MOL and "sheep" module

[Brian Wood]

Much thanks to you both for the quick response.

Unfortunately these are the same RPMs that I have been using. I tried 
them from the sources you suggested just in case but no change in the 
results.

The "missing sheep" error is still with me but I am beginning to think 
that it is not my real problem. The docs say that sheep is only required 
for appletalk, which I do not need. The tun driver is getting set up, 
(ifconfig shows the interface) and since that's what's needed for TCP/IP 
it should be all I need.

After the complaint about the missing sheep I get "Could not connect to 
X server, fullscreen video on VT 8", the system switches to console 
video, which shows some ATI Mach64 register values, presumably from boot 
up, and then just stops, several CTRL-C's being necessary to get back to 
the X display.

I've tried switching virtual consoles. I think I have /etc/molrc.video 
set up correctly. I have run xhost + so there should be no access 
control on the X screen,  I'm running "startmol" as root, but still nogo.

Other than the "unable to connect to X server and "failed to register 
sound card" startmol --test shows "successful", so the basic engine 
seems to be working.
Looks like atyfb is setting up video parameters and then all of a sudden 
it just dumps debug register values. Must be a problem of some sort with 
video.  This may be related to the fact that the "rev A" iMac has only 
2Mb. of video RAM. MacOS runs just fine by itself though.

I'll keep plugging away, again much thanks for the assistance, it is 
appreciated.

Joseph E. Sacco, PhD wrote:

>Thanks,  Daniel.
>
>-Joseph
>============================================================================================================
>On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 14:54 -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
>  
>
>>That won't have the kernel modules. They are at:
>>http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/yellowdog/updates/yellowdog-4.0/ppc/mol-kmods-0.9.71-0.ydl.4.ppc.rpm
>>
>>Here are the corresponding source RPMs:
>>http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/yellowdog/yellowdog-4.0/en/os/SRPMS/mol-0.9.71-0.ydl.1.src.rpm
>>http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/yellowdog/updates/yellowdog-4.0/SRPMS/mol-kmods-0.9.71-0.ydl.4.src.rpm
>>
>>On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:21:04 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, PhD wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yellowdog-4.0/en/os/YellowDog/RPMS/mol-0.9.71-0.ydl.1.ppc.rpm
>>>
>>>
>>>-Joseph
>>>
>>>========================================================================================
>>>
>>>On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 11:43 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Greetings:
>>>>
>>>>I'm trying to get MOL to work on YDL 4.0.1 and am not getting too far. 
>>>>The most obvious problem is that the "sheep" module is not getting 
>>>>loaded, apparently because it does not exist.
>>>>
>>>>System: Rev. "A" iMac (Bondi Blue), 256 Mb. RAM. YDL 4.0.1 updated via yum.
>>>>
>>>>I have tried re-building the mol rpms as per instructions from Joseph 
>>>>Sacco on this list, both with and without the sheep patches. Sheep does 
>>>>not get built no matter what I do.
>>>>
>>>>Trying to build from scratch, I was unable to find the  mol-0.9.71 
>>>>source, only 0.9.70, and trying to compile that resulted in many errors, 
>>>>starting with "entering Linux" and multiple problems with "alloc.h".
>>>>
>>>>Mol has been around for quite a while, as has YDL, and it seems to me 
>>>>that there ought to be an "RPM" package that would give me at least 
>>>>minimal functionality.
>>>>
>>>>I have seen references to this problem on this list, but no solution 
>>>>other than rebuilding the RPM which, as I said, is not working for me.
>>>>
>>>>Other than that, YDL seems to be a good solution for this old iMac, the 
>>>>basic Linux install is working quite solidly.
>>>>
>>>>I apologize if this is a FAQ, but I have searched diligently and tried 
>>>>everything I can think of to get mol working. I'd appreciate any 
>>>>suggestions as to what (probably stupid) thing or things I am doing wrong.
>>>>
>>>>Much thanks.
>>>>        
>>>>
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