> > and enet:0,bootme with default-gateway-ip=my.192.dhcp.server
>
> What a strange syntax... what does the "bootme" do? For that
> matter, what does the "0" do?
Okie.. it is kind of a complicated story, but the point is that
your dhcp servers network interface must be on the same
subnet as you
Hi,
I run into this bizarre problem trying to copy a large amount of files to
the last partition on my disk. The disk is 10GB and the last partition
occupies the last 1GB of the disk (minus a few extra spare sectors.)
I did an fschk on the partition and no problem is reported.
I've got a compres
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
AS> Sounds like you are talking about a lot of choices. Choices are
AS> good. In this case, though, we were talking about laptops. We
AS> could've gotten laptops from ASUS, for example, w/o the penalty,
AS> but those lacked features the lusers wanted
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:58:44PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 09:45, Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> > you generally have to manually upgrade kernel packages
>
> Virtual packages like kernel-image-apus might be a good idea?
manual upgrade of kernels is intentional, it was decide
Henrik Edlund wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
>
> AS> Actually, I don't get the joke, but I'm dense like that sometimes.
> AS> However, I will relate an unrelated story. I was representing a
> AS> company that spent large amounts of money with the best known PC
> AS> supplier
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 09:45, Ethan Benson wrote:
> you generally have to manually upgrade kernel packages
Virtual packages like kernel-image-apus might be a good idea?
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>> Well, I would like to hear such a success report from at least one other
>> other person first. Preferably someone who isn't obviously speaking
>> on behalf of "mac.com", who probably would have a conflict-of-interest
>> in telling me to buy, say, a Dell laptop. ;-)
>
> @mac.com doesn't imply
Am i the only one to get those kind of messages whenever i try to compile
something kernel-related ?
tested with 2.4.10 and 2.4.12, stock kernel and benh patched,
happens too at some other point in compilation when doing a simple
make module_image ... (ok, i know that's not the debian way, just di
On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 20:57, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:04:54PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 17:32, Laurent de Segur wrote:
> > > I just got a new iBook 2001 600MHz+COMBO-DVD/CDRW+256MB. It plays DVDs
> > > both
> > > under macos9 and running debi
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
AS> Actually, I don't get the joke, but I'm dense like that sometimes.
AS> However, I will relate an unrelated story. I was representing a
AS> company that spent large amounts of money with the best known PC
AS> supplier in this country. Every computer wa
> A PII/266 with a Rage128(not pro) can sustain 20fps on DVDs under Linux.
>There is no good reason a G3/366 can't do the same. And a 500 or 600 should
>be able to go all the way. That is just using the hardware colorspace, not
>even using iDCT or motion comp.
> I have my doubts that Apple is
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> and 99.9% of all x86 computers *come* with Windows, which you paid
> for, so why should be we bother with anything at all?
Amen. Preach it, brotha! Give me Linux everywhere!
Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet
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Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It doesn't reduce bandwidth, it *conserves* bandwidth.
of course. I meant to say "reduces bandwidth usage".
> Consider the difference between "reducing" natural-growth forest and
> "conserving" it.
indeed.
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:54:52PM +0800, Kin Chung wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> >
> > > takes to compile a kernel on my 200MHz 604e is long enough to
> > > watch an entire movie. On TV. With commercials.
> >
> >Hmmm... Appl
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:08:57AM -0400, Josh Huber wrote:
> Right, better for reducing bandwidth as well... What's the point of
> sending the message if they're just going to procmail it to /dev/null?
It doesn't reduce bandwidth, it *conserves* bandwidth.
Consider the difference between "reduc
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:57:34AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> [snip] Perhaps you should
> implement a telepathic kernel configuration interface so that
> everybody that reads the documentation knows the extra five paragraphs
> that appear nowhere?
Well, the defconfig which gives you the sugges
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:18:39PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:33:24PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:41:45PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone considered patching the kernel config scripts so that it just
> > > won't even ASK about
> > The fbdev OTOH is completely unaccelerated.
>
> The fbdev? I am confused. Is this fbdev the same as the UseFBdev with the
> r128 driver?
Nope, it's as Michel said: the fbdev driver (X server speak) just dumps
pixels to the framebuffer, totally unaccelerated. The UseFBDev option
makes the X ser
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 02:30:23AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>> BTW, procmail can filter out duplicate messages.
>
> So can the sender, by respecting people's god damn mail headers.
Right, better for reducing bandwidth as well... What's the p
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:57:34AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > you configured it wrong then.
> >
> > CONFIG_RTC=n
> > CONFIG_PPC_RTC=y
> >
> > that is the correct config. yours is no doubt backwards.
>
> No, mine has both compiled as a module.
w
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:54:45AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > you should not change it. this is caused by misconfigured kernels, on
> > powerpc the kernel *MUST* be compiled with CONFIG_PPC_RTC and NOT
> > CONFIG_RTC, the latter must be disabled, c
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> you configured it wrong then.
>
> CONFIG_RTC=n
> CONFIG_PPC_RTC=y
>
> that is the correct config. yours is no doubt backwards.
No, mine has both compiled as a module.
> the clock program as Dan put it is a kludge that must die, and a
> couple users m
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> takes to compile a kernel on my 200MHz 604e is long enough to
> watch an entire movie. On TV. With commercials.
Hmmm... Apple system with crippled slow memory bus? My LongTrail
has the same CPU, but comp
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> you should not change it. this is caused by misconfigured kernels, on
> powerpc the kernel *MUST* be compiled with CONFIG_PPC_RTC and NOT
> CONFIG_RTC, the latter must be disabled, completely.
And this is documented where? Why is CONFIG_RTC even offere
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 02:30:23AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> BTW, procmail can filter out duplicate messages.
So can the sender, by respecting people's god damn mail headers.
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Debian GNU/Linux
This version fixes some problems with large disks and partitions which
use XFS or Reiserfs filesystems.
Yaboot also now fully supports ext3, even when the filesystem has not
been unmounted cleanly and thus requires recovery. Previously yaboot
would only be able to read ext3 filesystems which we
"Michael D. Crawford" wrote:
> I am not entirely certain that XFree86 uses framebuffer accelleration
> if it is available though.
Framebuffer devices don't export any acceleration interface to userland yet so
there's nothing the fbdev driver could use...
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:22:53PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > Remember that these computers *come* with MacOS, which you paid for,
> > > > and DVDs play fine with that.
>
David Zhou wrote:
>
> > The fbdev OTOH is completely unaccelerated.
>
> The fbdev? I am confused. Is this fbdev the same as the UseFBdev with
> the r128 driver?
No, I meant to write the fbdev driver. Sorry for the confusion.
> Is dri still supported under fbdev or usefbdev?
Only with the r128
Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:22:53PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Remember that these computers *come* with MacOS, which you paid for,
> > > and DVDs play fine with that.
>
> and 99.9% of all x86 computers *come* with Win
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> > David Brown wrote:
> > > I can see background tasks wanting to run while doing other things in
> > > the foreground. Do you ever go read something while the kernel is
> > > compiling, why not watch another scene from a mov
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> David Brown wrote:
> > I can see background tasks wanting to run while doing other things in
> > the foreground. Do you ever go read something while the kernel is
> > compiling, why not watch another scene from a movie?
>
> The time it takes to compile a
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:19:09AM +0200, Robert Bar wrote:
> At 13:16 Uhr -0400 23.10.2001, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > (...)
> > John, what kernel/machine do you have hwclock causing a hang? I'm not
> > sure off the top of my head what the status is in 2.2, but 2.4 has a
> > "proper" /dev/r
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:22:53PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Remember that these computers *come* with MacOS, which you paid for,
> > and DVDs play fine with that.
and 99.9% of all x86 computers *come* with Windows, which you paid
for, so why sho
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:33:24PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:41:45PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote:
>
> > Has anyone considered patching the kernel config scripts so that it just
> > won't even ASK about the "Enhanced Real-time Clock", since this is 100%
> > _wrong_ for Power
G. Branden Robinson writes:
> Are there people actively working on this? The mood I was getting was
> that G3's weren't work the trouble. I myself don't have much in the way
> of PowerPC assembly brains, or video processing mojo.
Some basic tips:
Sketch out data flow on a piece of paper. This
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