Re: Getting back in the saddle - Mac LC475

2023-03-19 Thread Scott Holder
On 3/7/2023 2:39 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Scortt! You can also install Debian/m68k from CD: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-28/ Oh, neat. I'll give this a look. It's an already-installed system but reinstalling might be easier I guess. Might be a go

Re: Getting back in the saddle - Mac LC475

2023-03-06 Thread Scott Holder
On 2/17/2023 12:04 AM, Finn Thain wrote: I still put stable mac68k kernel binaries on sourceforge from time to time. I will put up another one as soon as Al Viro's recent bug fix for arch/m68k/mm/fault.c goes upstream as it is needed on mac68k systems. Very cool, was able to grab the latest a

Getting back in the saddle - Mac LC475

2023-02-16 Thread Scott Holder
Hey folks, Been involved on and off with the community for a long time. 20+ years now. I think last I was really doing much was 2014-2015, but life, moving, getting married, and junk got in the way and my Linux Macs went in the closet. I recently got my modified LC475 back up and running. I

Re[3]: Debian on mac68k

2016-03-05 Thread Scott Holder
-- Original Message -- From: "Finn Thain" To: "Scott Holder" Cc: debian-68k@lists.debian.org Sent: 2/25/2016 6:56:32 PM Subject: Re[2]: Debian on mac68k If you send the output of dmesg, that would be helpful. You may see a scsi error when you unmount filesyste

Re[2]: Debian on mac68k

2016-02-25 Thread Scott Holder
-- Original Message -- From: "Finn Thain" To: "Mac User" Cc: "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" ; debian-68k@lists.debian.org Sent: 2/23/2016 11:27:45 PM Subject: Re: Debian on mac68k https://www.telegraphics.com.au/~fthain/stan/linux-m68k-image-4.1.18-mac-00084-ge6b89b9.tar.gz SH

Trying to contact Finn Thain

2015-02-22 Thread Scott Holder
Apologies for the spam; I'm attempting to contact Finn Thain after testing some Mac stuff for him, but I'm getting a greylist bounce. Wanted to let him know the results. Scott

Re[3]: Some tests with my Macintosh Centris 650

2015-01-28 Thread Scott Holder
-- Original Message -- From: "Finn Thain" To: "Scott Holder" Cc: "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" ; debian-68k@lists.debian.org Sent: 1/26/2015 12:56:18 AM Subject: Re[2]: Some tests with my Macintosh Centris 650 > http://snapshot.debian.org/package/l

Re[2]: Some tests with my Macintosh Centris 650

2015-01-25 Thread Scott Holder
-- Original Message -- From: "Finn Thain" To: "Scott Holder" Cc: "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" ; debian-68k@lists.debian.org Sent: 1/24/2015 9:56:52 PM Subject: Re: Some tests with my Macintosh Centris 650 On Sat, 24 Jan 2015, Scott Holder wrote: I&

Re: Some tests with my Macintosh Centris 650

2015-01-24 Thread Scott Holder
-- Original Message -- From: "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" To: "Finn Thain" Cc: "Debian m68k" Sent: 1/24/2015 3:55:08 AM Subject: Re: Some tests with my Macintosh Centris 650 On 01/24/2015 12:01 AM, Finn Thain wrote: If this really is a regression, since 3.14, an obvious suspect wo

Re: Modern Kernels that can boot from IDE drive LC 630

2014-06-16 Thread Scott Holder
On 6/16/2014 8:55 PM, Finn Thain wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2014, Jesse Osiecki wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Finn Thain wrote: You mean this one? http://people.debian.org/~tg/f/m68k/20121227/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-mac I can't comment -- I never tried it. Yes that's it. Maybe someone else

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Atari kernel-in-FastRAM patches, take three

2014-04-03 Thread Scott Holder
On 4/1/2014 8:23 AM, Finn Thain wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2014, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Don't know about Mac, It may be possible to boot Linux with MacOS running in 24-bit mode, and ISTR that this leads to a large number of memory chunks. The Penguin documentation says use 32-bit mode (which me

Re: Mac-only binary, was Re: Modernizing a Macintosh LC III

2013-12-08 Thread Scott Holder
On 11/20/2013 8:05 AM, Finn Thain wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Looks like the same one as http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2013/10/msg00083.html The two backtraces have an awful lot in common. So it is safe to say that this is not hardware flakiness. And it would ap

Re: Mac-only binary, was Re: Modernizing a Macintosh LC III

2013-11-19 Thread Scott Holder
On 11/19/2013 5:53 AM, Finn Thain wrote: On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, Scott Holder wrote: This booted great for me. It might just be placebo effect but I feel like it booted a fair bit faster than the last one. Modules seem great too. This actually let me get about half a second of working mouse in X

Re: Mac-only binary, was Re: Modernizing a Macintosh LC III

2013-11-18 Thread Scott Holder
vbOn 11/18/2013 2:29 AM, Finn Thain wrote: On Sat, 16 Nov 2013, Patrick McCarthy wrote: The ARAnyM kernel and initrd you posted unfortunately didn't work, I put them in Penguin in 32bit mode and it hung at 'MacLinux ABCDEFGHIJK'. I've built a Mac-only 3.12 kernel that you or Scott may want to

Re: Modernizing a Macintosh LC III

2013-11-17 Thread Scott Holder
On 11/16/2013 5:28 PM, Finn Thain wrote: I would also check what happens if you first boot MacOS with extensions off (so that the MacOS NIC driver doesn't load). Also, I'm curious to know whether the Penguin settings for the serial ports affect the failure mode (you don't want Penguin to initi

Re: Modernizing a Macintosh LC III

2013-11-12 Thread Scott Holder
On 11/11/2013 9:31 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Still haven't gotten around to trying to figure out the ADB options for X. I have a couple or three PPC Macs sitting around that ought to I think evdev is correct right now for keyboard and mouse, and fbdev might work for the graphical device (IIRC

Re: Modernizing a Macintosh LC III

2013-11-12 Thread Scott Holder
On 11/12/2013 12:12 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: In the meantime, here’s the vmlinuz from it and the initrd from my ARAnyM system (i.e. “I can boot it but no guarantee you can”): http://www.freewrt.org/~tg/f/vmlinuz-3.12-rc7-m68k http://www.freewrt.org/~tg/f/initrd.img-3.12-rc7-m68k I can repor

Re: Modernizing a Macintosh LC III

2013-11-11 Thread Scott Holder
On 11/11/2013 12:04 AM, Patrick McCarthy wrote: I tried playing around with this - on a fresh boot with no open windows, I have 5.9mb free. I followed your advice and maximized the minimum ram required, however on doing that and trying to boot the kernel/initrd Penguin says it doesn't have enou

Re: Modernizing a Macintosh LC III

2013-11-10 Thread Scott Holder
On 11/10/2013 6:58 PM, Finn Thain wrote: On Sun, 10 Nov 2013, Patrick McCarthy wrote: since Penguin said it didn't have enough memory (I have 36mb total) MacOS applications only get the amount of memory assigned to them. You can increase Penguin's memory in Finder using Get Info under the Fil

Re: Getting the ol' Macintosh LC475 modernized

2013-08-22 Thread Scott Holder
On 8/21/2013 6:34 AM, Finn Thain wrote: X11 worked on macs back when I was testing etch-m68k. The pixel formats are not the weird ones found on ataris. The only Xorg driver available is fbdev. Not having any trouble with graphics. It's working about the same as it did before. I don't have muc

Re: Getting the ol' Macintosh LC475 modernized

2013-08-20 Thread Scott Holder
On 8/20/2013 2:59 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Maybe we can cheat. http://zigo.mirbsd.org:8080/t/initrd.img-3.10-2-m68k is the one Debian generated for me on the system running the buildd and *might* be able to get you into console mode at least. Well, I never did get the mirnitrd thing working

Re: Getting the ol' Macintosh LC475 modernized

2013-08-19 Thread Scott Holder
On 8/18/2013 9:14 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Can you get something, maybe some console output, with http://www.freewrt.org/~tg/f/vmlinux-3.10-2-m68k.gz (may need to decompress first), possibly with http://www.freewrt.org/~tg/f/mirnitrd (do not decompress) as initrd loaded (to get a bare shell)?

Getting the ol' Macintosh LC475 modernized

2013-08-18 Thread Scott Holder
So I finally dug the old LC 475 (aka Performa 475, aka Quadra 605) out of the closet and got it booting its old Linux again. I've upgraded it with a full 33mhz 68040 and overclocked it to 33mhz, so the 68LC040 issues should be gone. This is a circa 2002 setup with a nice old 2.2 kernel. Even ha

Re: 2.6.37 and other things.

2011-02-28 Thread Scott Holder
On 2/28/2011 5:45 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: I think that distributions run hwclock, check filesystems, then run hwclock again, even. But, see above, it may not be enough. I seem to recall an answer from that discussion simply saying to “fix your clock”, so, it may be the kernel that needs to se

Re: Wiki

2011-02-02 Thread Scott Holder
d about it in Thunderbird. Scott Holder dixit: color I moved up to my old IIci running A/UX and Mac OS 8.1, *puppy eyes* Please, pretty please, give me ssh access (or, if must be, telnet access from some box at your place I can ssh into) to the A/UX with at least one, if not more, compilers

Re: ircd

2004-12-12 Thread Scott Holder
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 03:43 +, Kenny Chamber wrote: > Hi. > > I know this might not be the right place to ask but I'm sticking my head out > to > do it anyway. > > I am just wondering if there is any ircd ported to debian-m68k? I can't seem > to > find any, but that might have been an omiss

Re: m68k und ipv6?

2004-08-14 Thread Scott Holder
s. Incidentally, I also have a couple Asante 10/100 Fast Ethernet nubus cards I'd love to see working even if the actual performance gain is likely to be minimal to none. Scott Holder

Re: What happened to www.m68K.org

2004-03-27 Thread Scott Holder
Storm66 wrote: Hello, What happens to the site, it is closed by a big "BSA" banner ! Regards I was under the impression that http://www.linux-m68k.org/ was the page? Scott Holder

Re: Installing Debian on an SE/30

2004-03-11 Thread Scott Holder
h it may depend on support for the bits of the SE-30. Scott Holder

Re: current mozilla or phoenix debs for PPC?

2003-11-27 Thread Scott Holder
iling Mozilla 1.5 for m68k, was aiming for Firebird but didn't read the directions ;) . It works just fine, too, though is basically unuseable. But, it runs and works. It took two days to compile ;) It should be fully compilable from source on PPC too, I'd reckon. Scott Holder

Re: Powerbook Duo 230?

2003-04-24 Thread Scott Holder
rks very well with Linux though. Scott Holder

Re: Powerbook Duo 230?

2003-04-24 Thread Scott Holder
II natively used the CPU it would be close, but alas it doesn't on Linux. Scott Holder

Re: CD Player Software for Debian?

2003-03-16 Thread Scott Holder
#x27;m not entirely sure whether that's supported or not, but I'm sure someone here knows. Scott Holder

Re: Installation problem

2003-02-13 Thread Scott Holder
he verbiage is. This fixed a similar issue on my 840AV. Ethernet just didn't work on the Linux side of things unless I loaded up a browser or something under MacOS before booting Linux. Finally did this fix and now it works quite fine. Scott Holder

smbmount and kernel panics

2002-12-27 Thread Scott Holder
I can probably provide more info if needed. Scott Holder

SCSI Jackhammer card support?

2002-12-22 Thread Scott Holder
Hey folks, Now that I'm actually using my Quadra 80AV running Debian fairly frequently, the 5MB/s SCSI throughput is really starting to bug me. So, I've been investigating the options of add-on SCSI cards and I'm liking the FWB Jackhammer variety. But, is it supported in Linux?

Re: Anyway to network my old mac without appletalk?

2002-12-10 Thread Scott Holder
uld run quite nicely out of the box on that, with full TCP/IP/ Scott Holder

Re: xserver-xfree86 on Woody 3.0r0

2002-10-23 Thread Scott Holder
bet you'll find it works. Macintosh Thousands of colors is actually 15 bit, not 16. Looks much nicer on Thousands too ;) As a more permanent workaround, you can set the DefaultDepth to 15 in the config file. Scott Holder

Re: Mac LC II

2002-10-14 Thread Scott Holder
machine. It seems all the LCs should work, except maybe the original LC. I've run Debian on an LCIII and LC475. A LCII is rather a crippled LCIII, so aside from the memory limitations I think it would work. Definitely works on an LCIII and 475 at any rate. Scott Holder

Re: Debian GNU/Linux without MacOS

2002-10-11 Thread Scott Holder
, but I've only done Linux. You can nearly get around this by using a boot floppy, with Debian's net install you can probably get away with a very very small HFS partition (maybe 2 megs?) Scott Holder

Duo 280c update - Dock Ethernet register offset

2002-09-23 Thread Scott Holder
is if you know what it is". The line above indicates it's at a register offset of 2. So, I take it there's something uncoded to make it work fully. As a non-coder, I'm afraid there's not much code-wise I can do about it, but is there a way to change a register offset? Thanks, Scott Holder

PERL/CGI problems

2002-07-30 Thread Scott Holder
're +x, they just show a blank white page with nothing useful. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I'm perfectly willing to switch back to Roxen or Apache given some tips on how to get them to work properly. Thanks in advance! Scott Holder PS: There's nothing terribl

XFree86-4.1 keyboard problems

2002-07-26 Thread Scott Holder
""macintosh" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Near as I can tell, it matches the ones I've found on the web. Any ideas? Thanks! Scott Holder -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]