Re: Pointers for a ppc newbie?

2004-03-02 Thread jim altieri
howdy, i just did the same thing (onto a powerbook) last week. to burn isos on macos, you need toast deluxe, or some other nice piece of expensive software. i've searched all over versiontracker for free/shareware, and no can find. your best bet is burning an iso on your dell. i would strong

Re: 2.4.25 compile troubles

2004-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 21:39, Joshua Narins wrote: > Thx in advance. > > It almost gets all the way through, and I don't see any more than a tiny > handful of warnings in the output. But if it worked, I wouldn't be writing > you[1]. > > The tail end of > make-kpkg kernel_image > > if [ -x debi

anyone ever hooked a dumb terminal up to a NewWorld PowerMac?

2004-03-02 Thread Branden Robinson
Hi folks, I have a DEC VT520 in good working condition that I had working as dumb terminal with my x86 box, back when I had a working x86 box, over a year ago. There are HOWTOs and stuff aplenty, but no one appears to have documented how to get a dumb terminal connected up using only USB. I have

Re: Titanium IV: XFree86.0.log: "(II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled"

2004-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 01:43, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 20:49, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > ! (II) RADEON(0): [drm] drmSetBusid failed (8, pci::00:10.0), > > Permission denied > > ! (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. > > (In the future, please

Triple booting OS 9,X Debian

2004-03-02 Thread dotto
Ok, I've tried this once before and wound up with a mess, but does someone know how to get this configuration working. I have OS9 installed from my Titanium software restore disk onto a Panther OS X (They are on the same partition, because the OS9 installer said I needed OS X installed on the HD

Re: benh 2.6.3 kernel problems TiBook III

2004-03-02 Thread christophe barbe
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:43:38PM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > I am trying the 2.6 kernel. It looks like it locks after the open-pic > exit line but in fact it simply run without the console. I heard > hard-drive noises, waited and got X. Setting FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE solved the problem. see D

Re: Ben's kernel?

2004-03-02 Thread Imobach González Sosa
El Martes, 2 de Marzo de 2004 23:11, Imobach González Sosa escribió: > Hi all, > > My question is just a little curiosity. Well, I think that I'm running the > 2.6.3 kernel with the Ben's patch set. I say "I think" because when I run > "make menuconfig" I only can read on the top of the screen some

Re: Titanium IV: XFree86.0.log: "(II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled"

2004-03-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 20:49, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > ! (II) RADEON(0): [drm] drmSetBusid failed (8, pci::00:10.0), Permission > denied > ! (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. (In the future, please use diff -u instead of diff -c) Was the DRM compiled by the sam

Ben's kernel?

2004-03-02 Thread Imobach González Sosa
Hi all, My question is just a little curiosity. Well, I think that I'm running the 2.6.3 kernel with the Ben's patch set. I say "I think" because when I run "make menuconfig" I only can read on the top of the screen something like "Linux Kernel 2.6.3 Configuration" (no -benY after version numbe

Re: Titanium IV: XFree86.0.log: "(II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled"

2004-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 20:49, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi All > > unstable here. > > Today I compiled and installed the latest > drm-trunk-module-src 2004.02.28-1 > > When I boot to 2.4.24-ben1 Direct rendering seems to be disabled here. > And I'd like to understand why. [ ... ] I don'

Pointers for a ppc newbie?

2004-03-02 Thread s. keeling
Hi. I've an iMac that's come to end of life for MacOS and I'm intent on slapping Debian onto it. At the moment, I'm bogging down in lack of Mac knowledge. If anyone can offer pointers as to how these things can be done, I'd appreciate it. - How do I burn iso's in MacOS 8.x? Do I need special

Re: benh 2.6.3 kernel problems TiBook III

2004-03-02 Thread christophe barbe
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:03:15PM -0700, Mike Van Milligan wrote: > I just built the 2.6.3 kernel from souce.mvista.com. Everything went > fine, I installed it, ran ybin and rebooted. Then the fun started, > while booting, it locked on the open-pic: exit line. The same problem > that aros

Re: Need to Install Benh iMac Kernel -- But How?

2004-03-02 Thread Fleny68
Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit : Probably cpufreq. I don't recommend distributing a 2.4 kernel for G5s anyway. 2.6 is the way to go on these. 2.6.3-ben2 for G5 x-compile in 64 bits is here (yet untested): ftp://ftp.crihan.fr/mirrors/knoppix-mib.org/k-mib-ppc-beta-pre12.iso (bootable iso). ther

Re: Need to Install Benh iMac Kernel -- But How?

2004-03-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 00:30, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 06:23:42PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 03:18:56PM -0500, Ed Sutherland wrote: > > > I need to install the linux-2.4.24-ben1 kernel for the iMac CRT, which > > > I think could fix my display problems

2.4.25 compile troubles

2004-03-02 Thread Joshua Narins
Thx in advance. It almost gets all the way through, and I don't see any more than a tiny handful of warnings in the output. But if it worked, I wouldn't be writing you[1]. The tail end of > make-kpkg kernel_image if [ -x debian/post-install ]; then \

Re: pmud problem: No Sleep support on this hardware, exiting!

2004-03-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 02:35, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Good idea - do you have a lsprop tool for MacOS X ? > > > > ioreg. Or use OF itself: > > ioreg found this: > > "driver,AAPL,MacOS,PowerPC" > > with some hex data in it. I need to get it to dump only that property (the > output is clipped

Titanium IV: XFree86.0.log: "(II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled"

2004-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi All unstable here. Today I compiled and installed the latest drm-trunk-module-src 2004.02.28-1 When I boot to 2.4.24-ben1 Direct rendering seems to be disabled here. And I'd like to understand why. When I boot to my old backup kernel 2.4.22-ben2 everything seems fine, Direct Rendering see

Re: 2.6.3-ben2 fails to mount ext3

2004-03-02 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 the mental interface of Lukas Th. Hey told: {gqap} > There is something else I have observed. ybin does maybe have some > problems with ext3 partitions containing /boot. As soon as I have > taken ext2 for /boot it has worked at once. A partition for /boot is in normal cases

Re: 2.6.3-ben2 fails to mount ext3

2004-03-02 Thread Lukas Th. Hey
There is something else I have observed. ybin does maybe have some problems with ext3 partitions containing /boot. As soon as I have taken ext2 for /boot it has worked at once. Dunno if it helps...just something which made it hard to start with Debian on PPC. Lukas --

Re: m3mirror

2004-03-02 Thread Nagarjuna G.
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 21:04, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > I have working PowerBookG4 running 2.4.23-pre5-ben0, with VGA > > compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon > > Mobility 9000 M9] (rev 1). Would ben's m3mirror work on this. When I > > tried I get > > > > gbook:/hom

Re: pmud problem: No Sleep support on this hardware, exiting!

2004-03-02 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Good idea - do you have a lsprop tool for MacOS X ? > > ioreg. Or use OF itself: ioreg found this: "driver,AAPL,MacOS,PowerPC" with some hex data in it. I need to get it to dump only that property (the output is clipped at col. 80 currently). I guess that's what we're looking for?

Re: m3mirror

2004-03-02 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I have working PowerBookG4 running 2.4.23-pre5-ben0, with VGA > compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon > Mobility 9000 M9] (rev 1). Would ben's m3mirror work on this. When I > tried I get > > gbook:/home/nagarjun/bin# ./m3mirror > ATI Rage M3 mirror tool, v0.1 > err

Off-Topic recover firmware RS6000 7044-170

2004-03-02 Thread Benjamin Alvarado
Hi everyone, Good morning, Im try to install Debian onto a RS6000 7044-170, but in many manuals (for example http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/pdf/IBM7248-HOWTO.pdf), I have to update the microcode or firmware, because I cant boot the computer with the debian images,

Solved: Re: Invalid memory access with recent benh-kernel

2004-03-02 Thread martin
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:10:55PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello Listmembers, > > I try to run the recent benh-kernel (2.6.2-benh1) on my > powerbook. > > when booting a message appears, the machine switches to openfirmware- > prompt and remains unusable. > > the screen reads the

Re: Need to Install Benh iMac Kernel -- But How?

2004-03-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 06:23:42PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 03:18:56PM -0500, Ed Sutherland wrote: > > I need to install the linux-2.4.24-ben1 kernel for the iMac CRT, which > > I think could fix my display problems. However, how is such an install > > done? > > I am c

Help: 2.6.3 Kernel Problems -- Solution?

2004-03-02 Thread Ed Sutherland
Help! I installed kernel-image-2.6.3 and while fixing a video problem has completely cut off off networking, along with other commands -- the reason I'm writing this from OS X, not Debian. I was upgrading from 2.18 and when installing 2.6.3 (a kernel supporting the iMac CRT), there was a screen

Re: 2.6.3-ben2 fails to mount ext3

2004-03-02 Thread CK
I read: > 2.6.3-ben2.config:194 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=m > > IMHO this must read "y", as the modules are available only after damn! I knew it was sth obvious I missed ... > 2.6.3-ben2.config:103 CONFIG_PREEMPT=y > > You better disable preempt, it's not stable (on pcc) yet and causes > all k

Re: 2.6.3-ben2 fails to mount ext3

2004-03-02 Thread Johannes Mockenhaupt (aka Joe Malik)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:03:28PM +0100, CK wrote: > hi everybody, > > I read: > > Maybe XATTR is broken somehow in 2.6.3-ben2? > > don't know but switching it off didn't change anything, so I try again: > > 2.6.3-ben2 on my tibook 800 stops with

Re: Sound through iMic permissions?

2004-03-02 Thread David Pye
Add your user to the audio group. adduser audio then logout, and relogin. David On Tuesday 02 March 2004 12:06, jim altieri wrote: > Hello, > Here's a newbie question... I'm running sarge on a Pismo powerbook, and I > have an iMic USB sound IO. it makes sound when i'm in KDE as root, but > d

Sound through iMic permissions?

2004-03-02 Thread jim altieri
Hello, Here's a newbie question... I'm running sarge on a Pismo powerbook, and I have an iMic USB sound IO. it makes sound when i'm in KDE as root, but doesn't make any sound when i'm a regular user. so, i've inferred that it has something to do with permissions. permissions on what? thanks fo

Re: 2.6.3-ben2 fails to mount ext3

2004-03-02 Thread CK
hi everybody, I read: > Maybe XATTR is broken somehow in 2.6.3-ben2? don't know but switching it off didn't change anything, so I try again: 2.6.3-ben2 on my tibook 800 stops with the following messages (hda, hdc are detected just fine): VFS cannot open root device "hda4" unknown block(0,0) p

Re: iBook 2.2 with new board, full of problems

2004-03-02 Thread Alberto Viniegra Ilarregui
El mar, 02-03-2004 a las 11:48, Michel Dänzer escribió: > On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 10:51, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:16:47AM +0100, Alberto Viniegra Ilarregui wrote: > > > > > > So, I cant use my computer normally, sometimes if the iBook get hot > > > aplications crashes,

Re: iBook 2.2 with new board, full of problems

2004-03-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 10:51, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:16:47AM +0100, Alberto Viniegra Ilarregui wrote: > > > > So, I cant use my computer normally, sometimes if the iBook get hot > > aplications crashes, today a DVD playback crashed, gnome-terminal > > crashes in one comp

Re: iBook 2.2 with new board, full of problems

2004-03-02 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:16:47AM +0100, Alberto Viniegra Ilarregui wrote: > Hi! > I am a student from north Spain state, and I am having big > problems with my computer, I'll give you dates. > (sorry about my very low english level) > > > So, I cant use my computer normally, sometimes if the iB

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2004-03-02 Thread ekroll
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