Some issues with my 7500 and Beta 3
I still have Beta 3 on here, but here is a few issues I have noticed: Yast did NOT detect the onboard MESH controller of my PMac 7500 and was not able to start the install automatically. However, it did detect the onboard NCR53cX secondary controller as well as the Adaptec 2940UW card. When I try to select my monitor, the colors are messed up. However, if I use SaX2's recommended config, it is fine. Also, I am unable to select the video card. I installed a USB 1.1 card, a Via card. It was detected, and I am able to make use of my USB key drive, but nothing else. My USB mouse and printers are not detected. It would be nice to be able to use a real mouse..... Sounds does not always work at first. Upon booting and loggin in, either the onboard sound is unavailable or both it and my Creative SB PCI 512 is unavailable. However, when I log out and back in, it works properly. When I run frozen bubble, it seems to setup as a 640x480 screen size. Is there any way to fix this? It diesn't do it on my other Intel based systems. I will hopefully pull RC1 this weekend and re-install it with a larger hard drive. So far, I am VERY happy with what I have seen. Thanx for bringing back PPC support even tho Apple has jumped ship! Any suggestions would be appriciated. My system: PowerMac 7500 PPC 604e @ 200Mhz(No cache, planning to add) 80MB RAM(planning to add more) Adaptec 2940UW PCI SCSI card Creative SB PCI 512 Via USb 1.1 PCI Card. Apple Cinema 20" monitor Ob-Board video, 2MB VRAM __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp
On Thu, Sep 08, Larry S. Stotler wrote:
I still have Beta 3 on here, but here is a few issues I have noticed:
Yast did NOT detect the onboard MESH controller of my PMac 7500 and was not able to start the install automatically. However, it did detect the onboard NCR53cX secondary controller as well as the Adaptec 2940UW card.
Yes, boot with 'insmod=mesh' into the installer. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=117639
When I try to select my monitor, the colors are messed up. However, if I use SaX2's recommended config, it is fine. Also, I am unable to select the video card.
The X11 driver is just fbdev. Use either depth 15 or 24, depending on your screen resolution. 16 will not work.
I installed a USB 1.1 card, a Via card. It was detected, and I am able to make use of my USB key drive, but nothing else. My USB mouse and printers are not detected. It would be nice to be able to use a real mouse.....
The USB mouse uses the generic /dev/input/mice device. Are the drivers loaded? I guess you need uhci_hcd.
When I run frozen bubble, it seems to setup as a 640x480 screen size. Is there any way to fix this? It diesn't do it on my other Intel based systems.
I have no idea.
I will hopefully pull RC1 this weekend and re-install it with a larger hard drive. So far, I am VERY happy with what I have seen. Thanx for bringing back PPC support even tho Apple has jumped ship! Any suggestions would be appriciated.
Thanks.
80MB RAM(planning to add more)
Do that, at least.
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