March 2001 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: SuSE PPC (config XFree86 3.3.6 howto?)
by hysterion 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

/dev/null wrote: > > From the command line.. start yast > go through to System Admin > then configure XFree86 > you should have the option of SAX > > have fun.. and make windows with X!! OK, I've solved my hard disk problem, so I'm back to this. I need to configure XFree86 (version 3.3.6, not 4.x). Unfortunately, I don't get the choice "Configure XFree86(TM)" in YaST System Administration. I suppose it may have been there in the beta - Fig. 3.17 of the handbook shows such a menu item, but then it says "The X Window System can be configured with different configuration tools" and sends you to Chapter 8, i.e., to that xsfbswitch thing which fails here. No trace of SaX either on my hard drive, nor in the package list at http://www.suse.de/en/produkte/susesoft/ppc/Pakete/gesamt.html. Looks like they scraped it off in 7.0 PPC... Can I download it somewhere and install it so as to regain the option? Or can I edit an appropriate config file (which one?) by hand? I got this answer from SuSE Support: > Which monitor are you using? Is that a multiscan monitor? Try to enter > video=controlfb:vmode:10 > in BootX App and start up your linux. Is X working now? If yes, edit the > etc/rc.config and change CREATE_FBCONF="yes" to > CREATE_FBCONF="init". Unfortunately, that changes nothing :-( The monitor is an Apple Multiple Scan 15 Display (http://til.euro.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n15754), and the machine a Power Macintosh 7300/180 (http://www.info.apple.com/applespec/applespec.taf?RID=235). Some lines I found in log files, that may be relevant: in /var/log/Config.bootup: -------------------------- XFree86 not configured yet! No graphical login. Check /etc/XF86Config. in /var/log/boot.msg: --------------------- <6>MacOS display is /chaos/control <6>Monitor sense value = 0x603, using video mode 10 and color mode 2. <4>Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37 <6>fb0: control display adapter in /var/log/xsfbswitch.log: --------------------------- couldn't connect to display ":0" at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/ppc-linux/Tk/MainWindow.pm line 55. MainWindow->new(-screen,,-bd,1,-relief,groove) at /usr/X11R6/lib/xsfb/xsfbswitch.pl line 42 Please help! Hope springs eternal. hysterion

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monitor question
by Joss Winn 16 Mar '01

16 Mar '01

Hello, Yesterday I tried changing my KDE 2.1 theme and the new theme changed the dimensions of my screen. It became smaller with more black space around the outside. Anyway, I looked around to see how I could get it back to how it was but had no idea, so I restarted X and still no change. I changed back to the old theme, still no change. I restarted, still no change. So I booted the Macintosh and found that it too had the same new screen dimensions and I was able to fix the problem simply by chnaging the screen dimensions in the mac side. No why the heck does that have any effect on how SUSE runs? I don't undestand the relationship between changing a setting in OS9.04 and it having an effect in X Windows. Any ideas? And any ideas how I can adjust the vertical and horizontal dimensions from within Linux? thanks Joss -- http://www.josswinn.org/PGP_key.html

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Keyboard layout in kde2 SuSE ppc 7.0
by Magnus Brynjarsson 13 Mar '01

13 Mar '01

Hi, I did install kde2 successfully - for SuSE ppc 7.0 but I would like to change the Keyboard layout as following - - Iceland - but in Keyboard layout - Additional layouts Iceland is not included but is available in kde1 any suggestions tks and brgds Magnus Brynjarsson mnb(a)mmedia.is

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MOL Problems
by Stefan Weigand 12 Mar '01

12 Mar '01

Hi everybody, I've got following Problem. Starting MOL gives me folowing error: SIGNAL Speicherzugriffsfehler in thread main-thread Speicherzugriffsfehler cleaning up... the german words mean 'memory acces failure'. I use an iMac DV SE with Suse 7.0, Kernel 2.2.16 My MacOS is Version 9.1 on hda8, a HFS extended partition. I turned off virtual memory as it is told in a NOTES file in the MOL-doc. Whats going wrong? Can anybody help? Thanks a lot, Stefan PS: Here the complete output: Mac-on-Linux (C) 1997-2000 Samuel Rydh <samuel(a)ibrium.se> Uses binaries and modules in /usr/lib/mol Version 0.9.50 Using resource file '/etc/molrc' WARNING! Options ignored: /boot/System.map-2.2.16 Using MOL library directory '/usr/lib/mol' MOL kernel module 1.1.50 Loading OF device tree from 'oftrees/oftree.nw' 32MB RAM mapped at 0x20000000 Running in PowerPC 750 mode (G3) DEC frequency: 0x017cf89e (24 MHx), 249:10 mticks/usec PCI-bridge 'pci' (bus 0..1) installed at 0x80000000 PCI-bridge DEC,21154 at 0:13 Heathrow, (1:05) found Using nvram-image 'nvram/nvram.nw' Video module 'xvideo' installed. Video module 'console_video' not installed. Video module 'vnc' not installed. MODE: 640*480, depth 8,15, 0.0 Hz MODE: 800*600, depth 8,15, 0.0 Hz MODE: 1024*768, depth 8,15, 0.0 Hz MODE: 1152*864, depth 8,15, 0.0 Hz MODE: 1280*1024, depth 8,15, 0.0 Hz MODE: 1600*1200, depth 8,15, 0.0 Hz No video mode match the default one. Starting in video mode 640*480, depth 8, 0.0 Hz [offs:0, rb:640] Ethernet Driver 'sheep-<eth0>' @ FE:FD:DE:AD:BE:EF osi_scsi: *** OSI SCSI DISABLED ** HFS disk: 8000 MB, /dev/hda8 [read-write] HFS disk: 0 MB, images/moldisk.im [read-only] osi_sound driver opened Sound syncvalue: 400 Mapping GC at 80800000 Starting emulation... SIGNAL Speicherzugriffsfehler in thread main-thread Speicherzugriffsfehler cleaning up...

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HFS crashing problems
by Joss Winn 12 Mar '01

12 Mar '01

Hello, Recently, I have been crashing SUSE hard (all keyboard and mouse is dead) several times a day when copying files to or from my Macintosh HFS partition. I want to ask your advice. When installing SUSE, I reformatted my Mac partition as HFS and am running OS 9.04 on this partition and swapping files to and from it to my Linux partition. Should there be a problem doing this? When I mount my Mac partition under Linux, the kernel messages say it is mounting an unclean partion. Why does it say this? Should I have an HFS+ partition with a separate 'shared' partition for swapping files between the Mac and Linux. I am guessing that dumping files on the Mac side and then booting into the Mac via MOL or rebooting, is confusing the directory structure of the Mac. Any advice on how to safely deal with HFS paritions and going from Mac to Linux and back with ease would be appreciated. cheers joss -- http://www.josswinn.org -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GPA/ED$/GH d- s+:+ a- C+(++) UL P L++ E-(E) W++ N+ o? K- w? O? M V? PS+++ PE- Y+ PGP+ t 5? X R !tv b DI-- D- G- e+++ h r++ y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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problem with hfs volume
by Yann Le Guen 12 Mar '01

12 Mar '01

hi all, new to SuSE, I've installed it without any problem on a PowerMac G3 "beige" ;-) On the same HD I've an hfs (standard) partition I'd like to mount with read permission... Not that difficult, but if I can see that partition called "SuSE-Boot" as a directory under /, when I try to open that directory, there's nothing in it ??? THis is of course not the case :-( I run differents command that usually successfully mount such hfs partition under MkLinux and/or Debian, unfortunatly those fail. I' running SuSE 7.0 PowerPC edition and I'd like to set up an ADSL (modem Alcatel) to connect to the internet. So I' planning to do it with pptp-linux-1.0.2-patched.tar.gz. Any advices will be very welcome about this particular point too. Thanks, Yann

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Strange KDE2.1 Artifact
by Andrei Verovski 12 Mar '01

12 Mar '01

Hi, I have installed KDE 2.1 on SuSE 7.0, on both x86 Pro and PPC version. I have downloaded RPMs from SuSE ftp server and installed with YAST. However, I noticed strange keyboard artifact on BOTH systems: function and arrow keys stopped working in terminal window, and now I cannot do anything in YaST1. On the PPC, situation is even worth: after switching keyboard layout all keys are malfunctioning, and screen fonts become garbage. Complete removal and installation of KDE 2.1 did not helped. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Andrei

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Sax2-4.2.7 PPC problem
by Andrei Verovski 06 Mar '01

06 Mar '01

Hi, I have problem with newest Sax2-4.2.7 PPC. I am bought SuSE 7.0 PPC, and it seems Sax2 supplied with this distribution is outdated and does not work well with newest Apple hardware. I have downloaded new saxtools 2-1-16 and Sax2-4.2.7. However, Sax2-4.2.7 complains about unresolved depencency problems (perl-storable, perl-gettext, libXrender, libc.so.6). I have all perl, mesa and XFree86-4.01 modules installed (from 7.0). Please inform me which packages need to be installed (and downloaded from) to resolve depencency problems. Thanks in advance. Andrei Verovski

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Re: Booting between SuSE 7.0 and MacOS 9.1
by Andrei Verovski 06 Mar '01

06 Mar '01

Dear Tjeerd, 1) Start up from MacOS CD and select another startup HD. 2) Reset PRAM or use key combination to start up from another drive. 3) If it does not work, you should disconnect your CD, place Linux hd on this place, and connect 60 GB HD to the socket of original factory HD. B&W G3 do not supports slave ATA devices, I believe, so possibly this only visible solution (detach CD for some time). BTW, I will have dual-boot instruction on my web site today evening. Andrei >Hello, >I'm a newbie to this stuff but I thought I'd try a little more with >my mac.I got problems in booting between SuSE 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.18) and >Mac OS 9.1 on a B&W G3 350 Firmware 1.1f4. I installed SuSE Linux, >then I edited the lilo.conf file as said. >But as I restart my Mac, I can't get into Linux, I get a warning in >small letters in my upper left corner of my screen. Open FirmWare, >and it gives me two choices, boot MacOS, or Shutdown. MacOS won't >boot. >Now the problem is I got SuSE linux on my original 6 GB harddrive, >but all my mac partitions, except the boot part for SuSE,are on my >60 GB ATA/100 harddisk connected to a Sonnettech Ultra ATA/66 card, >since I can only hook up one harddisk to the motherboard controller >in a rev 1 B&W G3. >I knew you couldn't install SuSE linux on a harddisk connected to an >ATA card, but is there a way to edit the lilo.conf file in a way it >will recognize my 18 GB mac partition on the ATA card? >Any advice would be appreciated. > >Thanks in Advance, >Tjeerd

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Booting between SuSE 7.0 and MacOS 9.1
by Tjeerd van Hoytema 05 Mar '01

05 Mar '01

Hello, I'm a newbie to this stuff but I thought I'd try a little more with my mac.I got problems in booting between SuSE 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.18) and Mac OS 9.1 on a B&W G3 350 Firmware 1.1f4. I installed SuSE Linux, then I edited the lilo.conf file as said. But as I restart my Mac, I can't get into Linux, I get a warning in small letters in my upper left corner of my screen. Open FirmWare, and it gives me two choices, boot MacOS, or Shutdown. MacOS won't boot. Now the problem is I got SuSE linux on my original 6 GB harddrive, but all my mac partitions, except the boot part for SuSE,are on my 60 GB ATA/100 harddisk connected to a Sonnettech Ultra ATA/66 card, since I can only hook up one harddisk to the motherboard controller in a rev 1 B&W G3. I knew you couldn't install SuSE linux on a harddisk connected to an ATA card, but is there a way to edit the lilo.conf file in a way it will recognize my 18 GB mac partition on the ATA card? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in Advance, Tjeerd

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