On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Ernie Cline wrote:
> 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 :). > Unfortunately we always get to play catchup in Linux. Someone has to get ahold of a machine with the new hardware and figure out how to make it work. > 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 ... > This is the root filesystem? Seems that fsck should be happening before loadkeys or anything, but I'll have to boot and observe it again to verify. > >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. > drakxtools*.rpm are many of the Mandrake configuration tools. > 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 :). > I don't know how often the mirrors get updated, but I generally upload new stuff daily, or every other day, depending on what the x86 side is building. At the moment, everything I've built is up there, but I'll be kicking off another run on Monday. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
