Getting a Performa 6360 to boot off of Debian

2003-01-13 Thread Steven Schlansker
I'm really sorry to bother you guys again, but I still have a completely broken machine over here and I'm completely lost. I can boot off the floppy and it works fine. I've verified that there is something on the hard drive, something which looks like what it should (I think). But, when I boot o

console rows/cols -- configurable?

2003-01-13 Thread Allan Streib
I'm setting up a PowerMac 6500. Since it only has 32MB RAM I am not going to run X Windows, but instead plan to use it as a light duty server. I previously had LinuxPPC 2000 Q4 running on this box and since that distro is no longer maintained am rebuilding it with Debian. I did notice that Linux

Re: Brightness and Contrast controls on iMacs

2003-01-13 Thread Segher Boessenkool
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 11:14, Scott McMahan wrote: > > I'm looking for a way to adjust the screen settings on my iMac. I've > > search the list/newsgroups and the answers I've found don't work on CRTs > > (fblevel) or don't really address the right problem (xgamma

Re: disabling DRI ?

2003-01-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2003-01-14 at 01:46, christophe barbe wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 08:24:36PM +0100, Martin Karger wrote: > > christophe barbe wrote: > > > > >I tried and got a slightly better result but I have still to reboot to > > >get a clean X. > > > > > > > no need for a reboot. just kill the x

Re: disabling DRI ?

2003-01-13 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 08:24:36PM +0100, Martin Karger wrote: > christophe barbe wrote: > > > > >I tried and got a slightly better result but I have still to reboot to > >get a clean X. > > > > no need for a reboot. just kill the xserver with [strg]+[alt]+[backspace] Just tried and that's not e

Re: Airport: Tx excessive retries

2003-01-13 Thread christophe barbe
That's interesting that a firmware update can fix that (and seems logical). I have found this page which describe a problem very similar: http://home.earthlink.net/~jaymzh666/solaris/mss.html By the way, I have no real trust in the wlan encryption (which AFAIK is not very effective) and rely m

Re: disabling DRI ?

2003-01-13 Thread christophe barbe
Has someone got a TiBook3 config where X is working correctly right after the resume? Christophe On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 08:24:36PM +0100, Martin Karger wrote: > christophe barbe wrote: > > > > >I tried and got a slightly better result but I have still to reboot to > >get a clean X. > > > > no

Re: gdm 2

2003-01-13 Thread Gary Sandine
Hi, On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 12:32, Jorge Arcas wrote: > Is a gdm2 package for debian ppc? I put the line deb http://files.hadess.net/ debian/ and was almost able to "apt-get install gdm2". Installation scripts in the package failed (I don't know why), but I was able to finish the installation b

Re: Airport: Tx excessive retries

2003-01-13 Thread Michel Lanners
On 12 Jan, this message from christophe barbe echoed through cyberspace: > Is the problem going away if you disable encryption? Hmmm, indeed, it seems to be much better to say the least. Any idea why all of a sudden I can0t use encryption anymore? BenH seemed to believe it was a firmware issue.

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-13 Thread Marc Stergionis
At about 12:50 PM -0700 on 1/13/03, Marc Stergionis wrote: At about 1:08 PM -0500 on 1/13/03, Allan Streib wrote: Don't know. My 6500 is a PCI machine. I only have 32 MB RAM, though. Allan On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: So if it prompts me for nothing after I try to boot

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-13 Thread Marc Stergionis
At about 1:08 PM -0500 on 1/13/03, Allan Streib wrote: Don't know. My 6500 is a PCI machine. I only have 32 MB RAM, though. Allan On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: So if it prompts me for nothing after I try to boot from the .img file, that means something like I don't have

Re: disabling DRI ?

2003-01-13 Thread Martin Karger
christophe barbe wrote: I tried and got a slightly better result but I have still to reboot to get a clean X. no need for a reboot. just kill the xserver with [strg]+[alt]+[backspace] martin

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-13 Thread Allan Streib
Don't know. My 6500 is a PCI machine. I only have 32 MB RAM, though. Allan On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: > So if it prompts me for nothing after I try to boot from the .img file, that > means something like I don't have enough memory to complete the installation > i'm guessi

PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-13 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
So if it prompts me for nothing after I try to boot from the .img file, that means something like I don't have enough memory to complete the installation i'm guessing I'm using a 7100/80 with NuBus. I think it has 24MB. is there an even more scaled-down kernel I can use? - Original Message -

Re: installing woody on PowerMac 6500 w/3c905 PCI NIC

2003-01-13 Thread Allan Streib
I made the disks using rawrite on on a WinXP machine. Worked fine for me. Allan On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: > do I have to make the image from a mac computer? > I made the image from my PC running W2K and when I boot my PPC 7100 with the > disk, the linuxppc logo came up, i

Motorola PowerStack

2003-01-13 Thread Lorenzo De Vito
I've installed DebianPPC on my Motorola PowerStack, all work fine but I've a trouble, whe I try to halt the system, the system reboot. I've tried with: # init 0 and also: # halt but when appear the message "system halted" it reboot again

Re: installing woody on PowerMac 6500 w/3c905 PCI NIC

2003-01-13 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
do I have to make the image from a mac computer? I made the image from my PC running W2K and when I boot my PPC 7100 with the disk, the linuxppc logo came up, it loaded the disk, and then just froze there. - Original Message - From: "Allan Streib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Philip Larkin Wa

Re: ibook3 dvd/cdrw problems

2003-01-13 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 22:05, Jon Michaelchuck wrote: > When I attempt to run eject /dev/cdrom (as root) I get: > eject: unable to eject, last error: Input/output error Does a symlink /dev/cdrom exist? If so, it should be pointing to /dev/scd0. Do # rm -f /dev/cdrom ; ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom