Re: [powerpc-floppies] Help Needed : root.img too big (1489688, should be 1474560).

2006-01-09 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:55:51AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Hi, ... I am requesting, on behalf of the powerpc oldworld floppies users, some help to solve the problem of too big root.img. The file is 1489688 bytes, while the floppy size is 1474560, so it is 15128 bytes to huge. I had a

Re: [powerpc-floppies] Help Needed : root.img too big (1489688, should be 1474560).

2006-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 09:43:37AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:55:51AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Hi, ... I am requesting, on behalf of the powerpc oldworld floppies users, some help to solve the problem of too big root.img. The file is 1489688 bytes, while

Re: Boot in console not X [Was]Re: X server problem

2006-01-09 Thread David Pead
Found this on the archives might come in useful for anyone else that finds this thread http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes On 5/1/06 2:01 pm, Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember being bitten by a keymap problem on my first ever debian install when I knew virtually

xorg-6.9.0 and nautilus-2.12.2-1

2006-01-09 Thread Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot
Hi list: Just upgraded my pbook with a nvidia card to xorg-6.9.0 and everything seems to work ok except nautilus (my version is 2.12.2-1), the desktop is drawn corrupted, every other application works ok. I've isolated the problem and if I downgrade _only_ xserver-xorg to 6.8.2 nautilus works

Re: xorg-6.9.0 and nautilus-2.12.2-1

2006-01-09 Thread [ATR]Dj-Death
Le lundi 09 janvier 2006 à 11:00 +0100, Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot a écrit : Hi list: Just upgraded my pbook with a nvidia card to xorg-6.9.0 and everything seems to work ok except nautilus (my version is 2.12.2-1), the desktop is drawn corrupted, every other application works ok. I've

Re: Poll: debian/powerpc woody users ...

2006-01-09 Thread Ernest Demaret
On Jan 06 2006, Ernest Demaret wrote: Op 6-jan-2006, om 3:46 heeft Rogério Brito het volgende geschreven: Humm? That's quite strange, I'd say. Which expansion cards do you actually have (if you do have one)? None whatsoever. It's an original. Ok. So, you only have a video card in one of the

Re: How to disable 'rivafb_pan_display START' at boot ?

2006-01-09 Thread Guido Guenther
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:42:02AM +1300, Adam Felix Bogacki wrote: [xxx.xx] rivafb_pan_display START [xxx.xx] rivafb_pan_display START [xxx.xx] rivafb_pan_display END [xxx.xx] rivafb_pan_display END [xxx.xx] rivafb_pan_display START [xxx.xx] rivafb_pan_display

Re: xorg-6.9.0 and nautilus-2.12.2-1

2006-01-09 Thread Ruben
At Mon, 09 Jan 2006 11:00:56 +0100, Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot wrote: Hi list: Just upgraded my pbook with a nvidia card to xorg-6.9.0 and everything seems to work ok except nautilus (my version is 2.12.2-1), the desktop is drawn corrupted, every other application works ok. I've isolated

Re: xorg-6.9.0

2006-01-09 Thread Ruben
At Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:13:22 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: last night I upgraded to xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2. First I had to do a ldconfig by hand, because startx was complaining about missing libs. Starting X then freezes my PowerBook5,6 completely. No net, no console. So I had to hard

Re: xorg-6.9.0 and nautilus-2.12.2-1

2006-01-09 Thread Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot
El lun, 09-01-2006 a las 14:45 +0100, Ruben escribió: On an iBook G4 1.33Ghz: Yesterday, after upgrading to 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2 (and restarting X), everything was fine, except the desktop was drawn corrupted, just like you say. The desktop was fine initially, but moving windows left 'trails',

Re: More on ibook

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Schmitz
In Gnome you're perhaps getting asked, when you log in, whether .xmodmap should be loaded by Gnome. If not, .. *and* if you don't like the default Gnome keyboard settings .. The choice of the alt key by X on powerbooks is atrocious. There's a problem with fixing this in the gnome session,

Re: xorg-6.9.0

2006-01-09 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 the mental interface of Ruben told: At Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:13:22 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: last night I upgraded to xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2. First I had to do a ldconfig by hand, because startx was complaining about missing libs. Starting X then freezes my

Re: xorg-6.9.0 and nautilus-2.12.2-1

2006-01-09 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Ruben wrote: ps: I assume you are using Gnome 1.12? How did you install this.. by temporarily giving high priority (in /etc/apt/preferences) to the experimental archive for installing Gnome? That's the only way I can think of, but it seems far from ideal. Or is there a way to force pulling

Re: xorg-6.9.0

2006-01-09 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 the mental interface of Ruben told: At Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:13:22 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: last night I upgraded to xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2. First I had to do a ldconfig by hand, because startx was complaining about missing libs. Starting X then freezes my

Re: xorg-6.9.0

2006-01-09 Thread Javier Ramirez
Hi, I just update my debian powerbook (the unstable sources) a few minutes ago and it freezes. I can't start gdm cause it just hang... How can I start console and what I can do to undo this.. should I tryied to reinstall the last stable packages? thanks for your time. Orlando. On 1/9/06,

Re: xorg-6.9.0

2006-01-09 Thread Ruben
At Mon, 9 Jan 2006 19:20:59 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 the mental interface of Ruben told: Just reporting that this is working fine on my iBook (PowerBook6,7), with an ATI M11 NV [FireGL Mobility T2e] (Mobility Radeon 9550 aka Apple). I didn't need to change

Re: xorg-6.9.0 and nautilus-2.12.2-1

2006-01-09 Thread Ruben
At Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:20:37 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: Ruben wrote: ps: I assume you are using Gnome 1.12? How did you install this.. by temporarily giving high priority (in /etc/apt/preferences) to the experimental archive for installing Gnome? That's the only way I can think

Files for BootX

2006-01-09 Thread Chris Fisichella
Hi, I am on my sixth attempt to install Debian on a Powerbook G3 (Wallstreet). I am out of ideas. I have OpenFirmware 3.0, so I tried the following: 1. boot from floppies. four floppies, two different writing methods; I think my floppy drive is too picky. 2. BootX: I could have sworn I

Wow! Debian Developers are Doing One Terrific Job

2006-01-09 Thread J. De Salvo
Greetings, Just a note of thanks to all the Debian developers/builders/contributors for their tireless devotion to Debian/GNU Linux and for all the work they've done to help make Linux a viable alternative to a number of proprietary OSs. For those like me who must sit on the sidelines,

Sound on iMac G5 (8,1)

2006-01-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I tried a self-compiled 2.6.15-1 debian kernel which I patched to enable sound support: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc64/patch?id=3924 When I try to load the snd_powermac module (which crashes the machine on non-patched kernels), I encounter the following error: sorbet:~#

Re: Sound on iMac G5 (8,1)

2006-01-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 11:01 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Dear all, I tried a self-compiled 2.6.15-1 debian kernel which I patched to enable sound support: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc64/patch?id=3924 When I try to load the snd_powermac module (which crashes the machine on

Re: Files for BootX

2006-01-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 18:11 -0500, Chris Fisichella wrote: a) Where do I get the ramdisk.img.gz and linux.bin files BootX is looking for? The installation CD and the ftp site seem to be pushing yaboot and floppies. b) Is BootX the way to go? I would like to have both MacOS9 and Sarge on