Re: May I ask?

2002-09-17 Thread Colin Ward
On 17/9/02 8:00 am, Jeroen Diederen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I live in Leiden, The Netherlands, about 35 km south west of Amsterdam. Sounds like a nice idea. Stephan Haller wrote: May I ask you all on the list where you are coming from? Perhaps we are all in range of 400 or 500 km

Re: 8.2 install report

2002-04-29 Thread Colin Ward
on 24/4/02 11:35 pm, Henrik Edlund at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I am now running 8.2 on my iBook-2001. I have a few comments though: The yaboot-setup during install setup yaboot.conf to have append= devfs=mount . This made the first boot to fail (can not find /dev/hda5). I had to

Problems burning iso

2002-04-25 Thread Colin Ward
Is anyone having problems burning the 8.2 final iso image? I've tried a few times now and it always fails when trying to verify the disk after burning. I always use the disk-burning utility in OSX as its never given me many coasters in the past, only when the iso's are faulty. I will try a

Re: Problems burning iso

2002-04-25 Thread Colin Ward
On 25/4/02 2:19 pm, Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Colin Ward wrote: Is anyone having problems burning the 8.2 final iso image? I've tried a few times now and it always fails when trying to verify the disk after burning. I always use the disk-burning

Re: Problems burning iso

2002-04-25 Thread Colin Ward
On 25/4/02 4:09 pm, James White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm no expert, but here's what I did (from memory). The ftp sites include files named, like, md5sums-8.2.ppc. Look in these file and note the numbers. Write them down. Get the application md5app for OSX. Here's a link:

Re: update to G4 install, please help

2002-04-20 Thread Colin Ward
On 4/19/02 11:47 PM, Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:33:33 +0100 Colin Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At text install there wasn't a listing of my monitor (apple 15in flat screen 1024x768, dpi 72x72). I didn't know what to pick so i tried a generic one

Re: update to G4 install, please help

2002-04-20 Thread Colin Ward
On 4/20/02 9:17 AM, Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 08:53:27AM +0100, Colin Ward wrote: How do I edit XF86Config-4 from within the terminal. I can navigate through the file system ok, but don't know how to edit a particular file from with in it. (I know I should

need help with G4 install

2002-04-19 Thread Colin Ward
Having trouble installing 8.2 beta2. i have a G4 500 (sawtooth) with a 15in flat screen apple monitor. It has the defult ATI rage pro graphics card.(i also have a radion mac edition 32 but i want to keep this as simple as possilble). I've tried to do a graphical install but none of the

update to G4 install, please help

2002-04-19 Thread Colin Ward
Having trouble installing 8.2 beta2. i have a G4 500 (sawtooth) with a 15in flat screen apple monitor. It has the defult ATI rage pro graphics card.(i also have a radion mac edition 32 but i want to keep this as simple as possilble). I've tried to do a graphical install but none of the

Re: Missing /dev/hda during install

2002-04-10 Thread Colin Ward
On 4/10/02 10:09 PM, Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Paul Sabatino wrote: Just for the heck of it I grabbed the YDL 2.2 iso, and tried it on the same iBook with exactly the same results. No /dev/hda and no mention of /dev/hda in the dmesg output. Nothing

Re: 8.2 beta issues (again), and some

2002-04-09 Thread Colin Ward
Johanna wrote: Okay, I've given it another try and spent yesterday on re-installing Mandrake and trying to tweak. Not very successfully, but at leat I understand a little more of Linux now, I believe :-) Three main issues remain unsolved for me, and I'd really, REALLY appreciate any

Re: 8.2 beta issues (again), and some

2002-04-09 Thread Colin Ward
I also don't know why pmud is so problematic for you. If I recall you don't have the latest greatest ibook right? Power management did not work correctly on the new TiBook, but these things are a matter of letting the development catch up with the hardware. The new pmud is up on my web

Re: 8.2 beta issues (again), and some

2002-04-09 Thread Colin Ward
Stew Benedict wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Colin Ward wrote: I also don't know why pmud is so problematic for you. If I recall you don't have the latest greatest ibook right? Power management did not work correctly on the new TiBook, but these things are a matter of letting the development

Re: 8.2 beta issues (again), and some

2002-04-09 Thread Colin Ward
Stew Benedict wrote: On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Colin Ward wrote: i have been testing teh latest version. One thing, the other day i again tried one of benh's kernels and pmud seemed to work perfectly. It would sleep and wake up very quickly and didn't crash. Problem was though after installing

pmud, can't wake from sleep

2002-04-07 Thread Colin Ward
Steve well i've been trying out the latest pmud that you directed me to. I can only get it to start if i do it manuly, it doesn't seem to want to start at startup, i get a failed message. I can get the ibook to sleep mode, but when i try and wake it things go bad. The screen comes back up, but

Re: pmud, can't wake from sleep

2002-04-07 Thread Colin Ward
Ben Reser wrote: On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:45:48PM +0100, Colin Ward wrote: Steve well i've been trying out the latest pmud that you directed me to. I can only get it to start if i do it manuly, it doesn't seem to want to start at startup, i get a failed message. I can get the ibook

Re: problems with beta2 on white ibook

2002-04-07 Thread Colin Ward
Christopher Molnar wrote: Doesn't seem to be. If I hold down the ctrl-alt (actually Option)-F1 keys I start messing with my video settings (makes screen dimmer). I am new to the ibook, so I may be missing something. -Chris On Sunday, April 7, 2002, at 06:36 PM, Ben Reser wrote: On

Re: 8.2 beta report - several problems

2002-04-07 Thread Colin Ward
Henrik Edlund wrote: On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Justin Christopher wrote: JC Sleeping an iBook2 by closing the lid or using the JC 'snooze' command does not work. When you awaken the JC computer, it does not accept keyboard or mouse input. JC Colin Ward has the same problem so it's not just me

Re: Mac OS gives boot problems

2002-04-04 Thread Colin Ward
On 4/4/02 9:41 AM, Tom Hutchinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realize that i can make a partition for os 9 and X and it will be fine but i dont use 9 much so i dont like wasting space with a big partition for it(plus it just takes away soem flexibility) -Tom Hutchinson It's probably better

Re: KDM and ATI Rage 128

2002-04-04 Thread Colin Ward
Peter R. Wood wrote: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/~baudens/ppc/ I installed these packages on my PowerBook Pismo with an ATI Rage Mobility 128, commented the DRI modules back into my XF86Config-4, and everything works beautifully now. Tried the OpenGL xscreensaver modules - they run as

Re: Unable to eject CDROM... and why two zip devices....

2002-04-04 Thread Colin Ward
James M. White wrote: I am a Linux newbie, but have installed on (perhaps) four machines. Here's my current. PM G4/733 Quick ATI radeon 7500 32M hda = IBM 60gig hdb = WD 20 gig Linux installed in 4 gig partition at the end of this drive logitech wheel mouse SCSI Zip 100

white/dead pixle with r128

2002-04-01 Thread Colin Ward
Just thought i should let you know that just now i noticed a dead/white pixle on the left side of the screen. The bottom of my dmesg gave [drm:r128_cce_indirect]*ERROR* process 4072 using buffer owned bt 0 [drm:r128_cce_indirect]*ERROR* process 4072 using buffer owned bt 0 [colin@colinsbox

Re: Ati cards: new XFree to test

2002-03-31 Thread Colin Ward
David BAUDENS wrote: Can people using Ati card(s) can test new XFree86 packages available here: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/~baudens/ppc/ and report bug at cooker-ppc@. I'm very interesting to know: - if X works ;-), especially with Mach64 and Radeon cards (and other Ati cards if you have

Re: 8.2beta 2 and ibook2 install, everything working, almost

2002-03-30 Thread Colin Ward
On 3/30/02 6:48 AM, David BAUDENS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 30 March 2002 01:46, Colin Ward wrote: /.../ Another thing was the login screen, it won't display right and looks ugly, and its hard to pick a different manager as well as password/login information. This was fixed

Re: 8.2beta 2 and ibook2 install, everything working, almost

2002-03-30 Thread Colin Ward
On 3/30/02 12:46 AM, Colin Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well after a few days uptime and a little tweaking (new kernel and such) I have a working ibook2(may 2001), 500/CDRW/384/10. Most things working straight from install including sound, 16bit color, modem, network, printing, CD burning

8.2beta 2 and ibook2 install, everything working, almost

2002-03-29 Thread Colin Ward
Well after a few days uptime and a little tweaking (new kernel and such) I have a working ibook2(may 2001), 500/CDRW/384/10. Most things working straight from install including sound, 16bit color, modem, network, printing, CD burning. Also have a working control center (seemed to be broken in

Re: iBook2 modem configuration issue

2002-03-28 Thread Colin Ward
On 3/28/02 5:47 PM, Justin Christopher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Early versions of the iBook2 have an internal hardware modem that is known to work with Linux. However, the user has to change some timeout values in the dialer setup in order for the OS to see the modem. From