October 2000 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Bootparameter Motorola-PReP mit SuSE 6.4PPC
by Peter Neumann 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

Hallo, ich habe hier eine Motorola PReP 6.04 mit einem NCR53c825. Von Diskette mit <root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 fake_initrd> kann ich booten und auch die 6.4er PPC anschliessend mit allem drum und dran installieren. Beim Booten von FP mit <root=/dev/sda3>kommt aber immer die Meldung "sym53c8xx not initialized ..." und das System bleibt stehen, da er ja die root-Partition nicht finden kann, obwohl doch ein ncr53c8xx drin ist. Mit <modprobe ncr53c8xx> kommt kein Fehler zurück. Die zImage.prep habe ich auch nach /dev/sda1 mit dd kopiert. M.M. nach ist doch alles i.O. Jetzt noch meine Frage? Was für bootparameter muss ich noch nach <root=/dev/sda3> mit übergeben; <ncr53x8xx noprobe> o.ä. habe ich schon probiert --> auch kein Erfolg. M f G Peter Neumann ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Neumann TEL: 49 / 721 / 2032 218 CKS-Systeme GmbH FAX: 49 / 721 / 2032 219 Brauerstr.50 D2: 49 / 172 / 7347 696 76135 Karlsruhe mailto:peter.neumann@cks-systeme.de http://www.cks-systeme.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: KDE 2 and SuSE 6.4 PPC
by Olaf Hering 25 Oct '00

25 Oct '00

On Wed, Oct 25, Kevin B . Hendricks wrote: > That is really strange. I built from tarballs the entire KDE 1.93 source just a month or so ago and ened up running Koquereor (and even testing its java interface with blackdown, testing the window manager to make sure it works with jdk 1.3, etc and it all worked fine. We will try to build it with 6.4, but I have not much hope. > What versions of binutils, gcc, and glibc does SuSE 6.4 ship with? gcc-2.95.3-5 binutils-2.9.5.0.24-117 shlibs-2.1.3-162 > I have never heard of a binary incompatibility. People have reported that the jdk 1.3 works under SuSE 6.4 and it was built using gcc-2.93 2c, glibc 2.1.3, and binuitls 2.0.10.24. Even Franz has no idea, appearently. > Hmm...something is very funny here. I am going to grab the KDE 2 source tarballs and do a build and create binary tarballs for people to grab and try on SuSE 6.4 Better fix other things than kde2 :=) Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

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Re: KDE 2 and SuSE 6.4 PPC
by Kevin B.Hendricks 25 Oct '00

25 Oct '00

Hi, > I tried it on a plain 6.4-ppc and konqueror does not work at all, even > ksplash does not work. > We had to use the newer gcc from Franz to compile kde2 at all. There is > proably a binary incompatibilty or such. > > For short: kde2 works but you have no konqueror, no kword, no ksplash, > no kspread, no killustrator ... ok. I gave up to try more stuff. > > But hey, konsole works fine :=) That is really strange. I built from tarballs the entire KDE 1.93 source just a month or so ago and ened up running Koquereor (and even testing its java interface with blackdown, testing the window manager to make sure it works with jdk 1.3, etc and it all worked fine. What versions of binutils, gcc, and glibc does SuSE 6.4 ship with? I have never heard of a binary incompatibility. People have reported that the jdk 1.3 works under SuSE 6.4 and it was built using gcc-2.93 2c, glibc 2.1.3, and binuitls 2.0.10.24. Hmm...something is very funny here. I am going to grab the KDE 2 source tarballs and do a build and create binary tarballs for people to grab and try on SuSE 6.4 . Kevin

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Re: KDE 2 and SuSE 6.4 PPC
by Kevin B.Hendricks 25 Oct '00

25 Oct '00

Hi, > it does not neccesarely mean that it don´t compile, but there > are problems afterwards. Franz Sirl also builded KDE2, but (again) as > far as I know, he did not release them untill now. Hmm, problems afterwards? The problem must be pretty obscure since I have been using what I built on a day to day basis with no real problems that have impacted me. Perhaps we should ask Franz directly here? Franz, Can we compile and run KDE 2.0 src tarballs using your latest tool chain (latest gcc from your site, latest binutils from H.J. Lu, and latest glibc 2.1.3 from your site) and if not, what if anything needs fixing / updating? Thanks, Kevin

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Re: KDE 2 and SuSE 6.4 PPC
by Kevin B.Hendricks 24 Oct '00

24 Oct '00

Hi, What is wrong with the current ppc compiler? Franz Sirl has a 2.93 -2f rpm set he has put togther that has lots of stuff backported from the current cvs tree. I have been building and using the KDE 1.9.X series with no problems to this point built from the source tarballs? What changed in the final KDE 2.0 series that prevents the current tool chain from working (binutils .24, gcc 2.93-2f, glibc-2.1.3)? Specifics would help here? Thanks, Kevin On Tuesday, October 24, 2000, at 10:07 AM, Matthias Fruehauf wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, Cameron Bales .:. wrote: > > > I downloaded the rpms for KDE 2 today but they are marked for SuSE > > 7.0PPC - which doesn't seem to exist on the SuSE website... Will > > these rpms work fine with my 6.4PPC install? > > For the moment, the situation on PPC is a little bit problematic: > > Due to compiler reasons, it is not possible to build a really rock solid > KDE2 for PPC, especially for 6.4. > > The packages you mention are for the upcoming 7.0, and they probably > only work under 7.0. They still have some problems even under 7.0, which > may be corrected in the future. > > For the 6.4, there is no possibility to build really working packages at the > moment. Maybe this will change, but I guess it won´t. :-( > > > > Cameron .:. > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards, > > Matthias Frühauf > >

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ohci on iMac
by Andrew Dabrowski 24 Oct '00

24 Oct '00

I'm trying Suse's 2.2.16 beta kernel on an iMac. I was hoping to get my usb zip drive or external hd working, but during bootup I get the message that usb-ohci failed to load, suggesting I check the BIOS settings. I didn't think that was an issue on ppc's. I installed the 2.2.16 rpm package for ppc from the SuSE ftp site. I also installed the new devs.rpm (06-2000) and new usb.rpm (version .50). I've got the usb mouse working fine. Any idea why ohci is failing? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Dabrowski | Lueckenlos ist die Welt, doch SE 117 5-5470 | zusammengehalten ... von den Verschwundenen. dabrowsa(a)indiana.edu | Sie sind ueberall. -Enzensberger

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provide me with a suitable mol.o and sheep_net.o
by Heinz Nabielek 22 Oct '00

22 Oct '00

On my Apple Powermac Performa 6400/200 MHz, standard SuSE 6.4 installation including MoL 0.9.41 ls -al /usr/lib/mol/modules/* shows -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46104 May 30 13:00 /usr/lib/mol/modules/mol.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7237 May 30 13:00 /usr/lib/mol/modules/sheep_net.o and insmod -f /usr/lib/mol/modules/*.o complains with /usr/lib/mol/modules/mol.o: init_module: Device or resource busy. Not surprisingly, startmol does not start and complains specifically about the 603e processor. Solution is clear: patch the kernel, compile and generate own modules. However, I do not have the skill and the hard disk space. Would a kind soul provide me with a suitable mol.o and sheep_net.o ? Heinz [can be also from mol 0.9.50]

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pcmcia modem - serial_cs not loading
by Andrew Dabrowski 21 Oct '00

21 Oct '00

I've got a Zoom Dual modem which I'd like to use with my mac PB 2400 running SuSE 6.4 with a 2.2.16 kernel. But I get an error when trying to load the serial_cs modeule: root@AndyPeng:/etc > modprobe serial_cs /lib/modules/2.2.16/pcmcia/serial_cs.o: unresolved symbol unregister_serial /lib/modules/2.2.16/pcmcia/serial_cs.o: unresolved symbol register_serial /lib/modules/2.2.16/pcmcia/serial_cs.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16/pcmcia/serial_cs.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.16/pcmcia/serial_cs.o: insmod serial_cs failed Anyone know what the problem is? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Dabrowski | Lueckenlos ist die Welt, doch SE 117 5-5470 | zusammengehalten ... von den Verschwundenen. dabrowsa(a)indiana.edu | Sie sind ueberall. -Enzensberger

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Re: Suse still immature
by Bill Heese 21 Oct '00

21 Oct '00

I'm just a lowly Mac user not a Technicial Journalist or a software developer but I had very little problems load 6.4 on my 8500. Guess

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Laserwriter 16/600
by Bill Heese 21 Oct '00

21 Oct '00

Has anyone gotten an Apple Laserwriter to work yet? I can get files to print through to the printer but I can't get it to print in anything other font but courier. I know I have to set up a filter but am not sure how to do it. Any help would be great. Thanks in Advance Bill Heese

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