yellowdog-newbie digest, Vol 1 #187 - 4 msgs
robert nuzum
yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:37:03 -0400
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> 1. modem and shutdown questions (jesse)
> 2. Re: modem and shutdown questions (Ryan Spaulding)
> 3. Apple PowerBook/iBook and Apple LCD video (Dan Burcaw)
> 4. Re: "No hard disks found" with YDL 2.3 on new dual 1GHz G4 (Dan
> Burcaw)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 21:24:24 -0400
> Subject: modem and shutdown questions
> From: jesse <dniw@earthlink.net>
> To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
> Hi,
>
> I found a question similar to mine posed on the yellow dog lists, but I
> didn't find any answers posted (maybe they went off list).
>
> So, here's a few things I ran into now that I installed 2.3 (release
> 2.4.19-4a) on my imac rev e. :-)
>
> 1. I have my modem set up, and it connects to my isp (i can see how
> much
> time it's been connected for and so on). However, when I try to check
> email
> or use Konquerer, I get the error message "unknown host." Thus,
> "unknown
> host www.google.com", and "unknown host mail.earthlink.net." Any
> thoughts
> on how to correct it? This must be pretty simple, but I'm not sure
> what to
> check.
>
> 2. I've tried to shutdown in a couple of ways none of them very
> successful:
> a) graphic shutdown button in KDE.
> result: tried to shutdown, sent kill signal, etc. there was a noise
> that
> sounded like a spinning thing coming to rest (it sounded like a good
> noise).
> however, it hung up before shutting off the actual power. the last
> thing it
> did was, "flushing ide devices hda hdb."
> b) comman "halt -p"
> result: same as for step (a) above.
> c) command "/sbin/shutdown -h"
> result: invalid command. Yes, i was root, and checked the spelling.
> :-?
> d) command "shutdown -h"
> result: invalid command. i was root, and checked the spelling. :-?
> Any ideas?
>
>
> 3. I also seem to have changed the usual "localhost" setting to
> "earthlink."
> as in when the screen should read jesse@localhost, it reads
> jesse@earthlink,
> and root@earthlink. I've tried a few things (eg. followed directions
> on
> "man hostname") to change the name back to localhost, but I haven't
> been
> able to change it, yet, by following those instructions. So, um, any
> newbie
> proof advice on how to do that?
>
> 4) this doesn't matter so much, as long as things work, but my screen
> resolution is pretty faded because I wound up using the "failsafe"
> option in
> xconfigurator since that was the only thing that prevented me from
> getting
> that "respawning too fast" error. Are there any suggestions to
> improve the
> screen resolution? Should I have better screen resolution?
>
> TIA for any ideas you have on those. :-)
>
> All Best,
> Jesse
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> From: "Ryan Spaulding" <jabaspawn@hotmail.com>
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: modem and shutdown questions
> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 14:48:48 +0000
> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
> Hi,
>
> Change your hostname back to localhost. If you are using an isp you
> need to
> set up your DNS(Domain Name Server) servers. I am not familar with YD
> interface for this. with PPClinux there is an option in PPP to select
> and
> put in the IP address for Earthlink's DNS. If you call Earthlink's
> customer
> support and ask them for the IP's they will give them to you.
>
> good luck
>
> Ryan
>
>
>> From: jesse <dniw@earthlink.net>
>> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>> To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>> Subject: modem and shutdown questions
>> Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 21:24:24 -0400
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I found a question similar to mine posed on the yellow dog lists, but
>> I
>> didn't find any answers posted (maybe they went off list).
>>
>> So, here's a few things I ran into now that I installed 2.3 (release
>> 2.4.19-4a) on my imac rev e. :-)
>>
>> 1. I have my modem set up, and it connects to my isp (i can see how
>> much
>> time it's been connected for and so on). However, when I try to check
>> email
>> or use Konquerer, I get the error message "unknown host." Thus,
>> "unknown
>> host www.google.com", and "unknown host mail.earthlink.net." Any
>> thoughts
>> on how to correct it? This must be pretty simple, but I'm not sure
>> what to
>> check.
>>
>> 2. I've tried to shutdown in a couple of ways none of them very
>> successful:
>> a) graphic shutdown button in KDE.
>> result: tried to shutdown, sent kill signal, etc. there was a noise
>> that
>> sounded like a spinning thing coming to rest (it sounded like a good
>> noise).
>> however, it hung up before shutting off the actual power. the last
>> thing
>> it
>> did was, "flushing ide devices hda hdb."
>> b) comman "halt -p"
>> result: same as for step (a) above.
>> c) command "/sbin/shutdown -h"
>> result: invalid command. Yes, i was root, and checked the spelling.
>> :-?
>> d) command "shutdown -h"
>> result: invalid command. i was root, and checked the spelling. :-?
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> 3. I also seem to have changed the usual "localhost" setting to
>> "earthlink."
>> as in when the screen should read jesse@localhost, it reads
>> jesse@earthlink,
>> and root@earthlink. I've tried a few things (eg. followed directions
>> on
>> "man hostname") to change the name back to localhost, but I haven't
>> been
>> able to change it, yet, by following those instructions. So, um, any
>> newbie
>> proof advice on how to do that?
>>
>> 4) this doesn't matter so much, as long as things work, but my screen
>> resolution is pretty faded because I wound up using the "failsafe"
>> option
>> in
>> xconfigurator since that was the only thing that prevented me from
>> getting
>> that "respawning too fast" error. Are there any suggestions to
>> improve the
>> screen resolution? Should I have better screen resolution?
>>
>> TIA for any ideas you have on those. :-)
>>
>> All Best,
>> Jesse
>>
>>
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> Message: 3
> Subject: Apple PowerBook/iBook and Apple LCD video
> From: Dan Burcaw <dburcaw@terrasoftsolutions.com>
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Date: 03 Oct 2002 08:46:23 -0600
> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry for the cross post but I need to get as many people as possible
> to
> respond to me.
>
> I'm trying to make the X setup experience on the next release very,
> very
> easy. To do this, I need some more information from you all.
>
> * * *
>
> If you have an iBook or PowerBook (any year/revision) OR an Apple-brand
> LCD, please provide me privately (dburcaw@terrasoftsolutions.com) with
> the following information:
>
> 1) Output from: cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep machine
> 2) Output from: /sbin/lspci -xxx
> (you need to be root to run this)
> 3) Output from: /usr/sbin/fbset -x
> 4) Tell me what color depths X works at for you. If you
> haven't
> tried more then one or two, please do. I will be limiting
> the ones you can select on your hardware based upon this
> feedback! (in other words, if you get it wrong, users
> will
> suffer ;-)
>
> 5) The results of the following test program:
> http://stage.terraplex.com/~dburcaw/getid
> (the source is getid.c if you don't trust me..)
>
>
> * * *
>
> The more people that can do this, the better! It will make the video
> experience on the next version of YDL hopefully much, much better.
>
> Thanks!
> Dan
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Subject: Re: "No hard disks found" with YDL 2.3 on new dual 1GHz G4
> From: Dan Burcaw <dburcaw@terrasoftsolutions.com>
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Date: 03 Oct 2002 09:16:35 -0600
> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
>
> You need to put the drive on the ATA-66 bus. The ATA-100 is not yet
> supported under Linux. This will result in the need to do some yaboot
> tweaking post-install, too.
>
> On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 07:39, Junkmail Recipient wrote:
>> Has anyone encountered the "no hard disk found"
>> message when installing YDL 2.3 on one of the new
>> dual-mirrored door dual 1GHz G4s? I have an 80GB drive
>> and I've formatted it two ways:
>>
>> Partition 1: 20GB "free"
>> Partition 2: 60GB Mac HFS+
>>
>> as well as reversed (Mac HFS+ first, then "free").
>>
>> No matter what I do, the YDL installer always says "no
>> hard disks found".
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> md
>>
>>
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