November 2005 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

am I hacked ?
by Damir Buskulic 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

Hi, I got some problems (disk access denied, bus errors,...) that led me to go into single user mode and fsck my partitions. I noticed then that there were some directories created in the tmp directory, called "dev" and "etc", and one file in the / directory called "success" with 0 length. At reboot, these files disapeared. Does anybody know if this could be a sign of a hacked computer ? I mean could someone have installed a rootkit or some such ? I'm not paranoid but this indeed seems strange. 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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xorg.conf
by George Georgiou 25 Aug '06

25 Aug '06

Hi there, I'm sorry for sending you this query maybe you can help since I cant find any info elsewhere, Ive installed suse 10.0 on a b50 all is well there. The problem I have is that I've set up another b50 With fedora 5 but I have a garbled screen problem. I was wondering if I can copy xorg.conf from suse and apply it to fedora. Once again sorry ..

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Hellow - new list member
by Brian Loe 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

I'm trying like heck to install SuSE 10 on an IBM pSeries (710)...but not having much (any) luck. During the install it provides two options for bootloaders, ppc or none. ppc doesn't work and if I choose none then...well...I can't boot to it! In fact, I haven't been able to even boot to the installed system from the CD install app. Anyone installed 10.0 on this hardware yet? Where am I going wrong? I'm almost certain it has to do with my partition setup, but I've tried it with and without a boot partition - and I have created/kept the PReP partition (maybe I should blow it away and recreate). I'm a newbie but there's no need to be kind - let me have it, so long as it gets this thing going! :)

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Thermal fan support on G5
by Aymeric GILLAIZEAU 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

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Problems installing OpenSUSE 10.0 on RS/6000 43p Model 150
by P. Andersson 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Hi. I am having a problem installing SUSE on my RS6K, and as you may have guessed already it's probably related to the bootloader. I've tried reading up on all the info on this subject, but I still get the same "The proposal contains an error that must be resolved before continuing" seemingly no matter what I try. I've tried booting into rescue mode from the CD and running dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4M count=1 as suggested by Olaf Hering to another person on this mailing list a while ago. After booting into the installation progran, I've tried leaving everything as it is, only disabling the bootloader option (also as suggested by Olaf in the same post), but this still produces the same error. I've tried messing around with deleting partitions and stuff in order to try to make the installer use the entire disk as suggested but to no avail. Something that further complicates things is that I'm using an old 2mb matrox s3 card as the GXT3000P I have isn't supported. Now, the S3 works fine, but this means I can only run the curses-based installer, making some of the options and procedures named differently than in the graphical installer (or so it seems, reading the installation guides), so the existing guides are sometimes confusing. Anyway, I would be extremely grateful if someone would take the time to explain step by step what to do to get SUSE installed on my RS6K. Seeing how many people seem to have a hard time making it work on the Model 150 and/or the B50, I'm sure it would ultimately save the people on this list a lot of headache, not having to answer the same questions again and again. Thanks in advance /P.

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Interesting stuff on my old world macs
by larrystotler＠netscape.net 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

I've been doing some testing. I have a PowerMac 9600/300 now. The processor is a 300Mhz 604ev, which has 1MB L2 cache on the daughtercard running @ 100Mhz. I also picked up a Sonnet G3/400/1M card. Here are some of the results: OldWorld PowerMac 9600/300 604ev @300Mhz w/ 1MB L2 Cache @ 100Mhz ATI Rage II(Mach 64 GT) (XCLAIM3D) 4MB PCI Card 390Watt Power Supply Adaptec 2940UW PCI SCSI Card(flashed with the Mac ROM) 192MB RAM(6 x 32MB DIMMs) Mac OS v9.1 results for Processor: Apple System Profiler: External L2 cache: 1MB Hardware overview: Machine ID: 67 Model name: Power Macintosh 9600 series Keyboard type: Apple Extended Keyboard Processor info: PowerPC 604ev Machine speed: 300 Mhz KInfoCenter results for Processor: processor 0 cpu 604ev clock 300Mhz revision 1.0 (pvr 000a 0100) bogomips 299.00 machine Power Macintosh motherboard AAPL,9500 MacRISC detected as 16 (PowerMac 9500/9600) pmac flags 00000000 L2 cache 256K unified memory 192MB pmac-generation Old World Sonnet Cresendo G3 400/1M PCI Processor Upgrade card(note that I do not have any extentions or software in use for the G3 card, nor do I know if I actualy need any). Mac OS v9.1 results for Processor: Apple System Profiler: Total L2 cache: External L2 cache: 8MB Backside L2 cache: 0MB Hardware overview: Machine ID: 67 Model name: PowerMacintosh 9600 series Keyboard type: Apple Extended Keyboard Processor Info: PowerPC G3 Machine speed: 445Mhz BootX GrabG3CacheSetting utility results: Querying CPU family... Getting value of G3 L2CR register ... L2CR value is: 0x00000000, saving... done. The "Set G3 Cache" option in BootX should now be available. KInfoCenter results for Processor: processor 0 cpu 740/750 temperature 31-33 C (uncalibrated) clock 50Mhz revision 130.2 (pvr 0008 8202) bogomips 796.67 machine Power Macintosh motherboard AAPL,9500 MacRISC detected as 16 (PoerMac 9500/9600) pmac flags 00000000 L2 cache 256K unified memory 192MB l2cr override 0x0 pmac-generation Old World dmesg results for the G3 upgrade card: <6>L2CR overriden (0x0), backside cache is disabled dmesg results for BOTH processor cards: <4>device-tree: property "l2-cache" name conflicts with node in /PowerPC,60? As you can see, Linux incorrectly identifies the L2 cache value for both processors as 256k. Also, the dmesg results for the G3 card say that the backside cache is diabled. I am still running v10.0/RC1, so I dunno if the release version would be any different. Is there something wrong with these results, or is there something I am doing wrong? The bogomips for the G3 would be consistent with a 400Mhz processor, but the Mac OS shows that the G3 is running at 445Mhz w/ 8MB L2 cache.......weird. Thanx ________________________________________________________________________ Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- 2 GB of storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection.

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Mac FR keymap
by Aymeric GILLAIZEAU 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5989 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2870#c8 ___________________________________________________________________________ Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger Téléchargez cette version sur http://fr.messenger.yahoo.com

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AirPort Extreme Driver
by Aymeric GILLAIZEAU 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/11/msg00248.html ___________________________________________________________________________ Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger Téléchargez cette version sur http://fr.messenger.yahoo.com

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Install issue on RS6000/B50
by Steve Sonnenberg 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

I'm trying to install Suse-10 on B50 (PPC). I have created the following partition map using pdisk Apple_partition_map 63 @ 1 Apple_Bootstrap 2000 @ 64 (for eventual bootloader) Linux swap 502M Linux root 8G I have adjusted the partition section in YaST per instructions /dev/sda1 0.0 MB unknown /dev/sda2 .9 MB PPC Prep Boot /dev/sda3 502MB F Linux swap swap /dev/sda4 7.9GB F Linux native (Reiser) / But it won't accept my Installation Settings because of 'an error' My bootloader section has a blank "Location", but I don't see why. Under Boot Loader Settings: Kernel Section I have the following: Section Name: Linux Kernel: /boot/vmlinux Initial RAM Disk: /boot/initrd Root Device: /dev/sda4 (/ from above) VGA Mode (1280x1024x16) Other Kernel Parameters: quiet sysrq=1 Can anyone suggest what must be done differently? Thanks. -steve

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Valgrind for ppc32-linux
by Julian Seward 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

SuSE currently ships valgrind (http://www.valgrind.org) a debugging and profiling tool, as part of the amd64 and x86 builds. Valgrind 3.1 is coming soon, and we will be providing full support for ppc32-linux for the first time. If you want to use Valgrind on ppc32, now would be a good time to check out, test and let us know of any problems you find. svn co svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk cd trunk ./autogen.sh ./configure --prefix=.. make install J

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boot splash
by Peter Czanik 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

Hello, Is there any way to use boot splash on PPC? I read documentation at http://www.bootsplash.org/ but it seems to be a bit outdated. When I tried to compile kernel with bootsplash support, I was not allowed to access the menu (couldn't turn it on). The support packages are installed by default... Bye, Peter

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Re: [suse-ppc] Another 7500 update
by Aymeric GILLAIZEAU 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Douglas St.Clair wrote: > On 11/6/05 8:52 AM, "Aymeric GILLAIZEAU" <macfreesoft(a)free.fr> wrote: > > >> Jobs wasn't the Apple CIO when the 7500 has been released, he was the >> NEXT CIO, he came back to Apple only with the iMac in '99. >> > > Make the CEO and you got it right. > > because of French pronounciation i mistaken ;-) ___________________________________________________________________________ Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger Téléchargez cette version sur http://fr.messenger.yahoo.com

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Another 7500 update
by larrystotler＠netscape.net 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Well, I flashed one of my 2940UW cards with the apple rom. It was seen by OS 9 with the new memory, but it wouldn't access the Apple CD drive. After re-installing the old RAM, it was fine. I guess it is time to give up. I've just never seen memory do this and I have been a PC tech for 15 years......oh well....thanx for all the suggestions. __________________________________________________________________ Look What The New Netscape.com Can Do! Now you can preview dozens of stories and have the ones you select delivered to you without ever leaving the Top Home Page. And the new Tool Box gives you one click access to local Movie times, Maps, White Pages and more. See for yourself at http://netcenter.netscape.com/netcenter/

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Beige G3 tower 10.0 and 10.1 Alpa2 installer fails to boot
by Joseph Kubik 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

I cannot see to get BootX 1.2.2 to boot the Kernel that comes with either the 10.0 or 10.1 Alpha2 install CDs. I copy the file from suseboot, use gzip up uncompress it. Point BootX at it. The kernel starts to load and then the screen turns strange yellow/black olours and hangs forever. It does not matter if I use textmode=1 or video=atyfb:vmode:17. I have YellowDog 4 installed and it boots just fine. I have tried with both the onboard video card and the add on twin turbo video card. Ideas? Has anyone used bootX to boot the kernel from the CD? Thanks, -Joseph-

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java5 for ppc
by Peter Czanik 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Hello, I just read the news at http://www.pegasos.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=75… that IBM released a beta of Java 5.0 Standard Edition for PPC. If it works, could it be included in the next alpha? It's available at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/java5beta/ Bye, Peter Ps: they have changed something, or I forgot my IBM ID, but I can't log in...

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PowerMac 9600 problems
by larrystotler＠netscape.net 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Ok, I picked up a PowerMac 9600 the other day. It has 192MB RAM, a 300Mhz 604ev w/ 1MB Cache on chip(100mhz), and an IMS TwinTurbo PCI video card. I installed 10.0/RC1(still need to get the lastest off the net). When I installed it, the Opti OHCI USB card that worked under my 7500 caused a kernel panic until I removed it. When the install was mostly done, it would not let me choose the video card. When the system boots, I get the KDM, but it is very messed up. The colors are very screwy. I logged into the tty1 and changed to init 3 and tried running SaX2. It refuses to load. It gets all the stuff ready and then just stops. I tried again under X, and the same thing. When I run "xf86config", there is no listing for this card. I then tried to use my ATI Rage II card instead, and the system just locks up during the install. It will not do anything else. So, is this card actually supported? I'm pretty disappointed with this 9600 so far.....any help would be appriciated. Thanx. __________________________________________________________________ Look What The New Netscape.com Can Do! Now you can preview dozens of stories and have the ones you select delivered to you without ever leaving the Top Home Page. And the new Tool Box gives you one click access to local Movie times, Maps, White Pages and more. See for yourself at http://netcenter.netscape.com/netcenter/

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Try from CD
by Jakepopejoy＠aol.com 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Is it possible to try the Linux OS from CD before I actually install it? If so, what is the procedure for obtaining or burning the software? Jake

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forcing Yast into vt100
by Erik Janssen 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi all, I'm trying to install Suse10 on an IBM RS/6000 H50, but when I boot from the cdrom and choose install it detects my terminal as an xterm. I'm using a serial console with minicom and the yast messages all get messed up. Normally I could do export TERM=vt100 but I don't see how I can do this when I choose install. Any suggestions? Erik. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.6/152 - Release Date: 31-10-2005

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/sbin/lilo fails on SuSE10 install on Mac Mini
by Julian Seward 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I'm trying to install SuSE10 on a Mac Mini, having successfully installed it on an old iMac DV400. I carefully followed all the directions at http://www.opensuse.org/PPC, and the install goes through OK, but nothing I can do will persuade lilo to be happy. When I run it, I get: linux:~ # /sbin/lilo running on pmac_new BOOT_DEVICEPATH = /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:2 OTHER_DEVICEPATH = /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:7 hmount: /dev/hda2: not a Macintosh HFS volume (Invalid argument) It's this last line I'm concerned about. The partition map is: Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda' #: type name length base ( size ) 1: Apple_partition_map 'Apple ' 63 @ 1 2: Apple_Bootstrap 'bootstrap ' 20480 @ 64 ( 10.0M) 3: Apple_HFS 'spare_hfs ' 20480 @ 20544 ( 10.0M) 4: Linux 'spare_linux ' 20480 @ 41024 ( 10.0M) 5: Linux 'swap ' 2048000 @ 61504 (1000.0M) 6: Linux 'root ' 106573104 @ 2109504 ( 50.8G) 7: Apple_HFS 'Apple_HFS_Untitled_4' 47618864 @ 108682608 ( 22.7G) 8: Apple_Free ' ' 16 @ 156301472 My reading of the opensuse.org web pages is that I should direct the bootloader to /dev/hda2. hda6 is root. hda7 contains a MacOS install. My lilo.conf is: boot=/dev/hda2 timeout=100 default=linux activate image=/boot/vmlinux initrd=/boot/initrd label=linux append="root=/dev/hda6 sysrq=1" other=/dev/hda7 label=macos What am I doing wrong? J

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dlpar on sles9/openpower
by Ingvar Hagelund 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

We have an IBM OpenPower 720 with hypervisor and a set of lpars. Earlier we got dlpar to work, at least a couple of times, but not anymore. Here's an example: Ran this on the hmc: ~> chhwres -r virtualio -m Server-9124-720-SNXXXXXXX -p mgmt -o a \ --rsubtype eth -s 11 \ -a "ieee_virtual_eth=1,port_vlan_id=1,is_trunk=1,\"addl_vlan_ids=600,601\"" HSCL294C DLPAR ADD Virtual I/O resources failed: HMC adding Virtual I/O ...... HMC Virtual slot DLPAR operation failed. Here are the virtual slot IDs that failed and the reasons for failure: 11 The dynamic logical partitioning operation failed. On the lpar "mgmt", running sles9 sp2 kernel 2.6.5-7.193-pseries64, we have the magic rpms from IBM installed: evlog-drv-tmpl-0.8-1 diagela-1.3.0.0-6 lsvpd-0.12.7-1 ppc64-utils-2.5-2 librtas-1.2-1 and the following IBM services are running: # lssrc -a Subsystem Group PID Status ctrmc rsct 5011 active IBM.ServiceRM rsct_rm 5103 active IBM.DRM rsct_rm 5110 active IBM.HostRM rsct_rm 5186 active IBM.CSMAgentRM rsct_rm 5217 active IBM.ERRM rsct_rm 5221 active IBM.AuditRM rsct_rm 5266 active ctcas rsct 7705 active IBM.SensorRM rsct_rm 7721 active IBM.FSRM rsct_rm 7722 active IBM.ConfigRM rsct_rm 7723 active So, where can I start digging? Regards, Ingvar -- Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. Gandalf

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