Fedora 4 + iMac G5 - PowerPC 64

[cruiseoveride]

Hi there,

I am happy to say, ive convinced a friend of mine into using linux on his G5,
After first trying out the ubuntu live ppc disc, and being completely humiliiated, when it froze, i reverted to the all favorite fediora, which installed without a glitch, butttttttttt

1) Cannot type quickly in tty console,
why what happens
---> Systems freezes and hdd switches off

2) Cannot logoff gnome or shutdown system
why what happens
---> System freezes

Don any of you have any ideas? by the way the FC4 im running is fully updated.
The other thing is how do i run a compiled kernel under this ppc64 enviroment,
I built the kernel and installed the modules, but
make install
doesnt seem to work
thanku

[big_mac126]

what do you mean exactly by "make install doesnt work"? What error is being given?

Hi there,

I am happy to say, ive convinced a friend of mine into using linux on his G5,
After first trying out the ubuntu live ppc disc, and being completely humiliiated, when it froze, i reverted to the all favorite fediora, which installed without a glitch, butttttttttt

1) Cannot type quickly in tty console,
why what happens
---> Systems freezes and hdd switches off

2) Cannot logoff gnome or shutdown system
why what happens
---> System freezes

Don any of you have any ideas? by the way the FC4 im running is fully updated.
The other thing is how do i run a compiled kernel under this ppc64 enviroment,
I built the kernel and installed the modules, but
make install
doesnt seem to work
thanku

[cruiseoveride]

it doesnt matter now, i found another way of installing the kernel

but i cant play any music, it freezes everytime i try to play a song

[cruiseoveride]

the new custom built kernel has fixed the shutdown issue.
but i cant play any music, even though alsa recognises the sound card, as soon as u try to play something the machine locks up.
and another thing, if gdm is enabled, the system will lockup after a few seconds after gdm loads.

[tomhammond]

Hi there,

How did you find another way of installing the kernel? I can't get MAKE INSTALL to work on my PowerPC, either. I receive a "Make: No rule to make target 'install'. Stop" message.

Thanks for the help!
Tom

[cruiseoveride]

Its been over a year since i setup that machine, i cant remember what i did.
Try get the latest 2.6.20.1 from kernel.org and build it with the toolchain that comes on the Fedora DVD, you should have much better support with Fedora 6 under the G5, then that of what I had with Fedora 4

[Finalzone]

Another way to build a kernel (http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1311). This one is far better for Fedora because you can easily install/remove the kernel.rpm.

[tomhammond]

Thanks for the advice, but the "build a kernel" link only seems to work for i386 cores, as the "yum install fedora-rpmdevtools" command doesn't work for PPC Fedora (I've tried it on both platforms).

How do I setup a "toolchain" from the Fedora DVD? The article above mentions needing a complete toolchain but doesn't say how to make one. :)

Thanks!
Tom

[Finalzone]

Change fedora-rpmdevtools by rpmdevtools.

[tomhammond]

Thanks for the tip! I'll give that a try, but I think that the instructions are more tuned for i386 Fedora users, as the "make install" command doesn't work on my PowerPC Fedora, either. :(