re:please explain to me

2003-10-04 Thread gm c
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:56:11PM -0700, gm c wrote: > example: for my powerbooks ethernet hardware- how do I know that it should > be : > alias eth0 gmac Use this, because the device name is eth0. Though I prefer to use discover, and just let it load the sungem driver at boot.---Is discover the

keycode question

2003-10-04 Thread gm c
I have a g3 powerbook-pismo. I read somewhere the codes 97 and 100 (I think) for fn+alt and fn+ctl which I prefer over 86 and 87- f11 and f12. I was wondering how 97 and 100 were determined sinse when I use the fn+ anything showkey does not print anything.   Also -- what "environment variable" does

New kernel-patch-benh package - feedback appreciated

2003-10-04 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, I've just created, tested and uploaded a new version of the official kernel-patch-benh package that corresponds to 2.4.22-ben2. I would appreciate feedback on the package in general, and in particular on its main features over Ben's tree proper, which are: * applies to the tree in kernel-sou

low latency patch on powerpc won't compile: fbcon_cfb16_putcs: underfined reference

2003-10-04 Thread Marshal Wong
Hi, I'm trying to compile the low latency patch with the powerpc kernel. I patched the kernel, and edited arch/ppc/config.in to allow me to select it. However, when I compile, It always dies with this message. make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.22/arch/ppc/lib' ld -T arch/pp

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Nathanael Hasbrouck
> > What is this no-video-driver stuff ? There is a checkbox in BootX labeled 'No Video Driver'. This causes append="video=ofonly" to be added to the boot parameters. For the 2.4 kernels, at least on my box, I need _not_ to have > that boot parameter, where for the 2.2 kernels I did. So,

Problems with Totem under Gnome/DebianPPC

2003-10-04 Thread Stefano Barale
Hi everybody, I recently surrendered to the temptations of Gnome, and beginned to play around with multimedia. At the moment I'm trying to play DVDs with my iBook 2 (Region 2 DVDs, to be precise). As Bastien Nocera suggested in a previous message on this list I've done: apt-get update apt-get insta

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:05:54PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 07:01:58PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:10:59AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Anyway, please test and give fe

Re: Freeze at boot with a Radeon 7000 PCI

2003-10-04 Thread Volker Birk
Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:27:13PM +0200, Volker Birk wrote: >> Simon Vallet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > after some homework, it appears that I didn't copy the kernel images in >> > /boot also, >> > but only in the "Linux Kernel" folder. >> WTF is a "

Is rsync.penguinppc.org down?

2003-10-04 Thread Rodrigo Weymar Fonseca
Hi all, I tried to rsync linux-2.4-benh from rsync.penguinppc.org with the command line "rsync -avz --delete rsync.penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh /usr/src/benh_kernel" but I got the following error message: rsync: failed to connect to rsync.penguinppc.org: Connection timed out rsync error: error

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 07:01:58PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:10:59AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Anyway, please test and give feedback, before i upload, so we can have > > > all these powerpc subarch

Re: Freeze at boot with a Radeon 7000 PCI

2003-10-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:27:13PM +0200, Volker Birk wrote: > Simon Vallet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > after some homework, it appears that I didn't copy the kernel images in > > /boot also, > > but only in the "Linux Kernel" folder. > > WTF is a "Linux Kernel folder"? When using BootX, the

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:10:52AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Anyway, please test and give feedback, before i upload, so we can have > > all these powerpc subarches supported by debian-installer and debian as > > of the sarge

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:10:52AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Anyway, please test and give feedback, before i upload, so we can have > > all these powerpc subarches supported by debian-installer and debian as > > of the sarge

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:10:59AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Anyway, please test and give feedback, before i upload, so we can have > > all these powerpc subarches supported by debian-installer and debian as > > of the sarge relea

Re: Freeze at boot with a Radeon 7000 PCI

2003-10-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 16:07, Simon Vallet wrote: > > after some homework, it appears that I didn't copy the kernel images in /boot > also, > but only in the "Linux Kernel" folder. > Once I did that, 2.4.23-pre5 (stable) boots fine with 'video=ofonly' > > Anyway, I'd like to be able to specify th

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Anyway, please test and give feedback, before i upload, so we can have > all these powerpc subarches supported by debian-installer and debian as > of the sarge release. I successfully booted the powerpc-pmac kernel with quik on my o

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:27:18PM +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > El sáb, 04-10-2003 a las 17:08, Sven Luther escribió: > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:42:52PM +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > > > El sáb, 04-10-2003 a las 16:13, Sven Luther escribió: > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: Freeze at boot with a Radeon 7000 PCI

2003-10-04 Thread Volker Birk
Simon Vallet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > after some homework, it appears that I didn't copy the kernel images in /boot > also, > but only in the "Linux Kernel" folder. WTF is a "Linux Kernel folder"? VB. -- X-Pie Software GmbH Postfach 1540, 88334 Bad Waldsee Phone +49-7524-996806 Fax +49-7524

Re: Freeze at boot with a Radeon 7000 PCI

2003-10-04 Thread Simon Vallet
So, after some homework, it appears that I didn't copy the kernel images in /boot also, but only in the "Linux Kernel" folder. Once I did that, 2.4.23-pre5 (stable) boots fine with 'video=ofonly' Anyway, I'd like to be able to specify the resolution and depth on the command line ; searching th

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Anyway, please test and give feedback, before i upload, so we can have > all these powerpc subarches supported by debian-installer and debian as > of the sarge release. I verified the powerpc-pmac kernel does boot on oldworld pmac, us

Re: mol-modules-2.2.19 empty?

2003-10-04 Thread Volker Birk
Ansgar Esztermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am experiencing a strange problem with MOL on woody Better use deb http://people.debian.org/~jensen woody/ in your /etc/apt/sources.list for a MoL version which works excellent. VB. -- X-Pie Software GmbH Postfach 1540, 88334 Bad Waldsee Phone +

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Carlos Perelló Marín
El sáb, 04-10-2003 a las 17:08, Sven Luther escribió: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:42:52PM +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > > El sáb, 04-10-2003 a las 16:13, Sven Luther escribió: > > [...] > > > > > > > > > > I have a question about those kernels. Are they something like x86 ones > > > > whe

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:42:52PM +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > El sáb, 04-10-2003 a las 16:13, Sven Luther escribió: > [...] > > > > > > > I have a question about those kernels. Are they something like x86 ones > > > where you have all possible drivers as modules (ide, for example) and >

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Carlos Perelló Marín
El sáb, 04-10-2003 a las 16:13, Sven Luther escribió: [...] > > > > I have a question about those kernels. Are they something like x86 ones > > where you have all possible drivers as modules (ide, for example) and > > then an initrd image so you will have a really small kernel with lots of > > mo

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:26:43PM +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > El sáb, 04-10-2003 a las 13:31, Sven Luther escribió: > > Hello, > > > > Hi > > > I am searching for testers for the new 2.4.22-2 serie of kernel packages > > before uploading them to the archive, and potentially breaking lo

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Carlos Perelló Marín
El sáb, 04-10-2003 a las 13:31, Sven Luther escribió: > Hello, > Hi > I am searching for testers for the new 2.4.22-2 serie of kernel packages > before uploading them to the archive, and potentially breaking lot of > stuff. > > They can be found at : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerp

New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, I am searching for testers for the new 2.4.22-2 serie of kernel packages before uploading them to the archive, and potentially breaking lot of stuff. They can be found at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22 And i would like for two kind of tests : 1) please people using

Freeze at boot with a Radeon 7000 PCI

2003-10-04 Thread Sido
Title: Message Hi,   I recently got a Radeon 7000 (PCI -- mac edition). But when I tried to boot with it the display just freezes, giving me either a frozen "Mac" bootup screen, or a xmon report, depending on the kernel.   I tried different combinations of kernel / BootX options, with the f

Re: HELP ME!!! No more apt-get and dpkg!!!

2003-10-04 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
Hi Emanuele, probably your filesystem crashed and so some files are lost. The perl program below can show you which files from which packages are missing. Then you can reinstall this packages using apt-get --reinstall install package. As some postinst scripts move/remove files from packages, this p

Re: linux-2.4.22-ben2-stew1-xfs available

2003-10-04 Thread Stewart Smith
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 04:37, Stewart Smith wrote: > I have .debs if people are interested, can upload. I've uploaded .debs for those who've indicated to me that they're too lazy to wait for a kernel to compile (i feel your pain). http://www.flamingspork.com/linux/kernel/debs/ (binaries in the uns