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  1. 10.1 PPC Boot Failure

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    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.

  3. 10.1PPC Boot Problems [SOLVED]

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    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.

     

      New world macs

    After a successful install, the system should boot into linux after waiting on 2 yaboot prompts. The first prompt allows choosing between linux and MacOS. Type "l" for linux to bypass the menu's waiting time. The second menu gives a choice between installed linux kernels. The default kernel should be used when hitting enter or after the sleep time passed. If that doesn't work, hit the tab key and then type the label of the kernel, which should look like

     

     2681-122

  5. Need rpm of NVU 0.60 for Mandrake 10.1 OE

    in Software

    Posted

    HI all:

    Does anyone know were to get a rpm for Mandrake 10.1 OE of the latest NVU version 0.60? Thanks for your help.    :thanks:

     

    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 :-)

  6. do you test other distros?

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    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...

  8. Emulating a PowerPC OS on Intel

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    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

  9. Emulating a PowerPC OS on Intel

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    For those of you who may not know, Mac OS X runs OpenBSD (similar to Linux) under the hood.  :drum:

     

    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!

  11. RPM-Firefox

    in Software

    Posted

    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.

  13. wanted: MDK 10.1 friendly usb card reader

    in Hardware

    Posted

    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... :help:

     

     

     

    ...and remember MandrakeMag is watching :mdk:

  14. Ways to get Mandrake 10.1 AMD 64

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    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?

  16. Record video with small CPU?

    in Software

    Posted

    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.

  17. Record video with small CPU?

    in Software

    Posted

    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*

     

     

    :offtopic: can the via unichrome drivers work with 10.1? I am still using VESA and its very slow

  22. 10.1PPC Boot Problems [SOLVED]

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    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.

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