Re: 8.2 PPC on Powerbook Ti G4 / pmud.rpm

2002-04-29 Thread Henrik Edlund
I still can't get through to the list, but at least you get this reply. I experience the same problem with my iBook2 (May 2001 model) and 8.2 release. I close the lid and when I open it up again, the screen get back, things are running in the background (I know as I can decrease/increase the

Files in cooker-ppc missing in Downloadable 2-CD release

2002-04-29 Thread Henrik Edlund
If you like me are missing some stuff that were in 8.0 b but are missing from the 8.2 dual-CD release check below if it is listed and then fetch it from your cooker-mirror. 7colors-0.80-4mdk.ppc.rpm AVLTree-devel-0.1.0-14mdk.ppc.rpm AVLTree-devel-static-devel-0.1.0-14mdk.ppc.rpm

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2002-04-29 Thread Kener, Andy
I have the last beta of 8.2 and I was wondering if anyone knew the best way of updating my install without downloading and burning the ISO's. The only crux is that while i have a good connection, it isn't on the machine with Mandrake. So, basically i want to download the updated rpms and copy

How to get non-us keyboard to work like under MacOS

2002-04-29 Thread Henrik Edlund
I now got my keyboard working under X exactly like it does under OSX, this means that all Option/Alt-combinations works. WARNING: People inside the USA should not read further as it is illegal for you to do this. European Union citizens can read on without problems, other countries should check

Re: 8.2 install report

2002-04-29 Thread Henrik Edlund
Further stuff: No symlinks exist for /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd, had to create those (to /dev/hdb in my case). Then eject command worked. Also played DVDs successfully and at full speed with Xine (great work!!). The volume, light and eject buttons do not work even though I installed the daemon for

Test - Ignore

2002-04-29 Thread Henrik Edlund
Testing if I get through today. -- http://www.edlund.org/

Re: 8.2 install report

2002-04-29 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Henrik Edlund wrote: HE The yaboot-setup during install setup yaboot.conf to have HE append= devfs=mount HE . This made the first boot to fail (can not find /dev/hda5). I had to HE reset the machine and boot with linux devfs=nomount and then remove this HE append line deom

Re: 8.2 install report

2002-04-29 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Henrik Edlund wrote: HE No symlinks exist for /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd, had to create those (to HE /dev/hdb in my case). Then eject command worked. Also played DVDs HE successfully and at full speed with Xine (great work!!). Again, fixed by installing devfsd. Still no

Using two processors

2002-04-29 Thread Arto Leskinen
Hi All, Thank you for earlier answers you have given. Now I have one more. I tried to install 2.4.18 smp kernel from rpm. The installation went well, and it updated also the yaboot.conf properly. When I then restarted and tried to use smp kernel, the start up process froze. It did showed two

Re: TiBook PMUD

2002-04-29 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 06:56:06PM +0900, sean schertell wrote: I'm new to Linux and never had to use lists before. How can I reply to your post on the list? Generally you can just use the reply feature of your email client. Sometimes between various headers it doesn't get the list email

Re: Powerbook G4 problem

2002-04-29 Thread Michael Marcucio
if you are tring to install, whan you get the boot options screen type install-radeon you get these lines when there is a problem with your video card settings mike From: Paul Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Powerbook G4 problem Date: Mon, 29

Re: Powerbook G4 problem

2002-04-29 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 02:27:51PM +0100, Paul Kelly wrote: I'm having difficulty booting the CD on a mark2 Powerbook - 667MHz, 512MB RAM, Radeon video, DVDROM drive, gigabit ethernet. The boot hangs within a split second of it printing the text Booting Mandrake Linux PPC (I might have

Re: Powerbook G4 problem

2002-04-29 Thread Paul Kelly
Michael Marcucio wrote: if you are tring to install, whan you get the boot options screen type install-radeon you get these lines when there is a problem with your video card settings The problem is I don't get the opportunity to do that. The box is hung and displaying no text within a

Re: Powerbook G4 problem

2002-04-29 Thread Paul Kelly
Ben Reser wrote: I'm having difficulty booting the CD on a mark2 Powerbook - 667MHz, 512MB RAM, Radeon video, DVDROM drive, gigabit ethernet. The boot hangs within a split second of it printing the text Booting Mandrake Linux PPC Is this the installer? Yes. And are you trying to install

Re: Powerbook G4 problem

2002-04-29 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Paul Kelly wrote: Ben Reser wrote: I'm having difficulty booting the CD on a mark2 Powerbook - 667MHz, 512MB RAM, Radeon video, DVDROM drive, gigabit ethernet. The boot hangs within a split second of it printing the text Booting Mandrake Linux PPC Is this the

Re: 8.2 install report

2002-04-29 Thread Colin Ward
on 24/4/02 11:35 pm, Henrik Edlund at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I am now running 8.2 on my iBook-2001. I have a few comments though: The yaboot-setup during install setup yaboot.conf to have append= devfs=mount . This made the first boot to fail (can not find /dev/hda5). I had to

Re: Powerbook G4 problem

2002-04-29 Thread Paul Kelly
Stew Benedict wrote: Are you sure your burn is OK? Well, the md5sum checked out on the ISO, both for the release and the beta2 I tested. There were no burn errors and I've not had problems with discs from that burner before. Paul.

Re: 8.2 install report

2002-04-29 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Colin Ward wrote: CW I've had those same pmud problems since the 8.2beta1 release. I did CW post them here and there was a pmud update, it didn't fix the problem CW for me. The only way i can get pmud to work on the ibook is to use one CW of benh's kernels. You even get a

Re: Powerbook G4 problem

2002-04-29 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Paul Kelly wrote: Stew Benedict wrote: Get into Open Firmware (cmd-option-of at pwer-up) boot cd:,yaboot Should get you to the yaboot prompt. I tried booting through Open Firmware before. No joy. With the command above I get: 0 boot cd:,yaboot

Re: 8.2 install report

2002-04-29 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 06:05:10PM +0100, Colin Ward wrote: I've had those same pmud problems since the 8.2beta1 release. I did post them here and there was a pmud update, it didn't fix the problem for me. The only way i can get pmud to work on the ibook is to use one of benh's kernels. You

Re: Powerbook G4 problem

2002-04-29 Thread Paul Kelly
Stew Benedict wrote: Are you sure your burn is OK? I think it's the Powerbook drive somehow. The md5sum on the disc checks out fine when I dd it back on the burner, or on the DVDROM drive in my desktop PC. Unfortunately if I try to dd it back with the Powerbook under OS X, what I get is a

telnet rpm?

2002-04-29 Thread Michael Marcucio
i can't seem to find the rpm for telnet anywhere. i see graphical telnets but not the plain 'ol telnet. if mandrake dosn't have a telnet rpm for ppc can i use one from yellowdog? are they compadable? or d/l the src.rpm and build it? thanks mike

Re: telnet rpm?

2002-04-29 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Michael Marcucio wrote: i can't seem to find the rpm for telnet anywhere. i see graphical telnets but not the plain 'ol telnet. if mandrake dosn't have a telnet rpm for ppc can i use one from yellowdog? are they compadable? or d/l the src.rpm and build it? thanks

Re: telnet rpm?

2002-04-29 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Stew Benedict wrote: SB We like to encourage folks to use ssh, but there is a telnet client SB and server: Often you no longer use telnet to connect to a telnet server, but as a simple diagnostic tool to talk to HTTP server and so on. -- http://www.edlund.org/

Re: telnet rpm?

2002-04-29 Thread Michael Marcucio
From: Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] We like to encourage folks to use ssh, but there is a telnet client and server: everyone should use ssh but some people still use telnet and it would be nice to be able to connect to them ;) [stew@powerbook-cooker base]$ grep telnet rpmslist

Re: telnet rpm?

2002-04-29 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 03:03:27PM -0400, Michael Marcucio wrote: i can't seem to find the mdk telnet client rpm here: ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc/Mandrake/RPMS/ Should be there but secsup is always really behind on the mirroring process. Here it is

what Divx reader for MDK Linux PPC

2002-04-29 Thread ino
The subject says everything :-) And another thing: when will be ready KDE 3? Thanks in advance Salvatore Comito

Re: telnet rpm?

2002-04-29 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Michael Marcucio wrote: From: Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] We like to encourage folks to use ssh, but there is a telnet client and server: everyone should use ssh but some people still use telnet and it would be nice to be able to connect to them ;)

Re: telnet rpm?

2002-04-29 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Ben Reser wrote: BR On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 09:07:58PM +0200, Henrik Edlund wrote: BR Often you no longer use telnet to connect to a telnet server, but as a BR simple diagnostic tool to talk to HTTP server and so on. BR BR Try HEAD or GET for that. You'll have these if

problem with keyboard

2002-04-29 Thread ino
Hi people, After installation when I boot on X the keyboard is another then my italian keyboard setting on installation process. If I boot without X the kbd is correct. Does anyone can help me to turn in the fair kbd on X? Thanks in advance Salvatore Comito

TV on MDK and another question

2002-04-29 Thread ino
Hi people, I've installed on my Mac G3 266 (Minitower) an PCI TV Card (Turbo TV). During the installation it is recognized by Linux as BT 848 TV with DMA push). Well, when I try to configure it the tool says me that no TV card is installed what can I do to force XawTV to understand that there is

CRT out iBook2

2002-04-29 Thread Henrik Edlund
Under 8.0 and kernel 2.4.10 (BenH) the CRT out was not working very well on my iBook2. The picture was very blurry. Now on 2.4.18 (Mdk) the CRT out is working when I am on the console, but in X the picture is obfuscated (seems to me a video mem mapping problem). Anyone got this working? I want ot

TiBook 667 install hangs on Bootloader

2002-04-29 Thread Simeon Wiehler
I've tried five times today to install Mandrake 8.2 PPC on my TiBook 667 (dual boot with OSX). Every time it hangs on the bootloader interface near the end of the install, immediately on selecting done from the boot options menu. The cursor can move but the entire screen is frozen. Can't access

Re: TiBook 667 install hangs on Bootloader

2002-04-29 Thread Rick Thomas
I had a similar problem. It turned out that I had more than 16 partitions on my hard disk (the Apple driver partitions, OS-9, ML, OS-X, it all adds up after a while...) When I got everything crammed down under 16 partitions, the problems went away. Does that ring a bell? Rick -- A billion

Install onto a 7200 - CD-ROM access

2002-04-29 Thread Stephen
Hi folks, I'm installing 8.2PPC onto a 7200/120. When I run BootPC, it drops into console mode, and then prompts for the install media When I choose CD-ROM, the machine replies that it can't find a CD-ROM. I understand the 7200 has a SCSI disk. I guess this is the problem. If someone could

Re: Using two processors

2002-04-29 Thread Sharon
On Monday 29 April 2002 09:52, you wrote: Hi All, Thank you for earlier answers you have given. Now I have one more. I tried to install 2.4.18 smp kernel from rpm. The installation went well, and it updated also the yaboot.conf properly. When I then restarted and tried to use smp kernel,

Re: TiBook 667 install hangs on Bootloader

2002-04-29 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Rick Thomas wrote: I had a similar problem. It turned out that I had more than 16 partitions on my hard disk (the Apple driver partitions, OS-9, ML, OS-X, it all adds up after a while...) When I got everything crammed down under 16 partitions, the problems went

Re: telnet rpm?

2002-04-29 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Ben Reser wrote: BR Actually using telnet for that is not the greatest idea. You should BR use something like netcat (nc) since telnet attempts to negotiate BR terminal settings and therefore sends a bunch of extraneous info BR across the line. Most protocols are tollerent

Re: telnet rpm?

2002-04-29 Thread Ben Reser
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:00:41AM +0200, Henrik Edlund wrote: I still use telnet to connect to routers, switches, and so on... :-) Not all of those manufacturers have begun switching to ssh yet. Yea unfortunately I have a lot of Cisco equipment that doesn't have enough flash space to upgrade

Re: Install onto a 7200 - CD-ROM access

2002-04-29 Thread Stephen
Here is what happened next... From the module list, I chose the Mac53c94 for SCSI, and no kernel options. The install program found the CD-ROM and started installing. Then I got a crash soon after the message second stage install appeared in the bottom left of the screen in second stage

Re: 8.2 keymap bug in US keymap under X.

2002-04-29 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 10:50:47PM -0700, Ben Reser wrote: Hit Caps Lock. Then press the comma or the period key. I haven't done much looking to see if there are more issues like this. But I don't think that should be expected behavior. Humm now all of a sudden it quit doing it.