LocalTalk support?

2001-05-07 Thread Craig S. Cottingham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does Debian PPC (or, for that matter, any flavor of Linux PPC kernel) support LocalTalk? If not, is there any good reason other than nobody's bothered to implement it? Have I gone out of list scope and should ask somewhere else? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

Re: HFS partition not recognized?

2001-05-07 Thread Chris Tillman
> > I have an HFS partition with MacOS 8.5 on it. The /current/powermac > directory is located on the HFS partition as just powermac/. When I select > harddisk as my medium for installation, it prompts me for the partition > where the archive resides (/dev/sda9: HFS is selected). It doesn't f

yaboot.conf for kernel on partition other than root

2001-05-07 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey, So after having gotten reiserfs working, I want to move my root partition over to reiserfs. Apparently yaboot can't yet handle loading kernels off reiserfs so I need to have my kernels on a separate ext2 partition. What would the .conf look like for this? I read the man pages but wasn't qui

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-07 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Jason E. Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK. What's the deal with ReiserFS on PPC? Ok. So I applied jeffm's endian patch to the reiserfsprogs from debian, and hand patched the hunk from misc.c that failed. mkreiserfs runs fine, and after rebooting and choosing the kernel with the endian

Re: Working configuration files needed for X 4.0.3 (FireWire iBook) and linux-kernel-source 2.4.4-1 (FireWire iBook, G4 Cube)

2001-05-07 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:08:55PM -0400, Jeremy Radlow wrote: > (I've tried playing with hadess.net's suggested XF86Config, but I never got > it to do anything but lock up my iBook.) > > If anyone has working configuration files for these, could you please send > them to me or post them to the l

Working configuration files needed for X 4.0.3 (FireWire iBook) and linux-kernel-source 2.4.4-1 (FireWire iBook, G4 Cube)

2001-05-07 Thread Jeremy Radlow
(I've tried playing with hadess.net's suggested XF86Config, but I never got it to do anything but lock up my iBook.) If anyone has working configuration files for these, could you please send them to me or post them to the list? Thanks, Jeremy

Re: xfs,powerpc, gcc (was Re: RaiserFS PPC status)

2001-05-07 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Just a friendly Jedi Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 05:04:32PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > "Just a friendly Jedi Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Anyway if there is somone outthere willing to try powerpc xfsprogs please > > > point your apt-ge

Re: xfs,powerpc, gcc (was Re: RaiserFS PPC status)

2001-05-07 Thread Just a friendly Jedi Knight
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 05:04:32PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > "Just a friendly Jedi Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Anyway if there is somone outthere willing to try powerpc xfsprogs please > > point your apt-get at > > > > deb ftp://ftp.plukwa.net/debian-local sid main > > I

Re: reqs for vlc ?

2001-05-07 Thread Michel Lanners
On 6 May, this message from Vinai echoed through cyberspace: > I wanted to try out playing DVD's under Potato PPC. So I grabbed a vlc > .tgz archive from www.videolan.org. Everything seemed to compile, but > on launching vlc, I get a window, the DVD drive spins for a while, but > nothing else s

Re: 7200 clock

2001-05-07 Thread Jason Healy
At 989257575s since epoch (05/07/01 13:46:15 -0400 UTC), Kevin van Haaren wrote: > Now that I fixed the firewall it's back to resetting the clock -12 seconds > every 90 minutes I had an Intel box that did this. It lost time whenever the system went to sleep. Since I didn't have apm compiled int

Re: 7200 clock

2001-05-07 Thread Kevin van Haaren
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:03:13AM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:24:18AM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: > > > > Not really a debian issue, but does anyone else with a 7200 have serious > > clock issues? Bascially I'm losing 12 seconds every 10 minutes. Through > > a s

Re: xfs,powerpc, gcc (was Re: RaiserFS PPC status)

2001-05-07 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Just a friendly Jedi Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyway if there is somone outthere willing to try powerpc xfsprogs please > point your apt-get at > > deb ftp://ftp.plukwa.net/debian-local sid main I would like to but your server is not responding to ftp requests... jas.

Strange things when playing audio CDs on IMac

2001-05-07 Thread Nic Ferrier
I have to ask this question here coz I can't think of anywhere else to ask it. After my IMac has been up and running for more than 48 hours I start to get IDE bus dropouts whilst playing audio CDs. When the CDs get ejected they are really hot to touch. I'm not sure if it's my IMac or whether ther

Re: 7200 clock

2001-05-07 Thread David J. Roundy
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:24:18AM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: > > Not really a debian issue, but does anyone else with a 7200 have serious > clock issues? Bascially I'm losing 12 seconds every 10 minutes. Through > a stupid ipchains firewall scripting error i blocked my NTP access on > Friday

7200 clock

2001-05-07 Thread Kevin van Haaren
Not really a debian issue, but does anyone else with a 7200 have serious clock issues? Bascially I'm losing 12 seconds every 10 minutes. Through a stupid ipchains firewall scripting error i blocked my NTP access on Friday. When I fixed it earlier today it was off by 443 seconds. Is this hard

Re: xfs,powerpc, gcc (was Re: RaiserFS PPC status)

2001-05-07 Thread Just a friendly Jedi Knight
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:27:18PM +0200, Just a friendly Jedi Knight wrote: > Nathan Scott from SGI send me patch but it didn't work. I now figured some > other way to fix that and it seems it partially worked (now it quits with: It looks like my "fix" made the trick (i mailed my solution to Na

fonts

2001-05-07 Thread Daniel Bondurant
I have having problems with fonts. I have all the font packages installed (from unstable), but gnone, enlightenment, and wmaker can't find them. I also have xfs running. where do I define the path the font, and where do the .deb packages put them? Is there someplace other then XFree86-4 that

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-07 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Just a friendly Jedi Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (and indeed Jeff Mahoney's patch didn't apply cleanly because of debian patch > but it was realy minor issue). I'll try to clean this patch a bit and submit > it both to Jeff Mahoney and Ed Boraas (Debian Maintainer). OK. Glad I wasn't o

Macintosh keyboard

2001-05-07 Thread Lorenzo De Vito
Can anyone help me to find good documentation for configure my italian usb keyboard ? I've a G3 (B&W). If possible there is some example file.

Re: installation hang on 5200 Performa

2001-05-07 Thread Paul Kimber
Monolithic linux kernel will _not_ work on these machines. There is a project for nubus machines underway but support for the performas is lagging. If you are interested go to http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net Cheers, Paul Stefano Zacchiroli said at Òinstallation hang on 5200 PerformaÓ. [07/May/0

Re: reqs for vlc ?

2001-05-07 Thread Vinai
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: } How is it supposed to read the data from disc without UDF support? ;) I was hoping that vlc would take care of file system translation without the need for kernel support, like hfsutils do ... } There are Lombards with DVD drives? Sure it's

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-07 Thread Just a friendly Jedi Knight
Hi all! Just to let You know patched reiserfsprogs_3.x.0j-2.0.jedi1_powerpc.deb are available now at deb ftp://ftp.plukwa.net/debian-local sid main (and indeed Jeff Mahoney's patch didn't apply cleanly because of debian patch but it was realy minor issue). I'll try to clean this patch a bit

installation hang on 5200 Performa

2001-05-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
A user report me that installation of potato on that machine hang in booting with standard powerpc boot disks. There exists known problems on this machine ? Please Cc me the answers, I'm not subscribed to this ML. Have fun! -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538

Re: Audio CDs on Titanium G4 Powerbook

2001-05-07 Thread David N. Welton
Rob Pfile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I dont know if anyone ever followed up to some questions in late > april about how to get audio cd support working on the TiBook. I've > done it, here's what i had to do: Thanks! > 2) you must pass the argument "hdc=scsi" to the kernel on boot to make >

Re: reqs for vlc ?

2001-05-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
Vinai wrote: I wanted to try out playing DVD's under Potato PPC. So I grabbed a vlc .tgz archive from www.videolan.org. Everything seemed to compile, but on launching vlc, I get a window, the DVD drive spins for a while, but nothing else seems to happen. I let it spin for a while in case it

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-07 Thread Just a friendly Jedi Knight
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:08:34PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Just a friendly Jedi Knight wrote: > > > Patched 3.x.0j-2 is available here: > > ftp://ftp.plukwa.net/pub/debian-local/reiserfsprogs_3.x.0j-2ppc_powerpc.deb > > Great! =o > > > > (i've "bumped" revision number) > > Any pa

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
Just a friendly Jedi Knight wrote: > Patched 3.x.0j-2 is available here: > ftp://ftp.plukwa.net/pub/debian-local/reiserfsprogs_3.x.0j-2ppc_powerpc.deb Great! > (i've "bumped" revision number) Any package not in Debian proper should at least have two dots IMHO so that it doesn't interfere wi

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-07 Thread Just a friendly Jedi Knight
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 08:58:45AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > "Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > > > OK. What's the deal with ReiserFS on PPC? > > > > When I go to JeffM's page it lists the patch to > > reiserfsprogs3.x.0j. But debian already has a reiserfsprogs. However, > > when I try to run 'mkr

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Still fails. Log attached. > > > > It tries to initialize int10 which can't work for us yet. Try Option > > "NoInt10" (hasn't worked for me yet) or move away libint10.a . > > I moved libint10.a to libint10.a.bak an

Re: Boot-Floppies-Good News

2001-05-07 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:57:25AM +0200, Giorgio Terzi wrote: > Hello Sven, > > last night i have downloaded some new releases of the deb's software > that is needed to make boot-floppies. > I have build the floppies and the root image produced now works also > with the reduced libc library. :)))

HFS partition not recognized?

2001-05-07 Thread David Minor
Here's a newbie question. I have an HFS partition with MacOS 8.5 on it. The /current/powermac directory is located on the HFS partition as just powermac/. When I select harddisk as my medium for installation, it prompts me for the partition where the archive resides (/dev/sda9: HFS is selected

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > OK. What's the deal with ReiserFS on PPC? > > When I go to JeffM's page it lists the patch to > reiserfsprogs3.x.0j. But debian already has a reiserfsprogs. However, > when I try to run 'mkreiserfs /dev/hda13' I just get a 'Usage: ...' > line. > > So I did a apt-get

Re: Can't boot from 2.2r3 CD

2001-05-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:00:27AM -0500, Melissa Reid wrote: > No, I haven't seen anything about this on the list, and I can't > find anything in the mailing list archives either. > > I have a G4 AGP Powermac; I downloaded the first binary powerpc > image, and the MD5 checksum matches; I burned i

Can't boot from 2.2r3 CD

2001-05-07 Thread Melissa Reid
No, I haven't seen anything about this on the list, and I can't find anything in the mailing list archives either. I have a G4 AGP Powermac; I downloaded the first binary powerpc image, and the MD5 checksum matches; I burned it to disk with Toast with no errors reported. When I boot off this CD, I