November 2001 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RS/6000 43p 140 does not boot (SuSE 7.1)
by Alexander Achenbach 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

Hello everybody. Did anyone manage to successfully boot Linux on an RS/6000 43p 140 ? I tried using ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/7.1/unsorted/prep/43p_140/zImage.140.chrp and followed the instructions in the German SuSE manual (ie copied the image to an MS-DOS formatted floppy disk, renaming the image to "zimage" there). At the OpenFirmware prompt I typed boot floppy:,zimage root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 fake_initrd I also tried using ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/BETA/deflt/zImage.prep and followed the instructions on http://sdb.suse.de/de/sdb/html/olh_ppc_43p140.html (ie copied the image as a raw disk image using dd). At the OpenFirmware prompt I typed boot floppy:,\zImage In BOTH cases, the symptoms are identical: The floppy is read (takes half a minute or so). The OpenFirmware cursor moves to the next line or the line after that. The system freezes (or reboots after a long time). (None of the IPL or memory messages ever appear.) So obviously, none of these approaches works for me. What is the difference between the images copied as raw disk images and those copied as files on an MS-DOS disk? Which approach is *supposed* to work? Both are declared as solutions for 140 43p. BTW: The firmware version of the machine I tried this on is TIG97251. Thanks in advance for any hints or solutions. Alexander Achenbach

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proc/cpuinfo reports 195MHz for a 333XLR8 daughterboard=G3 ???
by John Pagonis 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

hwllo guys can you make sense of this. I have an XLR8 ZIF daughter card and G3/333 CPU, but the cpuinfo reports 195!!! Is this info trustworthy ? is then anything I can do something then to switch the CPU to 333MHz ? or read the temp correctly ? processor : 0 cpu : 750 temperature : 0 C clock : 195MHz revision : 2.2 bogomips : 670.11 zero pages : total 0 (0Kb) current: 0 (0Kb) hits: 0/4681 (0%) machine : Power Macintosh motherboard : AAPL,7500 MacRISC memory : 144MB pmac-generation : OldWorld btw has anyone got an XF 4.0 config for 16bit colour on this machine using the onboard 'control' FB ? cheers -- John

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suse linux on new powerbook G4 667Mhz /512MB radeon
by suse-ben＠e9000.de 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

Hi all! Greeteings, and special respects to BEN from ben! i've rsynced his sources (benh-2.4.16) compiled and it workz! i've configured the radeonfb via sax2 without any changes to Xfree from SuSE PPC 7.1 - and it workz and - I think the system starts faster than on an 950Mhz Athlon. I'm working on an little howto but at first I want to send thankz to Olaf and Ben! great work boyz! the only feature i'm missing is a comfortable bootloader with the possibility to choose MACOS X (from hfs+ / ufs ) MACOS 9 (hfs+) and SuSELinux (hfs / ext2fs) is there anybody with positiv results on the new powerbook? but i can live with pressing command+alt+o+f an typing boot hdÖ11,benkern greetings from ben

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RE: [suse-ppc] iMac internal modem
by Jaap-Jan 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

Using wvdial and a newer kernel then the 7.1 original works with my feb. 2001 iMac I also still have problems with kppp Jaap-Jan >===== Original Message From Tom Dove <tdove(a)toad.net> ===== >Hi all, > > I've not been able to make kppp or the Gnome equivalent (I forget its >name and I'm in OSX now) dial the internal modem in my 2001 slot-loading >iMac (SuSE 7.1, KDE 2.2, Gnome 1.4). Searching various FAQs revealed >others with the same problem, but no answers. > > The Setup and other parts of kppp seem to work properly and it claims >to recognize the modem, but the log shows that it freezes when the modem >does not respond with "OK" after the "ATZ" initialization command from >the software. > > Is ATZ the wrong initialization command, or is something else wrong >here? I'm currently going to my ISP through the Ethernet connection to >my AirPort, which has its own modem, and that works. > >-- Tom Dove >*** Home page at toad.net/~tdove/ *** >* Sailing, genealogy, ham radio *

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RE: [suse-ppc] SuSE 7.3 with new iBook
by Schmitt, Wolfgang (BKA-IT22) 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

> -----Original Message----- > From: Stephan Michels [SMTP:stephan@vern.chem.tu-berlin.de] > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 4:28 PM > > For the sound, you must use ben's kernel tree. The the standard kernel > from 7.3 sound doesn't work. I'm sorry but sound was the first thing Yast2 detected automatically - and it works fine. -- Wolfgang

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installing SuSE 7.3 on the new PowerBooks
by Olaf Hering 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

Hi, a few people have problems to install SuSE on the new PowerBooks of iBooks. Here is a short howto to get things going. The instructions do also apply to G4 with nVidia cards. 7.3-ppc should boot and install without problems on the 'older' Titanium PowerBooks and the iBook dual-USB. 7.1-ppc should work as well, but you need a newer kernel. The just released PowerBooks have the ATI Radeon chip and there was no support at the time of 7.3 creation. So all you have the the generic OpenFirmware framebuffer. booting the CD on 7.1-ppc should work like that: reboot and hold down command+option+o+f until a prompt appears. this command will start the installer: boot cdrom:,\\yaboot the bootloader should start, type 'install video=ofonly' booting the CD on 7.3-ppc should work in any case, hold down the 'c' key during startup. If that does not work, reboot to the OpenFirmware prompt and type that command: boot cdrom:,install video=ofonly that should start the installer. Everything is fine when you see the penguin. You should upgrade the kernel and modutils after installation. The files can be found here: ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/BETA/k_deflt.rpm ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/modutils.rpm Unfortunately, the new PowerBooks have an unsupported internal USB modem. It is like a Winmodem, you need to upload some firmware to get it going, this is only available for MacOS. There is no solution to make it work in Linux. Ethernet should work, sound should work on the older iBooks and PowerBooks. I have no reports about the newer models, it may not work without changes to the alsa driver. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

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Re: [suse-ppc] Re: SuSE 7.3 with new iBook
by David Callaghan 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

>Christian Schmidt wrote: >> If anyone's interested in the results, >> send me an e-mail and >> I'll post my experience to the list. If you'd like, you may also be able to post your experience as an entry in the SuSE SBD. You can send the SuSE PPC support an e-mail. Everyone loves a good experience!

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RE: [suse-ppc] SuSE 7.3 with new iBook
by Schmitt, Wolfgang (BKA-IT22) 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

> -----Original Message----- > From: Janus Sandsgaard [SMTP:janus@mymlan.netcetera.dk] > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 11:52 AM > To: Schmitt, Wolfgang (BKA-IT22) > Cc: 'suse-ppc(a)suse.com' > Subject: Re: [suse-ppc] SuSE 7.3 with new iBook > Dear, Janus. > It's technical possible, but the answer very much depend on, what sort of > applications you use today. First of all I'm doing some web design, programming with PHP and mysql - which are already supported by MacOS X. But I'm missing some things, first of all easy connectivity with my PC. The only way to communicate is by using my iBook as an FTP server. But I'd like to use Samba instead. In the future I'd like to get rid of my whole PC-Windows system by replacing everything with Linux. So I'm going to have two Linux systems running in my LAN with one OS and the same software. Then I'm missing a personal information manager for OS X with all the features and none of the bugs of M$ Outlock and German language suport. I'm missing several software components which are already supplied by SuSE 7.3. However, since I've received no negative feedback yet I'm going to try it out. If anyone's interested in the results, send me an e-mail and I'll post my experience to the list. Thanks for answering me. -- Wolfgang

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suse 7.3 + powerbook g4 550MHz ? any success story ? :)
by Olivier M. 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

Hi, Thinking about getting the 7.3 ppc for a Titanium 550mhz (the new ones), but would like to know if somebody else already tried to install it on similar hardware (the Ti 550 is not in the supported HW list...). It seems there is nobody @ suse owning a Ti... So I would be happy to play as a beta tester (but not to pay 150DM to order software that could eventuall not work...). If you (SuSE) are interested and send me some CD's (or iso files of the first cd) of the 7.3, I would then write a full rapport for www.linux-laptop.org, which would make some more publicity for suse... :) Thanks in advance! Olivier -- _________________________________________________________________ Olivier Mueller - om(a)8304.ch - PGPkeyID: 0E84D2EA - Switzerland qmail projects: http://omail.omnis.ch - http://webmail.omnis.ch

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RE: [suse-ppc] RS/6K can't start after halt
by AURELIANO Marcus 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

Ok....Let´s supose that your boot setings are ok. Another try is make sure that the Kernel Image are instaled and activated... Boot from CD, and choose YAST to boot the instaled packages, should work, then follow the steps above: Basicaly you need 3 Partitions: /dev/sda1 Boot /dev/sda2 swap /dev/sda3 Root You can check this with fdisk /dev/sda then you have to put the Kernel on /dev/sda1 with dd if=/boot/zImage.prep of=/dev/sda1 then you must activate the Boot Partition with either: /sbin/activate /dev/sda 1 or with fdisk then it should boot from the HD. With regards, Marcus Aureliano. -----Original Message----- From: David Callaghan [mailto:dcallaghan@mail.orbtech.tv] Sent: quinta-feira, 29 de novembro de 2001 14:47 To: suse-ppc(a)suse.com Subject: RE: [suse-ppc] RS/6K can't start after halt Marcus Aureliano wrote: >I had the same problem once, and after many tries I discovered that my >SMS was an old version. You should ask IBM for the lastest version of >SMS. Which RS/6K do you have? I have a B50 which I bought about 6 weeks ago.

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RE: [suse-ppc] RS/6K can't start after halt
by David Callaghan 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

Marcus Aureliano wrote: >I had the same problem once, and after many tries I discovered that my SMS >was an old version. You should ask IBM for the lastest version of SMS. >Which RS/6K do you have? I have a B50 which I bought about 6 weeks ago.

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SuSE 7.3 with new iBook
by Schmitt, Wolfgang (BKA-IT22) 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

Hi, everybody. Since I'm missing some useful software for MacOS 9 or X I decide to use SuSE 7.3 LINUX on my new iBook (bought two months ago) additionally. I just found one comment on SUSE's homepage that everything should work fine, that's all... Does anyone have any experience in installing and using LINUX, on this iBook? Are there any known problems, non-supported hardware (I've got an iBook 600 DVD/CD with 384 MB RAM)? And what about removing MacOS completely from the harddisk and using LINUX instead of it? Thanks a lot. -- Wolfgang

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Sound on iBook
by Tue Haste Andersen 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

Hi, I have second generation iBook running SuSE 7.1. All is working very well, apart from sound input. In SuSE Linux 7.3, does the (ALSA) sound driver for this machine support recording? Regards, Tue Haste Andersen - http://www.diku.dk/students/haste/

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RE: [suse-ppc] RS/6K can't start after halt
by AURELIANO Marcus 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

I had the same problem once, and after many tries I discovered that my SMS was an old version. You should ask IBM for the lastest version of SMS. Which RS/6K do you have? Marcus Aureliano. -----Original Message----- From: David Callaghan [mailto:dcallaghan@mail.orbtech.tv] Sent: quarta-feira, 28 de novembro de 2001 19:38 To: suse-ppc(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-ppc] RS/6K can't start after halt >On Mon, Nov 26, David Callaghan wrote: > >> I had to shutdown -h the system to move it from one location to >> another. When I powered back on, I was greeted with a "Client program >> not recognized" error. >> >> I have SuSE 7.1 PPC installed. > Gruss Olaf correctly responded: >Did a normal reboot work? Maybe your battery is old and cant hold the >nvram data. Change the boot device in the "Multiboot" menu. I have booted into the Maintenance menu using the CD and changed the bootlist from the default (floppy, CD, net card), to floppy, HD, CD and rebooted. This appears to have no effect. According to IBM, I should boot from the first AIX disk and invoke the bootlist command. I don't have AIX, I have SuSE 7.1 PPC, which makes me null and void in the eyes of IBM. Is there an equivalent SuSE command or process? Thanks.

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Re: [SLE] block certain type of attachments on postfix ?
by Bartydeux 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Le Mercredi 28 Novembre 2001 22:02, vous avez écrit : > * Linux - User (linux(a)ods.co.cr) [011128 08:00]: > > Hi guys... how do I block certain type of attachments (exe files by > > example or vbs type) using postfix and qpopper under Suse 7.4 ? > > This is covered in the postfix docs: > http://www.mrbill.net/postfix/ + don't forget to type > postmap /etc/postfix/header_checks or > postmap /etc/postfix/body_checks to rebuild the indexed file /etc/postfix/header_checks.db or /etc/postfix/body_checks After you have entered lines in the text file. Alain

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Re: [suse-ppc] RS/6K can't start after halt
by David Callaghan 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

>On Mon, Nov 26, David Callaghan wrote: > >> I had to shutdown -h the system to move it from one location to another. When I powered back on, I was greeted with a "Client program not recognized" error. >> >> I have SuSE 7.1 PPC installed. > Gruss Olaf correctly responded: >Did a normal reboot work? Maybe your battery is old and cant hold the >nvram data. Change the boot device in the "Multiboot" menu. I have booted into the Maintenance menu using the CD and changed the bootlist from the default (floppy, CD, net card), to floppy, HD, CD and rebooted. This appears to have no effect. According to IBM, I should boot from the first AIX disk and invoke the bootlist command. I don't have AIX, I have SuSE 7.1 PPC, which makes me null and void in the eyes of IBM. Is there an equivalent SuSE command or process? Thanks.

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PB G4 Kernel crashing into OF at startup
by Felix Lustenberger 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Dear all, I tried to compile the BenH kernel tree since 2.4.6 (last kernel I sucessfully installed) on my PB G4 with a SuSE PPC 7.1 installation. It actually did compile fine but always crashes into OpenFirmware after having installed the kernel into /boot/ directory and also having adapted the /etc/yaboot.conf script (in conjunction with ybin install utility). Error message on white screen: ... ok copying OF device tree... DEFAULT CATCH!, code=300 at %SRR0: 014106ac %SRR1: 00003030 ok 0 > After that I am not able to boot further into any OS, I have to restart the maschine manually. Do you have an idea what is going wrong? Is there any special trick for the kernel configuration? I have to note that I sucessfully installed Olaf's 2.4.12 Kernel (the one with '-elf' in the filename). Thanks a lot for any hint, Felix -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Snowbush Microelectronics for excellence in mixed-signal design Dr. Felix Lustenberger Phone +1 (416) 925-0803 (direct) Design Engineer Phone +1 (416) 925-5643 (general) 313-720 Spadina Ave. FAX +1 (416) 925-0581 Toronto ON M5S 2T9 E-Mail lustenbe(a)snowbush.com Canada Web http://www.snowbush.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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TSM client for Suse PPC
by AURELIANO Marcus 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Hi all, Does anybody know if there is a version of IBM TSM client for Suse PPC ??? How can I get it? My hardware is a RS/6000 F50. TIA, Marcus Aureliano A. R. Oliveira FIAT do Brasil S/A - ITS LA Fone: 0xx31589-4731 Fax: 0xx31589-4004 e-mail: marcus.aureliano(a)itsla.com.br

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Oracle Client for PPC
by AURELIANO Marcus 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Is there anyway to install Oracle on Suse Linux PPC? I mean, I don´t have found the oracle binarys to Linux PPC, does anybody knows if there is any port or any work to port Oracle for Linux PPC??? TIA, Marcus Aureliano A. R. Oliveira FIAT do Brasil S/A - ITS LA Fone: 0xx31589-4731 Fax: 0xx31589-4004 e-mail: marcus.aureliano(a)itsla.com.br

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radeon and alsa on old worlds
by Aurélien Sergent 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

hi all I actually use a G3 beige (old world) whith the following specifications: PCI video card : ati radeon 32 mb sound : apple's native embedded system I've suse ppc 7.1 whith a ben kernel (can't remember exactly which one) for the radeon support, it works great except the following : there is no alsa support (alsa worked whith the out of the box 2.4.x kernel from 7.1, but radeon didn't work) is there a specific kernel , mods and so on .... in order to have radeon and alsa supported? and if yes, where can i find it THX

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G3 Server and 1 GB of Memory
by Olivier Dobberkau 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Hi all! I'm running a Suse PPC Linux Server on a G3 Server Machine. Since RAM is cheap, I though on Upgrading the 256 MB Memory to 1 GB. So I bought 3 256 MB DIMM Blocks and stick them into the Server. To my first surprise not all RAM was discovered or shown with "free". Actually I have 4 DIMMs in the Server 2 x 128 MB 2 x 256 MB = 768 MB "free" shows this: free -t total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 578784 558088 20696 113680 444824 59536 -/+ buffers/cache: 53728 525056 Swap: 262136 916 261220 Total: 840920 559004 281916 Any suggestions? Trick? Suse Version is PPC 7.0 Greetings, Olivier -- Olivier Dobberkau . . . . . . . . . . . . d.k.d - creating your webspace digitale kommunikations dienste fon: 069 - 430561-70 fax: 069 - 430561-90 mail: olivier.dobberkau(a)dkd.de home: http://www.dkd.de

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iMac internal modem
by Tom Dove 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Hi all, I've not been able to make kppp or the Gnome equivalent (I forget its name and I'm in OSX now) dial the internal modem in my 2001 slot-loading iMac (SuSE 7.1, KDE 2.2, Gnome 1.4). Searching various FAQs revealed others with the same problem, but no answers. The Setup and other parts of kppp seem to work properly and it claims to recognize the modem, but the log shows that it freezes when the modem does not respond with "OK" after the "ATZ" initialization command from the software. Is ATZ the wrong initialization command, or is something else wrong here? I'm currently going to my ISP through the Ethernet connection to my AirPort, which has its own modem, and that works. -- Tom Dove *** Home page at toad.net/~tdove/ *** * Sailing, genealogy, ham radio *

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RE: [suse-ppc] Installation of SuSe 7.3 for PPC on IBM RS/6000
by Jacob Vennervald Madsen 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

> What RS/6000? Where does it freeze? It's a 44p model 270. > Where does it freeze? It freezes during boot. It doesn't even get to the lilo prompt. With SuSe 7.1 we could boot the installation on CD 3 but we can't do that with SuSe 7.3. Jacob -----Original Message----- From: Olaf Hering [mailto:olh@suse.de] Sent: 28. november 2001 12:25 To: Jacob Vennervald Madsen Cc: suse-ppc(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-ppc] Installation of SuSe 7.3 for PPC on IBM RS/6000 On Tue, Nov 27, Jacob Vennervald Madsen wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to install SuSe 7.3 for PPC on an IBM RS/6000 machine. > When I boot cd 2 it freezes. > I've been trying to make the boot floppy mentioned in the book but the > zImage on the CD is to big to fit on one floppy (How stupid is that?). > > Can anybody help me? Can you be more specific? What RS/6000? Where does it freeze? Since the CD is bootable there is no real need for floppies on chrp based machines. However, the kernel gets bigger and bigger each day. Newer kernel.rpms will create a special floppy-install kernel. You can find it here: ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/BETA/deflt/ Use zImage.floppy-install.chrp and ramdisk.floppy-install.gz. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

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Question about drivers for video cards
by Wirth, Hanno 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Hi all, since the old video card in my Mac went south over the weekend, I am in need of a new one. I'm looking for a PCI video card (yes, I am still using one of those ooold Macs ;-) now. I would like to buy one that has acceleration under SuSE 7.3 as well as MacOS. From what I have gathered from the list archives so far, there are beta drivers for GeForce 2 MX and for ATI Radeon chip sets (DVI output). Do these drivers work for PCI versions of the respective cards, too? And in case of the Radeon: are there drivers for the VGA port on the Radeon? Are there any drivers for the Matrox MPDD (don't know what graphics chip is built in there)? Any help would be appreciated, as I need to get my Mac up again soon. Thanks in advance! Regards, Hanno P.S.: Another reason for buying a PCI graphics card: I can recycle it as a second video card when I get to buy a new Mac at last... ;-) -- Hanno Wirth T-Systems - Deutsche Telekom Systemlösungen GmbH Headquarters, Dpt. for IT Innovations - Transaction Solutions Office address: Hahnstraße 43d, 60528 Frankfurt am Main Postal address: Postfach 710245, 60492 Frankfurt am Main Phone: +49(69)66531 5842, Fax: +49(69)66531 239 Mobile phone: +49(171)2242331 Mail: hanno.wirth(a)t-systems.de Internet: http://www.t-systems.de, http://www.detesystem.de

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RS/6K can't start after halt
by David Callaghan 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

I had to shutdown -h the system to move it from one location to another. When I powered back on, I was greeted with a "Client program not recognized" error. I have SuSE 7.1 PPC installed. Thanks.

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