Re: Diagnosing problems with pmud

2002-05-20 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 10:01:36AM +0200 or thereabouts, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > I have some odd goings on with pmud. I don't have the faintest idea > > what could be causing them though. On my PB2400, The system has a > > hard time waking up from sleep. Sometimes it locks up with no > AFAIK

Re: Debian X package shouldn't install XDM by default

2001-04-13 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:00:02AM +0200 or thereabouts, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Yes it is, I just checked. > > Feel free to file a bug against tasksel, but please look at it again (hint: > you don't need to reinstall for that :). So how do I submit bug reports (besides whining here ;) ) ? I che

Re: Debian X package shouldn't install XDM by default

2001-04-12 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:56:16PM +0200 or thereabouts, Michel Dänzer wrote: > The question here is if you can choose between the two variants with and > without -core and if the difference is (well) documented. If the answer to I'm not sure what you mean "with and without -core"... IIRC (it's b

Re: Debian X package shouldn't install XDM by default

2001-04-12 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 04:51:46AM -0800 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote: > did you select task-x-window-system ? if so thats why it depends on > xdm. anXious can do nothing about that. > when is anXious even asking about this anyway? it can't be in the > postinst... When you install debi

Re: Debian X package shouldn't install XDM by default

2001-04-12 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 04:19:50AM -0800 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote: > task-x-whatever installs it. thats the only way it will be installed > by `default' since its Priority: optional anXious asks me "do you wish to install XDM" I say no. It installs it anyways. (that's using the 'simple'

Re: Installing on oldworld powerbook

2001-04-12 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Hi, If (unlike my pb3400c) you have a floppy drive, dd them on your PC or something and boot from that... Otherwise, you can get BootX, install it somewhere (it can be anywhere), copy the kernel to a folder in your System Folder that you will create called Linux Kernels. Copy (From the CD) the ra

Re: Debian X package shouldn't install XDM by default

2001-04-12 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:40:34PM -0800 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote: > if you install xdm it is assumed that you wish to run it. if not then > apt-get remove xdm. I think what he means is that even though he didn't wish to install XDM, it installed anyways (I know, it happened to me too

Re: PB2400 pmud/kernel problem: lost interrupt

2001-04-11 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:53:08AM -0800 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote: > its possible that was before debian got quik patched, i don't recall > for sure. if the current quik in potato r2 still does not boot on > that machine that should be filed as a bug so it can be fixed. I'll have to t

Re: PB2400 pmud/kernel problem: lost interrupt

2001-04-11 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:39:24PM -0800 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote: > debian quik will work, its at 2.0 plus debian patches to make it > work. I said that cause last time I installed quik 2.0 (when debian asks me to install it) it wouldn't boot Linux, so I had to revert to 1.3 (that was

Re: PB2400 pmud/kernel problem: lost interrupt

2001-04-10 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:12:46PM +0200 or thereabouts, Philipp Kaeser wrote: > I'll now try to get quik up and running to see > whether it's just a PB2400 problem. However, I > wonder if anyone else has a kernel >= 2.4.3 > running on a Powerbook 2400 or 3400 (or anything > comparable). I've had

Re: PB2400 pmud/kernel problem: lost interrupt

2001-04-05 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:35:12PM +0200 or thereabouts, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Did you always have this behaviour, or is this specific to recent kernels ? > > Do you have a reference to a kernel version without this problem ? h 2.2.18pre21 and 2.2.19. That's what I remember for

Re: PB2400 pmud/kernel problem: lost interrupt

2001-04-05 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
I've a similar problem (that almost cost me my sanity a few minutes ago when my powerbook3400 wouldn't boot up, the very same pb that contained my very important project to be handed in tomorrow) Basically, if I disconnect it from the ac adapter and put it to sleep or wake it up, it won't wake up

XMMS won't play MP3 - undefined sym

2001-04-04 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Hello, As the subject says, I can't play MP3's anymore with XMMS. Works fine with mpg123, and I can play Ogg vorbis with xmms. I click on "Play file" (or I add files to the playlist), I select one or more mp3 files, click ok, and xmms won't do anything (the files don't appear in the playlist for

Re: new input layer and mouse button emulation

2001-03-28 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:24:37AM -0900 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote: > it can be done, with 2.2.18 and 2.2.19. its just the kernel > configuration system is buggy so you have to do two runthroughs to get > the old adb drivers turned off, which allows the new input layer > drivers to show u

Re: new input layer and mouse button emulation

2001-03-28 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:18:22PM +0200 or thereabouts, Andre Berger wrote: > It did! Changed the mapping to btn2=96 btn3=116, everything works > beautifully again. So no reason to go back to ADB. Is there any > documentation for the whole stuff also distributed with the kernel > itself? > Patrice

Re: new input layer and mouse button emulation

2001-03-27 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:11:36AM +0200 or thereabouts, Andre Berger wrote: > Those keycodes are mapped to my keypad-enter (btn2) and the power button I never managed to use that keypad-enter for mouse-button emulation, and I don't think I tried with the power button. This left me with very littl

Re: new input layer and mouse button emulation

2001-03-27 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:57:00AM +0100 or thereabouts, Andre Berger wrote: > I've updated my potato system (PB3400) to kernel 2.2.19pre17-pmac from > proposed updates, which uses the new input layer model. I've changed > mouse type and device successfully, the mouse works in X and the > consoles,

kde-designer...

2001-03-26 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Wee, another slightly broken package :) kde-designer depends on libqt2.2-dev but libqt2.2-dev actually installs as libqt-dev, hence kde-designer can't install. (I don't use kde anyways, just thought I'd let you know :) ) Cheers, Patrix. -- "I am the fixed point of insanity in any sane situat

what happened to gvim?

2001-03-26 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Hello, I'm running unstable, and I'd like to run gvim. I installed vim-gtk, like on my PC (vim-gtk provides gvim), but I don't have gvim on ppc! Where has it gone to? Thanks, Patrix. -- "I am the fixed point of insanity in any sane situation. And some people find that comforting." -- S

Re: Window Maker 0.64.0-5 (was 0.62.1) + weird colors?

2001-03-25 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 11:11:35PM + or thereabouts, Hadess wrote: > It is fixed in the CVS version. Check it out, it should work (I'm using > it right now). If it was fixed in the CVS version back then, why is it still happening? I just upgraded to wmaker 0.64.0-5 from unstable, and I still g

Re: Powerbook 3400 install

2001-03-15 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:32:12PM -0800 or thereabouts, Joseph Red wrote: > I see where this is on the supported hardware list, but I've been unable to > find any install instructions. Making some changes in OF to try to get it > to boot from the cd-rom didn't work. Tonight I'll create the base

linux 2.4.2 + PB3400

2001-03-04 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Hello, I have compiled 2.4.2 on my pb3400, and everything works _except_ networking. ifconfig inits the interface and all, routing is ok. But I can't ping or be pinged... Anyone else encountered this? Patrix. -- "Serious error. The site, vanished into dust. Screen. Mind. Both are blank." --

Re: help

2001-02-14 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 05:06:57PM -0900 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:15:17PM -0500, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > > > > > Weird, my powerbvook 3400 never had a floppy drive. > > the floppy is removable on that machine, as i recall t

Re: help

2001-02-14 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:15:17PM -0500 or thereabouts, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > I did say "to be finicky"... :) Non-free software must still be used in > order to make it happen... from the end-user perspective I mean... of course debian itself will not have any prop

Re: help

2001-02-14 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 06:08:07AM -0900 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:51:48AM -0500, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > > > miboot requires proprietary apple drivers, which are only available > > > with a proprietary macos CD burning software, a

Re: help

2001-02-14 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 08:24:48PM -0900 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 06:42:58PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Why? We have miBoot. Won't that work on a CD? > > miboot requires proprietary apple drivers, which are only available > with a proprietary macos CD burnin

Re: Compilation error of linux-2.4.0 with glibc 2.2.1-1

2001-01-18 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:55:30PM -0500 or thereabouts, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > Now it seems I can't reach the network - but that may just be me who compiled > in the wrong driver :) Maybe not... As before, the de4x5 module loads and I can bring up the eth0 interface. After that, I

Re: Compilation error of linux-2.4.0 with glibc 2.2.1-1

2001-01-18 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 06:01:35PM + or thereabouts, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > Thanks. It compiles without irda and pcmcia. After booting, > it complained about the filesystem, requiring maintenance. I had that too, but then I installed devfsd (I'm using 'testing'), and this problem went

Re: Enlightenment

2001-01-10 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 05:28:47PM -0600 or thereabouts, Nathan Ingersoll wrote: > already, but most people just put the command in the .xinitrc file so that it > gets started by startx or by xdm. small correction: .xinitrc for startx, and .xsession for xdm, wdm, gdm, etc.. And .xsession must be e

Re: available battery level indicators?

2000-12-30 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
You can also use wmapm, as long as you have apm compatibility in pmud (an option, I don't remember where...) There's a command-line option for wmapm to tell it which fifo to use, and you can tell it to use /etc/power/apm. Cheers, Patrix. -- "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom t

Re: did anyone get XFree86 4.0.1-8 working with PB3400?

2000-12-08 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:34:21AM +0100 or thereabouts, Claus wrote: > echo "1" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/adb_mouse_sends_keycodes I don't have that file But I do have the other three. > echo "1" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation > echo "96" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_k

Re: did anyone get XFree86 4.0.1-8 working with PB3400?

2000-12-07 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
I think I got it... i just added everything under USB HID (not just mouse and keyboard support), and that seemed to have done it.. (plus I restored, under mouse support, default resolution of 1024x768...) Patrix. -- "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow." -- Lt. Cmdr.

Re: did anyone get XFree86 4.0.1-8 working with PB3400?

2000-12-07 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:10:55AM +0100 or thereabouts, Claus wrote: > fix it or try this option: > # > # Kernel hacking > # > # CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ is not set With or without, makes no difference... Patrix. -- "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow." -- Lt. Cmdr. Susan

Re: did anyone get XFree86 4.0.1-8 working with PB3400?

2000-12-06 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:59:14PM -0500 or thereabouts, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > Thanks, it works now! :) or maybe not... What other options do I need? I have USB support Mac HIS support Keyboard Support Mouse Support Event Interface Support (makes no diff if I deselect it) and I checked

Re: did anyone get XFree86 4.0.1-8 working with PB3400?

2000-12-06 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Mac > device drivers". > > On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:06:11AM -0800 or thereabouts, Wilhelm *Rafial* > > Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > I built linux-pmac-stable a week ago, and the new input layer option was >

Re: did anyone get XFree86 4.0.1-8 working with PB3400?

2000-12-06 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:06:11AM -0800 or thereabouts, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: > I built linux-pmac-stable a week ago, and the new input layer option was > available. > > As I recall, its under some sort of 'Misc' section, a little over halfway > through the main options if you are

Re: did anyone get XFree86 4.0.1-8 working with PB3400?

2000-12-06 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:34:21AM +0100 or thereabouts, Claus wrote: > echo "1" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/adb_mouse_sends_keycodes > echo "1" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation > echo "96" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode > echo "63" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_key

Re: More xserver-xfree8 4.0.1-8 on powerpc glitches

2000-12-06 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 01:25:24PM +0100 or thereabouts, Frederic Seraphine wrote: > It seems that the X clients can't find some color definitions. When I > launch rxvt, it abort with the error "Can't load color: Black" and xterm > (which works) does the same error if I launch it with -bg black

Re: did anyone get XFree86 4.0.1-8 working with PB3400?

2000-12-06 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:34:21AM +0100 or thereabouts, Claus wrote: > echo "1" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/adb_mouse_sends_keycodes > echo "1" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation > echo "96" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode > echo "63" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_key

Re: did anyone get XFree86 4.0.1-8 working with PB3400?

2000-12-05 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Ok, I got it working using Claus's (I think) XF86Config from a few months back on linuxppc mailing list.. all is going well, but I have one problem - I only have one mouse button... is there a way to map mouse buttons to keyboard keys (like F3 and F4), like I do in Xpmac? (and yes, I am readin

did anyone get XFree86 4.0.1-8 working with PB3400?

2000-12-05 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Thanks, Patrix. -- "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow." -- Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5. "It's the Magic that counts." -- Larry Wall on Perl's apparent ugliness.

Re: Window Maker 0.62.1 + weird colors?

2000-12-02 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 11:11:35PM + or thereabouts, Hadess wrote: > It is fixed in the CVS version. Check it out, it should work (I'm using > it right now). Thanks! Patrix. -- "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow." -- Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5. "It's the

Re: Window Maker 0.62.1 + weird colors?

2000-12-01 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
oops, I think I replied to the person instead of to the list... But I don't think endianness is the problem. My NetWinder (little-endian StrongARM) does this also.. And Alfredo Kojima couldn't explain what was happening. Cheers, Patrix. -- "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom to

Window Maker 0.62.1 + weird colors?

2000-11-30 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Hello, apt-get decided to upgrade my window maker to 0.62.1 today, and now I have really weird colors (I didn't change anything) screenshot at http://www.patrix.org/screens/weird.jpg (easier than to try to explain). Applications seem to get their colors right, it's only wmaker that's weird... (w

Xfree86 4 on pb3400

2000-11-29 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Hello, I am trying to setup XFree86 4 on my PowerBook 3400, using dexter... Now, usually, I wouldn't have trouble setting up X (I've done it many times on my peecees), especially with dexter... save for the fact that I do not know what refresh rates to put. Is there any resource out there with r

Re: X and Woody

2000-11-17 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Speaking of X and woody, I unfortunately deleted my older xlibs6g-dev package from Xfree86-3.3.6... where can I find it again? I need to compile X apps, but I can't because the X 4.0.1 packages are still broken (no, this isn't a whine against broken X 4, just that I can't find X 3.3.6 anymore in wo

Re: Broken Potato Packages??? Build Daemon?

2000-11-11 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:35:33PM -0800 or thereabouts, Taro Fukunaga wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > I compiled mozilla 18 out of M18 tarballs from mozilla.org and am using > it on potato. Also some time back someone said he has a website where > you can download his build. Use M18, it's pre

Re: KDE2 mysterious crashes...

2000-11-10 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Well, I'm not 100% sure, but I think the crashes are gone... Maybe it was just a matter of needing a few newer libs or something? Cheers, Patrix. -- "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow." -- Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5. "It's the Magic that counts." -- Larry Wal

Re: KDE2 mysterious crashes...

2000-11-06 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 09:42:28AM +0100 or thereabouts, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > > > But that still wouldn't excuse the existence of the problem... and it still > > happens even if I launch from the command line. > > That's to be expe

Re: KDE2 mysterious crashes...

2000-11-05 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 12:08:03AM + or thereabouts, Hadess wrote: > Well then just launch the app from the command-line and check if the pb > is the same ! Thanks for making me feel dumb (hm, studying for those exams must have made my mind go away...) ;) But that still wouldn't excuse the e

KDE2 mysterious crashes...

2000-11-05 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Hello, I would just like to know if my case is an isolated one... On my Powerbook 3400, when I run KDE2, many of the kde apps crash when I quit them. ie, I run the control center, change stuff, and close the app (either by the X button, or the file->quit), and the hard drives whirs a bit, and the

missing rman and libwraster in potato?

2000-10-21 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
hello, Just installed debian on a beige G3. it seems that rman and libwraster (and probably others) are missing, so I can't install stuff like kde or window maker... Patrix. -- I do not `work`. I have people that pay me to do my hobbies in a timely manner. -- krissy, an ancient #freeciv bot "

Re: Woody binutils safe yet?

2000-10-13 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Hello, I just did an upgrade a few minutes ago, and they seem to be safe. I was able to run Netscape and try out Opera, and both worked. Patrix. On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:32:14PM -0700 or thereabouts, C.M. Connelly wrote: > > Dan, > > Are the binutils (and libc6 and gcc) packages in woody sa

Re: netscape 4.72-29

2000-10-12 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:38:50PM -0400 or thereabouts, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > More particularly, it's the fault of binutils. It will be fixed when > we have done the appropriate sequence of recompiles... And (since I'm not very familiar with the Debian development process) might I inquire

Re: netscape 4.72-29

2000-10-12 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:21:47PM -0400 or thereabouts, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 10:44:05AM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > > > Package: netscape > > Version: 4.72-29 (powerpc) > > > > Description of bug: > > > > -> netscape > > /usr/lib/netscape/47/communicator//co

Re: Please test: pmud 0.7-2 in unstable (was: Re: pmud 0.7-1)

2000-10-12 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:11:18PM +0200 or thereabouts, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Could all of you who experienced funny trackpad behavior please test the > new -2 package from unstable? (I've not bumped the version to -3 because > the installer hadn't run yet, I just overwrote the files in incomin

Re: Please test: pmud 0.7-2 in unstable (was: Re: pmud 0.7-1)

2000-10-12 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:24:17PM -0700 or thereabouts, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Does MacOS X not run on the 3400 then? > > No G3, no luck ;) yeah, unfortunately :((( > BTW, as a 3400 and pmud user, I can report that I had to comment out the > the hdparm lines from pwrctl to get reliabl

Re: pmud 0.7-1

2000-10-12 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Hello, On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 10:48:39AM +0200 or thereabouts, Claus wrote: > Hi Patrice! > > >: which reminds me... I don't know if this happens to other people, but in > the > >: default pwrctl file, it says to "ifconfig eth0 up" on wakeup or when AC > power is > >: restored. This does no

Re: pmud 0.7-1

2000-10-11 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 08:32:05PM -0400 or thereabouts, Chad Miller wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 05:02:23PM -0700, Sam Powers wrote: > See the /etc/power/ directory (IIRC). /etc/power/pwrctl to be more specific. There are functions for a few types of machines, and then there is a case stateme

Re: PowerBook 3400, X...

2000-10-11 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 09:18:13PM +0200 or thereabouts, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Welcome to the wonderful world of woody. BTW, for /dev/adbmouse you need the Thank you, I feel right at home in this world! ;) > bm protocol. Just in case. yes, I tried the busmouse protocol, but still it segfaulted.

Re: PowerBook 3400, X...

2000-10-11 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
A kernel recompile fixed most of these problems... gpm still seems to segfault though. Patrix. On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:19:46AM -0400 or thereabouts, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > Hello, > > After having suffered some ext2fs corruption (probably too much playing > around with >

Re: pmud 0.7-1

2000-10-11 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
The same thing happens with pmud 0.7-1 on my PowerBook 3400. Patrix. On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 02:19:37PM +0100 or thereabouts, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > Package: pmud > Version: 0.7-1 (powerpc) > > Description of bug: > > After wake-up on PowerBook G3 1999 (Lombard), the trackpad > had the

PowerBook 3400, X...

2000-10-11 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Hello, After having suffered some ext2fs corruption (probably too much playing around with MOL), I decided to install everything from scratch. Debian installation went mostly well, and now I'm attempting to configure X. In my previous installation, I ran Xpmac because it was the easiest to setu

Re: KDE 1.1.2 ?

2000-09-15 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Yes, like all panels :) > ^^ > D'oh, I meant applets of course :-/ One of those days... well, that's not an option for me then... anyways, I've got kikbd now, and all is well :) (and I haven't taken the time to go looking around f

Re: KDE 1.1.2 ?

2000-09-15 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Unless there are other alternatives? (no, xmodmap or xkeycaps never worked > > to my satisfaction... it's too hard to switch between US and CF for > > example...) > > What about GNOME's GKB International Keyboard applet? I never saw it. And besides, G

KDE 1.1.2 ?

2000-09-14 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
I was wondering if there were kde 1.1.2 packages for deb-ppc? I know there are KDE2 beta packages, but I need just a few apps (well, kikbd mainly) that are not in kde2 yet... Unless there are other alternatives? (no, xmodmap or xkeycaps never worked to my satisfaction... it's too hard to switch b

Re: Dependencies - asclock/gnome-panel*

2000-09-11 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, C.M. Connelly wrote: > There's a conflict because both gnome-panel-data and asclock use > some of the data files. See bug number #67244. ok > The GNOME stuff in woody is a nightmare. I spent a whole day > (literally) getting it to compile (and I'm still probably missing >

Dependencies - asclock/gnome-panel*

2000-09-10 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Hello all, I finally installed Debian on my PowerPC! And I upgraded to woody (since potato has some old packages... and I can't help but live on the bleeding edge sometimes ;) ), and I have a few problems: asclock conflicts with gnome-panel-data why? ok, there is an asclock with gnome-panel, b

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

2000-09-08 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Claus wrote: > in that situation it's: > boot ata0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:5/boot/vmlinux root=/dev/hda5 > > you could set it for the future by > setenv boot-file /boot/vmlinux root=/dev/hda5 > 0 > boot ata0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:5/boot/vmlinux-2.2.17 root=/dev/hda5 can't OPEN: ata0/

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

2000-09-08 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > I gather the default LinuxPPC kernel has CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT=y ? (at least, > > my .config had it, generated by make pmac-config and make > > menuconfig)... Is it absolutely mandatory to remove this option? > > So what exactly do we lose by turning th

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

2000-09-08 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Hello, On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Claus wrote: > see my attached quik.conf (working on a 3400) init-code="dev /bandit/ohare/via-pmu backlight-on/" what does this mean exactly? The rest seems pretty self-explanatory... I'm compiling 2.2.17 right now. > compile your kernel >= 2.2.15pre14 with > # CONFI

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

2000-09-08 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > because there are not 6 ugly Apple_Driver type partitions littering > your partition table ;-) ah ok... well, I knew for a fact that the drivers weren't there: the hard disk came from a NetWinder, and was never touched by MacOS... :) > which source tarba

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

2000-09-08 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Could you give me the output of starting pdisk as 'pdisk -d /dev/hda' > and then typing 'xP' ? > > I bet this only works on IDE machines... > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# pdisk -d /dev/hda Edit /dev/hda - Command (? for help): xP Header: map 6 blocks out

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

2000-09-08 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > i remember years back when apple introduced the first IDE powermacs, > the 5400 (iirc) came with a really bizarre hard disk setup: it had no > partition table. yes thats right no partition table at all. just one > big ol HFS filesystem stuck on the raw d

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

2000-09-07 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:29:42PM -0400, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > > > > I hope the output of pdisk -l /dev/hda is sufficient? :) > > yes this exactly what i wanted (mac-fdisk is pdisk, but with less > bugs) heh. that's what I thought :) and more features ;)

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

2000-09-07 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > could you send me output of mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda (or whatever disk it > is) i am curious if you some how had a driver partition. if they are > really not needed that would be interesting and useful. I hope the output of pdisk -l /dev/hda is sufficient?

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

2000-09-07 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > i figured as much, everything in linuxppc 2000 is very broken. i have > an account on a linuxppc2000 box and in about 15 minutes i found the Mine doesn't seem that bad.. screen works, I can type ` ... the only thing I can't do so far is compile a kernel.

Installation SUCCEDED on PowerBook 3400

2000-09-06 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
YES YES YES YES! My memory seems to be getting worse and worse with each passing day ;) But I had a disk image of my other hard drive with MacOS and BootX 1.2.2... and so I had miboot. I dd'd my partition with this miboot, and, lo and behold, everything worked, and now I have a much more normal 11

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

2000-09-06 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
A little update.. I found a miboot.img dating from BootX 1.2, and now I can boot! Only problem is, my 180MHz 603 chip shows only 11.39 BogoMIPS :( I know this is related to a bug that was fixed in BootX 1.2. ... ok, but I can't seem to unsit BootX 1.2.2 from Linux (the only unsit util I found was

Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

2000-09-06 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
her way of booting my powerbook other than with the LinuxPPC installation CD. I know I have to create a /boot or /miBoot hfs partition for miBoot and install a kernel there. Ok, that's done. what now? Thanks, Patrix. On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:51:4

Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

2000-09-05 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Hello *, I want to install debian (or any PPC Linux for that matter, I am becoming very desperate) on my PowerBook 3400. LinuxPPC can't install because I can't partition my hard drive. Debian can't install because (why oh why???) the CD isn't bootable! (at least, the binary-powerpc-1.iso