install help 6400/200

2002-07-25 Thread Trench Shoring
I have been trying to install Linux (yellow dawg or Debian) on my 6400/200 for a few weeks now. Debian. Install takes about a week to format the entire 10G drive. I must be missing a basic howto. Is there a www site or tips on installing to this not so ancient Mac? YDog; System crashes during p

Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc

2002-07-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 04:33:48PM +0200, Dieter Schuster wrote: > Hello, > > Am Mit, den 24 Juli 2002, schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 07:10:17PM -0400, Stephen van Egmond wrote: > > > Here is a new patch to address the compile-time issues > > > of afio. It supersedes the

Re: openoffice 1.0.1-1 failure on debian ppc sid

2002-07-25 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
ReHi .. it is late :) On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 02:12:21AM +0200, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: [snip] > /usr/lib/openoffice/program/applicat.rdb I meant usr/lib/openoffice/program/bootstraprc not applicat.rdb ... :) > usr/lib/openoffice/program/instdb.ins sorry .. regards J

Re: Newbie install problems - Please help

2002-07-25 Thread Colin Foran
> > > With BootX which kernel should I boot from to install. The 'vmlinux' kernel > or the 'vmlinux-2.4' kernel. What is the difference? As far as i can tell, it's preference. try them both, you should be able to pick one or the other at the bootx prompt. > > > In my install I get as far as ins

Re: openoffice 1.0.1-1 failure on debian ppc sid

2002-07-25 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi OpenOffice.org on PowerPC users ;) sorry for my silence, but I had much to do .. :) But ok .. here we go. Thanks, many thanks to Jack Howarth, he pointed out, that the openoffice.org-1.0.1-[1|2]_all.deb is different from i386 to powerpc, he mailed me a large diff. The difference will cause

Newbie install problems - Please help

2002-07-25 Thread Brad Lipinski
I have an Power Computing 210 with a G3 450Mhz upgrade chip. 112 MB of Ram. I downloaded the Woody iso disk and I'm trying to install it. I have two questions: With BootX which kernel should I boot from to install. The 'vmlinux' kernel or the 'vmlinux-2.4' kernel. What is the difference? In

please test openoffice.org 1.0.1-1

2002-07-25 Thread Jack Howarth
Hello, Could we have as many folks here as possible give the new openoffice.org 1.0.1-1 build on... http://openoffice.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice ...a try. You should be able to get it, running on debian ppc sid, by adding... deb http://openoffice.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice unstable main contr

Re: need help with X windows on imac running woody

2002-07-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 17:57, Jack R Lawler wrote: > Has anyone gotten X windows working on a G3 iMac running > woody? I upgraded to 3.0 from 2.2_r5. The output from > startx does not seem to show any fatal errors but the X > windows screen is black. I can execute commands in the > invisible xter

need help with X windows on imac running woody

2002-07-25 Thread Jack R Lawler
Has anyone gotten X windows working on a G3 iMac running woody? I upgraded to 3.0 from 2.2_r5. The output from startx does not seem to show any fatal errors but the X windows screen is black. I can execute commands in the invisible xterm that must be there and I can exit X windows using control-

Re: POWER3 - URL

2002-07-25 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 04:22:40PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 15:14, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: > > > Does anybody know where I submit a bug for this directory: > > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/ > > > > > > It needs a 'power3' subdir

Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc

2002-07-25 Thread Dieter Schuster
Hello, Am Mit, den 24 Juli 2002, schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 07:10:17PM -0400, Stephen van Egmond wrote: > > Here is a new patch to address the compile-time issues > > of afio. It supersedes the earlier patch I provided, and > > should be applied to 2.4.7-2. > > > > I h

Re: Evolution 1.0.7 and XFree86 4.2.0

2002-07-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 13:56, Edd Dumbill wrote: > On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 12:10, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 23:11, Edd Dumbill wrote: > > > > > > On powerpc sid, Evolution crashes the X server *every* time on main > > > startup after the splash window disappears. I downgraded my

Re: Evolution 1.0.7 and XFree86 4.2.0

2002-07-25 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 12:10, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 23:11, Edd Dumbill wrote: > > > > On powerpc sid, Evolution crashes the X server *every* time on main > > startup after the splash window disappears. I downgraded my X install > > to 4.1.0 and the problem went away. > > Wh

Re: Evolution 1.0.7 and XFree86 4.2.0

2002-07-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 23:11, Edd Dumbill wrote: > > On powerpc sid, Evolution crashes the X server *every* time on main > startup after the splash window disappears. I downgraded my X install > to 4.1.0 and the problem went away. What about my 4.2 binaries or DRI debs? Anyway, it's probably eith

Re: Framebuffer and PowerPC's

2002-07-25 Thread Antoine Delvaux
(with an 24 bit color depth), but only with a 640x480 resolution. Do anybody knows how can I change the Framebuffer's resolution at boot or at the commandline? First, make sure you have enough VRAM for the resolution/color depth you want to use. Then, your text console will by default run the m

Re: Framebuffer and PowerPC's

2002-07-25 Thread Michel Lanners
On 25 Jul, this message from Carlos de la Cruz echoed through cyberspace: > I 've succesfuly installed and configured Xfree on my PowerMac 8500, but I > only can use the FBDev driver There's no native support in XFree for the 8500's built-in graphics card ('control'). fbdev is your only option.