Re: [just joined ] is it possible to boot Debian without MacOS?

2000-06-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Manuel Arriaga wrote: > Hi, > > Can I install Debian on a PowerMac without having a version of MacOS > installed? I read somewhere about "open firmware" being > a solution to this problem; is it so? The short answer is "yes"; for the longer more helpful answer, please tell us what kind of Power

Re: G4 Speaker

2000-06-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
David Brown wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 11:29:59AM -0500, uriel wrote: > > Does anyone know how to disable the internal speaker on G4s, so only the > > external > > ones that I have connected will emit sound? > > aumix will let you set the volumes of the internal and external speaker > indep

Re: Oldworld OF boot questions

2000-06-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 08:05:41PM -0700, Chris Baker wrote: > > > > Maybe I can stand to lose something else in there. I'm not insisting > > that anyone support my ideosyncrasies; I just want to know how to hack > > it together myself 8-) > > there may already be enough spa

Re: Missing /dev/hdc

2000-06-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:59:17AM +0200, Bertrand Sereno wrote: > Hi all, > > I've succesfully installed potato on my iBook this week-end. I've had a > problem when rebooting the first time (ie after installing the base > system) : post installation process was unable to find my cd, beacause > of

Re: Compilation/binary packages

2000-06-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:05:39AM +0200, WOL - Andreas Plesner Jacobsen wrote: > > Admitted: I don't know a lot about the Debian compilation process, but to > me it seems a bit annoying that packages like apache and php4 doesn't > come as binaries for ppc, so if there is a wish to abuse my box fo

Missing /dev/hdc

2000-06-26 Thread Bertrand Sereno
Hi all, I've succesfully installed potato on my iBook this week-end. I've had a problem when rebooting the first time (ie after installing the base system) : post installation process was unable to find my cd, beacause of missing hdc* devices. I've been able to fix it with a '/dev/MAKEDEV hdc' on

Re: Xpmac.deb

2000-06-26 Thread Andre Berger
I have both Xpmac and gpm. Here are the relevant settings: (Note I have to use different keycodes to use F9 as middle- and F10 as right button -- YMMV). Kernel arguments in BootX: adbuttons=101,109 /etc/gdm/gdm.conf (only the relevant section): [servers] 0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -depth 16 -middlekey

Compilation/binary packages

2000-06-26 Thread WOL - Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
Admitted: I don't know a lot about the Debian compilation process, but to me it seems a bit annoying that packages like apache and php4 doesn't come as binaries for ppc, so if there is a wish to abuse my box for compilation purposes, and if there is a way to integrate it in the build process (I'll

Re: PPC PCI Serial Port cards...

2000-06-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
Brian Macy wrote: > > I'm looking for 8 DB9 ports for my StarMax PPC box... runs Linux. I have > a 4port ISA card for my PC but obviously that won't work in my PPC. 2 > 4port cards would be fine. Anyways, any suggestions as to what boards > are good and supported by Linux would be appreciated. Ba

Re: Xpmac.deb

2000-06-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > (Hello folks on this list btw - reading the archives has been VERY helpful > in getting my powerbook ("pismo") working on debian.. You are doing a great > job! :) Note that on a Pismo, either Jack Howarth's XFree86 4.0 RPMs (sorry don't know the URL) or my experimental t

Re: 2ndRequest-XF86ConfigForPowerbook(Lombard)

2000-06-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
Tom wrote: > (**) FBDev: Using default frame buffer video mode > (--) FBDev: Frame buffer device: )Ffb ATY,264LTP > (--) FBDev: Video memory: 3072K @ 0x81801000 > (--) FBDev: MMIO regs: 0K 2 (nil) > (--) FBDev: Type 0 type_auyx 0 bits_per_pixel 32 > (--) FBDev: Hardware accelerator: None >

Re: gnome-panel vs. asclock

2000-06-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 05:21:45PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Any reason why installing asclock causes apt-get to remove gnome-panel > > (woody) ? > > Because gnome-panel-data has Conflicts: asclock. Ask the maintainer. Maybe because the panel comes wi

Re: Xpmac.deb

2000-06-26 Thread Andrew B. Arthur
Chad Miller wrote: > > Why isn't there an Xpmac .deb, even in contrib or non-free? It would probably go into main if there was an offical .deb of it since the code is under the X11 license, since it is a diverative of the sample X11R6.3 X server. > It seems 'alien' might become a main+essential

Re: Xpmac.deb

2000-06-26 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 09:50:32PM -0500, pohl wanted to say the following: > Now that it's running, I have a configuration question: I'm used to > tweaking XF86Config to get the resolution/bit-depth that I want, but > Xpmac operates on some magic principles that I don't understand. How > do I t