Newbie with Power Mac G5.

[Brian Durant]

On 5. feb 2006, at 0.57, Brian D. Carlstrom wrote:

> does "uname -r" report kernel version 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4? this is the
> latest "updates" kernel.

The new kernel seems to be working (2.6.15-1.1830_FC4). as long as I  
do a "2.6.15-1.1830_F runlevel 3" at boot, I can login and then run  
"startx". I again updated the system running up2date, which had found  
a couple of networking libs. The thermal and fan control seem to be  
working. No problems with working in X as long as the sound is off,  
but as soon as I try to log out, the system freezes. I have also  
noticed that if I am working in the command line before running  
"startx", I have to be very careful when using the backspace key. If  
I go too far, I get the "ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0x50  
host_stal 0x4 hda lost interrupt mpic_enable_irq timeout" problem.  
The /etc/yaboot.conf seems to have been updated for the new linux  
kernels that were installed. I added a line   
"default=2.6.15-1.1830_F" in yaboot.conf, but at the OpenFirmware  
prompt at startup I can't just type in "runlevel 3" to make sure that  
the default kernel doesn't boot into X automatically as the system  
freezes when I get a normal graphic login.

Cheers,

Brian