July 2001 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Radeon - that old chestnut
by Lisa Singh 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

Does anyone have any idea if the ppc radeon support will ever come to be? What is a decent 3d card on the mac side that is supported enough to give me accelerated X on the linux side? Thanks, wavegirl

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Net install freezes
by doowirb7＠home.com 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

I'm trying to do a network install (via FTP) from my PC to my StarMax 4000 home server. It'll load the second stage ram disk, but after that it takes me right into text setup- there's no option for a graphical one. When I finally get to installation, it will ALWAYS freeze dead cold when it gets to installing package 16 (which is cron with the default package selections, but even if I take it out it still freezes). I've even tried installations from ftp.suse.com and several other mirrors with the ppc rpms, but it still keeps doing it! Thanks for any help ~gravy

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Problem rebooting RS/6K b50 SUSE 7.1
by Alberto magnus 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

Good afternoon Linux experts, I have an apparently dumb problem rebooting my IBM RS/6k b50 running SUSE 7.1 . Doing this without keyboard, mouse and display (using a telnet terminal) the machine come to 0c5 (LCD display) and stops waiting for an 'enter' for ever. It seems a yaboot problem, in fact when the yaboot timeout occurs yaboot issues an error message and asks " press enter to continue".... (I connected a console to the box to be able to read the message obviously) This is a big problem if someone want to put the box into an unattended web farm.... SUSE 7.0 worked fine... Is there someone able to fix this bug or to find a workaround? Thanks in advance and best Regards Alberto Milano ITALY

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2.4.2 kernel on PowerBook 3400c?
by isaac＠unstoppable.com 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

Hi, I'm having trouble getting 2.4.2 to work on my 3400c. I was able to get it running beautifully on my 7200 desktop, and followed the same procedure on the 3400. No luck. It only boots to the point of the first line written to the screen: "Welcome to Linux, kernel 2.4.2" or something like that. Then it freezes and I have to do a hard reboot and go back to 2.2.16. Oh, these are both running the basic SuSE 7.0 installation. Anybody know whassup? Thanks for any help. --Isaac

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trouble booting 7.1 on B&W G3
by Scott Reist 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

On a B&W G3 -400 Mhz (mac ppc) 1.1f4 BootRom OF 3.1.1 Can yaboot boot a kernal found on a partition of a slave drive? /dev/hdb aka ultra1: boot ultra1:9,/boot/vmlinux I always get the error: Boot error on block 1 Image not found (may not be the exact wording) OpenFirmware has no trouble finding the suseboot folder on ultra1:7 Ran lilo, no problem Thanks, Scott Reist

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accented characters, SuSE 7.1
by Bob Torres 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

Hi, First off, if anyone from SuSE is reading this list, congratulations on an excellent distro. I'm really floored by how easy it was to install and configure SuSE, especially given my experience with other distributions for PPC. With that said, I need some help now. By and large, I communicate in English, but on occasion, I need to compose emails in Spanish. What I need to figure out how to do is switch keyboard configurations on the fly, or how to send the accented characters and tildes. I tried the directions in the support database, but they didn't work for me. I also tried the International settings in KDE2, but they ended up screwing up my English keymap, and I had a hard time getting it back. For what its worth, I'm running SuSE 7.1 out of the box, with Gnome. Accented characters appear correctly in the terminal, but I just can't seem to make them myself! I'm also using an external extended USB keyboard, by Macally. Any ideas? TIA... Bob ......................................... PhD Candidate, Development Soc, Cornell U. [e] bob(a)rjtorres.net [www] www.rjtorres.net [aim] djbobyt [icq] 95880740 [advice] assume nothing

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Re: LVM on PowerMac/Yaboot bug
by Andrei Verovski 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

>No. lilo assumes that the directory /boot is on the same partition as /. > >You need a special boot partition anyway for yaboot itself which can >contain the kernel. So I dont see a urgent reason to act. > Hi, Olaf, I would like to deploy the following partitioning scheme: HFS /macboot for yaboot within fake System Folder containing os-chooser, ext2 for /boot (Linux kernel) and ReiserFS for /root on LVM RAID 1. At this moment /boot and /root are on the same ReiserFS partition. And as I reported before, yaboot may work and may not (in my case not). Your colleague (I do not remember who, sorry), replied that he knows the reason of this yaboot's artifact and will fix it soon (Jeff Mahoney ???). I do not use LILO PPC on Mac, it is COMPLETELY useless, manual editing of yaboot.conf and os-chooser is just simpler (LILO PPC does nothing but updates these two files from lilo.conf). LILO PPC should be completely GUI to be a real value. Right now I see no reasons for a front-end for two conf files. ******************************************************** * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * e-mail --- andrei.verovski(a)bigfoot.com * * * * Personal Home Page * * http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/ * ********************************************************

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archive of this list?
by Jonathon Wallen 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

Hi all, being a newcomer to this list I'd like to know if there's a searchable archive of the list anywhere on the web. Many thanks, -- - ____________________________ - Jonathon Wallen - B,DES College of Fine Arts, UNSW - z2213441(a)student.unsw.edu.au - ____________________________

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Secure Remote Control
by vulani＠webmail.co.za 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

Hello everyone, I haven't used Linux before but have a Mandrake disk and am contemplating to buy SuSE. I would like to know if there is a program which one can use to remoteley log into other machine via LAN, WAN or the Internet. Regards Vulani ________________________________________________________________ Mid-year intake! Enrol NOW & stand a chance to win 25% discount http://www.milpark.co.za

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xconsole
by Joss Winn 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Hello, Hopefully this is an easy question to answer. I use BlackBox (sometimes with Gnome 1.4) but I don't always get my xconsole starting up by default as I do with Window Maker or KDE. Sometimes it is there, other times, not. Could anyone let me know what the command is that SUSE have used to get the blue xconsole to come up by default on some desktops? I can run 'xconsole' but it is clearly not the same as the default that suse have set up. A trivial question but one that has been bugging me thanks Joss -- http://www.josswinn.org

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/Newbie+7200/ Boot Problems
by Yuri K 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Hi All, Just installed, yet not sure that I haven't messed it big. What files shall go into HFS boot partition for this old world machine? I found a detailed post from Mr Bradley Smith in archives, but he deals with a newer hardware. I chose minimal installation and something is wrong with man. /usr/shared and $MANPATH seem to be OK. Just a side-note: for $50 they could produce less confusing manual, information is scattered too widely and is unstructured. Still, it's a lot of work in a relatively short period of time and this is one of few Unix flavours that can be installed on my old box. Best, Yuri K Vancouver, WA, USA

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