How to tell yaboot to make Linux boot in plain VGA mode

'ello, I have just installed Sarge on my PowerBook. Overall it went very well, though I was messing around for ages trying to work out why OS X's partitioning tool always seems to leave 130MB of free space between the partition map and the OSX partition. Anyway, Sarge is now on there but I have

Re: Old world mac

On Monday 16 August 2004 05:13 am, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Try the netboot/2.4 ones please. > > > > These work. Went through the installer and got the error message quik > > needs root to be ext2, would I like to go back. > > Cool. What version of d-i did you use ? i thought the quik installer was

Re: 2nd and 3rd mouse key with modifiers

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 11:46, Adam Done wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 04:03, Guido Guenther wrote: > I installed the debian package mentioned earlier from the list in April > and I do not have an /etc/default/mouseemu file. How can I crate one > with these settings? So far I have the default mou

Re: Latest Available Debian PPC Version of Mozilla-Thunderbird?

On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 11:32:21PM -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: > What is the latest version of Thunderbird available for the PPC? I have > 5.0, see: http://www.thecodefactory.org/mozilla/#thunderbird-0-6

Re: 2nd and 3rd mouse key with modifiers

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 04:03, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:53:46AM -0700, Adam Done wrote: > > I have read the mails on the list and I am wondering if I can get > > mouseemu to work on the tty terminal? So far none of the buttons in X > > work here. > Sure, you have to read fr

Re: device enumeration question

Nick, Please fill out an installation report so this gets into the bug tracking system. Without a bug-track record, it will be ignored by the developers. The depressing truth is that most developers are too busy to deal with the volume of mail in these mailing lists, so the only way to get their

Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3

On (17/08/04 11:58), Rick Thomas wrote: > On Tuesday, August 17, 2004, at 06:48 AM, Kilian Krause wrote: > > >Hi Clive, > > > >ok, so here's how it goes: > >use the BootX with the kernel from the installed system, supply the > >initrd of the booted system and put a root=... as commandline arg. > >

Re: How to enable apm in kernel 2.6?

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 04:37:23PM +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote: > In apmd package description I find that: > "Debian kernels are built with APM support but it is disabled by > default. You need to boot the kernel with the "apm=on" option if you > want to enable the driver." > However, after doing th

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Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3

On Tuesday, August 17, 2004, at 06:48 AM, Kilian Krause wrote: Hi Clive, ok, so here's how it goes: use the BootX with the kernel from the installed system, supply the initrd of the booted system and put a root=... as commandline arg. That way i could boot the system just fine. Yet it seems t

IDE enumeration problem

I have a Power MAC G4 that I added a Promise Ultra133 TX2 IDE controller (uses the PDC20269 chipset). I am having problems with this card getting enumerated before the onboard IDE chipsets which isn't the way I want it. I am using DI Release Candidate 1. At yaboot I try the following to c

How to enable apm in kernel 2.6?

Hi, I use kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc, 2.6.7-5, on an alu 15" G4 powerbook. I need the battery level, but the /proc/apm pseudo-file does not exist. How can I enable it? In apmd package description I find that: "Debian kernels are built with APM support but it is disabled by default. You n

Re: sound not working for tux racer

Jim Ricken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > I am running debian sarge on my mac and for some reason ,the sound > will not work when I play tux racer. > What is wrong? > My sound works on my computer otherwise. Are you perhaps running esd or artsd? If I am not mistaken tux racer tries accessing

rsync 2.6.2-3

Hi, Does anyone know why rsync 2.6.2-3 isn't available on powerpc? I couldn't find anything useful on http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=rsync -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn / RISC OS / ARM, free software, YP17, Cham

Re: IBookG4 External screen (and Overlay)

Hello, you write that you get about 850 FPS. Is that true? I'm getting: 560 frames in 5.0 seconds = 112.000 FPS on my G3-600/M3 rage. Of course it's slower, but ~800% difference? This would either mean that my setup is screwed or i'd need new hardware ;-) Rob Am Son, den 15.08.2004 schrieb S

Re: Fwd: Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3

Hi Clive, > Does that mean that you used the 2.4 kernel? It would be good if you > filed an installation report as requested here: > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template nope, i have gone with the 2.6.7 and its initrd.img.. I'll file the installation report later.. but

Re: Fwd: Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3

On (17/08/04 12:48), Kilian Krause wrote: > Hi Clive, > > ok, so here's how it goes: > use the BootX with the kernel from the installed system, supply the > initrd of the booted system and put a root=... as commandline arg. > > That way i could boot the system just fine. Yet it seems there's no h

libsensors keywest configuration

hi guys, i'm trying to configure lm-sensors over an ibook 2.2 . sensors-detect find successfully ADM1030 device over uni-n 1 bus, but i cannot find any doc about configuration of this bus in "sensors.conf". has anyone already configured lm-sensors on such bus? thank's a lot Luca --

sound not working for tux racer

Hi I am running debian sarge on my mac and for some reason ,the sound will not work when I play tux racer. What is wrong? My sound works on my computer otherwise. Jim

Re: Best Linux Database

The advantage of using Postgresql for small projects is that you will then probably use it for big projects! Version 8 is in beta. Its looking very good. Rory On 13/08/04, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Javier Blanque wrote: > >Postgresql is a very good DBMS. > >http://www.postg

Ti book CD/DVD ROM

Title: Message I've been searching around to see if there is a patch to repair the problem I have with my DVDROM drive on my Tibook and I found your correspondance. The drive is a Matsushita SR-8717 with driver version 1.4.7 and revision number HA18. It stopped working when I was copying one of my

Re: 2nd and 3rd mouse key with modifiers

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:53:46AM -0700, Adam Done wrote: > I have read the mails on the list and I am wondering if I can get > mouseemu to work on the tty terminal? So far none of the buttons in X > work here. Sure, you have to read from /dev/input/mice (gpm.conf): device=/dev/input/mice type=im

Re: Fwd: Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3

Hi Clive, ok, so here's how it goes: use the BootX with the kernel from the installed system, supply the initrd of the booted system and put a root=... as commandline arg. That way i could boot the system just fine. Yet it seems there's no hfs support in the d-i kernel 2.6.7... At least i couldn'

Re: 2nd and 3rd mouse key with modifiers

Hello, I was not to sure about starting a new thread or picking up this old thread from April. I have read the mails on the list and I am wondering if I can get mouseemu to work on the tty terminal? So far none of the buttons in X work here. Also, I can't get the scroll on the pad to work. I h

Re: Initrd problems with chrp-pegasos

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 10:48:29PM +0200, Lorenzo wrote: > I'm trying to make my kernel build with some realtime modules to use with low > latency audio server Jack. What kernels are you trying to build ? And what is your pegasos model ? > I don't know how to make a good vmlinuz image with initr

Re: IBookG4 External screen (and Overlay)

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 04:34:12PM +0200, Sébastien FRANÇOIS wrote: > > not too sure about these build dependenciesanyone can help? > try apt-get install xlibs-dev groff Even better, try apt-get build-dep xfree86 J -- Jesus Climent info:www.pumuki.org Un

Re: Fwd: Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3

Hi Clive, > What you need to do to get BootX to boot your installed Linux system is > copy the initrd.gz and vmlinux from your installed system onto the Mac > partition and then replace the installer versions in "Linux Kernels" > with these installed versions. The problem I've had is that I can't