Re: Upgrade Problem

2001-06-14 Thread Russell Hires
> > GNU parted can resize ext2 partitions, and I think move them as well. The > debian package of it is called parted. > I'm surprised it isn't called de-parted... :-) I appreciate your response. I'm going to test the boot floppies, assuming I can find them. So far, I've been looking in the

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1 for powerpc at X Strike Force repository

2001-06-14 Thread Josh Huber
Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you get ADB keyboards with a caps lock that I can set to Control_L, or > should I just get a USB PCI card and USB keyboard? I'm sure they're obscenely expensive by themselves, but the new apple pro usb keyboards that come with the newword g4 desktop

Re: Upgrade Problem

2001-06-14 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:00:20AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > Well, I have /var on my / partition, because I started out small. I > symlinked the directory where the .debs go when they download (when > using apt-get) to my /home partition because / didn't have enough space > when I first attemp

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1 for powerpc at X Strike Force repository

2001-06-14 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:15:02PM -0400, Derek Homeier wrote: > Ah, when I was using it I still used an old 8100 with mechanical > CapsLock ;-) Can you get ADB keyboards with a caps lock that I can set to Control_L, or should I just get a USB PCI card and USB keyboard? -- #define X(x,y) x##y

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

2001-06-14 Thread anton
> > I should make you guys aware that the XFree86 test packages I have made > > available contain David S. Miller's PCI domains patch. For the most part > > this seems to affect only SPARC, but I don't want you guys to go chasing > > shadows in stock 4.1.0 sources to troubleshoot issues that may

broken libc6, looking for a working dpkg

2001-06-14 Thread Bastien Nocera
Hi, After downgrading my libc6 from 2.2.3-1 to 2.2.2-1, because the upgrade broke most of xmms' plugins and evolution (that even a recompile couldn't fix), I'm stuck with a version of dpkg that requires libc6 2.2.3. Does anybody have a binary of dpkg that I could use on a glibc 2.2.2 based system

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1 for powerpc at X Strike Force repository

2001-06-14 Thread Derek Homeier
No, we'll probaby have two keep different keymaps at least for the international keyboards to work properly (no, haven't created a mac-de yet, sorry!). If such keymaps need to be created anyway, that can be done for Linux keycodes rigth away, can't it? Yes, that's what I was talking about, o

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1 for powerpc at X Strike Force repository

2001-06-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
Derek Homeier wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:55:25PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:11:59PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > These packages are better than 4.0.3-x in the sense that they set the > > > model to "macintosh" instead of "pc104", too bad Xkb is br

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1 for powerpc at X Strike Force repository

2001-06-14 Thread Derek Homeier
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:55:25PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:11:59PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > These packages are better than 4.0.3-x in the sense that they set the model > > to > > "macintosh" instead of "pc104", too bad Xkb is broken now... > > > > once w

Re: mozilla 0.9.1 packages up

2001-06-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:16:22PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > build because ld.so.1 kept segfaulting when run by ldd on two of > > mozilla's libraries (if anyone has any insight as to why that would > > happen please speak up). the dependency lists look ok to me but if you > > have obscure

Re: mozilla 0.9.1 packages up

2001-06-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
> mozilla 0.9.1 has *finally* entered Debian proper, its been uploaded > to non-US/main. > > Since we have no powerpc buildd there, the only binary packages are > for i386. 0.9.1-2 (for unstable) just arrived on pandora. Untested, but that's what unstable is for. Thanks for alerting me :-) It usua

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1 for i386 at X Strike Force repository

2001-06-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:22:14AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:22:08AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Here's the first cut of 4.1.0. > Is there a way to avoid downloading the complete source again? I have 4.0.3, > maybe I can rsync of patch or whatever? I ha

Re: perl 5.6 problems

2001-06-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Here is the lasest output of apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. It seems > to be complaining about a Perl script, and will not go through with the > upgrade. This seems serious; how can I fix this? I have tried running > apt-get --reinstall on perl, perl-base and dpkg with no luck. Reinstall deb

Re: SOLVED MOL Crash (was: ReiserFS + MOL = Crash)

2001-06-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
> At least, it worked in my case, I have compiled MOL 0.9.58-1 and 0.9.59, > with glibc 2.2 and 2.2.17, and all the time MOL worked fine in both > console and X mode. How did you get MOL to build with 2.2.17? I've tried with 2.2.18pre18 but I get missing symbols when loading the modules.

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1 for i386 at X Strike Force repository

2001-06-14 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:22:08AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Here's the first cut of 4.1.0. Is there a way to avoid downloading the complete source again? I have 4.0.3, maybe I can rsync of patch or whatever? I have space and fast access at work, but only slow access at home (and no more sne

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

2001-06-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:50:07PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > That's the case. I mean it should know all busses and does support all 3 > > > uninorth busses. Is it called properly for the AGP bus (bus 0) by XFree > > > ? > > > >

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

2001-06-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:50:07PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > That's the case. I mean it should know all busses and does support all 3 > > uninorth busses. Is it called properly for the AGP bus (bus 0) by XFree ? > > >From current lnx_video.c: I should make yo

Re: perl 5.6 problems

2001-06-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Chris Tillman wrote: > Is this right? perl is not listed as a dependency for apt. I bet the problem is a warning or error from debconf. apt does not use perl. > Would it be reasonable to store and keep up to date a local perl package > backup to fall back on if perl is failing? No, th

Re: perl 5.6 problems

2001-06-14 Thread Chris Tillman
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:21:52PM -0700 or thereabouts, Peter Meilstrup wrote: >> Here is the lasest output of apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. It seems >> to be complaining about a Perl script, and will not go through with the >> upgrade. This seems serious; how can I fix this? I have tried r

mozilla 0.9.1 packages up

2001-06-14 Thread Ethan Benson
Hi, mozilla 0.9.1 has *finally* entered Debian proper, its been uploaded to non-US/main. Since we have no powerpc buildd there, the only binary packages are for i386. I have thus again updated my mozilla repository to include mozilla 0.9.1 packages, as usual they are built for potato but sho

Re: compiling gimp 1.2

2001-06-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:50:19PM +0200, sisi wrote: > so, > apt-get dist-upgrade woody > that's all right? no use dselect. there are many packages that are split and apt-get simply doesn't handle that (it ignores recommends). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpg2b7qqNoL

Re: compiling gimp 1.2

2001-06-14 Thread sisi
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 04:30:08AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:04:57PM +0200, sisi wrote: > > hoi all, > > > > i am trying to compile gimp 1.2, and it is asking for > > GTK + 1.2.8 or higher. So... i would like to know whether > > there is ximian stuff for debian power

Re: perl 5.6 problems

2001-06-14 Thread David J. Roundy
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:21:52PM -0700, Peter Meilstrup wrote: > > Here is the lasest output of apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. It seems > to be complaining about a Perl script, and will not go through with the > upgrade. This seems serious; how can I fix this? I have tried running > apt-get -

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

2001-06-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > >That's the problem, it doesn't work on AGP. outb works but inb segfaults. > > > >The syscall should only return an iobase for known working busses IMHO. > At the > >very least, it shouldn't return any for busses known not to work. > > > > That's the case. I

Re: compiling gimp 1.2

2001-06-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:04:57PM +0200, sisi wrote: > hoi all, > > i am trying to compile gimp 1.2, and it is asking for > GTK + 1.2.8 or higher. So... i would like to know whether > there is ximian stuff for debian powerpc as i know > that ximian for debian x86 has GTK + 1.2.10 ? if you want

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

2001-06-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >That's the problem, it doesn't work on AGP. outb works but inb segfaults. > >The syscall should only return an iobase for known working busses IMHO. At the >very least, it shouldn't return any for busses known not to work. > That's the case. I mean it should know all busses and does support all

compiling gimp 1.2

2001-06-14 Thread sisi
hoi all, i am trying to compile gimp 1.2, and it is asking for GTK + 1.2.8 or higher. So... i would like to know whether there is ximian stuff for debian powerpc as i know that ximian for debian x86 has GTK + 1.2.10 ? or is there some other solution like compling GTK myself (will i run into oth

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

2001-06-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > >> We need a way to use multiple ioBases from inside xfree to fix the > >> problem. The best solution will be to disable ISA I/O for now and get a > >> better fix later on. > > > >No, that's not the solution. The solution is to get the kernel to return > >the *co

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1 for powerpc at X Strike Force repository

2001-06-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:52:18PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:45:25PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > > > - Xkb doesn't work with Macintosh keycodes anymore, used to work with > > > > 4.0.3 > > > > >

Re: tomcat / apache-mod

2001-06-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
Damien GUIHAL wrote: > > I'd like to know if anyone has build the ppc version of the > libapache-mod-jk, which is tomcat plugger into apache, for servlet > developpement. It appears that it exists only for ix86, is it too difficult > to buils on other platforms ? It build-depends on j2sdk1.3 whic

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

2001-06-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> We need a way to use multiple ioBases from inside xfree to fix the problem. >> The best solution will be to disable ISA I/O for now and get a better fix >> later on. > >No, that's not the solution. The solution is to get the kernel to return >the *correct* iobase for the sepecific devfn, right

Re: perl 5.6 problems

2001-06-14 Thread Frederick V. Heitkamp
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:21:52PM -0700 or thereabouts, Peter Meilstrup wrote: > Here is the lasest output of apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. It seems > to be complaining about a Perl script, and will not go through with the > upgrade. This seems serious; how can I fix this? I have tried runnin

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: Cannot read V_BIOS (5)

2001-06-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
[ trimmed Branden and XFree86@XFree86.Org, this is none of their business. ] Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > After upgrading to XFree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1.1 on my PowerMac G4 running > Debian GNU/Linux, X doesn't work any more. > > Seemingly relevant lines from /var/log/XFree86.0.log: (full output below) >

Re: Can anyone help test CD images?

2001-06-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:49:22PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 06:24:56PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > Ethan, I need to reinstall the iMac anyway -- probably won't get to it > > until this weekend, but perhaps sooner. > > > > If you need copies of CD's burnt for you, just

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2001-06-14 Thread Lorenzo De Vito
Installing DebianPPC on a new G3, the system don't recognize my sound device, what can I do ?

Re: modem and security

2001-06-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:50:53AM +0200, Lorenzo De Vito wrote: > What kind of security problem can I encounter changing the owner of my > /dev/ttyS0 (modem) ? > > # chown -c myuser /dev/ttyS0 you don't need to do that. if you need to use the modem directly as your normal user account add yours

Re: Can anyone help test CD images?

2001-06-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 06:24:56PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > Ethan, I need to reinstall the iMac anyway -- probably won't get to it > until this weekend, but perhaps sooner. > > If you need copies of CD's burnt for you, just let me know -- I'll need > to talk to you in private mail about where to

Re: Can anyone help test CD images?

2001-06-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:21:36PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > "Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 08:32:06AM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > > "Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Is there anyone out there with the connectivity, di

Sound

2001-06-14 Thread Lorenzo De Vito
Installing DebianPPC on a new G3, the system don't recognize my sound device, what can I do ?

modem and security

2001-06-14 Thread Lorenzo De Vito
What kind of security problem can I encounter changing the owner of my /dev/ttyS0 (modem) ? # chown -c myuser /dev/ttyS0 ???

modem and security

2001-06-14 Thread Lorenzo De Vito
What kind of security problem can I encounter changing the owner of my /dev/ttyS0 (modem) ? # chown -c myuser /dev/ttyS0 ???

XFree86 4.1.0: Cannot read V_BIOS (5)

2001-06-14 Thread Lars Brinkhoff
Hello, After upgrading to XFree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1.1 on my PowerMac G4 running Debian GNU/Linux, X doesn't work any more. Seemingly relevant lines from /var/log/XFree86.0.log: (full output below) XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System (--) PCI: (1.21.0) ATI Rage 128 RE rev 0, Mem @ 0x8400/26,