On 9 Apr 2002, Luis M wrote:
> Ok, had to do it. I downloaded the two ISO's, wiped out my / ; /usr and > all other partitions except /home. > Follow the installation in an ibook (first generation) and this is what > I have after booting: > chose install-novideo (the only one that works) > chose the default package instalation (except for the office related > packages) > added the terminal packages > didn't select any extra packages after in individual selection > (should've mentioned that I reformated root and /usr in XFS -- prior > they were ext3) > during install XFree86 failed to install > so did filesystem... Not sure what that's all about, I haven't seen any package install isuues in some time. Without filesystem I'm surprised you could boot at all. > aside from that, installation went smooth. > after rebooting in level 3 the computer stood there waiting forever for > a dhcp server to assign the ip's for the network interfaces (i did added > my airport, but I'm using my ethernet port, for which I have a dhcp > server running locally. not sure if ppp or airport cause this to happen) > solve that issue after re-booting (yes, got tired of waiting), made sure > that airport was not activated at boot, same for ppp, and didn't use the > /etc/init.d/internet init script, just network init script. that solved > that . > after a little while, kernel panic! > the message said: > "kernel panic: attempted to kill idle task > In idle task - not syncing" > right before that it said: > "task = c0ld3450[0] "swapper" " > whatever that cryptic message means, some folks out there might just > know... I didn't have time to copy the whole thing though, there was > some stuff about altivec last math before, but since this is a G3, no > altivec engine here, so don't know how the kernel handles that when > there is no altivec core in the CPU (i know you guys compile the kernels > by defaul with altivec support) > waited for the computer to reboot (180 seconds) Not really enough info there to tell. > back in the command line > inserted the Cd and installed XFree86 and XFree86-server. > ran XFdrake to set the right resolution for an ibook (got surprised to > see the ibook 800x600 as a choice). > assuming it would work, try telinit 5 as root, which of course didn't > work (xfs was running); failed don't know why, but check the > /etc/sysconfig/desktop to make sure what display manager was the > default, it was "kdm" and there were like 8 lines!! seting up the same Just checked that file on a clean install as of last night, only 1 entry. > variable: displaymanager=.... (or whatever the var is, we all know). > fixed that, and made sure KDE packages were installed (they all were > installed, so were the gnome packages -- i'm mostly a gnome user, but I > guess that eventually I will have to switch to KDE and use both :-( ) > surprisingly, try telinit 5 again and that didn't work either #@!@#$. > check the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and so that the needed resolution > for an ibook were not set properly :-) > the values should be: > HorizSync 30.0-40.0 > VertRefresh 60.0-70.0 > and the magical modeline that does it should be: > Modeline "800x600" 39.955 800 856 984 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync > +vsync I can add that modeline, I think you mentioned this before but I never saw a posting of the modeline you use. I have an entry in MonitorsDB of: Apple; iBook 800x600; 0; 28.0-50.0; 43.0-75.0 for Horz/Vert > after trying this, I changed the /etc/sysconfig/desktop display manager > variable to use GDM :-) and try telinit 5 again. it worked! > > k, finally in X with the right resolution. > try to open evolution and it gave me some cryptic message: > libcamellocal.so could not be loaded... > whatever that was. > Evolution has been shakey all along. Half the releases didn't build at all. Ximian just a few days ago responded to my bug report of 2002-02-12 07:46 with little more advice than to try building with gcc3.x, which isn't really an option. I have seen that once you get your local mailboxes setup this seems to go away. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
