Subject: Re: YDL 1.2 _working_ on a 466MHz iBook
From: Jeremy Hansen (jeremy@xxedgexx.com)
Date: Fri Nov 03 2000 - 01:00:42 MST
So can you give me some tips on your X configuration? I can get X
running, but color is way off. Everything is just blue or just really
messed up. I'm assuming this is the "new ibooks", right? Are you running
XF 3.3.6 that's in YDL 1.2.1? Or did you get XF 4.0 rpms from somewhere?
Thanks
-jeremy
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Steve Gula wrote:
> Ok... here's been my fun so far...
>
> first off, I have 3 partitions on my HD.. 8GB HFS and 2GB (minus 128MB for
> Swap) as my linux root.
>
> First off, I booted off the cdrom to notice the kernel doesn't support my
> IDE stuff. So I went to ppclinux.apple.com~/benh , got the newest kernel he
> had, renamed it vmlinux and put it in my system folder. Then I got his
> version of yaboot and put it in the system folder. Then I made a yaboot.conf
> in the system folder to look like this :
>
> init-message = "\nWelcome to Yellow Dog Linux!\nHit <TAB> for boot
> options.\n\n"
> timeout = 150
> default = install
>
> image = hd:9,\\\\vmlinux
> label = install
> initrd = cd:,\\\\ramdisk.image.gz
> novideo
>
>
> Then booted into Open Firmware and ran : boot hd:9,\\yaboot
>
> That got me into the install program. At this point, selecting the CD as the
> source for install would _not_ work. For some reason the program would just
> sit there and the CDROM never spooled up. So I would have to reboot
> (previous method). I tried teh HD install next (I copied the entire
> YellowDog directory to hd:9), however the install said /dev/hd9 did not
> exist so the mount failed. SO, I did a very minimal ftp install. Then I
> rebooted, and adjusted my yaboot.conf. Apparently I did something wrong
> because when booting linux it would output 6 lines of info about the system,
> say "booting......." and just sit there. SO, I had a new problem. To fix
> this, I deleted all current yaboot and linux stuff from my System Folder,
> went back to ppclinux.apple.com/~benh , and put them all in the root
> directory of my HFS partition. And then made a yaboot.conf in there with the
> following :
>
> init-message = "\nWelcome to Yellow Dog Linux!\nHit <TAB> for boot
> options.\n\n"
> timeout = 150
> default = linux
>
> image = hd:9,\vmlinux
> label = linux
> novideo
>
> And in Open Firmware did the following : boot hd:9,\yaboot . And voila,
> everything booted. After wetting myself and running around the room in joy,
> I came back to my iBook and poked and prodded my way through what was
> working. After installing probably more than 100 RPMs off of my YDL 1.2 CD,
> I ran X. KDE2 gave me problems (which I could care less about, I am not fond
> of it). so I installed WindowMaker, which worked. However, I only got 8 bit
> color depth. I adjusted /etc/X11/XF86Config to reflect 16bit, but it didn't
> like it. I haven't tried 24bit yet, just cause I didn't even think about it.
>
> So, new questions are :
> 1) Is the framebuffer the only vidoe device supported in YDL? There were no
> other XF86 libs (XG86_VGa, XF86_SVGA) in the RPM directory other than
> XF86_FBDev.
>
> 2) what's libpdoc or something similar to that that KDE wants? That wasn't
> in the RPM directory either.
>
> btw, Xconfigurator automagically set the Pointer device to /dev/mouse ,
> which may have existed but wasn't set up properly for my touchpad. Since I
> use a usb mouse anyways, I just set it up to use that (mknod
> /dev/usb/usbmouse0 c 13 63 I believe, and changed that in
> /etc/X11/XF86Config).
>
> This post was made cause I noticed other people having iBook problems and
> for some magical reason mine just decided to start working. Hopefully this
> can help those people in need.
>
> --Steve "Loco3KGT" Gula
>
>
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