Ydl 6.0

[bigfish]

Hello everyone,

here are the working updates for yum

yellowdog-base.repo:

[base]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 6.0 Base
baseurl=http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@www.ydl.net/downloads/enhanced/yum/6.0/base/
#mirrorlist=http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/resources/yd50-base-mlist
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

yellowdog-extras.repo:

[extras]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 6.0 Extras
baseurl=http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@www.ydl.net/downloads/enhanced/yum/6.0/extras/
#mirrorlist=http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/resources/yd50-extras-mlist
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

yellowdog-updates.repo:

[updates]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 6.0 Updates
baseurl=http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@www.ydl.net/downloads/enhanced/yum/6.0/updates/
#mirrorlist=http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/resources/yd50-updates-mlist
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY


for those who doesn't have the enhanced membership, you can remove the usernameasword and change "enhanced" to "pub"


Meanwhile i can upload a torrent for the iso file if anyone helps me with the trackers?

And i have one more question, does anyone know if it is ok if use fedora 6 rpms?

[gnosis]

Hey bigfish, thanks for the updated repos!

I have read over on the YDL boards that there is still some uncertainty between whether FC6 or FC7 is a better match for YDL v6.0.
I have updated my drrible repo to point back to the FC6 rpms, as there were some incompatible packages, and have had success with the installations from it.

There are also many FC7 packages that will work well in YDL v6.0 (such as the emulator mednafen) so it's a bit trial and error atm.

I typically get an error during install if the package is not going to work correctly on top of it's FC6 counterparts. Good Luck!

[bigfish]

Originally Posted by gnosis

Hey bigfish, thanks for the updated repos!

I have read over on the YDL boards that there is still some uncertainty between whether FC6 or FC7 is a better match for YDL v6.0.
I have updated my drrible repo to point back to the FC6 rpms, as there were some incompatible packages, and have had success with the installations from it.

There are also many FC7 packages that will work well in YDL v6.0 (such as the emulator mednafen) so it's a bit trial and error atm.

I typically get an error during install if the package is not going to work correctly on top of it's FC6 counterparts. Good Luck!

Thanks gnosis,

Did you try to run VLC?

[gnosis]

Yes, actually I downloaded and installed VLC before reverting back to the FC6 dribble repo

I haven't tried mplayer yet but will be doing so tonight if you're interested.

I was hoping the FC7 repos would work, as they are still in development, but again this appears to be a trial and error situation.

[bigfish]

Please give me update about the mplayer when you're done.
Now i am updating with 6 repos, and i will try to install VLC.

Does it work on 7 repos?

I am sorry for too many questions, as you can understand linux is ver new to me..

[THEAVS]

Could you please upload the ISO?

[Coded-Dude]

sweet......now I can install java and XFCE. I put XFCE 4 on my linux PC to get familiar with it and I am loving it. So I am gonna go ahead and try it out on the PS3 Linux.

*updating atm*

[Coded-Dude]

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Well, that was fun.........got up and running with a lot of stuff working. I haven't tested everything(video still to come), but am making good headway. XFCE was a bit of a pain - mainly due to having to continuously Ctrl+Alt+Backspace - to test the config. But I got it going and can help out anyone who wants. I switched the ps3-video-mode to 1080i as 720p just wasn't enough screen(even though text is a bit fainter than usual), I'm still having an issue with a couple packages and the package updater(dependency issues), but I should be able to sort it out soon. Anywho, its late and I've been up far too long already(not sure whether to have another Dew and keep going or go to sleep) I'll update later.

[EDIT]
mplayer is installed and working(kind of).....I was able to download and install the latest cvs as mentioned in the mplayer tutorial on this site:

After linking to a font file and installing the codecs and gui's i decided to give it a shot.

tested: Muse - Knights of Cydonia quictime movie file(mov)

mplayer played the file without any issue, but gmplayer gave me some pop-up errors(although the same errors were displayed in the out from mplayer. Basically, I could launch/watch the video with mplayer just fine, but had to specify video out(-vo x11) for gmplayer; otherwise I would get sound and no video. I tried a few other video out options, but none worked(prperly), so far. Here is the output of both commands. For the sake of time I'm just going to Ctrl-C both commands and paste the output.

[root@localhost Downloads]# mplayer muse_knights-of-cydonia_450.mov
MPlayer dev-SVN-r25993-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
AltiVec found
CPU: PowerPC

Playing muse_knights-of-cydonia_450.mov.
libavformat file format detected.
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x1070adb8]negative ctts, ignoring
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [avc1] 400x300 24bpp 24.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
[VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read
[VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
[VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers.
[VO_XV] Try -vo x11.
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
================================================== ========================
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16be, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
================================================== ========================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Invalid argument
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:1248snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such file or directory
[AO ESD] esd_open_sound failed: No child processes
[AO SDL] Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16be
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:1248snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: No such file or directory
AO: [sdl] 44100Hz 2ch s16be (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 400 x 300 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [x11] 400x300 => 400x300 Planar YV12
[swscaler @ 0x107f87cc]ALTIVEC: Color Space ARGB
[swscaler @ 0x107f87cc]SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb32 special converter
A: 1.7 V: 1.7 A-V: -0.013 ct: 0.027 0/ 0 59% 37% 3.4% 0 0
Exiting... (Quit)
[root@localhost Downloads]#

[root@localhost Downloads]# gmplayer -vo x11
MPlayer dev-SVN-r25993-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
AltiVec found
CPU: PowerPC

Playing /root/Downloads/muse_knights-of-cydonia_450.mov.
libavformat file format detected.
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x1070adb8]negative ctts, ignoring
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [avc1] 400x300 24bpp 24.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
================================================== ========================
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16be, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
================================================== ========================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Invalid argument
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:1248snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such file or directory
[AO ESD] esd_open_sound failed: Connection refused
[AO SDL] Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16be
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:1248snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: No such file or directory
AO: [sdl] 44100Hz 2ch s16be (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 400 x 300 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [x11] 400x300 => 400x300 Planar YV12
[swscaler @ 0x107f87cc]ALTIVEC: Color Space ARGB
[swscaler @ 0x107f87cc]SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb32 special converter
A: 31.1 V: 31.1 A-V: 0.008 ct: 0.025 0/ 0 13% 5% 1.9% 0 0
Exiting... (Quit)
[root@localhost Downloads]#

I guess I should have posted both command outputs the same(I posted gmplayer -vo x11 output instead), but I'm too tired to care right now. Its time for some sleep.

[gnosis]

Originally Posted by bigfish

Please give me update about the mplayer when you're done.
Now i am updating with 6 repos, and i will try to install VLC.

Does it work on 7 repos?

I am sorry for too many questions, as you can understand linux is ver new to me..

Not a problem, mplayer and mplayer-gui installed fine for me (it uses the base and extras repos I believe).

I did install VLC from the FC7 dribble repo before reverting back to FC6, it also works fine.

@Coded-Dude, XFCE looks nice! How long did it take to install and configure? Do you see any performance increases from gnome? Perhaps I should try to tackle this over the weekend as well

[Coded-Dude]

XFCE is easy enough, if you know what packages to install. It was trial and error for me, but lucky for you I wrote down the significant packages that should ensure a successful install.

xfce4-session.ppc
Thunar.ppc
xfdesktop.ppc

Now I also installed several plugins, etc., but with the above three packages you should be able to launch the WM with little to no errors. Yum will grab all the necessary dependencies.

Errors/Issues received upon login:
pbbuttons does no end in .sh, ignoring - This was from .xsession-errors, and I merely appended .sh to the filename to correct it.

XFCE menu button was missing - Now this could have been because I didn't install everything before launching xfce, I'm not sure. I had to install xfdekstop and xfwm before it was even an option to add.

There was no DEFAULT xfce.desktop file to place in /usr/share/xsession to allow XFCE to be selectable via gdm, but the following will get it going for you.

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=XSession
Exec=/usr/bin/xfce4-session
TryExec=/usr/bin/xfce4-session
Name=Xfce 4.4
Comment=The Xfce Desktop Environment

If anybody has any questions or concerns with install xfce in ydl 6.0, just let me know.

btw - I guess I should mentions I'm using the repos listed on the previous page:

Install Additional Repos for YDL 6

fedora-extras.repo

[fedora-extras]
name=Fedora Extras
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/ppc
gpgcheck=0


livna-stable.repo

[livna-stable]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/ppc
gpgcheck=0

dribble.repo

[dribble]
name=Dribble for Fedora 7 - ppc
baseurl=http://dribble.org.uk/repo/7/ppc
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0