Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

2002-01-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 22:11, Chris Tillman wrote: > You're going to uncomment the Makefile for the next release? Already done. > > This would be a good idea. Can anyone think of a good way to implement > > it? We could traverse the partition table and look for file systems > > that are Apple_H

Re: xserver segfaults

2002-01-16 Thread Russell Hires
http://v.favrenicolin.free.fr/linuxppc/ is where you want to go to get some information about voodoo3 and linux... Russell On Wednesday 16 January 2002 10:59 am, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 01:19, Ron Farrer wrote: > > I've been trying to get X working on my PM9600 + G4 upgrade

Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

2002-01-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:59:29AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 01:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You have to point the kernel/modules install to > > http://penguinppc.org/~walters/debian/installer instead of > > http.us.debian.org. After that the standard http.us.debian.o

Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

2002-01-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:09:58AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 08:04:19PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > The ibook2 will be very unhappy with potato's kernel. We are > > developing an installer for newer powermacs such as this. If you'd > > like to try it out, >

Re: Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration

2002-01-16 Thread Russell Hires
> I updated from sid on my powermac 8500 a couple days ago. I had two > problems with the configuration of an updated package, I'm pretty sure > it was the xserver-xfree86 package. I have 4.1.0-13 now (PowerPC). > > I'm reporting this to the Debian-PowerPC list because the first problem > was spe

issues with external CRT/dual USB ibook

2002-01-16 Thread Stefan Werner
Hi, I just tried using an external CRT on my 600MHz dual USB iBook, using the latest benh kernel, aty128fb and m3mirror. I made following observations: When I boot the iBook with the screen connected, turn the LCD off and switch then to modes other than 1024x768-xx, it seems to update only

Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration

2002-01-16 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I updated from sid on my powermac 8500 a couple days ago. I had two problems with the configuration of an updated package, I'm pretty sure it was the xserver-xfree86 package. I have 4.1.0-13 now (PowerPC). I'm reporting this to the Debian-PowerPC list because the first problem was specific to ma

Re: XFree86 4.1.0.1 problems on Tangerine iMac DV

2002-01-16 Thread Adam Goode
Oops, I'm dumb. The reason my XF86Config-4 was changed was because of debconf, and the reason that my display was working with the modelines was that I had not yet restarted X! I thought that debconf changed things long time ago, but I guess I've been logged in for longer than that... Oh well.

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Re: XFree86 4.1.0.1 problems on Tangerine iMac DV

2002-01-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 17:03, Adam Goode wrote: > Well, the iMac is somewhat unusual, because for the 3 resolutions > supported, only one refresh rate is allowed. These refresh rates > are a bit higher than you find normally. > > Notice: > > (**) R128(0): Mode "1024x768": 78.5 MHz, 59.8 kHz, 74.8

Re: Fix for german keymaps in woody on the ibook2

2002-01-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 18:04, Siggi Langauf wrote: > > On 16 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > [...] > > That's not written in stone. ;) Anyway, I checked and the enter key > > You're right, but I'm lazy ;) > > > indeed produces keycode 96 in console here. Its default symbol in X is > > KP_Ente

ibook2 first rev modem

2002-01-16 Thread Bastien Nocera
Hi, I've finally been able to get the iBook dual-USB's i2c modem to work and dialup to my ISP. The problem lies in the modem's firmware. If you haven't updated the modem firmware, the modem won't be able to connect at v.90 for some ISPs. (I verified by dialling up from MacOS X, it didn't work for

Re: Fix for german keymaps in woody on the ibook2

2002-01-16 Thread Siggi Langauf
Hi again, On 16 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: [...] > That's not written in stone. ;) Anyway, I checked and the enter key You're right, but I'm lazy ;) > indeed produces keycode 96 in console here. Its default symbol in X is > KP_Enter, sounds like a good victim, no? :) Yes, but I already sac

Re: hfsplus howto?

2002-01-16 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 06:54, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Alan Pater wrote: > > >I am trying to read some files from the os X partition and found the > >hfsplus package. But how to I use it? > > > >I can type hpmount /dev/hda9 without an error, but then what? Where is > >it mounted? In which folder?

Re: XFree86 4.1.0.1 problems on Tangerine iMac DV

2002-01-16 Thread Adam Goode
Well, the iMac is somewhat unusual, because for the 3 resolutions supported, only one refresh rate is allowed. These refresh rates are a bit higher than you find normally. Notice: (**) R128(0): Mode "1024x768": 78.5 MHz, 59.8 kHz, 74.8 Hz (II) R128(0): Modeline "1024x768" 78.50 1024 1033 1129

R&D framework funding

2002-01-16 Thread A pocketfull of euros
See www.apocketfullofeuros.com for an unofficial guide to EU R&D framework funding

Re: xserver segfaults

2002-01-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 01:19, Ron Farrer wrote: > > I've been trying to get X working on my PM9600 + G4 upgrade + voodoo3 > 3000 without much sucess. While I'm no expert (far from it) it looks to > me like the xserver is segfaulting. This analysis is correct, but unfortunately too generic. :) >

Re: hfsplus howto?

2002-01-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Bastien Nocera wrote: On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 14:54, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Alan Pater wrote: I am trying to read some files from the os X partition and found the hfsplus package. But how to I use it? I can type hpmount /dev/hda9 without an error, but then what? Where is it mounted? In whi

Re: 2.4.17 bug

2002-01-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 14:26, Russell Hires wrote: > First of all, thanks to xmon, I'm still running. xmon doesn't help anything in that regard. If it's still running, that just means it was an oops, not a panic. You should reboot ASAP nevertheless because kernel structures may be corrupted. > S

Re: hfsplus howto?

2002-01-16 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 14:54, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Alan Pater wrote: > > >I am trying to read some files from the os X partition and found the > >hfsplus package. But how to I use it? > > > >I can type hpmount /dev/hda9 without an error, but then what? Where is > >it mounted? In which folder?

Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

2002-01-16 Thread erik
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:59:29AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 01:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So far the only complaints were the lack of a chance to tell yaboot to > > also boot Mac OS X, > > This would be a good idea. Can anyone think of a good way to implement > i

Re: hfsplus howto?

2002-01-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Alan Pater wrote: I am trying to read some files from the os X partition and found the hfsplus package. But how to I use it? I can type hpmount /dev/hda9 without an error, but then what? Where is it mounted? In which folder? Speaking of hfs(+), has anyone tried to make gnome-vfs or kioslave

Re: XFree86 4.1.0.1 problems on Tangerine iMac DV

2002-01-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 16:40, Ryan Shaw wrote: > I tried Modes "current" and it still didn't work. Bummer, what happened? > Fortunately I found Ryan Gordon's XF86Config-4 file, > which had mode lines he had found to work with the > iMac. Once I had manually set the mode lines, > everything worked

Re: XFree86 4.1.0.1 problems on Tangerine iMac DV

2002-01-16 Thread Ryan Shaw
I tried Modes "current" and it still didn't work. Fortunately I found Ryan Gordon's XF86Config-4 file, which had mode lines he had found to work with the iMac. Once I had manually set the mode lines, everything worked beautifully. I didn't even know you still could set the mode lines manually in

Re: Fix for german keymaps in woody on the ibook2

2002-01-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 14:14, Siggi Langauf wrote: > On 16 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 01:22, Siggi Langauf wrote: > > > On 16 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > > > That's a bad idea, as Mode_switch should really be one key ("\" is > > > > > produced by Shif

Re: Fix for german keymaps in woody on the ibook2

2002-01-16 Thread Siggi Langauf
On 16 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 01:22, Siggi Langauf wrote: > > On 16 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > That's a bad idea, as Mode_switch should really be one key ("\" is > > > > produced by Shift+Mode_switch+7, for example) > > > > > > I see, but the questi

Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

2002-01-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 01:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just finished using this to get woody up and running on my ibook2. > worked great. It even got X running properly (which Yellow Dog didn't > without some tweaking). I used fbdev, btw. Wonderful! This is good to hear. I hope you don't mi

Re: Fix for german keymaps in woody on the ibook2

2002-01-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 21:07, Lukas Geyer wrote: > > I do not know how to turn this choice (Meta or AltGr on one or two keys > resp.) into a configurable option via xkb, but in my opinion this would be > the right solution. See /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/{group,alt} More ideas for configuration options

Re: hfsplus howto?

2002-01-16 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I can type hpmount /dev/hda9 without an error, but then what? Where is > it mounted? In which folder? It isn't mounted. Use hdir and hcopy to use it. Michael

Re: Fix for german keymaps in woody on the ibook2

2002-01-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 09:26, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > Siggi Langauf writes: > > > Excuse my ignorance, but I've never used a Compose key, so what's it > > good for? > > > Uh, and how do you get umlauts there? > > Hehe. The Compose key is used for getting Umlaute, and all those > other specia

Re: Fix for german keymaps in woody on the ibook2

2002-01-16 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Siggi Langauf writes: > Excuse my ignorance, but I've never used a Compose key, so what's it > good for? > Uh, and how do you get umlauts there? Hehe. The Compose key is used for getting Umlaute, and all those other special characters from ISO-8859 as well. Pressing first the Compose key,

Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

2002-01-16 Thread erik
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 08:04:19PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > The ibook2 will be very unhappy with potato's kernel. We are > developing an installer for newer powermacs such as this. If you'd > like to try it out, > > http://penguinppc.org/~walters/debian/installer/new-powermac > > Also Br