September 2001 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

startup scripts
by Bob Torres 25 Sep '01

25 Sep '01

A quick -- and hopefully easy -- question: If I want to start a python script at startup, where do I put the command to do so? I'm using 7.1, in case that makes a difference. Many thanks Bob -- |Bob Torres, PhD Candidate, Development Sociology, Cornell University +...................................................................+ [e] bob(a)rjtorres.net [www] www.rjtorres.net + www.bobblog.net + www.rjtorres.net/leftlinks [aim] djbobyt "An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind."-Gandhi.

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Re: Antw: [suse-ppc] Sonnet Tempo and SuSE
by Yuri K 24 Sep '01

24 Sep '01

Stephan Ruehle wrote: > I have acard 6260 working with SuSE7.1 PPC installation with Kernel 2.4.2. Linux detect the Acard as an IDE Controller ->hdx. All my attempts to get this card working with newer kernels failed. > :-( i've gotten this answer: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Many thanks for your enquiry to SuSE Installation Support. You wrote: > ANFRAGE: While trying to format the EIDE HDD attached to Sonnet ATA66 > PCI card installation program reports "No Hardrive Found" > > PowerPC Edition 7.1 on a PowerMac 7200/90, 320 MB RAM, 4 MB VRAM, 2MB > L2Cache, 40GB Seagate EIDE: ST340810A, stock SCSI CD-ROM drive and fdd This IDE Controller is not supported by the standard kernels included in SuSE PowerPC Edition 7.1. However, you can try to upgrade to the newest kernel version. You can find it on our ftp server under: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/BETA/kernel/deflt In order to acces this ide controller the following features in the kernel configuration need to be enabled: AEC62XX chipset support CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX This driver adds up to 4 more EIDE devices sharing a single interrupt. This add-on card is a bootable PCI UDMA controller. In order to get this card to initialize correctly in some cases, you should say Y here, and preferably also to "Use DMA by default when available". The ATP850U/UF is an UltraDMA 33 chipset base. The ATP860 is an UltraDMA 66 chipset base. The ATP860M(acintosh) version is an UltraDMA 66 chipset base. Please read the comments at the top of drivers/ide/aec62xx.c If you say Y here, then say Y to "Use DMA by default when available" as well. AEC62XX Tuning support CONFIG_AEC62XX_TUNING Please read the comments at the top of drivers/ide/aec62xx.c If unsure, say N. You can check this after booting with the new kernel in the file: /proc/config.gz If they are not enabled, you need to enable them in the kernel configuration after doing a make cloneconfig and to recompile the kernel. Please note, that there is no free support for self-compiling a kernel. If you have problems with that you may consider using our business software support services. You will find more information about that under: http://www.suse.com/us/solutions/bizsupp/index.html Best regards Your SuSE Support-Team Thomas Saupe (support(a)suse.de) ------------------------------------------------------------ SuSE GmbH, Tel: +49-421-5262300 Mo-Fr 13-18.00 Schanzaeckerstr. 10, Fax: +49-421-5262350 90443 Nuernberg, Email: support(a)suse.de Germany WWW: http://support.suse.de/ -----------------------------------------------------------

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PPP and SusePPC 7.1
by Christian Schmidt 24 Sep '01

24 Sep '01

Hi all, I'm trying to access the Internet using an old PowerMac, a Hagenuk ISDN Terminal Adapter ("Speed Dragon") and SusePPC 7.1 with the Standard Kernel (2.4.2 AFAIR). Everytime I try dialling in, pppd dies with exit status 1, and the following message appears in /var/log/messages: > Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline. It doesn't matter if I use wvdial or a "pppd call <provider>" command. Neither in man pppd nor in the pppd FAQ I found something concerning this subject... Any help would be appreciated! Please Cc: your answer to joschmili@gmx de. Thank you, Christian -- Christian Schmidt schmidtc(a)chemie.uni-hamburg.de

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Sonnet Tempo and SuSE
by Yuri K 24 Sep '01

24 Sep '01

Hello, this is my second attempt to get an answer on the subj. Btw, is there a comprehensive list of supported/unsupported hardware? E-Mail to the so called tech support remains unanswered. Zo, is there any kind of workaraound to make the card working? Mac OS sees it as a SCSI ACARD 6260. TIA

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NEWBIE Q: How to upgrade my kernel ..
by Joe Artale 21 Sep '01

21 Sep '01

I would like to upgrade to the latest kernel and would appreciate any advice .. Also, is there a HOWTO or other instruction page I can look at before proceeding .. I've built the kernel before, but it was a very long time ago and I basically followed some instructions I found so I don't recall enough to build it on my own without guidance .. I'm currently using SUSE 7.0, kernel 2.2.16 (I believe) with X 4.0 on an iMac DV 400 .. I would like to be able to access my FW harddrive, but I'm not to hopeful .. Also, are there drivers to use a Logitech QuickCam on Linux? .. Finally, can anyone give me advice on getting my Epson Stylus Photo 750 working under linux .. TIA -joe

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PCI IDE HDD Adaptor problem
by Yuri K 19 Sep '01

19 Sep '01

Hello, I tried to install 7.1 on a drive connected to Sonnet Tempo Ultra ATA66. PM 7200/90. During installation I have "There are no drives to install". Is there a workaround besides going out and buying a new SCSI drive? TIA, Y

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Re: [suse-ppc] KDE 2.2... Wie steht es...
by Stefan Eilers 19 Sep '01

19 Sep '01

Hi ! Kaspar Pflugshaupt wrote: Deine Mail kommt leider etwas zu spät. Ich bin dann gestern erneut umgestiegen und meine Mails sind sogar noch da... (klar, wo ich doch jetzt alles gesichert habe...) > > Funktioniert Kmail, Quanta usw. ?? > > Funktionieren hier gut (neuste Verionen KDE 2.2.1). Es gibt allerdings > gewisse Applikationen, die nicht starten wollen (Kbattleship, > Korganizer...). Also Kbattleship habe ich nicht ausprobiert, aber Korganizer funktioniert. Aber die RPM's wurden auch am 16.09 noch einmal überholt. Möglicherweise solltest Du noch einmal erneut updaten. Dafür is aktion noch tot, was mich persönlich aber auch nicht so besonders trifft... Auch im Kontrollzentrum läuft noch nicht alles ganz rund. Es handelt sich aber offensichtlich "nur" um die Abfragen der Systeminformationen... Insgesamt nicht ganz erfreulich. Aber die Schlüsselprogramme für mich scheinen jetzt zu laufen. > Zudem funktionieren bei mir die KDE-Fontmenus nicht mehr > (obwohl die Zeichensätze noch da sind und benutzt werden können). Das fand ich auch etwas seltsam. Openoffice zeigt mir alle Fonts (auch Truetype) an, aber kword nicht... !? > > Alles in allem: ich würde bei KDE 2.1 bleiben (bzw. wünsche, ich wäre > geblieben...) Zu spät .. Generell ist es etwas unerfreulich gelaufen... Zeitweise habe ich noch probiert einige Pakete selbst zu kompilieren, was aber die wildesten Probleme an anderen Stellen erzeugte. Die Abhängigkeiten scheinen nicht ganz trivial zu sein... Ciao, Stefan -- 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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Re: [suse-ppc] pmud and Audio CDs
by Jean-Francois Donati 18 Sep '01

18 Sep '01

Thanks for the info. For pmud, i've installed the latest pmud available on the suse ftp servers, so it should have removed apm. There is still a lot of apm stuff on the disc though, even in the /proc directory, which may indicate that apm is still there... If you find out what exactly you removed, and how you did remove it, please tell me. This sleep thing is really driving me nuts!! For xmms, i indeed tried what you suggest, but with both /dev/cdrom and /dev/hde, but none worked. I'll try /dev/sr0 tonight (no audio cd available at work...). Thanks again for your help. jean-francois

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pmud and Audio CDs
by Jean-Francois Donati 18 Sep '01

18 Sep '01

Hi list, I have a pismo with suse linux ppc (7.0) installed, upgraded to kernel 2.4.9-benh0-benh (along with modutils-2.4.1-0.ppc.rpm, ppp-2.4.0-3.ppc.rpm, pmud-0.7.2-1.ppc.rpm and modules-alsa.conf loaded in /etc/modules.conf). Everything works fine (network, sound, ppp) except 2 features. although the latest pmud was installed and seems to be apparently well recognised at boot, the automatic sleep is still behaving strangely. The machine goes to sleep (with the green led blinking) at very strange moments, even when I'm busy typing on the keyboard. If I'm only typing a text on the local directory, it's only a small problem. But if i'm typing a message on a remote host (through the modem connection), it shuts down the modem connection when going to sleep, and i have to start again my message from the beginning, which is really a pain. Another example of this strange behaviour is when the machine goes to sleep when the cpu is busy computing (code running for a long time), in which case it sometimes even doesn't wake up properly (screen totally black, forcing a hard reboot). This happens both when the AC adaptater is plugged in or not. looking at the man pages, i tried to install in /etc/power a pwrctl-local file (enabled for execution with chmod +x) with the following 2 lines as the only content: #!/bin/bash echo 1 in order to return 1 all the time and totally disable the sleep function (as indicated in the man pages). It apparently does not work, although executing the file myself by typing ./pwrctl-local indeed returns 1. I also added a file called `level' with only `3 3' in it, meaning maximum performance for both battery and AC modes (according to the man pages), assuming that it meant no (or at least very rare) sleep. I can see no difference in the behaviour, ie the same problems are observed. Would any one managed to solve this problem. Having the sleep function operational is great, but when it operates completely randomly, it's worse than not having it at all. Another problem concerns the reading of audio CDs. the sound is working fine (thanks to the alsa modules downloaded from olaf's page). I tried different things. cdparanoia (in su mode) reads audio cd nicely, and change them to, eg, a .cdda file, but apparently cannot redirect the output to the internal speakers. xmms tells that there is nothing in the cdrom drive (while there is obviously something), but can read well the .cdda file produced with cdparanoia (demonstrating at the same time that the internal speakers work ok). I also tried kscd (the kde audio cd player); while it recognises the cd and all the tracks on it, playing the cd produces no sound at all, although the speaker level is unmuted (set to max, with either kmix or alsamixer). I noticed that the cdrom level is set to 0 in both kmix and alsamixer (and CANNOT be unmuted apparently). It looks as if everything works (the cd is accessed by cdparanoia and kscd, the speakers work when reading .cdda files with xmms), but there is no single tool that can make them work together. Does anyone have a trick or a fix to make all this work properly?? Thanks in advance for any help. -------------------- Jean-Francois Donati Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, 14 avenue Edouard Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France E-mail: jean-francois.donati(a)obs-mip.fr, Tel: (33) 561332917, Fax: (33) 561332840, URL: http://webast.ast.obs-mip.fr/people/donati

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Booting AIX and Linux
by Bowler, Darryl 13 Sep '01

13 Sep '01

Does anyone know is the PPC version has a boot manager (maybe LILO) to be able to boot between AIX and Linux ? Regards Darryl

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