Upgraded to sid, but went back to potato because of one prob...

2001-10-09 Thread Patrick Klee
Hi, I upgraded to sid, but went back because I have problem, where my Sid Mac is looking for sl0 and so I can connect to my ISP but I can't surf because of something on my end? I encountered this problem on PC once but I forgot what I did, it was a config file I think, if anyone can

Re: Boot INSTALLED system from CD?

2001-10-09 Thread Media 100
Yikes! It worked. Much thanks to Ethan and Colin and Chris (I will try Chris's suggestion to burn a later version onto CD to make new boot CD. Something I haven't gotten to work yet, so there will probably be another installment). Anyway, as always, getting over one hurdle only presents the

Of Mice and Modems

2001-10-09 Thread mmissett
I finally have things up and running on the G4, but I'm stuck on a couple of snags: pppconfig can't figure out where the modem is and it's asking... me. I've tried a few guesses, but with no evidence of success. Also, startx is failing, saying cannot open mouse (no such file or directory).

Re: Of Mice and Modems

2001-10-09 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, mmissett wrote: I finally have things up and running on the G4, but I'm stuck on a couple of snags: pppconfig can't figure out where the modem is and it's asking... me. /dev/Stty0 success. Also, startx is failing, saying cannot open mouse (no such file or directory).

[ANN] yaboot-1.3.4pre1 Please test

2001-10-09 Thread Ethan Benson
I have uploaded yaboot 1.3.4pre1 for testing. This version fixes many bugs and adds a couple new features, the most interesting of which is SGI XFS filesystem support. Please test this as much as possible, including all filesystems (ext2, reiserfs, xfs, network, etc) there has been changes made

Re: [ANN] yaboot-1.3.4pre1 Please test (URL)

2001-10-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 04:46:31AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: I have uploaded yaboot 1.3.4pre1 for testing. blah, suppose it would help to say where: http://master.penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/1.3.4pre/ -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpQe1LJsJKAJ.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Boot INSTALLED system from CD?

2001-10-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:15:08AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: Also, the latest version of yaboot can be found at master.penguinppc.org/usr/yaboot or, if you get 403 no permission there like I do, try eh? i cannot reproduce this. are you sure it was master and not just penguinppc.org ?

Re: Of Mice and Modems

2001-10-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 02:19:33PM +0200, Eric Deveaud wrote: On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, mmissett wrote: I finally have things up and running on the G4, but I'm stuck on a couple of snags: pppconfig can't figure out where the modem is and it's asking... me. /dev/Stty0 /dev/ttyS0 actually.

Re: Of Mice and Modems

2001-10-09 Thread Mike Missett
Eric, Thanks. I'll try those (Stty0 as opposed to ttyS0, which I did try) I appreciate it. Mike P.S.: Like a Rolling Stone was written in the key of C. Eric Deveaud wrote: On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, mmissett wrote: I finally have things up and running on the G4, but I'm stuck on a couple of

Re: Of Mice and Modems

2001-10-09 Thread Michael Schmitz
Thanks. I'll try those (Stty0 as opposed to ttyS0, which I did try) Stty0 is a typo. On the Lombard, the modem is at ttyS0. On Wallstreet it's at ttyS1. Just try both. Michael

Re: Of Mice and Modems

2001-10-09 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote: Thanks. I'll try those (Stty0 as opposed to ttyS0, which I did try) Stty0 is a typo. On the Lombard, the modem is at ttyS0. On Wallstreet it's at ttyS1. Just try both. oops thank's for the correction, yes it's a typo. Eric -- à mail

/dev/cdrom on PowerMac 7500/100?

2001-10-09 Thread Paul F. Pearson
WHen I installed Potato, I didn't have a CD in the drive, and now I don't have a /dev/cdrom. I remember that the command to is something like mknod. What would the correct parameters be for the cdrom? -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://home.hiwaay.net/~ppearson/ Lord heal our

Re: Of Mice and Modems

2001-10-09 Thread John Goerzen
The modem should be /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1 like others. It tripped me up for a bit that you have to use macserial.o instead of serial.o to drive it. Incidentally, I can't make it work with efax yet. Anybody have any tips? (This is a tibook g4 box) -- John mmissett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: /dev/cdrom on PowerMac 7500/100?

2001-10-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 09:31:55AM -0500, Paul F. Pearson wrote: WHen I installed Potato, I didn't have a CD in the drive, and now I don't have a /dev/cdrom. I remember that the command to is something like mknod. What would the correct parameters be for the cdrom? /dev/cdrom is a symlink not

Re: woody ppc installer

2001-10-09 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Hi Ethan Sorry to bother you about this. I'm planning to install woody on a bronze-keyboard G3 powerbook - a Lombard, I think it is called; no firewire. PowerPC G3 333Mhz. I'm about to upgrade MacOS to 9.1/9.2. Should I be using yaboot or BootX? The extract from the yaboot FAQ seems to suggest

Re: woody ppc installer

2001-10-09 Thread Michael Schmitz
Sorry to bother you about this. I'm planning to install woody on a bronze-keyboard G3 powerbook - a Lombard, I think it is called; no firewire. PowerPC G3 333Mhz. I'm about to upgrade MacOS to 9.1/9.2. Should I be using yaboot or BootX? The extract from the yaboot FAQ seems yaboot. XFree86

Re: Of Mice and Modems

2001-10-09 Thread Media 100
Thanks, everybody. John, where does it get told macserial.o? I apologize if that's an ignorant question, but then... Mike John Goerzen wrote: The modem should be /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1 like others. It tripped me up for a bit that you have to use macserial.o instead of serial.o to drive

Re: usb printing problem

2001-10-09 Thread Georg Koss
Hi, Hope I understood the question right - I'l try to explain how I got USB working for printing. Don't know if there are differences in SID. I've Woody on G4 with benh-2.4.10-kernel, printing with CUPS (which I would recommend - but that's not the topic). On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:04:53PM

Re: Of Mice and Modems

2001-10-09 Thread Michael Schmitz
The modem should be /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1 like others. It tripped me up for a bit that you have to use macserial.o instead of serial.o Yup, I was quite baffled to find macserial actually builds as a module now :-) to drive it. Incidentally, I can't make it work with efax yet. Anybody

Re: Of Mice and Modems

2001-10-09 Thread John Goerzen
Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, fax send craps out with a segfault, and efax won't dial unless I Stopping the segfault can be done by removing ewin from the VERB= setting in the conffile, oddly enough. beat it into submission with -iX3 (I'm behind a PBS with no dialtones).

Re: Of Mice and Modems

2001-10-09 Thread John Goerzen
Media 100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks, everybody. John, where does it get told macserial.o? I apologize if that's an ignorant question, but then... It's in benh's kernel available on rsync.penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh -- John

Re: automatic power-up

2001-10-09 Thread Michel Lanners
there's a tool called pmacpow I've found spoken of in the list archives; but it does not seem to be part of debian (yet). Would probably belong into pmac-utils. Michel - Michel Lanners | Read

Re: New Altivec-enabled vlc available

2001-10-09 Thread Michel Lanners
On 8 Oct, this message from David Schleef echoed through cyberspace: On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:08:27AM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Michel Lanners wrote: Hi all, I've uploaded a new Altivec-enabled version of vlc (built from the 20011004 snapshot). It is

Mozilla problems with PPC?

2001-10-09 Thread Paul F. Pearson
This may not be the most appropriate forum to ask this, but I'm at a loss. I know folks have been using Mozilla for a while, and so I can't help but think that it should be more stable thatn I'm seeing. AT work, we're behind a n http proxy. I have no idea what the server name/port is, because our

Re: Mozilla problems with PPC?

2001-10-09 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Paul F. Pearson wrote: This may not be the most appropriate forum to ask this, but I'm at a loss. I know folks have been using Mozilla for a while, and so I can't help but think that it should be more stable thatn I'm seeing. AT work, we're behind a n http proxy. I have

problems install debian

2001-10-09 Thread domingo
Hello all, I have a problem, in my box is a IBM RS/6000 43p/140 whit firmware actually is TIG01150, now how I install in my box the debian... the cd not boot then I try install with floppys, but that files I have put in this floppys... helpme plesase... I try install suse, but not run I make

Re: Mozilla problems with PPC?

2001-10-09 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Paul F. Pearson wrote: I downloaded and installed Mozilla M18-?? using dselect. M18 is ancient (almost a year old). There have been at least six new Mozilla releases since then. Hopefully 0.9.4 will be in testing soon. For now it is in unstable; if you just want the new

Mapping cmd to alt in X with linux keycodes

2001-10-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Using Linux keycodes, I'm trying to map the command keys (next to the spacebar on an ADB keyboard) to alt using xmodmap, but nothing I've tried works. [I use the alt keys for button emulation, keycodes 56 and 100; would like command for alt since alt is next to the space bar on

Re: woody ppc installer

2001-10-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 04:20:15PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: Hi Ethan Sorry to bother you about this. I'm planning to install woody on a bronze-keyboard G3 powerbook - a Lombard, I think it is called; no firewire. PowerPC G3 333Mhz. I'm about to upgrade MacOS to 9.1/9.2. Should I

Re: automatic power-up

2001-10-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:52:50PM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: there's a tool called pmacpow I've found spoken of in the list archives; but it does not seem to be part of debian (yet). Would probably belong into pmac-utils. there is no such package, its powerpc-utils. there is another

Re: Mozilla problems with PPC?

2001-10-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 05:01:10PM -0500, Paul F. Pearson wrote: This may not be the most appropriate forum to ask this, but I'm at a loss. I know folks have been using Mozilla for a while, and so I can't help but think that it should be more stable thatn I'm seeing. AT work, we're behind a

Re: Mapping cmd to alt in X with linux keycodes

2001-10-09 Thread Ethan Benson
http://master.penguinppc.org/~eb/Xmodmap note this won't work with the XFree packages in sid since xmodmap support has been removed from the Xsession scripts since its allegedly `deprecated' and as far as anyone has told me no replacement has been documented. (other then fscking with the

Re: Mozilla problems with PPC?

2001-10-09 Thread Nico Kist
Hi, usually the proxy port is 8080... In my limited experience the address of the proxy is often your address but with an .1 or .10 at the end instead of whatever you have after the last dot, example: your IP 192.168.100.154 router IP: 192.168.100.1 or 192.168.100.10 Nico Kist (niksie)

powerpc and RS6000 cross compilation

2001-10-09 Thread damsnet
Hi, I believed it is possible to compile a binary for both powerpc (in fact Mac performa 6400) and RS6000 (7248 43P, which is PReP). But I compiled a program under the Mac and I can't run it on the RS6000. Can I achieve that? What option(s) should I use for gcc?

Re: Mozilla problems with PPC?

2001-10-09 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 09 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: you should install mozilla 0.9.4-4 which is in sid. (not woody). Which works OK, but which, unfortunately, needs immense amounts of RAM. This is an especially unfortunate situation with older machines, which frequently don't

fn key on lombard (and up) powerbooks...

2001-10-09 Thread Josh Huber
It's annoying that this likes to default to controlling the brightness (and num-lock, etc). For example, if there is one of those crashes that like to reset OF, they also seem to reset the status of this bit in the keyboard registers...after looking around on the linuxppc-dev list archives, I

Re: woody ppc installer

2001-10-09 Thread Josh Huber
Rory Campbell-Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should I be using yaboot or BootX? The extract from the yaboot FAQ seems to suggest that yaboot is for G4s, iMacDVs, or Pismo laptops. You definatley want to use yaboot on Lombards. The lombard (afaiui), isn't quite a Newworld machine, but yaboot

Re: fn key on lombard (and up) powerbooks...

2001-10-09 Thread Colin Walters
Josh Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems to work fine on my powerbook, which is great. It works fine for me too on my TiBook. So, my real question is this...how should this be integrated with pmud-utils/pmud. (I think it should somehow be put in Debian) I think it should be integrated

Re: ibook2 playing audio CDs

2001-10-09 Thread pfile
xmms-cdread produces white noise on ibook2 i had a similar problem on my tibook. i had to hack the xmms-cdread source to swab() the data being fed to the audio device. for some strange reason though, the equalizer can handle the data without being swab()bed (if you look at it while the white

Re: Boot INSTALLED system from CD?

2001-10-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 04:58:40AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:15:08AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: Also, the latest version of yaboot can be found at master.penguinppc.org/usr/yaboot or, if you get 403 no permission there like I do, try eh? i cannot reproduce

Re: fn key on lombard (and up) powerbooks...

2001-10-09 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 09 2001, Colin Walters wrote: Josh Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems to work fine on my powerbook, which is great. It works fine for me too on my TiBook. It would work fine if I had more money to purchase one of these cool toys. :-) So, my real question is

Re: fn key on lombard (and up) powerbooks...

2001-10-09 Thread Colin Walters
Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, since n is an integer in that program, the format string of %ld is incorrect to deal with it and the correct fix is not to use a type cast, but to remove the l of the format string. Yes, I made a mistake on one of the format fixes. I did remove

Re: Internal Speaker on Blue G3 part III

2001-10-09 Thread Anthony Lau
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 08:38:23PM -0400, Alexander N Gould wrote: Thanks for all the advice so far: In Kmix, the available sliders are Volume, Speaker, Line, Microphone, CD, and Pcm2. All are set on the highest except for microphone, which won't allow itself to be moved. Still no sound.

Re: Mozilla problems with PPC?

2001-10-09 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Jeffrey W. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Paul F. Pearson wrote: I downloaded and installed Mozilla M18-?? using dselect. M18 is over a year old. Ten releases have followed, and many proxy auto-configuration bugs have been fixed. M18 is whats in stable. To use