Hello,
Here are 2 patches to make linux support the old IBM RS/6000 E30
(ppc604e) and 240 (doral). The support was written by Leigh Brown and
adapted from the patch present in the website:
http://home.tiscali.be/philipa/rs6000.html
These machines are old, but usable nowadays. Here in brazil we ha
Sven Luther wrote:
I hear XFS is better in the fact that it asks for less disk accesses
when idle, which is better for laptops. ext3 is fine though. Reiserfs i
would not recomend on powerpc, but maybe past woes are solved now.
My Powerbook G3 runs quite nicely with JFS. I wouldn't recomment
Re
I saw this too on my new powerbook and I am sure I had selected to just
blank the screen as "sleep action". I would close the lid and the
powerbook would shut off the illumination as configured. If I opened the
lid after a few minutes everything was OK, but if the lid stayed closed
for a longer per
Am Dienstag, 13. Juli 2004 18:43 schrieb Sam George:
> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:57:44 +0200
> > > Does anyone else experienced this? Is there a solution?
> >
> > Yes, I had that once too. Shortly closing the lid does no harm, but
> > a few minutes shut it down. Recent iBook G4 (1 Mhz), Bens 2.4.25,
>
I'm going to be teaching an introductory Computer Science class in the
fall, and I'm using OpenOffice Impress on my Debian Powerbook for a lot
of the lecture material. Does anyone know of a brand of wireless remote
that works with this presentation software? I'd rather not be locked
behind the
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:57:44 +0200
Helge Kreutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:33:01PM +, Joerg Sommer wrote:
> > I experienced the same problem at me with a 2.6.6 kernel. If the lid is
> > closed a unknown period the ibook powers off. The G4 doesn't support
> > sl
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:30:21AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 10:18, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:58:21AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 07:15, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:29:25PM -0400, Albert Cahala
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 10:18, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:58:21AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 07:15, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:29:25PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> >
> > > > Just yesterday I grabbed a plain 2.6.8-rc1 kernel
Hi, Sven
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 04:18:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:58:21AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 07:15, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:29:25PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> >
> > > > Just yesterday I grabbed a
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Leigh Brown wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven said:
> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
> >> Any chance to get the specs out of IBM and writting a driver or such ?
> >
> > What does `lspci' say? IIRC, some of these GXT cards are plain S3 cards.
>
> The GXT110P is the S3-based
Geert Uytterhoeven said:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:46:54PM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> > Sven Luther said:
>> > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:06:23PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
>> > >> Hello,
>> > >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:46:54PM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
> > Sven Luther said:
> > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:06:23PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote:
> > >> > Helge, di
Hi,
Albert Cahalan writes:
> > What is the file 'vmlinux.coff-*' for?
>
> It's junk.
More precisely, COFF is an executable format understood by the
OpenFirmware of some older PowerMac models. Nowadays, most PowerMacs
can boot kernels in ELF file format.
Regards, Jens.
--
J'qbpbe, le m'en fq
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:46:54PM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
> Sven Luther said:
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:06:23PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote:
> >> > Helge, did you have had more success than me on your RS/6000
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:58:21AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 07:15, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:29:25PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>
> > > Just yesterday I grabbed a plain 2.6.8-rc1 kernel
> > > from www.kernel.org/pub/linux/ and it works great
>
Sven Luther said:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:06:23PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
>> Hello,
>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote:
>> > Helge, did you have had more success than me on your RS/6000 ? If i
>> > succeed in installing Debian on this machine, i will have a
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:19:28PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Hello,
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:18:57PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Try minicom.
>
> I did this. I get:
> Welcome to minicom 1.83.1
>
> OPTIONS: History Buffer, F-key Macros, Search History Buffer, I18n
> Compiled on Nov 2
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 07:15, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:29:25PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > Just yesterday I grabbed a plain 2.6.8-rc1 kernel
> > from www.kernel.org/pub/linux/ and it works great
> > on my Mac Cube. Perhaps you should try that.
>
> And what about kernel-
Hello,
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:18:57PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> Try minicom.
I did this. I get:
Welcome to minicom 1.83.1
OPTIONS: History Buffer, F-key Macros, Search History Buffer, I18n
Compiled on Nov 21 2001, 00:35:58.
Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys
I went through the men
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:06:23PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Hello,
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote:
> > Helge, did you have had more success than me on your RS/6000 ? If i
> > succeed in installing Debian on this machine, i will have another PPC
> > (don't
Hello,
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote:
> Helge, did you have had more success than me on your RS/6000 ? If i
> succeed in installing Debian on this machine, i will have another PPC
> (don't know what's inside) to install, more RS/6000-like, so all the
> feedbacks a
Hi,
Christoph Ewering writes:
> The MacOS-Partition containing BootX and the kernel is mounted when
> I boot from MacOS 9, I can select this partition as boot-partition
> -- BUT my beige G3 will not boot from this partition!
What does it do instead? Tried the good old PRAM zapping yet? Can
you
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:17:53AM +0200, Christoph Ewering wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Could someone tell where to get current PPC-kernel-sources?
> At the moment I am using www.kernel.org.
> Some rsync-sources?
apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.7 ?
That said, these are mostly ftp.kernel.org tree, with
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:43:55AM +0200, Lucas Moulin wrote:
> 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.
>
> Sh
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:29:25PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> 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 a
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:30:35AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
> Sven Luther said:
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:56:23AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
> >> Since every single RS6000 "offical" ethernet card that I've ever seen
> >> uses pcnet32, I'd say its important to include it in the initrd.
> >
> >
Gentoo is distributing different kernel source tarballs which focus
on particular fields of application. These be more or less
ppc-ready/tested.
Regards,
Rob
Am 13.07.2004 um 10:17 Uhr haben Sie geschrieben:
> Hello!
>
> Could someone tell where to get current PPC-kernel-sources?
> At the mom
Sven Luther said:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:56:23AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> Since every single RS6000 "offical" ethernet card that I've ever seen
>> uses pcnet32, I'd say its important to include it in the initrd.
>
> Ok, mmm, you mean the pcnet32 driver is not in the debian-installer net
>
I am using kernel.org and just patch to the latest available version ;)
Still hoping to find suspend and the radeon working some day.
On Di, 2004-07-13 at 10:17 +0200, Christoph Ewering wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Could someone tell where to get current PPC-kernel-sources?
> At the moment I am using www
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:56:23AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
> Sven Luther said:
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote:
> >> Mmmh, i did try netboot. But kernel gets stuck to "Now booting kernel
> >> too..."
> >
> > Well, but it makes debugging easier and quicker.
> >
>
Sven Luther said:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote:
>> Mmmh, i did try netboot. But kernel gets stuck to "Now booting kernel
>> too..."
>
> Well, but it makes debugging easier and quicker.
>
> Could you please try netbooting
>
>
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/d
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Hello!
Could someone tell where to get current PPC-kernel-sources?
At the moment I am using www.kernel.org.
Some rsync-sources?
Bye,
Christoph
--
Dipl. Ing. Christoph Ewering
C & E Mediensysteme GmbH
Autorisierter Apple Händler und Systemhaus in Paderborn
Hatzfelder Str. 68F Tel.:
Hi Jens!
Am 13.07.2004 um 00:29 schrieb 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
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
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote:
> 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 netboo
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