Re: FAQ?

2004-06-25 Thread Paul Mullen
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:15:45AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > 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 allowe

Re: linux no longer bootable after mac os upgrade

2004-06-25 Thread Ric Otte
Thanks very much! My boy is very grateful that he gets to stay in the house and isn't going to be put up for adoption. I must agree with the person who recently said that running Debian on the mac is very different from running it on a pc. Thanks again, Ric

Re: iBook G4 install turning into a nightmare

2004-06-25 Thread Sam Halliday
Colin Watson wrote: > Sam Halliday wrote: > > the debian default of "video=ofonly" is what is breakign things! > I couldn't quite tell which installer you were using, but if you're > using the new debian-installer then video=ofonly is only the default > post-first-reboot if you booted the installer

Re: linux no longer bootable after mac os upgrade

2004-06-25 Thread Derrik Pates
Colin Watson wrote: Hold down Cmd-Opt-O-F while the system boots, then at the OpenFirmware prompt type 'boot hd:9,\\yaboot' (assuming that yaboot is installed on /dev/hda9; if not, adjust as appropriate). Then boot into Linux as usual and run ybin. Or you can hold the Option key at boot, and a

Re: linux no longer bootable after mac os upgrade

2004-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:24:34PM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > I recently managed to get linux installed on my titanium powerbook, > (it took me several days, because I had problems with some kernel > options and X). It is a dual boot machine, and things were working > fine until my kid updated the m

Re: iBook G4 install turning into a nightmare

2004-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 01:18:57AM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: > WOOHOO!!! > > the debian default of "video=ofonly" is what is breakign things! I couldn't quite tell which installer you were using, but if you're using the new debian-installer then video=ofonly is only the default post-first-reboot

linux no longer bootable after mac os upgrade

2004-06-25 Thread Ric Otte
I recently managed to get linux installed on my titanium powerbook, (it took me several days, because I had problems with some kernel options and X). It is a dual boot machine, and things were working fine until my kid updated the mac osx software (by clicking the automatic software update functio

Re: iBook G4 install turning into a nightmare

2004-06-25 Thread Sam Halliday
> > You need to have at least 2.6.7-rc2, or the radeon is unusably flickery. > > I've attached my XF86Config-4. Note that I have DRI disabled, since it > > (iirc) makes pmdisk fail to resume. > unfortunately this has brought me no closer to having X on my system. what > framebuffer do you use? i h

Re: iBook G4 install turning into a nightmare

2004-06-25 Thread Sam Halliday
Rob Weir wrote: > Sam Halliday said > > 1 - powernowd does not work! with cpu frequency stuff all built > > into the 2.6.7 kernel, the modules loaded for 2.6.6 and > > sysfs mounted correctly... the folder > >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0 > > is completely empty! no sub folde

Re: FAQ?

2004-06-25 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sam Halliday writes: > my graphics card (standard iBook radeon) seems not to be supported What model exactly? Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!

Re: FAQ?

2004-06-25 Thread Sam Halliday
Sam George wrote: > Sam Halliday wrote: > > i was wondering if there was maybe an FAQ for new installs of debian > > GNU/Linux on powerpc... in particular for an iBook. > > This isn't exactly what you asked for, but it's related and you may > find it quite useful. Install the debian-reference pac

Re: iBook G4 install turning into a nightmare

2004-06-25 Thread Sam Halliday
Rob Weir wrote: > Sam Halliday said > http://lists.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-dev/200406/msg00024.html. > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=108782322527299&w=2 > My kernel .config is attaced to give you a head start. rob... you are THE MAN! i'll try this all within the hour and get back to

Re: Which hard drive?

2004-06-25 Thread Sam George
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:02:32 +0200 Sophie Maitrejean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have had a lot of problem with installation of Debian > woody on my powermac. I used an IBM hard drive, because I > would like to use another hard drive instead of the main > one to havn't any problems

Re: FAQ?

2004-06-25 Thread Sam George
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:35:03 +0100 Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. This isn't exactly what you asked for, but it's related and you may find it quite

Re: XF86Config for a 14" iBook G4

2004-06-25 Thread Sam Halliday
Rob Weir wrote: > > Sam Halliday wrote: > > > i have been battling all night to try and get XFree86 set up on my iBook > > > > > i have placed all relevant files on my FTP Server here: > > > ftp://fommil.homeunix.org/sam/xprobs/ > > > (X config, X log, uname+lspci and yaboot kernel parameters) >

Re: XF86Config for a 14" iBook G4

2004-06-25 Thread Sam Halliday
Esteban Martinez wrote: > I don't know much about this, but I have seen your config files and I > think you can try with the "radeon" driver in the XF86Config-4 file > instead of "ati" driver. it doesn't work either way... and i thought "radeon" was just a stub for "ati" anyway. cheers, Sam --

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Re: Cinelerra

2004-06-25 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 the mental interface of Michel Dänzer told: > 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.lxt

Re: XF86Config for a 14" iBook G4

2004-06-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 05:54:10PM +0100, Sam Halliday said > Sam Halliday wrote: > > i have been battling all night to try and get XFree86 set up on my iBook > > > i have placed all relevant files on my FTP Server here: > > ftp://fommil.homeunix.org/sam/xprobs/ > > (X config, X log, uname+lspci

Re: iBook G4 install turning into a nightmare

2004-06-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 09:10:11PM +0100, Sam Halliday said > hi there, > > well, besides the lack of an Xserver yet, i am setting up my system according > to: > http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto.html > http://www.twolife.org/debian/ibook.php > but i am getting nowhere fast

Re: Powermac 8600 Bootx and 2.4

2004-06-25 Thread Matthew Reath
Well it looks as though the debian 2.4.18-powerpc kernel doesn't have BOOTX support compiled in so we will count that out. I made some progress with with the 2.4.25-ben1 kernel I have. I had to do "video=ofonly keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1" and it boots fine and the keyboard works great. I