Re: quik kernel size limit

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
Thanks Ben!! There is a printk in prom.c which wouldn't compile; I changed it to printf and it did make with some warnings, which I think were there before: 'return makes pointer from integer without a cast' in chrootcpy, find_dev, and resolve_to_dev (twice) I installed the patched quik and

Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
I tested d-i using BootX. 1) Burn a CD from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/powerpc/ (I used the sarge-powerpc-netinst iso). 2) Boot into MacOS, insert the CD, and copy linux.bin and root.bin from /install/powermac/ to your Linux Kernels folder in the System Folder. Of

Re: share partition between macosx and debian

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:45:17PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:35:18PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 21:57, Rogério Brito wrote: On Oct 14 2003, David Röhr wrote: I would like to test the new installer on my oldworld in the near future

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: I tested d-i using BootX. Cool. Tell me again though, there are some oldworld pmacs which can't do this and need miboot, right ? 1) Burn a CD from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/powerpc/ (I used the

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

2003-10-16 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 15 2003, Chris Tillman wrote: Was that a volunteering sound I heard, Rog?rio? :^) Well, I won't promise anything, but I will try to help a tiny bit, if I can. This way, we could have yet another version of Debian working on oldworlds. At least, with a 2.4 kernel being installed by

Re: share partition between macosx and debian

2003-10-16 Thread Nathanael Hasbrouck
Yes, the LinuxPPC 2000 CDs are burned using Toast, which has the drivers for making it bootable on an oldworld box. If you look at the partition map on the CD (yes, Mac CDs are partitioned) you'll find something like this (this is the LinuxPPC 2000 MacWorld edition): snip Ok, that's what I was

Re: quik kernel size limit

2003-10-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 06:04, Chris Tillman wrote: Thanks Ben!! There is a printk in prom.c which wouldn't compile; I changed it to printf and it did make with some warnings, which I think were there before: 'return makes pointer from integer without a cast' in chrootcpy, find_dev, and

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

2003-10-16 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 15 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Did this work with a kernel 2.4? Do you know which options you need for running the kernel on an oldworld (minimal .config would be nice to have). I put a slim .config that I have used to boot an oldworld (PMac 9500 180MP) at

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 16 2003, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: I tested d-i using BootX. Cool. Tell me again though, there are some oldworld pmacs which can't do this and need miboot, right ? BootX is a method of booting Linux from MacOS, which means that

poewerpc kernel 2.4.22-2 ...

2003-10-16 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, I would like people to test the new packages i have made available at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22 The novelty of these packages against the 2.4.22-1 ones is that, despite all kernels being still vmlinu[xz]-2.4.22-powerpc, they now come in different subarch specific

unresolved symbols dri/2.4.23

2003-10-16 Thread CK
hi, I'm trying to get 2.4.23 benh (rsynced) running with michel's drm trunk modules but I had no success yet: co:~# depmod -ae depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.23-pre5-ben0/kernel/drivers/char/drm/mga.o depmod: vmalloc_start depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: I tested d-i using BootX. Greate. Your destined to test disk boots for powerpc then. Cool. Tell me again though, there are some oldworld pmacs which can't do this and need miboot, right ?

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:59:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: I tested d-i using BootX. Greate. Your destined to test disk boots for powerpc then. You make 'em, I break 'em.

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:59:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) Burn a CD from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/powerpc/ (I used the sarge-powerpc-netinst iso).

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Stewart Smith
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 00:58, Chris Tillman wrote: No, I don't think so. Well, maybe. The CD is an hfs/iso, so in theory one could put BootX on it (both resource fork and data fork). But in practice, it might not work well. The first issue that arises is: what kind of Linux script can build a

A link to install airport?

2003-10-16 Thread Jaime Robles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all. Can anybody send me a link about info on airport on a _new_ PB 12? I do not know how to install the wireless card :-( In macosX there is no problem at all but using Debian... ARGG!! I am having _real_ problems to migrate from PC to

Re: share partition between macosx and debian

2003-10-16 Thread Nathanael Hasbrouck
I don't know what linuxppc does to make these cds bootable on oldworlds. If it really only used miboot and no proprietary driver partitions, then this would be great! Does someone else know more? I doesn't look like it'll work. See the other reply from Brad Boyer - he pointed out that the

Re: poewerpc kernel 2.4.22-2 ...

2003-10-16 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Sven Luther wrote: I would like people to test the new packages i have made available at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22 [...] Once i get a positive feedback for these, and once auric is up again, i will upload those to the new queue, and the only

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Goswin von Brederlow schrieb: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: 6) Test installer! The incarnation I used couldn't install the kernel and modules because of the missing ppcdetect. I got around this in console 2 by

Re: poewerpc kernel 2.4.22-2 ...

2003-10-16 Thread kraai
Martin-Eric Racine wrote: Sven's above 5 powerpc subrach variants are a great move, but to really be usefull, one should be capable of selecting among them during Sarge installation to actually get a subarch-optimized kernel right on their system from the start. You will be able to. In

Re: share partition between macosx and debian

2003-10-16 Thread Brad Boyer
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:53:13PM -0400, Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote: I doesn't look like it'll work. See the other reply from Brad Boyer - he pointed out that the LinuxPPC discs were indeed burned as mac-bootable from Toast, hence they have Mac driver partitions (which I had forgotten to

Re: cross-compiling on ppc to i686

2003-10-16 Thread Antoine Terrienne
Selon Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 04:52:44PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: You need the glibc+headers if you don't bootstrap with --newlib. Aeeh...--with-newlib that is. I usually use: ../gcc-${GCC}/configure --enable-languages=c --disable-shared --with-newlib

Re: unresolved symbols dri/2.4.23

2003-10-16 Thread Mathieu Segaud
CK [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, I'm trying to get 2.4.23 benh (rsynced) running with michel's drm trunk modules but I had no success yet: co:~# depmod -ae depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.23-pre5-ben0/kernel/drivers/char/drm/mga.o depmod: vmalloc_start

Re: quik kernel size limit

2003-10-16 Thread Mich Lanners
On 14 Oct, this message from Sven Luther echoed through cyberspace: Incidentaly, there's a bug in second/file.c, in load_file(), where a device path is predefined as '/dev/sdaX', 'X' being replaced later with partno+'0', thus limiting working partition numbers to 1-9, and overwriting the

openoffice

2003-10-16 Thread libero
Hi all peole, someone has the right address for apt-get sources to download .deb openoffice for ppc? Thanks in advance Salvatore Comito

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Re: unresolved symbols dri/2.4.23

2003-10-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 21:07, Mathieu Segaud wrote: last time i tried, it was not possible to use drm because support for uninorth agp had been puit out... maybe it isn't back in benh tree = no agp, no drm what is your machine and do you have agp support in kernel or in module (loaded) ?

Re: quik kernel size limit

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:13:03PM +0200, Mich Lanners wrote: On 14 Oct, this message from Sven Luther echoed through cyberspace: Incidentaly, there's a bug in second/file.c, in load_file(), where a device path is predefined as '/dev/sdaX', 'X' being replaced later with partno+'0', thus

Re: Keys don't type correct chars after kernel upgrade

2003-10-16 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 15/10/03, Simon Vallet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:24:18 -0700 Marshal Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES=y AFAIK, this should not be set anymore... Do you have a /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes entry ? I would suggest you

Re: unresolved symbols dri/2.4.23

2003-10-16 Thread CK
I read: what is your machine and do you have agp support in kernel or in module (loaded) ? powerbook g4 867, agp loads fine see michel's post regards, x -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Postmodernism is german romanticism with better http://pilot.fm/special effects. (Jeff Keuss / via

Re: quik kernel size limit

2003-10-16 Thread Mich Lanners
On 16 Oct, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace: Chris, since you're rebuilding quik :-), maybe you can give this a try as well? I can; I need to hook up a SCSI disk to really test it? Does the root partition/kernel have to be on the SCSI? Well, I asked myself that

Re: openoffice

2003-10-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:18:48PM +0200, libero wrote: Hi all peole, someone has the right address for apt-get sources to download .deb openoffice for ppc? Thanks in advance Just add contrib together with main, and you should be able to get it from the official archive. In sid naturally.

Re: poewerpc kernel 2.4.22-2 ...

2003-10-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 08:00:20PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Sven Luther wrote: I would like people to test the new packages i have made available at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22 [...] Once i get a positive feedback for these, and

Re: poewerpc kernel 2.4.22-2 ...

2003-10-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 02:19:33PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Hello, I would like people to test the new packages i have made available at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22 New versions of these packages will be available in half an hour or so, when i finish uploading.

Screen Blanking on FP iMac

2003-10-16 Thread Adam Bell
Hey all! I seem to remember this topic being visited in the past, so apologies if it's a rehash, but I couldn't dig up the consensus. I'm having not difficulty per se, but irritation. The screen on my 1st gen Flat Panel iMac blanks by lighting ever pixel up like a wide blue sky. It's a

Re: A link to install airport?

2003-10-16 Thread Jess Roncero Franco
El 16/Oct/2003 a las 18:38:50, Jaime Robles escribió: Can anybody send me a link about info on airport on a _new_ PB 12? I do not know how to install the wireless card :-( In macosX there is no problem at all but using Debian... ARGG!! I am having _real_ problems to migrate from PC to

Re: [PATCH] Right-click modifier

2003-10-16 Thread Nathanael Hasbrouck
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 07:18, Colin Leroy wrote: It lets the kernel report a right-click when KEY+Left click are pressed, where KEY is the KEY specified by echoing its code to the /proc entry. It'd be even cooler if this was extended to have an option for middle click as well :) I agree,

Re: quik kernel size limit

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:21:07PM +0200, Mich Lanners wrote: On 16 Oct, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace: Chris, since you're rebuilding quik :-), maybe you can give this a try as well? I can; I need to hook up a SCSI disk to really test it? Does the root