Re: Gnome-panel unresponsive and taking over the processor

2003-10-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 03:27, Benjamin Sadaba wrote: > First of all... I'm running unstable, so I know if you play with fire > you get burnt ;) > > But... I updated gnome to the last available 2-3 days ago, and ever > since I can't use it. > > Everything starts up fine, but the process gnome-panel

Re: Gnome-panel unresponsive and taking over the processor

2003-10-06 Thread Derrik Pates
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 21:27, Benjamin Sadaba wrote: > First of all... I'm running unstable, so I know if you play with fire > you get burnt ;) > > But... I updated gnome to the last available 2-3 days ago, and ever > since I can't use it. > > Everything starts up fine, but the process gnome-panel

Gnome-panel unresponsive and taking over the processor

2003-10-06 Thread Benjamin Sadaba
First of all... I'm running unstable, so I know if you play with fire you get burnt ;) But... I updated gnome to the last available 2-3 days ago, and ever since I can't use it. Everything starts up fine, but the process gnome-panel starts sucking the processor until the desktop becomes unresponsi

Re: Partitioning for Debian Woody PPC 3.0

2003-10-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:42:29PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > I used the instructions for a PowerBook G4 (867 MHz), with Mac OS X > already on the very last partition of the disk -- I left the very > first part of the hard disk free for Debian ... and it worked out of > the box for me (and a

Re: newbie[live-cd]

2003-10-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 04:46:05PM -0500, __alejo duque wrote: > hi list, 1rst post here..glup! ahemm.. > > Needing help here for getting through with a linux install on my > tibook 500mhz, the disk partition has already been done, a debian > hard drive space of 8gig waiting for it. [havent got

Re: newbie[live-cd]

2003-10-06 Thread jmdeleu
I don't quite understand what it is exactly that you want, but if you're looking for "Mac fdisk" to partition your drive to install here are the urls for "pdisc" which will let you make linux partitions http://www.cfcl.com/~eryk/linux/pdisk/dist/ (pdisk itself) http://www.linuxmafia.com/pub/linu

newbie[live-cd]

2003-10-06 Thread __alejo duque
hi list, 1rst post here..glup! ahemm.. Needing help here for getting through with a linux install on my tibook 500mhz, the disk partition has already been done, a debian hard drive space of 8gig waiting for it. [havent got yet to put my hands on mac fdisk. I have d/l'd a gentoo-ppc live cd b

Re: VGA-out problems on a Powerbook

2003-10-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 19:25, Francesco wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 19:03, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > So how do I disable Xinerama? > > > > By not enabling it. :) You have Option "Xinerama" in your XF86Config-4. > > > I've also had commented it out:-( > # Option "Xinerama" > >

Re: LSB help needed for powerpc and s390

2003-10-06 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 06:35, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 17:58, Matt Taggart wrote: > > Over on the debian-lsb mailing list we're working on LSB runtime compliance > > for Debian. LSB 1.3 is supported on i386, ia64, powerpc, and s390 upstream > > and > > we'd like to be able to

Re: Installation of debian on G5 pmac?

2003-10-06 Thread J. Javier Maestro
On Oct Mon 06 2003 16:39, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Woody's yaboot is not new enough to work on G4s and G5s. You need the > > newest yaboot from penguinppc.org. In fact, I'm not sure it's been > > tested with G5s yet. > > > > According to Nick Lopez in a post on this list less than a

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:50:34PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 06:06:30PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:35:37PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:27:33PM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > > > > Gabriel Paubert said: > > >

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 06:17:08PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 06:02:32PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:29:08PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:16:23PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > > > The MVME5500 is a completel

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 06:06:30PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:35:37PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:27:33PM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > > > Gabriel Paubert said: > > > > I find it quite stupid to distinguish them from PreP only because > >

Re: VGA-out problems on a Powerbook

2003-10-06 Thread Francesco
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 19:03, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > So how do I disable Xinerama? > > By not enabling it. :) You have Option "Xinerama" in your XF86Config-4. > I've also had commented it out:-( # Option "Xinerama" but still get: $ grep -i xinerama /var/log/XFree86.0.log (II) I

Re: VGA-out problems on a Powerbook

2003-10-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 18:09, Francesco wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 16:23, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > In the server log file, as usual. If you're still running with Xinerama > > enabled, you'll see there that this disables the DRI (just like RandR). > > So how do I disable Xinerama? By not en

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 06:02:32PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:29:08PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:16:23PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > > The MVME5500 is a completely different beast (it should be > > > available now or soon), with a

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:35:37PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:27:33PM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > > Gabriel Paubert said: > > > I find it quite stupid to distinguish them from PreP only because > > > they have a different host bridge (Raven/Falcon/Hawk). This said >

Re: VGA-out problems on a Powerbook

2003-10-06 Thread Francesco
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 16:23, Michel Dänzer wrote: > In the server log file, as usual. If you're still running with Xinerama > enabled, you'll see there that this disables the DRI (just like RandR). So how do I disable Xinerama? Do I need it for dual heading? (I just need this feature to give pres

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:29:08PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:16:23PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:43:59AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > > > Sven Luther said: > > > > Could you test the prep kernel at : > > > > http://people.debian.org/~luth

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:27:33PM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > Gabriel Paubert said: > > I find it quite stupid to distinguish them from PreP only because > > they have a different host bridge (Raven/Falcon/Hawk). This said > > I wrote my own bootloader for them which never made it to the > > offic

Re: IDE + CDRW

2003-10-06 Thread Lucas Moulin
On lun, oct 06 16:26 Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >> That means you're using your cdrom drive with scsi emulation. You can > > No it doesn't. append="hdb=scsi" would do that, at least with 2.4 > kernels. Made the same mistake the other day, and used the source to > figure out the c

Re: IDE + CDRW

2003-10-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.22-raf2 > > label=linux > > append="hdb=ide-scsi" > > read-only > > That means you're using your cdrom drive with scsi emulation. You can No it doesn't. append="hdb=scsi" would do that, at least with 2.4 kernels. Made the same mistake the other d

Re: Installation of debian on G5 pmac?

2003-10-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Woody's yaboot is not new enough to work on G4s and G5s. You need the > newest yaboot from penguinppc.org. In fact, I'm not sure it's been > tested with G5s yet. > > According to Nick Lopez in a post on this list less than a week ago > (didn't you already search the archives?), the kernel "h

Re: VGA-out problems on a Powerbook

2003-10-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 15:47, Francesco wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 15:31, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Does glxinfo say direct rendering is enabled? > it seems not to be enabled (see attachm.): > $ glxinfo > name of display: :0.0 > display: :0 screen: 0 > direct rendering: No So you're still u

Re: Problems with Totem under Gnome/DebianPPC

2003-10-06 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 15:33, Stefano Barale wrote: > Thank you very much Lucas. I had to run the script (that downloads some > libs from an external site) and now the (obviously encripted) DVD is played > "fine" under Totem. The only problem is that I can't get any gtk-based > application (include

Re: VGA-out problems on a Powerbook

2003-10-06 Thread Francesco
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 15:31, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Does glxinfo say direct rendering is enabled? it seems not to be enabled (see attachm.): $ glxinfo name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No > If so, does setting the > R200_NO_USLEEPS environment variable make a differ

Re: Problems with Totem under Gnome/DebianPPC

2003-10-06 Thread Stefano Barale
Ravanando nella posta ho trovato il messaggio di Lucas Moulin: > I guess you have to install two things : libdvdread3 and then execute > the script included in /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples called > installcss.sh . Due to license issues, Debian can't distribute this one, > and it's needed to

Re: Installation of debian on G5 pmac?

2003-10-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 09:14:40AM +0200, Yves Combe wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > I would know if there is a solution to install a debian system on G5 pmac. > Woody iso seems not to be bootable on it... and i guess the woody's kernel is > not g5 compat

Re: VGA-out problems on a Powerbook

2003-10-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:41, Francesco wrote: > > [...] 3D is really slow (worse than > before) > glxgears give me like 80 (without accelaration I get like 100). I think > I have mess up something in the installation. If I see what it is > installed with dpkg I obtain: [...] > dunno what are all

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

2003-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:18:33PM +0200, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 13:38, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > Last time I tried miboot.image build myself it did not boot. I'll try > > > this one later this week to let you know. > > I just wanted to add that this was with benH t

Re: Partitioning for Debian Woody PPC 3.0

2003-10-06 Thread Lucas Moulin
On lun, oct 06 12:42 Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > Brandon Robinson, > > I Cc this to you as I have never told you that your page > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook/ worked for me, too ... I'd just like to add that it works also for a brand new iBook :) (900 MHz, revisi

Re: VGA-out problems on a Powerbook

2003-10-06 Thread Francesco
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 13:02, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 22:50, Francesco wrote: > > > > dpkg-gencontrol: error: source paragraph in control info file is missing > > Source line > > This should be fixed in drm-trunk-module-src 2003.10.05-1 . You don't > need the DRM for external

Re: VGA-out problems on a Powerbook

2003-10-06 Thread Francesco
a mistake in sending the message --- Begin Message --- On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 13:02, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > $ xrandr > > Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0". > > Is that really running the X server from xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk? What > do > > head /var/log/XFree86.0.log > XFree

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

2003-10-06 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 13:38, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Last time I tried miboot.image build myself it did not boot. I'll try > > this one later this week to let you know. I just wanted to add that this was with benH tree grabbed from BK. > > > > My biggest problem is AHA2930B (SCSI controller)

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

2003-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:29:28PM +0200, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 13:31, Sven Luther wrote: > > > 2) I am not sure about the miboot kernel image, there is a > > miboot.image in arch/ppc/boot/images, but i am being told that just > > gziping the standard vmlinux would d

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:20:50PM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > Sven Luther said: > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:43:59AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > >> Sven Luther said: > >> > Could you test the prep kernel at : > >> > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22, and instruct us about > >> : >

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

2003-10-06 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 13:31, Sven Luther wrote: > 2) I am not sure about the miboot kernel image, there is a > miboot.image in arch/ppc/boot/images, but i am being told that just > gziping the standard vmlinux would do also. Last time I tried miboot.image build myself it did not boot. I'll

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:16:23PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:43:59AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > > Sven Luther said: > > > Could you test the prep kernel at : > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22, and instruct us about : > > > > > > 1) The differe

Re: IDE + CDRW

2003-10-06 Thread Lucas Moulin
On lun, oct 06 09:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : [...] > image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.22-raf2 > label=linux > append="hdb=ide-scsi" > read-only That means you're using your cdrom drive with scsi emulation. You can safely remove ide-cdrom module. I've got only scsi in my kernel,

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Leigh Brown
Gabriel Paubert said: > I find it quite stupid to distinguish them from PreP only because > they have a different host bridge (Raven/Falcon/Hawk). This said > I wrote my own bootloader for them which never made it to the > official tree for several reasons but mostly my fault (I'm very > bad at pus

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Leigh Brown
Sven Luther said: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:43:59AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: >> Sven Luther said: >> > Could you test the prep kernel at : >> > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22, and instruct us about >> : >> > >> > 1) The different method of booting from a prep system. >> > >>

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:43:59AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > Sven Luther said: > > Could you test the prep kernel at : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22, and instruct us about : > > > > 1) The different method of booting from a prep system. > > > > 2) if there are auto-booti

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:43:59AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > Sven Luther said: > > Could you test the prep kernel at : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22, and instruct us about : > > > > 1) The different method of booting from a prep system. > > > > 2) if there are auto-booti

Re: VGA-out problems on a Powerbook

2003-10-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 22:50, Francesco wrote: > > dpkg-gencontrol: error: source paragraph in control info file is missing > Source line This should be fixed in drm-trunk-module-src 2003.10.05-1 . You don't need the DRM for external display though, only for 3D acceleration. > $ xrandr > Xlib:

Sorry [was: Re: Partitioning for Debian Woody PPC 3.0]

2003-10-06 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Chris Tillman wrote: Not a single word from Chris was in my last message; Sorry about that. > > > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:08:16PM +0200, Max Power wrote: > > > Sorry, I have forgotten the subject! > > > -- > > > Von: M

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Leigh Brown
Sven Luther said: > Could you test the prep kernel at : > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22, and instruct us about : > > 1) The different method of booting from a prep system. > > 2) if there are auto-booting CDroms, or if you just have to enter the > right value from the OF (in

Re: Upgrade Mac OS X 10.2.8 stops 2.4.21-ben2

2003-10-06 Thread Michael Lake
Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hi all, This is just a warning message for those having a Mac OS X and Linux install on the same machine. Yesterday I installed the Mac OS X 10.2.8 upgrade to the machine above: After this, I couldn't boot again to my default kernel which at this time was 2.4.21-b

Re: Partitioning for Debian Woody PPC 3.0

2003-10-06 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:08:16PM +0200, Max Power wrote: > > Sorry, I have forgotten the subject! > > -- > > Von: Max Power <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Datum: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 13:00:44 +0200 > > An: > > > > Hello debian-user! 1st, sorry for my bad

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:38:29AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > On Mon Oct 06, 2003 at 08:45:24AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I think bruckner is prep, that Joey (Martin Shulze) has one, as well as > > Ole-Egil Hvitmyren, i think. I have asked Ole-Egil Hvitmyren also if he > > could do an Amiga

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Erik Andersen
On Mon Oct 06, 2003 at 08:45:24AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > I think bruckner is prep, that Joey (Martin Shulze) has one, as well as > Ole-Egil Hvitmyren, i think. I have asked Ole-Egil Hvitmyren also if he > could do an AmigaONE kernel package, but no response from him also on > this subject. I

Powerbook Lombard cdrom drive

2003-10-06 Thread Colin Leroy
Hi, I have some problems using my internal CDRom drive with new kernels (>2.4.18). Basically kernel: hdc: packet command error: error=0x34 kernel: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveRead in logs and the drive refuses to mount CDs. Kernel 2.4.18 is the latest to work fine. Does anyone ex

Installation of debian on G5 pmac?

2003-10-06 Thread Yves Combe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I would know if there is a solution to install a debian system on G5 pmac. Woody iso seems not to be bootable on it... and i guess the woody's kernel is not g5 compatible? Is there a yaboot and a kernel g5 compatible? Regards, - -- Yves C

IDE + CDRW

2003-10-06 Thread raffaele . salmaso
I have a strange behaviour with my ibook 800. When accessing the cdrom (both reading and writing) the system hangs, until the cdrom has finished. Anybody has this kind of problem? I don't know what to do. The first time I try to use the cd after the boot, it waits a little, then output this Oct 6

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 05:26:42PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 08:56:57PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > prep : no idea, but the above method should do also. > > > > CD3 bootblock > > > > I haven't heard from an

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

2003-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 05:08:05PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:58:21PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > 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 an