Re: Switching from BootX to quik
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:02:44AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:56:24PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > [...] > > > Thanks Brad, Thanks Simon. I changed the load-base to 0x1000 as that > > worked on 6400. Rebooting as I write this. > > Doesn't seem to work :-( I don't have physical access to the box at > the moment (it is at work, I am at home), so I can't read error > messages or try different configs right now. Will report more > tomorrow. Thanks again for your help. I thought that I could always zap pram and boot from cd into macos and bootX, but holding down command-option-p-r after reboot doesn't help. The screen stays black and I don't hear any disk spinning up. Tried to boot from CD or floppy, but failed. I realize that I need a mac-serial cable and nullmodem-cable to debug this further. No big deal since this particular box was on its way to the junkyard when I found it. Thanks for information anyhow. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.1 Linux emac140 2.6.9-1-686 #1 Thu Nov 25 03:48:29 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Never trust a message that appears to come from me but is not signed with GPG! It is most likely SPAM or a VIRUS sent by someone who has my adress and got infected. My public key, ID 7050614E, is available from the HKP key servers and here: http://sociologi.cjb.net/~hans/key.txt signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: debian-powerpc digest ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 14.02.2005 um 22:35 schrieb Cedric Pradalier: Just a note. On the ibook, the CPU is just in the middle but it usually stay pretty cold. The GPU and hard drive are just below you left palm, and this is what get hot usually. For the harddrive, I think laptop-mode package help keeping its usage low. For the GPU, the more active it is the hotter. With massively Open GL games, the temperature can raise by 10 degrees ! Oh yes ! I remember that I've used hdparm to disable dma for the harddisk. That helped a lot... Someday you may be able to use lm-sensors to monitor that. At the moment you can use my kernel module. See http://cedric.pradalier.free.fr/ibook2 . Ok. I'll test them as soon as I have a bit more time. *Kristian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) iD8DBQFCEbACkngZ5psz1ewRAuMtAKDTZIkExUV4y/nZa6Udd2Azr5bhMACgyPg1 wBstZocVt8IfBWeCn8HaBnw= =5T9X -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-powerpc digest ?
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:58:00PM +0100, Pau Rul·lan Ferragut wrote:
> I also have some troubles with keymapping under X11 right now...
> (Where are my {}[] keys ?)
> How have you set the keyboard in the /etc/XF86Config-4?
pmac X keymaps are utherly broken on everything != us keyboards, and nobody
with enough X keyboard knowledge has stepped forth with the time to fix those,
so right now only a flurry of ugly half-working hacks are available.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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Re: debian-powerpc digest ?
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 04:39:13PM +0100, Djoume SALVETTI wrote:
> Le lundi 02/14/05 Kristian Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> > I searched the archive for this mailinglist for this year but didn't
> > find any topic on that. Does a debian-powerpc digest exist somewhere
> > where I can read further on ? I also have some troubles with
> > keymapping under X11 right now... (Where are my {}[] keys ?)
>
> http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianOnPowerPC
What we really need is fixing both the debian XFree86 package and/or the
upstream stuff. I see lot of people proposing fixes in various wiki's, howtos
or web pages, but nobody making the effort to go for the real fix.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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Re: 802.11{b|g} pcmcia network adapter suggestions
John Harrold wrote: I was wondering if anyone here could suggest an 802.11 b or g pcmcia device which works well with debian on the powerpc. I suppose I could get a usb device, but I don't really want the thing hanging off the computer. I've just ordered the D-Link DWL-AG650 (802.11a/b/g) which is reported to have the Atheros AR5212 chip. It'll arrive on Friday so will let you know if it works on my G4 alubook. Netgear WG511U (a/b/g, Atheros) is reported to work on a TiBook (2005/02/03). http://madwifiwiki.thewebhost.de/wiki/Ppc Netgear WG511T (b/g, Atheros) is reported to work on Debian PPC (2004/09/03) http://madwifiwiki.thewebhost.de/wiki/NetgearWG511T Up to date info on Prism cards is here: http://prism54.org/phpwiki?pagename=Supported%20Cards With the difficulty of obtaining older versions of Prism cards, Atheros may be the way to go... regards Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pmacpow--would a .deb be worthwhile?
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 08:36:51AM +1100, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > According to Rich Johnson, on Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:17:57 -0500, > >A recent thread (Starting-up a server automaticly) mentioned using > >Takashi Oe's pmacpow to schedule cold-start boots. > > > >I've been playing around with it recently and have a version that will > >also trigger boot-on-AC. So, my question for the gallery is: > > > >Would it be worth the effort to create a .deb for this little utility? > > I guess so. I'd like to give it a try. Can it also awake from sleep at a > given time ? Or it could be integrated into powerpc-utils. but this is up to Michael to decide. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Booting from an External USB HDD
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:38:32PM +0100, Francisco Gimeno wrote: > Hi > > I'm new to this list. I'm willing about installing a Debian into a external > usb hdd ( Lacie 40GB ) for my iBook G4. But I don't know if it's possible. > > I don't want to break the actual MacOSX installation, so I would to know: > 1) is possible to install Debian into a External USB HDD? > 2) could I use a key-combination when booting to access to that drive > whenever > I want to run Debian? > 3) does anybody got it? > > I have search about it but I didn't found any guide. Maybe you could help me > with a link or so. Disclaimer: I never actually tried installing on a USB HD. But I got my Powerbook booting from an USB Memory Stick. There is some information about booting form USB in the Sarge Installation Manual at http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch05s01.html AFAIK there is no way to directly boot from USB with a single key combination. So you have to go through OpenFirmaware to boot from your external disk. The instructions in the manual probably need some adaption for booting from an USB HD. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: 802.11{b|g} pcmcia network adapter suggestions
John Harrold wrote: Sometime in February Jesus Climent assaulted the keyboard and produced: | D-Link System Inc AirPlusXtremeG+ DWL-G650 | | With the atheros chip. Works fine in x86, dunno in apple. Is a Cardbus card. Does this require the madwifi drivers? http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/ Depends. The hardware revision history of the DWL-G650 is promising though: v.A1 PRISM GT (prism54.org) v.B1 Atheros AR5211 (madwifi) v.B2 Atheros AR5001 (madwifi) From http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100-0.2.0pre8_plus_fixes_43-readme (the guys that do the TI drivers at http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ ) Hope this helps. - Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 802.11{b|g} pcmcia network adapter suggestions
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:09:26PM +, Mark Ferry wrote: > > With the difficulty of obtaining older versions of Prism cards, Atheros > may be the way to go... Forgot to mention I bought 2 SMC cards (with prism54 chip, more exactly isl3890, from Intersil, supposed to work with prism54) but that have changed part od the pci interface and does not work. The exact model is SMC2835W. Beware. -- 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 Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. --Tyles Durden (Fight club) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OOo crash on startup
'ello, Has anyone else had this error with OpenOffice? I use the program at Uni for lectures but recently it just dies every time I try to start it. I've tried the following: * re-prelinking the binaries * un-prelinking the binaries * trying it with/without network connection * trying it after a sleep and after a reboot or cold start * removing the settings in my home directory and starting afresh Nothing seems to work. I would be grateful for any information you might be able to provide (error log attached). best regards, -- Matthew T. Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenOffice.org lockfile found (/home/matatk/.openoffice/1.1.2/.lock) Using existing OpenOffice.org sh: line 1: crash_report: command not found Fatal exception: Signal 11 Stack: /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsal.so.3[0xf0b966c] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsal.so.3[0xf0b9844] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsal.so.3[0xf0b995c] /lib/libpthread.so.0[0x3017caf8] [0x7fffcfe8] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libpsp645lp.so(_ZN3psp11CUPSManager16createCUPSParserERKN3rtl8OUStringE+0x524)[0xec2c210] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libpsp645lp.so(_ZN3psp9PPDParser9getParserE6String+0x1dc)[0xec0d370] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libpsp645lp.so(_ZN3psp11CUPSManager19setupJobContextDataERNS_7JobDataE+0x1d4)[0xec2c768] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libpsp645lp.so(_ZN3psp7JobDataaSERKS0_+0xc4)[0xec28884] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645lp.so(_ZN3psp11PrinterInfoC1ERKS0_+0x4c)[0xff3a840] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645lp.so(_ZN11SalInstance17CreateInfoPrinterEP19SalPrinterQueueInfoP12ImplJobSetup+0x80)[0xff37d54] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645lp.so(_ZN7Printer8ImplInitEP19SalPrinterQueueInfo+0xec)[0xfe09504] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645lp.so(_ZN7PrinterC2Ev+0xec)[0xfe09b00] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx645lp.so(_ZN10SfxPrinterC1EP10SfxItemSet+0x34)[0xca7824c] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd645lp.so[0xb94d118] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd645lp.so[0xb949f50] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd645lp.so[0xb9488c4] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd645lp.so[0xb948b24] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd645lp.so[0xb98679c] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd645lp.so[0xb980dcc] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd645lp.so[0xb987b54] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd645lp.so[0xb8bb43c] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd645lp.so[0xb8b9970] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx645lp.so(_ZN8SfxShell11ExecuteSlotER10SfxRequestPK12SfxInterface+0xe0)[0xcac2274] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx645lp.so(_ZN19SfxFrameLoader_Impl4loadERKN3com3sun4star3uno8SequenceINS2_5beans13PropertyValueEEERKNS3_9ReferenceINS2_5frame6XFrameEEE+0x1178)[0xca61aa8] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libfwk645lp.so[0xbbe435c] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libfwk645lp.so[0xbbea798] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libfwk645lp.so[0xbbdf1f8] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libfwk645lp.so[0xbbf654c] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin(_ZN7desktop7Desktop11OpenDefaultEv+0x4d8)[0x1001f6c8] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin(_ZN7desktop7Desktop11OpenClientsEv+0x1b84)[0x1001f104] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin(_ZN7desktop7Desktop16OpenClients_ImplEPv+0x1c)[0x1001d108] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin(_ZN7desktop7Desktop24LinkStubOpenClients_ImplEPvS1_+0x10)[0x1001d0dc] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645lp.so[0xfeb7ea0] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645lp.so(_Z19ImplWindowFrameProcPvP8SalFrametPKv+0x308)[0xfeb8684] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645lp.so(_ZN12SalFrameData19HandleClientMessageEP19XClientMessageEvent+0xd0)[0xff1b0a0] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645lp.so(_ZN12SalFrameData8DispatchEP7_XEvent+0x4e8)[0xff1b8a8] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645lp.so(_ZN10SalDisplay8DispatchEP7_XEvent+0x348)[0xff4834c] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645lp.so(_ZN10SalDisplay5YieldEh+0xd8)[0xff47fcc] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645lp.so[0xff447c0] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645lp.so(_ZN7SalXLib5YieldEh+0x3b4)[0xff43034] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645lp.so(_ZN11SalInstance5YieldEh+0x34)[0xff4bd10] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645lp.so(_ZN11Application5YieldEv+0x74)[0xfd69920] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645lp.so(_ZN11Application7ExecuteEv+0x44)[0xfd697e8] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin(_ZN7desktop7Desktop4MainEv+0x1d08)[0x1001c5b8] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645lp.so(_Z6SVMainv+0x6c)[0xfd6f13c] /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645lp.so(main+0x38)[0xff418b0] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x170)[0x303731a0]
iBook G4: repeatingly connect/disconnect of usb storage device
Hi all, there has been many success stories about connecting a usb disk to an iBook G4. Well, in may case it also looks ok, if the device wouldn't disconnect all the time. Here is an excerpt from the syslog -- Feb 15 12:31:09 localhost kernel: usb 4-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 Feb 15 12:31:10 localhost kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: over-current change on port 2 Feb 15 12:31:10 localhost kernel: usb 4-2: USB disconnect, address 3 Feb 15 12:31:10 localhost kernel: usb 4-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 Feb 15 12:31:11 localhost kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Feb 15 12:31:11 localhost usb.agent[355]: usb-storage: loaded successfully Feb 15 12:31:11 localhost kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Feb 15 12:31:11 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage Feb 15 12:31:11 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. Feb 15 12:31:11 localhost kernel: usb-storage: device found at 4 Feb 15 12:31:11 localhost kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Feb 15 12:31:12 localhost usb.agent[421]: usb-storage: already loaded Feb 15 12:31:16 localhost scsi.agent[473]: disk at /devices/pci0001:10/0001:10:1b.2/usb4/4-2/4-2:2.0/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0 Feb 15 12:31:16 localhost kernel: Vendor: IC25N030 Model: ATDA04-0 Rev: DA4O Feb 15 12:31:16 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Feb 15 12:31:16 localhost kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete Feb 15 12:31:16 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 58605120 512-byte hdwr sectors (30006 MB) Feb 15 12:31:16 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Feb 15 12:31:17 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 58605120 512-byte hdwr sectors (30006 MB) Feb 15 12:31:17 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Feb 15 12:31:17 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [mac] p1 p2 Feb 15 12:31:17 localhost kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Feb 15 12:31:29 localhost kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: over-current change on port 2 Feb 15 12:31:29 localhost kernel: usb 4-2: USB disconnect, address 4 Feb 15 12:31:29 localhost kernel: usb 4-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 Feb 15 12:31:30 localhost kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Feb 15 12:31:30 localhost kernel: usb-storage: device found at 5 Feb 15 12:31:30 localhost kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Feb 15 12:31:30 localhost usb.agent[572]: usb-storage: already loaded Feb 15 12:31:35 localhost kernel: Vendor: IC25N030 Model: ATDA04-0 Rev: DA4O Feb 15 12:31:35 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Feb 15 12:31:35 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 58605120 512-byte hdwr sectors (30006 MB) Feb 15 12:31:35 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Feb 15 12:31:35 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 58605120 512-byte hdwr sectors (30006 MB) Feb 15 12:31:35 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Feb 15 12:31:35 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: [mac] p1 p2 Feb 15 12:31:35 localhost kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Feb 15 12:31:35 localhost kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete Feb 15 12:31:36 localhost scsi.agent[611]: disk at /devices/pci0001:10/0001:10:1b.2/usb4/4-2/4-2:2.0/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0 Feb 15 12:31:47 localhost kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: over-current change on port 2 Feb 15 12:31:48 localhost kernel: usb 4-2: USB disconnect, address 5 -- Now it keeps repeatingly connecting and disconnecting until I unpluged the device. I'm using a self compiled linux 2.6.11-rc4 and a freshly installed debian unstable. There has just been a mouse connected to the usb bus when the disk was plugged in. Anybody any explaination for this odd behaviour? Uwe PS: The same usb disk did work on a pismo with linux 2.6.6. -- MMK GmbH, Universitaetsstr. 11, 58097 Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +2331 840446Fax: +2331 843920 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Switching from BootX to quik
On Tuesday, February 15, 2005, at 03:02 AM, Hans Ekbrand wrote: I thought that I could always zap pram and boot from cd into macos and bootX, but holding down command-option-p-r after reboot doesn't help. The screen stays black and I don't hear any disk spinning up. Tried to boot from CD or floppy, but failed. I realize that I need a mac-serial cable and nullmodem-cable to debug this further. That's odd. Given that you've wiped MacOS from the disk you should get a grey screen with the no-disk icon. Not hearing the disk is odd as well. Ignoring the disk for now, the symptom indicates that NVRAM wasn't reset. You need to hold cmd-opt-P-R down _during_ boot, not after, and hold them down until you hear the second boot chime. Apple's Howto is at: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238 If all else fails, you can open the case and remove the PRAM battery until the setting evaporate. (the battery may need replacing anyway.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where's tfm?
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Brad Boyer wrote: I doubt it gets the kind of testing that the newer stuff does. I think only the 7x00 and 8x00 models had the chaos bridge. Hey Folks, I just set up an 8600 at home with the sole purpose of playing around with multimedia stuff on it. I'm actually quite willing to spend some time to try to get the control video device working if it means I could recover one of my PCI slots (the one in question, currently occupied by an ATI Mach 64 card). I have no device driver programming experience, but I've programmed with C for the last few years, and am quite willing to learn here, if some of the more knowledgeable folks are willing to answer sticky questions when they come up ;-) Even it means going back to Mac OS classic and taking apart system extensions, etc, I'm willing to give it a go ... So here are my first couple of questions. I had "testing" on this mac but I'm quite willing to wipe the install and start from scratch - and I probably will, just to test out the new installer... But if I do kernel work and I have questions, what sources would be the best to use ? And how would I get these sources ? thanx vinai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iBook G4 1.2Ghz 12" and therm_adt746x
On 19:11:16 13/Feb , Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Have a look at > $ modinfo therm_adt746x | grep parm thanks for the information, it will be very userful! Cheers Menoz -- Free Software Enthusiast Debian Powered Linux User #332564 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pmacpow--would a .deb be worthwhile?
On Tuesday, February 15, 2005, at 08:08 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 08:36:51AM +1100, Cedric Pradalier wrote: According to Rich Johnson, on Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:17:57 -0500, A recent thread (Starting-up a server automaticly) mentioned using Takashi Oe's pmacpow to schedule cold-start boots. I've been playing around with it recently and have a version that will also trigger boot-on-AC. So, my question for the gallery is: Would it be worth the effort to create a .deb for this little utility? I guess so. I'd like to give it a try. Can it also awake from sleep at a given time ? Or it could be integrated into powerpc-utils. but this is up to Michael to decide. Actually that seems like a more logical location. I'll check with him. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where's tfm?
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:00:40AM -0600, vinai wrote: > I just set up an 8600 at home with the sole purpose of playing around > with multimedia stuff on it. I'm actually quite willing to spend some > time to try to get the control video device working if it means I could > recover one of my PCI slots (the one in question, currently occupied by > an ATI Mach 64 card). Even at it's theoretical performance limits, the control chip can't do everything the mach64 chip does. However, it should be possible to have better raw bandwidth into VRAM compared to a PCI card. It's worth a try. > I have no device driver programming experience, but I've programmed with > C for the last few years, and am quite willing to learn here, if some of > the more knowledgeable folks are willing to answer sticky questions when > they come up ;-) Even it means going back to Mac OS classic and taking > apart system extensions, etc, I'm willing to give it a go ... I'm sure we'll all do what we can to help. If you're serious about taking apart mac drivers, you may also get good info out of the 68k mac efforts. > So here are my first couple of questions. I had "testing" on this mac > but I'm quite willing to wipe the install and start from scratch - and I > probably will, just to test out the new installer... But if I do kernel > work and I have questions, what sources would be the best to use ? And > how would I get these sources ? These days, the official source from kernel.org is pretty good for ppc. Brad Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg problems...
Hi Charles On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:48:52PM -0500, vze26m98 wrote: > Sorry to bother, but I'm a fairly new user and have dug myself into a > hole ... Welcome to the Club ... :) > and my searches of the Debian lists haven't turned up what I'm > needing. > > Recently did an install of Woody on a Pismo, things have been fine. > > Added the Debian testing distributions to my sources.list. Got a > zillion things to upgrade, which I started in on. > > deselect warned me about quitting xdm when it started to install glibc > (I think that was the name). I quit and tried to stop xdm. Eventually > figured that out. > > Re-ran dselect to return to the install process, but it stopped again on > the xfs install, which (if I remember) said it was broken. I accepted > the choice to continue. I gave up using dselect some time ago: I feel this tool is similar to Windoze, a bit: I never really understood what was going on when using it, IIRC .. :) I'd try this: Seeing what your system thinks about the status of the installed packages: dpkg -C The latter should give you some information on what's wrong with your installs. If it does not tell you what is wrong try one of the following commands: The following should configure all unpacked but unconfigured packages: dpkg --configure -a Doing the same with a single package: dpkg --configure dpkg-reconfigure If all this will not help, I'd try to reinstall the package that can't be reconfigured for some reason, in the following, as an example, xfs, apt-get install --reinstall xfs I'm not sure if the latter will work, please see below ... For *all* commands above, except perhaps "dpkg -C", first do a dry-run with the "--simulate" option, so apt-get/dpkg might hopefully warn you in case you're gonna enter something that could be wrong ... :) ...something like dpkg --simulate --configure -a dpkg-reconfigure seems to be blind to the "--simulate" option. > > dselect eventually gave up, saying that dpkg-preconfigure didn't exist, > which was true. > > I now have dselect telling me that I've got 37 packages to upgrade, but > nothing happens. The upgrade clearly isn't complete, as I can type "man > dpkg-preconfigure" and it can't find man. > > [ ... ] I'd guess you can't install anything else until you fixed the problems with the packages already installed, or perhaps better: half-installed ... Good luck, and please come back if it doesn't work ... Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Addendum: Re: dpkg problems...
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 08:41:28PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > For *all* commands above, except perhaps "dpkg -C", first do a dry-run > with the "--simulate" option, so apt-get/dpkg might hopefully warn you > in case you're gonna enter something that could be wrong ... :) > ...something like > > dpkg --simulate --configure -a Please be sure to write "--simulate" as the very first option, before any "action-parameter": "man dpkg" for more on that ... Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg problems...
On 12:48 Mon 14 Feb , vze26m98 wrote: > Added the Debian testing distributions to my sources.list. Got a > zillion things to upgrade, which I started in on. Does that "Added" mean that you didn't remove the stable one? If you did so, get rid of stable and apt-get update && apt-get upgrade... Moritz pgpyv3L4yCu3i.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: iBook G4: repeatingly connect/disconnect of usb storage device
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 15:04, steinm wrote: > Feb 15 12:31:29 localhost kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: over-current change on > port 2 That suggests to me that the amount of current it's trying to pull exceeds what the USB port is able/willing to provide. Try an externally powered drive? David -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s-: a-- C++ UL P L+++ E--- W++ N+ o+ K- w--- O M V- PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t 5- X+ R- tv+ b+ DI++ D+ G+ e++ h--- r++ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- pgpkBDDmHPj7H.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Japanese Input on Sarge/KDE
Am Sonntag, 13. Februar 2005 23.56 schrieb Dylan Beaudette: > Hi everyone. > > In the past I have been able to get a working japaese input system with > canna-server and kinput2. > > i start the input environment with a little script: > export LANG=ja_JP > kinput2 -xim -kinput -canna & > uxterm& > I cannot comment on Japanese. But as my wife is from Korea we often do a smilar trick for e.g. a konquerer. My scripts looks like: #! /bin/bash export [EMAIL PROTECTED] export LC_CTYPE=ko_KR.eucKR export LANG=ko_KR.eucKR ami & kmail > from the uxterm i can start typing in japanese by first pressing > "shift+space". in the past any KDE application started from this uxterm > would allow me to input japanes into a text field by first pressing > "shift+space"... A couple of months ago this stopped working. Could there > be something that has changed since then? > > Also, i was advised to add the following to my .xinitrc: > export XMODIFIERS='@im=kinput2 > however i am not really sure what this is doing.. It tells the X server that it should use kinput2 as its Input Manager. However, if you are using KDE your .xinitrc will not be executed. So in my case I added the corresponding entry for AMI in my script. Hope that helps. Best regards -- Niklaus Giger Wieshoschet 6 CH-8753 Mollis Tel. ++41 55 612 20 54 (privat) Tel. ++41 55 618 64 68 (Geschäft)
Re: where's tfm?
Hi, On 15 Feb, this message from Brad Boyer echoed through cyberspace: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:00:40AM -0600, vinai wrote: >> I just set up an 8600 at home with the sole purpose of playing around >> with multimedia stuff on it. I'm actually quite willing to spend >> some time to try to get the control video device working if it means >> I could recover one of my PCI slots (the one in question, currently >> occupied by an ATI Mach 64 card). > > Even at it's theoretical performance limits, the control chip can't do > everything the mach64 chip does. However, it should be possible to > have better raw bandwidth into VRAM compared to a PCI card. It's worth > a try. Yes, this seems a good apreciation of the situation. Additional thoughts: - in my experience, a graphic card on te standard PC bus 'eats' quite a bit of bandwidth, which will impact things like disk access - access to VRAM is _very_ fast compared to PCI cards, both for reading and writing. And believe it or not, X _reads_ quite a bit in VRAM. - the most interesting thig about control, that is not implemented yet, seems to be the hardware cursor, whose existance is proven. It is implemented in control as a bitmap in the last few bytes of every scanline. - disassembling MacOS drivers may give other acceleration ideas, but that is a tedious work. Cheers Michel - Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes|Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED]| http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan| Learn Always. " -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OOo crash on startup
Am Dienstag, 15. Februar 2005 15.16 schrieb Matthew T. Atkinson: > 'ello, > > Has anyone else had this error with OpenOffice? I use the program at > Uni for lectures but recently it just dies every time I try to start it. Do you have openoffice.org-crashrep installed? On my system openoffice.org-bin 1.1.3-1 is installed, which should be the latest release in testing. And it works okay on my PowerBook Alu G4. Best regards -- Niklaus Giger Wieshoschet 6 CH-8753 Mollis Tel. ++41 55 612 20 54 (privat) Tel. ++41 55 618 64 68 (Geschäft)
Re: OOo crash on startup
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:53 PM, Niklaus Giger wrote: > > Has anyone else had this error with OpenOffice? debian package version ? > > but recently it just dies every time I try to start it. have you updated/modified anything ? > On my system openoffice.org-bin 1.1.3-1 is installed, which should be the > latest release in testing. And it works okay on my PowerBook Alu G4. here 1.1.3-4 from unstable works pretty well on ibook 2.2 luca -- Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. -- Leonard Brandwein http://shammash.homelinux.org/ - http://www.artha.org/shammash/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
radeonfb: only 80x25
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, today I updated to linux 2.6.11-rc4 because I had problems with linux-wlan-ng (which are solved now :-) ). But now I only have 80x25 virtual console :-( Ben, I saw in the 2.6.11-rc4 changelog that you updated the radeonfb. Does this have something to do with my problem? I have append="video=radeonfb:1024x786-32" in my /etc/yaboot.conf and this was working until 2.6.10. Anyone know what the problem ist? by, Martin - -- Powered by Debian GNU / Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCEmsiGxxhbGlQyAkRAql0AKCSURBii3PKKshiN1zPRRbd3Vy4eACfT8tO xbtUEBBNAhdFIu/XcONc/KE= =Tzzp -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iBook G4: repeatingly connect/disconnect of usb storage device
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, David Pye wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 15:04, steinm wrote: Feb 15 12:31:29 localhost kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: over-current change on port 2 That suggests to me that the amount of current it's trying to pull exceeds what the USB port is able/willing to provide. Try an externally powered drive? Or go through a powered USB hub - these aren't too bad. I got one that seemed to be pretty well built, as was able to supply power to all 4 of its ports. Cost was ~ $40 US. cheers vinai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OOo crash on startup
Hello, I don't have openoffice.org-crashrep installed -- there doesn't seem to be any such package in Sarge (I tried a few apt-cache searches in case the package name is different in Sarge, to no avail). I'm using: openoffice.org1.1.2dfsg1-3 openoffice.org-bin1.1.2dfsg1-3 openoffice.org-debian-files 1.1.2-5+1 openoffice.org-help-en1.1+20040420-3 openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-gb 20030813-3 openoffice.org-l10n-en1.1.2dfsg1-3 openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us1.1.2dfsg1-3 Hope this helps, thanks for the advice so far, best regards, -- Matthew T. Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: radeonfb: only 80x25
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 22:35 +0100, Martin Lohmeier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > today I updated to linux 2.6.11-rc4 because I had problems with > linux-wlan-ng (which are solved now :-) ). But now I only have 80x25 > virtual console :-( > > Ben, I saw in the 2.6.11-rc4 changelog that you updated the radeonfb. > Does this have something to do with my problem? > I have > > append="video=radeonfb:1024x786-32" > > in my /etc/yaboot.conf and this was working until 2.6.10. Anyone know > what the problem ist? Not sure,can you enable radeonfb verbose debug and send me the output of dmesg ? Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Memory problem
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 14:51 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On my PowerBook (2.6.9-powerpc kernel), top says: > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > > 12457 lefevre 16 0 168m 64m 45m S 0.0 25.6 114:31.11 mozilla-bin > > 12458 lefevre 16 0 168m 64m 45m S 0.0 25.6 0:00.21 mozilla-bin > > 12459 lefevre 16 0 168m 64m 45m S 0.0 25.6 0:12.63 mozilla-bin > > 12461 lefevre 16 0 168m 64m 45m S 0.0 25.6 0:25.27 mozilla-bin > > 1059 lefevre 16 0 168m 64m 45m S 0.0 25.6 0:00.03 mozilla-bin > > > whereas on x86, I get only one instance of mozilla-bin (Mozilla is > compiled using the same .mozconfig). How can I fix that? This is normal. The above are all threads of the same application, they don't actually eat the sum of the memory, but since they share their memory space, "top" will show the same data for all of them. You won't see this on x86 because I suppose debian's glibc on x86 has NPTL support enabled (the new pthread library), which we don't have for ppc yet. (It's available in upstream glibc, but debian's is quite outdated). Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
