Re: DMASOUND, scsi

2003-02-20 Thread vinai
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Nathan S. wrote: > The problem I'm having with scsi is a bit weird. With the 2.2 kernel I > can mount the zip drive on /dev/sda, but with the 2.4 kernel I can't > because I don't have access privileges, but root can. I added myself > to group disk, but that doens't seem to d

DMASOUND, scsi

2003-02-20 Thread Nathan S.
I compiled my own kernel yesterday (feeling very proud of doing just that) and have fixed some problems. I have questions about dma sound and scsi though. I compiled (kernel-source-2.4.18 with patch from kernel.org) with CONFIG_DMASOUND_PMAC=y and CONFIG_DMASOUND=y, but get no sound. Do I need j

Re: Flashing ? on boot.

2003-02-20 Thread Donald Gordon
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:58:40 -0500 "Eric C. Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:40:09PM +1300, Donald Gordon wrote: > > I have two PowerMac 7200/120, and a 1.2GB quantum fireball that I > > installed debian on. It boots on the machine that I ran the debian > > install

Re: french keyboard for pwb/testing

2003-02-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:10:47PM +0100, Eric Boese-Wolf wrote: > Just download the package you used before. > dpkg -e console-data-.deb . > then copy the stuff you need, where you need it ;) > > If think it will go from ./usr/share/keymaps/azerty/blah to > /usr/share/keymaps/azerty/blah use inst

Re: How to Run X11 on a 400MHz iMac

2003-02-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:17:56AM -0500, John van Vlaanderen wrote: > Hello all, > > I installed debian after OSX proved to be too unstable and complicated > to create webserver appliance. > > I have a 400MHz 1 1/2 yr old iMac, though I cannot find any model > information. I think iMacs in this

Re: Flashing ? on boot.

2003-02-20 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:40:09PM +1300, Donald Gordon wrote: > I have two PowerMac 7200/120, and a 1.2GB quantum fireball that I > installed debian on. It boots on the machine that I ran the debian > install on; on the other one, all I get is an icon of a floppy disk with > a flashing question m

Re: System disk floppies

2003-02-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:09:10PM +0100, Lars Munch wrote: > Hi > > I have an powerbook g3 (debian only) which I boot from floppies. To get > it to boot from HD I need to patch open firmware (I think?!). > > Now my problem is that I do not have "System Disk" or a MAC OS boot disk > and I cannot

Re: how to start kde ?

2003-02-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:08:04PM -0800, peter wrote: > dear folk, > > i am in need of step by step instruction to begin using kde. > > i have a fresh re-install of debian; the default runlevel is 2. i had the > mistaken belief that typing > X :0 kdm > would put me into kde. what am i missing

Flashing ? on boot.

2003-02-20 Thread Donald Gordon
Hi I have two PowerMac 7200/120, and a 1.2GB quantum fireball that I installed debian on. It boots on the machine that I ran the debian install on; on the other one, all I get is an icon of a floppy disk with a flashing question mark when I turn it on. If I put the disk back in the first machine

Re: alsa problems

2003-02-20 Thread Patrick Baltz
I believe you may not have created the device files for also. There is some script, named snddevices I believe, that must be run by the root user to create the necessary device files. You should be able to find it in the source that you compiled alsa-driver from. That would be my first suspi

Re: playing region 2 dvd's on ibook?

2003-02-20 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du jeudi 20 février 2003, vers 00:15, christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > If you want real freedom to read all DVDs, you need to flash the drive > firmware with a modified one (best solution) or use a tool to erase the > region change counter to give you your

alsa problems

2003-02-20 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi, I'm having some problems getting alsa to work on my iBook. I have compiled and installed alsa-driver-0.9.0rc7 and the relevant alsa packages from woody. After booting the machine the following modules are loaded: i2c-keywest 7536 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-powermac 3

Re: iBook and heat production

2003-02-20 Thread Martin Kuball
I already did this, but the heat is still there. I think HD is much busier running MacOs X than when running Linux. But I will check this again. Martin Am Mittwoch, 19. Februar 2003 22:55 schrieb gimli: > http://bulmalug.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=1511 > this site has some usefull info ;) > > Mig

Re: iBook and heat production

2003-02-20 Thread Martin Kuball
I thought that it might be the HD. But then I think that I have less HD activity when running Linux than when running MacOS X. Are there tools to measure disc activity unter Linux and MacOS X? Martin Am Donnerstag, 20. Februar 2003 17:05 schrieb Claas Langbehn: > hello! > > Left to the trackpad

Re: Problems starting the X-server

2003-02-20 Thread John van Vlaanderen
Hi guys, I tried to install yellowdawg -- but it failed. So next I tried deb-eye-an ( i was going to try them all ) Got deb working on text only, so then I mounted the ydl images on a loop mount and found this config tool -- it got ~my~ imac working proper: I am sure this is GNU and I posting

Re: problem with starting up lyx using Qt, compiled with gcc 3.2

2003-02-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Don, 2003-02-20 at 05:11, Nirmal Govind wrote: > > > The question remains: why not simply build against libqt3-dev? You > > probably need to get it from sid to build with g++ 3.2 though. > > The reason I didn't do that was cos the LyX developers mention somewhere > in the docs that qt *may* n

Re: french keyboard for pwb/testing

2003-02-20 Thread Eric Boese-Wolf
Just download the package you used before. dpkg -e console-data-.deb . then copy the stuff you need, where you need it ;) If think it will go from ./usr/share/keymaps/azerty/blah to /usr/share/keymaps/azerty/blah use install-keymap to load it and copy it to /etc/console-data/bootkeymap.ffasd.gz or

french keyboard for pwb/testing

2003-02-20 Thread Jean-Christophe Michel
Hi all, I upgraded from woody to testing, and therefore I lost my special chars on the french powerbook keyboard. Is there some repository to load a keyboard 'azerty' with common symbols such as tilde, pipe, braces... ? or do I have to rebuild my own keymap ? Tkx -- Jean-Christophe Michel [EMAI

Re: Problems starting the X-server

2003-02-20 Thread bill traynor
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Don, 2003-02-20 at 08:12, Reto Stalder wrote: I have an iBook 2.2. My problem is, that the X-server does not start. The screen turns black and stays like this. There is no way to return to the console. The only way to access the machine is to login via ssh from a fo

How to Run X11 on a 400MHz iMac

2003-02-20 Thread John van Vlaanderen
Hello all, I installed debian after OSX proved to be too unstable and complicated to create webserver appliance. I have a 400MHz 1 1/2 yr old iMac, though I cannot find any model information. I would very much like to get X11 going tho.. TIA ** xf86cfg produced this error: == (II) Mod

Re: Problems starting the X-server

2003-02-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Don, 2003-02-20 at 08:12, Reto Stalder wrote: > > I have an iBook 2.2. My problem is, that the X-server does not start. The > screen turns black and stays like this. There is no way to return to the > console. The only way to access the machine is to login via ssh from a > foreign host. I've in

AW: Problems starting the X-server

2003-02-20 Thread Reto Stalder
Hi, > I had the same problems while following the same instructions.. They way > i fixed it is before rebooting with the new kernel i removed the symlink > S99xdm in /etc/rc2.d (i assume your runlevel is 2 as well), i just > manually start X en my vm. I know it's an ugly solution but it works for

System disk floppies

2003-02-20 Thread Lars Munch
Hi I have an powerbook g3 (debian only) which I boot from floppies. To get it to boot from HD I need to patch open firmware (I think?!). Now my problem is that I do not have "System Disk" or a MAC OS boot disk and I cannot create them since I do not have MAC OS any more. Could some friendly soul

Re: Problems starting the X-server

2003-02-20 Thread Laurens Kraal
Hi, I had the same problems while following the same instructions.. They way i fixed it is before rebooting with the new kernel i removed the symlink S99xdm in /etc/rc2.d (i assume your runlevel is 2 as well), i just manually start X en my vm. I know it's an ugly solution but it works for me..

Re: test

2003-02-20 Thread simon
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:56:04 +, Edward G. Speyer composed: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > not spam, just a test. thanks for your tolerance. i was having problems getting mail from the debian lists, and it was a relay problem, i had to make sure it was working. no, i

Problems installing on Beige G3

2003-02-20 Thread Ian Rutson
I have a Beige G3 266/4Gb/96Mb, I sucessfully installed woody on a 200Mb HDD as slave on the second IDE channel, the one iwht the CDROM also on it. Ran fine, no problems, excepty I needed more space. So I grabbed a 1Gb drive and installed just the same. The boot floppy loads fine and detects and

Re: test

2003-02-20 Thread jens francke
absolutly no tolerance for that mail ! why u do that ? go test somewhere else please . waste of bandwith regards On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 09:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not spam, just a test. thanks for your tolerance. -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-

Re: Booting the Debian installation CD on Powerbook G4 12"

2003-02-20 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 03:26, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 02:07, paubert wrote: > > > >>Well, the timebase and decremeter are part of the PPC architecture. > > > > I'm not sure things like 4xx implement them "as-is"... > > It is part of the

Re: airport on tibook: surfing vs. ssh/scp

2003-02-20 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 00:09, christophe barbe wrote: > > > Is someone aware of firmware update for the airport card? > > good question. > > I should have CC: ben. I hope you don't mind ben if I CC you. Is there > something like firmware update for this kind of hardware? If yes do you > know a way

test

2003-02-20 Thread simon
not spam, just a test. thanks for your tolerance. -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.| *-* | ,''`. http://www.debian.org/ | http:

Problems starting the X-server

2003-02-20 Thread Reto Stalder
Hi, I have an iBook 2.2. My problem is, that the X-server does not start. The screen turns black and stays like this. There is no way to return to the console. The only way to access the machine is to login via ssh from a foreign host. I've installed it following the instructions on mij's page. I

Re: apt-get update with unstable main Problems

2003-02-20 Thread Michel Lanners
On 19 Feb, this message from Adam Done echoed through cyberspace: [about 'Dynamic MMap ran out of room' with apt] >> Add >> >> APT::Cache-Limit "8388608"; >> >> to /etc/apt/apt.conf. This will be fixed in the next apt version. >> > > Thank you ever s much.. that worked.. weeks and weeks tr

how to start kde ?

2003-02-20 Thread peter
dear folk, i am in need of step by step instruction to begin using kde. i have a fresh re-install of debian; the default runlevel is 2. i had the mistaken belief that typing X :0 kdm would put me into kde. what am i missing? what document have i not read? thank you, peter rooney

Re: Booting the Debian installation CD on Powerbook G4 12"

2003-02-20 Thread Michel Lanners
On 19 Feb, this message from Segher Boessenkool echoed through cyberspace: > If you're going to reimplement the delays using the > time base, why not use the KeyLargo timer instead? Because not every PowerPC, and not even every Mac, has a KeyLargo? Michel ---

Re: airport on tibook: surfing vs. ssh/scp

2003-02-20 Thread Michel Lanners
On 19 Feb, this message from christophe barbe echoed through cyberspace: >> > Is someone aware of firmware update for the airport card? >> good question. > > I should have CC: ben. I hope you don't mind ben if I CC you. Is there > something like firmware update for this kind of hardware? If yes d