Re: XFS enabled Debian 3.0r2 powerpc installer

2004-01-25 Thread J. Javier Maestro
Hi Ethan, I have been trying to make my 2.6.2-rc1-ben1 kernel boot with my XFS / partition, but with no luck. I keep getting the same error: VFS: Cannot open root devide "hda4" or hda4 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on hda4 <0>Rebooting i

Re: mac-fdisk and 0x8e partitions for LVM

2004-01-25 Thread Dean Takemori
I'm currently trying to get LVM working on another Linux/PowerPC distro (YellowDog) with limited success. I have a self-compiled 2.4.24 kernel, with MD, RAID and LVM installed into the kernel. It's booting a Wallstreet powerbook off the internal IDE drive. I'm trying to get LVM working on an ex

Powerbook G4 (867 Mhz) Help Request

2004-01-25 Thread Brad Lathem
I have installed Debian on my Powerbook G4. Installation went fine. Now I want to compile a new kernel, then install XFree86. I am using instructions I found at: http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/ The problem is that I get strange errors after I finish the step "make menuconfig" & run

Re: Anyone using kterm/kinput2?

2004-01-25 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 10:43, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 12:57:39AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > At Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:25:43 -0600, > > Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > Man kterm or something gives an invalid character set error (but some > > > Japanese is displayed as well) >

Re: Low battery -> power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-01-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-01-25 21:10:23 +0100, Mich Lanners wrote: > It would be interesting for pmud to be able to work on battery voltage > instead of the time left as indicated by the obviously mislead battery > controller... Do you mean that pmud currently works on the time left? I noticed that it is really me

Re: Low battery -> power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-01-25 Thread Mich Lanners
On 23 Jan, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace: > 1) battery capacity tends to decrease over time. To see how much > capacity is left, run without pmud (or similar service), remount > everything ro and wait for it to power off. Here is some anectdotical information about m

Re: IBM Java SDK 1.4.1

2004-01-25 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, Possibly? The Blackdown JDK source does not come with any JIT sources but it does come with Hotspot sources but not for PPC. Would someone like me be considered "contaminated" even if there is no JIT being used (or Hotspot for that matter) for PPC since I have seen the built the Sun sourc

Re: IBM Java SDK 1.4.1

2004-01-25 Thread Dalibor Topic
Frank Gevaerts wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 12:12:20AM +0100, Victor Fuente wrote: Thank you, could you please tell me where is the JIT Documentation?? I posted all I know. I found it in the mailing list archives some time ago. While we are on the subject of JITs for java runtimes for Po

Re: XFS enabled Debian 3.0r2 powerpc installer

2004-01-25 Thread J. Javier Maestro
Hi Ethan, I have just tried your image. It works flawlesly :) One of the fastest installatinos I have ever done for Debian. Cool! :) OTOH, I rsynced BenŽs 2.6.2-rc1-ben1 and recompiled, but I get a VFS Kernel panic, unable to mount root I have only compiled XFS support in the kernel, since I onl

Re: TiBook PCMCIA strange behaviour

2004-01-25 Thread J. Javier Maestro
BTW, Ben I donŽt know if it is of any help, but there is this line that comes up in my dmesg: CanŽt get bus-range for /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Any ideas? Perhaps, it is connected with the cs thingie... And yet another thing, should I use yenta_socket or i82365? which one is better?

Re: IBM Java SDK 1.4.1

2004-01-25 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 12:12:20AM +0100, Victor Fuente wrote: > Thank you, could you please tell me where is the JIT Documentation?? I posted all I know. I found it in the mailing list archives some time ago. Frank > > >On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:16:00PM +0100, Victor Fuente wrote: > > > > >

Re: 2.4.24-ben1 black console

2004-01-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 23:18, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > At this point, the new machines aren't fully supported in 2.4, > > but only with my 2.6 tree > > Any plans to backport support for newer hardware to 2.4? It will eventually happen, I

Re: 2.4.24-ben1 black console

2004-01-25 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > At this point, the new machines aren't fully supported in 2.4, > but only with my 2.6 tree Any plans to backport support for newer hardware to 2.4? -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: 2.4.24-ben1 black console

2004-01-25 Thread clemens kurtenbach
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 05:28, clemens kurtenbach wrote: Sorry, not the screen turns black but the backlight turns off. greets At this point, the new machines aren't fully supported in 2.4, but only with my 2.6 tree Ben. Thanks, 2.6 is running without problem

Re: dist upgrade experiences and problems

2004-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 11:13:03AM +0100, Martin Kuball wrote: > I'v just upgraded my woody to testing. Everything went well and the system is > still running ;). Soon after I found out that instead of apt-get upgrade I > should have used apt-get dist-upgrade. I repeated the step and really he >

dist upgrade experiences and problems

2004-01-25 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! I'v just upgraded my woody to testing. Everything went well and the system is still running ;). Soon after I found out that instead of apt-get upgrade I should have used apt-get dist-upgrade. I repeated the step and really he wants to do a lot more work. Among a lot of new packages he wants

Re: Hangs on setting the system clock

2004-01-25 Thread Christian Bolstad
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Steven Schlansker wrote: > I just compiled the kernel-source-2.4.22 package into another custom > kernel (still trying to get my card to work again, so I went back to > 2.4 but a later version), but as it boots up it hangs on the line > "Setting the System Clock using the Hard