Re: Problems starting X-Window

2000-07-18 Thread Steven van de Beek
Hi Alberto. I must say that what you proposed doesn't work on a Motorola PowerPC. It's got a Cirrus Logic chip. Instead you need to download the SVGA server from somehwere (It's not supported by Debian) and try to get it to work. I've downloaded Xbh, which should do the job, but I haven't gotten

Helix GNOME, report of compilation

2000-07-18 Thread hadess
Hi fellow PPC users, Here I make a report of the status of the .debs I compiled over the week-end and will (very soon) make available. I CC'ed Peter Teichman, as he seems to be the current maintainer for the Debian packages. I recompiled most of Helix GNOME for Debian/PPC. First the 2 packages

Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation

2000-07-18 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 12:18:06PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi fellow PPC users, Here I make a report of the status of the .debs I compiled over the week-end and will (very soon) make available. I CC'ed Peter Teichman, as he seems to be the current maintainer for the Debian

Re: German Keyboard and OF boot device?

2000-07-18 Thread Olaf Hering
On Fri, Jul 14, LATBauerdick wrote: However, at the OF prompt (after booting with command option OF) I do not find a way to send the necessary back-slashes! Use the # key. But this doesn't work on some of the early BW G3 machines, if you have such a machine use another usb keyboard or the

Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation

2000-07-18 Thread hadess
Quoting Sven LUTHER [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip Just a question, ... what is the true benefit from running helix gnome in place of official debian gnome packages ? Hum... They're up-to-date ! If you know where I can get the official debian packages for these updated packages (I looked in

Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation

2000-07-18 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 12:52:12PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Sven LUTHER [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip Just a question, ... what is the true benefit from running helix gnome in place of official debian gnome packages ? Hum... They're up-to-date ! If you know where I can

Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation

2000-07-18 Thread hadess
Quoting Sven LUTHER [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 12:52:12PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Sven LUTHER [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip Just a question, ... what is the true benefit from running helix gnome in place of official debian gnome packages ?

Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation

2000-07-18 Thread hadess
Quoting Peter Teichman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 12:18:06PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi fellow PPC users, Here I make a report of the status of the .debs I compiled over the week-end and will (very soon) make available. I CC'ed Peter Teichman, as he seems to be

kernel-2.2.17pre11 boots without display on G4

2000-07-18 Thread Bjørn Ola Smievoll
Just upgraded my kernel to 2.2.17pre11 (from 2.2.17pre5) and my sawtooth now longer gets my console going. I can ssh inn from another machine after it has booted, but the display just shows the initial screen 'Welcome to Linux, kernel 2.2.17 [...] booting...' My dmesg contains this line: Jul 18

PowerBook 3400 modem

2000-07-18 Thread michael baldwin
I am having some trouble getting my modem to work on my powerbook 3400. I hope some one might be able to help. The autoprobing doesn't find it during the ppconfig setup. I see that dmesg tells me that the serial port and the irda port are found. The 3400 has a combo ethernet/modem port.

Re: kernel-2.2.17pre11 boots without display on G4

2000-07-18 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:51:14PM +0200, BjXrn Ola Smievoll wrote: Just upgraded my kernel to 2.2.17pre11 (from 2.2.17pre5) and my sawtooth now longer gets my console going. I can ssh inn from another machine after it has booted, but the display just shows the initial screen 'Welcome to

Re: PowerBook 3400 modem

2000-07-18 Thread Chris Baker
michael baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having some trouble getting my modem to work on my powerbook 3400. I hope some one might be able to help. The autoprobing doesn't find it during the ppconfig setup. I see that dmesg tells me that the serial port and the irda port are found.

Re: kernel-2.2.17pre11 boots without display on G4

2000-07-18 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:51:14PM +0200, BjXrn Ola Smievoll wrote: Just upgraded my kernel to 2.2.17pre11 (from 2.2.17pre5) and my sawtooth now longer gets my console going. I can ssh inn from another machine after it has booted, but the display just shows the initial screen 'Welcome to