Subject: First steps with MOL
From: Gérard Degrez (degrez@vki.ac.be)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2000 - 03:30:34 MDT
Hi,
I'm doing my first steps with MOL on the following configuration
>iMac DV 400/Firewire/DVD, System 9.0.4
>SuSE Linux PPC 6.4 (kernel 2.2.14)
>MOL 0.9.50-1
and I have a few questions to ask:
1) Video mode settings
In my first tries (re: last week's query), MOL was starting correctly
(I could see the MOL window and the beginning of MacOS startup) but
at one point, I was getting a black window with MOL hogging the CPU
(as reported by David Mackler). Now, switching the console_video_mode
to no as suggested on the SuSE web site for iMacs, startup proceeds
until completion.
But the colours on the linux side are messed up. Last week, Bertrand Dekoninck
adviced to try 16-bit colour. I guess this meant changing the video
mode settings in molrc. Well, I kept the video mode settings as in
the sample file supplied with the package, i.e. 640/480/75 and color
depth = 32.
But, during the launching process, MOL issues the message
"No video mode match the default one
Starting in video mode 640x480, depth 8 0.0 Hz"
even though I have an fb.modes file in /etc
What should I do?
Finally, MOL completely messes up the desktop. Icons have been moved
all over the place and the settings rule has now moved up at 3/4 of
the screen when I boot under MacOS.
2) Invisible partitions
Even though I list 3 partitions in molrc, I can only see one, i.e.
the first one. The last of the three is also mounted under linux
which could explain the problem, as far as I can understand from the
discussion of the week-end. But not for the second one. What's wrong?
BTW, how does one do to get an exchange volume then, if it canot be
mounted on the linux side?
3) Sound
I get no sound at all (even though I installed the MOL Audio
extension), not even the system startup sound. I don't really care,
but I am wondering why.
Gérard Degrez
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