Re: got quik working with OldWorld G3 Beige 233MHz

2004-10-06 Thread Duane Cottle
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:18:12PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:46:32PM -0400, Duane Cottle wrote: > > Perhaps someone will step up and provide evidence to the contrary, > but I'm pretty sure that quik doesn't support loading a ramdisk. I've > never tried it myself, but I

Re: got quik working with OldWorld G3 Beige 233MHz

2004-10-06 Thread Brad Boyer
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:46:32PM -0400, Duane Cottle wrote: > Quik is losing the ramdisks on these, my OldWorld boxes. > > In my short experience, when quik works, it doesn't load the > ramdisk, regardless of quik.conf... _ANY_ ramdisk! Kernel arguments? > No go. Open Firmware boot-file argume

Re: Success: serial console works...

2004-10-06 Thread Rick Thomas
Congratulations on getting that far! I didn't know the part about having to compile in the serial console, so I haven't gotten even to that point. You've given me hope. Please keep all of us on the mailing-list up-to-date on your progress! Enjoy! Rick On Wednesday, October 6, 2004, at 11:

Success: serial console works...

2004-10-06 Thread Russell Hires
Hello all! A couple of weeks ago I was working with trying to get my Beige G3/266 DT to do serial output to serial console. I finally got it right, after much reading, and lots of help from this list! I don't know if changing the nvram had anything to with it, but I setenv (or whatever the comman

Re: root.img too big on daily floppies

2004-10-06 Thread Duane Cottle
Here are the root.img sizes, stepping back to one small enough to use: -rw-r--r-- 1 duane duane 1475741 Oct 2 21:22 root-1002.img <<< -rw-r--r-- 1 duane duane 1507691 Oct 3 21:21 root-1003.img -rw-r--r-- 1 duane duane 1507693 Oct 4 21:20 root-1004.img -rw-r--r-- 1 duane duane 1507428 Oct 5

root.img too big on daily floppies

2004-10-06 Thread Duane Cottle
Hi, Setting up a PowerComputing PowerCenter Pro 210 clone with: http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/ 's First, the ofbootonly.img gave me the infamous red X on tux. The boot.img worked on this box, except it wouldn't eject. Picky, huh? The root.img reads 1.4M on th

Re: got quik working with OldWorld G3 Beige 233MHz

2004-10-06 Thread Duane Cottle
I already have to correct my last post. I found this in dmesg: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled IN from bad port 3f9 at c0103aac IN from bad port 3f9 at c0103aac IN from bad port 3f9 at c0103aac IN from bad port 2f9 at c0103aac IN from bad port 2f9 at c0103

Problem with X on an iMac 17'' lcd

2004-10-06 Thread Leandro Noferini
Ciao a tutti, I have a big trouble on my iMac 17'' lcd since two days: the image on the screen is shifted for a third at right. It worked well until an apt-get dist-upgrade two days ago. I use unstable on a 2.6.7 kernel from deb package with the same XF86Config. -- Ciao leandro Lei è come tutti

Re: got quik working with OldWorld G3 Beige 233MHz

2004-10-06 Thread Duane Cottle
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:42:23AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Tuesday, October 5, 2004, at 03:22 PM, Duane Cottle wrote: > > >It's been a week of reading and fumbling, but I got sarge booting with > >quik. I'm hurrying to leave for the day, so I'll post some system > >details here and follow u

pre-rc2 installer on PowerMac 9500 & suggestions

2004-10-06 Thread Martin Geier
Hi, I tried to install sarge using the pre-rc2 floppies from Sven (http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/2004-09-30/powerpc/floppy/) Short summary: Successful, but not easy Long version: -mounted ATI mach64 into first PCI-slot -zapped the PRAM using option+command+p+r -booted using boot.im

Re: support for tvout for ibook G4 (radeon 9200)

2004-10-06 Thread Sébastien FRANÇOIS
>but It donesn't work, are there any other options for de radeon > driver? Option "CRT2HSync" "30-50" Option "CRT2VRefresh" "43-60" it should be these values Good luck seb ___[ Pub ] Inscrivez-vous gratuitement sur Tandaime, Le site

Re: Multiple versions of gcc installed

2004-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 05:31:23PM +1000, Brendan Simon wrote: > I have 2 debian powerpc machines with testing and stable installed. > gcc-2.95.4 is installed on stable and gcc-3.3.4 on testing. > I want to compile with the same compiler on both so I installed gcc-2.95 > on the testing machine. > i

Re: support for tvout for ibook G4 (radeon 9200)

2004-10-06 Thread Guglielmo
Sébastien FRANÇOIS wrote: Hi, I documented the support of the vga output, it may work alike, if it does, please let me know because I don't have a tv adapter, http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto-5.html#ss5.6 It works very well for cloning on CRT (no more FB problems), but

Will Debian's "native" PowerPC compiler run on "vanilla" Linux 2.6.8-rc4 on MPC 8275 (PQ2FADS-VR) ?

2004-10-06 Thread Povolotsky, Alexander
Hi, Will Debian's "native" PowerPC compiler (similar to gcc version ?) run on "vanilla"rLinux 2.6.8-rc4 on MPC 8275 (PQ2FADS-VR) ? Also does Debian have a PowerPC perl package ? and would it run on "vanilla"rLinux 2.6.8-rc4 on MPC 8275 (PQ2FADS-VR) ? Also did anybody at Debian tried running "Cer

FW: lmbench results (with and without "kernel preemption") for Li nux 2.6.8-rc4 on MPC 8275 (PQ2FADS-VR) ?

2004-10-06 Thread Povolotsky, Alexander
> Would anybody at Debian be interested to discuss my lmbench results > attached below (comparing "vanilla" Linux 2.6..8-rc4 kernel with and > without "kernel preemption" option running on PQ2FADS-VR with MPC 8275) ? > > Thanks > -Original Message- > From: Povolotsky, Alexander

Bug#255447: NUT - Driver not connected

2004-10-06 Thread Edward M. Kutrzyba III
Does any one else here use nut to monitor/ control their UPS's? I opened this bug some time ago and still can't use nut on my 2.6 PPC system. Thanks, Ed http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=255447

Re: support for tvout for ibook G4 (radeon 9200)

2004-10-06 Thread Sébastien FRANÇOIS
Hi, I documented the support of the vga output, it may work alike, if it does, please let me know because I don't have a tv adapter, http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto-5.html#ss5.6 thanks seb ___[ Pub ] Inscrivez-vou

Re: got quik working with OldWorld G3 Beige 233MHz

2004-10-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tuesday, October 5, 2004, at 03:22 PM, Duane Cottle wrote: It's been a week of reading and fumbling, but I got sarge booting with quik. I'm hurrying to leave for the day, so I'll post some system details here and follow up on proceedures if clarification is requested. Wow! I'm impressed!

Multiple versions of gcc installed

2004-10-06 Thread Brendan Simon
I have 2 debian powerpc machines with testing and stable installed. gcc-2.95.4 is installed on stable and gcc-3.3.4 on testing. I want to compile with the same compiler on both so I installed gcc-2.95 on the testing machine. i.e. I have 3.3.4 and 2.95.4 installed simulataneously. Problem: I can't