Can you go to the OF prompt with "command+alt+o+f" and type > printenv boot-device > It should point to your boot partition. > What happens if you type "boot"? > > There is a nasty bug in the manual. It says that you have to copy the > "suseboot" folder onto the Linux boot volume, that is not > really needed. > When you configure lilo it will create a "os-chooser" file > with type tbxi, > but there is already the "Mac OS Rom" file with type tbxi and that one > tries to access your CD. Just remove that "Mac OS Rom" file in the > suseboot folder. > alsaconf fails when it tries to write the config file? > > strange, does "alsaconf" work for you? You have to run > "alsamixer" after > that. > Do you get any errors when you run "depmod -ae"? > Thanks! I'll try that. > > This should be easy to fix with "sax2 -af" in console mode. > > Gruss Olaf > > --

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switching ethernet devices
by Benno Aichele 15 Jun '01

15 Jun '01

hi list. i have a IBM rs/6000 Type 7248-133 with suse linux 7.1 ppc running on it. the mainboard contains a onboard NIC type AMD pc Lane. i dont want to use this NIC and intend to turn it off. i dont own the system managment disk so i cant deactivate the interface. here is my problem: i bought a (pci)hub network interface card with rtl 8029 chipset. i want to run this card as eth0. but every time a laod a driver for this card the onboard card uses this driver, and i have to load a second driver for the hub card. now it becomes automatically eth1. i am a linux newbie and dont know how to deactivate the onboard interface or switch the devices so that the onboard interface becomes eth1 and the additional pci card becomes eth0 thank u cu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/

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Booting, sound and graphics!
by Smith, Bradley 15 Jun '01

15 Jun '01

Hi, I'm having a few problems with my installation. Below is a copy of the email I sent to Suse. I thought some of you guys might be able to help a bit quicker! -------------------- My hardware is an iMac, Indigo, 350MHz. It's from the range just before the flower power and blue dalmation iMacs came out. I have managed to install Suse Linux 7.1 okay. My biggest problem is getting a dual boot working betweek Mac OS 9.1 and Linux. I can't use BootX so I am using a combination of os-chooser and yaboot.conf with yaboot. I have followed the instructions in the manual and even tried modifying the Open Firmware but whenever I set my HFS formatted linux "boot" partition as the startup disk I just get a white screen and have to hit the reset button. I've checked and double checked the partition information in the os-chooser file (which has been marked as bootable using the supplied program) and yaboot.conf but to no avail. Am I wasting my time? Is it actually possible to get my iMac to dual boot? Second problem is the sound. When it first installed I had sound working except that there was no way to modify the volume. it was always on maximum volume! However, after using Yast2 to try and reinstall the sound card drivers it now tells me it has detected my hardware (awacs) but when it tries to update the config file I get an error and it tells me that it must have detected my hardware wrong. Third problem is that the graphics seem slow. Moving a window under KDE2 is really, really slow. My old rev.A iMac with the Rage II C graphics card was faster! Is there anything I can do to speed it up? Many thanks Brad

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Re: Yaboot/ReiserFS bug report
by Andrei Verovski 15 Jun '01

15 Jun '01

>> >Do you have yaboot 1.2.1? Its buggy, use the old one if you have the >> >kernel on the ext2 partition. >> >> I took yaboot with reiserfs support from suse reiserfs boot cd image. I >> do not know which is this version. It worked well if both /root and /boot >> have been on the same reiserfs partition. >> >> I will reformat my HD again, no problem. > >You dont need to reformat, just use the yaboot binary on the CD1 from >the box. Nope, it will not work (verified), because of yaboot requires root specification (root = /dev/hda11). Its a catch 22, since new yaboot does not like combination of ext2 /boot and reiserfs /root, and old one do not understands reiserfs /root at all. ******************************************************** * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * e-mail --- andrei.verovski(a)bigfoot.com * * * * Personal Home Page * * http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/ * ********************************************************

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Re: Yaboot/ReiserFS bug report
by Andrei Verovski 15 Jun '01

15 Jun '01

>Do you have yaboot 1.2.1? Its buggy, use the old one if you have the >kernel on the ext2 partition. I took yaboot with reiserfs support from suse reiserfs boot cd image. I do not know which is this version. It worked well if both /root and /boot have been on the same reiserfs partition. I will reformat my HD again, no problem. PS. BTW, XFree 4.02 and sax2 from SuSE 7.1 does not work on iBook FW Indigo, summer 2000 model. Reverting back to 4.01 from SuSE 7.0 solved problem. Waiting for XFree 4.1 PPC... ******************************************************** * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * e-mail --- andrei.verovski(a)bigfoot.com * * * * Personal Home Page * * http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/ * ********************************************************

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Yaboot/ReiserFS bug report
by Andrei Verovski 15 Jun '01

15 Jun '01

Hi, The current version of yaboot with ReiserFS patch (avavilable on SuSE ftp) does NOT supports yet separate /boot ext2 and root ReiserFS partitions (it throws in open firmware). However, it works without any problem if /boot and /root are located on single ReiserFS partition. Also, the system is bootable from the CD. Here is fstab and yaboot.conf snippets. I believe everything is right there. /dev/hda12 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda11 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda10 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda13 /macboot hfs defaults 0 0 # 2.4.2-SuSE-RaiserFS image = ultra0:10,/boot/vmlinux-2.4 label = linux-2.4-SuSE root = /dev/hda11 PS. I have right kernel installed !!! ******************************************************** * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * e-mail --- andrei.verovski(a)bigfoot.com * * * * Personal Home Page * * http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/ * ********************************************************

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