Re: Potato revision 1

2000-11-20 Thread Taro Fukunaga
Taro Fukunaga wrote: Hello, Also I found that several source files in the examples directory are gzipped which caused Make to fail until I ungzippped the files myself. The files are: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/doc/mico/examples$ pwd /usr/doc/mico/examples [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/doc/mico/examp

Re: CHRP boot disks

2000-11-20 Thread Eric Reischer
> Where is the CHRP boot disk image? > > I looked here but could not find one: > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/ images-1.44/ > > It can not be rescue.bin because that image will not fit on a dos-format'ed floppy. > You need to download that file

Re: Potato revision 1

2000-11-20 Thread Taro Fukunaga
Hello, I am running Potato 2.2r1. I had trouble compiling mico example programs and I fixed the problem by making a simple link: ln -s libbsd-compat.a libbsd.a I am not at all familiar with how debian bugs get filed and fixed, but I hope this gets fixed in the future. --Taro

Build request: libjcode-perl, libft-perl

2000-11-20 Thread Peter Abrahamsen
Hi, libft-perl isn't (to the best of my knowlege) in the archives. It depends on libjcode-perl, which is also not in the archives, but I don't know why. S'pose somebody could push the magic button to get the build daemon to make 'em? Thanks, Peter

Re: /dev/fb* permissions, local DoS

2000-11-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:28:29PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > hour:/home/kr0n# ls -ls /dev/fb0 > > > 0 crw--w--w-1 root tty 29, 0 Jul 5 14:44 /dev/fb0 > > > > apparently writing random garbage into the fb devices is not supposed > > to cause a ker

Re: CHRP boot disks

2000-11-20 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 07:00:27PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: > >Are them 100% broken? > >I see the boot disk is ext2, and AFAIK openfirmware can only read FAT > >disks (I haven't been able to use the ext2 disk, I had to copy the > >kernel). Beats me. I don't know anything about chrp :) > >Why

CHRP boot disks

2000-11-20 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
>Are them 100% broken? >I see the boot disk is ext2, and AFAIK openfirmware can only read FAT >disks (I haven't been able to use the ext2 disk, I had to copy the >kernel). >Why is serial console support missing? The most common CHRP systems are >not shipped with frame buffers (I've lost a whole da

[ANN] libapm 4 pmud

2000-11-20 Thread Hadess
Here is the holy grail ! Here comes your saver ! You can now compile and use battstat, the wicked battery monitor for the Gnome Desktop, on your almighty Powerbook. Just install libapm4pmud and rest back watching your battery draw and die. OK, this might not be *that* interesting, but you can n

Re: problems starting X

2000-11-20 Thread Donnell
Check the Screen section of your XF86Config file. I saw the same thing happen with a powermac clone. The driver was set to "accel". Try changing it to "fbdev". A word of extreme caution: anXious did not do a good job of setting up XF86Config for the powermac clone's Keyboard section either.

Re: problems starting X

2000-11-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
William Crowshaw wrote: > For more clues about my problem, I could post all the gory details startx > outputs. My monitor is a simple Apple Multiscan 15". Could you post the gory details? It's hard to do much without them... -Adam P. Welcome to the best software in the world toda

Re: Searching for X11-Keymap german ...

2000-11-20 Thread Hadess
Michael Flaig wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm searching for a german X11-keymap that works fine on the Powerbook > Firewire. There are 2 things that we would need to know to be able to give you a proper keymap: - the version of the kernel, the new input layer appeared in 2.2.17 (AFAIK) with some guest a

Re: Swiss/French KBD Keymaps

2000-11-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In fact, I'm looking this keymaps for a PwerPC Keyboard ADB, plug on > PowerMac 7500/7600. I don't know if there is such a keymap somewhere. However, if you can get a kernel with the new input layer and Linux keycodes running, you could use the standard i386 keymaps,

Re: /dev/fb* permissions, local DoS

2000-11-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
Ethan Benson wrote: > > hour:/home/kr0n# ls -ls /dev/fb0 > > 0 crw--w--w-1 root tty 29, 0 Jul 5 14:44 /dev/fb0 > > apparently writing random garbage into the fb devices is not supposed > to cause a kernel panic, that seems to be a bug in the framebuffer > driver in my kernel.

problems starting X

2000-11-20 Thread William Crowshaw
Here's a repost of the message I sent out whose Subject: line disappeared. I just installed Debian 2.2 on my powermac 7500. I am having problems bringing up x. First, upon boot, the system tries to start xdm, but it fails after the screen flashes black three times. Next, if I simply try startx a

Re: Searching for X11-Keymap german ...

2000-11-20 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Nov 20, Michael Flaig wrote: > Hi! > > I'm searching for a german X11-keymap that works fine on the Powerbook > Firewire. > Has anybody a @ with default keymap? > > I don't understand the X11 keymap concept ... > > Has anybody working keymaps ? > or correct config ? ftp.suse.com/pu

Searching for X11-Keymap german ...

2000-11-20 Thread Michael Flaig
Hi! I'm searching for a german X11-keymap that works fine on the Powerbook Firewire. Has anybody a @ with default keymap? I don't understand the X11 keymap concept ... Has anybody working keymaps ? or correct config ? thanks a lot ... cu, mfl -- Michael Flaig ... PROLinux

Unidentified subject!

2000-11-20 Thread William Crowshaw
I just installed Debian 2.2 on my powermac 7500. I am having problems bringing up x. First, upon boot, the system tries to start xdm, but it fails after the screen flashes black three times. Next, if I simply try startx as root I get a error message that I should report this crash to the develope

Re: /dev/fb* permissions, local DoS

2000-11-20 Thread Michael Schmitz
> apparently writing random garbage into the fb devices is not supposed > to cause a kernel panic, that seems to be a bug in the framebuffer That's just MHO. I've not tried to reproduce this with atyfb, and I'd probably need an objdump -d --start-address= output from you if I cannot reproduce it h

Re: /dev/fb* permissions, local DoS

2000-11-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:54:12AM -0200, Philipe Gaspar wrote: > this is some strange > > hour:/home/kr0n# cat /dev/urandom > /dev/fb0 > bash: /dev/fb0: No such device not really, it just means you don't have a framebuffer configured in your kernel. intel machines usually do not use a framebuff

Re: /dev/fb* permissions, local DoS

2000-11-20 Thread Philipe Gaspar
this is some strange hour:/home/kr0n# cat /dev/urandom > /dev/fb0 bash: /dev/fb0: No such device hour:/home/kr0n# ls -ls /dev/fb0 0 crw--w--w-1 root tty 29, 0 Jul 5 14:44 /dev/fb0 Ethan Benson wrote: On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:09:23AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: So 0620 m

Re: X and Woody

2000-11-20 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Fine, when is -6 due? > > The correct answer is always, "when it's ready". But I just uploaded it to > auric's incoming. OK; I'll pick it up ASAP. But anything in the range of 'in a matter of weeks' to 'sometime next year' would have been sufficient for me - I just wanted to know if I shoul

Re: Swiss/French KBD Keymaps

2000-11-20 Thread benoit . marchal
In fact, I'm looking this keymaps for a PwerPC Keyboard ADB, plug on PowerMac 7500/7600. Thanks in advance for your help, Benoit ___ Benoit MARCHAL Ingenieur Systemes et Reseaux - CNS - CRPHT Tel : +352 42 59 91 211 E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /dev/fb* permissions, local DoS

2000-11-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:09:23AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > So 0620 might be better, with /dev/fb in group video or a dedicated group. that seems more reasonable. > This is on a SuSE 6.4 system BTW: > > crw-rw 1 root video 29, 0 Mar 11 2000 /dev/fb0 this is broken IMO,

Re: php4 ... no packages in woody !?

2000-11-20 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 07:43:27PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 08:09:29PM +0100, Michael Flaig wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I´ve upgraded to woody but the php4 packages were purged. > > Arem´t there woody Packages of PHP4? Are they work in progress? > > > > Could I get pro

probem with ethernet on potata/mac beige G3

2000-11-20 Thread Andrew Watson
Bit of a newbie question. I am running a vanilla install of potato on a mac beige g3/233 with exim/apache/python/netatalk and no X. It works well, except that every so often ( sometimes twice in a day, sometimes not for a month ) something goes wrong with the ethernet. 1. The machine becomes unpi

Re: /dev/fb* permissions, local DoS

2000-11-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
Samu wrote: On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 06:04:01AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: does anyone know why debian has /dev/fb* with 622 permissions? the reason i ask is there is a pretty nasty security problem with this, try the following: cat /dev/urandom > /dev/fb0 on my system i get a instant ker

Re: X11 config

2000-11-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
Michael Flaig wrote: I've got a Problem with my aktual Debian Installation. I want to run 16bit Mode with XFree ... I've set the DefaultColorDepth to 16 but when I do "startx" i'm getting errors from the XFB_Dev Server. fbdevScreenInit: unable to set screen params (Invalid Argument) Could it

mouse problems

2000-11-20 Thread Chris Bryan
I've successfully installed woody (finally!) with only one problem: the mouse and keyboard work extremely sporatically... sometimes I have no problems, and other times neither of them are responsive. It's not the hardware (everything is fine in 0S 9) so it's definitely something in linux. Any Ideas

Re: Sound on a PowerMac

2000-11-20 Thread Michael Flaig
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 07:26:18PM -0800, Donnell wrote: > Thanks. The dmasound module was the problem. During installation, I chose > soundcore but not dmasound. The description for dmasound mentioned only the > Amiga and Atari. Hi! Yes the discription schould contain macintosh or apple, to