Re: boot-floppies 2.2.17 req'd packages

2000-10-05 Thread Gary Kline
Porters, is anyone working on boot-floppies 2.2.17 for non-i386 ? > > I'll get sparc in the morning. I need to build new 2.2.17 kernel images > too. > It's been a long time since I've heard from this list. Is this pertaining to Debian-BSD still? gary -- Gary D. Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public service Unix

Re: standby issue on a TiBook III / latest benh's and daenzer's

2003-05-05 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 11:27, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Stanby works correctly if X isn't running. If X is running (no matter on > which console) the laptop go in standby but fail to recover from it, > somethings wake up (like keyboard leds) but the display doesn't. The > machine seems not to be r

Re: standby issue on a TiBook III / latest benh's and daenzer's

2003-05-05 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 13:19, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Well... you shouldn't need pbbuttonsd for that... Went to sleep by closing lid, I meant. When in VT 7 with X running, unit would not wake up from sleep after closing and opening lid -- no keys had any effect. This changed once pbbutto

Re: standby issue on a TiBook III / latest benh's and daenzer's

2003-05-05 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 13:19, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Well... you shouldn't need pbbuttonsd for that... Naturally you are right I am no longer sure what the problem was I was having. Wake up works fine in my iBook2.2 using DRM and DRIReinit is not needed here. Sorry for my confusion

Re: cdrecord and devfs

2003-05-19 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 14:07, Martin Kuball wrote: > calling cdrecord -scanbus gives: > > # cdrecord -scanbus > Cdrecord 1.10 (powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg > Schilling > cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'c

Re: Reiserfs on an iBook?

2003-06-04 Thread Gary Sandine
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 08:56, Michel Dänzer wrote: > FWIW, I used to use it on my Macs a while ago, until it ate one > partition in the middle of normal operation. I'm sure that a lot of > problems have been fixed in the meantime, but I've even had problems > with it on x86, so I wouldn't trust any

Re: PBG4 12" sometimes disk problems during boot

2003-08-21 Thread Gary Sandine
Hi, On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:20, Pander wrote: > > Since a few days my PBG4 12" will not always boot completely. Somewhere > at the end of the boot sequence, just after it is loading some sound > stuff it says (something like): > > . > hda: lost interupt, > hda: lost interupt, lost dma status:

Re: weird problem with CD-drive eject

2003-09-22 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 07:50, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Does this persist over a reboot? If not, maybe the key that initiates > the eject (using something like acme, ikeyd, ... ?) was 'stuck', either > physically or due to the infamous kernel bug, and kept autorepeating? I remember now this happening

Re: Spam alert

2003-10-02 Thread Gary Sandine
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 22:23, Chris Tillman wrote: > I also gave my ISP an earfull for > not affering any server side solutions. I don't think this particular rash of e-mails would have happened if the list archives altered e-mail addresses. Too late now, though.

No Keyboard Input

2003-11-02 Thread Gary Martin
I am a Linux newbie with a major problem. I did a minimum install (plus development tools) from the Woody 3.0r1 CDs, the updated everything using "dselect" to Sid over my slow internet connection. I re-booted with the aim of installing X11, but at the login prompt, the keyboard is unresponsive. Du

Evolution Strangeness

2003-11-07 Thread Gary Martin
nyone seen this before? Gary Martin

modconf stopped working

2003-12-22 Thread Gary Martin
Hope someone can help? All-of-a-sudden, modconf stopped working --- I type modconf at the prompt, there is disk activiety for a few seconds, then I am returned to the prompt. Any ideas. Regards Gary Martin (linux newbie) http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new

Re: Samba 3 on Sarge ppc

2002-12-10 Thread Gary Sandine
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 08:35, Arnaud Bled wrote: > i would like to install Samba 3 on a Sarge ppc , but without upgrade to > Sid, is there a procedure to upgrade only Samba ? I would add a sid entry to sources.list, do apt-get update, and then try # apt-get install [whatever samba packages I want

Re: 2 issues Raid, Netatalk

2002-12-15 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 04:45, David Tisdell wrote: > The server has dual ultra 3 scsi drives mirrored to > each other with soft raid (Raid 1). It also has 2 > firewire drives which I would like to mirror in raid > 1. How do I set up Raid in software? It is very easy > to do in Red Hat. Can I easily

Re: Report of success on iBook3 in woody/sid with video, dri and airport OK

2002-12-16 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 15:51, Nirmal Govind wrote: > > Hi, I'm trying (again) to get debian installed on my ibook3 (Nov 02).. I I just did one of these last night using X from unstable and benh kernel obtained (yesterday) with rsync as described at http://penguinppc.org/~benh/ It was unusable wi

Re: Report of success on iBook3 in woody/sid with video, dri and airport OK

2002-12-16 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 17:24, Michel Dänzer wrote: > The DRM shouldn't make a difference for how X runs per se. You probably > also installed xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk? No, I actually didn't. I'll have to double check the details below, but from memory: 1 radeonfb from 2.4.20-pre4-ben0 gave dark

Re: Report of success on iBook3 in woody/sid with video, dri and airport OK

2002-12-16 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 18:41, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > radeonfb and the radeon kernel module (the DRM) isn't quite the same > thing. Right; I'm just specifying which versions of each I needed. Without radeonfb from 2.4.20-ben1, I had scrambled text console and scrambled X. Without your radeon ke

Re: Report of success on iBook3 in woody/sid with video, dri and airport OK

2002-12-16 Thread Gary Sandine
I've done some more tests and am hoping something here rings a bell about how to fix the glxgears-induced corruption. (Evidently, snooze and wakeup is out of the question with Radeon M7 at this point in time.) For decent video at all (text or X), Radeon frame buffer (in console drivers) from >= 2

Re: Report of success on iBook3 in woody/sid with video, dri and airport OK

2002-12-17 Thread Gary Sandine
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 03:59, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > For X, agpgart and radeon.o (the former from 2.4.20-ben1 kernel, the > > latter from drm-trunk-module-src) must be loaded. > > No, problems with those don't keep the server from starting up but just > keep direct rendering from getting enable

KDE3 in iBook2

2002-12-17 Thread Gary Sandine
Hi, Is anyone using KDE 3.0.4 ppc from http://bulmalug.net/~primetime/kde3/ ? Everything works well, except konsole will not run. It brings up a crash dialogue saying konsole crashed and caused signal 11. The Backtrace tab info ends in: #0 0x0eadd9a8 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x0e

never mind! (was Re: KDE3 in iBook2)

2002-12-17 Thread Gary Sandine
Downgrading libqt3 items from 3.1.0+cvs.2002 to 3.0.5-3 fixed it. On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 21:33, Gary Sandine wrote: > Hi, > > Is anyone using KDE 3.0.4 ppc from > > http://bulmalug.net/~primetime/kde3/ > > ? > > Everything works well, except konsole will not r

Re: ibook, still questions

2002-12-20 Thread Gary Sandine
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 06:21, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > r128 ? I would say radeon... > > Right, or simply "ati", which works for all ATI chips. Yeah I thought radeon, too. I specify "ati" in my iBook2's XF86Config, and it looks like ati does: (II) Loading sub module "radeon" (II) LoadModule:

Re: remote session can't acess X

2002-12-22 Thread Gary Sandine
Hi Nirmal, On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 15:37, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Hi.. I'm trying to login to a remote Sun machine and start off an > application which would start the application's main window on my local > machine. Edit /etc/ssh/ssh_config By default, (if my memory serves me well) you will find

Re: ibook3 dvd/cdrw problems

2003-01-13 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 22:05, Jon Michaelchuck wrote: > When I attempt to run eject /dev/cdrom (as root) I get: > eject: unable to eject, last error: Input/output error Does a symlink /dev/cdrom exist? If so, it should be pointing to /dev/scd0. Do # rm -f /dev/cdrom ; ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom

Re: gdm 2

2003-01-13 Thread Gary Sandine
Hi, On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 12:32, Jorge Arcas wrote: > Is a gdm2 package for debian ppc? I put the line deb http://files.hadess.net/ debian/ and was almost able to "apt-get install gdm2". Installation scripts in the package failed (I don't know why), but I was able to finish the installation b

Re: create HFS partition

2003-01-14 Thread Gary Sandine
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 13:48, Kevin Smith wrote: > One last thing, make sure you format the Apple partition as HFS and NOT HFS+ > else you cannot access it when in Linux. Packages hfsplus + libhfsp0 provide utilities for accessing HFS+ volumes. I suggest beginning with hpmount(1) and reading all

Re: Looking for quiet Harddisk

2003-01-18 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 09:23, Claas Langbehn wrote: > The "Seagate Barracuda V" shall be amazingly quiet. I second that. I have extensive experience (I own a Web-based PC shop for 2.5 years) with IBM, Western Digital, and Seagate (7200 rpm IDE), and Seagate is typically quieter out of the box and

Re: Where to get Gnome2 and kde3.1 for ppc ?

2003-01-28 Thread Gary Sandine
Hi, On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 17:29, Willy Morin wrote: > I'm looking for sources for kde3.1 and gnome2 under a debian > unstable. Do you know where I can find them ? I successfully installed KDE3 in a new iBook2 for a friend (about three weeks ago) using this sources.list entry: deb http://bulmalug

Re: installing woody on G4 Cube

2003-01-29 Thread Gary Sandine
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 10:01, Ryan Singer wrote: > - reading OF device tree.. > - calling quiesce.. > - booting.. > > after it displays the "booting" line -- the thing just hangs. My iBook did this -- the installer would not boot unless I chose install-safe (rather than install or install24 or

Re: X-windows question

2003-02-07 Thread Gary Sandine
Hi, On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 11:38, Pedro Alves wrote: > Another question... how I mount a HFS particion on Linux? I installed > both hfsplus and hfsutils! You can learn this by reading hpmount(1) and the other man pages referenced at the bottom of hpmount(1). Usage of utilities in hfsplus is biza

Re: X-windows question

2003-02-07 Thread Gary Sandine
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 17:06, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:38:50PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote: > > > > Another question... how I mount a HFS particion on Linux? I installed > > both hfsplus and hfsutils! > > mount -t hfs > > You can put it in /etc/fstab also Oh yeah I did not

Re: cd-rw on ibook2

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 07:40, Guido Amoruso wrote: > Now, this is the present situation: I have in my yaboot.conf the line > "append ide-scsi" If that is your actual append entry in yaboot.conf, it is not correct. It should be: append="hdb=ide-scsi" plus whatever other options you might need in

Re: cd-rw on ibook2

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 14:01, Guido Amoruso wrote: > is it ok to have multiple "append"s? I don't know. The top of dmesg displays the append arguments in effect; perhaps $ dmesg | grep "Kernel command line" will tell.

Re: cd-rw on ibook2

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 15:19, Guido Amoruso wrote: > (append="hdb=ide-scsi video=ofonly keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1"). I think we have the same rev iBook. ofonly does not work for me if I want to use X and all the goodies you mention; I need atyfb (with drm-trunk-module-src for drm).

Re: cd-rw on ibook2

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 15:51, Guido Amoruso wrote: > Could you explain me what to do? Have I to replave video=ofonly with > video=atyfb, and/or change XF86Config-4? I'll search on the list for > drm-trunk: in the meanwhile, can you tell me something more? I learned how to do it here http://www.cat

Re: cdrecord and dma for cd

2003-03-09 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 07:06, Grzesiek Sedek wrote: > Ive got this problem: > I need ide-scsi to burn cd's but at the same time I'd like to watch > dvd's - so I need dma access. > How to do it? I've linked /dev/dvd to /dev/hdb but it didn't help. > Is there any quick fix for that? > I'm running iboo

Re: would this break my debian installation?

2003-04-07 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 15:16, florian wrote: > nobody got an idea if that would work? one the one side it > sounds possible to me, but i would like to avoid that i > lose all my data.. Every time I have tried to install OS X in a system already running Linux, OS X's installation disk utility plowed

Re: would this break my debian installation?

2003-04-07 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 04:12, Clive Menzies wrote: > I am no expert but I'm sure I've read here and elsewhere that the MacOS > Apple boot block needs to be the first partition on the disk. > Certainly when I installed Debian on my G4 I installed MacOSX first. Yes I had set it up ahead of time w

Re: would this break my debian installation?

2003-04-07 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 10:35, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > I guess Apple don't expect people to run anything but Darwin - strange > ;-) So are you saying that you can't install OSX on top of > Mac-on-Linux? I was thinking of trying it I figured it was just my problem not knowing how to use th

Re: would this break my debian installation?

2003-04-07 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 09:17, florian wrote: > why did you use the mac os x disk utility though? i mean, basically > you should be able to just choose a partition from within the normal > os x installer.. no? I did try making an HFS partition at the back of the drive (along with the necessary boots

Re: would this break my debian installation?

2003-04-07 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 10:02, florian wrote: > arg! okay. you should have not done that. as far as i know the > disk utility always claims the whole disk for itself. Yeah as far as I know, that's the case, too. Although I _did_ create a partition for OS X to claim, and it would not use it (I had

Re: would this break my debian installation?

2003-04-07 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 10:48, Michel Dänzer wrote: > But IMHO the point is that MOL, and by extension the OS and apps running > within it, can't access any parts of the disk unless you allow it to. > Did you let it access the whole disk? Or is/was there a bug which would > allow to circumvent this

Re: would this break my debian installation?

2003-04-07 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 11:11, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: > If you haven't done "hformat > /dev/whatever", that will probably do the trick. Indeed -- that sounds like just what I've been missing the few times I have tried this. Thanks.