Re: debian-powerpc: how do I run a java app

2001-11-14 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Brendan" == Brendan J Simon writes: Brendan> Someone recommended the blackdown java stuff but it looks Brendan> like there is only and Intel debian version. There are Brendan> ppc versions but I can't find a debian distro for it so I Brendan> can use apt-get. A Debian pack

Re: ext3 anyone?

2001-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:02:31PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:31:31PM -0500, Rob Latham wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:39:01PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > > > Laurent, > > > The conversion went fine for me. I built my own yaboot 1.3.5 debian > > > package

Re: xine-ui relocation-error

2001-11-14 Thread Georg Koss
Hi again :-/ On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 12:55:26AM +0100, Georg Koss wrote: > ... xine-lib 0.9.4 ... Her real name is libxine0-0.9.4-1 Sorry SY -- M.f.G. Georg Koss mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ppp mystery

2001-11-14 Thread Bruce McIntyre
* Michel Lanners ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 18 Sep, this message from Bruce McIntyre echoed through cyberspace: > > Pinging anything aside from localhost results in 100% packet loss. > > Have you looked at: > > - 'ifconfig', to see whether you got an IP address on your ppp0 > interface? >

Re: xine-ui relocation-error

2001-11-14 Thread Georg Koss
Hello again! I wrote the package maintainer a short while after and he told me that it's a dependency problem in the moment - so one has to build xine-lib 0.9.4 for a few days from deb-src. Thanks for patience and Good night -- M.f.G. Georg Koss mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO

2001-11-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Have you tried partitioning the disk with the Apple Drive Tool first? > > Maybe the 8 strange MacOS partitions have something to do witth it? > > Nope, haven't tried that. Not sure Drive Setup will even touch the Zip, > but I should perhaps get a SCSI boat anchor connected to play around with.

Re: ext3 anyone?

2001-11-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:31:31PM -0500, Rob Latham wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:39:01PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > > Laurent, > > The conversion went fine for me. I built my own yaboot 1.3.5 debian > > packages and after installing them used ybin to install the new yaboot > > on my boo

Re: installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO

2001-11-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I still have the kernel. If I boot to MacOSX and > "cat linux | strings | grep version" > then the output starts: > > Linux version 2.2.19-pmac ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20010810 > Debian prerelease)) #1 Sun Oct 21 13:45:25 EDT 2001 Thanks; that ought to be quite similar to

xine-ui relocation-error

2001-11-14 Thread Georg Koss
Hello all! I installed xine-ui 0.9.2-3 from woody today on my G4 (r128), kernel 2.4.14-ben0, XF4.1.0-9. Xine starts for short (2-3 seconds) and crashes with following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xine This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.2 (c) 2000, 2001 by G. Bartsch and the xine pr

Re: ext3 anyone?

2001-11-14 Thread Rob Latham
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:39:01PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > Laurent, > The conversion went fine for me. I built my own yaboot 1.3.5 debian > packages and after installing them used ybin to install the new yaboot > on my bootstrap partition. does anyone know why yaboot 1.3.5 hasn't hit unsta

Re: installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO

2001-11-14 Thread Gordon Paynter
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 00:34, you wrote: > > Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What did you do in mac-fdisk to get a kernel panic? What kernel > > > version did you use? > > > > This has been covered pretty comprehensively in the thread. I was > > using the "current" woody deb

Re: Buildd Failures

2001-11-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:16:44AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > I was able to build the following packages on my box using Nov. 12 sid > and pbuilder, so they should probably be requeued. > > xpvm 1.2.5-7 > gfontview 0.3.2-2.1 > rlinetd 0.5.6 > wget-retriever 0.007 > > > The following all s

Re: Buildd Failures

2001-11-14 Thread Stephen R Marenka
I was able to build the following packages on my box using Nov. 12 sid and pbuilder, so they should probably be requeued. xpvm 1.2.5-7 gfontview 0.3.2-2.1 rlinetd 0.5.6 wget-retriever 0.007 The following all seem to have libtool/automake problems on voltaire, but not on my box. I was wondering

Re: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:160! with fsck

2001-11-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >I got this error message (kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:160!) from my G3/266 >with a stock 2.4.14 kernel, while doing an fsck, recovering from a previous >crash on the same kernel. Is there somewhere in a log that I can look to get >more info out to the world about this? If you have xmon compil

debian on rs/6000

2001-11-14 Thread Javier Baliosian
hi, I have a rs/6000 43p Model 150 and I alredy install a debian on it. but I have some problems with the video. the machine has a Matrox Mystique adapter with 16 Mb of memory but I can not use a definition beyond 800x600 and there is an intense flickering in the monitor (a p92 IBM). I found the

Re: Open Firmware and booting using quik

2001-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
potato documentation has a typo which is fixed in CVS but b-f were never built for powerpc. use woody boot-floppies and woody documentation, it does all this for you. On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 04:08:25AM -0500, Elliot Badham Peele wrote: > the install instruction say to edit the open firmware veri

Open Firmware and booting using quik

2001-11-14 Thread Elliot Badham Peele
the install instruction say to edit the open firmware veriable 'ofpath' this variable does not show up in the list of open firmware variables. i am trying to run debian on a power mac 6500/250. currently i have it sitting out with the batteryt unpluged to reset the firmware. i noticed that the keys

Re: Bug#119081: nano: On Oldworld PowerPC, nano freezes machine when help is being displayed

2001-11-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
> In that message, dan says there can be problems when the va_list > points to a char, since only promoted types are legal. I'm certainly > wet behind the ears when it comes to this stuff, but could someone > look at these to see if that's what's going on here? > > int statusq(int tabs, shortcut s[

Re: installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO

2001-11-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What did you do in mac-fdisk to get a kernel panic? What kernel > > version did you use? > > This has been covered pretty comprehensively in the thread. I was > using the "current" woody debian-ppc distribution at 8/Nov/01. The kernel version hasn't

Re: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:160! with fsck

2001-11-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I got this error message (kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:160!) from my G3/266 > with a stock 2.4.14 kernel, while doing an fsck, recovering from a previous > crash on the same kernel. Is there somewhere in a log that I can look to get > more info out to the world about this? Nope, the BUG() just pri

debian-powerpc: how do I run a java app

2001-11-14 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm trying to run a java app. How do install and use java ? It looks like there are different java runtime environemnts I can use (eg. kaffe, gcj, etc). I don't anything about them or how to use them. Which is the best and easiest to use with Debian ? ie. what can I "apt-get install" and get