Re: XFree86 4.1.0-0pre1v2 available for i386,powerpc,sparc

2001-06-28 Thread Adam Goode
Here is what I use on my iMac DV, not sure if it's perfect, but it works properly for me: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" HorizSync31.5 - 70.0 VertRefresh 40.0 - 150.0 ModeLine "1024x768" 78.5 1024 1033 1129 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync

Re: What's the best replacement editor for ae?

2001-06-28 Thread Steven Hanley
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:51:34PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:46:30PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:40:37PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:56:14PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > better editor then ae... hmm let

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 08:22:40AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > Are you sure it's an elf? Now you've done it. I'm going to have to > > fire up the mac to see where I went wrong on this. Oh, what a > > bother. I coulda sworn > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot-floppie

Re: XFree86 4.1.0-0pre1v2 available for i386,powerpc,sparc

2001-06-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:57:13AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Also, some kind of patch adding -fPIC for building static libraries will > > > have to be applied, or a lot of shared libraries will break on powerpc. [...] > My patch there should do IMHO, but I'd like to get some confirmation fr

Re: XFree86 4.1.0-0pre1v2 available for i386,powerpc,sparc

2001-06-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:57:13AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > And why don't you apply the Dashed Bresenham fix as well? > > > > > > Because I forgot about it, and don't know where it is. > > > > Attached to this mail, for example. :) > > Okay, will add. Thank

Re: XFree86 4.1.0-0pre1v2 available for i386,powerpc,sparc

2001-06-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:57:13AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > And why don't you apply the Dashed Bresenham fix as well? > > > > Because I forgot about it, and don't know where it is. > > Attached to this mail, for example. :) Okay, will add. > > Do you want an xserver-xfree86 debconf que

Re: What's the best replacement editor for ae?

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:56:14PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > What small editors are in use on the PowerPC? Is there any editor which > > is similar to BBedit in respect of the key shortcuts? > > better editor then ae... hmm lets see: > > echo with redirection > printf w

Re: XFree86 4.1.0-0pre1v2 available for i386,powerpc,sparc

2001-06-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:22:01AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > > > I'd like feedback on these packages, please, to the debian-x list. > > > > DRI is for Direct Rendering Infrastructure, not Interface. > > Whoops. And usually I'm suc

Re: What's the best replacement editor for ae?

2001-06-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:46:30PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:40:37PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:56:14PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > better editor then ae... hmm lets see: > > > > echo with redirection > > printf with redirection > > perl

Re: XFree86 4.1.0-0pre1v2 available for i386,powerpc,sparc

2001-06-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:25:44PM -0700, crombie wrote: > > feedback for imac, 266mhz, 32mb ram for version 4.1.x > > gotten via ftp.digex.com > > Please mail the list(s), not me privately. > > > will not install due to invalid vid modes. > > Technically, this isn't

Re: XFree86 4.1.0-0pre1v2 available for i386,powerpc,sparc

2001-06-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:25:44PM -0700, crombie wrote: > feedback for imac, 266mhz, 32mb ram for version 4.1.x > gotten via ftp.digex.com Please mail the list(s), not me privately. > will not install due to invalid vid modes. Technically, this isn't an installation issue, but a configuration i

Re: JFS compile?

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
My flying monkeys guess is that it will compare favorably to xfs, in other words, similar excellent performance and stability, but with a kernel bloat price. these days 256MB of memory is $40US, so do we care? maybe: memory for older machines is not trivial to get and not as cheap. a Kevin van

Re: XFree86 4.1.0-0pre1v2 available for i386,powerpc,sparc

2001-06-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:22:01AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > I'd like feedback on these packages, please, to the debian-x list. > > DRI is for Direct Rendering Infrastructure, not Interface. Whoops. And usually I'm such a stickler for correct terminology. I'

Re: XFree86 4.1.0-0pre1v2 available for i386,powerpc,sparc

2001-06-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
Branden Robinson wrote: > > I'd like feedback on these packages, please, to the debian-x list. DRI is for Direct Rendering Infrastructure, not Interface. It seems you have applied my r128 Xv endianness fix, why don't you mention it in the changelog? And why don't you apply the Dashed Bresenham

Re: Kernel

2001-06-28 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:57:48PM -0300, Ricardo Pardini wrote: > Ok, this was probably asked a thousand times, but I couldn?t find it in the June/2001 archive so I thought I better ask. I run a beige G3 with Debian, running the default 2.2r3 installation kernel (2.2.19). I am trying to compile, o

Re: Slightly newer airport sleep bits for pmud

2001-06-28 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:56:06PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > Peter Cordes wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:22:18AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > > > Er, if the kernel autoprobes them, modprobe gets called with -k, which > > > > means that among other things, when it's not been in us

Re: What's the best replacement editor for ae?

2001-06-28 Thread David J. Roundy
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:40:37PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:56:14PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > What small editors are in use on the PowerPC? Is there any editor which > > is similar to BBedit in respect of the key shortcuts? > > bbedit is a macos app right? thos

JFS compile?

2001-06-28 Thread Kevin van Haaren
Anyone try compiling IBM's JFS 1.0? The README says it's been run on PowerPC (be kind of a shock if it hadn't). How's it compare against Reiser? Kevin

Re: X together with dual scan passive matrix PB display

2001-06-28 Thread leif
Steven Hanley wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:39:19PM +0200, leif wrote: Screen card Card name: ATY, 264LT-G Card model: ATY,LT-G ROM card number: 113-X-1.0028 Card revision: 128 Card dealer ID: 1002 Oh, woops, I just assumed when you said g3 powerbook that it was a recent one w

Re: iBook2 and Sound

2001-06-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
John Hughes wrote: > > On Monday 25 June 2001 06:17, John Hughes wrote: > > I am using oms/omi from livid. Its free. Its also not perfect as there is > > some blue tinting and kinda a funny verticle "lining" on screen. That > > being said, I didn't expect it to run at all, so I figure I am quite a

Re: What's the best replacement editor for ae?

2001-06-28 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > for simple GUI editors i would suggest nedit. for powerful ones i > suggest xemacs. As a long time MacOS user who does not fear the mouse, I can report that I used nedit happily for many years. It should be an easy transition for someone used to tool

Re: What's the best replacement editor for ae?

2001-06-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:40:37PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:56:14PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > What small editors are in use on the PowerPC? Is there any editor which > > is similar to BBedit in respect of the key shortcuts? > > better editor then ae... hmm lets se

Re: What's the best replacement editor for ae?

2001-06-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:56:14PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > What small editors are in use on the PowerPC? Is there any editor which > is similar to BBedit in respect of the key shortcuts? better editor then ae... hmm lets see: echo with redirection printf with redirection perl with redirection

Re: distribution of 2.4.x source for PPC (Re: Install on UATA)

2001-06-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:23:47AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > Would it be too much to have the gzip'ing happen later? quik/yaboot want > > it ungzip'ed... > > just add gunziup capacity to them then. :))) that would require rewriting them. which will happen eventually. -- Ethan Benson htt

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 08:22:40AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > Are you sure it's an elf? Now you've done it. I'm going to have to > fire up the mac to see where I went wrong on this. Oh, what a > bother. I coulda sworn [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot-floppies$ ls -l linux* -rw-r--r--1 root

Re: distribution of 2.4.x source for PPC (Re: Install on UATA)

2001-06-28 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:21:43PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 02:50:05PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:13:39PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:14:42PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > > > > coff images are still useful for booti

Re: iBook2 and Sound

2001-06-28 Thread John Hughes
On Monday 25 June 2001 06:17, John Hughes wrote: > I am using oms/omi from livid. Its free. Its also not perfect as there is > some blue tinting and kinda a funny verticle "lining" on screen. That being > said, I didn't expect it to run at all, so I figure I am quite ahead of the > game. Thought

XFree86 4.1.0-0pre1v2 available for i386,powerpc,sparc

2001-06-28 Thread Branden Robinson
I'd like feedback on these packages, please, to the debian-x list. I haven't received any patches for any architectures other than these. I'm especially concerned about alpha (from which I at least have a report that it built okay) and arm (about which I have heard nothing at all). If I don't ge

Re: I got super drive ;-)

2001-06-28 Thread Michael Schmitz
On 28 Jun 2001, Gjermund "Mac" Thorsen wrote: > Now is it a big job to put all 3 debian CDs as one volume on a DVD-R??? Ask on debian-boot. Michael

Kernel

2001-06-28 Thread Ricardo Pardini
Ok, this was probably asked a thousand times, but I couldn´t find it in the June/2001 archive so I thought I better ask. I run a beige G3 with Debian, running the default 2.2r3 installation kernel (2.2.19). I am trying to compile, or install a kernel-image, a 2.4 kernel. The kernel-source av

What's the best replacement editor for ae?

2001-06-28 Thread Otto Wyss
What small editors are in use on the PowerPC? Is there any editor which is similar to BBedit in respect of the key shortcuts? O. Wyss

Re: Wine

2001-06-28 Thread Otto Wyss
> A very strange way to run Windows on Linux...emulate MacOS on Linux then run > VirtualPC on it and install Windows with VirtualPC. > Terrible !!! > I wouldn't mind running MOL on my PowerPC running VirtualPC to be able to run this silly program if I still were at that firm. Of course I'd prefer

Re: distribution of 2.4.x source for PPC (Re: Install on UATA)

2001-06-28 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 02:50:05PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:13:39PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:14:42PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > > > coff images are still useful for booting oldworlds no? > > > > > > Yes, but they just aren't 'zImage.

Re: ata/100

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Noah John wrote: > > are there any ata/100 drivers available for debain on PPC? also, are there > any ata/100 drivers available anywhere for macos? I'm planning on getting a > pm9600 and putting an ATA controller card in it. My question is, can i use > Maxtor's ata/100 or am I limited to an ata

Re: ata/100

2001-06-28 Thread Vinai
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Noah John wrote: }are there any ata/100 drivers available for debain on PPC? also, are there }any ata/100 drivers available anywhere for macos? I'm planning on getting a }pm9600 and putting an ATA controller card in it. My question is, can i use }Maxtor's ata/100 or am I

ata/100

2001-06-28 Thread Noah John
are there any ata/100 drivers available for debain on PPC? also, are there any ata/100 drivers available anywhere for macos? I'm planning on getting a pm9600 and putting an ATA controller card in it. My question is, can i use Maxtor's ata/100 or am I limited to an ata/66? I want to run macos

err... i mean

2001-06-28 Thread Noah John
-SEE PREVIOUS POST- for the aty128. at least on the imac dv se u do. Unless there is some other way that hours of searching on various user groups didn't turn up. :P -noah the know-nothing newbie _ Get your FREE download of MSN

for general knowledge

2001-06-28 Thread Noah John
just so everyone knows, in Xfree86 (not sure which versions) u need a ChipID line in the config file... I'm not sure what the exact ID is, cause I'm not on my imac, but it does have to be there. e-mail me for q's. -noah the newbie __

Re: new ibook?

2001-06-28 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:03:22PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:04:24PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:09:50PM -0400, John Hughes wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday 27 June 2001 02:29

Re: new ibook?

2001-06-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:04:24PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:09:50PM -0400, John Hughes wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 27 June 2001 02:29, Peter Meilstrup wrote: > > > > > Video -- it's a Rage Mobility 128 chip; I

I got super drive ;-)

2001-06-28 Thread Gjermund \"Mac\" Thorsen
Now is it a big job to put all 3 debian CDs as one volume on a DVD-R??? -- Yours Sincerely, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen "You’re just a picture, you’re image caught in time." - Ronnie James Dio

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:39:45AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > OMG, I forgot about apus. I give up. As for zImage, let's strickly > > stick to ppc, zImage is the compressed coff format kernel which has > > only one single use that I know of, and that is for the mib

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:48:02PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > Is there a particular reason why mac boot stuff can't cope with just plain > > vmliunz ? or maybe the conversion stuff could be added to the bootloader > > program instead of residing in the

Re: Slightly newer airport sleep bits for pmud

2001-06-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
Peter Cordes wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:22:18AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > > Er, if the kernel autoprobes them, modprobe gets called with -k, which > > > means that among other things, when it's not been in use it can be > > > "autocleaned", ie rmmod -a'ing twice in some time frame

Re: Problems installing on new iBook dual USB

2001-06-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:52:05PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > partitions, except in sparc land, and mac-fdisk probably won't let > > > you anyway, so what's the dileo? If it was just a little bit more > > > annoying I'd go change it myself. Time for a nap instead, I think. > > > > > > >

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:48:02PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > Is there a particular reason why mac boot stuff can't cope with just plain > vmliunz ? or maybe the conversion stuff could be added to the bootloader > program instead of residing in the kernel ? because all of the powermac bootload

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:39:45AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > OMG, I forgot about apus. I give up. As for zImage, let's strickly > stick to ppc, zImage is the compressed coff format kernel which has > only one single use that I know of, and that is for the miboot guess what? your wrong, at

Re: distribution of 2.4.x source for PPC (Re: Install on UATA)

2001-06-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:26:33AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > I didn't mean to say they did. What I meant was that the kernel for > making the miboot boot floppy is supposed to be part of the > kernel-image package for pmac-old. The kernel for the miboot floppy > is really the exact same ke

Re: Wine

2001-06-28 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > wont work on powerpc, wine is not a machine emulator, it actually ends up > > running windows code on the host machine, so it has to be used on an x86 > > architecture. > > But what about winelib? It should be possible to compile winelib on ppc and > then compile windows-software with this wine

Re: I would like to add Norwegian Mac keyboard for deb-ppc

2001-06-28 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Umm... I did not quiet get what that page is about... is it a patchlist of > > new debian parts??? > > CVS and boot-floppies Sources > = What Ethan meant to say (guessing but my guess is as good as anyone's at this point): if you have managed to compose a norwegian

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > kernel-package is simply going to need some extra options, it must > > support a switch to define what kernel image formats it will include > > in the given package. we cannot have kernel-image packages with 20 > > different versions of the same damn ima

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:39:45AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:14:23AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:15:18AM +0100, Josh Berdine wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I'm hoping someone will know of some miboot/k

Re: Problems installing on new iBook dual USB

2001-06-28 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > partitions, except in sparc land, and mac-fdisk probably won't let > > you anyway, so what's the dileo? If it was just a little bit more > > annoying I'd go change it myself. Time for a nap instead, I think. > > > > There are aliases that you can use for the begining number and length. > The

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:20:05AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 02:54:36PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > zImage is just the compressed vmlinux file, isn't it ? in this case it is > > no > > > needed for apus. That said, back then for when i was doing apus kernel work, >

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:14:23AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:15:18AM +0100, Josh Berdine wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm hoping someone will know of some miboot/kernel docs that I haven't > > > managed to uncover. > > > > > > The short st

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:14:23AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:15:18AM +0100, Josh Berdine wrote: > > > I'm hoping someone will know of some miboot/kernel docs that I haven't > > > managed to uncover. > > > > > > The short sto

Re: openfirmware display

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:06:46AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > And no, I wasn't kidding, the binary driver works OK on my X86 > > gaming box. By that I mean in locks up and crashes 50-100% less > ^^^ > > that is

Re: distribution of 2.4.x source for PPC (Re: Install on UATA)

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:16:50AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > Ner. It uses a gzip'd coff linked kernel. And bizarrely you do > > have to make it part of the package because you are supposed to be > > able to make bootable floppies from those kernel-image packages.

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 02:54:36PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > zImage is just the compressed vmlinux file, isn't it ? in this case it is no > needed for apus. That said, back then for when i was doing apus kernel work, > and in charge of the -apus kernel images, i added a vmlinux.gz target to bu

Re: Wine

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > A good friend of mine was one of the chief architects of the Pentium > > and later the Itanium. He told me that when they were designing the > > pentium, a very ground breaking design at the time, they used a > > cray-xmp

Re: distribution of 2.4.x source for PPC (Re: Install on UATA)

2001-06-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:13:39PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:14:42PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > > > coff images are still useful for booting oldworlds no? > > > > > > Yes, but they just aren't 'zImage.pmac'. I couldn't decide > > > which of t

Re: distribution of 2.4.x source for PPC (Re: Install on UATA)

2001-06-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 02:50:05PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > And don't forget also an image bootable on apus. > > what we really need there is just a plain gzipped vmlinux file, since there > are no boot loader only ami/apus boot. the regular vmlinux should be fine then, it can't really be g

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:14:23AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:15:18AM +0100, Josh Berdine wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm hoping someone will know of some miboot/kernel docs that I haven't > > managed to uncover. > > > > The short story is that I need to know what sort

Re: distribution of 2.4.x source for PPC (Re: Install on UATA)

2001-06-28 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:13:39PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:14:42PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > > coff images are still useful for booting oldworlds no? > > > > Yes, but they just aren't 'zImage.pmac'. I couldn't decide > > which of the 3 to point to. > > is there

Re: Wine

2001-06-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > A good friend of mine was one of the chief architects of the Pentium > and later the Itanium. He told me that when they were designing the > pentium, a very ground breaking design at the time, they used a > cray-xmp to run their processor simulator on. A

Re: new ibook?

2001-06-28 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:04:24PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:09:50PM -0400, John Hughes wrote: > > > On Wednesday 27 June 2001 02:29, Peter Meilstrup wrote: > > > > Video -- it's a Rage Mobility 128 chip; I assume this is supported in > > >

Re: X together with dual scan passive matrix PB display

2001-06-28 Thread Steven Hanley
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:39:19PM +0200, leif wrote: > Screen card > Card name: ATY, 264LT-G > Card model: ATY,LT-G > ROM card number: 113-X-1.0028 > Card revision: 128 > Card dealer ID: 1002 Oh, woops, I just assumed when you said g3 powerbook that it was a recent one with a Rage

Re: distribution of 2.4.x source for PPC (Re: Install on UATA)

2001-06-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:16:50AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > Ner. It uses a gzip'd coff linked kernel. And bizarrely you do > have to make it part of the package because you are supposed to be > able to make bootable floppies from those kernel-image packages. > And the miboot thingy is the

Re: Wine

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
A good friend of mine was one of the chief architects of the Pentium and later the Itanium. He told me that when they were designing the pentium, a very ground breaking design at the time, they used a cray-xmp to run their processor simulator on. A very fast machine, and still not too shabby toda

Re: X together with dual scan passive matrix PB display

2001-06-28 Thread leif
Michel Dänzer wrote: leif wrote: Steven Hanley wrote: But I will try to get install aty128 fb via dselect (I suppose it is just a matter of looking through those lists...). Doesn't work for kernel modules... I'm just guessing so you can tell me if I'm looking in the right direction...

Re: openfirmware display

2001-06-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:06:46AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > And no, I wasn't kidding, the binary driver works OK on my X86 > gaming box. By that I mean in locks up and crashes 50-100% less ^^^ that is abysmal. your standards for `works

Re: distribution of 2.4.x source for PPC (Re: Install on UATA)

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:35:09PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > > Well, the chrp package can contain 3, the pmac 3 (I don't know if the > > miboot image should be included or not..) and PReP 1. > > no don't bother with the miboot image, miboot is not a supported nor > usabl

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:15:18AM +0100, Josh Berdine wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm hoping someone will know of some miboot/kernel docs that I haven't > managed to uncover. > > The short story is that I need to know what sort of kernel images to > build for booting with miboot. Should I tell make-kp

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:15:18AM +0100, Josh Berdine wrote: > The short story is that I need to know what sort of kernel images to > build for booting with miboot. Should I tell make-kpkg "--zimage" or > "--bzimage" and either way, which image file in the resulting package > should I use? Or i

Re: openfirmware display

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Peter Cordes wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:50:03AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/26/01 > >at 10:33 AM, Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > >Ethan Benson wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >> where did you hear that nvidia worked with i386? it sucks

Re: X together with dual scan passive matrix PB display

2001-06-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
leif wrote: > > Steven Hanley wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:15:43PM +0200, leif wrote: > > > >>By typing 'video=ofonly' I've now been able to install potato on my G3 > >>powerbook. > > > > hmm I have a g3 powerbook firewire (pismo) and have never had to pass that > > as an argument on

Re: Wine

2001-06-28 Thread Lorenzo De Vito
A very strange way to run Windows on Linux...emulate MacOS on Linux then run VirtualPC on it and install Windows with VirtualPC. Terrible !!! - Original Message - From: "Wilhelm Fitzpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 10:17 PM Subject: Re: Wine > > [OFFTOPIC]

Re: X together with dual scan passive matrix PB display

2001-06-28 Thread leif
Steven Hanley wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:15:43PM +0200, leif wrote: By typing 'video=ofonly' I've now been able to install potato on my G3 powerbook. hmm I have a g3 powerbook firewire (pismo) and have never had to pass that as an argument on boot, the aty128fb driver works perfectl

docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Josh Berdine
Hi all, I'm hoping someone will know of some miboot/kernel docs that I haven't managed to uncover. The short story is that I need to know what sort of kernel images to build for booting with miboot. Should I tell make-kpkg "--zimage" or "--bzimage" and either way, which image file in the resulti

Re: new ibook?

2001-06-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:09:50PM -0400, John Hughes wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 June 2001 02:29, Peter Meilstrup wrote: > > > Video -- it's a Rage Mobility 128 chip; I assume this is supported in > > > the latest Xfree86? Is there the ability to switch from the internal > >

Re: new ibook?

2001-06-28 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:09:50PM -0400, John Hughes wrote: > On Wednesday 27 June 2001 02:29, Peter Meilstrup wrote: > > Video -- it's a Rage Mobility 128 chip; I assume this is supported in the > > latest Xfree86? Is there the ability to switch from the internal display > > to the external (RGB/

Re: Getting hyped about a possible of Debian PPC on an iMac DV Special Edition.

2001-06-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:37:21PM -0600, Patrick Klee wrote: > Hi Debian community, > I want to install Debian on an iMac DV Special Edition and Compaq > Presario 9232, made in 1996. It's a P120 with 40 MB of RAM, but I need to > know what is compatible. For example, I have a Que CD Burner.

Re: distribution of 2.4.x source for PPC (Re: Install on UATA)

2001-06-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:35:09PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > Well, the chrp package can contain 3, the pmac 3 (I don't know if the > miboot image should be included or not..) and PReP 1. no don't bother with the miboot image, miboot is not a supported nor usable bootloader its not worth bothering

Re: glibc 2.1.13-17 and kernel headers

2001-06-28 Thread Kin Chung
Thanks to everybody who commented on this matter. I have all the precautions in place (one partition for experimenting with, and several for normal use---well, I do have 10 gig of disc to play with :-)). I guess the only thing left for me to do is to decide if I want to see yet another spectacul

Re: openfirmware display

2001-06-28 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:50:03AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/26/01 >at 10:33 AM, Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >Ethan Benson wrote: > >> > >> > >> where did you hear that nvidia worked with i386? it sucks just as > >> badly there unless yo

Re: Slightly newer airport sleep bits for pmud

2001-06-28 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:22:18AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > Er, if the kernel autoprobes them, modprobe gets called with -k, which means > > that among other things, when it's not been in use it can be "autocleaned", > > ie rmmod -a'ing twice in some time frame will remove it. > > Thanks, c