Re: DNS wierdness on a TiBook running unstable

2001-09-21 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
A minor follow up: I noticed from reading the reference Mozilla bug that some work had been done on rereading resolv.conf when toggling on and off line, and I in fact confirmed with 0.9.4 that after switching networks I could get Mozilla working again by toggling it off and online using the co

/proc/apm (Was: lazy saturday notebook comparo (long))

2001-09-21 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 02:55:49PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: >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 ? >Any thoughts ? It may be worth noting that Ben's

Re: Problem booting stable cd 1 on ibook2

2001-09-21 Thread Colin Walters
Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CW> Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CW> > CW> > I then tried with "debian video=offb" at the boot: prompt but same > result. > CW> > CW> Does it help to say 'video=ofonly' instead of 'video=offb'? > > Yepp. This information is in the mailin

Re: mozilla 0.9.4

2001-09-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:40:59PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > And when is 0.9.3 going to go into woody? never, its been removed from the archive in favor of 0.9.4, which will go into woody in 5-10 days depending on the urgency it was uploaded at, and depending on whether it closed all release crit

Re: yaboot & zImage's

2001-09-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:44:20PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > Yes, but if we've already loaded yaboot, couldn't we do the same thing > you're saying with a vmlinux.gz? sure, thats why silo does. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp9hpHfCm09T.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem booting stable cd 1 on ibook2

2001-09-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 01:57:48PM -0700, Laurent de Segur wrote: > Henrik, > > STFW. > > Go to this excellent page put together by someone who's goal was to help > people who are trying to achieve what you want to do: > > http://www.xiph.org/~jack/ibook/instnotes.html this document is full of

Re: Bootstrapping Debian GNU/Linux distribution on SuperH

2001-09-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 06:14:02AM +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > NIIBE Yutaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thanks for your attention. I'd like to express my thanks to your > >> continuous efforts for Debian SuperH, too. The (cross) bootstrap of > >> Deb

Re: DNS wierdness on a TiBook running unstable

2001-09-21 Thread Colin Walters
Tuomas Kuosmanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FYI, there is work being done on Ximian Setup Tools > (ximian-setup-tools on gnome CVS) to make a "location tool" similar > to the macos location switcher. So you could define stuff like nfs > mounts, network setup, whatnot and their cat that gets swi

Re: yaboot & zImage's

2001-09-21 Thread Tom Rini
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:05:20PM -0400, Dan Malek wrote: > Tom Rini wrote: > > > > I've booted a zImage.rs6k-chrp from yaboot 1.2.5. > > > > That almost sounds silly. > > Actually, it's not very silly at all. The zImage is significantly > smaller than a corresponding vmlinux, so it takes much

Re: mozilla 0.9.4

2001-09-21 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 11:01:19PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > Jack Howarth wrote: > > > >Is anyone else having problems with mozilla 0.9.4-1 or 0.9.4-3? > > On my machine the mail component doesn't seem to be working > > at all. While I can bring up the window for the mail component, > > ch

Re: Bootstrapping Debian GNU/Linux distribution on SuperH

2001-09-21 Thread ISHIKAWA Mutsumi
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > NIIBE Yutaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks for your attention. I'd like to express my thanks to your >> continuous efforts for Debian SuperH, too. The (cross) bootstrap of >> Debian SuperH is dedicated to you. :-) Thanks, I'll work more hardly for De

Re: DNS wierdness on a TiBook running unstable

2001-09-21 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 19:53, Gregory P. Keeney wrote: On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 08:55, Josh Huber wrote: > > do you have nscd installed? Doh! Ok... With that gone everthing should be quite happy. (Now all I need to do is write a network switching applet for the gnome panel

Re: yaboot & zImage's

2001-09-21 Thread Dan Malek
Tom Rini wrote: > > I've booted a zImage.rs6k-chrp from yaboot 1.2.5. > > That almost sounds silly. Actually, it's not very silly at all. The zImage is significantly smaller than a corresponding vmlinux, so it takes much less time to load the image. Also, many systems claim the lower memory wh

Re: Problem booting stable cd 1 on ibook2

2001-09-21 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Laurent de Segur wrote: LdS> Henrik, LdS> LdS> STFW. LdS> LdS> Go to this excellent page put together by someone who's goal was LdS> to help people who are trying to achieve what you want to do: LdS> LdS> http://www.xiph.org/~jack/ibook/instnotes.html LdS> LdS> Note that I got

Re: mozilla 0.9.4

2001-09-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
Jack Howarth wrote: > >Is anyone else having problems with mozilla 0.9.4-1 or 0.9.4-3? > On my machine the mail component doesn't seem to be working > at all. While I can bring up the window for the mail component, > checking mailing and attempting to compose a new message doesn't > work. If I

Re: Problem booting stable cd 1 on ibook2

2001-09-21 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Colin Walters wrote: CW> Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CW> CW> > I then tried with "debian video=offb" at the boot: prompt but same result. CW> CW> Does it help to say 'video=ofonly' instead of 'video=offb'? Yepp. -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.

Re: Problem booting stable cd 1 on ibook2

2001-09-21 Thread Laurent de Segur
Henrik, STFW. Go to this excellent page put together by someone who's goal was to help people who are trying to achieve what you want to do: http://www.xiph.org/~jack/ibook/instnotes.html Note that I got this link returned as the top choice by just entering "ibook2 debian linux" using google.co

Re: IR on the TiBook

2001-09-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> Has anyone managed to get IR working on the TiBook? > >Not that I am aware of... I am also eagerly awaiting any progress in this >area, since one of the only reasons I boot MacOS standalone anymore is to >sync my Palm via the IR port. Please let me know if you find out anything >or get anything

Re: dhcpd not doing what it is told

2001-09-21 Thread Derrik Pates
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Richard Barraclough wrote: > However, my client receives address 169.254.154.235 with no subnet mask or > router/gateway address. That is a "standard" no-server-available DHCP client address. If you're getting that, either the DHCPDISCOVER isn't getting to the server, or the

Re: yaboot & zImage's

2001-09-21 Thread Peter Bergner
Sorry, I should have been a little more explicit. Yes, I meant to say zImage (including zImage.initrd, duh). No, yaboot does not do compression. The only reason we couldn't boot zImages before, was that yaboot _always_ loaded the image from the FS into memory at KERNELADDR. This is what vmlinux

Re: DNS wierdness on a TiBook running unstable

2001-09-21 Thread Josh Huber
"Gregory P. Keeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok... With that gone everthing should be quite happy. (Now all I > need to do is write a network switching applet for the gnome > panel...) I knew it. This caused strange name service problems for me too, and it took a little while to track it do

dhcpd not doing what it is told

2001-09-21 Thread Richard Barraclough
Hi, dhcpd isn't doing what it is told! My local network (on eth0) works fine if I configure the hosts manually. The server has address 192.168.1.1 and /etc/dhcpd.conf reads as follows default-lease-time 86400; max-lease-time 86400; option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255; option routers 192.168.1

Starting up without a monitor (PMac 7200)

2001-09-21 Thread Richard Barraclough
Hi, I had to compile my own kernel (2.2.19) to replace the one off the CD (2.2.18pre21). Since I changed kernels my machine (a PowerMac 7200) will not start up unless I have a monitor plugged in. The monitor does not have to be turned on, just plugged into the monitor port. I could start up with

Re: yaboot & zImage's

2001-09-21 Thread Tom Rini
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 01:29:04PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 11:20:47AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 11:49:51AM -0500, Peter Bergner wrote: > > > > > > Just a little nit, but some people might be interested, as part > > > of the "Various pp

Re: yaboot & zImage's

2001-09-21 Thread hollis
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 11:20:47AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 11:49:51AM -0500, Peter Bergner wrote: > > > > Just a little nit, but some people might be interested, as part > > of the "Various ppc64 & chrp fixes by Peter Bergner", we also > > added support for booting compr

Re: [ANN] yaboot maintainer change

2001-09-21 Thread Tom Rini
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 11:49:51AM -0500, Peter Bergner wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > : comments and suggestions are welcome, flames should go to /dev/null. > > Just a little nit, but some people might be interested, as part > of the "Various ppc64 & chrp fixes by Peter Bergner", we also > adde

Re: IR on the TiBook

2001-09-21 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Gregory P. Keeney wrote: > Has anyone managed to get IR working on the TiBook? Not that I am aware of... I am also eagerly awaiting any progress in this area, since one of the only reasons I boot MacOS standalone anymore is to sync my Palm via the IR port. Please let me know

IR on the TiBook

2001-09-21 Thread Gregory P. Keeney
Has anyone managed to get IR working on the TiBook? I recall a thread discussing this some months ago (May?). I made some effort in July, but eventually gave up. I am ready to try again. Has anyone made progess in this area? Gregory P. Keeney Mad Computer Scientist

Re: DNS wierdness on a TiBook running unstable

2001-09-21 Thread Colin Walters
Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I find that after switching networks, stuff like telnet adapts to the > new regime just fine, but Mozilla stubbornly refuses to see the new > DNS servers until it is restarted. But I only have to restart the > app, not the 'book. This is

Re: debian: sawfish crashing

2001-09-21 Thread Colin Walters
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I'm running all GNOME, sawfish and X from unstable without problems on > this PowerBook Pismo, and my load is often >1. :) > > Do you have enough RAM and swap? Might be the OOM killer... I'm running full GNOME, sawfish, and X from unstable on a T

Re: Problem booting stable cd 1 on ibook2

2001-09-21 Thread Colin Walters
Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I then tried with "debian video=offb" at the boot: prompt but same result. Does it help to say 'video=ofonly' instead of 'video=offb'?

Kernel Problems (Kernel 2.4)

2001-09-21 Thread Bjoern Berg
Hello, I'm using the binary Kernel from nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net on a powerbook 1400c. It runs quite fine but now, a few days ago the Kernel dies when it tries to boot Linux with the error: Failure to register low-level scsi-driver What does this failure mean and how could it be fixed!

debian on escala s100

2001-09-21 Thread Antoine Mirou
Hello I'm trying to install debian on a Bull escala s100, but it doesn't boot at all. With the rescue floppy, it reboots after having read the floppy with bootable cd, it freezes on "starting software", and there's no activity on the cd. Did someone ever succeed in running debian on a s100 ? th

Re: DNS wierdness on a TiBook running unstable

2001-09-21 Thread Gregory P. Keeney
On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 08:55, Josh Huber wrote: > > do you have nscd installed? Doh! Ok... With that gone everthing should be quite happy. (Now all I need to do is write a network switching applet for the gnome panel...) Thank you. Gregory P. Keeney Mad Computer Scientist

Re: [ANN] yaboot maintainer change

2001-09-21 Thread Peter Bergner
Ethan Benson wrote: : comments and suggestions are welcome, flames should go to /dev/null. Just a little nit, but some people might be interested, as part of the "Various ppc64 & chrp fixes by Peter Bergner", we also added support for booting compressed images (ie, zImage). Peter -- Peter Bergn

Re: DNS wierdness on a TiBook running unstable

2001-09-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Gregory P. Keeney" wrote: > (I hate to restart a Debian box for anything other than a new kernel... It > just seems... wrong). Absolutely! Something apparently needs to be restarted here, but certainly not the box. :) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer

Re: xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-2 fails where 4.0.2-7puetzk worked

2001-09-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:48:00PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > The patch is rather hackish (there's no way to easily find a free PCI > > > > resource region in 2.2 kernels) and might not make it through BenH's or > > > > Alan's 'no brute force hacks' filter. If the Debian kernel package >

anyone run ircd?

2001-09-21 Thread David Roundy
I was wondering if anyone out there has successfully run ircd and/or dancer-ircd? I recently tried running both ircd and dancer-ircd, and found that both of them tended to die after running for a few minutes (with me logging in and sending messages to myself). I'm thinking that maybe there is som

Re: DNS wierdness on a TiBook running unstable

2001-09-21 Thread Josh Huber
"Gregory P. Keeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] do you have nscd installed? ttyl, -- Josh Huber | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-2 fails where 4.0.2-7puetzk worked

2001-09-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > The patch is rather hackish (there's no way to easily find a free PCI > > > resource region in 2.2 kernels) and might not make it through BenH's or > > > Alan's 'no brute force hacks' filter. If the Debian kernel package > > > maintainer accepts it, fine. > > > > Ok, I filed a bug against ker

Re: DNS wierdness on a TiBook running unstable

2001-09-21 Thread Adam Lazur
Gregory P. Keeney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Recently, however, DNS does not seem to work after the switch. I can > ping the DNS servers (or any numeric address), but ping cannot resolve > any names. Galeon cannot seem to resolve any names either. The bizare > thing is that dig, host, and the depr

Re: DNS wierdness on a TiBook running unstable

2001-09-21 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
can ping the DNS servers (or any numeric address), but ping cannot resolve any names. Galeon cannot seem to resolve any names either. The bizare thing is that dig, host, and the deprecated nslookup have no problems... ... Any ideas? Have you tried just restarting Galeon? I'm doing something sim

Re: DNS wierdness on a TiBook running unstable

2001-09-21 Thread David N. Welton
"Gregory P. Keeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can ping the DNS servers (or any numeric address), but ping cannot > resolve any names. Galeon cannot seem to resolve any names > either. The bizare thing is that dig, host, and the deprecated > nslookup have no problems... Try running tcpdump t

DNS wierdness on a TiBook running unstable

2001-09-21 Thread Gregory P. Keeney
I use my Tibook both at home and at work. At work, I use the built in ethernet, and at home the airport. For the most part it works great. In fact perfect. It is the nicest and most stable piece of computing hardware I have owned. I have a bizare problem, however. When I move between home and wor

Re: Debian Linux on PowerBook 1400cs -- eeep?

2001-09-21 Thread Bjoern Berg
On Freitag, 21. September 2001 08:39 Phil Frost wrote: > I have exactly your setup right here :P Poke around on nubus-pmac.sf.net > and mail me if you have any questions. I've also a running Debian on a PB 1400c, but I use more Ram... Now it's up to 64 MB. > The big problem is that PCMCIA is no

Re: debian: sawfish crashing

2001-09-21 Thread Gregory P. Keeney
On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 06:40, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Well, I'm running all GNOME, sawfish and X from unstable without problems on > this PowerBook Pismo, and my load is often >1. :) > > Do you have enough RAM and swap? Might be the OOM killer... I too am runnning the above combination on a TiBoo

Problem booting stable cd 1 on ibook2

2001-09-21 Thread Henrik Edlund
I am booting through OF with: boot cd:,\\:tbxi But it halts/freezes after printing "DO-QUIESCE finishedbooting...". Before that it says: ...ok copying OF device tree...done calling quiesce ... I then tried with "debian video=offb" at the boot: prompt but same result. Can anyone help me? -- He

Re: debian: sawfish crashing

2001-09-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
"J. Steinbachs" wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 08:02:13PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > I'm running Debian on a PowerBook Ti laptop. It has a combination of > > > mainly testing with a bit of unstable. I'm running gnome and sawfish as

mozilla 0.9.4

2001-09-21 Thread Jack Howarth
Is anyone else having problems with mozilla 0.9.4-1 or 0.9.4-3? On my machine the mail component doesn't seem to be working at all. While I can bring up the window for the mail component, checking mailing and attempting to compose a new message doesn't work. If I select those menu items or click

Re: debian: sawfish crashing

2001-09-21 Thread Charles Sebold
On 4 Tishrei 5762, J. Steinbachs wrote: > I'm running windowmaker on a TiBook... 2.4.9 kernel and the latest > packages. I find that X in general is unstable. In particular, when > the system has a load of >1, X crashes and drops me back to the > prompt. It happens with and without gnome apps,

Re: debian: sawfish crashing

2001-09-21 Thread J. Steinbachs
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 08:02:13PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > I'm running Debian on a PowerBook Ti laptop. It has a combination of > > mainly testing with a bit of unstable. I'm running gnome and sawfish as > > my GUI environment. I have not

Re: How to Change resolution?

2001-09-21 Thread Russell Hires
I did as you suggested, but still I'm having no luck! I can send a copy of my XF86Config-4 file if necessary. The Ctrl-Alt- Keypad +/- doesn't work for me when I'm in the console that should be kde...What else can I try? Russell Laurent de Segur wrote: > > Russell, > > Why vi? Can't you just us

Re: debian: sawfish crashing

2001-09-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 08:02:13PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I'm running Debian on a PowerBook Ti laptop. It has a combination of > mainly testing with a bit of unstable. I'm running gnome and sawfish as > my GUI environment. I have noticed that sawfish crashes on a regular > basis. So

Re: Debian Linux on PowerBook 1400cs -- eeep?

2001-09-21 Thread Yannick Delbecque
If I were you, I would get more RAM for this machine (check auction sites) and run MkLinux DR3 or RC1. I think that it is one of the only Linux ports out there that really supports the PB 1400 old architecture. As already pointed out, there is a kernel port for nubus macs. I'm running debian on

debian: sawfish crashing

2001-09-21 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm running Debian on a PowerBook Ti laptop. It has a combination of mainly testing with a bit of unstable. I'm running gnome and sawfish as my GUI environment. I have noticed that sawfish crashes on a regular basis. Sometimes a couple of times a day and sometimes every couple of days. It

Re: Debian Linux on PowerBook 1400cs -- eeep?

2001-09-21 Thread Phil Frost
I have exactly your setup right here :P Poke around on nubus-pmac.sf.net and mail me if you have any questions. The big problem is that PCMCIA is not supported. With no USB or built in ethernet, the laptop is pretty much useless unless you like transfering all your files via floppy (and i don't ev

Re: Debian Linux on PowerBook 1400cs -- eeep?

2001-09-21 Thread Derrik Pates
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Chris Tillman wrote: > The 1400 is one of those rare birds, the NuBus PPC. You mean like the Power Mac 5100, 6100, and some others? They aren't _that_ rare. > If you search this list for NuBus, you'll find a link at SourceForge for an > experimental NuBus Linux. You mean ht

Re: Debian Linux on PowerBook 1400cs -- eeep?

2001-09-21 Thread Laurent de Segur
If I were you, I would get more RAM for this machine (check auction sites) and run MkLinux DR3 or RC1. I think that it is one of the only Linux ports out there that really supports the PB 1400 old architecture. Laurent > From: Jørn Holm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:12:36 +020

Re: Debian Linux on PowerBook 1400cs -- eeep?

2001-09-21 Thread Chris Tillman
> Hi, > I downloaded some of the 1.44-images for PowerPC debian, among others the > boot-floppy-hfs.img-file... > > I wrote it to a floppy using rawrite on a pc, and tested it on the > powerbook... unfortunately, it appears to hang after two-three minutes of > displaying that cute little logo with

Debian Linux on PowerBook 1400cs -- eeep?

2001-09-21 Thread Jørn Holm
Hi, I downloaded some of the 1.44-images for PowerPC debian, among others the boot-floppy-hfs.img-file... I wrote it to a floppy using rawrite on a pc, and tested it on the powerbook... unfortunately, it appears to hang after two-three minutes of displaying that cute little logo with a mac an