>>> If you have the latest yaboot (yaboot-1.3.8-2mdk.ppc.rpm), I patched the
>>> issue I mentioned before.

Where do I get this? The mirrors I use, and they are up to date otherwise,
only habe 1.3.8-1mdk.

>> Thanks, I'll report how it goes.

HD install works now. See below for the rest...

> I'm using 15bpp by default, which seems OK on a number of machines.  You
> could try editing line 362 of install_gtk.pm
> (mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install) and change it to see if 16bpp is better for
> you.  I could then force this the same way I do the resolution, up at line
> 278.

I've tried with 16, 15 and 8, and the colors are different every time, but
still wrong. 15 gives the most readable display. With 8, the colors are
dithered, but so to speak before the color distortion is applied, so the
result is multicolored noise that makes the text almost unreadable.
I can't really explain this to myself, since I have examined the XF86Config
file generated by the installer and have found no fundamental difference to
the one that works fine on my installed system. The XFree86 log doesn't show
anything insightful (at least to me) either.

Otherwise, the install worked mostly flawlessly. After manually installing
the 2.4.20-benh-2mdk kernel, X works as well, without having to mess with
the XF86Config.

Some issues:

o The installer didn't autodetect my airport card, and in the driver list
that appears when you answer "Yes" to the "Do you have another ethernet
interface" question, I didn't find anything that looked like an airport
driver.

o When booting with the benh kernel, I get error messages about an "IPVS IP
virtual server" (or something similar) not being available as a kernel
module or built into the kernel.

o When fsck runs at startup and asks for input, the keyboard layout is
completely messed up. I believe this is connected to the fact that at this
point the only message shown about keymaps yet is "loading default keymap:",
whereas I recall this being "loading default keymap: us" in previous
installs (where the keyboard was right at that stage).

o Gnome-panel still segfaults when I log out of Gnome.

 -Christian


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