Re: setting up X

2000-09-05 Thread Mike Armour
> EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Driver "fbdev" > Device "My Video Card" > Monitor "My Monitor" > DefaultColorDepth 16 > > Subsection "Display" > Depth 8 > Modes "640x480" > EndSubsection > > Subsection "Display" > Depth 16 > Modes "640x480" > EndSubsection > > Subsection "Disp

How to get proposed-updates.

2000-09-05 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm running some PowerPC and Intel machines with Debian 2.2. How do I edit my /etc/apt/sources.list to access the proposed-updates or potato-proposed-updates directory on the Debian mirrors. I searched the archives but didn't come up with anything helpful. Is there a README, HOWTO, or website th

Re: setting up X

2000-09-05 Thread Taro Fukunaga
Here is the error message I get when I startx: (B (B (B (BXFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System (B(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) (BRelease Date: January 8 2000 (BIf the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer (Bthan the above date

Re: setting up X

2000-09-05 Thread Taro Fukunaga
Here is XF86Config. The manual for$B!!(Bmy monitor says: (B (BHorizontal 24.8-94.0kHz (BVertical: 50-160Hz (BMaximum Resolution: 1600x1200 (Non interlaced) (B (BOn MacOS I usually use thousands of colors and 1280x1024, 75Hz. (B (BThanks, and if its better to wait for XFre86 4 package, I'l

Re: setting up X

2000-09-05 Thread Taro Fukunaga
Here is XF86Config and the error message I am getting. The manual for (Bmy monitor says: (B (BHorizontal 24.8-94.0kHz (BVertical: 50-160Hz (BMaximum Resolution: 1600x1200 (Non interlaced) (B (BOn MacOS I usually use thousands of colors and 1280x1024, 75Hz. (B (BThanks, and if its better t

Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400

2000-09-05 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Hello *, I want to install debian (or any PPC Linux for that matter, I am becoming very desperate) on my PowerBook 3400. LinuxPPC can't install because I can't partition my hard drive. Debian can't install because (why oh why???) the CD isn't bootable! (at least, the binary-powerpc-1.iso

Re: touble making Power Mac 7200 boot directly into Linux

2000-09-05 Thread Andre Berger
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hrm... By "older" PowerBook, you mean a "first generation" also called > "3500" ? FYI: The 3500 is a 3400, org. 603ev, with a G3 CPU: the first G3 PowerBook. -- Andre

Re: where is make-kpkg?

2000-09-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
Cyril wrote: > I'm planning on rebuilding my kernel (I had to reinstall the whole > system due to a really bad crash), so I did a netinstall of potato. > Thing is, I don't seem to have make-kpkg. > Does anyone know in which deb it is? A good place to find answers to this kind of question is http

Re: where is make-kpkg?

2000-09-05 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi ! On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Cyril wrote: > Hi all, > I'm planning on rebuilding my kernel (I had to reinstall the whole > system due to a really bad crash), so I did a netinstall of potato. > Thing is, I don't seem to have make-kpkg. > Does anyone know in which deb it is? > Thanks > Cyril After a "

Re: where is make-kpkg?

2000-09-05 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:34:30PM +0200, Cyril wrote: > Hi all, > I'm planning on rebuilding my kernel (I had to reinstall the whole > system due to a really bad crash), so I did a netinstall of potato. > Thing is, I don't seem to have make-kpkg. > Does anyone know in which deb it is? kernel-pack

where is make-kpkg?

2000-09-05 Thread Cyril
Hi all, I'm planning on rebuilding my kernel (I had to reinstall the whole system due to a really bad crash), so I did a netinstall of potato. Thing is, I don't seem to have make-kpkg. Does anyone know in which deb it is? Thanks Cyril

Re: [Q] .debs for X servers?

2000-09-05 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 07:01:00PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I configure with an option of "prefix=/opt" so that it doesn't intefere with > other > binaries that the debian system uses. Debian has everything compiled and > installed for /usr. An alternative to /opt is /usr/local but I don'

Re: touble making Power Mac 7200 boot directly into Linux

2000-09-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>I'm trying it on a StarMax 3000 and an older G3 powerbook, nogo on >either. Nothing seems to boot on the StarMax I get a no init found >error when it trys to boot linux. The 2.2.15 recommended by some has >the same problem. > >On the powerbook, 2.2.17 boots fine but X crashes randomly. The >2.

Re: setting up X

2000-09-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
Taro Fukunaga wrote: > > I tried your suggestions and it still doesn't work. I still get the same > error message. > > There is a lot more to the error messages, but its so long I didn't want > to send everyone the output. Has to do with the monitor resolution settings. Have you set sensible hor

2.2.17 Linus works on 7200 with quik

2000-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
Hi all, i just compiled 2.2.17 from ftp.kernel.org and it works fine on my friends 7200 booted with quik, first one since 2.2.14. no patching required. this kernel is also the first one to work on my blue g3 without any patching. finally i can compile kernels for powerpc just like i can for