March 2002 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

A little help updating KDE2.2.2 Welcome
by Emilio Silva 03 Mar '02

03 Mar '02

1)My last step updating KDE2.2.2(install kdebase.rpm) faces the following warnings:after installing all other rpms of BASE. - libcdda_interface.so.0 is needed... - libcdda_paranoia.so.0 is needed... I use SuSE7.0 and downloaded the KDE2.2.2 packages for 7.0 version of SuSEppc(glibc 2.1.3-172) so these components should be present.How can I get through this? 2) -libXm.so.1 also lacks for kdebase-nsplugin.rpm(WhatŽs this libXm.so.1 and where can I get it?). Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com

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USB-CD-writers supported by SuSE 7.1 (ppc)?
by Markus Kuschnik 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

Dear listmembers, Does anyone of you know about a website listing USB-CD-writers which are compatible with (or incompatible with, in case that is easier) SuSE-Linux 7.1 (2.4-kernel)? I am running the said software on a 2 GB partition on my iMac, and I'd like to find external CD-writers that are accessible via the Mac-partition (OS 9.2) as well as via SuSE-Linux 7.1. Thanks in advance for any suggestions, Markus Kuschnik mkuschnik(a)freenet.de

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Installation problem Suse 7.1 PPC on IBM B50
by Alex Soares 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

Hello there, i'm trying to install suse 7.1 ppc on an IBM RS/6000 B50 server. i tried installing it accordingly to the instructions on the manual but was faced with serious problems. after booting from the CD 2 ( CHRP Based computers ) the boot process freezes at: ramdisk loaded at 0x1900000, size 753253 bytes instantiating rtas at 00600000 ... done copying OF device tree... done returning 01400000 from prom_init we have looked all around for help, including Suse's knowledge database, google and other places with no success. the server is installed with AIX and functioning perfectly. it does not look like a hardware problem. please help, i have never seen anything like it before and it is not mentioned anywhere. thank you -- Alex 1100001 1101100 1100101 1111000 1100001 1110100 1011010 1100101 1110010 1101111 1001011 1100101 1101100 1110110 1101001 1101110 1100100 1101111 1110100 1100011 1100011

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Freeswan
by Uwe Hees 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

Hi, Is anyone running freeswan on SuSE 7.3/PPC with kernel 2.4.16? Mine did not work because the module ipsec.o is missing. Rolling my own did not work because the freeswan kernel patches did not apply. Maybe anyone has already an spm for freeswan 1.95? Uwe

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PowerStack Series E, installing 7.3
by Wrobel Heinz-r39252 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

Hi, I had the chance to spend a few hours installing plain 7.3 on a Motorola PowerStack Series E with 64MB RAM and a 604 CPU. Not a whole lot of time, but I noticed a few things up to now that may be of interest as I couldn't find comments anywhere on these topics. - While I could boot the first CD, the machine froze after the message "Uncompressing" when trying to set up the RAMDISK. Couldn't find a way to get around this. Is the PReP CD boot kernel known to be broken? - I used some very old (6.4?) install disks I still had somewhere to boot a kernel far enough to get to the 7.3 CDs. Didn't have much success putting the kernel image available with 7.3 onto floppy disks. They are apparently larger than 1.44MB. Oh well. - The PowerStack in question was AIX formatted. The install process will not allow partitioning and will not(!) issue an error message. I used a separate virtual console to manually pre-partition the disk to a DOS empty state to be able to install the system. Took me a while to figure that out. - Debian documents a "bootargs" PPCBUG variable which apparently the SuSE kernel doesn't support. I hacked the kernel content for the root partition name. Would be nice though if it supported bootargs. - /usr/X11R6/bin/sax doesn't exist. Well, sax.sh does, but that's not what sax2 tells me. Anyway, XF86 V3/4 apparently isn't set up to support the Cirrus chipset as both sax and sax2 freeze the machine with a black screen eventually. Interesting enough, X itself starts up in 640*480with FBDev on top of CLgen,cfb8 but sax/sax2 won't ever. X freezes up the machine *very* easily on just a few mouse clicks. I guess for now I have to avoid X. - "halt" doesn't. The machine will reboot and doesn't stop. Actually, no PPC kernel ever halted on the PowerStacks that I tried. Wonder why. Ok, maybe some of this helps others, maybe you also have some input that could help me. Heinz Wrobel

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Does anyone use an Acard IDE-Adapter?
by Manz＠lifenet.de 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

Hello! I have an old PPC 9500 with a built-in scsi-bus (2 actually) and an Acard PCI-IDE-Card (AEC6260R). I have SuSE 7.3 on the old scsi-drive sda. The program does recognize the IDE-card and the drive attached to it, but I get boot-messages like hde: lost interrupt, lost irq func only, dma_chipset ???, and the drive is being probed for ages. I tried to install Macos under MOL on it, but I gave up, because it takes ages. It will probably run all night for an installation. Has anyone solved these problems? Marianne

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