August 2000 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SaX
by Sylvain Petitjean 08 Sep '00

08 Sep '00

Hello, To configure XF86 so that I can use the wheel of my Logitech mouse, I recently discovered I could do it with SaX (I say discover because there is not a word about this X configuration utility in the 6.4 for ppc manual !! -- and I'm new to the SuSE world). Problem: SaX does not work properly on my G4. As soon as it is started, my keyboard and my mouse are completely screwed up (as someone mentioned on this list). So I tried sax -f startup so as to force it to run on the startup X server. Sometimes it's better, sometimes it's not. But even when I can use mouse and keyboard, it seems the saved XF86Config file is overwritten by xsfb at boot time so modifications are lost. Apparently there is a new version of xsfb with an option to avoid creating XF86Config at boot. I haven't looked at it yet. Does anyone know if the people at SuSE plan on releasing a new -- and working -- version of SaX soon? Has anyone experience with XF86 4.0.1 and SaX2? Is it any better? (Is SaX2 somewhere on any of the four CDs?) ThanX, -- - Sylvain ``` (o o) +----------------------oOO--(_)--OOo--------------------------------------+

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Fwd: 6.4 on beige G3: login/ppp fun (was: modem fun).
by Ype Kingma 31 Aug '00

31 Aug '00

Hello ppc'ers, It seems that the original message below found its way into a WOM (write only memory). The situation has not changed, so here it is again. I think I have a problem with a missing serial.o module preventing pppd from accessing anything, because as soon as it should step in nothing (nada, nichts, niks, niets, rien, neat) happens. However a Linux distribution that does not connect to the internet seems so unlikely that I do prefer to have some of your advice before I start learning more about kernel modules... >Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:07:37 +0200 >To: suse-ppc(a)suse.com >From: Ype Kingma <ykingma(a)pop.xs4all.nl> >Subject: 6.4 on beige G3: login/ppp fun (was: modem fun). >Cc: >Bcc: >X-Attachments: > >Hello ppc'ers, > >With help from this list and some experimenting I determined >some useful initstrings for my SupraExpress 288: >first string: ATZ , >second string: AT&F1 . > >Thanks for all your help, I progressed, but only a tiny little bit: > >Using wvdial it dials my provider, nicely makes a connection at >the expected 28.8kb/s, and then things stop. > >That is, there is no domain name service available. >I used kpppd to get a terminal to the line, and sometimes >I can actually type to the connection. I then still have to login >first and then I get connected to a unix shell on the provider. > >(I'm typing this under MacOS 8.1 on the same machine, so the hardware >is ok.) > >When connecting as ordinary user, wvdial complains that >it cannot modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets. >I checked >ls -alL /usr/sbin/pppd >for missing s bits in its mode. All modes are as listed in the checklist. >When connecting as root (I know this is a no no, but I tried anyway), >the wvdial does not complain about the pap and chap secrets files. > >My user names are ykingma for the provider and ype for my own machine, >the beige G3. > >I checked the PPP checklist on the SuSE site, and noticed the following >differences with the required setup: >1. The serial.o module is not present. > At the moment I am not able to investigate or improve this. >2. In /etc/ppp/options no user is mentioned, even though I expected this > after setting up the ppp connection in Yast. > I added my user name (ie. the user name on the Internet service provider) > This had no effect on the problems above: still no login and no DNS. >3. In /etc/conf.modules the line: > alias ppp-compress24 ppp-deflate > was missing. I added this in place indicated in the checklist, > but still no login and no DNS. >4. In /etc/ppp/ the file options.ippp0 is missing. > I don't know what I could do about this. >5. In /etc/ppp/peers there are no files for my provider. (ao. chat script). > As I don't need a script on the Mac, I suppose I don't need these. >6. I added an entry to /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and to /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: > "ykingma" * "password" > This also had no effect: still no login, no DNS. > >So much for the differences with the PPP checklist. There are a few more, >but the ones mentioned seemed to be possible showstoppers. > >Since there is a space in my password I added double quotes >around it in /etc/wvdial.conf . Again no effect, so I removed the double >quotes. > >I encountered a file /etc/ppp/pppoe, so I added a >user "ykingma" >line to it and tried: >/usr/sbin/pppd call pppoe >but still no DNS. > >I also tried to use kppp to connect, but I had very similar results: >a connection is made, but the login does not seem to get done, let >alone starting ppp on the server side. > > >There are a few things left I might try: >- There is a space in my password: use another password. >- Get educated about kernel modules to make sure serial.o is there. >- chmod wvdial to have s bits like pppd so it won't complain that > it can not modify /etc/ppp/{p,ch}ap-secrets. >- ??? > >Now what should I do to use the internet from Linux SuSE 6.4 ppc edition? > >Thanks (a lot) in advance, >Ype

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problems with network adapter
by Alexander Groß 31 Aug '00

31 Aug '00

Hi Folks, I have some trouble while networking with my Intel Linux PC and my Mac with Linux. Hardware: PowerMac 5500/275 64 MB RAM, Network Adapter Sonic in CommSlot. Linux: SuSE Linux PPC 6.4. After loading the network-card dirver while bootup (tulip.o for cards with DEC 21041 chipset) the network in running, but after a while the connection breaks. I think it's a problem with the module. This is a shirt piece of $ dmesg: [...] tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 becker(a)cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov eth0: Digital DC21041 Tulip rev 33 at 0x400, EEPROM not present, 00:4C:69:6E:75:79, IRQ 22. eth0: 21041 Media table, default media 3d3d (Autosense). eth0: 21041 media #1, 10base2. eth0: 21041 media #0, 10baseT. [...] # testing some different medias eth0: 21041 media #14, MII 100baseTx-FD. [...] # testing some different medias eth0: 21041 media #0, 10baseT. [...] # testing some different medias eth0: 21041 media #14, MII 100baseTx-FD. [...] # testing some different medias eth0: 21041 media #5, 100baseTx-FD. [...] After some time using the network the following messages appears in /var/log/messages: [...] Aug 31 07:38:27 vader kernel: eth0: 21041 transmit timed out, status fc660000, CSR12 000051c8, CSR13 ffff0001, CSR14 ffffffff, resetting... Aug 31 07:38:27 vader kernel: eth0: 21143 100baseTx sensed media. Aug 31 07:38:32 vader kernel: eth0: 21041 transmit timed out, status fc660000, CSR12 000000c8, CSR13 ffffef09, CSR14 ffffff7f, resetting... Aug 31 07:38:32 vader kernel: eth0: 21143 100baseTx sensed media. Aug 31 07:38:37 vader kernel: eth0: 21041 transmit timed out, status fc660000, CSR12 000000c8, CSR13 ffffef09, CSR14 ffffff7f, resetting... Aug 31 07:38:37 vader kernel: eth0: 21143 100baseTx sensed media. Aug 31 07:38:42 vader kernel: eth0: 21041 transmit timed out, status fc660000, CSR12 000000c8, CSR13 ffffef09, CSR14 ffffff7f, resetting... Aug 31 07:38:42 vader kernel: eth0: 21143 100baseTx sensed media. Aug 31 07:38:47 vader kernel: eth0: 21041 transmit timed out, status fc660000, CSR12 000002c8, CSR13 ffffef09, CSR14 ffffff7f, resetting... Aug 31 07:38:47 vader kernel: eth0: 21143 100baseTx sensed media. Aug 31 07:38:52 vader kernel: eth0: 21041 transmit timed out, status fc660000, CSR12 000002c8, CSR13 ffffef09, CSR14 ffffff7f, resetting... Aug 31 07:38:52 vader kernel: eth0: 21143 100baseTx sensed media. [...] This messages repeats as long as I reinit runlevel 2. After changing to runlevel 2 again the network is running ... for some time. I've tried the old tulip driver (old_tulip.o) but it's not loading. Thanks, Alexander

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playing mp3s
by Daniel Tubb 30 Aug '00

30 Aug '00

using suse 6.4 ppc, on a performa 6400/180/32MB whenever I try and play mp3s using anything other than xmms it gives a segmentation fault... (ie freeamp) is there any way I can fix this? -daniel tubb

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MOL
by "Frère, Thierry" 29 Aug '00

29 Aug '00

Hi there, I have installed SuSE 6.4 on a PowerMac 8500. This is overall a great product - and the support from SuSE folks through this mailing-list is great. I have troubles running MOL: the machine freezes after running startmol (it applies the patches, then freezes after having opened a black window with the text (approximate) "this resolution mignt not be supported.. hit the space bar to switch to the console". No way to switch to a text console with the keyboard. And the crash is really bad; at the next linux boot, I have to run fsck manually, which makes me nervous .. I tried various settings in molrc with the same result, including booting from the newworld ROM included in System 8.6 on the mac side Here are some questions: Has anybody seen the same behaviour? does it make sense to boot from the newworld ROM, or is it better to use the built-in ROM? Does MOL boots the Mac from the first partition in the blockdev statements in molrc? in molrc, in the mouse section, the reference to /dev/adbmouse is commented; does it needs to stay this way? If someone has successfully ran MOL on a 8500, could this person kindly send me his molrc file? Thanks in advance, Thierry

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test - please discard
by Bill Heese 29 Aug '00

29 Aug '00

Sorry

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Re: Installation von Suse Linux 6.4 auf PowerSeries 850
by Olaf Hering 21 Aug '00

21 Aug '00

On Sun, Aug 06, Joerg Knippschild wrote: > So I did not succeed in creating the PRep Boot Partion. Right now, on the > machine AIX 4.3.3 is installed and working. So what is it for a computer: > PowerPC 850 Model 6070 C2l, 128 MB RAM, integrated network card, E15 > graphics adapter, S15 graphics Adapter in addition, Misumi IDE CDROM 4x, > IDE00=1080MBDPEA31080, IDE01=3249MBIBMDAQA-332. I just wanna let you know that we have a 43p 133 up and running. A kernel for that machine (and proably any other PReP based machine) can be found either at http://penguinppc.org/~olaf/ or at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/BETA/kernel Its name is zImage-2.2.16-4.prep, a System.map is only available at penguinppc.org. It panics right now when I start X (the E15 fb patch from David Monroe is included). I will look at this the next days. It has now the proper scsi driver. The 6.4-ppc CD boots fine, but there kernel fails to boot later in the network stuff. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

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6.4 on beige G3: login/ppp fun (was: modem fun).
by Ype Kingma 21 Aug '00

21 Aug '00

Hello ppc'ers, With help from this list and some experimenting I determined some useful initstrings for my SupraExpress 288: first string: ATZ , second string: AT&F1 . Thanks for all your help, I progressed, but only a tiny little bit: Using wvdial it dials my provider, nicely makes a connection at the expected 28.8kb/s, and then things stop. That is, there is no domain name service available. I used kpppd to get a terminal to the line, and sometimes I can actually type to the connection. I then still have to login first and then I get connected to a unix shell on the provider. (I'm typing this under MacOS 8.1 on the same machine, so the hardware is ok.) When connecting as ordinary user, wvdial complains that it cannot modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets. I checked ls -alL /usr/sbin/pppd for missing s bits in its mode. All modes are as listed in the checklist. When connecting as root (I know this is a no no, but I tried anyway), the wvdial does not complain about the pap and chap secrets files. My user names are ykingma for the provider and ype for my own machine, the beige G3. I checked the PPP checklist on the SuSE site, and noticed the following differences with the required setup: 1. The serial.o module is not present. At the moment I am not able to investigate or improve this. 2. In /etc/ppp/options no user is mentioned, even though I expected this after setting up the ppp connection in Yast. I added my user name (ie. the user name on the Internet service provider) This had no effect on the problems above: still no login and no DNS. 3. In /etc/conf.modules the line: alias ppp-compress24 ppp-deflate was missing. I added this in place indicated in the checklist, but still no login and no DNS. 4. In /etc/ppp/ the file options.ippp0 is missing. I don't know what I could do about this. 5. In /etc/ppp/peers there are no files for my provider. (ao. chat script). As I don't need a script on the Mac, I suppose I don't need these. 6. I added an entry to /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and to /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: "ykingma" * "password" This also had no effect: still no login, no DNS. So much for the differences with the PPP checklist. There are a few more, but the ones mentioned seemed to be possible showstoppers. Since there is a space in my password I added double quotes around it in /etc/wvdial.conf . Again no effect, so I removed the double quotes. I encountered a file /etc/ppp/pppoe, so I added a user "ykingma" line to it and tried: /usr/sbin/pppd call pppoe but still no DNS. I also tried to use kppp to connect, but I had very similar results: a connection is made, but the login does not seem to get done, let alone starting ppp on the server side. There are a few things left I might try: - There is a space in my password: use another password. - Get educated about kernel modules to make sure serial.o is there. - chmod wvdial to have s bits like pppd so it won't complain that it can not modify /etc/ppp/{p,ch}ap-secrets. - ??? Now what should I do to use the internet from Linux SuSE 6.4 ppc edition? Thanks (a lot) in advance, Ype

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Has anyone successfully installed SuSe on a G4? It doesn't recognize my Hard drive
by Ken Botwinick 19 Aug '00

19 Aug '00

Any help would be great. I'm losing my mind. I HAVE to get this installed today. Ken

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Trouble Installing Linux on new G4 with Adaptec 2930CU SCSI card
by Ken Botwinick 19 Aug '00

19 Aug '00

After creating the partitions and copying the suseboot folder to the Linux boot partition, I restarted my machine. Linux starts to boot, but hangs when trying to address the SCSI card. Has anyone with a G4 had luck booting Linux with the Build to order SCSI adapter card in their machine? How can I get past this. Thanks. Ken Botwinick

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yaboot problems
by Rasmus Back 17 Aug '00

17 Aug '00

Hi, I'm having problems setting up yaboot for dual-booting. The generate_os_chooser script on CD 1 doesn't seem to work, it set up my partitions as ultra0:X (which designates a slave drive) when they should've been hd:X. I fixed this, but it still doesn't work right. My machine boots into yaboot if the space bar isn't pressed at startup, but the keyboard doesn't work. Pressing space at startup has no affect (should boot into Mac OS, but still boots into yaboot). My machine is a rev A iMac with a 14.5 gig hard drive partitioned as follows: 2.5 gig, hfs+, hda6 (Mac OS) 50 meg, hfs, hda7 (linux boot) 128 meg, swap, hda8 (linux swap) 2 gig, ext2, hda9 (linux root) 10 gig, hfs, hda10 (mp3 :) My os-chooser <BOOT-SCRIPT> part looks like this: <BOOT-SCRIPT> " get-key-map" " keyboard" open-dev $call-method dup 20 dump 5 + c@ 08 = if " Booting MacOS ..." cr " boot hd:6,\\:tbxi" eval else " Booting Yaboot ..." cr " boot hd:7,\\yaboot" eval then </BOOT-SCRIPT> Any help with this would be great, --Rasmus

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Re: problem installing on new Ruby iMac
by Cameron Bales .:. 17 Aug '00

17 Aug '00

>On Fri, Aug 11, Cameron Bales .:. wrote: > >> >> After that it kind of goes to pot. >> tried following directions from CD#1 - copy Suseboot to boot >> partition, set that as the Startup drive, and then reboot while >> holding c to boot of CD#1 >> >> That didn't work so well - screen goes properly black, penguin >> appears at top left, and a lot of text comes up saying it is doing >> stuff. One of the things that comes up says something to the effect >> that USB isn't working. It does keep trying to do stuff but >> eventually a blue/gray dialog comes up asking to make sure that the >> CD is in. That CD is definately in there. Since it doesn't see the >> CD nothing happens. >> >> Also tried reading the manual - this was frustrating since the >> manual, the readme, and the docs I printed off the support database >> on yaboot all say slightly different things. Using all of the Docs, >> and a Linux knowledgeable friend I tried setting yaboot up manually - >> no real joy there either. >> >> Is there one place with a unified set of installation instructions? >> Is my extremely new iMac too new for Suse PPC 6.4? > >Only the kernel is too old for that machine ;=) > >I have one report of a successful boot into linuxrc. > >Please do it this way: > >Get the latest kernel from ppclinux.apple.com/~benh , download the >vmlinux*.gz file, extract it with Mac Gunzip in the tools folder in >suseboot. replace the old kernel "vmlinux" with the new one, keep the >name "vmlinux". Edit the file yaboot.conf, there is a section like that: > >image = vmlinux > root = /dev/fd0 ># apppen = "something" > label = install > initrd = ramdisk.image.gz > >replace that something with ramdisk_size=50000. >Then reboot, you don't need to hold down the key "c", the boot device is >already set to your Linux Boot partition. >Now choose YaST1 and try to install Linux. It *might* be possible that >Yast2 works too, but I guess the newer ATI cards are not yet supported. > >If it works for you, please read the instructions at >http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/usb2216.html >and >http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/keylist.POWERPC.html > >The newer kernels have a changed interface for the new USB drivers and >you need to update at least the devs.rpm. > >If you still have trouble, please let me know. I got the kernel: http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/vmlinux-2.2.17pre13-ben1.gz and followed your instructions - it doesn't seem to work even as well as the CD does - no black screen, no penguin, no text - all that happens is the screen goes white and grey and then it drops down to my OS9 partition. any chance I could get a yaboot.conf and os-chooser files that work e-mailed to me here? that is the only thing left for me to blame. open firmware tells me 0:10 is my linux partition, and 0:9 is my OS9 partition - does that mean that os-chooser should have ultra0:10.... for Linux and ultra0:9 for MacOS, or do they both get set to 10? should it be hd:10 instead of ultra0:10. Cameron .:. -- -- This mirror will show you your enemies. Cameron Bales .:. Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada work: (506)-364-1097 http://www.tantramar.com/ home: (506) 536-3613 http://i.am/cameronbales ---- The current decade shall be known as "The Naughties" ----

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6.4 on beige G3: modem fun
by Ype Kingma 16 Aug '00

16 Aug '00

Hello ppc'ers, I installed 6.4 on a beige G3 on its internal harddisk. Everything went fine, except that I gave the swap partition only 1 MB the first time, so I had to start all over again. Also the graphical setup of Yast2 consistently hangs at 75% during initialisation..., but after a reboot I could do get almost everything right using the text mode yast. I tried connecting my SupraExpress 28.8 and autodecting it using Yast. It almost worked once, but I gave it a wrong telephone number, and it continued to try to connect while getting busy tones. I had to ctrl-C out of it, probably leaving the modem in some weird state, because I could not get it to connect again, even autodetection failed. So here is the question: What init strings work for a SupraExpress 28.8, or where can I try to find them? For the rest "6.4 ppc" works fine, and YaST is great. Time to register, I suppose... Regards, Ype Kingma

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Re: problems booting suseppc on ibook
by sudermann＠gmx.li 13 Aug '00

13 Aug '00

Hallo Olaf, Danke für Deine Antwort. Folgende Einträge habe ich in der Yaboot.conf geändert: default=linux ... append = "video=ofonly" # meine linux root partition: root = /dev/hda12 Das ibook bootet mittlerweile auch das Linux, startet jedoch jedesmal das "SUSE installation program v1.16 ..." und fragt schließllich nach der CD. Was geht da vor sich ?? Wenn ich nun innerhalb des installers das Menü Installation/System starten anwähle und nochmals meine "/dev/hda12" eintrage, läuft das ibook auch hoch. Hab´ich irgendwo noch einen Eintrag vergessen ?? beste Grüße Martin -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

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problems booting suseppc on ibook
by Martin Sudermann 11 Aug '00

11 Aug '00

I installed the suseppc6.4 on an ibook from CD and with the argument "video=ofonly" and run the os-chooser script. So this worked fine. But when i try to (re-)boot the linux with bootx-CP the linux installscript will start everytime :-( So i tried booting via openfirmware and os-chooserscript. I set the boot-device to "hd:<linuxbootpartNo>os-chooser". Now i can run linux while holding down <space> but when I try to run MacOS, the ibook will stop at the openfirmwareprompt :-( If theres someone who might to have a solution for ONE of these ways, please mail to me or to the list because i have to make the ibook runnig till Monday morning :-((( thanx in advance Martino ms(a)empirium.de -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

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Re: Problem installing
by Tomas Garcia Ferrari 11 Aug '00

11 Aug '00

>If you use fdisk (that is what yast uses) you can not access that disk >anymore from MacOS. >So you do not need another MacOS partition on it. Start with BootX and >place the kernel vmlinux in a folder called "Linux Kernels" in your >Systemfolder. So I did. And what happened? The YaST had frozed when it was formating the disk and when I (force) restarted the Macintosh was imposible to boot (the computer freezes before showing the 'happy Mac', even if I try to boot from a CD...) The only way that I found to boot was unplugging the HD in question... But can it be possible that fdisk really damage a HD for ever? I even try to plugg it on another SCSI id without any good result... On top of that, the other HD, that holds the MacOS 9 is pretty damaged as well... it doesn't boot properly, only without extensions and if you try to open a folder on it the computer freezes... It was working perfectly before this fdisk crash!!! I am pretty angry with this product (SuSE 6.4 for PPC) because was not only imposible for me to make it work but it seems to be breaking all my hardware as well!!! Any advice before I through all out of the window? Tomas Garcia Ferrari Bigital http://bigital.com

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Re: installation report on a french iMac rev B (Victory !)
by Stephane Bagnier 09 Aug '00

09 Aug '00

Olaf Hering wrote and -> i explain <- : > this looks all ok ->my XF86Config file<- , except that powerpcps2 must > be macintosh. There is still a problem with xsfb.rpm. But the current > version can be configured to run only the init script. Please update > the variable CREATE_FBCONF and set it to "init" ->into the file > /etc/rc.config<-. This will keep your XF86config. > Change the XF86config and insert "macintosh" in that "powerpcps2" field. I did everything into the runlevel 2 (2 as boot argument to the kernel) After these corrections, i ran SuSEconfig and yast, then i launched the runlevel 3: init 3 This works ! the keyboard is ok ! At last ! Thank you Olaf for your support ! Stephane Bagnier.

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Re: yaboot problems
by gons 09 Aug '00

09 Aug '00

Hi the bootx I know about. What I want is to use yaboot and be able to choose the OS. only os-chooser does't work on and imac (rev a and c). See the preceding articles: yaboot problems. gons ---------- >From: Bruce <bruce(a)toorak.com> >To: suse-ppc(a)suse.com >Subject: Re: yaboot problems >Date: woe, 9 aug 2000 03:17 > > Thats easy, use bootX and save MacOS as the deafult prefs and > you will have to hit the tab key when Bootx starts!! > > Remember you can boot to Linux from Bootx Control Panel. > Double click and tab return. (Doesn't work on the PowerBook G3500 firewire > series though!!) > > Or in Yaboot, set the deafult to MacOS and you will have to hold down the > space bar. > > Bruce. >

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Re: Problem installing
by Tomas Garcia Ferrari 08 Aug '00

08 Aug '00

>How did you partition the drive? If the whole disk is supposed for Linux >you can use the yast itself to partition the whole drive. I tried using the "FWB HardDisk Toolkit". I tried using the Apple "Drive Setup" (that comes with MacOS 9) None of them worked (anyway the installation procces freezes the Mac) I tried to use YaST to partition the drive but then this procces freezes the Mac before mounting the partitions! Anyway, if I use YaST to partition the drive, should I leave an HFS partition? How shall I boot and select one disk or the other? I must say that the SuSE documentation on the printed manual is pretty confusing... Thanks for your help! Tomás Tomas Garcia Ferrari Bigital http://bigital.com

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installation report on a french iMac rev B
by Stephane Bagnier 08 Aug '00

08 Aug '00

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'

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Problem installing
by Tomas Garcia Ferrari 08 Aug '00

08 Aug '00

Hello, I'm trying to install SuSE 6.4 for PowerPC on a PowerMacintosh 9600. I destinated a 2 Gb internal HD for that. Everytime that I try to install using the 'graphical' installer the system freezes at 82% of 'checking the system' If I try to use the non-graphical installer the system reboot randomly during the proccess or freezes during formating and mounting the partitions... Anybody had experienced something like this? I'm very frustrated because I can not install this... Thanks! Tomas Garcia Ferrari Bigital http://bigital.com

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Re: [ANN] JDK 1.3.0 Beta B2, JDK 1.2.2 FCS and JDK 1.1.8 V3 for PPP Linux
by jeramy b smith 07 Aug '00

07 Aug '00

"Kevin B. Hendricks" <khendricks(a)ivey.uwo.ca> wrote: > > http://linuxppc.org/user/java > > http://linuxppc.org/usr/java Have Fun! -Jeramy ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.

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[ANN] JDK 1.3.0 Beta B2, JDK 1.2.2 FCS and JDK 1.1.8 V3 for PPP Linux
by Kevin B. Hendricks 07 Aug '00

07 Aug '00

ANNOUNCING: JDK 1.1.8 FCS, JDK 1.2.2 FCS, and JDK 1.3.0 Beta 2 For PPC Linux distributions Blackdown Organization is pleased to announce the availability of JDK 1.1.8, JDK 1.2.2 and JDK 1.3.0 Beta 2 for current PPC Linux distributions. See the new for Java on PPC Linux Website at: http://linuxppc.org/user/java More mirror sites (including the official Blackdown sites) will be coming along later (hopefully!). If anyone else wants to mirror this site, please do and pass along your URL to me, please. Notes and Requirements ---------------------- - should work with any *current* distribution: YDL 1.2, LinuxPPC 2000, SuSE 6.4, Debian, etc - lots of bug fixes from both Sun and Blackdown - still no JIT for JDK 1.2.2 or JDK 1.3.0 (we need your help!) - requires glibc 2.1.3 or higher (do *not* use glibc-2.1.3-15c.ppc.rpm set) - requires XFree 3.6 or higher or Xpmac rev10 or higher - requires a recent version of tar that supports bzip2 - requires dynamic OpenMotif 2.1.30-3 (with an additional JDK bugfix patch) Check out the website for more INFO in the Release Notes Hope this Helps. Kevin B. Hendricks ps. Thank Jeremy for getting the new linuxppc.org site off the ground and hosting the new java on ppc linux home!

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Yahoo! Urlaubsantwort
by anna_uhl＠yahoo.de 06 Aug '00

06 Aug '00

Hi ihl lieben! Ich bin leider erstmal für 8Wochen im Urlaub.. Es kann also noch ein bischen dauern bis ihr ne Antwort bekommt.. Nicht sauer sein,vielleicht kann ich ja zwischendurch mal meine Mails abholen.. CU Anna -------------------- Original Message: X-Track: 2: 40 Received: from host1.SuSE.com (HELO lists.suse.com) (202.58.118.3) by mta220.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 05 Aug 2000 18:42:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1738 invoked by alias); 6 Aug 2000 01:42:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact suse-ppc-help(a)suse.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes list-help: <mailto:suse-ppc-help@suse.com> list-unsubscribe: <mailto:suse-ppc-unsubscribe@suse.com> list-post: <mailto:suse-ppc@suse.com> Delivered-To: mailing list suse-ppc(a)suse.com Received: (qmail 1733 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2000 01:42:35 -0000 Delivered-To: suse-ppc(a)suse.com Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 03:42:37 +0200 From: Olaf Hering <olh(a)suse.de> To: Stephane Bagnier <Stephane.Bagnier(a)lps.ens.fr> Cc: suse-ppc(a)suse.com Subject: Re: installation report on a french iMac rev B Message-ID: <20000806034237.A15126(a)suse.de> Reply-To: suse-ppc(a)suse.com References: <3982AC1E.DD1534BF(a)lps.ens.fr> <20000729145041.A2536(a)suse.de> <398C4E08.F7F29DA4(a)lps.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Conten _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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PowerBook G3500 Prismo and Sound
by Bruce 01 Aug '00

01 Aug '00

Hi there, I have been installing SuSE6.4 (side issue - is 7.0 pro coming out in PPC form at the same time!!!) on an Apple PowerBook G3 500 and its up and running with the exception of the sound system. Yes I have read all the various FAQ's and links BUT whenever I run sndvolmix, I get a segmentation fault. Looking at the man pages, it implies that /dev/mixer /dev/dsp and /dev/audio should all be on major number 140 whereas in reality they are on major number 14. These are not the only major number differences. Several others differ including pmu. (Actually I think that may be a minor number 153 instead of 154 in that case!) If I go ahead and rename /dev/mixer(-,0,1,2,3) to say /dev/mmixer... and the others the same, then attempt to create mknod <devicename> c M m for the devices as specified in the man pages, will this make any difference whatsoever??!! Regards, Bruce.

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