Re: new iBook2 install guide

2002-10-02 Thread Jesus Climent
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:31:30PM -0700, Mike Johnson wrote: www.miketec.org/ibook/ (sortof a first draft...) Hi all, I had a heck of a time installing Debian on my iBook (don't worry about me though, I live for this stuff :-). I found quite a few resources but none of them had

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on a TiBook III webpage - still more questions

2002-10-02 Thread Jim McLoughlin
hi folks first off a big thanks to christophe for posting this. I started from scratch and had a new kernel installed easily - the system is running much cooler. Minor additions to the list: 1. When first installing debian, choose to install the development tool task, so that you have the

PowerBook G4 III and Airport

2002-10-02 Thread Andrew Keedle
Sorry, but I'm back! I've got my Airport card installed and the airport module loaded, but I can't connect to my Belkin F5D6130 WAP. I've tried fiddling with every permutation of switches on iwconfig but to no avail. Any thoughts anybody. I've included the output from dmesg, iwconfig,

Re: OpenOffice.org on PPC and dependency on libstdc++4

2002-10-02 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 12:52:34AM +0200, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: Hi Jack .. thnx for your answer ... On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 06:01:42PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: Two things. You may need to deinstall mozilla before you rebuild it as I'm not sure how tight that buildroot is. Hmm ... that

can I use video=imsttfb? [was: what is the video=ofonly kernel argument]

2002-10-02 Thread Vinai Kopp
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:51:39PM -0500, Michael Heironimus wrote: On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 11:52:46PM +0200, Vinai Kopp wrote: I finally got the console to work using the video=ofonly kernel arguments. But what do they mean? I tried to figure it out looking at the fb/* sources, but they

Re: m3mirror for iBook 2 ?

2002-10-02 Thread BuG
On (27/09/02 10:22), Vincent Bernat wrote: The only progress is that now if I attach the external monitor to my iBook the monitor comes out of sleep mode, whereas before putting the My iBook2 cannot drive it separately, but it can video mirror. When I attach an external monitor and run

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on a TiBook III webpage - still more questions

2002-10-02 Thread Christophe Barbé
Le mer 02/10/2002 à 01:28, Jim McLoughlin a écrit : hi folks first off a big thanks to christophe for posting this. I started from scratch and had a new kernel installed easily - the system is running much cooler. Minor additions to the list: 1. When first installing debian, choose to

Document updated: Installing Debian on an iBook2

2002-10-02 Thread Jesus Climent
Document updated: Installing Debian on an iBook2 Added: step by step procedure to have DRI accel using dri-trunk debs. Thanks to all for the great effort. Jesse -- Jesus Climent | Unix System Admin | Helsinki, Finland. web: www.hispalinux.es/~data/ | pumuki.hispalinux.es

Re: Document updated: Installing Debian on an iBook2

2002-10-02 Thread Jesus Climent
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 04:20:15PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: Document updated: Installing Debian on an iBook2 Added: step by step procedure to have DRI accel using dri-trunk debs. Well, just in case: www.hispalinux.es/~data/ibook/ -- Jesus Climent | Unix System Admin | Helsinki,

Re: can I use video=imsttfb? [was: what is the video=ofonly kernel argument]

2002-10-02 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 11:47:18AM +0200, Vinai Kopp wrote: On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:51:39PM -0500, Michael Heironimus wrote: On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 11:52:46PM +0200, Vinai Kopp wrote: I finally got the console to work using the video=ofonly kernel arguments. But what do they mean?

Re: [patch] pwrctl with cpu speed throttling

2002-10-02 Thread Michael Schmitz
no. If you say the problem is in daenzer's XFree. Actually console puts it to sleep without bothering. See the comments about kernel apm support and the necessary special files in /dev/ to enable the X server to use that, in another thread on this list. It's all right. I don't have

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on a TiBook III webpage - still more questions

2002-10-02 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:28:52PM -0700, Jim McLoughlin wrote: hi folks I get a message that says there are unresolved dependencies, and a list of packages which are needed, but won't be installed, and that the installation I am attempting is impossible. Lately these messages have been

url for m3mirror

2002-10-02 Thread christophe =?unknown-8bit?q?barb=E9?=
Hi, I feel a bit ashamed but i am unable to find the m3miror source. I have searched the mailing list archive and the penguinppc.org site without success. I would appreciate if someone can point me to the url. Also I plan to do a presentation with my new TiBook. So if you have tips on how to

Re: can I use video=imsttfb? [was: what is the video=ofonly kernel argument]

2002-10-02 Thread Vinai Kopp
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 07:37:08AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 11:47:18AM +0200, Vinai Kopp wrote: Now, would it be possible to specify this: video=imsttfb:vmode:?,cmode:24 And what vmode would/could I specify? I am guessing this on what I read in the

usb mice

2002-10-02 Thread Waldemar Brodkorb
Hi *, I have an USB mice I can't get working with Debian 3.0 on my ibook2. The strange thing is, that the mouse is working under MacOS9, but although not with MacOS X. The light didn't switch on. The buttons work. Have anyone an idea, what this could be? hub.c: new USB device 10:18.0-1,

Re: Document updated: Installing Debian on an iBook2

2002-10-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2002-10-02 at 16:21, Jesus Climent wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 04:20:15PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: Document updated: Installing Debian on an iBook2 Added: step by step procedure to have DRI accel using dri-trunk debs. Well, just in case:

Re: usb mice

2002-10-02 Thread Waldemar Brodkorb
Hi again, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote, Hi *, I have an USB mice I can't get working with Debian 3.0 on my ibook2. The strange thing is, that the mouse is working under MacOS9, but although not with MacOS X. The light didn't switch on. The buttons work. Have anyone an idea, what this could

Re: newbie tiBook questions

2002-10-02 Thread Mr.Fletcher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been in contact together with Ben with ATI developer relations. When we asked for info on M7 power management about two months ago, they didn't have time to provide us with additional info or example code. We should probably ping them again, and it might not hurt if

Re: url for m3mirror

2002-10-02 Thread Georg Koss
Hi Christope, On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:57:07AM -0400, christophe barbé wrote: I would appreciate if someone can point me to the url. http://penguinppc.org/~benh/ HTH -- M.f.G. Georg Koss mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on a TiBook III webpage - still more questions

2002-10-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2002-10-02 at 15:29, Christophe Barbé wrote: Le mer 02/10/2002 à 01:28, Jim McLoughlin a écrit : [ dependency problems when trying to install Branden's 4.2 debs on a woody system [ My guess is that either my upgraded kernel, or these packages, need access to unstable apt-get

Re: m3mirror for iBook 2 ?

2002-10-02 Thread christophe =?unknown-8bit?q?barb=E9?=
I am interested by the XF86Config-4 file too and I am still looking for the m3mirror home om the web. Thanks, Christophe On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 06:53:53PM +0200, Georg Koss wrote: Hi BuG, On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:41:26PM +0200, BuG wrote: I have a PowerBook G3 (so, ATI Rage 128) and I

Re: newbie tiBook questions

2002-10-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2002-10-02 at 00:14, Christophe Barbé wrote: How much do we are ? Is this chip used in ibook too ? No. Other similar question: Is this the current ATI chip ? It was the high end consumer Radeon Mobility until recently. Is it a common one ? Is it used in other laptop? ... I think

Re: url for m3mirror

2002-10-02 Thread Christophe Barbé
Le mer 02/10/2002 à 13:14, Geert Stappers a écrit : I would appreciate if someone can point me to the url. Google with m3mirror gives many many hits. Google with m3mirror benh brings you to http://penguinppc.org/~benh/ search again for m3mirror on that page. Quite honnestly I searched

Re: Document updated: Installing Debian on an iBook2

2002-10-02 Thread Markus Rosenstihl
Jesus Climent wrote: Document updated: Installing Debian on an iBook2 Added: step by step procedure to have DRI accel using dri-trunk debs. Thanks to all for the great effort. Jesse As I said in a mail to this list before, this was one of the documents I used to set up my ibook. Thanks

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on a TiBook III webpage - still more questions

2002-10-02 Thread Christophe Barbé
Le mer 02/10/2002 à 13:20, Jim McLoughlin a écrit : Hi Lately these messages have been caused by systems which have a stable or testing version of libc, FWIU many packages in unstable are dependent on the unstable libc which has been held up. thanks for the pointer, it is indeed libc6.

Is my CD image corrupt?

2002-10-02 Thread Steve Langdon
I've got yaboot to run off a CD I burnt from a downloaded .iso file but it cant load its config file cos its called yaboot.con instead of yaboot.conf??? Is my file corrupted? Some of the files on the image have size 0k is this also normal?. I cant check the download without md5sum which I

X keeps freezing

2002-10-02 Thread Mij
hi I'm experiencing lot of freezing by X, and each time i'm forced logging in with ssh and rebooting the machine. someone else have the same problem? michael: y, even with the new drm sources ;) bye -- Mij -o- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -o- http://mij.oltrelinux.com

Openoffice mirrors and my apt-get problem

2002-10-02 Thread Roland Wegmann
Hello I am really keen on running Openoffice on my iMac. Some weeks ago I tried out all the mirrors on http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice/mirrors.html. Unfortunatelly I always got error messages (Err ... Packages 404 not found). I never had any problems with all the entries I ever used in

Re: Openoffice mirrors and my apt-get problem

2002-10-02 Thread christophe =?unknown-8bit?q?barb=E9?=
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 08:48:44PM +0200, Roland Wegmann wrote: Hello I am really keen on running Openoffice on my iMac. Some weeks ago I tried out OF: What does keen mean? (I am French) all the mirrors on http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice/mirrors.html. Unfortunatelly I always got

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on a TiBook III webpage - still more questions

2002-10-02 Thread Michel Lanners
On 2 Oct, this message from Christophe Barbé echoed through cyberspace: Le mer 02/10/2002 à 01:28, Jim McLoughlin a écrit : 2. For the mouse emulation, the symbolic link should be made via ln ../init.d/mouse_emulation.sh S99mouseEmulation Fixed (you forgot the init.d part) Also,

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on a TiBook III webpage - still more questions

2002-10-02 Thread Lari Kovanen
Michel Lanners [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The mouse emulation part can easily be added without additional init scripts with an entry in /etc/sysctl.conf: # Mouse button emulation: dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation = 1 dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode = 96

Re: X keeps freezing

2002-10-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2002-10-02 at 20:28, Mij wrote: I'm experiencing lot of freezing by X, and each time i'm forced logging in with ssh and rebooting the machine. someone else have the same problem? Lots of people, probably. :/ michael: y, even with the new drm sources ;) Read my From: header

Re: X keeps freezing

2002-10-02 Thread Mij
On 02 Oct 2002 23:11:40 +0200 Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mit, 2002-10-02 at 20:28, Mij wrote: I'm experiencing lot of freezing by X, and each time i'm forced logging in with ssh and rebooting the machine. someone else have the same problem? Lots of people, probably.

Re: can I use video=imsttfb?

2002-10-02 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 02 2002, Vinai Kopp wrote: I am guessing this on what I read in the bootpromt howto and in imsttfb.c, but I could likely be dreadfully wrong. Any pointers in the right directions are very appreciated! Do you really need to specify vmode and cmode? I use a 9500/180MP with

Re: X keeps freezing

2002-10-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2002-10-02 at 23:21, Mij wrote: On 02 Oct 2002 23:11:40 +0200 Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you're running an iBook2 IIRC (well, it's the M6 that matters probably), PCI GART should be more stable than AGP GART. Several people including me are currently

Presentation with Free Software (was: Re: url for m3mirror)

2002-10-02 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 02 2002, christophe barbé wrote: Also I plan to do a presentation with my new TiBook. So if you have tips on how to achieve this goal... I think that you can use LaTeX, generating a pdf file and then playing the pdf for your audience with xpdf. Using LaTeX is the

Re: Presentation with Free Software

2002-10-02 Thread vinai
I've also done this. I used the prosper package (prosper.sf.net) which provides another document class in LaTeX. I've used it also to generate PDF's but for my final presentation, I had to use Acrobat in full screen mode on a PC running XP (double yuk !! :). Using EPS figures from xfig and xmgr

Re: m3mirror on TiBook3

2002-10-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 18:26:44 -0400, christophe barbé wrote: I get : $ ./m3mirror ATI Rage M3 mirror tool, v0.1 error 1074020353 getting mirror value I got the same error in the past. From a message I posted in March: The problem was due to benh's kernel configuration (I was told that it

Re: new iBook2 install guide

2002-10-02 Thread Mij
On 01 Oct 2002 18:31:30 -0700 Mike Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: www.miketec.org/ibook/ (sortof a first draft...) Hi all, I had a heck of a time installing Debian on my iBook (don't worry about me though, I live for this stuff :-). I found quite a few resources but none of them had

iBook time with both MacOSX and Debian

2002-10-02 Thread Tim Bateman
Does anyone out there have a solution to setting the time correctly in Mac OS X and Debian Linux when an iBook (700MHz) is used with both OSes as a dual boot system ? I saw a mail on this list recently that I thought answered this question but a search in the archive revealed nothing. Thanks in

Re: Presentation with Free Software

2002-10-02 Thread David Roundy
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 04:58:47PM -0500, vinai wrote: I've also done this. I used the prosper package (prosper.sf.net) which provides another document class in LaTeX. I've used it also to generate PDF's but for my final presentation, I had to use Acrobat in full screen mode on a PC running

Boot Floppies ATA100 for PPC?

2002-10-02 Thread MaX
Hi all, i'm searching for an unofficial debian boot floppy Ata 100 for PPC. I need it becouse the Dual processor G4 887 Mhz contain 3 ide bus: hda Ata100 hdb Ata66 (fixed slave of hda) hdc Ata33 well, yaboot seem not able to boot from hdb (ata66) Hdc (ata 33) is the slowest of my G4, and i

Re: 3 button emulation / got X up

2002-10-02 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 02 2002, Jim McLoughlin wrote: In windowMaker, I need to heavily rely on the right button. I would prefer to emulate it via ctrl+click, same as on OSX. Anyone else know how would I do this? This does not solve your problem, but I should say that I took some time to

Re: new iBook2 install guide

2002-10-02 Thread Mike Johnson
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 15:47, Mij wrote: It's good, but what about drive the user using debian tools more than go manually? (== update-modules for audio etc, using apt for daenzer's Xfree, using /etc/sysctl.conf instead go manually etc) tips and hw improvement are very good. Well, I

Re: url for m3mirror

2002-10-02 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 10:57, christophe =?unknown-8bit?Q?barb=E9?= wrote: Also I plan to do a presentation with my new TiBook. So if you have tips on how to achieve this goal... Just to weigh in with the rest here, I recently gave a presentation for the Columbus LUG (http://www.colug.net/)

Re: m3mirror on TiBook3

2002-10-02 Thread christophe =?unknown-8bit?q?barb=E9?=
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:44:32AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 18:26:44 -0400, christophe barb? wrote: I get : $ ./m3mirror ATI Rage M3 mirror tool, v0.1 error 1074020353 getting mirror value I got the same error in the past. From a message I posted in March: