I just aquired a Powermac G3 Beige system. Here are the specs: G3 @ 266Mhz 512k L2 cache Machine ID - 510(Rev 1 - $77D.4 - 0F2) Personality slot with 56k modem Dual IDE/3 PCI/SCSI 6GB IDE HD(IDE 1) 52x CD-RW(IDE 0) 100MB Zip (SCSI) ATI Rage II+ DVD - 2MB VRAM(on board) I put 384MB of 66Mhz SDRAM in it. No matter what I do, I cannot get the Yast installer to come up. I;ve tried with a lot of different memory configs and still no luck. When it starts up, it says to "Please supply config file", and then I get a blank screen. I can jump between screens(the num lock light goes off and on), but the are all blank. I even tried an ATI Rage II PCI card and same thing.....Any sggestions. I THINK it has Mac OS X on it because the OS 9 version is 9.2.2, but I don't really know anything about X, and just want to run Linux.....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/
On Fri, Sep 30, larrystotler@netscape.net wrote:
I just aquired a Powermac G3 Beige system. Here are the specs:
G3 @ 266Mhz 512k L2 cache Machine ID - 510(Rev 1 - $77D.4 - 0F2) Personality slot with 56k modem Dual IDE/3 PCI/SCSI 6GB IDE HD(IDE 1) 52x CD-RW(IDE 0) 100MB Zip (SCSI) ATI Rage II+ DVD - 2MB VRAM(on board)
I put 384MB of 66Mhz SDRAM in it. No matter what I do, I cannot get the Yast installer to come up. I;ve tried with a lot of different memory configs and still no luck. When it starts up, it says to "Please supply config file", and then I get a blank screen. I can jump
Add 'textmode=1' to the kernel cmdline in BootX App. -- short story of a lazy sysadmin: alias appserv=wotan
Hello I am brand new to SuSE 9.3 . Before I start loading the OS I would like to know how to find out if anyone knows of a sata controller that has linux drivers? I knoticed that mine (SATA3112-150I or 150R) does not support linux. I want to use a sata hard drive for my primary drive. Thank you for your direction. Regards, I am brand new to SuSE 9.3 . Before I start loading the OS I would like to know how to find out if anyone knows of a sata controller that has linux drivers? I knoticed that mine (SATA3112-150I or 150R) does not support linux. I want to use a sata hard drive for my primary drive. Regards, Please visit Ansver... http://www.suse-tr.com/forumeng/viewtopic.php?t=89 --------------------------------- Yahoo! kullaniyor musunuz? Simdi, 1GB e-posta saklama alani sunuyor http://tr.mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! kullaniyor musunuz? Istenmeyen postadan biktiniz mi? Istenmeyen postadan en iyi korunma Yahoo! Posta’da http://tr.mail.yahoo.com
On Saturday 01 October 2005 11:51 am, Tora TORAMAN wrote:
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I am brand new to SuSE 9.3 . Before I start loading the OS I would like to know how to find out if anyone knows of a sata controller that has linux drivers? I knoticed that mine (SATA3112-150I or 150R) does not support linux. I want to use a sata hard drive for my primary drive. Thank you for your direction. Regards, I am brand new to SuSE 9.3 . Before I start loading the OS I would like to know how to find out if anyone knows of a sata controller that has linux drivers? I knoticed that mine (SATA3112-150I or 150R) does not support linux. I want to use a sata hard drive for my primary drive.
Regards,
Although 9.3 does not have a PPC counterpart, most sata controllers are supported in the kernel, both for i386 & PPC architectures. SuSE 10.x again supports PPC and is downloadable from the opensuse.org mirrors now. So no matter if your motherboard manual mentions Linux or not in regards to the SATA, it is very likely supported by SuSE. end of line Rusty
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From: Olaf Hering
On Sat, Oct 01, larrystotler@netscape.net wrote:
1. How do I verify that the G3 cache is active? When I use the "GrabG3CacheSetting" program from BootX, set G3 cahce on, and boot into Linux, the kernel messages said that it was disabled.
I have to check this.
2. What is causing the weird lines on my monitor? There are 2 vertical lines that like "run" and you cannot make out the text. I know it isn't the monitor because it works fine on my 7500. It does an 80x30 console where the 7500 does a 128x48(I think). Is there any way to specify this?
There seems to be a bug in the atyfb driver, X should work fine. Havent looked yet when this bug was introduced.
3. When is the PPC version going to add support for partitioning? Is this planned? I didn't see anything about it.
People are working on it.
4. Can you point me to where I can find more info about why the oldworld Macs basically have to use BootX even though it seems that NetBSD can boot natively.....
There is the quik bootloader, it supports booting directly from openfirmware. But its quite cumbersome to setup. You should grab the Debian package. It supports only ext2/3 last time I looked. -- short story of a lazy sysadmin: alias appserv=wotan
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From: Olaf Hering
There seems to be a bug in the atyfb driver, X should work fine. Havent looked yet when this bug was introduced.
I have a matrox PCI card that has the apple DB15 monitor plug as well as the VGA DB15, but it didn't work when the g3 booted. If I add a regular PCI video card, will Linux initialize it first, or will it not see it? I've got a decade of dealing with Intel based systems, but I am kinda new to Macs....
There is the quik bootloader, it supports booting directly from openfirmware. But its quite cumbersome to setup. You should grab the Debian package. It supports only ext2/3 last time I looked.
Yeah, I found it and I'm going to try to set it up. I really don't have any need for the Mac OS. Having a PC backround, I'm used to seeing a lot more info when I am working with systems. The kernel messages for Linux mac aren't as verbose as what I am used to on the PC, and it's a lot of different stuff to work through. Thanx again. __________________________________________________________________ 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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