Re: 2.4.21-ben2 issues: RTC, Thermal and RTAS

2003-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 03:18:46AM +1000, J. Javier Maestro wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just recompiled the 2.4.21-ben2 kernel several times, trying to get it > running. I finally fixed the FB problem I was having at compilation, and > when booting, the kernel froze in the middle of the boot, when

Re: [LONG] new 15

2003-12-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Wright G.(N) a écrit: Hi all, Whilst I don't use Debian on my PowerBook G4 (I use Gentoo), I'll still post my experiences as they are essentially generic across all distros :) Be warned, some of this info may be a bit out of date - they are from my experiences a month ago (deleted linux w

Fwd: Re: Groundhog day (was Galeon 1.3.10 on sid (ppc)

2003-12-16 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Guys Thought I'd try this out here as I can't seem to get an answer from d-u. It may be a problem peculiar to powerpc (the ppc version may be broken in sid) TIA Clive - Forwarded message from Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > On (16/12/03 19:20

Re: cannot compile latest 2.4-benh kernel

2003-12-16 Thread Joe Malik
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:49:34PM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Il mar, 2003-12-16 alle 19:45, Joe Malik ha scritto: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:05:42PM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > today I rsync'd from linux-2.4-benh and I tried to compile the kernel. I > > > get some erro

Re: cannot compile latest 2.4-benh kernel

2003-12-16 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Il mar, 2003-12-16 alle 19:45, Joe Malik ha scritto: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:05:42PM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > > Hi all, > > today I rsync'd from linux-2.4-benh and I tried to compile the kernel. I > > get some errors that I cannot fix. Could anyone help me? > > > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/u

Re: Source for deb packages?

2003-12-16 Thread Gabriele / randall / Modena
* Once upon a time Harvey Ussery wrote: > I installed DebPPC(Woody) last month; then learned I was not going to be > able to run X with an nVidia card unless I had XFree86 4.3x (not > available on the install CD's). There are no xfree 4.3 packages in the official stable release (not even in si

Source for deb packages?

2003-12-16 Thread Harvey Ussery
I installed DebPPC(Woody) last month; then learned I was not going to be able to run X with an nVidia card unless I had XFree86 4.3x (not available on the install CD's). But then came the problem with the Debian servers--so (if I understand the problem correctly) I cannot download the "official

Re: cannot compile latest 2.4-benh kernel

2003-12-16 Thread Joe Malik
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:05:42PM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Hi all, > today I rsync'd from linux-2.4-benh and I tried to compile the kernel. I > get some errors that I cannot fix. Could anyone help me? > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4-benh/include -Wall > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-tr

Re: iMac DV+ Modelines

2003-12-16 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Hmm... Probably it's coincidence, because I can't get to 800x600 nor 640x480 with Ctrl Alt +. I'm not near my mac now (i'm at work), but I remember X rejected 800x600 and 640x480 even when I explictly defined it as a wanted resolution in XF86Config-4... I didn't find a place with the precise refr

Re: iMac DV+ Modelines

2003-12-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 16:39, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > I've recently installed debian sid in my iMac DV+. Everything was fine > after some handwork, except that X doesn't work in any other resolution > than 1024x768... > > That's bad, since I cannot play frozen-bubbles in full-screen (ok, it > mak

cannot compile latest 2.4-benh kernel

2003-12-16 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi all, today I rsync'd from linux-2.4-benh and I tried to compile the kernel. I get some errors that I cannot fix. Could anyone help me? gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4-benh/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/src

iMac DV+ Modelines

2003-12-16 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Hi, I've recently installed debian sid in my iMac DV+. Everything was fine after some handwork, except that X doesn't work in any other resolution than 1024x768... That's bad, since I cannot play frozen-bubbles in full-screen (ok, it makes full-screen, but displaying a huge black border, because

debian on Umax Apus 3000

2003-12-16 Thread Joerg Stephan
Hi folks, i've got a little problem here, i want to install debian on an Umax Apus but the problem starts just at the beginning, because of the firmware, and so i cant choose an install media. Is there anyone who expirenced with this hardware, and tell me what to do or where to find answeres? Gr

Re: need (pmac owner help) with powerpc package.

2003-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:12:32PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Am Die, den 16.12.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 11:24: > > Hello, > > > > I would like to request some help from someone owning a pmac, to > > investigate all the open bugs against the powerpc kernel package that > > are related to

Re: kernel, devfs and /proc/partitions question.

2003-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:14:31PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:46:38AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Furthermore. If devfs is not mounted, devfs should have no influence > > whatsoever on the running kernel, right ? > > Unfortunately devfs is a broken POS, so in 2.

Closing this bug, since i doubt the submitters cares, and it is woody or potato boot-floppies related anyway.

2003-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, I am closing this bug report. The submitter did not reply to my call for further information, and this is something affecting the potato or woody boot-floppies and 2.2 kernels anyway. I asked for feedback on this one on october 6, more than two month ago, and got no replies except spams.

Re: [LONG] new 15

2003-12-16 Thread Ryan Verner
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 00:28, Wright G. wrote: > Clock slewing not sorted out yet - machine runs at 765MHz with a FSB clock of > 102MHz. /proc/cpuinfo lies about it being 1250MHz :) You can tell this > because the bogomips rating is way down in the ~750 region, when it should be > up in the ~1200

Re: [LONG] new 15

2003-12-16 Thread N
Hi all, Whilst I don't use Debian on my PowerBook G4 (I use Gentoo), I'll still post my experiences as they are essentially generic across all distros :) Be warned, some of this info may be a bit out of date - they are from my experiences a month ago (deleted linux when I sent it in for white s

Re: [LONG] new 15" powerbooks and XFree : success

2003-12-16 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hi list... i just wanted to add some info about my 15" albook to this.. * "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-06 14:54 +0100]: > What can work for now ? > > - Audio CD's are working too (with xine -H). External HP work too. > (Not tested Audio-in) hm, that does not work for me. i

Re: kernel, devfs and /proc/partitions question.

2003-12-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 16.12.2003 schrieb Christoph Hellwig um 13:14: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:46:38AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > It's not correct, but expected. Better don't use devfs. (Yeah, I know > the d-i folks don't get it, but fortunately I hope I won't ever have to > reinstall Debian on this bo

Re: need (pmac owner help) with powerpc package.

2003-12-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 16.12.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 11:24: > Hello, > > I would like to request some help from someone owning a pmac, to > investigate all the open bugs against the powerpc kernel package that > are related to pmac. > > The bugs are against the kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc, > kernel-patc

Re: kernel, devfs and /proc/partitions question.

2003-12-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:46:38AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Furthermore. If devfs is not mounted, devfs should have no influence > whatsoever on the running kernel, right ? Unfortunately devfs is a broken POS, so in 2.4 it has quite a lot.. > The problem is that i am running the powerpc kernel

Re: kernel, devfs and /proc/partitions question.

2003-12-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 16.12.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 11:46: > Hello, > > I have some questions concerning the kernel and its devfs usage. > > If i understand correctly, all kernels used for debian-installer should > have the devfs built, but not the devfs-automount stuff loaded. > > My understanding wa

problems with 2.5-benh kernel source [revisited]

2003-12-16 Thread florian klinglmueller
stupid me ln -s /usr/src/linux solved the problem didn`t solve anything make oldconfig works because i made a link in linux directory, what i`m configuring is actually some old source, trying to, work with the new source (2.5-benh) still gives the same problem: (end of mail) so what`s

Would setting the CONFIG_RTC option break the powerpc kernel on your machine ?

2003-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, On my Pegasos/CHRP box, i noticed that not setting the CONFIG_RTC option in the Character device part of the configuration (not to be confused with the CONFIG_GENERIC_RTC and CONFIG_PPC_RTC options in the General setup part) will cause some strange delay when setting the hardware clock on m

kernel, devfs and /proc/partitions question.

2003-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, I have some questions concerning the kernel and its devfs usage. If i understand correctly, all kernels used for debian-installer should have the devfs built, but not the devfs-automount stuff loaded. My understanding was that when doing that, and booting the kernel with no special option

need (pmac owner help) with powerpc package.

2003-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, I would like to request some help from someone owning a pmac, to investigate all the open bugs against the powerpc kernel package that are related to pmac. The bugs are against the kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc, kernel-patch-2.4.21-powerpc and kernel-patch-2.4.20-powerpc Packages, some of th

Re: problems with 2.5-benh kernel source

2003-12-16 Thread florian klinglmueller
hello list, question seems to be obsolete, ln -s /usr/src/linux solved the problem found that on http://ibook.rootdir.de dont know why but works now just have some ncurses problem (cannot find ncurses libraries) for menuconfig but make oldconfig works fine thx and ciao flo pgpX1HFraIXFK.p

re:no login prompt

2003-12-16 Thread Kim Wroblewski
After installing devfsd the login prompt now works for me under 2.6.0-test11. __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/

Re: problems with 2.5-benh kernel source

2003-12-16 Thread Friedmann Sven
hi, 'apt-get install libncurses5-dev libc6-dev' ;) > hello list, > > trying to compile a 2.6 kernel i encounter propreblems > yesterday i got benh tree with > > rsync -avz --delete source.mvista.com::linuxppc-2.5-benh where-source-goes> > > when i wanted to do make menuconfig i got following

problems with 2.5-benh kernel source

2003-12-16 Thread florian klinglmueller
hello list, trying to compile a 2.6 kernel i encounter propreblems yesterday i got benh tree with rsync -avz --delete source.mvista.com::linuxppc-2.5-benh where-source-goes> when i wanted to do make menuconfig i got following output (at the end of mail), today i downloaded source tarball fro