Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Ed Sutherland
On Friday 04 June 2004 03:38, Lakin Wecker wrote: > Once again, you should be more careful and reply to the list in order to > greater benifit the community. Ah! I had been using "R" to reply in Kmail, believing it automagically gets routed through the list. I now see that "L" is what I need to

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Lakin Wecker
> I've discovered how to control greyscale printing and page headers from > within > the CUPS printing interface within KDE. Being able to specify draft mode > would let me economize my ink, especially important with these inkjet > printers. > > Ed Once again, you should be more careful and

iMac monitor configuration

2004-06-03 Thread Alex Solla
Hi everybody, I'm having a bit of trouble configuring Woody on an old CRT iMac. When in OpenFirmware, text is displayed fine. But as soon as I boot up Woody, everything shifts about an inch to the left. I'm not running Xwindows--I know about xvidtune for that. What should I mess around wi

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Lakin Wecker
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 20:37, Ed Sutherland wrote: > On Thursday 03 June 2004 18:40, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > > According to Ed Sutherland, on Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:27:16 +, > > > >I tried localhost:631 from Konqueror and Lynx...both no-go. Lynx > > >reports "Unable to connect to remote host." Ko

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Ed Sutherland
On Thursday 03 June 2004 18:40, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > According to Ed Sutherland, on Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:27:16 +, > >I tried localhost:631 from Konqueror and Lynx...both no-go. Lynx > >reports "Unable to connect to remote host." Konqueror says "Error while > >loading "http://localhost:631";

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Ed Sutherland
On Thursday 03 June 2004 17:26, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:02:44PM +, Ed Sutherland wrote: > > I do believe Debian, albeit enjoying the exclusivity that comes from > > being one of the most difficult Linux distros to configure, would do > > greatly by creating a central rep

Re: NPTL and glibc (on Sid)

2004-06-03 Thread Ian McKellar
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 22:46 +0200, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: > I don't have any man pages (in english) for pthread_kill, which is > briefly mentionned in libc-doc. Bizarrely, manpges-fr from > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/manpages-fr seems to contain a > french translation of such a ma

Re: Cannot boot any cd/floppy/kernel on OF prep machine

2004-06-03 Thread Jerome Walter
Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 06:35:01PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: Ok, i have it booting by tftp, i found a db9/db25 adapter to plug a serial console. Now how do i specify the console thing ? if i set file to be downloaded as 'vmlinuz console=ttyS0,tty0' the space is taken as

problem applying pmdisk patch

2004-06-03 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. I'm trying to patch the 2.6.6 kernel with the pmdisk patch that was sent out on this list. I am applying the patch to the kernel-source-2.6.6 tree after applying the Debian patches to it (both the kernel source and patches were obtained using apt-get). Here's the error I get: # patch -p1 <

RE: 2.6.6 kernel - which one?

2004-06-03 Thread Nirmal Govind
Never mind.. I was able to mount the partition and created an initrd for the 2.6.6 kernel and it boots now.. Thanks, nirmal -Original Message- From: Nirmal Govind Sent: Thu 6/3/2004 5:51 PM To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Cc: Subject:RE: 2.6.6 kernel - which on

RE: 2.6.6 kernel - which one?

2004-06-03 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. I compiled the 2.6.6 kernel again, used config-2.6.6-powerpc, the patches from kernel-patches-2.6.6. I used make-kpkg for the first time. The compile went fine. I then did a dpkg -i and that went fine too. I looked at /boot and it had the new vmlinux-2.6.6. Added this to yaboot.conf, ca

Re: Debian installed

2004-06-03 Thread Sean Schertell
You need to install X-Windows. Lucky for you, you're using Debian so it's as easy as this: apt-get update; apt-get install x-window-system Then try startx again and tell us what errors you get. On Friday 04 June 2004 08:33 am, you wrote: > Sean Schertell wrote: > >Okay, your first step is t

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Re: kernel 2.6 difference between g4 and powerpc kernel

2004-06-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 19:50, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hmm, in arch/ppc/ PPC_PMAC64 indeed depends on POWER4 while in ppc64 > it doesn't. Ben, is that intentional? Hrm... sort-of... on ppc32, the code to run on a POWER4 CPU is in #ifdef CONFIG_POWER4. Without it, it won't work. And with it, it

Re: Debian installed

2004-06-03 Thread Sean Schertell
Okay, your first step is to try to start X and see if it works ;-) As a normal user (not root), type startx. You'll probably get an error saying "no display found" or "mouse device not present" or something like that. Then we'll know what we gotta fix in your XF86Config-4. Sean On Friday 04

Re: Debian installed

2004-06-03 Thread Sean Schertell
Okay, your first step is to try to start X and see if it works ;-) As a normal user (not root), type startx.  You'll probably get an error saying "no display found" or "mouse device not present" or something like that.   Then we'll know what we gotta fix in your XF86Config-4. Sean On Friday 04

Re: Low bogomips rate on new iBook

2004-06-03 Thread david howe
On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 01:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I think I have the same problem, the CPU running slow. The kernel is a > vanilla > 2.6.6. Can I issue the same commands or it's not reccomended? I don't know > what to do. Here is my /proc/cpuinfo: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/cp

Re: Trackpad scrolling?

2004-06-03 Thread Ben Wilson
* On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:08:29AM -0500, I received from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Something I've been looking for for a while now is a trackpad driver for the > powerbook that would allow me to scroll on one of the edges of the trackpad. > Someone created sidewinder for OSX, but I haven't seen thi

Debian installed

2004-06-03 Thread James Ricken
Hello everyone I have successfully installed Debian on my Mac 8600 using the new installer sarge. I am new to Debian so I do not know what to do next. I need to configure X so I can use KDE or Gnome Can anyone help? Thanks Jim

NPTL and glibc (on Sid)

2004-06-03 Thread Basile STARYNKEVITCH
Dear All, I am using Debian/Sid on a new Apple PowerBook 12" 1.33GHz (ppc). kernel is (self compiled) 2.6.7-rc2 with latest pmdisk patches (but the suspend to disk don't really work). It is my impression that the current libc & libc-dev 2.3.2.ds1-13 are using the new NPTL (Native POSIX Threading

Re: Hauppage Nexus DVB-S PCI card in PowerMac 8600

2004-06-03 Thread Christoph Ewering
I ran for some time a Siemens DVB-C card with VDR on my beige G3 and everything was fine. Bye, Christoph Am 02.06.2004 um 04:09 schrieb Matthew Reath: I was just wondering if it is possible to use a Hauppage DVB-S card with Debian Linux on a powermac. I know you can't use a standard PC PCI v

Strange problem with special keys on iBook 2

2004-06-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi all, I just noticed a peculiar behavior has developed with the keyboard on my iBook 2 G3. From left to right, the function keys F3 - F6 are labeled (in addition to F3 - F6) with icons representing mute,quieter, louder, num lock. However, their actual behavior (while running pbb

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Cedric Pradalier
According to Ed Sutherland, on Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:27:16 +, >On Thursday 03 June 2004 17:26, Sven Luther wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:02:44PM +, Ed Sutherland wrote: > >> > My next major project is setting up CUPS so that I can use my USB >> > printer. >> >> Which mostly works out o

Re: Kmail Won't Send

2004-06-03 Thread Chris Anderson
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:05:31PM +, Ed Sutherland wrote: > Kmail won't send mail It keeps saying "some messages not sent." Mail.app > and Evolution send mail without a problem -- using the same SMTP server > info. Any clues? > > Ed I'd recommend sending this to Debian-user, along with perh

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Lakin Wecker
> > Which mostly works out of the box. You install the packages (cupsys, the > > cupsomatic/foomatic stuff, etc, maybe a task or meta package for this > > should be good), you browse localhost:631, and add a printer. 5 mouse > > clicks, and voila your printer is working (well works fine for my > >

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Ed Sutherland
On Thursday 03 June 2004 17:26, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:02:44PM +, Ed Sutherland wrote: > > My next major project is setting up CUPS so that I can use my USB > > printer. > > Which mostly works out of the box. You install the packages (cupsys, the > cupsomatic/foomatic

Re: Printing

2004-06-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:30:43PM +, Ed Sutherland wrote: > I see that lp0 is setup. I can type 'echo "Test" > /dev/usb/lp0' and it is > sent to my USB HP deskjet and prints. However, it does nothing when I try to > print from an application. How do I configure this so I can print from my >

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:02:44PM +, Ed Sutherland wrote: > I do believe Debian, albeit enjoying the exclusivity that comes from being > one > of the most difficult Linux distros to configure, would do greatly by > creating a central repository of working config files: especially those > c

Printing

2004-06-03 Thread Ed Sutherland
I see that lp0 is setup. I can type 'echo "Test" > /dev/usb/lp0' and it is sent to my USB HP deskjet and prints. However, it does nothing when I try to print from an application. How do I configure this so I can print from my word processor, for instance? Thanks. Ed

Re: "Permissions on the file /dev/pmu are broken" [SOLVED]

2004-06-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 06/02/2004 05:37 PM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > I just upgraded to the Gnome 2.6 packages in unstable on my iBook laptop. > Upon logging in to Gnome 2.6 the first time, I receive an error dialog > popup message titled "Error" whose text is "Permissions on the file > /dev/pmu are broken". Thanks

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Ed Sutherland
On Thursday 03 June 2004 05:28, Sean Schertell wrote: > Congratulations! How do you like it? I'm not sure if this will fix your > scroll wheel or not but I think you need this in the mouse section of your > XF86Config-4: Both mouse options cause X to fail. I'll put up with no wheel. While Debian

Low bogomips rate on new iBook

2004-06-03 Thread digital . death
Alle 16:46, giovedì 3 giugno 2004, Sebastian Henschel ha scritto: [...] > running at half the frequency, for instance. :) > a guy on linuxppc-dev found out how to run with high freq: > boot into openfirmware and issue the following commands: > > dev /cpus/PowerPC,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > set-dfs-high >

Kmail Won't Send

2004-06-03 Thread Ed Sutherland
Kmail won't send mail It keeps saying "some messages not sent." Mail.app and Evolution send mail without a problem -- using the same SMTP server info. Any clues? Ed

Re: Ctrl Click with single button mouse

2004-06-03 Thread Matthew Reath
Thanks, I'll try it out. I appreciate the help. Matt -Original Message- From: Colin LEROY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Jun 3, 2004 1:46 AM To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, Matthew Reath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Ctrl Click with single button mouse Hi, > Has anybody sucessfully

Re: debian on a new pbook

2004-06-03 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello... * david howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-03 16:33 +0200]: > > I am looking at the new 1.5g and 1.25ghz model powerbooks and wondering > what issues ppl are having with running linux on them? running at half the frequency, for instance. :) a guy on linuxppc-dev found out how to run with

Can't Send Mail from Kmail

2004-06-03 Thread Ed Sutherland
I can't send mail from Kmail. Kmail says "Can't send some messages" and leaves the mail in the Outbox. I'm using SMTP to send mail. I can send mail from OSX, using Mail.app and from KDE, using Evolution. Why can't I send from Kmail -- the configuration information is the same. Thanks. Ed

Re: Trackpad scrolling?

2004-06-03 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:08:29AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Something I've been looking for for a while now is a trackpad driver for the > powerbook that would allow me to scroll on one of the edges of the trackpad. > Someone created sidewinder for OSX, but I haven't seen this for linux.

debian on a new pbook

2004-06-03 Thread david howe
Hi I am looking at the new 1.5g and 1.25ghz model powerbooks and wondering what issues ppl are having with running linux on them? thanks david

Re: Trackpad scrolling?

2004-06-03 Thread Timo Reimerdes
On Do, 2004-06-03 at 01:08 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Something I've been looking for for a while now is a trackpad driver for the > powerbook that would allow me to scroll on one of the edges of the trackpad. > Someone created sidewinder for OSX, but I haven't seen this for linux. Seems

Re: kernel 2.6 difference between g4 and powerpc kernel

2004-06-03 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Christoph Hellwig writes: > btw, do we really need the power3 vs power4 split? I know the ppc64 > folks only need split kernels for iseries vs pseries and g5, I thought PPC_ISERIES and PPC_PSERIES were the ppc64 equivalent of ppc's CONFIG_POWER3 and CONFIG_POWER4, respectively. Anyway, I k

Re: kernel 2.6 difference between g4 and powerpc kernel

2004-06-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:44:40AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Christoph Hellwig writes: > > > btw, do we really need the power3 vs power4 split? I know the ppc64 > > folks only need split kernels for iseries vs pseries and g5, > > I thought PPC_ISERIES and PPC_PSERIES were the ppc6

Re: kernel 2.6 difference between g4 and powerpc kernel

2004-06-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:29:51AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:33:31PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > There is some confusion here, there are currently only 4 kernel images, > > in both normal and smp flavor, powerpc for all powerpc processors from > > early 601 to t

Re: kernel 2.6 difference between g4 and powerpc kernel

2004-06-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:44:40AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Christoph Hellwig writes: > > > btw, do we really need the power3 vs power4 split? I know the ppc64 > > folks only need split kernels for iseries vs pseries and g5, > > I thought PPC_ISERIES and PPC_PSERIES were the ppc6

Re: Cannot boot any cd/floppy/kernel on OF prep machine

2004-06-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 06:35:01PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:34:17PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > > > >>Sven Luther wrote: > > >>Sorry, i won't snip dmesg ... > > > > > >Huh ? i think you reached the limit of my english knowledge with this >

Re: Cannot boot any cd/floppy/kernel on OF prep machine

2004-06-03 Thread Jerome Walter
Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:34:17PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: Sven Luther wrote: Sorry, i won't snip dmesg ... Huh ? i think you reached the limit of my english knowledge with this one. Perhaps because it is not english... I got used to [snip] parts of too long quo

Re: "Permissions on the file /dev/pmu are broken"

2004-06-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 12:40:58AM +0200, Carlos Perell? Mar?n wrote: > I don't think the error message should be changed, it says just what > happens, if you want to control the backlight of your computer, you need > write access to /dev/pmu that's all. The message _is_ broken. A device file usi

Re: kernel 2.6 difference between g4 and powerpc kernel

2004-06-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:33:31PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > There is some confusion here, there are currently only 4 kernel images, > in both normal and smp flavor, powerpc for all powerpc processors from > early 601 to the latest g4, power3 for the ibm power3 boxes, and > power4/g5 for the powe

Re: Cannot boot any cd/floppy/kernel on OF prep machine

2004-06-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:34:17PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:09:53PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > >>I am currently trying to install a Woody on an Bull Estrella 300 > >>machine, running a Prep Motorola 604e Utah processor (/proc/cpuinfo) and >

Re: 2.6.6 kernel - which one?

2004-06-03 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Nirmal Govind writes: > is it something in the kernel that I downloaded (just so you know > which one I'm talking abt, it's called kernel-source-2.6.6-2.6.6.orig). This is part of the build directory for the actual package, and as you can see it is not very useful for building kernels. Inst

Re: Cannot boot any cd/floppy/kernel on OF prep machine

2004-06-03 Thread Jerome Walter
Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:09:53PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: I am currently trying to install a Woody on an Bull Estrella 300 machine, running a Prep Motorola 604e Utah processor (/proc/cpuinfo) and OpenFirmware. Having also an Estrella 200 running fine with it (Estrella 2

which wireless to buy?

2004-06-03 Thread Nagarjuna G.
I have a Ti PowerBookG4. It is described as airport ready. Since I use only GNU/Linux and never boot OSX, I want to buy a card that is supported by Linux for 802.11g. Which is the supported card? Is there support for AirPort Card which supports 802.11b? Nagarjuna

Re: 2.6.6 kernel - which one?

2004-06-03 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Nirmal Govind writes: > Hi.. where do I get config-2.6.6-powerpc from? Either install kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc and get the finished .config from /boot/config-2.6.6-powerpc, or install kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.6 and see /usr/share/doc/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.6/examples/config/README. Rega

Re: 2.6.6 kernel - which one?

2004-06-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:56:14PM -0700, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Thanks.. so I used the source for 2.6.6 with the Debian patches, patched the > kernel with the pmdisk patch (which worked for someone on this list), and > used make-kpkg to do the build. Here's the error I get: And where did you ta

Re: Cannot boot any cd/floppy/kernel on OF prep machine

2004-06-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:09:53PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > Hi all, > > First, excuse if it is the wrong list, but it is no newsgroup, so having > no Followup-To available, i choose powerpc amongst boot, cd and devel. No, this is the right list for this. > I am currently trying to install

RE: 2.6.6 kernel - which one?

2004-06-03 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks.. so I used the source for 2.6.6 with the Debian patches, patched the kernel with the pmdisk patch (which worked for someone on this list), and used make-kpkg to do the build. Here's the error I get: CC [M] drivers/net/dgrs.o drivers/net/dgrs.c:148:35: dgrs_firmware.c: No such file or d

Re: Ctrl Click with single button mouse

2004-06-03 Thread Colin LEROY
Hi, > Has anybody sucessfully setup a Ctrl-Click configuration in X? I have > an old 8600 with a G4 upgrade card and also have a new Al Powerbook > with the one button trackpad. I was just curious if anybody was able to > setup Ctrl-Click to emulate the second mouse button? I was thinking you

Cannot boot any cd/floppy/kernel on OF prep machine

2004-06-03 Thread Jerome Walter
Hi all, First, excuse if it is the wrong list, but it is no newsgroup, so having no Followup-To available, i choose powerpc amongst boot, cd and devel. I am currently trying to install a Woody on an Bull Estrella 300 machine, running a Prep Motorola 604e Utah processor (/proc/cpuinfo) and Op

Trackpad scrolling?

2004-06-03 Thread dotto
Something I've been looking for for a while now is a trackpad driver for the powerbook that would allow me to scroll on one of the edges of the trackpad. Someone created sidewinder for OSX, but I haven't seen this for linux. Seems kind of strange to me...

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Sean Schertell
Congratulations! How do you like it? I'm not sure if this will fix your scroll wheel or not but I think you need this in the mouse section of your XF86Config-4: -- Option "Buttons" "5" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" ---