Re: review wanted of new Debian X FAQ entry

2003-03-05 Thread Brad Boyer
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:15:02AM +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > All (reasonably new) Apple laptops use ADB. Absolutely every old Macintosh laptop used ADB. Even the old "Portable" Mac used an ADB keyboard and trackball. Unless they've changed very recently, you won't find a laptop/portable M

Re: review wanted of new Debian X FAQ entry

2003-03-05 Thread Segher Boessenkool
Martin Kuball wrote: The problem of course is to find out what kind of bus your machine uses if it's a laptop. Well, trial and error obviously revealed that my iBook uses ADB. All (reasonably new) Apple laptops use ADB. Segher

installing xfree86 4.3.0

2003-03-05 Thread Fred Heitkamp
Hi, I'm trying to install X 4.3.0 from: http://capricorn.woot.net/~daniels/current/sid/powerpc/ How do I add this to /etc/apt/sources.list so that I can install it using apt. Also I trying installing using lynx and there is a (evidently) missing archive called xlibs-data. This comes about when

RE: Confusing /proc/pci output

2003-03-05 Thread Simon Vallet
> What kind of machine is this? I have never seen an Apple hardware that didn't reserve a > dedicated IRQ line per PCI slot. The machine is an OldWorld Powermac 6400/180 (motherboard is Alchemy, if that helps), and the Ethernet card is actually in a special "CommSlot" (which seems to be on the PCI

Connecting to XServe via ieee1394 problems

2003-03-05 Thread Adam Done
My last message was a sucess for mounting a VST 6G Firewire Drive on a G4 using 2.4.20 kernel.  Now trying to attach my XServe onto my G4 via firewire.  I am not having any luck.  I turned off the G4 pluged in the firewire from the xserv (which has been runing from a startup while holding do

Re: debian on the XServ - ieee1394 problems

2003-03-05 Thread Adam Done
Well.. After much of the day.. I finaly got it to work.  I forgot I had to reboot the box.  Is there a way in which I don't have to reboot every time I connect/disconnect. Here is my dmesg ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[63]  MMIO=[8008-800807ff]  Max Packet=[2048] ieee1394: Ho

Re: debian on the XServ - ieee1394 problems

2003-03-05 Thread Adam Done
I just got firewire modules installed and runing on my G4 eth1394 6500   0  (unused) sbp2   17776   0  (unused) ohci1394   19488   0  (unused) ieee1394   35608   0  [eth1394 sbp2 ohci1394] Now what device can I mount a drive?  I tried s

Re: review wanted of new Debian X FAQ entry

2003-03-05 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Dienstag, 4. März 2003 15:09 schrieben Sie: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 17:12:37 +0100, Martin Kuball composed: > > Am Montag, 3. März 2003 01:36 schrieb Branden Robinson: > > > server uses to listen for events from the keyboard.) This is because > > > the keyboard was connected to the computer u

Re: review wanted of new Debian X FAQ entry

2003-03-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op di 04-03-2003, om 22:24 schreef Geert Uytterhoeven: [added [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the Cc list; -x and -powerpc should probably be removed, so setting reply-to] > > There are actually some 2.4 kernels available for m68k, but due to an > > issue related to glibc[1] that started somewhere in the glib

Re: Confusing /proc/pci output

2003-03-05 Thread Mich Lanners
On 5 Mar, this message from Simon Vallet echoed through cyberspace: > Looking at /proc/pci, i get the following : > [lots of things on the same IRQ] > > ("bandit" is the pci controller, and "ohare" is the I/O controller, > both the ati and ethernet cards are accessible directly from bandit > (O

Re: installing debian on a external firewire disk

2003-03-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 19:56, florian wrote: > hi! > > a friend of mine would like to give debian a try, however > he doesnt have the space on his local harddisk. so.. is > there a way install debian on a external firewire harddisk? > > thanks alot in advance! It's currently a bit tricky. The mai

installing debian on a external firewire disk

2003-03-05 Thread florian
hi! a friend of mine would like to give debian a try, however he doesnt have the space on his local harddisk. so.. is there a way install debian on a external firewire harddisk? thanks alot in advance! ciao! florian

Re: debian on the XServ

2003-03-05 Thread simon
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:00:16 -0800, Adam Done composed: >Greetings, > > >Can some one shed some new light on my dark foreboding situation here? >Thank you in advanced. you need a newer yaboot than there is in woody. at least 1.3.8, woody has 1.3.6 IIRC. eric >-Adam > >

Re: How to desactivate the click on the touchpad?

2003-03-05 Thread Eric Boese-Wolf
/sbin/trackpad nopad that's all. No clicks in console. No clicks in X any more. Only the button will be able to produce clicks. Eric Böse-Wolf -- Bitte senden Sie mir keine Word- oder PowerPoint-Anhänge. Siehe http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.de.html Peitsch mich, schlag mich,

AW: How to desactivate the click on the touchpad?

2003-03-05 Thread Reto Stalder
Hi David, > On my iBook running Debian under Xfree, is there a way to desactivate > clicks made by pressing the touchpad (in other words, I want to click > only using the button)? I use the program "trackpad" which is distributed with pmud (or with its source). You can switch off the clicks by cal

Re: Confusing /proc/pci output

2003-03-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/interrupts >CPU0 > 4: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge SCC-txdma > 5:854 PMAC-PIC Edge SCC-rxdma > 6: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge SCC-txdma > 7: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge SCC-rxdma > 8: 1 PMAC-PIC

Re: Confusing /proc/pci output

2003-03-05 Thread Simon Vallet
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:51:06PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > 'dmesg' doesn't show any obvious errors, but I'm confused.. > > Is it normal that some devices share the same IRQ (22) ? Actually, switching kernels (2.4.21-pre5 -> 2.4.20-ben7) cause dmesg to output more information : Li

Re: How to desactivate the click on the touchpad?

2003-03-05 Thread Wouter Eerdekens
Sorry, I misread your original post, feel free to ignore my response... On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:34:11PM +0100, Wouter Eerdekens wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:08:45PM +0100, David MENTRE wrote: > > Hello, > > Hello David, > > > > > On my iBook running Debian under Xfree, is there a way

Re: Confusing /proc/pci output

2003-03-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Bus 0, device 16, function 0: > Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. O'Hare I/O (rev 1). > IRQ 22. > Master Capable. Latency=32. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf300 [0xf307]. > Bus 0, device 17, function 0: > Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment

Re: debian on the XServ - ieee1394 problems

2003-03-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:17, Adam Done wrote: > I downloaded the 2.4.20 kernel from kernel.org and did the rsync with > the benh.. kernel and compiled the kernel. Every thing worked just > fine except the ieee1394. I compiled it with ieee1394 in modules and > compiled in the kernel and both does n

Re: How to desactivate the click on the touchpad?

2003-03-05 Thread Wouter Eerdekens
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:08:45PM +0100, David MENTRE wrote: > Hello, Hello David, > > On my iBook running Debian under Xfree, is there a way to desactivate > clicks made by pressing the touchpad (in other words, I want to click > only using the button)? I use this on my ibook 600MHz with an U

Re: How to desactivate the click on the touchpad?

2003-03-05 Thread stamp
> Hello, > On my iBook running Debian under Xfree, is there a way to desactivate > clicks made by pressing the touchpad (in other words, I want to click > only using the button)? i'm using "pbbuttonsd" for this purpose. this tool also supports those function-keys (e.g. eject cdrom-tray) and afaik

How to desactivate the click on the touchpad?

2003-03-05 Thread David MENTRE
Hello, On my iBook running Debian under Xfree, is there a way to desactivate clicks made by pressing the touchpad (in other words, I want to click only using the button)? Best regards, david -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: starmax 3000 boot settings

2003-03-05 Thread Simon Vallet
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:18:31PM +, Nicholas Helps wrote: > > Set input/output devices to kbd and screen. > Auto-boot left set at true. > Set boot-device to ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 > no boot-file set I suggest you set auto-boot to false until you have the right settings : if your video sett

Re: Confusing /proc/pci output

2003-03-05 Thread furball
Hello Simon, > 'dmesg' doesn't show any obvious errors, but I'm confused... > Is it normal that some devices share the same IRQ (22) ? more recent BUS designs (speak: PCI at least) allow irq-sharing, ie. multiple devicing sharing one IRQ line. so it's perfectly okay. (... as long as it works :)

Re: debian on the XServ - ieee1394 problems

2003-03-05 Thread Adam Done
I downloaded the 2.4.20 kernel from kernel.org and did the rsync with the benh.. kernel and compiled the kernel. Every thing worked just fine except the ieee1394.  I compiled it with ieee1394 in modules and compiled in the kernel and both does not work.  When i compile it ieee1394 as modules an