I gonna try to summarise the state of my installation of linuxSuSE on my iMac rev B. - Keyboard problem... I started up linuxSuSE cd1 and used the graphical yast2 installer. First it asked me to choose my language, then my keyboard and my timezone. Whatever the keyboard configuration i choose, i could not have anything else than the QWERTY configuration. Under X window i had no real keymap, it was just enough to swap to the console mode and to try to fix it. I used the french iMac keymap available at : http://www.chez.com/bentoi/linuxppc/fr-imac.tar.gz and i modified my XF86Config file, adding XkbDisable and XkbKeymap "usb-fr-macintosh" in the Keyboard section. This work fine ! ... but the XF86Config file is scratched at each linux boot... - Partition problem... I formatted my disk using the MacOS tool, I made 4 partitions : 1/ main hfs+ for programs and system 2/ documents hfs for... you know what... 3/ swap hfs 4/ root hfs I asked Yast2 to mount my partitions 1/ and 2/, and to transform my partitions 3/ and 4/ into linux ones. Current linux kernels dont ship any hfs+ file system driver. SuSE may not ask the user to mount such a partition for the moment. Now each time i boot on MacOS, it ask me if i want to initialize the partitions 3/ and 4/... MacOS shouldn't want to mount these partitions, and it didn't when i installed linuxppc and i used pdisk. I dont know how to fix it. Steph'
On Sat, Jul 29, Stephane Bagnier wrote:
http://www.chez.com/bentoi/linuxppc/fr-imac.tar.gz and i modified my XF86Config file, adding XkbDisable and XkbKeymap "usb-fr-macintosh" in the Keyboard section. This work fine ! ... but the XF86Config file is scratched at each linux boot...
Please look at these pages, it will solve the problem. http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/olh_ppc_framebuffer.html http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/olh_ppc_international_keymaps.html
- Partition problem...
I formatted my disk using the MacOS tool, I made 4 partitions : 1/ main hfs+ for programs and system 2/ documents hfs for... you know what... 3/ swap hfs 4/ root hfs
I asked Yast2 to mount my partitions 1/ and 2/, and to transform my partitions 3/ and 4/ into linux ones. Current linux kernels dont ship any hfs+ file system driver. SuSE may not ask the user to mount such a partition for the moment. Now each time i boot on MacOS, it ask me if i want to initialize the partitions 3/ and 4/... MacOS shouldn't want to mount these partitions, and it didn't when i installed linuxppc and i used pdisk. I dont know how to fix it.
Please look at the pdisk -l output. There are some Apple_HFS partitions, supposed for MacOS. The partitions for Linux should be either Apple_UNIX_SRV2 or Apple_Free. MacOS tries to mount an Apple_HFS partition type, if there is no valid HFS format on it you get this error message. You can change the (useless) name of a partition, but not the type. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
I tried hard... but...
On Sat, Jul 29, Stephane Bagnier wrote:
http://www.chez.com/bentoi/linuxppc/fr-imac.tar.gz and i modified my XF86Config file, adding XkbDisable and XkbKeymap "usb-fr-macintosh" in the Keyboard section. This work fine ! ... but the XF86Config file is scratched at each linux boot...
Olaf Hering wrote:
Please look at these pages, it will solve the problem. http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/olh_ppc_framebuffer.html http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/olh_ppc_international_keymaps.html
I printed these pages, downloaded the packages, reinstalled from scratch the SuSE linux default system and applied carefully the instructions of olh_ppc_international_keymaps.html, but: 1/ the keymap is still broken, no enhancement. 2/ now i cant go to the console mode anymore ! I tried Command-F[1-12], nothing works... so, up to now i cant use your distribution... Stephane Bagnier.
On Sat, Aug 05, Stephane Bagnier wrote:
I tried hard... but...
On Sat, Jul 29, Stephane Bagnier wrote:
http://www.chez.com/bentoi/linuxppc/fr-imac.tar.gz and i modified my XF86Config file, adding XkbDisable and XkbKeymap "usb-fr-macintosh" in the Keyboard section. This work fine ! ... but the XF86Config file is scratched at each linux boot...
Olaf Hering wrote:
Please look at these pages, it will solve the problem. http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/olh_ppc_framebuffer.html http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/olh_ppc_international_keymaps.html
I printed these pages, downloaded the packages, reinstalled from scratch the SuSE linux default system and applied carefully the instructions of olh_ppc_international_keymaps.html, but: 1/ the keymap is still broken, no enhancement. 2/ now i cant go to the console mode anymore ! I tried Command-F[1-12], nothing works...
Hmm, I just noticed that I used the wrong tar command. A new xkb_update.tar.gz can be found at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/BETA/xkb_update.tar.gz 9kb. Sorry. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Stephane Bagnier wrote:
This still does not work... the tar xfvz returns an error... and so forth...
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Peter Joe Eybert wrote:
Is this a typo or did you really write "tar xfvz ..."? Copy the file to / and then type "tar xvzf xkb_update.tar.gz"
I didn't write the message of error on a paper... arghhhh... I really wrote xfvz and all the stuff... When i typed the tar instruction, the X server was runing on another console, this may be the reason of the problem. I dont know how to stop the Xserver, because each time i kill X, another start immediatly. Steph'
On Tue, Aug 08, Stephane Bagnier wrote:
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Stephane Bagnier wrote:
This still does not work... the tar xfvz returns an error... and so forth...
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Peter Joe Eybert wrote:
Is this a typo or did you really write "tar xfvz ..."? Copy the file to / and then type "tar xvzf xkb_update.tar.gz"
I didn't write the message of error on a paper... arghhhh... I really wrote xfvz and all the stuff...
When i typed the tar instruction, the X server was runing on another console, this may be the reason of the problem. I dont know how to stop the Xserver, because each time i kill X, another start immediatly.
You are proably in runlevel 3, give "2" as boot arg and it starts in runlevel 2 which is the console mode. A french map is available there, the rest is mac-us. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
Olaf Hering wrote:
You are proably in runlevel 3, give "2" as boot arg and it starts in runlevel 2 which is the console mode. A french map is available there, the rest is mac-us.
Thank you for this tip ! this is the message of my tar instruction : usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/de usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/de_CH usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/dk usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/es usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/fi usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/fr usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/fr_CH usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/gb usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/it usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/nl usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/no usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/se usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/us usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keycodes/macintosh usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86 gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors what does it mean ? Steph'
On Tue, Aug 08, Stephane Bagnier wrote:
Olaf Hering wrote:
You are proably in runlevel 3, give "2" as boot arg and it starts in runlevel 2 which is the console mode. A french map is available there, the rest is mac-us.
Thank you for this tip !
this is the message of my tar instruction :
usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/de usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/de_CH usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/dk usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/es usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/fi usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/fr usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/fr_CH usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/gb usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/it usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/nl usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/no usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/se usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/us usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keycodes/macintosh usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86
gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
what does it mean ?
Hmm, the files should be there? at least the fr file is important :) I downloaded the tar.gz and was able to extract it without warnings. You could try to unstuff it on the macside. Latest StuffIt Expander with DropStuff should handle it well. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
Stephane Bagnier wrote:
I gonna try to summarise the state of my installation of linuxSuSE on my iMac rev B.
- Keyboard problem...
I started up linuxSuSE cd1 and used the graphical yast2 installer. First it asked me to choose my language, then my keyboard and my timezone. Whatever the keyboard configuration i choose, i could not have anything else than the QWERTY configuration. Under X window i had no real keymap, it was just enough to swap to the console mode and to try to fix it. I used the french iMac keymap available at : http://www.chez.com/bentoi/linuxppc/fr-imac.tar.gz and i modified my XF86Config file, adding XkbDisable and XkbKeymap "usb-fr-macintosh" in the Keyboard section. This work fine ! ... but the XF86Config file is scratched at each linux boot...
I'm having the same trouble with my Rev. B iMac and the US keyboard. I've applied all the suggested patches, but still no luck. Console mode (run level 2), as described above, works fine. It's only under X that there is a problem. Has anybody been able to work this problem out yet? Thanks for any assistance you can provide. - Bill -- Bill Sofko Publisher, Contrariwise
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