Re: g4 and switching consoles

2003-01-24 Thread Segher Boessenkool
J Q Private wrote: > > Minor note: > > I read, early on, that I'd have to type the alt/option > key first, then Fn, then F[1-7] to get the different > consoles, and that worked. Hitting Fn before > alt/option does not. Cmd-left and Cmd-right is easier. > But once X starts, it does not work anym

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-24 Thread dylan
ok -- calm down a bit there are people who know how to get this done, but things take time as we all have our own things that need to get done. best bet- do as clive suggested- get a macos CD - ( i recomend 7.6.1 but just about any system will work.) format the hard disk, with 1 small macos parti

Re: kernels and b0xen

2003-01-24 Thread Nathanael Hasbrouck
This is with a 604 processor, right? Then yes, you should try to get a cheap cache DIMM from Ebay. For the 7x00/8x00 machines cache increased performance by up to 20%. I've got a cache card from my 7600 I'm getting rid of. You can contact me off list if you want - otherwise I'll sell it on eBa

Re: Trouble getting Quik working...

2003-01-24 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:31:57PM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 21 Jan, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace: > > Wow, Michel, I wonder if that's the same problem so many people > > have getting the beige G3's to use quik? > > Most probably yes. The conclusion the origi

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-24 Thread Clive Menzies
At 9:33 AM -0700 24/1/03, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: For anyone who can help, I don't know anything about my hardware and the installation is asking me for my device driver disk. I assume it is not in the standard woody or potato directories, and that I have to gather them from near and far. I

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-24 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:33:45AM -0700, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: > For anyone who can help, I don't know anything about my hardware and the > installation is asking me for my device driver disk. I assume it is not in > the standard woody or potato directories, and that I have to gather them >

Troubles compiling jpilot 0.99.4

2003-01-24 Thread Sollievo Pronto
Hi, I am trying to compile this (great) program but I get this error: password.o(.text+0x2bc): In function `palm_encode_md5': /home/leandro/lavoro/jpilot-0.99.4/password.c:158: undefined reference to `MD5Init' password.o(.text+0x2bc):/home/leandro/lavoro/jpilot-0.99.4/password.c:158: relocation t

Re: Trouble getting Quik working...

2003-01-24 Thread Dylan Barrie
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 05:55 AM, Chris Tillman wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:51:05AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 21:20:44 -0800, Dylan Barrie composed: On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 07:32 PM, Chris Tillman wrote: Try chroot /target quik -v I d

Re: Trouble getting Quik working...

2003-01-24 Thread Michel Lanners
On 22 Jan, this message from Dylan Barrie echoed through cyberspace: >>> Wow, Michel, I wonder if that's the same problem so many people >>> have getting the beige G3's to use quik? >> >> Most probably yes. The conclusion the original submitter of the bug and >> I came to was that the buggy quik w

Re: kernels and b0xen

2003-01-24 Thread Michel Lanners
On 24 Jan, this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] echoed through cyberspace: >> > > BTW, I get 45 MB/s for the buffer-cache on my 66 MHz SDRAM. >> > >> > Looks still very low, very conservative bridge timings? This means a >> > cache line read (32 bytes) every 700ns or so. Even if you dirty every >>

Re: kernels and b0xen

2003-01-24 Thread vinai
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Michel Lanners wrote: > Well, personally, I would probably not invest in a SCSI controller. > IDE disks and controllers are dirt cheap for very decent performance, > whereas even an oldish fast-wide SCSI controller is still expensive. I would agree with this. If you have a l

Re: kernels and b0xen

2003-01-24 Thread Michel Lanners
On 23 Jan, this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] echoed through cyberspace: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 22:26:00 +0100, Michel Lanners composed: >> On 22 Jan, this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] echoed through cyberspace: >> >> >> - check your hard disk speed: hdparm -tT /dev/ >> >> (is non-destru

Re: Printing to an Appletalk network

2003-01-24 Thread Nick Taylor
If you're using the standard lpd print spooler, the psf(8) manpage should send you in the right direction (you'll need to install the netatalk package if you haven't already). If you're using CUPS, I suspect it's more complicated, though I think it's mentioned somewhere in the CUPS documentation.

Printing to an Appletalk network

2003-01-24 Thread Russell Hires
Hello everyone, I've just gotten debian set up on my iMac, and now I'm ready to print. I'm on an appletalk network at my school, and can print using xpdq, but only if I run the command, and then choose the file I want to print. Instead, I'd like to know how to convince xpdq to print web pages

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-24 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
For anyone who can help, I don't know anything about my hardware and the installation is asking me for my device driver disk. I assume it is not in the standard woody or potato directories, and that I have to gather them from near and far. I don't have my installation disks for MAC OS so if I have

Re: Trouble getting Quik working...

2003-01-24 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:51:05AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 21:20:44 -0800, Dylan Barrie composed: > > > > On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 07:32 PM, Chris Tillman wrote: > > >Try > > > > > >chroot /target quik -v > > > > I don't seem to have a /target folder, ch

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-24 Thread simon
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 23:44:58 -0500, Derrik Pates composed: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:36:06AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I said in my e-mail previously, he has a choice of 3 boot loaders for > Linux on a NuBus system, though not all bootloaders work equally well on > all NuBus syst

Re: Trouble getting Quik working...

2003-01-24 Thread simon
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 21:20:44 -0800, Dylan Barrie composed: > > On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 07:32 PM, Chris Tillman wrote: > >Try > > > >chroot /target quik -v > > I don't seem to have a /target folder, chroot gives me: > chroot: cannot change root directory to /target: No such file or

Re: kernels and b0xen

2003-01-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:46:17AM +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:12:24PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Any idea if the PPC970 bus is really hypertransport like so many people > > sy, or something else ? > > I don't believe that it is HT like. From what I understand

Re: kernels and b0xen

2003-01-24 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:12:24PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Any idea if the PPC970 bus is really hypertransport like so many people > sy, or something else ? I don't believe that it is HT like. From what I understand, the chip has two separate unidirectional 32 bit busses that will be connect