Re: Introducing : New member

[Alan B. <al...@ms...>]

hi,

> I 've been using Linux PPC 2000 Q4 since early this year, on an A1200T BPPC 175 64 Mb RAM and CV643D kernel 2.4.4 and XFree3.3.6.1 (yes I still don't how to replace it with XFree4) residing in 2 partitions .
> The system is unstable I had many crashes and when using X with Gnome, despite the slowwwwww screen refresh, I managed to compile Apache 1.3.20 with PHP 4.06 and MySQL 3.23.41, still learning Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, but some scripts run, I also successfully installed a wireless Internet device (it runs both under LinuxPPC and Amiga OS 3.9), not a printer. but the system is very unstable, I had unbelievable crashes and the Amiga keyboard is remapped (ALT instead of SHIFT), some keys doesn't work at all and I can't use ALT and CTRL because they are not working very well CTRL A+A still works resetting the machine, but the @ is very difficult to get, that makes simple tasks a nightmare !!!
> I need to stabilize the thing, it was installed by 'hand', using the old 1999 Linux PPC installer, and then adding files requested by the system, I'm using Gnome, the one that comes with the CD, but many apps didn't work, some do but they crash very often i.e. Netscape 4.7.3 (I couldn't compile many apps) weirdly I compiled using the kernel RPM source 2.2.18 and RPM headers, because I couldn't get a working kernel source 2.4.4 and kernel headers (that still confuses me, because I din't have the time to explore more deaply how compiling works).
> My next step is to make the system stable (reinstalling didn't work), applications such as the Gimp crashed badly when applying simple effects !!!
> Any advise or guidance that help me get the system to work better will be greatly appreciated

For latest kernel use CVS to download the latest kernel source. For the
latest X - i believe that the LinuxPPC pages have links for XFree4.x now

alan