USB stability problem
Greetings. I'm new both to this forum and to the powerpc architecture, so please be patient ;) I have an iMac 266 on which I am running Woody with the stock 2.4.18-newppc kernel. It's been outstanding in every way, until I installed a printer yesterday. It's a DeskJet 1220C connected via USB. In order for it to work, I needed to load the printer.o module (as expected). When printing, half way through the print job the printing stops and the printer abruptly begins outputting gibberish characters and page feeds. Simultaneously, USB locks up, freezing keyboard and mouse. The box is otherwise fine -- the screen refreshes and I can ssh in. When I try to reboot via ssh, I get a hard lockup during shutdown which requires a power-button hardware reset. The logs show me this: Jul 31 08:36:20 idmac kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usblp Jul 31 08:36:20 idmac kernel: printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 +if 0 alt 1 Jul 31 08:36:20 idmac kernel: printer.c: v0.8:USB Printer Device Class driver Jul 31 08:36:20 idmac kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usblp Jul 31 08:36:20 idmac kernel: printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 +if 0 alt 1 Jul 31 08:36:20 idmac kernel: printer.c: v0.8:USB Printer Device Class driver Jul 31 08:36:20 idmac kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usblp Jul 31 08:36:20 idmac kernel: printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 +if 0 alt 1 Jul 31 08:36:20 idmac kernel: printer.c: v0.8:USB Printer Device Class driver at the point where I did 'modprobe printer'. Then: Jul 31 08:39:10 idmac kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Jul 31 08:39:10 idmac kernel: usb-ohci.c: unlink URB timeout Jul 31 08:39:10 idmac kernel: printer.c: usblp0: error -110 reading printer +status Jul 31 08:39:10 idmac kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Jul 31 08:39:10 idmac kernel: usb-ohci.c: unlink URB timeout Jul 31 08:39:10 idmac kernel: printer.c: usblp0: error -110 reading printer +status Jul 31 08:39:15 idmac kernel: printer.c: usblp0: error -12 reading printer +status At the point where I USB locks up. I've never seen anything like this, but I've never used USB HID before, as my i386 boxes have PS/2 stuff. I assume I ought to log a bug, but to/with whom? I'm not a kernel hacker, so I can't really contribute much on the kernel dev lists. Is this a known issue, and is there a known workaround? I'd like to be able to print :/ Thanks in advance for any wisdom listmembers might be able to send my way! -- Thanasis Kinias Web Developer, Information Technology Graduate Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. Ash nazg durbatul�k, ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatul�k agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
Re: KeyMappings in Windowmaker
scripsit Shawn Dunn: > On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 18:10:40 -0700 > Thanasis Kinias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The easiest may be to do what I did for my iMac -- I mapped the > > workspaces to OpenApple-# in WindowMaker. (On my iMac keyboard, the > > OpenApple key is where the Alt key is ``supposed'' to be, so the > > remapping reduced my miskeyings.) > > > And exactly how did you go about remapping these keys? (I've never > remapped a key before in my life In Window Maker it's pretty easy. Open up the Window Maker Preferences Utility (that's the funky green icon on the Dock). Scroll over to Keyboard Shortcut Preferences (the keyboard icon four from the right). In the Actions list, select "Switch to workspace 1", click Capture and then hit OpenApple-1. (I think these days they call that key "command" or something like that. That box is at work, so I don't have the keyboard in front of me.) Repeat for the other workspaces. IIRC you may have to restart Window Maker for the change to take effect. That's easily done without disturbing your session by doing Window Managers | Restart on the Debian menu. (If you're stuck with an Apple one-button mouse, you can get the menu with F12.) -- Thanasis Kinias Web Developer, Information Technology Graduate Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
Re: Where the working Mirrors with OpenOffice.org for Debian
scripsit Roland Wegmann: > Hello > > I will install OpenOffice 1.0.1 using apt-get install. > Therefore I tried out all the source.list entries I found on > http://linux-debian.de/openoffice/mirrors.html, but non of them worked. > > When I started apt-get update I got only error messages. > > So, is there an source.list testing entry that works?? No, there's only unstable for powerpc. That's not unstable == sid, however; the OOo testing/unstable are both supposed to run on Woody. My sources.list has: deb ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/packages/openoffice-debian/ unstable main contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/packages/openoffice-debian/ unstable main contrib and this got me a working OOo 1.0.1 under Woody. -- Thanasis Kinias Web Developer, Information Technology Graduate Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
Re: No sound on a G3 Blue
scripsit Michel Dänzer: > > > Not even if you raise the 'Spkr' mixer? > > What do you mean exactly? > > Start a mixer app like aumix, and move the slider labelled 'Spkr' or > similar. I have the opposite situation: on my iMac/266 (woody, 2.4.18-newpmac) the internal speaker always switches on by default. I only ever use sound with earphones (I work in a cube farm) so unwittingly having the speaker on can be a bit embarassing :/ Is there a "canonical" way of getting the mixer to switch off the speaker on boot, or getting settings to be "sticky" across boots? I could ad-hoc something in the login scripts, but that strikes me as ugly. -- Thanasis Kinias Web Developer, Information Technology Graduate Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
Spam (was Re: PLEASE HELP ME)
scripsit MR. ANGUS OBIOMA: > Dear Gentleman, > Greetings in the precious name of Jesus Christ. [etc.] This one has a real IP address: > Received: from (emztd536.com) [213.181.64.14] >by gluck.debian.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) >id 17f2DJ-0001RM-00; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:45:47 -0600 213.181.64.14 belongs to a Nigerian ISP. Both the recent spams came from the same IP. Can it be blocked? -- Thanasis Kinias Web Developer, Information Technology Graduate Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
Re: Problem with woody
scripsit Chris Tillman: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 02:49:39PM -, Laurent Decreusefond wrote: > > I installed woody dist on my powermac and everything went apriori well. I > > am trying to compile a C program and ld complains that it can't find > > crt1.o > > And in fact, i don't have it. When i try > > apt-get install libc6-dev > > i have a conflict since it requires libc6 2.2.5-10 and I have libc6 > > 2.2.5-9 > > > > I should say that I installed my system with the minimal cd-rom and then > > by picking packages with dselect, so i may have forgotten some or picked > > the wrong ones. By the way, how could i go back to a working installation. > > You must have been installing packages from unstable, or maybe that's > how your CD was built. libc6 is at 2.2.5-6 in testing and stable. $ apt-cache policy libc6 libc6: Installed: 2.2.5-11.1 Candidate: 2.2.5-11.1 Version Table: 2.2.5-14 0 90 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main Packages *** 2.2.5-11.1 0 500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.2.5-6 0 500 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org stable/main Packages If you're seeing 2.2.5-10, that's as likely come from security.debian.org as from sid. > First of all, get unstable out of your /etc/apt/sources.list. If it's there. Regardless, add to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free (adjust the contrib/non-free to your preferences) Do apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -u Then you should have your libc6 at 2.2.5-11.1, and be able to apt-get install libc6-dev at 2.2.5-11.1 without problem. -- Thanasis Kinias Web Developer, Information Technology Graduate Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
Installation problems on StarMax
Greetings, I'm installing Woody on a StarMax 5000/300. It's got an IDE HDD and SCSI CD-ROM and ZIP. It will not boot from the CD-ROM drive, so I have to use floppies to install. I've gotten as far as ``Make System Bootable''; unfortunately, after the installer puts Quik on the system, it is not bootable. As I understand it, StarMaxes are considered NewWorld machines -- they should use Yaboot then, not Quik, right? (I'm really not very familiar with PowerPC hardware, having only done one installation on an iMac before.) There is no boot floppy for NewWorld that I can find, only a rescue.bin which is not bootable (shouldn't it be though?). I assume it is trying to install a useless Quik because I used the powermac instead of new-powermac, but I couldn't find another option. If I am correct that this box needs Yaboot and not Quik, how do I get that installed? ATM the box is not bootable except via floppy, and the only bootable floppy I has just dumps me right to the installation. Any assistance anyone can provide would be much appreciated. Regards, -- Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus. Thanasis Kinias tkinias at asu.edu Doctoral Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
Re: Installation problems on StarMax
scripsit Chris Tillman: > (Free) bootable CDs are not possible for OldWorlds. [...] > No, they are OldWorld. NewWorlds don't have built-in floppy drives. OK, that makes sense. Now that I've got the thing up /proc/cpuinfo tells me it's OldWorld of course... > quik should work, but it often times has quirks. Do you get a boot: > prompt? or a message from OpenFirmware? or does the kernel die after > being booted? You might just need to pass video=ofonly to the kernel > or something. OK, well, quite a long time poring over penguinppc's Quik docs and those at imaclinux.net got me to understand what I needed to do with quik and nvsetenv to make the beast boot. I didn't realize that the installer doesn't set up the nvsetenv things... I would have thought it would before offering to reboot. All it was giving me was the Mac `floppy disk with question mark' graphical screen until I got the nvsetenv stuff fixed. The system seems to be working fairly normally now, provided I stick with the 2.2 kernel. When I boot the 2.4.20-powerpc kernel, I get an immediate kernel panic. (This is the stock apt-gotten Debian kernel.) Looking through the debian-powerpc list archives this doesn't seem to be a known issue. Any suggestions? Here's what I get, after the framebuffer stuff: Machine check in kernel mode. Caused by (from SRR1=49030): Transfer error ack signal Oops: machine check, sig: 7 NIP: C024B830 XER: E000BE6F LR: C01288F8 SP: C0485EC0 REGS: c0485e10 TRAP: 0200 Not tainted MSR: 00049030 EE: 1 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11 TASK = c0484000[1] 'swapper' Last syscall: 120 last math 0000 last altivec -- Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus. Thanasis Kinias tkinias at asu.edu Doctoral Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
Re: OpenOffice on Mac G4
scripsit Clive Menzies: > After googling around and updating my sources list to include: > > Hit http://ftp.freenet.de testing/main Packages > Hit http://ftp.freenet.de testing/main Release > Hit http://ftp.freenet.de testing/contrib Packages > Hit http://ftp.freenet.de testing/contrib Release > Get:1 http://ftp.freenet.de unstable/main Packages [20B] > Get:2 http://ftp.freenet.de unstable/main Release [125B] > Get:3 http://ftp.freenet.de unstable/contrib Packages [8051B] > Get:4 http://ftp.freenet.de unstable/contrib Release [128B] > > I have a dependency problem; the openoffice-bin file is not available. > Further investigation suggests that the way to install on a mac is > different. Please could someone advise how best to install the latest > version of Oo on this G4? If you are running testing, you don't need anything special for OOo now: 1.0.3-2 is in Sarge. All you need in sources.list is: deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free (or an appropriate mirror) -- Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus. Thanasis Kinias tkinias at asu.edu Doctoral Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
Re: Installation problems on StarMax
scripsit Chris Tillman: > My first suspicion is that the kernel doesn't fit in the memory space > provided by quik. Do you still have MacOS on the machine? If so, you > can try it with BootX to see if it gives the same result. The box came with a very decrepit and unlicensed OS8, which I fdisked away at my first opportunity -- so BootX isn't an option here. I'd like the box to be purely free software. > BTW, I don't remember any reports about 2.4 working on OldWorlds, so > aside from the fact that I got one to work with BootX, you may be a > pioneer. Hmm. I'll have to get in touch with the Quik folks... Thanks for all your help. -- Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus. Thanasis Kinias tkinias at asu.edu Doctoral Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
Re: Installation problems on StarMax
scripsit Nicholas Helps: > Chris is right. They are oldworld and quik will work (at least on my > 3000/180). Yes, Chris was quite right ;) I got the beast working now and booting cleanly with the 2.4.20-powerpc kernel from Sarge. The key was the `video=ofonly' in the boot-file parameter set with nvsetram... It looks to be quite a nice little workstation when running Sarge. Unfortunately, discover prevents the thing from booting with the 2.4 kernel. Removing discover solved the problem, but it had been causing a hard lock-up on boot (although, strangely, no problems with the 2.2 kernel). If anyone is working with a similar box in the future and wants to e-mail me, feel free... -- Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus. Thanasis Kinias tkinias at asu.edu Doctoral Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
Quik and framebuffer problems on StarMax
OK, I'm back for more help... Thanks to the help I got from the list, I've got my StarMax running nicely with a 2.4.20 kernel -- provided I only log in over the network and provided I don't attempt to mess with the framebuffers. I'm working with a StarMax 5000/300 Twin Turbo, running Sarge. It's got OpenFirmware 2.0.2. This box has two graphics adapters, a builtin ATI Mach 64 GT (4 MB) and an IMS TwinTurbo 128 (8 MB) on a PCI card. If Quik loads the kernel with `video=ofonly' the ATI card is active with the offb driver as /dev/fb0. The (inactive) TT128 shows up as /dev/fb1. The main problem here is that the display is heavily distorted by waviness. The framebuffer is at 1024x768, and console text is almost totally unreadable. The amount of distortion varies with the content of the screen, however, so (for example) the Debian xdm login shows a very clear and undistorted Debian logo on the login box, but the text in the xconsole is completely illegible. In X, the distortion tracks the movement of windows about the display. If I boot without any video= argument, _sometimes_ it will boot cleanly with the atyfb driver running the ATI card and the imsttfb running the TT128. If I explicitly use video=atyfb, however, I get a kernel oops as soon as it loads the atyfb driver. I've tried different (and no) vmode,cmode settings and it still oopses. If I change the output-device and boot with video=imsttfb and move my monitor over to the TT128 card, I get a successful boot, but in console mode every character is followed by a space, with the right half of the output running off the screen. On one occasion (I'm not sure what was different) instead of spaces, I got a solid white square, vertically offset by one-half line, separating each character. I have not successfully configured X on the TT128 at all. The most frustrating thing here is that two boots with the same options can produce different results -- it seems to `remember' previous configurations somehow... I also cannot find documentation that explains the interaction between the NVRAM variables and the Quik parameters; they cover the same things, like which kernel to boot and what device to find it on, so which has precedence? I can't find a pattern to it, except that the NVRAM variable seems to override the Quik default, but an explicitly typed Quik boot command seems to override the NVRAM one... Anyway, any help or even just pointers to documentation on this would be much appreciated. The docs I've found are very, very thin on explaining the Mac framebuffer stuff... and I'm not proficient at reading kernel module source. Regards, -- Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus. Thanasis Kinias tkinias at asu.edu Doctoral Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
Re: Gentoo PPC LiveCDs
scripsit Oliver Ripka: > IMHO the current unstable tree is _really_ what is called to be: > unstable. > > Some examples: > > - mol does work since about 3 weaks > - install-keymap does not work since latest dpkg-upgrade > - evolution is broken > > this is not a good basis for a live cd. > > So my suggestion is to use stable. Why not Testing? It's not as majorly broken as Sid now and it's becoming reasonably up-to-date (unlike Woody)... -- Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus. Thanasis Kinias tkinias at asu.edu Doctoral Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
Re: Quik and framebuffer problems on StarMax
scripsit Boris Bezlaj: > I also have IMS TT 128 with 8MB ram..it may be similar to yours. With > stock kernel i have problems initializing it(only works with > video=ofonly..kind of). I patched the driver to force the detection of > TI TVP3030 ramdac instead of IBM ramdac(seems like they use the same > PCI ID and different ramdacs). Can you share your patch? I noticed that when I got it to boot without video=ofonly, the TT128 was identified as `(IBM)', which struck me as odd. > I use append="video=imsttfb:vmode:17:cmode:8" with quik and it works > well in console mode. In X i have some problems with wrapping, > otherwise it works. That's with the patched kernel, right? > See these pictures if you have the same problems > (OpenFirmware/console/X): http://knjiznica-jesenice.org/~boris/boot/ Yep, that's it. > No idea how to fix the wrap problem in X..still working on that. Is the wrap problem using the imstt driver or a generic? -- Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus. Thanasis Kinias tkinias at asu.edu Doctoral Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
Re: Mozilla1.3.1 download
scripsit Bj?rn Johansson: > I would like to test Mozilla1.3.1(ppc stable), but I can't > find it anywhere. So, if anyone here knows where I can get > this I sure want to know. The Mozilla version in Sid is currently 1.3.1-2. -- Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus. Thanasis Kinias tkinias at asu.edu Doctoral Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
benh kernel compile failure
Greetings, I've been having pretty poor luck with kernel compiles recently... I'm working ATM on trying to build 2.4.20 with the benh patch on a stock Sarge system (an iMac 266). The compile fails with this: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20/arch/ppc -fsigned-char -msoft-float -pipe -ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple -mstring -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=ide_cd -c -o ide-cd.o ide-cd.c In file included from ide-cd.c:318: ide-cd.h:440: error: long, short, signed or unsigned used invalidly for `slot_tablelen' make[4]: *** [ide-cd.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20/drivers/ide' make[3]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20/drivers/ide' make[2]: *** [_subdir_ide] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20/drivers' make[1]: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20' make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2 I haven't seen anything on this in the archives... -- Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus. Thanasis Kinias tkinias at asu.edu Doctoral Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
Re: benh kernel compile failure
scripsit Jule Slootbeek: > That's strange because it's been discussed here 3 times in the last month. OK, clearly I need to study how to use a search form... I'm sorry for being obtuse. > change '__u8 short slot_tablelen;' to '__u16 slot_tablelen;' in ide-cd.h on > line 440 Thanks. -- Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus. Thanasis Kinias tkinias at asu.edu Doctoral Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
