Re: has anyone solved the oldworld mac framebuffer problem yet?

2003-06-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:50:15PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > > Just a quick note: don't send HTML mail. Many people won't read > it since it looks too much like spam. It looks like you're using > hotmail/MSN, and I know there is a way to tell that piece of > junk to send plain text mail. I'll se

Re: Kernel panic in a stable system (top error ?)

2003-06-04 Thread dpates
Quoting Brad Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm running woody on a mac performa 6400/200. The system has been stable > for months, and kept current with the stable distribution with apt-get > upgrade. > > This morning, while squid was doing its daily file update, I ran top to > monitor the system lo

Re: Gentoo PPC LiveCDs

2003-06-04 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
Great! On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 07:42, Oliver Ripka wrote: > Hi, > > this may be interesting for some people on the mailing list. > There is now a live cd available for ppc like knoppix, etc. > > I am referring to this slashdot article: > http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/03/06/03/1625222.shtml?tid=

Re: has anyone solved the oldworld mac framebuffer problem yet?

2003-06-04 Thread Brad Boyer
Just a quick note: don't send HTML mail. Many people won't read it since it looks too much like spam. It looks like you're using hotmail/MSN, and I know there is a way to tell that piece of junk to send plain text mail. I'd comment on your computer problems, but my 7600 has never had that kind of

cursor lost after VRAM upgrade (beige G3 DT)

2003-06-04 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello! I just upgraded my G3 with a VRAM modul, now i have 6MB and can now run X and Terminal with 1024x768 pixel BUT my cursor in the terminal is gone! This is very annoying because you have to bet where the postion of the cursor is when you edit files. :-( I am running 2.4.20-ben10. Bye

has anyone solved the oldworld mac framebuffer problem yet?

2003-06-04 Thread Tyler Seboe
Hello,   I'm trying to run debian on an old PowerMac 7600/132 with an Apple Multiple Scan 15 Display and I cannot fix the "screen wrap" problem described in previous posts. This is where the left ~15px are actually being displayed on the right.   I've tried a number or settings in debconf, tried to

set powerbook 12" g4 cpu to 100%

2003-06-04 Thread Sander van Geloven
Hi all, Could there be something in e.g. powerpc-utils that will do echo -n 'initial CPU clock frequency is ' cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep clock | awk '{print $3}' echo -n "0%100%100%performance" > /proc/cpufreq echo -n 'updated CPU clock frequency is ' cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep clock | awk '{print $

Re: German keyboard and X on PB Ti 1GHz

2003-06-04 Thread Krisztian Mark Szentes
Hi Michel On Wednesday 04 June 2003 01:45, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 00:07, Krisztian Mark Szentes wrote: > > Whoever is the maintainer for X (Mr. Dänzer?), you could perhaps > > include a new keymap variant like xfree86/macintosh/de/pc-like where > > there is an AltGR key. > >

Re: Reiserfs on an iBook?

2003-06-04 Thread Gary Sandine
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 08:56, Michel Dänzer wrote: > FWIW, I used to use it on my Macs a while ago, until it ate one > partition in the middle of normal operation. I'm sure that a lot of > problems have been fixed in the meantime, but I've even had problems > with it on x86, so I wouldn't trust any

Re: ibook troubles after dist-upgrade

2003-06-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 17:09, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > Michel Dänzer wrote: > >>In fstab, I have (like on all my x86 machines) > >> > >>proc /procproc defaults 00 > >> > >>What the heck...? > > > > > > I have > > > > none/proc procdefaults0 0 > > ^^

Re: ibook troubles after dist-upgrade

2003-06-04 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Michel Dänzer wrote: In fstab, I have (like on all my x86 machines) proc /procproc defaults 00 What the heck...? I have none/proc procdefaults0 0 but I don't expect that to make a difference? You may have to boot with init=/bin/sh and start each

Re: Is make-kpkg supposed to work on ppc ?

2003-06-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:36:41PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > >Hello, ... > > > >Yesterday, i tried to build a kernel-image ppc/pegasos package with > >make-kpkg. The built went well, but no package was created and i didn't > >see any particular message in the log th

Kernel panic in a stable system (top error ?)

2003-06-04 Thread Brad Farr
I'm running woody on a mac performa 6400/200. The system has been stable for months, and kept current with the stable distribution with apt-get upgrade. This morning, while squid was doing its daily file update, I ran top to monitor the system load (the squid refresh is probably the most cpu

Re: Reiserfs on an iBook?

2003-06-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 12:55, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > Is anybody running reiserfs on an iBook? > > Opinions? Comments? Gotchas? FWIW, I used to use it on my Macs a while ago, until it ate one partition in the middle of normal operation. I'm sure that a lot of problems have been fixed in th

Re: ibook troubles after dist-upgrade

2003-06-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 12:31, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > > Although I didn't touch any init script or /etc/fstab, during the init > phase for runlevel 2 many scripts complain about an empty /proc > directory. Indeed, after "Mounting local filesystems" it prints "/proc > is already mounted" - b

Re: ibook troubles after dist-upgrade

2003-06-04 Thread Warren A. Layton
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:31:44PM +0200, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > 3) Power management > > This one might be related to ALSA, but since I put an "exit 0" in > init.d/alsa, perhaps not... However: snooze, which worked perfectly > previously, now also freezes the machine. The display goes dar

Re: Is make-kpkg supposed to work on ppc ?

2003-06-04 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Sven Luther wrote: Hello, ... Yesterday, i tried to build a kernel-image ppc/pegasos package with make-kpkg. The built went well, but no package was created and i didn't see any particular message in the log that could explains this, in particular, there was no error. So, is make-kpkg supposed

Re: ibook troubles after dist-upgrade

2003-06-04 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Pendant le temps de midi du mercredi 04 juin 2003, vers 12:31, Thomas Winischhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > ALSA worked fine with 0.9.0beta10. Now I updated to 0.9.3 (or whatever > is current in sid), and it does not work at all. In fact, it modprobes > some i2c modules and presumably snd

Re: PowerBook 1Ghz 15" installation woes!

2003-06-04 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 01:20 AM, Francis Pressland wrote: however after doing a startx, all I got was a black screen with a blurred white horizonal line about an inch from the bottom of my screen! This persisted after re-booting. this is what I had on mi TiBook before adding the correct

Re: Is make-kpkg supposed to work on ppc ?

2003-06-04 Thread Carlos Perelló Marín
El mié, 04 de 06 de 2003 a las 14:54, Carlos Perelló Marín escribió: > El mié, 04 de 06 de 2003 a las 14:16, Sven Luther escribió: > > Hello, ... > > > > Yesterday, i tried to build a kernel-image ppc/pegasos package with > > make-kpkg. The built went well, but no package was created and i didn't

Re: ibook troubles after dist-upgrade

2003-06-04 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Jeroen Roovers wrote: 4) XFree strangeness In my B/W Power Mac G3 there's room for 64 PCI interrupts, and an X tool such as xosview reports about 48 of them. In my dual Pentium 133MHz Hewlett-Packard desktop from 1995 (when PCI 1.x was only just starting to get integrated in high-end mainst

Re: Is make-kpkg supposed to work on ppc ?

2003-06-04 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:16:16PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: } Yesterday, i tried to build a kernel-image ppc/pegasos package with } make-kpkg. The built went well, but no package was created and i didn't } see any particular message in the log that could explains this, in } particular, there was n

Re: Is make-kpkg supposed to work on ppc ?

2003-06-04 Thread Carlos Perelló Marín
El mié, 04 de 06 de 2003 a las 14:16, Sven Luther escribió: > Hello, ... > > Yesterday, i tried to build a kernel-image ppc/pegasos package with > make-kpkg. The built went well, but no package was created and i didn't > see any particular message in the log that could explains this, in > particul

Re: ibook troubles after dist-upgrade

2003-06-04 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On 4 Jun 2003 at 12:31, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > > > >> 4) XFree strangeness >> >> Altough I use the same XF86Config-4 like before with Woody, X failed >> to come up with sid. lspci revealed that the VGA adapter has PCI ID >> 0:10.0, while my old XF86Config-4, which -

Re: plplot buildd fails on powerpc

2003-06-04 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-06-04 11:33]: > On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 09:31, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > > > > The buildd of my plplot package is strangely failing for the powerpc > > architecture and I can not figure out from the buildd log where the problem > > is. > > >From > http:/

Re: Gentoo PPC LiveCDs

2003-06-04 Thread Jesus Climent
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:08:27PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > En réponse à Eric Pretorious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Rather a Linux/PPC mailing list. > > > > Relax - It's all good! :^) > > I've neve been convinced by source-based distributions being > the way to go. I have been always conv

Re: Reiserfs on an iBook?

2003-06-04 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:45:01 +0200 Thomas Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is anybody running reiserfs on an iBook? > > > > Opinions? Comments? Gotchas? > > Shouldn't be a problem of the hardware but rather of the kernel, > reiserfsutils etc installed. > Yet on problem could be the following

Is make-kpkg supposed to work on ppc ?

2003-06-04 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, ... Yesterday, i tried to build a kernel-image ppc/pegasos package with make-kpkg. The built went well, but no package was created and i didn't see any particular message in the log that could explains this, in particular, there was no error. So, is make-kpkg supposed to work on ppc, has so

Re: Radeon 9000 If (RV250), Mac G4 (Wintunnel) problems with XFree86

2003-06-04 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 01:19 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 15:22, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 11:52, Simon Urbanek wrote: Summary: 1) CRT + TMDS dual head configuration doesn't work 2) In all configurations colors are completely wrong 3) closing

Re: Gentoo PPC LiveCDs

2003-06-04 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Eric Pretorious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Rather a Linux/PPC mailing list. > > Relax - It's all good! :^) I've neve been convinced by source-based distributions being the way to go. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marant.org

Re: Reiserfs on an iBook?

2003-06-04 Thread Thomas Otto
Is anybody running reiserfs on an iBook? Opinions? Comments? Gotchas? Shouldn't be a problem of the hardware but rather of the kernel, reiserfsutils etc installed. Yet on problem could be the following with noflushd (c&p from noflushd.sf.net): - Reiserfs journaling bypasses the kernel's del

Re: getting external monitors to work with 15" powerbook

2003-06-04 Thread John Leach
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 00:31, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 15:51, John Leach wrote: > > > > The only thing that makes a difference is changing the color depth. > > At 24 bit everything has a yellow tinge (removing Blue) > > At 16 bit everything is a bit more random, but mostly pink

Re: Radeon 9000 If (RV250), Mac G4 (Wintunnel) problems with XFree86

2003-06-04 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:08:47PM +0100, John Leach wrote: > Hi Michel, > > My attempts at using the binary have failed. X reports: > > (II) LoadModule: "radeon" > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules-dri-trunk/drivers/radeon_drv.o > (II) Module radeon: vendor="The XFree86 Project" > com

Re: kernel benh compilation

2003-06-04 Thread Jule Slootbeek
change it to __u16 slot_tabelen should work. Jule, ps. this issue has ben discussed here twice in the last 2 weeks On Tuesday 03 June 2003 23:44, cyril wrote: > During the kernel compilation I get many errors > Is it something with my conf or it is common ? > Anyway how fix that ? > > Thank you,

Re: Gentoo PPC LiveCDs

2003-06-04 Thread Eric Pretorious
From: Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 10:15:45 +0200 (CEST) En réponse à Oliver Ripka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > One can get the images here: > http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/releases/ppc/livecd/1.4_rc7/ We are on a Debian mailing list, aren't we? Rather a Linux/PPC mailin

Re: Radeon 9000 If (RV250), Mac G4 (Wintunnel) problems with XFree86

2003-06-04 Thread John Leach
Hi Michel, My attempts at using the binary have failed. X reports: (II) LoadModule: "radeon" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules-dri-trunk/drivers/radeon_drv.o (II) Module radeon: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.99.5, module version = 4.0.1 Module class: XFree86 Vid

RE: compiling kernel on G4/867 12"

2003-06-04 Thread Nick BERTRAND
Thanks, but I have pbs putting this into practice. >For a punt, you could just try commenting out this cp in the Makefile. What should it comment out exactly, as commenting out the the 3 lines in /usr/src/Makefile .PHONY: _modinst_post _modinst_post: _modinst_post_pcmcia if [ -r System.m

Reiserfs on an iBook?

2003-06-04 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi People, Is anybody running reiserfs on an iBook? Opinions? Comments? Gotchas? Cheers, Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +---+ "The happiness y

ibook troubles after dist-upgrade

2003-06-04 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
After moving from woody to sid (using the very same kernel, some 2.4.18-benX, which has worked flowlessly for more than 1 year, including power management, sound, etc), I face the following problems on an ibook 1 (it's one of these dual-colored almost round plastic boxes, this one is orange).

Re: plplot buildd fails on powerpc

2003-06-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 09:31, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > > The buildd of my plplot package is strangely failing for the powerpc > architecture and I can not figure out from the buildd log where the problem > is. From http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=plplot&ver=5.2.1-13&arch=powerpc&stamp=1

Re: Installation problems on StarMax

2003-06-04 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Nicholas Helps: > Chris is right. They are oldworld and quik will work (at least on my > 3000/180). Yes, Chris was quite right ;) I got the beast working now and booting cleanly with the 2.4.20-powerpc kernel from Sarge. The key was the `video=ofonly' in the boot-file parameter set

Re: kernel compile error at ide-cd.h

2003-06-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Jun 04 2003, Christoph Ewering wrote: > Hello ! > > Just synced to 2.4.20-ben10 and tried to build a new kernel, but it > stops at ide-cd.h. Every help is highly welcome . Check the archives, 3rd post on this in 2 weeks. You need to make it __u16. -- Jens Axboe

Re: kernel compile error at ide-cd.h

2003-06-04 Thread Michael Flaig
Please search the mailinglist archive, this has already been discussed in the past 2 weeks. Thanks, Michael [...]

Re: Gentoo PPC LiveCDs

2003-06-04 Thread Oliver Ripka
> We are on a Debian mailing list, aren't we? Yeah, but sometimes a live cd is even useful for people who use debian. olliwolli

kernel compile error at ide-cd.h

2003-06-04 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello ! Just synced to 2.4.20-ben10 and tried to build a new kernel, but it stops at ide-cd.h. Every help is highly welcome . Bye, Christoph gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -I/us

Re: Gentoo PPC LiveCDs

2003-06-04 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Oliver Ripka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > One can get the images here: > http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/releases/ppc/livecd/1.4_rc7/ We are on a Debian mailing list, aren't we? -- Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marant.org

plplot buildd fails on powerpc

2003-06-04 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
Hi, The buildd of my plplot package is strangely failing for the powerpc architecture and I can not figure out from the buildd log where the problem is. I would need access to a powerpc Debian unstable system with all build-dependencies of plplot installed. Is this mailing list the right place

Gentoo PPC LiveCDs

2003-06-04 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi, this may be interesting for some people on the mailing list. There is now a live cd available for ppc like knoppix, etc. I am referring to this slashdot article: http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/03/06/03/1625222.shtml?tid=106&tid=185 One can get the images here: http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu