9.1b2 on Nov 02 Powerbook

[Christian Walther]

My experiences with 9.1 beta 2 on a Novermber 2002 Ti PowerBook G4: Most things work out of the box, but not everything. Here is a random list of problems:

Installer:

o install-gui-benh works, except for the colors, which are still wrong.
o The "Choose a monitor" step doesn't list a TiBook 1280x854, so I chose a TiBook 1152x768.
o I chose the radeon X driver and 1280x854 in 24bit, testing the configuration works, and after the testing, the colors in the installer are right!


Installed system with Mandrake kernel:

o X works, using the radeon driver and 24bit color, even 2D accelerated.
o When switching from the X console to a text console, I don't get a console display but some strange moving multicolored northern lights.
o The powerbook doesn't sleep when the lid is closed, even after manually installing pmud which wasn't installed by default.
o Adding 'Load "dri"' to XF86Config-4 produces the following error message in the XF86 log:
(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIScreenInit failed because of a version mismatch.
[dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.2.0 but version 1.5.0 or newer is needed.
[dri] Disabling DRI.
o Sound doesn't work: At startup, there are some error messages that I can't read because they go away so fast, when I manually "modprobe dmasound_pmac" I get the following error message:
/lib/modules/2.4.20-2mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/dmasound/ dmasound_pmac.o.gz: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-2mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/dmasound/ dmasound_pmac.o.gz failed
modprobe: insmod dmasound_pmac failed
o Adjusting the display brightness (with the keys whose secondary functions are F1 and F2) doesn't work (this works with the benh kernel).


With 2.4.20-benh-4mdk kernel:

o When switching from the X console to a text console, I get a row of 4 (unreadably) small copies of the console display at the top of the screen, the rest of the screen doesn't change.
o When waking up from sleep, I just get a black screen and no sign of any reaction to key presses, so I have to reboot.
(these two things worked with the 2.4.20-benh-3mdk kernel on my cooker system)
o Adding 'Load "dri"' to XF86Config-4 produces the following error message in the XF86 log:
(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.


Independent of kernel:

o gedit doesn't work: When I start it from the command line, it says:
gedit: error while loading shared libraries: libgnomeprintui-2-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
o No XFree86-75dpi-fonts are installed, which causes GTK applications that don't use antialiased fonts, such as GIMP, to use an ugly monospaced font everywhere.
o When installing additional packages with rpmdrake, I get an error message 'Medium "Cooker_CD_1 (cdrom1)" is not selected' when that CD is not inserted, although it is selected in the media selection dialog. When the CD is inserted, everything works.
o On the subject of missing packages, one thing I missed is Evolution.


-Christian