January 2002 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [suse-ppc] first XFree86 4.2.0 rpms uploaded
by Jaap-Jan 22 Jan '02

22 Jan '02

Olaf, Does 4.2.0 support the ATI Rage128 Ultra that's in the most 2001 iMacs (instead of the Rage128 Pro). It has a different pci device id, and sax2 with 4.0.x complaints about it (on 7.1 which I have) Jaap-Jan >===== Original Message From Olaf Hering <olh(a)suse.de> ===== >On Tue, Jan 22, Schlomo Schapiro wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> thanks for the fast RPM creation !! >> >> What about RPMs for 7.1 ? Or can I savely install the RPMs for 7.3 on 7.1, >> too ? I saw that for i386 they already made RPMs for all 7.x versions. >> >> Also, >> >> can you explain the relation between X 4.2.0 and certain kernel modules >> (e.g. what exactly is required, agp* ?, fb-radeon ?, what should NOT be in >> the kernel) > >Dont use them right now, someone droppend the keyboard patch, its all >screwed right now... > >7.1 rpms will follow when it is a bit more tested ;) > > >Gruss Olaf > >> On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Olaf Hering wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > the first XFree86 4.2.0 packages can be found here: >> > ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/supplementary/X/suse73/4.2.0/ >> > >> > >> > Only Rage128 is tested so far. >> > Radeon should work now, you might need kernel 2.4.16 or later. >> > Mach64 seems to work, but I havent testet it on the Powerbook and iBook. >> > Matrox does not work right now. fbdev should work as usual. >> > >> > Download all rpms (maybe that way): >> > wget -r -l 1 -A .rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/supplementary/X/suse73/4.2.0/ >> > >> > Then install them: >> > rpm -Uvh *.rpm >> > Then run `ldconfig ; SuSEconfig`. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Gruss Olaf >> > >> > >> >> -- >> Schlomo Schapiro >> Senior System Administrator >> MobilEye Vision Technologies Ltd. >> >> 24 Mishol Hadkalim St.,97278 Jerusalem, Israel >> Telephone: + 972-2-586-6989 Ext. 131 >> Mobile: + 972-55-767898 >> Fax: + 972-2-586-7720 >> >> email: schapiro(a)mobileye.com >> WWW: http://www.mobileye.com > >-- > > > >-- > $ man clone > >BUGS > Main feature not yet implemented...

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Re: [suse-ppc] KDE2.2.2 terminates upon start-up
by Jutta Buschbom 22 Jan '02

22 Jan '02

Hi Olaf, I feel silly to have to ask you for every single step in troubleshooting the libraries for KDE. But try as I might reading about linking, configurations, filesystems & libraries and looking at the output of ldd or ldconfig etc. are two very different pairs of shoes. Actually, following your instructions things tend to become clearer and I am learning. Still, I am wondering how I made it past elementary school... >Something is going on here, maybe some mixed library versions? >What is the content of /etc/ld.so.conf, is there /opt/kde2/lib? Mine >looks like that: >/lib-aout >/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95 >/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d >/usr/X11R6/lib >/usr/powerpc-suse-linux/lib >/usr/ppc-suse-linux/lib >/usr/local/lib >/usr/openwin/lib >/opt/kde/lib >/opt/kde2/lib >/opt/gnome/lib /opt/kde2/lib was missing in my ld.so.config. Manually I added it into the file and then executed ldconfig -v as root. The result of which is part of the attachment "linkS". There are two libraries where ldconfig complains that they are not symbolic links within /opt/kde2/lib. >what is the output of ldd /opt/kde2//lib/libkdecore.so.3? See see the end of "linkS". >Maybe some shell scripting: > >(for i in /opt/kde*/bin/* /opt/kde*/lib/* ;do echo $i;ldd >$i;done)>/tmp/ldd.txt 2>&1 > 100+ pages of libraries attached only to you (ldd.txt) What do you do with all those library links??? I checked for ksmserver, kdeinit (mentioned in the error log after a KDE2 crash): there is an error in /opt/kde2//lib/libkdecore.so.3. Your shell script showed: /opt/kde2/bin/kdeinit libkdecore.so.3 => /opt/kde2//lib/libkdecore.so.3 (0x00fbb000) /opt/kde2/bin/ksmserver libkdecore.so.3 => /opt/kde2//lib/libkdecore.so.3 (0x01627000) /opt/kde2/lib/libkdecore.so.3 is found with a bunch of dependencies (For KDE1: /opt/kde/lib/libkdecore.so.2 is found) Now lgconfig -v tells me that: /opt/kde2/lib: libkdecore.so.3 -> libkdecore.so.3.0.0 Going back to the printout of the shell script: /opt/kde2/lib/libkdecore.so.3.0.0 is found with a bunch of dependencies I didn't check those dependencies of libkdecore.so.3 and .so.3.0.0. I wouldn't know how to decide if they are the right version or not. I also couldn't find a definition of // in a pathname, nor could figure out what it does. But I guess that that is not the problem. >Buying 7.3 is certanly an good option, but I think we can fix it :) The evening before I got your email I broke down and bought a copy of 7.3. It is not opened yet. I have no idea how close we are to solving this problem. Should we be close and more importantly should you be willing, I would be very interested in going the troubleshooting to the end. It would give me a template how to go about troubleshooting in the future. Should this all be too convoluted and weired, drop me a note and I will initiating updating. Jutta -- ____________________________________ Jutta Buschbom University of Chicago Field Museum of Natural History Committee on Evolutionary Biology Botany Department 1025 E. 57th Street, Culver Hall, Rm. 402 1400 South Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60637, USA Chicago, IL 60605, USA Tel: (312) 665 7846 Tel: (773) 702 4697 Fax: (312) 665 7158 Fax: (773) 702 4699 email: jbuschbo(a)midway.uchicago.edu email: jbuschbom(a)fmnh.org

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first XFree86 4.2.0 rpms uploaded
by Olaf Hering 22 Jan '02

22 Jan '02

Hi, the first XFree86 4.2.0 packages can be found here: ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/supplementary/X/suse73/4.2.0/ Only Rage128 is tested so far. Radeon should work now, you might need kernel 2.4.16 or later. Mach64 seems to work, but I havent testet it on the Powerbook and iBook. Matrox does not work right now. fbdev should work as usual. Download all rpms (maybe that way): wget -r -l 1 -A .rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/supplementary/X/suse73/4.2.0/ Then install them: rpm -Uvh *.rpm Then run `ldconfig ; SuSEconfig`. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

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Re: [suse-ppc] SuSEppc 7.3 on iBook: no X Server = Sax2 won' work
by Bartydeux 19 Jan '02

19 Jan '02

Le Vendredi 18 Janvier 2002 22:45, vous avez écrit : > Hi, > > Make sure you have installed the latest perl from SuSE 7.3 I just updated SuSE7.1PPC => SuSE7.3PPC and there is only one perl version on the SuSE7.3 CD's (perl-5.6.1-36) and there is no update or bugfix of Perl in SuSE web-site > > Both errors are related to perl: Well, I suppose so. How to solve it. Did anyone have the same problem? I reinstalled perl without success. There was a flaw in the update I suppose. > > usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/ppclinux/auto/IO/IO.so/ ecannotuopencshared > > can't locate Storable.pm in @INC (@INC contains : > > /usr/X11R6/lib/sax/modules /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ppc-linux > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ppc/linux ....) at /usr/X11r6/lib/sax/init.pl > > line17 For example /usr/X11r6/lib/sax/init.pl exists but there is nothing on line 17. All the perl scripts exists in /usr/X11r6/lib/sax/ and what is @INC? > > Also notice those are two diffeernt perl versions involved (5.6.0 vs > 5.6.1). > Well! I did not interfere in the update. There seem to be a bug in the update => SuSE 7.3 > Hope this helps, > > Kevin > > On January 18, 2002 04:32, Bartydeux wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I already installed SuSE-PPC 7.1 without problems on this iBook (small > > box, bought beginning of 2001, I don't know how it is called) > > > > Today I updated => SuSEPPC 7.3. I was almost sure to have no problem but > > .... > > > > Update went without problem except ghostscript-library > > > > Impossible to start KDE (with startx). > > > > At general boot, I have the following error message: > > > > creating X11 framebuffer configuration ... /usr/X11R6/bin/xsfb : error > > while loading shared librairies : > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/ppclinux/auto/IO/IO.so/ ecannotuopencshared > > objectefile:tNonsuchbfileeuorsdirectory d > > > > I checked: there is no /etc/XF86Config file (it is empty) > > > > Sax2 won't work: you have a lot of error chat: > > > > can't locate Storable.pm in @INC (@INC contains : > > /usr/X11R6/lib/sax/modules /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ppc-linux > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ppc/linux ....) at /usr/X11r6/lib/sax/init.pl > > line17 > > > > Thus: no X server and I don't know how to solve the problem: the lib > > files seem not to have been installed properly, there is no > > /etc/XF86Config file > > > > Update seems to be uncomplete. > > > > Any idea about what is wrong? > > > > BTW I updated with Yast1 -- Alain Barthélemy bartydeux(a)gminformatique.com http://bartydeux.gminformatique.com

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upgraded kernel - kde now freezes.
by Jonathon Wallen 17 Jan '02

17 Jan '02

Hi all, sorry to repost this but I'm still stuck ... don't even know which log files to look at. I've upgraded from 2.2.16 kernel to 2.4.2-11, I installed the k-deflt rpm on the linux side .. put the 2.4.2-11.gz file in the /boot directory and use the copy option in lilo to copy the vmlinux file over to the hfs partition so I can boot it with bootx.. I also upgraded ppp and modutils. now I can boot into my new kernel but I only get about 5 minutes in kde before it freezes completely forcing me to hard reboot the machine. what am I doing wrong? I'm using a B&W G3 with a Suse 7.0 install. many thanks, -- - ____________________________ - Jonathon Wallen - B,DES College of Fine Arts, UNSW - z2213441(a)student.unsw.edu.au - jwal707(a)cse.unsw.edu.au - jonathon(a)fridge.unsw.edu.au - ____________________________

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mk_initrd failes
by Thomas Ruschival 17 Jan '02

17 Jan '02

Hi, I am about compiling and installing a new Kernel to support all of my hardware. The kernel compiles, sound is working all modules are compiled and installed.... If I do a 'modprobe sym53c8xx' an error occurs because of "invalid interrupts or I/O adresses". I read somewhere that SCSI modules must be loaded at boottime. Now I have to make an image so the SCSI modules are loaded at boottime, otherwise my Controller will not be supported I suppose. 'mkinit_rd -k vmlinuz-2.4.17-test -i inird-test' failes because it "cannot find a free loopback device"... This seem quite strange to me because I checked the option for loopback support when I compilesd the kernel and /dev/loop0 ... /dev/loop9 exist. So Has anyone an idea what went wrong? Thanks Thomas

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YAST2 and serial ports on beige G3 MAC
by Mutscheller＠t-online.de 17 Jan '02

17 Jan '02

Hi, using SuSE 7.3 on a beige Power MAC G3 it is not possible for me to install under YAST2 a serial printer on the serial ports of the MAC since the serial ports are not recognized. Does anybody have an idea how to solve this? Best regards Alfred

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RE: [suse-ppc] Re: Unable to install - kernel freezes: more detai ls
by AllanL 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

What version of suse, what machine, which kernel, how did you start the install? > -----Original Message----- > From: Herouth Maoz <herouth(a)netvision.net.il>@SUN > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 20:00 > To: suse-ppc(a)suse.com > Subject: [suse-ppc] Re: Unable to install - kernel freezes: more > details > > <<...OLE_Obj...>> > It seems that the problem had something to do with the SCSI ID of the > CD-R. > > Now it boots into the installer, or rather, into linuxrc, which asks > for the language and keyboard, but then, when I want to install, and > I say "from CD", it doesn't recognize the CD-R. > > At first I thought this was because the CD-R was one of two CD drives > in the machine (the old internal one was still there, although not > really functional). So I opened the machine, and removed the I/O and > the power cables from the internal CD/R. > > Tried again. Same thing - the CD-R is not recognized. > > So... Help! > > Herouth > -- > EMAIL: herouth(a)netvision.net.il > HOME PAGE: http://www.herouth.f2s.com/

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boot disk partition corrupted.
by Jonathon Wallen 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

Hi, After upgrading my kernel to 2.4.2 and running LiLo again I now find I get a macintosh warning every time I boot into mac. The warning says "disk unreadable, do you want to initialize it?", the disk in question is the macintosh standard partition used for booting linux. When I run disk first aid and try to repair it the program says the disk is unrepairable .. here is the output from disk first aid :- Checking disk "linux_boot". Checking "Mac OS Standard" volume structures. Checking for locked volume name. Checking extent BTree. Checking extent file. Checking catalog BTree. Problem: Invalid BTree Header, 0, 0 Checking catalog file. Problem: Reserved fields in the catalog record have incorrect data, 105, 5 Problem: Reserved fields in the catalog record have incorrect data, 102, 5 Problem: Reserved fields in the catalog record have incorrect data, 106, 5 Problem: Reserved fields in the catalog record have incorrect data, 104, 8 Problem: Reserved fields in the catalog record have incorrect data, 103, 8 Problem: MountCheck found serious errors. Checking catalog hierarchy. Cannot continue. An internal error has occurred. If I initialize the partition will that also erase the data on any other partitions on the disk? If so is there something else I can do to restore the boot partition? many thanks. -- - ____________________________ - Jonathon Wallen - B,DES College of Fine Arts, UNSW - z2213441(a)student.unsw.edu.au - jwal707(a)cse.unsw.edu.au - jonathon(a)fridge.unsw.edu.au - ____________________________

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RE: [suse-ppc] Re: Unable to install - kernel freezes: more detai ls
by AllanL 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

Something to try, copy the vmlinux oldworld to your harddisk (I created a small hfs partition for it) also bootx on the harddisk and try to start from there.If that does not work also copy the compressed linux on the cd to the hd partition and try that with bootx pointing to the image on the hd. I have it working on a s900 , but I have not tried it on my powerbase. (which belongs to my wife and I need to create a hfs to start on that). Just a few ideas. > -----Original Message----- > From: Herouth Maoz <herouth(a)netvision.net.il>@SUN > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 18:01 > To: AllanL; suse-ppc(a)suse.com > Subject: RE: [suse-ppc] Re: Unable to install - kernel freezes: more > detai ls > > <<...OLE_Obj...>> > At 17:44 +0000 on 14/1/2002, AllanL wrote: > > > > question, this may be minor, but did you point to the kernel in bootx > > with a name like vmlinux - old xxx (I am at work) , and did you point > > to the compressed version on the suse 7.3 disk of the image? > > Yes, I tried both the "install - oldworld" and "vmlinuz - oldworld", > which are on the install CD in the suseboot drive. Neither worked > beyond the mentioned point. > > Herouth

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RE: [suse-ppc] Re: Unable to install - kernel freezes: more detai ls
by AllanL 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

question, this may be minor, but did you point to the kernel in bootx with a name like vmlinux - old xxx (I am at work) , and did you point to the compressed version on the suse 7.3 disk of the image? > -----Original Message----- > From: Herouth Maoz <herouth(a)netvision.net.il>@SUN > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 17:30 > To: AllanL; suse-ppc(a)suse.com > Subject: RE: [suse-ppc] Re: Unable to install - kernel freezes: more > detai ls > > <<...OLE_Obj...>> > At 15:55 +0000 on 14/1/2002, AllanL wrote: > > > > What version of suse, what machine, which kernel, how did you start > > the install? > > OK, things as they stand now. I didn't manage to repeat the > performance that actually got me into linuxrc. So here are the > answers: > > 1. SusE version: 7.3 > 2. PowerBase 180 (equivalent of a Mac 7500 or so), with a G3 > replacement CPU. This setup works with 7.0 (kernel 2.2.16). > 3. Kernel: the 2.4.12 which is located in the suseboot directory on > the first CD. > 4. I started the install by accident booting with an older kernel > (2.2.16). > > Currently, with above setup, external MacOS SCSI disk at SCSI ID 1, > and external CD/R at SCSI ID 3 (no internal SCSI device, as I > unplugged the defective internal CD-rom), I get the following boot > messages (this is just the tail of the message, the earlier messages > I assume irrelevant): > > - - - > > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > scsi0 : MESH > mesh: target 1 synchronous at 5.0 MB/s > Vendor: QUANTUM Model: VIKING 4.5 NSE Rev: 880R > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > mesh: target 3 synchronous at 5.0 MB/s > Vendor: TEAC Model: CD-R55S Rev: 1.0Q > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 > SCSI device sda: 8899737 512-byte hdwr sectors (4557 MB) > sda: [mac] sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 > Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 > > - - - > > That's it - this is where it stops, and the CD/R LED remains on > indefinitely. Markus Lischka informs me that he had a similar problem > on his machine when upgrading to kernel 2.4.16, with almost the same > setup. (Thank you, Markus). However, his suggestion to swap the order > of the devices on the SCSI chain so far didn't work. > > Herouth > -- > EMAIL: herouth(a)netvision.net.il > HOME PAGE: http://www.herouth.f2s.com/

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How do I unsubscribe?
by Mark Grewar 12 Jan '02

12 Jan '02

Hello all, I am now satisfyed that the OS 10.1.2 is a preferable system than SuSE 7.1 - for my needs that is. Good luck with your work, One question, I forgot howe to unsubscribe to the list, can anyone help? Regards Mark Mark Grewar B.A., B. ed St (road safety) P.O. Box 5256, Rockingham Beach, Western Australia, 6969 Phone 0417090097

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all our email addresses are being comprimised on this list
by seth 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

I just did a check on www.google.com to see if my e-mail address is listed anywhere on the web. Just a little paranoid about spammers getting it. I know a lot of spammers harvest email addresses via web spiders, and due to the already questionable ethics of these individuals, I'm not going to trust that their spiders will adhere to robots.txt directives... Well, the ONLY place my e-mail address appeared was on the www.suse.com website in a publicly-available archive of this list. http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-ppc/2000-Nov/0006.html I would really like my address to be removed from this archive or at a minimum have one of the following done to block spambots from harvesting it: 1. Do a regsub on the '@' with some other combinations of characters (eg. |@|, [AT], (a), etc.) throughout this entire archive. 2. Make the archive available only via formposts. This isn't such a good solution because it also blocks good-natured indexing engines like google. 3. Make the addresses appear via a formpost button that opens a popup window or some such display of the address. Obviously, option #1 is the easiest solution. What do other participants in this list think? Appreciatively, Seth Johnson

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Smpppd
by Uwe Hees 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

Hello, I am using SuSE 7.3 PPC for a short while now and have experienced problems with smppd/pppd. I am not quite sure where the problem lies, the older wvdial/pppd combo worked fine on SuSE 7.1 PPC. While booting the /etc/rc3.d/smppd is started. The start_on_start directive is set to always. Just after the machine has booted I login as root and do a ifconfig to find that the ppp0 interface does not exist. After entering "rcsmpppd restart" everything is fine. A closer look to the output of smpppd/pppd revealed that pppd did not go beyond outputting "passwordfd.so loaded" while booting, but did output "Using interface ppp0" and more when restarting smpppd. Any hints are greatly appreciated. Uwe

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Has anyone used Bochs?
by David Callaghan 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

According to http://bochs.sourceforge.net/docs-html/whatisbochs.html is x86 PC Emulation Software that allows you to run Windows applications on a PPC.

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Re: [suse-ppc] KDE2.2.2 terminates upon start-up
by Olaf Hering 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

On Tue, Jan 01, Jutta Buschbom wrote: > Hi Olaf, > > Sorry for the long delay since your last email - a deadline before > x-mas kept me from doing anything else. Unfortunately, I still can't > start kde2 even after following your last suggestions. > After a start and crash of kde2 the error log .X.err still reads > always the same: > > For knotify, kspalsh: > error in loading shared libs /opt/kde2//lib/libkdeui.so.3: undefined > symbol: style Change_8QToolBarR6QStyle > For ksmserver, kdeinit: > error in loading shared libs /opt/kde2//lib/libkdecore.so.3: > undefined symbol: qt_set_locale_codec_FP10QTextCodec Something is going on here, maybe some mixed library versions? What is the content of /etc/ld.so.conf, is there /opt/kde2/lib? Mine looks like that: /lib-aout /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95 /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/powerpc-suse-linux/lib /usr/ppc-suse-linux/lib /usr/local/lib /usr/openwin/lib /opt/kde/lib /opt/kde2/lib /opt/gnome/lib what is the output of ldd /opt/kde2//lib/libkdecore.so.3? Maybe some shell scripting: (for i in /opt/kde*/bin/* /opt/kde*/lib/* ;do echo $i;ldd $i;done)>/tmp/ldd.txt 2>&1 Gruss Olaf > >Im zweiten Log steht "/opt/kde2/bin/kdeinit libXY not found", sind die > >tatsächlich nicht da? > > Both files can be found in /opt/kde2/lib: libkdeui.la, .so, .so.so3, > .so.so3.0.0 and libkdecore.la, .so, so.so3, so.so3.0.0. The .la files > have a line in them answering "Is this an already installed library?" > positively. Thus I assume that the two files are truely there. > > >Bei mir gehören die alle in kdelibs.rpm. Am besten > >mal 'ldconfig' als root aufrufen. > > If I run as root ldconfig -v then only the kde1 files get checked. If > I run ldconfig -v /log/kde2/lib then the files of that directory are > checked (most positively) and then the output seems to be the same as > with ldconfig. The two files from before appear as > libkdeui.so.3 -> libkdeui.so3.0.0 > libkdecore.so.3 -> libkdecore.so3.0.0 > > >Sind alle rpms von > >ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/supplementary/KDE/update_for_7.0/base/ > >installiert? > > Yes. I checked the ftp site again and updated to the newest builds. See > above. > > >Schick am besten mal 'rpm -qa' wenn alles nichts hilft. > > That's attached. > > At one point I thought that I maybe do not use the right kdmrc file > since SuSEconfig would give me a message that it wouldn't replace the > changed kdmrc file automatically. By now it is doing so and I have > run SuSEconfig and ldconfig in all kinds of combinations to no avail. > > I am starting to wonder if I should update to Suse 7.3, but am afraid > that this will just pose new problems (have never updated before) and > remove me even further from using KDEOffice. But maybe not? Buying 7.3 is certanly an good option, but I think we can fix it :) Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

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upgraded kernel - kde now freezes.
by Jonathon Wallen 07 Jan '02

07 Jan '02

Hi all, I've upgraded from 2.2.16 kernel to 2.4.2-11, I installed the k-deflt rpm on the linux side .. put the 2.4.2-11.gz file in the /boot directory and use the copy option in lilo to copy the vmlinux file over to the hfs partition so I can boot it with bootx.. I also upgraded ppp and modutils. now I can boot into my new kernel but I only get about 5 minutes in kde before it freezes completely forcing me to hard reboot the machine. what am I doing wrong? I'm using a B&W G3 with a Suse 7.0 install. many thanks, -- - ____________________________ - Jonathon Wallen - B,DES College of Fine Arts, UNSW - z2213441(a)student.unsw.edu.au - jwal707(a)cse.unsw.edu.au - jonathon(a)fridge.unsw.edu.au - ____________________________

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Recipe: how to set up the display on powerbook wallstreet
by Damir Buskulic 07 Jan '02

07 Jan '02

Hi, After having fought for a few days, I found a way to set up the accelerated display on a Powerbook Wallstreet G3. If one just installs Suse 7.3, it is impossible to get the right XF86Config file from SaX2 with the ati driver. The modelines are not correct and give, at best a white screen. Scary. So the recipee is the following : - First, make the installation, and when the screen section comes, try to specify the fbdev driver - then, the most annoying part, you have to rebuild the Suse kernel so it does not have the aty64fb driver in (no Mach64 driver, nor as a module, nor included into the kernel). The aty128fb should be present (Rage128). If this is not done, there is an interaction between the two and you see a split screen. - If you already tried to install, run "sax2 -m 0=fbdev", and as previously, set up the display using fbdev. - This works but is not accelerated. - Now, you will have to tweak manually the file /etx/X11/XF86Config. In this file, replace the 'Driver "fbdev"' line in the "Device" section by 'Driver "ati"' - I also added "-HSync -VSync" to the "Modeline "1024x768"" line of the "Modes" section, but I don't know if it is really necessary. - The DefaultDepth should be 15 (thousands of colors) , it doesn't work correctly with 16 or 24 (millions of colors) That's it, when you reboot, the display should be accelerated. I hope these instructions will be useful (even in SDB ?) Cheers Damir -- ===================================================================== | Damir Buskulic | Universite de Savoie/LAPP | | | Chemin de Bellevue, B.P. 110 | | Tel : +33 (0)450091600 | F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex | | e-mail: buskulic(a)lapp.in2p3.fr | FRANCE | ===================================================================== mailto:buskulic@lapp.in2p3.fr

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Sound for PowerMac B&W
by Thomas Ruschival 06 Jan '02

06 Jan '02

Hi, It seems quite odd, but I´m unable to get sound out of my Powermac Running the new SuSE7.3 PPC with improved Sound support.... Well I tried all methods I have been applying to such problems since SuSE 7.0 x86, no avail. If I try 'modprobe dmasound' or 'modprobe dmasound_pmac' Linux says it cant find the module 'dmasound', although I found it under /lib/modules/2.4.12/kernel/sound/dmasound. Same with 'insmod awacs' etc. Since SuSE claims the capabilities of yast 2 I tried a new installation completely using YAST2. Yast 2 detects my souns system as snd0burgundy. But when it comes to the point it should start th sounddriver there is a sort *knack* and the whole System is frozen, no mousemovement no console, no ssh... ..the File mdules.conf is totally scrambled, somtimes rc.config as well. ALSAconf detects my soundchip as 'Awacs' makes some entries in modules.conf but when it wants to start the sound driver .... Same as Yast2 see above. Has anyone got a running soundsyste on a PowerMac G3 B&W ? Do you know what to do? Thanks Thomas

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APM paket /web cam
by Ritchie-W＠t-online.de 06 Jan '02

06 Jan '02

Hello list, I try to find the APM paket (should located in the series ap) according to the sdb database articel "apmd". But there is no APM paket on the PowerPC 7.1 CDROM and as well a series ap. As well, I would like to run a web cam on my powerbook G3 Wallstreet (old world) across a USB PCMCIA card. But the cardmanager did not identify the card. In the list of supported card I did not find USB cards, but this was for Intel Computers. Any tipps ? Best regards Richard

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kernel upgrade
by Jonathon Wallen 06 Jan '02

06 Jan '02

Hi, I have upgraded my kernel from 2.2.16 to 2.4.2 but suspect I'm still booting into the old kernel. I'm using a B&W G3 and booting with BootX . Is there some step I should take to ensure I'm booting into the correct kernel? Is there anyway I can tell which kernel is currently in use? many thanks. -- - ____________________________ - Jonathon Wallen - B,DES College of Fine Arts, UNSW - z2213441(a)student.unsw.edu.au - jwal707(a)cse.unsw.edu.au - jonathon(a)fridge.unsw.edu.au - ____________________________

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Oddly placed EuroSign on French Symbols table
by Damir Buskulic 06 Jan '02

06 Jan '02

Hi, I just noticed a very unpleasant feature of the French X symbols table for the keayboard. The Euro Sign replaces the Dollar sign. This is really unfortunate. Not because I'm pro american (!) but because, when one develops shell scripts for example, one really NEEDS the dollar sign. So what I did was to modify the french keymap in /usr/X11/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/fr . Not very handy. While we are on these, there is also an inconsistency for the console french keymap. When one sets up the french version of Suse 7.3, the system expects a map called /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/mac/all/mac-fr-latin1.map.gz but it doesn't exist. I just made a link from /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/mac/all/mac-fr-latin1.map.gz to /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/mac/all/mac-fr.map.gz which, indeed is present. That's all for today Cheers Damir ===================================================================== | Damir Buskulic | Universite de Savoie/LAPP | | | Chemin de Bellevue, B.P. 110 | | Tel : +33 (0)450091600 | F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex | | e-mail: buskulic(a)lapp.in2p3.fr | FRANCE | ===================================================================== mailto:buskulic@lapp.in2p3.fr

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OpenAFS on Suse7.3
by Markus Skowronek 04 Jan '02

04 Jan '02

Hello there, After upgrading from Suse7.0-ppc to 7.3-ppc I'm not able to compile OpenAFS 1.2 and later. Using 7.0 had no Probs - now getting several probs: (apparently this will be the same in 7.3-i386) using "./configure" will result into: ---snip--- checking your OS... configure: warning: No usable linux headers found at /usr/src/linux so disabling kernel module linux checking your AFS sysname... configure: error: Couldn't guess your Linux version. Please use the --with-afs-sysname option to configure an AFS sysname. ---snip--- so using "./configure --with-afs-sysname=ppc_linux24" will work, except following message: ---snip--- checking your OS... configure: warning: No usable linux headers found at /usr/src/linux so disabling kernel module linux ---snip--- however now you're ready to "make" that will result into: ---snip--- /root/openafs-1.2.2a/src/pinstall/pinstall afs.h /root/openafs-1.2.2a/include/afs/afs.h /root/openafs-1.2.2a/src/pinstall/pinstall LINUX/osi_inode.h /root/openafs-1.2.2a/include/afs/osi_inode.h /root/openafs-1.2.2a/src/pinstall/pinstall afs_stats.h /root/openafs-1.2.2a/include/afs/afs_stats.h /root/openafs-1.2.2a/src/pinstall/pinstall exporter.h /root/openafs-1.2.2a/include/afs/exporter.h /root/openafs-1.2.2a/src/pinstall/pinstall nfsclient.h /root/openafs-1.2.2a/include/afs/nfsclient.h case ppc_linux24 in \ pmax_ul43 | pmax_ul43a) \ /root/openafs-1.2.2a/src/pinstall/pinstall longc_procs.h /root/openafs-1.2.2a/include/afs ;; \ esac case ppc_linux24 in \ *linux* ) \ /root/openafs-1.2.2a/src/pinstall/pinstall LINUX/osi_vfs.h /root/openafs-1.2.2a/include/afs ;;\ * ) \ echo No vfs headers to install for ppc_linux24;; \ esac Can't open source file ``LINUX/osi_vfs.h'': No such file or directory make[3]: *** [all] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/openafs-1.2.2a/src/afs' make[2]: *** [afs] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/openafs-1.2.2a' make[1]: *** [build] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/openafs-1.2.2a' make: *** [all] Error 2 ---snip--- Note: similar problems appeared with earlier OpenAFS-Releases(<1.2) on Suse7.0ppc, that could have been solved by installing several additional lib* plus lib*-devel - however not this time ->now I'm at the end of my Ideas. Any Hints?? Many Thanks in advance, Markus

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Re: [suse-ppc] SCSI Question
by John Pagonis 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Benjamin Bacon wrote: > Will do.. The drive has been used in the system for awhile without > any problems.. I don't recall it not being terminated but this could > be the problem. Does the id of the drive need to be 0 to boot from? > I know this was the case on PC's in the old days. hmmm it needs to have a boot-able controller and have an id which is less than that of any other bootable device. I don't believe you need id 0 my 7500 beige Mac uses ID 1 so that should be ok. > > > Thanks > Benjamin > > At 09:22 PM 1/3/2002 +0000, John Pagonis wrote: > >> Benjamin Bacon wrote: >> >> > I have been trying to install 7.1 on a b/w g3 with a Adaptec 2940uw >> > card a >> > 16gb cheetah drive. I keep having problems with file system errors >> > when >> > the machine tries to boot into linux. I have not found a lot of >> > documentation yet on if ppc linux is supported to boot from SCSI >> > drives and >> > I was wondering if anyone on the list knows of any pitfalls with >> > this. >> > >> > Thanks >> > Benjamin >> >> Hmmm it sounds either like termination problems or dodgy cabling !!! >> check them out. >> >> -- >> John >> >> > -- John Pagonis

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Help! Need off of this list!
by Christopher Dennis 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Hello, Sorry to have to send this to everyone, but I am having trouble getting off of this mailing list, can anyone give me a hint? Chris

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