Re: Helix GNOME 1.2 packages built

2000-06-19 Thread Kevin Puetz
Here they are, the powerpc debs of helix gnome 1.2 Just add the following line to you /etc/apt/sources.list, apt-get update and then apt-get install task-helix-gnome deb http://southpole.penguinpowered.com/debian unstable main these debs work fine with potato as well (well, actually I've only

Re: Booting of PPC Installation on PowerPC/Mac impossible?

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 03:01:39PM -0700, C.M. Connelly wrote: > There's no way to get that information directly from Open > Firmware? (I haven't tried -- my machine has broken OF -- but I'm > thinking of `dev / ls' or `devalias'.) It is decidedly nontrivial to map OF paths to the kernel's idea o

Re: ATI Mach64 support in XFree86 4.0 update...

2000-06-19 Thread Ani Joshi
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > If you happen to have a 4.0b version of the driver (what version is the one in > your FTP dir?), I'd be happy to make it available for people to test with my > experimental tarballs. The driver currently in my dir on devel is from a 4.0d

Additional Packages Available

2000-06-19 Thread C.M. Connelly
I have some Debian packages for PowerPC available from my Web site. At the moment, there are three: mminstance -- utilities to create AFM and PFA or PFB files for a single instance of a multiple-master font t1utils-ek -- an updated version of the existing t1utils

Re: Booting of PPC Installation on PowerPC/Mac impossible?

2000-06-19 Thread C.M. Connelly
"DJ" == Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "RD" == Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RD> Is there any deterministic approach to find out the path? RD> Or to get a list of possible paths? DJ> Nope :( That's the big problem. We're working on a way to DJ> get this from the kernel. T

Re: Booting of PPC Installation on PowerPC/Mac impossible?

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:31:53PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > http://www.debian.de/Lists-Archives/debian-powerpc-0006/msg00018.html > That's one of them, yes. > This in combination with the above post brought me a black screen (but I > managed already to start the next installation cycle)

Re: Booting of PPC Installation on PowerPC/Mac impossible?

2000-06-19 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Thank you for the quick reply. > > No, it's not really a fancier name for BIOS. It does a tremendous > amount more than a PC BIOS. Having in mind the trouble it causes to me, I would prefer a simple BIOS ;-) > > > Make system rebootable from harddisk (no error message any more) > > > > Make

Re: Booting of PPC Installation on PowerPC/Mac impossible?

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 12:20:50PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Daniel, > > I make marginal progress here, but something is still going really wrong. The > make bootable from harddisk option withing dh_bootstrap does not throw the > message not yet possible for powerpc message any more (a ty

Re: PPC booting

2000-06-19 Thread Rainer Dorsch
> I see you are having some success in booting linux on a mac, more than me > anyway :-( But so far, I can boot only in the installation. Not the system :-( > > My question, I have made the boot & root disks from the potato disks. I > use the boot disk and I get a Mac with Tux icon followed by t

Re: Booting of PPC Installation on PowerPC/Mac impossible?

2000-06-19 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Daniel, I make marginal progress here, but something is still going really wrong. The make bootable from harddisk option withing dh_bootstrap does not throw the message not yet possible for powerpc message any more (a typo during fdisk made the root partition too small). But booting still does

On pmud's utilities

2000-06-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
Hi, ... gkrellm is currently 0.9.8-2 and needs to be updated to a version >= 0.9.9 in order to compile the new pmud plugin. Cheers, Sergio

Re: Platinum palette weirdness

2000-06-19 Thread David Given
[...] >> > This is a Mac 8200/120, Platinum chipset, BootX with no video driver, >> > framebuffer X. >> I could be wrong, but I think the OF fb driver doesn't allow palette >> changes. I could be wrong though... > >Offb indeed doesn't, except for ATI cards. Please use the platinum video >driver i

Re: ATI Mach64 support in XFree86 4.0 update...

2000-06-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
[I 'forward' this to debian-powerpc as well] Ani Joshi wrote: > > Since there have been many people asking about mach64 support int xfree > 4.0 I figured I might as well give you all the status of the driver. > > I am almost done with 'porting' the ATI driver to ppc and so far its > working quit