>Umm, the thread was on RS/6000

Sorry, forgot to change the subject:(.

>
>  > Then some questions.
>>
>>  I was trying to install g4/733Mhz with nvidia card. Graphical install
>>  did not worked, and I tried text
>>  install. Text intall did not offered any other keyboards to choose
>>  from than US and Us international,
>>  I would have liked to use finnish keyboard. Then when I tried to
>
>Keyboard selection is only in expert install.  Other than your keyboard
>being mismapped, startup is OK?  You can fix from rescue:

I did later expert install, but also there the only keyboard choices 
are us and us
international. In graphical install there is button more, which is 
missing in text install.
Behind more button you can choose Finnish keyboard.

>...For fixing the keyboard as you want it, I'm going to refer you to the nice
>doc Sylvain put together:
>
>http://www.mandrake.com/en/archives/cooker-ppc/2002-02/msg00092.php

I will check this.

>... If you want, I can give you
>  > root access with ssh. That is if you can help me to get it up
>>  properly. There is nothing important isstalled at a moment. only OS
>>  9.2 Finnish, OSX Finnish, and Mandrake 8.2 B with recommended
>  > install.

So if you want me to leave open G4/733/nvidia computer, I can do that.
Please send me then separate email, and I'll give ip address. I can open ports
to only fixed ip number.

>  > I earlier asked about my cd not working in G4mp/2*450MHZ ati128Rage
>  > pro. I downloaded kernel source from cooker and compiled it.
>...This is a different machine?

Yes this is multi processor G4/2*450MHZ with ati128Rage. The kernel that
froze was 2.4.17-17smp. What more information I can get while
it freezes in quite early stage? I think it freezes while trying to 
initilize ide
system bus. So propably there will be nothing in logs. I installed 
the kernel from
RPM, copied it to boot, configured it as one choice in yaboots menu 
and restarted.

>  Did you change anything in the default
>config?

About X windows:
The colour changes started without me modifying anything. After that I
installed newer XFree, which I have not been able to make work. I'll try to
remove new XFree and return back to version in 8.2Beta cd.

>I've been told X in cooker doesn't work on rage128 now.  You
>could uninstall that version an re-install the one from the beta1 CD.  You
>don't need to reinstall just to change X versions.
>
>>  I installed newest version of mol, and tried it already with 8.0 and
>  > it worked all right. Now with 8.2beta  I can not make it to work. There
>  >is continuing flow of errors unknown
>  > gestalt selector nmrg, dvrf and ofpt? I have the problem that when I
>>  have set up the open firmware to boot with bootstrap, I always get
>>  error file system map broken, restart when trying to start os9. If I
>>  clear parameter ram, the system starts normally. This also happened
>  > when using mol to start macos.
>>
>I've seen similar issues on the MOL list, but haven't seen an answer.
>I've seen some other folks using MOL, so maybe it's an issue with nvidia,
>like X. The file system map broken is new to me.

Sorry about being messy in my message. This was the Dual processor G4 computer
G4/450MHZ with ati128Rage pro. So it broke when installing 8.2B, it was working
with 8.0. No changes in harware. Also the file system map problems started with
installation of 8.2 beta.

>  > I can also give access to this computers linux partitions, but
>>  macintosh partitions are used for real data.
>  > So this access should be when I am with the computer.
>I have no need to touch any MacOS partitions.  The 2 OS's have no overlap.
>It sounds like your system is basically working aside from the keyboard
>issues.  I can't really do much to debug X issues over ssh.

If you want me to look how things look in G4/2*450MHZ, I can let you have
ssh connection available also to this machine. I can open ports to 
only fixed ip number.
Please send me then separate email, and I'll give ip address if you 
are interested.
Next week I can be your eyes, if you want to test X. We can have talk 
etc open while I
do what you ask me to and tell you what happends. After about two 
hours I am leaving
Helsinki and I will be back on sunday.

We have changed Mac models and we have currently unused beige G3 
computers and some
older models. Naturally I can not send them there, and I have very 
limited amount time
to use for this. I can install Mandrake from Cd, and leave ssh open 
to some ip, that is
about all. I do not know if there are in Finland, Helsinki anyone who 
would have more
time and expertice to test differrent configurations. I could loan 
old computers for
test use.

Arto Leskinen

>
>Stew Benedict
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