July 2001 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [suse-ppc] need help on RS/6000 43P Model 140
by Ferdinand Mahr 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

Hi, what graphic card are you using? Best regards Ferdinand rsreelat(a)in.ib m.com To: suse-ppc(a)suse.com cc: 09.07.01 09:47 Subject: [suse-ppc] need help on RS/6000 43P Please respond Model 140 to rsreelat Hello, I am trying to install SUSE 7.1 for PPC on RS/6000 43P Model 140. However, I am not able to boot the kernel. The documentation at this URL "http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/olh_ppc_43p140.html" says that the kernel binary CD1/unsorted/prep/zImage.140 should be copied to a DOS formatted floppy and loaded from the Openfirmware prompt using " boot floppy : , zimage".But each time the system hangs after reading the floppy and the kernel is not getting loaded. Can anybody tell me how i can get the kernel loaded? Or which kernel image to use? regards, ______________________________ R.Sreelatha IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd. Golden Enclave, Bangalore -17. Tel : +91-80-526 7117/2355 Extn : 2879 internet mail id : rsreelat(a)in.ibm.com

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Re: [suse-ppc] Problem with MOL
by Andrei Verovski 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

>Hi Everybody, > >I'm new in Linux and I write this hoping someone more experienced could help >me. >The problem I have with MOL is that the screen freezes after 15' maybe.This >happens when I'm in MOL or when I'm in Linux w/MOL behind. No probelm to >work in linux, also I can return to it and continue working ok. Sometimes >what I find is that the mouse pointer has disappeared in mol. I don't >receive any message from the system. >I'm working with a G4, Kernel 2.4.2 > >Well, that it is, I hope someone could help me to work in best of both >worlds. Try to use newer MOL (just build yourself 0.9.58-1, rock solid with 2.4.2 kernel), or look on my web site "Linux Tips and Trcks section". ******************************************************** * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * e-mail --- andrei.verovski(a)bigfoot.com * * * * Personal Home Page * * http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/ * * Mac, Linux, DTP, Development, IT WEB Site * ********************************************************

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Problem with MOL
by Bestia Pop 08 Jul '01

08 Jul '01

Hi Everybody, I'm new in Linux and I write this hoping someone more experienced could help me. The problem I have with MOL is that the screen freezes after 15' maybe.This happens when I'm in MOL or when I'm in Linux w/MOL behind. No probelm to work in linux, also I can return to it and continue working ok. Sometimes what I find is that the mouse pointer has disappeared in mol. I don't receive any message from the system. I'm working with a G4, Kernel 2.4.2 Well, that it is, I hope someone could help me to work in best of both worlds. Jorge Tafel. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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nautilus deps
by Joss Winn 08 Jul '01

08 Jul '01

I've just downloaded all the latest SuSE Gnome base packages and there is a dependency proplem with Nautilus. YAST installs it without showing an error but it won't run and I get this message from the term: 12:42 joss:~ $ nautilus nautilus: error while loading shared libraries: libeel.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 12:58 joss:~ $ Thought you should know. If SuSE has a solution, can you let me know. thanks Joss -- http://www.josswinn.org

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first install .. some hassles
by Jonathon Wallen 06 Jul '01

06 Jul '01

Hi all, I've done my first install (ppc linux 7.0 on b&w g3) and (naturally) have a couple of problems/questions. firstly, I get a strange error each time I boot into linux (including from the cd) .. the very first line of text I see even before the "boot:" prompt is "wrong partition 1 signature" . It doesn't seem to be fatal, the system still boots but I'd be interested to know what it means. I can't get a ppp connection to work.. I set the wvdial.conf file the way I want it and have myself added to the relevant groups and indeed when I try to connect it does successfully get a ppp connection.. but then it runs some script called ip-up and from there it all goes wrong. I get "default route failure" then "can't find address for www.suse.de" ... it seems to be falling back to some default install host or something, any ideas which file I should edit to get my ppp working? and lastly I tried doing the dual boot thing tonight and wound up with a flashing question mark. I followed the manual's instructions carefully:- 1) put suseboot on my boot (HFS) partition. 2) made that partition the startup disk. 3) booted into linux from cd1 4) edited (as root) lilo.conf - then ran lilo (I double checked I had set the correct address for the boot partition, this seemed to work perfectly) 5) rebooted and got a flashing question mark... I booted the mac from the mac system cd and restored my original startup disk, the mac booted up fine and I checked the files in suseboot .. os-chooser now looks like a finder icon so lilo must have done something right. I never renamed os-chooser to "Mac OS ROM", dunno if that might be the problem but the machine didn't complain when I selected my boot partition as the start up disk. Here's my partition tables (at least the relevant partitions) as I understand them to be:- MacOs /dev/hda5 boot /dev/hdb8 root /dev/hdb10 swap /dev/hdb9 as you can see I have linux and macos on seperate disks. sorry to ask so many questions in one post but I thought I'd save some time.. many thanks, Jonathon. -- - ____________________________ - Jonathon Wallen - B,DES College of Fine Arts, UNSW - z2213441(a)student.unsw.edu.au - ____________________________

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Yast from 7.2i386 on PPC 7.1
by Andrei Verovski 06 Jul '01

06 Jul '01

Hi, Anyone tried to re-compile YaST from SuSE 7.2-i386 and install on 7.1 PPC? Technically it is not a problem but I am afraid to screw up something. Thanks in advance for any suggestion. ******************************************************** * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * e-mail --- andrei.verovski(a)bigfoot.com * * * * Personal Home Page * * http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/ * * Mac, Linux, DTP, Development, IT WEB Site * ********************************************************

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Re: Kernel 2.4.6-1 PPC Compilation problem
by Andrei Verovski 06 Jul '01

06 Jul '01

Hi, Olaf, >ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/BETA/patches/.patchinfo OK, thanks, I found it. Dot files have been marked as invisible, so I have not seen this file. Are all of these patches against stock kernel? >There will be no linuxppc.tar.gz, too much traffic for nothing. 20 MB or so, but you will free people from asking extra questions, spending your time and gambling with patches. Or at least, please build one super-patch (diff between your kernel and 2.4.7pre3 stock kernel for instance). >> I hope Endian-safe patch for 2.4.5 will work on 2.4.7pre3. >mostly. I have seen more recent Endian-safe patch for 2.4.6pre8, hope it will work 100%. ******************************************************** * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * e-mail --- andrei.verovski(a)bigfoot.com * * * * Personal Home Page * * http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/ * * Mac, Linux, DTP, Development, IT WEB Site * ********************************************************

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Re: Kernel 2.4.6-1 PPC Compilation problem
by Andrei Verovski 06 Jul '01

06 Jul '01

>That is the 50_bigmem* patch, reverse it, also the *abi* patch. >I will put a clean 2.4.7-pre3 tree in ppc/kernel/BETA/patches. Hi, Olaf, Thanks. Please always put your kernel sources in BETA directory, or at least, read me with description which patches to which stock kernel should be applied. However, most people, including me, would prefer just plain sources. I hope Endian-safe patch for 2.4.5 will work on 2.4.7pre3. ******************************************************** * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * e-mail --- andrei.verovski(a)bigfoot.com * * * * Personal Home Page * * http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/ * * Mac, Linux, DTP, Development, IT WEB Site * ********************************************************

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Samba compilation question
by Andrei Verovski 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

>There will be no 2.2 rpm for ppc. but rpm --rebuild >ftp:///mirror/SuSE/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/zq1/samba-2.2.0a- >0.src.rpm >should work. Hi, Olaf, Thanks for suggestion. While I did not tried to compile latest Samba, the one in SuSE7.1 PPC built without problems. I have noticed after rpm -ba samba.spec that build script checks environment for certain parameters, and two of them bothering me. Checking whether to use netatalk - no Checking whether to use disk quotas - no I do not completely understand what does mean the first (Netatalk is just different networking package which have nothing to do with Samba), but I am need disk quotas support for Windows shares. How to change this behavior? Do I need to install any extra headers? Thanks. ******************************************************** * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * e-mail --- andrei.verovski(a)bigfoot.com * * * * Personal Home Page * * http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/ * * Mac, Linux, DTP, Development, IT WEB Site * ********************************************************

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Kernel 2.4.6-1 PPC Compilation problem
by Andrei Verovski 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

Dear Mr. Mantel, I've got 2.4.6-1 kernel sources from your directory, and it seems almost all PPC related patches have been applied except Endian-safe ReiserFS. I cloned 2.4.2 kernel config with "cloneconfig", turned off ReiserFS, and the first file throws an error: file - main.c header - highmem.h function - bh_kmap_irq KM_BH_IRQ undeclared I am using SuSE PPC 7.1. Do I need to upgrade gcc or gnu development utils, or this is result of compilation parameters misconfiguration? --------------------------- Also, I have noticed new TUX option in Networking section. Where I can obtain any kind of description what it does and how to deploy it? Documentation inside kernel source archive seem to be scarce... Thanks. ******************************************************** * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * e-mail --- andrei.verovski(a)bigfoot.com * * * * Personal Home Page * * http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/ * * Mac, Linux, DTP, Development, IT WEB Site * ********************************************************

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