Re: graph OF hangs - Please help

2001-08-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:51:20AM +0200, Georg Koss wrote: > Hi all! > > I have a problem with the graphical OF-menu in new-world G4. The box > has two HD's, both with bootstrap ok if booting from the OF-prompt. > > printenv boot-device gives: > ultra1:9,\\yaboot hd:,\\:tbxi this is wrong.

Re: mac-fdisk trouble on G4 double disk

2001-08-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 08:39:01PM +0200, Georg Koss wrote: > Hello again! > > First of all thanks for all your fast replies 8-)). > > > > > er, that should not have occured, dbootstrap should consider > > /dev/hda1, and /dev/hda2 as off limits. > > I was able to resolve this by initializing th

graph OF hangs - Please help

2001-08-21 Thread Georg Koss
Hi all! I have a problem with the graphical OF-menu in new-world G4. The box has two HD's, both with bootstrap ok if booting from the OF-prompt. printenv boot-device gives: ultra1:9,\\yaboot hd:,\\:tbxi I find two possible explanations: (which might be far away from beeing true anyway :-/ )

Getting the alt (option) key to work as Altgr

2001-08-21 Thread Håvard Wigtil
Hello, I've set up a norwegian keyboard (heavily based on the swedish ;) that work perfectly on the console. But I can't get the option or command key to do anything under X, which means that i can't get a bar (norwegian alt+7) amongst others. What I'm trying to do is to get option to to work as

vlc 0.2.82 debs available

2001-08-21 Thread Michel Lanners
Hi all, For all those interested in DVDs and video in general, I have just finished uploading debs for vlc_0.2.82: http://www.cpu.lu/ftp/debian/vlc_0.2.82 The complete list of .debs is there. Have fun! Michel PS Built on a woody system, X 4.0.3 out of woody... My first .debs, so let me know w

Re: Mail-Followup-To (was Re: New with PPC soon...)

2001-08-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > I'll let Branden take this one. > > Unfortunately (?), it is all too easy to rebut. The author of the above > referenced message, which says that both Mail-Followup-To and > Mail-Copies-To should be totally ignored, is "Jamie Zawinski <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>". > > That should be a strong enough

Re: New with PPC soon...

2001-08-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
> * like it slow (I thought it was fast at first, but either I was wrong or it >degraded horribly as the filesystem grew) The latter, from my experience. And 'single threaded' access doesn't seem to be a problem, but multiple outstanding I/O requests at the same time will trash performance hor

Re: New with PPC soon...

2001-08-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > kernel panic. But 2.4.8-pre3 + XFS CVS has only dropped me into xmon > > once (likely not XFS related), and I've encountered no problems with > > corruption or anything else. > > I've been surprised for the good. The overall performance has improved > dramatically. One extreme example is diffi

Re: mac-fdisk trouble on G4 double disk

2001-08-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > mac-fdisk wasn't able to recognize my hda-size correct (gave round > > 511GB fo a 10G Drive). > > I thought that there was a way to tell mac-fdisk the correct size of > the disk, overriding the detected size (the size detection bug is There is, at partition table initialization time. But the l

Re: lazy saturday notebook comparo (long)

2001-08-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
[re libapm for pmud] > Michael Schmitz ? If interest is shown in it, would that be possible to > get it into a pmud-dev package or something alike ? I think that's what I suggested to do last time. > Because I reckon that if apmd doesn't get built anymore on ppc, we might > run into some package

Re: Mail-Followup-To (was Re: New with PPC soon...)

2001-08-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:06:06AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 09:55:32AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > Apparently Mail-Followup-To isn't a standard header... > > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/2001-February/002104.html > > > > And it mea

Re: mac-fdisk trouble on G4 double disk

2001-08-21 Thread Georg Koss
Hello again! First of all thanks for all your fast replies 8-)). > > er, that should not have occured, dbootstrap should consider > /dev/hda1, and /dev/hda2 as off limits. I was able to resolve this by initializing the HD with the macos drive-config utility from the macos9-CD before partitionin

Re: Fips for Macos (or something like that?)

2001-08-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
> if its HFS there are expensive proprietary products that may work (FWB > toolkit). i have also been told that HFS (not plus) has no internal > ideas about what size the filesystem is, it just trusts the partition > table, thus if you use a defraggmenter/optimizer to move all the data > to the ph

Re: Where to find new pmud?

2001-08-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Aug 19 21:52:20 clementino pmud[295]: PMU version 12: iBook > Aug 19 21:52:20 clementino pmud[295]: Sleep for this PMU unsupported: > will shutdown the machine on sleep request So it says but it's lying. > > >> Is there a new version of pmud? > > Michael> No

Re: serial mouse on older pmac?

2001-08-21 Thread Peter Meilstrup
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 08:34:47PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was nearly successful, then... but: mouse button press is only > detected when moving the mouse at the same time. also, under X, it > will only take notice of the left button (middle and right buttons > are ignored, even wh

Re: Is the iBook2 really good?

2001-08-21 Thread Gregory P. Keeney
On 21 Aug 2001 11:38:06 -0600, Derrik Pates wrote: > > There's VirtualPC from Connectix, which (at least as of v3, haven't tried > v4) does work in Mac-On-Linux, although a bit slowly (but VPCv3 seems to > be slow in general). Insignia used to sell a PC emulator for MacOS (and > others), but seems

Re: Is the iBook2 really good?

2001-08-21 Thread Derrik Pates
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Russell Williams wrote: > Is there also a possibilty to run Windows apps on the > iBook? (either though Linux or MacOS) There's VirtualPC from Connectix, which (at least as of v3, haven't tried v4) does work in Mac-On-Linux, although a bit slowly (but VPCv3 seems to be slow i

Re: Is the iBook2 really good?

2001-08-21 Thread Russell Williams
> The more memory you > can stuff in the > better, especially if you want to run MacOnLinux > (www.maconlinux.net) > since you want to give about 128Mb to MacOS if you > intend to do anything > useful with it (I run Illustrator on it, it works > fine, but larger > graphics could use 256MB for the m

Re: New with PPC soon...

2001-08-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
Jason E. Stewart wrote: "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Maybe I should thank Hans for scaring me off his crap. ;) Sorry Michel, I haven't been following the thread. What caused you to switch from reiser to xfs? A few posts earlier I wrote: Let me take this opportunity to

apt pinpointing

2001-08-21 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > >>Time for another plug for APT's wonderful pinpointing feature. > > > > Perhaps you could explain in a little more detail what this is? > > I've explained it in all detail here so many times that I'm tired to do it > again. See apt-get(8)

Re: New with PPC soon...

2001-08-21 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe I should thank Hans for scaring me off his crap. ;) Sorry Michel, I haven't been following the thread. What caused you to switch from reiser to xfs? Thanks, jas.

Re: German Keymap for X4.0.3 (was: German keymap for G3/PPC)

2001-08-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: Manuel Reiter wrote: Time for another plug for APT's wonderful pinpointing feature. Perhaps you could explain in a little more detail what this is? I've explained it in all detail here so many times that

Re: German Keymap for X4.0.3 (was: German keymap for G3/PPC)

2001-08-21 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > Manuel Reiter wrote: > > Time for another plug for APT's wonderful pinpointing feature. Perhaps you could explain in a little more detail what this is?

Writing I2C support code - questions (maybe a bit offtopic?)

2001-08-21 Thread Derrik Pates
I'm working on writing the support code for the KeyLargo I2C controller, so that the DACA chip's (a) sample rate and (b) config register can be manipulated. This should, I hope, fix the problem with noisy output after sleep on the iBook (I don't have an iceBook, but maybe this will be useful for th

UK iBook2 keymaps

2001-08-21 Thread Adrian Cox
Has anybody got any good recipes for the UK iBook2 keyboard? I'm using Ken Moffat's console keytable from: http:www.kenmoffat.uklinux.net/downloads Everything is fine at the console, but in X I can't get a '#'. I'm using X 4.1 out of unstable, and the rest of my system is from testing. I've ha

Re: German Keymap for X4.0.3 (was: German keymap for G3/PPC)

2001-08-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
Manuel Reiter wrote: 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 packaged for woo

Re: linux keycodes and Xfree86 4

2001-08-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
Ethan Benson wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 02:26:45AM +0900, Marshal Wong wrote: I'm running a PowerBook Prismo, and I have a Japanese USB Apple Pro Keyboard. Under the new keycodes, everything seems to work fine under the console, but under X, only the main keyboard works correctly. The

Re: switch from ADB to linux keycodes ...

2001-08-21 Thread Edouard G. Parmelan
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:20:22 -0700, NeilFred Picciotto wrote: > but! "alt" is now the option key instead of the command key... On my iBook Dual USB with US keyboard, the option key is: /\ | alt| | option | \/ Sound keymap does right thing now ;-) -- E

Mail-Followup-To (was Re: New with PPC soon...)

2001-08-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 09:55:32AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Apparently Mail-Followup-To isn't a standard header... > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/2001-February/002104.html > > And it means different things for different mailers (if at all). Doesn't > make m

Re: New with PPC soon...

2001-08-21 Thread Bastien Nocera
Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:18:33AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: Hehe. Well, you should be able to set up your mailer to do this automatically for mailing lists... So how do I do it with Netscrape or Mozilla Messenger? ;) write a patch for mozilla to support the fscking

Re: New with PPC soon...

2001-08-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:18:33AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Hehe. Well, you should be able to set up your mailer to do this > > automatically for mailing lists... > > So how do I do it with Netscrape or Mozilla Messenger? ;) write a patch for mozilla to support the fscking Mail-Followup-T

Re: new to Mac, doing net install

2001-08-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:30:50AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > 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

Re: New with PPC soon...

2001-08-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
Colin Walters wrote: Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: XFS has been running fine so far, it's a good feeling. :) Let me take this opportunity to warn people not to trust any important data to reiserfs. I've seen it lose all data on my gf's cube from one second to the other. I conside

Re: switch from ADB to linux keycodes ...

2001-08-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:20:22PM -0700, NeilFred Picciotto wrote: > 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 > XF86Conf

Re: mac-fdisk trouble on G4 double disk

2001-08-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:14:41AM +0200, Martin Breidung wrote: > > i determined the correct number of blocks on installation in this way: > > cylinders x heads x sectors - 1 thats the hard way. http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.shtml -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~

Re: mac-fdisk trouble on G4 double disk

2001-08-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 06:37:52PM +0200, 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 ultra

Re: New with PPC soon...

2001-08-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:16:02PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > And I assume the 'pass' field should be set to 0? doesn't matter, the bootscripts will run /sbin/fsck on the partition if its set to anything but zero, and /sbin/fsck just runs /sbin/fsck.xfs which consists of: int main() { return

Re: New with PPC soon...

2001-08-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:21:20PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > I am using: rsync -arHpogDtxz -e ssh ... This preserves hardlinks, > ownerships, and i thought cpio options were hard to remember... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpLtBJG9Fu4c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: serial mouse on older pmac?

2001-08-21 Thread furball
Hej Peter, > I've successfully done this in the past. XFree86 should work fine if you tell > it to use a serial mouse. You may have to construct a special adapter for > the serial port--IIRC, it's slightly different from a regular RS422-232 > adapter. thanks for all the info and the heads-up. I c

Re: German Keymap for X4.0.3 (was: German keymap for G3/PPC)

2001-08-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 03:51:23PM +0200, Manuel Reiter wrote: > 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)

pcmcia woes

2001-08-21 Thread Grant Hollingworth
I'm trying to get a Sandisk compact flash pc card adapter to work on my tibook. This is my first time dealing with PCMCIA, and so far it sucks. After reading a lot of messages from debian-powerpc, debian-laptop, and various Google results, I have the following setup: - kernel 2.4.9-benh0, with PC