Yellow Dog Linux 3.0

So I’m putting YDL 3.0 on my Powerbook Pismo. My recipe for Sawfish beating Metacity to a pulp didn’t quite work. I ended up having to do something like (gnome-session-properties &); sleep 2; gnome-session-save since, after I exited gnome-session-properties, I could never get keyboard focus back to a gnome-terminal. Then on login Gnome’s loading screen froze on Sawfish. I started killing things, like Xclients and Sawfish, until it loaded with no window manager. Luckily it gave me a terminal. So I started sawfish, ran gnome-session-properties again, removed the startup Sawfish, changed the priority for Sawfish to 20, set it to restart, and saved my session.

Here’s another tip for you: YDL 3.0’s /etc/apt/sources.list is broken by default! The first repository listed points to “base” where it needs to point to “main”. (Look at the end of two lines for “base” and change it to “main”. Should be the first two uncommented.) I ran yum update but it was downloading all sorts of things forever before I stopped it. apt-get update was so much faster.

PCMCIA was broken again. PCMCIA=no was still in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia. Changed it to yes. No dice. Set PCIC=yenta_socket. No dice. Weird messages about needing pcmcia_core.o. I tried modprobe pcmcia_core.o and it fails. Why not just modprobe pcmcia_core, which works? I have no idea! I edited /etc/init.d/pcmcia, found the part where it says if -d $PC ; then and changed it to if -d x$PC ; then. Result is that the conditional always fails (I hope, uh, this is not the best fix really) so it never attempts to probe the stupid module name. The elif section following this newly-broken conditional loads the correct modules.