Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Claus
>: >: >: >: >: New hypothesis: generic too short timeout - please increase timeout to >: >: 5000 in wait_for_ready. >: >: could you name the file to fix? sorry, I guess it's (2.2.16 here) drivers/block/ide-pmac.c line 597 wait_for_ready(ide_drive_t *drive) { /* Timeout bum

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Claus
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 08:18:51PM +0200, Michael Schmitz: >: > information in the pot and say I often see this sort of error during boot, >: > and sometimes the system recovers and continues, and othertimes it locks in my case it never locks at boot >: > up before the login prompt appears

Re: Yow! No X mouse with 2.2.17

2000-07-25 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> If this kernel uses my recent input changes, you may need to add > "adb_xmpac_compat" to the kernel command line for those old Xpmacs. Tried it. Didn't have any effect...

Re: Yow! No X mouse with 2.2.17

2000-07-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>I just updated by PB3400 with the latest packages from frozen, which >included a 2.2.17 kernel (The .deb says pre11, the kernel just says 2.2.17 >when it boots). > >GPM mouse works on consoles. But when X comes up... THE MOUSE DOESN'T >MOVE! > >I'm still running the same Xserver (Xpmac-rev9) and

Re: Yow! No X mouse with 2.2.17

2000-07-25 Thread Andre Berger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Sjøgren) writes: > On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:46:07 -0700 (PDT), Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > It's nae gud laddie! Disabled gpm, restarted X, same difference -> > > mouse doesn't move > > You may want to read the section "Test kernels" on Benh's page: > http://ppclinux.

Re: Debian on 7200 -- Success!

2000-07-25 Thread Andre Berger
Werner Teeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here my 2 cents : > > System 7.5.3 can be found here : Sorry I didn't read the whole the thread, but the following information may be useful. If you just want BootX, d'l the 8.1 rescue floppy and use its System Folder on your HDD. Remove all pictures

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Andre Berger
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > New hypothesis: generic too short timeout - please increase timeout to > 5000 in wait_for_ready. > > Michael Where could I increase that timeout? -- Andre

Re: Yow! No X mouse with 2.2.17

2000-07-25 Thread Adam Sjøgren
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:46:07 -0700 (PDT), Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > It's nae gud laddie! Disabled gpm, restarted X, same difference -> > mouse doesn't move You may want to read the section "Test kernels" on Benh's page: http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/ > It has a bit about changes in the mo

Re: Yow! No X mouse with 2.2.17

2000-07-25 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
It's nae gud laddie! Disabled gpm, restarted X, same difference -> mouse doesn't move additionally, why should gpm and X get along fine with just a slightly older kernel, and then conflict with a newer one? I'm baffled. On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Cameron wrote: > Try running X without gpm running, s

Re: Yow! No X mouse with 2.2.17

2000-07-25 Thread Cameron
Try running X without gpm running, see if that fixes it. On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > I just updated by PB3400 with the latest packages from frozen, which > included a 2.2.17 kernel (The .deb says pre11, the kernel just says 2.2.17 > when it boots). > > GPM mouse works on co

Yow! No X mouse with 2.2.17

2000-07-25 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
I just updated by PB3400 with the latest packages from frozen, which included a 2.2.17 kernel (The .deb says pre11, the kernel just says 2.2.17 when it boots). GPM mouse works on consoles. But when X comes up... THE MOUSE DOESN'T MOVE! I'm still running the same Xserver (Xpmac-rev9) and booting

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> New hypothesis: generic too short timeout - please increase timeout to > 5000 in wait_for_ready. There may be something here. I just updated to 2.2.17 as packaged in frozen (compile date of Jul 18th). I got some form of the usual IDE errors on boot, from which it finally recovered, which incl

Re: Debian on 7200 -- Success!

2000-07-25 Thread Werner Teeling
At 23:28 -0500 24-07-2000 Kevin van Haaren wrote: Installing Debian GNU/Linux on a PowerMac 7200 [detailed info on how to install - thanx !] I almost gave up installing Debian on my 7200, especially after reading previous posts on this list. So Kevin's message was very good news, and I'll gi

Re: xconfigurator or something

2000-07-25 Thread Nelson Abramson
Cameron wrote: > Well, wouldn't using X 4 kinda screw with the dependencies in the package > tree? Like, wouldn't apt try to install over some stuff later thinking I > don't have X or I don't have the most up to date X? That only happens if you allow apt to upgrade your system (I haven't been abl

Re: xconfigurator or something

2000-07-25 Thread Nathan Ingersoll
Supposedly, X 4 and X 3.x don't conflict, except for XF86Config. So if you back that up, you shouldn't have problems switching between the two versions. Look at the README's accompanying X 4 to make sure I have this straight.

Re: xconfigurator or something

2000-07-25 Thread Cameron
Well, wouldn't using X 4 kinda screw with the dependencies in the package tree? Like, wouldn't apt try to install over some stuff later thinking I don't have X or I don't have the most up to date X? Anyone out there with a Matrox Millenium II wanna help me out with an XF86Config? Thanks. On Tue

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > There's been a dma_intr status=0x00 message for the hda case as well, > > apparently enabling the multiword DMA will generate a DMA interrupt. > > Please note that the set multiword DMA 2 command succeeded earlier for hdc > > during driver init. Seems the problem is only with this function bein

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> There's been a dma_intr status=0x00 message for the hda case as well, > apparently enabling the multiword DMA will generate a DMA interrupt. > Please note that the set multiword DMA 2 command succeeded earlier for hdc > during driver init. Seems the problem is only with this function being > used

Re: xconfigurator or something

2000-07-25 Thread Nelson Abramson
Cameron wrote: > Can someone tell me where I can get an rpm (shudder) of xconfigurator or > some other tool for simplifying the setup of X? I've had basically no luck > with setting up X manually. Your best bet it so find someone with a similar setup that has a working XF86Config and use that. O

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Well there seems to be a multiword DMA 2 problem. All -d1... commands > on /dev/hda result in the orig. error; -d0 solves the problem. Note the Ok, that sorts out the timeout hypothesis. If the -d1 always fails I don't understand why the problem doesn't happen during kernel init though. You can

Re: X Free

2000-07-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
(It would be cool if you could trim the cited text and reply below - read RFC 1855) Cameron wrote: > I do indeed have the matroxfb driver for the console. So: > > > I have to use the same settings as my frame buffer? No. You can use whatever modelines your monitor can display. The fbset -x tr

Re: X Free

2000-07-25 Thread Cameron
I do indeed have the matroxfb driver for the console. On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > Cameron wrote: > > > > I have to use the same settings as my frame buffer? > > Do you use matroxfb or offb for the console? In the latter case you are indeed > limited to the console r

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Andre Berger
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You could try the following to narrow down the problem further: > > - omit the -p in the wakeup hdparm command, to make sure we're not running > into a problem with PIO mode autotune here (the kernel option is kind of > defeated by that option for all

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > You could try the following to narrow down the problem further: > > > > - omit the -p in the wakeup hdparm command, to make sure we're not running > > into a problem with PIO mode autotune here (the kernel option is kind of > > defeated by that option for all I can see). > > Sorry, which one

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Andre Berger
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Your error message looks like the disk doesn't like one of the feature set > > > commands the kernel sends it. I'll have to look at the IDE driver to see > > > if that's the DMA setting or some other drive command. Did you try > > > hda=noautotune,

Re: Install Files Missing

2000-07-25 Thread Kevin van Haaren
Directory missing at end of link. Files are in: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/po wermac/images-1.44/ To be nice and use a mirror (don't use the ftp.us.debian.org mirror, the files are missing from there): ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org//debian/dists/potato/main/

Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition

2000-07-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > > For those interested, http://gftp.seul.org/ , no powerpc.deb yet, and no > > source either. > > There is source: > > > gftp-2.0.7a.tar.gz - Source > gftp-2.0.7a-1.src.rpm - Source RPM > gftp-2.0.7a-1.i386.rpm - Binary i386 RPM > gftp_2.0.7a_i3

Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition

2000-07-25 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:40:19AM +0200, Hadess wanted to say the following: > Wahoo, > > Didn't know that so many people would jump in this thread, hehe. Thank you > all > for your tips, I just found that gFTP (which is quite buggy, though) supports > SSH (much the same way sftp does, i think

Re: Helix Gnome for Debian/PPC available

2000-07-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
Hadess wrote: > > > It is finally available, Helix GNOME is avaiable as .deb on > > > http://idorulabs.free.fr > > > > > > Add the given lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list and get it !!! > > > > > > Please report me any problem you encounter. > > > > I wanted to finally check out evolution and di

Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition

2000-07-25 Thread Hadess
Wahoo, Didn't know that so many people would jump in this thread, hehe. Thank you all for your tips, I just found that gFTP (which is quite buggy, though) supports SSH (much the same way sftp does, i think). For those interested, http://gftp.seul.org/ , no powerpc.deb yet, and no source either.

Re: Helix Gnome for Debian/PPC available

2000-07-25 Thread Hadess
Quoting Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It is finally available, Helix GNOME is avaiable as .deb on > > http://idorulabs.free.fr > > > > Add the given lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list and get it !!! > > > > Please report me any problem you encounter. > >

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Your error message looks like the disk doesn't like one of the feature set > > commands the kernel sends it. I'll have to look at the IDE driver to see > > if that's the DMA setting or some other drive command. Did you try > > hda=noautotune, and does this happen with all kernel versions? > >

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
> >hda: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2 > >ide_pmace: wait_for_ready, error status: 51 > >pmac_ide_do_setfeature disk not ready after SET_FEATURE ! > >hda: dma_intr: status=0x00 { } > >hda: Failed ! > > I get similar ide related errors or lockups on boot on my PB3400, with both > the packaged kernels ava

Install Files Missing

2000-07-25 Thread Aaron Davies
Most of the install files for Debian PowerPC (PowerMac) listed on http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac are 404. These are: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/resc1440.bin http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/powerm

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Andre Berger
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > hda: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2 > > ide_pmace: wait_for_ready, error status: 51 > > pmac_ide_do_setfeature disk not ready after SET_FEATURE ! > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x00 { } > > hda: Failed ! > > > > I have an 'alien'ized pmud 0.6.1 installed and i

Re: X Free

2000-07-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
Cameron wrote: > > I have to use the same settings as my frame buffer? Do you use matroxfb or offb for the console? In the latter case you are indeed limited to the console resolution and depth AFAIK. > With a matrox g200 (I think that's what it is, I got the thing just a few > days ago), what

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
> hda: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2 > ide_pmace: wait_for_ready, error status: 51 > pmac_ide_do_setfeature disk not ready after SET_FEATURE ! > hda: dma_intr: status=0x00 { } > hda: Failed ! > > I have an 'alien'ized pmud 0.6.1 installed and its script You can install the pmu 0.6 deb from unstable. I

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 08:32 +0200 7/25/00, Andre Berger wrote: >I get the follpwing message every now and then on my potato box, a >PowerBook 3400 (custom 2.2.17pre11, IDE settings not changed from pmac >standard), or even a complete lockup at boot time which forces me to >press the reset btn, and has already resulte

Re: g3 pismo - monitor out

2000-07-25 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Karsten Droste wrote: > how can activate the monitor out plug. > > the external monitor works with mac os but > not with 2.2.16pre4. I read few months ago a tip, posted on comp.os.linux.powerpc by Rob Minerick to make the external monitor workin on Pismo. You need XFree86 4

IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Andre Berger
I get the follpwing message every now and then on my potato box, a PowerBook 3400 (custom 2.2.17pre11, IDE settings not changed from pmac standard), or even a complete lockup at boot time which forces me to press the reset btn, and has already resulted in data loss(t+found): hda: Enabling MultiW

xconfigurator or something

2000-07-25 Thread Cameron
Can someone tell me where I can get an rpm (shudder) of xconfigurator or some other tool for simplifying the setup of X? I've had basically no luck with setting up X manually.