January 2006 - 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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gcc 64-bit library support ?
by Paul Russell 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Hi - I'm trying to build a 64-bit "Hello world" program on under SuSE 10 on a G5 Xserve. It looks like there are no 64-bit libraries as I get the following: > gcc -m64 fred.c -o fred.o /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc64-suse-linux/ 4.0.2/../../../libc.so when searching for -lc /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc64-suse-linux/ 4.0.2/../../../libc.a when searching for -lc /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc.so when searching for -lc /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc.a when searching for -lc /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > I'd appreciate any clues as to what I need to do to build/install 64- bit library support. Thanks, Paul

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Disable auto loading module
by larrystotler＠netscape.net 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

How do I keep a module from loading at boot time? When I boot my 9600, the MESH module ends up being loaded, and for some reason the drive starts acting like it's in it's death throes until I can log in and rmmod it. It's not a bad drive, as I have tested it several times. On my 7500, it would do it a few times and then be ok, but it is continuous on this machine, so if anyone has a way that I can disable the loading, I would appriciate it. Also, it does not show up as a module in YaST. Only the Adaptec 2940 and the NCR controllers are listed by YaST. Thanx. ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com

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partitioning with yast2 on iBook G3
by Karl Eichwalder 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

YaST wants to do some partitioning on its own during the installation of 10.1 beta2 on an iBook G3 (deleting my old / and creating new partitions for / and /home). Does this actually work on PPC? I'm too anxious to give it a try ;) -- Karl Eichwalder R&D / Documentation SUSE Linux Products GmbH Key fingerprint = B2A3 AF2F CFC8 40B1 67EA 475A 5903 A21B 06EB 882E

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Installing
by Andrew Upfold 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Hi I am trying to install SuSE 10 on my Apple PowerMac G3 350Mhz (Blue and White). I have discovered by looking here (http:// www.opensuse.org/PPC_Installation_Issues) that I have to create my own boot strap. I have managed to get the system to boot off the CD after install. I have even discovered the need to log in as root in the rescue system, but I can get no further. Having installed SuSE 10 on my PC I must say I am surprised how difficult it is to install it on the PPC. Any help would be greatly appreciated, in particular: 1. Getting into linuxrc. 2. Completing the installation. 3. Creating a working boot strap. Many thanks, Andrew

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Installing Suse 10 on an OldWorld Powermac.
by Michael Ladwein 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Does anyone know, how to install Suse 10 on an OldWorld Powermac from CD? Simply using BootX with the initrd32 Ramdisk and the unpacked linux32.gz Kernel (2.6.13-15-default) does not work. Thanks Michael

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WIFI ibook G3
by sonofcolin 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

Installed Opensuse 10.0 on a 500Mhz ibook. Very easy. Very nice distro! I'm trying to get wifi working. Does anyone have any settings/configurations they would like to share? The ibook has an internal 802.11b card but SUSE isn't seeing it and every combo I have tried fails to get wifi working. TIA

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Linux on old MAC II
by Ronny Schröder 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

Hi, my oldest Mac I tried to run Linux on is a Powerbook 1400 but I can't remember if it ran ever. For macs like a MAC II I think you have to look for m68k-linux: http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/ or debian: http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k I dont't know if SUSE offered a linux-version for 680x0-Macs ever. greetings Ronny

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OldWorldMacs
by Ronny Schröder 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

Hi, First of all, I don't ran Linux on an Old World Mac at the moment. But I have some Old World Macs (PM 7500, PM 9500, ANS ....) In my PM7500 I had a USB-Card for a while an I had also trouble to get it to work. (under Mac OS) What I remember, you need an OHCI-Card, UHCI-Cards didn't work for me. I dont't maybe Linux can handle both. Hope the helps greetings from Germany Ronny (excuse my sometimes bad english)

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Re: [suse-ppc] OldWorldMacs
by larrystotler＠netscape.net 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

-----Original Message----- From: Ronny Schröder <mail(a)ronny-schroeder.de> > First of all, I don't ran Linux on an Old World Mac at the moment. > But I have some Old World Macs (PM 7500, PM 9500, ANS ....) > In my PM7500 I had a USB-Card for a while an I had also trouble to get it to work. (under Mac OS) > What I remember, you need an OHCI-Card, UHCI-Cards didn't work for me. The Opti cards that I have work well in OS 8.6 and higher on my 5400(8.6), 7500(9.1), and 9600(9.1) However, my G3(9.2.2) refuses to use it(which is weird because it had an Opti card in it when I got it). The 7500 and G3 use the Opti card just fine under Linux. However, the 9600 has a kernel panic when booting with the Opti cards or the Lucent card I have. Also, the Ali v2.0 card I have worked at one point in the 9600, but now it doesn't. It's kinda frustrating. It sees the card and loads the ohci_hcd module, and sees the USB mouse, but then it just disappears and it refuses to reload the module. I have to use the "irqpoll" option at boot as well. I have had other problems that I think has to do with some flakey memory, but the USB card shouldn't pose a problem. I also have problems when the 7500 & 9600 load the MESH driver. The Mac OS drive acts like it is dying, and I have to rmmod it to get it to stop. The G3 has the NCR controller instead of the MESH. To get the 9600 to run Linux, I have had to install it on the 7500. I have gotten it to partially install on the 9600, but I always have problems installing the rest of the packages. Now, some of the big advantages of using Linux on the G3 is that even with the rev A ROM, I can fully use a 20GB drive on the onboard ata controllers, and I can use the slave assignments. OS X was also limited to the first 8GB to be bootable, but Linux doesn't care how big the "/" partition is, and I don't need a seperate partition for the /boot directory. The IDE drive gets about 9-10MB/s with the "hdparm -Tt" test. The SCSI drives I use get about 12-20. ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com

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Repost OldWorld macs (I must be very tired)
by Ronny Schröder 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Hi, (back again, I read my post and wonder what is wrong with me today) I have some Old World Macs (PM 7500, PM 9500, ANS ....) But I don't ran Linux on an Old World Mac at the moment. In my PM7500 I had a USB-Card for a while an I had also trouble to get it to work. (under Mac OS) As I remember, I needed an OHCI-Card, UHCI-Cards didn't work for me. I dont't know but maybe Linux can handle both. Hope the helps greetings from Germany Ronny

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SCSI question
by larrystotler＠netscape.net 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

I have installed and ran v10.0 release on a 7500, a 9600, and a Beige G3/266. On all 3 of the machines, there is no info available about SCSI. There is no /proc/scsi directory(which does exist on my P3 Dell with the same Adaptec controller). Is there some reason for this? I looked over the notes, but didn't really see anything. Also, could this be an Old World issue? I do not have any New World machines. Anyway, for those considering running SuSE on an old world mac, I do recommend a G3 upgrade to faster than 350Mhz. My G3/266/512k is a great deal slower than my 7500 with a G3/400/1M. The 7500 is much more responsive and surfing the web is much faster as well. Also, I recommend using a PCI SCSI card. The 4 digit machine's MESH controller is 5MB/s and the NCR is 10MB/s. I have an Adaptec 80MB/s card, and it is well worth it. The Beige G3's IDE is only 16.7MB/s as well, and I have 40MB/s SCSI drives that run much faster. However, I have noticed that once you get past 128MB RAM, there doesn't seem to be as much of a speed difference as I have seen on the Intel machines. I have also installed with as little as 64MB(had to activate swap). My Via USB 1.x PCI card has never worked on any of my Macs, but works fine in the x86s. Also, my 9600 has a kernel panic with my Opti or Lucent USB 1.x cards installed when trying to start an install. The 7500 doesn't tho. I tried all 6 PCI slots in the 9600 with no luck. Is anyone else running an Old World Mac? Please let me know....Thanx ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com

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installation on powerbook G4 1.67 Ghz fails
by Judith van Steen 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

Hi, I've been trying to install SuSe Linux 10 on my new 15" powerbook G4, 1.67Ghz, to no efford. I partitioned my hard drive and booted from CD1, but when I try to install it says "Could not find the SUSE Linux Installation CD". Then when I go on with the manual setup, it tries to mount the CD-ROM but stops with the message "Make sure that CD number 1 is in your drive". I'm sure off course, 'cause i justed started up from the CD... Help would be nice! Kind regards, Judith van Steen

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Suse 9 Server on IBM p520 LPAR/VIOS uses 10% CPU
by Helmut Tschemernjak 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hello, I am using an p520 with Virtual IO Server 1.2, testing Suse Server 9 within one partition. I just installed it, no services are being used, Linux top says it is 100% idle, but the IBM partition manger (IVM) says it is about 10-20% busy. If I use an idle AIX 5.3-03 within an partition, this uses just 0-1% CPU. Another problem I found is disk performance, I use dd from the RAW device to /dev/null with a 1024k blocksitz, with Linux gets about 50MB per second, using the same disk with an AIX partition this gives me about 85MB/sec. Any ideas? Thanks Helmut Tschemernjak

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Some stuff
by larrystotler＠netscape.net 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Here are a few things I have noticed. Remember, I am using Old World macs.... I added the MacOS patition, /dev/hda6, under YaST. However, when I checked the directory, which I labeled /macos, I found the text file about "Where did all the files go?". So, I looked at /etc/fstab, and the filesystem type was "hfs". I changed it to "hfs+", and was given an error when I tried to remount it. I changed the filesystem type to "hfsplus" and when I remounted it this time it worked fine. I went back into YaST's partitioner and checked to see if there was an option for the Apple HFS+ filesystem, and it only listed 1 Apple filesystem type. Do I need to use the ramdisk image to boot the system with an updated kernel? When I uncheck the ramdisk option, and input sda3 as my root device, I get a kernel panic because it can't find the root device. I am assuming that it is not loading the Adaptec SCSI module for some reason. Checking the "Force SCSI" option does not work as well. I have found that since I used YOU to update the kernel that the installation system no longer comes up when I boot using the newer ramdisk, so I don't know if it is a big deal about using the ramsdisk or not. I have 384MB, and I have a good deal of free RAM available. One thing I have noticed is that the USB drivers seem to be loaded before the SCSI drivers using the installation system. It seems that the USB drive gets labeled /dev/sda and the SCSI drive gets bumped to /dev/sdb. After updating my kernel with YOU, It properly loads the adaptec driver and sees /dev/sda3 properly. Perhaps a warning should be given during installation when USB and SCSI drives are detected. I realize that the majority of systems out there use IDE, but there are still many of us that prefer the dependability and speed of SCSI. I realize that a lot of devices are made to look like SCSI in Linux as well as WinDoZe, but it seems there would be a more intelligent way to set this up.... Also, I think I had brought this up once before. Why is it that when I am running under KDE, I have to use "control open-apple Fx" to get to a text terminal, but when I am on a text terminal, I use the standard "control alt Fx" key combination. I know that KDE has an option to edit the key combos, but can this one be modified? It would be nice to have the regular combo all the time. Thanx ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com

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Has anyone installed on the following:
by larrystotler＠netscape.net 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

I have tried installing on a PM5400/180. However, YaST failed when it is checking out the system. I also have a couple of Motorola StarMax 4000s. I was wondering if anyone has these and whether they have been able to install openSuSE on them.... Thanx. ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com

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big crash after kernel update to 244 (initrd cannot find any executables)
by Marco Hoehle 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi, this problem seems to be on ppc and intel based hosts. After the kernel update from 201 to 244 (done as usual) and the reboot, initrd is failing completely, mentioning that it cannot find and executables. It leaves me with a shell prompt. Unfortunately the shell prompt is unusable, because even /bin/ls does not work (funny, the shell scripts are executed anyway, so /bin/sh is ok) ... The Servers are unusable after the kernel update ! I need urgently a solution for this, because all our Servers wants to update (or have to, according to our security policies) and I'm not willing to fix 100 machines by hand ! Regards marco hoehle

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RZ1000 question
by larrystotler＠netscape.net 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

I have a DTC PCI card with the RZ1000 module. This card shows up in the lspci list, but I can't figure out how to enable it. I tried modeprobe rz1000, but was told module not found. The card is assigned IRQ 25. Am I using the correct module name? Do I need to complie the module(and if so, how?)? I'm looking to use it for IDE CD drives only, and have read that there are some known bugs with this chipset, but it appears that there is a stable driver for it. Thanx ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com

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