the G4 works great, trouble with usb mouse though

2000-02-15 Thread David P. Reese Jr.
i just finished intalling debian on a G4 and as im setting up Xpmac, i realize that i have no /dev/usbmouse. when i try to make it with MAKEDEV, it just doesnt work. it says that it doesnt know how to make a usb device. ah! how do i make the device? -- David P. Reese Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: More on Powerbook G3 install

2000-02-15 Thread james
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:13:00PM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > Amen. I've asked for more help on doing actual boot-floppy builds and > testing for a while. I'm leaving my current employer that paid me to spend > _some_ time getting Debian ported to PReP and so I did the last build of > boot-flop

Re: More on Powerbook G3 install

2000-02-15 Thread Matt Porter
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 09:41:58PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 04:39:21AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > am i the only one who thinks `archetecture not supported' should come > > > with a `I don't care' button? (yeah

Re: PowerPC bootdisks for potato release.

2000-02-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 10:56:24AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > For the "linux" part of the CD, you have several solutions: You can > > simply have an ext2 image in a big file on the HFS partition and mount it > > via loopback (slow). You c

Re: PowerPC bootdisks for potato release.

2000-02-15 Thread james
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 10:56:24AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > For the "linux" part of the CD, you have several solutions: You can > simply have an ext2 image in a big file on the HFS partition and mount it > via loopback (slow). You can also probably add ext2 partitions using the > appl

Re: More on Powerbook G3 install

2000-02-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 04:39:21AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > am i the only one who thinks `archetecture not supported' should come > > with a `I don't care' button? (yeah yeah one of these days i'll start > > mucking with the boot floppies in CVS.

Re: More on Powerbook G3 install

2000-02-15 Thread james
On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 04:39:21AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > am i the only one who thinks `archetecture not supported' should come > with a `I don't care' button? (yeah yeah one of these days i'll start > mucking with the boot floppies in CVS..) You're definitely not the only one. And when *ar

Re: New PPC X server alpha

2000-02-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
Kevin Puetz wrote: > > - All acceleration options work now! Please use the new XF86Config or > > remove the options from the device section to get an extra speedup > > So this works on ATI Mach64 now? I see that you've mentioned rage 128, but I > don't see anything either way about Rage II+, Ra

Re: New PPC X server alpha

2000-02-15 Thread Kevin Puetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > - All acceleration options work now! Please use the new XF86Config or > remove > the options from the device section to get an extra speedup So this works on ATI Mach64 now? I see that you've mentioned rage 128, but I don't see anything either way about Rage II+, Rag

Re: kernel wont boot on my g4

2000-02-15 Thread Jason M Varner
"David P. Reese Jr." wrote: > ive mannaged to get yaboot installed and as it tries to boot, > it successfully loads the kernel image and the ramdisk but > it puts the machine to sleep when it tries to boot. bootx > also fails to boot. it stops at the 'booting kernel...' step. > > anyone out th

Re: kernel wont boot on my g4

2000-02-15 Thread Nelson Abramson
"David P. Reese Jr." wrote: > anyone out there who has managed to boot linux on a g4, what > kernel arguments work? someone has to have booted on a > newworld g4! You can try checking the instructions at http://www.linuxppc.org/docs/sawtooth-install.shtml HTH --Nelson Abramson -- Shouldn't pe

Re: New PPC X server alpha

2000-02-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
Sinan Gurkan wrote: > > First of all, I'd like to stress that this doesn't run only on Permedia2 > > boards! The 4.0 release is close, and people should test this so that it > > will run on Amigas, Macs etc. when it's released. > > I tried it..it only runs in 640x480 Mode... > > If you channge K

Re: New PPC X server alpha

2000-02-15 Thread Sinan Gurkan
Hello Michel On 15-Þub-00, you wrote: > > First of all, I'd like to stress that this doesn't run only on Permedia2 > boards! The 4.0 release is close, and people should test this so that it > will run on Amigas, Macs etc. when it's released. I tried it..it only runs in 640x480 Mode... If you c

New PPC X server alpha

2000-02-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
First of all, I'd like to stress that this doesn't run only on Permedia2 boards! The 4.0 release is close, and people should test this so that it will run on Amigas, Macs etc. when it's released. Read the accompanying .readme files, I've also attached them to this announcement! http://n.ethz.ch

kernel wont boot on my g4

2000-02-15 Thread David P. Reese Jr.
ive mannaged to get yaboot installed and as it tries to boot, it successfully loads the kernel image and the ramdisk but it puts the machine to sleep when it tries to boot. bootx also fails to boot. it stops at the 'booting kernel...' step. anyone out there who has managed to boot linux on a g4,

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