Re: Netgear MA111 - USB works perfectly in a Debian PowerBook

2004-06-28 Thread Rob Weir
[please don't take questions off-list] On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 10:28:06AM +0200, Cedric Pradalier said > According to Rob Weir, on Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:49:57 +1000, > >On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 11:08:07AM +0200, Cedric Pradalier said > >> Does anyone have some experience in using the MA111 in an hot

Re: sdl

2004-06-28 Thread Sam Halliday
david howe wrote: > What steps do I need to take to get the sdl implementation (pismo - > using testing with a 2.6.5 kernel) working? alternetively has anyone got > decent 3d acceleration happening? whats your hardware? XFree86 acceleration is architecture independent, and only depends on your gra

Re: ibook 900 startx failure

2004-06-28 Thread Sam Halliday
Adrian Lester wrote: > Where the heck's 0:16:0 coming from? Well, it occurred to me that it might > just be the other output so I changed XF86Config-4 accordingly and this time > got no errors in the log files but, after a quick flick of the display and a > gurgle from the HDD, a blank black screen

Re: ibook 900 startx failure

2004-06-28 Thread Sam Halliday
Adrian Lester wrote: > lspci gives: 00:10:0 VGA Compatible Controller: ATI Technologies > > So in the XF86Config-4 file I set PCI to 00:10:0 lspci gives HEX output... 0x10 is actually decimal 16, so try 00:16:0 :-)

ibook 900 startx failure

2004-06-28 Thread Adrian Lester
X does not want to play. I have been fighting this for days and getting nowhere. If anyone can help I would be most grateful. The first thing to mention is that under OSX the machine had been persuaded to do dual head as detailed by: http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html . Having bee

sdl

2004-06-28 Thread david howe
Hi folks What steps do I need to take to get the sdl implementation (pismo - using testing with a 2.6.5 kernel) working? alternetively has anyone got decent 3d acceleration happening? -- --- David Howe www.qednet.biz davidATqednet.biz -

Re: mol and colors (was: Re: Did installing MOL *totally* trash my system?)

2004-06-28 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Arnaud Vandyck writes: > > What depth are you running at in X? 16bpp? If so, you'll have to > > go to 8bpp in MacOS, or 15bpp or 24bpp in your X server, because > > Apple doesn't support true 16bpp modes - it assumes 15bpp, and > > throws the colors way out of whack. > I tried the three dept

Re: how to report on G5

2004-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 10:20:38AM -0700, Brian wrote: > --- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is therm_pm72 essential to the installation? > > Technically no. But in my opinion, yes!! As Jens said, it's built into the 2.6 kernels. I assume nothing special needs to be done in d-i to ac

mol and colors (was: Re: Did installing MOL *totally* trash my system?)

2004-06-28 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Jens Schmalzing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Arnaud Vandyck writes: > >> PS: macosx colors are too green, does anyone have the same problem >> and knows how to solve? > > What graphics card? X or console? If the latter, offb or accelerated > framebuffer? kernel: radeonfb: Retreived PLL infos

Re: how to report on G5

2004-06-28 Thread Brian
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is therm_pm72 essential to the installation? Technically no. But in my opinion, yes!! --Brian http://www.derocher.org

Re: how to report on G5

2004-06-28 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Colin Watson writes: > Is therm_pm72 essential to the installation? Depends on whether you can stand the noise that results from not loading it. A lot of people find it unbearable, so the driver is actually built into the 2.6 kernels. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! L

Re: how to report on G5

2004-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 08:07:18AM -0700, Brian wrote: > I've been trying to install Debian onto my G5. I'd like to > report my attempts. How should i go about doing that. debian-boot may well be better than debian-powerpc. > In general i tried daily/powerpc/20040627/ > sarge-powerpc-netinst.is

how to report on G5

2004-06-28 Thread Brian
Hello all, I've been trying to install Debian onto my G5. I'd like to report my attempts. How should i go about doing that. In general i tried daily/powerpc/20040627/ sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso. install-power4 leads to a problem with the floppy. Using expert-power4 i can circumvent it. Howev

Re: iBook G4 install turning into a nightmare

2004-06-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 01:52:39PM +0100, Sam Halliday said > ok, i have that module. but where (apart from running hddtemp) can i get a > reading of the CPU temperature? In /sys/devices/temperatures/. -- Words of the day:Perl-RSA Bellcore Iran Soviet Peking Khaddafi Adriatic signature

Re: respawning too fast...

2004-06-28 Thread Timo Reimerdes
On So, 2004-06-27 at 11:49, Kiko Piris wrote: > On 27/06/2004 at 11:18 +0200, Timo Reimerdes wrote: > > > I got this Problem and according to some board-posts and newsgroups I > > found using google some others do, too. Unfortunately nothing they > > posted helped in resolvnig this problem. I am s

Re: Connecting the iBook and the PC with a non-crossed cable

2004-06-28 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:37:50 +, digital.death wrote: > Hi > > One month ago I connected my iBook and a Windows PC [...] > > I really know I have to buy a crossed cable linke normal people do, but > if I already connected them with a normal cable, I want to do it again, > with Debian or MacO