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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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