sloopy malibu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> on 11/5/01 2:56 AM using moldy cheese [EMAIL PROTECTED] engraved this
> message
>
>
> > but again, if someone would like to maintain a relativly distro
> > independent hardware list on penguinppc let me know for an account. i
> > don't think the curren
on 11/5/01 2:56 AM using moldy cheese [EMAIL PROTECTED] engraved this
message
> but again, if someone would like to maintain a relativly distro
> independent hardware list on penguinppc let me know for an account. i
> don't think the current lists have anyone really doing much maintainence.
i c
On 05/11/01, Mike Yukish ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> When I try to do 'startx', a couple of full screens worth of messages flow
> past too fast to read before the screen goes blank, then the background of
> the Debian logo appears, I get what looks to be an icon in the upper left
> corner of t
On 05/11/01, Colin Walters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Mike Yukish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > then nothing else happens and the computer fails to respond to any
> > mouse or keyboard actions short of the three finger reboot.
> Hm, can you switch to a virtual console? Try typing
> Contro
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 08:38:17PM +0100, Georg Koss wrote:
> Hi Rory!
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 10:22:43AM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
>
>
>
> > If the backup image would be used when a new image was unusable (eg I
> > ended a config line with "" and yaboot wouldn't use my new config file
Hi
[big snip]
>> Because, if some newbie enters debian.org, interested in debian for
>> powerpc, he will first get trough to the ports pages (if he knows what
>> ports mean), then
>
> exactly what happened to me
>
>> to powerpc, and finally to install, where he will be presented a list which
>>
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 07:51:28PM +0200, Andreas Wüst wrote:
>>
>> So, thats fine, but there should be at least an up-to-date list available
>> (listing only debian releases) on the debian website, where one not has to
>> first search for the testing install-manual (which is not obvious) to get
At 04:12 PM 11/5/01 -0500, Joseph Fannin wrote:
I'm guessing your mouse type is set incorrectly in the X configuration
file. If /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/input/mice, setting the mouse type
to ps/2 will work (at least, it did for me).
How many buttons does your mouse have?
One. I
On Monday 05 November 2001 08:34, Mike Yukish wrote:
> At 04:40 PM 11/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >Mike Yukish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I am a Linux newbie, and I just managed to get the Debian 2.2 R3
> > > booted up on my PowerMac 7600/120. Tried to do 'startx' and the
> > > kernel panicked.
Hi Rory!
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 10:22:43AM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> If the backup image would be used when a new image was unusable (eg I
> ended a config line with "" and yaboot wouldn't use my new config file
> last week) I reckon that would be tremendously useful.
Just a side-mar
Hi Michael
, On 05-Nov-01, you wrote:
/bin/startx: /bin/xauth: cannot execute binary file
/bin/startx: /bin/xinit: " " "
>>
>>> Please run file and ldd on these files.
>>
>>
>> ldd -d -r -v /usr/bin/X11/startx
>> not a dynamic executable
> And what does 'file' say
EthanEthan Benson
On 05-Nov-01, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:58:48PM +0100, John Lord wrote:
>> Hi Michael
>>
>> , On 04-Nov-01, you wrote:
>>
/bin/startx: /bin/xauth: cannot execute binary file
/bin/startx: /bin/xinit: " " "
>>
>>> Please run file a
Hi Michael
, On 05-Nov-01, you wrote:
>> > Any idea how the X Window System (probably XFree86) was installed on your
>> > system? Did it just come with Debian that way?
>>
>> The original was a v3.9* from the Debian 2.2r2 PPC non-US cd set. but I
>> installed XFreeV4.02 from a set of tgz binari
Mike Yukish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When I try to do 'startx', a couple of full screens worth of
> messages flow past too fast to read before the screen goes blank,
As Georg said, you can redirect this to a file.
> then the background of the Debian logo appears, I get what looks to
> be an
Hi Mike!
>
> When I try to do 'startx', a couple of full screens worth of messages flow
> past too fast to read before the screen goes blank, then the background of
> the Debian logo appears, I get what looks to be an icon in the upper left
> corner of the screen that is labeled 'main', three i
At 04:40 PM 11/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
Mike Yukish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am a Linux newbie, and I just managed to get the Debian 2.2 R3
> booted up on my PowerMac 7600/120. Tried to do 'startx' and the
> kernel panicked. I loaded the Gnome package on the initial
> installation.
What wa
Hi jtv
, On 04-Nov-01, you wrote:
>> The one in /bin was an old one, so I showed it the door. So it is now using
>> /usr/bin/X11/startx, but still get the same errors.
>
> Without even changing /bin/xauth to /usr/bin/X11/xauth etc? In that case
> it would seem that something in your X config st
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 11:41:11AM +0100, Christoph Ewering wrote:
> Do you unplug the mainboard from the powersupply?
yup.
>
>
> Apple calls this a "mainboard reset"
> 1. unplug AC-Powercord
> 2. remove the mainboard battery
> 3. disconnet powersupply from mainboard
> 4. press the startup-but
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 05:33:18AM -0500, Joseph Fannin wrote:
>
> I could save everyone some trouble by learning to use the reply-all
> button, I guess. I don't like reply-to munging at all, but I suppose I've
> gotten used to it.
no use list-reply not reply-all.
--
Ethan Benson
http://
Ethan Benson wrote:
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 08:28:31PM +0100, Christoph Ewering wrote:
But iBooks do not have this battery. If you remove the main-battery the
NVRAM-settings and RTC are toasted in a few seconds or minutes.
rtc for sure, but i don't think nvram settings will be lost.
unle
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 10:22:43AM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
>
> If the backup image would be used when a new image was unusable (eg I
> ended a config line with "" and yaboot wouldn't use my new config file
> last week) I reckon that would be tremendously useful.
if your yaboot.conf is s
On Sunday 04 November 2001 13:10, Andreas Wüst wrote:
> >> Please remember e.g. the mail of Joseph Fannin ("gcc in woody?") who
> >> asked:
> >>
> >>Um, is it just me, or is there no compiler in woody?
> >>
> >>Until I found this list, I was beginning to think the powerpc port
> >> was no l
Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 05:09:50PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> >
> > > > If you use the debian kernel-package to build your kernel, you can
> > > > just leave yaboot in the default configuration, and the packa
> > Any idea how the X Window System (probably XFree86) was installed on your
> > system? Did it just come with Debian that way?
>
> The original was a v3.9* from the Debian 2.2r2 PPC non-US cd set. but I
> installed XFreeV4.02 from a set of tgz binaries.
I bet you installed ix86 binaries off xfr
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:58:48PM +0100, John Lord wrote:
> Hi Michael
>
> , On 04-Nov-01, you wrote:
>
> >> /bin/startx: /bin/xauth: cannot execute binary file
> >> /bin/startx: /bin/xinit: " " "
>
> > Please run file and ldd on these files.
>
>
> ldd -d -r -v /usr/bin/X11/sta
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 08:28:31PM +0100, Christoph Ewering wrote:
> But iBooks do not have this battery. If you remove the main-battery the
> NVRAM-settings and RTC are toasted in a few seconds or minutes.
rtc for sure, but i don't think nvram settings will be lost.
unless they changed it agai
> >> /bin/startx: /bin/xauth: cannot execute binary file
> >> /bin/startx: /bin/xinit: " " "
>
> > Please run file and ldd on these files.
>
>
> ldd -d -r -v /usr/bin/X11/startx
> not a dynamic executable
And what does 'file' say?
Where did these binaries come from, anyway?
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:36:22AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Sun, 2001-11-04 at 20:12, Laurent de Segur wrote:
>
> > During the woody dist-upgrade, the Defoma package 0.4.12 config script
> > spills the same error (Use of unitialized value in string eq at
> > /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Defoma/
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 07:51:28PM +0200, Andreas Wüst wrote:
>
> So, thats fine, but there should be at least an up-to-date list available
> (listing only debian releases)
> on the debian website, where one not has to first search for the testing
> install-manual (which is not obvious) to get a b
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