February 2002 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [suse-ppc] Suse PPC vs. OSX
by Dave Gomez 21 Feb '02

21 Feb '02

Alain, if you like the "linux" way better, you may wish to try out the gnu-darwin collection at http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/, it works more like linux in the directory structures and everything. To tell the truth, I thought fink was kinda funky that way, I liked the linux/unix directory structure better (most all stuff in /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib etc etc). Also you may need to get/install the developer tools, as I don't recall if gcc and assorted stuff is installed by default. It's a free download from the apple developers area. Note that both of these are fairly sizable downloads, gnu-darwin is 650mb, and the developers tools was 200mb???(I forget, but large). If you got a lot of bandwith, it will just take hours to get, instead of days. Both are available on silver platters with $$. Last if you stay with fink, just make sure to add the directories /sw/fink/bin to your directory path. Dave Gomez On 2/20/02 9:09 AM, "Alain Barthelemy" <abarthelemy(a)sbb.ihe.be> wrote: > Hello > > > ===== > Also, another piece of information, there are things like Darwin and Fink to > load those missed programs, making it real easy to add open source packages > like bash. I'm not a big fan of tcl shell, so it's one of the first things > I replaced, past that, OSX or Linux, configuration was the same. > > Dave Gomez > > ==== > > Sorry, I may be dumb but I never get used to Mac language. I went to Fink's > web-site, tried to download the installation package: it downloaded a lot of > stuff except fink-0.x.x-full.tar.gz like announced. > > I have well a /sw/fink directory with a lot of stuff inside but which one to > use? > > I still prefer the good old Linux-way (easier for me even if sometimes > difficult). > > I finally managed to install X11R6 with a "click-click" package and I try to > install a correct window-manager. > I downloaded WindowMaker-0.98 tarballs. > > Compiling libPropList ... no problem > > compiling WindowMaker ... : "no command found" when typing "make" after > ./configure > > Pleasure ... pleasure > > Did anybody succeed in installing a working X11R6 in MacOsX? > > Alain > >

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failed dependencies nightmare
by Jonathon Wallen 20 Feb '02

20 Feb '02

Hi all, I'm wanting to upgrade my kernel from 2.2.16 to 2.4.16 and as I understand it a part of this process is to upgrade modutils .. trouble is, when I try to upgrade modutils I get this error - root@darkside:/usr/src/packages/RPMS/ppc > rpm -Uhv modutils.rpm error: failed dependencies: rpmlib(PayloadIsBzip2) <= 3.0.5-1 is needed by modutils-2.4.11-9 If I try to upgrade bzip I get yet another failed dependency error - root@darkside:/usr/src/packages/RPMS/ppc > rpm -Uhv bzip.rpm error: failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by bzip-1.0.1-25 and if I try to install glibc I get a whole bunch of dependency errors... I'm starting to feel like I'm in some kind of failed dependency infinite loop... can anyone tell me the most expedient way to upgrade my kernel and modutils? many thanks, -- Jonathon Wallen -- BDES College of Fine Arts - UNSW -- z2213441(a)student.unsw.edu.au

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webcam applications
by Joss Winn 19 Feb '02

19 Feb '02

Hello, I have just bought a Philips PCVC740K (ToUCam Pro) webcam which is supported in Linux. It works, but the GUI applications for using it seem to be just one: xawtv. There is camE which takes decent images but is not gui and runs as a deamon. Then there is CamStream, a QT application that I can't get to build. It looks great, has anybody got this to work? What are people using with their webcams on PPC boxes? Any help much appreciated! Thanks Joss --

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Dvorak keyboard
by Roger Chrisman 19 Feb '02

19 Feb '02

How do I set Dvorak keyboard emulation in SuSE 3.7? Currently I am stuck in USA/English Qwerty. I'm on a PowerBook G3 bronze, pre Firewire. Sax2 and Yast2 warn me that my system is set to Xfree86 v3 because my video card is not compatible with Xfree86 v4 and that I should therefore configure with Sax: /usr/X11R6/bin/sax But my standard SuSE 3.7 installation does not have sax there, only sax2 and a file 'sax.sh' that opens sax2 when I open it, judging from the sax2 graphic in the resulting window. When I activate and set Dvorak in KDE's: Preferences > Peripherals > Keyboard, I get a totally b*a*n*a*n*a*s keyboard. Maybe that is because there is no Mac keyboard model available in the pop up menu there. So I reset that control panel to its original '[] Disable keyboard layouts' setting and return to Qwerty. How do I set Dvorak keyboard emulation in SuSE 3.7? Please help, Roger :-) trapped in Qwerty

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bad s p a c i n g in KDE Console
by Roger Chrisman 19 Feb '02

19 Feb '02

this is driving me buggy-- for nome reason I am getting extra s p a c e between e v e r y c h a r a c t e r I type in my root Konsole (KDE Console emulation window). Any idea where the problem is? Thanx! Roger :-( still trapped in Qwerty....... SuSE 7.3 on PowerBook G3 bronze pre firewire

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Re: [suse-ppc] Suse PPC vs. OSX
by brocken22＠gmx.de 19 Feb '02

19 Feb '02

Thanks for the answers! :dave -> "On my latest hardware, OSX is brisk and responsive, " what is your latest hardware? Only to compare it with the Powerbook 550 I like to buy. "but I do have them running critical stuff 24/7, and they are just humming along. " That's also the way I like Linux to use - as a Server. "do you want less hassle, and don¹t really care what's under the hood, " I prefer to work mainly in one system. And if OSX give's you more or less the same as Linux... : thiemo ->sorry, I didn't mean PW but PB (Powerbook) " OS X seems to me more complicated with respect to making settings by the shell " the settings aren't safed in config -files and can be edited easily ?? -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net

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Losing time
by Ron McCall 19 Feb '02

19 Feb '02

I am running SuSE 7.3 on a new G4/800 (single processor) and have noticed that the clock is losing about 3 minutes every 24 hours or so. I have never had any problems like this on any other system. I booted up OS X last night planning to let it run overnight to see if it was losing time as well (I normally run Linux 24 hours a day). Upon booting OS X, the time was immediately corrected! I don't think I have NTP enabled (still running the factory install of OS X) but I should double check to be sure. Assuming that I don't have NTP enabled, doesn't that mean that the hardware clock is keeping correct time and thus it is the Linux system time that is drifting? I've been researching the issue a bit and have run across the /etc/adjtime file. Mine just has one line of zeroes (0.0 0 0.0) so there is nothing strange going on there (unless it is supposed to be non-zero, of course). I noticed that the TZ environment variable is not set for my normal user account nor the root account but I did set the timezone during installation and it is set properly in the Control Center. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? Do I really need to run ntpd? I've never had to before. Do I just need to do some adjustments with hwclock? Thanks, Ron

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Suse PPC vs. OSX
by brocken22＠gmx.de 19 Feb '02

19 Feb '02

I'd like to buy a new PW 550 and so I'm interested what are the reasons for using suse ppc or yellowdog-linux etc. Do you have old hardware that it's not fulfilling the huge hardware-needs of OSX or are there other reasons. What is your impression of working with OSX? Too slow? Thanks in advance! -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net

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xine or aviplay on SuSEPPC?
by Alain Barthélemy 18 Feb '02

18 Feb '02

Hello, I wish to install Xine or Aviplay to read .divx files on a PowerBookG3 with SuSE 7.3PPC. These two packages are not delivered with SuSE packages. Did somebody find and install the binaries suitable for Linux on PPC? Thanks -- Alain Barthélemy cassandre(a)gminformatique.com bartydeux(a)gminformatique.com http://bartydeux.gminformatique.com

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adjtimex 1.13 hangs my machine
by Ron McCall 18 Feb '02

18 Feb '02

I downloaded, built and installed adjtimex-1.13. I stopped xntpd, waited a while for the time to drift and ran adjtimex --compare as is mentioned in the documentation. My machine hung immediately. I had to force reboot and then learn about restoring the journal on my two EXT3 filesystems (system wouldn't boot). I rebooted, stopped xntpd again, waited a while and ran adjtimex --compare again with the same result (though learning how to restore the journal was easier this time ;). There was no information in the adjtimex documentation that I could see that said anything about needing a certain kernel version. So, should I try an older adjtimex package (1.12) or should I upgrade to the 2.4.16 kernel on SuSE's FTP server and try that with adjtimex 1.13? I am running a stock SuSE 7.3 system with kernel 2.4.12. Thanks, Ron

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