July 2001 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

suse 7.0 install naming the root partition
by yvon bricole 20 Jul '01

20 Jul '01

i do have know the right kernel (vmlinux-2.4.6-benh) able to recognized my IDE disk attached to the Sonnet Tempo ATA/66. booting up works except the fact the partition isn't good .. here is my partition map : Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/scsi2.2' #: type name length base ( size ) 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 54 @ 64 3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 74 @ 118 4: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 192 5: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 704 6: Apple_HFS sans titre 22517155 @ 1216 ( 10.7G) 7: Apple_HFS Sans_titre 614400 @ 22518371 (300.0M) 8: Apple_Free Extra 22033825 @ 23132771 ( 10.5G) 9: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 262128 @ 45166596 (128.0M) 10: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 22123953 @ 45428724 ( 10.5G) 11: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 A/UX Root 22517153 @ 67552677 ( 10.7G) 12: Apple_Free Extra 10 @ 90069830 what is the name i should enter in this case : /dev/sdc11 /dev/hdg11 /dev/ide11 ??? the name used by pdisk (scsi2.2) isn't working ... -- Yvon bricole... <yvon.bricole(a)pobox.com>

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Links that might interrest you?
by Joop Boonen 19 Jul '01

19 Jul '01

Dear all, Today i was browsing on the internet to checkout the support of PowerPC's on Linux. This was a bit disappointing as the 64 bits instructions are not (yet?) supported in the 2.4.6 kernel. But is found some good news. That is that the altivec instructions are supported in gcc by patching gcc 2.95 see: http://www.altivec.org/ . Is this already included in SuSE for PPC? For PPC 64 I found this link: http://linuxppc64.org/ A maybe cheap G3/G4 board might be found at: http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/ . Regards, Joop Boonen

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Re: [suse-ppc] Strange OpenSSL PPC 0.9.6a-12
by Andrei Verovski 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

>Andrei and all, > > I downloaded that update two days ago and now KDE Konqueror crashes >whenever I try to access a site on the Web. It did not do that before. Hi, Tom, Replace it with older version and everything will be OK. OpenSSL PPC 0.9.6a-12 carries incorrect lib names. ******************************************************** * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * e-mail --- andrei.verovski(a)bigfoot.com * * * * Personal Home Page * * http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/ * * Mac, Linux, DTP, Development, IT WEB Site * ********************************************************

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solution to : glibc 6 problem ...
by Stefan Eilers 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

Hi ! I found the solution to the following lyx problem: If I starting lyx on my PPC-System, it is crashing with: "Illegal instruction (sigill)" Connecting to my PPC-system with rlogin and starting lyx: No problem. It works without problems. Solution: On my system only some charsets was installed. Use sax2 to install them manually (section keyboard -> charset) or use an editor and add the missinglines in "/etc/X11/XF86Config". Example of this section: Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" EndSection -- Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Eilers | Institut für Technische Informatik Tel. +49 511 762 19737 | Abt. Rechnerstrukturen und Fax +49 511 762 19733 | Betriebssysteme EMail: eilers(a)irb.uni-hannover.de | Universität Hannover | Appelstraße 4 (Raum 118) | D-30167 Hannover

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Strange OpenSSL PPC 0.9.6a-12
by Andrei Verovski 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

Hi, The latest update of OpenSSL for PPC/SUSE7.1 on ftp seem to be buggy, it breaks Postfix and Mod_PHP. I cannot claim it is 100% for sure, but reverting back to older OpenSSL from 7.1 distro solved this problem. Looks like libssl.s0.1 or libssl.s0 is damaged or missing. ******************************************************** * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * e-mail --- andrei.verovski(a)bigfoot.com * * * * Personal Home Page * * http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/ * * Mac, Linux, DTP, Development, IT WEB Site * ********************************************************

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Blinking cursor during installation
by Michael Andersson 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

Hi! I´m having some problems with installing SuSE PPC-Edition 7.1. The spec is: Powermac 7200/90 64 Mb mem HD Quantum Fireball (8,4 Gb) + Quantum Fireball (500 Mb) I´m not sitting in front of the machine right now so I really don´t have more spec-info now but I can check if needed. My problem is that I can´t install the machine using Yast2. With Yast1 it works (pretty) OK. I have MacOS on the 500 Mb HD and want to install SuSE on the 8,4 Gb HD. When in MacOS I start the BootX-application on the CD it boots well into linuxrc and I get the option to choose between Yast1 & 2. If I choose Yast2 from there that also works OK and I can define everything the way I want it. The installation continues and installs the selected packages (I want to install with the network server option). After a while the machine reboots. Now comes the problem. The machine starts booting, but after a while, all I see is a blinking block cursor in the upper left corner. Then nothing happens. What is going on!? //Micke

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Re: [suse-ppc] How to get Graphical GUI / Xwindows @ PM4400/ Suse 7.1PPC ?
by Carolus 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

On Mon, Jul 16, Olaf replied to request from Carolus: Original request: > I finally got Suse PPC 7.1 installed at my OldWorld PowerMac4400 with: etc. > entering "startx" gives just the following error messages from the > server-log: > > (**)FBDev(0): claimed PCI slot 0:17:0 > ( I I ) FBDev (0): using default device > (WW)****INVALID IO ALLOCATION**** b: 0x400 e: 0x4ff correcting > (EE) FBdev(0): xf86RegisterResources found resource conflicts. > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. > > Fatal server error : no screens found. > > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > > Then I again just get my root-prompt back ... Olaf replied: Can you have a look at `cat /proc/fb`, is OFfb active? If yes, dont boot with "No video driver". The Ati chip in the 4400 is a bit tricky, can you boot with "video=atyfb:vmode:13:cmode:8"? I tried those different video settings, with and without the checkbox "no video driver", but in the end the original problem reamins the same: no Xserver, and I keep getting the same error messages in the log. Note: the system-info of Suse recognizes the chip as a ATI mach 64, so that looks ok. Olaf replied: I guess the 2.4 kernel should work better, but try the above first. That's ok : I'm allready using Kernel version 2.4.2 Thanks so far; any other options left ;-) Carolus

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Re: [suse-ppc] Kernel 2.4.6-4 problem
by Olaf Hering 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

On Tue, Jul 17, Andrei Verovski wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> > >> Compiling 2.4.6-4 PPC kernel with settings made with cloneconfig from > >> k_defit-2.4.6-4 is almost OK but here are some depmod problems: > >> > >> Unresolved symbols in lib/moules/.../kernel/drivers/net/ppp_mppe.o > >> __floatsidf > >> __adddf3 > > > >use ppp_mppe.o from k_deftl.rpm. > > > > Hmmm, I have all ppp options turned on, is there something missing from > PPC tree? no, ppp_mppe.o was a separate package, the driver went into the kernel for some reasons, but without the fixes. Thisdriver is needed for some MS VPN stuff, not for dialup. Ignore the error or use the k_deflt.rpm. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

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LILO PPC/hfsutils disk corruption problem
by Andrei Verovski 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

Hi, I have noticed HFS directory damage problem after using LILO, which, in turn, uses HFS utils to copy data to HFS partition. To verify that, I have checked 32MB HFS boot partition with Norton and Disk First Aid, restarted to Linux, and run LILO PPC several times (LILO configured with "copy" option to copy 3 kernels to HFS boot partition). After that, I have restarted back to MacOS 9.1 and checked HFS partition with Norton, which reveals nasty directory damage. Doing almost the same (copying several large files several times with cp command to the same HFS partition mounted in read-write mode) resulted no problems, partition was OK. PS. HFS boot partition defined in fstab as auto-mount read-only. I believe this is not a reason of damage. ******************************************************** * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * e-mail --- andrei.verovski(a)bigfoot.com * * * * Personal Home Page * * http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/ * * Mac, Linux, DTP, Development, IT WEB Site * ********************************************************

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How to get Graphical GUI / Xwindows @ PM4400/ Suse 7.1PPC ?
by Carolus 16 Jul '01

16 Jul '01

I finally got Suse PPC 7.1 installed at my OldWorld PowerMac4400 with: ATI Mach 64 onboard graphics chip , 4 MB VRAM ; Apple 14" Color display , supporting 832x624@75 in 16 or 24 bit color. (or 800x600@72 , etc); all very straightforward at a standalone machine, following the manual. All necessary packages were correctly installed using yast and the pre-configured "Games-configuration" of Suse PPC 7.1. After a smooth startup using BootX, I can login as root (runlevel 3) and that's about it... I cannot switch to any Xwindow server or anything; trying to start "Sax2" gives a black screen for a second, and then my root-prompt back; entering "startx" gives just the following error messages from the server-log: (**)FBDev(0): claimed PCI slot 0:17:0 ( I I ) FBDev (0): using default device (WW)****INVALID IO ALLOCATION**** b: 0x400 e: 0x4ff correcting (EE) FBdev(0): xf86RegisterResources found resource conflicts. (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error : no screens found. XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. Then I again just get my root-prompt back ... NB: I also tried switching to runlevel 5 (one second a black screen and root prompt back); and giving BootX the following more kernel arguments at startup: video=atyfb:vmode:13 > I'm unable to get any XR86 configured like this; although Yast and the dancing penguin at startup work o.k and give a sharp graphical image any time... How can I make Sax2 / startx / Xwindow or any KDE desktop work ??? Thanks for any help.. cheers, Carolus van Soest carolus(a)mac.com

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