updating yaboot

2003-04-12 Thread Raymond Born
I am a Linux beginner with a Mirror-door Dual1GHZ. I have tried endlessly to get both Mandrake or Debian Linux to boot on this system. I have 3 drives, 2 in the ATA-100, 1-ATA 33 (Linux Drive) in the ATA 66. I have properly partitioned and installed. This last time I did not even install 1

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 01:28, Jessica Blank wrote: [...] > Point is, why is the box going to runlevel 0 or 6 in the first place? > Those are the only runlevels on my box where it runs the RTC scripts... :/ IIRC, the sysvinit stuff _used_ to go through every runlevel on the way to the runlevel you w

SUCCESS!! Was Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
My box sees the drives now!! Now, why can't I get RTC to work? On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 19:59, Jessica Blank wrote: > > Interesting notes: > > > > init=/bin/sh DOES get me to a shell! And everything works fine. > > > > HOWEVER: Booting WITHOUT in

Re: using my X display

2003-04-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Son, 2003-04-13 at 02:01, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > I have changed the default xserverrc by deleting > the nolisten but I still get "can't open display" > when trying to open windows on Debian from a > remote computer. You'd probably have to allow access with xhost, but you better forget about tha

alsa and internal mic in ibook2

2003-04-12 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
Has anyone managed to get it working? Thanx -- Grzesiek Sedek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mama

using my X display

2003-04-12 Thread Fred Heitkamp
I have changed the default xserverrc by deleting the nolisten but I still get "can't open display" when trying to open windows on Debian from a remote computer. Is there something else blocking Debian from accepting X from another computer? Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Wi

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
Now, all of this begs the question... since my Mac started working again after I disabled BOTH RTC settings... yet previously, I'd been using 2.4 kernels (non-Ben-patched/virgin/stock/unaltered/Linus's-tree/whatever-you-call-it) with the PPC RTC option on, and it booted fine... ...what did you do

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
Err. Ignore the bit about the dmesg. I gotta get my keyboard working first ;) On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Jessica Blank wrote: > Wonkalicious. Now it boots just fine... when I disabled both RTC and > PPC_RTC (or RTC_PPC or whatever it was), the thing boots just fine O_o > > However... after having disab

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
Wonkalicious. Now it boots just fine... when I disabled both RTC and PPC_RTC (or RTC_PPC or whatever it was), the thing boots just fine O_o However... after having disabled ADB_KEYBOARD, the keyboard does NOTHING! Like, zilch, zero, zip, nada... I can't even log in. I can, of course, ctrl-openappl

Re: tibookIII + projector

2003-04-12 Thread luis . sanjuan
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:05:47PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Die, 2003-04-08 at 01:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > How to configure XF86Config-4 to use my laptop (video card M7) with a > > > projector? I have to give a conference next week. The projector is in > > > the conference room

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 12:46:46PM -0600, Jessica Blank wrote: > Ahh. Color me stupid, but what is i2c again? Here's a document about the standard that's pretty generic: http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/buses/i2c/facts/ Summary: it's a simple, 2 line serial bus for connecting chips.

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > I could find no CONFIG_ADB_KEYCODES. (I rgrep -r -i'd for it). I am > > presuming you meant CONFIG_ADB_KEYBOARD, and proceeding along those > > lines... > > Yup. > > > > Was ist das "Cuda"? > > Cuda is the "system controller" chip of those o

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> I could find no CONFIG_ADB_KEYCODES. (I rgrep -r -i'd for it). I am > presuming you meant CONFIG_ADB_KEYBOARD, and proceeding along those > lines... Yup. > Was ist das "Cuda"? Cuda is the "system controller" chip of those old machines, it does, among other, the real time clock, the poweroff/

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Eh? Why does the keyboard WORK with init=/bin/sh, but NOT WORK when > > booting as per usual? That makes zero sense... > > It does make senes. With init=/bin/sh, the keyboard works with > the kernel built-in keymap. Later on, your userland s

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Eh? Why does the keyboard WORK with init=/bin/sh, but NOT WORK when > booting as per usual? That makes zero sense... It does make senes. With init=/bin/sh, the keyboard works with the kernel built-in keymap. Later on, your userland scripts are loading a keymap, which is probably designed for th

Powerbook Install

2003-04-12 Thread joejoe99
Hi folks! G3 Powerbook 400 Pismo 6GB / 320MB I successfully created an Apple_Bootstrap partition of 800k, created a main parition as well as a swap partition. I finished the installer fine (including making the hard disk bootable), went to reboot, but got the folder w/ a ? I'm guessing tha

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 19:59, Jessica Blank wrote: > > Interesting notes: > > > > init=/bin/sh DOES get me to a shell! And everything works fine. > > > > HOWEVER: Booting WITHOUT init=/bin/sh (even with the 601 bug thingy turned > > on, which I r

Re: superdrive and geforce 440

2003-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 17:31, florian wrote: > hi! > > does the nvidia geforce4 440 card which ships with some of the > new powerbook work yet with debian/linux? how about sleep? Still waiting for user reports on these. The 440 may work with XFree "nv" driver (though certainly not with as many fea

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 19:59, Jessica Blank wrote: > Interesting notes: > > init=/bin/sh DOES get me to a shell! And everything works fine. > > HOWEVER: Booting WITHOUT init=/bin/sh (even with the 601 bug thingy turned > on, which I really doubted would solve the problem anyhow), I get the same >

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
Interesting notes: init=/bin/sh DOES get me to a shell! And everything works fine. HOWEVER: Booting WITHOUT init=/bin/sh (even with the 601 bug thingy turned on, which I really doubted would solve the problem anyhow), I get the same problem... oh, and for some reason the keyboard is also screwed

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
I was thinking of the init=/bin/sh idea. Will try. On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 17:28, Jessica Blank wrote: > > > > Make sure you have CONFIG_PPC_RTC and _not_ CONFIG_RTC and let me > > > know. If the kernel tries to access the legacy RTC chip on the

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 17:28, Jessica Blank wrote: > > Make sure you have CONFIG_PPC_RTC and _not_ CONFIG_RTC and let me > > know. If the kernel tries to access the legacy RTC chip on the ISA > > bus, it will hang. > > Yeah, that's how I did it. > > Actually, I was currently trying (just for grin

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 17:14, Jessica Blank wrote: > > Well... okay. This is interesting. > > > > Ben, your kernel patches simply don't like my machine. Maybe I'm doing > > something wrong, but I've configured around a billion trillion bajillion

superdrive and geforce 440

2003-04-12 Thread florian
hi! does the nvidia geforce4 440 card which ships with some of the new powerbook work yet with debian/linux? how about sleep? same for the superdrive.. anybody got it working? i searched with google, but didnt really find anything about it.. thanks alot! ciao! florian

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 17:14, Jessica Blank wrote: > Well... okay. This is interesting. > > Ben, your kernel patches simply don't like my machine. Maybe I'm doing > something wrong, but I've configured around a billion trillion bajillion > kernels in my life (since age 15) and I see nothing missing

Re: Mac 7200 (PPC) sees Promise controller.. BUT NO DRIVES

2003-04-12 Thread Jessica Blank
Well... okay. This is interesting. Ben, your kernel patches simply don't like my machine. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I've configured around a billion trillion bajillion kernels in my life (since age 15) and I see nothing missing. Plain old non-Ben-patched 2.4.20 kernels seem to boot fin

Re: Howto: german keymap for X11

2003-04-12 Thread Benjamin Swatek
Hi! Great!! Thanks a lot, it works!! Thanks benjamin On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:57, Claas Langbehn wrote: > Hi! > > > To get the german keymap working with X11, do the following: > > 1.) Edit your XF86config-4's InputDevice-Section as follows: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier

Re: tibookIII + projector

2003-04-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2003-04-08 at 01:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How to configure XF86Config-4 to use my laptop (video card M7) with a > > projector? I have to give a conference next week. The projector is in > > the conference room. I need to have enabled the _two_ screens there. But > > I haven't ch

Re: xfree 4.3.0

2003-04-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sam, 2003-04-12 at 07:33, Beni wrote: > On Freitag, April 11, 2003, at 10:34 Uhr, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Fre, 2003-04-11 at 19:38, Beni wrote: > > > >> When I tried to do a "make includes" after the "make clean" in the > >> sourcetree of the xfree-source I got the following Errors: > >

Re: xfree 4.3.0

2003-04-12 Thread Beni
On Freitag, April 11, 2003, at 10:34 Uhr, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Fre, 2003-04-11 at 19:38, Beni wrote: When I tried to do a "make includes" after the "make clean" in the sourcetree of the xfree-source I got the following Errors: make -f xmakefile includes make[1]: xmakefile: No such file

Re: Installer showing way too much free space

2003-04-12 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:08:44PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello - > > Powerbook G3 400 Pismo > > When I go to "Partition Hard Drive", from the 3.0 .iso image, the default > number of blocks is: > > > size of 'device' is 1073741825 blocks: > > > This suggests that I have 512.0G