Re: Arrgh: maybe pmud-utils was a really bad idea.

2002-05-06 Thread William C Brennan
Bastien, Ben, Chris, Rogério, Will, Michel, Thanks heaps for your collective help! I was able to circumvent the regular bootup code and login (using the init/bin/sh parameter in the yaboot boot prompt). I could then manually mount my disks, hunt down the script running pmud and turn it off. Th

Re: Weird Matrix of New Problems on iBook2

2002-05-06 Thread Orion Buckminster Montoya
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:27:59PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Too bad I've voided my warranty. > > You mean by installing Linux? No, no -- two things: - I put an image behind the translucent apple logo, which necessitated removal of the outer shell from the lid. The problem came up a coupl

Re: Weird Matrix of New Problems on iBook2

2002-05-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:46:58PM -0500, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 09:32:29PM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > > This all points to a hardware problem. > > Ah, I was too afraid of that even to suspect it. Too bad I've voided > my warranty. Since it never happens i

Re: Battery Life for a 2400c

2002-05-06 Thread Philipp Kaeser
Hej Zach, > I'm curious about my 2400 that I just got. It seems that the battery > doesn't charge all the way, or perhaps it's the software that's > reading it (pmud). I haven't done a real thorough test to see how > long the book will run, but that'll come tonight. Anyhow, what I'm > lookin

Re: Weird Matrix of New Problems on iBook2

2002-05-06 Thread Orion Buckminster Montoya
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 09:32:29PM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > This all points to a hardware problem. Ah, I was too afraid of that even to suspect it. Too bad I've voided my warranty. Since it never happens in OS X, I thought it wasn't a HW problem, but this makes sense. Thanks. On Mon, May

Re: Weird Matrix of New Problems on iBook2

2002-05-06 Thread Michel Lanners
On 6 May, this message from Orion Buckminster Montoya echoed through cyberspace: > Running Sid on an iBook2 600MHz/640MB RAM 12": > > 1) Lately when I've been waking the machine from sleep, perhaps more > than 50% of the time it has spun up the HD and sounded like it was > waking up, but > - t

Weird Matrix of New Problems on iBook2

2002-05-06 Thread Orion Buckminster Montoya
Running Sid on an iBook2 600MHz/640MB RAM 12": 1) Lately when I've been waking the machine from sleep, perhaps more than 50% of the time it has spun up the HD and sounded like it was waking up, but - the display remains blank and black - ping/ssh from other machines fails - closing the lid agai

Quotes from the secret societies' "Illuminati Protocols"

2002-05-06 Thread An Anonymous Truth Seeker
Introduction: In the 1800s some documents surfaced called the "Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion". Almost everything these documents proposed to do has happened over the last 100 years. Perhaps, in part, they were made public for purposes of dis

Re: I installed sawfish-gnome and gdm

2002-05-06 Thread Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
Problem is that I can not even Linux single now... the keyboard only works inside gdm and beyond :-( The only apps I can launch are these three: The GIMP Xman Xmag Shouldn’t there be Eterm My current Window Manager is Enlightenment, it will however not switch to Sawfish... I need shell on my

Re: I installed sawfish-gnome and gdm

2002-05-06 Thread Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
Problem is that I can not even Linux single now... the keyboard only works inside gdm and beyond :-( On mandag 6. mai 2002 17:00, Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:20:04PM +0200, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote: >> This trick works: >> >> Have you compiled a new

Re: Video RAM detection for X

2002-05-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 15:40, Steven Tomcavage wrote: > > I tried to install a 2.4 kernel, but I ran into some keyboard issues. > I know the keymap has been changed in woody to use Linux keycodes, but > I was running woody previously with the 2.2 kernel. > > I was also already using Linux keycodes

Re: I installed sawfish-gnome and gdm

2002-05-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:20:04PM +0200, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote: > This trick works: > > Have you compiled a new kernel, or upgraded from stable to woody? > > I have this in my yaboot.conf to avoid the problem > > image=/vmlinux > label=Linux > append = "keyboard_sends_l

Re: Video RAM detection for X

2002-05-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:40:25AM -0700, Steven Tomcavage wrote: > --- Michel D?nzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 14:54, Steven Tomcavage wrote: > > > I am having trouble getting my PowerMac 6360 to run X > > on > > > Woody with anything greater than 8 bit color depth. > >

Re: I installed sawfish-gnome and gdm

2002-05-06 Thread Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
This trick works: Have you compiled a new kernel, or upgraded from stable to woody? I have this in my yaboot.conf to avoid the problem image=/vmlinux label=Linux append = "keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 hdc=ide-scsi" read-only However after I log in, I’m not capable of

Re: Video RAM detection for X

2002-05-06 Thread Steven Tomcavage
--- Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 14:54, Steven Tomcavage wrote: > > I am having trouble getting my PowerMac 6360 to run X > on > > Woody with anything greater than 8 bit color depth. > This > > was fine when I was setting up the system, but now it > is > > limit

Re: minicom + usb-serial

2002-05-06 Thread Siggi Langauf
Hi, On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, nik gaffney wrote: > has anyone managed to use minicom to communicate with a serial device, using > a mac usb port? Yup, works nicely with my iBook. > ive setup usb-serial and some other kernel modules, mknod'ed a /dev/ttyUSB0, > but minicom doesnt seem to think the

Re: iMAC problem: ATI Rage128 Pro TR (AGP) and XFree 4.1.0

2002-05-06 Thread eim
On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 19:09, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 05:22:41PM +0200, eim wrote: > > Well folks, > > > > I've hacked for some time on the XF-4 config file > > and finaly configured the "fbdev", in the right way. > > > > The solution for my problem was to setup the > > righ