Re: 8.2beta woes

[Ernie Cline]

On Saturday, February 23, 2002, at 08:46 PM, Stew Benedict wrote:
>Ctl-Alt-Backspace - just like x86
>Riva drivers are in kernel/X - that's the only nvidia at the moment.
>I have heard of some success with it, but I don't have any such machine
>here.

ahh.. the riva is an old card, IIRC. So is this why X is borked, most
likely? I've tried Ctrl-Alt-backspace, and nothing ... damn, that kinda
sucks, I was hoping to run X, kinda shoots most of the fun :).

>Keyboard should be functional in early boot. I had noticed this too
>some
>time back and made some changes to address it. If the partition needs
>fschk, you normally get prompted to press "Y" to fix early on, and I did
>verify this works.


Yes, I do get prompted, but by the time i'm prompted, the keyboard is
screwey... I think it is the 'loadkeys us' that does it, because when i
type that at the prompt, everything gets screwed up ... could loadkeys
be getting called again later with a config that works? Very strange ...

>XFDrake is the normal configuration tool in Mandrake. It should be able
>to be accessed from /usr/sbin/XFdrake, in console mode, as root.
>If you want to boot to console mode, until you get the X issues
>addressed,
>append "3" to your kernel arguments.

Since none of the video install modes work, I disabled x on startup,
fortunatly ... ;). Apparently I don't have XFDrake though ... what
package is it part of? I tried looking around on the CD, and couldn't
find it ... maybe its on CD2.

On another note, how often are the ppc cooker mirrors updated? I'm
pulling down a version now, hoping that it gets updated frequently
enough, so that i can update maybe once a day or so, at night .... I'm
using ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de ... oddly the fastest mirror for me, even
though I'm in the US :).

-e