February 2002 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

New G4/800 with Radeon 7500 and Apple 17" flat panel
by Ron McCall 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Hi, I was able to complete a basic install of 7.3 on a new G4/800 (single processor) with an Apple 17" flat panel using yast2 (colors were messed up but useable). I was able to boot the new system without having to specify a kernel video parameter. Colors in X were messed up but useable. I then set run level 3 as the default until I could get XFree86 4.2.0 installed and working properly. The console worked fine (again, no kernel video parameter was needed). I then proceeded to upgrade to kernel 2.4.16 and modutils 2.4.11 as was mentioned in the following Support Database article: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/ubrueck_ppc_G4radeon.html I then followed the instructions in the following Support Database article to get the radeon framebuffer going with my Apple 17" flat panel: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/olh_ppc_apple_tft.html Unfortunately, I could not get any combination to work (monitor went black). I tried the following combinations: video=radeon:1280x1024-8@60 video=radeonfb:1280x1024-8@60 video=radeon:vmode:17 video=radeonfb:vmode:17 I also tried not specifying a video parameter but that also resulted in a black screen. I am able to get useable video with video=ofonly. I then proceeded to upgrade to XFree86 4.2.0 using RPMs found at: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/supplementary/X/suse73/4.2.0 I could not find an xf86glu RPM there and there were no complaints during the upgrade so I still have the 4.1.0 version installed. I did try to uninstall it but a bunch of other packages depended on it. I then attempted to configure 4.2.0 using the following command as was mentioned in the first article above: # sax2 -m 0=fbdev Colors were messed up again but still useable. It didn't detect my video card and when I tried to specify it, the list of Radeon models provided did not include the 7500 (not too surprising since it is new). I didn't know what to do at that point so I aborted configuration and am now writing this message. Should I have any expectation of getting accelerated X working on this system with an ADC flat panel? I am replacing my current G4/466 with the G4/800 and will be sending the G4/466 and the Apple 17" flat panel to my parents. The G4/466 has a Rage 128 Pro card in it which is working fine with my Apple 22" Cinema Display (which I am keeping). If I will be unable to get the Radeon 7500 working, I plan to swap the cards between the two systems and keep the Rage 128 Pro. Ron

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Cirrus Logic on PowerStack
by Frank Weis 04 Feb '02

04 Feb '02

Hi all, has anybody gotten any success with a Motorola Powerstack (PREP) machine and the onboard Cirrus Logic vga chip (GD 5434). I just compiled the most recent kernel I could get my hands on (2.4.18-pre7), the boot messages say -- clgen: Driver for Cirrus Logic based graphic boards, v1.9.9.1 RAM (2048 kB) at 0xc0000000, Cirrus Logic chipset on PCI bus clgen: This board has 2097152 bytes of DRAM memory Cirrus Logic video mode: 8 bit color depth Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 -- but the screen is gabled (lots of vertical lines changing colours all the time)... Any hints anyone? TIA Frank -- Frank Weis Centre de Technologie de l'Education BP 2 L-7201 Walferdange Luxembourg

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disk image
by Chris Alden 04 Feb '02

04 Feb '02

Is there a single disk image that can be burned to cd-r disks for installation of suse and if so, where is its exact location on the suse FTP site or an equivelant mirror? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com

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WMA files
by Joss Winn 03 Feb '02

03 Feb '02

Hello, I've just been given a bunch of .WMA music files. Is there any way to listen to them in Linux? I can't see anything available, but thought I would ask. Bloody M$! Thanks Joss --

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Re: [SLE] open office binaries
by bartydeux 02 Feb '02

02 Feb '02

Le Samedi 2 Février 2002 02:10, vous avez écrit : > > latest build once you install it how do you run the darn application > > soffice That's how you start the darn wordprocessor of Open-Office but how do you start the darn presentation program + excell-like program (how do you still call that in english, tableur in french). I read once it was something like "simpress". I installed the Open-Office version delivered by SuSE 7.3 (ppc and not ppc). Alain

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installation trouble on umax c600
by Guy.McCarthy＠microchip.com 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

Hello, I am trying to install 7.3 on a umax c600, with a Sonnet Crescendo G3/L2 card and internal SCSI CD drive. The MacOS is v8.1. I'm booting with extensions off, so the G3 card is not active (though I hope it will eventually run under Linux!) As advised in a recent post to this list, I downloaded the 2.4.2 kernel and ramdisk image. I am running BootX from a suseboot folder on my hard disk. Things seem to start out fine, with Tux the Penquin bobbing his head and tapping his foot a few times. The last messages printed to the console are: >>> SuSE installation program v1.1.18 (c) 1996-2001 SuSE Gmbh <<< Starting hardware detection.. Then it seems to hang, as it tries to read from the CD. Earlier, as the kernel is booting, it recognizes the CD drive as: Toshiba CD-ROM XM-5701TA Rev:0167 Are there any special kernel arguments I should be using? I never seem to get to a command prompt once the kernel takes over from MacOS. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Guy

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booting and console with suse7.1 on titanium
by suse-ben 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

hi there! i'm very happy about my running suse7.1 - system on my g4-titanium, but there are to problems left: 1.) booting with selection between macosX (first hfs+partition) macos9 (second hfs+partition) suselinux (third hfs partition) it would be so nice if i could select one of them with my mousepad - can anybody help me (PLEASE!) 2.) its so hard for me due to the cons.saver or the apmd (not running!) that everytime when i'm thinking the console switches to black and doesn't come back so that i have to switch to another and back if i want to continue my work. is there a possibility to turn this feature off completely or tty by tty ? can anybody help me (PLEASE!) btw. is there a special version for tleds/xtleds working on the powerbook? greetings to all of you... ben

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suseppc7.3 @ umaxs900
by Stephan Ruehle 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

Hello, is there any way to install suseppc directly on this: umax s900, acard IDE controller, ide device with installed macos9.1 and untill yesterday suseppc7.1. If I boot in installer, there was no IDE Device found (Only scsi device and cd). Are ther any kernelarguments to set or installationkernels, so i am able to install suseppc directly? Cheers Stephan

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Re: Fwd: Re: [suse-ppc] SuSEppc 7.3 on new Powerbook G3 with ATI Radeon ... I have equivalent problem
by Olaf Hering 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

On Thu, Jan 31, abarthel wrote: > There is no driver ATI referenced. Here is what I get in XF86Config (I > remember that SAX2 did not work). > > I have the same XF86Config file in my G3 station (not laptop) and there it > works without problem. This is XFree86 3.3.6, try /etc/X11/XF86Config. I think the X Server has problems on some chips with 24 bit. Try the command "fbset", you will get a line like that: geometry 640 480 640 480 16 The "16" is the color depth, if you have 24 then do a fbset -a -depth 8 Then run "sax2 -a". There is a line DefaultColorDepth in /etc/X11/XF86Config. change it from 8 to 15 and everything should be fine. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

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