November 2001 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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Installation of SuSe 7.3 for PPC on IBM RS/6000
by Jacob Vennervald Madsen 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

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? Jacob

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Re: [suse-ppc] DFP support for kernel radeonfb.c added
by suse-ben＠e9000.de 27 Nov '01

27 Nov '01

Hi Ani, Hi Ben, Hi all! I'm asking for the resources to bring up the radeon card in my november- powerbook G4- could you help please? (I'm not the only one....) my SuSE PPC 7.1 is running (kernel ver 2.4.12) but some problems with the booting (only possible via OF) and with the graphics (ofonly) need some help for compiling a radeon framebuffer device (16MB) into the kernel and bringing up xfree got an ATI unknown chipset (0x4c59) rev 0, Mem @0xb8000000/27, 0xb0000000,16, I/O @0x0400/8 error from sax2 any ideas and links to sources are welcome thanx ben Am 26.11.2001 19:32:45, schrieb Kevin Hendricks <khendricks(a)ivey.uwo.ca>: >Hi, > >Your radeon.h file is out of sync with radeonfb.c. > >Please use Ani's or Ben's latest. They have both made other fixes since >what I sent that should help. > >You can probably get Ben's driver from his rsync site and I think you >will have to ask Ani for his latest driver 0.1.3 or later. Either one >would be better than mine. > >Hope this helps, > >Kevin > >On Monday, November 26, 2001, at 01:25 PM, <suse-ben(a)e9000.de> wrote: > >> Am 14.11.2001 18:48:40, schrieb "Kevin B.Hendricks" >> <khendricks(a)ivey.uwo.ca>: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Okay, with lots of help from Ani and Ben and starting with Ani's most >>> recent radeon code which worked for LCDs and with a lot of testing on >>> my >>> Apple Flat Panel 17 connected to a Radeon Mac Edition card on the dvi >>> port >>> with a dviAtor adapter, I now have the DFP support for radeon frame >>> buffer >>> working well including parsing of the EDID block from OF. >>> >>> To control all of this, I have added two additional options to the >>> kernel >>> parameters passed to radeonfb.c >>> >>> of_edid - which means look in the OF device tree in /proc >>> and grab the detailed timings from the EDID block >>> >>> dfp - overrides the monitor detection and set MT_DFP >>> >>> lcd - overrides the monitor detection and set MT_LCD >>> >>> >>> So my kernel line in yaboot.conf looks like the following: >>> >>> append="video=radeon:of_edid,dfp" >>> >> .. >>> Have fun! >>> >>> Kevin >>> >>> >>> >>> >> hi kevin! >> >> i've got problems to compile your files into my kernel! >> >> got the new powerbook g4 with radeon in it >> thought your sources could help me >> but my make doesn't get enough informations from menuconfig for >> compiling the radeon sources >> i use version 2.4.12 the only sources running on the powerbook >> >> can you help me? >> >> greetings from ben >> >> got such errors like >> radeonfb.c:76 'PCI_DEVICE_ID_RADEON_VE' undeclared here (not in a >> function) >> radeonfb.c:645: 'PCI_DEVICE_ID_RADEON_VE' undeclared (first use in this >> function) >> radeonfb.c: In function 'radeon_find_rom' >> radeonfb.c:804: warning unused variable 'radeon_sig' >> 'aty_rom_sig' >> 'i' >> 'stage' >> 'rom' >> 'rom_base' >> segstart' >> >> >---- >Kevin B. Hendricks >Associate Professor of Operations and Information Technology >Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario >London Ontario, CANADA N6A 3K7 >khendricks(a)ivey.uwo.ca > >

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Re: [suse-ppc] DFP support for kernel radeonfb.c added
by suse-ben＠e9000.de 26 Nov '01

26 Nov '01

Am 14.11.2001 18:48:40, schrieb "Kevin B.Hendricks" <khendricks(a)ivey.uwo.ca>: >Hi, > >Okay, with lots of help from Ani and Ben and starting with Ani's most >recent radeon code which worked for LCDs and with a lot of testing on my >Apple Flat Panel 17 connected to a Radeon Mac Edition card on the dvi port >with a dviAtor adapter, I now have the DFP support for radeon frame buffer >working well including parsing of the EDID block from OF. > >To control all of this, I have added two additional options to the kernel >parameters passed to radeonfb.c > >of_edid - which means look in the OF device tree in /proc > and grab the detailed timings from the EDID block > >dfp - overrides the monitor detection and set MT_DFP > >lcd - overrides the monitor detection and set MT_LCD > > >So my kernel line in yaboot.conf looks like the following: > >append="video=radeon:of_edid,dfp" > .. >Have fun! > >Kevin > > > > hi kevin! i've got problems to compile your files into my kernel! got the new powerbook g4 with radeon in it thought your sources could help me but my make doesn't get enough informations from menuconfig for compiling the radeon sources i use version 2.4.12 the only sources running on the powerbook can you help me? greetings from ben got such errors like radeonfb.c:76 'PCI_DEVICE_ID_RADEON_VE' undeclared here (not in a function) radeonfb.c:645: 'PCI_DEVICE_ID_RADEON_VE' undeclared (first use in this function) radeonfb.c: In function 'radeon_find_rom' radeonfb.c:804: warning unused variable 'radeon_sig' 'aty_rom_sig' 'i' 'stage' 'rom' 'rom_base' segstart'

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Re: [suse-ppc] Powerbook G4/2001 550Mhz & SuSE Linux 7.1, Mission: impossible ?
by suse-ben＠e9000.de 26 Nov '01

26 Nov '01

Am 22.11.2001 22:38:25, schrieb "Olivier M." <qmail(a)orion.8304.ch>: >Thanks Olaf for your answer! > >On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 07:06:21PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: >> > and I saw the notices about the G4: "it seems that an installation >> > is possible", well... Are there really no Ti-owner (yet) in >> > the SuSE devel team ? >> >> No, but that doesnt matter anyway. > >oh yes, that would matter, I'm sure :) > >> Ben has one, that does matter ;) > >Ok, so now we're 2... Maybe I should start a >mailing list for Ti owners :) > >> The upcoming 2.4.15 will have some basic support for the new PowerBooks, >> and iBooks. You can download it here: >> ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/ > >well, there are lots of files there... which one should be >used, and installed where (suseboot partition, as kernel...) ? > >Regards, >Olivier >-- hi olivier, hi olaf hi all !!! I've tried the vmlinux.elf-pmac - it works great (can't select from any boot menu only OF - but isn't the real problem because it doesn't have gmac , radeonfb , and hfs inside -schade eigentlich!) got the problem of not beeing able to compile a complete kernel / esp. modules! got no complete 2.4.12 sources (are they already including the makefiles for the radeonfb ?) can somebody help me with a virtual x server running under 2.4.12 ? greetings from ben

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Re: [suse-ppc] Powerbook G4/2001 550Mhz & SuSE Linux 7.1, Mission: impossible ?
by suse-ben＠e9000.de 26 Nov '01

26 Nov '01

Am 22.11.2001 22:38:25, schrieb "Olivier M." <qmail(a)orion.8304.ch>: >Thanks Olaf for your answer! > >On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 07:06:21PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: >> > and I saw the notices about the G4: "it seems that an installation >> > is possible", well... Are there really no Ti-owner (yet) in >> > the SuSE devel team ? >> >> No, but that doesnt matter anyway. > >oh yes, that would matter, I'm sure :) > >> Ben has one, that does matter ;) > >Ok, so now we're 2... Maybe I should start a >mailing list for Ti owners :) > >> The upcoming 2.4.15 will have some basic support for the new PowerBooks, >> and iBooks. You can download it here: >> ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/ > >well, there are lots of files there... which one should be >used, and installed where (suseboot partition, as kernel...) ? > >Regards, >Olivier >-- hi olivier, hi olaf hi all !!! I've tried the vmlinux.elf-pmac - it works great (can't select from any boot menu only OF - but isn't the real problem because it doesn't have gmac , radeonfb , and hfs inside -schade eigentlich!) got the problem of not beeing able to compile a complete kernel / esp. modules! got no complete 2.4.12 sources (are they already including the makefiles for the radeonfb ?) can somebody help me with a virtual x server running under 2.4.12 ? greetings from ben

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