Re: Recovering Open Firmware [was: On using the imstt driver on a 9600 (was: Re: X on a 9600 artifacts...)]

2002-08-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 21 2002, Rogério Brito wrote: > Anyway, to create a bootable floppy, I do: Just some addenda: > 5 - copy the vmlinux.gz to replace the floppy's zImage; You may need to hexedit (use Emacs for that) the floppy's System file with the root device of your in

Re: Recovering Open Firmware [was: On using the imstt driver on a 9600 (was: Re: X on a 9600 artifacts...)]

2002-08-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 21 2002, Vinai Kopp wrote: > Ok, I ended up going the Cmd-Opt-P-R way, because somehow the serial > cable (or the adapter) seems to be broke. > I am reinstalling debian now. OK, glad to know that your machine is working again. :-) > Could you point me to a reference on how to creat

Re: Recovering Open Firmware [was: On using the imstt driver on a 9600 (was: Re: X on a 9600 artifacts...)]

2002-08-21 Thread Vinai Kopp
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 01:37:40PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Aug 21 2002, Vinai Kopp wrote: > > Sounds good. If I can't get it to work via a serial cable I'll try > > this option. > > I think that you should try Cmd-Opt-P-R before trying the > serial cable, since it's easier and

Re: On using the imstt driver on a 9600 (was: Re: X on a 9600 artifacts and AltGr on Keyboard mapped to where?)

2002-08-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 18:49, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Aug 20 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 21:06, Rogério Brito wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, it seems that imstt doesn't currently implement > > > the XVideo extension. Michel, if you're reading this, is there > > > any

Re: On using the imstt driver on a 9600 (was: Re: X on a 9600 artifacts and AltGr on Keyboard mapped to where?)

2002-08-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 20 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 21:06, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On Aug 20 2002, Vinai Kopp wrote: > > > 1) Where is the keyboard mapping for the console specified? > > > > I don't know, as I mostly use X and use xmodmap for this > > purpose. > > Damn, I misrea

Re: Recovering Open Firmware [was: On using the imstt driver on a 9600 (was: Re: X on a 9600 artifacts...)]

2002-08-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 21 2002, Vinai Kopp wrote: > Sounds good. If I can't get it to work via a serial cable I'll try > this option. I think that you should try Cmd-Opt-P-R before trying the serial cable, since it's easier and doesn't involve hooking the two computers... It may also be th

Re: Recovering Open Firmware [was: On using the imstt driver on a 9600 (was: Re: X on a 9600 artifacts...)]

2002-08-21 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:13:28AM +0200, Vinai Kopp wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 02:32:40PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:05:11PM +0200, Vinai Kopp wrote: > > > The next thing is rescuing the box. > > > According to http://penguinppc.org/projects/quik/quirks.shtml > >

Recovering Open Firmware [was: On using the imstt driver on a 9600 (was: Re: X on a 9600 artifacts...)]

2002-08-21 Thread Vinai Kopp
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 07:35:14PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:05:11PM +0200, Vinai Kopp wrote: > > And here, *Ups*, I f*ckuped :( > > I apt-get installed kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc kernel-doc-2.4.18, > > edited /etc/quik.conf to point to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.28-powerpc

Recovering Open Firmware [was: On using the imstt driver on a 9600 (was: Re: X on a 9600 artifacts...)]

2002-08-21 Thread Vinai Kopp
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 02:32:40PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:05:11PM +0200, Vinai Kopp wrote: > > The next thing is rescuing the box. > > According to http://penguinppc.org/projects/quik/quirks.shtml > > the "output-device defaults to ttya" on 9600 macs. Hm, how can I ma

Re: On using the imstt driver on a 9600 (was: Re: X on a 9600 artifacts...)

2002-08-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:05:11PM +0200, Vinai Kopp wrote: > And here, *Ups*, I f*ckuped :( > I apt-get installed kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc kernel-doc-2.4.18, > edited /etc/quik.conf to point to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.28-powerpc > and ran quik: seemd like using lilo - but, well, it isn't lilo :( > No

Re: On using the imstt driver on a 9600 (was: Re: X on a 9600 artifacts...)

2002-08-20 Thread Brad Boyer
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:05:11PM +0200, Vinai Kopp wrote: > The next thing is rescuing the box. > According to http://penguinppc.org/projects/quik/quirks.shtml > the "output-device defaults to ttya" on 9600 macs. Hm, how can I make > that output visible? Any other pointers or ideas what to do? Y

Re: On using the imstt driver on a 9600 (was: Re: X on a 9600 artifacts and AltGr on Keyboard mapped to where?)

2002-08-20 Thread Vinai Kopp
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:17:41PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 21:06, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On Aug 20 2002, Vinai Kopp wrote: > > > 1) Where is the keyboard mapping for the console specified? > > > > I don't know, as I mostly use X and use xmodmap for this > > pu

Re: On using the imstt driver on a 9600 (was: Re: X on a 9600 artifacts...)

2002-08-20 Thread Vinai Kopp
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:06:31PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Aug 20 2002, Vinai Kopp wrote: > > 2) X starts using the fbdev driver (imstt doesn't work). > > I think that I know the solution to this one. I had problems > getting the imstt driver working until I literally specifie

Re: On using the imstt driver on a 9600 (was: Re: X on a 9600 artifacts and AltGr on Keyboard mapped to where?)

2002-08-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 21:06, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Aug 20 2002, Vinai Kopp wrote: > > 1) Where is the keyboard mapping for the console specified? > > I don't know, as I mostly use X and use xmodmap for this > purpose. Damn, I misread that part, maybe because it's relatively simple

On using the imstt driver on a 9600 (was: Re: X on a 9600 artifacts and AltGr on Keyboard mapped to where?)

2002-08-20 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 20 2002, Vinai Kopp wrote: > 1) Where is the keyboard mapping for the console specified? I don't know, as I mostly use X and use xmodmap for this purpose. > 2) X starts using the fbdev driver (imstt doesn't work). I think that I know the solution to this one. I had