Re: Help Deciphering cron Messages in the syslog

2001-01-04 Thread Steven Hanley
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 08:19:03PM -0800, Donnell wrote: > I've been seeing cron output in the syslog file and I'm not sure if it is > "normal" output or error output. I'd appreciate any help or suggestions > as to what the problem(s) might be. I include an excerpt from > /var/log/syslog and the

Help Deciphering cron Messages in the syslog

2001-01-04 Thread Donnell
I've been seeing cron output in the syslog file and I'm not sure if it is "normal" output or error output. I'd appreciate any help or suggestions as to what the problem(s) might be. I include an excerpt from /var/log/syslog and the /etc/cron.d/exim file that contains the command referenced in

Booting Patch

2001-01-04 Thread Daryl Moulder
Would it be possible to get the booting patch mentioned in this slashdot article http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/04/1336222.shtml Direct Link : http://lpp.FreeLords.org/ If it has anything to do with the pc bios probably not but if it just uses the frambuffer loading mechanism which ppc has al

Trouble with imstt driver in ani's tree

2001-01-04 Thread Michael Shapiro
When I try to use the imstt driver with my twin turbo 128, X stops with: (II) Module xaa: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1c, module version = 1.0.0 (EE) Driver `imstt' has no EnterVT function, deleting. (EE) Driver `imstt' has no LeaveVT function, deleting. (II) Unloading /u

Re: Status of PCI-PCI bridge on UMAX S900

2001-01-04 Thread Chas Williams
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Tibor Pausz writ es: >Today I tried your patch. Well, I breaks the hole interrupt stuff. >Now, even Mesh has trouble with interrupts (kernel crash), the >console=ttyS0 doesn't work so no output from the booting ... i was wrong about the checking for the interrupts pr

Questions about various upgrades: Netscape, XF etc.

2001-01-04 Thread Renaud Dreyer
I've been running potato on my PowerMac 7300 for almost a year now, and am wondering if it would be the time to upgrade various packages. First, I assume I can safely upgrade to the Netscape 4.7x packages in woody (or is it sid?)? I'm running Netscape 4.6 right now. Second, I've been running

Re: Status of PCI-PCI bridge on UMAX S900

2001-01-04 Thread Tibor Pausz
On Fre, 29. Dez 2000, Chas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,jingai writes: >>Doh! I didn't even think to check if the second get_property() call >>was returning > 0.. this fixes it! Thanks bunches for spotting that! > >it seems like someone was confused about t

Re: pmac_set_rtc_time: got 3 byte reply

2001-01-04 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:13:11PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > I think a number of these had not been found because people are buliding > generic kernels for multiple subarches. With these patches, it builds; > I'll test later whether it boots. :-) Nope. These are all fixed in the 2_3 b

Re: pmac_set_rtc_time: got 3 byte reply

2001-01-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > But even that doesn't work: > >[snip] > > Investigating... > > Add #include to the top of asm-ppc/delay.h. Just did the same > for > m68k :-) That was the first thing I did. :-) Alpha does the same; it's in the first

Re: pmac_set_rtc_time: got 3 byte reply

2001-01-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > But even that doesn't work: > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 > -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__powerpc__ -fsigned-char > -msoft-float > -pipe -ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple -mstring

Re: pmac_set_rtc_time: got 3 byte reply

2001-01-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Tom Rini wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:53:46PM -0800, Peter Abrahamsen wrote: > > > Now, 2.4.0-prerelease doesn't compile due to some errors in assembly. > > Unfortunately, gpm isn't working, but the error is in asm/mmu.h:10 > > Unrecognized opcode: 'typedef', which comes when it's compiling

Re: XFree86 on potato

2001-01-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 08:29:55AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Sure, but as has been acknowledged, the kernel with the new input layer > should have had a dependency on a new makedev package including the new > nodes, which has yet to be provided at all. This is very serious breakage in y

Re: XFree86 on potato

2001-01-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:23:56PM -0800, Taro Fukunaga wrote: > > (In other words, why is Potato broken when it is supposed to be a stable > > distro?) > > debian does not use a package full of nodes, instead it uses > the /dev/MAKEDEV script like traditional *nix. it has n

Re: "testing" broken on PPC ?

2001-01-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>After some thinking, you should even be able to just get the libc6 etc. debs >from unstable and continue with testing otherwise. I finally switched over to sid and now doing a dist-upgrade (finger crossed ;) Ben.

Re: iBook FireWire Video Problem

2001-01-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:08:40PM +0200, starlett wrote: > Hi, Ethan, > > >don't attempt to edit a iso image. > > > >when you get the yaboot boot: prompt type: > > > >debian video=ofonly > > The problem that that I do not get yaboot prompt. Just after few seconds > of loading, Debian hangs wi

Re: iBook FireWire Video Problem

2001-01-04 Thread starlett
Hi, Ethan, >don't attempt to edit a iso image. > >when you get the yaboot boot: prompt type: > >debian video=ofonly The problem that that I do not get yaboot prompt. Just after few seconds of loading, Debian hangs with black screen and few blue vertical lines. In LinuxPPC, I can press TAB on

Re: gpg key generation

2001-01-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:35:05PM -0500, Chad Miller wrote: > This is a known issue. PowerPCs are built too well, and don't gain > disorder as fast as, say, i386 does. heh ;-) > If this doesn't do it > > find / >/tmp/out & rm /tmp/out; lynx http://web.slashdot.org/ > > then take a base

Re: Re: r128 driver, unresolved symbols, XF86 4.0.2-1

2001-01-04 Thread jingai
> jingai wrote: > > > > Hello all, I am having troubles with the latest XF86 packages (4.0.2-1) > > and the r128 driver module.. X complains of numerous unresolved symbols > > in the r128 driver, as shown below. It also aborts and dumps core, so > if > > anyone needs the core file (approx. 6MB) I

Re: XFree86 on potato

2001-01-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:23:56PM -0800, Taro Fukunaga wrote: > What are the nodes that I have to make and how do I make them? If the > nodes aren't too hard to make, why aren't they in the debian package? > (In other words, why is Potato broken when it is supposed to be a stable > distro?) th