Re: RC1 and Wallstreet Powerbook MIssing File In Install

2003-03-13 Thread Quentin Mason
Hi Bob, The gui installer starts fine. I select language and alternate mouse keys. It asks which usb module to try. I've tried kbddev, usbcore, and usb-hci. The installer kicks back an error and says the file /lib/modules/kernelstuff2.4**.cz is missing (sorry, I'm away from the

Re: Compiler speed (fwd)

2003-01-20 Thread Quentin Mason
Hi, On Thursday 16 January 2003 23:26, Quentin Mason wrote: Hi, I was wondering whether it was common knowledge or whether anyone else has noticed how much faster it is to compile things on MandrakePPC over an Intel machine ? For example: 500 Mhz 1Mb L2 Cache, 384Mb RAM Wallstreet

Compiler speed

2003-01-16 Thread Quentin Mason
Hi, I was wondering whether it was common knowledge or whether anyone else has noticed how much faster it is to compile things on MandrakePPC over an Intel machine ? For example: 500 Mhz 1Mb L2 Cache, 384Mb RAM Wallstreet Powerlogix G3 upgrade, g++ 2.95~3mins Dual 933 MHz Pentium 3, 1Gb

Re: G4 Upgrade for Wallstreet?

2002-09-18 Thread Quentin Mason
Hi, Has anyone tried any of the Wallstreet G4 upgrades with cooker-ppc? I have the BlueChip (Powerlogix) G3/500 in a Wallstreet 2/233. It runs _extremely_ hot but it does linux (linuxppc/2000 + Mandrake beta,8.0,8.2) fine. Powerlogix warn about sleep support and reduced max ram on their

Re: OT: (but I do not know who ask for): buildin an RPM from scratch

2002-05-31 Thread Quentin Mason
I will write a mini setup program as Microsft does ;) Up to now I just echo out the instructions and the license (with a line that sounds like 'using the software presumes you have accepted the license terms at all Intel's free compiler, Mathematica, and maple take the following

Re: Mount ext2 partition in OSX or OS9

2002-05-25 Thread Quentin Mason
Does anybody know how to mount a linux partition on the Mac desktop. And even better, to do drag and drop in there. Cannot be done in OS9. It used to work with IDE drives and MountX but that stopped working ~18 months ago when ext2fs was updated and Ben stopped supporting it. The next best

Re: mol in 8.2?

2002-05-22 Thread Quentin Mason
Hi, Doesn't sound like the kernel is compiled with the mol module in 8.2, am i right? I have to run mol with the -a option, it launches up, I have the mac window opening, i can see the extensions loading, then the mac desktop appears and it stays glued here showing the desktop with no menu

Re: bug in talk-server + /dev/pts/?

2002-04-30 Thread Quentin Mason
Hi, # Uncomment the following if you want to set the group to tty for the # pseudo-tty devices. This is necessary so that mesg(1) can later be used # to enable/disable talk requests and wall(1) messages. REGISTER ^pty/s. PERMISSIONS -1.tty 0600 REGISTER ^pts/.* PERMISSIONS -1.tty

Re: bug in talk-server + /dev/pts/?

2002-04-15 Thread Quentin Mason
Hi, On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 02:08:21AM -0400, Quentin Mason wrote: I usually have mesg y in the interactive section of my login scripts so that people may talk or ytalk to me when I am interactively using that login [cf mesg n for remote batch jobs]. On my new vanilla Mandrake

bug in talk-server + /dev/pts/?

2002-04-14 Thread Quentin Mason
Hi, I usually have mesg y in the interactive section of my login scripts so that people may talk or ytalk to me when I am interactively using that login [cf mesg n for remote batch jobs]. On my new vanilla Mandrake 8.2\beta2 install mesg y fails in bash, tcsh etc at all times. The error

Re: Begging for help!! Can't start my x86 Mandrake 8.2 box

2002-04-11 Thread Quentin Mason
Hi, My x86 machine, running Mandrake 8.2, is stuck in a loop... everytime it boots itsays that /dev/hda1 was not unmounted cleanly, and asks if I want to test the drive... I can'tsay NO! It can't check because the drive is mounted, So it then drops me into a rescue login. Irun the

Re: 8.2 beta report - several problems

2002-04-07 Thread Quentin Mason
What about Lyx/Latex? Aren't they supposed to be installed? What package do I have to chose in order to get them? I chose the scientific one, office etc. but Lyx/Latex don't seem to have been installed. Get tetex-* for LaTeX. I am not sure where they are in an install, but those are

warning: KDE control centre

2001-12-04 Thread Quentin Mason
This is just a warning to all of you about the KDE control centre, specifically the keyboard selection part. I have been enjoying KDE 2.2 for a while, but decided the time had come for some customisation. I have an English Wallstreet powerbook, and the option key was not working. I saw that I

Re: CDROM Question

2001-10-21 Thread Quentin Mason
Hi Terrence, I've burned a CD which contains a bunch of mp3s. When I put the disc into the CD/DVD drive I'm able to cd /mnt/cdrom and browse the disc. When I put an audio CD that I have purchased (Led Zeppelin II) into the CD/DVD drive and try to do the same thing I get this in

Re: PMac 7300 - Install Issues

2001-10-04 Thread Quentin Mason
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, James Meade wrote: For about a week now, I've been trying to get Mandrake to install on my G3-upgraded 7300 system without much luck. So far, I've been reduced to playing musical kernels to get it to recognize my SCSI hard drives, let alone the CD-ROM drive. Can someone

Re: cpu info

2001-10-02 Thread Quentin Mason
Hi, processor : 0 cpu : 750 temperature : 0 C clock : 195MHz revision : 2.2 (pvr 0008 0202) bogomips : 878.18 I am wondering if the CPU is running at 440Mhz or just 195MHz? Is it because the CPU information was burnt in ROM and cat /proc/cpu didn't really test the CPU speed? cat

Re: Silly Question about Ping

2001-10-02 Thread Quentin Mason
Hi, is there an RPM on the CD that includes ping? rpm -qf `which ping` on an x86 redhat machine at work gives iputils-20001010-1 rpmfind.net would probably also have helped you out here. Good luck, Q.

Re: M4753 Wallstreet

2001-10-01 Thread Quentin Mason
Does Mandrake 8.1 PPC CD boot on a M4753 Wallstreet upgraded with a Powerlogix Blue Chip 500 Mhz? Mandrake 8.1 is not out for PPC yet AFAIK. Linux works fine on my wallstreet II [512k L2 cache] w/ powerlogix blue chip 466 MHz [now 1mb L2]. I use MacOS 8.6 and BootX. MacOS can choose to

Re: ppc install freeze on beige g3

2001-09-21 Thread Quentin Mason
Hi Paul, video=atyfb:vmode:20,cmode:32 This style. Also, how do I get into text install mode? boot arg = install-text Will getting X up and running after a text install be possible? Yes. If you have made the appropriate sacrifices and are feeling lucky, log in and try startx.

Re: Problems installing PPC 8.0 on PowerBook G3 (New World/400/128M/6GB/DVD)

2001-09-10 Thread Quentin Mason
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:29:22AM -0700, Sean Fay wrote: So if I only wanted to boot linux I could remove all partitions using MacOS Drive Setup and then have mandrake create the partitions it wants?? Yes. Can you really delete ALL the partitions -- including the random 4 or 5 apple