October 2000 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: BETA/devel/machines/apple_performa6400_200 ?
by seth johnson 05 Oct '00

05 Oct '00

Heinz, The problem was with external scsi devices (esp. scanners) not being recognized. Here's a TIL article about it: http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n20593 There was also some deal with having to install an update version of drive setup or else if your computer went into sleep mode, the hard drive wouldn't ever wake up and you'd get a flashing question mark. So, either of these two issues might be what that update is for because they are sort of specific to the 6400 model and its close cousins. Seth Heinz Nabielek wrote: > That is funny, because my SCSI disk _always_ worked > reliably on the Performa6400. However, I could never > install MkLinux, because it got stuck on the built-in > ATA disk. > > Heinz > > seth johnson wrote: > > > > Heinz, > > > > I have no idea what that would be for. I used to work in tech support at Apple, > > though, and I do remember that around the time of 7.6.X there was a special > > patch for the Performa 6400's to handle some sort of scsi flakiness. That was a > > long time ago, so I've forgotten what it was all about, but I seem to recollect > > that the flakiness related to scsi devices not showing up on the chain rather > > than the computer crashing, etc. Perhaps this is some update to address that > > hardware-related issue? > > > > Seth > > > > Heinz Nabielek wrote: > > > > > What is > > > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/BETA/devel/machines/apple_performa64… > > > meant for? > > > > > > It does not contain anything, but SuSE 6.4 for PowerPC is running > > > fine on my Performa 6400/200- > > > > > > except that I cannot emulate middle/right mouse buttons. > > > Heinz

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usb zip with kernel 2.2.16?
by Andrew Dabrowski 04 Oct '00

04 Oct '00

Maybe someone can put me out of my misery: is it even possible to get a usb zip drive working with SuSE 6.4 and kernel 2.2.16 on an iMac 350? -- Andrew Dabrowski || Chiamavi 'l ciel e 'ntorno vi si gira Bloomington, IN || mostrandovi le sue bellezze etterne, dabrowsa(a)indiana.edu || e l'occhio vostro pur a terra mira

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XFree86 v.4
by Matthew Wiener 01 Oct '00

01 Oct '00

Has anyone gotten XFree86 4 working on a Mac running Suse? Are there suse-compatible packages anywhere? Thanks, Matt

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