Debian/PPC problems - continued

1999-12-08 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hello again! First of all i downloaded and compiled new Apt, a few minutes i ran it for the first time, the official package was there :) Now Apt works just great, no more complaints. However the rest of the problems persist - i investigated them a bit more closely. as for the network problems:

Quik problems on a Wallstreet

1999-12-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
I've finally decided to take the plunge and dump BootX in favor of quik (MacOS 9 and BootX don't seem to play nice). I'm having some trouble getting it to actually take. quik runs "normally" (if no output is normal), but I still boot directly into MacOS. I'm running a Wallstreet Powerbook G3 whi

Re: MOL works on PB3400

1999-12-08 Thread Dänzer
--- Frank Petzold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spake Michel Dänzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Are you sure the patch is needed for APUS? How well did it apply? > > I had to apply 2 rejects by hand. Unfortunately one was a patch for head.S. > I think this is what really made the thing hang.

BootX with NetBoot: have you seen this thing?

1999-12-08 Thread Illo de' Illis
Hello. As I mentioned in a previous posting on this mailing list, I'm trying to make BootX run under NetBoot... the author of BootX said he never tried it, so I ask: has anybody here ever tried this configuration? Ciao, Illo. -- --

Re: MOL works on PB3400

1999-12-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, Dec 8, 1999, Michel "Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I tried to get it to run on APUS (is this supposed to run on non-mac >> machines, >> anyway?) and failed. I could create and compile a patched 2.2.10 kernel, >> but that did not boot. > >Are you sure the patch is needed for APUS?

Re: MOL works on PB3400

1999-12-08 Thread Frank Petzold
Thus spake Michel Dänzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Are you sure the patch is needed for APUS? How well did it apply? I had to apply 2 rejects by hand. Unfortunately one was a patch for head.S. I think this is what really made the thing hang.

Re: MOL works on PB3400

1999-12-08 Thread Dänzer
--- Frank Petzold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spake Mike James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > MOL on PB3400 confirmed: > > > > Mac-on-Linux (mol-0.9.21) boots Mac OS 8.6 from an HFS partition on a > > PowerBook 3400 (603e) running Debian potato. (No, I haven't confirmed > > that it works und

Re: Default kernel for powerpc may change

1999-12-08 Thread Frank Petzold
Thus spake Matt Porter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm considering changing the default powerpc kernel when the released > 2.2.14 comes out since it looks like it will have some significant PReP > bug fixes included. APUS is still at 2.2.10.

Re: MOL works on PB3400

1999-12-08 Thread Frank Petzold
Thus spake Mike James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > MOL on PB3400 confirmed: > > Mac-on-Linux (mol-0.9.21) boots Mac OS 8.6 from an HFS partition on a > PowerBook 3400 (603e) running Debian potato. (No, I haven't confirmed > that it works under LinuxPPC, but I thought you might like the data > point an

Re: Problems with apt/dpkg

1999-12-08 Thread Ulrik De Bie
Hello, > Since soem days I have problems DL'ing packages from my debian mirror. > Every package is rejected with a bad md5sum after download. When I test > the consistency with gzip, everything is fine. The packages actually DO work. > > The really strange thing is this: when I download the packag

GIMP still not usable

1999-12-08 Thread Frank Petzold
Is it just my setup or is GIMP still not installable? it requires two packages to be a smaller version than the current one. I was not able to recompile from the source either.

Problems with apt/dpkg

1999-12-08 Thread Frank Petzold
Since soem days I have problems DL'ing packages from my debian mirror. Every package is rejected with a bad md5sum after download. When I test the consistency with gzip, everything is fine. The packages actually DO work. The really strange thing is this: when I download the packages by FTP and tra

Re: compile errors...

1999-12-08 Thread Dänzer
--- Josh Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To fix this, I can add -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext to my compile line, > but shouldn't this be done somehow automatically? i.e., it's not my program > that's using libX11/Xext, but libSDL. So the problem might be with libSDL as well ? Michel ==

Re: compile errors...

1999-12-08 Thread Josh Huber
I seem to be having trouble with the dynamic linker on ppc. I don't know if this a problem with the current Linuxppc ld.so, but it is for me (I'm running debian/ppc...latest as of yesterday) It doesn't seem to be loading shared library dependancies, which I'm told works on x86, alpha, and ?some