Hello all,
I've had a strange occurence on my Beige G3/266: first, the sound module
dma_sound (or whatever its official name is) crashed on me -- my sound went
from okay to extremely staticky...so, I thought, restart the X server...but
that just crashed the rest of the X server, and then crashe
First of all, I know next to nothing about MacOS or OpenFirmware.
I know my way around x86 Debian and embedded PowerPC Linux though.
Please correct any errors that you see.
I have a Mac Cube w/ DVD, and no way to make a CD-ROM. I could
connect the Mac to a PC via Ethernet or FireWire. This ought
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:43:59AM +0200, jtv wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 01:21:29PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >
> > I'd appreciate it if people would try the kernel-image-2.4.8-powerpc
> > packages I've uploaded.
>
> I upgraded my TiBook to plain 2.4.8 this weekend. Seems to run
On 1 Elul 5761, Colin Walters wrote:
> But the real solution is to send mail to Apple and ask them to fix
> their hardware.
Sad, because they finally shipped a keyboard for their desktop
machines that handles this correctly (the "new" Apple keyboard which
has been shipping with everything for the
NeilFred Picciotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> but! "alt" is now the option key instead of the command key...
> searching the archive of this list, i see mentions of this fact,
> including someone saying it's easy to switch that back. but they
> didn't say *how* to do so, only that it's easy..
Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote:
> I guess this is the peril of running testing or unstable. Sadly there is
> not a good version of JDE packaged in stable...
/me points out APT's pinpointing feature once again...
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CS s
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 08:37:50PM +0200, Michael Flaig wrote:
> Well ... no encryption is bad :-( Everyone with a laptop in front of my door
> could sniff my network, or isn´t it so easy ?
>
> so you build vpn between you and ?! access point or gateway route !? how does
> this work ...
> i thou
On 20 Aug 2001, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> Yes I have noticed this, but not often. What I notice is that XEmacs
> leaves screen turds all over the place in it's buffers. Also I seem to
> get a lot more errors in installed packages than I ever did before.
Good to know I'm not crazy, but still distu
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:13:07 -0700, "Gregory P. Keeney" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
g> Sadly, this nasty business of the Caps-Lock key is done in the
g> hardware on Powerbooks. This is causes me incredible frustration with
g> my TiBook (especially after a long session in emacs...). I ha
- Original Message -
From: Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Georg Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: mac-fdisk trouble on G4 double disk
> Georg Koss wrote:
> >
> > mac-fdisk wasn't able to recognize my hda-size correct (gave round
>
- Original Message -
From: Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:26 AM
Subject: Re: Installation problem on New World G4
> Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I am working on installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 "Potato" -
> > Official powerpc Binary-1 C
"Gregory P. Keeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sadly, this nasty business of the Caps-Lock key is done in the
> hardware on Powerbooks. This is causes me incredible frustration
> with my TiBook (especially after a long session in emacs...).
Yeah, I agree completely. One thing that has made i
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> To prevent it from backing up /boot, /proc etc.
Ah, ok. I usually do that with excludes. But if you have few
filesystems, then using -x makes more sense, I agree.
> And I assume the 'pass' field should be set to 0?
I think so.
> XFS has been runnin
"Wilhelm Fitzpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Has anyone else noticed that the versions of xemacs in testing and
> unstable seem to be getting more and more unstable?
>
> The problem I'm seeing is that xemacs will stop responding, and top
> shows it eating all available CPU time. I first n
Michael Flaig wrote:
>
> EMail from Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to Derrik Pates <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> with message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:41:20 +0200 Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Derrik Pates wrote:
> > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > >
> > >
> >
NeilFred Picciotto wrote:
> but! "alt" is now the option key instead of the command key...
Try an Apple USB keymap in console. In X, you'll have to use xmodmap(1x).
> searching the archive of this list, i see mentions of this fact, including
> someone saying it's easy to switch that back. but
Derrik Pates wrote:
>
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
>
> > Which is better than no encryption, hello. Also, the key size is
> > not fixed but only depends on how you set it up. A key size of 40
> > bits prevents casual sniffing of your "conversations" while not
> > adding significan
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> Which is better than no encryption, hello. Also, the key size is
> not fixed but only depends on how you set it up. A key size of 40
> bits prevents casual sniffing of your "conversations" while not
> adding significant cost to the parts. A key size of
"Colin Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> NeilFred Picciotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > oh, and on the subject of the keyboard, is it still the case that
> > there's no way to make Pismo's caps-lock key be control?
>
> Yep, I believe this is because they key press generates one hard
Georg Koss wrote:
>
> Hello all!
>
> I'm intending to install Debian 2.2.r3 on my second HD.
>
> Short description of my system:
> G4 - two HD - primary boots _ultra1_ (Debian/Woody).
> Changed original CD-ROM/DVD to CD-RW Plextor.
>
> What I did on ultra0 until now:
>
> mac-fdisk which gave m
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> Colin Walters wrote:
> >
> > Michael Flaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Well ... no encryption is bad :-( Everyone with a laptop in front of
> > > my door could sniff my network, or isn´t it so easy ?
> >
> > As I understand it, WEP is bad becu
Has anyone else noticed that the versions of xemacs in testing and
unstable seem to be getting more and more unstable?
The problem I'm seeing is that xemacs will stop responding, and top shows
it eating all available CPU time. I first noticed this about a month ago,
while using the version of xem
Colin Walters wrote:
>
> Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I am using: rsync -arHpogDtxz -e ssh ... This preserves hardlinks,
> > ownerships, permissions and timestamps and doesn't cross filesystem
> > boundaries. The latter may not work with separate partitions for
> > /usr and wha
Colin Walters wrote:
>
> Michael Flaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Well ... no encryption is bad :-( Everyone with a laptop in front of
> > my door could sniff my network, or isn´t it so easy ?
>
> As I understand it, WEP is bad becuase the key size is far too small.
> This means an attack
Michael Flaig wrote:
>
> > > Is Airport a security problem ? how good is encryption and can i
> > > configure a
> > password ?
> >
> > WEP is a joke, do not use WEP for encryption, either just use no encryption
> > at
> > all or set up proper point to point encrypted tunnels (VPN), I use CIPE
Sadly, this nasty business of the Caps-Lock key is done in the hardware
on Powerbooks. This is causes me incredible frustration with my TiBook
(especially after a long session in emacs...). I have been looking into
a hardware solution (e.g., run a small wire from the control key to the
caps loc
NeilFred Picciotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> oh, and on the subject of the keyboard, is it still the case that
> there's no way to make Pismo's caps-lock key be control?
Yep, I believe this is because they key press generates one hardware
interrupt, but the key-up never generates an interru
Michael Flaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well ... no encryption is bad :-( Everyone with a laptop in front of
> my door could sniff my network, or isn´t it so easy ?
As I understand it, WEP is bad becuase the key size is far too small.
This means an attacker would only have to make a slight am
just made the switch to linux keycodes on my Pismo running woody with
benh's rsync kernel. i've got the "keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1" thing
in the append line of my yaboot.conf, and i've got "powerpcps2" in my
XF86Config-4, so for the most part keys work, both in console mode and in
X.
but!
EMail from Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to Derrik Pates <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> with message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:41:20 +0200 Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
>
> Derrik Pates wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>He said he has a Pismo - I don't think
EMail from Steven Hanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to DebianPPC
with message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:33:50 +1000 Steven Hanley wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 04:14:50PM +0200, Michael Flaig wrote:
> > Hi !
> >
> > Has anybody Airport ?
>
> card or access point?
both ... or is t
Hi everybody,
Could someone help me for the following problem, please?
I am a system administrator in a University and I tried to install Debian
PPC (potato and woody) on some Performa 6400... the installation went
relatively well with the potato boot floppies, but I have been unable to make
it
Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Talking of which, would a libapm for ppc which supports both
> /proc/apm (or proc/pmu whichever) and the use of pmud to read
> battery stats be interesting for people on this list ?
Sounds like a very good idea to me.
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am using: rsync -arHpogDtxz -e ssh ... This preserves hardlinks,
> ownerships, permissions and timestamps and doesn't cross filesystem
> boundaries. The latter may not work with separate partitions for
> /usr and whatnot.
The -a option in rsync is the
Bob Hunter wrote:
> The bug is that /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
> is not being updated, so that debconfig fails
What is this "debconfig"?
> so horribly to trigger that funky syscall.
What is this "funky syscall"?
Sorry, I guess I must be missing some context.
> If you do not beleve me, then
Hello all!
I'm intending to install Debian 2.2.r3 on my second HD.
Short description of my system:
G4 - two HD - primary boots _ultra1_ (Debian/Woody).
Changed original CD-ROM/DVD to CD-RW Plextor.
What I did on ultra0 until now:
mac-fdisk which gave me the following partition-table:
dev/hda1
On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote:
> So this causes me to ask again if anybody out there has a clue as to why
> whenever I use ps on my TiBook it says:
>
> {rtc_lock} {__VERSIONED_SYMBOL(rtc_lock)}
> Warning: /boot/System.map-2.4.8-pre7-ben0 does not match kernel data.
Just a follow
Derrik Pates wrote:
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
He said he has a Pismo - I don't think the Pismo has the Airport slot in
it,
Yes it has, at least mine has.
Really?
Yep, no kidding. :)
I didn't think Apple had any plans for any wireless support until
after the original
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > He said he has a Pismo - I don't think the Pismo has the Airport slot in
> > it,
>
> Yes it has, at least mine has.
Really? I didn't think Apple had any plans for any wireless support until
after the original iMacs and the G3 tower systems, which I th
Derrik Pates wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Steven Hanley wrote:
My hardware is Pismo 400Mhz ... Debian GNU/Linux sid
And my last question, because I heard and read that i need pcmcia, which
modules do i need to get the pcmcia slot to work ( evtl for gsm card !? don´t
know, yet) ?
you d
Colin Walters wrote:
In my opinion, if you have another computer on the LAN with enough
disk space, the best way to convert your filesystem to XFS (or any
other file system) is the following:
Pretty good timing, today I'm moving my Pismo to XFS. :) Thanks a load Colin!
1) Install system n
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Steven Hanley wrote:
> > My hardware is Pismo 400Mhz ... Debian GNU/Linux sid
> > And my last question, because I heard and read that i need pcmcia, which
> > modules do i need to get the pcmcia slot to work ( evtl for gsm card !?
> > don´t know, yet) ?
>
> you dont need pc
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 04:14:50PM +0200, Michael Flaig wrote:
> Hi !
>
> Has anybody Airport ?
card or access point?
I have the card, works fine at home in ibss mode with a d-link card in an x86
box, at work we have an aironet access point and an apple airport base
station, both of which also w
Hi !
Has anybody Airport ?
I want to buy Airport but don´t know if the support is good. Does Linux support
all airport features ?
Do I need MacOS for Airport, because I´m about to kick it soon (need more space
for GNU/Linux :-)) )
Are there special tools for airport ?
My hardware is Pismo 400M
Michel Dänzer wrote:
Bastien Nocera wrote:
Maybe you should use battstat which works fine on my iBook, and can
popup a dialog when the battery is under a certain level.
The GNOME battery monitor applet does that as well.
Oh, yes it does... I guess the fact that battstat is prettier (an
Thanks, I'm getting closer.
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 01:42:05PM +0200, Manuel Reiter wrote:
> >
> > As I'm still having problems with my German Keyboard (Apple Extended
> > ADB) under X4.0.3 on my 7600, I would appreciate pointers on
>
> try X4.1
Is it
Bastien Nocera wrote:
Maybe you should use battstat which works fine on my iBook, and can
popup a dialog when the battery is under a certain level.
The GNOME battery monitor applet does that as well.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)\ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS stude
Derrik Pates wrote:
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Steven Hanley wrote:
after that the airport card works both in managed mode and ibss happily, you
should have the wireless-tools installed also (packaged in testing and
unstable, the unstable deb compiles on potato with a little bit of effort if
need
amDEwolff wrote:
/usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory
Your libc6-dev is foobar'd . apt-get --reinstall install libc6-dev
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)\ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \XFree
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 01:42:05PM +0200, Manuel Reiter wrote:
>
> As I'm still having problems with my German Keyboard (Apple Extended
> ADB) under X4.0.3 on my 7600, I would appreciate pointers on
try X4.1
> - How to do that (switching to linux keycodes). If I just put a line
>
> Optio
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Steven Hanley wrote:
> this was a problem with some of the earlier airport drivers in the kernel, get
> a recent benh kernel running (2.4.6 or more recent) and the airport code will
> sleep fine.
No, this is with both 2.4.8-ben0 and 2.4.9-benh0 (which I'm running now).
With o
Hi,
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:17:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hello,
> > has anybody information about a
> > german keymap-file for a G3 machine (potato)?
>
> switch to linux keycodes and use the maps from the console-data in
> woody.
As
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:17:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
> has anybody information about a
> german keymap-file for a G3 machine (potato)?
switch to linux keycodes and use the maps from the console-data in
woody.
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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Hello,
has anybody information about a
german keymap-file for a G3 machine (potato)?
Thanks for any help.
Alex
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 01:21:29PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> I'd appreciate it if people would try the kernel-image-2.4.8-powerpc
> packages I've uploaded.
I upgraded my TiBook to plain 2.4.8 this weekend. Seems to run fine with
some exceptions(*). Sleep still doesn't work, but at l
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:24:25PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote:
> Whenever iwconfig gets called on the wireless card after the iBook has
> been through a sleep/wake cycle, I then get
>
> SIOCSIWESSID: No such device
>
> whenever iwconfig is called again. Removing and reloading the driver
> causes i
Whenever iwconfig gets called on the wireless card after the iBook has
been through a sleep/wake cycle, I then get
SIOCSIWESSID: No such device
whenever iwconfig is called again. Removing and reloading the driver
causes it to come back to life, but until I do that, that's all I get if I
try to ca
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