useful links

2002-10-30 Thread dylan
for all the old-world pmac and nubus_pmac fans out there... here are some useful links that helped me get Woody working on some 7100's, an 8100, and an 8500 + X11. thanks to Etsushi Kato for his great mach_kernel + installers! i will continue to update this site with information as it comes al

Re: Install CD won't boot Cube

2002-10-30 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 07:24:57PM -0700, Marc Stergionis wrote: > I just painstakingly downloaded the three Debian install .iso's and > burned them to CD. > > Put in the first disk and restarted while pressing "c." > > Result (white on a black screen): > > Wrong partition 1 signature > config

Install CD won't boot Cube

2002-10-30 Thread Marc Stergionis
I just painstakingly downloaded the three Debian install .iso's and burned them to CD. Put in the first disk and restarted while pressing "c." Result (white on a black screen): Wrong partition 1 signature config file need 613 bytes Debian Gnu Linux PowerPC potato Boot _ (here I type an 'L') L

openoffice.org 1.0.1-5 is a no go

2002-10-30 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All, I just upgraded OpenOffice and it won't run. I get the splash screen, then some debugging output: SIOCGIFADDR got '00:00:00:00:00:00' and then the splash screen just hangs around doing nothing. I did an strace, and it sits waiting on a read: [snip] read(21, "[__Global_Printer_Def

Re: scsi emulation

2002-10-30 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
bill traynor writes: > On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 13:12, Michel Dänzer wrote: >> I created a file /etc/modutils/ide-scsi containing >> >> alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi >> >> and ran update-modules. > > OK, I added the latter. Here's my /etc/modutils/ide-scsi file now: > > alias scsi_hostadapter ide-

Re: airport card on iBook2

2002-10-30 Thread bill traynor
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 01:48, Claas Langbehn wrote: > Hello, > > > here it works fine with these settings in /etc/network/interfaces: > > > Bye, Claas > > > --- > # Wireless interface > # > # this might be eth1 for you since I have not the module for > # wired networking (sungem) loaded. > # >

Re: scsi emulation

2002-10-30 Thread bill traynor
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 13:12, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Die, 2002-10-29 at 04:56, bill traynor wrote: > > I'm getting the following errors with kernel 2.4.20-pre11-ben0: > > > > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 > > > > Consequently, I can't mount my DVD/CD-RW o

Re: iBook2 screen resolutions

2002-10-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2002-10-30 at 17:39, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Michel =?ISO-8859- writes: > > On Mit, 2002-10-30 at 02:03, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > >> Same here, except with a G4 Cube and the Apple Cinema Display. > >> Did you get to play with poorly documented kernel parameters too? > >> I had to a

Re: Problems with kernel 2.4.20-pre11-ben0

2002-10-30 Thread José Salavert Torres
> > No sound, and no net, but drivers load properly, and older versions > (pre7) worked okay. > > > Machine: Powermac G4 733Mhz grey-tower. > > I don't know what to door what I've done, please make things work as > best as you can in sarge. > > Here is my kernelconfig. > I've found a 2.4.2

Re: Ibook/TiBook performance/battery life

2002-10-30 Thread christophe barbe
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 06:08:10PM +0100, Claas Langbehn wrote: > > How > > is the boot up time? Same for powerbook also. > > The booting up time is about the same compared with an > ordinary computer. > But I usually don't have to boot the iBook a lot, > since the powermanagement works fine. Y

Re: Problems with kernel 2.4.20-pre11-ben0 (worked fine)

2002-10-30 Thread José Salavert Torres
The problem is that I'm using ADSL. :-( OK just wait until next release. Thank you. El Miércoles, 30 octubre, 2002, a las 07:24 AM, Eric Deveaud escribió: On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, José Salavert Torres wrote: Package:kernel Version: 2.4.20-pre11-ben0 No sound, and no net, but drivers load properly

Re: Ibook/TiBook performance/battery life

2002-10-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du mercredi 30 octobre 2002, vers 17:34, Mighty Germ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > Hello, im new to Debian and linux in general, And I had a few questions. > I am in the market for a laptop, and i'm considering both the Ibook > and TiBook. > I was wondering how thie

Re: Ibook/TiBook performance/battery life

2002-10-30 Thread Claas Langbehn
Hi, > How > is the boot up time? Same for powerbook also. The booting up time is about the same compared with an ordinary computer. But I usually don't have to boot the iBook a lot, since the powermanagement works fine. You just close the lid when you don't need the iBook any more and open i

Re: Ibook/TiBook performance/battery life

2002-10-30 Thread Mij
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:34:39 -0500 Mighty Germ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, im new to Debian and linux in general, And I had a few questions. > I am in the market for a laptop, and i'm considering both the Ibook and > TiBook. they are two completely different machines (as you can understa

Re: iBook2 screen resolutions

2002-10-30 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Michel =?ISO-8859- writes: > On Mit, 2002-10-30 at 02:03, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: >> Same here, except with a G4 Cube and the Apple Cinema Display. >> Did you get to play with poorly documented kernel parameters too? >> I had to add "ofonly" to install, then "video=aty128fb:vmode:22" >> to get t

Ibook/TiBook performance/battery life

2002-10-30 Thread Mighty Germ
Hello, im new to Debian and linux in general, And I had a few questions. I am in the market for a laptop, and i'm considering both the Ibook and TiBook. I was wondering how thier performance and battery life were under linux. Approx. how many hours can you get doing light work( typing, etc)? How

Re: Re: debian with pcmcia on powerbook 1400

2002-10-30 Thread Jean-Sébastien Rousseau-Piot
Le mercredi 30 octobre 2002, à 01:56 , Chris Tillman a écrit : On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:10:54PM +0100, Jean-S?bastien Rousseau-Piot wrote: Hi, Do you think it's possible to have a minimal debian working on a powerbook 1400 with PCMCIA support. ? The pcmcia would be used to plug a wireless c

Re: debian with pcmcia on powerbook 1400

2002-10-30 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:10:54PM +0100, Jean-S?bastien Rousseau-Piot wrote: > Hi, > > Do you think it's possible to have a minimal debian working on a > powerbook 1400 with PCMCIA support. ? > The pcmcia would be used to plug a wireless card. > > PowerPC 603ev 166 MHz > PowerBook serie 140

debian with pcmcia on powerbook 1400

2002-10-30 Thread Jean-Sébastien Rousseau-Piot
Hi, Do you think it's possible to have a minimal debian working on a powerbook 1400 with PCMCIA support. ? The pcmcia would be used to plug a wireless card. PowerPC 603ev 166 MHz PowerBook serie 1400 40 MB ram 1,3 GB Hard disk 2 pcmcia slots I already grabbed those informations on the web but I

Re: iBook2 screen resolutions

2002-10-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2002-10-30 at 02:03, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Mark Williams writes: > > > On iBook2s, what screen resolutions are supported under Linux? > > I've only been able to get 1024x768 to work, specifically in X. > > It'd be nice to get tuxracer running... > > Same here, except with a G4 Cube

Re: iBook2 screen resolutions

2002-10-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2002-10-30 at 01:29, Mark Williams wrote: > > On iBook2s, what screen resolutions are supported under Linux? It depends what graphics chip you have; aty128fb only supports the native panel resolution (though a patch to enable scaling was posted to linuxppc-dev some time ago), where

XFree install problem: keyboard/mouse event hell

2002-10-30 Thread Fritz Jetzek
Hi, I have been trying to install XFree86 4.2.1. on a beige G3. The server starts up alright but mouse and keyboard interaction are borked: pressing any key results in lots of characters per key press, the characters do not match the key pressed. Clicking mouse buttons results in equally many e

Re: Problems with kernel 2.4.20-pre11-ben0 (worked fine)

2002-10-30 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En cette aube naissante du mercredi 30 octobre 2002, vers 07:24, > Eric Deveaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > > I'm experimenting problems with the couple sungem/dhcp. I suspect the > > client, but I haven't looked too much, setting eth to static

Re: Problems with kernel 2.4.20-pre11-ben0 (worked fine)

2002-10-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette aube naissante du mercredi 30 octobre 2002, vers 07:24, Eric Deveaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > I'm experimenting problems with the couple sungem/dhcp. I suspect the > client, but I haven't looked too much, setting eth to static solve the > problem. > just my poor contribution. I

Re: airport card on iBook2

2002-10-30 Thread Claas Langbehn
Hello, here it works fine with these settings in /etc/network/interfaces: Bye, Claas --- # Wireless interface # # this might be eth1 for you since I have not the module for # wired networking (sungem) loaded. # # just use "ifup eth0" and "ifdown eth0" the modules get loaded # and unloaded aut

Re: Problems with kernel 2.4.20-pre11-ben0 (worked fine)

2002-10-30 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, José Salavert Torres wrote: > Package:kernel > Version: 2.4.20-pre11-ben0 > > No sound, and no net, but drivers load properly, and older versions > (pre7) worked okay. > > Machine: Powermac G4 733Mhz grey-tower. Your Kernel config shows that you are using sungem, for eth. I