XF86Config for a 14" iBook G4

hi there, i have been battling all night to try and get XFree86 set up on my iBook, but i have lost. i am running testing on the 2.6.6-powerpc kernel, and no matter what i do, when i start the xfree86-server the laptop screen goes blank and then randomly changes between blank, white, red, green an

Re: FAQ?

On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 18:22, Sam Halliday wrote: > btw... maybe a totally wrong mailing list to be askign this question... but > i'd > really really like to do some assembly programming on my PPC. can anyone > reccomend a good book to learn PPC assembly? i have never done ANY assembly > before, s

Re: Installing on a dual G5

The 2.4.25 kernel image builds in the archive don't include a power4 SMP kernel, or if they do they don't advertise it as such. Can you try booting with install-power4-2.6? When I try that (and I also tried install-safe-power4-2.6, with the same failure): After yaboot loads the kernel and t

Re: FAQ?

Hi, Sam Halliday writes: > see my other email the debian image does not work. Your other email indicates that you simply picked the wrong flavour for your system. No wonder it doesn't work. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz t

Re: FAQ?

Hi, Sam Halliday writes: > ok... turns out i need to press the apple key, then fn then > F2... that needs to change IMHO. Actually, the key behaves that way in Mac OS as well. But I do remember a fnset utility that allowed one to toggle the fn key's behaviour. Anybody know what has become of i

Re: FAQ?

Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > well, using the debian 2.6.6-power4 image the installer does not do > > this by default. and loading the kernel results in it just hanging > > at the screen "opening video device..." or whatever it says. > > The power4 flavour is for the IBM Power4 processors that are bu

Re: FAQ?

George Wright wrote: > > 1 - i have a "british" keyboard (even though apple's is not even close to a > > british pc keyboard) and i would like to be able to have this mapped > > correctly. at the moment a lot of the non-character (such as tilde) keys > > are not mapped correctly. i selected the bri

Re: Installing on a dual G5

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:21:26PM -0400, Miro Jurišić wrote: > Miro Jurišić wrote: > >Yeah, I was going to as soon as I figure out exactly which one of many > >different images that I failed with I should be using :-) I am burning > >the sid_d-i image as per Colin's suggestion and will report

Re: FAQ?

Sven Luther wrote: > Sam Halliday wrote: > > 1 - i have a "british" keyboard (even though apple's is not even close to a > > british pc keyboard) and i would like to be able to have this mapped > > correctly. at the moment a lot of the non-character (such as tilde) keys are > > not mapped correctly

Re: FAQ?

Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > 2 - maybe related to 1, but i cannot use the virtual terminals. when > > i do Alt-F2 i just get "unknown scancode e0 54", and if i also hold > > down the fn key i get no output at all. > It's a bit complicated. You need to press and hold Alt and Ctrl, then > press and al

Re: FAQ?

Hi, Sam Halliday writes: > 2 - maybe related to 1, but i cannot use the virtual terminals. when > i do Alt-F2 i just get "unknown scancode e0 54", and if i also hold > down the fn key i get no output at all. It's a bit complicated. You need to press and hold Alt and Ctrl, then press and also ho

Re: FAQ?

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:35:03PM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: > hi there, > > i was wondering if there was maybe an FAQ for new installs of debian GNU/Linux > on powerpc... in particular for an iBook. > > i just installed debian testing on my 1GHz G4 14" iBook and i have a few, what > seem like s

FAQ?

hi there, i was wondering if there was maybe an FAQ for new installs of debian GNU/Linux on powerpc... in particular for an iBook. i just installed debian testing on my 1GHz G4 14" iBook and i have a few, what seem like standard, questions to ask. i will ask them here, but if my questions are alr

Re: PReP support

Hi, Sven Luther writes: > Yeah, fine, and will we set this by default, or not ? As long as we do not run the risk of accidentally clobbering any existing /boot/vmlinuz- files, fine. That could be done through more elaborate checks in the script itself or through a debconf question, do it as yo

Re: Installing on a dual G5

Yeah, I was going to as soon as I figure out exactly which one of many different images that I failed with I should be using :-) I am burning the sid_d-i image as per Colin's suggestion and will report back soon. I burned the image at

Re: PReP support

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 07:43:16PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > Yeah, fine, and will we set this by default, or not ? > > As long as we do not run the risk of accidentally clobbering any > existing /boot/vmlinuz- files, fine. That could be done through > mo

Re: Installing on a dual G5

My latest experience, dating back a few months, involved netboot [1]. But d-i has come a long way since, so I expect you will be able to use d-i. In any case, you should be able to use d-i on the G5, so please stay tuned until your problem is solved. That's good news. I have not been able to

Re: PReP support

Hi, Sven Luther writes: > > Do you mean that by doing : > > > > mkvmlinuz /boot/vmlinux-2.6.7-powerpc 2.6.7-powerpc > > > > The right thing will happen, and that is creation of a > > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7-powerpc ? Yes, provided /etc/mkvmlinuz/output sets the variable output to /boot/vmlinuz

Re: PReP support

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 06:04:39PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > > Do you mean that by doing : > > > > > > mkvmlinuz /boot/vmlinux-2.6.7-powerpc 2.6.7-powerpc > > > > > > The right thing will happen, and that is creation of a > > > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7-powe

Re: Installing on a dual G5

Hi, Colin Watson writes: > Either of the images in > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/20040622/ > ought to work. > > Installation reports, successful or otherwise, gratefully appreciated. I just tried the above-mentioned cdimage on yorick. install-power4 hangs when

Re: PReP support

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 05:52:11PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 05:27:05PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Sven Luther writes: > > > > > BTW, could you add a mkvmlinuz calling script to the next version of > > > mkvmlinuz ? > > > > A calling script for a shel

Re: PReP support

Hi, Sven Luther writes: > BTW, could you add a mkvmlinuz calling script to the next version of > mkvmlinuz ? A calling script for a shell script? > Something like : > > #!/bin/sh > mkvmlinuz -k $2 -o /boot/vmlinuz-$1 > > Should do just fine. This is already there, right in mkvmlinuz

Re: PReP support

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 05:27:05PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > BTW, could you add a mkvmlinuz calling script to the next version of > > mkvmlinuz ? > > A calling script for a shell script? :) > > Something like : > > > > #!/bin/sh > > mkvmlinuz -k

Re: PReP support

Hi, Sven Luther writes: > Did you already work on the mkvmlinuz support ? No. > If not, i will start on that right now, and you can merge this stuff > once i commit it. Thanks. But mkvmlinuz is not in the svn repository, so just send me the patches. > BTW, you also need to add the needed stu

Re: Cinelerra

Le mer 23/06/2004 à 00:14, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 20:27 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > > The colors are not presented correctlyat a 24bit X and the "buttons" > > are neither clear in 16bit nor 24 bit. > > > > You can have a look at > > http://www.lxtec.de/cinelerr

Firefox Quits When Trying to Print

Firefox 0.8 is acting oddly when trying to print with xprt-xprintorg installed. Here is the sequence of events: 1) boot system 2) type "xplsprinters" and get a list of printers (hp940c@:64, xp_pdf_spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs@:64). 3) start mozilla-firefox and pick hp940c@:64 as the printer. 4) a m

Re: PReP support

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 05:10:28PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > Did you already work on the mkvmlinuz support ? > > No. Ok. BTW, could you add a mkvmlinuz calling script to the next version of mkvmlinuz ? Something like : #!/bin/sh mkvmlinuz -k $2 -

Re: PReP support (was: powerpc kernel-patch 2.6.6-5 in incoming since over a month !!!)

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 04:19:13PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > unbootable kernels on non pmac systems, > > Speaking of which. Anybody got a PReP system they don't need and > could throw at me? As I said, I got a bunch of RS/6000 boxen > recently, only to f

How do I start Xprt-xprintorg

How do I start Xprt-xprintorg for Debian? Additionally, how do I set the XPSERVERLIST variable in bash? And create a printer xplsprinters can see? (right now, it says no printers are defined -- although there is one CUPS printer.) Thanks. Ed

PReP support (was: powerpc kernel-patch 2.6.6-5 in incoming since over a month !!!)

Hi, Sven Luther writes: > unbootable kernels on non pmac systems, Speaking of which. Anybody got a PReP system they don't need and could throw at me? As I said, I got a bunch of RS/6000 boxen recently, only to find out they're MCA. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux

iPod mini, supported?

hi list, maybe a bit of topic (still this list is somehow connected to apple hardware =) anyone knows if I it's possible to use with linux? I know that it works for normal iPods, but i couldn't find information for iPod mini. Is it HFS+ is it reformatable to fat? The apple page sth. about a w

Re: Installing on a dual G5

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:05:07AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Miro Jurišić writes: > > What's the current story on getting Debian installed on G5s? > > My latest experience, dating back a few months, involved netboot [1]. > But d-i has come a long way since, so I expect you will be able to us

Re: Kernel panic

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:04:08AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:44:58AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > > As we are to deal with the question: how to make a kernel including the > > initrd ? > > mkvmlinuz But this should really be automatically handled at kernel install

Re: Installing on a dual G5

Hi, Miro Jurišić writes: > What's the current story on getting Debian installed on G5s? My latest experience, dating back a few months, involved netboot [1]. But d-i has come a long way since, so I expect you will be able to use d-i. In any case, you should be able to use d-i on the G5, so plea

Installing on a dual G5

What's the current story on getting Debian installed on G5s? I have not been able to find an ISO that will boot the machine (I have tried d-i beta 4, d-i test candidate 1, d-i current as of 6/22/04, and several flavors of knoppix and gentoo) but it's possible that I didn't enter the right inca