Re: Why is quik statically linked?

2002-04-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 15 2002, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > I've been happily using quik for some time, so I'd like to adopt the > Debian package. Can anybody give me a reason why the quik binary > should be statically linked? Would a dynamically linked quik even work at all? I'd guess "no", since L

Re: Install on a PowerMacintosh 7200/90

2002-04-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 15 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > Right. You can't, unless you hook up another machine. It's sending > and receiving over the modem port. Nice to hear it worked well in > spite of that. The potato version does _not_ work so well, so I'd > advise installing woody. If another data poi

Re: My own comments re: debian 3.0 powerpc release

2002-04-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 15 2002, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > As long as I stick to stuff on the mirror sites, apt-get works fine. In > the case I was thinking of, I couldn't get beyond the dependencies in > Apache 2.0. I read the man pages, but I'll have to read up on the apt-get > web page. But Apache 2.0 m

Re: Kernel boot arguments

2002-04-15 Thread Antoine Delvaux
> Yes! Add 'noaccel' to your arguement list (without quotes, of > course...) Thanks for your help... unfortunately it didn't work. But the following command line worked : video=controlfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The box is a 7500 wit 4Mb VRAM on the motherboard. Antoine. >> I'm running Debian testin

Re: Install on a PowerMacintosh 7200/90

2002-04-15 Thread eric . s . cote
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:04:15AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:11:56PM +0300, Janne Karjanlahti wrote: > > Hello! > > > > Only real problem is that because that version of Open Firmware doesn't > > drive display, I have never actually seen quik to boot, only blank >

Re: PowerBook 520c

2002-04-15 Thread Erik C.J. Laan
Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 09:27:48AM +0100, Sacred Eagle wrote: > > Hello all! > > I just received an old Mac PowerBook 520c and I wonder if it is at all > > possible to install Debian on it? > > It doesn't have a CD device so have to make a floppy install. I've > > downloade

Re: capslock fix for powerbooks

2002-04-15 Thread Josh Huber
Josh Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You can try checking if your keyboard generates the raw >> 0xff keycode during the "missing" caps lock key up/down events. The >> patch needs this for it to work. In drivers/macintosh/adb.c:adb_input(), >> set "dump_adb_input" to 1 and watch your

Re: Why is quik statically linked?

2002-04-15 Thread Eric Deveaud
On 15 Apr 2002, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > I've been happily using quik for some time, so I'd like to adopt the > Debian package. Can anybody give me a reason why the quik binary > should be statically linked? just an hypothesis and a guess. hyp: quik allow single boot => minimalistic environmen

Re: My own comments re: debian 3.0 powerpc release

2002-04-15 Thread Lars D. Noodén
Chris, Thanks for the detailed response. > Could you suggest a change to the install manual (link in my .sig) which > could make this more clear? (Assuming the cd based install worked and your > ethernet card works in Linux now). I'll try, but I don't know squat about hardware. The ethernet ca

Re: capslock fix for powerbooks

2002-04-15 Thread Josh Huber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregorio Gervasio Jr.) writes: > CONFIG_INPUT_ADBHID=y > CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES=y > > but run with: > > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes > > set to 1 I have CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES disabled, and have for quite some time. I'll check to see if my keyboard gener

Why is quik statically linked?

2002-04-15 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, I've been happily using quik for some time, so I'd like to adopt the Debian package. Can anybody give me a reason why the quik binary should be statically linked? Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj! -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Install on a PowerMacintosh 7200/90

2002-04-15 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:11:56PM +0300, Janne Karjanlahti wrote: > Hello! > > I installed Debian Woody to my PowerMac 7200/90 just yesterday. I booted > from boot-floppy, and then switched root-floppy to disk drive. After > that I complete normal network (http) install. Everything simple works

prep and boot-floppies (was bugid 141769)

2002-04-15 Thread ronald . iemenschot
Adam, here are the answers on your questions and some extra info. > Machine 1 > Bull Estrella 200 (Motorala Powerstack with utah board) > PREP method PPCBUG firmware. > PowerPC with 601 ? a 100 MHZ processor Is this the machine you were using for the woody attempts? -->Yes, this is the machine

Re: Kernel boot arguments

2002-04-15 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes! Add 'noaccel' to your arguement list (without quotes, of course...) Russell On Monday 15 April 2002 05:04 am, Antoine Delvaux wrote: > Hello all, > > > I'm running Debian testing and since the last kernel upgrade (2.4.18) > from the official di

Re: simple question: which is 'compose' key on macintosh?

2002-04-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 09:25, Jean-Philippe FASSINO wrote: > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> xmodmap -pk|grep Multi_key ~ > > 115 0xffe7 (Meta_L) 0xff20 (Multi_key) > > > > So it's shift-apple/cmd. > > > > Oh, and while we're at it, I notic

Re: Multiple Swap Partitions? Re: Sudden loss of keyboard and mouse

2002-04-15 Thread Clive Menzies
At 8:16 pm -0700 14/4/02, Anthony Lau wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 01:30:59PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: It's very hard to troubleshoot seemingly random occurrences. If you don't think it's related to anything you're doing at the time, maybe you could start disabling daemons to see if one

Re: A very newbie question

2002-04-15 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Carlo You could try cheeplinux.com - UK based but sell CD sets with a seemingly international flavour. Regards Clive At 12:57 pm +0200 13/4/02, Carlo Cosolo wrote: At 11:42 +0100 13-04-2002, Gareth Bowker wrote: Take a look at http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/#it for a list of Italian C

Re: Installation-Problem (no harddisk found)

2002-04-15 Thread Liam Bedford
On 14 Apr 2002 17:58:45 +0200 Michel D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> blurted in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 16:43, Edd Dumbill wrote: > > * keymaps -- it took me some time to get the keymap I wanted for my > > UK-spec iBook (particularly I want the pound-sign and Euro-sign printed >

Re: Marc Boucher HCF modem drivers

2002-04-15 Thread benh
>I notice that he keeps releasing updates (http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/). >Is there any news on how support for the iBook 600 internal modem support >is coming along? I won't go into how I feel about Apple putting this damn >modem in here in the first place, but how will I be able to tell from

Re: Install on a PowerMacintosh 7200/90

2002-04-15 Thread Janne Karjanlahti
Hello! I installed Debian Woody to my PowerMac 7200/90 just yesterday. I booted from boot-floppy, and then switched root-floppy to disk drive. After that I complete normal network (http) install. Everything simple works out of box... wow! Before that I tried several other distributions, but n

Kernel boot arguments

2002-04-15 Thread Antoine Delvaux
Hello all, I'm running Debian testing and since the last kernel upgrade (2.4.18) from the official distribution, it seems the boot arguments are no longer the same or not working anymore. The boot command I was using is the following : root=/dev/sda9 video=controlfb:vmode:16,cmode:24 But I can

MESH testers

2002-04-15 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Can people who used to have problems with the MESH SCSI controller (especially problem probing devices during boot or problems when a bus reset occurs) try my current rsync ? I reworked the reset code to properly match what the "new" SCSI layer expects, and added a recovery delay after the initial

Re: PCMCIA && Firewire

2002-04-15 Thread Uwe Steinmann
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 05:55:05PM +0200, Fritz Wettstein wrote: > After weeks of trying I have the actual kernel linux-2.4-benh > (2.4.19-pre6-benh) > up und running on a titanium powerbook using the unofficial woody > distribution. > > I'm in trouble now because I'm unable to backup the box ei

Re: Install on a PowerMacintosh 7200/90

2002-04-15 Thread Thomas Peri
Follow the instructions on the Debian web site for installation: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/install or http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/powerpc/install I've successfully installed Linux on a 7200/90 in the past, though it wasn't Debian. Setting it up to boot without Bo

Install on a PowerMacintosh 7200/90

2002-04-15 Thread Jean-Francois Gobin
Hello all, I've given up for the E20 IBM and reinstalled AiX on it. Let's wait for next release of debian. Anyway, I found another worthy computer : PowerMacintosh 7200/90. Does anyone know how to install linux on it and if I really need that stupid little MacOS partition on the disk. Thanks f

Wireless scheme switching (was Re: Re: Installation-Problem (no harddisk found))

2002-04-15 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 16:58, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 16:43, Edd Dumbill wrote: > > > > * wireless networking -- under PCMCIA you can make schemes so you can > > easily switch been home and work. I found no easy way of doing this yet > > with the airport card. Has anybody wri

Re: simple question: which is 'compose' key on macintosh?

2002-04-15 Thread Jean-Philippe FASSINO
Michel Dänzer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> xmodmap -pk|grep Multi_key ~ 115 0xffe7 (Meta_L) 0xff20 (Multi_key) So it's shift-apple/cmd. Oh, and while we're at it, I noticed this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> xmodmap -pk|grep Mode_switch

Re: PCMCIA && Firewire

2002-04-15 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 18:55, Fritz Wettstein wrote: The Firewire issue: How do I mount a Firewire disk? Is the Orange Micro Firewire to SCSI converter of any use on my configuration? I have a "Smartdisk" firewire drive that works great on my tibook. Here's how I do it (usual DONT