Re: 2.6.0-test8 kernel log error messages

2003-10-22 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Responding to my own message: it seems that every key stroke and mouse movement causes a new variation of this message listed below. For the time being, I need some way of redirecting these messages to /dev/null...but I don't know where to insert this

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test8 console

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:00:35AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:20 am, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Is there a way to boot Linux kernels from OS X on these G3 desktop > > machines? That's what keeps me from testing Linux on that sort of box > > myself... > > >

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test8 console

2003-10-22 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Voodoo 3 and lower is fixed in the next kernel-image i will upload > voodoo 4 & 5 seem to be still broken though. I have seen patches > circulating on the fbdev mailing list though. Do you keep a separate tree from generic and benh? If so, where wou

2.6.0-test8 kernel log error messages

2003-10-22 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello...I've compiled and am running a generic 2.6.0-test8 kernel from kernel.org, and I've got this message [1] that's filling up my log files, and running me out of space on /var... Can anyone tell me what this means? Or how to stop it from pollut

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test8 console

2003-10-22 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:20 am, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Straight kernel.org or -benh ?? > > > > Straight kernel.org kernel :-) > > Big mistake. Use Ben's tree. Well, I'll play w/ both. I'm happy that the straight kernel.org works "right f

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:14:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > However, it didn't get much farther when I tried a kernel that did > > have drivers ... it read the partitions OK, but failed soon after > > You are trying to read the ramdis

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:15:03PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > I tried booting this kernel with no success. I tried with miboot and BootX, > and both of them seem to get stuck. The video never changes from the last > Mac screen after it reboots. I als

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:15:03PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:04:36AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Hi Sven > > > Please have a look at the two packages in : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/gaudenz. > > One is the : > > kernel-image-2.4.22-powerpc-small

Re: Modem on the iBook2

2003-10-22 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du mercredi 22 octobre 2003, vers 17:35, David Friggens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > Since it's a software modem you need a driver for it. Luckily there is a > binary driver for it - http://www.linuxant.com/drivers > A word of warning though - it's not 100% stable.

Re: Modem on the iBook2

2003-10-22 Thread Ian Wienand
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:56:51PM +1000, Colin Charles wrote: > 2. How do I drive the external display? I've got an ATI Radeon Mobility > 7500. I don't want it to be split screen or anything, I just need the > exact laptop screen output displayed on an external screen (for > presentations, et al).

Re: Modem on the iBook2

2003-10-22 Thread Colin Charles
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, David Friggens wrote: > > 1. How do I get my software modem working? > > Since it's a software modem you need a driver for it. Luckily there is a > binary driver for it - http://www.linuxant.com/drivers > A word of warning though - it's not 100% stable. It's generally OK but >

Re: Xfree86 help on PowerBook 17

2003-10-22 Thread Brendan J Simon
Jens Schmalzing wrote: I did get X going on my PB17 once. I thought I had got to the bottom of it. Now it wont work and it is the exact same XF86Config-4. Which 17" Powerbook? Among other things, Apple changed the video hardware with the last model upgrade. My 1.33GHz 17" Powerbook is

Re: Modem on the iBook2

2003-10-22 Thread David Friggens
* Colin Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-21 17:56]: > Got an iBook2 800Mhz machine here, running Debian, with 2.4.22-benh very > comfortably. Everything works (thanks to the good folk on IRC!). I've got one too. Nice, isn't it? :-) > 1. How do I get my software modem working? Since it's a so

Re: Help required for preventing kdm/gdm/xdm from starting

2003-10-22 Thread pander
Hi all, Thanks for your useful help. About the Gentoo Live CD, I've posted a bug report (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31768) and they will put a fix on their mirrors asap. Regards, Pander On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 07:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've dow

Re: IBM 43P-150 installation

2003-10-22 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:31:08PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: > > > > Did you enable root NFS? If not, could you please recompile the kernel with > > this enabled? This is what I added to my kernel to get it to work: > > CONFIG_NFS_V3=y > > CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y > > This also needs : kernel le

Re: Second round of powerpc subarch investigation : boot-loaders.

2003-10-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:18:08PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 22 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > > The current miboot users simply seem to hand compress the toplevel > > vmlinux kernel and that is it. > > Yes, that's exactly what I do for an oldworld here. BTW, did you (or was > it Gaudenz) g

Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:04:36AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Hi Sven > > I had some success in making a smaller powerpc kernel today. I started > from your config and tried to modularize as much as possible. I built > everything possible as module execpt "input core support" which can't be

Re: IBM 43P-150 installation

2003-10-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:31:08PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: > > Did you enable root NFS? If not, could you please recompile the kernel with > this enabled? This is what I added to my kernel to get it to work: > CONFIG_NFS_V3=y > CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y This also needs : kernel level autoconfigurat

2.6.0-test8 compile errors with gconfig

2003-10-22 Thread Adam
I have downloaded the newest 2.6.0-test8 kernel and have been trying to configure it with xconfig or gconfig and the only one which kinda works is gconfig but every time i try to make a change the gui quits on me and dies with these errors. #  make gconfig make[1]: `scripts/fixdep' is up to d

Re: PowerPC CHRP network install

2003-10-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:20:18AM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:18:26AM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:26:04PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > > > Am Die, den 21.10.2003 schrieb Rolf Brudeseth u

Re: PowerPC CHRP network install

2003-10-22 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:18:26AM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:26:04PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > > Am Die, den 21.10.2003 schrieb Rolf Brudeseth um 22:08: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On a PowerPC CHRP system, with the boot-floppie

Re: status of the mozilla-xft ppc bug?

2003-10-22 Thread christophe barbe
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:19:47PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > >Is somebody looking after this nasty bug? I am afraid that Takuo is not > >going to spend a lot of time on this one. > But he definitely should. It's his package after all! If he does not > know how to fix it, he can set the "hel

Re: PowerPC CHRP network install

2003-10-22 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Tillman wrote: > Actually, it's very difficult to use the current CD image without a > CD. It makes the assumption that the CD is there, and the last time I > tried, I couldn't fool it into thinking the hard disk was where it > wanted to look. We need to have options available for mirrors on

Re: PowerPC CHRP network install

2003-10-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:18:26AM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:26:04PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > Am Die, den 21.10.2003 schrieb Rolf Brudeseth um 22:08: > > > > > > > > > > > > On a PowerPC CHRP system, with the boot-floppies installer, I was >

Re: Second round of powerpc subarch investigation : boot-loaders.

2003-10-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 22 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > The current miboot users simply seem to hand compress the toplevel > vmlinux kernel and that is it. Yes, that's exactly what I do for an oldworld here. BTW, did you (or was it Gaudenz) get my .config file for the oldworld? Do you need asssistance with generatio

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test8 console

2003-10-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > I'd not recommend 2.6.0-test(7,8) for anyone unfamiliar with some > > basic kernel hacking. > > I wouldn't call myself familiar with kernel hacking, but I upgraded > painlessly from 2.4 to 2.6 by simply following the instructions at > http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt>. Color

Re: PowerPC CHRP network install

2003-10-22 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:26:04PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Am Die, den 21.10.2003 schrieb Rolf Brudeseth um 22:08: > > > > > > > > > On a PowerPC CHRP system, with the boot-floppies installer, I was able > > > to boot the zImage through BOOTP and load the initrd with NFS, and boot

Re: Help required for preventing kdm/gdm/xdm from starting

2003-10-22 Thread luis . sanjuan
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:22:16AM +0200, Mathieu Segaud wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > if you want to prevent them to start at boot, just remove startup > symlinks in /etc/rcX.d. Debian mode: there is a debian command to update the System V style init script links: update-rc.d -f re

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test8 console

2003-10-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 03:33:12PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Voodoo 3 and lower is fixed in the next kernel-image i will upload > > voodoo 4 & 5 seem to be still broken though. I have seen patches > > circulating on the fbdev mailing list though. > > > > This is 2.4 though, 2.6 has a totall

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test8 console

2003-10-22 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Michael Schmitz writes: > I'd not recommend 2.6.0-test(7,8) for anyone unfamiliar with some > basic kernel hacking. I wouldn't call myself familiar with kernel hacking, but I upgraded painlessly from 2.4 to 2.6 by simply following the instructions at http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-hallowe

Re: status of the mozilla-xft ppc bug?

2003-10-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
christophe barbe schrieb: Is somebody looking after this nasty bug? I am afraid that Takuo is not going to spend a lot of time on this one. But he definitely should. It's his package after all! If he does not know how to fix it, he can set the "help" tag on the bug and someone will hopefully of

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test8 console

2003-10-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Voodoo 3 and lower is fixed in the next kernel-image i will upload > voodoo 4 & 5 seem to be still broken though. I have seen patches > circulating on the fbdev mailing list though. > > This is 2.4 though, 2.6 has a totally redesigned fbdve layer and new > drivers. I think radeonfb does not work

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test8 console

2003-10-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:34:29PM +1000, Stewart Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:55, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > The tdfx driver would be for Voodoo3. Since you seem to get screen output, > > the driver should be compiled in and used, it's just broken. To verify > > this, look into /var/log

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test8 console

2003-10-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Straight kernel.org or -benh ?? > > Straight kernel.org kernel :-) Big mistake. Use Ben's tree. > > compare the 2.4 and 2.6 versions of tdfxfb.c. Try to set fb_fillrect, > > fb_copyarea and fb_imageblit (in tdfxfb_ops) to NULL to use generic, > > unaccelerated screen writes. Does this improve

status of the mozilla-xft ppc bug?

2003-10-22 Thread christophe barbe
Is somebody looking after this nasty bug? I am afraid that Takuo is not going to spend a lot of time on this one. Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E A qui sait comprendre, peu de mots suffisent. (Intelligenti

Re: Xfree86 help on PowerBook 17

2003-10-22 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Brendan J Simon writes: > I did get X going on my PB17 once. I thought I had got to the bottom > of it. Now it wont work and it is the exact same XF86Config-4. Which 17" Powerbook? Among other things, Apple changed the video hardware with the last model upgrade. My 1.33GHz 17" Powerbook i

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test8 console

2003-10-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > I've upgraded to sarge, and I've compiled 2.6.0-test8, and when I > > > reboot, I've > > > > Straight kernel.org or -benh ?? > > I may be wrong, but it looks as if Ben's tree at > bk://ppc.bkbits.net/linuxppc-2.5-benh hasn't been updated in more than > a week and is therefore still at 2.6.0-t

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test8 console

2003-10-22 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Michael Schmitz writes: > > I've upgraded to sarge, and I've compiled 2.6.0-test8, and when I > > reboot, I've > > Straight kernel.org or -benh ?? I may be wrong, but it looks as if Ben's tree at bk://ppc.bkbits.net/linuxppc-2.5-benh hasn't been updated in more than a week and is therefore

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test8 console

2003-10-22 Thread Stewart Smith
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:55, Michael Schmitz wrote: > The tdfx driver would be for Voodoo3. Since you seem to get screen output, > the driver should be compiled in and used, it's just broken. To verify > this, look into /var/log/dmesg (and please compare the tdfx output with a > 2.4 kernel log to s

Re: Help required for preventing kdm/gdm/xdm from starting

2003-10-22 Thread Colin Leroy
> Runlevel 2 is the default runlevel so 'linux 2' won't make any > difference. Runlevel 1, yes. oh sorry :-) I run a redhat-based distro (linuxppc) where the default is 5. thanks for correcting! -- Colin Récursion (n.m.): voir Récursion

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Re: kernel 2.6.0-test8 console

2003-10-22 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Straight kernel.org or -benh ?? Straight kernel.org kernel :-) > this, look into /var/log/dmesg (and please compare the tdfx output with a > 2.4 kernel log to see if the 2.6 driver misdetects something). Then, I don't actually use 2.4, I've skipp

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test8 console

2003-10-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I've upgraded to sarge, and I've compiled 2.6.0-test8, and when I reboot, I've Straight kernel.org or -benh ?? > got no usable console. X works okay, but the console is useless, being > totally black, or some rather interesting combination of black and white > stripes. I've got a Beige G3 266 t

Re: Panther-Upgrade and no more linux on PBG4 12" - SOLVED :))))

2003-10-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 20:22, Georg Koss wrote: > Hi, > > to start I'm back in Sarge with my PBG4 12". > > Finally it was Ben's hint which made the day a red-letter day. > > For the records: So I rsynced 2.4.23-pre5-ben0, compiled it monolithic > without that CPU-frequency scaling option. > I re

Re: software download

2003-10-22 Thread J. Javier Maestro
On Oct Tue 21 2003 11:08, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > On Tuesday, Oct 21, 2003, at 00:36 America/New_York, J. Javier Maestro > wrote: > > >On Oct Mon 20 2003 02:01, SpawnPPC wrote: > >>Hi all, > >> > >>I'm Emanuele, from Italy. > >> > >>Where I can found and download with apt-get this sof

Re: Help required for preventing kdm/gdm/xdm from starting

2003-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:13:47AM +0200, Colin Leroy wrote: > Hi, > > > So my question is, does debian has a feature, like e.g.Mandrake has, > > in which you can select what services to start at boot time with simple > > Y/N questions. Or is there any other way for me to stop kdm/gdm/xdm > > from

Re: Help required for preventing kdm/gdm/xdm from starting

2003-10-22 Thread Mathieu Segaud
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi all, > > I've downgraded my PowerBook G4 12" from unstable to testing and as a > result of that X is not working anymore. Not a big problem but, even > worse is that it is hanging my system in such a way that I cannot even > login blind into a console and prevent kdm

Re: Help required for preventing kdm/gdm/xdm from starting

2003-10-22 Thread Colin Leroy
Hi, > So my question is, does debian has a feature, like e.g.Mandrake has, > in which you can select what services to start at boot time with simple > Y/N questions. Or is there any other way for me to stop kdm/gdm/xdm > from starting at boot time? Or is there a way to boot the Gentoo Live > CD in

Re: Second round of powerpc subarch investigation : boot-loaders.

2003-10-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:58:08PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:36:57AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:45:47PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:31:46PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:10:21AM -0700,

Kernel 2,6 Compilation problems (gnucash)

2003-10-22 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, I tried to convince my m68k Mac IIfx, running a newly-ported Linux 2.6.0, to compile the latest gnucash from unstable. (Not that it would actually be useable there, but Debian requires all binaries to compile everywhere.) It failed with a weird error. I then tried to do the same on PPC (also

Help required for preventing kdm/gdm/xdm from starting

2003-10-22 Thread pander
Hi all, I've downgraded my PowerBook G4 12" from unstable to testing and as a result of that X is not working anymore. Not a big problem but, even worse is that it is hanging my system in such a way that I cannot even login blind into a console and prevent kdm/gdm/xdm from starting on the nex

Xfree86 help on PowerBook 17

2003-10-22 Thread Brendan J Simon
I did get X going on my PB17 once. I thought I had got to the bottom of it. Now it wont work and it is the exact same XF86Config-4. It seems every second time I run "startx" (via ssh remote login)I get a black screen. Every other second time I get a greyish background with vertical stripes and a