April 2001 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

CD-Rom troubles in Linuxrc when installing SuSe 7.1
by Peter Hartmann 14 Apr '01

14 Apr '01

Hi, I am new to SuSe and new to this list. I searched the backnumbers of this list for something relevant, but nothing showed up. I guess I need a bit of help now: I am trying to install SuSe PPC 7.1 on my OLDWORLD Umax Apus 2000, via BootX, as it should be. Booting into Linux is successful, all my Hardware is detected by the kernel, so everything looks OK until Linuxrc comes into play. Somewhere (that is, it seems that there is no really exact point of time) before or after the first GUI dialog asking to choose between text-based or GUI based installation, the connection to the CD-Rom seems to get lost. Shortly later, I get an error message saying that an error had occured. If I try to move on installing - that is, if the system does not already hang at that point - YaST shows a message like "Trying to mount the CD-Rom", and when I am lucky, after several ages I get an error message that the operation failed, but mostly the message hangs there for several minutes/forever with no reading sound of the device. Reading sound of the device, however, can be heard well into Linuxrc's doing its hardware checking. To be more specific, this is the relevant extract from the kernel messages: Detected scsi CD-Rom sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 So the built in Matsushita CD-Rom drive was clearly correctly detected. After detecting usb devices etc., at the very end of the messages I have (twice, that is) VFS : Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. scsi disk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 The odd thing is, that neither was there a disk change nor is the CD missing from the drive. The CD-Rom is the only device on the bus, my internal HD is IDE. I experimented with sr0=noautotune, but to no avail. I tried an older kernel from a LinuxPPC distribution I had successfully installed on the same machine with the same hardware configuration about a year ago, but never used it afterwards, but again no success. (I still can boot into this Linux installation, but I forgot my password, since I never used it.) Ideas anybody? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Peter __ Peter Hartmann ________ mailto:hphartmann@justmail.de

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Wrong keymap on X-Windows on G3 PowerBook
by Ioannis Zannos 11 Apr '01

11 Apr '01

Hello, Having just installed SUSE 6.4 on a 400MHz G3 Powerbook (Model 1999, Bronze keys), I have a problem with the keymap on X-Windows: When running without X-Windows the keymap is OK. Choosing US or German map via Yast works as expected. When I perform startx, the keymap changes: Typing into an open console (bash) will show that the keys are mapped so that the beginning of the uppermost row (numbers) corresponds to the quwerty row, the other keys have an inconsisten mapping, difficult to relate here. I am using the default installation and configuration that comes with the 6.4 release of SUSE Linux. I have Apple USB mouse enabled, which works with an external USB mouse but not the built-in Mouse-Pad of the PowerBook. Please help me be able to use my PowerBook with SUSE Linux and X-Windows. Thanks! Iannis Zannos SIM

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cd audio
by Joss Winn 10 Apr '01

10 Apr '01

Hello, I am trying (again) to get cd audio working on my Summer 2000 iMac DV SE. There is lots of info around concerning digital audio on the new Macs but none of it seems to work for me. What does one do, exactly, to play audio CDs on SUSE? It would be great to finally resolve this. The README in 7.0 said that it is now possible but neither 7.0 nor 7.1 work for me using xmms and the cdread plugin, nor cdparanoia. In fact, neither applications can even see an audio cd in the drive. Thanks very much! Joss -- http://www.josswinn.org

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??? KDE 2.11 Update for 7.1 on 7.0 PPC
by Andrei Verovski 09 Apr '01

09 Apr '01

Hi, Is it possible to install KDE 2.11 Update for 7.1 PPC on 7.0 PPC without srewing up something or getting strange artifacts? What is the real difference between these two compilatins? Thanks Andrei

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mutt/procmail/SUSE 7.1
by Joss Winn 07 Apr '01

07 Apr '01

Hello, I have just made the change to 7.1PPC from 7.0PPC and all has gone quite smoothly except that procmail fails to filter mail now. I use mutt and am wondering if anyone knows why my .procmailrc is being ignored. Thanks for any advice. joss -- http://www.josswinn.org/PGP_key.html

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kernel panic
by Tomek 06 Apr '01

06 Apr '01

After instalation of SuSE Linux 7.0 PowerPC Edition the error message appears after booting the kernel Partition check sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 request_module [block_major_15]: Root fs not mounted VFS CXannot open root device 0f:d0 kernel panic VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 0f:d0 Rebooting in 180 seconds. I have PowerPC G3 266MHz and 2 external SCSI drive 1. Quantum 500MB 2. Compaq DDRS-34560W I have 3 partition on Compaq disk /boot, /swap and / I chose in BootX App sdb3 as root partition When I sart again from ramdisk image and chose boot instaled system it starts good. What's wrong? Any sugestion Tomasz Bursze

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ld-linux depedancy
by Brett Schwarz 06 Apr '01

06 Apr '01

I am trying to add some updates to 7.0 PPC, from the bug fixxes/updates rpms from the web. Every one I have tried so far has given me: error: failed dependencies: ld-linux.so.2 is needed by cron-3.0.1-266 Any idea where ld-linux.so.2 is located? thanks, --brett __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text

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Ricochet usb modem? Pismo powerbook usb support?
by tayone 06 Apr '01

06 Apr '01

Here comes post #2 for the day. =] Anyone have suse 7.0 running up-to-spec on a pismo powerbook? I'm having great trouble with a usb modem. I tried upgrading the kernel to 2.4, etc. It's a ricochet wireless modem, it uses standard AT modem commands. It will dial and so fourth, but pppd craps out when wvdial tries to fire it up. Any help is greatly appreciated, -taylor

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