April 2000 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

iBook problems
by Pascal 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

I have ordered SuSE 6.4 for PowerPC. My problem is that I can't install the system. I have an iBook with 96 Mb ram, 300 Mhz G3, 3,2 GB HD, 4MB rage pro gfx card. I use system 9.04. I have partition the drive with 3 mac partitions wich one is a linux boot partition with 40 Mb space. Then there is one root partition with 1 GB and a swap with 128 Mb. (done with the apple's partition tool) When I install the folder on the linux boot disk and hold down space bar when I boot, I can see nothing on the screen. When I push enter, it starts too rrrrrr (sign that it is something processing). very funny. I think the onley problem is the gfx. Because when I try BootX, I see everything, the installer etc, but it quits after a while (this is because it is a new world mac and I should'nt use the bootX in the first time.) Tnx in advance. Pascal van Ool

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Accelerated X on PowerMac 9600 ?
by Christian Jaeger 18 May '00

18 May '00

Hello, Hallo I want to setup accelerated X on a PowerMac 9600. I'm using LinuxPPC, but had no luck so far and someone from the linuxppc-user mailing list gave me the hint that the chip in the machine I'm using is from a german company (Formac), so I ask here if Suse-linux has solved this (is Suse-linux's X accelerated on european PowerMac's 9600?) What I know so far: Xpmac (at least Xpmac-Rage128 rev.9) doesn't support acceleration on this 9600. While booting, my selfcompiled 2.2.15pre9 kernel says '/bandit/formacGA5' and 'unsupported', and XF86_FBDev (Version 3.3.3) doesn't seem to understand the hardware, the lower half of the screen remains black (or whatever was on the console) and the upper half shows the content twice and totally wrong (some bit depth problems). The kernel (rsync from linuxcare.com.au) has all mac video drivers compiled in except for the matrox acceleration. There's no option in xconfig like 'formac' or 'GA5'. Thanks! Danke, Merci. Christian.

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SL82C105 on Motorola MTX
by Peter Waechtler 01 May '00

01 May '00

Hi all, I am trying to install the new ppc-beta on a Motorola MTX eval-board. The MTX has a Winbond 82C105 EIDE controller and don't want to work with Linux (2.2.13-SuSE) If I configure a kernel with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SL82C105 the kernel is not able to use the recognized ide: It detects the 82C105 hardware, but the driver wants to use IRQ16. W82C105: 100% native mode on irq 16 hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3A, ATA DISK drive hdb: CD-540E, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0: Disabled unable to get IRQ 16. hda: ERROR, PORTS ALREADY IN USE hdb: ERROR, PORTS ALREADY IN USE There are some "tunings" in the sl82c105.c copied from Corel's Netwinders (ARM). How to get rid of the special treatment of this chipset? Booting with QNX/Neutrino the EIDE is used with IRQ14 and all works as expected. # pci PCI version = 2.10 Class = Mass Storage (IDE) Vendor ID = 10adh, Symphony Labs Device ID = 105h, sl82c105 - bus master PCI-ide mode 4.5 Cntrlr PCI index = 0h IO Address = ffffff0h enabled IO Address = fffffech enabled IO Address = fffffe0h enabled IO Address = fffffdch enabled IO Address = fffffc0h enabled IO Address = fffffb0h enabled PCI Int Pin = INT A Interrupt line = 14 -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Waechtler http://www.qnx.de/~peter

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ibook problems solved
by Pascal 26 Apr '00

26 Apr '00

forgot to read the readme on the cd1. linux video=ofonly ... CA

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Antw: iBook problems
by Pascal 26 Apr '00

26 Apr '00

Ok, tnx, sorry I only read the handbook.. sorry. ---------- >Van: Olaf Hering <olh(a)suse.de> >Aan: "Pascal" <PascalvanOol(a)Mac.com> >Onderwerp: Re: iBook problems >Datum: woe, 26 jul 2000 10:10 > > On Wed, Apr 26, Pascal wrote: > >> I have ordered SuSE 6.4 for PowerPC. >> My problem is that I can't install the system. >> I have an iBook with 96 Mb ram, 300 Mhz G3, 3,2 GB HD, 4MB rage pro gfx >> card. >> I use system 9.04. >> I have partition the drive with 3 mac partitions wich one is a linux boot >> partition with 40 Mb space. Then there is one root partition with 1 GB and a >> swap with 128 Mb. (done with the apple's partition tool) >> When I install the folder on the linux boot disk and hold down space bar >> when I boot, I can see nothing on the screen. When I push enter, it starts >> too rrrrrr (sign that it is something processing). >> very funny. >> I think the onley problem is the gfx. Because when I try BootX, I see >> everything, the installer etc, but it quits after a while (this is because >> it is a new world mac and I should'nt use the bootX in the first time.) > > Insert CD1, reboot, hold "c", enter > linux video=ofonly > > Read the README on the CD first. > > > Gruss Olaf > > -- > $ man clone > > BUGS > Main feature not yet implemented...

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