***Thanks to everybody, especially Michel Dänzer,
***for their help on this matter. It looks like I
***have a lot of work ahead of me :-(. Worse, after
***having played nethack on the console, it is starting
***to look like I may have to look at
***XF68_FBDev as well :-( or wait until xfree4 becom
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:09:31AM +1100, thus said Craige McWhirter:
> Phil, I think your message may be referrencing my messages about getting
> Evolution running. I didn't make any package changes (I wouldn't even know
> how) I merely installed evolution, libxml1 and bonobo (from Sid) to get
> E
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 07:09:40PM -0800, Rodney Brookes wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian Linux on my G4 without much success.
>
> When I try to change OF by typing in
> Execute a Shell
> mkofboot --boot /dev/hda4 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root
> /dev/hda 6 --partition 6
^
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 09:44:46PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > Execute a Shell
> > mkofboot --boot /dev/hda4 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root
> > /dev/hda 6 --partition 6
> >
> > OF won't accept it. Please can anybody tell me what I am doing Wrong?
>
> Is there a /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot i
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 06:08:36PM +1100, Brendan Simon wrote:
> I've got a Keyspan USB to Serial converter (2 x mini 8 DIN) and want to
> use it to connect to an RS232 port on another machine. I've downloaded
> the source for kernel 2.4.2 and compiled in the Keyspan driver as a
> module but I don
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 09:34:43PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
> For the remaining tasks, the generic install doc is the better guide
> indeed. My statement above didn't mean I'd like to replace the generic
> docs with per-arch ones. Just separate out the specific things to be more
> flexible
The input device saga continues...
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Sergio Brandano wrote:
> the system uses
> /dev/input/mouse0 as core-pointer, and
> /dev/input/mouse1 as external USB pointer.
This conflicts with the system boot messages below: mouse1 is
tied to input0 which is the mouse button emulation
Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> Speaking of sawfish, I have a problem with 0.36 (-helix3 to be exact). When
> I try to use the middle mouse its menus I get an error about files (a list
> of numbers).
I meant to say 'When I try to use its menus'...
Am I the only one having this problem?
--
Earthling
> Execute a Shell
> mkofboot --boot /dev/hda4 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root
> /dev/hda 6 --partition 6
>
> OF won't accept it. Please can anybody tell me what I am doing Wrong?
Is there a /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot in the installer filesystem, or would
that be on /target/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
I haven't been following this thread, but I also had problems with my
(Badb mouse when I upgraded to Potato 2.2r2.
(B
(BMy suggestion is to run the /dev/MAKEDEV script. Unlike LinuxPPC, there
(Bis no separate package to setup the devices in /dev. Instead, there is
(Bthe shell script called MAK
> > syslinux actually. and it can take a root= argument but if you don't
> > give a root= argument you get a root disk prompt.
>
> Yeah, that's what I said/meant. The boot-floppy-hfs.img floppy
> doesn't work the same way as the rescue floppy does for other
> architectures. My point is that for p
Title: G4
I am trying to install Debian
Linux on my G4 without much success.
When I try to change OF by
typing in
Execute a Shell
mkofboot --boot /dev/hda4 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root
/dev/hda 6 --partition 6
OF won't accept it. Please
can anybody tell me what I am doing Wrong? Are
MaX in the FaX wrote:
>
> the player work, but the mixer cannot control the volume of cdaudio.
You mean you get no audio. That is becuase it uses a digital connection. Try
the newest version of xmms w/ the CDAudio plugin.
> Xmms work fine (the integrated volume control don't work, so I need to
Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I updated my lot of Ximian Gnome packages. Take a look at
> http://hadess.net/idoru.shtml for more details.
I had been trying to update to the gnome 1.2 packages
in unstable without luck (gnome-panel and gnome-panel-data
aren't happy with each other)
Franz Sirl writes:
> think since around mid-last-year. Somehow Debian slipped through, but I
> have been in contact with Daniel Jacobowitz, and I think he will upgrade
> the Debian package soon (or he already has?).
Starting with Debian gcc-2.95-2.95.3-6 Daniel applied your patches.
Hi All,
why I cannot hear on my iMac with Debian?
the player work, but the mixer cannot control the volume of cdaudio.
Xmms work fine (the integrated volume control don't work, so I need to
change it from Mixer.)
Another related problem is that no audio signal out from the speakers.
I suspect th
Kin Chung wrote:
>
> >Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >Kin Chung wrote:
> >
> > > XFree4.0.2 does not work at all at the moment. The r128
> > > ...
>
> >I'm a bit surprised that you didn't find this in the archives,
> >considering how well you researched the other problems
> >(congrats! :).
>
> Than
Ethan many thanks for your reply to my adbmouse. I am a complete
newbie to linux and to Debian in particular. I have successfully
installed PPC2000 and Suse on my other machines both Macs. I wanted
to use Debian because I want to understand the processes of Linux.
Simply changing the symlink a
>That would explain it, because the youngest macos I have is 8.1. I
>take it that the latest dual G4s are a different architecture?
They are a completely different architecture, and you don't boot them
with BootX or miBoot, but from OpenFirmware.
>If he doesn't change kernels a lot he can use th
Michel Dänzer wrote:
Kin Chung wrote:
> XFree4.0.2 does not work at all at the moment. The r128
> ...
I'm a bit surprised that you didn't find this in the archives,
considering how well you researched the other problems
(congrats! :).
Thanks (doing researh is a bad habit from old US
Dieter Faulbaum wrote:
Michel Dänzer writes:
> Dieter Faulbaum wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me where I can change `the 10 minutes' to
> > `nonterminating'?
>
> [...]
>
> > Fatal server error:
> > fbdevUpdateColormap: FBIOPUTCMAP failed (Function not implemented)
>
> Is this the scre
On 2 Mar, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through cyberspace:
>>Use nvsetenv:
>>
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qf `which nvsetenv`
>>pmac-utils-1.1.1-1b
>>
>>-- on my LinuxPPC box.
>>
>>nvsetenv boot-device "/AAPL,ROM"
>>
>>and on next reboot you go into MacOS. From MacOS, use you
I've got a Keyspan USB to Serial converter (2 x mini 8 DIN) and want to
use it to connect to an RS232 port on another machine. I've downloaded
the source for kernel 2.4.2 and compiled in the Keyspan driver as a
module but I don't actually know how to use it with minicom. Do I use a
ttyS* or somet
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