Re: PowerMac7,3 insists it has 0 batteries and no AC power!

2005-02-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 20:28 -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > Hi, > > I have a PowerMac7,3 machine (dual G5 970FX). It does not run Linux > continously just yet. So I installed anacron as I do for all such > computers. This is a stock Debian sarge installation (in particular, I > do not compile my ow

OSS/dma_sound in full duplex?

2005-02-17 Thread vze26m98
Hi all- I've got a question aging with no response over at the Pure Data list, and thought I'd bring a piece of it over here. Can anyone tell me whether the OSS dma_sound driver (which I'm using under 2.4) can or cannot do full duplex CD quality audio? That is, can I open both input and output t

Re: old apple machines supported ?

2005-02-17 Thread david
I (once) created an oldish howto here http://www.qednet.biz/About7100.html david > Dylan Beaudette wrote: > >>If anyone is interested I have successfully installed debian woody on a >> 6100, >>7100, 8100 using the nubus-pmac kernels >> >> >> > cool, i have a 6100 and a 7100 stashed away ... > >

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-17 Thread Bruno Beaufils
I had got the same problem with either my old TiBook and my new AlBook (the one with ATI 9600 graphic card). My solution was to bypass all those new stuff not well documented (XKB) and use plain old Xmodmap. I create a customized version of an Xmodmap file and load it as X starts. It worked well fo

Re: powerpc 2.6.10-2 currently in NEW, available on p.d.o

2005-02-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 11:39:49PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Mmm, the main difference seems to be that you apt-get installed it instead of > ftping it and then dpkg -i'ings it. Well, i will be damned, i tried it with apt, and voila it works well, i think this is a serious problem with dpkg/apt,

Re: Selinux available on 2.6.10 powerpc.deb [was: powerpc 2.6.10-2 [ ... ]]

2005-02-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:51:20PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:55:09AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just uploaded the powerpc kernels 2.6.10-2 on : > > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.10-2/ > > > > I only now realised it, aft

Re: powerpc 2.6.10-2 currently in NEW, available on p.d.o

2005-02-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:11:49AM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:58:28PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:17:25PM +0100, Eugen Dedu wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Note: I don't have initrd.img and vmlinux links in /boot, but I have > > > initrd

Re: msdos Zip on Pismo internal drive?

2005-02-17 Thread vze26m98
Brad Boyer wrote on 2/17/05: >On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:19:46PM -0500, vze26m98 wrote: >> I can mount an HFS formatted Zip like this: >The fact that you can mount an HFS zip with that command is purely >accidental. It's an unintended (and in my view undesired) side effect >of support for HFS/hy

Re: 2.6 kernel for iBook 500 Mhz G3 dual usb

2005-02-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
the stock debian 2.6 kernel should work fine works on my clamshell ibook, which is close enough to identical to yours you may just need to install the apm_emu module, the snd-powermac module and... well that should be about it. modem support is now in the kernel, not a module as for 3d acceleration

Re: old apple machines supported ?

2005-02-17 Thread Kim Hawtin
Dylan Beaudette wrote: If anyone is interested I have successfully installed debian woody on a 6100, 7100, 8100 using the nubus-pmac kernels cool, i have a 6100 and a 7100 stashed away ... did you have any specific doumentation for the 7100 install? URL praps? cheers, Kim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

2.6 kernel for iBook 500 Mhz G3 dual usb

2005-02-17 Thread Greg Hamilton
Since upgrading Gnome I see the odd warning about services which require a 2.6 kernel to work properly (eg. HAL I think, though I don't have the machine handy to check). I'm running a custom built 2.4 kernel at the moment with which everything works - sleep, internal modem, 3D acceleration, etc

Re: powerpc 2.6.10-2 currently in NEW, available on p.d.o

2005-02-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 07:31:56AM +1100, david wrote: > I downloaded and installed kernel-image-2.6.10-powerpc onto my g3/400 > pismo, with the following result > > Setting up kernel-image-2.6.10-powerpc (2.6.10-2) ... > /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-powerpc points to > /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-powerp

Re: msdos Zip on Pismo internal drive?

2005-02-17 Thread Brad Boyer
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:19:46PM -0500, vze26m98 wrote: > I've got a stable Woody distro on my Pismo laptop and an internal VST > 250 meg Zip drive in the CD Rom bay. > > I can mount an HFS formatted Zip like this: > > mount -t hfs /dev/hde ./zip > > ...and I can of course mount and read ISO96

Re: powerpc 2.6.10-2 currently in NEW, available on p.d.o

2005-02-17 Thread david
I downloaded and installed kernel-image-2.6.10-powerpc onto my g3/400 pismo, with the following result Setting up kernel-image-2.6.10-powerpc (2.6.10-2) ... /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-powerpc points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-powerpc -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-image-2.6.10-power

Re: old apple machines supported ?

2005-02-17 Thread Dylan Beaudette
If anyone is interested I have successfully installed debian woody on a 6100, 7100, 8100 using the nubus-pmac kernels -- Dylan Beaudette Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

msdos Zip on Pismo internal drive?

2005-02-17 Thread vze26m98
Hi all- More newbie questions: I've got a stable Woody distro on my Pismo laptop and an internal VST 250 meg Zip drive in the CD Rom bay. I can mount an HFS formatted Zip like this: mount -t hfs /dev/hde ./zip ...and I can of course mount and read ISO9660 CDs when the CD in is the bay. I have

Re: Getting rid of hotplug & Co. for 2.6

2005-02-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:39:26AM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > And besides: Isn't a slow booting computer a bit like Marilyn Manson > singing Christmas songs by the Christmas tree, with his Happy > Family. Can you imagine that? I can't ... > > But yes: All this sometimes simply is a matt

Re: old apple machines supported ?

2005-02-17 Thread Jorge Salamero
on Thursday 17 February 2005 14:31, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote: > > Performa 630 > > These ARE supported by NetBSD! See: > > http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/ yes sorry, i didn't notice they are mac68k not macppc > > > PowerMacintosh 4400/200 > > So is this! See: > > http://www.netbsd.org/

Re: old apple machines supported ?

2005-02-17 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Feb 16, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Jorge Salamero wrote: hi all, i'm in a non-profit organization section for recycling computers[1] and we have the following ppc, i've seen none of them are supported by netbsd but i can't find a supported model list by linux, where can i find it ? wich of these machi

Re: old apple machines supported ?

2005-02-17 Thread Jorge Salamero
on Thursday 17 February 2005 07:15, Brad Boyer wrote: > > I don't remember the 6200, but I'd guess it is similar to the 6100. > > Yes and no. It is nubus based, but it has a ppc603 instead of a ppc601 > and it was a consumer model instead of a professional one. It's listed > on the nubus-pmac page,

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-17 Thread Charles-Edouard Ruault
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 17:28 +0100, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: Hi All, i've been struggling for a few days tying to have my keyboard mapped correctly on my PowerBook Alu G4. I'm running debian sid with kernel 2.6.10 and KDE 3.3.2. After looking on the web i found

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-17 Thread Charles-Edouard Ruault
Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 05:28:16PM +0100, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: Hi All, i've been struggling for a few days tying to have my keyboard mapped correctly on my PowerBook Alu G4. I'm running debian sid with kernel 2.6.10 and KDE 3.3.2. After looking on the web i found som

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-17 Thread Charles-Edouard Ruault
Hi Julien, thanks for the reply. I've just tried your settings without much success :( I believe it's due to KDE. I've digged around once more in the options of KDE and found promising options in the "Keyboard Shortcuts, Modifier Keys" of the Control center. There's a "Macintosh keyboard" option

Re: old apple machines supported ?

2005-02-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 17 February 2005 04:08, teefour wrote: > The 4400 should work. Some time ago I had one running linux. No Idea > about the others. the 4400 does work (also with the new debian-installer) for sure. it even boots from a 160gb ide-harddrive :-) regards, holger pgpZNUAy6Llyu.pgp D

Re: Re: powerpc 2.6.10-2 currently in NEW, available on p.d.o

2005-02-17 Thread Eugen Dedu
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:58:28PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:17:25PM +0100, Eugen Dedu wrote: > Hi, > > Note: I don't have initrd.img and vmlinux links in /boot, but I have > initrd.img.old and vmlinux.old (I have installed 2.6.9 and removed it > afterwards, hence I ha