Re: request for help to make powerpc custom boot disks

2001-10-15 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Ethan Benson writes: > what part of: > > Mail-Followup-To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Mail-Copies-To: nobody > X-No-CC: I subscribe to this list; do not CC me on replies. > > don't you understand? 1. it is in the headers instead of the signature 2. it isn't handled by my crufty old UNIX

Re: Advice on a iBook ...

2001-10-15 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Ron Golan wrote: > Are saying that a G3 will never do DVD playback in Linux? Have you > seen the Mac OS X.1 DVD player? Yes to both. -jwb

Re: Advice on a iBook ...

2001-10-15 Thread Ron Golan
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:40:58PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: [...] > > I don't think the G3 will ever do DVD in software. It needs colorspace > conversion and idct in hardware. DVD playing really is a bitch. It's > just a whole lot of math and i/o. > [...] Are saying that a G3 will nev

hosed keymap - HELP

2001-10-15 Thread Paul Kimber
G'day, I just upgraded my kernel to 2.2.19 and while running "dpkg- reconfigure console-data" the machine froze, leaving me with a keymap that doesnt work with either kernel. Any suggestions on how to get back into this machine? (5500/225, 2.2r3, bootX 1.2.2) cheers, Paul __

Re: Advice on a iBook ...

2001-10-15 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Derrik Pates wrote: > On 16 Oct 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Even with Linux, the choice isn't so hard, with a growing amount of > > software supporting Altivec. In particular, watching DVDs is certainly > > much more of a pleasure on a TiBook now than it will probably eve

Re: Advice on a iBook ... [OT - TiBook recommendation because you asked for it]

2001-10-15 Thread Derrik Pates
On 16 Oct 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Even with Linux, the choice isn't so hard, with a growing amount of > software supporting Altivec. In particular, watching DVDs is certainly > much more of a pleasure on a TiBook now than it will probably ever be on > a G3 Notebook. Are there any asm optimiz

Re: keymap setup for TiBook

2001-10-15 Thread Blake L. Carlson
Never mind on the keymap since I just figured that out ... duh, I had the wrong keyboard layout defined. I think I know what I need to do for the mouse buttons but if someone wants to bless me with your experience, please do so! Thanks - Blake Blake L. Carlson wrote: Michel - Thanks for making

Re: I'm one step away from Airport

2001-10-15 Thread Orion Buckminster Montoya
Thank you, jwb. > > # ifdown eth0 > > This likely erased all your useful routes. Check /sbin/route. Yep, sure did: good to know. But what can I do? I tried route add -net 10.0.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth1 (based on the router and netmask from a Mac OS Mac that uses the UFO) but it told

keymap setup for TiBook [Was - TiBook recommendation because you asked for it]

2001-10-15 Thread Blake L. Carlson
Michel - Thanks for making me even more warm and fuzzy about my purchase :) BTW - can you point me to any docs about getting the keymap setup correctly and binding 2nd and 3rd mouse buttons on the TiBook. I know there's gotta be a FAQ out there since I can't be the first to stumble on this.

Re: pppdifficulties

2001-10-15 Thread mmissett
Michel, Thanks for the reply, I was beginning to feel ignored. And thinking of the other lists. In any event, yes, I can ping the PPP peer (numerically), but not anybody else. I have been wondering about default route, but I don't know what to do about it. If you could provide some advice on

Re: I'm one step away from Airport

2001-10-15 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: > At this point I do: > # ifdown eth0 This likely erased all your useful routes. Check /sbin/route. > $ ping harper.uchicago.edu > ping: unknown host harper.uchicago.edu > $ ping 128.135.12.7 > PING 128.135.12.7 (128.135.12.7): 56 data byt

I'm one step away from Airport

2001-10-15 Thread Orion Buckminster Montoya
I'm trying to connect my iBook2 with an internal Apple Airport card to a UFO with DHCP + NAT. It works in 9 & X. I'm using kernel 2.4.13-pre1 + Sid, and the airport modules are loaded. I'm sorry to be sending this, because it seems like a simple problem. I've seen similar threads here quite rece

Re: Recompile cfs for stable

2001-10-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 01:57:48PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > A recompile for powerpc/stable is required. > > > > I assume this will be handled on voltaire, or should I try and set up a > > stable chroot? > > In case voltaire doesn't cover it, I have a stable chroot set up and ready > to

Re: Advice on a iBook ...

2001-10-15 Thread CaRLoS mOGUeL
--- Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:04:22AM -0700, CaRLoS > mOGUeL wrote: > > Based on ... > > > > > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.txt > > > > Now my partition table is ... > > > > /dev/hda1 ... > > /dev/hda2 ... > > /dev/hda3 ... > >

Re: Advice on a iBook ... [OT - TiBook recommendation because you asked for it]

2001-10-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 21:28, Blake Carlson wrote: > I think that if you're interested in using OS X down the road, you'll be > better off with a G4 (disregard clock rate). At the moment, that limits > your choice to a TiBook. If you're going for Linux only, your decision > gets harder and you

Re: Advice on a iBook ...

2001-10-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:47:12AM -0700, CaRLoS mOGUeL wrote: > > Yes ... that's right, "default=" is for the kernel > image, I got confused with the "defaultos=" (that I > already used with no success trying to change my OS to > MacOS by default ...) with potato r0's yaboot? that feature did

Re: Advice on a iBook ...

2001-10-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:04:22AM -0700, CaRLoS mOGUeL wrote: > Based on ... > > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.txt > > Now my partition table is ... > > /dev/hda1 ... > /dev/hda2 ... > /dev/hda3 ... > /dev/hda4 ... > /dev/hda5 ... > /dev/hda6 ... > /dev/hda7 ... > /dev/h

Re: pppdifficulties

2001-10-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2001-10-14 at 03:31, mmissett wrote: > I seem to have the IP connection happening (to judge from plog), but > am unable to connect to anywhere (to judge from ping) whether I use > the URL (which gives me unknown host) or the numerical designation > (which gives me x packets sent, 0 packets

Re: Advice on a iBook ... [OT - TiBook recommendation because you asked for it]

2001-10-15 Thread Blake Carlson
Carlos - Glad to be of help :) As far as a recommendation for a PowerBook, I have to say my TiBook is pretty nice. I went for the G4/400 model, got a ~$150 instant rebate, bought 512 MB RAM for 2x$37 and an AirPort card for $99. There are additional rebates if you want to buy things like p

Re: Advice on a iBook ...

2001-10-15 Thread CaRLoS mOGUeL
--- Blake Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carlos - > > I just did my install on a TiBook the other day :) > Unfortunately, the > upgrade to unstable has been a rough road but things > are looking good > now. Got to get this keymap stuff taken care of > .. > > Not sure if I'm understa

Re: Advice on a iBook ...

2001-10-15 Thread CaRLoS mOGUeL
--- Blake Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carlos - > > I just did my install on a TiBook the other day :) > Unfortunately, the > upgrade to unstable has been a rough road but things > are looking good > now. Got to get this keymap stuff taken care of > .. Is the TiBook the best optio

Re: Advice on a iBook ...

2001-10-15 Thread Blake Carlson
Carlos - I just did my install on a TiBook the other day :) Unfortunately, the upgrade to unstable has been a rough road but things are looking good now. Got to get this keymap stuff taken care of .. Not sure if I'm understanding your message right, but "default=" in yaboot.conf is ref

Re: Advice on a iBook ...

2001-10-15 Thread CaRLoS mOGUeL
Based on ... http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.txt Now my partition table is ... /dev/hda1 ... /dev/hda2 ... /dev/hda3 ... /dev/hda4 ... /dev/hda5 ... /dev/hda6 ... /dev/hda7 ... /dev/hda8 APPLE_Bootstrap bootstrap (800.0K) /dev/hda9 APPLE_UNIX_SVR2 swap (100.0M) /dev/

Re: Recompile cfs for stable

2001-10-15 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > A recompile for powerpc/stable is required. > > I assume this will be handled on voltaire, or should I try and set up a > stable chroot? In case voltaire doesn't cover it, I have a stable chroot set up and ready to go. Michael

Re: kernel-image-2.4.8-powerpc

2001-10-15 Thread Michel Lanners
On 14 Oct, this message from Daniel Jacobowitz echoed through cyberspace: >> Hardware: Motorola StarMax 3000/160 (pmac 4400 clone, 160 MHz 603e), >> built-in Mach64 VT 1MB, PCI MacPicasso 540 (Cirrus Logic GD5480 chipset, >> 4 MB). >> >>* Using BootX, it always boots with the console on the