Re: WARNING: libc6 in unstable

2003-07-12 Thread Rick Cook
On Saturday 12 July 2003 21:39, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Em Sat, 12 Jul 2003 09:33:22 +0200, Mich Lanners escreveu: > > DON'T upgrade to libc6-2.3.1-17.0.1 in unstable. It breaks your system! > > There is now libc6-2.3.1-17.0.2... anyone knows if that's safe? > > I up

Re: How do I get F12 button to be mouse button 2 on a Ti Powerbook

2003-07-12 Thread emorfin
in /etc/sysctl.conf: dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation = 1 dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode = number_for_f12 dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode = number_for_button_you want the numbers you can obtain from a console (ttyn) with showkey then you restart. P.S. sorry, i dont have my tibook right n

Re: WARNING: libc6 in unstable

2003-07-12 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Sat, 12 Jul 2003 09:33:22 +0200, Mich Lanners escreveu: > DON'T upgrade to libc6-2.3.1-17.0.1 in unstable. It breaks your system! There is now libc6-2.3.1-17.0.2... anyone knows if that's safe? -- _ / \ Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra +41 (21) 648 11 34 \ / http://br.g

Re: How do I move a disk from one 7xxx to another and related matters?

2003-07-12 Thread Derrik Pates
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:11:19AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:31:25PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a 7300/180 which has errors on /dev/sda. I've tried reinstalling, > > using a destructive badblocks test to no avail. > > > > Having a 7200/120 that's dead

Re: Starting X in Debian on a Performa 6360

2003-07-12 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Sat, 12 Jul 2003 18:25:41 -0700, Steven escreveu: > Ok, thanks. I ran that, and the list didn't have anything looking like > valkyrie, which was what dmesg said. I selected v41, it being the only > one with a v in the name, and then it wanted the PCI bus id. lspci did > not report a video

Re: WARNING: libc6 in unstable

2003-07-12 Thread David M. Cooke
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 11:03:32AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: [...] > Since re-installing the base system overwrites the status file, my > machine had no idea what software had been installed. I wonder if a > utility for apt would be useful to reconstruct the status file from > what's on disk. Do

Re: Starting X in Debian on a Performa 6360

2003-07-12 Thread Steven
On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 05:48 PM, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Em Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:29:00 -0700, Steven escreveu: Sorry about that - I replied and it sent it to you, not the list as I had assumed it would... Yeah, that's annoying. IMHO MUAs should be in

Re: Starting X in Debian on a Performa 6360

2003-07-12 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:29:00 -0700, Steven escreveu: > Sorry about that - I replied and it sent it to you, not the list as I > had assumed it would... Yeah, that's annoying. IMHO MUAs should be intelligent enough to send replies to the lists by default. > So how do I reconfigure the X

Re: Starting X in Debian on a Performa 6360

2003-07-12 Thread Steven
Sorry about that - I replied and it sent it to you, not the list as I had assumed it would... So how do I reconfigure the X windows system? On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 03:13 PM, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: Em Sáb, 2003-07-12 às 21:59, Steven escreveu: How do I get t

Re: Apple vs IBM

2003-07-12 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On 13 Jul 2003 at 4:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Say you have a ginormous rig standing in a clean room, that is > > business critical, runs a handful or even several dozens of > > (clustered) 604e processors. Say you want to develop and test new > > This is not such a box. It's a desktop/d

Re: WARNING: libc6 in unstable

2003-07-12 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:09:00 +0200, Mich Lanners escreveu: > On 12 Jul, this message from Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra > echoed through cyberspace: >> >> Is there a FTP there, or does the install CD has some http utility? > > No FTP, sorry. But doesn't the installer have wget?

Re: Another quik/beige G3 boot attempt

2003-07-12 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 08:48:21PM +0200, Simon Vallet wrote: > > Whenever you get CLAIM FAILED, before re-trying, use reset-all. > > The memory map is hosed after CLAIM FAILED. > > i did > > > > This topic has already been discussed on this list, but the solutions > > > didn't work for me: h

Re: Apple vs IBM

2003-07-12 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Sun, 13 Jul 2003 04:31:20 +0800, debia escreveu: >> The CPU is the least relevant part in a server nowadays. This is one of >> the reasons why x86 is actually a bad choice for a server: it dedicate >> design and operation resources to the wrong part of the system. > > This is a workstati

Re: WARNING: libc6 in unstable

2003-07-12 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:09:00PM +0200, Mich Lanners wrote: > On 12 Jul, this message from Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra > echoed through cyberspace: > > Em Sat, 12 Jul 2003 11:03:59 +0200, Mich Lanners escreveu: > > > >> http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan/ftp/debian/libc6/ > > > > Is there a

hpcopy

2003-07-12 Thread Sander van Geloven
Hi all, With hpcopy one can copy files from HFS+ to e.g. ext3. How can I do the reverse? Copy a file from ext3 to HFS+ (in linux or in osx). Thanks, Pander

hpcopy

2003-07-12 Thread Pander
Hi all, With hpcopy one can copy files from HFS+ to ext3. But how can one copy files from ext3 to HFS+ (in linux or in osx)? Thanks, Pander

Re: Another quik/beige G3 boot attempt

2003-07-12 Thread Julien Kirmaier
Bonjour Simon, le samedi 12 juillet vers 20:48 Simon Vallet nous a raconté: > [snip OF stuff] > In case I don't succed, is BootX working reliably on G3's ? Yes, it's very reliable, I use it every day ;-) \bye Julien -- Q: How many FreeBSD hackers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Re: (Fwd) Re: Apple vs IBM

2003-07-12 Thread debian
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On 12 Jul 2003 at 21:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have here a PowerMac 7300/200. It's CPU is, according to the kernel, a > > PPC 604e at 200 Mhz. > > > > It's CPU performance is nothing flash, my Athlon beats it hands down as > > I'd expect. >

Re: Apple vs IBM

2003-07-12 Thread debian
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > Em Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:06:25 +0800, debia escreveu: > > > Now, 250 Mhz isn't a lot more than 200 Mhz. Sure its disk is faster, and > > its a more-nicely specced machine, but it still has basically the same > > CPU as

Re: Apple vs IBM

2003-07-12 Thread debian
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Simon Mushi wrote: > Hi, > > I would surely imagine that teh RS/6000 is tons more scaleable than the > powerMac or Athlon and would have fewer I/O bottlenecks. Tell me something > how many 604e's are included in that $9K price. http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/ha

Re: XMMS alternatives? (Was: no sound from audio cd

2003-07-12 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 21:12, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > Em Sun, 06 Jul 2003 20:54:01 +0100, Bastien Nocera escreveu: > > > $ apt-get install totem > > Very nice for CDs, but can't do DVDs. It just freezes... > > Is there a fix in the pipeline? > > Anyway i

(Fwd) Re: Apple vs IBM

2003-07-12 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On 12 Jul 2003 at 21:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have here a PowerMac 7300/200. It's CPU is, according to the kernel, a > PPC 604e at 200 Mhz. > > It's CPU performance is nothing flash, my Athlon beats it hands down as > I'd expect. > > Then I see this: > http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/

PowerBook /proc/cpuinfo and /proc/cpufreq

2003-07-12 Thread Pander
Hi all, Can someone provide me with the contents for the files /proc/cpuinfo and /proc/cpufreq for 15" and 17" PowerBooks. Thanks, Pander

Re: XMMS alternatives? (Was: no sound from audio cd

2003-07-12 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Sun, 06 Jul 2003 20:54:01 +0100, Bastien Nocera escreveu: > $ apt-get install totem Very nice for CDs, but can't do DVDs. It just freezes... Is there a fix in the pipeline? Anyway it's part of the basic toolchain now! -- Leandro

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-07-12 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:40:56 -0300, José Leônidas Bier Brasileiro escreveu: > How do I get kexi? I tried through apt-get but it didn't worked... Try apt-cache search kexi, or use the interface at http://packages.debian.org./ -- if it has been packaged, that is... -- Leandro Dutra

Re: WARNING: libc6 in unstable

2003-07-12 Thread Mich Lanners
On 12 Jul, this message from Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra echoed through cyberspace: > Em Sat, 12 Jul 2003 11:03:59 +0200, Mich Lanners escreveu: > >> http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan/ftp/debian/libc6/ > > Is there a FTP there, or does the install CD has some http utility? No FTP, sorry. B

Re: Another quik/beige G3 boot attempt

2003-07-12 Thread Mich Lanners
On 12 Jul, this message from Simon Vallet echoed through cyberspace: >> I don't really believe changing load-base makes a difference ... > > the NetBSD people say that this may help : > http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#ofw-claim-failed I'm not sure all their OF explanations are correc

Re: How do I get F12 button to be mouse button 2 on a Ti Powerbook

2003-07-12 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Fri, 11 Jul 2003 19:00:35 +1000, Menaka Lashitha Bandara escreveu: > Why don't you use the default keys. I used to have F12 as middle mouse, > but I find the default Fn+Ctrl and Fn+Alt for middle and left > respectively to be more accessible. Default? How come it doesn't work here?

Re: Starting X in Debian on a Performa 6360

2003-07-12 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:24:14 -0700, Steven escreveu: > (II) VGA: Generic VGA driver (version 4.0) for chipsets: generic > (EE) No devices detected. > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > I have a standard Apple monitor, and the built-in video card. What's > wrong? Thanks. Che

Re: WARNING: libc6 in unstable

2003-07-12 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Sat, 12 Jul 2003 11:03:59 +0200, Mich Lanners escreveu: > http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan/ftp/debian/libc6/ Is there a FTP there, or does the install CD has some http utility? -- Leandro Dutra

Re: Raw device for DVD

2003-07-12 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Sat, 12 Jul 2003 09:39:26 +0200, Mich Lanners escreveu: > Yes. Are you sure your kernel supports raw device access: > > pooh:/mnt# cat /proc/devices|grep raw > 162 raw I do have it. Still no joy. -- Leandro Dutra

Re: Apple vs IBM

2003-07-12 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:06:25 +0800, debia escreveu: > Now, 250 Mhz isn't a lot more than 200 Mhz. Sure its disk is faster, and > its a more-nicely specced machine, but it still has basically the same > CPU as is in my six-year-old Powermac. about the same age as my Pentium > II-233 system.

Re: Another quik/beige G3 boot attempt

2003-07-12 Thread Simon Vallet
 > Whenever you get CLAIM FAILED, before re-trying, use reset-all. > The memory map is hosed after CLAIM FAILED.   i did   > > This topic has already been discussed on this list, but the solutions didn't work for me: here is what I did : > > - downloaded System Disk 2.3.1 and applied the OF

Re: WARNING: libc6 in unstable

2003-07-12 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 01:49:20PM -0400, Pan wrote: > I'm stuck on the same place. > > The problem right now is I can't boot from the cdrom. > > I have a blue&white g3 (450) and I can't get it to boot of the cd. I > have 'boot of cd' and 'boot of of' on the yaboot menu, but apparently > yaboot c

Re: Another quik/beige G3 boot attempt

2003-07-12 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 05:17:14PM +0200, Simon Vallet wrote: > Hi! > > I'm currently trying to boot a Beige G3 (OFv2.4) with quik, and I keep > getting "CLAIM failed!" messages. > Whenever you get CLAIM FAILED, before re-trying, use reset-all. The memory map is hosed after CLAIM FAILED. > Th

Re: WARNING: libc6 in unstable

2003-07-12 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 09:33:22AM +0200, Mich Lanners wrote: > Hi all, > > To those that are tracking unstable and haven't noticed (or haven't been > caught :-) yet: > > DON'T upgrade to libc6-2.3.1-17.0.1 in unstable. It breaks your system! > See for instance: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/b

Re: Snapshot backup of debian installation

2003-07-12 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:25:02AM +0700, befu wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, befu wrote: > > > > _I_ would do it from Linux, initially using 'cp -a' or > > 'tar cl \ > > | tar xpC /mnt/firewire' > > Preferably, in single-user mode. > > > > > I have an Old World Mac (Wallstreet) and have to bo

Re: WARNING: libc6 in unstable

2003-07-12 Thread Pan
I'm stuck on the same place. The problem right now is I can't boot from the cdrom. I have a blue&white g3 (450) and I can't get it to boot of the cd. I have 'boot of cd' and 'boot of of' on the yaboot menu, but apparently yaboot can't reach my cd? I tried booting directly to OF (cmd+apl+O+F) and

Re: Apple vs IBM

2003-07-12 Thread Simon Mushi
Hi, I would surely imagine that teh RS/6000 is tons more scaleable than the powerMac or Athlon and would have fewer I/O bottlenecks. Tell me something how many 604e's are included in that $9K price. Best, simon On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have here a PowerMac 7300/200. It'

Re: WARNING: libc6 in unstable

2003-07-12 Thread Joss Winn
Thanks. That worked and I'm back into Debian. I downloaded the tar.gz file and opened it in OSX. Copied the files to my HFS partition and rebooted using the Debian install CD 1. Mounted the / partition and the HFS partition and then copied the libc-2.3.1.so file over the broken one. rebooted an

Another quik/beige G3 boot attempt

2003-07-12 Thread Simon Vallet
Hi!   I'm currently trying to boot a Beige G3 (OFv2.4) with quik, and I keep getting "CLAIM failed!" messages.   This topic has already been discussed on this list, but the solutions didn't work for me: here is what I did : - downloaded System Disk 2.3.1 and applied the OF patch - downloade

Re: Newbie: no screens found

2003-07-12 Thread Wim
> On Jul 12 2003, Wim. wrote: > > # lspci 00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Bandit PowerPC host bridge (rev 03) 00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Grand Central I/O (rev 02) 01:0b.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Apple Computer Inc. Control Video 01:0d.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. P

Re: Newbie: no screens found

2003-07-12 Thread Henry Schimmer
On Saturday 12 July 2003 12:38, Wim. wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to setup the xserver. > > # startx > > (EE) No devices detected. > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > # lspci > 00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Bandit PowerPC host bridge (rev > 03) 00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Com

Apple vs IBM

2003-07-12 Thread debian
I have here a PowerMac 7300/200. It's CPU is, according to the kernel, a PPC 604e at 200 Mhz. It's CPU performance is nothing flash, my Athlon beats it hands down as I'd expect. Then I see this: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/workstations/ RS/6000 43P Model 150 f

Re: Newbie: no screens found

2003-07-12 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jul 12 2003, Wim. wrote: > # lspci > 00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Bandit PowerPC host bridge (rev 03) > 00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Grand Central I/O (rev 02) The 2.2 kernel you're using isn't able to see all devices in the PCI buses. I think that your life will be easie

Newbie: no screens found

2003-07-12 Thread Wim.
Hi all, I'm trying to setup the xserver. # startx (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found # lspci 00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Bandit PowerPC host bridge (rev 03) 00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Grand Central I/O (rev 02) XF86Config-4: Section "Devic

Re: WARNING: libc6 in unstable

2003-07-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 11:03, Mich Lanners wrote: > On 12 Jul, this message from Joss Winn echoed through cyberspace: > > Yep, this caught me out at midnight last night and I've yet to > > tackle it. > > I can only boot into runlevel two (where booting now stops). It > > won't let me login though.

Re: WARNING: libc6 in unstable

2003-07-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Hu...I see I was not alone not sleeping last night ;-) I've burned a CD too..and all is OK for now on my ibook (Ouf !) Best regards -- eric b

Re: WARNING: libc6 in unstable

2003-07-12 Thread Mich Lanners
On 12 Jul, this message from Joss Winn echoed through cyberspace: > Yep, this caught me out at midnight last night and I've yet to > tackle it. > I can only boot into runlevel two (where booting now stops). It > won't let me login though. Yeah; not a lot you can do... I was able to mke it boot b

Re: WARNING: libc6 in unstable

2003-07-12 Thread Joss Winn
Yep, this caught me out at midnight last night and I've yet to tackle it. I can only boot into runlevel two (where booting now stops). It won't let me login though. My plan was to use the debian install cd 1 to boot and mount the linux partition. I should be able to downgrade from there, right?

Re: Raw device for DVD

2003-07-12 Thread Mich Lanners
On 10 Jul, this message from Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra echoed through cyberspace: > I am trying to use /dev/rdvd as a symbolic link to /dev/raw/raw1, as > per the xine instructions to try to make DVD viewing usable. > > The thing is that xine claims to be unable to use th

WARNING: libc6 in unstable

2003-07-12 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, To those that are tracking unstable and haven't noticed (or haven't been caught :-) yet: DON'T upgrade to libc6-2.3.1-17.0.1 in unstable. It breaks your system! See for instance: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=200887 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=20083