[ydl-gen] MOL & sleeping

[woodsend]

Hi.

I've set up YDL (4.0.1) on a Titanium Power Book with three operating
systems (YDL/OsX/Os9). When I first installed YDL I was able to run MOL
fine. But I had to go into native OS X (since there's some things that you
can't so under MOL, like run virtual PC). I noticed while I was there that
somehow the top level directories of the OsX and Os9 partitions were
'locked'. This didn't suit me [and I wondered why this had happened -> it
could only have been MOL] so I unlocked them. Now MOL hangs at startup
(~100% CPU usage, video window with nothing in it, completely unusable
system if I go to <CTRL><ALT><F8>, zero progress/disk activity, have to kill
the processes lo leave) and never boots (either OsX or Os9). The only thing
I could have done (AFAIK) to break it was change the permissions (and
possibly the ownership) on the volume directories (as seen from the disk
icons in Finder). Does anyone know why this might have happened and if
there's any fix?

Also, I find that if I'm running from the battery the silly thing goes to
sleep (all too soon). After that happens it won't wake up (a reset is
required). Under gnome, how do I change the timeout so it won't sleep so
soon? Do I have to mess around with the APM daemon (or prevent that service
from starting)? I'm presuming that there isn't anyway to make it wake from
sleep properly.

Has anyone used an Adaptec SlimSCSI 1480 (PCMCIA SCSI) under YDL? I get the
screen breaking into that little monitor window [presumably heralds a kernel
panic or similar] if I plug it in (or have it inserted during power up) even
though PCMCIA tools are installed.

I tried to compile AdvanceMAME on the machine but it died a long way into
the process through an obscure problem (which I don't quirte recall). Has
anyone successfully compiled this under YDL? 'Everything' from YDL 4.0.1 is
installed.

On the plus side, I found a configuration for the airport card that works
from boot, and am happily printing from an airport<->SMB connection which I
found pleasantly surprising since I have PCs that won't print from a wired
connection to the machine the printer's connected to (Norton Internet
Security has made it almost impossible to connect to the machine...). The
same machine provides internet connection sharing OK.


cheers
Jonathan Pratt