Firewire iBooks: supported yet?

2000-09-26 Thread Phil Fraering
Hi. I'll be ordering a firewire ibook sometime tomorrow. It would be nice to be able to run linux on it as well as MacOS, although I'll primarily be using it for MacOS. Anyway, my main questions are: * Where are the CD images? I couldn't find them at "ftp.debian.org". Is there a chance modificati

Re: debian: C library man pages

2000-09-26 Thread C.M. Connelly
"KM" == Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "BJS" == Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BJS> I *hate* the user interface for info. man is so much BJS> easier. Is there a better way to use info other than the BJS> command line info command. The KM> I use M-x info in Emacs. There'

Re: debian: C library man pages

2000-09-26 Thread Krzys Majewski
I use M-x info in Emacs. -chris Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I *hate* the user interface for info. man is so much easier. > Is there a better way to use info other than the command line info command. > The

Re: debian: C library man pages

2000-09-26 Thread Brendan J Simon
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:31:22PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > > I can't find the C library manpages. I'm running Potato on a PowerMac > > and Intel system. > > I have install manpages, libc6 and glibc-doc. I can't find any other > > appropriate package by us

raid troubles

2000-09-26 Thread Jeremiah Merkl
has anyone else gotten a raid0 drive set up and moutned successfully? I'm having difficulties with raidtools 0.42-22 from woody. Should I be using raidtools2? If so, I need to patch my kernel source (2.2.17), right? mdadd is giving me: # mdadd -a md_add(): zero device size, huh, bailing out. /de

Re: Differences between i386 and ppc kernels?

2000-09-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 12:32:54PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >It might be worth submitting a wishlist bug against boot-floppies requesting > >t > >hat > >it register the installed kernel and modules with dpkg. The implementation > >mi > >ght > >be tricky, but it would make it easier to b

problem booting from sda during installation

2000-09-26 Thread Indraneel Majumdar
Hi, I'm new to the list (which I've joined after becoming bald in the last 2 days trying to sort out this problem ;-( I've looked at the archives (also LinuxPPC archives) with no result. Please help. I've downloaded potatoPPC 1st CD and have mounted it -o loop on my SuSE/intel box and then export

Re: debian-powerpc: Why does my PowerBook click ???

2000-09-26 Thread Nelson Abramson
Brendan J Simon wrote: > I have a new PowerBook G3 and it continually clicks. Sometimes it > > It's clicking through the speakers. It's the kind of sound you get when > you plug/unplug an amplifier while it is turned on. > > Any ideas what could be causing this and how can I get rid of the > an

Re: Is the Debian 2.2 PPC CD 1 bootable?

2000-09-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Is the following sensible: > > > > 1) Delete all the existing partitions (except perhaps partition 1 - the > > partition map) > > 2) Create Apple_Bootstrap partition from mac-fdisk > > 3) Use Apple recovery CD to create "1" HFS partition taking up part of > > the hard disc > > 4) Restart the D

Re: Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary

2000-09-26 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > I was thinking along the lines of a patch to drivers/net/Config.in to say > > "PCI NE2000 and clones (see help)" and then put the list of clones in the > > appropriate section of Documentation/Configure.help. > > Also,

Re: Differences between i386 and ppc kernels?

2000-09-26 Thread dwayne
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:32:53PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >> >> > The ThinkPad works fine. Is there a known problem with the dhcp package >> >> > or is this really evidence that different kernel config options are >> >> >

Re: Differences between i386 and ppc kernels?

2000-09-26 Thread dwayne
>Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:32:53PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: >> > dhcp works fine with a kernel that supports it. As you say, the Debian i3 >86 >> > kernel has it, the Debian pmac kernel doesn't. Why? Got me! >> >> Exactly what is needed? File a bug on kerne

gnome-core / gnome-applets 1.2.2 "Three Movies and a Slim Jim" released (fwd)

2000-09-26 Thread Sergio Brandano
--- Forwarded Message To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org Subject: gnome-core / gnome-applets 1.2.2 "Three Movies and a Slim Jim" released From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jacob "Ulysses" Berkman) Date: 25 Sep 2000 14:39:55 -0400 Hello, Updates to the stable versions of gnome

Re: Differences between i386 and ppc kernels?

2000-09-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:32:53PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> > The ThinkPad works fine. Is there a known problem with the dhcp package > >> > or is this really evidence that different kernel config options are > >> > used on

Re: Is the Debian 2.2 PPC CD 1 bootable?

2000-09-26 Thread dukeswj0
> > I've now got as far as partitioning. The partitioning instructions say > I need to create a small partition of type Apple_bootstrap before the > MacOS partition. The trouble is that although MacOS claims to have > initialised the disc with one partition, mac-fdisk shows there being > 10. Wh

Re: Differences between i386 and ppc kernels?

2000-09-26 Thread dwayne
>On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:32:53PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> > The ThinkPad works fine. Is there a known problem with the dhcp package >> > or is this really evidence that different kernel config options are >> > used on the two architectures? If the latter

Re: Differences between i386 and ppc kernels?

2000-09-26 Thread dwayne
>dhcp appears works for me on my PowerMac-G4 and my PowerBook-G3. >I used the dhcpcd client. The client works fine. Looks like the preferred DHCP client has changed from dhcpcd to pump as of Debian 2.2 (potato. I am using pump on both machines (and several others) successfully. My question was in

Re: Glibc, gcc, libdb2 and nss_db

2000-09-26 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > The new gcc package build failed on Alpha during stage1 of the gpc > build. I can try eliminating gpc from the build for now (allowing me to > continue to get the new glibc stuff working), if that's an > option... This probably doesn't have

Re: debian: C library man pages

2000-09-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:31:22PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > I can't find the C library manpages. I'm running Potato on a PowerMac > and Intel system. > I have install manpages, libc6 and glibc-doc. I can't find any other > appropriate package by using "apt-cache pkgnames" or "apt-cache

Re: debian: C library man pages

2000-09-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
Brendan J Simon wrote: > > I can't find the C library manpages. I'm running Potato on a PowerMac > and Intel system. > I have install manpages, libc6 and glibc-doc. I can't find any other > appropriate package by using "apt-cache pkgnames" or "apt-cache search". > > What package do I need to in

Re: Differences between i386 and ppc kernels?

2000-09-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:32:53PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > dhcp works fine with a kernel that supports it. As you say, the Debian i386 > > kernel has it, the Debian pmac kernel doesn't. Why? Got me! > > Exactly what is needed? File a bug on kernel-image-2.

Re: Glibc, gcc, libdb2 and nss_db

2000-09-26 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > Well, here it comes. Glibc 2.1.94, hot of the glibc release process. I'm > currently building i386, powerpc and sparc, which I will upload throughout > the day and tonight as I build them. These are going into woody. Several > notes for the other ports (t

Re: getting pismo to boot by itself "smoke test"

2000-09-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 11:28:57AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Hmm... when I installed potato on my Pismo, it seemed rather easy. Too bad I > don't remember how I did it. it probably is, its just one of those things you have to know the right order or else you end up doing all kinds of things

Re: getting pismo to boot by itself "smoke test"

2000-09-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > Do I get right that you are talking about the physical position? AFAIK > > > only the logical partition number is important. > > > > yeah physical position is totally irrelevant, you can have it > > physically at the end of the disk and then just reorder it so it > >

Re: getting pismo to boot by itself "smoke test"

2000-09-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 10:34:02AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > :-) The mac-fdisk maintainer yet has to figure out how exactly reordering > partitions works. I just need a scratch monkey to test this on. (goes > digging for a spare zip ...) bah! i have a spare disk all handy ive been letting

Re: getting pismo to boot by itself "smoke test"

2000-09-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Do I get right that you are talking about the physical position? AFAIK only > > the logical partition number is important. > > yeah physical position is totally irrelevant, you can have it > physically at the end of the disk and then just reorder it so it > numbers at 2 or right after the driv

Re: XView bug/PPC machines available for developers?

2000-09-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:35:47PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > No sweat - and you didn't introduce the bug from what I've seen on the > > BTS, it looks like Hartmut did when he did the glibc2.1 fixes for xview. > > See #72387 ... > > ...and he was only half wrong. :-) > He also added a __v

Kernel Hanging : no more, SCSI problem

2000-09-26 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi ! The last fsmlab kernel for my board (PreP 603 PPC) stop hanging but the boot have a problem with my SCSI Board : sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 17, function 0 sym53c8xx: setting PCI_COMMAND_PARITY...(fix-up) sym53c8xx: 53c895 detected sym53c895-0: r

debian-powerpc: Why does my PowerBook click ???

2000-09-26 Thread Brendan J Simon
I have a new PowerBook G3 and it continually clicks. Sometimes it doesn't click for 10 seconds or so and at other times it clicks close to every second. I'm running Potato with kernel-image-2.2.17-pmac, xfree-4.0.1 (self compiled) and with all the latest proposed updates. It's clicking through th

debian: C library man pages

2000-09-26 Thread Brendan J Simon
I can't find the C library manpages. I'm running Potato on a PowerMac and Intel system. I have install manpages, libc6 and glibc-doc. I can't find any other appropriate package by using "apt-cache pkgnames" or "apt-cache search". What package do I need to install to get the C library manpages.

Re: Is the Debian 2.2 PPC CD 1 bootable?

2000-09-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:07:37PM +0100, John Winters wrote: > I've now got as far as partitioning. The partitioning instructions say > I need to create a small partition of type Apple_bootstrap before the > MacOS partition. The trouble is that although MacOS claims to have > initialised the di