benh kerner rsync while penguinppc is down?

2001-09-05 Thread John Hughes
Anyone got a loc on recent rsyncs for benh kernels? or is it just one of those "be patient" times? Thanks John

Re: [iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-05 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:33:18AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:07:12PM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > I have an iBook FW 366 on which I track unstable quite closely. Now > > this last upgrade from Debian revision 3 to 4 totally broke X on that > > machine - th

Re: [iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-05 Thread Derrik Pates
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Charles Sebold wrote: > If one uses UseFBDev, does that mean one can't use DRI? That would be a resounding "No". I have used 16bpp, with UseFBDev, on this FireWire iBook, and DRI works fine. (Well, as fine as it does. The r128 driver still has lingering issues, but that's noth

Re: memtestPPC ?

2001-09-05 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Ethan Benson writes: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:27:46AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: >> The x86 world has a stand-alone memory test program called >> memtest86 that boots from a floppy. This is great, because it >> can test all the memory in the system. It's only a few kB in >> size, and can

PCMCIA with yenta_socket driver, and wavelan...on Lombard!

2001-09-05 Thread Josh Huber
Ok, so here's my current setup: kernel 2.4.10-pre4 (linuxppc_2_4 bk pull from yesterday) pcmcia built from the debian source package I enabled the kernel PCMCIA support, and have modified /etc/default/pcmcia: ,[ /etc/default/pcmcia ] | # Defaults for pcmcia (sourced by /etc/init.d/pcmcia) |

Re: Reboot key combination

2001-09-05 Thread Chris Tillman
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:33:28PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: >> Before I changed to linux keycodes, the control-shift-power key combination >> would restart my computer. Now that doesn't work, I get >> >> unknown scancode e0 5e >> >> I guess that's because linux doesn't recognize the power up k

Re: [iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-05 Thread Charles Sebold
On 18 Elul 5761, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Unfortunately, noone has come up with anything but a hack about this > problem... So until it gets sorted out, people should use UseFBDev. If one uses UseFBDev, does that mean one can't use DRI? I ask because I too have had problems doing anything but UseF

Re: strange kernels behavior

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 07:44:40PM +0200, Damien GUIHAL wrote: > I've installed both lastest 2-2-19 and 2-4-8 kernels from testing and I have > some problems using both of them : > > while precedent release of 2-2-19 kernel worked really fine for me, lastest > doesn't seem to care about my keyma

Re: [iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:19:42PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Christian Pernegger wrote: > > > > > > I have an iBook FW 366 on which I track unstable quite closely. Now > > > this last upgrade from Debian revision 3 to 4 totally broke X on that > > > machine - the

Re: [iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:19:42PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Christian Pernegger wrote: > > > > I have an iBook FW 366 on which I track unstable quite closely. Now > > this last upgrade from Debian revision 3 to 4 totally broke X on that > > machine - the X server SIG11s at startup... :( Nothi

Re: [iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
Christian Pernegger wrote: > > I have an iBook FW 366 on which I track unstable quite closely. Now > this last upgrade from Debian revision 3 to 4 totally broke X on that > machine - the X server SIG11s at startup... :( Nothing in the > configuration was changed at all. Branden, do you still use

Re: Problems installing from the CD on a G4

2001-09-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
Pan wrote: > The installer freezes with this line: > > input0: Macintosh mouse button emulation > > Could it be because I have more than 1 video card installed? Possible anything suspicious in the lines about the framebuffer devices above? You might be able to disable one card with something l

Make money at home with your PC

2001-09-05 Thread David
I'll make you a promise.   READ THIS E-MAIL TO THE END!   - follow what it says to the letter -   and you will not worry whether a RECESSION is coming or not, who is President, or whether you keep your current job or not.   Yes, I know what you are thinking. I never responded to one of thes

Re: keymap-help request

2001-09-05 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:22:42PM +0200, Robert Bar wrote: > > g'day to all: i'm rather new - not only to the list. > > > > searching the archiv, lurking the list, studying several man-pages > > didn't help me to a solid keymap right from start-up/login. Hmm, how long hav

Re: compiling 3c59x driver on PPC

2001-09-05 Thread Andrew Sharp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hej Richard, > > > I got a PowerMac 7200 cheap on eBay, and a 3Com > > ethernet card. The idea is to set up a router to > > share our cable modem. > quite the same thing that my PM 7300 is doing at > home, also with a 3com card. > > the problem you have is that you'r

strange kernels behavior

2001-09-05 Thread Damien GUIHAL
I've installed both lastest 2-2-19 and 2-4-8 kernels from testing and I have some problems using both of them : while precedent release of 2-2-19 kernel worked really fine for me, lastest doesn't seem to care about my keymaps. I event tried to manually use loadkeys to load my keymap and other k

Re: memtestPPC ?

2001-09-05 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Newisher Macs come with the Apple Hardware Test CD that does also test > the RAM. I tried this one once, but I don´t think, that it suffices. A memory test program which tests 384 MB of RAM and the rest of the hardware within 4 to 8 minutes is a

Re: compiling 3c59x driver on PPC

2001-09-05 Thread furball
Hej Richard, > I got a PowerMac 7200 cheap on eBay, and a 3Com > ethernet card. The idea is to set up a router to > share our cable modem. quite the same thing that my PM 7300 is doing at home, also with a 3com card. the problem you have is that you're using a kernel that (probably) came deliver

Re: memtestPPC ?

2001-09-05 Thread Bastien Nocera
Ethan Benson wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:38:14PM +0200, Frank Escher wrote: Any hope of a stand-alone program that would take advantage of the various PowerPC features (cache control & AltiVec prefetch) to find memory problems? Hi, under MacOS you will use TechToolPro, or MacTest Pro

Re: keymap-help request

2001-09-05 Thread Stephen Peters
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > your using a broken kernel. you must recompile it with > CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES=n > > for now you must add teh following argument at the bootloader: > > keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 This leads me to a problem I'm having. I did the above on my G3 s

Problems installing from the CD on a G4

2001-09-05 Thread Pan
Hi I tried to install Debian from the CD and I had some problems. The booting process died really soon, right after it checked for my video cards. It's not a CD problem, since it's booting and I've installed debian with it on my laptop. The installer freezes with this line: input0: Macintosh mo

Re: [iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:07:12PM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: > I have an iBook FW 366 on which I track unstable quite closely. Now > this last upgrade from Debian revision 3 to 4 totally broke X on that > machine - the X server SIG11s at startup... :( Nothing in the > configuration was chan

Re: memtestPPC ?

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:38:14PM +0200, Frank Escher wrote: > > >Any hope of a stand-alone program that would take advantage of > >the various PowerPC features (cache control & AltiVec prefetch) > >to find memory problems? > > > Hi, > > under MacOS you will use TechToolPro, or MacTest Pro fro

Re: keymap-help request

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:22:42PM +0200, Robert Bar wrote: > g'day to all: i'm rather new - not only to the list. > > searching the archiv, lurking the list, studying several man-pages > didn't help me to a solid keymap right from start-up/login. > > startup-messages are telling that there is a

Re: memtestPPC ?

2001-09-05 Thread Matt Christian
"Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The x86 world has a stand-alone memory test program called > memtest86 that boots from a floppy. This is great, because it > can test all the memory in the system. It's only a few kB in > size, and can move itself about as needed. It uses direct V

compiling 3c59x driver on PPC

2001-09-05 Thread Richard Barraclough
Hi, I got a PowerMac 7200 cheap on eBay, and a 3Com ethernet card. The idea is to set up a router to share our cable modem. I have a standard installation of Debian, or at least I just stuffed the CDs in and let it do its thing! (I'm completely new to linux.) Unfortunately I've fallen at the fir

[iBook FW] Lost X with move from -3 to -4

2001-09-05 Thread Christian Pernegger
I have an iBook FW 366 on which I track unstable quite closely. Now this last upgrade from Debian revision 3 to 4 totally broke X on that machine - the X server SIG11s at startup... :( Nothing in the configuration was changed at all. Is anyone else getting this behaviour? Regards Christian

Re: memtestPPC ?

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:27:46AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > The x86 world has a stand-alone memory test program called > memtest86 that boots from a floppy. This is great, because it > can test all the memory in the system. It's only a few kB in > size, and can move itself about as need

Re: Reboot key combination

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:33:28PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > Before I changed to linux keycodes, the control-shift-power key combination > would restart my computer. Now that doesn't work, I get > > unknown scancode e0 5e > > I guess that's because linux doesn't recognize the power up key a

memtestPPC ?

2001-09-05 Thread Frank Escher
>Any hope of a stand-alone program that would take advantage of >the various PowerPC features (cache control & AltiVec prefetch) >to find memory problems? Hi, under MacOS you will use TechToolPro, or MacTest Pro from Apple. tschau Frank Escher -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

keymap-help request

2001-09-05 Thread Robert Bar
g'day to all: i'm rather new - not only to the list. searching the archiv, lurking the list, studying several man-pages didn't help me to a solid keymap right from start-up/login. startup-messages are telling that there is a "Loading /etc/console/bootime.kmap.gz", but for log-in i've to type "2´

Re: divx

2001-09-05 Thread Bastien Nocera
Michel Dänzer wrote: Bastien Nocera wrote: mplayer didn't want to demux the divx files I gave it. Have you built it with ffmpeg/libavcodec support? I use Yep vfm = 5 in ~/.mplayer/config to use that for DivX by default. Didn't try that though... GStreamer still has iss

Re: Woody Boot Disks (was downgrade sid to woody?)

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:25:47PM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: > the root disk in, hit enter (which works fine -- yeah!), and after a > while and a bunch of messages I get: > > set_blocksize: b_count 1, dev fd(2,0), block 1 from c0067b74 > Error: Kernel Panic unable to mount root fs on 02:00

Re: Woody Boot Disks (was downgrade sid to woody?)

2001-09-05 Thread Andrew Sharp
Kevin van Haaren wrote: > > At 8:08 AM -0500 9/3/01, Kevin van Haaren wrote: > >I messed up my machine a couple of times running unstable (huh, > >wonder why they call it that 8-) anyway I want to downgrade to just > >woody. I dug through the apt-get and dselect man pages and didn't > >see a way

Reboot key combination

2001-09-05 Thread Chris Tillman
Before I changed to linux keycodes, the control-shift-power key combination would restart my computer. Now that doesn't work, I get unknown scancode e0 5e I guess that's because linux doesn't recognize the power up key as a real key. Is there another combination that works now? I tried differe

memtestPPC ?

2001-09-05 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
The x86 world has a stand-alone memory test program called memtest86 that boots from a floppy. This is great, because it can test all the memory in the system. It's only a few kB in size, and can move itself about as needed. It uses direct VGA text memory access for output. So now I have a Mac wi

Re: A couple of more issues...

2001-09-05 Thread Kevin van Haaren
At 11:49 AM -0400 9/4/01, Colin Walters wrote: > - The penguin logo is still sitting at the top left corner all the time, blocking about 4 lines of screen. I can't get rid of it. I tried everything in yaboot.conf (video=ofonly, video=atyfb, video=aty128fb in various combinations). Looks like

Woody Boot Disks (was downgrade sid to woody?)

2001-09-05 Thread Kevin van Haaren
At 8:08 AM -0500 9/3/01, Kevin van Haaren wrote: I messed up my machine a couple of times running unstable (huh, wonder why they call it that 8-) anyway I want to downgrade to just woody. I dug through the apt-get and dselect man pages and didn't see a way to do this. Is it enough to remove t

Re: X 4.1.0 Hints for french PowerBook users...

2001-09-05 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Michel Dänzer writes: > Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > > there seems to be no distinction between the left and right option > > keys on my Pismo keyboard. I remember this being different with > > ADB keycodes. > > Are you sure? I thought that was inflicted upon us by the hardware. In fact I w

Re: Difficulty installing woody OR potato on Beige G3

2001-09-05 Thread Chris Tillman
> Sorry to follow up my own post, but you know how it is... > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:37:03PM -0700, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: >> In any case, I was able to get the base distribution installed via the >> potato boot-floppies, leaving only the problem with the potato ofpath >> not liking

Re: A couple of more issues...

2001-09-05 Thread Ron Golan
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:42:43AM +1000, Stuart Lamble wrote: > In debian.powerpc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > >When I do apt-get install xserver-xfree86, I get a nasty string during > >installation that shows in the dialog next to ok, stating that 'Failed to > >open configuration file /etc

Re: A couple of more issues...

2001-09-05 Thread Chris Tillman
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Laurent de Segur wrote: > >> Yes, setterm -reset works. Thanks for the help. One more thing to type >> after I login each time. > > To use Ethan's suggestion from earlier in this thread, just > 'apt-get install mingetty' and then edit /etc/inittab to replace > "/sbin/getty 38