Re: problem booting from sda during installation

2000-10-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 09:38:43AM -0700, Indraneel Majumdar wrote: > > I thought any space after the first 128MB is left unused. Is this > incorrect? (previously swap partition _had_ to be less than 128MB to work > but that I guess was rectified). yes that is an anchient long gone limitation of

Re: report on iMacDV/iBook SE (was Re: Installing Debian on an Imac DV)

2000-10-05 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:59:01AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > I'm sorry, I need some more specific instructions than this. > > > > * XFree86 periodically takes snapshots of the Mesa CVS tree for inclusion > > in the XFree86 sources (xc/extras/Mesa) > > * I periodically generate packages fro

Re: problem booting from sda during installation

2000-10-05 Thread Indraneel Majumdar
Hi, sorry for this late followup. I was busy with PostgreSQL. but potato is still not booting on my 8550. Sorry for the long post, please help: On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 02:23:24AM -0700, Indraneel Majumdar wrote: > > > > I've downloaded potatoPPC 1st CD

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.17 req'd packages

2000-10-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:29:20PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:36:30PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > > Here's the list of pkgs from potato-porposed-updates which I used for > > boot-floppies 2.2.17: > > > > base-config_0.33_i386.deb > > debconf-tiny_0.2.80.17_al

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.17 req'd packages

2000-10-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:36:30PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Here's the list of pkgs from potato-porposed-updates which I used for > boot-floppies 2.2.17: > > base-config_0.33_i386.deb > debconf-tiny_0.2.80.17_all.deb > libc6_2.1.3-13_i386.deb > locales_2.1.3-13_i386.deb > makedev

boot-floppies 2.2.17 req'd packages

2000-10-05 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Here's the list of pkgs from potato-porposed-updates which I used for boot-floppies 2.2.17: base-config_0.33_i386.deb debconf-tiny_0.2.80.17_all.deb libc6_2.1.3-13_i386.deb locales_2.1.3-13_i386.deb makedev_2.3.1-46_all.deb task-x-window-system-core_1.2_i386.deb Porters, please try t

Re: report on iMacDV/iBook SE (was Re: Installing Debian on an Imac DV)

2000-10-05 Thread Hadess
Quoting Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hadess wrote: > > > Hum, another question. I've already got the 4.0.1 PPC debs. Can I > still use > > my iBook with that ? > > I don't understand your question, especially the 'still'? I mean, I know that DRI-PPC does work with the Rage 128 Mobility

Re: report on iMacDV/iBook SE (was Re: Installing Debian on an Imac DV)

2000-10-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
Hadess wrote: > Hum, another question. I've already got the 4.0.1 PPC debs. Can I still use > my iBook with that ? I don't understand your question, especially the 'still'? It may not work, but you can try without Option "UseFBDev". Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS studen

XFree 4 status on powerpc

2000-10-05 Thread Matt
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Sergio Brandano wrote: > ... I forgot to mention that the version is 3.3.6-11. > I would like to know something about version 4. It is > not on packages yet. How are things going there? The latest phase2 test packages work great on my PowerPC box. If you want to help test XFre

Re: out of focus

2000-10-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
Sergio Brandano wrote: > I am using woody on a PowerBook G3 1999. > Yesterday I updated X11 and enlightenment. > Today I am having problems with the video; > the image, both text and graphics, is out > of focus. Can you define 'out of focus' more precisely please? Michel -- Earthling Mi

Re: out of focus

2000-10-05 Thread Sergio Brandano
... I forgot to mention that the version is 3.3.6-11. I would like to know something about version 4. It is not on packages yet. How are things going there? Sergio

out of focus

2000-10-05 Thread Sergio Brandano
Hi, I am using woody on a PowerBook G3 1999. Yesterday I updated X11 and enlightenment. Today I am having problems with the video; the image, both text and graphics, is out of focus. Under MacOS is fine, so it is not an hardware problem. What about you? Sergio

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Sorry about the last e-mail, I didn't put anything into it, hehe. Anyway, > > 2.2 kernels, at least 2.2.16 doesn't have a fb support for the 3dfx > > voodoo3, which I want as I use the frame buffer X server as X for PPC > > (3.3.6 anyway) doesn't have a specific driver f

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-05 Thread Hadess
Quoting Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Wine so the code may be unportable. There's still enough in the way > of > > > windowmanager-Corel interaction to make you cry). > > > > Using wine as a porting library is not x86 specific. Companies could > use it to > > quickly port to Linux,

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-05 Thread Sergio Brandano
>And M$ just acquired 25% of the shares of Corel, which resulted in a raise of >57% for Corel on the stock market... Oh dear! This means that "Microsoft Linux" is a reality now. There is no escape! We are tosted! :-P Sergio

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-05 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Wine so the code may be unportable. There's still enough in the way of > > windowmanager-Corel interaction to make you cry). > > Using wine as a porting library is not x86 specific. Companies could use it > to > quickly port to Linux, testing the response from the community and then doing >

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-05 Thread Hadess
Quoting Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > And sloppy programming includes the tendency (of companies doing a > quick > > > Linux port) to use Wine (not even winelib) to make regular windows > > > applications run on Linux. Seen that with Corel, and it wasn't a bit > > > pretty in the begi

XF86Config

2000-10-05 Thread Paul Talacko
What do people use to generate XF86Config?? A followed the installers advice and used anXious which set it up for a PC. Doh! But, I have XF68_FBDev rejecting all my mode lines and I can't understand why. I have the monitor section set up for this multisync monitor which handles pretty much anythi

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-05 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > And sloppy programming includes the tendency (of companies doing a quick > > Linux port) to use Wine (not even winelib) to make regular windows > > applications run on Linux. Seen that with Corel, and it wasn't a bit > > pretty in the beginning. Seeing that no company is willing to dedicate >

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote: > >SB> Out of blue, why is that Linux now runs stable on six (6) > >SB> different platforms but commercial software like Star, > >SB> Corel, Adobe and IBM, just to mention a few, are only > >SB> available for ix86? Are there any political

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-05 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Sorry about the last e-mail, I didn't put anything into it, hehe. Anyway, > 2.2 kernels, at least 2.2.16 doesn't have a fb support for the 3dfx > voodoo3, which I want as I use the frame buffer X server as X for PPC > (3.3.6 anyway) doesn't have a specific driver for that card or most cards > for

Installation of Linux debian 2.2 on a powermac 7500

2000-10-05 Thread benoit . marchal
I have to install debian linux 2.2 on a powermac 7500. I've begin the installation, and until the reboot, all was correct. Then, in view to continue the installation, I should reboot my computer. I do this, set the device of boot (scsi-int/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:3/vmlinux-2.2.17). Until this point, all

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
Cameron Berkenpas wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:50:14AM +, Cameron Berkenpas wrote: > > > I can't seem to create a working 2.4 kernel in debian ppc. > > > Maybe the problem is that boot X doesn't support 2.4 kernels? > > > I would like to

Re: report on iMacDV/iBook SE (was Re: Installing Debian on an Imac DV)

2000-10-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 03:43:43PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Hadess wrote: > > > > > > > What do the Debian XFree packages include ? > > > > > > > > XFree86 CVS from sometime after 4.0.1c + PPC patches from Ani Joshi's > > > > rsync tree. > > > > > > Good enough f

Re: report on iMacDV/iBook SE (was Re: Installing Debian on an Imac DV)

2000-10-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 03:43:43PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Hadess wrote: > > > > > What do the Debian XFree packages include ? > > > > > > XFree86 CVS from sometime after 4.0.1c + PPC patches from Ani Joshi's > > > rsync tree. > > > > Good enough for DRI ? > > No. To be exact, the 2D drive