Re: debian-powerpc: Airport with Titanium Powerbook

2001-06-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Here's what I do in /etc/power/pwrctl (maybe not the best place to do > it): Nope, using pwrctl-local would be a better place (to avoid your changed script being overwritten on the next pmud update). > sleep) > ifdown eth1 && { > rmmod airport >

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:42:24PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > APUS has its own, BootX/loadlin-style bootloader which resides on the AmigaOS > side completely. I already contacted the kernel-package maintainer about this, > asking him about his thoughts on just prompting the user to undertake

ldconfig woes

2001-06-07 Thread Brian Hicks
Lately, when I've been running apt-get upgrade, every once an a while I've had to re-run a package or two, because ldconfig was acting funny. This wasn't much of a problem, so I pretty much ignored it. Now I can rarely ever get ldconfig to run without giving me an illegal instruction at all. I'm

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:26:45PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > Um, well, wait a second. There's quik and there's yaboot. The > > latter needs a little 800K partition, but is that so wrong? Quik > > for old world and yaboot for

Starting Gnome desktop

2001-06-07 Thread Rod Brookes
Please can anyone help? I have just done a new install on a G4 including Gnome but the desktop which loads is xdm and I would like Gnome to load on startup. Please can anyone help? Regards Rod Brookes

Re: debian-powerpc: Airport with Titanium Powerbook

2001-06-07 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 03:01:52PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:07:44PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > Here's what I do, which is slightly more verisitle: > > sleep) > > if [ "`lsmod | grep airport 2>/dev/null`" ]; then > >AIRPORT=`cat /proc/net/wireless | grep eth | sed

PPC

2001-06-07 Thread Heyliger, Brian
Where can I buy a compiled copy of the PPC version of Debian? Preferably with the 2.4 kernel. Thanks, Brian Heyliger MCP CCNA| | Jr Systems Analyst||| ||| TeleCommunication Systems .|. .|. Analog: (813) 831-6353

Re: debian-powerpc: Airport with Titanium Powerbook

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:07:44PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > Here's what I do, which is slightly more verisitle: > sleep) > if [ "`lsmod | grep airport 2>/dev/null`" ]; then >AIRPORT=`cat /proc/net/wireless | grep eth | sed 's/^ //' | cut -d : -f 1` >ifdown $AIRPORT >echo $AIRPORT > /va

Re: woody apt-get dist-upgrade problem

2001-06-07 Thread Alan Macdougall
On 3/6/01 at 2:16 PM, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a similar problem awhile ago going from > potato r2 to woody. In my case, I was able to > solve it by using apt-get install dpkg to force > dpkg to upgrade first, and then once I did that, > apt-get dist-upgrade

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:18:57PM -0400, Adam Goode wrote: > Yes, I think that this is a great idea. I've been using i386 keycodes > for a few months now, and it's nice to have ctrl-alt-del work properly. > > The only problems I see with this: > > * On Apple keyboards (USB or ADB), this swaps t

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 04:01:53AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > NewWorld powermacs all lack floppy drives so it would seem logical to > simply default to do_bootfloppy = False if the machine is a NewWorld > powermac. I'll agree with that. > however its impossible to really make a very useful

Re: Specific literature/HOWTOs? .. and a comment

2001-06-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > I'd need a dump of the partition table (from both tools, preferably) to > > tell what's gone wrong. > > After doing the complete partitioning under MacOS, the install worked Yep, I got that :-) Shouldn't have been necessary, though. > out. So I think the partitioning scheme as it is now, is d

Re: debian-powerpc: Airport with Titanium Powerbook

2001-06-07 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:12:27PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > That's actually simpler than Tom's suggestion (doesn't need sed or > grep). But it hardcodes the airport as eth1 - is that always true? No, which is why I did it my way. It'll be eth1 95% of the time or so, but it's quite happy

IR on TiBook?

2001-06-07 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
Recently there was a thread about using the IR port on Pismo's, saying that there is needed kernel support that is missing. Does this affect the TiBook as well? That is has anybody got IRDA support working with the TiBook? Or do I need to wait? -raf

Re: debian-powerpc: Airport with Titanium Powerbook

2001-06-07 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:43:32AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > stuff recently, and it's been working absolutely fine for me. Keep in > mind that you need to remove the Airport module for now before sleeping > (in order to power it down, and to avoid amnesia after wakeup). > > Here's what I do

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Michel Daenzer
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 02:14:51AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > > > Thanks for the pointer. AFAICS it's for the user who installs a > > kernel-image package though; is there a way to influence this with > > kernel-package or in my source package that I'm not seeing? > >

Re: debian-powerpc: Airport with Titanium Powerbook

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 04:26:59PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 03:01:52PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:07:44PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > > Here's what I do, which is slightly more verisitle: > > > sleep) > > > if [ "`lsmod | grep airport 2>/dev/

Re: debian-powerpc: Airport with Titanium Powerbook

2001-06-07 Thread Michel Lanners
On 4 Jun, this message from Brendan J Simon echoed through cyberspace: > I'm trying to get my Airport wireless networking going with my TiBook. > I have downloaded the latest kernel (2.4.5pre5) source from fsmlabs > using rsync. I managed to compile the kernel but it crashes on > startup. I

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Andrew D Dixon
I'd like to be able to simply boot off of the hard disk from with only an ext2 partition on the disk and nothing else. I must admit that I'm new to the PPC architecture so if this is already possible please let me know. thanks, Andy Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > I have bee

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Tom Rini
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:26:45PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Um, well, wait a second. There's quik and there's yaboot. The > latter needs a little 800K partition, but is that so wrong? Quik > for old world and yaboot for newworld powermacs. If you want to use > quik, you also have to be "g

Re: ldconfig woes

2001-06-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 10:35:39PM -0500, Brian Hicks wrote: > > Lately, when I've been running apt-get upgrade, every once an a while I've > > had to re-run a package or two, because ldconfig was acting funny. This > > wasn't much of a problem, so I pretty much ignored it

Re: postgresql?

2001-06-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > > I see it's in non-US, is there a buildd for that? > > > > > > No, there isn't at present. > > > > Voltaire is a dual-processor machine, right? Could it run another > > buildd for non-US packages? Or would we need to actually build the > > Being dual-processor has nothing to do with it :)

Re: Starting Gnome desktop

2001-06-07 Thread Charles Sebold
On 13 Sivan 5761, Rod Brookes wrote: > I have just done a new install on a G4 including Gnome but the > desktop which loads is xdm and I would like Gnome to load on > startup. Please can anyone help? Does "apt-get install gdm" fix it? Note that *dm just handles the login pretty much; you can sta

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> interesting.. running showkey on both my x86 and powerpc the arrow > keys are producing the exact same keycodes. this is 2.2.19. i don't > see why X would have a problem.. are you sure this is still the case? > (i don't run X on powerpc) Surely so. I have X 4.0.3 from testing, and am using li

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Adam Goode
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:14:45PM -0700, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > ... > > to my .gnomerc so that up and down arrows would auto-repeat. Doubtless > there is some better solution, but I was not able to find it, even after > trolling through ML archives and various HOWTOs. Here is the relevant

Re: PPC

2001-06-07 Thread Vinai
Also, at: http://www.linuxiso.org/debian.html you can download debian 2.2r3 for PPC. You will have to roll your own 2.4 kernel though ... cheers vinai On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: }"Heyliger, Brian" wrote: }> }> Where can I buy a compiled copy of the PPC version of Debia

Re: woody apt-get dist-upgrade problem

2001-06-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
Alan Macdougall wrote: > > On 3/6/01 at 2:16 PM, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I had a similar problem awhile ago going from > > potato r2 to woody. In my case, I was able to > > solve it by using apt-get install dpkg to force > > dpkg to upgrade first, and then

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:26:45PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Um, well, wait a second. There's quik and there's yaboot. The > latter needs a little 800K partition, but is that so wrong? Quik its a bit annoying to have to have some silly partition for booting, but this is the way i see it: ro

Re: postgresql?

2001-06-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 10:32:43PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > [ I'm on the list, no need to CC me ] > > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I see it's in non-US, is there a buildd for that? > > > > No, there isn't at present. > > Voltaire is a dual-processor machine, right?

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Chris Tillman
> Is there some way of checking the OF for version information? If there is, > perhaps there could be some unification of the utilities...i.e., version 1.0 > is OldWorld, version 3 is New...then the appropriate steps would be followed > depending on version. > > Russell According to netbsd docs, a

Re: german keyboard (was:Specific literature/HOWTOs? .. and a comment)

2001-06-07 Thread Georg Koss
Hello! On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:21:03PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > > Hi, > > On Tue, 29 May 2001, Georg Koss wrote: > > > > time. Unfortunately no option for German key settings was offered during > > > install. > > kbdconfig on konsole > > I tried to install mac-de-latin1-nodead

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
Ethan Benson wrote: > I have been thinking about the way kernel-images currently handle the > standard bootloader and boot-floppy questions on installation. > > Right now its rather deficient on powerpc as it assumes all PowerPCs > are created equal which is far from the truth: > > it assumes al

Re: woody apt-get dist-upgrade problem

2001-06-07 Thread Georg Koss
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:49:29PM +1200, Alan Macdougall wrote: > > I tried just a plain apt-get upgrade as well, but this has caused lots > of other problems (eg, X doesn't work now, there's also some failed > dependencies like gnome-core appearing to depend on a version of > libcapplet0 that d

Re: PPC

2001-06-07 Thread Andrew D Dixon
"Heyliger, Brian" wrote: > > Where can I buy a compiled copy of the PPC version of Debian? Preferably > with the 2.4 kernel. > Um, you can download one off of the internet. You guys at Cisco do have the internet dont you;) But seriously, check out: http://www.debian.org/distrib/ there'

Re: ldconfig woes

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 10:35:39PM -0500, Brian Hicks wrote: > Lately, when I've been running apt-get upgrade, every once an a while I've > had to re-run a package or two, because ldconfig was acting funny. This > wasn't much of a problem, so I pretty much ignored it. Now I can rarely > ever get

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Andrew Sharp
Um, well, wait a second. There's quik and there's yaboot. The latter needs a little 800K partition, but is that so wrong? Quik for old world and yaboot for newworld powermacs. If you want to use quik, you also have to be "good." ~:^) a Tom Rini wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:44:45PM

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Adam Goode
Yes, I think that this is a great idea. I've been using i386 keycodes for a few months now, and it's nice to have ctrl-alt-del work properly. The only problems I see with this: * On Apple keyboards (USB or ADB), this swaps the "natural" position of alt (option) and meta (Apple). I have no pro

switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
Hi, I am wondering if there is any reason we should not switch woody to use linux keycodes by default and finally abandon the adb keycodes? AFAICT all that needs to be changed is dbootstrap to use i386 keymaps on macs, the kernel-images to turn off CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES, and console-* to choo

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Russell Hires
Is there some way of checking the OF for version information? If there is, perhaps there could be some unification of the utilities...i.e., version 1.0 is OldWorld, version 3 is New...then the appropriate steps would be followed depending on version. Russell __

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Tom Rini
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:44:45PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > I'd like to be able to simply boot off of the hard disk from with only > an ext2 partition on the disk and nothing else. I must admit that I'm > new to the PPC architecture so if this is already possible please let me > know. Er,

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Adam Goode
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:59:24PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > According to netbsd docs, a user can get the OF version by typing > > dev /openprom > .properties > > at the OF prompt. The response can be parsed for 'model'. But doing that > from Linux is another matter. > Perhaps this: cat /pr

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:44:45PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > I'd like to be able to simply boot off of the hard disk from with only > an ext2 partition on the disk and nothing else. I must admit that I'm > new to the PPC architecture so if this is already possible please let me > know. its p

Re: PPC

2001-06-07 Thread Matt Brubeck
> Where can I buy a compiled copy of the PPC version of Debian? > Preferably with the 2.4 kernel. Be warned that in most cases, 2.2.19 is more stable than the 2.4 series on powerpc. Unless you are doing development or depend on sepecific features or hardware supported only in 2.4, the 2.2 series i

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:15:59PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > Is there some way of checking the OF for version information? If there is, > perhaps there could be some unification of the utilities...i.e., version 1.0 > is OldWorld, version 3 is New...then the appropriate steps would be followed >

X screen blanking strangeness

2001-06-07 Thread Duncan Sands
I'm running X 4.0.3 on an 8500 powermac (kernel 2.4). If I leave the computer alone, after a while the screen goes blank. Normal! But not everything blanks: the clock for instance keeps being drawn, leaving a black screen with a clock on it. If I wait longer, eventually everything goes black, ev

X screen wraps around

2001-06-07 Thread Duncan Sands
I am running X 4.0.3 on an 8500 powermac (controlfb), kernel 2.4. If I use 8bpp all is well (kernel parameter: video=controlfb:vmode:14,cmode:0). If I use more bpp then the screen image is displaced to the right, and wraps around onto the left of the screen. Having the left of a window on the righ

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Russell Hires
Okay, but the original question makes it sound like the user is still going to have to have some idea about whether they have a new/oldworld machine or not. I say there should be a utility for both the Mac OS and for Linux that should be able to probe the OF and set the user on the proper course of

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Michel Lanners
On 5 Jun, this message from Ethan Benson echoed through cyberspace: > I am wondering if there is any reason we should not switch woody to > use linux keycodes by default and finally abandon the adb keycodes? There should be none, except maybe MOL: last time I checked (which was a few months ag

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:05:57AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > Okay, but the original question makes it sound like the user is still going > to have to have some idea about whether they have a new/oldworld machine or no > not. I say there should be a utility for both the Mac OS and for Linux th

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:37:29AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 5 Jun, this message from Ethan Benson echoed through cyberspace: > > I am wondering if there is any reason we should not switch woody to > > use linux keycodes by default and finally abandon the adb keycodes? > > There should

PPC browser (lite)

2001-06-07 Thread morten
On 31-May-2001 Philipp Kaeser wrote: > hej, > >> > but I have other things on my mind rigth now - >> > like finding a browser that is not mozilla >> Tried konqueror yet? > I find "skipstone" is most intriguing... it's > mozilla-based, but does not come with such a > bloated interface. > > you

Re: PPC browser (lite)

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:11:56PM +0200, morten wrote: > I've looked at > * konqueror - where apt-get gives me an error because libsasl7 does not > have an installation candidate > * galeon - I've include the apt-source but apt-get doesn't find the galeon > .deb > * SkipStone - where they link t

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Derek Homeier
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:42:34PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:18:57PM -0400, Adam Goode wrote: > > Yes, I think that this is a great idea. I've been using i386 keycodes > > for a few months now, and it's nice to have ctrl-alt-del work properly. > > > > The only problem

Install on 466 MHz G4?

2001-06-07 Thread Mark K. Gardner
Hello all, I have been struggling to install debian-powerpc on my new 466 MHz Macintosh PowerPC G4. (I am using the same approach I used at work to successfully configure a 2x450 MHz G4 to triple boot Debian, MacOS and MacOS X.) Here are the steps I have taken which I gleaned from the Debian insta

G4 Cube FWUpdate -->boot fiasco

2001-06-07 Thread Karl-Heinz Haag
Hello, I'm new to this group and to the ppc/apple hardware. With Debian I have experiences for several years ... on the i386 platform. In Mid-May I bought a G4 Cube. In general: it is the the 'new' (for me) hardware I have difficulties with. After some fiddling with MacOS and MacOSX on my Cu

Re: postgresql?

2001-06-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 08:09:52PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Being dual-processor has nothing to do with it :) It could build > > non-US, but is not allowed to. > > Which, of course, raises the question: why isn't there a powerpc buildd > outside the US? Related question: why is Dan the o

Re: Install on 466 MHz G4?

2001-06-07 Thread Tom Rini
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:27:40PM -0600, Mark K. Gardner wrote: [snip] > 6) When prompted to set up booting from the hard disk, I escape to a > shell and install yaboot: > > mkofboot --boot /dev/hda9 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root \ > /dev/hda11 --partition 11 > > 7) Finally I reboot ex

Re: Install on 466 MHz G4?

2001-06-07 Thread Colin Walters
"Mark K. Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Welcome to yaboot version 0.9 > Config file read, 158 bytes > Loading kernel... > Image not found try again > Warning ! default close called ! > boot: > > At this point I have no idea what to type! Would someone please > enlighten me

TiBook firmware update

2001-06-07 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
Since there have been reports of problems with Linux after installing Apple's latest firmware update for the Powerbook G4, I thought I'd ask TiBook users on the list if: a) they have installed the update? b) they have seen any problems after doing so? c) what kernel version they are using? -raf

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Otto Wyss
> > Keeping these in mind, I suggest that you go ahead with this change. > > (And maybe figure out what's wrong with xkb?) > > theres one vote in favor > Up to now I'm not using Linux on my PowerMac for various reasons, so I don't have immediate experience. As far as I know the keycodes of an USB

Re: Install on 466 MHz G4?

2001-06-07 Thread Karl-Heinz Haag
Quoting Mark K. Gardner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > mkofboot --boot /dev/hda9 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root \ > /dev/hda11 --partition 11 Additional directly after this step I did a 'ybin -v' This command -I think- wrote some information from the /etc/yaboot.conf into the 'Apple_Boots

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:10:57PM -0400, Derek Homeier wrote: > Yeah, that's probably a matter of taste, but a more substantial issue > might be if there are localized Linux-keymaps available for Apple keyboards? > I have only seen international (well, german, at least) keymaps that put > the cha

Re: Install on 466 MHz G4?

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:39:41PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:27:40PM -0600, Mark K. Gardner wrote: > > [snip] > > 6) When prompted to set up booting from the hard disk, I escape to a > > shell and install yaboot: > > > > mkofboot --boot /dev/hda9 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofb

Re: Install on 466 MHz G4?

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:19:58AM +0200, Karl-Heinz Haag wrote: > Quoting Mark K. Gardner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > mkofboot --boot /dev/hda9 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root \ > > /dev/hda11 --partition 11 this version generates a very basic yaboot.conf on the fly to install int

Re: TiBook firmware update

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:07:34PM -0700, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > Since there have been reports of problems with Linux after installing > Apple's latest firmware update for the Powerbook G4, I thought I'd ask > TiBook users on the list if: > > a) they have installed the update? > b) they have

Re: Install on 466 MHz G4?

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:27:40PM -0600, Mark K. Gardner wrote: > > 6) When prompted to set up booting from the hard disk, I escape to a > shell and install yaboot: > > mkofboot --boot /dev/hda9 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root \ > /dev/hda11 --partition 11 > > 7) Finally I reboot expecti

Re: G4 Cube FWUpdate -->boot fiasco

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:33:55AM +0200, Karl-Heinz Haag wrote: > All this is lost now! > For I did the newest "recommended" 'G4 Cube FWUpdate' version 4.1.8 > I did it having tested the additional RAM before. > I had not thought of it damaging completely the boot configuration, even > the boo

p-server 640 debian install questions

2001-06-07 Thread Rahul Jain
I have a p-server 640 at work that I'm trying to install debian on. It _seems_ to be CHRP, but OF has info about prep too, so I don't know... The hardware: 2 375 MHz POWER3 CPUs an eepro100 connected to the network a matrox g200 2 18GB SCSI hard disks a SCSI CDROM drive _no_ floppy drive The cur

Re: p-server 640 debian install questions

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:26:58PM -0400, Rahul Jain wrote: > > I have a p-server 640 at work that I'm trying to install debian on. > It _seems_ to be CHRP, but OF has info about prep too, so I don't know... > > The hardware: > 2 375 MHz POWER3 CPUs > an eepro100 connected to the network > a matr

Re: G4 Cube FWUpdate -->boot fiasco

2001-06-07 Thread Karl-Heinz Haag
Quoting Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > it sounds like the nvram is corrupted, this is not normal behavior > regardless of a linux installation. > > shut it down, and boot it cold while holding down command option p r > keep them down until it reboots itself 3 or more times. this should

Re: G4 Cube FWUpdate -->boot fiasco

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 04:18:00AM +0200, Karl-Heinz Haag wrote: > Thank you very, very much for your help. > I'll try the rebooting torture tomorrow. > Since Monday I am completely in 'unstable' and with your tips to me and > the others for the last 2-3 hours I again was able to boot into Debia

Re: G4 Cube FWUpdate -->boot fiasco

2001-06-07 Thread Karl-Heinz Haag
Quoting Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 04:18:00AM +0200, Karl-Heinz Haag wrote: > > if you have a newworld your best way to fix that right now is: > > apt-get --purge remove quik okay > you should use make-kpkg from the kernel-package to build a kernel > .deb its muc

Re: G4 Cube FWUpdate -->boot fiasco

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:02:06AM +0200, Karl-Heinz Haag wrote: > Quoting Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 04:18:00AM +0200, Karl-Heinz Haag wrote: > > > > if you have a newworld your best way to fix that right now is: > > > > apt-get --purge remove quik > okay > >

Re: TiBook firmware update

2001-06-07 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello Wilhelm! Wilhelm Fitzpatrick schrieb: > > Since there have been reports of problems with Linux after installing > Apple's latest firmware update for the Powerbook G4, I thought I'd ask > TiBook users on the list if: > > a) they have installed the update? Yes > b) they have seen any probl

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Michel DŠnzer
Ethan Benson wrote: > I am wondering if there is any reason we should not switch woody to > use linux keycodes by default and finally abandon the adb keycodes? > > AFAICT all that needs to be changed is dbootstrap to use i386 keymaps > on macs, the kernel-images to turn off CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES

keymaps

2001-06-07 Thread Lenticchia Emiliano
i have an amiga ppc with italian keyboard, i need to configure the layout in shell and in X server, i have try some change and the result is: in shell the ò à è ì ecc key not work in mc only the ù § and \ | not work is exchanged in x some programs work like mc and other like the shell... is a grea

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:11:51PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > I am wondering if there is any reason we should not switch woody to > > use linux keycodes by default and finally abandon the adb keycodes? > > > > AFAICT all that needs to be changed is dbootstrap to use i

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:11:51PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > I am wondering if there is any reason we should not switch woody to > > > use linux keycodes by default and finally abandon the adb keycodes? > > > > > > AFAI

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Michel DŠnzer wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > I am wondering if there is any reason we should not switch woody to > > use linux keycodes by default and finally abandon the adb keycodes? > > > > AFAICT all that needs to be changed is dbootstrap to use i386 keymaps > > on macs,

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 02:14:51AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > Thanks for the pointer. AFAICS it's for the user who installs a kernel-image > package though; is there a way to influence this with kernel-package or in my > source package that I'm not seeing? you can install a /etc/kernel-img.c

Re: p-server 640 debian install questions

2001-06-07 Thread Tom Gall
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:26:58PM -0400, Rahul Jain wrote: > > > > I have a p-server 640 at work that I'm trying to install debian on. > > It _seems_ to be CHRP, but OF has info about prep too, so I don't know... The p640 is a CHRP box. Well mostly. These boxes do run lin

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-07 Thread Michel DŠnzer
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:42:24PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > APUS has its own, BootX/loadlin-style bootloader which resides on the > > AmigaOS side completely. I already contacted the kernel-package maintainer > > about this, asking him about his thoughts on just

more info on the power3

2001-06-07 Thread Rahul Jain
Here is /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 cpu : POWER3 (630+) clock : 375MHz revision: 1.4 bogomips: 749.24 processor : 1 cpu : POWER3 (630+) clock : 375MHz revision: 1.4 bogomips: 749.24 total bogomips : 1497.99

Re: more info on the power3

2001-06-07 Thread Olaf Hering
On Thu, Jun 07, Rahul Jain wrote: > 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev > 08) Does that card work? Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

Powerbook G3 1999 xfree 4.0.2 accel?

2001-06-07 Thread Matthew Bernhardt
Hello everyone, I may have missed a sentence somewhere saying that there is no way to use the r128 driver on a 1999 Powerbook G3. I grabbed 4.0.2's from http://penguinppc.org/~puetzk/, but I still get a "No Screens Found". Does anyone have a sample XF86Config-4 using r128? -Ma

Re: ldconfig woes

2001-06-07 Thread anton
> Lately, when I've been running apt-get upgrade, every once an a while I've > had to re-run a package or two, because ldconfig was acting funny. This > wasn't much of a problem, so I pretty much ignored it. Now I can rarely > ever get ldconfig to run without giving me an illegal instruction at

Re: libc in Power3 [Was: Re: reiserfs empirical ...]

2001-06-07 Thread anton
Hi, > Where can I get some information about to fix libc for Power3 > processor. I'd like my RS/6000 machine (Power3) runs Debian > instead SuSE, but it's a broken libc. There are a few areas that libc needs to be fixed: debian installer ramdisk debian base tarball any updates after that On

Re: more info on the power3

2001-06-07 Thread anton
Hi, > total bogomips : 1497.99 > zero pages : total: 0 (0Kb) current: 0 (0Kb) hits: 0/0 (0%) > machine : CHRP IBM,7026-B80 Sure, for a few weeks we had a quad cpu B80 running debian. You will have the cacheline size problem I mentioned before (memset( , 0, ) uses dcbz). We hacked t

Re: Powerbook G3 1999 xfree 4.0.2 accel?

2001-06-07 Thread Vinai
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Matthew Bernhardt wrote: }I may have missed a sentence somewhere saying that there is no way to }use the r128 driver on a 1999 Powerbook G3. } }I grabbed 4.0.2's from http://penguinppc.org/~puetzk/, but I still get a }"No Screens Found". I might be wrong, but doesn't t

Re: libc in Power3 [Was: Re: reiserfs empirical ...]

2001-06-07 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Where can I get some information about to fix libc for Power3 > > processor. I'd like my RS/6000 machine (Power3) runs Debian > > instead SuSE, but it's a broken libc. > > There are a few areas that libc needs to be fixed: > > debian installer ramdisk > debian base t

Re: postgresql?

2001-06-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Which, of course, raises the question: why isn't there a powerpc buildd > > outside the US? Related question: why is Dan the only one running a > > powerpc buildd? Is tervola still down? Any other powerpc machines on > > permanent net connection that could be used for this? > > It's administrat

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > > I am all for this - APUS not having Linux keycodes yet is not an issue, it > > will keep Amiga keycodes, right? > > I don't know. Should APUS start using Linux keycodes too? > > I hope it's not the same as using PC/AT keycodes for everything, since we > tried > that on m68k ages ago and it

Re: Powerbook G3 1999 xfree 4.0.2 accel?

2001-06-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
> }I may have missed a sentence somewhere saying that there is no way to > }use the r128 driver on a 1999 Powerbook G3. > } > }I grabbed 4.0.2's from http://penguinppc.org/~puetzk/, but I still get a > }"No Screens Found". > > I might be wrong, but doesn't the 1999 PB G3 have a Mach 64 grap

Re: Powerbook G3 1999 xfree 4.0.2 accel?

2001-06-07 Thread jeramy b smith
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, you're right. You can guess as much from the video=atyfb kernel > argument (as opposed to aty128fb) used on these machines. > Actually, a Lombard needs no kernel args. It will boot into [EMAIL PROTECTED] automagically. Almost all portables boot

KDE2/libqt2 errors on sid.

2001-06-07 Thread Mark Nellemann
Hi, I have been running KDE2 until a recent (1-2 weeks) apt-get update+upgrade. When I start any KDE related program now, I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ startkde kdeinit: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libqt.so.2: undefined symbol: __pure_virtual knotify: error while

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Michel DŠnzer
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Michel DSnzer wrote: > > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > I am wondering if there is any reason we should not switch woody to > > > use linux keycodes by default and finally abandon the adb keycodes? > > > > > > AFAICT all that needs to be changed is dboo

Re: postgresql?

2001-06-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
> If you'd set up the cgi-bin script to query (only --info and --list=) the > database via web interface I wouldn't even need to log on to voltaire. Forget that one - I found your cgi-bin script by accident. From 129 non-US packages in main, 94 haven't been build at all (according to the script),

Re: Powerbook G3 1999 xfree 4.0.2 accel?

2001-06-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > No, you're right. You can guess as much from the video=atyfb kernel > > argument (as opposed to aty128fb) used on these machines. > > > Actually, a Lombard needs no kernel args. It will boot into > [EMAIL PROTECTED] automagically. Almost all portables boot into their I haven't tried without ke

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > I am all for this - APUS not having Linux keycodes yet is not an issue, it > > > will keep Amiga keycodes, right? > > > > I don't know. Should APUS start using Linux keycodes too? > > > > I hope it's not the same as using PC/AT keycodes for everythin

Re: X screen wraps around

2001-06-07 Thread Michel DŠnzer
Duncan Sands wrote: > > I am running X 4.0.3 on an 8500 powermac (controlfb), kernel 2.4. > If I use 8bpp all is well (kernel parameter: > video=controlfb:vmode:14,cmode:0). Well, I guess this answers most of the questions in my other post... > If I use more bpp then the screen image is displac

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