Re: Some 2.6.6 kernel questions

2004-07-12 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 06:40, Roland Wegmann wrote: > 'vmlinux-2.6.6.100704' (my kernel image) and a file 'vmlinux.coff- > 2.6.6.100704'. What is the file 'vmlinux.coff-*' for? It's junk. > initrd=...). What are the advantages of initrd kernels over non-initrd > kernels? What is the function of t

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-12 Thread Jerome Walter
Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:40:38PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: [snip] I get stuck to "Now booting kernel..." with both cd and netboot vmlinuz-prep.initrd. [snip] Are you able to netboot ? IF so i could prepare you a custom kernel or something, and you could send me back t

Questions about the new installer

2004-07-12 Thread Lucas Moulin
Hi all, I downloaded a daily build (from 11/07/2004) of the Sarge installer to test it, and I have to say it works quite well on my iBook G3 900. But I have some questions about partman, which has replaced mac-fdisk. Should the swap partition be in the beginning of the hard drive, or at the

Re: quik 2.0 killed my beige G3

2004-07-12 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hi Jens! Am 12.07.2004 um 15:22 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: Hi, Christoph Ewering writes: The partition is not mounted when I boot from a MacOS CD. But when I put the disk into an firewire-case I can mount this partition under MacOS X. This usually means that the driver partitions on the dis

Re: esd and alsa

2004-07-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 20:45 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 the mental interface of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] told: > > > On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 07:13:41PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > > > > I am running the Enlightened Sound Daemon within Gnome. How do I > > > have to

Re: Xfree86 - DRI accel with rage128 (WAS Re: Playing DVDs on Debian)

2004-07-12 Thread Adam
On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 20:32, Adam Done wrote: > Ok.. I am making some real progress on DRI. I think I have been > loading the modules wrong when starting up. This is in my /etc/modules [snip] > Now the xserver starts up but just hangs as to before it just stopped > and outputted errors. This

Re: esd and alsa

2004-07-12 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 the mental interface of [EMAIL PROTECTED] told: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 07:13:41PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am running the Enlightened Sound Daemon within Gnome. How do I > > have to play ogg-files with alsa output? in my ~/.libao alsa09 is > >

Re: Xfree86 - DRI accel with rage128 (WAS Re: Playing DVDs on Debian)

2004-07-12 Thread Adam
On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 20:32, Adam Done wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 05:27, Michel DXnzer wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 16:25 -0700, Adam wrote: > > > > > > Wtih the trunk packages and modules installed I could not start x > > > even with the fbdev driver. > > > > xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk do

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 04:32:01PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello, > On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 05:03:37PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > Great. I will try this, probably Tuesday. Is there some HOWTO/docu for > > netbooting d-i? (Sorry if something obvious exists, I am on dial-in > > right

nptl kernel/glibc

2004-07-12 Thread Robert Staudinger
Hello, is there a possibility of running a nptl-enabled debian system on ppc? I didn't find any nptl-related packages for the unstable distro. For example in order to use the mono-debugger ... Thanks, Rob

Re: pbbuttonsd new problems

2004-07-12 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 12:37, Matthias Grimm wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 7. Juli 2004 20:44 schrieb Michael Heldebrant: > > > Pbbuttonsd installs an message queue which it can't clean up if kicked > > > off with kill -9. Use 'ipcs' (as root) to check the message queue id and > > > after that remove it wit

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-12 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 05:03:37PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Great. I will try this, probably Tuesday. Is there some HOWTO/docu for > netbooting d-i? (Sorry if something obvious exists, I am on dial-in > right now). I now read http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/olh_ppc_netboot.html http

Re: quik 2.0 killed my beige G3

2004-07-12 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Christoph Ewering writes: > The partition is not mounted when I boot from a MacOS CD. But when > I put the disk into an firewire-case I can mount this partition > under MacOS X. This usually means that the driver partitions on the disk are damaged. Mac OS needs them, Mac OS X has its own wa

wxPython bungled? Torrent wont run properly...

2004-07-12 Thread Timo Reimerdes
Hoi, I have this minor trouble with btdownloadgui (the bittorrent dialog). It is working fine on my i386 under winslow and debian-linux - but on the Powerbook it fails to show the progress bar, update the UI properly and the button disappears, too. http://www.gtnw.de/~tr/bittorrent.jpg (since it

Re: powerpc installer kernel configs

2004-07-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 03:06:33PM +1000, Craig Holyoak wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if somebody could share with me the .config files used > to compile the kernel's used on the Sarge ppc installer CDs. I am trying > to create a custom kernel for a bootable CD, but am having trouble > getti

Re: Excluding modules from auto-loading

2004-07-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:10:57AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Richard Guenther writes: > > > I installed kernel-image-powerpc and now on boot a lot of modules > > get loaded that I don't need. F.i. ipv6, ext3, nfsd and ieee1394 - > > can I somehow prevent loading of these modules at

Re: Excluding modules from auto-loading

2004-07-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 11:54:32PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 the mental interface of > Richard Guenther told: > > > Hi! > > > > I installed kernel-image-powerpc and now on boot a lot of modules get > > loaded that I don't need. F.i. ipv6, ext3, nfsd and ieee1394 - c

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 04:40:22PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 09:30:02AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 07:00:21PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > Is it possible, to boot d-i on this prep-machine? And if so, which > > > would be the proper comma

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:40:38PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 04:04:13PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > >>Sven Luther wrote: > >>>http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/daily/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd > >> >

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-12 Thread Jerome Walter
Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 04:04:13PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: Sven Luther wrote: http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/daily/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd Still not working on my old Prep. None of them ? None. I get stuck to "N

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 04:04:13PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 07:00:21PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > >>Hello, > >>for helping d-i I got an 43p-140 (IBM RS/6000). Since there are no > >>specific install instructions on > >>http://d-i.alio

Re: Support for the latest powerbook on the last kernel snapshot

2004-07-12 Thread Jaume Sabater
Jaume Sabater wrote: By the way, has anybody tried 2.6.7-bk20 with last version of pbbuttonsd? I will give it a try tomorrow and let you know in case nobody tries it first. I finally had the time to compile and install 2.6.7-bk20 and it seems that it's working fine with pbbuttonsd 0.6.2-1, a

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-12 Thread Jerome Walter
Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 07:00:21PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello, for helping d-i I got an 43p-140 (IBM RS/6000). Since there are no specific install instructions on http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/index.html Is it possible, to boot d-i on this prep

Re: esd and alsa

2004-07-12 Thread float
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 07:13:41PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Hi all, > > I am running the Enlightened Sound Daemon within Gnome. How do I > have to play ogg-files with alsa output? in my ~/.libao alsa09 is > mentioned. Plying ogg123 blah.ogg hangs. > hm not sure if this helps but try "e

Re: powerpc installer kernel configs

2004-07-12 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Craig Holyoak writes: > I was wondering if somebody could share with me the .config files > used to compile the kernel's used on the Sarge ppc installer CDs. The installation system uses the kernels from the kernel-image packages, so if you install kernel-image- you will find the .config fil

powerpc installer kernel configs

2004-07-12 Thread Craig Holyoak
Hi, I was wondering if somebody could share with me the .config files used to compile the kernel's used on the Sarge ppc installer CDs. I am trying to create a custom kernel for a bootable CD, but am having trouble getting it to boot on an old iMac (~1998), while working fine on a slightly ne