Re: XFree-4.0.1/4.0.2 debs
On Jan 18, Grant Miller wrote: > Anyone know what happened to the dists/unstable tree? I've been looking for > XFree-4.0.1 or 4.0.2 debs on a few FTP sites and none of them seem to have > any binaries in the unstable (sid) tree for powerpc. > > I've checked sourceforge.net,freesoftware.com,ftp.us.debian.org and a few > other sites that I know of. Try in pool/main/x/xfree86/ on any Debian mirror. apt-get will find it automagically if you point it at sid. Chris -- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ Computer Systems Manager (Physics & Astronomy, 125 Lewis, 662-915-5765) Instructor, POL 101 (Political Science, 208 Deupree, 662-915-5949)
Re: XF86Setup
On Jun 06, bigj wrote: > gentleman, > I spend the weekend writing up a little document explaining how to set > up Debian on a G3 PowerBook. When I came to try testing X I realized that > the XF86Config was a broken symbolic link. > I was looking for a xf86config or XF86Setup util to configure my X server > to no avail. Any suggestions? You can customize /usr/doc/xserver-common/examples/XF86Config.eg (i.e. copy it to /etc/X11/XF86Config and then hack on it). Unfortunately automated configuration is lacking on non-Intel architectures at the moment... Chris -- ===== | Chris Lawrence | You have a computer. Do you have Linux? | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.linux-m68k.org/index.html | || | | Amiga A4000 604e/233Mhz | Join the party that opposed the CDA | |with Linux/APUS 2.2.3 | http://www.lp.org/ | =
PowerPC alien patch (to run Netscape on Debian potato)
Since I suspect many of you want to use the Netscape RPM from
LinuxPPC-r5 on Debian, here's a patch to alien's source tree that
implements "ppc -> powerpc". It may apply to the installed file too,
but I didn't try that...
--- lib/Fromrpm.pm~ Sat Apr 10 16:14:58 1999
+++ lib/Fromrpm.pm Tue Jun 15 01:06:33 1999
@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@
$fields{ARCH}='i386';
}
+# Treat ppc as powerpc.
+if ($fields{ARCH} == 'ppc') {
+$fields{ARCH} = 'powerpc';
+}
+
if ($fields{RELEASE} eq undef || $fields{VERSION} eq undef||
!$fields{NAME}) {
Alien::Error("Error querying rpm file.");
}
(This has been submitted to the alien maintainer - report #39550.)
So all you need to do is:
apply this patch to your alien
download the netscape RPM (see previous messages)
sudo alien --to-deb netscape-4.6-1.rpm
[wait a while]
sudo dpkg -i netscape_4.6-2_powerpc.deb
Chris
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Re: PowerPC alien patch (to run Netscape on Debian potato)
On Jun 15, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Chris Lawrence wrote: > > > > Since I suspect many of you want to use the Netscape RPM from > > LinuxPPC-r5 on Debian, > > Does it work well? Does it include Roaming Access? Does it include Messenger? It seems to include everything in the professional edition. I nearly keeled over when I saw how fast it was... seems much faster than NS 4.6 on the PII-350's at work running Windoze. I haven't managed to crash it yet... (but I haven't been trying too hard either). Chris -- ===== |Chris Lawrence | You have a computer. Do you have Linux? | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |http://www.linux-m68k.org/index.html | | | | | Grad Student, Pol. Sci. |Visit the Amiga Web Directory| | University of Mississippi | http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html | =
Re: XEmacs configuration
[This message has also been posted.] On 26 Jun 99 18:27:51 +1000, David Fong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >...however XEmacs21 still doesn't completely work as advertised. Its >internal environment variable pointing to the `Docs' directory is wrong >(I think docs are in /usr/info/xemacs-21.1-p2, not a sub-directory of >/usr/lib/xemacs-21.1-p2/), and various bindings are not established. > >For example, the `Open File' icons and `Open File' menu item do >not work!, although various other icons and menu choices do. > >Also, xemacs-support is supposed to have AucTeX (the kitchen sink >approach), but I am Debian-PowerPC version doesn't seem to. The entire xemacs21 package is severely broken on all architectures. A new maintainer has taken over and should be fixing things. In the meantime, I'd recommend emacs20, but the -el and binary packages are out-of-sync (the powerpc build daemon seems hopelessly confused at the moment), so it probably won't install properly unless you tell dpkg to ignore the dependencies. Chris -- ===== |Chris Lawrence |Get your Debian 2.1 CD-ROMs| | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| http://www.lordsutch.com/ | | | | |Amiga A4000 604e/233Mhz|This address has been spam-proofed.| | with Linux/APUS 2.2.8 | All spam goes to your postmaster. | =
pm2 acceleration patch for X -> Debian?
Has anyone submitted the Permedia2 acceleration patch to the Debian X maintainer? It'd be nice to get it into potato (I'm assuming XF86 4.0 won't make it in there, of course...). Chris -- = | Chris Lawrence | Get your Debian 2.1 CD-ROMs| |<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|http://www.lordsutch.com/ | || | | Amiga A4000 604e/233Mhz| Do you want your bank to snoop? | | with Linux/APUS 2.2.8 |http://www.defendyourprivacy.com/ | =
Re: pm2 acceleration patch for X -> Debian?
On Jun 27, Sven LUTHER wrote: > In the mean time, just grab the latest XF68_FBDev from : > > http://dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr/~luther/xfree/ > > XF68_FBDev_pm2_4 should do just fine, but check the corresponding > readme file to see what is in each one of those. Downloading it now; thanks! Chris -- ===== |Chris Lawrence |Get your Debian 2.1 CD-ROMs| | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| http://www.lordsutch.com/ | | | | |Amiga A4000 604e/233Mhz|This address has been spam-proofed.| | with Linux/APUS 2.2.8 | All spam goes to your postmaster. | =
Re: specific to Hartmut Kuptein
On Aug 22, James D. Freels wrote: > Hartmut, > > Sorry about sending this e-mail public, but the following 2 e-mail > addresses failed: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Being desparate, I am sending to the list as last resort to try and > find Hartmut. I believe it's actually "koptein": quango4 /usr/src> lbdbq hartmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hartmut Koptein 1999-05-08 14:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hartmut Koptein 1999-08-22 22:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hartmut Koptein 1999-07-18 21:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hartmut Koptein 1999-05-21 02:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hartmut Koptein 99-02-23 23:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hartmut Koptein 1999-08-19 17:32 Try one of those :-) Chris -- ===== |Chris Lawrence |Get your Debian 2.1 CD-ROMs| | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| http://www.lordsutch.com/ | | | | |Amiga A4000 604e/233Mhz|Are you tired of politics as usual?| | with Linux/APUS 2.2.8 | http://www.lp.org/| =
Re: dhcp?
On Sep 16, Josh Huber wrote: > Particularly, in the department of dhcp, how would that be done > properly on a debian system? The DHCP packages in Debian (dhcpd in particular) seem likely to be rather useful in this regard. I don't know if dhcpd is set up to run as an init script by default. Chris -- = | Chris Lawrence| The Linux/m68k FAQ | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/faq.html | | || |Amiga A4000 604e/233Mhz | Do you want your bank to snoop? | | with Linux/APUS 2.2.8| http://www.defendyourprivacy.com/ | =
Re: what about cdrecord ?
On Oct 01, Igor Falcomata' wrote: > I've tried to burn a cd with cdrecord (using either xcdroas either > cdrtoaster), but i get always this cdrecord error... > > Cdrecord release 1.8a25 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM > cdrecord: Invalid argument. shmget failed > Done. Press Enter PPC kernels have their shared memory limit set way too low. I don't remember where the parameter is, but you should change it to what it is on Intel (16 MB I think) and recompile the kernel. Chris -- ===== | Chris Lawrence | Get your Debian 2.1 CD-ROMs | |<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |http://www.lordsutch.com/| | | | | Amiga A4000 604e/233Mhz | Visit the Amiga Web Directory | | with Linux/APUS 2.2.8 | http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html | =
Re: what about cdrecord ?
On Oct 08, Frank Petzold wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > At 12:23 -0700 1999-10-01, C.M. Connelly wrote: > > >The parameter is SHMMAX, #defined in > > >/usr/src/linux/include/asm*/shmparam.h. > > >This parameter is set to 4 MB by default in older (pre-2.2.10) > > >kernels, but has been changed in more recent versions of the Vger > > >source code (presumably these patches have propagated to the main > > >source tree, but I wouldn't take it on faith). > > > > % grep '^#define SHMMAX' ~kernel/2.2.13pre/include/asm-ppc/shmparam.h > > #define SHMMAX 0x200/* max shared seg size (bytes) */ > > > > The parameter is also tunable at runtime via /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax, > > the value is in decimal bytes. > > So 32MB (the current default) can be set via > >echo 33554432 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax > > I have recompiled the kernel (APUS 2.2.10) with #define SHMMAX > 0x200, but now the system hangs when I try to write an image in > xcdroast. Are there other parameters to adjust, too? Or is this an > APUS specific problem? Reliable CD recording is something of a black art. 8X recording on my P III-450 with Adaptec 2940U generally only succeeds under low system loads (although to be fair my source and destination drives are on the same card). Amiga SCSI cards may be too slow to keep up (I know I had problems under APUS with both a A4091 and GVP Series II). The SCSI drivers are probably also buggy... Chris -- = | Chris Lawrence | Get your Debian 2.1 CD-ROMs | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.lordsutch.com/ | | | | | Political Scientist Wanna-be| Visit the Amiga Web Directory | | University of Mississippi |http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html| =
Re: The new Debian distribution
On Dec 18, Björn Johansson wrote: > I'm waiting for the new Debian distribution to arrive. What major things > haveto be fixed before this new distribution becomes available? If I had a > fast internet-connection I would of course download the existing "potato" > version but since that's not the case, I'll haveto wait... Has anyone tried > Debian on a powerpc equipped Amiga running AGA? Let's hope I don't haveto > do that, I'm still waiting for my CybervisionPPC. Is there any problems with > the AGA support? Since I don't know anyone which is running DebianPPC > on an Amiga I sure could appreciate some facts concerning stability and so > on, good links would also be nice :). Debian does run on Amigas running under Linux/APUS. I think Jesper Skov's Doc'n'FAQ includes information about what you need to get potato (2.2) for PPC running on an Amiga. It will run OK with either the AGA chipset or on a Cybervision PPC. Debian itself is fairly stable... the stability problems are normally due to the Linux/APUS kernel not being 100% (and at least some of that is due to the 2.3 kernels it's based on being highly flaky as well). Chris -- = |Chris Lawrence | It's 2/3 of a beltway... | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| http://www.lordsutch.com/tn385/ | | | | | Open Directory Editor |Join the party that opposed the CDA| | http://dmoz.org/| http://www.lp.org/| =
Re: How did you get X running in Debian PowerPC?
On Jan 15, Renaud Dreyer wrote: > Unfortunately, the feeling out there seems to be that Debian PowerPC > is at best unstable and only for pionners, and at worse that it's > hacked on a LinuxPPC distribution. Well, LinuxPPC is the distribution that's "hacked on" top of someone else's: Red Hat. We may have borrowed code here and there from Red Hat, but I doubt we've used much of anything from LinuxPPC. I think we may have butchered up some of their Netscape packages at times, though ;-) Chris -- ===== | Chris Lawrence | Get Debian GNU/Linux CDROMs | |<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.lordsutch.com/cds/ | | | | | Open Directory Editor | Your site belongs here. | |http://dmoz.org/ | [Commercialize your sig today!] | =
Re: powerpc build daemon vs apt-get -b source
On Aug 02, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Can someone here explain to me how the build daemon is supposed > to work? Last week I was whining to our debian packager about > the ppc guys being so slow to build new packages. He enlightened > me saying that (in this case lilypond1.3) had been accepted into > woody overnight, and if I maybe meant the build daemon?? I assume the build daemon is still set for potato. Chris
Re: Voodoo3 2000 problems in Woody
On Jul 01, Shawn Dunn wrote: > This is a repost from a bit ago, all I really want to know, is WILL > THIS CARD WORK? I mean, if the only suggestion you have is RTFM, > I've been rtfm'ing the crap outta stuff trying to get it to work, > with no luck, I never recived ANY sort of response the first time, > and after talking to Mr Branden Robinson, he said to resort to > threats, and to mention something about already going to "Overfiend" > and that the list members would know about it =] It will work on i386 (I had a Voodoo 3 that moved around between a few systems for a while until it fried itself a few months back), but I haven't a clue about using this card on a PowerPC. Sounds like the card is flaky when you try to do accelerated stuff, but it could be a PPC issue. If you have a Intel box around, see if it works in there with XF4; that should give your answer. You might also want to try the pre-release 4.2.0 packages, but I doubt that will fix the problem. Chris -- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to distinguish a mac from an Amiga?
Getting to the original poster's question: I believe APUS kernels will have a /proc/hardware, which isn't present at all on other PPC architecture. Testing for the existence of the /proc/bus/zorro directory would be another reasonable Amiga test. Chris -- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ Computer Systems Manager, Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Mississippi 125B Lewis Hall - 662-915-5765
Re: slink Tarball Progress
On Jul 29, Dan Jacobowitz wrote: > > hwclock just barely supports non-i386 architectures, i.e. first it tries > > some ioctl, and if that fails, it tries direct hardware access, this is so > > it works for m68k and possibly alpha besides i386. The standard Debian init > > scripts are designed to cope with either a 'clock' binary or a 'hwclock' > > binary, since pmac-utils has a 'clock' binary, we should be able to use it. Actually, there's no direct hardware access on m68k at least... all the setting/getting is done in the kernel layer (because there are umpteen hardware clocks on m68k: Atari, two varieties on Amiga, Mac...). Ideally /dev/rtc should be used, but for various reasons (which I'm not exactly clear on... probably because it's optional) it isn't. Chris -- ===== |Chris Lawrence| My home page:| |<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| http://www.clark.net/pub/lawrencc/ | | || | Amiga A4000/040 and |Join the party that opposed the CDA | | Linux/m68k 2.0.33pl1 | http://www.lp.org/ | = -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freezing powerpc and sparc
On Nov 09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is it no problem to use xbase_3.3.2.3a-7.deb together with > xlib6g_3.3.2.3-1.deb and xserver-fbdev_3.3.2.3-1.deb. There probably is a problem, in that you need at least xbase-clients (and probably xterm) to have a decent X installation with a-7. My understanding (from James Troup) is that a new xfree86 package should be out Real Soon Now that compiles on PowerPC and m68k. Until then we're all screwed. Chris -- = | Chris Lawrence | My home page: | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| http://www.clark.net/pub/lawrencc/| | | | | Amiga A4000/060 with |Are you tired of politics as usual?| | Linux/m68k 2.1.124 | http://www.lp.org/| =
