Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found

2001-11-08 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > Another strange thing is, that after Installing MacOS X I cannot boot > anything. MacOS 9 and MacOS X, and also their install CDs hang during > boot phase. They stopped nearly at the end of the progress bar. I'm really not sure what might cause this,

new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found

2001-11-08 Thread Florian Friesdorf
Hello all, I tried to install linux on my new ibook. But I got an error message: ' Welcome to yaboot version 0.9 Wrong partition 1 signature Config file read, 528 bytes Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC (potato) boot: Loading kernel... Wrong partition 1 signature Image not found try again WARNING ! de

Re: Problem with Kernel Installation

2001-11-08 Thread Derrik Pates
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Douglas G. Phillips wrote: > I built my own kernel, and installed it into the /boot directory. I > also copied the kernel into the "Linux Kernels" directory under MacOS. > But when I try to boot the new kernel, the machine hangs without even > trying to boot the kernel (i.e.,

Re: powerpc-utils: still in limbo

2001-11-08 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
On November 8, 2001 09:31 pm, Tom Rini wrote: > > I am running 2.2.19. I tried 2.4.13 but it has trouble with the > > IDE controller (It can't find the IRQ and I haven't had time to > > play with it). > > Hmm, odd.. 2.4.13 from where? Any. I tried Debian kernel-source + kernel-patch as well as

Re: powerpc-utils: still in limbo

2001-11-08 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:16:33PM -0500, Shawn D'Alimonte wrote: > On November 8, 2001 07:32 pm, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 06:12:55PM -0500, Shawn D'Alimonte wrote: > > > I did that on my PReP machine and now it locks up tryign to set the > > > hardware clock. Since I use NTP t

Re: powerpc-utils: still in limbo

2001-11-08 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
On November 8, 2001 07:32 pm, Tom Rini wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 06:12:55PM -0500, Shawn D'Alimonte wrote: > > I did that on my PReP machine and now it locks up tryign to set the > > hardware clock. Since I use NTP to set the time I just took out > > the hwclock script and am now waiting f

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-11-08 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:25:23PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: >Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 2) there is a combo DVD-ROM/CD-RW option available for it! >>(It completely blows my mind that this isn't an option on the TiBook.) > >This is definitely something that pisses me

Re: powerpc-utils: still in limbo

2001-11-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:58:27AM -0800, Laurent de Segur wrote: > As for last night, trying to install testing or unstable powerpc-utils > package on top of a woody freshly updated system still shows the same > conflict error reported for about 10 days. Ethan's workaround of using sid > (unstable

Re: powerpc-utils: still in limbo

2001-11-08 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 06:12:55PM -0500, Shawn D'Alimonte wrote: > I did that on my PReP machine and now it locks up tryign to set the > hardware clock. Since I use NTP to set the time I just took out the > hwclock script and am now waiting for it to fsck. What kernel? Do you have CONFIG_PPC

Re: XFree 86 color palette screwed up.

2001-11-08 Thread Laurent de Segur
Comments below... - Original Message - From: "Colin Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 11:08 AM Subject: Re: XFree 86 color palette screwed up. > Laurent de Segur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This problem came after a fresh install of Woody. XFree ha

Re: powerpc-utils: still in limbo

2001-11-08 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Laurent de Segur wrote: > As for last night, trying to install testing or unstable powerpc-utils > package on top of a woody freshly updated system still shows the same > conflict error reported for about 10 days. Ethan's workaround of using > sid (unstable) doesn't work and ca

Re: powerpc-utils: still in limbo

2001-11-08 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
I did that on my PReP machine and now it locks up tryign to set the hardware clock. Since I use NTP to set the time I just took out the hwclock script and am now waiting for it to fsck. On November 8, 2001 05:56 pm, Laurent de Segur wrote: > Ron- > > That's tempting, and I may do that if the

Re: powerpc-utils: still in limbo

2001-11-08 Thread Laurent de Segur
Ron- That's tempting, and I may do that if the problem still occur in a couple of days. I just wanted to let people on these list who pointed me to sid for a solution that it still didn't simply solved this conflict problem. Thanks for your reply, LdS - Original Message - From: "Ron Golan

Re: powerpc-utils: still in limbo

2001-11-08 Thread Ron Golan
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:58:27AM -0800, Laurent de Segur wrote: > As for last night, trying to install testing or unstable powerpc-utils > package on top of a woody freshly updated system still shows the same > conflict error reported for about 10 days. Ethan's workaround of using sid > (unstable

Problem with Kernel Installation

2001-11-08 Thread Douglas G. Phillips
I built my own kernel, and installed it into the /boot directory. I also copied the kernel into the "Linux Kernels" directory under MacOS. But when I try to boot the new kernel, the machine hangs without even trying to boot the kernel (i.e., it hangs while still in MacOS). The stock kernel works

Re: XFree 86 color palette screwed up.

2001-11-08 Thread Colin Walters
Laurent de Segur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This problem came after a fresh install of Woody. XFree hasn't run > on the system yet. I am in ofonly mode installing all the bits and > pieces. I set up for the first time the XF86Config file to use 16 > bit depth, and restart the machine (I know th

Re: Heaven!

2001-11-08 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Christian Zapf wrote: > The only thing I could not yet figure out is how to change the screen > resolution on my AppleVision 17" monitor. My XF86Config files looks > OK, but fbset seems to know only about "640x480-66". If I can't fix > that on my own, I guess I'll drop a note h

Re: XFree 86 color palette screwed up.

2001-11-08 Thread Laurent de Segur
I'll try that tonight. I've never seen a XF86Config file with 15 used in the bit depth though... LdS - Original Message - From: "Michael Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Laurent de Segur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 11:25 AM Subject: Re: XFree 86 color pal

Re: XFree 86 color palette screwed up.

2001-11-08 Thread Michael Schmitz
> This problem came after a fresh install of Woody. XFree hasn't run on the > system yet. I am in ofonly mode installing all the bits and pieces. I set up > for the first time the XF86Config file to use 16 bit depth, and restart the > machine (I know the XF86 config file works because it's bitwise

XFree 86 color palette screwed up.

2001-11-08 Thread Laurent de Segur
The machine is an iBook 2001 latest rev (600/100). Thanks to Apple marketing for making this confusing. The video card in the machine is identical to the previous model: a R128 M2 rev 2. This problem came after a fresh install of Woody. XFree hasn't run on the system yet. I am in ofonly mode insta

powerpc-utils: still in limbo

2001-11-08 Thread Laurent de Segur
As for last night, trying to install testing or unstable powerpc-utils package on top of a woody freshly updated system still shows the same conflict error reported for about 10 days. Ethan's workaround of using sid (unstable) doesn't work and causes the same problem (conflict happens with '/usr/sh

Heaven!

2001-11-08 Thread Christian Zapf
THANK YOU ALL, DEBIAN/GNU/LINUX DEVELOPERS OF THE WORLD!!! I won't be able to find the right words to express that. I'm a new Debian PowerPC home user. I installed 2.2r4 on a PowerMac 8500/180MP and everything is just working great! I've got some UNIX user experience, but have never administrated

Re: Mapping cmd to alt in X with linux keycodes

2001-11-08 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:21:45PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: >On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 04:05:23PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: >> the trouble is nobody can agree whether `command == meta' is `wrong' >> or not. >> >> given the option key is the one with `alt' engraved on it one would >> presume