Re: XFree86 4.01 debs

2000-09-01 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 12:32:03PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Anything specific we (or me in particular :) can do? Yes. Ani Joshi's tree has 4.0.1 drivers in it. Just dumping them in to replace the 4.0.1c drivers is, of course, not acceptable. Also, Branden only wants patches which compile/w

Re: why doesn't Xpmac like my mouse?

2000-09-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, John R. MacPhail wrote: > I'm on Potato, with XFree86-Xpmac-3.3.6-8a, and a two-line ~/.xserverrc, > > #!/bin/sh > exec Xpmac -noaccel > > This gives me an X server that appears to work fine, except that my > mouse is ignored completely. Suggestions? > > Here is fur

Re: touble making Power Mac 7200 boot directly into Linux

2000-09-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michael Lyngbøl wrote: > Doh! It is /vmlinux - now I end up here: > > Second-stage QUIK loader > boot: > Starting at 0 > opening display /[EMAIL PROTECTED] failed > copying OF device tree...done > booting... > > Reading some of Ethan Benson's posts to debian-powerpc list I'll be > stuck here?! It

Re: Samba on PPC

2000-09-01 Thread Justin McKillican
>> Does Samba work on Linux/PPC machines. >> I've done an "apt-get install samba" but I can't get it going. >> /etc/init.d/samba start doesn't seem to help. >> Doing a "ps aux | grep smb" yields no processes.  I expect to see smbd >> and nmbd but nothing appears.  Is Samba ported for the PPC linux

Re: XFree86 4.01 debs

2000-09-01 Thread Michel Dänzer
Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:38:56PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 09:16:55AM -0500, Kevin Puetz wrote: > > > I see on the X Strike force page that branden thinks the current > > > (phase1v18) > > > debs there should now be a relatively smoo

Re: XFree86 4.01 debs

2000-09-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:38:56PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 09:16:55AM -0500, Kevin Puetz wrote: > > I see on the X Strike force page that branden thinks the current > > (phase1v18) > > debs there should now be a relatively smooth upgrade from 3.3.6, and are > >

Re: debian ppc website

2000-09-01 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> The website is hopelessly out of date. My own powerpc nor tervola boot currently, so i have no powerpc for the moment :( The powerpc-webpages needs an update-info for the release and the install-section must be regenerated. Sorry, cannot work on it currently. MfG, Hartmut

Help Console

2000-09-01 Thread Adrian Dascalu
Hi all, I've been totally unsuccesfull trying to convince my RS6k to use serial port as console ... Even without kbd and video card installed, CMOS reset and all, the mashine boots normaly sending output to the (inexistent) vga ... I'm using null-modem cable (tested!) and minicom with vt102 emula

Re: why doesn't Xpmac like my mouse?

2000-09-01 Thread John R. MacPhail
> I'm on Potato, with XFree86-Xpmac-3.3.6-8a, and a two-line ~/.xserverrc, > > #!/bin/sh > exec Xpmac -noaccel > > This gives me an X server that appears to work fine, except that my > mouse is ignored completely. Suggestions? The newest PPC kernels include a Ben

Re: touble making Power Mac 7200 boot directly into Linux

2000-09-01 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 10:26:28AM +0200, Michael Lyngbøl wrote: > > Doh! It is /vmlinux - now I end up here: > > Second-stage QUIK loader > boot: > Starting at 0 > opening display /[EMAIL PROTECTED] failed this seems to be typical and non-fatal. (it happens even with kernels that work fine on

Re: touble making Power Mac 7200 boot directly into Linux

2000-09-01 Thread Michael Lyngbøl
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:33:49AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > boot: scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2/vmlinuz > > > > Inode error #2133571404 while loading file /vmlinuz. > > Image not found try again > > boot: > > > > Haven't figured this one out? Has it some thing to do with /vmlinux > > (not)

ybin 0.20 online

2000-09-01 Thread Ethan Benson
I have released ybin 0.20, it can be downloaded from http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ybin/ or from http://linuxppc.org/usr/ybin/ (depending on your local DNS server) changes: * ybin: check for Newworld compatible nvsetenv and if found will automatically update the OpenFirmware boot-device variab

Re: Samba on PPC

2000-09-01 Thread Brendan J Simon
Kevin Puetz wrote: > On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Brendan Simon wrote: > > Does Samba work on Linux/PPC machines. > > I've done an "apt-get install samba" but I can't get it going. > > /etc/init.d/samba start doesn't seem to help. > > Doing a "ps aux | grep smb" yields no processes. I expect to see smb

Re: Samba on PPC

2000-09-01 Thread Chris Baker
Brendan Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does Samba work on Linux/PPC machines. > I've done an "apt-get install samba" but I can't get it going. > /etc/init.d/samba start doesn't seem to help. > Doing a "ps aux | grep smb" yields no processes.  I expect to see smbd > and nmbd but nothing appea

Re: Samba on PPC

2000-09-01 Thread Kevin Puetz
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Brendan Simon wrote: > Does Samba work on Linux/PPC machines. > I've done an "apt-get install samba" but I can't get it going. > /etc/init.d/samba start doesn't seem to help. > Doing a "ps aux | grep smb" yields no processes.  I expect to see smbd > and nmbd but nothing appears