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Probs With Partition on PowerMac with FC4
by Joshua Curtiss 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

I read and enjoyed your Installing Fedora Core on the Mac mini article. I can't see how this article's instructions would differ when attempting to install FC4 on my QuickSilver PowerMac. So I attempted to do so, with some frustrating inconsistencies. During installation, before I even get to the partition setup portion of the installer, I receive an error saying, "The partition's data region doesn't occupy the entire partition." I try clicking ignore a few times, and then I receive the error, "Attempt to read sectors 16-18 outside of partition on /dev/hda". Clicking ignore just repeats the error. Finally, I click cancel, and the process continues, although before I can start setting up the partition table, I receive an error that says, "The partition table on device hda was unreadable. To create new partitions it must be initialized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on this drive. This operation will override any previous installation choices about which drives to ignore. Would you like to initialize this drive, erasing ALL DATA?" The partition was in good working order from OSX's point of view. Further, after a complete reformat and reinstall of Mac OSX, where everything is supposedly fresh, I still get these same error messages. So, effectively, I cannot set up the dual-boot. What's going on? And while I'm providing feedback, I have one more beef. I have installed FC3 for x86 well over a dozen times; I am familiar with the installer. And when it asks questions about erasing all data, it DOES NOT take any action until the installer setup is complete and actual installation is ready to begin. Inconsistent with that previous behavior, this last-mentioned error/warning box wiped out my hard drive's partition table IMMEDIATELY, as soon as I clicked "Yes". I was going through a dry run and planned on aborting the installation before it was done asking all of its questions. Because of this inconsistent behavior, I unintentionally lost A LOT of data on my Mac volumes. Needless to say, I'm livid about this, and if anyone has a recommendation on how to retrieve my data from this volume (I have since then not reinitialized my drive or done anything to it, so the data is theoretically intact on a drive with a wiped-out partition table), I would IMMENSELY appreciate it.. Joshua Curtiss

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ibook G3,radeon and dual head???
by marco 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Hi guy, i'm a new users of this list. I'm starting with a little problem on my iBook G3 800Mhz with ATI Mobility Radeon 7500. When it work in single mode there aren't problems but when it is in Dual Head (clone mode) on the laptop monitor i see noisy lines. I don't know what is the source of the problem and i trust in you for the solution. PS: My xorg.conf: ------------------------------------------------------------------- # Xorg per Dual Head, modalità clone. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Multihead layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1" Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" Option "Xinerama" "off" Option "Clone" "on" EndSection Section "Files" # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally # no need to change the default. # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "dri" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. # Option "XkbDisable" # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. # keyboard, you will probably want to use: # Option "XkbModel" "pc102" # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" # # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # or: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" # # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and # control keys, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" # Or if you just want both to be control, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" # Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "it" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor1" Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "radeon" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "ATI Radeon Mobility 7500" Option "UseFBDev" "true" Option "AGPFastWrite" "True" Option "EnablePageFlip" "On" Option "LVDSProbePLL" "true" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard1" Driver "radeon" VendorName "Videocard Vendor" BoardName "ATI Radeon Mobility 7500" BusID "PCI:0:16:0" Option "EnablePageFlip" "On" Option "LVDSProbePLL" "true" #Screen 0 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Videocard1" Monitor "Monitor1" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0666 EndSection -------------------------------------------------------- Thank you so much. Ciao, Marco -- Visit my web site... http://tuxside.studnet.sk Good luck!

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ibook G3,radeon and dual head???
by marco 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

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800mhz G3 ibook using UDMA33 hdd speeds?
by Jesse Keating 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

Kernel is picking up my IDE interface at UDMA33 and forcing my hdd into udma2 mode according to hdparm. Is this the right speed? Seems really slow, shouldn't it at least be UDMA66 ? -- Jesse Keating RHCE (http://geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (http://www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (http://geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating

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Thunderbird problems on FC4
by Michael J. Baysek 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

I also am seeing this problem with FC4-ppc and Thunderbird. Has anyone else seen this or know a fix? Original Message Euan Maxwell euan at emdevelopment.com Mon Jul 11 11:51:46 EDT 2005 * Previous message: Anyone using radeon driver on Mac Mini? * Next message: gpg for rawhide? * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] ________________________________________________________________________ Hi there, I'm having problems with thunderbird on FC4. If I try to launch it, it just dies after a few seconds. [root at rmac init.d]# rpm -q thunderbird thunderbird-1.0.2-6 an strace of it running shows that it is looking for files in this directory: [root at rmac init.d]# pwd /usr/lib/thunderbird-1.0.2/init.d yet, all I have in there is a README file. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling but to no avail. Here is an excerpt from the strace, any ideas would be much appreciated. Euan. open("/usr/lib/thunderbird-1.0.2/init.d/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 getdents64(3, /* 3 entries */, 4096) = 80 getdents64(3, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 open("/home/euan/.thunderbird/init.d/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 access("/usr/lib/thunderbird-1.0.2/init.d/S*", X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 access("/home/euan/.thunderbird/init.d/S*", X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT CHLD], [], 8) = 0 _llseek(255, -91, [6550], SEEK_CUR) = 0 clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x30019388) = 20245 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x10035950, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 waitpid(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 139}], 0) = 20245 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- waitpid(-1, 0x7f971a68, WNOHANG) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes) sigreturn() = ? (mask now [HUP ILL TRAP ABRT FPE]) rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {0x10035950, [], 0}, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 read(255, "exitcode=$?\n\n## Stop addon scrip"..., 6641) = 91 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 open("/home/euan/.thunderbird/init.d/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/thunderbird-1.0.2/init.d/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 getdents64(3, /* 3 entries */, 4096) = 80 getdents64(3, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 access("/home/euan/.thunderbird/init.d/K*", X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 access("/usr/lib/thunderbird-1.0.2/init.d/K*", X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0

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insstall problems... lose keybd/mouse!
by Erick Calder 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

hei everyone! I got my brand-spanking new MacMini a few days ago and, after some hurdles, I've managed to run through the install of Fedora Core IV. After installation I reboot and get to a "Welcome" screen... "There are a few more steps to take before your system is ready to use [...]" at this point I seem to lose the keyboard and mouse which worked fine during boot time. Incidentally, both are Bluetooth, both bought from Apple. so I can't get past this point to actually use Fedora. help?! thanks in advance - ekkis

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Fedora on MacMini
by Erick Calder 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

hi, I found your article at: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/007may05/features/mac-mini/ and have tried to follow but am running into some problems... when I get to the partitioning section I get the following errors: "The partition's data region doesn't occupy the entire partition." then... "Attempt to read sectors 16-18 outside of partition on /dev/had" both of which offer Ignore / Cancel buttons. if I press Cancel the whole installation aborts and pressing Ignore eventually leads to a reboot. the MacMini is brand new and the Fedorea Core is the latest as of this writing... what could be wrong? thanks - erick

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Trackpad not detected in Powerbook G4
by Mohamed Parvez 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hello, I tried to install FC4 on my new PowerBook G4. The track pad in not detected at all. I have tried everything but still it was not detected during installation nor after installation. -- Thanks/Regards, Parvez

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Additional explanations about The partition's date region doesn't...
by Vince 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hi, I have read archives of list but I must say I'm pretty confused with what I need to do regarding the message: The partition's data region doesn't occupy the entire partition. Let me explain my configuration. I own a Powerbook 17" 1Ghz first generation. I partitionned drive with Disk Utility of Tiger to get two partitions, first one I installed Tiger on it, and second one free. Once finished installation I restart with Fedora Core 4 boot CD and I start Installation and as soon as Keyboard setup I get the error as indicated above. If I switch to console mode, when I try fdisk /dev/ hda it complains that drive doesn't have a correct label !! So what do I need to do exactly to get it working and be able to install ? Thanks in advance for your clear explanations. Vincèn

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teest
by Vince 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

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