Re: Can't find the alsa module snd-powermac

2002-07-26 Thread Toby Sargeant
On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 02:51:35AM +0200, Alexander Stagun wrote: > Roland Wegmann wrote: > > > apt-get installed alsa-driver-0.5.tar.gz > > AFAIR support for snd-powermac is included only the latest ALSA > releases (0.9.x). I tried the latest CVS but had no luck (mixer did > not work/segfaults)

Re: META key on Ti PowerBook

2002-07-26 Thread Toby Sargeant
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 08:26:55PM -0700, John Gilger wrote: > > Neither the option nor the Apple keys work for this in Debian or OS X. > This is strange since emacs is available in both OSs. > > Any Mac emacs gurus want to provide some META enlightenment for this > rock? > Just for your info

META key on Ti PowerBook

2002-07-26 Thread John Gilger
The answer is probably obvious, but I guess I'm oblivious. I'm trying to use emacs -- a difficult task without a META key. Neither the option nor the Apple keys work for this in Debian or OS X. This is strange since emacs is available in both OSs. Any Mac emacs gurus want to provide some META

Re: getting netatalk working in debian

2002-07-26 Thread Adam
Thank you... I did not notice for some reason /etc/netatalk.  I have been so used to it being atalk.  It works fine now... -Adam

Re: Can't find the alsa module snd-powermac

2002-07-26 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 01:51, Alexander Stagun wrote: > Roland Wegmann wrote: > > > apt-get installed alsa-driver-0.5.tar.gz > > AFAIR support for snd-powermac is included only the latest ALSA > releases (0.9.x). I tried the latest CVS but had no luck (mixer did Hmm, nope. It was also in the lat

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

2002-07-26 Thread Stephen van Egmond
Dirk Eddelbuettel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Damn. Not sure what we should do next, and why it works for Stephen. Rats, now it's broken for me. I'll poke at it for a bit. Meanwhile, the ppc build in testing remains broken and you might want to upload a new version that turns back off the 6

Re: problems with woody quik on beige g3 300

2002-07-26 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:45:02PM +0100, Edd Dumbill wrote: > So, I picked up a beige G3 300 from eBay. It has OpenFirmware 2.4, and > has a Rage 64 Pro graphics chip. > > I'm trying to complete an install of woody on this machine. BootX works > great, but I've had no luck with quik. Specifica

Re: Install on 8600

2002-07-26 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 10:49:13AM -0700, Jerry Tangren wrote: > Is this the keyboard mapping problem? You've re-mapped your > keyboard, and now the installation app doesn't understand > your keyboard commands? > (If so,) http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes -- *--v- Instal

Re: Troubleshooting X server

2002-07-26 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 01:54:47PM -0300, Michael Hackett wrote: > Please help! My X environment keeps shutting down on me without warning > and very little information. All I've found as far as errors go is the > following from /var/log/syslog: > > Jul 26 13:28:01 crimson gnome-name-server[310]:

Re: getting netatalk working in debian

2002-07-26 Thread simon
On 26 Jul 2002, Adam wrote: > Date: 26 Jul 2002 11:46:15 -0400 > From: Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-powerpc > Subject: getting netatalk working in debian > Resent-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 11:43:36 -0400 (EDT) > Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > > I have almost completed a full

Re: Can't find the alsa module snd-powermac

2002-07-26 Thread Alexander Stagun
Roland Wegmann wrote: > apt-get installed alsa-driver-0.5.tar.gz AFAIR support for snd-powermac is included only the latest ALSA releases (0.9.x). I tried the latest CVS but had no luck (mixer did not work/segfaults). The dmasound_pmac kernel module seems to be the best working solution right no

Re: Slow disk performance (was: Re: install help 6400/200)

2002-07-26 Thread Michael Hackett
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 22:31:25 +0200 (CEST) Michel Lanners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The 9500 has an additional problem, because its 512 Kb L2 cache is > > soldered in the mainboard and can't be replaced, but usually it is a > > good quality component. > > Sure about that? All the other first-

Re: video problems on waking up iBook2 from sleep or going from X to terminal

2002-07-26 Thread A.J. Rossini
> "jesus" == Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jesus> You might want to check the page www.hispalinux.es/~data/ibook/ for a jesus> complete info regarding iBook2 700MHz 14.1 I'll have to scale down (I'm running the small 12" screen), but other than that, looks like an evaluati

Re: video problems on waking up iBook2 from sleep or going from X to terminal

2002-07-26 Thread A.J. Rossini
> "scott" == Scott Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: scott> I would guess it's some kind of driver issue...which version of X are scott> you running (Sid is at 4.1)? There are some X 4.2 debs available that scott> might solve the problem. Hopefully others with the 700Mhz model

Re: video problems on waking up iBook2 from sleep or going from X to terminal

2002-07-26 Thread Jesus Climent
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 04:13:43PM -0400, Scott Patterson wrote: > >Not that I can tell (it doesn't appear to be installed), just the > >usual radeon drivers. Would this be on exiting X that I'd see it? If > >so, I'll do a more through hunt. > > Oh, I forgot the 700Mhz iBook uses a different vid

Re: Newbie install problems - Please help

2002-07-26 Thread Michel Lanners
On 26 Jul, this message from Brad Lipinski echoed through cyberspace: > Further work. I copied the whole CD to a partition on the hard drive. I > then re-downloaded the lib6_2.2.5_6powerpc.deb from Debian. I over rode the > one on that came from the CD. I re-did the install installing from the

Re: Slow disk performance (was: Re: install help 6400/200)

2002-07-26 Thread Michel Lanners
On 26 Jul, this message from rsaran echoed through cyberspace: > The standard internal SCSI bus on OldWord PowerMacs is quite slow > for today standards, with 10 Mb/s of nominal bandwitdh. ^^ Make that MB/s (Megabytes, not Megabits) Few machines had that 10 MB/s int

Re: please test openoffice.org 1.0.1-1

2002-07-26 Thread Jack Howarth
A.J., Thanks for testing the 1.0.1-3 release. I guess I should have posted something here yesterday. I found problem with 1.0.1-3 was a misplaced arch-specific registry file incorrectly packaged in the non-arch debian package for openoffice.org. That flaw was fixed in 1.0.1-3.

Re: video problems on waking up iBook2 from sleep or going from X to terminal

2002-07-26 Thread Scott Patterson
A.J. Rossini wrote: "scott" == Scott Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: scott> The horizontal lines sound like a byproduct of the m3mirror scott> program. Are you running m3mirror? Not that I can tell (it doesn't appear to be installed), just the usual radeon drivers. Would this

Re: video problems on waking up iBook2 from sleep or going from X to terminal

2002-07-26 Thread A.J. Rossini
> "scott" == Scott Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: scott> The horizontal lines sound like a byproduct of the m3mirror scott> program. Are you running m3mirror? Not that I can tell (it doesn't appear to be installed), just the usual radeon drivers. Would this be on exiting X tha

Re: video problems on waking up iBook2 from sleep or going from X to terminal

2002-07-26 Thread Scott Patterson
A.J. Rossini wrote: I'm having video problems with my iBook2 (700Mhz). Running either 2.4.18-newpmac or the latest BenH kernel, I'm experiencing the following: 1. moderate screen flicker when reverting to terminal mode from X11, either by shutting down X or using the Function keys. 2. when a

Re: please test openoffice.org 1.0.1-1

2002-07-26 Thread A.J. Rossini
> "jack" == Jack Howarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jack> Could we have as many folks here as possible give the new openoffice.org jack> 1.0.1-1 build on... The 1.0.1-3 build seems to be working fine (for a small set of documents that I tried). best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini

video problems on waking up iBook2 from sleep or going from X to terminal

2002-07-26 Thread A.J. Rossini
I'm having video problems with my iBook2 (700Mhz). Running either 2.4.18-newpmac or the latest BenH kernel, I'm experiencing the following: 1. moderate screen flicker when reverting to terminal mode from X11, either by shutting down X or using the Function keys. 2. when awaking from a snooze,

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

2002-07-26 Thread Dieter Schuster
Tach auch! Am Fre, den 26 Juli 2002, schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > > > Am Don, den 25 Juli 2002, schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 04:33:48PM +0200, Dieter Schuster wrote: > > > > The new archivs are buggy. If I make afio -t on them the following > > > > errors appear: > > >

Re: getting netatalk working in debian

2002-07-26 Thread Will Aoki
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 11:46:15AM -0400, Adam wrote: > I have almost completed a full install of debian but I can not get > natatalk to start. The daemon starts, the /etc/default/netatalk is > configured, but I can't get the custom settings I had set up in my suse > system. I copied /etc/atalk f

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

2002-07-26 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
> Am Don, den 25 Juli 2002, schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 04:33:48PM +0200, Dieter Schuster wrote: > > > The new archivs are buggy. If I make afio -t on them the following > > > errors appear: > > > > Thanks for checking. There is the odd chance that your version isn't qu

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

2002-07-26 Thread Dieter Schuster
Tach auch! Am Don, den 25 Juli 2002, schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 04:33:48PM +0200, Dieter Schuster wrote: > > The new archivs are buggy. If I make afio -t on them the following > > errors appear: > > Thanks for checking. There is the odd chance that your version isn't qui

Re: Install on 8600

2002-07-26 Thread Jerry Tangren
Is this the keyboard mapping problem? You've re-mapped your keyboard, and now the installation app doesn't understand your keyboard commands? --Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 10:36 AM, Norman Cohen wrote: I have successfully installed potato on my 8600 with no trouble

problems with woody quik on beige g3 300

2002-07-26 Thread Edd Dumbill
So, I picked up a beige G3 300 from eBay. It has OpenFirmware 2.4, and has a Rage 64 Pro graphics chip. I'm trying to complete an install of woody on this machine. BootX works great, but I've had no luck with quik. Specifically, the symptoms are that it just sits there on reboot -- not even a m

Install on 8600

2002-07-26 Thread Norman Cohen
I have successfully installed potato on my 8600 with no trouble. However when it comes to woody the same bootx procedure does not work. It stops at the swap partition and just will not work.I have put every thing in the linux kernal folder as instructed-ramdisk.image.gz and linux.bin-and bo

installation on 8600

2002-07-26 Thread Norman Cohen
I have successfully installed potato on my 8600 with no trouble. However when it comes to woody the same bootx procedure does not work. It stops at the swap partition and just will not work.I have put every thing in the linux kernal folder as instructed-ramdisk.image.gz and linux.bin-and bo

Troubleshooting X server

2002-07-26 Thread Michael Hackett
Please help! My X environment keeps shutting down on me without warning and very little information. All I've found as far as errors go is the following from /var/log/syslog: Jul 26 13:28:01 crimson gnome-name-server[310]: input condition is: 0x10, exiting Jul 26 13:28:03 crimson gdm[248]: gdm_sla

Re: Slow disk performance (was: Re: install help 6400/200)

2002-07-26 Thread rsaran
The standard internal SCSI bus on OldWord PowerMacs is quite slow for today standards, with 10 Mb/s of nominal bandwitdh. To make it worse factory installed hard disks where specially slow. Tipical sustained transfer read ates under MacOS are in the 3-5 Mb/s range. With multi-tasking OSes this may

Re: recent PPC packages

2002-07-26 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi OpenOffice.org for PPC user ... On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:27:23PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: >as Jack. This might be interesting: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ll /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org*rc3* ~ >-rw-r--r--1 root root 11389614 Jul 16 12:42 >/var/cache/apt/archives/open

getting netatalk working in debian

2002-07-26 Thread Adam
I have almost completed a full install of debian but I can not get natatalk to start.  The daemon starts, the /etc/default/netatalk is configured, but I can't get the custom settings I had set up in my suse system.  I copied /etc/atalk from suse and put it in /etc in debian but atalk does not r

RE: Modems on PowerBook 3400

2002-07-26 Thread linuxppc_user
One more thing I've tried: setserial /dev/modem irq22 port 0x3f8-0x3ff Last time, I tried this on /dev/ttyS0. I thought I'd try this on /dev/modem, even though it is a link the /dev/ttyS0. I had the same result... which is to say NOTHING (sorry for the scream... I'm getting rather frustrated by t

Re: Newbie install problems - Please help

2002-07-26 Thread Brad Lipinski
Further work. I copied the whole CD to a partition on the hard drive. I then re-downloaded the lib6_2.2.5_6powerpc.deb from Debian. I over rode the one on that came from the CD. I re-did the install installing from the hard disk. Same error. So what ever is causing this file to corrupt is a d

Can't find the alsa module snd-powermac

2002-07-26 Thread Roland Wegmann
Hello I try to install the ALSA sound system on my iMac. I compiled a new kernel using the kernel source 2.4.18, make-kpkg --revision number kernel_image, dpkg -i kernel-image-whatever.deb. Then I installed apt-get installed alsa-driver-0.5.tar.gz, ran tar -xvzf ..., ran make-kpkg modules_image

Re: need help with X windows on imac running woody

2002-07-26 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is also a working XF86Config-4 that should be in the archives, since it was mailed to me and I used it just fine in an iMac. If not, I'll dig around and see what I can find... Russell On Thursday 25 July 2002 12:08 pm, Michel Dänzer wrote: >

Slow disk performance (was: Re: install help 6400/200)

2002-07-26 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jul 25 2002, Trench Shoring wrote: > 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? First of all, I would like to point out that I don't know enough about macs