Re: quik kernel size limit

2003-10-15 Thread Chris Tillman
Thanks Ben!! There is a printk in prom.c which wouldn't compile; I changed it to printf and it did make with some warnings, which I think were there before: 'return makes pointer from integer without a cast' in chrootcpy, find_dev, and resolve_to_dev (twice) I installed the patched quik and jus

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

2003-10-15 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:26:56PM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > On Oct 15 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Rogério Brito schrieb: > > As I don't know quik, I don't know if it's simply a matter of calling > > quik instead of mkofboot. > > I think that it should be an easy task, since quik just in

Re: share partition between macosx and debian

2003-10-15 Thread Brad Boyer
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:47:01PM -0400, Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote: > Ok, let me know if I'm completely wrong, but I have an old LinuxPPC > (2KQ4) disc which will boot my 7600 and my parents iMac (rev. A) by > holding down the 'c' key like any other bootable mac CD. It uses > miboot/yaboot, an

Re: share partition between macosx and debian

2003-10-15 Thread Nathanael Hasbrouck
(Oops, sent it to poster instead of list. Sorry.) completly untested on oldworld. The first step would probably be to build a kernel 2.4 (needed for devfs) which fits on a floppy, as we were told that this is the only way to boot oldworlds without using proprietary software. Ok, let me kno

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

2003-10-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:29:21PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 15 2003, Chris Tillman wrote: > > The scripts are still there in boot-floppies; the piece we haven't > > mentioned is using ofpath to figure out how to set the nvram > > parameters. What's there works for most people. > > Why

Re: OT: dirty tibook

2003-10-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 14 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What can i use to clean it? I use plain alcohol to clean my iBook, but I don't know if that will trash your TiBook or not. It works for me. []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogério Brito - [EMAIL

mac on lin

2003-10-15 Thread J Y
Hi, I currently use debian amoung other linxes on a x86 pc. I have an old powerpc 7600av with a G3 upgrade. I have heard that it's possible to run the mac os on linux with the mac on lin software, and to then upgrade and run OS X. Has anyone done this with debian, on an old world powerpc? If so doe

Re: OT: dirty tibook

2003-10-15 Thread christophe barbe
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:12:46AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >P.S. Never loan your tibook to your wife!(or car) > > > > Why would I want to loan my tibook to my car? :-) Are you kidding? It's an Apple toy. I don't see a good reason to loan my iPod to my VW Beatle an

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

2003-10-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 15 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Rogério Brito schrieb: > >What I did was to compile my own kernel, gzip the vmlinux file in the > >root directory of the kernel sources (calling it with the appropriate > >name), grab the hfs boot image from woody and replace the kernel from > >the floppy.

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

2003-10-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 15 2003, Chris Tillman wrote: > The scripts are still there in boot-floppies; the piece we haven't > mentioned is using ofpath to figure out how to set the nvram > parameters. What's there works for most people. Why exactly is Debian switching from boot-floppies to the new d-i? I thought th

Re: quik kernel size limit

2003-10-15 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> OK, but what are the options for 2.6 kernels? Is it possible to compile > kernels small enough? Maybe... :) > > > > - Update the BAT mapping code to map 16Mb instead of just 8 > > - Use an OF map() call to create a 1:1 mapping in the OF own > >tables (not that the MAP may be useless tha

Re: quik kernel size limit

2003-10-15 Thread Mich Lanners
On 14 Oct, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through cyberspace: >> Recently it was discussed here whether quik has a limit on kernel >> size. >> >> Well, while playing with 2.6 kernels I found out: yes, quik _does_ >> have a limit on kernel size. It is exactly 3981312 bytes. In fac

Re: xkbcomp errors

2003-10-15 Thread Lucas Moulin
On mer, oct 15 16:03 Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : [...] > This is harmless. OK, I thought so. >> Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server > > This probably means the X server will use the default keymap, but should > have no other negative effects either. Well, actually

Re: Keys don't type correct chars after kernel upgrade

2003-10-15 Thread Simon Vallet
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:24:18 -0700 Marshal Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES=y AFAIK, this should not be set anymore... Do you have a /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes entry ? I would suggest you recompile your kernel without it, but it might result in

Re: Keys don't type correct chars after kernel upgrade

2003-10-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 18:04, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES=y Disable this, see http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes . -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=dae

Re: Keys don't type correct chars after kernel upgrade

2003-10-15 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Hi Marshal. Thanks for your help. My XFree86 file hasn't changed though between kernel versions, and works fine under 2.4.19...! Cheers Rory On 15/10/03, Marshal Wong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 09:04, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > I should have mentioned that I attempte

Re: Keys don't type correct chars after kernel upgrade

2003-10-15 Thread Marshal Wong
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 09:04, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I should have mentioned that I attempted my own kernel build, using > make-kpkg. > > My config is as below. > > On 15/10/03, Rory Campbell-Lange ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've just upgraded to 2.4.22-ben2 and all seems to be working f

Re: Keys don't type correct chars after kernel upgrade

2003-10-15 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I should have mentioned that I attempted my own kernel build, using make-kpkg. My config is as below. On 15/10/03, Rory Campbell-Lange ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've just upgraded to 2.4.22-ben2 and all seems to be working fine at > the moment, other than the fact that when I startx and open a

Re: OT: dirty tibook

2003-10-15 Thread John Leach
Hehe, my tibook is getting filthy. Covered with cat pawprints too. I think they're cute so I leave them. My only advice would be to be careful with chemical cleaners on the LCD screen. Even wipes designed especially for monitors have been known to severely damage LCD screens. John. On Wed,

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

2003-10-15 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Chris Tillman schrieb: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:25:00AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Rogério Brito schrieb: You could try to use yaboot-installer as a starting point or even make it possible to install yaboot and quick with the same installer component. Probably it's not too much cod

Re: Antwort: Installing Debian

2003-10-15 Thread Joe Phillips
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 10:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have modified the Debian Installer to run on iSeries. > > With this tool you can install Debian 3.0 on iSeries using > the installer menu. This way it is possible to setup from > Debian CD or direct from internet. > > Let me know if you ar

Re: OT: dirty tibook

2003-10-15 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. Never loan your tibook to your wife!(or car) Why would I want to loan my tibook to my car? :-) -- Kent

Keys don't type correct chars after kernel upgrade

2003-10-15 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I've just upgraded to 2.4.22-ben2 and all seems to be working fine at the moment, other than the fact that when I startx and open an xterm, none of my key strokes produce recognisable characters. This is not a problem when I am working on the console, without starting X. This wasn't an issue with

Re: cross-compiling on ppc to i686

2003-10-15 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 04:52:44PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > You need the glibc+headers if you don't bootstrap with --newlib. Aeeh...--with-newlib that is. I usually use: ../gcc-${GCC}/configure --enable-languages=c --disable-shared --with-newlib --disable-threads ... to bootstrap cross gcc.

Re: cross-compiling on ppc to i686

2003-10-15 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 04:02:39PM +0200, Antoine Terrienne wrote: > ../../gcc-3.4-20031008/gcc/config/i386/linux.h:220:20: signal.h: No such file > or > directory > ../../gcc-3.4-20031008/gcc/config/i386/linux.h:221:26: sys/ucontext.h: No such > file or directory You need the glibc+headers if you

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

2003-10-15 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:25:00AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Rogério Brito schrieb: > >On Oct 14 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > >>Second someone has to write an installer component to install the > >>bootloader for oldworld after a successful installation. > >I don't understand exactly what

Re: xkbcomp errors

2003-10-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 14:13, Lucas Moulin wrote: > > Skipping > "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules-dri-trunk/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_clip.o": > No symbols found > Skipping > "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules-dri-trunk/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_norm.o": > No symbols found > Skipping > "/usr/X11R6/lib/module

cross-compiling on ppc to i686

2003-10-15 Thread Antoine Terrienne
Hello I have problem at building gcc on ppc linux (debian unstable) to cross-compile to i686-linux. binutils are compiled and installed sucessfully with folowing options : --target=i686-linux --prefix=/home/kamy Using gcc version : kamy:/home/kamy# gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.3.2 20031005 (Debian p

Re: OT: dirty tibook

2003-10-15 Thread christophe barbe
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:11:45PM +0300, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 14:39, Markus Frauenfelder wrote: > > Hi > > > > Have you ever tried a rubber (like the one you use to erase pencil)? This > > sometimes worked for me. > > Just wait 'till all the paint chips off, takes the

Re: OT: dirty tibook

2003-10-15 Thread Lucas Moulin
On mer, oct 15 05:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : > Hi! > > My tibook is dirty. i tried to clean it, but i can't. > Near the keyboard are cat footprints. > All is cover with fingerpritns. > Near the apple light is a horrible black spot, like a scratch, but is only > a black substance, like oil, or

xkbcomp errors

2003-10-15 Thread Lucas Moulin
Hi all, I had to reinstall Debian on my ibook, and I'm running Sid again. I've got DRI properly set up and X works. But the only window manager that won't start is pekwm (cvs version). I get this on the console when I start X : Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules-dri-trunk/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_d

Re: OT: dirty tibook

2003-10-15 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 14:39, Markus Frauenfelder wrote: > Hi > > Have you ever tried a rubber (like the one you use to erase pencil)? This > sometimes worked for me. Just wait 'till all the paint chips off, takes the dirt with it :) /Tuomas, with one of *those* tibooks -- Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Ar

Re: OT: dirty tibook

2003-10-15 Thread Markus Frauenfelder
Hi Have you ever tried a rubber (like the one you use to erase pencil)? This sometimes worked for me. [EMAIL PROTECTED] hat mal (am Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:43:17PM -0500) gesagt: > Hi! > > My tibook is dirty. i tried to clean it, but i can't. > Near the keyboard are cat footprints. > All is cov

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds (was: Re: share partition between macosx and debian)

2003-10-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:24:03AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 14 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > The d-i team would appreciate your help. We seriously need testers on > > oldworld, as none of us has access to such hardware. AFAIK d-i is > > completly untested on oldworld. The first step

Re: [PATCH] Right-click modifier

2003-10-15 Thread Carlos Perelló Marín
El mié, 15-10-2003 a las 11:12, Gabriel Paubert escribió: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:43:10PM +1000, Stewart Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 01:33, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > > > The showcode command is your friend (from a text terminal, outside X). > > > > doesn't seem to be on my syst

Re: PINE for ppc?

2003-10-15 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Due to licensing issues, Pine is included in Debian in _source form_ only. So > you can do: > > | apt-get source pine > | cd pine-4.58 > | debuild > | dpkg -i ../pine*deb A more convenient way to use, when building from Debian's already cleaned-up

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

2003-10-15 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Rogério Brito schrieb: On Oct 14 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Yes, booting on oldworlds via a CD seems to be possible only with proprietary drivers. OTOH, I could (when I had Debian installed on that oldwordl) boot it with miboot on a floppy without problems. What I did was to compile my ow

Re: [PATCH] Right-click modifier

2003-10-15 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:43:10PM +1000, Stewart Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 01:33, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > > The showcode command is your friend (from a text terminal, outside X). > > doesn't seem to be on my system, and apt-cache search shows up zip. What > package does it come f

Re: [PATCH] Right-click modifier

2003-10-15 Thread Michael Schmitz
> On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 01:33, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > > The showcode command is your friend (from a text terminal, outside X). > > doesn't seem to be on my system, and apt-cache search shows up zip. What > package does it come from? Look for showkey instead (in kbd). Michael

Re: [PATCH] Right-click modifier

2003-10-15 Thread Stewart Smith
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 01:33, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > The showcode command is your friend (from a text terminal, outside X). doesn't seem to be on my system, and apt-cache search shows up zip. What package does it come from? -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Vice President, Linux Australi

detecting usb keyboard keypress

2003-10-15 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
Hi... I wonder whether anyone knows how to detect usb keyboard keypresses as pbbuttons does not and I want to fix this display blanks although I am heavily typing issue... My workaround atm is to look at /proc/interrupts for modified usb-ohci interrupts... that of course would keep the display up

Re: share partition between macosx and debian

2003-10-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 14 2003, Chris Tillman wrote: > I can test the installer using BootX, and will let you know as soon as > I get it going. We still need to trim the kernel down to fit on a > floppy; If the floppy uses miboot, then things are a tiny bit easier, since the kernel can be compressed. But trimming

Making d-i work on oldworlds (was: Re: share partition between macosx and debian)

2003-10-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 14 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > The d-i team would appreciate your help. We seriously need testers on > oldworld, as none of us has access to such hardware. AFAIK d-i is > completly untested on oldworld. The first step would probably be to > build a kernel 2.4 (needed for devfs) which fit

Re: share partition between macosx and debian

2003-10-15 Thread Michael Shields
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can even install OS X on UFS, yet I don't know if it is the plain > UFS from FreeBSD which Linux can read/write or something Apple > modified and/or screwed up somewhat. Linux has no problems reading a UFS partition conta

Re: st15150n (4GB FAST SCSI hard disk) problems on an 8500

2003-10-15 Thread dylan
thanks for the info chris, just for the record, i tried a lot of different things: 1. all permutations of the jumper settings 2. using the internal Mb/sec interface 3. different kernels 4. different computers 5. different ram 6. different processor / cache configurations 7. messing with terminati