On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:43:23AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Actually, you (and I) *can* boot our oldworld PowerMacs from the 2.4
> miboot floppyset. And we can install Sarge from there. We can even
> use it to install a 2.6.8 kernel.
>
> Not to put words into his mouth, but I think that i
On mar, 2006-12-19 at 18:52 -0500, Matthew Gracie wrote:
> 1) bcm43xx seems to be _really_ flaky; I can associate with an AP, I
> can
> run iwlist, but I can't seem to actually get an address via DHCP or
> play
> any active part in the network. I'm running 2.6.18-3 from Sid; a brief
> Googling has
Matthew Gracie wrote:
> 2) Is suspend-to-RAM supported on this machine at all? When I close the
> lid or hit the power button it seems to simply blank the screen. Again,
> I've Googled, and found conflicting reports.
Have you installed pbbuttonsd?
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On Dec 19, 2006, at 10:09 PM, John Schmidt wrote:
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 07:54, Holger Levsen wrote:
Hi,
On Saturday 16 December 2006 00:52, Sven Luther wrote:
But why? People can install with 2.4 just fine and then later
upgrade
to 2.6, so why do the work and backport it?
Because e
hi, have you tried video=fbcon ?
i tried searching for this machine, on google i
did see there was some breakage at 2.6.9, but i
did not see a follow up (perhaps i did not search
far enough..). i have kernel sources here unpacked
and i see that fbcon.c was last modified in sept 06,
so there may
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 07:54, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Saturday 16 December 2006 00:52, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > But why? People can install with 2.4 just fine and then later upgrade
> > > to 2.6, so why do the work and backport it?
> >
> > Because even when using 2.4 floppies, they w
--- Eddy PetriÈor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> Some time ago i have stumbled on this problem:
>
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372070
it would be nice if you noted the package name...
>
> Having no answer from th
A few more questions about Debian PPC on the 12" Powerbook G4/867 I
inherited at work:
1) bcm43xx seems to be _really_ flaky; I can associate with an AP, I can
run iwlist, but I can't seem to actually get an address via DHCP or play
any active part in the network. I'm running 2.6.18-3 from Sid; a
Hi all,
Is there an easy way to create create Apple_bootstrap and
Apple_partition_map partitions with sfdisk
? It seems that sfdisk don't support this format. Or am I wrong? Is there
any other way to script creation of parttions on apple new world machines ?
Thanks for your help :)
- Benoit
On Dec 19, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:
Hi,
On Saturday 16 December 2006 00:52, Sven Luther wrote:
But why? People can install with 2.4 just fine and then later
upgrade to
2.6, so why do the work and backport it?
Because even when using 2.4 floppies, they will install the 2.6.8
Hi everybody,
I'm trying to boot Debian sarge 3.1 rc4 on an elderly Motorola Powerstack
II 604e (PReP/Utah). According to the Debian pages, this system should be
supported.
I downloaded the current floppy images and the CD #1, but I can't boot
from any of these. Booting from floppy results in "un
Hi,
On Saturday 16 December 2006 00:52, Sven Luther wrote:
> > But why? People can install with 2.4 just fine and then later upgrade to
> > 2.6, so why do the work and backport it?
> Because even when using 2.4 floppies, they will install the 2.6.8 kernels,
> so it is best to have the same kernel
Hi intrigeri,
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 11:27 +0100, intrigeri wrote:
> on my powerbook g4 (6,2), the mainline kernel does not allow to switch
> the ctrl and caps_lock keys, due to weird up/down key management.
>
> In order to workaround this issue, I've been using for ages a kernel
> patch that was
Hello,
on my powerbook g4 (6,2), the mainline kernel does not allow to switch
the ctrl and caps_lock keys, due to weird up/down key management.
In order to workaround this issue, I've been using for ages a kernel
patch that was published on this list two years ago [1], adapted it
for 2.6.15 [2],
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