> I tried that. I made a nice large NFS partition. I am not happy with
> it. The filesystem has to many limitations (others are better
> qualified to list these). My problem was that HFS paths have to be
> rather short... I am not sure the exact number of characters; not
> enough for reasonably nam
i'm running woody on a pismo, with benh's rsync kernel, and pmud 0.7-5
(which i believe is the latest in woody). when i put the machine to sleep
and then wake it up again, f1 through f6 cease to work as f-keys -- f1 and
f2 control the backlight brightness, and i think the others do nothing.
the o
Well, because there is no pcmcia support i'd like to use a direct ppp link
over a nulmodem to the desktop in lieu of ethernet. However, I can't get the
darn thing to work; it seems the mac won't use flow control. If that much
would work, I think it's possible to get a low speed (56k maybe) connecti
> E^{1/3}/rho, which favors lighter materials. (In fact, the best
> material with this criterion is- get this- balsa wood! Which is why
Ahhh, a nice warmly stained balsawood laptop, I could go for that! Perhaps a
carved monogram in the lid. Could the keycaps be walnut? Yeah!
*-
> Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I am working on installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 "Potato" -
>> Official powerpc Binary-1 CD on a new world G4. As far as I can
>> tell, I have the base system installed correctly and used mkofboot
>> to configure the booting properly. I am unable to get
> Btw, in my limited exploration I didn't find any
> howtos for booting from hard-disk (such as using woody boot-floppies from a
> mac partition) (apart from debian-imac). Does such a thing exist? The
> installation manual doesn't give much detail at all.
There's a little more detail in the Wood
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:27:54PM -0700, Russell Williams wrote:
>
> Are there any other ways to protect PPC laptops if I
> leave one alone for some minutes or if it is stolen.
don't leave them unattended. (duh)
> How do you protect your laptops?
if the powerbook is new enough it will have Op
>> First trial:
>> Just typing ybin with a written yaboot.conf adapted to my ultra0 it
>> gave about 10-12 times "/etc/yaboot.conf: line too long". That was it :-(
>
> then your yaboot.conf has something bogus in it. or else your grep is
> very broken.
>
I think I got the same result when I tried
"Gregory P. Keeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Particularly, the following post:
> http://www.macslash.com/comments.pl?sid=01/08/23/1916219&cid=7
Um, wow. I don't think I'm quite ready to go there yet :)
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 06:22:43PM +0200, Jens Kutilek wrote:
> Am 24 Aug 2001, um 5:01 hat Ethan Benson geschrieben:
>
> > > Now I tried yaboot 1.2.3-1.2.4, but mkofboot didn't work. No output was
> > > displayed, nothing happened, I could only ctrl-c the program.
> >
> > i need more info then t
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Adam Goode wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:45:45PM -0700, Peter Meilstrup wrote:
> >
> > Now, I think you need around 500 floating point-operations to compute an
> > 8x8 IDCT (I believe the actual figure is something like this.). DVD video is
> > 720x576, so you'd need t
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 03:54:54PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>
> yaboot can boot kernel on ext2, hfs and reiserfs (with patch), other
> filesystems aren't supported as of now.
yaboot 1.2.3 merged the reiserfs patches, but keep in mind that its
the same reiserfs code that is in grub and grub i
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 03:47:28PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> yaboot only supports ext2, 1.2.3 allegedly supports reiser.
And, iirc, this should also make it easier to add in support for other
filesystems as well. Not that I've looked at it recently..
--
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashi
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:45:45PM -0700, Peter Meilstrup wrote:
>
> Now, I think you need around 500 floating point-operations to compute an
> 8x8 IDCT (I believe the actual figure is something like this.). DVD video is
> 720x576, so you'd need to sustain around 100 megaflops/sec in the IDCT
> al
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:57:17AM -0400, James Moss wrote:
> On Friday, 24 August 2001, at 04:54:04 (-0800), Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:45:01PM -0400, James Moss wrote:
> > > While toying around on getting potato to finally boot (seems my 1GB of RAM
> > > is too much for th
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:23:57AM -0400, James Moss wrote:
> On Friday, 24 August 2001, at 04:54:04 (-0800), Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:45:01PM -0400, James Moss wrote:
> > > While toying around on getting potato to finally boot (seems my 1GB of RAM
> > > is too much for th
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Josh Huber wrote:
> Thanks for the tips. I'll see what I can do this weekend...
>
> > Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (or Integer?)
>
> I guess I was more asking what it's role in mpeg decompression was...
>
The same as its role in JPEG compression: you take the DCT of a
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:27:24PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
>
> But, quik would prevent you from having to do any of that if it was working
> on your machine. Which version of quik and boot-floppies are you using? I
> think Ethan did some work last month on it, though I can't locate it in CVS
>
That is sort of what I did. However, the way the caps lock key works
makes it impracticle: The keypress event is sent when you first press
the key... The key release event is sent when the key is released the
second time. This leads to rather inconsistant behaivior. The
workaround would be to tra
> Hi everybody,
>
> Could someone help me for the following problem, please?
>
> I am a system administrator in a University and I tried to install Debian
> PPC (potato and woody) on some Performa 6400... the installation went
> relatively well with the potato boot floppies, but I have been unable
Gregory P. Keeney writes:
> Particularly, the following post:
> http://www.macslash.com/comments.pl?sid=01/08/23/1916219&cid=7
>
> Well, now I know where to begin. The only thing stopping me from doing
> this tonight is the cost of a backup keyboard... Maybe I will pick up
> an inexpensive USB ke
Michael Schmitz wrote:
That's pretty close!
One other factor nobody has mentioned here is SECURITY. For
buffer-overflow type security holes, remote and local, almost all of the
exploits are written for i386, so non-Intel platforms are inherently
less vulnerable. Last week's LWN security secti
hoi hoi,
> Yep, the vga driver doesn't work for us.
>
>
> > i can send what is in the logs but my keyboard got destroyed so i
> > am now using a really old keyboard and i can't use gpm or scroll
> > back or...
> > let me know if you need more info.
>
> Shouldn't be needed; just in case, the se
I just found the following on MacSlash:
http://www.macslash.com/articles/01/08/23/1916219.shtml
Particularly, the following post:
http://www.macslash.com/comments.pl?sid=01/08/23/1916219&cid=7
Well, now I know where to begin. The only thing stopping me from doing
this tonight is the cost of a b
sisi wrote:
> i finally upgraded to woody and now i have the expected X problem.
> i can't figure it out though at all.
>
> how do i configure XFree4 for woody?
>
> i think it has to do with drivers,
> the final error message being:
>
>
> (II) VGA: G
hello all,
i have searched and searched on the archived lists and i am sure
that the answer is there but i haven't found it. i am sorry if
people feel as if they are repeating themselves.
i finally upgraded to woody and now i have the expected X problem.
i can't figure it out though at all.
how
Russell Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have already asked this in a separate thread but with no answer
> yet. Can I use the international linux kernel patch
> (www.kerneli.org) for file system encryption?
File systems shouldn't be hardware-dependent, so (in theory) there's
no reason why
"Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Running MacOS X: MacOS-gcc -O2 -S foo.c
> Running Linux:cp /mac/src/whatever/foo.s /usr/src/whatever/foo.S
Yes, that would be one method...
>> What's good is that XVideo support got rid of that annoying
>> (expensive) YUV transformation, tho
Oh boy, already following up my own post! :)
Josh Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Indeed, I just looked at this, and with two changes I have XVideo
> working (depending on your definetion of working...that is :) on my
> lombard. The color palette is screwed up, but other than that, the
> spe
Josh Huber writes:
> Michel Lanners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> One area is IDCT, where vlc contains some altivec code for MacOS
>> X/Darwin. Unfortunately, it's a C extension, and that is not
>> supported by our tools.
Running MacOS X: MacOS-gcc -O2 -S foo.c
Running Linux:cp /mac/src/wha
David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> What does your /etc/gpm.conf file look like?
the solution is in thread adbmouse.
Thank you.
bye
Thorsten
--- Michael Blakeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The poster implicitly distinguished between targeted
> and untargeted
> attacks: calling his defense STO is, I think, an
> oversimplification.
> Sitting outside the target group has its place in
> ameliorating
> least-common-denominator attac
Michel Lanners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Works for me (I think ;-)
Yeah, it works great on my G4 desktop at work -- nice fullscreen full
FPS DVD playing. but, I'd like to get it working on my laptop, with a
rage pro. (mach64)
> On any box. Xvideo is supported in X4.0.3 with ATI 128; for Mac
Hi there,
On 23 Aug, this message from Josh Huber echoed through cyberspace:
> This is cool -- what I really need to get working now is the XVideo
> extention,
Works for me (I think ;-)
> as I suspect this will help greatly for speeed issues on my
> Lombard.
On any box. Xvideo is supported in
James Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Have you test run xfs and found it to work (boot properly) ? Seems
> to me that if xfs works, jfs should, or conceivably could.
You definitely need an ext2 /boot. I keep mine mounted read-only, to
avoid the need for fsck.
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Ivan wrote:
> hi all, i'm having this error compiling the 2.4.9 benh kernel
Disable the UniNorth AGP GART support for now. It's still very in
development (and apparently broken as of now quite completely).
Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFn
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:35:11AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> Does that new address range only work with the IDE card, and did other
> pcmcia devices work at the old address perhaps? I recall something about
> pcmcia IDE devices using some hack in the kernel to bypass the normal
> pcmcia inter
Am 24 Aug 2001, um 5:01 hat Ethan Benson geschrieben:
> > Now I tried yaboot 1.2.3-1.2.4, but mkofboot didn't work. No output was
> > displayed, nothing happened, I could only ctrl-c the program.
>
> i need more info then that.
I installed yaboot 1.2.3-1.2.4 from the Debian FTP server. Had to
upg
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:04:34PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Andrew Sharp wrote:
>
> >Now, when it comes to the iBook2,
> >
> >A Dell Inspriron 2100:
> >700MHz P3 (w/ SpeedStupid (tm))
> >256MB mem
> >external combo dvd/cdrw drive
> >1024x768 12.1" video
> >30GB hard drive
> >37Whour batt
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:38:06AM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Russell Williams wrote:
>
> > Is there also a possibilty to run Windows apps on the
> > iBook? (either though Linux or MacOS)
>
> There's VirtualPC from Connectix, which (at least as of v3, haven't tried
> v4) do
> > Please send the full X server log (the section about PCI device
> > probing/fixup might prove interesting)
>
> I can't, due to the kernel crash which occurs when running this.
Sorry, I forgot how bad this can be... Does it also panic with X
> Should I file a bug on kernel-image-2.2.19-pmac
> > I can't, due to the kernel crash which occurs when running this.
>
> Sorry, I forgot how bad this can be... Does it also panic with X
should have read X -probeonly (where did that go?), sorry.
Michael
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 02:28:46PM +0300, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> On 18 Aug 2001 03:46:15 -0700, Russell Williams wrote:
> >
> > --- Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Russell Williams wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Is the iBook2 really a good choice as an
> > > inexpensive Debian notebook?
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Wallstreet and 2.2 kernel
Yes, 2.2.19-pmac stock kernel.
>, and you boot using BootX I suppose?
No, booting with a hacked miboot floppy, believe it or not. I don't
have MacOS installed.
> Please send the full X server log (the section about PCI de
> You wouldn't happen to be putting the kernel on a jfs partition ?
>
> yaboot can boot kernel on ext2, hfs and reiserfs (with patch), other
> filesystems aren't supported as of now.
>
> Check the sources if you wish to add support for other filesystems
That is infact, what I am trying to do.
James Moss wrote:
On Friday, 24 August 2001, at 04:54:04 (-0800), Ethan Benson wrote:
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:45:01PM -0400, James Moss wrote:
While toying around on getting potato to finally boot (seems my 1GB of RAM
is too much for the potato boot kernel), I've gotten past all the minor
thomas graichen wrote:
James Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I haven't noticed that it's all that bad so far, and for personal reasons I
HATE SGI.
Well, I don't like Ethan and I use ybin
/me runs
but aside from that xfs is a really nice filesystem working well
on ppc too with all the t
James Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I haven't noticed that it's all that bad so far, and for personal reasons I
> HATE SGI.
but aside from that xfs is a really nice filesystem working well
on ppc too with all the tools working (dump/restore, debugger
etc.) ... i think you should have a look at
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:32:03PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> gpm sucks. I can't start it. Every time it gave me an segmentation
> fault. The same with mc, jed, w3m and so on. Only if I deinstalled gpm
> the error go away. But the aplication too. :-(
What does your /etc/gpm.conf file
On Friday, 24 August 2001, at 04:54:04 (-0800), Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:45:01PM -0400, James Moss wrote:
> > While toying around on getting potato to finally boot (seems my 1GB of RAM
> > is too much for the potato boot kernel), I've gotten past all the minor
> > roadblocks
On Friday, 24 August 2001, at 04:54:04 (-0800), Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:45:01PM -0400, James Moss wrote:
> > While toying around on getting potato to finally boot (seems my 1GB of RAM
> > is too much for the potato boot kernel), I've gotten past all the minor
> > roadblocks
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:07:37AM +0200, Jens Kutilek wrote:
> > use the yaboot package from debian sid and see
> > /usr/share/doc/yaboot/examples/yaboot.conf.rs6k for how to setup
> > /etc/yaboot.conf, then run mkofboot. yabootconfig should also render
> > a usuable config for those machines (th
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:15:03AM +0200, Jens Kutilek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > You shouldn't need this patch, especially if you jump to a recent
> version of
> > yaboot such as 1.1.1 or the like.
>
> I tried yaboot 1.2.3, but it didn't work, see my other mail.
if your going to say something as utterl
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:45:01PM -0400, James Moss wrote:
> While toying around on getting potato to finally boot (seems my 1GB of RAM
> is too much for the potato boot kernel), I've gotten past all the minor
> roadblocks. I searched through the mailing list archives for powerpc
> information on
On Fri, Aug 24, Jens Kutilek wrote:
> > Do you have any numbers on the lcd display on the front of the B50?
>
> When Linux has booted to the login prompt, the display constantly
> displays "". What could that mean? This is only with kernel 2.4,
> when using kernel 2.2 the display was off afte
> Do you have any numbers on the lcd display on the front of the B50?
When Linux has booted to the login prompt, the display constantly
displays "". What could that mean? This is only with kernel 2.4,
when using kernel 2.2 the display was off after booting.
bye,
Jens.
hi all, i'm having this error compiling the 2.4.9 benh kernel
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-benh/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common
-D__powerpc__ -fsigned-char -msoft-float -pipe -ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized
-mmultiple
Hi,
> You shouldn't need this patch, especially if you jump to a recent
version of
> yaboot such as 1.1.1 or the like.
I tried yaboot 1.2.3, but it didn't work, see my other mail.
> This looks almost like something isn't right with the kernel. I assume
that
> you're using the same vmlinux for yo
> Anyway, now I can boot from hd with the kernel in /dev/sda1 and the OF
> setting boot-file root=/dev/sda1, and that will be ok.
Sorry, root=/dev/sda3 I meant.
Jens
> use the yaboot package from debian sid and see
> /usr/share/doc/yaboot/examples/yaboot.conf.rs6k for how to setup
> /etc/yaboot.conf, then run mkofboot. yabootconfig should also render
> a usuable config for those machines (though that is less tested).
Now I tried yaboot 1.2.3-1.2.4, but mkofbo
> > You never tried lspci -v on your own machine? Apple apparently changes the
> > device addresses with each major new hardware revision. (not that you
> > couldn't change the addresses for unused devices to whatever you like from
> > user space with setpci. That's the beauty of a sane bus design
Hi Ralf,
> The Apple ADB mouse doesn't work. I can't imagine the right gpm setup and
> searching the databases hasn't brought enough information to this :-(
> X doen't start either, because it doesn't find the mouse.
>
> So I looked into /dev and ls *mouse* found "atarimouse amigamouse mouse
>
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:41:54AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> You never tried lspci -v on your own machine? Apple apparently changes the
> device addresses with each major new hardware revision. (not that you
> couldn't change the addresses for unused devices to whatever you like from
> user s
> So I looked into /dev and ls *mouse* found "atarimouse amigamouse mouse
> usbmouse" and ls -l mouse found "mouse -> adbmouse" but I can locate nor
> find any file which is named "adbmouse".
cd /dev && mknod adbmouse c 10 10
Not that this mouse device is used anymore by any recent 2.2 and 2.4
ke
> Distribution: pure 'testing'
> Version: 4.1.0-2
> Kernel: kernel-image-2.2.19-pmac 2.2.19-2
>
> Installing the new xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-2 from unstable causes an
> error:
>
> (WW) ATI: PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 0:17:0 could not be detected!
> (EE) No devices detected.
>
> With a subsequ
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Grant Hollingworth wrote:
> The first set was from the output of lspci -v, which I read about in
> some old list message.
You never tried lspci -v on your own machine? Apple apparently changes the
device addresses with each major new hardware revision. (not that you
couldn't
Newbie alert!
Hello,
after testing LinuxPPC Q4 on a PMac 7500 and found that this is out of
date, I got 3 Debian/Gnu Linux 2.2r3 binary CDs.
It's installed. Now I'm struggling with configuration:
The Apple ADB mouse doesn't work. I can't imagine the right gpm setup and
searching the databases
Michel Lanners wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> On 20 Aug, this message from Andrew Sharp echoed through cyberspace:
> > Colin Walters wrote:
> >>
> >> Michael Flaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >> > Well ... no encryption is bad :-( Everyone with a laptop in front of
> >> > my door could sniff my n
PPP with a powerbook is not possible? Or is it not possible using a pcmcia
modem. Due to waht I know you could connect a HAYES-compatible modem to the
serial port and try to connect over it. Am I right? I did not test it yet,
because I haven't yet found a 1:1 adaptor from mac-serial-port to
i386-se
Hi all,
On 20 Aug, this message from Andrew Sharp echoed through cyberspace:
> Colin Walters wrote:
>>
>> Michael Flaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > Well ... no encryption is bad :-( Everyone with a laptop in front of
>> > my door could sniff my network, or isn´t it so easy ?
>>
>> As I
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