Re: Please convince me to go fully Debian. ^_^

2002-08-22 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 12:30:13AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Finally, I'm sure there is a list of the modules that are available on > the boot-floppies. (or debian-installer, or whatever it's called.) > Do they have 2.4 kernels? Do they have the USB ACM module? I need The debian-insta

Re: Woody on IBM RS/6000 7025 F50

2002-08-22 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 10:06:56PM +0300, George Karaolides wrote: > > Further to my previous post about the serial port slowing down during > booting, here are the interrupts. It took an hour and a half to get to a > shell... > > It doesn't look like there's anything amiss. Anyone have any oth

Re: Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) - HOWTO

2002-08-22 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
El mié, 07-08-2002 a las 11:22, German Poo Caaman~o escribió: > [...] > > Well, I can boot from the network again. However, this time I boot the > > image with the 'noinitrd' and 'root' kernel parameters specified. > > In this stage I'm still with problems, so I'm booting my machine > from the net

Re: Woody on IBM RS/6000 7025 F50

2002-08-22 Thread George Karaolides
Further to my previous post about the serial port slowing down during booting, here are the interrupts. It took an hour and a half to get to a shell... It doesn't look like there's anything amiss. Anyone have any other ideas? # cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 1: 0 i8259 E

Re: PowerBook G4 (TiBook)

2002-08-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> >> 1) The Radeon Issue. >> I found some information about people who got Xfree running with >> the radeon driver, not only with fbdev (Its working with FBDev, >> but KDE3 is sloow) >> Is is possible? And how? > >If it's *really* slow you're probably using the openfirmwa

Re: Please convince me to go fully Debian. ^_^

2002-08-22 Thread brett-debianppc
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 12:30:13AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all! > > Moral dilemma for you all (kinda.) > > Due to some bad foresight in partitioning, I've decided to repartition > my PowerBook G3 Firewire again, and re-install everything. My MacOS 9 > and MacOS X 10.0 partitions are

Re: PowerBook G4 (TiBook)

2002-08-22 Thread brett-debianppc
> > 1) The Radeon Issue. > I found some information about people who got Xfree running with > the radeon driver, not only with fbdev (Its working with FBDev, > but KDE3 is sloow) > Is is possible? And how? If it's *really* slow you're probably using the openfirmware

Real Player

2002-08-22 Thread Joss Winn
Where can I download a RealPlayer PPC .deb? I can find an i386 deb in /debian/pool/contrib/r/realplayer but no PPC version. it appears to be in unstable for i386 thank you joss --

Re: Please convince me to go fully Debian. ^_^

2002-08-22 Thread Joss Winn
you can buy the 7 woody cd set from the UK for 14 quid plus postage from www.linuxemporium.co.uk/cheap.html#Debian Not only supporting a great distro but also a great supplier. you'll be pleased to have the cds if you only have an ISDN connection. 8000+ packages joss (whose phone bills in j

"@" with German keyboard (was: PowerBook G4 (TiBook))

2002-08-22 Thread Siggi Langauf
Hi Robert, On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Robert Weißgraeber wrote: [...] > 2) Keyboard Issue > I have a german keyboard layout which is working fine on öäü, > but not on the pipe, (at). How can i get this? [...] I'm using this little script at login time: snip--- #!/bin/sh cat <

Please convince me to go fully Debian. ^_^

2002-08-22 Thread marshal
Hi all! Moral dilemma for you all (kinda.) Due to some bad foresight in partitioning, I've decided to repartition my PowerBook G3 Firewire again, and re-install everything. My MacOS 9 and MacOS X 10.0 partitions are eating up my valuable HD space, so I'm considering switching completely to Linux

Re: Woody on IBM RS/6000 7025 F50

2002-08-22 Thread George Karaolides
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Tom Gall wrote: > If you want to say for example get to the OF prompt you have to get the > machine > to relook for consoles. One way to do this is with the machine turned off, > unplug the keyboard and mouse and then plug in the mouse in the keyboard slot. > (Yes I know it

Re: Woody on IBM RS/6000 7025 F50

2002-08-22 Thread George Karaolides
Hi people, Further to my previous message below, the Debian installer startup screen does appear, though you have to wait about fifteen minutes... Can anyone suggest why, after working perfectly up to the "freeing unused kernel memory" point, the console becomes so slow? Now I'll wait another h

PowerBook G4 (TiBook)

2002-08-22 Thread Robert Weißgraeber
Hi! Finally I came around to install debian on my PowerBook G4. Now, I have some questions concerning Xfree86. 1) The Radeon Issue. I found some information about people who got Xfree running with the radeon driver, not only with fbdev (Its working with FBDev, but KDE3 is

Re: Gatos deb's (was: Re: xfree86 4.2.0-0pre1v3 (source,i386) available at the X Strike Force)

2002-08-22 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 12:08, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2002-08-22 12:29:59 +0200, Michel D?nzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 11:58, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > > > On Wed, 2002-08-21 14:35:04 -0500, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Gatos deb's (was: Re: xfree86 4.2.0-0pre1v3 (source,i386) available at the X Strike Force)

2002-08-22 Thread Philipp Schmidt
On Thu, 2002-08-22 12:29:59 +0200, Michel D?nzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 11:58, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-08-21 14:35:04 -0500, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, Aug 22

Re: Gatos deb's (was: Re: xfree86 4.2.0-0pre1v3 (source,i386) available at the X Strike Force)

2002-08-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 11:58, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2002-08-21 14:35:04 -0500, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 01:16:25AM +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote: > > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Branden Rob

Gatos deb's (was: Re: xfree86 4.2.0-0pre1v3 (source,i386) available at the X Strike Force)

2002-08-22 Thread Philipp Schmidt
On Wed, 2002-08-21 14:35:04 -0500, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 01:16:25AM +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote: > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> Changes: > > >

Re: Recovering Open Firmware [was: On using the imstt driver on a 9600 (was: Re: X on a 9600 artifacts...)]

2002-08-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 21 2002, Rogério Brito wrote: > Anyway, to create a bootable floppy, I do: Just some addenda: > 5 - copy the vmlinux.gz to replace the floppy's zImage; You may need to hexedit (use Emacs for that) the floppy's System file with the root device of your in