Pismo 2nd monitor support?

[vze26m98]

Hey all-

Didn't find anything in the archives: is there support for the 2nd
monitor connection for Pismo laptops?

I've got a 2.6.8 kernel so maybe I'm behind the times.

Thanks,

Charles Turner

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yaboot.conf for dual disk, multi-boot systems?

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Greetings-
 
 I have yaboot setup on a Pismo courtesy of Debian, a freshly 
 downloaded copy of the Etch net-install CD, everything running fine 
 with a multi-boot OSX/Debian configuration.
 
 Right now I'm experimenting with Pocket Linux, and thought I could 
 utilize the Zip drive I have for the Pismo media bay to prepare 
 various Linux configurations to experiment with. First task is/was 
 to get yaboot to want to boot a Zip disk.
 
 I've been able to modify my yaboot.conf and install via ybin. What 
 I get on boot when I select my "Zip" option at the boot: prompt is a "file not 
found" for 
 /boot/vmlinux.zip. I tried manually typing in the OF device and 
 partition, but it makes no difference. ofpath and the ofpath shell 
 script both return the same thing.
 
 Below is my yaboot.conf. Any suggestions or pointers on how to 
 achieve my goal?
 
 Many thanks! Charles Turner
 
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--- yaboot.conf -
 
> boot=/dev/hda9
> timeout=100
> install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
> magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
> 
> enablecdboot
> macosx=/dev/hda13
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinux
>   label=Linux
>   read-only
>   initrd=/boot/initrd.img
>   device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]:
>   partition=11
>   root=/dev/hda11
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinux.zip
>   label=Zip
>   read-only
>   initrd=/boot/initrd.img.zip
>   device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>   partition=2
>   root=/dev/hde2


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dpkg problems...

[vze26m98]

Sorry to bother, but I'm a fairly new user and have dug myself into a
hole and my searches of the Debian lists haven't turned up what I'm
needing.

Recently did an install of Woody on a Pismo, things have been fine.

Added the Debian testing distributions to my sources.list.  Got a
zillion things to upgrade, which I started in on.

deselect warned me about quitting xdm when it started to install glibc
(I think that was the name).  I quit and tried to stop xdm.  Eventually
figured that out.

Re-ran dselect to return to the install process, but it stopped again on
the xfs install, which (if I remember) said it was broken.  I accepted
the choice to continue.

dselect eventually gave up, saying that dpkg-preconfigure didn't exist,
which was true.

I now have dselect telling me that I've got 37 packages to upgrade, but
nothing happens.  The upgrade clearly isn't complete, as I can type "man
dpkg-preconfigure" and it can't find man.

So:

What's the easiest way to get out of my trouble?  Can I get back to a
stable distro or throw out a package database and start over?

Any info greatly appreciated, and thanks to all that have made LinucPPC
so great!

Best,

Charles Turner

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Re: 3 Button Mice?

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Hi all-

Scanned the list on this topic and read what's in
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/.../mini, but still aren't really sure what's going
on with powerpc 3-button mouse support.

I'm running a stable Woody distro so far and X/twm.  Anyone have a
favorite USB mouse with three-button support?

Best,

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msdos Zip on Pismo internal drive?

[vze26m98]

Hi all-

More newbie questions:

I've got a stable Woody distro on my Pismo laptop and an internal VST
250 meg Zip drive in the CD Rom bay.

I can mount an HFS formatted Zip like this:

mount -t hfs /dev/hde ./zip

...and I can of course mount and read ISO9660 CDs when the CD in is the
bay.

I have the msdos driver loading, I think, although the output of dmesg
attached below isn't too encouraging.  (if anyone actually reads the
dump, the msdos driver is called between the usb audio driver the
appletalk driver...)

Any pointers?

Best,

Charles Turner




Memory BAT mapping: BAT2=256Mb, BAT3=64Mb, residual: 0Mb
Total memory = 320MB; using 2048kB for hash table (at c040)
Linux version 2.4.18-newpmac ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4
20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Thu Mar 14 22:44:49 EST 2002
Found Uninorth memory controller & host bridge, revision: 8
Found a Keylargo mac-io controller, rev: 3, mapped at 0xfdf7f000
Processor NAP mode on idle enabled.
PowerMac motherboard: PowerBook Pismo
Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0xf000. Firmware bus number: 0->0
Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0xf200. Firmware bus number: 0->1
Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0xf400. Firmware bus number: 0->0
PMU driver 2 initialized for Core99, firmware: 0c
On node 0 totalpages: 81920
zone(0): 81920 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda11 ro 
PowerMac using OpenPIC irq controller
OpenPIC Version 1.2 (4 CPUs and 64 IRQ sources) at fc731000
OpenPIC timer frequency is 4.16 MHz
GMT Delta read from XPRAM: -300 minutes, DST: off
via_calibrate_decr: ticks per jiffy = 249664 (1497989 ticks)
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 797.90 BogoMIPS
Memory: 317028k available (1828k kernel code, 952k data, 284k init, 0k
highmem)
AGP special page: 0xd3fff000
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Fixup res 1 (101) of dev 00:10.0: 400 -> 802400
Can't get bus-range for /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PCI->OF bus map:
0 -> 0
1 -> 0
6 -> 0
PCI:00:10.0: Resource 0: a400-a7ff (f=1208)
PCI:00:10.0: Resource 2: a000-a0003fff (f=200)
PCI:01:17.0: Resource 0: 8000-8007 (f=200)
PCI:01:1a.0: Resource 0: 8008-80080fff (f=200)
PCI:06:0f.0: Resource 0: f520-f53f (f=200)
PCI:00:10.0: Resource 1: 00802400-008024ff (f=101)
PCI:01:18.0: Resource 0: 80082000-80082fff (f=200)
PCI:01:19.0: Resource 0: 80081000-80081fff (f=200)
PCI:06:0e.0: Resource 0: f500-f5000fff (f=200)
mediabay0: Registered KeyLargo media-bay
mediabay0: powering down
mediabay0: switching to 3
mediabay0: powering up
mediabay0: enabling (kind:3)
mediabay0: waiting reset (kind:3)
mediabay0: waiting IDE reset (kind:3)
mediabay0: waiting IDE ready (kind:3)
mediabay0: up before IDE init
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Thermal assist unit using timers, shrink_timer: 200 jiffies
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
PCI: Enabling device 00:10.0 (0086 -> 0087)
aty128fb: Rage Mobility M3 (AGP) [chip rev 0x0] 8M 128-bit SDR SGRAM
(1:1)
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
Registered "ati" backlight controller, level: 7/15
fb0: ATY Rage128 frame buffer device on PCI
no framebuffer address found for
/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATY,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATY,RageM3pB
input0: Macintosh mouse button emulation
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
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Re: msdos Zip on Pismo internal drive?

[vze26m98]

Brad Boyer wrote on 2/17/05:

>On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:19:46PM -0500, vze26m98 wrote:

>> I can mount an HFS formatted Zip like this:

>The fact that you can mount an HFS zip with that command is purely
>accidental. It's an unintended (and in my view undesired) side effect
>of support for HFS/hybrid CDs.

Interesting. I can also mount the Zip drive by referring to
/dev/cdrom...

>You ought to be specifying the exact partition and you must specify it
>for msdos formatted zip disks. If you look at the output, it detects
>the partition map on the disk and from this you can tell what device
>you should use. My guess based on the messages in this log is to use
>/dev/hde4.

Many thanks for the interpretation of the dmesg output! Works like a
charm now.

Best,

Charles Turner


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OSS/dma_sound in full duplex?

[vze26m98]

Hi all-

I've got a question aging with no response over at the Pure Data list,
and thought I'd bring a piece of it over here.

Can anyone tell me whether the OSS dma_sound driver (which I'm using
under 2.4) can or cannot do full duplex CD quality audio?

That is, can I open both input and output to work in 44.1 16bit stereo
simultaneously?

Just starting to get the nfrags, fragsize stuff down, so if this was
important, I'd could be more specific.

Can't seem to open PD in this mode as it can't allocate the input
channels...

Best and Thanks!

Charles Turner


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usb midi support in dma_sound?

[vze26m98]

Hi all-

I've got the dma_sound driver loaded in a Woody distribution on my Pismo
laptop.  Could anyone tell me what kind of midi support if should expect
from this driver?  I've got a number of usb midi interfaces.

If I 'cat 


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Printer setup CUPS/Netatalk?

[vze26m98]

Hi all-

Somewhat of a newbie question about setting up CUPS to run with my Linux
Pismo:

I've got an HP LaserJet 2100TN running on a network with an OSX Panther
iBook and the Pismo with Linux Woody.  On the OSX machine, I've got
emacs (under Apple's X11) configured so it prints fine.

On the Linux Pismo, I downloaded cupsys and installed.  Skipped the
foomatic stuff and put the 2100 series PPD I got from linuxprinting.org
in /etc/cups/ppd.

Connected to CUPS via the web interface (w/Lynx) and here's my question:

When I get to "configure printer", I'm asked about protocol via a drop
down menu and PAP isn't listed as a choice.

My netatalk seems to work fine: I can mount the Linux Pismo on my
Panther Dekstop, for example, and I can do papstatus and get "idle"
back...

So what do I need to do to get the CUPS web interface to recogize PAP
choices, Or should I just use the command line and forget about the web?

A related question:  I went through the "modify printer" sequence via
the web interface on the OSX machine and noticed that the 2100 series
PPD isn't a selection.  Should I copy it across to the OSX machine or
just let well enough alone?

Thanks,

Charles Turner

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CUPS/Appletallk/LaserJet addendum...

[vze26m98]

OK-

Messed around most all day with this.  To recap:

Mostly stock Woody distro on Pismo laptop.
apt-get'd CUPS and installed.
Netatalk previously installed.

LaserJet 2100 TN with JetDirect 600 3110a.

Found Thomas Kaiser's pap backend script, placed in
 /usr/lib/cups/backend and made executable.

lpinfo -v shows pap as a device, along with my printer.
 
Used Lynx  to setup LaserJet.
 recogizes pap and provides 
 as a choice in the "add printer" sequence.
 
Selected 'HP' as model/device and the LaserJet .ppd that comes with CUPs
as .ppd:  'HP LaserJet Series CUPS v1.1 (en)'.

I've rebooted, show presumably CUPS has restarted.

Of course, can't get anything to print.

I can 'pap -p PET test.txt' and get a printout.

I can 'lp -d PET test.txt' and see the job created, but
 it's listed as cancelled after a while.
 
. . . . . . . . . . . . .

So it seems that I can print via pap/netatalk and can put a print job in
a CUPS queue via lp.  But I'm unclear what in between in giving me
trouble.  Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Charles

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sorry, a bit more...

[vze26m98]

vze26m98 wrote on 2/26/05:

>So it seems that I can print via pap/netatalk and can put a print job
>in a CUPS queue via lp.  But I'm unclear what in between in giving me
>trouble.  Any thoughts?

CUPS also seems to load before Netatalk and so reports that it can't
find any lp devices.  I've tried restarting CUPS:

/etc/init.d/cupsys restart

but it doesn't seem to make a difference...

Thanks again,

Charles

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Re: sorry, a bit more...

[vze26m98]

david wrote on 2/26/05:

>I found it necessary to fully load netatalk before cups via /etc/rc#.d 
>and to make sure netatalk doesn't background itself as the only way to 
>have trouble free cups/pap printing...

David-

Thanks for this.  I'm pretty sure I know where to go to learn about
changing load order, but (parading my ignorance) what about "making sure
netatalk doesn't background itself"?  Where can I go to find out more
about this?

I'm also a little unclear why I can't just use an http printing protocol
and count on the jetdirect handling appletalk requests from the OSX
laptop and http requests from the Linux Pismo.

The printer responds at  and I've tried both that
and port 9100, but no luck printing a test page via CUPS.  Sad thing is
that the web admin rejects MacOs browsers and Linux Lynx (actually, I
get "Hewlett Packard" on Lynx)

Best and thanks,

Charles


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Re: sorry, a bit more...

[vze26m98]

Hi all-

Finally got CUPS to work.  Embarrassed to say it was simply a matter of
using the correct driver, which I wasn't doing for quite a while.

Just to close the thread for any newbie in a similar spot:

Netcat was really useful in confirming I was talking to my LaserJet
correctly.

The CUPS troubleshooting FAQ 
explained debug mode for the error log, enabled me to see that CUPS
couldn't find a translator for the document format.

Somewhere I finally got confirmation that the LaserJet ppd downloaded
with CUPS is for a PCL, not postscript, printer.

The troubleshooting FAQ explained where the .ppd files should be
located, so if you have a working ppd for your printer, just put it in
/usr/share/cups/model.  No need to install foomatic.

Restart cupsys: /etc/init.d/cupsys restart.

Your ppd shows up in the web interface. You might want to go back to
info logging in the error log...

Best and thanks,

Charles

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usb_audio in 2.4?

[vze26m98]

Hi all-

Working on what I need to know to build a 2.6 kernel with ALSA drivers,
but in the meantime, I'm fiddling with the drivers included in the stock
Woody distro.

I had a question about the use of the USB audio driver.  When I
installed Woody, I selected both dmasound_pmac and usb_audio in modconf.
Currently, dma_sound is loaded before usb_audio.  If I have my USB audio
device turned on, dmesg returns the messages listed at the bottom of my
email.  dmasound works but USB audio doesn't.  This with an M-Audio
Quattro box...

Should I be loading only the USB driver and not both at once?

If so what's the best way to switch drivers?  modconf? modprobe?  I'd
like to be able to switch back and forth between Mac sound and the
Quattro box.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Charles Turner


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Linux version 2.4.18-newpmac ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4
20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Thu Mar 14 22:44:49 EST 2002

. . .

i2c-core.o: i2c core module
dmasound_pmac: Awacs/Screamer Codec Mfct: 1 Rev 3
PowerMac Screamer  DMA sound driver rev 016 installed
Core driver edition 01.06 : PowerMac Built-in Sound driver edition 00.07
Write will use4 fragments of   32768 bytes as default
Read  will use4 fragments of   32768 bytes as default
usb.c: registered new driver audio
usbaudio: device 2 audiocontrol interface 0 has 1 input and 1 output
AudioStreaming interfaces
usbaudio: device 2 interface 2 altsetting 1 FORMAT_TYPE descriptor not
found
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 0 does not have an endpoint
usbaudio: device 2 interface 1 altsetting 1 FORMAT_TYPE descriptor not
found
usbaudio: constructing mixer for Terminal 6 type 0x0601
usbaudio: no mixer controls found for Terminal 6
usbaudio: constructing mixer for Terminal 2 type 0x0101
usbaudio: no mixer controls found for Terminal 2
usbaudio: device 2 audiocontrol interface 3 has 1 input and 1 output
AudioStreaming interfaces
usbaudio: device 2 interface 5 altsetting 1 unsupported channels 2
framesize 3
usbaudio: device 2 interface 5 altsetting 2 FORMAT_TYPE descriptor not
found
usbaudio: device 2 interface 5 altsetting 3 unsupported channels 2
framesize 3
usbaudio: device 2 interface 4 altsetting 0 does not have an endpoint
usbaudio: device 2 interface 4 altsetting 1 unsupported channels 2
framesize 3
usbaudio: device 2 interface 4 altsetting 2 FORMAT_TYPE descriptor not
found
usbaudio: device 2 interface 4 altsetting 3 unsupported channels 2
framesize 3
usbaudio: constructing mixer for Terminal 6 type 0x0601
usbaudio: no mixer controls found for Terminal 6
usbaudio: constructing mixer for Terminal 2 type 0x0101
usbaudio: no mixer controls found for Terminal 2
usbaudio: device 2 audiocontrol interface 6 has 1 input and 1 output
AudioStreaming interfaces
usbaudio: device 2 interface 8 altsetting 1 unsupported channels 2
framesize 3
usbaudio: device 2 interface 8 altsetting 2 FORMAT_TYPE descriptor not
found
usbaudio: device 2 interface 8 altsetting 3 unsupported channels 2
framesize 3
usbaudio: device 2 interface 7 altsetting 0 does not have an endpoint
usbaudio: device 2 interface 7 altsetting 1 unsupported channels 2
framesize 3
usbaudio: device 2 interface 7 altsetting 2 FORMAT_TYPE descriptor not
found
usbaudio: device 2 interface 7 altsetting 3 unsupported channels 2
framesize 3
usbaudio: constructing mixer for Terminal 8 type 0x0601
usbaudio: no mixer controls found for Terminal 8
usbaudio: constructing mixer for Terminal 4 type 0x0101
usbaudio: no mixer controls found for Terminal 4
audio.c: v1.0.0:USB Audio Class driver

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initrd?

[vze26m98]

Hi all-

Finally figured out that upgrading a kernel image was pretty
straightforward.  But my upgrade (to 2.6.8) stopped because I haven't
configured my bootloader (yaboot, right?) to use initrd.

Could someone point me to the documentation I need to read to do this
configuration?  I'm reading the yaboot.conf man page which seems pretty
clear, but what else?

I'm particularly concerned about the RAM disk and whether I need to
configure one.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Best,

Charles Turner


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Re: initrd?

[vze26m98]

Mike Small wrote on 3/1/05:

>Not difficult at all, I just changed back to a standard debian kernel
>with initrd myself.  Below is my new yaboot.conf entry and the old one.
>The option is documented in the yaboot.conf man page.
>
>image=/vmlinux
>label=Linux
>initrd=/initrd.img
>read-only
>
>image=/vmlinux.old
>label=linux.old
>read-only
>
>So you see, it's only a simple one line change.

Thanks Mike-

I had seen the following in a previous post to the powerpc list:

>>image=/boot/vmlinux
>>label=Linux
>>read-only
>>initrd=/boot/initrd.img
>>
>>image=/boot/vmlinux.old
>>label=old
>>read-only
>>initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old

Does it matter if I don't state the absolute path: /boot/vmlinux?  Also,
I see that this version includes an initrd statement for the old image
as well.  Is this unecessary?

Best,

Charles


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Help? Could use some xpert advice...

[vze26m98]

Hi all-

Uprading my 2.4.18 kernel to 2.6.8 using Debian packages. I have a Pismo
with the internal disk split between Linux and OS9 partitions.  Did an
aptitude upgrade to "testing" before I commenced.  Everything seems to
have gone smoothly.

Here's the info I have in yaboot.conf:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

boot=/dev/hda9
device=hd:
partition=11
root=/dev/hda11
timeout=30
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot

image=/boot/vmlinux
label=Linux
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
read-only

image=/boot/vmlinux.old
label=old
initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old
read-only

macos=/dev/hda12

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

I ran ybin to install.

When I rebooted, I got a message from yaboot that it couldn't find
vmlinux.  I'm guessing that it's because the symlinks are in the root
directory:

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root 29 Mar  1 11:27 initrd.img ->
boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-powerpc
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root 26 Mar  1 11:27 vmlinux ->
boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root 27 Feb 14 13:48 vmlinux.old ->
boot/vmlinux-2.4.18-newpmac

...and not the /boot directory.  So I'll need to change the yaboot.conf
lines to "image=vmlinux" and so forth, no?

Here's what's in my /boot directory:

total 13708
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  531419 Feb 14 13:48 System.map-2.4.18-newpmac
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  944303 Jan  8 18:54 System.map-2.6.8-powerpc
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   18601 Feb 14 13:48 config-2.4.18-newpmac
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   39972 Jan  8 15:31 config-2.6.8-powerpc
-rw-r--r--  1 root root1024 Jan  5 07:06 first.b
-rw-r--r--  1 root root1024 Nov 26  2001 first.b.preserved
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4820992 Mar  1 11:27 initrd.img-2.6.8-powerpc
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   45328 Jan  5 07:06 second.b
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   41680 Nov 26  2001 second.b.preserved
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3573285 Feb 14 13:48 vmlinux-2.4.18-newpmac
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3966115 Jan  8 18:54 vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc

Do I need an initrd.img of the vmlinux-2.4.18-newpmac kernel or only the
2.6.8?  If not, then do I need to change my yaboot.conf lines under
"image=vmlinux.old" to what?  Do I say "initrd=vmlinux-2.4.18-newpmac"
or is there another statement I need to substitute?

Finally, as I was typing around in yaboot to get innto my system
somehow, I was able to enter "/boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-powermac" and run the
init process.  But it got hung at the following:

VFS: Cannot open root device "" or unknown-block(8,1)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1)

Does anyone know whether this is an artifact of my initrd issues above,
or is it something else entirely?  I was finally able to get into my
machine by typing "/boot/vmlinux-2.4.18-newpmac" at the yaboot "boot:"
prompt and things seems fine...

What's up with QUIK?  I got a message about being careful with dual boot
systems and answered "no" to it, but do I need to deal with it or can I
just forget about QUIK?

Also, looking ahead, will I need to run modconf to setup my desired mix
of driver modules?

Best and thanks,

Charles



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Re: initrd?

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Mike Small wrote on 3/1/05:

>Maybe for that version the old kernel was also an initrd kernel, in
>which case, yes.  In my example, my previous kernel was not an initrd
>kernel, so I didn't have the initrd line.

Mike-

Thanks very much for this which partially answers my recent additional
post.

Best,

Charles

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Hey, everything seems OK!

[vze26m98]

Hi Mike-

Reasessed my yaboot.conf based on your clarifications and booted into
2.6.8 without a hitch as far as I can see.

Now to figure out how to get the ALSA drivers working...

Thanks very much for your help!  Always nice to see a panix.com address.
I'm in the City every Tuesday and Wednesday, so I'd be happy to buy you
a beer if you're around.

Best,

Charles

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driver module info and load?

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Hi all-

Two hopefully quick questions about driver module configuration on
2.6.8.  I have a G3 Pismo.

Used modconf interactively to install/remove drivers and had some
questions about a few.  Haven't the faintest what they do (well, I can
guess on some...)

/drivers/char/agp   ?agpgart
/drivers/input  ?evdev, ?tsdev, -joydev
/drivers/net?sungem
/drivers/usb/host   ?ohci-hcd
/drivers/usb/input  ?usb-hid
/fs ?mbcache
/fs/ext2?ext2
/fs/ext3?ext3
/fs/jbd ?jbd
/fs/nls ?nlsbase
/net/packet ?af_packet

Where can I find info about divers to determine whether I need them or
not?

Also, I've rebooted a few times (checking hardware configs) since
running modconf and the drivers that I'd thought I'd unloaded (yenta
socket, for example) seem still to be loaded.  Did I miss a step with
module configuration?  Yenta, for example, doesn't appear in
/etc/modules.

Best,

Charles Turner

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alsaconf package?

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Hi all-

Upraded from Woody to 2.6.8 on my Pismo and in getting all the ALSA
packages this morning, ran into the following:

I 'apt-get install alsa-base' and was recommended to install a few other
packages, notably 'alsa-conf-0.4'. I 'apt-get install alsaconf' as this
was what the Debian package list (at )
showed as available, not 'alsa-conf-0.4'.

Here's what apt-get returned:

>vatic:/home/cturner# apt-get install alsaconf
>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:
>
>The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  alsaconf: Depends: alsa-base (>= 0.5.9d-6) but it is not going
> to be installed
>Depends: alsa-utils but it is not going to be installed
>E: Broken packages

As part of my alsa-base install, I had just added both alsa-base and
alsa-utils at the testing revision level which has to be at least 1.0.8.
I then tried 'apt-get install alsaconf-0.4' and got this result"

>vatic:/home/cturner# apt-get install alsaconf-0.4
>Reading Package Lists... Done
>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>Package alsaconf-0.4 is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
>This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
>is only available from another source
>E: Package alsaconf-0.4 has no installation candidate

Any ideas about what' going on here?

Many thanks,

Charles Turner


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Graceful exit from TWM/X Windows?

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Hi all-

I'm stuck in TWM/X Windows because, I believe, I forgot to add the
-exitonFail parameter to an xconsole entry in my .xsession file.

So I'm staring at my root window and a console window that says
"Couldn't open console." Nothing more.

Doesn't seem like I can switch to another terminal. (eg Ctl-Alt-F1)

Any thoughts on a graceful exit from my predicament?

Many thanks,

Charles



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Exit solved, but I don't know what I did...

[vze26m98]

Well, I was able to break out with, I think, a key combination of:

(Ctl-Opt-Cmd-F12)

...which gave me a cursor in the upper left corner of the screen.  I
think then I was able to get to the F6 terminal and login.

Can anyone tell me what I did?

Best,

Charles

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xlibmesa-DRI on Pismo?

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Hi all-

Read a long-ish thread on this subject from 2003, but I'm still in the
dark about using xlibmesa-DRI with the ATI graphics on my Pismo.  I'm
running a stock 2.6.8 kernel on my Pismo.

If I run glxgears, I get a warning that says extension "XFree86-DRI" is
missing.  I've got "load dri" in X86Config-4, updated with
dpkg-reconfigure.  glxinfo reports the OpenGL renderer string is "Mesa
GLX Indirect."

The powerpc-list thread said that xlibmesa-DRI worked in 16-bit color
only.  Read also somewhere else that xdm/twm, which I'm running, doesn't
allow per session changes to video modes.

So do I have to run dpkg-reconfigure again and say my default video mode
to 16-bit, or is there some other thing I need to do to get the
accelleration running?

Best and thanks!

Charles

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Asante 802.11g card on 2.6.8?

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Hi all-

Got an Asante 5402-XG wifi card I'm trying to get to work on a Pismo/Linux 
2.6.8. Seems like I'm pretty close, but so far no luck. Don't have another 
machine of any OS to test some things though...

Looks like lspci finds the card and I've added the airport support modules, 
still no response from ethernet.

The Asante card is a Broadcom chip BCM4306 (rev.2) and I've attached some 
relevant pieces on data from my system below.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Best,

Charles

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. . . . . .

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci
:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth AGP
:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 
AGP 2x (rev 02)
0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth PCI
0001:10:17.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O (rev 03)
0001:10:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB
0001:10:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB
0001:10:1a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1211
0001:11:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g 
Wireless LAN Controller (
rev 02)
0002:24:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth Internal PCI
0002:24:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth FireWire (rev 
01)
0002:24:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth GMAC (Sun GEM) 
(rev 01)


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg
(omitted...)
Linux Kernel Card Services
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0001:10:1a.0 [:]
Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0001:10:1a.0, mfunc 0x0002, devctl 0x60
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x, PCI irq 58
Socket status: 3068
ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ohci1394: fw-host0: Unexpected PCI resource length of 1000!
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[40]  MMIO=[f500-f50007ff]  
Max Packet=[2048]
ohci1394: fw-host0: SelfID received outside of bus reset sequence
sungem.c:v0.98 8/24/03 David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: Sun GEM (PCI) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:30:65:7c:5d:de 
PHY ID: 406212, addr: 0
eth0: Found BCM5201 PHY
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[003065fffe7c5dde]
ieee1394: got invalid ack 252 from node 65535 (tcode 0)
ip1394: $Rev: 1224 $ Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device eth1
ip1394: eth1: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
hdc: No disk in drive
hdc: 244736kB, 239/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
NET: Registered protocol family 17


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsmod
Module  Size  Used by
af_packet  21352  1 
ide_floppy 23584  0 
eth139425480  0 
sungem 36836  0 
crc32   4832  1 sungem
sungem_phy 10240  1 sungem
ohci1394   41924  0 
yenta_socket   23616  1 
pcmcia_core76788  1 yenta_socket
tsdev   8640  0 
joydev 12000  0 
evdev  11968  0 
usbhid 53952  0 
ohci_hcd   26212  0 
uninorth_agp8544  1 
agpgart42412  1 uninorth_agp
airport 7968  0 
orinoco53620  1 airport
hermes 15104  2 airport,orinoco
snd_usb_audio  85252  0 
(omitted...)


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