Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 02:26:02PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also i guess there are some package in helix that are not yet in debian/woody, am i right in thinking this ? and if yes, what are they ? Well, I couldn't find any of the updated .deb you're talking about... Please, dig it, and I'll tell you. Well, for example : lftp ftp.debian.org:/debian/dists/woody/main/source/devel ls -l gnome-libs* -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 11833 Jul 11 18:53 gnome-libs_1.2.4-1.diff.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 1141 Jul 11 18:53 gnome-libs_1.2.4-1.dsc -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 3351011 Jul 11 18:53 gnome-libs_1.2.4.orig.tar.gz Friendly, Sven LUTHER
Re: kernel-2.2.17pre11 boots without display on G4
* Daniel Jacobowitz | | Could you get the package at | http://auric.debian.org/~dan/kernel-image-2.2.17-pmac_2.2.17pre11-2_powerpc.deb | and see if that works for you? It worked fine, thanks. From dmesg: aty128fb: detected XCLK=0x36d6, ref_div=0x23 aty128fb: Rage128 Pro PF (AGP) [chip rev 0x1] 16M 128-bit SDR SGRAM (1:1) Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 fb0: ATY Rage128 frame buffer device on /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATY,[EMAIL PROTECTED] (bo)
Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition
Hi again, Second report, I've compiled everything in Helix Code and Evolution, but still 2 packages won't be included: - gtk-themes, because of the Stone engine being already compiled for x86 in the source package. - Abiword, I really couldn't get it to compile. - gnumeric and gnome-iconedit use liboaf _at compile-time_, should be added to the building pre-requisites - liboaf-dev and libgnome-dev both contain /usr/share/idl/gnome-factory.idl, the problem is likely to be in the upstream release - glade-gnome is missing Priority and Section fields - dpkg is whining about rejected patches from the .diff.gz, I compiled it the hard way (although all I remember is that it involved compiling it as root) Otherwise everything else went fluently. I'll upload everything asap. Peter, thanks for the tip about gob (found it). Sven, thanks also for the pointer, but could you explain me why gnome-libs are in devel instead of libs ? I would need a pointer to an ftp over ssh program, or any good program to easily upload this stuff to sourceforge.net as it doesn't have a normal ftp... Cheers /Hadess PS: any debian developer in London area ? I'd like to step up for the maintenance of some packages.
Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:23:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, Second report, I've compiled everything in Helix Code and Evolution, but still 2 packages won't be included: - gtk-themes, because of the Stone engine being already compiled for x86 in the source package. - Abiword, I really couldn't get it to compile. - gnumeric and gnome-iconedit use liboaf _at compile-time_, should be added to the building pre-requisites - liboaf-dev and libgnome-dev both contain /usr/share/idl/gnome-factory.idl, the problem is likely to be in the upstream release - glade-gnome is missing Priority and Section fields - dpkg is whining about rejected patches from the .diff.gz, I compiled it the hard way (although all I remember is that it involved compiling it as root) Otherwise everything else went fluently. I'll upload everything asap. Peter, thanks for the tip about gob (found it). Sven, thanks also for the pointer, but could you explain me why gnome-libs are in devel instead of libs ? Well, they are libraries, don't know exactly, but i guess this is the choice of the gnome maintainer ... I would have put it under the x11 section maybe ? Anyway, the binary get in all the needed sections once built. best way to check it is to do a ls -l */*gnome* | less from within the source directory, lftp for one supports such nice things. I would need a pointer to an ftp over ssh program, or any good program to easily upload this stuff to sourceforge.net as it doesn't have a normal ftp... Friendly, Sven LUTHER
Re: PowerBook 3400 modem
: : Is the internal modem supported? : : No. You might try a PC card (PCMCIA) modem. Let me know if you find : one that works. the PCMCIA HOWTO mentions that all should work. I know that the TDK DF2814 goes well with 33.600 perhaps you have to play with this file: 11:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/1 ~ cat /etc/pcmcia/config.opts # # Local PCMCIA Configuration File # # System resources available for PCMCIA devices # #include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x1000-0x17ff #include memory 0xc-0xf #include memory 0xa000-0xa0ff, memory 0x6000-0x60ff include memory 0x9000-0x90ff #include port 0x000-0xfff #include port 0x400-0x4ff #include port 0x100-0x1000 include port 0x1000-0x10ff #include port 0x100-0x1ff #include port 0x0-0xfff #some modems need this one # -- Yours, ce pgpExKW9xvONp.pgp Description: PGP signature
nvram
please, could someone give me the major/minor of /dev/nvram? TIA -- Yours, ce pgpRTLZfhkkpV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Java development on debian ppc
On Friday 30 June 2000, at 8 h 34,
the keyboard of Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
kaffe's debian/control file says:
Architecture: i386 m68k powerpc sparc arm hurd-i386
so it should build out-of-the-box on a PowerPC ('apt-get --compile source
kaffe', if the .deb is not in the archive). If it doesn't, report it as
important bug.
Architecture:powerpc is clearly wrong. Even in the recent CVS tree of Kaffe,
PowerPC misses important things (assembly gurus are welcome to write a
sysdepCallMethod for Kaffe).
See kaffe bugs 646 and 647:
http://cgi.kaffe.org/cgi-bin/kaffe/incoming?id=646;page=4;user=guest
http://cgi.kaffe.org/cgi-bin/kaffe/incoming?id=647;page=4;user=guest
Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:23:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted to say the following: I would need a pointer to an ftp over ssh program, or any good program to easily upload this stuff to sourceforge.net as it doesn't have a normal ftp... scp? (man scp) Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: nvram
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:14:28PM +0200, Claus Enneper wanted to say the following: please, could someone give me the major/minor of /dev/nvram? % file /dev/nvram /dev/nvram: character special (10/144) That is what I have. Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:23:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've compiled everything in Helix Code and Evolution, but still 2 packages won't be included: - gtk-themes, because of the Stone engine being already compiled for x86 in the source package. Sigh, I thought I had fixed that. I'll have a fixed source package up asap, and will let you know when it is done. - Abiword, I really couldn't get it to compile. Abiword's build process is extremely nasty. It took a lot of work to build here, and I'm not too surprised that you are having problems. Is there anything I can help with? - gnumeric and gnome-iconedit use liboaf _at compile-time_, should be added to the building pre-requisites This should not be the case. We don't use oaf as part of Helix GNOME, and our gnumeric and gnome-iconedit binaries are not linked against it. You may want to remove liboaf-dev before building gnumeric and gnome-iconedit. It is possible that they are enabling oaf support when they find that package installed. - liboaf-dev and libgnome-dev both contain /usr/share/idl/gnome-factory.idl, the problem is likely to be in the upstream release Yes, the problem is upstream. I'm not quite sure how to resolve it at the moment. - glade-gnome is missing Priority and Section fields Perhaps you could help with this. apt-get source glade, then look at the control file. The fields are definitely there, though lintian complains about the final deb. I haven't figured out how to fix it. Peter
Re: Debian on an iBook - colourdepth
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 03:01:31PM +0200, Adam Sjøgren wrote: Hi! I just installed Debian on my shining new iBook - as soon as I (re)discovered the initrd=-option, the install went smooth. I've only got one major outstanding issue: I can only start X with 8-bit colourdepth, and the virtual screen is automatically sized 800x5222 (or there about). I've set the vyres with fbset to 600, and I've put virtual 800 600 in the XF86Config, but I still get this very, very tall virtual screen. Changing the depth with fbset doesn't make X accept anything but 8-bit colourdepth. (I'm using benh's 2.2.17pre9-ben1 kernel). The frame buffer wasn't working correctly for me with this kernel. It works now with benh's 2.2.17pre10-ben2. However, I can't change the color depth with fbset : it says I don't have enough video ram (I tried 16, 24 and 32 bpp). Specifying video=atyfb:800x600-32 in yaboot prompt didn't work either. And the X server is unuseable : the display turns all white. It only works (unaccelerated) with the OF frame buffer. Is there a solution for this ? Olivier -- Preserve Wildlife! Throw a party today!
Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition
Quoting Peter Teichman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:23:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've compiled everything in Helix Code and Evolution, but still 2 packages won't be included: - gtk-themes, because of the Stone engine being already compiled for x86 in the source package. Sigh, I thought I had fixed that. I'll have a fixed source package up asap, and will let you know when it is done. Good - Abiword, I really couldn't get it to compile. Abiword's build process is extremely nasty. It took a lot of work to build here, and I'm not too surprised that you are having problems. Is there anything I can help with? Hum, I can't think of anything on top of my head. I just tried to recompile it every way I could think of. I will need to take a look at the debian/* files, and see if I can fix anything. - gnumeric and gnome-iconedit use liboaf _at compile-time_, should be added to the building pre-requisites This should not be the case. We don't use oaf as part of Helix GNOME, and our gnumeric and gnome-iconedit binaries are not linked against it. You may want to remove liboaf-dev before building gnumeric and gnome-iconedit. It is possible that they are enabling oaf support when they find that package installed. Well, they just need it at compile-time. It statically links to it. The dependencies are the same as on my work computer (x86). - liboaf-dev and libgnome-dev both contain /usr/share/idl/gnome-factory.idl, the problem is likely to be in the upstream release Yes, the problem is upstream. I'm not quite sure how to resolve it at the moment. You just got dpkg giving errors, that's all. The files seem to be the same ones. Maybe just removing it from liboaf-dev file listing, and wait till it is fixed upstream. - glade-gnome is missing Priority and Section fields Perhaps you could help with this. apt-get source glade, then look at the control file. The fields are definitely there, though lintian complains about the final deb. I haven't figured out how to fix it. Same thing as for Abiword Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition
Quoting Tuomas Kuosmanen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:23:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted to say the following: I would need a pointer to an ftp over ssh program, or any good program to easily upload this stuff to sourceforge.net as it doesn't have a normal ftp... scp? (man scp) I know scp (heh). I meant something more like an ncftp or something like that... I think I'll just ssh to sourceforge.net and ftp for the remote computer to mine (takes a bit of concentration not to mess up everything). Thanks anyway Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on an iBook - colourdepth
I am using vmlinux-2.2.17pre10-ben2 (URL:http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/) and XFree 4.0.1 from the instructions here: URL:http://penguinppc.org/usr/xf4/ (- updated yesterday!) and can now report success in 8, 15 and 24 bitdepths on a tangerine iBook. Apple doesn't seem to say what HorizSync and VertRefresh that are valid for the iBook, though :-/ use the lowest that works. I beleive a standard 800x600-60 should work
Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition
Quoting Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip I like sftp - the source should be in woody. If only it had some of the more advanced features of ncftp or lftp... Hum, should do the job, anything can be better than scp anyway (I don't think that any sane people have been using that). Thanks a lot Michel
Potato on RS/6000 F50 four-way
Hello all. I have successfully installed Debian 2.2 Potato on an IBM F50 with 4 cpus. Unfortunatly, I need to recompile the kernel to support SMP, and among other things, MSDOS filesystem. I have had a rough time trying to get a kernel to compile (using source for 2.2.17) and I was hoping maybe someone had some tips for me as to which kernels are best suited for this machine, etc. I've also been trying to get a decent window manager installed for X. I would prefer KDE, but when I try to apt-get install kdebase, I am told that kdebase has a broken dependency for rman (reverse man pages builder I believe) and that the package is not installable b/c rman has no installation candidate. Finally, console-apt won't install because libapt-pkg2.6 is unavailable. I *really* like capt, so that's just sort of on the wish list. If anyone can aid me to resolve any of these problems, I'd be quite very obliged. Thanks as always, Matt
Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 03:43:16PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Peter Teichman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:23:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've compiled everything in Helix Code and Evolution, but still 2 packages won't be included: - gtk-themes, because of the Stone engine being already compiled for x86 in the source package. Sigh, I thought I had fixed that. I'll have a fixed source package up asap, and will let you know when it is done. Good I've built gtk-themes-0.1a, which is up on the main Helix GNOME site now. - gnumeric and gnome-iconedit use liboaf _at compile-time_, should be added to the building pre-requisites This should not be the case. We don't use oaf as part of Helix GNOME, and our gnumeric and gnome-iconedit binaries are not linked against it. You may want to remove liboaf-dev before building gnumeric and gnome-iconedit. It is possible that they are enabling oaf support when they find that package installed. Well, they just need it at compile-time. It statically links to it. The dependencies are the same as on my work computer (x86). Weird. I'm almost certain that I didn't have oaf installed when I built gnumeric and gnome-iconedit. Peter
PowerPC potato bugs page
Greetings, I am putting together a page with bugs in potato on the PPC platform, and would appreciate any feedback. It includes: * A (stock) 2.2.15 kernel package and split out pieces, built with config-2.2.17 run through make oldconfig, for those of us on oldworlds. * Patches to make kerberos4kth build successfully, and to make the GNOME mixer panel applet control internal as well as external speakers. * Assorted others, with links to bug reports. I'm certain it's incomplete (e.g. there's an AbiWord crash on PPC not on Intel which I need to track down), so I'm accepting contributions (please cc the list). The address is: http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debian-ppc-bugs.html Zeen, -Adam P.
Re: Potato on RS/6000 F50 four-way
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 10:07:34AM -0500, Matthew Davis wrote: I've also been trying to get a decent window manager installed for X. I would prefer KDE, but when I try to apt-get install kdebase, I am told that kdebase has a broken dependency for rman (reverse man pages builder I believe) and that the package is not installable b/c rman has no installation candidate. KDE isn't even in the debian archive... did you add some local source to get it? If so, blame them... rman is not in Debian either. Finally, console-apt won't install because libapt-pkg2.6 is unavailable. I *really* like capt, so that's just sort of on the wish list. This has been fixed for months. What mirror are you using?? I think it must be sadly out of date. Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer__Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \/ \/
Re: PowerPC potato bugs page
Adam, Okay! After spending quite a while writing a Perl script to manipulate the complete contents of the bug tracking system (hopefully that will be useful in the future, as well), here are two lists of bugs. List 1 is a list of bugs that I've filed or sent additional information to the BTS about that are or may be PowerPC-specific. There are 19 bugs in this list. (Since I have an idea of what these are about, I've included a comments line with some more information.) List 2 is a list of bugs that mention PowerPC, powerpc, PPC, or ppc in their descriptions (not including the ones in List 1). There are 28 bugs in this list. List 1 -- Bug 54248 Package: gmc Description: gmc: X crashes when gmc icons are clicked on Severity: normal Reporter: C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments: not sure if this is still relevant; I quit running gmc ages ago. Bug 56472 Package: freeamp Description: freeamp won't run on PowerPC Severity: important Reporter: C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments: freeamp is seriously broken Bug 56531 Package: xbase-clients Description: xbase-clients: xset dpms force functions fail [UPSTREAM] Severity: normal Reporter: C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments: xserver doesn't support DPMS :-\ Bug 56601 Package: esound Description: esound: xmms plays scractchy audio through esd Severity: normal Reporter: C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments: probably really an xmms bug; mpg123 seems to do fine now Bug 57141 Package: xbase-clients Description: xbase-clients: xmodmap doesn't swap pointer buttons when run from gdm Severity: normal Reporter: C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments: I'm not sure if this one is PPC-specific -- no one else said they had this problem when I asked on debian-powerpc Bug 57421 Package: esound Description: esound: xmms plays scractchy audio through esd Severity: normal Reporter: C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments: probably really an xmms bug; mpg123 seems to do fine now Bug 57600 Package: tkstep8.0 Description: PowerPC port of tkstep8.0 has broken dependencies, and breaks many tk applications Severity: critical Reporter: Renaud Dreyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comment: tkstep is now uninstallable -- I've filed a separate bug report Bug 58450 Package: gdb Description: gdb: Won't compile on PowerPC Severity: grave Reporter: C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comment: gdb 5.0 works fine; I packaged it myself. The current version in Debian is totally broken, though, and the maintainer doesn't seem to be able to fix it. Bug 60145 Package: xserver-fbdev Description: xserver-fbdev: Segfaults when calling chunk_free on PowerPC [UPSTREAM] Severity: normal Reporter: C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments: segfault triggered by xmms; forwarded upstream, but still not fixed. Bug 61794 Package: communicator-smotif-472 Description: communicator-smotif-472: Not available for PowerPC Severity: normal Reporter: C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug 61795 Package: navigator-smotif-472 Description: navigator-smotif-472: Not available for PowerPC Severity: normal Reporter: C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug 61890 Package: typespeed Description: program segfaults on loadhiscores. Severity: done Reporter: Konstantinos Margaritis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments: We fixed the segfault (endianness issues with the high score files), also fixed char signedness errors, but the game's unplayable because the words zap across the screen too fast to read, let alone type. See #66316. Bug 62053 Package: a2ps Description: a2ps: segfaults when run with --list=defaults Severity: normal Reporter: C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments: Still crashes. Forwarded upsteam. Bug 63853 Package: communicator-smotif-47 Description: communicator-smotif-47: Generates BadDrawable X Errors Severity: normal Reporter: C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comment: Weird problem, probably not PPC-specific, went away when I trashed my Debian Netscape packages and installed an aliened Communicator 4.73. (Which has plenty of problems itself.) Bug 65776 Package: emacs20 Description: emacs20: Version 20.7 finally provides support for PowerMac PowerPC architecture Severity: wishlist Reporter: C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comment: No, it doesn't. But the Debian packages (which still have patches that haven't made it into the upstream source) compile and work fine. Bug 66316 Package: typespeed Description: typespeed: Words whizz by on powerpc (and perhaps other bigendian archs) Severity: normal Reporter: C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comment: Maybe not PPC-specific. Bug 66547 Package: kaffe Description: kaffe: Does not build on PowerPC Severity: grave Reporter: C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comment: Kaffe is pretty seriously broken on PPC. Bug 67289 Package: mp3blaster Description: mp3blaster: plays static instead of music on PowerPC Severity: normal Reporter: C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comment: Another broken
Partitioning disks without losing data.
I have instaled Debian Pototo on an old Pentium 133MHz PCI machine to use primarily as a firewall/gateway for our internet. It has two 2GB drives. hda has a 32MB swap partition and the rest of the disk is the root partition. I use all of hdb as the /home mount. Both hard drives are configured in the bios for LBA mode (other choices available are AUTO, LARGE and NORMAL). It *was* booting OK but now it doesn't. LILO comes up and the kernel starts to boot. It then gets a kernel panic saying attempt to access beyond end of device. I know that hdb has been having some problems with timeouts. I'm not sure if it is the harddrive or the harddisk controller. If I boot from floppy and type rescue root=/dev/hda2 then the machine boots OK. This leads me to believe that the kernel and/or modules need to be in a small boot partition at the start of the disk. Is this a correct assumption or is something else likely to be the problem ? I think I have upgraded the kernel (was 2.2.15 from the floppies) to 2.2.17. If I do need to create a boot partition, then I need to move and resive some/all of the partitions on hda. Can I do this without losing all the information on the root partition. It takes s long to install all this over the internet. Maybe I should burn a CD image ? Will something like fips do what I want ? Are there any other tools ?? Please CC any replies to me as well as the list, Thanks, Brendan Simon.
