Subject: Re: Problems with Ti Powerbook
From: Samuel Rydh (samuel@ibrium.se)
Date: Mon Mar 19 2001 - 15:18:46 MST
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:09:55PM -0500, William K. Gibson wrote:
>
> Okay, got the new Titanium Powerbook. After finally getting Linux to work
> with 2.4.2 kernel and getting the latest XFree86 4.0.2 up and running (took
> a whole week, ugh). Now I am having problems with MOL (naturally).
>
> I have mol-0.9.55-1.ppc.rpm installed and it initially comes up, but at some
> point during the boot process the entire machine locks up. The mouse stops
> working and I get a long black line at the top of the screen, when I hit
> return, the black line moves down one as if I was able to type- but I cannot
> do anything at all. I suspect this is some kind of crash in the MacOS itself
> but I'm not sure. I'm running MacOS 9.1
The problem is (almost certainly) that you need to rebuild
0.9.55 against the 2.4.2 kernel headers.
/Samuel
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