On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Christian Walther wrote: > >>> 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. >
I must have negelected to upload the binary. Should show up soon now, I just uploaded. > >> 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. > At this point the installer and the installed system are now using different versions of XFree. I'm a little hesitant to rebuild the installer on my cooker system. (see Phil's broken XFree report). YOur installed system may be running at 24bpp or 32. > 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. > If you care to do another install, this could be tested, or perhaps on your live system: list_modules.pm, line 17: if_(arch() =~ /ppc/, qw(mace bmac gmac)), becomes if_(arch() =~ /ppc/, qw(mace bmac gmac airport)), On the live system it's in /usr/lib/libDrakX/list_modules.pm. drakconnect should go through similar motions as the installer routine. If you could test this I can readily make that change. I don't have airport. > 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. > Something I left out probably. > 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). > Yes, I think I did a mod in the 8.2 installer or the initscripts to setup linux keycodes before the filesystem checks, so one can respond to the prompts. If it was initscripts, it was one of the post 8.2 packages I updated just for ppc. I'll have to dig through that stuff and see, I don't see it in the 8.2 installer tree, just the mouse emulation and Alt-GR-Compose stuff. > o Gnome-panel still segfaults when I log out of Gnome. > Blecch, not sure what's going on there. Sort of hard to trace that scenario. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
