Am Donnerstag, 22. November 2001 18:13 schrieb Olivier M.:
- No network (if not configured via linuxrc) : reason is I guess that the install file is a 2.4.12 kernel, and the files in /lib/modules/ are for a 2.4.2 kernel -> version problems...
--> how could I compile another kernel to replace the install file ? tried to replace it with the vmlinux file, but it failed.
In SuSE Linux 7.1 there is only a 2.4.2er Kernel (and 2.2.something) I'm very happy with 2.4.14 on my PowerBook G3. Just Download it from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ configure it, compile it with make dep make clean make vmlinux make modules make modules_install Now you can install the kernel (vmlinux) as replacement of the old kernel. Don't forget to change links on the kernel if you use some.
- no XFree yet: sax fails, and using the XF86Config file from http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~tkurosu/SuSE-v71-PPC-install.log doesn't help
It's a very old version on 7.1. Take the Update to XFree86 4.1.0 from the ftp-server from SuSE.
Some other little but very annoying things: - how can I set the notebook to sleep/suspend mode ? (no apm command found)
Use pmud, it's not part of SuSE Linux 7.1 and it dosen't work very well on my notebook.
- mounting HFS (not HFS+) partitions also fails (but it's maybe because of the modules problem).
Works fine hire with kernel 2.4.14. As I remember it worked also fine with kernel 2.4.2 (and not very much worked on kernel 2.4.2 ...)
- the fan is running very loud under linux, even with a load of 0.00
Hm, I can only here the harddisk on my Powerbook, everything else is silent.
So, I hope it situation will be better under 7.3 (could somebody from Suse confirm?). Any input welcome :-)
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