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by **Riccardo Gus** » Sat, 06 May 2000 04:00:00

I have an iMac rev.B with 8.6 and YellowDog CS 1.1 on the Linux side
with kernel-pmac-2.2.6-16b, and everything goes well except for mol; so
I tried to update the kernel to make it to work
First I downloaded the precompiled kernel-2.2.12-2.ppc.rpm and I tried
to install it. I did these steps (is it ok?):
rpm -i kernel-2.2.12-2.ppc.rpm
then I moved the vmlinux-2.2.12-2 into the folder Linux kernels in the
MacOs system folder, choose it from BootX and reboot in Linux.
The startup was ok, but at the prompt to log in (not in X, just from the
console) I realized that my keyboard was misrecognized (I've an italian
usb keyboard). With a lot of patience I looked for the letters and
successed in log in and start kbdconfig, but it didn't see neither my
usb-it.kmap that is correctly in /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/usb/
nor any other usb keymaps (it lets me to choose only between PC and adb
keyboards). However I tried to choose and adb US keymap and startx, but
then my mouse wasn't recognized.
So I downloaded the latest kernel-2.2.15-2.9.0.ppc.rpm and repeated the
same steps as above but at the prompt to log-in my keyboard wasn't
recognized AT ALL (that is I pressed the buttons but nothing
happened)...
What's wrong with me? Help me, if you can.
Bye.

Rick

"And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
What can I possibly say?
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
I'm glad you stood in my way."
L. Cohen, "Famous blue raincoat"

by **William F. Ada** » Sat, 06 May 2000 04:00:00

It's my understanding that YDL CS 1.1 wil not work properly with kernels past a
certain point---2.2.10 seems to've worked for me as I recall, but I hosed my
installation when I tried 2.2.13 I think it was.

Things might work again if you go back to the older kernel.

William

--
William Adams
http://members.aol.com/willadams
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

by **Stephane Louis** » Tue, 09 May 2000 04:00:00

> I have an iMac rev.B with 8.6 and YellowDog CS 1.1 on the Linux side
> with kernel-pmac-2.2.6-16b, and everything goes well except for mol; so
> I tried to update the kernel to make it to work
> First I downloaded the precompiled kernel-2.2.12-2.ppc.rpm and I tried
> to install it. I did these steps (is it ok?):
> rpm -i kernel-2.2.12-2.ppc.rpm
> then I moved the vmlinux-2.2.12-2 into the folder Linux kernels in the
> MacOs system folder, choose it from BootX and reboot in Linux.
> The startup was ok, but at the prompt to log in (not in X, just from the
> console) I realized that my keyboard was misrecognized (I've an italian
> usb keyboard).
[snip]
> What's wrong with me? Help me, if you can.

This is plain FAQ. In fact, the USB implementation changed by the
2.2.10 kernel in order to make USB keyboard emulate ADB keyboard
and mice to emulate IMPS/2. So you need to update your keyboard
with an ADB keymap. You could find what to do on R. Shaw homepage
for example (http://www.linuxppc.org/BlueG3/g3_kernel_howto.shtml
see paragraph 4C-13.

mata ne
--
luigi

by **Riccardo Gus** » Sat, 13 May 2000 04:00:00

> This is plain FAQ. In fact, the USB implementation changed by the
> 2.2.10 kernel in order to make USB keyboard emulate ADB keyboard
> and mice to emulate IMPS/2. So you need to update your keyboard
> with an ADB keymap. You could find what to do on R. Shaw homepage
> for example (http://www.linuxppc.org/BlueG3/g3_kernel_howto.shtml
> see paragraph 4C-13.

> mata ne

Thanks a lot for your informations; could you also tell me where I can
find the FAQ of this newsgroup?
Bye.
Rick
"And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
What can I possibly say?
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
I'm glad you stood in my way."
L. Cohen, "Famous blue raincoat"

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