[slackintosh-users] Re: MOL (mol-0.9.71_pre8_2.6.17.13-powerpc-1)

Hi,

> the kernel that is the 
> default boot shows half a screen for me, but the kernel that is 
> installed works fine.

The default installation kernel uses 'video=ofonly', using
'install-fb' should solve the problem.

We are using the ofonly-version as default because the framebuffer
kernel can cause even more trouble (-> eg. mac-mini)


> Also the setup script doesn't work for me, it just sits there 
> endlessly.

How long did you wait? The setup-script startes 'probe' a few times..
it can take a long time to complete (2-3 min.) on some machines.

> slackware directory in the setup program to install packages from.

So 'probe' from 10.2 does work? strange..

Could you add 'set -x' to the top of 11.0's probe and re-run it again?

 
> that was something that is somehow hard wired ito the mol code

Seems to be hardcoded. Marco: ? :-)


> the libstdc++.so.5 file which IIRC is part of gcc 3.3, (maybe a remnant 
> of slackware 10.2 that was never recompiled with the newer gcc?),

 | Slackware ChangeLog:
 |  d/oprofile-0.9.1-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled with gcc-3.4.6.
 |      Thanks to Sunil Amitkumar Janki for pointing out that this was
 |      the last package in Slackware still linked to libstdc+ +.so.5.


..harrharr..

I've recompiled the package:
 
http://workaround.ch/pub/slackintosh/11.0/patches/packages/blackbox-0.65.0-powerpc-2.tgz
should fix the 'problem'.

> I did not try the standard symlink fix that usually 
> works, for I just didn't want to play with it all night.

The old blackbox package does work unless you forgot to install
cxxlibs (includes libstdc++5). You should *never* symlinks libstdc
releases :-)



> what inspired you to do it? (compile Slack)

I've used to use the old Slackintosh 8.0 from
 http://slackintosh.exploits.org/

After realizing that the project was 'dead' i re-started
from scratch because i needed security patches for my
router + mailserver ;-)


 -- Adrian



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