Re: Problems with dri-trunk on a ibook G4

2004-08-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 18:07 +0200, David Rodriguez Alvarez wrote: > I want to enable de video-out on my ibook G4. [...] > make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.7' > CC [M] /usr/src/modules/drm-trunk/gamma_drv.o > In file included from /usr/src/modules/drm-trunk/gamma_drv.c:46

Re: no sound + backlit keyboard not lighting up (PowerBook G4/Sarge)

2004-08-19 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, [ I seem to have missed some of this thread, including a bounce of my original post (which I'm set up to receive) so I am not too clear on some of the suggestions you're referring to. Apologies to anyone I appear to be ignoring -- I don't seem to have got the mails ] On Thu, 2004-08-19 at

Re: no sound + backlit keyboard not lighting up (PowerBook G4/Sarge)

2004-08-19 Thread Alain Perry
Le jeu 19/08/2004 à 14:48, Matthew T. Atkinson a écrit : > 'ello, Hi, > [ As usual, I have searched on Google and various list archives, but > haven't found anything that answers my questions... ] > > Having just installed Sarge (and getting /dev/pmu to work :-)) I have > been fiddling around wi

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:07:03PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:08:23PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 05:00 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > >I have a > > > >suspsicion that the pmac floppies being modul

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:08:23PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 05:00 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > > >I have a > > >suspsicion that the pmac floppies being modular maybe one of the > > >causes of > > >this, not sure though, possibly another m

Re: 2nd and 3rd mouse key with modifiers

2004-08-19 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 the mental interface of Guido Guenther told: > 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

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:08:23PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Can you make a boot floppy with a 2.4 kernel that installs a 2.6 > > kernel from the net/CD/whatever? > > Sure, but it is not nice. I think you have to fall back to lower priority or > something such. Well

Re: no sound + backlit keyboard not lighting up (PowerBook G4/Sarge)

2004-08-19 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 the mental interface of Matthew T. Atkinson told: > 'ello, > > [ As usual, I have searched on Google and various list archives, but > haven't found anything that answers my questions... ] > > Having just installed Sarge (and getting /dev/pmu to work :-)) I have > been fiddlin

snd-powermac

2004-08-19 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi all, I tried the alsa-drivers 1.0.6 with 2.6.8.1 and got the following error while loading snd-powermac: snd_powermac: Unknown symbol num_controls $ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.4.1 (Debian 3.4.1-5) Any hint? Thx Elimar -- Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainhe

Re: BAT register usage with 745x CPUs

2004-08-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 02:30:42AM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote: > Hi, > > We need some information to try and fix a problem we have with the most > recent 2.4.x kernels (a particular area of memory where the NVRAM is > located, cannot be accessed anymore once the Linux kernel boots, looks > like

Re: strategy for disk replacement?

2004-08-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 05:35:05PM +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > 'ello, > > On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 14:00, david howe wrote: > > Can I rsync the disk to a remote and then copy back onto the new disk? > > Does anyone have any better suggestions? > > Yes, I recently used this technique to recov

Re: 2nd and 3rd mouse key with modifiers

2004-08-19 Thread Adam Done
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 00:15, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:31:56AM -0700, Adam Done wrote: > > + start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/mouseemu -- -middle > > 125 272 -right 96 272 -scroll 56 -typing-block 900 > So does it work now? Exit status of that command? >

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:08:23PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 05:00 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > > > >>happy floppy disk reading noises. However, the noises eventually > >>stopped and a red "X" appeared over the TuxMac. Then nothing. I > >>had to > >>manually eje

newbie-powerbook g3

2004-08-19 Thread Debian User
Hi! I have a old powerbook G3 wallstreet whit german layout keyboard. It's installed Mac OS in the first partition (there are 3 mac partition ) Before install debian I wanto to know: how to boot correctly mac os and debian.. I found xboot and yboot ,what you suggest me? Thanx! Marco

Re: strategy for disk replacement?

2004-08-19 Thread Chris Anderson
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 09:00, david howe wrote: > i have a 10gig drive in my pismo, it has testing currently installed and > I am quite happy with all of the little bits and pieces and tweaks I > have made to this install over the last 6 months or so. But the drive is > too small. I have a 40 gig re

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Brad Boyer
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:34:48PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > I'm testing the powerpc-small boot floppies and this occurred when I > tried to boot my powermac 7300 with ofonlyboot.img. However, after > reformatting with superformat and writing the image again, the disk was > read successfull

Re: strategy for disk replacement?

2004-08-19 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 14:00, david howe wrote: > Can I rsync the disk to a remote and then copy back onto the new disk? > Does anyone have any better suggestions? Yes, I recently used this technique to recover a dead server because it died in the middle of a dd (image) backup :-). You'll

BAT register usage with 745x CPUs

2004-08-19 Thread Ross Vumbaca
Hi, We need some information to try and fix a problem we have with the most recent 2.4.x kernels (a particular area of memory where the NVRAM is located, cannot be accessed anymore once the Linux kernel boots, looks like it's being mapped out). The machine uses a 745x CPU, and I understand t

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:29:18PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:08:06PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > > > > Well, the daily root.bin turned out to contain an emtpty file system, so > > no wonder the installer didn't start. > > For the record, I was using the d

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 05:00 AM, Sven Luther wrote: happy floppy disk reading noises. However, the noises eventually stopped and a red "X" appeared over the TuxMac. Then nothing. I had to manually eject the floppy from the drive. What we need would be a way to get a log of it o

Problems with dri-trunk on a ibook G4

2004-08-19 Thread David Rodriguez Alvarez
I want to enable de video-out on my ibook G4. Looking at google I have seen that's is needed to patch the xfree-dri-trunk, so I did it and build it. The problem comes with the drm-trunk-module-src package. This package install the source code of some modules in /usr/src/modules. I tried to build

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Modem silent on iBook G3 FireWire: Strange modem prob on pismo, redux

2004-08-19 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:11:42 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt escreveu: > The modem is just HW on a serial port, nothing special, except if > the new pmac_zilog driver in 2.6 has a problem... How to debug this driver? I use kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc and it seems to be compiled in –

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:08:06PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > Well, the daily root.bin turned out to contain an emtpty file system, so > no wonder the installer didn't start. For the record, I was using the daily boot floppies from powerpc-small, which appear to be kernel 2.4.25 and not 2

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
Hello, On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:05:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I'm testing the powerpc-small boot floppies and this occurred when I > > Where did you download those from, and when ? http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-small/floppy/ Downloaded today. > > tried to

newbie-powerbook g3

2004-08-19 Thread Debian User
Hi! I have a old powerbook G3 wallstreet whit german layout keyboard. It's installed Mac OS in the first partition (there are 3 mac partition ) Before install debian I wanto to know: how to boot correctly mac os and debian.. I found xboot and yboot ,what you suggest me? Thanx! Marco

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:34:48PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > After reading that your mac booted from boot.img, I tried that one > and with a little more success. After loading the kernel, the system > switched to text mode and asked for the root floppy. I inserted root.img > and it loaded f

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:34:48PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:25:43AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > > Hi Sven, > > > > Progress, of a sort... > > > > I was really hopeful because when I booted either of the "boot" or > > "ofonlyboot" floppy, I got the TuxM

no sound + backlit keyboard not lighting up (PowerBook G4/Sarge)

2004-08-19 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, [ As usual, I have searched on Google and various list archives, but haven't found anything that answers my questions... ] Having just installed Sarge (and getting /dev/pmu to work :-)) I have been fiddling around with ALSA. I managed to successfully insert the module for the powermac sou

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
Hi, On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:25:43AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > Hi Sven, > > Progress, of a sort... > > I was really hopeful because when I booted either of the "boot" or > "ofonlyboot" floppy, I got the TuxMac icon for a while and the Mac made > happy floppy disk reading noises. However, th

strategy for disk replacement?

2004-08-19 Thread david howe
i have a 10gig drive in my pismo, it has testing currently installed and I am quite happy with all of the little bits and pieces and tweaks I have made to this install over the last 6 months or so. But the drive is too small. I have a 40 gig replacement sitting here but I don't wont to reinstall fr

Re: No /dev/pmu

2004-08-19 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, Thanks to all who've replied. It now seems to be working (I used mknod). The problem I am currently having is the message box that pops up when GNOME starts saying permissions on /dev/pmu are b0rked. Apparently this is an upstream bug, however. bye just now, -- Matthew T. Atkinson <[

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Rick_Thomas
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 05:48, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:25:58AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have uploaded oldworld 2.6 miboot floppies at : > > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/miboot > > > > Could people please test them, as i don't have the har

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:25:43AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 05:48, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:25:58AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have uploaded oldworld 2.6 miboot floppies at : > > > > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther

Angry at Apple

2004-08-19 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, I'm angry at Apple. After experiencing a deffective inverter cable which slowly breaks the video signal, the AC power adapter of my iBook stopped working (after 1 year and a half only!). Hopefully, I can easily replace the latter part but at a quite expencive price (105 euros!). Speaking of

Unidentified subject!

2004-08-19 Thread Jérôme Marant
> Sounds like the Inverter Board Cable Assembly wire is eroding. It runs through > the right hand hinge and can easily wear down with normal eveeryday use. I've > replaced mine twice and reinforced the last replacement with a little electrical > tape. > You can see discussions in the Apple Suppor

Re: 2nd and 3rd mouse key with modifiers

2004-08-19 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:31:56AM -0700, Adam Done wrote: > + start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/mouseemu -- -middle > 125 272 -right 96 272 -scroll 56 -typing-block 900 So does it work now? Exit status of that command? -- Guido

Re: No /dev/pmu

2004-08-19 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi alltogether, On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 08:47:42AM +0200, Sebastian Henschel wrote: > hello matthew... > > * "Matthew T. Atkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-19 07:50 +0200]: > > > > I have no /dev/pmu in a new installation of Sarge. It is causing GNOME > > to complain on startup and pbbutton

Re: No /dev/pmu

2004-08-19 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 08:47:42AM +0200, Sebastian Henschel wrote: > hello matthew... > > * "Matthew T. Atkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-19 07:50 > +0200]: > > > > I have no /dev/pmu in a new installation of Sarge. It is causing > > GNOME > > to complain on startup and pbbuttonsd to fail

Re: Howto boot iMac from floppy?

2004-08-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 10:59:28PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Synopsis: iMac Rev. B CD-ROM won't boot sarge netinst. How to create > iMac yaboot boot flopp(y|ies)? please try those : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/ Also, there is some stuff about this in

Re: No /dev/pmu

2004-08-19 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello matthew... * "Matthew T. Atkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-19 07:50 +0200]: > > I have no /dev/pmu in a new installation of Sarge. It is causing GNOME > to complain on startup and pbbuttonsd to fail to start. How can I get > /dev/pmu back? There is a /proc/pmu/ directory present. h

Re: No /dev/pmu

2004-08-19 Thread Tony
I originally installed 'pmud' as that is what I have used with Yellowdog Linux. I believe I also had to change the permissions on /etc/pmu to make the error message go away. 'pmud' was relaced when I installed 'pbbuttonsd'. See the posting on this list with the subject "pmud vs. pbbuttonsd o

Howto boot iMac from floppy?

2004-08-19 Thread s. keeling
Synopsis: iMac Rev. B CD-ROM won't boot sarge netinst. How to create iMac yaboot boot flopp(y|ies)? For whatever reason, the machine I'm banging my head on won't boot from the sarge netinst CD. This is the second CD I've tried that's failed. This one, I burned myself at speed=2. I suspect some