StarMax and yaboot...

2000-06-05 Thread Brian Macy
I'm trying to get my StarMax 4400 (OF 2.02) to like yaboot. Simply can't get it to work. Since it is not a "New World" Mac 90% of the documentation is not quite right. Brian Macy

Linux/PPC: RS232 with new PowerBook.

2000-06-05 Thread Brendan J Simon
I have replaced an intel laptop with a new PowerBook (USB & Firewire). I used to use minicom to to communicate with an embedded system and wish to do the same with my PowerBook. The problem is that the PowerBook does not have an RS232 port. I assume there is something that will convert USB to RS23

Re: yaboot boot variables

2000-06-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 02:06:36PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to boot an iBook with a bootable Debian PowerPC CD (image > date 5-30-00). When the CD stars, the yaboot message comes up fine. Then > as the operating systems starts to come up (at about where I think the > installati

Re: New experimental X 4.0

2000-06-05 Thread Michel Lanners
On 5 Jun, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through cyberspace: (about XF4) > Did you use my patch or did you fix the r128 driver yourself ? Also, did > you already submit the patch to xfree ? (I didn't submit mine yet, I was > planning to do so once I've fixed the PLL/BIOS probe)

Re: New experimental X 4.0

2000-06-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, Jun 5, 2000, Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The other important thing is support for the latest PowerBooks in the r128 >driver. Did you use my patch or did you fix the r128 driver yourself ? Also, did you already submit the patch to xfree ? (I didn't submit mine yet, I was plan

yaboot boot variables

2000-06-05 Thread telkis
I am trying to boot an iBook with a bootable Debian PowerPC CD (image date 5-30-00). When the CD stars, the yaboot message comes up fine. Then as the operating systems starts to come up (at about where I think the installation screen should come up), the screen freaks out with black and blue vertic

New experimental X 4.0

2000-06-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
Hey all The URL and filenames have changed a bit: http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/XFree86/ This is 4.0b . Good news for the Permedia2 people: DGA support is here. It's not tested though... The other important thing is support for the latest PowerBooks in the r128 driver. Miche

OpenFirmware device path for internal IDE disk

2000-06-05 Thread Alexandr R.
I can't make linux boot from IDE disk usign QUIK bootloader. I need to know what is the OpenFirmware device path for internal IDE disk on a 604e based PPC clone.    

Re: Problem with startup (oldworld PPC 604e based )

2000-06-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 11:08:15AM +0400, Mikhail Provoroff wrote: > After configuring OF boot-device by nvsetenv ppc don't want start at all > (black screen and nothing alse). > How can i fix this problem? well this could mean several things: 1) your boot-device is wrong in which case OpenFirmw

Problem with startup (oldworld PPC 604e based )

2000-06-05 Thread Alexandr R.
After configuring OF boot-device by nvsetenv ppc don't want start at all (black screen and nothing alse). How can i fix this problem?

Problem with startup (oldworld PPC 604e based )

2000-06-05 Thread Mikhail Provoroff
After configuring OF boot-device by nvsetenv ppc don't want start at all (black screen and nothing alse). How can i fix this problem?  

Re: Oldworld OF boot questions

2000-06-05 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 10:32:24PM -0700, Chris Baker wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a powercenter 132 (essentially a 7200), acting as my > firewall/mailserver, which I finally upgraded to potato from linuxppc > R5. I had no end of problems getting openfirmware booting working > back when I insta

Oldworld OF boot questions

2000-06-05 Thread Chris Baker
Hello all, I have a powercenter 132 (essentially a 7200), acting as my firewall/mailserver, which I finally upgraded to potato from linuxppc R5. I had no end of problems getting openfirmware booting working back when I installed R4 on that machine (the keyboard and video drivers don't work in OF)