Re: G3 installation problems

2005-02-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you for the helpi tried using RAWRITE on a pc, but i kept getting an error on the boot.img. the file is 1.40 MG, but it wont fit on a 1.44 floppyat this time, i dont have access to a linux box with a floppy, but that will change in a couple of days...does anyone have any ideas as to

Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

2005-02-23 Thread Patrick Bachmann
Hello Felipe, On Wednesday 23 February 2005 05:08 pm, Felipe Fonseca wrote: > I managed to install woody on a 8600 using BootX on MacOS 8. Sorry to tell you, but I can't go the BootX way. I don't have a MacOS version which works on that maschine, and I'm not really into filesharing and stuff.

Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

2005-02-23 Thread Patrick Bachmann
Hi Holger, Thanks for your reply. On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:36 pm, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hmmm... this is the woody floppy and it should work, I guess this might by > a floppy media issue -> try another floppy. Well, I went to Staples and got me a new set of floppies that even have a two

Re: Installing SMP kernel

2005-02-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Arnór" == Arnór Kristjánsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Arnór> Hi, I just installed Debian on the xserve I've been Arnór> battling with for the last few days, foregoing raid support Arnór> and such. I used "install-power4" which installs the Arnór> package kernel-image-2.6.8-

Re: G3 installation problems

2005-02-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"bluesbravo" == bluesbravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bluesbravo> dd if=file of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync bluesbravo> above is the instruction from the install manual; the bluesbravo> floppy drive on my fedora is /mnt/floppy, which i used bluesbravo> instead of /dev/

Re: Sleep & 2.6.10

2005-02-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 09:50 +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:54:20AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > I also gather that suspend-to-disk is available - > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc/25379 > > > > I don't think suspend to disk is

Re: ibook2.2's thermal control dilemma

2005-02-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 22:03 +1100, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > If Ben really don't want to specify what is on the bus, then we can say that > there can be > everything on the bus: > --- i2c-keywest.c.orig 2004-07-24 22:39:04.0 +0200 > +++ i2c-keywest.c 2004-08-17 21:03:23.0 +02

Re: Wrong permission for '/dev/pmu'

2005-02-23 Thread Martin Lohmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Lohmeier wrote: | Check the BTS : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=296437 | | The permissions are not included in the rule files. To get it working a /etc/udev/rules.d/local.rules with the following content: KERNEL="pmu", OWNER="r

Re: Wrong permission for '/dev/pmu'

2005-02-23 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:36:49PM +, Ben Hill wrote: > When starting GNOME on my PowerBook, I'm getting a pop-up complaining > about the wrong permission for /dev/pmu. > > I've found a post about it here: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/01/msg00235.html > > ...and added: >

Re: Wrong permission for '/dev/pmu'

2005-02-23 Thread Martin Lohmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ben, Ben Hill wrote: | When starting GNOME on my PowerBook, I'm getting a pop-up complaining | about the wrong permission for /dev/pmu. | | I've found a post about it here: | | http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/01/msg00235.html | | ...and a

Re: Help: Virtual Terminal Woes

2005-02-23 Thread Ben Hill
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 00:24 +, Ben Hill wrote: > Any ideas would be great, it's a real pain!! Just for google-juice; I rebooted into single user mode using "Linux single" from the yaboot prompt. I then did my editing and rebooted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Wrong permission for '/dev/pmu'

2005-02-23 Thread Ben Hill
When starting GNOME on my PowerBook, I'm getting a pop-up complaining about the wrong permission for /dev/pmu. I've found a post about it here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/01/msg00235.html ...and added: pmu:root:video:0660 to /etc/udev/permissions.d/udev.permissions ...but th

Re: accessing file on HFS+

2005-02-23 Thread Mauro
On Sun, 2005-30-01 at 02:56 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > This is probably a permission problem. The hfsplus driver maps the > UID/GID's from OS X to Linux. You probably don't have the same UID/GID > on both systems. You should be able to read all the files on the > mounted > hfsplus parti

2.6.11 again

2005-02-23 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi list, hi kernel gurus, i reported some time ago a build error of 2.6.11rc?. I tried the FTBFS bug-fix from Fabbione: no result. Building the kernels with gcc-3.3 (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8) went well. The same config with gcc (GCC) 3.4.4 20050203 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-9) stops as fol

Re: Kernel 2.6.*: vlock breaks sleep button?

2005-02-23 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:26:03 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, but no: I don't understand anything of the code in the > sources: Sorry to hear that. > So I'll mess with stuff I understand, and keep my hands off the rest > of it .. And, yes, I also didn't quite get so f

Re: Installing SMP kernel

2005-02-23 Thread John Koskie
Hi, It looks like either will work, but I would start with the first with a few additions. If you look at the first file, you will see that the link to the kernel file: "/boot/vmlinux" is specified rather than the kernel itself "/boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-power4-smp". The reason for this is that when

Installing SMP kernel

2005-02-23 Thread Arnór Kristjánsson
Hi, I just installed Debian on the xserve I've been battling with for the last few days, foregoing raid support and such. I used "install-power4" which installs the package kernel-image-2.6.8-power4. I want to enable smp in the kernel so I installed kernel-image-2.6.8-power4-smp, ran yabootconf

Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

2005-02-23 Thread Felipe Fonseca
Hi, I managed to install woody on a 8600 using BootX on MacOS 8. I'm not using it anymore, because I have some weird hardware problem that gives me segfault in many different programs, but after a lot of work I had X running E16 and other cute things. f On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:36:34 +0100, Holge

Re: G3 installation problems

2005-02-23 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:21:42AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i downloaded the sarge files and the boot.img and the root.img. i read > the instructions on making the floppies, but i have hit a wall. on my > only other computer, i have a dual-booting XP and fedora. i cannot > figure out a

Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

2005-02-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Patrick, On Tuesday 22 February 2005 18:02, Patrick Bachmann wrote: > This OldWorld-maschine doesn't want to boot the floppies, I'm trying to > feed it with. > There are various floppies I have tried, e.g. the woody and sarge boot > floppies and the floppies of the rc2 of the debian installer.

graphical problem?

2005-02-23 Thread Jesus Roncero
Hi all I own an ibook G3 800MHz combo and have been experiencing problems lately. Here is a summary of the events: I got my logic board changed through the logic board extension program .I took my ibook to repair because I had the backlight problem and they also changed the logic board :-$ Ok,

Re: ibook2.2's thermal control dilemma

2005-02-23 Thread Cedric Pradalier
According to Benjamin Herrenschmidt, on Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:47:12 +1100, >On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 22:49 +0100, Luca Bigliardi - shammash wrote: > >> Ben does not like this patch. He also has explained why but i didn't >> understood (the problem is my little tech skill :) ). > >If Cedric who wrote th

Re: mol and wlan

2005-02-23 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Matthias writes: > before installing mol i like to know, whether there is wlan support in > mol and/or 3d-acceleration. No. > what are the advantages of using mol instead of dual-bool? Running several operating systems simultaneously, and being able to run earlier versions of Mac OS on new

Re: G3 installation problems

2005-02-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i downloaded the sarge files and the boot.img and the root.img. i read the instructions on making the floppies, but i have hit a wall. on my only other computer, i have a dual-booting XP and fedora. i cannot figure out a way to get into DOS (f8 doesnt work), so i tried to copy the floppies using

Re: Poor suspend life on Powerbook G4 (5,2)

2005-02-23 Thread Timo Reimerdes
> >Can you confirm that OS X allows you to suspend a lot longer ? > I can. It definately lasts longer. If I get the chance and not have to work on the book all the time ;) I'll run a test to give you some numbers. But it should end up with about double!! the life under OSX. It it were less I would

Re: Sleep & 2.6.10

2005-02-23 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:54:20AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I also gather that suspend-to-disk is available - > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc/25379 > > I don't think suspend to disk is very reliable tho ... Works here without problems for several days

mol and wlan

2005-02-23 Thread realmatzman
Hi, before installing mol i like to know, whether there is wlan support in mol and/or 3d-acceleration. if there isn't, what are the advantages of using mol instead of dual-bool? Why isn't there any possibility to extract libs and drivers from mac os x and use them in debian like they do with wi

Re: Poor suspend life on Powerbook G4 (5,2)

2005-02-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 19:04 +0100, Timo Reimerdes wrote: > Hi, > > I was just discussing Linux as an OS on my mac with a friend who is > running debian on his iBook for ages. He mentioned that when suspended > his iBook lasts about 5 days! Mine will run out of battery power within > two and a half