Subject: Re: I really hate sounding stupid, but...
From: Bruce Thompson (Bruce_Thompson@palm.com)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 20:27:23 MDT
Hi!
I'm feeling distinctly less stupid now! Thanks for your hints,
they have me 99% of the way there.
I'm writing this on Eudora, running on MacOS 9.0.4 on MOL 0.9.52
running on LinuxPPC 2000 with 2.2.17pre20-ben3. Now for the tricky
part, I've got ethertap up and running with ipchains set up for a
masquerading firewall. Meanwhile my PowerBook is sitting on my home
network which is behind yet another maswuerading firewall on my x86
Linux box. Running through all of this is a VPN session from MacOS
through two masquerades out to the corporate LAN where my work email
server resides (I'm subscribed through my work address). Whew!
I haven't tried plugging in my FireWire drive yet, so I'm
crossing my fingers there. I don't mind if Linux doesn't see it, but
it would sure be nice if MacOS can see the drive and my digital
camera too.
The one thing that doesn't seem to be quite working right is
keyboard sharing. If I fire up MOL in a console window then suddenly
X loses the keyboard. Likewise it seems that if I restart X and it
reacquires the keyboard then MOL suddenly loses the mouse and the
keyboard. I haven't confirmed the latter, but I can repeat the former
at will. I don't see any indications of an error either in MOL's
output or in the logs from X. So this has me scratching my head a
bit. If anyone has any insight or ideas to try I'll be glad to hear
them. Meanwhile I'll just remember to shut down MacOS before running
X and vice-versa.
I did try running MOL in an X-Window, but I wasn't completely
thrilled at the prospect of having to shrink my Mac desktop to fit. I
may fiddle with it more later, but for now this is great!
Thanks for all your help!
Cheers,
Bruce.
>Hello Bruce!
>
>You aren´t stupid. :-)
>
>I´m running MOL and linux on my Pismo without big problems.
>
>May I give you some hints:
>
>run kernel 2.2.17pre20-ben3 from http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh
>Use the new input layer as discribed on the same page.
>use yaboot to boot into linux and bootinfo.txt to select MacOS or linux
>I´m running MOL in its in own VT (vt8). Use MOL 0.9.50
>
>To get more than 8bit colors I use this in yaboot.conf:
>......
>init-message = "\nWelcome to LinuxPPC!\nHit <TAB> for boot options.\n\n"
>timeout = 50
>default = linux
>
>image = hd:9,\\Systemordner\\vmlinux-2.2.17pre20ben3
>label = linux
>root = /dev/hda12
>append = "video=aty128fb:vmode:17,cmode:32"
>......
>BTW. I´m running mol with ethertap
>
>I f you want I can send you my config-files .
>
>Bye,
> Christoph
>
>Bruce Thompson schrieb:
>
>> Hi,
>> I've got a PowerBook G3 200 (Pismo, I believe) that I want to
>> have running Linux with MacOS running under Mac-on-Linux. I'm having
>> an a great deal of difficulty getting everything working.
>>
>> Just for context, I've been running Linux on various x86 boxen
>> since the 0.99 days. I've also been using Macs of various flavors
>> since 1994. This has me stumped though.
>>
>> Surely there is a Howto somewhere for both configuring Linux
>> (LinuxPPC, YellowDog, Debian, frankly it doesn't matter to me which
>> one so long as I can get things up and running) and for setting up
>> MOL on this box. I've yet to find a definitive source for this info
>> though. Please tell me someone has done this before! Getting Linux up
>> and running really hasn't been that big a problem, getting X to run
>> with more than 8-bit depth has not been successful, yet; and getting
>> MOL to do anything more than spawn around 15 processes and sit there
>> with a blank screen (at best). The wierdest thing so far was when I
>> tried to run it in a VC and somehow the keyboard got remapped so it
>> only sent control characters. Now _that_ was odd :-).
>>
>> Like I said, I hate sounding stupid (feeling stupid is something
>> I've grown accustomed to :-)). If I've missed something obvious then
>> please point me in the right direction, and if it's stupidly obvious
>> then I'll tatto "I'm a total idiot" on my forehead. Well, not really,
> > but you know what I mean.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bruce.
>> --
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Bruce Thompson | "Pinkie! Are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
>> Software Engineer | "I think so Brain, but if they called them Sad
>> Partner Engineering | Meals kids wouldn't buy them!"
>> Palm, Inc.
>
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>Dipl. Ing. Christoph Ewering C & E Informationsdienste GbR
>0 52 54 80 68 66 oder 0172 78 50 86 4
>eweri@cunde.de
-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bruce Thompson | "Pinkie! Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" Software Engineer | "I think so Brain, but if they called them Sad Partner Engineering | Meals kids wouldn't buy them!" Palm, Inc.
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