Re: Video for Linux on Beige G3 tower

2001-08-31 Thread Mark Jaroski
Michel Lanners wrote: > Send along the output of 'lspci'. 00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40) 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30) 00:0f.0 USB Controller: Lucent Microelectronics: Unknown device 5802 (rev 10) 00:10.0 Class ff00:

Video for Linux on Beige G3 tower

2001-08-30 Thread Mark Jaroski
Hi All, Does anyone here know the make of the video input card on a Beige G3? It doesn't seem to be PlanB, as with the older powermacs. I'd really love to get video input working under linux. Thanks! Mark -- -- mark at geekhive dot net ==

Re: what happened to gvim?

2001-03-28 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:05:32PM -0800, Matt Brubeck wrote: > Can we get a powerpc Debian developer to do this and make an NMU, or could > the autobuilder's maintainer cause it to rebuild vim-gtk? In case the autobuilder isn't doing it yet: http://www.geekhive.net/debian/vim-gtk_5.7.019

Re: pmud 0.7-3 (powerpc)

2001-01-22 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 06:27:10PM +, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > I believe pmud does not wake up /dev/mouse0. > It does seem to wake up /dev/mouse1, as from the log. > When using /dev/input/mice I had no such problems. I had this problem on my powerbook as well. It turns out that after wakeu

Re: It works! (Was Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige)

2001-01-07 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 10:19:30AM -0800, Mark Jaroski wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:30:22AM +0100, Manea Mirko wrote: Oops... sorry about getting your name wrong... I'm embarrased... -- -- mark at outlook

Re: It works! (Was Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige)

2001-01-07 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:30:22AM +0100, Manea Mirko wrote: > Hi! > > thanks to the help of Ethan I succeeded in creating a boot floppy. > > The steps are the following: > > 1. get boot-floppy-hfs.img and dd it to a floppy; > 2. test if you can boot (it will prompt for a ramdisk). I had to use

Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige

2001-01-06 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:58:08PM +0100, Manea Mirko wrote: > I installed it on a new hard disk.. I have macos on another hd > which is not installed.. > > Don't you know how to put a zImage kernel on a hfs formatted floppy > (like boot-floppy-hfs.img) ? Well, if you can get into your filesyste

Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige

2001-01-06 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:58:08PM +0100, Manea Mirko wrote: > Don't you know how to put a zImage kernel on a hfs formatted floppy > (like boot-floppy-hfs.img) ? > > I know oldworld ppc can read only vmlinux.coff style kernel.. but the > boot-floppy has a zImage kernel.. > I tried with a kernel fr

Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige

2001-01-06 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:58:08PM +0100, Manea Mirko wrote: > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 12:27:18PM -0800, Mark Jaroski wrote: > > When I tried it with my G3 266 I had a lot better luck starting > > out booting from BootX than with the floppies. Actually I > > pretty much never

Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige

2001-01-06 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 08:48:21PM +0100, Manea Mirko wrote: > > thank you very much... but ofpath says: > > This machine is not supported: AAPL, PowerMac G3MacRISC > > I'll try to make boot-floopy-hfs.img to mount my /dev/sda3 root partition.. > just to finish installation.. then I'll play wit

Re: Xfree 3.x for Cirrus Logic GD 5446 on a RS 6000 clone (Bull Estrella 320)

2001-01-02 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 10:40:22AM +0100, Mark Lamers wrote: > Mark Jaroski wrote: > > > Hi Mark > > I get aan error that libc6 >= 2.1.97 and it's 2.1.3-13, strange isn't > that newer? I suppose you'll have to compile it from the source... There is a ta

Re: debian-powerpc: mozilla/browsers with java support ???

2001-01-01 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:14:01PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > Does Mozilla have Java support ??? > > I am using Mozilla as it is the only browser that I know of the works on > the PowerPC machines. I guess Communicator would be my preferred choice > because it is much more stable that Mozi

Re: Playing cd on iBook

2000-12-31 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:40:13PM +, Rob Andrews wrote: > fwir, xmms cvs before the 1.0.1 release had that plugin, but it disappeared > for the 1.0.1 release, and hasn't re-returned. Several freshmeat searches > have proved fruitless, so I don't think it's been separated into an external > arc

Re: Xfree 3.x opps... forgot the URL

2000-12-29 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 01:20:31PM -0800, I, Mark Jaroski wrote: > Hi Mark > > It's me again... I found this message in the archives that talks > a bit about the file I sent you earlier... http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc-0012/msg00653.html > In case you're

Re: Xfree 3.x for Cirrus Logic GD 5446 on a RS 6000 clone (Bull Estrella 320)

2000-12-29 Thread Mark Jaroski
Hi Mark It's me again... I found this message in the archives that talks a bit about the file I sent you earlier... In case you're wondering the program for converting rpm archives to debs is alien. Try this (as root): apt-get install alien alien something.rpm then you can inst

Re: installing Xfree (newbie)

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 11:56:06PM +0100, Mark Lamers wrote: > Mark Jaroski wrote: > > I have to confess to being totally clueless about the specifics > > of this model. Is it anything like the IBM rs6000? > > Yes > > Please send a copy of the output of this com

Re: installing Xfree (newbie)

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 11:22:06PM +0100, Mark Lamers wrote: > > It's an Bull Estrella 300 (Powerstack Utah) h... This is going to be interesting... I have to confess to being totally clueless about the specifics of this model. Is it anything like the IBM rs6000? Please send a copy of

Re: installing Xfree (newbie)

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 10:47:20PM +0100, Mark Lamers wrote: > > Oops. I didn't answer your actual question... the utility you > > want is called dexconf... /usr/bin/dexconf to be exact. > > I can't find this package either neither on disk or with apt-get. I'm sorry > but I'm only used to Suse and

Re: installing Xfree (newbie)

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 10:51:11AM -0800, Mark Jaroski wrote: > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 06:37:34PM +0100, Mark Lamers wrote: > > I'm surging with apt-get for xf86setup without any succes. I thought > > this was needed for setting up Xfree86. Is there another program to set >

Re: installing Xfree (newbie)

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 06:37:34PM +0100, Mark Lamers wrote: > I'm surging with apt-get for xf86setup without any succes. I thought > this was needed for setting up Xfree86. Is there another program to set > this up? Or should I use another server I'm useing the defaults > (http://debian.us.org). I

Re: Working XF86Config for Beige G3

2000-12-18 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:20:01AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Bus 0, device 18, function 0: > > VGA compatible controller: ATI Mach64 GT (Rage II) (rev 154). > > Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 22. Master Capable. > > Latency=32. Min Gnt=8. > > Non-pr

Re: Working XF86Config for Beige G3

2000-12-18 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:15:53AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > mount -o remount,sync / > > > > I'll spend some more time reading man mount before I try it. > > You figured it out exactly right, but reading documentation never hurts ;) Better to get something out of the experience.. :

Re: Working XF86Config for Beige G3

2000-12-18 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:10:59AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > I've recovered most of my important stuff, but not the xlog of > > course, and I'm a little gunshy of trying it again. Do you > > Sync a few times before starting X, ummount any non essential filesystems, > and log the X output

Re: Working XF86Config for Beige G3

2000-12-18 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:57:32AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > The X server output is at /var/log/XFree86.0.log anyway, and you can minimize > filesystem damage as well as maximize log output by remounting your filesystem > in synchronous mode before trying to start X. Thanks for the tip.. synch

Re: Working XF86Config for Beige G3

2000-12-17 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:08:33AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Mark Jaroski wrote: > > > I'm running a custom 2.2.18pre21 kernel, with the PCI quirk > > option turned on (which I thought was the fix).. > > > > Anyhow the ati driver gives my a signal 11 error

Working XF86Config for Beige G3

2000-12-17 Thread Mark Jaroski
Hi, Did anybody ever get a working XF86Config going for a beige G3? I've been going through the archive and can't seem to find what I'm looking for. I'm running a custom 2.2.18pre21 kernel, with the PCI quirk option turned on (which I thought was the fix).. Anyhow the ati driver gives my a sig