Re: mac os doesn't like hformat

2003-06-11 Thread Tom Vier
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:16:14PM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: > d'oh! i didn't even look in the menus. thanks! mac os properly prompted to > reinit the partition. everything's good. 8) until i tried to boot os x. :/ restore went fine, but now when i select os x from yaboot, it just sits there. the app

Re: french keyboard on Pismo

2003-06-11 Thread Serge Basterot
Jacques Kern a écrit : > Hi all, > > I run woody on a Powerbook G3 Pismo. > > I was unable to find how to configure a french keyboard correctly. > I have configured it so as it is a 'azerty' (french) keyboard, but I miss > some important keys like | , [ , ] , { , } ,and so on... (I wrote this mai

Re: Newbie needs help: apt configuration problem installing woody on PM9600 (long)

2003-06-11 Thread John Innis
Yeah, the 9600 has two SCSI busses, but I have already tried swapping them around, and insuring that there were not two of the same ID on either bus. The results are the same. The kernel seems to recognize both busses, and detects all of the devices on each, so I think the basic configuration

french keyboard on Pismo

2003-06-11 Thread Jacques Kern
Hi all, I run woody on a Powerbook G3 Pismo. I was unable to find how to configure a french keyboard correctly. I have configured it so as it is a 'azerty' (french) keyboard, but I miss some important keys like | , [ , ] , { , } ,and so on... (I wrote this mail from my windows box in order to be

Re: Putting a PowerBook to Sleep?

2003-06-11 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, Eric Pretorious wrote: > Now that I've gotten KDE working nicely on my PB, I am wondering how to put > it to sleep (so that I don't have to shut-down/start-up every time I change > seats). Compile a kernel from benh and install pbbuttonsd and powerprefs on it. There are packages in sid. S

Re: benh kernel compile failure

2003-06-11 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Jule Slootbeek: > That's strange because it's been discussed here 3 times in the last month. OK, clearly I need to study how to use a search form... I'm sorry for being obtuse. > change '__u8 short slot_tablelen;' to '__u16 slot_tablelen;' in ide-cd.h on > line 440 Thanks. -- Pax

Re: benh kernel compile failure

2003-06-11 Thread Brad Boyer
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 02:50:50PM -0700, Thanasis Kinias wrote: > ide-cd.h:440: error: long, short, signed or unsigned used invalidly for > `slot_tablelen' > > I haven't seen anything on this in the archives... Then you should look a little harder. It's been much discussed, and is on the way to

Re: kernel config for TiBook

2003-06-11 Thread luis . sanjuan
Oops! I've just sent this mail to the wrong thread. Of course, it should be in the _main thread_. APOLOGY TO ALL. LuiS.

Re: benh kernel compile failure

2003-06-11 Thread Jule Slootbeek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I haven't seen anything on this in the archives... That's strange because it's been discussed here 3 times in the last month. change '__u8 short slot_tablelen;' to '__u16 slot_tablelen;' in ide-cd.h on line 440 Jule - -- Jule Slootbeek [EMAIL P

Re: mac os doesn't like hformat

2003-06-11 Thread Tom Vier
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:25:26AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You may need to go into Drive Setup, select the drive from the list in the > app's > window, and go into "Mount->Customize Volumes...". Then select the HFS volume, > and check the "Mount automatically on boot" checkbox. You'll pr

kernel config for TiBook

2003-06-11 Thread luis . sanjuan
I was browsing without fixed directions ... and I found out two different kernel .config for tibook (benh tree): http://ppckernel.org/configs/benh-powerbookG4 http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/.config This isn't an important issue, I think, but only for fun - I'm curious about some of

Putting a PowerBook to Sleep?

2003-06-11 Thread Eric Pretorious
Hello, All: Now that I've gotten KDE working nicely on my PB, I am wondering how to put it to sleep (so that I don't have to shut-down/start-up every time I change seats). Eric P. Sunnyvale, CA _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protec

benh kernel compile failure

2003-06-11 Thread Thanasis Kinias
Greetings, I've been having pretty poor luck with kernel compiles recently... I'm working ATM on trying to build 2.4.20 with the benh patch on a stock Sarge system (an iMac 266). The compile fails with this: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno

iBook G3 14" or PowerBook G4 15"?

2003-06-11 Thread Ignacio Cárdenas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I am thinking in buy an Apple laptop. I know iBook G3 14" is a very good machine, lightweight, small, cold, very cool ;-), and Linux work fine on it. But i don't know anything about PB G4 15" (http://www.apple.com/powerbook/index15.html), so i

Re: 2-4-21-rc3-benh0 - hfsplus

2003-06-11 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
[...] > > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0305.3/0096.html :-) > > Yes, there you go! Err, I just now found the time to test it... and now I do wonder whether I have to set some hdparm timeout manually (I assume I have to ...).. Any reasonable values ? For the moment I would allow

Re: HD sleep timeout

2003-06-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 15:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I recently put a box to run as a mail gateway, so it has to run all > day long. Unfortunately, I'm not able to let the hard disk go to sleep > (or maybe It does, but I don't notice). > > What I tried is issuing 'hdparm -S /dev/hda'

Re: My sound driver/module (?) doesn`t work (dmasound)

2003-06-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
I see no difference in the sound driver between -ben9 and -ben10 that would affect this machine. Note that the module warning is usually harmless, especially if you have sound built-in. Ben.

crash investigation

2003-06-11 Thread Nicholas Helps
Hi all, As a veritable newbie (at least in comparison) to Linux, I would like some suggestions as to how one goes about investigating system crashes. I have set up a couple of systems which generally run fine. However, today one of my debian systems stopped responding and had to be "hard" rebo

PBG4 12" problem installing GNOME

2003-06-11 Thread Pander
(thread started like: Re: PowerBook 12" G4 map powerbutten in KDE) talking about gnome, i've a problem installing it, package dependencies problem (most packages have been installed from the unstable tree and work fine) perhaps someone have some pointers katana:~# apt-get install gnome Readi

Re: pbbuttonsd && APM events (/etc/apm/*.d/)

2003-06-11 Thread Patrick Baltz
pmud does however run /etc/power/pwrctl and /etc/power/pwrctl-local Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:55:06AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: pmud does not run anything in /etc/apm/*.d. Ok, and so neither pbbuttonsd. And so ... powerbook people is living without apm events

Re: Specific Documentation for PowerPC

2003-06-11 Thread Joss Winn
xf86config is also on the powerpc debian. I have it on my machine. http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/xserver-common-v3.html There is a lot of documentation that comes with the distribution or you could go straight to the powerpc port installation manual on the debian site: http://www.debian

Re: Specific Documentation for PowerPC

2003-06-11 Thread Boris Bezlaj
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:05:59AM +, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote: > In i386 platform, I used to configure XFree86 with "xf86config", but I didn't > found this script in powerpc platform. try /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config it's probably not in the search path or something -- Boris

Re: Specific Documentation for PowerPC

2003-06-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 10:05 am, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote: Is there another way to configure XFree86 in Debian/PowerPC? Is there any FAQ/documentation specific to Debian/PowerPC? dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 (or XFree86 . can't quite recall) There's a lot of guidance if yo

HD sleep timeout

2003-06-11 Thread svallet
Hi, I recently put a box to run as a mail gateway, so it has to run all day long. Unfortunately, I'm not able to let the hard disk go to sleep (or maybe It does, but I don't notice). What I tried is issuing 'hdparm -S /dev/hda' and getting read of some syslog entries but it doesn't seem to work

Re: My sound driver/module (?) doesn`t work (dmasound)

2003-06-11 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
I have similar problems on my iMac and e-mailed this list a few days ago. Nobody has replied, so far... On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, befu wrote: > I installed Woody on my PowerBook G3 and upgraded and compiled the kernel to > ben10 from ben9. But now my sound is not working anymore. When I try to > reins

Specific Documentation for PowerPC

2003-06-11 Thread Daniel Bolgheroni
Hello, I recently installed Debian v3.0r1 on a 9500/120 with 32 MB RAM and I want to configure XFree86. In i386 platform, I used to configure XFree86 with "xf86config", but I didn't found this script in powerpc platform. Is there another way to configure XFree86 in Debian/PowerPC? Is there an

Re: mac os doesn't like hformat

2003-06-11 Thread dpates
Quoting Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yes, Drive Setup must do the whole drive. (Silly, huh?) Commercial > > the linux and mklinux partitioning options are strange, considing it > wants > to own the whole drive. You may need to go into Drive Setup, select the drive from the list in the app's

Re: sungem.o and airport..also sound.

2003-06-11 Thread Menaka Lashitha Bandara
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 11:24, Demented Blitz wrote: > compiled sungem as a module..but for some odd reason i get this error.. > using /lib/modules/2.4.20-ben10/kenrel/drives/net/sungem.o > /lib/modules/2.4.0-ben10/kernel/drivers/net/sungem.o: unresolved symbol > mii_phy_probe_r9f49d444 > any sugges

My sound driver/module (?) doesn`t work (dmasound)

2003-06-11 Thread befu
I installed Woody on my PowerBook G3 and upgraded and compiled the kernel to ben10 from ben9. But now my sound is not working anymore. When I try to reinstall the driver with my floppies I get a message that this reinstallation doesn't work. After a hint from this list I tried to use modconf but I

Re: pbbuttonsd && APM events (/etc/apm/*.d/)

2003-06-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:55:06AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > pmud does not run anything in /etc/apm/*.d. Ok, and so neither pbbuttonsd. And so ... powerbook people is living without apm events or what? TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Ita

PowerBook 12" G4 map powerbutten in KDE

2003-06-11 Thread Pander
Hi all, I've discovered with xev that the on/off button on a powerbook 12" G4 is key number 222. Would it be possible to map this key with xmodmap or with KDE to display the KDE logout menu? Thanks, Pander