Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-26 Thread Rohan Lloyd
Fabian> Am Donnerstag, 26. April 2001 11:17 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: >> Hi, >> >> I've just finished some very preliminary version of the promised >> Mac-on-Linux packages and put them into incoming. They should >> appear Fabian> Installation and configuration went fine for me but MacOS Fabian>

Delete key?

2001-04-26 Thread Chris Tillman
I read in some documentation that the key combination for shutting down Linux in an orderly way, from any user account, is Ctrl-Alt-Delete. I figure the equivalent on the iMac keyboard is Ctrl-Opt, but I wonder what substitutes for the Delete key, the backspace key marked Delete doesn't cut it. -

Re: Latest BenH kernel supports mixer on TiBook

2001-04-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
No, the previous poster just got confused. This feature is common in enterprise level ethernet switches. The question is, what happens when you plug one of these into a switch port that has the same capabilities? Perhaps they just argue indefinitely over what the configuration should be? What i

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-26 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Ethan Benson writes: > the mol packages didn't come with a MacOS ROM did they? Of course not. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe le djuz tqtaj!

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 06:30:08PM +0200, Philippe Lelédy wrote: > I had the same problem, and solved it easily: > > your ROM is not comptatible with your MacOS > > Remind that for MOL the ROM is read from Linux filesystems and for > native MacOS it is read from MacOS filesystem. > > So copy-st

Re: Latest BenH kernel supports mixer on TiBook

2001-04-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:18:25PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Peter Cordes wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:09:33AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > > > > Most interesting is that it has an auto-MDIX feature, i.e. it

Re: Latest BenH kernel supports mixer on TiBook

2001-04-26 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:18:25PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Peter Cordes wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:09:33AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > > > Most interesting is that it has an auto-MDIX feature, i.e. it can detect > > > if RX and TX are inverted. > > >

Re: mol comments

2001-04-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > > IMHO the correct way of handling this is to recommend kernel-package > > and provide instructions for building the modules both with and > > without kernel-package. > > That's exactly what I was thinking of, thanks. Sorry i

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-26 Thread Philippe Lelédy
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Fabian Jakobs wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 26. April 2001 11:17 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: > > Hi, > > "Ihr Computer kann mit der Systemsoftware auf diesem Startvolume nicht > starten. Installieren Sie bitte die für diesen Computer notwendige > Systemsoftware" > neustart > > My t

Re: mol comments

2001-04-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > I have to admit I don't really care about this as I don't use kernel > > nor module packages. All I'm asking for is not to impose a > > dependency on either. > > IMHO the correct way of handling this is to recommend kernel-package > and provide instructions for buildin

Re: Latest BenH kernel supports mixer on TiBook

2001-04-26 Thread Michel Lanners
On 26 Apr, this message from Peter Cordes echoed through cyberspace: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:09:33AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: >> Most interesting is that it has an auto-MDIX feature, i.e. it can detect >> if RX and TX are inverted. > > Cool! Are there any PC card NICs that do that? N

Re: mol comments

2001-04-26 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Why put debian-mol-modules-source/ in the root? [...] > debian-mol-modules-source/changelog.blanko lacks a newline in the end. > I was hoping you would have made the module-source hooking into > kernel-package to make building it semi-automatic. [...] Right now,

Re: mol comments

2001-04-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Please don't depend on kernel-package though. It can easily pick up the > > > correct tree for the running kernel if it's 2.4.x (and even current > > > 2.2.x?) using /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build . > > > > I am not sure I understand you correctly (o

Re: mol comments

2001-04-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > > I was hoping you would have made the module-source hooking into > > > kernel-package to make building it semi-automatic. I haven't figured out > > > yet just how to do it myself, but if n

Re: mol comments

2001-04-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > I was hoping you would have made the module-source hooking into > > kernel-package to make building it semi-automatic. I haven't figured out > > yet just how to do it myself, but if not anything else you could maybe > > sim

Re: mol comments

2001-04-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I was hoping you would have made the module-source hooking into > kernel-package to make building it semi-automatic. I haven't figured out > yet just how to do it myself, but if not anything else you could maybe > simply throw it into the TODO :-) Please don't depend on

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-26 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Fabian Jakobs writes: > Installation and configuration went fine for me but MacOS won't > boot. Unfortunately, it is still highly unlikely that your system will boot MacOS via Mac-on-Linux right after installation. You have to do a fair amount of configuration by hand, most of which involve

Re: mol comments

2001-04-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I was hoping you would have made the module-source hooking into > kernel-package to make building it semi-automatic. I haven't figured out > yet just how to do it myself, but if not anything else you could maybe > simply throw it into the TODO :-) Mo

Re: mol comments

2001-04-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Consider adding the following (just adding the file works out-of-the-box - > or at least it did for me): > > --- mol-0.9.57.orig/lib/vmodes/tibook.modes > +++ mol-0.9.57/lib/vmodes/tibook.modes Forget about it - just use 0.9.58, it supports the TiBo

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Fabian Jakobs wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 26. April 2001 11:17 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: > > Hi, > > > > I've just finished some very preliminary version of the promised > > Mac-on-Linux packages and put them into incoming. They should appear > > Installation and configuration we

mol comments

2001-04-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Jens You're great! It works nicely (after recompiling for my benh kernel)! Here's my comments after a few minutes of looking into the source and diff: Why put debian-mol-modules-source/ in the root? I think it would be nicer with all Debian/related stuff in debian/. debian-mol-modules-source

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-26 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Jonas Smedegaard writes: > You don't allow access to the .dsc file - is that on purpose? No, out of stupidity. Should be fixed. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe le djuz tqtaj!

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 26 Apr 2001, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > I've just finished some very preliminary version of the promised > Mac-on-Linux packages and put them into incoming. They should appear > in sid within hours, and in woody after the usual quarantine period. > In the meantime, you can get the packages and s

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-26 Thread Fabian Jakobs
Am Donnerstag, 26. April 2001 11:17 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: > Hi, > > I've just finished some very preliminary version of the promised > Mac-on-Linux packages and put them into incoming. They should appear Installation and configuration went fine for me but MacOS won't boot. MacOS refuses to st

Re: xine debs

2001-04-26 Thread Fabian Jakobs
Am Montag, 23. April 2001 13:11 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > Fabian Jakobs wrote: > > xine_init: audio thread created > > Illegal instruction > > Are you running a kernel from Paulus' tree? If yes, try Ben's . Paulus' is > very bleeding edge. Thanks, upgrading the kernel to the current benh kernel sol

Re: USB Mouse Problem

2001-04-26 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Matt Barnett wrote: > This is a pretty stupid question, given all the discussion of the new input > layer in the list, but I still don't know the answer. Here goes: > > I've just installed debian on my rev. a beige g3. Everything works fine, > except, of course, that X (specif

Re: debian-powerpc: can't install gnome-core/testing

2001-04-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:24:33PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > I'm trying to do an 'apt-get upgrade' on my PowerBook running > > Debian/Testing. It complained when trying to upgrade some gnome > > packages. This has been going on for a while now

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 26 Apr 2001, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > I've just finished some very preliminary version of the promised > Mac-on-Linux packages and put them into incoming. They should appear Coool - I will go grab them immediately :-) > Following suggestions on this list, I have split Mac-on-Linux into > thr

Re: Latest BenH kernel supports mixer on TiBook

2001-04-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:09:33AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > > Most interesting is that it has an auto-MDIX feature, i.e. it can detect > > if RX and TX are inverted. > > Cool! Are there any PC card NICs that do that? Sure - it seems my TiBook d

Re: USB Mouse Problem

2001-04-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
Matt Barnett wrote: > I've just installed debian on my rev. a beige g3. Everything works fine, > except, of course, that X (specifically xpmac.rev10) doesn't acknowledge my > usb mouse. The usb mouse and my usb card are properly detected by the kernel > during boot up, so this just seems to be a c

Re: hosed nvram on OldWorld Mac

2001-04-26 Thread Duncan Sands
Andrew Sharp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well, I tried this fix on my system, and it seemed to have partial success. > The boot command stuff definitely didn't work, it just says that > "wboot - bad word" or something to that affect. This referred to Alan Mimms' fixes for Apple OpenFirmware 1.0.

Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-26 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, I've just finished some very preliminary version of the promised Mac-on-Linux packages and put them into incoming. They should appear in sid within hours, and in woody after the usual quarantine period. In the meantime, you can get the packages and source from deb http://samiel.theorie.phys