Re: 2.6.14-rc5 uploaded to experimental available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5

2005-10-29 Thread Patrick Finnegan
Sven Luther declared on Tuesday 25 October 2005 06:03 am: > Hello, > > I just uploaded 2.6.14-rc5 packages to experimental, which are a test > run before 2.6.14 gets released and the corresponding packages go to > unstable. Since they are NEW i have made them available under : > > http://people.d

Re: PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-10-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 03:15 +0100, Thomas Kühner wrote: > Hi All > > > I tried Ubuntu and Debian 3.1 on my PowerBook G3 Lombard. Both > distribtutions have the same problem. The only resoultion available in > X11 is 640x480 @ 30 or 29 Hz. It's not the Open Firmware driver that should be used on

PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-10-29 Thread Thomas Kühner
Hi AllI tried Ubuntu and Debian 3.1 on my PowerBook G3 Lombard. Both distribtutions have the same problem. The only resoultion available in X11 is 640x480 @ 30 or 29 Hz.As far as I know from other dists and Macs, video parameters have to be passed to the kernel at the boot: prompt in order to initi

PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-10-29 Thread Thomas Kühner
Hi AllI tried Ubuntu and Debian 3.1 on my PowerBook G3 Lombard. Both distribtutions have the same problem. The only resoultion available in X11 is 640x480 @ 30 or 29 Hz.As far as I know from other dists and Macs, video parameters have to be passed to the kernel at the boot: prompt in order to initi

Installing Debian in OldWorld computers (was: Re: While I was at it...)

2005-10-29 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. Sorry for getting this in the middle, but I was too busy with real life. On Oct 29 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > Also, could you try booting : > http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot.floppy > Which is known to work, and report. Do you still want testers for this thing? And, if you do,

Re: hfs boot floppy versions

2005-10-29 Thread Christian Müller
ld beige G3revII): * Third Time: miboot.floppy results in red X over the little Tux-Icon in the center of the grey screen, before a potential fb driver from the kernel takes over * 20051029: boot.img cannot work (and it did not), because using hmount [...] ; hdir you will find out that th

Re: status of fn-key.patch for 2.6.14

2005-10-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 02:59:36PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Could this patch be applied against 2.6.14 tree for linux-image-2.6.14-2 > ? (it's at the moment the only thing which makes me build my own kernels) Please submit a bug report in due form against linux-2.6 including the patch, an

Re: hfs boot floppy versions

2005-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 29 October 2005 21:51, Sven Luther wrote: > And for each of them report exactly and in details what happened. Please use this template for that: http://www.us.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template pgp87PaqxF91P.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: hfs boot floppy versions

2005-10-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 08:48:46PM +0200, Christian Müller wrote: > The ones that worked were from: > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/older/sarge/images/2005-06-15/powerpc/floppy-2.4/ > > But they use the same kernel as: > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/older/new-2.4-kernels/powerpc/flo

Re: why kernel don't read partition table?

2005-10-29 Thread Tamas K Papp
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 07:33:07PM +0200, marco giusti wrote: > hi, > i was looking for mac-fdisk for printing my partition map, so i did: > > # mac-fdisk /dev/hda > p > [my partition table] > warning, there is an error ... bla bla bla... press w(rite) to correct. > (ok, maybe it knows what it s

why kernel don't read partition table?

2005-10-29 Thread marco giusti
hi, i was looking for mac-fdisk for printing my partition map, so i did: # mac-fdisk /dev/hda p [my partition table] warning, there is an error ... bla bla bla... press w(rite) to correct. (ok, maybe it knows what it say so...) w q after a reboot... cannot open root device hda4 or unknow-block

Re: Was: backup of the whole hd Now: Partition type significant?

2005-10-29 Thread Derrik Pates
Chadwick wrote: > well, mine is > Apple_Bootstrap -- I made the Linux partition bootable. > > Is that bad? You won't have a bootable system, that's for sure; the "Apple_Bootstrap" partition (which should really only be 800K) needs to contain a filesystem that OpenFirmware knows (yaboot uses HFS v

Re: status of fn-key.patch for 2.6.14

2005-10-29 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 the mental interface of > Yves-Alexis Perez told: > > [...] > >>Could this patch be applied against 2.6.14 tree for linux-image-2.6.14-2 >>? (it's at the moment the only thing which makes me build my own kernels) > > > I don't recognized 2.6.14-2?

Re: status of fn-key.patch for 2.6.14

2005-10-29 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 the mental interface of Yves-Alexis Perez told: [...] > Could this patch be applied against 2.6.14 tree for linux-image-2.6.14-2 > ? (it's at the moment the only thing which makes me build my own kernels) I don't recognized 2.6.14-2? Install http://incoming.debian.org/linux-s

Re: status of fn-key.patch for 2.6.14

2005-10-29 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Hello Jochen, > > On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 the mental interface of > Jochen Voss told: > > >>Hello Yves-Alexis, > > [...] > >>Marc-Christian Petersen sent me a patch for inclusion on my powerbook >>page. I did not yet find time to try it, but I append it to this email >

Re: status of fn-key.patch for 2.6.14

2005-10-29 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hello Jochen, On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 the mental interface of Jochen Voss told: > Hello Yves-Alexis, [...] > Marc-Christian Petersen sent me a patch for inclusion on my powerbook > page. I did not yet find time to try it, but I append it to this email > so you can have a go. That patch works, but ha

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-29 Thread Peter Plessas
Thanks Rick, that definitely cleared all my doubts! cheers, Peter Rick Thomas wrote: On Oct 27, 2005, at 7:18 AM, Peter Plessas wrote: although i am not sure where the difference between 16bit and 24bit is in everyday use (sounds stupid but i don't see any difference). 24-bit depth prov

Re: Powerbook G4 configure some stuff

2005-10-29 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:55:37 +0200 "Johannes H. Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might also want to have a look at my Ubuntu on the PowerBook G4 page > at http://joh.deworks.net/powerbook/ as Ubuntu is mostly based on > debian :) Hi, I've read your page with interrest, although I don't ha

Re: Powerbook G4 configure some stuff

2005-10-29 Thread Johannes Berg
On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 14:03 +0200, Johannes H. Jensen wrote: > I just tested this, and it seems this is not the case with pbbuttonsd > 0.7.1. The CDROM unmounts properly and ejects :) Probably the same problem with the symlink stuff that I had. johannes signature.asc Description: This is a dig

Re: Powerbook G4 configure some stuff

2005-10-29 Thread Johannes H. Jensen
On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 13:58 +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:55:37 +0200 > "Johannes H. Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You might also want to have a look at my Ubuntu on the PowerBook G4 page > > at http://joh.deworks.net/powerbook/ as Ubuntu is mostly based on > > d

Re: status of fn-key.patch for 2.6.14

2005-10-29 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Can somebody send me the final/proper patch there ? > > Ben. > Here it is :) -- Yves-Alexis Perez # 2.6.14-WOLK4.0 # # original version from: Stelian Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # 2.6.14 fix from: Marc-Christian Petersen diff -puN drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c driver