Re: Problems with install on Power Mac G3 minitower

2004-04-02 Thread Brad Boyer
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:09:03PM -0500, Ron Murray wrote: Hmmm. I've set the output device to the PCI display with BootVars, but I still don't see anything. (I think the machine comes up a bit faster now, but I could be imagining things). I still can't get into OF: there's a pause,

Re: iBook2 Sarge 20040330 NetInst problems

2004-04-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:36:23AM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: On 01/04/04, Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 03:47:18PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: Following Sven's advice I'm trying to install using the latest and greatest netinst installer from

Re: Need Configuration help for 3.0r2 on Rev A iMac

2004-04-02 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Derrik Pates wrote: Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote: Just avoid installing GDM/KDM/XDM. Or boot into runlevel 2. 'man inittab' again. :^) Um, unless you explicitly use update-rc.d to change the runlevels that GDM/XDM/KDM/whatever is started and stopped in, it's started

Re: serial interface in iBook G4

2004-04-02 Thread Joerg Sommer
begin Pierre N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, This is most likely your modem and something unknown. I've a PowerBook G3 and it's the modem and the IrDA controller. I suppose you know where they are located on your machine. In your filesystem they are the /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 devices.

Re: suspend-to-disk and Ibook running Debian SID

2004-04-02 Thread Michael Schmitz
I am running SID on an ibook g3 800mhz. It runs very fine. Much better than a pc with celeron 700 :D I have used swsusp on PC an i would like to use it on Not supported on powerpc. pmdisk is sort of supported (in 2.6, experimental patch by BenH a few weeks back, I keep the patch updated for my

Re: serial interface in iBook G4

2004-04-02 Thread Pierre N
Wrong: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G4/iBookG4/3_Input-Output/chapter_4_section_5.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP3000909/BCIEAJEI The modem appears to the system as a serial port that responds to the typical AT commands. -- Pierre On Thu,

Re: serial interface in iBook G4

2004-04-02 Thread Colin Leroy
On 02 Apr 2004 at 12h04, Pierre N wrote: Hi, Wrong: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G4/iBookG4/3_Input-Output/chapter_4_section_5.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP3000909/BCIEAJEI The modem appears to the system as a serial port that responds to the

Re: Strange modem prob on pismo, Solved!

2004-04-02 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All, I'm embarassed to say that the modem problem seems to have been related to my init string not working properly. I used kermit to login manually to my ISP and it all worked??!! So I looked more carefully at my chatscript at noticed that I had been using: '' ATZL1M1X3 it seems that the

Re: Need Configuration help for 3.0r2 on Rev A iMac

2004-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:37:24AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Derrik Pates wrote: Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote: Just avoid installing GDM/KDM/XDM. Or boot into runlevel 2. 'man inittab' again. :^) Um, unless you explicitly use update-rc.d to change the

Re: serial interface in iBook G4

2004-04-02 Thread Pierre N
So it means that without the linuxant drivers the modem appears as a USB device? I though it was the I/O device controller which was reponsible for the serial appearance of the modem, not the software. I'm most likely wrong then... -- Pierre On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 12:33, Colin Leroy wrote:

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2004-04-02 Thread baronitaliano

Re: serial interface in iBook G4

2004-04-02 Thread Colin LEROY
So it means that without the linuxant drivers the modem appears as a USB device? It doesn't even appear (the hardware is shut down). When modprobing the hcf* stuff, the modem gets woken up and briefly appears as a USB device - until the kernel spits an oops milliseconds later (using 2.6.4+

Re: serial interface in iBook G4

2004-04-02 Thread Pierre N
Not that I want to start a flame war, but it looks to me like Apple has started (a while ago actually) to behave a lot like standard white box PC manufacturer, no? Before the Powerbook G4 (TiBook) you could find dual USB bus, and dual Firewire bus. No you have shared USB bus, shared Firewire bus,

Re: suspend-to-disk and Ibook running Debian SID

2004-04-02 Thread Thomas Seyrat
On April 02, 11:04 (+0200), Michael Schmitz wrote: Not supported on powerpc. pmdisk is sort of supported (in 2.6, experimental patch by BenH a few weeks back, I keep the patch updated for my own use). Do you keep it up to date on a web site maybe ? -- Thomas Seyrat

Re: XFree86 issue with PowerBook G4 15 1.25GHz ATI Radeon 9600

2004-04-02 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Apr 1, 2004, at 11:06 PM, Federico Gamio wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 22:36, Barry Hawkins wrote: List, I have been trying to get XFree86 running on my system for several days. I have been scouring our archives and some others, which has helped me rule out a number of issues. To

Re: Need Configuration help for 3.0r2 on Rev A iMac

2004-04-02 Thread Derrik Pates
Martin-Éric Racine wrote: That's correct. Of course, you realize that this is one thing on which Debian is not standards-compliant? :) Which one? Far as I know, other than runlevels 0, 1 and 6, System V doesn't have any special definitions for multi-user runlevels, other than that runlevels

Re: Problems with install on Power Mac G3 minitower

2004-04-02 Thread Ron Murray
At Thu, 1 Apr 2004 22:19:22 -0800, Brad Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:09:03PM -0500, Ron Murray wrote: Hmmm. I've set the output device to the PCI display with BootVars, but I still don't see anything. (I think the machine comes up a bit faster now, but I

Re: Problems with install on Power Mac G3 minitower

2004-04-02 Thread Ron Murray
At Thu, 1 Apr 2004 22:29:42 -0500, Nathanael Hasbrouck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 April 2004 2031, somebody named Ron Murray inscribed this message: ... and that's exactly what happened. I removed the PCI SCSI board, disconnected power from the SCSI drives, then

Re: serial interface in iBook G4

2004-04-02 Thread Colin Leroy
On 02 Apr 2004 at 14h04, Pierre N wrote: Hi, Before the Powerbook G4 (TiBook) you could find dual USB bus, and dual Firewire bus. No you have shared USB bus, shared Firewire bus, softmodem... Well that allows for lower costs... I'm personnaly very happy with Apple's hardware choices for my

Re: suspend-to-disk and Ibook running Debian SID

2004-04-02 Thread Michael Schmitz
Not supported on powerpc. pmdisk is sort of supported (in 2.6, experimental patch by BenH a few weeks back, I keep the patch updated for my own use). Do you keep it up to date on a web site maybe ? Nope. 'for my own use' doesn't imply that, does it? First, Ben himself considers this

Create /boot after install complete

2004-04-02 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
To get around problems with the beta3 installers I have had to install onto one partition, whereas I like to have a separate /boot partition. I have the space aside for boot (25M), and I'd be glad for some instruction on how to move to it from the main partition. Sorry, I realise this isn't a

Re: Need Configuration help for 3.0r2 on Rev A iMac

2004-04-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Colin Watson: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:37:24AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Derrik Pates wrote: Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote: Just avoid installing GDM/KDM/XDM. Or boot into runlevel 2. 'man inittab' again. :^) Um, unless you

Re: Create /boot after install complete

2004-04-02 Thread Federico Gamio
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 13:57, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: To get around problems with the beta3 installers I have had to install onto one partition, whereas I like to have a separate /boot partition. I have the space aside for boot (25M), and I'd be glad for some instruction on how to move to

Re: Strange modem prob on pismo, Solved!

2004-04-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Jason E. Stewart: I'm embarassed to say that the modem problem seems to have been related to my init string not working properly. I used kermit to login manually to my ISP and it all worked??!! So I looked more carefully at my chatscript at noticed that I had been using:

Re: Create /boot after install complete

2004-04-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rory Campbell-Lange: To get around problems with the beta3 installers I have had to install onto one partition, whereas I like to have a separate /boot partition. I have the space aside for boot (25M), and I'd be glad for some instruction on how to move to it from the main

2.6. terminal scrolling speed (Re: xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk conflicting with X from experimental ?)

2004-04-02 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 15:26, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 10:18, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 17:01, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 08:54, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: [...] PS: You've won the bet. The scrolling speed thing in 2.6. *is* a

Re: G5 report problematic succes

2004-04-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 07:12:58PM +0200, Eric Deveaud wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 04:50:33PM +0200, Eric Deveaud wrote: Notice that normally, you should have been able to use the debian-installer for installing debian. I have a power4 config

Re: G5 report problematic succes

2004-04-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:08:26PM +0200, Yves Combe wrote: Sven Luther a écrit : On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 04:50:33PM +0200, Eric Deveaud wrote: Hi today was quite work free, please don't repeat it to my boss ;-) I started playing seriously with the G5 booting the

Re: [TEST] PREEMPT on PPC

2004-04-02 Thread Wes Morgan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How recent of a 2.6.x kernel does this patch require? I tried applying it to a Gentoo ppc-development-sources kernel, both versions 2.6.3-benh2 and 2.6.4-pegasos0. I realize it could have failed due to Gentoo modifications to those kernels, but