keyboard not working under X
I have a Pismo that was running more-or-less vanilla testing, and I added Bastien's Ximian packages to my apt sources. Now it boots, gets as far as the Ximian login dialogue, and then the keyboard stops working. I can't log in, and because the keyboard is not working, I can't kill the X server or move to the console. So: what do I supply to the yaboot prompt to get a console without X? And once I've managed that, any suggestions for getting the keyboard working? Stephen
sound problems with G3 powerbook
Problem: I have no sound at all, at least, no volume, anyway. I'm using the latest 2.2.15pre19 kernel from Paul McKerras. I see this message at boot: DMA sound driver installed, using 4 buffers of 32k. cat /dev/sndstat yields: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /dev/sndstat PowerMac (AWACS rev 3) DMA sound driver: sound.format = 0x20 (signed 16 bit big) sound.speed = 44100Hz (phys. 44100Hz) sound.stereo = 0x1 (stereo) sq.block_size = 32768 sq.max_count = 4 sq.max_active = 4 sq.count = 0 sq.rear_size = 2284 sq.playing = 0 sq.syncing = 0 I've got a /dev/audio, and a /dev/dsp. I tried to cat a .au file to /dev/audio, but nothing happens. This: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/sndkit/dsp$ cat endoftheworld >/dev/dsp ... pushes the CPU load up enormously, until I kill it with control c. Looking at the gnome mixer, all the volume levels are cranked up. I can play sound under MacOS 9. I'm out of ideas now, so any suggestions would be much appreciated. I'd settle for a simple system beep at this point :-) Stephen
Re: Debian Powerbook install
Jiri Masik wrote: > > Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi Matt, > > > > I have just bought a powerbook and am seeing the same errors that you > > saw. ie. "hda: lost interrupt". This must be a kernel issue as I am > > using yaboot to boot the linuxppc cd. I have successfully installed > > debian on a G4. I did this by putting appropriate kernels and ramdisk > > I have successfully installed Debian on PB Firewire. I put the kernel > from Ben's page http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/ > (vmlinux-2.2.15pre14-ben1.gz) and a ramdisk.image.gz from Debian to a > HFS disk partition and pointed yaboot at them. Are you using the same > kernel image? I had the same "lost interrupt" issue. Ben's kernel worked for me; so does Paul McKerras' latest kernel. Stephen
Re: more install woes
on 16/5/00 9:00 pm, Jeremiah Merkl at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, to add to the hdc/d missing, here's one that I thought (or at > least, hoped) had been fixed... > > I dug through the archives for this, but couldn't track down the > message I was looking for. It seems that under a fresh install of > X11, my 1-button ADB mouse, stays as just that. 1 button. > > What were the instructions as to how to fix this, so I can > right/middle click properly? I don't mind running completely on > console, but X is so much prettier, and allows for resizable terminal > windows... :) I ended up following advice gleaned from the linux-ppc faq0matic. I bought a cheap piece-o-shit USB mouse, set up gpm to use that and the adb mouse, and then told XFree86 to use gpm as the mouse. Before that, I spent a lot of time in twm. ;-) Stephen
Re: sound on G3 Powerbook
on 31/5/00 8:20 am, Jeremiah Merkl at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Joshua Holland wrote: >> >> I have no sound on my powerbook. I am running Gnome with >> Enlightenment. I have set sound in the Gnome control panel. When I >> enable audio in the Enlightenment settings, I get a message saying there >> was an error communicating with the Audio server. > > I was just about to send a message to the list about my audio problems on my > B&W G3. On my B&W G3, using the kernel-image-2.2.15-pmac. it seems that my > audio doesn't work properly, and Matt Brubeck's message conceringing possible > fixes didn't help at all. I have a G3 Powerbook. Yesterday I added unstable to my apt.sources, did an 'apt-get upgrade', and to my surprise, sound started working! esd and alsa were both upgraded. I still can't get sound from the CD though. I thought it had something to do with the Sound control panel settings under MacOS, but fiddling with that made no difference. Stephen
Re: sound on G3 Powerbook
> > I have a G3 Powerbook. Yesterday I added unstable to my apt.sources, did an > > 'apt-get upgrade', and to my surprise, sound started working! esd and alsa > > were both upgraded. > > Is also working on Powerbooks? And does it support the internal speakers? Sadly no, just headphones. Still, better than nothing. Stephen
Re: powerbookG3 boot problem
on 8/6/00 12:58 pm, Daniel Jacobowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 08:42:01PM -0500, Josh wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have installed Debian on my G3 Powerbook's 4 gig expansion bay hard >> drive. (I have some experience with Debian, I successfully installed >> the m68k port on my Mac IIci) >> I installed Debian over the net, and everything seemed to go find. The >> installer identified my partitions as /dev/hdc6, hdc7, and hdc8 (root, >> swap, and usr). I configured the time stuff and then rebooted. I >> unchecked the Ramdisk option and set the root as hdc6. Linux started to >> boot and then this message: >> >> No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hdc6. (null) >> Superblock could not be read or doesn't describe a correct ext2 file >> system > > > Could someone check with the new boot floppies (available in the > archive by now, hopefully, version 2.2.15) don't have this problem? I vaguely remember having this problem on my G3 powerbook, and fixing it by BOTH having a recent pmac kernel and using yaboot. STephen
Re: deb-ppc: recommended browser and email client ?
> What are other people using for web browsing and email clients on their > powerpc machines ? I'm using Netscape 4.7 at the moment for browsing and mail - I found Mozilla too unstable. To be honest, I'm thinking about switching to mutt in a console window for IMAP mail, as soon as I get my head around .muttrc. Balsa is way too buggy for IMAP at the moment. > Any recommendations ? > Is communicator going to be available anytime in the near future ? It kind of is, but I installed it by running alien on an rpm, because apt-get told me that the .debs dependencies are broken. > Is Mozilla going to replace communicator at any stage ? That's what most of us hope, I think. > Would I be better off sticking to Mozilla and hoping that the features > catch up to Communicator's real soon ? I don't think so, unless you are an altruist. It is virtuous to test open source code, but it is a pain to work with beta releases all the time, laden as they are with bugs and debug code. YMMV. > > I thought that Mozilla and Communicator are from the same source code, > so why are some of the features missing in Mozilla ? Are they supposed > to be in sync or are they totally seperate projects ? Totally separate code base these days, and separate projects. Mozilla is pretty much rewritten from scratch. Many people think this was a good thing, others thought it was throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Again, YMMV. > They do look > quite different but someone told me that the new version of Communicator > looks similar to Mozilla. Is this true ? What's been called Netscape 6 is essentially Mozilla. But to me, communicator etc means the 4.x series and earlier. Stephen
setserial upgrade causes kernel panic on G3 Powerbook
Yesterday I added "unstable" to my apt.sources and did an upgrade. Now I get a kernel panic, dropping into a debugger on boot. This only happens with Paul M's 2.2.15pre19 kernel - it does not happen with the older 2.2.15.pre14 kernel. It seems to be setserial that's the problem, removing this package cured it. Since my Powerbook doesn't have any serial ports, I'm not sure what it was doing there anyway - I don't remember deliberately installing it. Stephen
Re: Newbie boot question for powerpc 9500
Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I am new to Linux on the powerPC architecture, but I have considerable > experience with Debian on i386. I thought installation should be more > or less the same as on i386, but I was wrong. It seems to be essentail > to know the mac to get started. I failed already in the first step: > booting with the Debian boot disk on a powermac 9500. > Since the powermac did not boot from the rescue disk (but ejected it!) > I downloaded BootX_1.2.2.sit. When I wanted to start it, a program > called stuffit came up and complained that the archive is not in > stuffit format (I downloaded it several times using fetch in binary > mode). Nonetheless, both these things suggest that your boot disk and the BootX Stuffit archive are corrupt. Is there another Mac around you can try your boot disk with? Stephen
Re: stack overflow during install on iBook
> Well that's the thing. I've read through quite a bit of list archives and > web pages documenting yaboot and ybin, etc. but I haven't seen a way to get > things going if you don't already have Linux installed. How can I, with my > little iBook running Mac OS 9, but not Linux yet, get up and running without > crashing long enough to install the system and get yaboot going? Here's what I did with my powerbook. 1. I created a small MacOS partition (I had always intended to have a dual boot machine). Of course, I had to blow away the existing Mac one, but I was doing that anyway. 2. Put the yaboot binary and an uncompressed kernel in the top level of the drive. 3. Edit yaboot.conf. I used the one at the Yellow Dog Linux site as a model. You need to figure out what OF calls your boot drive. I used BBEdit to make sure that I didn't screw up the line endings under MacOS. (BBEdit rocks, btw). 4. Boot into OF, and type the magic phrase: boot hd;x,yaboot where x is the number of your drive. Do not put a space after the comma, like your fingers want to, or OF will get confused. Cheers Stephen
Re: stack overflow during install on iBook
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 07:40:45 Stephen Judd wrote: > 2. Put the yaboot binary and an uncompressed kernel in the top level of the > drive. > > 3. Edit yaboot.conf. I used the one at the Yellow Dog Linux site as a model. > You need to figure out what OF calls your boot drive. I used BBEdit to make > sure that I didn't screw up the line endings under MacOS. (BBEdit rocks, > btw). > > 4. Boot into OF, and type the magic phrase: > > boot hd;x,yaboot > > where x is the number of your drive. Do not put a space after the comma, > like your fingers want to, or OF will get confused. s/drive/partition Too early in the morning. Stephen
Java development on debian ppc
I installed jikes so I could do some Java hacking. jikes complains that it cannot find stuff: *** Error: Could not find package named: /usr/share/java/repository/java/util *** Error: Could not find package named: /usr/share/java/repository/java/lang This is not just a path problem - there are no basic java packages on my box, it would seem. So the core Java classes were not installed with the jikes deb. Poking around, jdk1.1-devel is not available; I have java-common installed and java-virtual-machine. What can I do to get these missing classfiles? Stephen
Version of mutt for debian powerpc
I note that the powerpc mutt package is 1.1.2, while the i386 one is 1.2. How do I find out who maintains the powerpc package (eg if I want to help out by testing?). Stephen
USB and Palm
I have a pismo and a Palm V, and naturally, I'd like them to talk through Linux rather than MacOS. I tried plugging the cradle in to an USB port (I have an adapter that works fine through MacOS 9). I can see this in dmesg: USB new device connect, assigned device number 1 but there is no matching /dev/usb*, which is what I was expecting. There's definitely SOME sort of successful USB support, because I'm using a USB mouse (which shows up as /dev/usbmouse). I'm using Paul's 2.2.15pre19 kernel at the moment. I've read in various places that one can use pilot-link etc with USB, just linking /dev/pilot to the appropriate USB device - problem is that there IS no appropriate USB device. Is there something else that I need to do? Stephen
Re: USB and Palm
David Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:30:33AM +1200, Stephen Judd wrote: > > > USB new device connect, assigned device number 1 > > > > but there is no matching /dev/usb*, which is what I was expecting. > > > > There's definitely SOME sort of successful USB support, because I'm > > using a USB mouse (which shows up as /dev/usbmouse). > > What kind of USB to serial adaptor do you have. The 2.4.x kernel has > support for a few of these, but it is actively under development. If you > are interested in experiementing, download a development kernel and look at > the configuration, it describes the devices that support is being developed > for. There's a standard one that 3Com ship for anyone with a USB port and a Palm cradle - they don't actually have a USB cradle for Palms, so this is their solution. I don't know what "kind" it is tho. The last time I built a 2.4.x kernel the video borked horribly; there was a flashing cross on the screen, it would respond to keyboard input well enough for me to type "shutdown -r now" and that was it. I guess I could try again :) Stephen
RE: sound support on a Pismo
(apologies for crappy quoting etc: I'm using an Exchange webmail client. NMF.) I have sound working on my Pismo, but not completely. That is, I can get sound through the sound-out socket, but not through the speakers. Playthrough from the CD does not work either (although a few posts back Hadess was hinting that he may have solved that problem for XMMS). I understand the absence of support for the speakers is because Apple haven't revealed much about the Pismo motherboard to kernel developers. All I had to do was use a kernel with dmasound support compiled in - I'm currently running a 2.2.17 kernel compiled from Paul McKerras' stable tree. I use headphones to avoid annoying other people anyway, so I'm not too bothered by the absence of speaker support. Stephen -Original Message- From: Magnus Forsberg Sent: Wed 29/11/2000 2:24 PM To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Cc: Subject: sound support on a Pismo I searched for posts regarding support for the internal soundcard on the Pismo, but either my patterns were wrong or no posts on the subject exists. Anyway, anyone got sound working on their Pismo and want to share some experience/knowledge? -- Magnus Forsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sapio ABwww.sapio.se 8-694 80 45 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] <>
RE: sound support on a Pismo
(again, apologies for the quoting. I'm trapped in MS hell at work, with a paranoid firewall that won't let me get out.) I downloaded and built 2.2.18pre-something-or-other from Paul McKerras' stable tree last night. I was startled and pleased to hear a mighty beep from the speakers. Unfortunately, neither my trackpad nor my USB mouse work with that kernel. Ben, reading http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/, I thought the changes that required updating /dev had not yet been merged into Paul's tree? Is that still true? Do I need to update /dev as you describe? Or have I just failed to get my kernel configuration right? Stephen -Original Message- From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Sent: Wed 29/11/2000 5:16 PM To: Stephen Judd; debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org; Magnus Forsberg Cc: Subject: RE: sound support on a Pismo Sound on the Pismo works with reent kernels (2.2.18prex). Get the latest one from Paul, it should be ok. Ben. <>
ppclinux.apple.com
What's happened to this site and Ben's pages? I haven't been able to get through for 2 days. I can browser other apple web servers, and a traceroute stops at apple.com. Stephen
RE: Configuring XF4 for Lombard
(apologies for MS-cruft - I'm at work) That message you refer to was probably from me, just playing the part of a concerned citizen. I have no pretensions to moderating anything. yaboot may sound extreme, but it's the way. it's not that hard tho. all you need is: - a copy of yaboot at the top level of the directory structure of the boot partition - a valid yaboot.conf, also in / of your boot partition - the ability to hold down cmd-opt-O-F at boot - type "boot hd:n,yaboot" where n is the partition number You can make it more convenient with yabin etc, but my fingers are so used to doing this automatically that I can't be bothered setting it up any more. :-) Regards Stephen -Original Message- From: Sergio Brandano Sent: Thu 14/12/2000 12:17 PM To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Cc: Michel Dänzer; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Configuring XF4 for Lombard Too bad, dear Michel. There is no way that I can read the DOC file. The message included in clear text refers to yaboot as the solution of all problems, but I am using BootX and installing yaboot sounds a little extreme. I've tried with a boot floppy, but OF does not like it, and re-formatting the HardDisk if off-topic. Recompiling XF4 from source is also off-topic. Thank you all, for your attempts to ask my questions regarding the specific issue. I will install the programs I need in the MacOS partition and go forward with it until the correct binaries are in place, and they will hopefully work for the Lombard, one day in the third Millennium... Regarding the other messages on apologies etc, I remember receiving a very pacificatory message from what I assume was the moderator, for which I can be blamed for reaction, and a certain other person can be blamed for triggering my reaction in the first place, and a number of other people confirming it. Then I remember somebody apologising, and then myself accepting it. Unfortunately I was (and I am still doing it, to a certain extent) I was struggling with a broken system (that motivated my original request for help) and a text e-mail client on another machine, so I really do not know to who I was writing to in the first place, although my answers were strictly related to the replied message. I believe the mail client did the rest, by posting my reply to the right person, and I apologise if this was not the case. I also remember sending a very explanatory message, where I explained what is my own way to help. Although the mailing list archives are useful when hunting for FAQs, and I do use them, it is not always easy to find what you are looking for, and sometimes (like in my present case) it is not even possible. The way I proceed is to compile a web page with concrete help for those problems I've managed to reduce to solutions. By "concrete" I mean something along the line of "install the package X" including a version number if it is necessary, with detailed instructions on how to configure and/or with my own configuration files that are one click away. I am always improving the page, and I am always available to reply to private requests of help. This way of proceding has been proven quite successful in the last two years; so successful that the page in question was scoring in the top five of our sites for quite some time. I do not hunt for credits, I only hunt for happy people. Merry Christmas, and happy new millennium, if we do not cross in this mailing list in the near future. Best regards, Sergio Michel Dänzer wrote: > Sergio Brandano wrote: > > > I am returning from an unsuccessful attempt to create a bootable > > floppy. The reason is that at OF time, I can not specify "zip:yaboot". > > The reason is that ... I do not have a ZIP drive, and the parameter > > does not work for my SuperFloppy. (SF is a 120Mb internal > > floppy drive on /dev/hdc ) > > > > I am stuck and in real troubles. I have work to do before the end > > of the week, and I need to have this video back. Is there anything > > that you have in mind and I can try? > > Looking for a Word document on this box to test kword with it, I found the > attached text. Hope it helps. > > I forgot who posted it to the list, please speak up to claim your credits! :) > > Michel > > -- > Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast > Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ me
