Re: How to switch to debian on a powermac G4?

2000-05-11 Thread Brendan J Simon
Christian Lynbech on satellite wrote: > Daniel> Requires glibc 2.0? Are you sure? > Unfortunately yes. Trying to run against glibc2.1 makes the program > segfault which I recall as being one of the symptoms of lib mismatches > across those versions (and the recommended linux versions are listed >

Re: How to switch to debian on a powermac G4?

2000-05-11 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
Thanks to Brendan and Daniel and the archives, I got the thing going. Just in case somebody is listening, here is what I did: - using an YDL CD, I partitioned the disk into one Mac partition and two linux ones (plus a linux swap of course). I actually wnet on to install YDL on the second part

Re: Status of USB-support in debian-powerpc

2000-05-11 Thread David Brown
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 04:52:23PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > I'd like to know the status of the USB-support in debian-powerpc port. > I'm currently using the Potato release (kernel 2.2.14) with the > USB-backport from kernel 2.3.99pre6 (see > "http://www.suse.cz/development/usb-backport/";) on an i

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > >* atyfb still doesn't support Xfb with accels properly, same problems > > as 2.2. > > What are they? (Sorry if this is old news :) (Sorry, I forgot only fbdev list members have seen this.) Minor problems, such as: expose events don't

Re: pcmcia packages

2000-05-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 02:07:28PM -0500, Ted Whalen wrote: > I've built pcmcia packages for powerpc (try saying that five times > fast!), using the archive's source packages. I used: > > pcmcia-cs-3.1.4-1 > kernel-image-2.2.15pre20-1 > kernel-source-2.2.15pre19-2 > kernel-patch-powerpc-2422-

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-11 Thread C.M. Connelly
"MD" == Michel =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= "Me" == C.M. Connelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Me> It turned out that xscreensaver was getting bogus Me> information from the X server, and was actually drawing its Me> pretty hacks on a screen some miles to the left and below Me> my desk here in Va

pcmcia packages

2000-05-11 Thread Ted Whalen
I've built pcmcia packages for powerpc (try saying that five times fast!), using the archive's source packages. I used: pcmcia-cs-3.1.4-1 kernel-image-2.2.15pre20-1 kernel-source-2.2.15pre19-2 kernel-patch-powerpc-2422-2.2.15pre20-1 The only change I had to make was in the linux source's mak

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
"C.M. Connelly" wrote: > It turned out that xscreensaver was getting bogus information from > the X server, and was actually drawing its pretty hacks on a > screen some miles to the left and below my desk here in Vancouver, > B.C. (placing it somewhere deep below the Pacific Ocean, at best, > or p

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-11 Thread C.M. Connelly
"MD" == Michel =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= "ACP" == Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ACP> A new one: xscreensaver reports: "X SERVER BUG: 1152x864 ACP> viewport at 289,-291 is impossible" MD> A viewport at a negative offset doesn't sound sensible to MD> me, but I may be wrong. I

Re: PowerPC Cross Compilers

2000-05-11 Thread Ben Collins
> binutils Note, the only thing you need to recompile in binutils for a cross compile is ld and gas, as long as you install the binutils-multiarch package. Just so you don't have to go and do too much work :) Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=--

PowerPC Cross Compilers

2000-05-11 Thread Frank Smith
Hi, I'm in the process of building cross (i386 -> powerpc) versions of binutils gcc as Debian packages. I'm already quite familiar with creating cross versions of these using ./configure and make. I'm currently climbing the learning curve for Debian packaging, and how binutils and gc

Status of USB-support in debian-powerpc

2000-05-11 Thread Otto Wyss
I'd like to know the status of the USB-support in debian-powerpc port. I'm currently using the Potato release (kernel 2.2.14) with the USB-backport from kernel 2.3.99pre6 (see "http://www.suse.cz/development/usb-backport/";) on an i386, since my USB-keyboard/-mouse definitly needs this backport. Wh

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Adam C Powell IV wrote: >* atyfb still doesn't support Xfb with accels properly, same problems > as 2.2. What are they? (Sorry if this is old news :) > A new one: xscreensaver reports: "X SERVER BUG: 1152x864 viewport at > 289,-291 is impossible" A viewport at a negative offset doesn