Offering Powerbook for someone who will use it for this project

2023-05-10 Thread Sam Imberman
ct me off list. Best regards, Sam Imberman

Re: yaboot installation media

2022-03-28 Thread Sam Imberman
werBook6,4". Thanks everyone! Sam On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 3:19 AM Johannes Brakensiek wrote: > Am Sonntag, dem 27.03.2022 um 16:17 -0400 schrieb Jeffrey Walton: > > I don't know about the G4's, but I know about the G5's. You cannot > > boot a G5 from USB. You have to burn a C

Re: yaboot installation media

2022-03-27 Thread Sam Imberman
@1b so I think I did it right. Any ideas that I could try next? Thanks! Sam On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 4:04 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello Ben! > > On 3/25/22 21:48, Ben Westover wrote: > > A thank you goes out to all the pe

Re: Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-20 Thread Sam Imberman
troubleshoot the current snapshot please let me know. Thanks! Sam On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 1:15 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Please use the latest image I created yesterday: > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/

Re: Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-18 Thread Sam Imberman
.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Sam! > > On 10/16/20 6:51 PM, Sam Imberman wrote: > > That doesn't work either: "mounting /dev/sdb1 on /cdrom failed: No such > > device" > > What's the output of: > > > cat /proc/partitions > > ? > > Ad

Re: Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-16 Thread Sam Imberman
That doesn't work either: "mounting /dev/sdb1 on /cdrom failed: No such device" On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 12:45 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Sam! > > On 10/16/20 6:38 PM, Sam Imberman wrote: > > Yes, sorry, I meant to s

Re: Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-16 Thread Sam Imberman
: https://imgur.com/a/6wveWpi On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 4:29 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 10/15/20 9:05 PM, Sam Imberman wrote: > > So actually, it looks like I was using the image you linked to -- it's > the > > exact same size as th

Re: Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-15 Thread Sam Imberman
the old 10.0.0 though? On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 2:43 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Sam! > > On 10/15/20 5:59 PM, Sam Imberman wrote: > > Thanks for your response! > > The image is the one available at: > > > https://c

Re: Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-15 Thread Sam Imberman
art Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 11:59:32AM -0400, Sam Imberman wrote: > > Thanks for your response! > > The image is the one available at: > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/10.0/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-10.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.

Re: Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-15 Thread Sam Imberman
ailed: No such file or directory". I have verified that /cdrom is present and writable, and /dev/sdb1 seems to be the right device. Sam On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:39 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Sam! > > On 10/15/20 4:32 PM, Sam Imber

Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-15 Thread Sam Imberman
/kernel/drivers/firewire/firewire-sbp2.ko -- maybe this isn't relevant though. I'm not sure where to go from here to make debian-installer find the installation media. Can anyone send me in the right direction? Thanks, Sam

Natural medicine for the New Millennium.

2005-06-11 Thread Sam
Once taken its effective for 36 hrs with fewer side effects. http://boqkx.s7dlwta37ks0ebs.dizoicgd.com It is impossible to say just what I mean! Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. Nothing is more useful than silence. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Thunderbird 1.0

2005-01-11 Thread Sam Halliday
, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Thunderbird 1.0

2005-01-11 Thread Sam Halliday
? cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: refresh rates of iBook G4 12?

2005-01-06 Thread Sam Halliday
Choy Kho Yee wrote: 2) I would like to get it to display at a higher screen resolution, like 1280x960. Is that possible? what makes you think you can get more than 1024x768?? there are only 1024x768 *physical* pixels on your screen!! cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http

Re: Java missing again?

2004-12-07 Thread Sam Halliday
ibm's jdk 1.4.2 working here on an ibook G4. to make it work, besides the usual setup, i had to set the env variable JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE=6. is there a HOWTO about setting that up? does the mozilla plugin work? cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's

MOL Login

2004-12-07 Thread Sam Halliday
hi there, this happens every time i start up OS X in MOL and enter my username/pass... a window pops up to say unable to log you in at this time, and then it logs me in! is there a way to stop the pop up window as it is clearly in error... cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http

Kernel Patch for kswapd bug in 2.6.9

2004-11-06 Thread Sam Halliday
to add this to their list of kernel patches? cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/ pgpKig7901mb2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Software Suspend on iBook G4

2004-11-02 Thread Sam Halliday
to fix it? its quite annoying cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/ pgpwcRUpwJQQQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

pmdisk-2.6.9

2004-10-28 Thread Sam Halliday
can't find any docs on how to set it up for an iBook G4... does anyone have a good resource? i am using pbbuttons for all that kind of thing with laptop-mode, apmd, powernowd and hddtemp. is that setup compatible with hibernate? cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org

Re: True state of support for 12 iBook G4

2004-10-28 Thread Sam Halliday
solid info on any of these projects. Is there really any hope here, or should I just buy a USB device and be done with it? If I get a USB device, what do you recommend? i can't see this card ever being supported... get a USB one. i'd also be keen to hear recommendations. cheers, Sam

XMMS, ALSA on a G4 iBook

2004-10-24 Thread Sam Halliday
off. does anyone else experience the same? this doesn't happen on my x86 machine and it is incredibly annoying, as i will have to manually restart a playlist. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http

Re: MOL scroll and home dir

2004-10-22 Thread Sam Halliday
tried to set up ssh between the 2 OS... but neither can see each other. for example, debian is on IP 192.168.41.1 and MOL on 192.168.41.2, but no ports can be reached from/to either. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http

iBook G4 suspend

2004-10-21 Thread Sam Halliday
hi there, could somebody please tell me if suspend is working for the iBook G4 yet? last time i checked the radeon internals were stopping it from all working. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel

MOL scroll and home dir

2004-10-21 Thread Sam Halliday
? at the moment, i can see no way to transfer files between debian and MOL. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/ pgpeUKTy2ilkV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Powerbook G4 1.33 GHz CPU temperature

2004-09-06 Thread Sam Zoghaib
is around 68-70°C. I am using the 49 degree hysterese at my 1GIG AlBook ;-) And search for the tread therm_adt746x in this mailing list. Maybe there some hints available ;-) Thanks. Sam -- Well, it's assembly language, you know. You don't want to have too much taste... - Dave Moon

[SOLVED] Re: problems with kernel-source-2.6.8-5 on powerbook 15 1.33GHz

2004-09-05 Thread Sam Zoghaib
Problem solved. You have to set CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION=y. I was quite stupid not to notice this wasn't set. Especially since it says to use this if your hard drive was partitionned by a Macintosh. Hope this will give a definitive answer to that problem. Sam -- Alcohol: The cause of, and solution

Powerbook G4 1.33 GHz CPU temperature

2004-09-05 Thread Sam Zoghaib
, or is there a better setting ? Thanks, Sam -- All ITS machines now have hardware for a new machine instruction -- DWIMDo What I Mean. Please update your programs. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: problems with kernel-source-2.6.8-5 on powerbook 15 1.33GHz

2004-09-03 Thread Sam Zoghaib
Ok, I have tried to build a new kernel that uses initrd (but keeping ide support built-in). The kernel boots, goes up to USB detection, and then freezes instead of panicking as it did without initrd. Any idea ? Sam -- All ITS machines now have hardware for a new machine instruction -- BFM

Re: problems with kernel-source-2.6.8-5 on powerbook 15 1.33GHz

2004-09-03 Thread Sam Zoghaib
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:41:28AM +0200, Sam Zoghaib wrote: I have just bought a Powerbook 15 1.33GHz. I installed Sarge on it, then upgraded to Sid. The kernel installed by the installer is 2.6.7. However, I have not been able to run a 2.6.8 kernel. I have also tried kernel-source-2.4.27

Re: problems with kernel-source-2.6.8-5 on powerbook 15 1.33GHz

2004-09-02 Thread Sam Zoghaib
the problem was in the translation from /dev/hda3 to (3,3) but that didn't help. Sam -- I bet the human brain is a kluge. - Marvin Minsky signature.asc Description: Digital signature

problems with kernel-source-2.6.8-5 on powerbook 15 1.33GHz

2004-09-01 Thread Sam Zoghaib
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PMAC_AUTO=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y Note that this running kernel uses initrd. I don't want to use it for my own kernel, so of course ide support was built-in. Would you have any idea ? Thanks, Sam -- Never try to explain computers to a layman. It's easier to explain

Re: iBookG4 pseudo-sleep / 2.6.3 problems

2004-07-13 Thread Sam George
and wouldn't drain the battery. I was wrong. Sam George -- .''`. /\/'`\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :.::/:... irc://fslc.usu.edu/#cira `. `') .//::(:###( )::.._/^ gps:41°45'N 111°49'W `- ..:@:// ,|) _/.gpg:1024D/A7AAF777

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-03 Thread Sam Halliday
Paul William wrote: Good to see I am not the *only* one with these problems :) Did you apply both those kernel patches, as they are for 2.6.6? I am busy compiling 2.6.7 now but will apply those patches if needed. did you also remember to set the kernel option video=radeonfb instead of

Re: ibook sleep and eject

2004-07-03 Thread Sam Halliday
Cedric Pradalier wrote: According to Paul William, on Sat, 03 Jul 2004 23:04:04 +1200, Hi all, Is it possible to sleep an ibook (1ghz G4, bought new a few weeks ago)? I am running testing and a 2.6.7 kernel as well as pbuttonsd. I also cannot eject cds. I get this error when I press the

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-02 Thread Sam Halliday
Paul William wrote: Which Post? I can't seem to find it at http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/06/threads.html#00026 there is a 2nd page there... http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/06/msg00649.html

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-01 Thread Sam Halliday
Paul William wrote: Mine is also 0:16:0 :( is your iBook relatively new? does lspci reveal a Radeon Mobility 9200 M9+ if so... check out the posts i made last week as i encountered and fixed this... turns out you need the use the radeonfb (not the OS one) on bootup, and that requires the

Re: Kernel 2.6.7 oops when suspending iBook 2.2

2004-06-29 Thread Sam Halliday
Jaume Sabater wrote: Warren A. Layton wrote: Do you have CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG=y/m ? That's what caused my iBook to oops on suspend with 2.6.7-rc2. I'm not sure if it has been fixed in 2.6.7 (final). I just did a quick diff between the pmac_zilog.{c,h} files in 2.6.7-rc2 and 2.6.7

Re: ibook 900 startx failure

2004-06-28 Thread Sam Halliday
Adrian Lester wrote: lspci gives: 00:10:0 VGA Compatible Controller: ATI Technologies So in the XF86Config-4 file I set PCI to 00:10:0 lspci gives HEX output... 0x10 is actually decimal 16, so try 00:16:0 :-)

Re: ibook 900 startx failure

2004-06-28 Thread Sam Halliday
Adrian Lester wrote: Where the heck's 0:16:0 coming from? Well, it occurred to me that it might just be the other output so I changed XF86Config-4 accordingly and this time got no errors in the log files but, after a quick flick of the display and a gurgle from the HDD, a blank black screen

Re: sdl

2004-06-28 Thread Sam Halliday
david howe wrote: What steps do I need to take to get the sdl implementation (pismo - using testing with a 2.6.5 kernel) working? alternetively has anyone got decent 3d acceleration happening? whats your hardware? XFree86 acceleration is architecture independent, and only depends on your

Re: iBook G4 install turning into a nightmare

2004-06-27 Thread Sam Halliday
Rob Weir wrote: Sam Halliday said Rob Weir wrote: Sam Halliday said 1 - powernowd does not work! with cpu frequency stuff all built into the 2.6.7 kernel, the modules loaded for 2.6.6 and sysfs mounted correctly... the folder /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0

iBook G4 British Keyboard

2004-06-27 Thread Sam Halliday
marked on the keyboard, plus ¢ and #. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/ pgpeQwBByazCD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: iBook G4 British Keyboard

2004-06-27 Thread Sam Halliday
i have attached no... no i hadn't. now attached. ibookg4-british.kmap.gz Description: Binary data gb_new Description: Binary data pgpwd1nXVvgFl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: respawning too fast...

2004-06-27 Thread Sam Halliday
suspect to be messed up. have you got /dev/pts support (in pseudo filesystems)? if you disabled devfs, it is a common mistake to forget to select pts again (as devfs includes it) cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http

get rid of vmlinux.coff-2.6.7

2004-06-27 Thread Sam Halliday
this file? cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/ pgpLpu7nrLtce.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: preliminary 2.6.7 kernel-image packages available

2004-06-27 Thread Sam Halliday
them out and provide feedback. do these patches have the cpufreq (for 7447A cpu) and pmdisk fixes? http://www.toojays.net/~toojays/misc/7447a_cpufreq_20040605.patch http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdevm=108782322527299w=2 cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http

MACHTYPE

2004-06-27 Thread Sam Halliday
it. they must get the string from some system call. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/ pgpoRkhrWhGEP.pgp Description: PGP signature

BootSplash

2004-06-26 Thread Sam Halliday
is against 2.6.3, and i need 2.6.7 for the framebuffer to work correctly. this would be a very cool thing to have during bootup on a laptop. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk

Re: BootSplash

2004-06-26 Thread Sam Halliday
Sam Halliday wrote: hi there, i was wondering if anyone has had any joy getting this to work on PPC http://www.bootsplash.org everything on the page seems to suggest that it is i386 only (mentioning lilo)... but the files which are patched in the kernel look fairly arch independent

keymaps and console font

2004-06-26 Thread Sam Halliday
font does everybody else use? which one is the most standards compliant in terms of sticking to the extended ASCII sequence. this is all very confusing. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http

Re: movieplayer

2004-06-26 Thread Sam Halliday
to understand. as does the dvdcss stuff... i thought it was only illegal in the US. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/ pgpyg2LwkzHlF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FAQ?

2004-06-26 Thread Sam Halliday
and that the Apple key sends Alt (or meta) if everyone who has this new British keyboard agrees with this mapping, then perhaps i will send it to the console-common maintainers. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel

Re: iBook G4 install turning into a nightmare

2004-06-26 Thread Sam Halliday
Sébastien FRANÇOIS wrote: Sam Halliday writes: i'm pretty lucky then that FB support for my graphics card was just added to 2.6.7 then!! I've probably missed something but I still use my ibook G4 with a 2.6.3 kernel, using a FB for the ati radeon mobility 9200 M9+. how long have you

Re: XF86Config for a 14 iBook G4

2004-06-25 Thread Sam Halliday
Esteban Martinez wrote: I don't know much about this, but I have seen your config files and I think you can try with the radeon driver in the XF86Config-4 file instead of ati driver. it doesn't work either way... and i thought radeon was just a stub for ati anyway. cheers, Sam -- Free High

Re: XF86Config for a 14 iBook G4

2004-06-25 Thread Sam Halliday
Rob Weir wrote: Sam Halliday wrote: i have been battling all night to try and get XFree86 set up on my iBook snip i have placed all relevant files on my FTP Server here: ftp://fommil.homeunix.org/sam/xprobs/ (X config, X log, uname+lspci and yaboot kernel parameters) a day

Re: FAQ?

2004-06-25 Thread Sam George
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:35:03 +0100 Sam Halliday [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi there, i was wondering if there was maybe an FAQ for new installs of debian GNU/Linux on powerpc... in particular for an iBook. This isn't exactly what you asked for, but it's related and you may find it quite

Re: Which hard drive?

2004-06-25 Thread Sam George
SATA stuff, but those are generally firmware/controller/protocol disagreements between the SATA controller and the disk electronics -- not something that is going to be an issue here from the sound of it. And perhaps MFM RLL stuff long ago... /off topic Sam

Re: iBook G4 install turning into a nightmare

2004-06-25 Thread Sam Halliday
Rob Weir wrote: Sam Halliday said http://lists.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-dev/200406/msg00024.html. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdevm=108782322527299w=2 My kernel .config is attaced to give you a head start. rob... you are THE MAN! i'll try this all within the hour and get back

Re: FAQ?

2004-06-25 Thread Sam Halliday
Sam George wrote: Sam Halliday wrote: i was wondering if there was maybe an FAQ for new installs of debian GNU/Linux on powerpc... in particular for an iBook. This isn't exactly what you asked for, but it's related and you may find it quite useful. Install the debian-reference package

Re: iBook G4 install turning into a nightmare

2004-06-25 Thread Sam Halliday
Rob Weir wrote: Sam Halliday said 1 - powernowd does not work! with cpu frequency stuff all built into the 2.6.7 kernel, the modules loaded for 2.6.6 and sysfs mounted correctly... the folder /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0 is completely empty! no sub folders

Re: iBook G4 install turning into a nightmare

2004-06-25 Thread Sam Halliday
now have an X server! thank you to everybody who helped me with this... i will now try and sort out all the other problems and mayeb write up how i installed everything. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org

Re: iBook G4 install turning into a nightmare

2004-06-25 Thread Sam Halliday
Colin Watson wrote: Sam Halliday wrote: the debian default of video=ofonly is what is breakign things! I couldn't quite tell which installer you were using, but if you're using the new debian-installer then video=ofonly is only the default post-first-reboot if you booted the installer

Re: XF86Config for a 14 iBook G4

2004-06-24 Thread Sam Halliday
Sam Halliday wrote: i have been battling all night to try and get XFree86 set up on my iBook snip i have placed all relevant files on my FTP Server here: ftp://fommil.homeunix.org/sam/xprobs/ (X config, X log, uname+lspci and yaboot kernel parameters) a day later... several more XFree86

iBook G4 install turning into a nightmare

2004-06-24 Thread Sam Halliday
hi there, well, besides the lack of an Xserver yet, i am setting up my system according to: http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto.html http://www.twolife.org/debian/ibook.php but i am getting nowhere fast. i have installed the latest kernel image from here

FAQ?

2004-06-23 Thread Sam Halliday
hi there, i was wondering if there was maybe an FAQ for new installs of debian GNU/Linux on powerpc... in particular for an iBook. i just installed debian testing on my 1GHz G4 14 iBook and i have a few, what seem like standard, questions to ask. i will ask them here, but if my questions are

Re: FAQ?

2004-06-23 Thread Sam Halliday
at the screen opening video device... or whatever it says. i neevr see the kernel boot up normally. unfortunately if i add the initrd line... it doesn't change a thing. is anyoen successfully using a debian linux-2.6 image on a G4 iBook? cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http

Re: FAQ?

2004-06-23 Thread Sam Halliday
Sven Luther wrote: Sam Halliday wrote: 1 - i have a british keyboard (even though apple's is not even close to a british pc keyboard) and i would like to be able to have this mapped correctly. at the moment a lot of the non-character (such as tilde) keys are not mapped correctly. i

Re: FAQ?

2004-06-23 Thread Sam Halliday
fine, as emacs can use alt as the meta key anyway. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/ pgpfWVJH80cMW.pgp Description: PGP signature

XF86Config for a 14 iBook G4

2004-06-23 Thread Sam Halliday
and blue. i have to do a forced restart to get back onto a terminal again! i have placed all relevant files on my FTP Server here: ftp://fommil.homeunix.org/sam/xprobs/ (X config, X log, uname+lspci and yaboot kernel parameters), but the log shows no error at all. as far as its concerned

Re: Xeasyconf?

2004-04-29 Thread Sam George
On 2004 Apr 28 , at 09:24, Ed Sutherland wrote: I've been trying the dpkg way (xeasyconf fails with many unresolved errors) to configure xfree. The system blanks the screen and comes back with the dreaded no screen found error. I need a working XF86Config-4 file for an iMac. Here are my

Re: Airport on Debian

2004-04-16 Thread Sam George
Sorry for the slow response, I went off line for a few days. udev/plug-n-pray broken in unstable and it took me down. Quentin Decavel wrote: Le 13 avr. 04, à 23:31, Sam George a écrit : qdecavel wrote: Thanks for your answer, but what if iwconfig tells me that there is no wireless

Re: Low battery - power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-04-13 Thread Sam George
On 2004 Apr 13 , at 03:36, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2004-04-13 13:31:23 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Or maybe you just wasn't fast enough flipping the battery... This took just a few seconds. I had prepared the second battery to do the change as fast as possible. I did the same with

Re: Low battery - power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-04-13 Thread Sam George
On 2004 Apr 13 , at 09:32, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2004-04-13 08:37:51 -0600, Sam George wrote: Another possibility you perchance did not consider is that your bridge battery may be dead. The bridge battery sustains main memory while you switch out the main battery. Unlikely, as it did

Re: Airport on Debian

2004-04-13 Thread Sam George
qdecavel wrote: Thanks for your answer, but what if iwconfig tells me that there is no wireless extension ? Let me see... are the modules loaded? My Pismo uses `airport`, `orinoco`, and `hermes`. If I don't have the modules loaded I get the same error. Do you know about the modutils

Re: Airport on Debian

2004-04-12 Thread Sam George
On 2004 Apr 12 , at 16:38, qdecavel wrote: Hi, I have read on several sites that it is possible to run Airport on Debian. Since I'm a complete beginner, I would like to know if somebody has already managed to do it, and if so, could he explain quite precisely how he did it ?

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2004-01-28 Thread sam
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PAM-env unable to open config file: Permission denied

2003-07-19 Thread Sam
Does anyone know what this could be about? sshd[883]: syslogin_perform_logout: logout() returned an error PAM-env[908]: Unable to open config file: Permission denied Please CC replies to me as I am no longer on this list (too much interesting traffic to distract me ;)

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2003-07-05 Thread Sam
In my experience (read: on my Mac), when I switch to a 2.4 kernel, I also have to select video=ofonly (I think that is the no video driver checkbox). On my Power Mac 6500/225 I need to do the opposite, setting the no video driver box for the 2.2.20 install image, but not for the 2.4.18 woody

kernel messages about cuda

2003-07-05 Thread Sam
This showed up in my logcheck email recently, what does it mean? Jul 2 23:47:55 Wakko kernel: cuda: state=idle, status=28 Jul 2 23:47:55 Wakko kernel: data from cuda (1 bytes): ff

Re: Installed for the first time, strange problems

2003-06-29 Thread Sam
[T]oday I got some Oops messages running BitchX (which of course had been working before, and worked again after I restarted). So I ran ksymoops on the kernel log in /var/log (I can't remember what it is called, /var/kern.log I think). This showed that I actually got an Oops yesterday that I

Re: Installed for the first time, strange problems

2003-06-26 Thread Sam
I wrote: Have we gotten to the point where I should copy all the Oops messages from the logs and paste them into an email? The helpful Michel Dänzer (Where are you from Michel? How do I pronounce your name?) replied: That might be interesting, but only after piping them through ksymoops.

Re: powerbook 17 install

2003-06-22 Thread Sam
For some reason I can't nfs mount an intel box to copy my backup fs to my new partitions. wget fails too. I think this is because the .tgz file is 3.1GB and the busybox version of wget is not so capable. I have a macosx partition so I should be able to copy the file to it and hopefully

Re: SysRq Keys on iBook2

2003-06-20 Thread Sam
Kristian Peters (Unusual spelling) wrote: Warren A. Layton [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Out of curiosity, which keys correspond to the kernel's magic SysRq keys on an iBook2? In the kernel source docs (Documentation/sysrq.txt), it states that on PowerPC the SysRq commands can be accessed by

Re: Installed for the first time, strange problems

2003-06-20 Thread Sam
I just installed Debian for the first time on my Power Mac 6500. I put on a few packages, including the 2.4.28-powerpc woody kernel image. But now the strangest things are happening. Sometimes when I am in enlightenment it will just freeze up. Moving the mouse and pressing keys does

Re: Installed for the first time, strange problems

2003-06-16 Thread Sam
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:20, Sam wrote: [as I said, I have 96MB of memory, and it just happens to be a 64MB module and a 32MB module, ...] So can you try running with one module at a time and see if the problems persist? That seems like a good idea. I don't really have

Re: Installed for the first time, strange problems

2003-06-15 Thread Sam
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 05:50, Sam wrote: I just installed Debian for the first time on my Power Mac 6500. I put on a few packages, including the 2.4.28-powerpc woody kernel image. But now the strangest things are happening. Sometimes when I am in enlightenment it will just freeze up. Moving

Installed for the first time, strange problems

2003-06-13 Thread Sam
I just installed Debian for the first time on my Power Mac 6500. I put on a few packages, including the 2.4.28-powerpc woody kernel image. But now the strangest things are happening. Sometimes when I am in enlightenment it will just freeze up. Moving the mouse and pressing keys does nothing.

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-06 Thread Sam Powers
On Tuesday 06 March 2001 05:33, Mike Fedyk wrote: Hi, I am not on the debian-user list, so please cc me as well as the list... I have been using netscape mail for several years on winblows, and have over 50 folders and even more filters. I have been getting about 10,000 messages a month,

Re: BootX and the Stuffit Fiasco.

2001-02-27 Thread Sam Powers
in self-extracting binhex format up. If you have a MacOS partition laying around with a browser, try this link and see if your browser decodes the binhex on the fly.. you should end up with a self extracting archive with the bootx app and sources.. http://www.rm-r.net/~sam/BootX_1.2.2.sea.hqx

Re: BootX and the Stuffit Fiasco.

2001-02-23 Thread Sam Powers
On Thursday 22 February 2001 10:28, Advertising wrote: I believe the Stuffit self-expanding archive format works across the majority of the MacOS spectrum. (much wider that DebianPPC) Is there a reason not to use that file format for the Debian PowerMac install items? Yes, the reason is that

Re: BootX and the Stuffit Fiasco.

2001-02-23 Thread Sam Powers
On Thursday 22 February 2001 06:40, Ethan Benson wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 07:08:00PM -0600, Jonathan Wight wrote: On 02/22/2001 17:49, Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:28:04PM -0500, Advertising wrote: all the problems you describe are the fault of

Re: ITP: Double Choco Latte (dcl).

2001-02-16 Thread Sam Powers
On Thursday 15 February 2001 11:33, Ola Lundqvist wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 05:36:30PM -0800, Sam Powers wrote: On Thursday 15 February 2001 02:08, Ola Lundqvist wrote: Hi I intend to package (tomorrow :) this package found at dcl.sourceforge.org It is a web based project

oops (was Re: ITP: Double Choco Latte (dcl).)

2001-02-16 Thread Sam Powers
oops, sorry, i sent that to the wrong place.. i need more caffeine ;)

Re: XF4 on Wallstret PBG3

2001-01-19 Thread Sam Powers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 January 2001 05:44, Ethan Benson wrote: easiest way to tell is: cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ^pmac-generation | awk '{print $3}' Yep, OldWorld. Sure wish I knew about that when I was trying to beat yaboot into it. -BEGIN PGP

Re: XF4 on Wallstret PBG3

2001-01-19 Thread Sam Powers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 January 2001 07:28, Michael Schmitz wrote: 00:11.0 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT Pro (rev dc) Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-

Re: XF4 on Wallstret PBG3

2001-01-18 Thread Sam Powers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 January 2001 12:25, you wrote: I've been trying to make XFree4 work on my Powerbook G3. It has ATI Mach64 video, and crashes when I start XFree86, and it keeps me in Xpmac all the Please post the output of lspci -vv here. Are

XF4 on Wallstret PBG3

2001-01-17 Thread Sam Powers
? is the source available anywhere? This came from mklinux, so apple must have authored parts of it? Thanks Sam -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjpmLSMACgkQfHpI7Pnqk4V03ACdEdCF4Br+kOiY4v0emjIjYIId EHkAnioxuR4Q

Re: installation troubles

2000-10-30 Thread Sam Powers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 October 2000 8:09, lorenzo de vito wrote: While installing Suse, LinuxPPC2000 or Debian I've always the same error returned after the 15% of installation, there is a problem with RPM, ...RPM have returned an error with 256..., I've a

Re: Disabling Trackpad.

2000-10-17 Thread Sam Powers
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:02:33 -0700 Mike Palczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You either need to recompile your kernel and disable adb mouse support Or, if you just feel like modifying the trackpad to be a little less annoying, compile the attached program../* trackpad.c * * Tool for setting

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