Re: Problems booting for the first time, Titanium PowerBook

2002-03-15 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 03:56:22AM +0100, Dimitris Dimitriadis wrote: > Hopefully I don't iterate things that have been said already (there is a > very similar recent thread, but it didn't explicitly say what to do). > > I've installed 2.2.r5 from the net, following the appropriate > instruction

Re: avifile on PPC

2002-03-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 15 2002, Derrik Pates wrote: > Does it actually have any codecs of its own? More or less. It uses the same codecs from ffmpeg that xine SEEMS to use and which mplayer uses for decoding some avi files (the "interesting" ones), in a platform independent way. AF

Re: which boot loader to use

2002-03-15 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 06:10:16PM -0500, Guy Durand wrote: > for a Powercenter 120 machine? > I would like to know which boot loader I can use for my Powercenter > machine. PowerCenter 120 is an oldWorld powermac. You can use quik after you have a complete installation, or you can use BootX. You

Problems booting for the first time, Titanium PowerBook

2002-03-15 Thread Dimitris Dimitriadis
Hopefully I don't iterate things that have been said already (there is a very similar recent thread, but it didn't explicitly say what to do). I've installed 2.2.r5 from the net, following the appropriate instructions. In order to be albe to install to begin with, I remember adding 'novideo' t

Problems booting for the first time, Titanium PowerBook

2002-03-15 Thread Dimitris Dimitriadis
Hopefully I don't iterate things that have been said already. I've installed 2.2.r5 from the net, following the appropriate instructions. In order to be albe to install to begin with, I remember adding 'novideo' to yaboot.conf in the installation files (I downoladed the floppy images). I the

Re: avifile on PPC

2002-03-15 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 14:13, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Dear people, > > Well, it seems that the avifile package on testing can be > compiled on powerpc (just tried it), but it is not currently > being built for some reason. > > What would be needed for it to be avail

Mach Carrier Zif from XLR8

2002-03-15 Thread Guy Durand
Does anyone have experience with debian on an oldworld mac with a Mach Carrier upgrade? If so could we share info? Would you tell me of the problems you encountered? All help would be greatly appreciated and very much needed. I have a powercenter 120 already running woody. Badiane

which boot loader to use

2002-03-15 Thread Guy Durand
for a Powercenter 120 machine? I would like to know which boot loader I can use for my Powercenter machine. thanks in advance. Badiane

Re: Re : usbmouse and docs and please more docs...

2002-03-15 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:44:40AM +0100, Renato Barrios wrote: > Hi Chris, > > > -- > >De?: "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >? : debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > >Objet?: Re: usbmouse and docs > >Date?: Ven 15 mars 2002 3:24 > > > > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:43:57PM +0100, Ren

Re: can't dual boot

2002-03-15 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:04:31PM -0500, Russell Hires wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello all, > > I've just gotten woody installed, and I boot fine into Linux using yaboot, > but when I try to boot into the MacOS, I can't. I've got an iMac 333 mhz. > Actually,

serial ports not working

2002-03-15 Thread Ron Farrer
hello, My PM9600s serial ports are detected at boot time by the kernel as ttyS00 and ttyS01. However these devices don't exist in /dev (maybe I just need to create them?) If I type something like "echo test > /dev/ttyS1" the printer status light will blink but nothing ever gets printed. Anyone kn

Re: fbset problem or how to change the res?

2002-03-15 Thread Ron Farrer
Geert Uytterhoeven ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Pass the video mode you want as a parameter to the kernel, cfr. > linux/Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. Ok, that worked. I added "video=tdfx:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to the kernel commands at boot time. So I'm back in a usable X. The console is still hosed a

Re: avifile on PPC

2002-03-15 Thread David Schleef
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:13:23AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Well, it seems that the avifile package on testing can be > compiled on powerpc (just tried it), but it is not currently > being built for some reason. It calls make with -j, and the avifile Makefiles can't handle t

Re: Backspace key -- ADB keyboard

2002-03-15 Thread Mark Burgess
At 11:46 AM -0300 3/15/02, Rogério Brito wrote: On Mar 13 2002, Mark Burgess wrote: > Hm, true. The backspace works fine in the console. OTOH it also works > fine in vi through xterm... it just seems to be busted in bash > through xterm. Do you have anything strange in your ~/.inputrc

Re: USB Mouse recommendation for iBook? (was: Re: usbmouse and docs)

2002-03-15 Thread Viral Shah
> I would like to control this delay (in fact, I would like it > to instantly change). > > Is there anybody here that knows if this a limitation of the > ADB bus (which I read is quite slow)? Or is it controllable > via software? > > I hope benh reads this e-ma

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

2002-03-15 Thread Georg Koss
Hello again! First of all thanks for all the replies and help :-)) On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:42:38AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > mac-usb-us-keycodes on the images-1.44/* files - so I've no at, pipe > > > ... > > [...] > > > > Strange. When I followed these instructions, the woody boot-flo

Re: avifile on PPC

2002-03-15 Thread Derrik Pates
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:13:23AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > Well, it seems that the avifile package on testing can be > compiled on powerpc (just tried it), but it is not currently > being built for some reason. Does it actually have any codecs of its own? I was of the under

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

2002-03-15 Thread Viral Shah
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:17:10PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Mar 15 2002, Viral Shah wrote: > > So, I guess > > > > hdparm -d1 -u1 /dev/hda > > hdparm -d1 -u1 /dev/cdrom > > > > to enable dma and irq unmasking for hd and cdrom are required.. > > Yes. And the strange thing is that so

Re: USB Mouse recommendation for iBook? (was: Re: usbmouse and docs)

2002-03-15 Thread Viral Shah
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:45:40PM +0100, Siggi Langauf wrote: > Hmmm, what exactly is unsatisfactory? Have you tried "trackpad lock" as > well? > The only thing I find annoying from time to time is the trackpad's > over-sensitivity which often makes me tap anywhere on the screen while > typing...

Re: USB Mouse recommendation for iBook? (was: Re: usbmouse and docs)

2002-03-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 15 2002, Siggi Langauf wrote: > Hmmm, I guess that every USB mouse wil work fine. Personally, I'm > using an optical Wheel mouse by Logitech, which is nice to use on > "strange" surfaces like Sofas or wooden tables. But it has already > failed on a plasic mouse pad. Humm... :-) Well

Re: avifile on PPC

2002-03-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 15 2002, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > Did avifile run ok? I haven't tried it yet, but am compiling it > now. Well, as far as I tried, it worked quite well (for me at least). > I suppose if it works, it probably should be rescheduled for > autobuild. I could always upl

Re: avifile on PPC

2002-03-15 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, [iso-8859-1] Rogério Brito wrote: > Well, it seems that the avifile package on testing can be > compiled on powerpc (just tried it), but it is not currently > being built for some reason. Did avifile run ok? I haven't tried it yet, but am compiling it now.

Re: boot-floppies 3.0.21 for testing

2002-03-15 Thread Matt Kraai
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:01:48AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > John Beppu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [ date ] 2002/03/14 | Thursday | 11:57 AM > > [ author ] Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > I have uploaded sparc and powerpc builds of boot-floppies 3.0.21 for > > > testing

Re: boot-floppies 3.0.21 for testing

2002-03-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
John Beppu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ date ] 2002/03/14 | Thursday | 11:57 AM > [ author ] Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I have uploaded sparc and powerpc builds of boot-floppies 3.0.21 for > > testing at: > > http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/ > > Hi, >

Re: modem in new TiPB and iBooks ?

2002-03-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 15 2002, Bastien Nocera wrote: > http://lwn.net/2002/0314/a/hcf.php3 Is that the modem of the newer iBooks? []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogério Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ =-=-=-=

Re: Backspace key -- ADB keyboard

2002-03-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 13 2002, Mark Burgess wrote: > Hm, true. The backspace works fine in the console. OTOH it also works > fine in vi through xterm... it just seems to be busted in bash > through xterm. Do you have anything strange in your ~/.inputrc? []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: USB Mouse recommendation for iBook? (was: Re: usbmouse and docs)

2002-03-15 Thread Siggi Langauf
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Rogério Brito wrote: [...] > I have a question here: what would a recommended USB mouse be > for use with an iBook? Hmmm, I guess that every USB mouse wil work fine. Personally, I'm using an optical Wheel mouse by Logitech, which is nice to use on "strange" surfac

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

2002-03-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 14 2002, Viral Shah wrote: > The only reason to keep OS X around is to be able to watch DVDs. The > 500 MHz ibook falls just a little bit short of DVD playback in > software. Maybe the 600 MHz should be ok. No, playing DVDs is not OK, at least not with my 600MHz combo iBook

Re : X does not start

2002-03-15 Thread Renato Barrios
Hi, >>(**) Configured Mouse : Protocol : "PS/2" >>(**) Configured Mouse : Core Pointer >>(EE) xf86OpenSerial : Cannot open device /dev/psaux Try /dev/usbmouse or /dev/mouse -> usbmouse and in XF86Config Protocol "IMPS/2" >>(**) Generic Mouse : protocol : "ImPS/2" See also the french HOWTO ;) Renato

USB Mouse recommendation for iBook? (was: Re: usbmouse and docs)

2002-03-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 14 2002, Renato Barrios wrote: > In an iMac and an usb mouse I can run debian with gpm in the > console. Hi there, All. I have a question here: what would a recommended USB mouse be for use with an iBook? It seems that the trackpad of this notebook is way i

avifile on PPC

2002-03-15 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear people, Well, it seems that the avifile package on testing can be compiled on powerpc (just tried it), but it is not currently being built for some reason. What would be needed for it to be available in testing as a binary package? Ac

Re: X does not start

2002-03-15 Thread Ben Marsh
What is the mouse? USB? My iMac allows only usb mouse so I assume your mouse is USB. If so I beleive that you have to make sure that the relevant kernel modules are loaded (input.o and mousedev.o I beleive [it has been a while since my iMac ran Linux]) and the path to the dev file in this ins

Re: X does not start

2002-03-15 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm in the same boat. Except I know that when you see (EE) in your log, that means bad things, and explains why X won't start. Try changing the mouse to /dev/input/mice and see if that makes a difference. HTH Russell On Friday 15 March 2002 07:39

X does not start

2002-03-15 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Hello, I recently installed woody (by ftp) on a first-generation iMac (code : 406, RAM : 32 MB); everything went fine, except that when typing "startx", or "startx kde", or "startx gnome", the system cannot do it. At the first start after installation, it proposed to fix the problem by configuri

Re:Re: Problems installing quik on Powermac 7200/90

2002-03-15 Thread Mark Baumann
>> > >> > nvsetenv boot-file Linux <-- the name of the label in quik.conf >> > >> This worked. It boots (2 beeps) but only one time if I want to reboot it, >> its dead again (1 beep) >Is the value getting changed between boots? You can check the values with >nvsetenv without any argumen

Re : usbmouse and docs and please more docs...

2002-03-15 Thread Renato Barrios
Hi Chris, -- >De : "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >À : debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org >Objet : Re: usbmouse and docs >Date : Ven 15 mars 2002 3:24 > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:43:57PM +0100, Renato Barrios wrote: >> Hi, >> In an iMac and an usb mouse I can run debian with gpm in

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

2002-03-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2002-03-15 at 09:03, Siggi Langauf wrote: > On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Georg Koss wrote: > > [...] > > > Branden's instructions on http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html ? > > > > I read the page indeed. > > > > I've one major and one minor problem with it. > > > > I've a G4 (Woody3.0)

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

2002-03-15 Thread Siggi Langauf
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Georg Koss wrote: [...] > > Branden's instructions on http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html ? > > I read the page indeed. > > I've one major and one minor problem with it. > > I've a G4 (Woody3.0) with a 56k dialup as only working box. > On the ibook2 (?) I was able

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

2002-03-15 Thread Siggi Langauf
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Viral Shah wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:46:53PM +0100, Siggi Langauf wrote: > > Oh, and if you want to keep OS X, do _not_ install it on an UFS > > partition; it would be terribly slow then... > > Oh, that is counter-intuitive ! > I thought using UFS might have been be

Re: Palm Sync on a Pismo (irda)

2002-03-15 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Michel Lanners writes: > The 6210 includes a real modem (unlike the 61x0 phones), so you can > attack it with a terminal emulation (I've got PPP running across OK). Do you remember any of the settings? If I just attach to the ircomm0 device, the program starts up, irdaping stops working, an