Re: Fwd: Re: 12" powerbook - no harddisc

2003-03-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:22:17AM +0100, D.S.E wrote: > thanks, but I got this thing to work in the meantime. > now there's an other problem ;-) > with the yaboot-menu I only can boot linux, the option to boot macosx is So, it's ignoring the macosx= line you put in yaboot.conf? > missing in the

Re: Beige G3 X Windows

2003-03-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:33:27PM -0500, Shannon Neumann wrote: > Has anyone had success getting X Windows set up on a beige G3? What > settings are required? Any help would be appreciated. > > Shannon Neumann > owner, Neumannweb Computers > EML: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WEB: http://www.neumannweb.

Re: Beige G3 X Windows

2003-03-09 Thread Solignac
Le dimanche 09 mars vers 18:33 Shannon Neumann écrivît : Hello, > Has anyone had success getting X Windows set up on a beige G3? Yes (ain't it fun?) > What settings are required? Any help would be appreciated. This subject has already been discussed several times here, for example have a loo

Fwd: Re: 12" powerbook - no harddisc

2003-03-09 Thread D.S.E
thanks, but I got this thing to work in the meantime. now there's an other problem ;-) with the yaboot-menu I only can boot linux, the option to boot macosx is missing in the menu. also yaboot only starts, when I type 'boot hd:2,yaboot' manually at the of-prompt. when I let the PB do the booting au

sorry about the read receipt request

2003-03-09 Thread Shannon Neumann
Title: Message I want to apologize to everyone on this list for the inadvertent read receipt request from my last message.   Shannon Neumann owner, Neumannweb Computers EML: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://www.neumannweb.net PH: 260.483.7086

Beige G3 X Windows

2003-03-09 Thread Shannon Neumann
Title: Message Has anyone had success getting X Windows set up on a beige G3?  What settings are required?  Any help would be appreciated.   Shannon Neumann owner, Neumannweb Computers EML: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://www.neumannweb.net PH: 260.483.7086

Re: Build err with 2.4.20-ben8: open_pic.c problem - solved (but a question)

2003-03-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 22:41, Georg Koss wrote: > Hello again! > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:14:27PM +0100, Georg Koss wrote: > > > What might be the problem here - resp. how can I correct this? > > Answering myself ;) > > I enabled > > CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK=y > CONFIG_PMAC_APM_EMU=m > > and

Re: printer install for newbie

2003-03-09 Thread Raphaël Haberer-Proust
Hello, > Is there a graphic interface for installing > a printer in Debian Linux KDE? not really, but something like it. Try installing cups (apt-get install cupsys cupsys-client). It will also install apache (web server). Then you will be able to configure your printer by using the adress http://

Re: Build err with 2.4.20-ben8: open_pic.c problem - solved (but a question)

2003-03-09 Thread Georg Koss
Hello again! On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:14:27PM +0100, Georg Koss wrote: > What might be the problem here - resp. how can I correct this? Answering myself ;) I enabled CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK=y CONFIG_PMAC_APM_EMU=m and got the kernel built. So question arose, why I need this code on a G4/400

Re: ibook 2.2 X sleepmode

2003-03-09 Thread Reto Stalder
Hi Christoph, > when i close my ibook and "send it to bed" everything works quite well. > But then when i reopen it it wakes up, everyting works but on the screen > appear a few flackering pixels. I have the same machine and the same problem as you. On good days the resume works well, but most da

Re: 12" powerbook - no harddisc

2003-03-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 17:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 14:00:49 +, Clive Menzies composed: > > > > On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 08:52 am, D.S.E wrote: > > > > >Hi, > > > > > You need the latest version of Yaboot: > > > > "Yaboot 1.3.10 is as always available from: >

Re: printer install for newbie

2003-03-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 04:17:10PM +0100, Hans M wrote: > Debian Linux > > Is there a graphic interface for installing > a printer in Debian Linux KDE? > > The KDE System->Setup Printer is missing on the > PowerPC Debian system I have installed. > > Can anyone please tell me how I define a print

ibook 2.2 X sleepmode

2003-03-09 Thread Christoph Siess
Hi there, when i close my ibook and "send it to bed" everything works quite well. But then when i reopen it it wakes up, everyting works but on the screen appear a few flackering pixels. I have the dri-trunk sources running with accelerated support (radeon M6). The problem is the same when i trun

Re: cdrecord and dma for cd

2003-03-09 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du dimanche 09 mars 2003, vers 17:22, Grzesiek Sedek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> Link /dev/dvd to /dev/scd0. >> To activate DMA, you can use hdparm or echo using_dma:1 > >> /proc/ide/hdb/settings > Thats what I had before but dvd's seem to be bit jerky and as Ga

Re: starmax 3000 install problems

2003-03-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:19:59PM +, Nicholas Helps wrote: > Hello all, > > Thanks for the comments on this. What solved it was redoing the "make system > bootable" bit again (this sorted out > the boot-device setting) and then just entering "Linux" at the boot: prompt. > I did have to go

Re: cdrecord and dma for cd

2003-03-09 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 15:03, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Link /dev/dvd to /dev/scd0. > To activate DMA, you can use hdparm or echo using_dma:1 > > /proc/ide/hdb/settings > -- Thats what I had before but dvd's seem to be bit jerky and as Gary Sandine wrote before using ide + dma doesn't improve it at

Re: 12" powerbook - no harddisc

2003-03-09 Thread simon
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 14:00:49 +, Clive Menzies composed: > > On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 08:52 am, D.S.E wrote: > > >Hi, > > > You need the latest version of Yaboot: > > "Yaboot 1.3.10 is as always available from: > http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/ > and > http://www.alaska.net/~e

locale settings file (newbie)

2003-03-09 Thread Hans M
Dear listener... Installing I get this error message: please check your locale settings LANGUAGE = (unset). LC_ALL = (unset). LANG = "sv_SE.ISO-8859-1". 1. Which file is to be edited, and how do I set those fields to a proper value? 2. How do I set a printer to be connected to the Ethernet?

Re: Management of backlight

2003-03-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 14:18, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > Hi Ben, > > > There is currently no solution for external flat panels, I simple don't > > know how backlight is controlled on these. > > On a lark I installed pmud and pbbuttonsd but all I ended up with was a > completely dark screen for m

Re: Management of backlight

2003-03-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 20:14, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > Hi, > > I have an 17 inch LCD flatpanel and would very much like to control > brightness and turning off the backlighting after a time period on my > desktop machine similar to what pbbuttonsd does for PowerBooks. > > I tried pbbuttonssd

printer install for newbie

2003-03-09 Thread Hans M
Debian Linux Is there a graphic interface for installing a printer in Debian Linux KDE? The KDE System->Setup Printer is missing on the PowerPC Debian system I have installed. Can anyone please tell me how I define a printer is connected by Ethernet? I appreciate any tips and help. My system i

console: aty128fb on G4

2003-03-09 Thread Nicolas Bertolissio
Hi, I've trouble in making aty128fb work on a G4, I have a kernel compiled with make-kpkg from the last kernel-source-2.4.20 and kernel-patch-benh. OFfb works fine but I can find how to run XFree with it, so I compiled aty128fb in the kernel instead but the screen is automatically turned off. Key

Re: cd-rw on ibook2

2003-03-09 Thread Clemens Mangler
try a semicolon On 8 Mar 2003, Guido Amoruso wrote: > On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 22:25, Gary Sandine wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 14:01, Guido Amoruso wrote: > > > is it ok to have multiple "append"s? > > > > I don't know. The top of dmesg displays the append arguments in effect; > > perhaps > >

Re: cdrecord and dma for cd

2003-03-09 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce début d'après-midi ensoleillé du dimanche 09 mars 2003, vers 15:06, Grzesiek Sedek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > Ive got this problem: > I need ide-scsi to burn cd's but at the same time I'd like to watch > dvd's - so I need dma access. > How to do it? I've linked /dev/dvd to /dev/hdb bu

Re: cdrecord and dma for cd

2003-03-09 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 07:06, Grzesiek Sedek wrote: > Ive got this problem: > I need ide-scsi to burn cd's but at the same time I'd like to watch > dvd's - so I need dma access. > How to do it? I've linked /dev/dvd to /dev/hdb but it didn't help. > Is there any quick fix for that? > I'm running iboo

cdrecord and dma for cd

2003-03-09 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
Hi all, Ive got this problem: I need ide-scsi to burn cd's but at the same time I'd like to watch dvd's - so I need dma access. How to do it? I've linked /dev/dvd to /dev/hdb but it didn't help. Is there any quick fix for that? I'm running ibook2 600Mhz combo Thanks! -- Grzesiek Sedek <[EMAIL PROT

Re: 12" powerbook - no harddisc

2003-03-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 08:52 am, D.S.E wrote: Hi, I tried to install debian on my new 12" PB. it boots perfectly via network, but then installer doesn't recognize my harddisc. after partitioning, formatting and mounting the hd manually I could install the base system, but when it comes

Re: Management of backlight

2003-03-09 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi Ben, > There is currently no solution for external flat panels, I simple don't > know how backlight is controlled on these. On a lark I installed pmud and pbbuttonsd but all I ended up with was a completely dark screen for my login prompt. I was blindly able to go to /etc/rc.d/init.d/ and d

12" powerbook - no harddisc

2003-03-09 Thread D.S.E
Hi, I tried to install debian on my new 12" PB. it boots perfectly via network, but then installer doesn't recognize my harddisc. after partitioning, formatting and mounting the hd manually I could install the base system, but when it comes to make the system bootable from harddisc, yaboot can'

is this a bug or a misconfiguration?

2003-03-09 Thread Peter Rooney
good folk, statemnt of 'problem' mouse freezes upon logging out of kde (2.2.2), both as user and as root. after kde cleans up after itself, the 'X' cursor appears in centre of screen, but is also frozen. when the login screen appears, the 'X' cursor turns into a regular mouse cursor, but still