Emacs: eshell can't receive C-q C-c ?
Hi, folks. I'm using an ibook. When in eshell, it seems that eshell can't receive C-c signal to kill a process ? e.g, find and then try C-q C-c. It used to work fine on my pc. Any ideas? -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with partitioning
Good day to all, I am an absolute novice (5 days old) in Linux, with some years of experience with Mac OS. I am trying to install a Linux distro in an unproductive G3 Powerbook (New World Macs) Here's what i have done:. Using Mac OS Disk Utility partition my 12 GB harddrive to 2 partitions, both approx 5.5gb (Mac OS extended) Upon booting with debian cd set (cd 1 Debian 3.0 30r4 PPC-binary), things went smoothly, only when i arrived at the partitioning (with 'mac-fdisk') part, I can't seemed to proceed further. Here's the problem: cmd c - create new LINUX partition First Block: 10p (targeted to the partition number i have allocated for the installation for Debian) Length : 10p (to indicate use of the entire partition) and when it comes to 'Name of partition', whatever names i try to give, single word or string with quotes, it just prompted: "requested base and length is not within an existing free partition" I must have missed something somewhere, can anyone help with my problems? thanks pharme
Problems with partitioning
Good day to all, I am an absolute novice (5 days old) in Linux, with some years of experience with Mac OS. I am trying to install a Linux distro in an unproductive G3 Powerbook (New World Macs) Here's what i have done:. Using Mac OS Disk Utility partition my 12 GB harddrive to 2 partitions, both approx 5.5gb (Mac OS extended) Upon booting with debian cd set (cd 1 Debian 3.0 30r4 PPC-binary), things went smoothly, only when i arrived at the partitioning (with 'mac-fdisk') part, I can't seemed to proceed further. Here's the problem: cmd c - create new LINUX partition First Block: 10p (targeted to the partition number i have allocated for the installation for Debian) Length : 10p (to indicate use of the entire partition) and when it comes to 'Name of partition', whatever names i try to give, single word or string with quotes, it just prompted: "requested base and length is not within an existing free partition" I must have missed something somewhere, can anyone help with my problems? thanks pharme
Re: Problems with partitioning
there are many ways to do this, I suggest you read the ppc install howto at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/install for starters. from my experience with mac linux installs I find that setting up the hard disk with the mac HD tool is a good way to go, depending on how much space the MacOS deserves, you will need a minimum of 3 partitions (if you use bootx) or 4 if you intend to use yaboot. I think you can safely ignore the yaboot partition and let the installer do that part but my memory is sketchy :) When u use the mac hd setup tool, select custom partitioning and create 2 unix partitions as well as the mac partition. Create the unix partition at first then a swap then a mac HFS partition. If you like you can name the first unix partition "/" (without the quotes) and the 2nd one "swap". the mac name is irrelevant. all of this will help to create a more sensible partitioning when you get to the linux partition editor. hope that helps david pharme wrote: Good day to all, I am an absolute novice (5 days old) in Linux, with some years of experience with Mac OS. I am trying to install a Linux distro in an unproductive G3 Powerbook (New World Macs) Here's what i have done:. Using Mac OS Disk Utility partition my 12 GB harddrive to 2 partitions, both approx 5.5gb (Mac OS extended) Upon booting with debian cd set (cd 1 Debian 3.0 30r4 PPC-binary), things went smoothly, only when i arrived at the partitioning (with 'mac-fdisk') part, I can't seemed to proceed further. Here's the problem: cmd c - create new LINUX partition First Block: 10p (targeted to the partition number i have allocated for the installation for Debian) Length : 10p (to indicate use of the entire partition) and when it comes to 'Name of partition', whatever names i try to give, single word or string with quotes, it just prompted: "requested base and length is not within an existing free partition" I must have missed something somewhere, can anyone help with my problems? thanks pharme -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: G5 blade center under debian
Am 15.01.2005 um 00:42 schrieb Anton Blanchard: Hi, I've just updated the installer image to have no POWER4+ optimization, but the language chooser seems to be broken. I've no idea why. Nice, it gets a lot further on POWER3 now :) It stops right here: time_init: decrementer frequency = 93.748235 MHz time_init: processor frequency = 375.00 MHz I wonder if serial and serial console is disabled in this kernel... It worked on 2.6.9 which was the last one I tested with serial connections. Will check 2.6.10... It also stops at the same point on a JS20 blade: time_init: decrementer frequency = 199.839239 MHz time_init: processor frequency = 1600.00 MHz Is hvc console disabled too? :) I can't test, but IBM tried the installer on all pSeries machines they had in access for testing and the installer worked for them with HMC (is this identical to hvc? Anything special needed here?) and direct console. I'm not 100% sure if we need to disable the pSeries support for your hardware. Can you send me a working kernel configuration for your hardware? I can compare and check if there needs to be another kernel flavor... Cheers, Cajus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
install docos for debian on dual g5
the question of linux on dual g5s is so regular im wondering if someone could ut together some documents and link them off the debian ports page the existing linked documents were invaluable in my first few times of putting linux on mac hardware (much like the i386 install docos), so hat goes of to the authors of them. and heres my vote to encourage someone to cut back some list noise and help the whole world out. or someone send me a dual g5, ill install then write up some docos. Dean -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with partitioning
On Saturday, January 15, 2005 4:30 PM, david howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, >there are many ways to do this, I suggest you read the ppc install howto >at >http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/install >for starters. I have printed a PDF version of the install manual. Chapter 6 indicates little of the steps to complete the partitioning within mac-fdisk. I searched thru the doc in the cd and found a quite relevant text on the partitioning editor. Still I am facing glitches filing in the right expression after each prompt. > >from my experience with mac linux installs I find that setting up the >hard disk with the mac HD tool is a good way to go, depending on how >much space the MacOS deserves, you will need a minimum of 3 partitions >(if you use bootx) or 4 if you intend to use yaboot. I think you can >safely ignore the yaboot partition and let the installer do that part >but my memory is sketchy :) > >When u use the mac hd setup tool, select custom partitioning and create >2 unix partitions as well as the mac partition. Create the unix >partition at first then a swap then a mac HFS partition. If you like you >can name the first unix partition "/" (without the quotes) and the 2nd >one "swap". the mac name is irrelevant. I took from your pointers and repartition my HD using the mac disk utility. Giving 3 partitions namely roots, swap and mac os, in sequence. With roots and swap in UFS type. > >all of this will help to create a more sensible partitioning when you >get to the linux partition editor. * When booted with the cd, under partitioning, cmd c allows me to create new partitions, then it prompts for First Block, according to doc. I am to name the partition number (10p), then follows with the prompt on Length (10p). It then asked for Name of partition: any name given will be prompted by this: requested base and lenght is not within an exisiting free partition. I am beginning to wonder if the above * is at all necessary, if not, how then can i go about setting a linux root partition and a swap partition. I am lost, honestly. Any pointers will be appreciated. pharme > >hope that helps > >david > >pharme wrote: > >>Good day to all, >> >>I am an absolute novice (5 days old) in Linux, with some years of >>experience with Mac OS. I am trying to install a Linux distro in an >>unproductive G3 Powerbook (New World Macs) >> >>Here's what i have done:. >> >>Using Mac OS Disk Utility partition my 12 GB harddrive to 2 partitions, >>both approx 5.5gb (Mac OS extended) >> >>Upon booting with debian cd set (cd 1 Debian 3.0 30r4 PPC-binary), >>things went smoothly, only when i arrived at the partitioning (with >>'mac-fdisk') part, I can't seemed to proceed further. Here's the >>problem: >> >>cmd c - create new LINUX partition >> >>First Block: 10p >>(targeted to the partition number i have allocated for the installation >>for Debian) >> >>Length : 10p >>(to indicate use of the entire partition) >> >>and when it comes to 'Name of partition', whatever names i try to give, >>single word or string with quotes, it just prompted: >> >>"requested base and length is not within an existing free partition" >> >>I must have missed something somewhere, can anyone help with my >>problems? >> >>thanks >> >>pharme >> >> >> >> >
Re: USB wireless 802.11g dongle
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 06:33:23PM +0100, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > Ciao Jack Malmostoso, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > > > http://home.arcor.de/ironpanther/usbstick/ > > > > would be nice to know if Mr.Ironpanther here is the author of the driver > > or is just "hosting" it for unknown reasons. > > I finally talked to this person, and he told me that had it uploaded on > his webspace to have a friend of his to help him with that driver. > > He also told me that managed to get it work on SuSE, and on debian > compiled fine but could only ping and not use the dongle at full. > > That's all I know, I am writing to ZyDas right now. Any progress on this? -- Jesus Climent info:www.pumuki.org Unix SysAdm|Linux User #66350|Debian Developer|2.6.10|Helsinki Finland GPG: 1024D/86946D69 BB64 2339 1CAA 7064 E429 7E18 66FC 1D7F 8694 6D69 Actually, my name is Austin Powers. Danger is my middle name. --Austin Powers (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with partitioning
Sawn Hwang wrote: cmd c - create new LINUX partition C (or c) only (targeted to the partition number i have allocated for the installation for Debian) 10p try C10p to create partition 10 instead. It will ask you for its name and type more help on partition names and types is ie. in http://www.hk8.org/old_web/linux/run/appd_03.htm hth, teefour -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with partitioning
On Saturday, January 15, 2005 10:28 PM, sa9k063 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, >Sawn Hwang wrote: > >> cmd c - create new LINUX partition >> > >C (or c) only > >> (targeted to the partition number i have allocated for the >installation >> for Debian) >> >> 10p > >try >C10p >to create partition 10 >instead. It will ask you for its name and type > >more help on partition names and types is ie. in >http://www.hk8.org/old_web/linux/run/appd_03.htm Thanks sa9k063 and of course david howe, for the patience. I found some very useful notes that overcome my problems with partitioning. I reckon it's a real lack of understanding of Linux to begin with. Here's the site I found http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/yaboot/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.shtml pharme > >hth, > >teefour > >
Re: USB wireless 802.11g dongle
Ciao Jesus Climent, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > Any progress on this? They never replied to me. I maybe write to some other address on the site. I will do it right now, and open a new thread if news come out. -- On Oct 5 1991, 8.53 AM; Linus Benedict Torvalds said: >I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be >out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got >minix. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MAC Mini
Debian PPC that works on MAC Mini would be awsome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MAC Mini
On 15 Jan 2005 at 11h01, Richard L. wrote: Hi, > Debian PPC that works on MAC Mini would be awsome. I'm guessing Mac mini shares a lot with latest G4 ibooks. We'll know for sure when someone tries it :) -- \|/ \|/ Colin "@'/ ,. \`@" http://www.geekounet.org/ /_| \__/ |_\ \__U_/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian on a FW drive
This is sort of a long shot, but there's always the chance that someone has managed it. I just bought my wife a Mac mini. She has little use for Linux on it, but I'm always into playing with such things. For that matter, I have a dual G4 tower that I haven't bothered putting Linux on. What I'd like to do is buy an external Firewire drive and put Debian on it such that I can plug it into any Mac (well, presumably only New World), have it come up as recognized in the Mac bootloader that comes up when one holds down Option, then chain load into something (yaboot, I expect) where I can pick an appropriate kernel (G3, G4, G5, SMP, whatever). This is sort of like a liveCD (with less autodetection), actually, but much more useful. I brought up the idea of booting off an external Firewire drive a couple of years ago, and no one had any good answers. Has that changed? Has anyone managed to do what I'm talking about? --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MAC Mini
Ciao Colin Leroy, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > I'm guessing Mac mini shares a lot with latest G4 ibooks. I bet my 0.02 on that too! -- On Oct 5 1991, 8.53 AM; Linus Benedict Torvalds said: >I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be >out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got >minix. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with partitioning
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 04:12:39PM +0800, pharme wrote: > Good day to all, > > I am an absolute novice (5 days old) in Linux, with some years of Please forget about woody, and try : http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ if you have good network connnectivity, just download : http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/rc2/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso burn it and boot it. and get the rest apart from the base system from the net. If not on the page above there are also available torrent of the 14CD set of woody, and so on. in particular, the partitioner was entirely rewritten for sarge, and should not cause any problem. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on a FW drive
Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I brought up the idea of booting off an external Firewire drive a > couple of years ago, and no one had any good answers. Has that > changed? Has anyone managed to do what I'm talking about? Hello, it is possible, but you have to play with ramdisks ; you'll find some information related to this there : * http://131.204.27.45/ydl-howto/ * http://forums.macgeneration.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=84176&goto=nextnewest Ciao, -- intrigeri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gnupg key @ http://intrigeri.boum.org/intrigeri.asc [ Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not ] [ die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom ? ] pgp6sYBgDJxcl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Apple Cinema Display 20 XF86config?
[Reposting with a better subject] On Thursday 13 January 2005 20:10, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Patrick> So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was > Patrick> having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out > Patrick> that it aparently is required to run using the fbdev > Patrick> driver. Has there been any work on getting X to run > Patrick> natively? fbdev performace, while not horrible, isn't > Patrick> really the best, and it'd be nice to have X directly > Patrick> working with my Radeon 9600XT card. > > This will probably not be particularly helpful, but my G5 does not > run with fbdev (as far as I can tell anyway). However, I do have a > different card > > Section "Device" > Identifier "GeForce FX5200" > Driver "nv" > BusID "PCI:240:16:0" > EndSection So, maybe I'm not getting the video mode correct, or something. Does anyone have an XF86Config for an Apple Cinema Display 20, preferably for an ATI Radeon video card, which I could look at? Even one for an NVidia card with a Cinema Display 20 would be helpful to look at, and make sure I'm doing this right. Thanks, Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCS--- http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#290702: [powerpc] Default kernel installed for reboot is wrong, G5 PowerMac7,3
Package: installation-reports Severity: important INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 20010114 Netinst Daily Build uname -a: Default install fails (see below), expert mode requires 2.6.8-power4 Date: January 15, 2005 1700 PST Method: Boot off CD, used install-power4 kernel, used mirrors.kernel.org as apt source Machine: Apple Dual 2.0 Ghz G5 Power Macintosh (PowerMac7,3) Processor: 970FX Memory: 512MB Root Device: /devsda4 (on 160G SATA drive) # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/sda4 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sda3 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hda/media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 Output of lspci and lspci -n: lspci :f0:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc.: Unknown device 0059 :f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200 Ultra] (rev a1) 0001:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12) 0001:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12) 0001:00:03.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc. K2 HT-PCI Bridge 0001:00:04.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc. K2 HT-PCI Bridge 0001:00:05.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc. K2 HT-PCI Bridge 0001:00:06.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc. K2 HT-PCI Bridge 0001:00:07.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc. K2 HT-PCI Bridge 0001:01:07.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. K2 KeyLargo Mac/IO (rev 60) 0001:01:08.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. K2 KeyLargo USB 0001:01:09.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. K2 KeyLargo USB 0001:02:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:02:0b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:02:0b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) 0001:03:0d.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. K2 ATA/100 0001:03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. K2 FireWire 0001:04:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. K2 GMAC (Sun GEM) 0001:05:0c.0 IDE interface: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0240 lspci -n :f0:0b.0 0600: 106b:0059 :f0:10.0 0300: 10de:0321 (rev a1) 0001:00:01.0 0604: 1022:7450 (rev 12) 0001:00:02.0 0604: 1022:7450 (rev 12) 0001:00:03.0 0604: 106b:0045 0001:00:04.0 0604: 106b:0046 0001:00:05.0 0604: 106b:0047 0001:00:06.0 0604: 106b:0048 0001:00:07.0 0604: 106b:0049 0001:01:07.0 ff00: 106b:0041 (rev 60) 0001:01:08.0 0c03: 106b:0040 0001:01:09.0 0c03: 106b:0040 0001:02:0b.0 0c03: 1033:0035 (rev 43) 0001:02:0b.1 0c03: 1033:0035 (rev 43) 0001:02:0b.2 0c03: 1033:00e0 (rev 04) 0001:03:0d.0 ff00: 106b:0043 0001:03:0e.0 0c00: 106b:0042 0001:04:0f.0 0200: 106b:004c 0001:05:0c.0 0101: 1166:0240 Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] <-- LVM does not work Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[O] Reboot: [E] <-- wrong kernel by default! Comments/Problems: G5 PowerMac7,3 (970FX CPU) needs the power4 kernel to boot. However, when using the default install (install-power4 at the yaboot prompt) and where the system is getting ready to reboot after installing the base system it actually installs the kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc kernel, even though I chose -power4 for my initial boot from CD! As a result the reboot (and so the install) fails! When using expert-power4 to install I get to pick my kernel so I can choose kernel-image-2.6.8-power4 and the reboot is fine (since the latest version in Sarge now supports the 970FX processor). In expert mode I would say d-i works nearly perfectly. The only issue is the RAID and LVM menu options don't actually work (discussed recently on debian-boot and debian-powerpc, I will file a bug separately). Great job folks! I have not installed Debian since before Woody went stable: this is a huge improvement. This machine has yet to transition to being my daily workstation so I will be happy to help test d-i for this kind of hardware. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't boot with my 2.6.9 kernel...
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 00:43 +0100, Nicolas Lebas wrote: > Thank you everybody, > i download the iso image of the linux rescue and burn it... > > And so i could look at my yaboot.conf ; finaly the kernel-image package > i installed didn't create the symbolic link "initrd.img", and so i > create it and now it's ok... I had the same problem when I updated with the new 2.6.9 kernel in unstable about 3 weeks ago. I've updated kernels in the past with no problem, but this time the initrd.img did not get made. I had to rename everything and reinstall without formatting because I couldn't figure it out. I saved the /etc/kernel-img.conf file and see it somehow got changed to link_in_boot = no. Don't know how that happened. James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on a FW drive
Gregory Seidman wrote: This is sort of a long shot, but there's always the chance that someone has managed it. I just bought my wife a Mac mini. She has little use for Linux on it, but I'm always into playing with such things. For that matter, I have a dual G4 tower that I haven't bothered putting Linux on. What I'd like to do is buy an external Firewire drive and put Debian on it such that I can plug it into any Mac (well, presumably only New World), have it come up as recognized in the Mac bootloader that comes up when one holds down Option, then chain load into something (yaboot, I expect) where I can pick an appropriate kernel (G3, G4, G5, SMP, whatever). This is sort of like a liveCD (with less autodetection), actually, but much more useful. I had to do something similar with my Powerbook Pismo for awhile, when its aging internal hard disk kicked the bucket. I hacked out a little script (I'd been thinking about it for awhile, but had to make it work then); I'm attaching it to this e-mail. You should be able to drop it into /etc/mkinitrd/scripts, and if you can chroot into the filesystem on the Firewire drive, then remove (and purge) and reinstall the kernel-image package (so that the initrd gets rebuilt), it should work. It's not a foolproof answer, and it could be easier, but it can be made to work; I was fortunately able to make use of it, so my Powerbook was still useful while I waited for a new internal drive. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] root_settle.sh Description: application/shellscript
Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver
Hi all Some progress with planb perhaps.. i generated a 2.4.19 kernel from debian sources and enabled the planb module. dmesg seems to report this is ok but the xawtv side seems to remain problematic. i have made some notes on my weblog if you are interested... http://nitro.qednet.biz/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi when i return i am going to play with the X11 and framebuffer options but the ioctl messages are a bit of a worry ;) cheers david Sean Jewett wrote: Has anyone managed to get the planb driver to work (or better yet, with the v4l stuff)? If so, how? What kernel, what distro, what phase of the moon? I have beat my head with Debian and now Yellow Dog to no avail. My last ditch effort was to install YDL 2.3 and then install the RPM's Michel offers on his website: http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan/planb.html I patched the 2.4.18 kernel with the patch he offers above that. Either 2.4.18 does not work with that RPM (in which case, it might be nice to know) and only works with the 2.2's he offers, or I can only conclude this is a cruel joke. I'm seeing the same thing with the xawtv RPM and 2.4.18 kernel that I saw under Debian, that being this error: ioctl: VIDIOCSCHAN(0,Composite,flags=0x0,type=2,norm=3): Invalid argument I would appreciate if anyone can shed light on how they got the driver / v4l stuff to work. At a minimum, until I hear of a good solution I hope someone considering using the planb driver on their Macs will think twice. At least this message will be in the archives so others won't devote as much time as I have. Thanks, Sean... -- The punk rock will get you if the government don't get you first. --Old 97's _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ KG4NRC http://www.rimboy.com Your source for the crap you know you need. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Emacs: eshell can't receive C-q C-c ?
Hi, folks. I'm using an ibook. When in eshell, it seems that eshell can't receive C-c signal to kill a process ? e.g, find and then try C-q C-c. It used to work fine on my pc. Any ideas? -- William
Problems with partitioning
Good day to all, I am an absolute novice (5 days old) in Linux, with some years of experience with Mac OS. I am trying to install a Linux distro in an unproductive G3 Powerbook (New World Macs) Here's what i have done:. Using Mac OS Disk Utility partition my 12 GB harddrive to 2 partitions, both approx 5.5gb (Mac OS extended) Upon booting with debian cd set (cd 1 Debian 3.0 30r4 PPC-binary), things went smoothly, only when i arrived at the partitioning (with 'mac-fdisk') part, I can't seemed to proceed further. Here's the problem: cmd c - create new LINUX partition First Block: 10p (targeted to the partition number i have allocated for the installation for Debian) Length : 10p (to indicate use of the entire partition) and when it comes to 'Name of partition', whatever names i try to give, single word or string with quotes, it just prompted: "requested base and length is not within an existing free partition" I must have missed something somewhere, can anyone help with my problems? thanks pharme
Problems with partitioning
Good day to all, I am an absolute novice (5 days old) in Linux, with some years of experience with Mac OS. I am trying to install a Linux distro in an unproductive G3 Powerbook (New World Macs) Here's what i have done:. Using Mac OS Disk Utility partition my 12 GB harddrive to 2 partitions, both approx 5.5gb (Mac OS extended) Upon booting with debian cd set (cd 1 Debian 3.0 30r4 PPC-binary), things went smoothly, only when i arrived at the partitioning (with 'mac-fdisk') part, I can't seemed to proceed further. Here's the problem: cmd c - create new LINUX partition First Block: 10p (targeted to the partition number i have allocated for the installation for Debian) Length : 10p (to indicate use of the entire partition) and when it comes to 'Name of partition', whatever names i try to give, single word or string with quotes, it just prompted: "requested base and length is not within an existing free partition" I must have missed something somewhere, can anyone help with my problems? thanks pharme
Re: Problems with partitioning
there are many ways to do this, I suggest you read the ppc install howto at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/install for starters. from my experience with mac linux installs I find that setting up the hard disk with the mac HD tool is a good way to go, depending on how much space the MacOS deserves, you will need a minimum of 3 partitions (if you use bootx) or 4 if you intend to use yaboot. I think you can safely ignore the yaboot partition and let the installer do that part but my memory is sketchy :) When u use the mac hd setup tool, select custom partitioning and create 2 unix partitions as well as the mac partition. Create the unix partition at first then a swap then a mac HFS partition. If you like you can name the first unix partition "/" (without the quotes) and the 2nd one "swap". the mac name is irrelevant. all of this will help to create a more sensible partitioning when you get to the linux partition editor. hope that helps david pharme wrote: Good day to all, I am an absolute novice (5 days old) in Linux, with some years of experience with Mac OS. I am trying to install a Linux distro in an unproductive G3 Powerbook (New World Macs) Here's what i have done:. Using Mac OS Disk Utility partition my 12 GB harddrive to 2 partitions, both approx 5.5gb (Mac OS extended) Upon booting with debian cd set (cd 1 Debian 3.0 30r4 PPC-binary), things went smoothly, only when i arrived at the partitioning (with 'mac-fdisk') part, I can't seemed to proceed further. Here's the problem: cmd c - create new LINUX partition First Block: 10p (targeted to the partition number i have allocated for the installation for Debian) Length : 10p (to indicate use of the entire partition) and when it comes to 'Name of partition', whatever names i try to give, single word or string with quotes, it just prompted: "requested base and length is not within an existing free partition" I must have missed something somewhere, can anyone help with my problems? thanks pharme
Re: G5 blade center under debian
Am 15.01.2005 um 00:42 schrieb Anton Blanchard: Hi, I've just updated the installer image to have no POWER4+ optimization, but the language chooser seems to be broken. I've no idea why. Nice, it gets a lot further on POWER3 now :) It stops right here: time_init: decrementer frequency = 93.748235 MHz time_init: processor frequency = 375.00 MHz I wonder if serial and serial console is disabled in this kernel... It worked on 2.6.9 which was the last one I tested with serial connections. Will check 2.6.10... It also stops at the same point on a JS20 blade: time_init: decrementer frequency = 199.839239 MHz time_init: processor frequency = 1600.00 MHz Is hvc console disabled too? :) I can't test, but IBM tried the installer on all pSeries machines they had in access for testing and the installer worked for them with HMC (is this identical to hvc? Anything special needed here?) and direct console. I'm not 100% sure if we need to disable the pSeries support for your hardware. Can you send me a working kernel configuration for your hardware? I can compare and check if there needs to be another kernel flavor... Cheers, Cajus
install docos for debian on dual g5
the question of linux on dual g5s is so regular im wondering if someone could ut together some documents and link them off the debian ports page the existing linked documents were invaluable in my first few times of putting linux on mac hardware (much like the i386 install docos), so hat goes of to the authors of them. and heres my vote to encourage someone to cut back some list noise and help the whole world out. or someone send me a dual g5, ill install then write up some docos. Dean -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613
Re: Problems with partitioning
On Saturday, January 15, 2005 4:30 PM, david howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, >there are many ways to do this, I suggest you read the ppc install howto >at >http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/install >for starters. I have printed a PDF version of the install manual. Chapter 6 indicates little of the steps to complete the partitioning within mac-fdisk. I searched thru the doc in the cd and found a quite relevant text on the partitioning editor. Still I am facing glitches filing in the right expression after each prompt. > >from my experience with mac linux installs I find that setting up the >hard disk with the mac HD tool is a good way to go, depending on how >much space the MacOS deserves, you will need a minimum of 3 partitions >(if you use bootx) or 4 if you intend to use yaboot. I think you can >safely ignore the yaboot partition and let the installer do that part >but my memory is sketchy :) > >When u use the mac hd setup tool, select custom partitioning and create >2 unix partitions as well as the mac partition. Create the unix >partition at first then a swap then a mac HFS partition. If you like you >can name the first unix partition "/" (without the quotes) and the 2nd >one "swap". the mac name is irrelevant. I took from your pointers and repartition my HD using the mac disk utility. Giving 3 partitions namely roots, swap and mac os, in sequence. With roots and swap in UFS type. > >all of this will help to create a more sensible partitioning when you >get to the linux partition editor. * When booted with the cd, under partitioning, cmd c allows me to create new partitions, then it prompts for First Block, according to doc. I am to name the partition number (10p), then follows with the prompt on Length (10p). It then asked for Name of partition: any name given will be prompted by this: requested base and lenght is not within an exisiting free partition. I am beginning to wonder if the above * is at all necessary, if not, how then can i go about setting a linux root partition and a swap partition. I am lost, honestly. Any pointers will be appreciated. pharme > >hope that helps > >david > >pharme wrote: > >>Good day to all, >> >>I am an absolute novice (5 days old) in Linux, with some years of >>experience with Mac OS. I am trying to install a Linux distro in an >>unproductive G3 Powerbook (New World Macs) >> >>Here's what i have done:. >> >>Using Mac OS Disk Utility partition my 12 GB harddrive to 2 partitions, >>both approx 5.5gb (Mac OS extended) >> >>Upon booting with debian cd set (cd 1 Debian 3.0 30r4 PPC-binary), >>things went smoothly, only when i arrived at the partitioning (with >>'mac-fdisk') part, I can't seemed to proceed further. Here's the >>problem: >> >>cmd c - create new LINUX partition >> >>First Block: 10p >>(targeted to the partition number i have allocated for the installation >>for Debian) >> >>Length : 10p >>(to indicate use of the entire partition) >> >>and when it comes to 'Name of partition', whatever names i try to give, >>single word or string with quotes, it just prompted: >> >>"requested base and length is not within an existing free partition" >> >>I must have missed something somewhere, can anyone help with my >>problems? >> >>thanks >> >>pharme >> >> >> >> >
Re: USB wireless 802.11g dongle
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 06:33:23PM +0100, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > Ciao Jack Malmostoso, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > > > http://home.arcor.de/ironpanther/usbstick/ > > > > would be nice to know if Mr.Ironpanther here is the author of the driver > > or is just "hosting" it for unknown reasons. > > I finally talked to this person, and he told me that had it uploaded on > his webspace to have a friend of his to help him with that driver. > > He also told me that managed to get it work on SuSE, and on debian > compiled fine but could only ping and not use the dongle at full. > > That's all I know, I am writing to ZyDas right now. Any progress on this? -- Jesus Climent info:www.pumuki.org Unix SysAdm|Linux User #66350|Debian Developer|2.6.10|Helsinki Finland GPG: 1024D/86946D69 BB64 2339 1CAA 7064 E429 7E18 66FC 1D7F 8694 6D69 Actually, my name is Austin Powers. Danger is my middle name. --Austin Powers (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery)
Re: Problems with partitioning
Sawn Hwang wrote: cmd c - create new LINUX partition C (or c) only (targeted to the partition number i have allocated for the installation for Debian) 10p try C10p to create partition 10 instead. It will ask you for its name and type more help on partition names and types is ie. in http://www.hk8.org/old_web/linux/run/appd_03.htm hth, teefour
Re: Problems with partitioning
On Saturday, January 15, 2005 10:28 PM, sa9k063 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, >Sawn Hwang wrote: > >> cmd c - create new LINUX partition >> > >C (or c) only > >> (targeted to the partition number i have allocated for the >installation >> for Debian) >> >> 10p > >try >C10p >to create partition 10 >instead. It will ask you for its name and type > >more help on partition names and types is ie. in >http://www.hk8.org/old_web/linux/run/appd_03.htm Thanks sa9k063 and of course david howe, for the patience. I found some very useful notes that overcome my problems with partitioning. I reckon it's a real lack of understanding of Linux to begin with. Here's the site I found http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/yaboot/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.shtml pharme > >hth, > >teefour > >
Re: USB wireless 802.11g dongle
Ciao Jesus Climent, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > Any progress on this? They never replied to me. I maybe write to some other address on the site. I will do it right now, and open a new thread if news come out. -- On Oct 5 1991, 8.53 AM; Linus Benedict Torvalds said: >I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be >out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got >minix.
MAC Mini
Debian PPC that works on MAC Mini would be awsome.
Re: MAC Mini
On 15 Jan 2005 at 11h01, Richard L. wrote: Hi, > Debian PPC that works on MAC Mini would be awsome. I'm guessing Mac mini shares a lot with latest G4 ibooks. We'll know for sure when someone tries it :) -- \|/ \|/ Colin "@'/ ,. \`@" http://www.geekounet.org/ /_| \__/ |_\ \__U_/
Debian on a FW drive
This is sort of a long shot, but there's always the chance that someone has managed it. I just bought my wife a Mac mini. She has little use for Linux on it, but I'm always into playing with such things. For that matter, I have a dual G4 tower that I haven't bothered putting Linux on. What I'd like to do is buy an external Firewire drive and put Debian on it such that I can plug it into any Mac (well, presumably only New World), have it come up as recognized in the Mac bootloader that comes up when one holds down Option, then chain load into something (yaboot, I expect) where I can pick an appropriate kernel (G3, G4, G5, SMP, whatever). This is sort of like a liveCD (with less autodetection), actually, but much more useful. I brought up the idea of booting off an external Firewire drive a couple of years ago, and no one had any good answers. Has that changed? Has anyone managed to do what I'm talking about? --Greg
Re: MAC Mini
Ciao Colin Leroy, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > I'm guessing Mac mini shares a lot with latest G4 ibooks. I bet my 0.02 on that too! -- On Oct 5 1991, 8.53 AM; Linus Benedict Torvalds said: >I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be >out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got >minix.
Re: Problems with partitioning
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 04:12:39PM +0800, pharme wrote: > Good day to all, > > I am an absolute novice (5 days old) in Linux, with some years of Please forget about woody, and try : http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ if you have good network connnectivity, just download : http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/rc2/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso burn it and boot it. and get the rest apart from the base system from the net. If not on the page above there are also available torrent of the 14CD set of woody, and so on. in particular, the partitioner was entirely rewritten for sarge, and should not cause any problem. Friendly, Sven Luther
Re: Debian on a FW drive
Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I brought up the idea of booting off an external Firewire drive a > couple of years ago, and no one had any good answers. Has that > changed? Has anyone managed to do what I'm talking about? Hello, it is possible, but you have to play with ramdisks ; you'll find some information related to this there : * http://131.204.27.45/ydl-howto/ * http://forums.macgeneration.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=84176&goto=nextnewest Ciao, -- intrigeri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gnupg key @ http://intrigeri.boum.org/intrigeri.asc [ Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not ] [ die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom ? ] pgpzuMPdmPClU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Apple Cinema Display 20 XF86config?
[Reposting with a better subject] On Thursday 13 January 2005 20:10, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Patrick> So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was > Patrick> having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out > Patrick> that it aparently is required to run using the fbdev > Patrick> driver. Has there been any work on getting X to run > Patrick> natively? fbdev performace, while not horrible, isn't > Patrick> really the best, and it'd be nice to have X directly > Patrick> working with my Radeon 9600XT card. > > This will probably not be particularly helpful, but my G5 does not > run with fbdev (as far as I can tell anyway). However, I do have a > different card > > Section "Device" > Identifier "GeForce FX5200" > Driver "nv" > BusID "PCI:240:16:0" > EndSection So, maybe I'm not getting the video mode correct, or something. Does anyone have an XF86Config for an Apple Cinema Display 20, preferably for an ATI Radeon video card, which I could look at? Even one for an NVidia card with a Cinema Display 20 would be helpful to look at, and make sure I'm doing this right. Thanks, Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCS--- http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org
Bug#290702: [powerpc] Default kernel installed for reboot is wrong, G5 PowerMac7,3
Package: installation-reports Severity: important INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 20010114 Netinst Daily Build uname -a: Default install fails (see below), expert mode requires 2.6.8-power4 Date: January 15, 2005 1700 PST Method: Boot off CD, used install-power4 kernel, used mirrors.kernel.org as apt source Machine: Apple Dual 2.0 Ghz G5 Power Macintosh (PowerMac7,3) Processor: 970FX Memory: 512MB Root Device: /devsda4 (on 160G SATA drive) # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/sda4 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sda3 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hda/media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 Output of lspci and lspci -n: lspci :f0:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc.: Unknown device 0059 :f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200 Ultra] (rev a1) 0001:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12) 0001:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12) 0001:00:03.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc. K2 HT-PCI Bridge 0001:00:04.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc. K2 HT-PCI Bridge 0001:00:05.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc. K2 HT-PCI Bridge 0001:00:06.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc. K2 HT-PCI Bridge 0001:00:07.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc. K2 HT-PCI Bridge 0001:01:07.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. K2 KeyLargo Mac/IO (rev 60) 0001:01:08.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. K2 KeyLargo USB 0001:01:09.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. K2 KeyLargo USB 0001:02:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:02:0b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:02:0b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) 0001:03:0d.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. K2 ATA/100 0001:03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. K2 FireWire 0001:04:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. K2 GMAC (Sun GEM) 0001:05:0c.0 IDE interface: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0240 lspci -n :f0:0b.0 0600: 106b:0059 :f0:10.0 0300: 10de:0321 (rev a1) 0001:00:01.0 0604: 1022:7450 (rev 12) 0001:00:02.0 0604: 1022:7450 (rev 12) 0001:00:03.0 0604: 106b:0045 0001:00:04.0 0604: 106b:0046 0001:00:05.0 0604: 106b:0047 0001:00:06.0 0604: 106b:0048 0001:00:07.0 0604: 106b:0049 0001:01:07.0 ff00: 106b:0041 (rev 60) 0001:01:08.0 0c03: 106b:0040 0001:01:09.0 0c03: 106b:0040 0001:02:0b.0 0c03: 1033:0035 (rev 43) 0001:02:0b.1 0c03: 1033:0035 (rev 43) 0001:02:0b.2 0c03: 1033:00e0 (rev 04) 0001:03:0d.0 ff00: 106b:0043 0001:03:0e.0 0c00: 106b:0042 0001:04:0f.0 0200: 106b:004c 0001:05:0c.0 0101: 1166:0240 Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] <-- LVM does not work Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[O] Reboot: [E] <-- wrong kernel by default! Comments/Problems: G5 PowerMac7,3 (970FX CPU) needs the power4 kernel to boot. However, when using the default install (install-power4 at the yaboot prompt) and where the system is getting ready to reboot after installing the base system it actually installs the kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc kernel, even though I chose -power4 for my initial boot from CD! As a result the reboot (and so the install) fails! When using expert-power4 to install I get to pick my kernel so I can choose kernel-image-2.6.8-power4 and the reboot is fine (since the latest version in Sarge now supports the 970FX processor). In expert mode I would say d-i works nearly perfectly. The only issue is the RAID and LVM menu options don't actually work (discussed recently on debian-boot and debian-powerpc, I will file a bug separately). Great job folks! I have not installed Debian since before Woody went stable: this is a huge improvement. This machine has yet to transition to being my daily workstation so I will be happy to help test d-i for this kind of hardware.
Re: can't boot with my 2.6.9 kernel...
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 00:43 +0100, Nicolas Lebas wrote: > Thank you everybody, > i download the iso image of the linux rescue and burn it... > > And so i could look at my yaboot.conf ; finaly the kernel-image package > i installed didn't create the symbolic link "initrd.img", and so i > create it and now it's ok... I had the same problem when I updated with the new 2.6.9 kernel in unstable about 3 weeks ago. I've updated kernels in the past with no problem, but this time the initrd.img did not get made. I had to rename everything and reinstall without formatting because I couldn't figure it out. I saved the /etc/kernel-img.conf file and see it somehow got changed to link_in_boot = no. Don't know how that happened. James
Re: Debian on a FW drive
Gregory Seidman wrote: This is sort of a long shot, but there's always the chance that someone has managed it. I just bought my wife a Mac mini. She has little use for Linux on it, but I'm always into playing with such things. For that matter, I have a dual G4 tower that I haven't bothered putting Linux on. What I'd like to do is buy an external Firewire drive and put Debian on it such that I can plug it into any Mac (well, presumably only New World), have it come up as recognized in the Mac bootloader that comes up when one holds down Option, then chain load into something (yaboot, I expect) where I can pick an appropriate kernel (G3, G4, G5, SMP, whatever). This is sort of like a liveCD (with less autodetection), actually, but much more useful. I had to do something similar with my Powerbook Pismo for awhile, when its aging internal hard disk kicked the bucket. I hacked out a little script (I'd been thinking about it for awhile, but had to make it work then); I'm attaching it to this e-mail. You should be able to drop it into /etc/mkinitrd/scripts, and if you can chroot into the filesystem on the Firewire drive, then remove (and purge) and reinstall the kernel-image package (so that the initrd gets rebuilt), it should work. It's not a foolproof answer, and it could be easier, but it can be made to work; I was fortunately able to make use of it, so my Powerbook was still useful while I waited for a new internal drive. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] root_settle.sh Description: application/shellscript
