May 2001 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

controlling the Apple Studio Display
by chicco98＠inwind.it 14 Jun '01

14 Jun '01

Hi everybody, I have a Mac G4 Cube (Nov 2000) with an Apple LCD Display (connected through the Apple Display Connector) with the following system * SuSE PPC 7.0 * yaboot 0.8.SuSE * a patched XFree86 Version 4.0.2 * 2.4.2 kernel (k_deflt-2.4.2-2.rpm from SuSE) It all works fine, but after a cold boot the systems comes up normally but the monitor remains off. This problem is also common to Open Firmware; in fact cold booting in OF (alt-apple-O-F) gives the same problem: operational OF (blind typing OF commands produces the expected results) but blank monitor. My solution: cold boot in OS 9.1 (which never fails to switch the monitor on) and reboot in Linux (sometimes iterating the process two or more times until I finally get an ON monitor in Linux). (Notes: this is not an X problem, even the text console or the yaboot prompt is invisible; I already have "output screen" in os-chooser.) Any hints on how to solve the problem? Will a firmware upgrade solve the problem? Will the updated firmware be compatible with my system/kernel/yaboot ? A second, related, question. How do I switch off the monitor with a screen-saver? (Using standard DPMS off-mode give raise to a white screen with backlight on) How can I control display brightness? Thanks to all on this list and to SuSE people. S. M. -- Stefano Miccoli chicco98(a)inwind.it

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bug: Keymap in Suse Linux 7.1 PPC - y and z
by Janus Sandsgaard 08 Jun '01

08 Jun '01

When I select mac/mac-dk-latin1 in Yast -> Installation settings -> Select Keymap I expect a Danish keyboard-design, but it seams that Suse mix up the "z" and "y"-key. Is this a bug or do I misunderstand something? ;-) -j

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PPC 7.1 woes
by Christian Birkle 07 Jun '01

07 Jun '01

Dear all, just installed Suse 7.1 an my PB G3 266 and some issues have come up (sigh) - the 2.4.2 Kernel won't really work even when I use the "No video driver" setting in BootX, X has problems with the display, the graphics looks dithered and hardly readable when the systems starts X using the default setting ("No video driver" unchecked) produces 4 split up start-up screens - under 2.2.18 /lib/modules/2.2.18/pcmcia is missing:-( so loading during booting fails - can I used power management (under those kernels?) - can I used a "normal" WLAN Card (Lucent) with the airport module??? Thanks in advance Cheers, Christian p.s 7.1 feels much better then 6.4 which I used before!

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can't get PCMCIA recognized (nothing in proc/devices)
by Shawn Gordon 03 Jun '01

03 Jun '01

I'm on 7.1 using kernel 2.4.2 on a TiBook. This configuration is stock and should include the PCMCIA drivers, but I'm getting the following during the boot sequence: PCMCIA: using schem: SuSE modprobe: Can't locate module i82365 modprobe: Can't locate module i82365 /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/ds.o: init_module: Operation not permitted /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/ds.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/ds.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/ds.o: insmod ds failed cardmgr[216]: starting, version is 3.1.22 PCMCIA: cardmanager is running cardmgr[216]: no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices cardmgr[216]: exiting a review of the contents of /proc/devices reveals that there is in fact nothing about pcmcia. At this stage I've exhausted my limited expertise. Can anyone offer a suggestion? thanks very much Regards, Shawn Gordon President theKompany.com www.thekompany.com 949-713-3276

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kernel philosophy
by Michel Pape 03 Jun '01

03 Jun '01

Dear all, Spoilage warning: Maybe this has come up before. I can hardly believe this issue has not been adressed before. If so, feel free to ignore. I am currently using Linux on several x86 machines (server, scada systems, workstations, etc) and just recently on an Apple Powerbook G3 Pismo. I have had quite some experience with Linux on Intel machines, but as an old mac fanatic, I just had to try this! And then my Powerbook caught fire... Since I need to keep my kernel version up-to-date , I always try to keep up to the latest release, often even the development kernels. And here comes the sad bit: No problem on those Intel machines, but I have definitely been wasting too much CPU time trying to compile the _official_ kernel sources from Linus and running into issues time and again. Even the default configure runs into errors. This bugs me. Really. I am in awe of Paul, Ben, Cort and many others who do a fantastic job in supplying us with suitable sources for _our_ machines. But this question comes to mind: Why don´t their changes make it into the official tree? Lack of communication? Dumped into the bitbucket by (I know he hates big patches) Linus or Alan? Political issues? Whatsoever. Anyway, how it got there seems absolutely secondary to me: What is more important now, is how these things can be handled in the future and prevent PPC users from having to dig the net for decent kernel sources. I want my 2.4.5-final NOW! One more thing. Congratulations to the SuSE PPC mailinglist. The support is tremendous, quick response from SuSE always guaranteed (Thanks: Olaf, Matze) and the quality of the posted articles is (almost always) amazing. Rock On! Michel Pape Visual Systems GmbH e-mail: pape(a)vsys.de web: http://www.vsys.de -- "Sundays kill more men than bombs." (Charles Bukowski)

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KDE 2.1 update?
by Tom Dove 02 Jun '01

02 Jun '01

Hi all, OK. I give up. I've repeatedly tried downloading the KDE 2.1.1 update for SuSE 7.1 (which came with KDE 2.01) and it breaks partway through certain long files every time. After two days of trying every mirror site I can find, I'm throwing in the towel. Has somebody in this group downloaded and saved the KDE 2.1.1 update? Could you please mail me a CD with it? I'll happily reimburse you, of course. I'm using a 56 kbps modem and it's a slow process, even when it works right. This may be a "Catch-22" phenomenon, where KDE 2.01 is flawed and won't download its replacement; there are certainly plenty of other bugs in 2.01, which is the reason I'm anxious to upgrade. -- Tom Dove *** Home page at toad.net/~tdove/ *** * Sailing, genealogy, ham radio *

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Could use some help with SuSE 7.1 and TiBook
by Shawn Gordon 02 Jun '01

02 Jun '01

I've been having to boot off the CD since I installed this, no matter what I do. Let me run it down and maybe someone can help me. 1. Stock TiBook and normal SuSE 7.1 for PPC installation. I can boot to linux or Mac OS as long as I boot from their CD's. 2. Booting with no CD yields the following message: DEFAULT CATCH!, code=method <draw-rectangle> not found; ihandle=ffbc2a80 phandle=0 3. Does Suse require both yaboot.conf and lilo.conf? The manual seems to indicate this, but LinuxPPC only needs yaboot.conf 4. I've gotten some sample yaboot.conf files from kind folks but it doesn't seem to help. With the Linux CD in the drive I get the 'boot' prompt where I can specify the type and path, which works, but also seems to ignore yaboot.conf and lilo.conf as far as I can see. I would really like to start using Ben's updated kernel, which I've compiled and put in place, but I'm really getting stuck on this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. We're trying to port some of our stuff to PPC and this is the only PPC machine we have at the moment. Regards, Shawn Gordon President theKompany.com www.thekompany.com 949-713-3276

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7.1PPC, Pismo, Ethernet
by Janus Sandsgaard 02 Jun '01

02 Jun '01

I am having a real struggle getting ethernet running with Suse Linux 7.1 on my Pismo. On LinuxPPC 2000 it took me five minutes. Question: What type of ethernet-card should I choose in Yast -> System Adm. -> Integrate hardware into system -> Configure network device? - Apple onboard Ethernet mace - Apple onboard Ethernet bmac - Apple onboard Ethernet gmac ? Thank! -j

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Mac G4 and energy saver settings
by Amar Maktal 02 Jun '01

02 Jun '01

The MacOS has a facility under the Energy Saver CP which allows the machine to restart automatically after a power failure. I believe this sets a parameter in the machines PRAM. Is there a way to configure this setting in SuSE PPC? Thanks, Amar

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ReiserFS Endian-safe Port Question
by Andrei Verovski 30 May '01

30 May '01

Hi, I've got SuSE PPC 2.4.2 kernel sources, SuSE ReiserFS patch, applied patch and succesfully compiled kernel with most drivers built-in rather separate modules. Now I would like to reinstall SuSE PPC on ReiserFS partition. I would like to start installation from suseboot folder located at /macboot HFS partition, not from CD (because boot kernel on CD does not have ReiserFS support). The only question is how to create ReiserFS partition with Yast2, since there is statement in manual that Yast2 do not supports ReiserFS on PPC. Or may be it just checks kernel for presence of ReiserFS code, and will work once they will be found? Can I use my vmlinux kernel instead of original vmlinux located at suseboot (I do not know, may be there is something special in suseboot vmlinux)? Do I need to regenerate ramdisk.image.gz? Thanks Andrei Verovski

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