Re: rc2 or daily images?

2005-03-05 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tamas K Papp wrote: | Which one is recommended for a fresh install? I would be happy to | test the new versions, but this is the first time I install Debian on | a powermac (I did many x86 installs in the past). [...] Use the daily image. Be sure to f

rc2 or daily images?

2005-03-05 Thread Tamas K Papp
Which one is recommended for a fresh install? I would be happy to test the new versions, but this is the first time I install Debian on a powermac (I did many x86 installs in the past). Thanks, Tamas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Adding a network card...

2005-03-05 Thread Charles Read
Hey everybody! Wanting to throw a spare RTL-8139 NIC into my G5 PPC, it looks like I don't have 8139too in /lib/modules/2.6.8-power4-smp/kernel/net, how can I get it there? Or how else can I add the card (kind of new to the hardware side of Linux, well all of it for that matter)? I looked on

Re: Massiv kernel crashes on ibook/G4 1.33 GHz

2005-03-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> At the moment we run a memtester on a G4/400 for 5 days now and no > problems found -- but my customer has big problems with this computer > :-( What kind of problems ? Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread David Pye
On Saturday 05 March 2005 21:26, Wee-Jin Goh wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 20:53 +0100, Maximilian Gerlach wrote: > > True, but if the driver was open sourced on Darwin, it might be easier > to port to Linux. However, since no one has does this, I doubt that the > driver is available for Darwin.

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Wee-Jin Goh
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 20:53 +0100, Maximilian Gerlach wrote: > > Does Darwin have drivers for Airport Extreme? I thought that they > > didn't. There were only the closed source Apple drivers that are > > available only for Mac OS X. > Well, Wee-Jin, it's the same situation as with the Windows NDIS

Re: changing the harddisk of a 12" PowerBook 1.33GHz

2005-03-05 Thread Basile STARYNKEVITCH
Le Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:30:36PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt écrivait/wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 11:34 +0100, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > My 12" PowerBook, bought in may 2004 with a 60Gb hard disk, is mostly > > running Linux/Debian/Sid with self-compiled kernel 2.6.1

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Maximilian Gerlach
> Does Darwin have drivers for Airport Extreme? I thought that they > didn't. There were only the closed source Apple drivers that are > available only for Mac OS X. Well, Wee-Jin, it's the same situation as with the Windows NDIS drivers. You have closed source drivers for a non-Linux kernel. To us

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Wee-Jin Goh
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 19:24 +0100, Maximilian Gerlach wrote: > > Don't you think that it's easier start writing a wrapper for darwin's > > KEXTs ? Maybe you could also have some support from gnudarwin people. > Well - do you think? > Since I don't have any idea how to do the one or the other it > u

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Maximilian Gerlach
> Don't you think that it's easier start writing a wrapper for darwin's > KEXTs ? Maybe you could also have some support from gnudarwin people. Well - do you think? Since I don't have any idea how to do the one or the other it unfortunately doesn't matter to me what actually *is* easier to do :( R

Re: Sleep powerbook 12"

2005-03-05 Thread Djoume SALVETTI
Le samedi 03/05/05 Wee-Jin Goh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Suspend to disk works for some kernels. There was information posted in > the last few days about how to get it working. You probably need to > search the archives. it requires a kernel patch, and the patch hasn't > been updated for use

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 06:12 PM, Maximilian Gerlach wrote: > So - the only thing left is to find someone familiar with qemu, kernel > developing, too much time and an Airport Extreme ;) Don't you think that it's easier start writing a wrapper for darwin's KEXTs ? Maybe you could also have some s

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Maximilian Gerlach
> Rats. There goes that idea :-( That makes sense that ndiswrapper works > in kernel space. Well - thats not perfectly true. If you search a bit more (try "qemu ndiswrapper", e.g.) than you find that _theoretically_ there is a possibility to write a driver that uses qemu to load i386 modules into

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Wee-Jin Goh
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 14:33 +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > On Saturday 05 of March 2005 13:12, Wee-Jin Goh wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I was searching Google on information regarding Airport Extreme on Linux > > and came across this posting on the Yellow Dog Linux mailing list. > > http://l

Re: Sleep powerbook 12"

2005-03-05 Thread Wee-Jin Goh
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 15:34 +0100, Sergio Paracuellos wrote: > Hi, > > Has powerbook 12" support for sleeping? It's based in a Gforce 4 and I > don't know nothing about it and I can't find anything about this > subject. > > Best regards, > > Sergio > > Suspend to disk works for some ker

Finding non apt-managed files

2005-03-05 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, The more I learn about the stuff you can do with APT, the more I am impressed. I hope to set up an apt-build-generated repository of these days :-). Anyway, I was wondering: Is it possible to find all the files on the system that are not managed by apt (i.e. is there a command to do this

Re: Sleep powerbook 12"

2005-03-05 Thread Djoume SALVETTI
Le samedi 03/05/05 Sergio Paracuellos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Has powerbook 12" support for sleeping? No but you can suspend to disk. -- Djoumé SALVETTI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Ben Hill
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 14:52 +0100, Maximilian Gerlach wrote: > I know. Thats was qemu is for - it's able to run i386 binaries on ppc. I > just don't know if it is able to make an ndiswrapper module for a ppc > kernel :/ Right, sounds very interesting then - I didn't read the link properly! ;-) Ch

Re: /dev/md support in quik

2005-03-05 Thread Simon Vallet
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 14:39:13 +0100 Simon Vallet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sources are available at http://www.castalie.org/debian/quik_md.tar.gz > ; you will need an existing quik install to test it, as the first- and > second-stage bootstrap programs are not included. Oops. The tarball was mis

Sleep powerbook 12"

2005-03-05 Thread Sergio Paracuellos
Hi, Has powerbook 12" support for sleeping? It's based in a Gforce 4 and I don't know nothing about it and I can't find anything about this subject. Best regards, Sergio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

External Xine Plugins for PowerPC

2005-03-05 Thread ben racher
Does anybody know where to find the external xine plugins for PowerPC. I can find them for x86, but no binaries for PowerPC. In fact, I can't find the source either. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: record mic and linein on powerbook G3

2005-03-05 Thread Martin Habets
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:49:13AM -0800, gm c wrote: > > > I was wondering if it is now possible to record from the mic or linein on the > powerbook G3 pismo? If so , how? Don't know about OSS. With current ALSA you have an "Input Source" selector in amixer/alsamixer. It was a later addition,

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Ben Hill
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 13:56 +0100, Maximilian Gerlach wrote: > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004-December/017120.html > I'm having a Powerbook G4 with an AE. I'm more than willing to try this. > Anyone here with qemu experience? Thats something I haven't experimen

/dev/md support in quik

2005-03-05 Thread Simon Vallet
Hi, I just added some support for md devices in quik. Could you please test this to ensure it doesn't break existing installs and/or works as intended if your / is on an md device. I intend to file a bug against the debian package next week, as I think it would be a nice thing to have in the debi

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Saturday 05 of March 2005 13:12, Wee-Jin Goh wrote: > Hello all, > > I was searching Google on information regarding Airport Extreme on Linux > and came across this posting on the Yellow Dog Linux mailing list. > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004-June/0 >14534.

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Maximilian Gerlach
http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004-December/017120.html I'm having a Powerbook G4 with an AE. I'm more than willing to try this. Anyone here with qemu experience? Thats something I haven't experimented with until now.. Maxi Am Samstag, den 05.03.2005, 12:12 +

Re: record mic and linein on powerbook G3

2005-03-05 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:49:13 -0800 (PST) gm c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if it is now possible to record from the mic or linein > on the powerbook G3 pismo? If so , how? Install (already done, if you use kernel 2.6) and run the ALSA sound driver. Pull Mic input lever in an mixer

Re: do I need to create the bootstrap partition during install?

2005-03-05 Thread Wee-Jin Goh
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 21:20 -0500, Tamas K Papp wrote: > I am new to debian on ppc so forgive me if this is a stupid question. > > I would like to have a dual boot system on a g4 powerbook (alu). > During the install, do I need to create the Apple_Bootstrap partition > for yaboot manually, or is i

Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Wee-Jin Goh
Hello all, I was searching Google on information regarding Airport Extreme on Linux and came across this posting on the Yellow Dog Linux mailing list. http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004-June/014534.html The basic idea is to use the ndiswrapper and qemu to get air

Re: xterm problem on my powerbook

2005-03-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, On 2005-03-03 20:13:09 +, Jochen Voss wrote: > the weirdest problem of my new Linux installation on a powerbook is > the following: "xterm" does not work! It opens a window but then dies > immediately with the following error message. > > xterm: fatal pty error 23 (errno=22) on tty /

Re: ibook2 r128 xv colour corruption

2005-03-05 Thread Lee Braiden
On Saturday 05 March 2005 06:23, Mauro wrote: > This results in the freeze with the default xfree and not freezing with > daenzer's xfree as stated above. Hmm.. so should I still be getting an XFree for R128 from somewhere other than the official sid sources? I used to do that, but I thought t