debian-installer on a G5 Part II

2004-04-18 Thread Scott McMahan
I downloaded a daily build from 4/13 (the netinst iso), burned it to CD. The good news is the kernel works. I am able to get into the install phase. I did get a warning about modules being unavailable (ide-scsi and usb-storage). This bothered me somewhat because I thought the drive in the G5 us

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Re: GNOME 2.6 and /dev/pmu

2004-04-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 14:13, Lucas Moulin wrote: > Le Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 01:47:57PM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > >On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 03:43, Lucas Moulin wrote: > >> > >> Well, I made the upgrade today, and everything's working fine, except > >> that everytime I log in GNOME, I get a dial

Re: swsusp/pmdisk status on ppc?

2004-04-18 Thread Christian Jaeger
Ok, I've "solved" the remaining issues: - sound really keeps working if the sound modules are removed before suspend. (It was wmmixer that held the sound stuff still open, lsof|grep /dev/sound would have shown it.) - the problem with the trackpad button is just that the default "tap" behaviour is

Re: 2.6 kernel .config for b&w g3?

2004-04-18 Thread Matt Price
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 12:42:05PM +, simon raven wrote: > On sam, 2004-04-17 at 18:10 -0400, Derrik Pates wrote: > > Matt Price wrote: > > > anyone out there have a working .config for a 2.6 kernel (I have the > > > latest benh trees, but I guess I can get other trees elsewhere) on a > > > blu

Re: debian-installer and yaboot

2004-04-18 Thread Matt Price
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 12:50:49PM +, simon raven wrote: > On sam, 2004-04-17 at 23:36 -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > Just noticed the following in the yaboot HOWTO > > (http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/yaboot-howto.shtml/ch10.en.shtml): > > > > [...] > > > has a

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Re: airport problem

2004-04-18 Thread Brady Jarvis
topper wrote: Hi Hello. I ve got an apple powerbook G4 with an apple airport (not extreme) inside. I've got all modules compiled and loaded (hermes, orinoco and airport) The card seems to be properly configured, and i even receive dhcp informations from my wireless router ---> iv got an ip a

airport problem

2004-04-18 Thread topper
Hi I ve got an apple powerbook G4 with an apple airport (not extreme) inside. I've got all modules compiled and loaded (hermes, orinoco and airport) The card seems to be properly configured, and i even receive dhcp informations from my wireless router ---> iv got an ip and the router sees me. B

Re: Volume control on the PowerBook

2004-04-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-04-15 01:31:48 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > When I use a headset with my PowerBook G4, the volume is always quite > loud, even if it is set to the minimum in gnome-volume-control. Where > does this come from? Well, same problem with nmixer (from the mp3blaster package). Does the problem

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2004-04-18 Thread David Pye
> Even thought I normally do not care about this, if one has > to explain other people how to behave, and one rarely as to, > please pay attention not to violate some rules. Does this even deserve an answer? I suspect not. If I had given the message a sensible subject, perhaps the poster who co

Re: Sleep or Gnome Volume bug?

2004-04-18 Thread Brady Jarvis
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 21:14, Brady Jarvis wrote: I have been running the 2.6.5 kernel since April 4th with no problems. It was literally a few days ago that this problem started to manifest itself. It must be something else that started this problem. ALSA maybe? I should

Re: Sleep or Gnome Volume bug?

2004-04-18 Thread Brady Jarvis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: | I'm not sure whether this will help: | | AFAIK the Volume Control applet is, at least here, connected to | /dev/mixer ... so if /dev/mixer is stopped, you'll probably have the | dialog box you've mentioned. | | It should be

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2004-04-18 Thread Bob Hentges
On Apr 18, 2004, at 2:46 PM, David Pye wrote: A few points... a) Pick a subject for your message. b) This is an English list, so writing in English would be appreciated. c) Even ignoring a and b, you have given insufficient information for anyone to even ATTEMPT to guess what your problem m

Re: mutt-1.5.6 and xv with pdf plugin packages

2004-04-18 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 the mental interface of Marc Wilson told: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 03:49:31PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > I have built mutt-1.5.6i and xv with an pdf-plugin for testing/unstable. > > You need the following entries in /etc/apt/sources: > > Not to knock your building x

Re: swsusp/pmdisk status on ppc?

2004-04-18 Thread Christian Jaeger
> See my post to this list with my current patch for 2.6.5-rc3-ben0. Might > also apply to 2.6.5-linus with minimal fuss. yep, it applied. I tried to remove all loaded modules, but I couldn't make some of them unused (from memory, about these (numbers wrong since this has been copied laster):

Re: Old airport card and new iBook G4

2004-04-18 Thread Fagner Goncalves
Hi list, The really problem is the compatibility with Linux. This is my first mac and I suspected the slot are really different. Thanks for all answers. Then, a simple question: How to use a wireless card in this machine in Linux, since Airport Extreme cards are not suppor

Re: mutt-1.5.6 and xv with pdf plugin packages

2004-04-18 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 03:49:31PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > I have built mutt-1.5.6i and xv with an pdf-plugin for testing/unstable. > You need the following entries in /etc/apt/sources: Not to knock your building xv w/ PDF support (it's useful), but the license prohibits distribution of

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2004-04-18 Thread David Pye
A few points... a) Pick a subject for your message. b) This is an English list, so writing in English would be appreciated. c) Even ignoring a and b, you have given insufficient information for anyone to even ATTEMPT to guess what your problem might be. David On Sunday 18 April 2004 20:39, Bo

Re: GNOME 2.6 and /dev/pmu

2004-04-18 Thread Lucas Moulin
Le Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 01:47:57PM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : >On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 03:43, Lucas Moulin wrote: >> >> I'm writing to this list since I know some of you are already using >> GNOME 2.6 from experimental on your PPC machines. > >Yep, and building and uploading them as they come a

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Re: which packages to deinstall before upgrade to 2.6

2004-04-18 Thread simon raven
On dim, 2004-04-18 at 10:02 +0200, Pander wrote: > Hi all, > > Are there any packages which one should deinstall after upgrading to > 2.6. Since the 2.6 kernel has a lot of extra support. > > So I was wondering if packages like cpudyn or hfsplus or whatever need > to be deinstalled to avoid hav

Re: debian-installer and yaboot

2004-04-18 Thread simon raven
On sam, 2004-04-17 at 23:36 -0400, Matt Price wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Just noticed the following in the yaboot HOWTO > (http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/yaboot-howto.shtml/ch10.en.shtml): > [...] > has anyone done this? Anyone know where to get the root.bin file that > contians debi

Re: kernel config problems

2004-04-18 Thread simon raven
On sam, 2004-04-17 at 12:07 -0700, gm c wrote: > I have a g3 powerbook firewire. I have been configuring kernels (not > the deb way though) with out problems on stable. I am trying an > unstable install and want to use a 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernel. > Errors I getconfiguring a 2.4.25: When I make xconf

Re: 2.6 kernel .config for b&w g3?

2004-04-18 Thread simon raven
On sam, 2004-04-17 at 18:10 -0400, Derrik Pates wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > anyone out there have a working .config for a 2.6 kernel (I have the > > latest benh trees, but I guess I can get other trees elsewhere) on a > > blue and white g3? When I try to run mine I get shunted into > > openfirm

Re [Correction]: Sleep or Gnome Volume bug?

2004-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 13:23, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [ ... ] > > So perhaps something goes wrong with /dev/mixer > when resuming the machine from sleep. > If this is true: I definitely don't know how to handle this situation, > but at least you'd know what the problem is then. ... better: " ..

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Re: running DVD's on an imac dv

2004-04-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 09:22, Dean Hamstead wrote: > > ok im trying to run dvds on my imac dv. > its a 450, with 384 mb ram. running debian (unstested) > > in macos9.2.2 dvds ran beautifully. but in linux > with mplayer they are watchable but not what i was > hoping for. Mac OS uses MPEG hardware

Re: GNOME 2.6 and /dev/pmu

2004-04-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 03:43, Lucas Moulin wrote: > > I'm writing to this list since I know some of you are already using > GNOME 2.6 from experimental on your PPC machines. Yep, and building and uploading them as they come along. :) > Well, I made the upgrade today, and everything's working fin

Re: Sleep or Gnome Volume bug?

2004-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 19:37, Brady Jarvis wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I am thinking this is a Gnome bug, since everything was fine until a few > days ago when I did an apt-get upgrade. > > I am running Debian Unstable with kernel 2.6.5 from kernel.org on my > TiBo

which packages to deinstall before upgrade to 2.6

2004-04-18 Thread Pander
Hi all, Are there any packages which one should deinstall after upgrading to 2.6. Since the 2.6 kernel has a lot of extra support. So I was wondering if packages like cpudyn or hfsplus or whatever need to be deinstalled to avoid having double or perhapds conflicting functionality on your sys

running DVD's on an imac dv

2004-04-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ok im trying to run dvds on my imac dv. its a 450, with 384 mb ram. running debian (unstested) in macos9.2.2 dvds ran beautifully. but in linux with mplayer they are watchable but not what i was hoping for. having said that mplayer plays mpeg4 (ok d

Re: Old airport card and new iBook G4

2004-04-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 old airport cards (the ones that look like a pcmcia card) cannot at all be used in new g4's. (and g5's as well) you need to get the new model. i would just go sell you old card on ebay and go buy a new one. although if your apple dealer sold you th

Re: 2.4.25-ben1 hangs -- DMA timeout

2004-04-18 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> The machine is an OldWorld G3, hdc being master on the bus, with a CDROM > drive as slave. Few time ago I lost a drive (head crash) attached > to the same ide (I didn't had the kernel messages, though)... I thought > it was purely a drive problem, but now I'm not so sure > > Is this a known pro