Re: Netbooting, Part II

2002-05-15 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is part of the continuing saga of attempting to netboot one iMac from another. Actually, I got it to boot, but now I've got problems with mounting the / directory on the client. (I want to have the client be a diskless client) I've got both cl

Re: eth0 link state change

2002-05-15 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Nicolas Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Check the port on your laptop. I somehow managed to compress the > pin on my ethernet port down enough so that they only make > intermitant contact at best. A bit of fiddling with a paper clip > and how they're back in position making good contact.

Re: iBook and playing DVDs

2002-05-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 00:51, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > >> That is you should have at least 2 buffers so you can asynchronously > >> DMA a frame while decoding the next frame. It makes only sense to busy > >> loop on the DMA if you are decoding faster than what you display. If this > >> i

Re: iBook and playing DVDs

2002-05-15 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >> That is you should have at least 2 buffers so you can asynchronously >> DMA a frame while decoding the next frame. It makes only sense to busy >> loop on the DMA if you are decoding faster than what you display. If this >> is not the case, then you are just throwing CPU cycles by the window.

Re: iBook and playing DVDs

2002-05-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 13:33, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >Right, but with a catch: the DMA transfer must complete before the image can > >displayed. Right now, this is ensured by waiting for the DMA engine to go > >idle, > >which is basically implemented as a busy loop in the DRM. So while the

Re: iBook and playing DVDs

2002-05-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 11:02, Adrian Cox wrote: > On 15 May 2002 00:05:59 +0200 > Michel D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 22:04, Rogério Brito wrote: > > > On May 12 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > > > Well, the actual movies shouldn't be interlaced. > > > > > >

X weirdness

2002-05-15 Thread Koos van den Hout
I installed woody on a powerbook/G3 laptop (now booting ;) and the next thing I'd really like to have working is X. The funny thing is that X starts and xterms run, but I don't see anything. Switching back to a text console and then to vc7 (where X lives) gives the funny effect that the cursor ge

Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-15 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
German, Actually, it is a very good question. It took me a while to figure out. However, you may not have seen the problem I am describing below. I set up an RS/6000 43P-150 running SuSE 7.3 as my BOOTP/tftp server: elas27:~ # cat /etc/bootptab elas23:\ ht=ethernet:\ ha=000629040055:\ bf=zImage.

Re: Path is not set after installation

2002-05-15 Thread Gerd Kautzmann
Hallo Chris Am 11-Mai-02 schrieb Chris Tillman: > CT> Well, in my experience DSL was made for Linux; it looks like a LAN. CT> So, nothing special needed. CT> CT> For your man problem, have you tried apt-get install manpages? CT> CT>> What do you think, is it worth to update to a new distributi

Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-15 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
El mié, 15-05-2002 a las 12:53, Rolf Brudeseth escribió: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:41:54PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: > >> I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170 > >> workstation. > >> > >> I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org

Re: iBook and playing DVDs

2002-05-15 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>Right, but with a catch: the DMA transfer must complete before the image can >displayed. Right now, this is ensured by waiting for the DMA engine to go >idle, >which is basically implemented as a busy loop in the DRM. So while the >transfer >will be faster than with plain memcpy, a lot of CPU cycl

Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-15 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:41:54PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: >> I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170 >> workstation. >> >> I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org, >> while the root image is from Debian. I used the default power

Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-15 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
German, Sorry, your correct. I have /images-1.44/ missing from the link. I was working way to late. http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/images-1.44/root.bin Rolf -- Rolf Brudeseth pSeries System Engineering & Integration, IBM Enterprise Systems Group Austin,

Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-15 Thread Josh Huber
German Poo Caaman~o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > El mar, 14-05-2002 a las 14:41, Rolf Brudeseth escribió: >> I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170 >> workstation. >> >> I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org, >> while the root im

Re: eth0 link state change

2002-05-15 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:25:40AM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > Hey All, > > For about a week now my logcheck emails have been flooded with the > following: > > May 15 07:05:16 amadeus kernel: eth0:Link down ! > May 15 07:05:16 amadeus kernel: eth0: Link state change, phy_status: 0x7809

Re: iBook and playing DVDs

2002-05-15 Thread Josh Huber
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sounds like bad encodings. The original movies as shown in theaters > obviously aren't interlaced so if a DVD is that's purely artificial. Yes, most DVDs are interlaced. This is why you need a progressive scan DVD player (which performs de-interlacing)

Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-15 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
El mar, 14-05-2002 a las 14:41, Rolf Brudeseth escribió: > I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170 > workstation. > > I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org, > while the root image is from Debian. I used the default power3 config fil

Re: base system woes on ibook2 (not 12 hours old)

2002-05-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 15 2002, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > you won't succeed, the iboo2 does not detect the hdd in newer > hardware realeases when a cd is in the drive while booting the > kernel... Netinstall is the saver way... Perhaps his would work? I do know that mine works (iBook 2, 600MHz, co

eth0 link state change

2002-05-15 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All, For about a week now my logcheck emails have been flooded with the following: May 15 07:05:16 amadeus kernel: eth0:Link down ! May 15 07:05:16 amadeus kernel: eth0: Link state change, phy_status: 0x7809 May 15 07:05:18 amadeus kernel: eth0:Full Duplex: 0, Speed: 100 May 15 07:05

Re: base system woes on ibook2 (not 12 hours old)

2002-05-15 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 06:05:11AM -0400, K Clark wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:28:14PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:31:16AM -0400, K Clark wrote: > > > > > > first caveat, this is my initial foray into mac hardware, w/exp. on i386 > > > w/linux. > > > > > > ib

Re: boot-device variable for powerbook G3

2002-05-15 Thread Koos van den Hout
Quoting Chris Tillman who wrote on Mon, May 13, 2002 at 06:59:52PM -0700: > I patched the System.bin in CVS using beav, to add /dev/hda8 (IIRC > that's what you are using now) and generated a new floppy image > with that mod made. I'll send it to you in a separate mail. > > I assumed you were us

Re: base system woes on ibook2 (not 12 hours old)

2002-05-15 Thread Philipp Schmidt
On Tue, 2002-05-14 22:28:14 -0700, Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > when it comes time to install the base system, i'm having much trouble. i > > have no iso cdrom. i've been trying to do this over the network, which is > > working. i can ping from

Re: iBook and playing DVDs

2002-05-15 Thread Adrian Cox
On 15 May 2002 00:05:59 +0200 Michel D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 22:04, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On May 12 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > Well, the actual movies shouldn't be interlaced. > > > > Well, I read that also in Ben's reply and got surprised, since

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Re: base system woes on ibook2 (not 12 hours old)

2002-05-15 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:31:16AM -0400, K Clark wrote: > > first caveat, this is my initial foray into mac hardware, w/exp. on i386 > w/linux. > > ibook2 brand spanking new. followed several online guides > > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html > > http://www.xiph.org/~jack/ibook/in