Re: Desperately need some help installing Debian 2.2 on a PowerBook G3

2000-09-22 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 07:49:36PM -0500, Chris Ivanovich wrote: > I'm asked to choose the path where the Debian archive resides. I > have no idea which archive it's asking for, but when I leave the > default choice of /instmnt and select "OK" I get an error message > stating that this path doe

Desperately need some help installing Debian 2.2 on a PowerBook G3

2000-09-22 Thread Chris Ivanovich
Okay, I'm going to try my question again, in the hopes that someone on this list has already experienced what I'm going through and can shed some light... I posted this once before, but the only response I got was from Dan (Thanks, Dan!) who said that everything seems to be right... I'm tryi

Running X on a Power Mac clone...

2000-09-22 Thread Matt Christian
Hello all, I have successfully installed and configured my machine so that all the console stuff works. However, I have yet to get X working properly. I posted my full machine description to this list about two weeks ago when I was having trouble with my machine freezing up. The problem turned

Re: Helix GNOME Updates?

2000-09-22 Thread C.M. Connelly
"SB" == Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> Also gnome-panel is being delayed. It is the last bit of SB> that new GNOME which appeared in Debian 2.2 for the Intel SB> platform but did not get to appear for PPC. The GNOME stuff is really messed up on PPC. I spent an entire d

Re: Installation of Debian Linux on a Power MAc

2000-09-22 Thread Matthew M Carroll
You might want to make sure your VRAM is in the a slot and not the b slot. I read somewhwere that this happened to someone else installing on a 7600? I think this is where I read it. http://lppcfom.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/173.html good luck, On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > >

Re: Installation of Debian Linux on a Power MAc

2000-09-22 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Benoit, after two weeks of experimenting or so, I gave up. I run Debian now on a UltraSPARC from SUN and the installation was a lot easier. I think the only thing which really helps is to install MacOS and use the other boot loader available (I can't remember its name). But I did not want to

Re: XView bug/PPC machines available for developers?

2000-09-22 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 11:33:49PM +0200, Martin Buck wrote: > BTW, I never heard any complaints about XView's varargs usage on ppc back > in the glibc 2.0 days (but then, I don't know wheter somebody actually > compiled it for ppc at that time). However, for glibc 2.1, somebody > submitted a patch

Re: Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary

2000-09-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > The RTL8029 is a PCI NE2000 clone. `modprobe ne2k-pci' should work. > > > > Hooray, it worked!! Thank you very much! I'm getting solid 650 MB/s > > through it, which may be limited by my

Kernel Hanging...

2000-09-22 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi all, After compiling and booting a 2.2.17 kernel from ftp.kernel.org on my prep machine, I'm trying to do the same with the 2.4.0-test8. After succeded in compiling, the boot hang with this message : Linux/PPC load: console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0 root=/dev/sda5 Uncompressing Linux...done.

Re: Helix GNOME Updates?

2000-09-22 Thread Claus
Hi Sergio! >: as obsolete; as if it were discontinued. Since I am in the topic, >: I am having serious difficulties in reading pdf files; are there any >: chances to have Adobe AcrobatReader for PPC? >: which xpdf version do you use? http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/CHANGES: 0.91 (2000-aug-

Re: Helix GNOME Updates?

2000-09-22 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 12:16:42PM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > I am having serious difficulties in reading pdf files; are there any > chances to have Adobe AcrobatReader for PPC? I've been successfully using xpdf to read pdf files for months now. GV also allows one to read pdfs -- Rob

Helix GNOME Updates?

2000-09-22 Thread Sergio Brandano
Also gnome-panel is being delayed. It is the last bit of that new GNOME which appeared in Debian 2.2 for the Intel platform but did not get to appear for PPC. Furthermor, gnome-print is being labeled as obsolete; as if it were discontinued. Since I am in the topic, I am having serious difficu

Helix GNOME Updates?

2000-09-22 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Is anyone keeping the Helix GNOME packages for PPC up to date? I have a set that was put out awhile back, but things gedit don't work and gnumeric has checksum errors, so I'm wondering if anybody has come out with something more recent... -raf