Re: Kernel panic

2004-06-20 Thread Derrik Pates
Doug Mellot wrote: I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about this. I've searched google, and found several others with the same problem, but haven't found a solution. I'm running Debian unstable with ReiserFS. After installing kernel 2.6.6 ('apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc'), I

Kernel panic

2004-06-20 Thread Doug Mellot
I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about this. I've searched google, and found several others with the same problem, but haven't found a solution. I'm running Debian unstable with ReiserFS. After installing kernel 2.6.6 ('apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc'), I get errors while boot

Re: [PATCH 2.6] Add back beep support to snd-powermac

2004-06-20 Thread Derrik Pates
Julien BLACHE wrote: The attached patch adds back the beep support to sound/ppc/pmac.c, aka snd-powermac, and adds a dependency on INPUT in sound/ppc/Kconfig. The patch is based on the code that used to be present in that file, and got removed in early april last year. I ported it to the input e

Re: Most Polite Apps for Window Managers?

2004-06-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Esteban Martinez wrote: Ed Sutherland wrote: I'm considering moving from one of the giant desktop environments (Gnome) to a svelter window manager (blackbox or windowmaker.) I no need to consider:-) you can just try different WMs, most of them even without restarting X (last time I tried

Re: gcc packages to build biarch compilers

2004-06-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:45:51PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > On http://people.debian.org/~doko/gcc-3.[34] you find packages with a > setup to build biarch compilers on powerpc (which needs a 64bit glibc > as a build dependency). > > - gcc-3.3: added a patch to build from the hammer branch (3.

gcc packages to build biarch compilers

2004-06-20 Thread Matthias Klose
On http://people.debian.org/~doko/gcc-3.[34] you find packages with a setup to build biarch compilers on powerpc (which needs a 64bit glibc as a build dependency). - gcc-3.3: added a patch to build from the hammer branch (3.3.4). This works on i386, fails on amd64, powerpc unknown. edit debian

ibook G4 - video out

2004-06-20 Thread Sébastien FRANÇOIS
Hello, I will need to use my video out plug to present an internship project next week (which was about porting a software for visual deficients to GNU/Linux and among other to the ppc architecture). Thing is my video out no longer works, it used to, I swear :) if I set both UseFBDev to true, on

Re: Now kernel 2.6.6 won't boot

2004-06-20 Thread Alain Perry
> Maybe you still have the old version in your package cache, in the > directory /var/cache/apt/archives. If not, look in the directory > pool/main/m/module-init-tools on the nearest Debian mirror. If it's on the mirror you use, you could also do a: $ apt-get install --reinstall module-init-tool

Re: Now kernel 2.6.6 won't boot

2004-06-20 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sean Schertell writes: > Thanks Jens -- How can I revert? If I try to remove my current > module-init-tools, it tries to take my 2.6.6 kernel with it. As root, run dpkg -i module-init-tools_3.0-pre10-4_powerpc.deb Then, put the package on hold with echo module-init-tools hold | dpkg --

Re: Now kernel 2.6.6 won't boot

2004-06-20 Thread Carlos Perelló Marín
El dom, 20-06-2004 a las 12:00, +0200, Jens Schmalzing escribió: > Hi, > > Carlos Perelló Marín writes: > > > That's what I get with the prereleased .deb for kernel 2.6.7 but > > just because it fails to create the initrd.img correctly, it looks > > for /etc/ modconfig.conf or /lib/modules/modcon

Re: Now kernel 2.6.6 won't boot

2004-06-20 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Carlos Perelló Marín writes: > That's what I get with the prereleased .deb for kernel 2.6.7 but > just because it fails to create the initrd.img correctly, it looks > for /etc/ modconfig.conf or /lib/modules/modconfig.conf You mean modprobe.conf. Those messages are harmless, and an initrd i

Re: Now kernel 2.6.6 won't boot

2004-06-20 Thread Sean Schertell
On Sunday 20 June 2004 05:20 pm, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sean Schertell writes: > > I got the initrd line added to my yaboot.conf, so that > > hurdle has been cleared. But now, a little further > > along the boot process, comes this screen full of > > errors like: > > > > modprobe: FATAL:

Re: Now kernel 2.6.6 won't boot

2004-06-20 Thread Carlos Perelló Marín
El sáb, 19-06-2004 a las 23:56, +0900, Sean Schertell escribió: > I got the initrd line added to my yaboot.conf, so that > hurdle has been cleared. But now, a little further along > the boot process, comes this screen full of errors like: > > modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/somethi

Re: Most Polite Apps for Window Managers?

2004-06-20 Thread Esteban Martinez
Ed Sutherland wrote: I'm considering moving from one of the giant desktop environments (Gnome) to a svelter window manager (blackbox or windowmaker.) I understand some apps require only the gnome or kde toolkits, while others require the whole kit-and-kaboodle to operate. I'm wondering if the

Re: Now kernel 2.6.6 won't boot

2004-06-20 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sean Schertell writes: > I got the initrd line added to my yaboot.conf, so that > hurdle has been cleared. But now, a little further along > the boot process, comes this screen full of errors like: > > modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/something... > > (times about a hundred o

Re: Confirmation needed: 802.11b/g are not supported?

2004-06-20 Thread Mariano Kamp
Guys, thanks very much. That was very informative. As this is my "secondary" laptop, used on my bedside to quickly access web/email whenever I want to, the sleep function wrt "instant on" seems important to me. So I will wait a little longer until a) sleep is available ot b) OSX raises the le