Re: Booting to floppy

[Geert Stappers]

Hallo Kenney,

The boot-floppies are indeed for all architectures.
But for this question,   debian-powerpc is a better place to ask.
( there CC-ed )


At 20:25 +0100 2/26/01, Kenney Mark wrote:
>All,
>
>I want to install Debian on a Mac, and can get my Power Macintosh 8500/120
>to the Open Firmware boot prompt, but cannot find any documentation that
>tells me how to boot the "rescue floppy" from the boot prompt to start my
>Debian 2.2 installation.  I'm guessing it's something like "boot fd:0"?
>Your help would be greatly appreciated...
>
>Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>


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Re: Booting to floppy

[Geert Stappers]

At 13:45 +0100 2/27/01, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>On Feb 27, Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >There are two floppy images in the powerpc dist that might be
> >mentioned.  One is called rescue.bin, the other boot-floppy-hfs.img,
> >and hence a newbie might easily think that the former is the rescue
> >floppy mentioned often in the docs, but is not bootable on old world
> >macs, it is an ext2 file system, actually.  Maybe not bootable on
> >any macs since people keep saying that newworld macs don't have
> >floppy.  Maybe they work on some other powerpc platforms, I don't
> >know.
>It does not work on IBM machines, and I can't see why it should work on
>any other platform, since no open firmware version I know about
>understands ext2.
>
>The only way to install debian on a CHRP machine is to extract the
>kernel from the ext2 floppy and copy it on a raw or FAT-formatted disk.
>And then you discover the kernel has no serial console support, so you
>have to find a PCI video card and put it in the machine. After doing
>that you can finally boot the system, at least if the kernel is not too
>old for your machine and dies with some weird error message.
>

Would it help if I build a kernel for you?




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Re: Debian Etch on IBM JS20 fails on hard drive

[Geert Stappers]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:45:55AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> Mayube someone else within the d-i team can look at the powerpc kernel .udebs
> to see where the amd74xx module is included and further help MAthew ?

Frans did it in http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/09/msg01234.html


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Re: Debian has failed us

[Geert Stappers]

Op 11-01-2007 om 13:24 schreef Mathew Binkley:
> Frans Pop wrote:
> 
> Since the bug report hasn't changed since my initial bug report, you may
> try that.  Those blades are now running RHEL 5.  Debian lost its
> opportunity.

Mathew Binkley filed bugreport #391451 on friday october 6th 2006.
On monday october 9th, it was cloned into #391861.
Both bugs where closed saturday october 21st 2006.

So there were changes since the initial bug report.

Details are available at http://bugs.debian.org/391861


> > Note: if you are really interested in solving this issue, I suggest we 
> > discontinue this useless thread and stop bothering a lot of people who 
> > can't help you anyway
> 
> I am not interested in solving this "issue".  As I said previously,
> we're not considering Debian any more.  It's a dead issue.
> 
> What I am interested in, as a long-time Debian user, is solving the
> greater issue of real-world Debian problems not being solved because
> some developers have raging egos and can't get along.

A more constructive way of solving "the greater issue",
could have be done by asking in november a question like

  Bug #391451, about a kernel module, is reported as fixed.
  What is needed to get in the Debian installer?

 
> Thus I am including the people who have a chance to change that.  Debian
> may never die as a distribution, but it's heading down the road towards
> losing it's relevance because of issues like this, and that's sad.


This E-mail is a reply-to-all, so we get all the karma points we deserve.

 
> Mat


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powerpc buildd voltaire, gnome-phone-manager stalled

[Geert Stappers]

Hello,

The overview at http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=gnome-phone-manager
shows that the package gnome-phone-manager is built on all
architectures, but not yet installed on power-pc.

>From 
>http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=gnome-phone-manager;ver=0.40-3;arch=powerpc;stamp=1195969904
I understand that the package is built on voltaire on november 25th.

So for some reason is the buildd process, at least for
gnome-phone-manager, stalled.

What should be done to get builldd going again?


Cheers
Geert Stappers
(Not subscribed to debian-powerpc,
even not sure about addressing the right list)


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Re: rebuilding my partition map

[Geert Stappers]

At 5:35 +0200 8/24/02, Grant Hollingworth wrote:
>I did a stupid thing...
You still can tell your self what happend, so it is not that stupid.

>
>Not knowing how to use hpmount (of hfsplus), I ran 'hpmount /dev/hda'. A
>while ago I had put myself in the disk group (can't remember why), so I
>had write permission to /dev/hda.
>
>/sbin/mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda now returns nothing.
>
>My system is still running, but I have the feeling that rebooting would
>be unpleasant.

It is wurth a try, but first read on.

>
>How can I reconstruct the partition map? df and /proc/partitions have
>some information:
>
>spooky$ df
>Filesystem   1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda11 1032088144300835360  15% /
>/dev/hda13 2064208   1593620365732  82% /home
>/dev/hda14  495844381031 89213  82% /var
>/dev/hda15 2064208   1814668144684  93% /photo
>/dev/hda16 2064208   1739884219468  89% /usr
>
>spooky$ cat /proc/partitions
>
>major minor  #blocks  name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse
>running use aveq
>
>   3 0   19535040 hda 182128 300566 2458956 3295240 155294 861994
>3732712 28351960 -44 41433290 -1322175690
>   3 1 31 hda1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>   3 2 27 hda2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>   3 3 37 hda3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>   3 4 27 hda4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>   3 5 37 hda5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>   3 6100 hda6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>   3 7256 hda7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>   3 8256 hda8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>   3 99767129 hda9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>   310800 hda10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>   3111048576 hda11 10109 9980 160706 189570 18445 35267 431448
>3512910 0 980160 3706220
>   312 131072 hda12 11471 28094 316520 347430 7830 36837 363328
>1055590 0 279710 1407130
>   3132097152 hda13 13894 22890 169914 177570 15475 52787 438734
>2510310 0 580990 2691650
>   314 512000 hda14 63488 131747 390484 1235170 74392 625891
>1401758 11905470 0 1543830 13163750
>   3152097152 hda15 3204 24259 174146 106320 815 7852 23580 155470
>0 87230 269320
>   3162097152 hda16 79851 82695 1245162 1237600 38336 103360
>1073862 9212200 0 1753670 10464410
>   3171783235 hda17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>
>
>hda12 is swap. hda17 is free space. hda10 is my boot partition. hda9 is
>an hfs plus partition. The first eight partitions are the weird Mac OS
>ones.
>
>With the info I have now, it seems like I can (maybe) rescue my Linux setup. I
>would like to repair the Mac OS partitions, too, but I don't have
>anything important on them.
>
>Any ideas?

Backup the system while you still can.
Perhaps that dd(1), data duplicator, your friend for the Mac partitions is.

I'm not sure if you get more information about the partition table.

This the info on my system:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
$ /sbin/mac-fdisk -l
/dev/hda
#type name length   base (
size)  system
dump: name /dev/hda len 8
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple63 @ 1(
31.5k)  Partition map
/dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap  1600 @ 64
(800.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 boot  63936 @ 1664 (
31.2M)  Linux native
/dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 home 262144 @ 65600
(128.0M)  Linux native
/dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap1048576 @ 327744
(512.0M)  Linux swap
/dev/hda6 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root   28121792 @ 1376320  (
13.4G)  Linux native

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=29498112
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
$ df
Filesystem   1k-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 13840064   6465076   6671944  50% /
/dev/hda330953  9582 19773  33% /boot
/dev/hda4   126931 38332 82046  32% /home
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   3 0   14749056 hda
   3 1 31 hda1
   3 2800 hda2
   3 3  31968 hda3
   3 4 131072 hda4
   3 5 524288 hda5
   3 6   14060896 hda6
   364 273490 hdb
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You can use it to recalculate to reassemble your partition.


I assume that you have a rescue disk (floppy/CD-ROM) or get one.
(Debian boot media are recues disks.)

Restart your computer to see if we are really in trouble.
If in trouble use the rescue disk and the gathered info to repair your system.


Good luck and I hope that you live to tell   ;-)


Geert St

Re: module installation at system boot ?

[Geert Stappers]

At 10:18 +0200 9/14/02, vinai wrote in a different order:
>On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Alexander Stagun wrote:
>
>> vinai wrote:
>>
>> > What is the "cleanest" way to add kernel modules so they are loaded
>> > at boot time ?
>>
>> /etc/modules
>>
>> > I recently got a firewire disk and redid my kernel with all of the
>> > 
>> > /etc/modutils.  But neither try worked at boot up ...
>>
>> Putting that modules in /etc/modules should load them during boot up.
>> Perhaps those modules need some options or a specific load order?

>Someone suggested I try modconf.  After running that and adding all the
>firewire related modules, it worked great after bootup.  It did add the
>same entries I thought I did to /etc/modules, but I could not tell what
>else was changed, if anything ...
>
>Thanks much.
>
>cheers
>vinai
>

Hello Vinai,

Would you please in an one-to-many-conversion ( e.g. Mailingslists )
answer below the text?

Thanks.


Geert St

Re: m3mirror for iBook 2 ?

[Geert Stappers]

At 23:01 +0200 9/16/02, jonas bandi wrote:
>Vincent Bernat wrote:
>
>> Hello !
>>
>> Is there an equivalent to m3mirror for the new ibooks ?
>>
>> How to use the external screen in the console and in X ?
>>
>>
>If  you have a radeon chip, you can use the XFree 4.2 binaries from
>Michel (http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/) to use an external monitor. I
>attach my XFConfig-4 (for my TiBook) as an example.

So how didn't the attachment made it to the Mailinglist.

>
>hope it helps
>-j

Geert St

Re: airport in /etc/network/interfaces

[Geert Stappers]

At 1:13 +0200 9/20/02, christophe =?unknown-8bit?Q?barb=E9?= wrote:
>Hi again,
>
>'modprobe airport' seems to work.
>So I try to connect to my base station with the following lines in my
>/etc/network/interfaces file :
>
>iface eth1 inet dhcp
>wireless_essid abcd
>wireless_key s:efgh
>
>where abcd is the network name provided by the airport base and efgh is
>the password I use under macos-x for this network.

That is configuration for a DHCP-client.
( I don't know if it is a good configuration )

>
>But then
>
># ifup eth1
>Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
>Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
>All rights reserved.
>
>Please contribute if you find this software useful.
>For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
>
>Listening on LPF/eth1/00:30:65:09:e4:d1
>Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:30:65:09:e4:d1
>Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
>DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
>DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8

That looks like the output of a DHCP-server,
which is not expected on a client.

See http://ldp.nllgg.nl/HOWTO/mini/DHCP/ for DHCP information.

>
>and so on ...
>
>Any ideas ?

I not sure if wireless ethernet can do a DHCP request.



And something else:
Notice that this mailinglist is about PowerPC.

>
>Christophe
>


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Re: Help getting gnome2 to install

[Geert Stappers]

At 23:00 +0200 9/23/02, Chris Hoover wrote:
>I need some help getting gnome2 to install.  This is what I am getting
>when I try to do the install:
>
>apt-get -t experimental install gnome2
   ^^

>Reading Package Lists... Done
>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>or been moved out of Incoming.
>
>Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
>the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
>that package should be filed.
>The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
>Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  gnome2: Depends: gnome-utils (>= 1.106) but it is not going to be
>installed
>  Depends: gnome-games (>= 2.0.2-1) but 1.4.0.4-2 is to be
>installed
>E: Sorry, broken packages
>
>
>Here is my sources.list:
>deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
>deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
>deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main
>deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main
>
>deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
>
>deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main
 ^

>deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main
 ^

>
>

"experimental" and "../project/experimental" don't match.

>
>Can anyone point out what else I have to do to get gnome2 to install?


Try debian-user and/or the debian gnome mailinglist.

>
>Thanks
You are welcome.
See you on PowerPC related topic on this list ;-)

Geert St

Re: Woody iBook 2 700 MHz with radeon works!

[Geert Stappers]

At 16:30 +0200 9/27/02, Markus Rosenstihl wrote:
>Hi
>After more than one week messing up with my iBook to get accelerated X
>working,I figured it out how to do it. As the information how to do it
>was spread all over the net, I think it would bee a could idea to write
>down what i have done. I hope this is the right list for this.
>Thanks a lot for all the peaple gave me the information!!
>I would like to provide more links but I don't find them so fast.
>
>1.

 [ install description ]
>
>PS: Some comments or additions would be nice!
>

Contact one the authors of the webpages you used
and provide them with your additions.



Geert St

Re: url for m3mirror

[Geert Stappers]

At 16:57 +0200 10/2/02, christophe =?unknown-8bit?Q?barb=E9?= wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I feel a bit ashamed but i am unable to find the m3miror source. I have
>searched the mailing list archive and the penguinppc.org site without
>success.
>
>I would appreciate if someone can point me to the url.


Google with "m3mirror" gives many many hits.
Google with "m3mirror benh" brings you to http://penguinppc.org/~benh/
search again for "m3mirror" on that page.

>
>Also I plan to do a presentation with my new TiBook. So if you have tips
>on how to achieve this goal...
>Will I be able to do it without xinerama ?

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
$ apt-cache search magicpoint
ewipe - Yet another presentation tool based on Tcl/Tk
kernel-patch-kdb - Builtin kernel debugger.
mgp - MagicPoint- an X11 based presentation tool
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
$ apt-cache show mgp
Package: mgp
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 1536
Maintainer: Fumitoshi UKAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: powerpc
Version: 1.09a-5
Depends: imlib1, libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libpng2(>=1.0.12), libttf2, libungif4g
(>=4.1-1), vflib2 (>= 2.25.1-1), xlibs (>> 4.1.0), perl | perl5, defoma
Recommends: libjpeg-progs, pnmtopng, netpbm, sharutils
Suggests: emacsen-common, gs, tetex-bin, ttf-openoffice, ttf-kochi-gothic,
ttf-kochi-mincho, ttf-kochi-gothic, ttf-xtt-wadalab-gothic,
ttf-xtt-watanabe-mincho,msttcorefonts, vflib2-misc, watanabe-vfont,
asiya24-vfont, gsfonts-x11
Filename: pool/main/m/mgp/mgp_1.09a-5_powerpc.deb
Size: 686504
MD5sum: b759a191438836500dab6e16265e8172
Description: MagicPoint- an X11 based presentation tool
 MagicPoint is an X11 based presentation tool.  It is designed to make
 simple presentations easy while to make complicated presentations
 possible.  Its presentation file (whose suffix is typically .mgp) is
 just text so that you can create presentation files quickly with your
 favorite editor (e.g. Emacs).

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see also http://www.gag.com/~bdale/talks/2002/debconf2/porting/




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Re: Which tools for compiling a kernel

[Geert Stappers]

At 21:10 +0100 12/14/02, Roland Wegmann wrote:
>Hello
>
>I am going to compile aBen's Kernel by myself. i read some howto's about
>it but they gave different information which tools you have to install in
>order to compile a kernel. So I tried the following apt-get install:
>
>apt-get install gcc binutils make kernel-package
>
>After the installation I got the message of removing modutils and
>modconf. And an additional warning that the system could be damaged, if I
>remove this tools, because the kernel was compiled with modules.
>Therefore I answered the question without 'yes' (I simply hit 'enter').
>
>Now I'm really unsure what to do. Does my system have any conflicts now,
>because I have install the tools above and not removed modconf and modutils?
>Which tool is responsible for this warning?
>
>But more important: Which tools are absolutly necessary for compiling a
>Ben's kernel??

gcc, the compiler
make, a program that can check what to build, based upon "Makefile's"
binutils, a bundle of programs (linker & assembler) for further processing


about kernel-package

apt-cache show kernel-package | grep -e "^D" -e "^ " # begin with D or space
Depends: perl5, dpkg (>= 1.4), dpkg-dev (>= 1.4.0.9), gcc | c-compiler, make
Description: Debian Linux kernel package build scripts.
 This package provides the capability to create a debian kernel-image
 package by just running make-kpkg kernel_image in a kernel source
 directory tree.  It can also package the relevant kernel headers into
 a kernel-headers package. In general, this package is very useful if
 you need to create a custom kernel, if, for example, the default
 kernel does not support some of your hardware, or you wish a leaner,
 meaner kernel.  It also scripts the steps that need be taken to
 compile the kernel, which is quite convenient (forgetting a crucial
 step once was the initial motivation for this package). Please look at
 /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/Rationale.gz for a full list of advantages
 of this package.
 .
 If you are running on an intel x86 platform, and you wish to compile a
 custom kernel (why else are you considering this package?), then you may
 need the package bin86 as well.  (This is not required on other platforms).



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Re: tdfxfb fixes - take 2

[Geert Stappers]

At 13:50 +0100 12/15/02, n001 wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'd already made a patch, 1 or 2 years ago, here is it, hope that help.
>

Is upstreamer really that hard to find?


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Re: tdfxfb fixes - take 2

[Geert Stappers]

At 2:21 +0100 12/15/02, Derrik Pates wrote:
>Ok, I'm attaching a better version of the previous patch, including a
>fix that makes the boot logo appear correctly. I'm still trying to sort
>out the hardware cursor.
>
>--
>Derrik Pates
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>--- linux/drivers/video/tdfxfb.c.old   2002-12-14 12:42:10.0 -0500
>+++ linux/drivers/video/tdfxfb.c   2002-12-14 19:54:45.0 -0500
>@@ -762,7 +762,12 @@
>tdfx_outl(SRCXY, 0);
>tdfx_outl(DSTXY, xx | (yy << 16));
>tdfx_outl(COMMAND_2D, COMMAND_2D_H2S_BITBLT | (ROP_COPY << 24));
>+#if defined(__BIG_ENDIAN)
>+   /* Add the bit to automatically reorder bytes on BE systems.  -- dpates */
>+   tdfx_outl(SRCFORMAT, 0x50);
>+#elif defined(__LITTLE_ENDIAN)
>tdfx_outl(SRCFORMAT, 0x40);
>+#endif
>tdfx_outl(DSTFORMAT, fmt);
>tdfx_outl(DSTSIZE,   fontwidth(p) | (fontheight(p) << 16));
>i=fontheight(p);
>@@ -820,7 +825,12 @@
>tdfx_outl(COMMAND_3D, COMMAND_3D_NOP);
>tdfx_outl(COLORFORE, fgx);
>tdfx_outl(COLORBACK, bgx);
>+#if defined(__BIG_ENDIAN)
>+   /* Add the bit to automatically reorder bytes for BE systems.  --
>dpates */
>+   tdfx_outl(SRCFORMAT, 0x50);
>+#elif defined(__LITTLE_ENDIAN)
>tdfx_outl(SRCFORMAT, 0x40);
>+#endif
>tdfx_outl(DSTFORMAT, fmt);
>tdfx_outl(DSTSIZE, w | (h << 16));
>tdfx_outl(SRCXY, 0);
>@@ -1620,10 +1630,6 @@
> v.blue.length  = 5;
> break;
>   case 24:
>-v.red.offset=16;
>-v.green.offset=8;
>-v.blue.offset=0;
>-v.red.length = v.green.length = v.blue.length = 8;
>   case 32:
> v.red.offset   = 16;
> v.green.offset = 8;
>@@ -1672,7 +1678,7 @@
>   fix->line_length = par->lpitch;
>   fix->visual  = (par->bpp == 8)
>  ? FB_VISUAL_PSEUDOCOLOR
>- : FB_VISUAL_DIRECTCOLOR;
>+ : FB_VISUAL_TRUECOLOR;
>
>   fix->xpanstep= 0;
>   fix->ypanstep= nopan ? 0 : 1;
>@@ -1951,6 +1957,10 @@
>   return -ENXIO;
>   }
>
>+  /* make sure PCI resource 2 (IO port range) is turned on. of course, if
>+   * this is on a secondary PCI bus (where the IO range isn't at the
>+   * global 0-offset point), things _will_ break. */
>+  pci_enable_device_bars (pdev, 1<<2);
>   fb_info.iobase = pci_resource_start (pdev, 2);
>
>   printk("fb: %s memory = %ldK\n", name, fb_info.bufbase_size >> 10);
>


That looks like kernel patch. Thoose are rare at this mailinglist.

Will this contribution make it into upstream?
Is there a better place where Derrik Pates can send his kernel work?


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Re: Ethernet and AAUI

[Geert Stappers]

At 18:58 +0100 12/19/02, Laurent Decreusefond wrote:
>I have a powerbook 7300 running woody (very nice ...)
>I have an ethernet transceiver (Apple M0437) on the AAUI port. I would
>like to know how to use both my built-in Ethernet card and my transceiver
>to use my Mac as a router between my DSL connection and my own LAN.

There is only 1 ethernet controller chip in a 7300
and that has 2 connectors ( UTP & AAUI )

You will need an other ethernet controller chip ( Network Interface Card )
to make a clean router.



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Re: OT: caring for the ibooks

[Geert Stappers]

At 6:33 +0100 12/24/02, Nirmal Govind wrote:
>Hi... sorry this is off topic but thought the users on this list might
>know the best.. how does one take care of the ibook to ensure that it
>doesn't get scratched on the outside? I usually carry my laptop around a
>lot.. I have the new ibook3 which has sort of a "glass" exterior and I
>just noticed that carrying it around in my bag scratches the
>surface... please let me know if you have any tips on caring for the
>ibooks...
>

Use a cotton bag.
Here in the Netherlands the cotton bag is a give away by companies
same as a plastic bags are.

Other tip:
Put a sheet of paper between the lit and the computer,
that avoid that the keyboard scratches the display.



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Re: PowerPC boot disks

[Geert Stappers]

At 14:07 +0100 12/24/02, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
>Hi,
>
>As mentioned in the past, there is a new PowerPC board for consumers
>called "AmigaOne", and we have been porting the Linux kernel+some
>drivers to it.
>
>I run Debian Woody on mine and of what does work, works quite well.
>
>I would like to help Debian support this board as a flavour of PPC (if
>Debian is interested in that), since I am new to this, would anyone be
>able to tell me what the procedure for this is? I.e Who do I contact,
>and what do they require? A kernel package assumedly, plus install guide
>and install disks..

See below

>
>I have also created some "install disks" for the AmigaOne too, based on
>the PReP install disks, and an install guide for end users.
>
>The PReP disks needs to be changed a bit to suit the AmigaOne better, I
>have the source code, but I am finding it a bit of a mess to follow, is
>the maintainer of the powerpc install disks on this list?

Development of the Debian install disks is done at the mailing list debian-boot

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Re: New kernel problem

[Geert Stappers]

At 14:55 +0100 12/24/02, Laurent Decreusefond wrote:
>I am trying to compile a new kernel on my PowerBook G3 (under woody) to
>enable ip_masquerading (if there exists one such precompiled kernel, I am
>interested). I downloaded 2.4.21 sources, make xconfig, make dep, make
>clean, make vmlinux, make modules, make modules_install, copied vmlinux in
>Linux Kernels on my MAC OS files system, copied System.map in /boot.
>The reboot is OK except that my keyboard is totally erratic (1 is mapped
>to e, 2 to r and so on).
>Is there something special in the configuration I missed ?
>

Verify your /usr/src/linux${VERSION}/.config with /boot/config-working-version


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Re: external vga + ibook2

[Geert Stappers]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 09:53:32AM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> OoO En cette soirée bien amorcée du samedi 18 janvier 2003, vers
> 22:16, Waldemar Brodkorb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait:
> 
> > I can deactivate my lcd display with m3mirror, but
> > I can't activate the crt.
> 
> The CRT needs to be activated by OpenFirmware. Start your ibook with
> the lids closed.

How can I push the power-on button when the lid blocks it?


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Re: Mounting Debian Partition in Windows 2000 Pro

[Geert Stappers]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:51:21AM -, Kevin Smith wrote:
> Hi All,
Yes, this is crosspost.

> 
> Can someone tell me if it is possible to mount a filesystem from Debian
> 3.0r1 (powerpc) into Windows 2000 Pro?
> 
> If so, can you give me step-by-step instructions,

> or point me in the right direction, on how to do this?

Perhaps that
 http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
can help.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kevin
> 

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Re: updated powerpc debian-installer builds

[Geert Stappers]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 02:38:45PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I just updated my webpage[1] with the debian-installer images for
> powerpc. The images contain the d-i udebs (modules) that are currently
> in the archive. Please test the installer and report bugs. There are
> probably plenty of them.
> 
> gaudenz
> 
> [1] http://www.soziologie.ch/users/steinlin/d-i/
> 

What is the reason for this "private" archive?


Geert Stappers

Re: wrong info on BootX and initrd kernels in installation manual?

[Geert Stappers]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:13:24AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:07:28AM -0800, Derek wrote:
> > I am having this same problem on my old world.Im still not quite sure
> > how to fix it.Can anyone explain exactly how I should have bootx set
> > up?
> 
> I looked up the installation manual on using BootX after first stage
> installation, and it seems to suppose no initrd, which must fail AFAIK
> on recent debian kernels.
> 
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-powerpc/current/doc/manual/en/ch07s01.html
> 
> Section 7.1.1:
> 
> "If you use BootX to boot into the installed system, just select your
> desired kernel in the Linux Kernels folder, un-choose the ramdisk
> option, and add a root device corresponding to your installation; e.g.
> /dev/hda8."
> 
> Am I missing something here?

That we missed you  ;-)


More serious:

The installation-guide needs to be reviewed for PowerPC.

Please join the debian-installer team to help,
at least don't feel bad about filing bugreports
against the installation-guide.


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lspci present on i386, verify on powerpc

[Geert Stappers]

On a i386 is lspci present in the recent builds op debian-installer.

While the installer waits for a keyboard selection,
I switched to the second console and typed `lspci`
and got the output of lspci.

Could this be verified on a powerpc computer?
(no need to do a re-installed ( no computer harm ))


The Reply-To: is allready set to the bugreport.


Thank you
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Re: Bug#286135: Are you sure it's not a mesa related bug?

[Geert Stappers]

On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 11:42:41PM -0300, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> Hola Geert Stappers!
Hola!

> El 09/01/2005 a las 23:39 escribiste:
> > Are you also on the PowerPC architecture?
> 
> No, I¸'m not, I have access to one, but it's not running Debian right
> now. I might fix that in order to reproduce the problem, but first I
> really need you to test your environment.

I have debian-powerpc CarbonCopied and Reply-To set to the bugreport
to get more eyeballs on this issue.

> > Or is it an Apple iBook2 only issue?
> 
> > > The message that appears when you run blender (Xlib:  extension
> > > "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0") is a normal behavior for
> > > every application that uses mesa and the DRI support is missing (maybe
> > > your video card is not supportes). That should not do any harm, it's
> > > just a message. Please try running other OpenGL applications, maybe
> > > your X configuration is wrong or it's a bug not related to blender but
> > > to mesa, X or the video driver.
> >
> > Please translate 'other OpenGL applications' in packagenames.
> > (or provide some example names of OpenGL applications)
> 
> Well, you can test the mesa with glxgears (which should be part of
> xbase-clients), this program should give you the same message about
> XFree86-DRI.

$ glxgears
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
431 frames in 5.0 seconds = 86.200 FPS
400 frames in 5.0 seconds = 80.000 FPS
400 frames in 5.0 seconds = 80.000 FPS
400 frames in 5.0 seconds = 80.000 FPS
400 frames in 5.0 seconds = 80.000 FPS
320 frames in 5.0 seconds = 64.000 FPS

glxgears looks fine

> 
> A few other programs that use OpenGL are bzflag, crack-attack,
> tuxracer, and about any 3d game.

I install tuxracer, startup showed a mallformed screen,
but didn't crash my X-server.

Next was crack-attack installed  (hey, I have now games on my computer)
as glxgears it looks fine  (due the none fullscreen mode?)

Here the output that is on the console

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
$ tuxracer
Tux Racer 0.61 -- a Sunspire Studios Production
(http://www.sunspirestudios.com)(c) 1999-2000 Jasmin F. Patry
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Tux Racer" is a trademark of Jasmin F. Patry
Tux Racer comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for details.

Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
open /dev/sequencer: No such device
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
$ crack-attack --solo
Crack Attack! v1.1.10
  by Daniel Nelson [aluminumangel.org], 2002
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
$



So all three print that DRI is missing,
so it shouldn't a problem for blender


What is next to prevent blender crashing X-servers?


Cheers
Geert Stappers


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Re: Bug#286135: Are you sure it's not a mesa related bug?

[Geert Stappers]

On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 11:42:41PM -0300, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> Hola Geert Stappers!
Hola!

> El 09/01/2005 a las 23:39 escribiste:
> > Are you also on the PowerPC architecture?
> 
> No, I¸'m not, I have access to one, but it's not running Debian right
> now. I might fix that in order to reproduce the problem, but first I
> really need you to test your environment.

I have debian-powerpc CarbonCopied and Reply-To set to the bugreport
to get more eyeballs on this issue.

> > Or is it an Apple iBook2 only issue?
> 
> > > The message that appears when you run blender (Xlib:  extension
> > > "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0") is a normal behavior for
> > > every application that uses mesa and the DRI support is missing (maybe
> > > your video card is not supportes). That should not do any harm, it's
> > > just a message. Please try running other OpenGL applications, maybe
> > > your X configuration is wrong or it's a bug not related to blender but
> > > to mesa, X or the video driver.
> >
> > Please translate 'other OpenGL applications' in packagenames.
> > (or provide some example names of OpenGL applications)
> 
> Well, you can test the mesa with glxgears (which should be part of
> xbase-clients), this program should give you the same message about
> XFree86-DRI.

$ glxgears
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
431 frames in 5.0 seconds = 86.200 FPS
400 frames in 5.0 seconds = 80.000 FPS
400 frames in 5.0 seconds = 80.000 FPS
400 frames in 5.0 seconds = 80.000 FPS
400 frames in 5.0 seconds = 80.000 FPS
320 frames in 5.0 seconds = 64.000 FPS

glxgears looks fine

> 
> A few other programs that use OpenGL are bzflag, crack-attack,
> tuxracer, and about any 3d game.

I install tuxracer, startup showed a mallformed screen,
but didn't crash my X-server.

Next was crack-attack installed  (hey, I have now games on my computer)
as glxgears it looks fine  (due the none fullscreen mode?)

Here the output that is on the console

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
$ tuxracer
Tux Racer 0.61 -- a Sunspire Studios Production
(http://www.sunspirestudios.com)(c) 1999-2000 Jasmin F. Patry
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Tux Racer" is a trademark of Jasmin F. Patry
Tux Racer comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for details.

Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
open /dev/sequencer: No such device
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
$ crack-attack --solo
Crack Attack! v1.1.10
  by Daniel Nelson [aluminumangel.org], 2002
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
$



So all three print that DRI is missing,
so it shouldn't a problem for blender


What is next to prevent blender crashing X-servers?


Cheers
Geert Stappers


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Re: Problems with X11 on Ultra10, BusID value

[Geert Stappers]

Op 2014-05-04 om 13:38 schreef David Gosselin:
> From: Sad Clouds
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2014 3:57 AM
> > On Sun, 4 May 2014 08:25:16 +0100 Sad Clouds wrote:
> > >On Sat, 03 May 2014 17:20:33 -0600 Hayden Kroepfl wrote:
> > >> On 03/05/14 03:39 PM, Sad Clouds wrote:
> > >> > Hello, I'm new to Debian and trying it out on Ultra10 which has
> > >> > Creator3D framebuffer.
> > >> >
> > >> > I installed Debian stable and seem to be having some issues with
> > >> > X11 or display manager. The system boots OK and I can see boot
> > >> > messages, but when it goes to start display manager the screen
> > >> > goes black and nothing happens. No windows, no mouse cursor,
> > >> > nothing.
> > >> >
> > >> > Any ideas?
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> Might as well ask about the obvious right away, do you have your
> > >> monitor hooked up to the onboard video in the bottom left corner
> > >> (facing the back), or to the 13W3 video connector on the Creator3D?
> > >> What could be happening is X11 picked the wrong card by default and
> > >> is only showing it on the opposite connector. If you have a second
> > >> monitor try hooking one up to the 13W3 and one to the VGA connector.
> > >>
> > >> Hayden K.
> > >
> > >Hello, that was the first thing I tried however there is no VGA signal
> > >on machfb. I managed to get IP address assigned to this machine from
> > >DHCP server, logged in via ssh and looked at the logs. Looks like X
> > >server has problems configuring framebuffer device.
> > >
> > >So I generated xorg.conf manually with 'X -configure' and it thinks I
> > >have 3 cards:
> > >
> > >Identifier  "Card0"
> > >Driver  "mach64"
> > >BusID   "PCI:1:2:0"
> > >
> > >Identifier  "Card1"
> > >Driver  "fbdev"
> > >BusID   "PCI:1:2:0"
> > >
> > >Identifier  "Card2"
> > >Driver  "vesa"
> > >BusID   "PCI:1:2:0"
> > >
> > >
> > >This looks wrong to me, one of them should be using sunffb driver. And
> > >why all three drivers refer to the same BusID?
> > >
> > >I tried copying this file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and leaving only
> > >
> > >Identifier  "Card1"
> > >Driver  "sunffb"
> > >BusID   "PCI:1:2:0"
> > >
> > >But still can't get X11 running
> > >
> > >Any ideas?
> > 
> > OK changed that to
> > 
> > BusID "SBUS:/SUNW,ffb@1e,0"
> > 
> > and X11 works now.
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> I was curious as to what prompted you to try "SBUS:/SUNW,ffb@1e,0"
> for the BusID value?

Me too

> Thanks,
> Dave

And the archive mostlike also.

Please respect the discussion sequence and reply below the text.


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