Re: Lenny on Imac G5 no windfarm module

2007-10-01 Thread Dylan Beaudette
Thanks Micheal, that did the trick. on to the next set of problems! Dylan On 10/1/07, Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 10:33 -0700, Dylan Beaudette wrote: I just installed Debian/Lenny on an Imac G5 (rev A). The install went fine (2.6.18 kernel

video offset on ImacG5 (sid)

2007-10-01 Thread Dylan Beaudette
Hi, Just upgraded to Sid and have working ImacG5! There are a couple of minor issues remaining: 1. the video is offset in the horizontal direction, meaning the far right-hand side of the display is 'wrapped' around to the left-hand side. about 10-20 pixels. I have a revision A Imac, with the

Lenny on Imac G5 no windfarm module

2007-09-30 Thread Dylan Beaudette
Greetings, I just installed Debian/Lenny on an Imac G5 (rev A). The install went fine (2.6.18 kernel) and the thermal control module was loaded (the windfarm module). After installing the base system and some packages I restarted the machine, which booted a 2.6.21-ppc64 kernel. Most things

Re: Canon i950 printer ppd file

2005-03-18 Thread Dylan Beaudette
? that (generated?) all of the ppd files for my rahter obscure HP office jet printer -- Dylan Beaudette Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: PCMCIA

2005-03-01 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 08:14 pm, Tommy Trussell wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:08:12 -0800, Dylan Beaudette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PCMCIA worked out of the box with Debian/Sarge on my wallstreet I'm glad someone has a positive experience, because I'd like to know, too -- on My Wallstreet

Re: Powerbook G3 Wallstreet Problems!!!

2005-02-22 Thread Dylan Beaudette
Here is some general old-world specific linux stuff: http://fungus.ucdavis.edu/~dylan/linux/ Note that I have Sarge installed on my powerbook G3 (now a powerbook G4), and sound works quite well, you just need to do a modprobe `dmasound_pmac`. Also, if you are interested, I have the 300Mhz + 1Mb

Re: where's tfm?

2005-02-14 Thread Dylan Beaudette
e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- FelipeFonseca http://felipe.hipercortex.com -- Dylan Beaudette Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group University of California at Davis

poerbook can only sleep once

2005-02-13 Thread Dylan Beaudette
pbbuttonsd, but this does not seem to fix the problem... I am using a stock debian kernel: kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc-pmac Any ideas? Thanks in advance! -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Science Graduate Group University of California at Davis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-25 Thread Dylan Beaudette
on one of the new iMac G5s? Cheers! -- Dylan Beaudette Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X-Window configurations

2005-01-22 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Friday 21 January 2005 11:29 am, Dylan Beaudette wrote: I do, Send me a reminder tonight, and I will forward my config to you. I am using a 300Mhz PB G3. Dylan Here is a link to the XF86Config-4 file: http://fungus.ucdavis.edu/~dylan/linux/doc/XF86Config-4.wallstreet Enjoy

Re: X-Window configurations

2005-01-21 Thread Dylan Beaudette
or xdm, no luck, all i got was streaks of colours like colour test monitor (be it login as root or user) Anyone has a more successful congfigurations for a powerbook to share. thanks pharme -- Dylan Beaudette Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group University of California at Davis

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-17 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Monday 17 January 2005 08:54 am, Sean Jewett wrote: On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Dylan Beaudette wrote: I will try to get the planb driver working with a more modern kernel and report back here when i have some spare time. also -- i am pretty sure that the planb driver needs the i2c subsystem

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-17 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Monday 17 January 2005 01:16 pm, Dylan Beaudette wrote: On Monday 17 January 2005 08:54 am, Sean Jewett wrote: On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Dylan Beaudette wrote: I will try to get the planb driver working with a more modern kernel and report back here when i have some spare time. also -- i am

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-16 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Sunday 16 January 2005 12:55 pm, david wrote: Dylan Beaudette wrote: On Friday 14 January 2005 10:26 am, Sean Jewett wrote: Has anyone managed to get the planb driver to work (or better yet, with the v4l stuff)? If so, how? What kernel, what distro, what phase of the moon? Yes. I have

SIGSEGV on kdmgreet after dist-upgrade

2005-01-08 Thread Dylan Beaudette
Greetings, I have been using Sarge for the last couple of months without incident, however after a dist-upgrade this morning i was left with a non-functioning kdm... when it loads i get a KDE-style error message (SIGSEGV) and kdm quits... i am able to start KDE via XDM, but my font's are not

debian testing PPC: Strange Segmentation Faults

2004-12-28 Thread Dylan Beaudette
Good morning! Last night all was well with my G4 powerbook, even after a rather large number of updates from and apt-get update apt-get upgrade. However, this morning, I noticed some strange segmentation faults when the machine was starting. They all seemed to be happening after a sed command

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-01 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 05:28 am, Pablo Gil wrote: Oooops, I forgot attaching the pbbuttonsd.conf file! as for the trackpad try this as root; #trackpad notap I put this in a init.d script that is run at boot time... cheers! -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Science Graduate Group University

X crashes when I play a movie

2004-09-13 Thread Dylan Beaudette
Greetings! When ever I try to play a movie with KDE's Kaboodle, or just open Xine X suddenly restarts and I find myself at a login prompt. I have checked the XF86 log, but haven't been able to find any clues... so far this has happened with both MPEG and DIVX movies... :( I am running debian

Re: gcc install problems in sarge testing [solved]

2004-08-30 Thread Dylan Beaudette
Jérôme Warnier wrote: Le dim 29/08/2004 à 23:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Greetings: I recently installed sarge testing onto my powerbook G3. i have most things working, however there seems to be no compiler! I noticed that when i installed that there was no option for development

`shutdown -r now` problems

2003-04-23 Thread Dylan Beaudette
Hi- (B (Bafter a recent power outage my 8500 will has been acting a little strange. (B (Bnormally a `shutdown -r now` command would bring down all services, (Bunmount the FS, and reboot the machine. (B (Bhowever, it now prompts me with "Give root password for maintenance (or (Btype

`shutdown -r now` problems

2003-04-23 Thread Dylan Beaudette
Hi- (B (Bafter a recent power outage my 8500 will has been acting a little strange. (B (Bnormally a `shutdown -r now` command would bring down all services, (Bunmount the FS, and reboot the machine. (B (Bhowever, it now prompts me with "Give root password for maintenance (or (Btype

Re: optimizing my debian

2003-02-09 Thread Dylan Beaudette
i would STRONGLY recomend more ram at least 128mb.. that has always made my life easier when i go to use X.. also, i would use a different WM... my favorites are fluxbox, blackbox, enlightenment, and icewm... fluxbox is extra fast, and if you can enable 2d acceleration (see past posts on how to

Re: useful links one caveat: apt over ssh

2002-11-01 Thread Dylan Beaudette
howdy-- i would recomend using the newest kernel, Etsushi Kato's mach_kernel + Debian 3.0 installer, to format a partition, and then install the base system via CD or ftp. (i usually use the base install CD, and then upon rebooting install the rest via ftp). i am using a kernel that is one

Re: Frozen cursor after logout; CLI escape

2002-11-01 Thread Dylan Beaudette
for configuring the services that run in yourt current runlevel, i would recomend 'rcconf'. you might have to apt-get it, but it is a nice little cmnd line app for sorting out the various services!! just my 2cents dylan Michel Dänzer said at ÒRe: Frozen cursor after logout; CLI escapeÓ.