startx difficulties

2004-05-20 Thread Richard Jenkins
About a week ago I sent a plea for help because I could not get a working xwindow on this G3 350MHz iMac. Well, thanks to one member who suggested that I choose the fb device rather than the ati128 which is fitted to this machine ... I can now access xwindows ... with an 800 by 600 display wh

Re: SMP kernels on single processor machines

2004-05-20 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 21:48, Lee Braiden wrote: > But I quit doing that at some point, after someone (authoritative, but I > can't remember the details) pointed out that it added complexity, > debugging issues, etc. Given that I *already* have problems with PPC > kernels -- latency/lockups, (pree

Re: MSNBC_Auto_Response: Thank you for contacting TODAY with Katie Couric and Ma

2004-05-20 Thread Myingin
Hi my name is Rina Fonder. I heard that the little girl that was left alone with a stranger was on your show on Wednesday May19, 2004. I didnot get the whole story and would like an update. I always try to watch your program but missed that episode. Can you please update me on the little girl

Re: Yaboot problem on TiBook

2004-05-20 Thread Julien BLACHE
Łukasz Studziński <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was trying to upgrade kernel and Debian SID on my friend's TiBook 667 > when I faced a problem with yaboot 1.3.12. When trying to run "ybin" it > returned the following message: > ybin: Unable to find OpenFirmware path for boot=/dev/hda9 > ybin: Pl

Re: G3 iBook resume kernel oops - help appreciated.

2004-05-20 Thread Andy & Claire Duncan
Dear James   Please get in touch   Dad

Sarge on MPC823e problems

2004-05-20 Thread Martin Man
Hello World\n [please cc me on the replies] I'm trying to get sarge running on Motorola PowerPC 823 embedded processor. It's got 8MB of flash and 64MB of ram. I've successfully prepared nfsroot environment of woody for this machine, I used modified debootstrap script which downloaded woody base

dispute the Legality and the Validity of any alleged debt

2004-05-20 Thread thelma harvey
Purge all of your card payments. Force them to end the calls and notices. You won’t hurt your Cr. scores with this.

Re: harddisk corrupt?

2004-05-20 Thread stefan kersten
thanks, johannes and paul. i had to set up a simple nfs-boot to be able to fsck my root device for bad blocks; that's what i'm doing right now (and it will take a while). if the bad blocks aren't marked by badblocks i guess i'll have to exchange the hd ... On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:00:45AM +020

Re: Yaboot problem on TiBook

2004-05-20 Thread Łukasz Studziński
W liście z czw, 20-05-2004, godz. 12:46 +0100, Colin Watson napisał: > [returning to the mailing list; I'd rather not do this in my inbox, > thanks] I am sorry, it was experimental Evolution that coused the mistake. > Alternatively, ignore the problem and drive yaboot by hand despite it > being un

Re: SMP kernels on single processor machines

2004-05-20 Thread Lee Braiden
Jens Schmalzing wrote: SMP kernels run fine on single processor machines. I have repeatedly been told, however, that this bears a considerable performance hit on some hardware. Can anybody confirm or deny this? Even small hints would be appreciated. A long time ago, I used to compile SMP i

Re: Yaboot problem on TiBook

2004-05-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 01:35:19PM +0200, Łukasz Studziński wrote: > W liście z czw, 20-05-2004, godz. 12:32 +0100, Colin Watson napisał: > > One option is that you're using a 2.6 kernel before 2.6.3 ... > > In fact on my friend's computer there still was 2.6.2-ben kernel and I > was trying to upg

Re: Yaboot problem on TiBook

2004-05-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:57:35AM +0200, Łukasz Studziński wrote: > I was trying to upgrade kernel and Debian SID on my friend's TiBook 667 > when I faced a problem with yaboot 1.3.12. When trying to run "ybin" it > returned the following message: > ybin: Unable to find OpenFirmware path for boot

SMP kernels on single processor machines

2004-05-20 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, putting together another release of the Debian kernel image packages, I am wondering whether we could get rid of half the packages by simply not supplying single processor flavours - after all, SMP kernels run fine on single processor machines. I have repeatedly been told, however, that this

Re: 2.6.6 on Blue&White G3

2004-05-20 Thread Derrik Pates
Jens Schmalzing wrote: Beats me. The mkinitrd script contains fairly involved detection heuristics for the root filesystem drivers. They use the /proc filesystem repeatedly, so the problem may be due to your first initrd being built with a 2.4 kernel running and the order of the controllers rev

Yaboot problem on TiBook

2004-05-20 Thread Łukasz Studziński
I was trying to upgrade kernel and Debian SID on my friend's TiBook 667 when I faced a problem with yaboot 1.3.12. When trying to run "ybin" it returned the following message: ybin: Unable to find OpenFirmware path for boot=/dev/hda9 ybin: Please add ofboot= where is the OpenFirmware path to /de

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Re: 2.6.6 on Blue&White G3

2004-05-20 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Tim Otten writes: > Why doesn't it find the CMD646 automatically? Beats me. The mkinitrd script contains fairly involved detection heuristics for the root filesystem drivers. They use the /proc filesystem repeatedly, so the problem may be due to your first initrd being built with a 2.4 ker

2.6.6 on Blue&White G3

2004-05-20 Thread Tim Otten
I'm trying to boot kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc, version 2.6.6-2, on a Blue&White G3. It crashes during the initrd, with pivot_root complaining, "No such file or directory," and subsequent complaints about failing to open /dev/console and a failure of init. Looking at the hardware detection, I got: