Re: PowerPC CDs on hold, awaiting new floppies

2000-07-26 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:36:00AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sparc is still appearing as I type, and I'll need to do powerpc after > > that, but otherwise the images are available via rsync here: > I've been told that the current powerpc floppies are

Re: Debian on 7200 -- Success!

2000-07-26 Thread C.M. Connelly
"EB" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "WT" == Werner Teeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> EB> frankly i would suggest selling the damn thing and getting EB> a newworld box (a used imac or something) nobody is testing EB> kernels on 7200's and nobody other then Dan seems to give a EB> damn

Re: Debian on 7200 -- Success!

2000-07-26 Thread Werner Teeling
On Tuesday 25 July 2000, at 22 h 56, Werner Teeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. At 26-07-2000 (23

Re: USB mouse

2000-07-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > Yea the mini logitech works great. The think to do is the input device stuff > in Ben's kernel page and either compile your own or use his precompiled test > kernels. They work fine. The url is http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/ (just > for convenience here :) Thanks, but

Re: Debian on 7200 -- Success!

2000-07-26 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tuesday 25 July 2000, at 22 h 56, the keyboard of Werner Teeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 lis

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-26 Thread Andre Berger
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I have recompiled my 2.2.17pre11 kernel with int timeout=5000; nothing > >has changed (PB 3400): > Sounds like a bogus hard disk, it's returning an error status from the > SET_FEATURE command while advertising some DMA support. I'll double chec

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
> >Anything in the interrupt code, or the arch independent IDE code since > >then? From the descriptions posted, there was a stray IDE interrupt after > >the set multiword DMA failure in most cases. Should the SET_FEATURE > >command that performs the set multiword DMA 2 operation generate an > >int

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >Anything in the interrupt code, or the arch independent IDE code since >then? From the descriptions posted, there was a stray IDE interrupt after >the set multiword DMA failure in most cases. Should the SET_FEATURE >command that performs the set multiword DMA 2 operation generate an >interrupt?

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
> >the second try get me running, don't know why. > >kernel 2.2.15pre14 didn't do this for sure, pmud is the same plus > >garcia's pmu patch (enabling wmapm) > > I don't think I changed anything to either IDE or serial sleep code since > 2.2.15pre14. Weird... Anything in the interrupt code, or th

Re: USB mouse

2000-07-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I'm using 2.2.15 (yes, I know about the vulnerability ;), and I can > successfully load the usb-ohci, mouse and usbcore modules. But neither gpm nor > XFree86 work with /dev/usbmouse, protocol IMPS/2 (also tried mman in gpm, no > dice). /dev/usbmouse -> hidbp-mse-0 and Section "InputDevice"

Re: USB mouse

2000-07-26 Thread Martijn van de Streek
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Michel D?nzer wrote: > I'm using 2.2.15 (yes, I know about the vulnerability ;), and I can > successfully load the usb-ohci, mouse and usbcore modules. But neither gpm nor > XFree86 work with /dev/usbmouse, protocol IMPS/2 (also tried mman in gpm, no > dice). Read the docs in

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >the second try get me running, don't know why. >kernel 2.2.15pre14 didn't do this for sure, pmud is the same plus >garcia's pmu patch (enabling wmapm) I don't think I changed anything to either IDE or serial sleep code since 2.2.15pre14. Weird... Ben.

Re: USB mouse

2000-07-26 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:03:19PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wanted to say the following: > Hadess wrote: > > > > I'm using 2.2.15 (yes, I know about the vulnerability ;), and I can > > > successfully load the usb-ohci, mouse and usbcore modules. But neither > > > gpm nor XFree86 work with /dev/usbmou

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-26 Thread Claus
>: >: I have recompiled my 2.2.17pre11 kernel with int timeout=5000; nothing >: has changed (PB 3400): I just ran into the described hangup, timeout=2000 :) the machine was in 'snooze' for about two hours; then I wake it up and tried to connect to my ISP (isdn modem, ttyS0). The connector was

RS6000 7043-240

2000-07-26 Thread Hajo Noerenberg
Hi outta there, i am currently trying to install linux on a RS6000 7043-240 (43P 604e). I have tried almost every boot/rescue/kernel disk i have access to (Debian,Yellowdog,SuSe) but the machine simply does _nothing_. If I type in "boot floppy:,\bootinfo.txt", "boot floppy" or some other variat

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>I have recompiled my 2.2.17pre11 kernel with int timeout=5000; nothing >has changed (PB 3400): > >ide0 at 0x102-0x1020007,0x1020160 on irq 13 >ide1 at 0x1021000-0x1021007,0x1021160 on irq 14 >hda: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2 >hda: IBM-DMCA-21440, 1378MB w/96kB Cache, CHS=2800/16/63, DMA >hdc: Ena

Re: USB mouse

2000-07-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
Hadess wrote: > > I'm using 2.2.15 (yes, I know about the vulnerability ;), and I can > > successfully load the usb-ohci, mouse and usbcore modules. But neither > > gpm nor XFree86 work with /dev/usbmouse, protocol IMPS/2 (also tried mman > > in gpm, no dice). > > Here are a few things you can tr

Re: PowerPC CDs on hold, awaiting new floppies

2000-07-26 Thread Leandro Dutra
> De: Philip Hands [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Sparc is still appearing as I type, and I'll need to do > powerpc after > > that, but otherwise the images are available via rsync here: > > I've been told that the current powerpc flopp

Re: USB mouse

2000-07-26 Thread Hadess
Quoting Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > > Indeed, thanks for the tip! > > But I wonder if some kind of magic is needed to get it working? > > I'm using 2.2.15 (yes, I know about the vulnerability ;), and I can > successfully load the usb-ohci, mouse and usbcore m

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-26 Thread Andre Berger
Claus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > drivers/block/ide-pmac.c line 597 > > wait_for_ready(ide_drive_t *drive) > { > /* Timeout bumped for some powerbooks */ > int timeout = 2000; > byte stat; I have recompiled my 2.2.17pre11 kernel with int timeout=5000; nothing has changed (P

Re: X Free

2000-07-26 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:07:06AM +0200, Michel 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 resolution and depth AFAIK. > > > > With a matr

USB mouse

2000-07-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > But may I suggest a nice thing? I was in a computer shop and found a very > nice USB mouse for the pismo: > > http://www.logitech.com/cf/products/productoverview.cfm/50 > > I know it is not a solution to you problem, but for all the people out there > looking fo

PowerPC CDs on hold, awaiting new floppies

2000-07-26 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Sparc is still appearing as I type, and I'll need to do powerpc after > that, but otherwise the images are available via rsync here: I've been told that the current powerpc floppies are broken, so am not bothering with TC3 images until someone t

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
> >: 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 bumped for some powerbooks */ > int timeout = 2000; > byte stat; That's the one, yes. Michael

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > New hypothesis: generic too short timeout - please increase timeout to > > 5000 in wait_for_ready. > > > > Michael > > Where could I increase that timeout? In drivers/block/ide-pmac.d:wait_for_ready(), it's set to 2000 right now. Recompile and try the resulting kernel. Michael