Planning to switch to Debian on PowerBook 1400cs

2003-02-10 Thread dbalder
Hi all, I am planning to switch my PowerBook 1400cs to Debian Woody PowerPC port. I tried MkLinux before with some limited success. I mainly had problems with a considerable number of broken packages. I have a few questions regarding this switch: 1.) Is it possible to get power manager unit work

Lombard XFree86

2003-02-10 Thread Mathew Eis
Hello, I recently did a default FTP install of Debian woody on my Lombard G3 400. I am having difficulty with the following issues: 1) No Sound - ( /dev/dsp dosn't exist ) 2) Cannot start X - ( No Display found ) 3) pbbuttonsd doesn't work ( Had something to do with PMU ) It is a relatively b

Re: Sound!

2003-02-10 Thread Warren A. Layton
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:05:00PM -0400, Etienne Beaule wrote: > So far, I really like Debian. One thing that puzzle me though is > sound... I installed gnome 2 and it complains that /dev/audio/mixer is > missing (other apps complain that /dev/mixer) is missing. > > I did a whole bunch of googl

Sound!

2003-02-10 Thread Etienne Beaule
I'm a double switcher (from Yellow Dog and then from Gentoo)... So far, I really like Debian. One thing that puzzle me though is sound... I installed gnome 2 and it complains that /dev/audio/mixer is missing (other apps complain that /dev/mixer) is missing. I did a whole bunch of google searc

Re: Beige G3 266 installation

2003-02-10 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 06:41:22AM +, Carey Hackett wrote: > Hello all... > > As is my wont in life, I seem to have picked a really > difficult task for myself in deciding to turn my 1998 > G3 266 into a Linux box, and I have spent the entire > weekend trying to get it installed. > > I built

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 03:23 pm, Chris Tillman wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:35:18AM +, Clive Menzies wrote: [snip] I have progress of sorts in that it will now boot into OSX (without having to hold Option on start-up) but I still need OF (Cmd+Opt+O+F) to boot Linux. So

Re: driver for GeForce2 MX of NVIDIA

2003-02-10 Thread José Salavert Torres
El lun, 10-02-2003 a las 00:38, Heissu escribió: > On Sunday 09 February 2003 23:26, you wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 23:53, Heissu wrote: > > >I have a eMac. I installed Debian on that PPC. But, I would like know > > > what driver I must choose for configure my graphic card... > > > > Unfo

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread Nicolai Langfeldt
Jeroen Diederen wrote: Did you guys know that OSX has to reside within the first 8 Gb of the hard disk ? That's odd. My OSX is at the 45th GigaByte or so. The Yellow Dog install guide recommends that the OSX partition is the last on the disk. Maybe the 8Gb limit is related to some older ve

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread Brad Boyer
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 08:52:32PM +, gimli wrote: > > Did you guys know that OSX has to reside within the first 8 Gb of the > > hard disk ? > > My OS X is past the first 15 GB of my drive and it works just fine... The 8G limit only applies to older versions of Open Firmware that still used a

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread gimli
> Did you guys know that OSX has to reside within the first 8 Gb of the > hard disk ? My OS X is past the first 15 GB of my drive and it works just fine...

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Clive Menzies wrote: On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 04:19 am, Chris Tillman wrote: On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 11:25:08PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: yaboot.conf: boot=/dev/hda2 (where Apple_Bootstrap resides) magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot brokenosx (added as a suggested fix but makes n

dri trunk on ibook2

2003-02-10 Thread Guenter Rotenfusser
Hi, first of all I want to apologize for asking a question on sound issues several weeks ago without checking the whole threads before. And now again I must admit I want to ask a question wich is rather offtopic since I do not have debian installed on my ibook. But though I realized that it was a m

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread J Q Private
--- Jeroen Diederen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > MacOS should be in the 1st 8 or 9 GB... > Huh? My MacOS isn't until the 40th Gigabyte. The apple driver partitions and Apple_bootstrap are right at the beginning of the drive, though. _

Quik on PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet)

2003-02-10 Thread Lars Munch
Hi I have installed debian woody r1 on a powerbook G3 (wallstreet). I have deleted all my Mac OS 8.6 stuff and got my linux root at /dev/hda2. After the Debian installation tries to make my system bootable with quik it just gives a black screen (not even the terazzo is seen). Doing a fn+shift+ctr

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:35:18AM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > >Try, first: ybin -v to see if any errors are reported. > I ran "/usr/sbin/ybin -b /dev/hda2 -v" and was asked if I wanted to > create an HFS partition. I first answered No and it aborted; so I ran > it again answering Yes and

XSERVER PROBLEM

2003-02-10 Thread Clemens Mangler
hi! after an apt-get update today my x-server stopped working properly. i sav stripes running down the screen and after shutting the x-server down my console-screen was corrupted. i recompiled drm-trunk-module-src and now i got a black screen, when trying to start x help is urgend needed! so, n

Re: Installation on PowerBook G3 wallstreet

2003-02-10 Thread Lars Munch
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 04:52:53PM +0100, Lars Munch wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:37:03AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:13:21PM +0100, Lars Munch wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I tried to install Woody on a PowerBook G3 wallstreet but have problems. > > > I am usin

Re: The SmokeTest : Black Terrazzo Screen, No Boot, No Woody

2003-02-10 Thread Vallet Simon
(CCing to the list) At 22:19 09/02/03, you wrote: Im installing Debian on my Powermac 6400/200 (late stoneage hw) mine is a 6400/180 ;-) (works fine) Everything seemed well until "Please, remove all floppy CD" And then Boot "for the very first time" It didnt boot The HD ran for 3 secs and the

Beige G3 266 installation

2003-02-10 Thread Carey Hackett
Hello all... As is my wont in life, I seem to have picked a really difficult task for myself in deciding to turn my 1998 G3 266 into a Linux box, and I have spent the entire weekend trying to get it installed. I built the CDs with jigdo on a Windows 2000 box, and I finalised them, as instructed b

Re: kernel oops in mesh

2003-02-10 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > where can i get help for a maybe bug in mesh.o > > when i modprobe -r the module, i get an kernel oops, and the pb hangs, when > > trying to go in sleep mode. > > whom to can i send my syslog or anything else or who is responsible for the > > mesh driver, > > maybe there is list for something

Re: Keyboard ibook

2003-02-10 Thread Eric Boese-Wolf
Did you set your locale? I experienced the same behavior with an german keyboard layout because my locale was "C". Do something like apt-get install console-tools console-data echo 'LOCALE="de_CH"' >> /etc/environment Eric Böse-Wolf -- Bitte senden Sie mir keine Word- oder PowerPoint-Anhänge. Si

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 04:19 am, Chris Tillman wrote: On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 11:25:08PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: yaboot.conf: boot=/dev/hda2 (where Apple_Bootstrap resides) magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot brokenosx (added as a suggested fix but makes no difference) macosx=hd:

Re: pbbuttonsd on TiBook

2003-02-10 Thread Jens Eickmeyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hmm, that's interesting. I had Gentoo installed for some time before I decided to switch to debian. There I used the same kernel an the newest version of pbbuttonsd and I didn't get these messages. I also get messages on the screen when entering slee

Re: pbbuttonsd on TiBook

2003-02-10 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 02:30:05PM +0100, Jens Eickmeyer wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a small problem with pbbuttonsd on my TiBook 867MHz: When pbbuttonsd > is > started and I press the brightness-control-keys it prints the message > "keyboard: unknown scancode e0 4c" right to the console. If pb

Keyboard ibook

2003-02-10 Thread Peter Sperisen
Hi all, I have an ibook of the newer generation with an 800MHz processor and an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 graphics card. I have installed the Ben Kernel 2.40 and XFree86 v.4.2 plus the patched drivers from Michael Dänzer. The X sytem works fine. My problem now is that I have a swiss-german keyb