Re: problem booting from sda during installation

2000-10-06 Thread Taro Fukunaga
Michael Schmitz wrote: (B (B> > It's working great and right now I'm struggling with X configuration. (B> > Mouse is not working. My mouse fits into the keyboard and has 4 pins. (B> (B> That would be an ADB mouse. Additional mouse buttons can be emulated by (B> keys using the adb_buttons=1,x,

Re: Dual Boot Debian 2.2/MacOS on G4 with two harddisks

2000-10-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 01:37:54AM +0200, Georg Koss wrote: > Smoke test ok!! > > Ideally it worked exactly as Ethan Benson wrote with the single small typo > gunzip -c ybin-0.26.tar.gz | tar xvf - > instead of > gzip -dc ybin-0.26.tar.gz | tar -xvf - bleah, that last one should work too, must be

Dual Boot Debian 2.2/MacOS on G4 with two harddisks

2000-10-06 Thread Georg Koss
Smoke test ok!! Ideally it worked exactly as Ethan Benson wrote with the single small typo gunzip -c ybin-0.26.tar.gz | tar xvf - instead of gzip -dc ybin-0.26.tar.gz | tar -xvf - Thank you, thank you very much Ethan Benson -- Mit besten Grüssen Georg Koss; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ANN] Rage128 (Pro) DRI test binaries updated

2000-10-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
Changes: Based on pre-4.0.1d XFree86 CVS and also include PLL calculation code from Ani Joshi's rsync tree now. The -r128- tarball now also contains libGL, so it should be possible to use just this one with an existing X 4.x installation to get DRI working. Read the ReadMe. And for those wh

Re: problem booting from sda during installation

2000-10-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
> It's working great and right now I'm struggling with X configuration. > Mouse is not working. My mouse fits into the keyboard and has 4 pins. That would be an ADB mouse. Additional mouse buttons can be emulated by keys using the adb_buttons=1,x,y kernel option (x and y being the keycodes for t

Re: problem booting from sda during installation

2000-10-06 Thread Indraneel Majumdar
Hi, A huge lot of thanks to you and all those who helped me out of this. Everything is working fine now so you might as well add Workgroup Server 8550/200 to the Debian Potato success list. I have been able to make a swap and var partition and machine is rebooting fine (an unhealthy way to test a

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-06 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
How do you get 2.4 to boot? Do you use bootx? On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > 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 wa

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

2000-10-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 12:08:15PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:59:01AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Of course. I was just wondering if and how the DRI stuff is currently > > > integrated in your packages. I see the *_dri.so modules

Re: problem booting from sda during installation

2000-10-06 Thread Indraneel Majumdar
Hi, I'm terribly sorry for breaking off. I had to relocate my machines around the lab due to emergencies. I'm online again. On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > you want to use > > /bandit/gc/mesh/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2 > did not work > or the more common method: > > /bandit/gc/mesh/[EMA

Re: out of focus

2000-10-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
> It is like when superimposing the text to its photocopy > on lucid paper; if the text is not allined, you can not > read it. You see two equal images that are very close to > each other. As you've discovered yourself by now, this is caused by setting mclk too low. Michael

Re: problem booting from sda during installation

2000-10-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > ok, not sure i get why you have 2 swap partitions, is this two disks? > > or are you under the impression that the linux kernel still has a > > limit of 128MB on swap partitions? > > I thought any space after the first 128MB is left unused. Is this > incorrect? (previously swap partition _had_

Re: Dual Boot Debian 2.2/MacOS on G4 with two harddisks

2000-10-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 02:36:27PM +0200, Georg Koss wrote: > Please help! > I have rather trouble to get the puzzle together. I tried to change from > SuSE PPC 6.4/MacOS to Debian, so I am a Debian newbie, probably that´s my > problem, don´t know. > > I have a G4 with two harddisks and DVD try

Dual Boot Debian 2.2/MacOS on G4 with two harddisks

2000-10-06 Thread Georg Koss
Please help! I have rather trouble to get the puzzle together. I tried to change from SuSE PPC 6.4/MacOS to Debian, so I am a Debian newbie, probably that´s my problem, don´t know. I have a G4 with two harddisks and DVD trying to install from CDROM. The Debian installation works until the make

Re: porting troubles

2000-10-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Using Wine _is_ x86 specific in the sense that Wine emulates enough of > > the > > Windows low level API to let x86 code including DLLs run on Linux. To my > > knowledge, there is no port of Wine to another architecture. You cpould > > argue Wine can be run under some x86 emulator - does making

Re: out of focus

2000-10-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
> ... 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? I've heard Branden make noises about 4.01 experimental packages(*), maybe you should check those? (*): On this list, no less.

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > That wasn't entirely clear from your mail. Anyway, the changes between 2.2 > > and 2.4 framebuffer drivers don't look to be much more than the rewritten > > struct definitions. Backporting to 2.2.18 should be possible without major > > hassle. > > Keep in mind that "major hassle" is relative.

Re: out of focus

2000-10-06 Thread Sergio Brandano
It is like when superimposing the text to its photocopy on lucid paper; if the text is not allined, you can not read it. You see two equal images that are very close to each other. Sergio > Sergio Brandano wrote: > > > I am using woody on a PowerBook G3 1999. > > Yesterday I updated X1

Re: out of focus

2000-10-06 Thread Sergio Brandano
Hi, X11 may not be the cause. As I reported, the problem occurs also in pure text mode, so it may just be the linux kernel or BootX. I remember updating to BootX 1.2.2 in the same timespan, as well as to kernel 2.2.17. The problem appeared with the frequency set to 63 (BootX setting). In t

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

2000-10-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:59:01AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Of course. I was just wondering if and how the DRI stuff is currently > > integrated in your packages. I see the *_dri.so modules are in the > > xserver-xfree86 package - they are useless without libGL t

Re: problem booting from sda during installation

2000-10-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 01:12:13AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > also, make sure in your quik.conf that your image= line points to a > real kernel and not a symlink, for some reason quik does not work > reliably with symlinks. looking back at your posted quik.conf that is exactly what its doing, t

Re: problem booting from sda during installation

2000-10-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 02:40:18PM -0700, Indraneel Majumdar wrote: > On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > i am not entire sure what the 8550 is, like i said, try ofpath it may > > already support that machine. > > > > (the kernel is at sda2 in usual potato location with symlink) > this

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.17 req'd packages

2000-10-06 Thread Christian T. Steigies
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

Re: problem booting from sda during installation

2000-10-06 Thread Indraneel Majumdar
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > i am not entire sure what the 8550 is, like i said, try ofpath it may > already support that machine. > (the kernel is at sda2 in usual potato location with symlink) this is what ofpath gives when I run ofpath /dev/sda2: /bandit/gc/mesh/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2000-10-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:59:01AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Of course. I was just wondering if and how the DRI stuff is currently > integrated in your packages. I see the *_dri.so modules are in the > xserver-xfree86 package - they are useless without libGL though, so wouldn't > they rather be

Re: problem booting from sda during installation

2000-10-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:45:59AM -0700, Indraneel Majumdar wrote: > Hi, > > Some terrible seems to have happened. I tried this: > > nvsetenv boot-device sd:2 yeah that is not correct, only Newworlds have nice aliases like that (and only for ATA) the 7200 uses scsi/@sd:2:0 i am not entire su

Re: problem booting from sda during installation

2000-10-06 Thread Indraneel Majumdar
Hi, Some terrible seems to have happened. I tried this: nvsetenv boot-device sd:2 it was: boot-device /AAPL,ROM earlier Now on powering up the system I get nothing on the screen, no grey screen, and it doesn't boot from floppy or Mac CD either. What do I do? Have I changed some setting in