Re: missing images at ebay

2007-09-08 Thread brian
--- Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:33:07PM -0700, brian a > �crit : > > > > also, is anyone running the current ibm java ? I > > downloaded it but have not installed it. > > Hi, > > the title of your email l

missing images at ebay

2007-08-30 Thread brian
c. it appears to be an "windows alternative" which is not me at all. I would rather stick with Debian IF the peace between intel and alternatives can be maintained. otherwise, Lubuntu is an option (I just made up tha

Re: Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3?

2007-07-25 Thread brian
about half so i need to either finish my debian updgrade or get more RAM. well good luck, brian --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have installed Debian Woody on my powerfull > PowerBook G3 266 Mhz (the black model without USB > ports, I think its called WallStreet) I was doing a > d

Re: [hardware-donations] PowerPC G3 systems

2007-06-03 Thread brian
ffin PnP is one). is fast enough the 233-300 mhz for web browsing no problems there. i use a 250g3 laptop every day. yesterday i build upstream of embedded common lisp on my g3 for testing/ comparison to debian package (something wrong with my etch version). Brian p.s. it is noted that old world m

Re: no dual-boot after (re)install on ibook G3

2007-05-08 Thread brian
two ways I know to bless macos; I have occassionally had to as maconlinux deblessed. (by the way did you try starting mac os with that ?) you have a macos boot cd, you need that .(even the incomplete 9.2 upgrade cd that came w/ 10.1) boot from that. if in macos 9, look at the system folder on yo

successful upgrade/install of Etch on powerbook3500/G3 (November 1997)

2007-05-06 Thread brian
hi i have finally booted my original powerbookG3 (aka 3400 form factor). use a custom kernel 2.6.18-2 that i actually built last november for 3400. seems the black screen i got trying to boot either sarge or etch stock kernels before was related to ramdisk. no ramdisk used in what i am booting n

Re: PowerBook disk drive

2007-05-02 Thread brian
t. another far out idea is do you have enough RAM ?? because it is also used for caching/buffering besides what the disk has built in. if you are short of ram you will have to be doing much more disk reading (even before you are swapping a lot). But it doesn't sound like that was it for you. B

Re: QUIK READ ERROR ON BLOCK 63747 (KERNAL PANIC NOW!)

2007-04-08 Thread brian
g the old mac os to learn portably perl and lisp, since i boycott totally all intel/ms. and i use macosx.2 jaguar with debian ports (fink) although that was stop for jaguar about 1 year back, a lot of stuff like sarge there works still pretty good. brian ps i think if i did not want to dual boot ma

Re: QUIK READ ERROR ON BLOCK 63747 (KERNAL PANIC NOW!)

2007-04-08 Thread brian
g the old mac os to learn portably perl and lisp, since i boycott totally all intel/ms. and i use macosx.2 jaguar with debian ports (fink) although that was stop for jaguar about 1 year back, a lot of stuff like sarge there works still pretty good. brian ps i think if i did not want to dual boot ma

Re: Keys [was: Success Installing Debian on Power Mac G3 oldworld]

2007-03-06 Thread brian
--- Marko Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Claudux wrote: > > Oups !! > > > > Sorry Brian for the private message ! > > I forward to the list > > > > Message original > > Sujet: Re: Success Installing Debian on Power Mac

Re: Success Installing Debian on Power Mac G3 oldworld.

2007-03-02 Thread brian
UTELY NO > WARRANTY... > and keep on my technical trip in order to get that > machine working > following my needs... good, too many people get something for free and right away take it for granted (even partially) > > Claude > PS : I already run Debian Sarge on a G4 AGP

building perl6 (parrot and pugs) on Debian4.0

2007-02-26 Thread Brian Morris
into a deb package. i wouldn't mind having a binary for my 68k system (it would run in 64mB i think even though it would not build). if anybody will try and/or wants to know dependencies, let me know. brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: performa 6400/200 - installation doesn't recognize cdrom

2007-02-08 Thread brian
> > Hearthstone: > > Dear Brian, > > I am still trying to boot using miboot floppies: > > Dmesg says I have an ATA hd. > I/O error in sector 2, 4, 6, 0, 2, 4, 6 (in that > order). this could mean your disk has a bad format of some sort. do you have any mac

Re: Strange install behaviour

2007-01-31 Thread brian
e your dvd. you probably must still use the cd for stage 2. but if you only do the base install it should be trivial. brian (tortoise) --- Wolfgang Hlawatsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had recently the problem of installing Debian > 3.1r4 with > DVD using an external DVD fir

Re: performa 6400/200 - installation doesn't recognize cdrom

2007-01-31 Thread brian
apter card made by kingston that does 10/100 mbs and is compatible with mac os 8.6-9.2 and debian sarge/etch, but not with macosx. i found on a local swap list. can also find mac compatible e/net cards on ebay, for like $15. but not all cards work, i think. mine uses the tulip driver i

Re:mol with 2.6.18-3 [Was: mol-modules 2.6.16-2]

2007-01-19 Thread brian
apple hardware, my intuition is mol puts non apple ppc first as that could be me someday soon, the only way those can run macos, and this error might not matter to them ... brian > > -- > Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, > CH-4562 Biberist > Email: [E

Re: unable to install Mozilla-vlc plugin

2007-01-19 Thread brian
k. of course you need to compile it and you need build tools for that. but if you really like the latest version that is the way to get it... (they may also have binaries too, but older probably) brian > > Thank you > S

Re: no way to boot from mobile firewire hdd?

2007-01-04 Thread Brian
2g wrote: since my iBookG4's internal hdd got dead bought http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10558

my little porting issue 3400 to 3500 powerbooks...

2006-12-27 Thread brian
--- Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [brian wrote: > > 1) has anyone ran or heard of running debian > > on the *original* g3 powerbook, aka 3500/kanga ? > > (any version, say at least 2.2 kernel/potato or > later) > > The 3400 used to work well. Old

Re: ports, big and small, two questions

2006-12-27 Thread brian
--- Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 12:55:47AM -0800, brian > wrote: > > 2) has anyone work or interest or heard any plans > to > > port to playstation3, or even some cell-ppc of > some > > kind ? > > I have been co

ports, big and small, two questions

2006-12-26 Thread brian
1) has anyone ran or heard of running debian on the *original* g3 powerbook, aka 3500/kanga ? (any version, say at least 2.2 kernel/potato or later) i have been playing with one i can't get it to boot right, and searching googles i have mostly seem dead ends of people with trouble, no real foll

Re: CAn not mount any partition after sid install

2006-12-26 Thread brian
ken the only way to find out for sure is to install testing and upgrade to unstable in smaller chunks: you change source.list and update in aptitude and edit the list in the go menu. - sounds like a pain maybe but as having some problems and caution lately or impatience other times have found myself

Re: X won't start after upgrade

2006-12-19 Thread brian
hi, have you tried video=fbcon ? i tried searching for this machine, on google i did see there was some breakage at 2.6.9, but i did not see a follow up (perhaps i did not search far enough..). i have kernel sources here unpacked and i see that fbcon.c was last modified in sept 06, so there may

Re: Could someone try to reproduce #372070

2006-12-19 Thread brian
it is true that some games do not support laptop versions of graphics cards. the computer is not so smart as to refuse to run if you want to try anyway, this is linux, maybe some would like to hack it, but it is like not as much fun anyway in my

Re: G5 iMac w/firewire likes Etch-Testing Snapshot!

2006-12-14 Thread Brian
Johannes Berg wrote: This is by design, use udev or similar to assign stable device names (eth0 is probably firewire for you so if you rename the firewire device to fw0 like I do you might be fine) Thanks Johannes, I'll look into it. I didn't know about ethernet over firewire. I just took a

Default I/O Scheduler for Etch

2006-12-14 Thread Brian
Can anyone tell me if the default scheduler for Etch (specifically Etch-Testing) is CFQ? I took a look at my /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler file, and it looks like this: noop anticipatory deadline [cfq] Do the brackets around [cfq] indicate that it is the default scheduler? I'm just wondering

G5 iMac w/firewire likes Etch-Testing Snapshot!

2006-12-12 Thread Brian
Just want to say thanks for the PPC port to all the developers and users. I just had a pleasant experience installing the latest daily-snapshot (2.6.18-3) netinstall into my Rev-A G5 iMac. I'm also successfully booting it from a 40gB external firewire ("G-Drive" by G-tech purchased at the App

Pleasant install of Etch-Testing daily-snapshot with firewire

2006-12-11 Thread Brian
I just wanted to say thanks and share my experiences with the latest Etch-Testing snapshot on my Rev-A G5 iMac on an external, bootable, firewire 400 drive. I'm having a good time with it and look forward to more involvement with the Debian community as time goes on. I'm running: Linux debian

Re: GWorkspace doesn't work in Sarge

2006-12-03 Thread brian
--- Yavor Doganov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > brian wrote: > > > > > Please be aware that there have been big/major > developments in > > > GnuStep over the past year. more so in the > underneath layers than > > > in the applications suite.

Re: GWorkspace doesn't work in Sarge

2006-12-01 Thread brian
blems sometimes with > colorspace corruption so your results may differ. > > you may need to search a bit more carefully for all > the gnustep support. check the gnustep web sites for > more help !! > > good luck, > > brian > > p.s. hope i have time to get back

Re: Installing Etch without re-installing Tiger.

2006-11-14 Thread brian
because disk slows down towards the second half. so back it up and restore, have some data/free partitions too. brian > because this roughly means that osX has to be > re-installed, and I have > no time to do this (going in a separate office to > get many boxes and > software key

Re: acroread

2006-11-07 Thread brian
ure of computer. brian > --- J�rg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello C�dric, > > > > C�dric Boutillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > What can you do with acroread that would not > work >

Re: good chipset for wifi ?

2006-11-07 Thread brian
question: does your ibook have slot for original airport card, and if so does it also have the good antenna that is built in to the lid ? although i have a pccard wireless for my powerbook i know it does have both of those (pismo, 2000), if i got airport card i would maybe have better signal/recept

Re: internet from lan

2006-11-01 Thread brian
later upgrade in place. (try that kernel first). brian --- Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By the way, the iso that I used for install was: > > debian-31r3-powerpc-netinst.iso > > thanks for your help, barry > > > > Could you try to use

Re: mount hfs+ partition

2006-10-31 Thread brian
> > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Am 31.10.2006 um 07:54 schrieb brian: > > > > > shame, shame both of you: Read the Fine Manual. > > > > > > hfs plus is mounted via -t ufs, there is no > > >

Re: mount hfs+ partition

2006-10-30 Thread brian
shame, shame both of you: Read the Fine Manual. hfs plus is mounted via -t ufs, there is no such thing as -t hpfsplus ("man mount" for whole story) brian --- Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (30/10/06 09:48), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This is

Re: bug#390432 - still no boot 2.6.18 here

2006-10-24 Thread Brian Morris
On 10/23/06, Simon Vallet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 22:00 -0700, Brian Morris wrote: > > > i would be more willing to try building my own kernel if i knew > > better what i could take out (config=n). my only guess that quik > > wil

Re: bug#390432 - still no boot 2.6.18 here

2006-10-24 Thread Brian Morris
On 10/23/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 03:01 -0700, Brian Morris wrote: > well i tried again, still same result as ever trying > to boot 2.6.18 on my old powerbook. > > synopsis: bootx hangs after first line "welcome to linu

bug#390432 - still no boot 2.6.18 here

2006-10-23 Thread Brian Morris
well i tried again, still same result as ever trying to boot 2.6.18 on my old powerbook. synopsis: bootx hangs after first line "welcome to linux", quik goes all the way to VFS: ... unknown block(0,0) (as if there is no initramfs). no floppy drive, so can't try miboot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: old world nonsense, please rectify

2006-10-23 Thread brian
--- Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sunday 22 October 2006 10:20, Benjamin > Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > What is the exact problem ? I'm pretty sure > I had 2.6.18 booting fine on > > > > > a couple of oldworld boxes here before > relase. (A fix for IDE on some > >

old world nonsense, please rectify

2006-10-21 Thread brian
i was figuring there was something wrong with the 2.6.15 kernel. why it was deleted from the debian archives when some old world power macs still need it, and nobody responding to any of my postings here. but today i find this: http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/dapper/base/linux-image-2.6.15-23-po

Re: Screen blackout-theme Bug

2006-10-21 Thread brian
macosX.4 tiger on it, appears fine). i assume you know how to do upgrade. particularly of just the kernel, X, gnome and support files in order to test ? brian --- John Wyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, my name is John, I am refurbishing a bunch of > old iMacs for a school b

Re: couldn't boot from cdrom

2006-10-18 Thread brian
or tell me to use the power key, but in the latter case i actually do have to use the "three finger salute". probably others have suggestions i am just relaying my experience. brian --- Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > i have an ibook

Re: Compiz + AIGLX on iBook G4

2006-10-14 Thread brian
are there other packages using cairo, (that is display rendering i believe better than apples quartz supposed to be but previously unavailable to me somewhere else, a grayed out option, i can't recall where) also to possibly check if the bugs are in there or in the 3d stuff ??? brian ---

Re: 2.6.18 on sid boots with BootX ?

2006-10-13 Thread brian
i am booting 2.6.18-1 from debian unstable on DT Beige G3 revB (March,'98). i have testing installed for the most part and i have been having some trouble getting Xorg7.0 to go. i was working on it a bit more today, i got a little further. since i want to run etch i don't want to go too far into u

Re: linux-2.6: [powerpc] Please enable the amd74xx driver

2006-10-08 Thread brian
--- Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please enable this ide driver for powerpc. It seems > to be needed. please put back the 2.6.15 kernel package i need to boot my old powerbook which i use everyday for business, that is until a newer kernel has been shown to work.(and include it on the

Fwd: Re: Nubus machines wanted

2006-10-04 Thread brian
looked at a powerbook 1400 with g3 upgrade a few weeks ago, the guy didn't know what it was. let me know if interest, i would run into him again sometime. i live in california but it is small, could ship. brian __ D

Re: Nubus machines wanted

2006-10-04 Thread brian
r get it (links broken or/and servers down, too late). that was like 3 years newer. there may be a 2.2 kernel somewhere that can also be used with this (there was at one time anyway). brian __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the

Re: prematurely deleting kernel packages !?!?!

2006-09-27 Thread brian
--- Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 12:52:25AM -0700, brian > wrote: > > I also have tested the .18 kernel Sven refered me to > without success > (the one with BenHs patch for loading initrd). I got > a mail that the > bug I rep

prematurely deleting kernel packages !?!?!

2006-09-27 Thread brian
ny updates for it, so my choice i suppose if 18 doesn't work is to go back to sarge until i hear that it does. also i wish i had heard someone else here to try the 18 package, there were no reports at all, what is the deal, everybody disappearing just when it is impo

Re: Xorg 7.0.0 failing on powermac G3

2006-09-24 Thread brian
hi, i also have a beige currently running sarge/2.6.8-3/Xfree4.3 -- procrastinating on the upgrade although i have already done on two other ppc/macs (one old w. one new) i have a kne100TX which uses a tulip driver in the beige; also an old powerbook which uses a revised tulip driver de2114x. i he

Re: Firefox (still missing here...)

2006-09-21 Thread brian
--- Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 06:36:00PM +0200, Marko > Kaiser wrote: > > Firefox 1.5.0.6-5 for PowerPC got uploaded > yesterday so it's working again. > well its thursday and here i still cannot download it. today the message changed from 404 to chec

Re: Bug#382129: Is now a good time to revisit installer not booting on OldWorld PowerMac beige G3?

2006-09-19 Thread brian
bose mode it does make some comment about udev, more than update-initramfs does. if anybody could test on some other machine earlier than g3 (heathrow) ?? the pb3400 uses bandit/ohare bridges ... brian --- Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > > >

Re: Is now a good time to revisit kernel booting on OldWorld PowerMac

2006-09-18 Thread brian
--- Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 04:20:32PM -0700, brian > wrote: > > > > > > > > > hi, all > > > > > > i just got a later 2.6.18-rc7 experimental, of > > > september16, from l

Re: Re: problem boot debian on powerbook g3 (pismo/firewire)

2006-09-18 Thread brian
hello, very sorry you are having so much trouble, glad you are persistent, hope i have not made it any worse. here are things i have used in past with my pismo to reset: a) hold down the power key for about 30 seconds until you hear a long beep. b) press and hold the reset button on the back for

Is now a good time to revisit kernel booting on OldWorld PowerMac

2006-09-17 Thread brian
> hi, all > > i just got a later 2.6.18-rc7 experimental, of > september16, from link sven posted earlier last > week: > http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/ > > will try it tonight (unless advised otherwise) > > brian

Re: Bug#382129: Is now a good time to revisit installer not booting on OldWorld PowerMac beige G3?

2006-09-17 Thread brian
--- brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > i tried the sept5th version of 2.6.18-rc6 from > ppckernel with bootx on powerbook3400, it hangs > at the first line, "Welcome to linux ..." > > i tried to pull Sven's link there but that page &g

Re: Firefox

2006-09-16 Thread brian
before to be too much of a memory hog, so i downloaded opera. FYI: they have .deb for ppc sarge and sid. install it w/ dpkg --install opera*.deb is all it takes. seems a bit faster tho a little less stable. brian --- Bin Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/16/06, Børge Hole

Re: problem boot debian on powerbook g3 (pismo/firewire)

2006-09-14 Thread brian
it seems is you have a bad cd, somehow or other. please let us know how it goes. --- brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well, still have you *tested* your cd at all ? > > can you mount cd, from os9 ? (if you put a cd in > does it show up on the mac desktop) > > try

Re: problem boot debian on powerbook g3 (pismo/firewire)

2006-09-12 Thread brian
e. there should be some simple freeware tool somewhere to do it (anything that could write to device), but i used osX. brian --- Florian Znottka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello at all, > > I've got a problem with my powerbook firewire / > pismo. I've bought a > p

Re: kernel-image-2.6.16-2 on oldworld (success with a small change in config)

2006-09-08 Thread brian
is some how correct digital i/o sound support is related to keep hd data safe, seems udev is involved as well) i should try 16 again. but i could not even run 15 without the above stuffs going. brian ps have seen more reports of experienced people having hd problems and for myself, with all my

Re: video problem with bootx on 7200

2006-09-04 Thread brian
my understanding was that 7200 was not suppported for mac os 9.1, so ... --- "J. R. Harvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After 3 or 4 tries at making different floppy images > I gave up. I ended > up using the debian-31r2-powerpc-netinst.iso with > bootx on OS 9.1 which > __

Re: video problem with bootx on 7200

2006-09-04 Thread brian
have search google and what i see not helping much: one recent success like yours and a failures w/miboot. but have you tried a) disable all extension (shift key down at macos startup). saw report you could not use bootx extension at startup with 7200 right ? (would be good to try because with t

Re: caution: disc upgrades wallstreet & earlier powerbooks

2006-09-03 Thread brian
remember this ?? http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2000-April/006127.html http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2000-April/006128.html and others, see also http://www.medicalmac.com/faq1E.html it appears tho apple has deleted the til#24985 ... --- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL

Re: XFree86 running too slow in Performa 6500/300.

2006-09-03 Thread brian
g 31, 2006 at 03:20:27PM -0700, brian > wrote: > > [...] > > > he just needs a little RAM > > (128 might be good to start), a little patience, > > and a good lightweight desktop. > > (well a g3 upgrade wouldn't hurt, but it can > wait). > > T

Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-09-03 Thread brian
a advertises g3/4 come with debian > preinstalled !!! > > 2) mac on linux only runs ppc programs, macos won't > load the 68k booter even though it runs 68k mac > programs through some simulator, at least mine > won't. >but i could still run old sarge programs that

caution: disc upgrades wallstreet & earlier powerbooks

2006-09-03 Thread brian
hi, i had sat up most all night with my old powerbook this week several i thought i should share some of this story. this hard drive i got to give me more space for etch, sarge, and my 68k experiments/exchanges, called - IBM DYLA-28100, (has a couple alias names too). corrupt

Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-09-02 Thread brian
hey, there were some 68k macs that were upgrades to powerpc (as nubus of course), also maybe last amiga (aka commodore) with 68040 originally running debian-ppc on its 604 card and debian-68k on its orginal, can switch back and forth. (see it running on the amiga-68k website) anybody know if any

Re: XFree86 running too slow in Performa 6500/300.

2006-08-31 Thread brian
a good lightweight desktop. (well a g3 upgrade wouldn't hurt, but it can wait). brian __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: no function keys in 2.6.18 ?

2006-08-27 Thread brian
--- Yves-Alexis Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 17:42 -0700, brian wrote: > > hi, where did you get it ? > > from kernel.org > > > > what other versions are/ have you used lately ? > > i'm currently running 2.7.17.7

Re: no function keys in 2.6.18 ?

2006-08-26 Thread brian
(what is your hardware/os anyway) brian --- Yves-Alexis Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > I've tested a vanilla 2.6.18-rc4 kernel, and it > seems that I don't have > anymore function keys from F1 to F10. F11 and F12 > work well. > > output

Fwd: Re: Etch on old world with 2.5.15-1 and Quik

2006-08-26 Thread brian
--- brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 03:33:42 -0700 (PDT) > From: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Etch on old world with 2.5.15-1 and > Quik > To: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > hey, its really working now. > > go

Re: future of debian-ppc

2006-08-25 Thread brian
--- Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 02:20:55AM -0700, brian > wrote: > > > > > > > > Personally, to keep it straight, I > differentiate > > > between the more recent > > > > IBM as pSeries and t

Re: iMac G4- etch install iso - xorg

2006-08-25 Thread brian
advise installing a simple sarge system with xfree86 and then upgrade to testing/etch, going through the xorg transition. (you may wish to save your etc/sources.list, it has security. make sure you get the security mirror as well as the main one. also those refers to http: http, not http: ftp (i

Re: future of debian-ppc

2006-08-25 Thread brian
> > Friendly, > > Sven Luther > hope i am not intruding. i do like the spirit of old computers continuing potential. and i like the idea of building more effective software for them, that is some sort of stable development space. brian > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Etch on old world with 2.5.15-1 and Quik

2006-08-24 Thread brian
. any questions or comments here, please speak up, i am planning to make my installation report in the next few days. also i have yet to get xorg started, that's another thing. --- brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well i tried this, upgrade from etch (removing the please e

Re: reinstalling osx

2006-08-24 Thread brian
well, yes, but i did not do a reinstall. i boot off a backup drive image and use the restore in disk utility (panther) or carbon copy cloner (jaguar) (maybe). also, my yaboot is first bootable partition on the disk, and the option i get from ybin.conf only allow me one osx alternate partition, bu

Etch on old world with 2.5.15-1 and Quik

2006-08-23 Thread brian
well i tried this, upgrade from etch (removing the 2.6.16-2 thatnever i could boot). it booted with quik, surprise tho not with bootx.(just for reference :powerbook3400/603ev-ppc-180/80MB Ram)so i went ahead to try upgrade the rest of the pieces. i split it up into parts guiding the best i could us

Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-21 Thread brian
--- Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 11:34:25PM -0700, Harold > Johnson wrote: > > **Hi Brian, > > > > I appreciate your response, but I'm not quite > certain about what you're > > driving at. Do you need a

Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-21 Thread brian
use the old one. itsjust that all further updates after that might be problematic,until they get it work out, which is what you get when youare running a testing system, is my impression.hope this helps, i wasn't too sure what level to aim it at.brianHarold Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Fwd: Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-20 Thread brian
--- brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:03:36 -0700 (PDT) > From: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on > OldWorld PowerPC Mac > To: Harold Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > where we re

Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-17 Thread brian
nfig, not having any luck, although i could try again) brian brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: no, i have not tried it again since two weeks ago. however, i am going to linux world sf this week and bringing my powerbook 3400, if any ppc people are there at all, perhaps we could get togethe

Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-13 Thread brian
lately. i had my hopes on getting an old m68k mac going too, i believe in switching around, perspective helps...brian Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just tried the etch Beta3 kernel on my Beige G3 OldWorld PowerPC Macintosh.Same results as noted in the original bugrepor

Re: Some .debs are 404

2006-08-10 Thread brian
i am no expert on debian or on older kernels, however i am finding it extrememely useful to have a backup mirror the last few weeks especially specifically to debian.ftp. i am currently having good luck with oregonstate. debian-etch, kernel2.6.16-2, powerbook pismo g4 upgrade. have you tr

Re: Clicks & pops when playing audio

2006-08-08 Thread Brian O'Reilly
On 2-Aug-06, at 7:16 AM, Dean Hamstead wrote: definitely upgrade from 2.6.8! KDE starts an audio daemon called artsd that will contend with alsa and just about everything else. If you have both running, it's going to work weirdly or not at all. Kill artsd, and switch amarok to using the

Re: RAM for iBook

2006-08-04 Thread brian
i just tried that site. they seem to have half cooked their database. i click through to a machine and then it comes up blank, apparently they erased some entries or never completed them. particularly my oldworld g3 and one of the fujitsu lifebooks i tried (i don't know how close it was to what

Re: RAM for iBook

2006-08-03 Thread brian
one of them *might* work, maybe. that book only takes one. official specs are here: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G3/ibook15Oct01/0_Preface/index.html (i just pulled this off wikipedia, but i did go there and look, it looks pretty obscure to me,

Re: spam

2006-07-31 Thread brian
brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:59:25 -0700 (PDT)From: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Re: spamTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] my current solution is to use yahoo mail for mailing list subscriptions. i would rather not, but they do have 'bot which not only wil

Re: Building a dfs CD

2006-07-30 Thread brian
even if creative still work your comments in. i am still uncertain of the ways here so apologies if we are not supposed to ask people to do things, "you" refers to anyone who would like to volunteer (myself included perhaps, i am not sure i could do it yet but i might try ) brian "J

Re: Debian installer/live stock kernels iMac G5

2006-07-26 Thread Brian Durant
ack on how close the developers are to a solution or even if the problems are being addressed in a serious and systematic fashion. It makes one wonder if the Debian PPC port is in free fall. Cheers, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: Debian installer/live stock kernels iMac G5

2006-07-26 Thread Brian Durant
ack on how close the developers are to a solution or even if the problems are being addressed in a serious and systematic fashion. It makes one wonder if the Debian PPC port is in free fall. Cheers, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: my etch hard drive became unavailable

2006-07-21 Thread brian
alling last night of daily builddebian-testing-powerpc-net.iso it was probably not a good idea,definitely did not work here (pismo w/g4 upgrade).installation report filed.not sure what to do. could do what i did beforewhich is install sarge and upgrade. or wait and tryagain when testing netinst is bet

Re: New I2C and machine probing method

2006-07-20 Thread brian
debian:/home/brian/Downloads# ./of_probing Probing machine...   Machine: ID = 3 -> PowerBook Wallstreet (Apr 1998)   OF: '/proc/device-tree/reg'     Path incomplete! One or more elements not found.   LMU: No LMU found! --- debian:/home/brian/Downloads# cat

Re: my etch hard drive became unavailable

2006-07-19 Thread brian
when testing netinst is better. brian --- brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, maybe it just died in its sleep, but maybe not. > > i put it in sleep a few days ago and forgot, > thought > i had shut it down (sometimes i don't see a > blinking power led) >

Re: Wallstreet + quik + atyfb = crash

2006-07-18 Thread brian
lease tell him to upgrade !) i am downloading netinstall of etch now, see how it boots there later. didn't have before i just did in place upgrade from sarge. --- Simon Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 17 Jul 2006, at 07:51, brian wrote: > > > on my power

my etch hard drive became unavailable

2006-07-17 Thread brian
onger to get to the partitioning step than to do the copy/ restore - that is it is pretty fast there in the installer raw copy. brian Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.

Re: Wallstreet + quik + atyfb = crash

2006-07-16 Thread brian
ither building my own or putting an etch kernel into sarge- now that i have sarge on the g3 i have more resources there i might try it. my oldworlds run sarge/2.6.8-3. brian Simon Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, I'm back on my Wallstreet, which I bought back in '99 or so as

Re: ibook + USB hard drive = yaboot failure

2006-07-14 Thread brian
yes, using ybin, according to "man bootstrap" (man page is not always best in linix, but here it is, very good actually)and also  mightconsider reformatting just the yaboot partition, with parted beforereinstalling yaboot with ybin (rather than the whole disk).caution: the write map command in part

Re: ibook + USB hard drive = yaboot failure

2006-07-11 Thread brian
those who would dictate my thinking for me ... particularly, it is confusing to me why he is supposed to need *two* little  partitions, one for yaboot, the other for ??? (?driver partitions?) brianChasecreek Systemhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/11/06, Michael Hrivnak wrote:> Sp

Re: Need HowTo to solve Ubuntu Breezy PPC system freeze at login on G5.

2006-07-11 Thread Brian Durant
On Jul 11, 2006, at 12:44, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:31:40PM +0200, Brian Durant a écrit : What is artsd on Fedora or Suse? Is it KDE specific? Is that the sound driver? I believe I need to disable the Ubuntu/Debian (GNOME???) parallel to artsd. If a) is what I need to

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