Newbie with Fedora Core 4 PPC on Power Mac G5.

[Karanbir Singh]

Brian Durant wrote:

> 1) So first, I need to get sudo working.

why cant you just 'su -l' and move upto root ?

> 2) "yum check-update" returns something about some file missing in 
> /var/....

yum list updates, thats what you want. There is no such command 
check-updates anymore.

> 3) I need to do a total system update with yum. Is there one command I 
> can use???

yum update

> 4) kudzo prompting me at boot to remove and add drivers that appear to 
> be the same

you can rerun kudzu with various options once the machine is running, 
look at the man page for more info

> 5) no sound

once your machine is updated, run system-config-sound, that will find 
and activate your sound card fine.

> 6) windfarm module problems

I have no idea wtf the the windfarm is :)

> 
> Any ideas, suggestions, advice would be appreciated. Hopefully you or 
> someone else will have some good ideas. I need every bit of help that I 
> can get at this point. I am about to tear my hair out and I can't be 
> positive that 4.1 is going to solve all of this :-( My experience hasn't 

4.1 of what ? there is no FC4.1 - its going to be FC5 now.

> been very good so far, so best to deal with the problems that I know, 
> try to get it to work and then deal with a possible upgrade to 4.1 when 
> I have a better idea of what I can get sorted out now. Here is what my 
> system looks like:
> 
> Hardware Overview:
> 
>   Machine Name:    Power Mac G5
>   Machine Model:    PowerMac9,1
>   CPU Type:    PowerPC G5  (3.0)
>   Number Of CPUs:    1
>   CPU Speed:    1.8 GHz
>   L2 Cache (per CPU):    512 KB
>   Memory:    1 GB
>   Bus Speed:    600 MHz
>   Boot ROM Version:    5.2.2f2
> 

At this time I am running FC4/ FC5(rawhide) and a CentOS4 install on my 
G5, they all run great - baring the few hicups I had a few days back 
with rawhide.

>> more importantly, you have someone to call presumably when your fans
>> don't work :)

What problem are you having with the fans ? are they running at full 
speed ? as root run 'modprobe therm_pm72' does that resolve the situation ?


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