Re: [K-mib-ppc] PPC iso pre12

[Toby Baier]

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Am 03.03.2004 um 23:46 schrieb Yves Combe:

> Toby Baier a écrit :
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> > Hi Yves and all,
> > I just tested pre12 on my G4 PowerBook. It booted kernel 
> > 2.6.something-benN-kmib10. Unfortunetaly I didn't find X nor startx, 
> > so I couldn't check my Radeon Mobility 9600 (I wanted to check dual 
> > head once, but I have it working with OSX now, so MIB is nly out of 
> > interest from now on :)). Also, my USB Mouse and Keyboard were not 
> > accepted, I could only use the built in keyboard. I have a german 
> > layout and many keys were wrong, including quite unusual switches 
> > (q<->a). Is that a french layout? I didn't check loadkeys. One more 
> > bug: since I couldn't find the 6 to init 6, I tried reboot, but it 
> > failed because in some line 46 the command "usleep" was not found.
> > Cheers and thanks for your work,
> > Toby
>
> Thanks for your test.
>
> To start X, there is again a little problem with PATH setting: just 
> type
> source /KNOPPIX/root/.profile
> to set them correctly.
> After that, startx, or X, should works.

After I found the dot on my scrambled keyboard (it's "shift ," IIRC) I 
could do that and startx fired X up but didn't find any windowmanagers. 
My trackpad worked, but dual head was not enabled.

> For USB mouse and keyboard, thank you for pointing this out. I don't 
> know how to choose the console keyboard when two are connected, i will 
> see that.
> Switch q<->a is french keyboard, but i did no changes. That's strange 
> i will check the problem.

Can't both keyboards work, as in most other situations? It might be 
that the kernel did not find my USB devices at all,  had that problem 
with Gentoo 2004.0 too, which uses 2.6 as well...

Cheers,
Toby
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