Re: Two screens, can't get CD out.

2003-04-08 Thread Zeno Davatz
Chris Tillman wrote: On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 06:20:42PM +0200, Zeno Davatz wrote: Hi List 2. I entred a cd into my drive, but could not manage to get it out anymore ;-) Did you install the eject package? apt-get install eject Otherwise, check the list archives in the

Two screens

2003-04-08 Thread Zeno Davatz
Matthias Kloas wrote: On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 18:20, Zeno Davatz wrote: Hi List 1. I got two screens attached to my ppc with Debian. At the moment my second screen just shows scrambled colors. I have a hint that I must install xinerama but I could not find the package so far.

sync palm

2003-04-08 Thread Zeno Davatz
hi list is there a package i can install to sync my palm and backup my data of my palm? thanks for any hints and help. zeno

Re: sync palm

2003-04-08 Thread Jörg Fabian Lesch
The tools I use are in pilot-link. The gui I use is jpilot. But in case your cradle is usb, I suggest u make your own packages with the lates sources. Jörg Zeno Davatz wrote: hi list is there a package i can install to sync my palm and backup my data of my palm? thanks for any hints

Re: Two screens

2003-04-08 Thread Matthias Kloas
Xinerama is not a package but an Xserver extension. Search the archive from this list, there are some examples how to set up your x-server to use xinerama. ok, thanks for the hint. can you point me a bit further? I did not find anything so far in the archives (what date would that have

RS6000 model 44p 170

2003-04-08 Thread Michael Cameron
I'm looking for help installing linux on this system. I have seen many howto's but I do not have a boot server so can't apply them directly. I've got a set of debian 3.0r1 CD's and tried using SMS to change the boot order to boot from them but it just went straight to AIX (I saw no error

Re: Just some unimportant stuff

2003-04-08 Thread Edward G. Speyer
[oops: forgot to Cc: to the list!] On 8 Apr 2003, Grzesiek Sedek wrote: I just had funny thing happening when my trackpad become dead for an hour or so, rebooting to OSX and back few times and removing battery didn't sort it out too. I presume the mouse was working fine in Mac OS X? (btw,

Re: Just some unimportant stuff

2003-04-08 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
More funny things happened today... On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 11:46, Edward G. Speyer wrote: I just had funny thing happening when my trackpad become dead for an hour or so, rebooting to OSX and back few times and removing battery didn't sort it out too. I presume the mouse was working fine

framebuffer en PowerPC 7200/90

2003-04-08 Thread andrés
Hola: Hace unos días instalé en un PowerPC 7200/90 Debian 3.0, inicié dicha instalación desde discos de 3 1/2, uno con la imagen boot-floppy-hfs.img y el otro root.bin Al iniciar la instalación con el disco boot-floppy-hfs.img, obtengo una visualización de consola bajo framebuffer perfecta

Re: No frames around windows

2003-04-08 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 18:41, Zeno Davatz wrote: PS: Do you know a got chat-program for Debian PPC? I use xchat for IRC and gaim for instant messaging. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \

Re: No frames around windows

2003-04-08 Thread Zeno Davatz
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 18:41, Zeno Davatz wrote: PS: Do you know a got chat-program for Debian PPC? I use xchat for IRC and gaim for instant messaging. thanx. this was the one i was looking for. zeno

Re: RS6000 model 44p 170

2003-04-08 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
El mar, 08-04-2003 a las 06:43, Michael Cameron escribió: I'm looking for help installing linux on this system. I have seen many howto's but I do not have a boot server so can't apply them directly. I've got a set of debian 3.0r1 CD's and tried using SMS to change the boot order to boot from

Re: framebuffer en PowerPC 7200/90

2003-04-08 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 02:13:40PM +0200, andr?s wrote: Hola: Hace unos días instalé en un PowerPC 7200/90 Debian 3.0, inicié dicha instalación desde discos de 3 1/2, uno con la imagen boot-floppy-hfs.img y el otro root.bin Al iniciar la instalación con el disco boot-floppy-hfs.img,

Re: sync palm

2003-04-08 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Zeno pilot-manager is what you need. If you search in dselect (/ pilot) , there are a number of packages for the palm Regards Clive On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 07:30 am, Zeno Davatz wrote: hi list is there a package i can install to sync my palm and backup my data of my palm?

RE: RS6000 model 44p 170

2003-04-08 Thread Michael Cameron
I booted with a kernel image from SuSE. You can download one on: http://cronos.dci.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/rs6000/ You can boot from network, as howto says. My dhcp configuration has a section as: host power3 { # Desde el OpenFirmware de IBM 7044-140P: # 0 boot net console=ttyS0,9600

fonts in mozilla

2003-04-08 Thread Zeno Davatz
Hi List Slowly I am customising my mac to Debian - it is a lot of fun. I still do not like the fonts in my mozilla. What can I do to get a bigger font selection - would like Arial. In the 'preferences' of Mozilla I can choose from 'serif' and 'sans-serif'. That is not a lot. What can I do to

nvsetenv

2003-04-08 Thread David Campillos
Hello again! My machine: PPC 9600/350 My problem: it breathes with any problem I am trying to set the parameters in order to boot the correct kernel image. As some list members wrote, I am using the nvsetenv command. This is the configuration set by me with nvsetenv command: little-indian?

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Re: RS6000 model 44p 170

2003-04-08 Thread Boris Bezlaj
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 04:51:35PM +0100, Michael Cameron wrote: Does anyone have a reference for Open Firmware commands? Try this: http://firmworks.com/QuickRef.html or http://www.netneurotic.de/mac/openfirmware.html FAT: bogus logical sector size 15370 FAT: bogus logical sector size 15370

Re: RS6000 model 44p 170

2003-04-08 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 11:43:46AM +0100, Michael Cameron wrote: I'm looking for help installing linux on this system. I have seen many howto's but I do not have a boot server so can't apply them directly. I've got a set of debian 3.0r1 CD's and tried using SMS to change the boot order

pilot-manager, no permission at sync-status

2003-04-08 Thread Zeno Davatz
Hi List I installed pilot-manager and connected my TREO 270. When I click the sync-button my 'sync-status' tells me: 04/08/2003 19:24:35 Error: Don't have read/write permissions on /dev/ttya! (On Solaris owner/group/perms should be root/sys/666) What do I need to change

Re: nvsetenv

2003-04-08 Thread Boris Bezlaj
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 05:14:36PM +0200, David Campillos wrote: boot-device scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 boot-file /boot/vmlinux-2.2.19-pmac // I think it is the correct name diag-service fd:diags diag-file input-device kbd output-device /[EMAIL

d-i IBM CHRP testing

2003-04-08 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
This is as far as I got. I get the error message with both graphics and RS232 console. I tested it on both p610 and 44P-170. I booted via BOOTP/tftp and mounted the root file system via NFS. It is also interesting that the 'rootpath' parameter is empty, see below. Kernel is version

Re: d-i IBM CHRP testing

2003-04-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op di 08-04-2003, om 19:25 schreef Rolf Brudeseth: This is as far as I got. I get the error message with both graphics and RS232 console. I tested it on both p610 and 44P-170. I booted via BOOTP/tftp and mounted the root file system via NFS. It is also interesting that the 'rootpath'

comparing x86 and powerpc laptops

2003-04-08 Thread florian
hi! im currently thinking about buying a laptop. basically i wonder if its worth to get a powerpc laptop, since most x86 ones are alot cheaper. besides the nice design of the hardware, are there any reasons? (i would only use debian on it, so things like mac os x dont really matter) to which

Re: nvsetenv

2003-04-08 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 05:14:36PM +0200, David Campillos wrote: Hello again! My machine: PPC 9600/350 My problem: it breathes with any problem I am trying to set the parameters in order to boot the correct kernel image. As some list members wrote, I am using the nvsetenv command. This

Re: nvsetenv

2003-04-08 Thread Simon Vallet
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 05:14:36PM +0200, David Campillos wrote: Hello again! Hi :-) My machine: PPC 9600/350 My problem: it breathes with any problem I am trying to set the parameters in order to boot the correct kernel image. As some list members wrote, I am using the nvsetenv command.

Re: would this break my debian installation?

2003-04-08 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, To the original poster: I have installed OS X on an otherwise Linux TiBook. I had one big scratch partiton of 30 gig that I deleted and split in two. That repartitioning needs to be done from within Linux though; mac-fdisk will just not touch any partitions that stay the same. So you can

Re: comparing x86 and powerpc laptops

2003-04-08 Thread Ivo Marino
Hello, I suggest you the Apple iBook, it works fine with Debian GNU/Linux and is quite fast for multimedia applications, furthermore it looks pretty and is not heavy in weight as many other x86 laptops. I've bought my iBook when I had your same doubts, now I wouldn't change my iBook against no

Re: nvsetenv

2003-04-08 Thread Mich Lanners
On 8 Apr, this message from David Campillos echoed through cyberspace: I am trying to set the parameters in order to boot the correct kernel image. As some list members wrote, I am using the nvsetenv command. This is the configuration set by me with nvsetenv command: little-indian?

I need some help installing

2003-04-08 Thread karrottop
Ok, So, I am verry happy with my debian installation on my x86 machine and I was thinking since my ibook is gettin a bit old it could use having linux on it as well. Unfortunatley that and downloading the sarge powerpc iso and getting it burned, that is all the progress I have made. I burned the

Re: comparing x86 and powerpc laptops

2003-04-08 Thread Patrick Baltz
My personal opinion is that Apple laptops are great hardware, but the linux community using them is so much smaller that it was hard to get some of the things common on x86. It's much improved in the past year or so in my opinion. . However, you really need to look at the price/performance to

Re: pilot-manager, no permission at sync-status

2003-04-08 Thread Patrick Baltz
The best way to fix that is to check the permissions on /dev/ttya and put your user account in the system group that owns /dev/ttya. Do a 'usermod -G group_name userid' to add your login account to the group. You may want to run the program 'id' from the terminal after logging in to check if

Xfree CloneDisplay and M7

2003-04-08 Thread christophe barbe
I read a doc to install woody on an ibook (in French)[1]. In this page, the author seems to indicate that it is possible to drive the CRT output with some Xfree Radeon driver options. In particular It points to a Xfree 4.3 man pages[2] that mentions some very interesting Clone* option. As

Re: I need some help installing

2003-04-08 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 07:42:05PM -0400, karrottop wrote: Ok, So, I am verry happy with my debian installation on my x86 machine and I was thinking since my ibook is gettin a bit old it could use having linux on it as well. Unfortunatley that and downloading the sarge powerpc iso and getting