Re: Snapshot backup of debian installation

2003-07-10 Thread debian
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, befu wrote: > > Recently I tried to make a snapshot backup (mirroring, cloning) of my 1GB > debian installation partition. For that purpose I prepared an empty 2GB > LINUX partition on my external FireWire drive. > Within MacOS X and having Ext2FS_1.0a3 installed I first clo

m3mirror

2003-07-10 Thread emorfin
Hi! does anyone have knows if m3mirror works on tibook 15" (ATI radeon 9000m) at boot time? if it works what parameters i need to pass to kernel? (xserver=fbdev fb:crt:1,lcd:0 or fb1024x768 fb:crt:1,lcd:0 or ???) and(or) do i need to modify first XF86config-4? (now i have 1280x854). does i hav

Snapshot backup of debian installation

2003-07-10 Thread befu
Recently I tried to make a snapshot backup (mirroring, cloning) of my 1GB debian installation partition. For that purpose I prepared an empty 2GB LINUX partition on my external FireWire drive. Within MacOS X and having Ext2FS_1.0a3 installed I first cloned my installation to the FireWire partitio

Re: External CDROM RW through USB

2003-07-10 Thread Oliver Ripka
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:04:46PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Has anyone had success hooking up external cdrom through the USB? Does > it have to be MAC compliant? I came into a Pacific Digital drive which > would be great to use on my iBook if possible. Of course, I'm talking > about usi

Re: DVD playing -- NOT!

2003-07-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 00:13, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO La nuit ayant déjà recouvert d'encre ce jour du jeudi 10 juillet > 2003, vers 23:39, Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > > Unfortunately, it can cause hangs, so you need > > > Option "DMAForXv" > > > to activate it in newer v

Re: External CDROM RW through USB

2003-07-10 Thread vinai
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Has anyone had success hooking up external cdrom through the USB? Does > it have to be MAC compliant? I came into a Pacific Digital drive which > would be great to use on my iBook if possible. Of course, I'm talking > about using it under Debian and

Re: DVD playing -- NOT!

2003-07-10 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:50:56 +0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra escreveu: > Em Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:11:38 -0300, Rogério Brito escreveu: > >> Which CPU is that? > > Sorry, forgot mentioning I have a FireWire iBook, that means a > G3 300 MHz I think. Sorry for the autores

Re: kernel-patch-2.4.21-powerpc packages available for testing.

2003-07-10 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:28:48 +0200, Michel Dänzer escreveu: > On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 23:13, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra > wrote: >> Em Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:42:47 +0200, Michel Dänzer escreveu: >> >> > r128 DRI should work pretty well with PCI GART though. >> >> I assume with a big

Re: DVD playing -- NOT!

2003-07-10 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO La nuit ayant déjà recouvert d'encre ce jour du jeudi 10 juillet 2003, vers 23:39, Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > Unfortunately, it can cause hangs, so you need > Option "DMAForXv" > to activate it in newer versions of XFree86. Does this apply to radeon ? -- #if 0

External CDROM RW through USB

2003-07-10 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Has anyone had success hooking up external cdrom through the USB? Does it have to be MAC compliant? I came into a Pacific Digital drive which would be great to use on my iBook if possible. Of course, I'm talking about using it under Debian and not OSX. -- Curtis Vaughan http://www.angelfir

Unidentified subject!

2003-07-10 Thread José Leônidas Bier Brasileiro
I Installed KOffice in my iMac machine and kexi, the database package wasn't installed. I verified in the kexi website that it is not part of the KOffice suite, it is a stand-alone application. How do I get kexi? I tried through apt-get but it didn't worked... I'm very interested in

Re: DVD playing -- NOT!

2003-07-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 23:11, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Jul 10 2003, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > > I just posted questions in the list about AGP and raw devices > > as possible ameliorations. Does anyone have another tips, ideas or > > black magic recipes? > > Which CPU is

Re: DVD playing -- NOT!

2003-07-10 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:11:38 -0300, Rogério Brito escreveu: > On Jul 10 2003, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: >> I just posted questions in the list about AGP and raw devices >> as possible ameliorations. Does anyone have another tips, ideas or >> black magic recipes? > > Whic

Re: kernel-patch-2.4.21-powerpc packages available for testing.

2003-07-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 23:13, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Em Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:42:47 +0200, Michel Dänzer escreveu: > > > r128 DRI should work pretty well with PCI GART though. > > I assume with a big loss of performance? Not necessarily. More importantly, as I have

Re: DVD playing -- NOT!

2003-07-10 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jul 10 2003, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > I just posted questions in the list about AGP and raw devices > as possible ameliorations. Does anyone have another tips, ideas or > black magic recipes? Which CPU is that? A G3? Which clock? Do you use DRI? IIRC, enabling DRI

Re: kernel-patch-2.4.21-powerpc packages available for testing.

2003-07-10 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:42:47 +0200, Michel Dänzer escreveu: > No, agpgart for UniNorth only works in benh kernels (and linuxppc-2.5) > yet. Oi vei, I haven't been able to compile and install benh kernels yet. Will give them a try again soon. > r128 DRI should work pretty well with PCI

Re: kernel-patch-2.4.21-powerpc packages available for testing.

2003-07-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 22:29, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Em Mon, 07 Jul 2003 21:32:42 +0200, Sven Luther escreveu: > > > Please try them out and provide feedback, so i can correct anything that > > is wrong before i upload them. > > I don't know if it is your fault or mi

DVD playing -- NOT!

2003-07-10 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Before anything else, the disclaimer: I know this may never work properly, I have digged the mailing list archives and Google'd extensively, I am using the latest unstable kernel-image-2.4.21-powerpc and the dri-trunk stuff, I take baths and brush my teeth regularly. Even after all

Re: Linux + IBM PowerPC RS6K

2003-07-10 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:15:09 -0300, Ricardo Alonso escreveu: > In the laboratory that i work here in my university, we have some ibm > powerpc rs6000 machines (7006-410, 7006-42T, 7011-250, 7012-390 e 7024). all > then have aix instaled and working, but we are having serius problems with > this...

Raw device for DVD

2003-07-10 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
I am trying to use /dev/rdvd as a symbolic link to /dev/raw/raw1, as per the xine instructions to try to make DVD viewing usable. The thing is that xine claims to be unable to use the raw device. /dev/raw/raw1 and /dev/rdvd have precisely the same disk group owernship and

Linux + IBM PowerPC RS6K

2003-07-10 Thread Ricardo Alonso
In the laboratory that i work here in my university, we have some ibm powerpc rs6000 machines (7006-410, 7006-42T, 7011-250, 7012-390 e 7024). all then have aix instaled and working, but we are having serius problems with this... so, i'd like to install a linux distribution in all of then, but i'm

Re: kernel-patch-2.4.21-powerpc packages available for testing.

2003-07-10 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Mon, 07 Jul 2003 21:32:42 +0200, Sven Luther escreveu: > Please try them out and provide feedback, so i can correct anything that > is wrong before i upload them. I don't know if it is your fault or mine... I have installed if from unstable, and it is working fine -- or almost

Re: modem kernel 2.4.18-newpmac

2003-07-10 Thread Vincent
Ok Benjamin, hardware was not the trouble but wvdial Wvdial 1.53 work fine with kernel 2.2.20-pmac For kernel 2.4.18-newpmac you must use pppconfig & pon/poff ISP tools Thanks Vincent Le mer 09/07/2003 à 14:42, Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit : > On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 19:53, Vincent wrote: > >

Netbooting Woody on an Imac [Revised]

2003-07-10 Thread Antoine Brenner
Hi ! I just network installed a debian 3.0 (woody) on an Apple Imac (G3 350MHz) with 128 MB of RAM, and here are some tips for doing it. PREAMBLE: This is my second report of installation, using the root.bin file from the "powerpc" disk set instead of the "prep" disk set (contrary to the docu

OSX serve 2003

2003-07-10 Thread Richard Rico
Has anyone had success installing Debian PPC on an OSX 2003 server?

Re: Kernel warning messages when insmodding unix.o

2003-07-10 Thread Frank Murphy
> > > > I get another complaint with hid.o and a missing mousedev module > > > > (which makes sense because moudev.o is only for PS/2 mice, I believe; > > > > however, before init starts there's a log "mice: PS/2 mouse device > > > > common for all mice"). > > > > > > Which doesn't sound like it's

Re: Kernel warning messages when insmodding unix.o

2003-07-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 17:16, Frank Murphy wrote: > > Well, init is /bin/sh in this scenario, so you're saying the warnings > > also appear if you don't type anything at the shell prompt? If not, the > > idea is to start the /etc/rcS.d/S* scripts one by one and notice after > > which one(s) the warn

Re: Kernel warning messages when insmodding unix.o

2003-07-10 Thread Frank Murphy
> Well, init is /bin/sh in this scenario, so you're saying the warnings > also appear if you don't type anything at the shell prompt? If not, the > idea is to start the /etc/rcS.d/S* scripts one by one and notice after > which one(s) the warnings appear. Exactly. In fact, the unix.o warnings are

Re: Kernel warning messages when insmodding unix.o

2003-07-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 16:16, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Tuesday 08 July 2003 2:28, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 18:22, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > > > But if that's true, the /proc/ksyms warning is confusing. Or are > > > > > there multiple things going wrong here? > > > > > > > > Ind

Re: Kernel warning messages when insmodding unix.o

2003-07-10 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 2:28, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 18:22, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > > But if that's true, the /proc/ksyms warning is confusing. Or are > > > > there multiple things going wrong here? > > > > > > Indeed, part of it could be the /proc problem someone else has r

Re: {firewire,modem,superdrive}problems with 2.4.21-ben2

2003-07-10 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 15:09, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > when using dvdrecord or the patched cdrecord, it seems to dvd-burn ok, > > but from time to time I get > > Jul 9 12:21:51 no kernel: hdc: timeout waiting > > for dbdma command stop > > Jul 9 12:21:51 no k

Re: upgrading to unstable (done)

2003-07-10 Thread Jule Slootbeek
Well i got it by upgrading to testing first and then to unstable, although now KDE has dependancy issues, but since i'm running gnome, i didn't bathoer looking into it yet. I run unstable, because if i run stable and everything works fine, i can just as well run windows/mac osx, and who wants t

Re: {firewire,modem,superdrive}problems with 2.4.21-ben2

2003-07-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > when using dvdrecord or the patched cdrecord, it seems to dvd-burn ok, > but from time to time I get > Jul 9 12:21:51 no kernel: hdc: timeout waiting > for dbdma command stop > Jul 9 12:21:51 no kernel: hdc: bad status at DMA end, dstat=8400 Oh, btw, did cdrecord c

Re: wallstreet g3 power issues. Fan always on

2003-07-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 11:36, James McQuoid wrote: > Hi all, > I'm still playing with this g3 I saved from the trash > heap. Got woody going on it nicely. I know for sure I > am going to need a pram battery, as I keep losing the > clock, etc when it's powered down for too long (I > don't have a reg

wallstreet fan, install, trackpad

2003-07-10 Thread James McQuoid
It's definitely the fan, I have a modular bay cdrom, which is out at the moment. And that fan seems to be running quite fast. It's loud! I installed with boot floppies and network install from debian stable. I had troubles with booting off hard disk, so I'm using a boot floppy with an altered image

Re: G4 Cube and audio

2003-07-10 Thread Joss Winn
The iSub (woofer) works with the 'audio' usb driver and has done since kernel 2.4.0. However, you cannot (AFAIK) mix USB with other forms of audio. I'd love to be told different. Joss On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:12:18PM +0200, Clemens Mangler wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 01:09:58AM +0200, Mi

Re: {firewire,modem,superdrive}problems with 2.4.21-ben2

2003-07-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 20:37, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 19:52, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > So is all I can do sit and wait or would it help to supply some infos > > > from what I get in xmon ? > > > > xmon infos are always useful, especially if you have loaded the > >

Re: G4 Cube and audio

2003-07-10 Thread Clemens Mangler
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 01:09:58AM +0200, Michel Dnzer wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 05:03, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > I've got a G4 Cube running sid, and since it's quieter and cooler than > > my Athlon based PC, it's pretty much my primary machine at home right > > now. The one thing I'm miss

wallstreet g3 power issues. Fan always on

2003-07-10 Thread James McQuoid
Correction: running stable on this one. __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com

wallstreet g3 power issues. Fan always on

2003-07-10 Thread James McQuoid
Hi all, I'm still playing with this g3 I saved from the trash heap. Got woody going on it nicely. I know for sure I am going to need a pram battery, as I keep losing the clock, etc when it's powered down for too long (I don't have a regular battery, just ac for now). I'm wondering why the fan is a

Re: Airport utility for Linux?

2003-07-10 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 22:44, Wes Morgan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Is there a utility for Linux that will make Airport behave more like it does > in MacOS? I'm thinking specifically of the ability to bring the interface up > and down as it sees the WAP appear an

Re: upgrading to unstable

2003-07-10 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Jule Slootbeek writes: > I just installed Debian on another iBook2 and i want to update to > unstable. but after i get all the files using apt-get dist-upgrade > it gives me some error related to libpam, has anyone come up with a > solution for this? Can you post the exact error message, pl

Re: keycodes

2003-07-10 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Julien Kirmaier wrote: Must be a lack of coffee. A serious drawback... ;) Regards, Ismael

Re: upgrading to unstable

2003-07-10 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Whiterabbit wrote: > ...and every time I've recived your same error from libpam... I solved it with dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libpam* and then apt-get dist-upgrade again. Worked for me upgrading directly to unstable. Of course your mileage may vary... Regards, Ismael