Re: caution: disc upgrades wallstreet & earlier powerbooks

2006-09-03 Thread brian
remember this ?? http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2000-April/006127.html http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2000-April/006128.html and others, see also http://www.medicalmac.com/faq1E.html it appears tho apple has deleted the til#24985 ... --- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL

video problem with bootx on 7200

2006-09-03 Thread J. R. Harvey
I installed debian sarge on a powermac 7200/120. When it boots with bootx, the video doesn't work. The logo shows up briefly, then the screen goes blank while it finishes booting, and stays blank. Everything else seems to be working, so I can log in via ssh. I didn't install X, so all I'm concerne

Re: caution: disc upgrades wallstreet & earlier powerbooks

2006-09-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> the note on the wall street says it is a hardware > problem on the motherboard. something to do with udma, > these were early versions of that aka ata-33. maybe > newer drives can switch down to older/slower, i don't > know. This is weird... first those old motherboards don't support U/DMA at a

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-09-03 Thread Simon Vallet
Hi, I just tested xkb-data_0.8-10exp1_all.deb from http://people.debian.org/barbier/tmp/ extracted to ~/XKB and symlinked /usr/share/lib/X11/xkb to it : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/XKB/usr/share/X11/xkb$ ls -l /usr/share/X11/xkb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2006-09-03 20:14 /usr/share/X11/xkb -> /home/sjv/

Re: XFree86 running too slow in Performa 6500/300.

2006-09-03 Thread brian
i have been given several old, worn out computers, i had no budget, but somehow i got the parts. this doesn't need much. i have 603 runs sarge and etch both fine with 80MB RAM. it doesn't need 512, the usb, all that stuff. i pick up ram sticks 64MB for like $10. it takes a little more finding fo

Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-09-03 Thread Balogh, Karoly (Charlie/iNQ)
Hi, Hello people, i think this is my first mail to this list. :) On 2006.09.03, brian wrote: >> sorry, um correcting myself >> >> 1) amiga is still in business, you can buy many >> kinds of 68k, g3, and g4 systems from dealers online >> as well as upgrade. (for those disgusted with apple >> nee

Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-09-03 Thread brian
> > sorry, um correcting myself > > 1) amiga is still in business, you can buy many > kinds of 68k, g3, and g4 systems from dealers online > as well as upgrade. (for those disgusted with apple > needed newer machines or old/new machine whatever). > > ***note amiga advertises g3/4 come with de

caution: disc upgrades wallstreet & earlier powerbooks

2006-09-03 Thread brian
hi, i had sat up most all night with my old powerbook this week several i thought i should share some of this story. this hard drive i got to give me more space for etch, sarge, and my 68k experiments/exchanges, called - IBM DYLA-28100, (has a couple alias names too). corrupt