Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

2003-01-20 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
> just wondering, how long *does* it take to build a kernel on say, > voltaire or the x86 (C3 was it?), cuz here a kernel build is about 2 > hours - 604e/185 MHz, 84 MB RAM. > > is there a way to speed this up to say 1 hour, or 1 hour 1/2 without > upgrading the CPU? more RAM maybe? i don't have

Re: Trouble getting Quik working...

2003-01-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:47:31PM -0800, Dylan Barrie wrote: > I'm setting up my UMAX J700 with a G3/300 upgrade card to be a small > CVS/web server, but I am having trouble getting Quik to work properly > on it. I have Debian installed and working, but I am forced to start > up from the MacOS

Re: Trouble getting Quik working...

2003-01-20 Thread Dylan Barrie
On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 06:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you try the output of nvsetenv boot-device "$(ofpath /dev/sda)0"? ofpath is in yaboot, but has that handy little tool called ofpath. then you can check in the nvsetenv output. on mine it fills out to /bandit/gc/mesh/[EMAIL P

Re: kernel compilation

2003-01-20 Thread simon
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 20:59:44 -0600, vinai composed: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 17:00:34 -0600, vinai composed: > > > > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Thread your "make" jobs with the -j switch, e.g. > > > > > > $ make -j2 vmlinux > > > > i use make-kpkg usually

Re: kernel compilation WAS: Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

2003-01-20 Thread vinai
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 17:00:34 -0600, vinai composed: > > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Thread your "make" jobs with the -j switch, e.g. > > > > $ make -j2 vmlinux > > i use make-kpkg usually :|, hm, edit the scripts to do so maybe? I don't have any experience with

Re: Trouble getting Quik working...

2003-01-20 Thread simon
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 17:47:31 -0800, Dylan Barrie composed: > I'm setting up my UMAX J700 with a G3/300 upgrade card to be a small > CVS/web server, but I am having trouble getting Quik to work properly > on it. I have Debian installed and working, but I am forced to start > up from the MacO

kernel compilation WAS: Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

2003-01-20 Thread simon
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 17:00:34 -0600, vinai composed: > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thread your "make" jobs with the -j switch, e.g. > > $ make -j2 vmlinux > > I'm not sure how much it will help, but it is something fairly easy you > can try. The caveat is a few times

Trouble getting Quik working...

2003-01-20 Thread Dylan Barrie
I'm setting up my UMAX J700 with a G3/300 upgrade card to be a small CVS/web server, but I am having trouble getting Quik to work properly on it. I have Debian installed and working, but I am forced to start up from the MacOS and then use BootX to start up Linux when I want to use it. I've be

Re: More external VGA weirdness

2003-01-20 Thread Mij
i'm trying those stuff since 4-5 days ago and I'm not satisfacted enough. I can get: - fb (console) working fine at boot + sig out of range on X or - fb working fine at boot + X working fine disabling FBdev, that compromise future console use furthermore I can't get internal panel working

Re: Big problem installing Woody onto a Mac 9600

2003-01-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:18:06PM +0100, manuel wrote: > Hi everybody! > I'm in a big trouble as I can't install Debian Woody on our Mac 9600. > The problem is that the installer can't find my ide hard disk. > I've got a mac 9600 with a G4 processor and with a scsi hard disk > (debian installer fi

Re: More external VGA weirdness

2003-01-20 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:10:11PM +0100, Josef Spillner wrote: > Thanks to some of the hints, I got a mirror setup (both CRT + LCD) to work > properly on an iBook. > I'll give a presentation on Wednesday so that's pretty cool. > > Here's the way to go: > - startup normally > * booting with c

Spam in the works?

2003-01-20 Thread Ashesh Datta
Title: Spam in the works? Is this a spam? -- Ashesh -- Forwarded Message From: Mervyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:47:52 -0600 To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: We Can Fix Your Credit. ispwk Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Resen

Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

2003-01-20 Thread vinai
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > just wondering, how long *does* it take to build a kernel on say, > voltaire or the x86 (C3 was it?), cuz here a kernel build is about > 2 hours - 604e/185 MHz, 84 MB RAM. > > is there a way to speed this up to say 1 hour, or 1 hour 1/2 without > upgr

Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

2003-01-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:11:21PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > just wondering, how long *does* it take to build a kernel on say, > voltaire or the x86 (C3 was it?), cuz here a kernel build is about 2 > hours - 604e/185 MHz, 84 MB RAM. Around 7 minutes. Friendly, Sven Luther

More external VGA weirdness

2003-01-20 Thread Josef Spillner
Thanks to some of the hints, I got a mirror setup (both CRT + LCD) to work properly on an iBook. I'll give a presentation on Wednesday so that's pretty cool. Here's the way to go: - startup normally * booting with closed lid not required (1) * booting into OSX first not required - startup XF

Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

2003-01-20 Thread simon
just wondering, how long *does* it take to build a kernel on say, voltaire or the x86 (C3 was it?), cuz here a kernel build is about 2 hours - 604e/185 MHz, 84 MB RAM. is there a way to speed this up to say 1 hour, or 1 hour 1/2 without upgrading the CPU? more RAM maybe? i don't have 200-300$ to

Re: external vga + ibook2 [OpenFirmware command?]

2003-01-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 13:14, Santiago Fernandez wrote: > By the way, is TV output supported in new iBooks (the one with the M7 > chip)? > > External VGA works great (once linux has detected the monitor), but I > can not get TV output working although XFree (4.2.1) detects the TV. The driver ma

Re: Ethernet Adpater

2003-01-20 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 05:33, Kevin Smith wrote: > I'm trying to work out the ifconfig tool and how to assign more than 1 IP > address to the ethernet card. I have an IP address assigned to eth0, > however, I don't know how to assign another IP address to it. > > This is (bizarrely enough) easy in

Xfree

2003-01-20 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
I have Debian Woody on my PowerMac 867 with Xfree 4.1. I need Xfree 4.2.x to run the required 'nv' driver (I've GeForce 2MX). Is there any way to get it? Tank you!

Big problem installing Woody onto a Mac 9600

2003-01-20 Thread manuel
Hi everybody! I'm in a big trouble as I can't install Debian Woody on our Mac 9600. The problem is that the installer can't find my ide hard disk. I've got a mac 9600 with a G4 processor and with a scsi hard disk (debian installer find it) with OSX and an IDE hard disk on a Ultra ATA 133 board on t

Re: X-Server auf Powerbook G4

2003-01-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 17:23, Nicolai Langfeldt wrote: > David Röhr wrote: > > >On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 [13:43], > > > > > If it's a titanium powerbook with 1280 pixels across, i.e. one with ATI > Radeon 9000 chipset you will need to compile a new k

Re: X-Server auf Powerbook G4

2003-01-20 Thread Nicolai Langfeldt
David Röhr wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 [13:43], If it's a titanium powerbook with 1280 pixels across, i.e. one with ATI Radeon 9000 chipset you will need to compile a new kernel and a new XFree86 in addition. Hopefully this

Re: external vga + ibook2 [OpenFirmware command?]

2003-01-20 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:28:13PM +0100, Santiago Fernandez wrote: > > > By the way, is TV output supported in new iBooks (the one with the M7 > > > chip)? > > > > AFAIK no. There is a atitvout program but it relies on a BIOS call which > > is of course x86 specific. > > It's a pity. I love wat

We Can Fix Your Credit..... ispwk

2003-01-20 Thread Mervyn
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Re: Re: galeon problem

2003-01-20 Thread Jan Govaere
try to move .mozilla directory to /tmp ... perhaps .galeon if it doesn't work. >On Monday 20 January 2003 15:42, Jan Govaere wrote: >> Yes I have. >> >> It doesn't seems to be a problem with galeon but a bug in mozilla (mozilla >> gave me a segmentation error). I upgrade my woody unstable and it f

Re: galeon problem

2003-01-20 Thread Xavier Grave
On Monday 20 January 2003 15:42, Jan Govaere wrote: > Yes I have. > > It doesn't seems to be a problem with galeon but a bug in mozilla (mozilla > gave me a segmentation error). I upgrade my woody unstable and it fix the > pb. I'm running the unstable version but I always have the same problem. If

Re: external vga + ibook2 [Modeline]

2003-01-20 Thread Santiago Fernandez
Some (useful) information about EDID: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/E/EDID.html http://web.onetel.net.uk/~elephant/john/programs/linux/read-edid/ On lun, 20 ene 2003, christophe barbe wrote: > > Are today VGA monitor able to provide to the OS the modeline? If yes, > what stantard provide this f

Re: external vga + ibook2 [OpenFirmware command?]

2003-01-20 Thread Santiago Fernandez
On lun, 20 ene 2003, christophe barbe wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:14:54PM +0100, Santiago Fernandez wrote: > > By the way, is TV output supported in new iBooks (the one with the M7 > > chip)? > > AFAIK no. There is a atitvout program but it relies on a BIOS call which > is of course x86

Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

2003-01-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:22:47AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:35:02AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:30:59PM +1100, Ross Vumbaca wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Craig Morehouse wrote: > > > >Has anyone tried running Linux on this poard? > > > >

Re: galeon problem

2003-01-20 Thread Jan Govaere
Yes I have. It doesn't seems to be a problem with galeon but a bug in mozilla (mozilla gave me a segmentation error). I upgrade my woody unstable and it fix the pb. >Hi, > >I have a little problem with galeon. Since I have a one shot correction with >dpkg-reconfigure I think I can ask the questi

Re: Can't boot after quik misconfiguration

2003-01-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:03:39AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 20:28:29 -0800, Brent Miller composed: > > A friend of mine just gave me an old Power Computing PowerWave 604|120 > > that he had lying around, and not being much of a mac person, I decided > > to throw deb

Re: external vga + ibook2 [Modeline]

2003-01-20 Thread christophe barbe
Are today VGA monitor able to provide to the OS the modeline? If yes, what stantard provide this feature, VESA? Thanks, Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas a

Re: external vga + ibook2 [OpenFirmware command?]

2003-01-20 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:14:54PM +0100, Santiago Fernandez wrote: > By the way, is TV output supported in new iBooks (the one with the M7 > chip)? AFAIK no. There is a atitvout program but it relies on a BIOS call which is of course x86 specific. > External VGA works great (once linux has det

Re: external vga + ibook2 [OpenFirmware command?]

2003-01-20 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:42:15AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > That would allow TiBook3 owners to do presentation under Linux (next > > week I will boot MacOS-X to do a presentation (What's a shame). > > You need to have it plugged during boot so OF can detect the display. > Also you

Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

2003-01-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:35:02AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:30:59PM +1100, Ross Vumbaca wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Craig Morehouse wrote: > > >Has anyone tried running Linux on this poard? > > > > > >If successful, please reply both on-list and off, if you don't mind. > >

galeon problem

2003-01-20 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi, I have a little problem with galeon. Since I have a one shot correction with dpkg-reconfigure I think I can ask the question on this list. The first time I launch galeon I don't have any problem, the second time it don't find the url page and start to launch new galeon window, Ctrl^C or qui

Re: X-Server auf Powerbook G4

2003-01-20 Thread David Röhr
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 [13:43], Michael Herrmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > I tried to install Debian Linux on my new Powerbook. I had no Problems > since I tried to install the xserver-sfree86. I don't know the Vert.Sync > and Horiz.Sync. Please can anybody tell me these? > > Is th

Re: vi oriented mailer .. was Re: Suggest a really good email client

2003-01-20 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 08:13:03PM +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > just curious, but > > > > is there a vi friendly (or oriented) mailer out there ? > > have been a debianppc newbie for years @ iBook-Tangerine > > and wanna keep this machine promt-mode only > > You might like elm (elm-me).

X-Server on Powerbook G4

2003-01-20 Thread Michael Herrmann
Hi! I tried to install Debian Linux 3.0 on my new Powerbook. I had no Problems since I tried to install the xserver-sfree86. I don't know the Vert.Sync and Horiz.Sync. Please can anybody tell me these? Is there anything I have to pay my attention for? The first time I installed the XServer I t

X-Server auf Powerbook G4

2003-01-20 Thread Michael Herrmann
Hi! I tried to install Debian Linux on my new Powerbook. I had no Problems since I tried to install the xserver-sfree86. I don't know the Vert.Sync and Horiz.Sync. Please can anybody tell me these? Is there anything I have to pay my attention for? The first time I installed the XServer I too

Re: external vga + ibook2 [OpenFirmware command?]

2003-01-20 Thread Santiago Fernandez
By the way, is TV output supported in new iBooks (the one with the M7 chip)? External VGA works great (once linux has detected the monitor), but I can not get TV output working although XFree (4.2.1) detects the TV. P.S. Yes, I'm talking about the iBook rev2.2 (not TiBook). I'm using the Appl

Re: external vga + ibook2 [OpenFirmware command?]

2003-01-20 Thread simon
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:42:15 +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt composed: > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 15:53, christophe barbe wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 09:53:32AM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > week I will boot MacOS-X to do a presentation (What's a shame). > > You need to have it plugged du

Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

2003-01-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:17:02PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:56:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > BTW, do someone know if it is possible to install debian using

Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

2003-01-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:56:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > > > BTW, do someone know if it is possible to install debian using the boot > > > floppies trough a serial console ? My current attempts makes

Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

2003-01-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:56:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > > BTW, do someone know if it is possible to install debian using the boot > > floppies trough a serial console ? My current attempts makes the serial > > console show the kernel boot log

Re: Kernel2.4.20 & PowerbookG3-Lombard awakening hiccup

2003-01-20 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 05:04, Christian Jaeger wrote: > Hello > > 3 weeks ago I've compiled a stock kernel.org 2.4.20 kernel and > replaced the previously used 2.4.18 one. I took the 2.4.18 .config > and added a second wirelesslan driver (and maybe a few other > modules). About 5 weeks ago I upg

Re: external vga + ibook2 [OpenFirmware command?]

2003-01-20 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 15:53, christophe barbe wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 09:53:32AM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > > I can deactivate my lcd display with m3mirror, but > > > I can't activate the crt. > > > > The CRT needs to be activated by OpenFirmware. Start your ibook with > > the lids

Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

2003-01-20 Thread Ross Vumbaca
Hi, Michael D. Crawford wrote: Although the extra services required for x86 might be cheaper to install at first than the more expensive TerraSoft motherboard, the power bills you receive would probably eat any savings in a few months. Just a quick reminder to all that they are not called "T

Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

2003-01-20 Thread Michael D. Crawford
The real advantage of the PowerPC motherboard becomes much more apparent when you... (drum roll please...) Imagine A Beowulf Cluster Of These If you had a 72" rackmount cabinet fully populated with 1U x86 motherboards in your home, I expect you would need to install special power and air cond

Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

2003-01-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > BTW, do someone know if it is possible to install debian using the boot > floppies trough a serial console ? My current attempts makes the serial > console show the kernel boot log all right, and the first debian boot > floppy screen, but when the install d

Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

2003-01-20 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Rogério Brito wrote: On Jan 19 2003, Craig Morehouse wrote: Has anyone tried running Linux on this poard? If successful, please reply both on-list and off, if you don't mind. Please, forgive my ignorance on the subject, but I see that lately people are talking more an

Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

2003-01-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:44:25AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Jan 19 2003, Craig Morehouse wrote: > > Has anyone tried running Linux on this poard? > > > > If successful, please reply both on-list and off, if you don't mind. > > Please, forgive my ignorance on the subject, but I see t

Hylafax on debianppc

2003-01-20 Thread Lorenzo De Vito
Has someone compiled the sources of hylafax on debian ppc ? It seem don't work . The same config.tty and modem (Multitech 2843) on a RedHat 7.3 work fine.

Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

2003-01-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:30:59PM +1100, Ross Vumbaca wrote: > Hi, > > Craig Morehouse wrote: > >Has anyone tried running Linux on this poard? > > > >If successful, please reply both on-list and off, if you don't mind. > > Yes. I have the "AmigaOne" PowerPC board. The "Terrasoft" PowerPC board

Re: external vga + ibook2

2003-01-20 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce doux début de matinée du lundi 20 janvier 2003, vers 08:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) disait: >> > I can deactivate my lcd display with m3mirror, but >> > I can't activate the crt. >> >> The CRT needs to be activated by OpenFirmware. Start your ibook with >> the lids closed. >

Re: external vga + ibook2

2003-01-20 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 09:53:32AM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En cette soirée bien amorcée du samedi 18 janvier 2003, vers > 22:16, Waldemar Brodkorb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > > I can deactivate my lcd display with m3mirror, but > > I can't activate the crt. > > The CRT needs to be

Re: Can't boot after quik misconfiguration

2003-01-20 Thread simon
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 20:28:29 -0800, Brent Miller composed: > A friend of mine just gave me an old Power Computing PowerWave 604|120 > that he had lying around, and not being much of a mac person, I decided > to throw debian on there as I haven't yet played with linux on a mac > before. The inst