Re: yaboot?

2000-04-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 06:19:22PM -0400, Todd Shrider wrote: > Where can I grab the latest yaboot bootloader? The gz file from Ben's > site doesn't seem to be any good. Thanks! apple's server has been known to trash outgoing files, try my mirror (see .sig) or http://www.linuxppc.org/ybin/ (theres

yaboot?

2000-04-11 Thread Todd Shrider
Where can I grab the latest yaboot bootloader? The gz file from Ben's site doesn't seem to be any good. Thanks! Todd M. Shrider [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: i386->powerpc cross compiler

2000-04-11 Thread David N. Welton
It gets a bit further using clean sources out of CVS, and then dies because one of the libiberty subdirectories has no makefiles in it. What a hideous f*(&&* mess -- David N. Welton, Responsabile Progetti Open Source, Linuxcare Italia spa tel +39.049.8043411 fax +39.049.8043412 cel +39.348.2

Re: XF68_FBDev and Powerbook (Mach64) acceleration

2000-04-11 Thread Vivek Balasubramanyam
That's the one. Linux seems to be running all right so far (minus sound support). I did manage to get Xpmac working last night. I was following the wrong instructions, which told me to delete X and replace it with a symbolic link. I'm using the special Ben kernel, and I've installed LinuxPPC

Re: lyx - klyx

2000-04-11 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, gilles Fenoll wrote: > hi, > did anyone has the experience in compiling or install a kind of WYSIWYTTD > textprogram, like lyx on a power PC distribution ?? lyx exists as a package for debian-powerpc. klyx is part of KDE, which works (I've used KLyX myself) but is not yet

Diskless boot

2000-04-11 Thread Pascal Spuig
Hi, I am trying to use potato 2.2.8-2000-03-08 on a MVME 2306 diskless, but I cannot mount the nfs root fs. It seem that 2.2.1-1999-10-21 works better, but where can I find dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/2.2.1-1999-10-21/ now? thanks Pascal

lyx - klyx

2000-04-11 Thread gilles Fenoll
hi, did anyone has the experience in compiling or install a kind of WYSIWYTTD textprogram, like lyx on a power PC distribution ?? -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Dr g.Fenoll,Veterinaire-Osteopathe BP 181F_28401 Nogent le Rotrou Cedex fax

RE: i386->powerpc cross compiler

2000-04-11 Thread Patrick Lerda
I've compiled gcc 2.95.2 a long time ago without too much problems. Today it's still working... And I can compile a powerpc kernel on an i586 box... I've compiled PowerPC gcc 2.95.2, with gcc 2.95.2 i386, and I don't remember such problems. Patrick LERDA > -Message d'origine- > De:

Re: i386->powerpc cross compiler

2000-04-11 Thread David N. Welton
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 09:11:28AM +0200, Patrick Lerda wrote: > You must install PowerPC includes files in > "/usr/powerpc-unknown-linux/include", and also > compile binutils with similar options. Here is my configure: ./configure --target=powerpc-unknown-linux --prefix=/home/davidw/crossgcc -

RE: i386->powerpc cross compiler

2000-04-11 Thread Patrick Lerda
You need the glibc ppc include files, uncompress the debian package and copy theses files in the right directory. Patrick LERDA > -Message d'origine- > De: David N. Welton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: mardi 11 avril 2000 11:46 > À:Patrick Lerda > Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.deb

Re: i386->powerpc cross compiler

2000-04-11 Thread David N. Welton
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 09:11:28AM +0200, Patrick Lerda wrote: > You must install PowerPC includes files in > "/usr/powerpc-unknown-linux/include", and also compile binutils with > similar options. Hmm - which ones? Where do I get them? the ppc libc6-dev package? the kernel headers? I don't th

RE: i386->powerpc cross compiler

2000-04-11 Thread Patrick Lerda
You must install PowerPC includes files in "/usr/powerpc-unknown-linux/include", and also compile binutils with similar options. Patrick LERDA > -Message d'origine- > De: David N. Welton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: lundi 10 avril 2000 20:28 > À:debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org >

Re: XFree86 on a G4

2000-04-11 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 12:32:00PM -0400, Nelson Abramson wrote: > Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > Anyone got XFree86 working on a G4 ? > > If so, what tricks did you use. > > I got xf4 working on my sawtooth yesterday. I had to compile it from a > src.rpm > that someone posted via the linuxppc-de

Re: XF68_FBDev and Powerbook (Mach64) acceleration

2000-04-11 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 10:28:12PM -0400, Vivek Balasubramanyam wrote: > I'm using a PowerBook firewire, and I just tried running Xpmac. It didn't > seem to do much in the way of accerelation, but it did give me 3-button mouse > emulation. One side-effect (and I'm not sure if this is caused by

Re: XF68_FBDev and Powerbook (Mach64) acceleration

2000-04-11 Thread Vivek Balasubramanyam
I'm using a PowerBook firewire, and I just tried running Xpmac. It didn't seem to do much in the way of accerelation, but it did give me 3-button mouse emulation. One side-effect (and I'm not sure if this is caused by Xpmac) is that xdm has apparently lost the authority to connect a user to th

Re: i386->powerpc cross compiler

2000-04-11 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, David N. Welton wrote: > Has anyone actually managed to create a cross-compiler using the > Debian GCC (+ binutils) sources? Following the faq's instructions > does not work. There are a number of ommisions in the faq that limit > its utility, does anyone have a list of the