Woe is DViMac. Again.

[Reid Solberg]

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Reid Solberg
http://reid.tk 

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Reid Solberg
Sent: October 10, 2003 8:38 PM
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Subject: Woe is DViMac. Again.


I'm more of a newbie to Mac than to Linux, but I'm having some very
aggravating difficulties getting YDL working on an iMac.  I believe that the
computer is a DV iMac.  (It has FireWire)  I was told that the fact that it
is (or may be) a DV iMac is a detail not to be left out.  What I do know for
sure is that it is an indigo CRT iMac with a 400MHz G3, 128MB of ram, and
Ati Rage 128 8MB graphics, 10GB HD, CD-Rom.  The computer is connected to a
10Mbit LAN, has an Apple Professional USB keyboard, and an AOpen USB optical
mouse.   My intent was to pilot YDL 3.0 on one of these machines, to later
migrate the rest of them to it. (There are 31 more of them running OS 9.22
with 128-320MB of ram)  This is a high school computer lab environment, so I
cannot justify having more than one of these machines temporarily
inoperable.
 
I'm on my second install of YDL 3.0 on the iMac, and I'm out of ideas.  When
I first installed it with default options, the sound would not work until I
ran the soundcard detection applet, and as soon as I logged out the screen
went blank.  I plugged an external monitor into the iMac, and behold, it lit
up with the login screen in 640x480 mode.  The computer had to have OS 9.22
on it for a couple of days because of heavy lab usage.  I more recently
installed YDL 3.0, but rather than using the default settings, I set it to
VESA graphics.  X will not start at all now, and the configuration utility
that runs when it fails tries with the Ati Rage 128 driver, but cannot start
it.  The other problem with it is that the graphical installation will not
work.  I had a similar problem when attempting to put Mandrake 9.1 PPC on
another one of these machines in June, the graphical installer would crash,
and I believe that the iMac Pro mouse on the system at that time caused the
text installer to fail at detection.  
 
School's out until Tuesday as Monday is Thanksgiving here in Canada.  On
Tuesday should I be putting OS 9.22 back on this machine or trying another
installation method?  Do I need to install with the Rage 128 driver and then
switch to the VESA driver?  Maybe I forgot to select the VGA server when I
installed this last time.
 
Reid Solberg
http://reid.tk