On 1 Mar 2002, Nick Texidor wrote:
> Interesting!!!! > > Ok, I've been back trying to get a little further, and more or less > followed your details here Stew. > > I chose console tools, KDE, and I think that was pretty much it, and > this time, I got past the request for the second disk too. It actually > mounted and completed the install. > > While rebooting, I still had a few more errors then the 3 you mentioned > yesterday. I also had errors with the cardmgr and something else (will > forward you the messages later if you are interested) > PCMCIA is currently installing on all systems, whether needed or not, so it may be generating an error. Also usb-ohci is built into the PPC kernel, but initscripts tries to load it, which generates a "Fail". Finaly, there is a syntax error in /etc/modules that is generating a segfault. These are the errors I've observed at boot, in addition to the 3 bad modules. > For some reason, when configuring X 4.2, I only get one colour depth > option of 65k colours.. I thought that monitor handled 'millions of > colours'. Also, when I get the X login screen appear, the login box is > not the usual grey, you can't actually see the drop down box to choose > your window manager until you click on it. > That's a new one. =( > I still can't get the modem to respond using kppp. I have tried all > your earlier suggestions, and still kppp says it can't find the modem. > > Going back to check the rpm -K suggestion! > OK - what machine do you have again? > Stew, do you want me to keep providing all these things I'm coming up > against? Is it too much info.. or does it help? > Keep 'em coming. Also, besides the install I'd like any application issues folks are coming across. x86 is going into freeze soon, and at some point soon, any ppc specific application fixes will probably get spun off as a .Xmdk revision. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc
