Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

2000-01-22 Thread Nelson Abramson
Hartmut Koptein wrote: > [snip] > Replace this part in the console-data.config file. > (/var/lib/dpkg/info/console-data.config). Thanks for posting it, but it still fails on me :( Atleast it's a different error: no keymaps described for architecture powerpc/mac Was there another part of the

Yet Another New Version of Xpmac (Revision 9)

2000-01-22 Thread Kevin Hendricks
Hi, I have just posted the latest version (revision 9) of Ryuichi Oikawa's Xpmac Xserver which is accelerated for Rage128 and Mach64. This version has support for usb mice as well as adb mice. This is a bugfix release: - includes fix to allow auto vt switching for Mac-On-Linux (MoL) users -

Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

2000-01-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > That's right, does this card show up on /proc/pci ? My builtin USB > > shows up ... > > Yes, it does show up in /proc/pci. It also has /dev nodes (that I created by > hand). But it's not going to show up in the /proc/device-tree, as OF knows > nothing about it. That's understood - I was lo

Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

2000-01-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Seems Hartmut found another way, no reason to worry. > > Sorry, not for usb; the architecture/subarch detections was broken for > console-data. The console-* sets the kbd-layout, not the device from /dev > (adb, > ps2 or usb). That still leaves the problem of newer Apple machines with USB

architecture not supported (sigh)

2000-01-22 Thread Derek Hadlington
Hi, with the version of the Boot floppies etc available about a week ago I got the 'Arch not supported' message myself while trying to install on a Rev B iMac. I ended up getting Debian on my machine by lnstalling a small partiton of Yellowdoglinux, unpacking base2_2.tgz etc ( The old way ). If y

Re: Debian Potato PowerPC disks-powerpc

2000-01-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Hartmut Koptein wrote: > We move powerpc from sid to potato at the end of the freeze. No, it stays in sid but in woody it's no longer a symlink to sid. Moving the binary-powerpc tree from sid to potato would cause a huge load on the mirrors which we can prevent this way. Wichert. --

Re: architecture not supported (sigh)

2000-01-22 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Matt Porter's letter: > I'm on it again. I'll try to help out on fixing up the kernel packages > too. Once I get a working build for my PReP boxes and lone Starmax > I'll make the images available for others to test. Sure would be nice > to get a good cross-s

Re: architecture not supported (sigh)

2000-01-22 Thread Matt Porter
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 10:47:35PM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > i am trying to run debian on a g3 notebook and i did as follows: > > > > 1. downloaded kernel, drivers, base2_2.tgz, bootx, etc... > > 2. booting does not work, doenloaded g3 linux from linuxppc.org > > 3. rename root.bin to

Re: apt and dselect problems

2000-01-22 Thread Phil Fraering
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sven LUTHER writes: >change the 'stable' distribution to 'frozen' or better yet 'potato' in the >apt source file. I've switched to potato. Dselect seems to be having problems displaying packages that aren't already installed. >You could also use and install conso

Re: PowerPC Kernel installs

2000-01-22 Thread Ethan Benson
hi, while on the subject of kernel install's and quik, I thought i would bring up that newworld macs (ie all the colored ones) don't work with quik, and therefore really should not try and use it. these machines instead require a small bootstrap partition with an HFS filesystem containing ya

Re: architecture not supported (sigh)

2000-01-22 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Matt Knopp's letter: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 10:47:35PM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > > i am trying to run debian on a g3 notebook and i did as follows: > > > > > > 1. downloaded kernel, drivers, base2_2.tgz, bootx, etc... > > > 2. booting does not work