BIG Problem...need BIG Medicine

2001-03-27 Thread William Crowshaw
O.K., I am a little embarrased to admit it but I just remove the all important /bin directory. Am I simply screwed? Do I need to do a clean install? If not, how do I re-install the missing apps? Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated. THANKS, wcrowshaw __

Re: what happened to gvim?

2001-03-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Matt Brubeck wrote: > >> Can we get a powerpc Debian developer to do this and make an NMU, or > >> could the autobuilder's maintainer cause it to rebuild vim-gtk? > > > The right way to do this is to mail the bug telling the maintainer to > > add libgtk1.2-dev to Build-Depends, then the next versi

Re: new input layer and mouse button emulation

2001-03-27 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:11:36AM +0200 or thereabouts, Andre Berger wrote: > Those keycodes are mapped to my keypad-enter (btn2) and the power button I never managed to use that keypad-enter for mouse-button emulation, and I don't think I tried with the power button. This left me with very littl

Re: new input layer and mouse button emulation

2001-03-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andre Berger wrote: > #/etc/sysctl.conf > dev.mac_hid.mouse_button2_keycode = 76 > dev.mac_hid.mouse_button3_keycode = 127 > dev.mac_hid.mouse_button_emulation = 1 > > (and rebooted; /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse* are set to these values) > > Those keycodes are mapped to my keypad-enter (btn2) and t

Re: pmud / harddisk / kernel problem

2001-03-27 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Bastien Nocera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Here goes the quick instructions: > > mkdir pmac-benh > cd pmac-benh > rsync -avrz --delete penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh . Thanks. Right after I sent the email, I found that it *had* been added to the linux-pmac-stable, but I really didn'

Re: pmud / harddisk / kernel problem

2001-03-27 Thread Bastien Nocera
Hi, "Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > "Bastien Nocera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You can find experimental (although it worked very fine for me) > > support in BenH's latest tree (check penguinppc.org for instructions > > on getting the kernel). > > > > AFAIK, sleep works on Pismo (BenH and

Re: new input layer and mouse button emulation

2001-03-27 Thread Andre Berger
* Patrice LaFlamme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010327 22:36 +0100: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:57:00AM +0100 or thereabouts, Andre Berger wrote: > > I've updated my potato system (PB3400) to kernel 2.2.19pre17-pmac from > > proposed updates, which uses the new input layer mod

Re: pmud / harddisk / kernel problem

2001-03-27 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Bastien Nocera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can find experimental (although it worked very fine for me) > support in BenH's latest tree (check penguinppc.org for instructions > on getting the kernel). > > AFAIK, sleep works on Pismo (BenH and tigert reported success) and iMac > (I tested t

Re: RS/6000 install help. (con't)

2001-03-27 Thread Aleck Zander
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Phillip Strauss wrote: > Well yesterday I thought I'd try installing Yellow Dog Linux to see if maybe > this was a error specific to the Debian distribution. The only responses I > got yesterday were from people with the same problem but no idea what it is. > Well I wasn't ab

Re: kde-designer...

2001-03-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
Michael D Sobotta wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > > > Wee, another slightly broken package :) > > > > kde-designer depends on libqt2.2-dev > > > > but libqt2.2-dev actually installs as libqt-dev, hence kde-designer can't > > install. > > > > (I don't use kde anyways, jus

XFree86 4.0.2-12 release and architecture status

2001-03-27 Thread Branden Robinson
[My apologies for the obscenely broad crosspost, but I think you'll understand the reason why.] XFree86 4.0.2-12 for i386 has been uploaded to auric's incoming. (Yes, I built it against libc6 2.2.2-2, not 2.2.2-3 or later.) It is my intention for this to be my last release in the 4.0.2 series.

Re: Unable to create/save/open/delete files as root

2001-03-27 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:46:28PM +0100, Gordon Dykes wrote: > running e2fsk (+some options) while it fixed an error it did not help. > I have started making backups and am prepared to re-install debian. > > Any last ideas before i do this? run a mknod command to create /dev/hda as a symlink to

Re: what happened to gvim?

2001-03-27 Thread Matt Brubeck
>> Can we get a powerpc Debian developer to do this and make an NMU, or >> could the autobuilder's maintainer cause it to rebuild vim-gtk? > The right way to do this is to mail the bug telling the maintainer to > add libgtk1.2-dev to Build-Depends, then the next version will be > autobuilt properl

Re: new input layer and mouse button emulation

2001-03-27 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:57:00AM +0100 or thereabouts, Andre Berger wrote: > I've updated my potato system (PB3400) to kernel 2.2.19pre17-pmac from > proposed updates, which uses the new input layer model. I've changed > mouse type and device successfully, the mouse works in X and the > consoles,

Re: What ethernet HW is in the TiBook??

2001-03-27 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> I think I know why the TiPB dies. Looks like the kernel doesn't properly >> recognize the 7410 CPU as having an L2 cache, and so we don't properly >> flush it & invalidate it. (We don't catch the altivec neither). I'm >> working on a fix. > >Do you regard sleep support on Pismo and the Ti suffic

Re: Unable to create/save/open/delete files as root

2001-03-27 Thread Gordon Dykes
running e2fsk (+some options) while it fixed an error it did not help. I have started making backups and am prepared to re-install debian. Any last ideas before i do this? before re-mounting it as read/write again, make sure you did a "e2fsck /dev/". looks like the filesystem got somewhat cor

RS/6000 install help. (con't)

2001-03-27 Thread Phillip Strauss
Well yesterday I thought I'd try installing Yellow Dog Linux to see if maybe this was a error specific to the Debian distribution. The only responses I got yesterday were from people with the same problem but no idea what it is. Well I wasn't able to get Yellow Dog to boot. I didn't spend much ti

Re: What ethernet HW is in the TiBook??

2001-03-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
> >> Will this also work by just closing the lid, or will I have to tweak the > >> pwrctl script for that? > > > >AFAIR pmud doesn't actually shut down the Pismo when the lid is closed. > >The tweaks to the pwrctl script were solely to prevent output or log > >messages. What you can remove from pwr

Re: What ethernet HW is in the TiBook??

2001-03-27 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> I just successfully put this Pismo to sleep with snooze and woke it up with >> the space bar. :) >> >> Will this also work by just closing the lid, or will I have to tweak the >> pwrctl script for that? > >AFAIR pmud doesn't actually shut down the Pismo when the lid is closed. >The tweaks to the

new input layer and mouse button emulation

2001-03-27 Thread Andre Berger
I've updated my potato system (PB3400) to kernel 2.2.19pre17-pmac from proposed updates, which uses the new input layer model. I've changed mouse type and device successfully, the mouse works in X and the consoles, with gpm. The only thing not solved: Mouse button emulation. I used to boot with "ad

Re: What ethernet HW is in the TiBook??

2001-03-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > I'll certainly give this a whirl, I definately want sleep support. > > I just successfully put this Pismo to sleep with snooze and woke it up with > the space bar. :) > > Will this also work by just closing the lid, or will I have to tweak the > pwrctl script for that? AFAIR pmud doesn't actua

Re: Print Problem with Deskwriter...

2001-03-27 Thread William C Brennan
Title: Re: Print Problem with Deskwriter... W. Crowshaw wrote: I'm trying to get my HP 600 Deskwriter printer working with my PowerPC 7500. I've followed the instructions on the FAQ-O-Matic, but I haven't got it to work.  I had to modify the instruction somewhat because they are out-of-date and

ibook and Xfree4

2001-03-27 Thread Franco Vite
Hi all, I've an ibook orange (300 Mh), with 00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage L Mobility AGP 2x (rev 64), and debian potato. I want upgrade to woody, but I don't know if Xfree4 suport my video card. Tnx -- ciao, Franco "Ci hanno insegnato la meraviglia verso la

Print Problem with Deskwriter...

2001-03-27 Thread W. Crowshaw
I'm trying to get my HP 600 Deskwriter printer working with my PowerPC 7500. I've followed the instructions on the FAQ-O-Matic, but I haven't got it to work. I had to modify the instruction somewhat because they are out-of-date and because i am using Debian with kernel 2.2.18pre21. Here's what I

Re: what happened to gvim?

2001-03-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Matt Brubeck wrote: > > I worked around it by doing an "apt-get --compile source vim" and > > installing the appropriate generated .deb. > > Can we get a powerpc Debian developer to do this and make an NMU, or could > the autobuilder's maintainer cause it to rebuild vim-gtk? The right way to do t

Apple Titanium G4 success

2001-03-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi! I am the happy owner of an Apple PowerBook G4 (the "TiBook"). Happy not only because of the nice piece of hardware, but also because after 5 days of struggle I have finally succeeded in making it run Debian Sid complete with X11 :-) I am tweaking a few .deb packages and compiling varius kerne

Re: Recommendation *against* UFS

2001-03-27 Thread Gerd Knorr
> > After playing around with my now triple booting (debian/osx/classic) PBG4 > > for a couple hours, and discovering that > >=20 > > a) osx was slow b) airport was broken c) classic was broken > > there is a technote regarding classic, you must first copy it to the > macos partition, run it from

Re: Recommendation *against* UFS

2001-03-27 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
>as for slowness my testing of the beta showed HFS+ to be 10 times >slower then UFS. a simple chmod on a single file was instant on UFS >but took nearly 5 seconds on HFS+ Hmmm... Well, all I can tell is you that switching from UFS to HFS+ on my system amazingly improved responsiveness. My origin

Re: Recommendation *against* UFS

2001-03-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:54:04PM -0800, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: > After playing around with my now triple booting (debian/osx/classic) PBG4 > for a couple hours, and discovering that > > a) osx was slow b) airport was broken c) classic was broken there is a technote regarding classi

Recommendation *against* UFS

2001-03-27 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
After playing around with my now triple booting (debian/osx/classic) PBG4 for a couple hours, and discovering that a) osx was slow b) airport was broken c) classic was broken I reinstalled OSX formatting the partition to HFS+, instead of UFS as it had bit. OSX runs about twice as fast now, airpo

Re: pmud / harddisk / kernel problem

2001-03-27 Thread Bastien Nocera
Hi, That's a well known problem for which you can find a solution in the archives: sleep is not supported on Core99 machines. Well, was not. You can find experimental (although it worked very fine for me) support in BenH's latest tree (check penguinppc.org for instructions on getting the kernel).