Re: DRI CVS snapshot packages

2002-07-11 Thread Marc Menem
Typical DRI lockup. :) So it seems the M6 is broken with no workaround right now. Users with such a chip will have to wait until this is fixed or try to fix it themselves. Do you have a good pointer on where to get started if I want to fix it myself ? I am not saying I will do it, I have

Re: populating tftpboot

2002-07-11 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 July 2002 15:13 pm, Eric C. Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 02:45:53PM -0400, David Anthony Hacker wrote: > > How do I populate /tftpboot in order to get diskless clients to > > boot properly? > > Short answer: vmlinux, yaboot,

Re: apt-get issues on potato

2002-07-11 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:10:37PM -0400, Adam wrote: > This is my 3rd box to install Debian on and each one had their own > particular issues. This box is my oldest. I think it is revision 1 of > the b/w G3 if not that then it is rev 2. It is a 350mz with 650mb of > ram and 2 internal hard driv

Re: woody install success 7200/120

2002-07-11 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:02:55PM -0400, Steve Pacenka wrote: > Hardware: 7200/120 with 48M, 2G hard drive recycled from a HP 9000 box. > All of this stuff was donated to a local computer recycler except the > memory. My objective is to demonstrate newer application software on > discarded hardw

Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-11 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 12:09:26PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >The cp was successful, but the "ybin -v" produced the same errors. It shouldn't have complained about the lack of a proc filesystem in the normal installer environment. > > So I started the installation over, and t

Re: Network Install won't connect

2002-07-11 Thread Colin Foran
> BTW, where did you get your other "default gateway" id (66.31.248.1) ? I've got another machine running RedHat (this one). I had figured that sice we really had no idea what was going on with the mac, it might prove wiser to use a valid address. In hindsight though, that doesnt really sound too

apt-get issues on potato

2002-07-11 Thread Adam
This is my 3rd box to install Debian on and each one had their own particular issues.  This box is my oldest.  I think it is revision 1 of the b/w G3 if not that then it is rev 2.  It is a 350mz with 650mb of ram and 2 internal hard drives. I have installed most of potato I want to use on th

Re: Network Install won't connect

2002-07-11 Thread Laurent Steffan
(Follow-up to my previous message) ATT Broadband does indeed provide the unusual subnet mask that I talked about, so my doubts about this specific point were not founded. Bye, LMS == Laurent Steffan [EMAIL PROTECTED] eBusiness Technical Consultant

Re: Fwd: SCSI-disk

2002-07-11 Thread Anton Blanchard
> It sounds a lot like the cases in i386 where a given hardware module > isn't compiled into the kernel. It does. Is the SYM53C8XX driver compiled into the boot disk kernel? Anton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Network Install won't connect

2002-07-11 Thread Laurent Steffan
The information you get from ifconfig does not seem very coherent to me either. Josh already mentioned the incoherence about the broadcast address, and with the full addresses we see that it goes farther. The subnet mask, although unusual, is legal, and might have been selected by your ISP. Howeve

Re: populating tftpboot

2002-07-11 Thread Colin Walters
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 14:45, David Anthony Hacker wrote: > > How do I populate /tftpboot in order to get diskless clients to > boot properly? In addition to the penguinppc.org docs, there is some more generic information in the woody installation manual: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wo

Re: wmappl

2002-07-11 Thread Colin Walters
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 14:26, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Yeah, with -fsigned-char in every Makefile... or fix the > whole lot by changing the gcc default. It's just stupid > to be swimming against the flow on this. But the fact remains that you aren't programming in standard C if you rely on speci

Re: (un)signed char (was Re: wmappl)

2002-07-11 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 19:51, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Bastien Nocera writes: > > > For kicks, read paragraph I there: > > http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~pje/soskr.html > > That rant is wrong in many ways. > > The "if (x=5)" problem would best be fixed by > using ":=" for assignment. Typing is

Re: wmappl

2002-07-11 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 19:26, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Bastien Nocera writes: > > On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 07:48, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > >> Bastien Nocera writes: > >>> On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 23:09, Mij wrote: > > "Signed" is an implicit keyword, and it doesn't implies > any specific be

Re: wmappl

2002-07-11 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 22:29, Mij wrote: > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > >On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 07:48, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > > > >No need to send your humours to me. K&R never said that char should be > >signed, it's not the norm. People just assume it, "Hey, it works on my > >machine, so it

Re: wmappl

2002-07-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 23:29, Mij wrote: > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > >On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 07:48, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > > > >No need to send your humours to me. K&R never said that char should be > >signed, it's not the norm. People just assume it, "Hey, it works on my > >machine, so it

Re: wmappl

2002-07-11 Thread Mij
Bastien Nocera wrote: On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 07:48, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: No need to send your humours to me. K&R never said that char should be signed, it's not the norm. People just assume it, "Hey, it works on my machine, so it should work everywhere". Next you're gonna tell me that MMX

Re: DRI CVS snapshot packages

2002-07-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 23:11, Marc Menem wrote: > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > >>i installed these packages and compiled the module. if i start X and > >>have > >>a look at glxinfo, everything looks fine. however, running glxgears > >>results in locking up my ibook2 700 mhz 12" Comb

Re: wmappl

2002-07-11 Thread Michel Lanners
On 10 Jul, this message from Mij echoed through cyberspace: > I get errors like > "rcparser.c:384: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range > of data type" > > Seeking code, it seems perfect && absolutely non-ambiguous. This normally means the author of that code thought that all

Re: X color problem

2002-07-11 Thread mvanderw
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:02:47PM +, mvanderw wrote: > Section "Files" > RgbPath "/usr/X11R6.4/lib/X11/rgb" Oops, my bad for missing this one! Can I say, haha, and ta for help. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: populating tftpboot

2002-07-11 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 02:45:53PM -0400, David Anthony Hacker wrote: > How do I populate /tftpboot in order to get diskless clients to > boot properly? Short answer: vmlinux, yaboot, and yaboot.conf. For more info, see http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/netboot.shtml You probably want to

Re: X color problem

2002-07-11 Thread mvanderw
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:34:03PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > Maybe that the file must have a .txt suffix, but... Quite. That works. > ... why does it look in /usr/X11R6.4 then? Does /etc/X11/X point to the > correct server? Or do you set the ModulePath in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? /etc/X11/X

Re: (un)signed char (was Re: wmappl)

2002-07-11 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Bastien Nocera writes: > For kicks, read paragraph I there: > http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~pje/soskr.html That rant is wrong in many ways. The "if (x=5)" problem would best be fixed by using ":=" for assignment. Typing is strong enough as it is, annoyingly so when trying to align pointers with

populating tftpboot

2002-07-11 Thread David Anthony Hacker
How do I populate /tftpboot in order to get diskless clients to boot properly? ___ David Anthony Hacker Computer Systems Consultant Media Union -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: wmappl

2002-07-11 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Bastien Nocera writes: > On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 07:48, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: >> Bastien Nocera writes: >>> On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 23:09, Mij wrote: "Signed" is an implicit keyword, and it doesn't implies any specific behaviour. It's simply implied. Then, I think the problem comes f

Re: Boot X extension

2002-07-11 Thread Simon Ravenson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:32:20AM -0400, Josh Huber wrote: > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > IMHO?? (I'm sorry, but what i s this? Chris be Linux Dummy) > > > > So some of the MacOS sticks arround after the system switches to > > booting Linux? Or is it that booting to the MacOS makes

pbbuttonsd pre-removal script borked

2002-07-11 Thread marshal
Hi all, The latest apt-get update/upgrade gives me this error Preparing to replace pbbuttonsd 0.4.6-1 (using .../pbbuttonsd_0.4.10a-1_powerpc.deb) ... Stopping pbbuttonsd: dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... S

Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-11 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Chris Tillman wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:02:10PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Then ybin complained quite a bit: /proc filesystem is not mounted; nvram will not be updated unable to find OpenFirmware path for boot=/dev/hde6 and similar message for other partitions. Do I

woody install success 7200/120

2002-07-11 Thread Steve Pacenka
Hardware: 7200/120 with 48M, 2G hard drive recycled from a HP 9000 box. All of this stuff was donated to a local computer recycler except the memory. My objective is to demonstrate newer application software on discarded hardware, so the hardware gets put back into use instead of being scrapped.

Re: Network Install won't connect

2002-07-11 Thread Colin Foran
> > > Also, I have to say -- there is something very odd with the formatting > of that output. Yes, im copying off of the screen next to me. But i checked and rechecked, everys correct > > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:27:B4:1A:8A > inet addr:10.1.0.101 Bcast:10.1.0.255

Re: Network Install won't connect

2002-07-11 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jul 11 2002, Colin Foran wrote: > Sorry guys. Im trying to install on a stock 9500, OSX wont be on > there anytime soon ; ) Why not? I did that last week... Check XPostFacto, if you don't believe me. > Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr: *** You don't gain anything co

Re: Network Install won't connect

2002-07-11 Thread Josh Huber
Colin Foran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The ifconfig output: > Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr: *** > inet addr:24.218.255.40bcast:255.255.255.255mask:255.255.248.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU 1500 Metric 1 > RX pakets:6 errors:3 dopped:0 frame 3 > TX packets: 3 errors:0 dr

Re: Network Install won't connect

2002-07-11 Thread Colin Foran
> Sorry guys. Im trying to install on a stock 9500, OSX wont be on there anytime soon ; ) The ifconfig output: Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr: *** inet addr:24.218.255.40bcast:255.255.255.255mask:255.255.248.0 UP BR

Re: Network Install won't connect

2002-07-11 Thread Josh Huber
Colin Foran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried it a few more times, but each time i get: > eth0: Host name lookup failure > > I'll read up on route a bit more tonight. the correct syntax for adding a default route is this: route add default gw dev Hope that helps, but you really need to po

Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-11 Thread Kent West
Chris Tillman wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:02:10PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Then ybin complained quite a bit: /proc filesystem is not mounted; nvram will not be updated unable to find OpenFirmware path for boot=/dev/hde6 and similar message for other partitions. Do I need to crack the ca

Re: Network Install won't connect

2002-07-11 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:27:06PM +0200, Manuel Reiter wrote: > If you post the full output of '/sbin/ifconfig eth0' and '/sbin/route -n' > we might find a solution. > > If you have networking up and running under MacOS, can you access the > network parameters there and compare the gateway addres

Debian Testing with 2.2.19 kernel & 2.2.20 modules

2002-07-11 Thread Fran
Dear All, I've succesfully install on a PowerMac 7200 this debian testing distribution using boot floppies and http sources.lists. I would like to thank everyone who have contributed to this distribution and apologize for my poor english. My problem is the following the kernel is a 2.2.19 one

Re: Network Install won't connect

2002-07-11 Thread Scott Patterson
Manuel Reiter wrote: If you have networking up and running under MacOS, can you access the network parameters there and compare the gateway addresses? (Sorry, don't know where to find these in MacOs, but I'm sure they're there.) MacOS X is very UNIX-like, so, ifconfig is available on it as well

Re: Network Install won't connect

2002-07-11 Thread Manuel Reiter
> > If you have networking up and running under MacOS, can you access the > > network parameters there and compare the gateway addresses? (Sorry, don't > > know where to find these in MacOs, but I'm sure they're there.) > > MacOS X is very UNIX-like, so, ifconfig is available on it as well. Open

MVME2604 + SCSI

2002-07-11 Thread A.T.J. van den Broek
Hi all, over here we are using an MVME2604 CPU-board, running OS9, with a SCSI-disk. This is working allright. Now we want to find out whether Linux is working, so I downloaded bootfull.bin from Debian, the woody one, and it doesn't recognize the SCSI-disk Below is the output, generated by the b

Re: Network Install won't connect

2002-07-11 Thread Manuel Reiter
Hi, > > DestinationGatewayGenmaskFlagsMetric > > RefUseIFace > > 24.128.224.0*blahU > > blahblahblaheth0 > > default24.218.224.10.0.0.0 > > UG

Re: Network Install won't connect

2002-07-11 Thread Manuel Reiter
Hi Colin, > Yes, i do. i was just about to sent you an email saying no, but after about 2 > 1/2 minutes the second line showed up. That was because route tried to lookup your gateways name and failed. 'route -n' should be faster. > DestinationGatewayGenmaskFlagsMe

(un)signed char (was Re: wmappl)

2002-07-11 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 08:00, Bastien Nocera wrote: > No need to send your humours to me. K&R never said that char should be > signed, it's not the norm. People just assume it, "Hey, it works on my For kicks, read paragraph I there: http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~pje/soskr.html -- /Bastien Nocer

Re: wmappl

2002-07-11 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 07:48, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Bastien Nocera writes: > > On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 23:09, Mij wrote: > > >> "Signed" is an implicit keyword, and it doesn't implies > >> any specific behaviour. It's simply implied. Then, I > >> think the problem comes from a gcc optimization.

Re: wmappl

2002-07-11 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Bastien Nocera writes: > On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 23:09, Mij wrote: >> "Signed" is an implicit keyword, and it doesn't implies >> any specific behaviour. It's simply implied. Then, I >> think the problem comes from a gcc optimization. ... > Char on PPC is unsigned. It doesn't have to be. What benefi

Re: Network Install won't connect

2002-07-11 Thread Colin Foran
> > > I suspect that you don't have a default route set. I realize that you > had problems with the command I suggested: > > route add default gw dev eth0 > > But it may be worth another try. I tried it a few more times, but each time i get: eth0: Host name lookup failure I'll read up on route