Re: Blue G3 Blues


Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Sun, 9 May 1999 10:59:00 -0600 (MDT)


Urs,
> Hi Folks,
>
> having installed YDL Champion from CD the other day on my Blue G3 I ran
> accross some questions which I couldn't quite answer skimming through the
> mailing list archive.
>
> 1) The new installer (upcd version) does not seem to take the kernel from
> the MacOS System Folder but from CD. Since Ultra-ATA Support is new in this
> kernel, but not included in the 'CD kernel', there seems to be a Catch-22
> Situation: You can install YDL on a Blue G3, but you can't run it because
> you have the old kernel installed. To copy the new kernel over or download
> it, you would need a running YDL system...

It still uses the kernel in the System Folder. This isn't an installer
thing, but a BootX thing.

> Fortunately I had a SCSI card with 'jaz' drive installed. I just copied the
> new kernel from MacOS by using the 'LinuxDisks' utility, which
> unfortunately only recognizes SCSI devces.
>
> Apparently my SCSI card, Adaptec PowerDomain 2930, seems to work, although
> it isn't mentioned in the compatibility list (might not be fully supported
> though).
> Is there another utility to copy things to Linux partions when running
> MacOS? Would there be another way out of the Catch-22?

The 2930 is supported.

>
> 2) Is there any way to get X-Window running on my Blue G3 before the
> dedicated ATI driver is finished? To my understanding X won't work when
> the 'no video driver' option is checked (The Xconfigurator din't find a
> suitable monitor setting while I was running under 'no video driver',
> and I needed that option to see a thing). Are the kernel arguments in
> the BootX application useless when there's no dedicated driver, or did
> someone find the right settings? Someone mentioned a modified
> '/etc/X11/XF86Config', where can I find this, and did it really work on
> a Blue G3? Thanks a lot! Great work, Linux running on Yosemite!
>

Someone mentioned that Xpmac runs fine.. and XFBDev may work. The main
thing is getting the Rage 128 supported.

> Cheers
> --Urs
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> Urs Hochstrasser hochstrasse@ubaclu.unibas.ch
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>

Dan

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