mousematt

What sort of Mac? What graphics card? A lot of the ATI cards are broken in 10.1PPC. If you can get a working console up. Run "mcc" as root and change your graphics card to the kernel frame buffer driver. Note: this has a max setting of 800x600x16bit for the Rage 128 cards.

No problem. I'm sorry I didn't do it sooner.

Yes. The 10.1 installer defaults to a 68k kernel which does not load with the G3/G4 PPC CPUs. All you need to do is manually change it. I have posted the text from the release notes which indicate the changes below.

aus9: speaking as a fellow West Aussie... Go to Dick Smith and buy a pack of his own DSE brand CD-Rs. Cheap, Silver and Very Reliable. I have bought 2000+ over the past two years: never had a problem or a bad burn.

NVU 0.60? A quick scan of NVU.com shows the current release is 0.50. Is that what you meant? There is a link to an RPM for 10.0 here: http://www.nvu.com/download.html It works without problem on MDKL 10.1 OE. However, if you have difficulty installing it - try doing the following: urpmi -ivh --nodeps nvu*rpm Please post a resolution to this thread - so we can close it. Let us all know if you have a problem or if t worked :-)

I used to distroswap all the time - RedHat, SUSE, Debian, Lunar, JAMD, PCLinuxOS, Lindows, Slack, Mandrake, Gentoo, Slackintosh... However, asides from the occasional change on my iBook - from Yellow Dog to Sarge to Ubuntu to Sarge to Sid to Yellow Dog to Mandrakelinux PPC - I am now a commited Mandrakeuser It's star stuff...

Cooker is now awake. GNOME 2.8 has dropped in there. Why not Vanilla install 10.1 and then upgrade to 2.8 from Cooker using URPMI?

Speaking as an OS "slut" who uses more Operating Systems than most people care to count: Solaris, GNU/Linux, Windows, OS X, FreeBSD. All I can say is that OS X is very well hyped :-) I think Longhorn will narrow the gap between OS X and M$. Having played with recent longhorn betas, I am certain of it... sad but true

Not trying to start an argument but I need to correct you there Cannonfodder. Mac OS X is not based on OpenBSD and is not directly related to any of the BSD family. Mac OS X consists of two parts: GNU Darwin, an open source Unix-like environment which is based on the BSD source tree and the Mach microkernel, and a proprietary GUI named Aqua, developed by Apple. Yes OS X is UNIX. Some of it is based on FreeBSD but it is generally based on GNU/Darwin and the Mach kernel. Apple are active contributors to the OpenDarwin project which develops teh GNU/Darwin UNIX variant. PearPC does emulate PPC on x86. Last time I ran it on a 3.2Ghz Pentium 4, I got OS X Panther to run at 25Mhz.... it is still very slow!

Would you consider using a PCI card with additional IDE ports on it.

AussieJohn Buchan Milne has packaged Firefox 1.0 for Mandrakeclub members. I imagine the Mandrakesoft version will be in contrib in a few days time. A quick look at the dependencies for the NORLUG one; its assuming you have fully installed all updates available for MDKL 10.1 prior to installation. It obviously wasn't built against a vanilla install. If the Firefox 1.0 rpm isnt in contrib by Friday. I'll upload it myself. Stay tuned.

I've had a look at Dick Smith's here in Perth and online at http://www.dse.com.au; I can't find the panasonic card reader you spoke of. Can I please have some more information iphitus.

I would like to buy a small, simple and cheap USB card reader: specifically, one that reads SD and MMC cards. It needs to fairly cheap, very compact and able work under Mandrakelinux 10.1 without a kernel recompile. Moreover, it must be reasonably easy to find on eBay or here in Australia. I have found a dozen different models all over the place, although none of them clearly state if they are Linux (kernel 2.6) friendly. I imagine a number of board members have them - I'd like one too! Please share your experiences (good, bad or otherwise) and suggest a purchase... ...and remember MandrakeMag is watching :mdk:

In short; Mandrakesoft do not make the AMD64 ISOs freely available. Officially, Mandrakelinux for AMD64 is only available as an expensive boxset. However, some online vendors like linuxcd.org have carried AMD64 releases in their store for approximately US $6 + shipping. MDKL 10.1 for AMD64 is not available from their online shop; however, it will be shortly. Consider bookmarking this link, I would really recommend Mandrakelinux for Athlon64. http://www.linuxcd.org/view_distro.php?lst...11&id_distro=19 10.1AMD64 will be available shortly. In the meantime, think about joining Mandrakeclub. Also, did you know that the standard x86 release of MDKL 10.1 will work on your AMD64 system?

The Twiki site is still offline. The framework is there but the content is still being reuploaded. I will post the correct link in this thread when it comes online. Please stay tuned.

A VIA C3 1Ghz CPU is 1980 bogomips using a standard kernel. An AMD Duron 950 is approximately 1800 bogomips. And a P4 2.5 Ghz is 4960 bogomips. Sadly, the C3 is nowhere near the same processing power - but in its defence, it also consumes nowhere near as much energy as the P4 either.

Hello Yves I have a VIA C3 just like you... AnneWilson published an extensive step-by-step article on video editing and encoding under MDKL as part of the Mandrake Community Twiki - http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca Unfortunately, the Twiki is currently offline - although Anne undoubtedly can email you a copy of her article. She is a member of the MUSB - her nickname here is AnneW. If you'd like her other contact details please PM me. I'll see if I have a copy of her article on my iBook *now running Mandrake 10.1 PPC* can the via unichrome drivers work with 10.1? I am still using VESA and its very slow

After talking to one of the admins at the Community Twiki I can report that the site will be back online in a few days time. Expect an announcement from them sometime before then... Nothing to see here... Move along :-)

A quick email answer from the Cooker PPC mailing list and the problem is fixed. For more information, surf here: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/...PpcReleaseNotes Close this thread now.

Has something tragic happened to the Mandrake Community Twiki Where has this great resource gone? A quick look at the Wiki homepage reveals a blank screen. A quick surf to any formerly content-filled Wiki page reveals the same blank page. Where did the Twiki go? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca <- missing in action :o :o :o

Nice idea Devries. Except, that only works on an "Old World" Mac. I have a "New World" one. BootX doesnt work at all.

Greetings I have just installed 10.1PPC on my G3 Indigo iBook. I removed the Debian Sarge install from the machine and ran the Mandrakelinux 10.1 installer. The installer proceeded smooth until I was advised during bootloader configuration to run the following at the OpenFirmware prompt: setenv boot-device /pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/dik@0:2,\\:tbxi I did this after MDKL 10.1 did not load in the second stage. I have rebooted and entered this command directly, it still does not work. I get the following error: gunzipping (0x00010000 <- 0x00806c4c:0x0093bd4a) DEFAULT CATCH!, code=300 at %SRR0: 00805af0 %SRR1: 00003030 My iBook then hangs and the machine is useless. What do I need to do to make this work? I tried booting Disc 1 in rescue mode and repairing the bootloader. It seems unable to talk to Yaboot - only LILO. I am not a Linux newbie but PPC hardware does scare me a little. Thankyou. Please help me.

Great review aRTee! It was a great idea to install and review MDKL 10.1 on a number of different machines. One question: does 10.1 satisfy your laptop challenge?

Welcome to the Mandrakelinux Community Before we get carried away. What version of Mandrakelinux have you installed? Also, is your wireless card 802.11b, 802.11a or 802.11g? Does the manufacturers website mention Linux at all. If you need to check go to google and search for Linux with a site:manufacturer.com rule attached. Let us know what you find.

This isn't a very exciting screenshot. This is a shot of XFCE 4.2 Beta2 running on my G3 clamshell ibook. Please feel free to hurl abuse at me... I think it looks spiffy. It's fast, clean and very friendly on my lowly 366Mhz Apple.