More YDL 3.0 Feedback

[Gavin Hemphill]

Well I can say I'm impressed.  Congratulations to the Terrasoft team.
I've been running YDL since champion 1.0 and this is indeed the easiest 
install ever.  I've now moved from YDL 2.3 to YDL 3.0 on the machines 
detailed below and the only one that gave me any trouble was the G4 
Tower with the apple cinema 22" display (see below for problem details 
and solutions).  The installs were done by selecting "custom" for the 
package selection, then selecting everything for the packages to be 
installed, and using disk druid in manual mode, editing the old 2.3 root 
partition and formatting it ext3.  I didn't format the home partitions 
which I keep separate but after the install was finished I converted the 
home partitions to ext3 by unmounting them and running "tune2fs -j 
/dev/hdax" where x is the partition number for home.  I just wish there 
was a recent kernel that would work with my Synergy VSS4 boards and I'd 
move them up to YDL 3.0 as well.
	G++

Install Details:

1) Lombard - no problems whatsoever
2) TIPB Version 1 - no problems
3)G4 Tower with Apple Cinema Display

cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu             : 7450, altivec supported
clock           : 733MHz
revision        : 2.0 (pvr 8000 0200)
bogomips        : 730.72
machine         : PowerMac3,4
motherboard     : PowerMac3,4 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
detected as     : 69 (PowerMac G4 Silver)
pmac flags      : 00000000
L2 cache        : 256K unified
memory          : 1536MB
pmac-generation : NewWorld

Having read about the problems with 2 drives I removed the slave IDE 
drive during the install procedure (unplugged the cable) and put it back 
at the end after the yum updates had been applied.  That was easier than 
updating pdisk and fixing partition maps.

The first problem was the memory size, the installer crashes doing the 
post install configuration with 1.5 gig of memory.  I simply removed a 
gig of memory for the second install attempt and it worked fine.  The 
memory was replaced after the install and the machine has been working 
without problems.

The second problem was getting the display to work.  The installer X 
configuration correctly detected the Radeon 7500 and the Apple Cinema 22 
display but I could not get the test function to give me a useable X 
display.  I selected text booting and finished the install planning to 
fix X up later.

On rebooting the system the display went totally blank half way through 
  the start up.  Ahhhh, I said :-) you need to append the 
video=radeon:dfp line that you had to use with 2.3.  That was a failure. 
  I did some digging and found the append line in yaboot.conf has to 
look like:

append="video=radeonfb:dfp hdc=ide-scsi"

The ide-scsi is for the superdrive.  Using this line the machine boots 
fine in text mode.

The next problem noted was that for some reason pmud keeps trying to put 
the machine to sleep saying something about the lid being closed :-) - 
this machine has two Adaptec SCSI Cards and won't sleep.  I turned off 
pmud, did the updates via yum and turned pmud on again, but it still 
tries to put the machine to sleep - insisting that the battery is low 
now.  Oh well, I've simply turned off pmud at runlevels 3 and 5.

I then went on to configuring X.  The XF86Config generated during the 
install was not useable but by replacing the "Screen" section with the 
one from my old XF86Config-4 file everything works like a charm.

Section "Screen"

         Identifier "Screen0"
         Device       "ATI Radeon 7500"
         Monitor    "Monitor0"
         DefaultDepth 24
         SubSection "Display"
                 Depth   8
                 Modes "1600x1024"
                 ViewPort 0 0
                 Virtual 1600 1024
         EndSubSection
         SubSection "Display"
                 Depth   15
                 Modes "1600x1024"
                 ViewPort 0 0
                 Virtual 1600 1024
         EndSubSection
         SubSection "Display"
                 Depth   16
                 Modes "1600x1024"
                 ViewPort 0 0
                 Virtual 1600 1024
         EndSubSection
         SubSection "Display"
                 Depth   24
                 Modes "1600x1024"
                 ViewPort 0 0
                 Virtual 1600 1024
         EndSubSection
         SubSection "Display"
                 Depth   32
                 Modes "1600x1024"
                 ViewPort 0 0
                 Virtual 1600 1024
         EndSubSection
EndSection