Endless loop installing on a beige G3

2005-03-24 Thread Barry Schiffman
I am trying to install woody on an old-world G3, using BootX. I located the ramdisk-image on the install CD's, and it starts out fine. The messages seem to be normal, but the last one before the GUI starts says that grep uses an obsolete /proc/pci Anyway I get the first language screen -- and I c

Re: xlibmesa-DRI on Pismo?

2005-03-24 Thread Mauro
> The powerpc-list thread said that xlibmesa-DRI worked in 16-bit color > only. Read also somewhere else that xdm/twm, which I'm running, doesn't > allow per session changes to video modes. > > So do I have to run dpkg-reconfigure again and say my default video mode > to 16-bit, or is there som

xlibmesa-DRI on Pismo?

2005-03-24 Thread vze26m98
Hi all- Read a long-ish thread on this subject from 2003, but I'm still in the dark about using xlibmesa-DRI with the ATI graphics on my Pismo. I'm running a stock 2.6.8 kernel on my Pismo. If I run glxgears, I get a warning that says extension "XFree86-DRI" is missing. I've got "load dri" in X

Re: Bug#289182: kino endianness issues on powerpc

2005-03-24 Thread Paul Brossier
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 01:38:27AM +0100, Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 08:36:01PM +, Paul Brossier wrote: > > there is probably a better mean to do so though, ie checking what > > type of conversion is needed according to libavcodec, but it does > > effectively fixes the XV Di

xdga colors problem

2005-03-24 Thread Tamas K Papp
When I use xdga (fullscreen), the colors are weird, eg the blue is replaced by cyan and the whole thing looks psychedelic. Is this a known problem, and is there a workaround? I am using a 15" Albook (2004), % uname -a Linux tpapp.student.princeton.edu 2.6.10-powerpc #1 Wed Feb 23 20:43:26 CET 2

Re: Bug#289182: kino endianness issues on powerpc

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 08:36:01PM +, Paul Brossier wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:39:16PM +0100, Daniel Kobras wrote: > > Furthermore, it looks obviously buggy. Eg. the little-endian > > version of the first loop uses values Y[0] and Y[1], while the > > big-endian variant reuses Y[0] twic

Re: New mutt-ng packages

2005-03-24 Thread Michael Ott
Hallo Elimar! > I am pleased to announce the new location of the Debian mutt-ng > packages: > > deb http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv binary-powerpc/ > deb http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv binary-i386/ > deb-src http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv sources/ > > Builds for i386 and powerpc architecture are ava

CPU Frequency -- min save value?

2005-03-24 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, I have a PowerBook5,4 and have got 149 and 74 for my max/min CPU frequencies (in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/). Was just wondering, as I mostly use the machine for really simple text editing when it's on battery power (taking notes in lectures), is it safe to set the lower

Preventing the Kernel from changing real-base and load-base

2005-03-24 Thread Christian Walther
Hi, a few month ago I posted about not being able to netboot a RS/6000 Model 7025-F50. It turned out to be a problem with the arpd of my server, so I changed the configuration on my server according to a FAQ mentioned in one of the replies. Due to some private issues I haven't been able to work

Re: New mutt-ng packages

2005-03-24 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 24 2005, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > I am pleased to announce the new location of the Debian mutt-ng > packages: (...) > At the moment mutt-ng is in alpha stage but we plan to upload it to > experimental soon. An ITP actually runs. For my porpose mutt-ng runs > stable. I'm downloading it ri

Kernel

2005-03-24 Thread Michael
When I did the dist-upgrade apparently my kernel was not upgraded, because ybin is complaining about my kernel being too old. I looked at my kernel modules and they are still 2.4.x, so if this does mean that my kerrnel is still 2.4 and not the 2.6 that Sarge installs by default, what is the pr

Re: XFree86 on SARGE

2005-03-24 Thread Filippo Forti
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:31:27PM -0800, Michael wrote: > Well, I gritted it out and did the 2 day long aptitude dist-upgrade from > Woody to Sarge, after numerous questions as to why I didn't. The iso I > downloaded for Sarge must've become corrupted, because the cd-rw I burnt > it on wouldn'

New mutt-ng packages

2005-03-24 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi all, I am pleased to announce the new location of the Debian mutt-ng packages: deb http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv binary-powerpc/ deb http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv binary-i386/ deb-src http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv sources/ Builds for i386 and powerpc architecture are available. Many thanks t

Re: "Virtual Terminal"

2005-03-24 Thread Michael
Jochen Voss wrote: Hello Michael, On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 09:11:29PM -0800, Michael wrote: I did change my /var/apt/sources.list file, or /etc, I forget whether it was in /etc or /var, ... It is in /etc. All the configuration files you ever want to edit should be in /etc. .., and being t

Re: number of Power 5 processors supported?

2005-03-24 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, > Does anyone know how many processors are supported on Power 5 SMP machines > with Linux? > > I'm hoping to buy a 16 processor system and am cureous if theres any hope > of Linux being able to use all 16 procs. Yes. We regularly boot POWER5 machines with 128 threads (64 way). Note that

number of Power 5 processors supported?

2005-03-24 Thread Jim Prewett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know how many processors are supported on Power 5 SMP machines with Linux? I'm hoping to buy a 16 processor system and am cureous if theres any hope of Linux being able to use all 16 procs. Thanks, Jim James E. Prewett

XFree86 on SARGE

2005-03-24 Thread Michael
Well, I gritted it out and did the 2 day long aptitude dist-upgrade from Woody to Sarge, after numerous questions as to why I didn't. The iso I downloaded for Sarge must've become corrupted, because the cd-rw I burnt it on wouldn't boot any kernels, apt-cdrom kept giving me read errors, and th

Re: PowerMac floppy support is broken in 2.6.11.5

2005-03-24 Thread vinai
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Christoph Ewering wrote: Just wanted to let you know, that the floppy support in 2.6.11.5 is broken. I do not know what is with previous kernels. This is what I get when I switch on PowerMac floppy support, if I switch it of, the kernel compiles with out any error. CC i

PowerMac floppy support is broken in 2.6.11.5

2005-03-24 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello Guys! Just wanted to let you know, that the floppy support in 2.6.11.5 is broken. I do not know what is with previous kernels. This is what I get when I switch on PowerMac floppy support, if I switch it of, the kernel compiles with out any error. CC init/version.o LD init/buil

Update to swim3 driver for 2.6 (was: errors when compiling 2.6 kernel source)

2005-03-24 Thread vinai
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Michael Schmitz wrote: Looks like it hasn't been touched in ages, then. BenH should correct if I'm way off base, but you basically need to replace, at a minimum: save_flags(flags)+cli() by local_irq_save(flags) restore_flags(flags)by local_irq_restore(flags) sti()

Re: No mol osx driver in debian ppc sarge?

2005-03-24 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Jin Zhao writes: > I only found the following packages related with mol. > mol > mol-drivers-linux > mod-modules-2.6.8-powerpc > mod-modules-2.6.8-powerpc-smp > mod-modules-source > > When I tried to start a osx instance, I got the following errors. [...] > Can

Re: No mol osx driver in debian ppc sarge?

2005-03-24 Thread Michael Schmitz
> mol > mol-drivers-linux mol-drivers-osx is in non-free IIRC. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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