On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Nick Texidor wrote:
> >> 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. =( > > Sorry mate! :^) > > >> 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. > > Definitely can't get the modem working. I have added the alias serial > macserial to modules.conf, and the correct message appears in > dmesg. > > >> Going back to check the rpm -K suggestion! > > This appeared ok too. I had no messages. And I also managed to > get stuff installing off the CD's using Software Manager... I copied the > two hdlist files off CD1, and put them in a /mnt/base folder. I then > updated the relative pointers in Software manager, and I succesfully > saw the file sizes of all packages in the lists. I couldn't see it > before. Iguess first question... should the hdlist2.cz be on the second CD?? > Its not on the one I have, but it IS in the base folder on the first CD. > The installer would normally copy both the hdlists to /var/lib/urpmi, so when you do urpmi some_package, it knows which CD to ask you for. You can also setup other repositories. Software manager uses the same information, it's just a GUI wrapper around it. > > OK - what machine do you have again? > > I have a G3 powerbook with twin Firewire's, an airport card etc. > > > 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. > > hehehe, I'll give you those when I get that far :^) I was getting several > http-perl errors at boot up time too. libmm wasn't available. > > And I ran into heaps of problems trying to install Gnome. I know you > said there were issues in beta 1, and I think I ran into them all... lots of > packages not on the CD's. > > One other I get when logging into KDE is an error message when > initialising the sound driver... 'device /dev/dsp can't be opened', bit > the start up sound still plays?? > Normal - this was in X86 too, at the time these images were made. I believe it's been fixed now. > I'm giving up for the night!! Would really like to get the modem going if > you have any other ideas. > > Thanks Stew > > Nick > > > > > > 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
