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

2003-02-26 Thread Orion Buckminster Montoya
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:22:34AM +, David Mery wrote: > Orion, > > I posted the message below to the very interesting thread you > started on installing Debian on a G4 12". However I posted it via > google and though it has appeared on the ng via google, it hasn't > showed up on debian.org.

Re: PBG4 12", NVIDIA Geforce4 420 Go and vga-out

2003-02-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2003-02-26 at 20:39, Georg Koss wrote: > > As I failed to use vga-out for beaming with my ibook2/M3 I'd like to > ask here before buying one of those wonderful PBG4 12". > > Can anybody tell me please if vga-out works on PBG4 12" to mirror the > LCD to e.g. a beamer. Nvidia's Geforce4 420

Re: PBG4 12", NVIDIA Geforce4 420 Go and vga-out

2003-02-26 Thread Georg Koss
Good evening again, thank you for reply, Orion! On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:20:11PM -0600, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: > ... If I boot with an external > monitor, I get nothing on the display until the kernel starts loading, > and then: > > ... ok > copying

Re: booting from hard disk of rs6000 43p 150

2003-02-26 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
However, the kernel can read a Linux filesystem, so you could do as indicated below (if you not want to use yaboot). Depending upon the particular system 'scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]' may not work. You will then have to use the absolute OF path. It did; however, work on the 43P-150. As you will se

Re: PBG4 12", NVIDIA Geforce4 420 Go and vga-out

2003-02-26 Thread Orion Buckminster Montoya
I, for one, do not have this working. I know it should work, and I'm playing around with it, but it's not currently a priority for me. The nvidia driver is still being developed, and I'm not sure how hard it would be to get it working properly. If I boot with an external monitor, I get nothing o

PBG4 12", NVIDIA Geforce4 420 Go and vga-out

2003-02-26 Thread Georg Koss
Good evening all! As I failed to use vga-out for beaming with my ibook2/M3 I'd like to ask here before buying one of those wonderful PBG4 12". Can anybody tell me please if vga-out works on PBG4 12" to mirror the LCD to e.g. a beamer. Nvidia's Geforce4 420 should be able to do dual head. What ot

Re: Adding OSX

2003-02-26 Thread Todd Marek
Great. I'll let you know how it goes. - You can boot to it with no problems...just add macosx=/dev/hdbX (where X = partition where OS X is installed) to your /etc/yaboot.conf then /usr/sbin/ybin and your set. As far as reading and writing to it...that's

Adding OSX

2003-02-26 Thread Todd Marek
Hi- I've been extremly happy with my debian install on my G4/450 Tower. I have a drive from another machine that has os x on it that I want to add to my debian box. I have a bunch of files that I want to preserve on it (more than my current debian drive can store) so I was wondering if there i

Re: DMASOUND, scsi

2003-02-26 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Nathan S. wrote: So far I have been unable to get satisfactory sound using either OSS or Alsa. The OSS driver plays sound through the built in speaker and I don't know how to turn it off. I haven't been able to get Alsa to work yet at all. I have a G4 dual 500 MHz snakebite

[ANN] Yaboot 1.3.10 released

2003-02-26 Thread Ethan Benson
Yaboot 1.3.10 is now available. This release fixes ofpath support for early iMacs with current benh kernels. Unfortunately Apple could not decide whether its called `ata' or `ide'... There are no other changes in this release. ** IMPORTANT NOTE to GNU/Linux distributors: If you wish for you

Linux on the new AmigaOne G3/AmigaOne XE /Teron CX/Teron PX/Terrasoft Boards

2003-02-26 Thread Ross Vumbaca
Hi, Some of you might have heard of new PowerPC boards that are ATX form factor, and will be priced and produced for consumer use. We have been using Linux on them for a while now, and there is now a web site dedicated to running Linux on these boards (kernel source + some quick docs, pictures,

TiBook 1000 modem?

2003-02-26 Thread Sinisa Milicic
Does the pbook 1000 modem work under GNU/Linux? If so, how do I configure it? that's all... Sinisa -- "And the tree of life is growing, where the spirit never dies!" -- Nick Cave