Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-27 Thread William
It means you have not installed the dependencies of the package. that it tries to call mkvmlinuz is a hint that you are not on powermac, or that you do something strange. > ,[ apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc ] > | Reading package lists... Done > | Building dependency tree... Done

[workaround] Re: Did not manage to resize an HFS+ partition on a powermac G5.

2007-04-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:28:01PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Dear lists, > > I am trying to install Debian on a powermac7,3 at work, but I did not > manage to resize the main HFS+ partition. Although I have a backup, I > would like to avoid reinstalling MacOS X. I saw on the web reports fr

Re: Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-04-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:22:21PM -0400, Wakko Warner a écrit : > Charles Plessy wrote: > > I have just installed Etch on a powermac7,3 with a cinema display, but > > very unfortunately, the screen flickers, making it difficult to work > > with the computer. > > > > I have found a hint on the fgl

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:19:26PM +0800, William Xu wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:18:01PM +0800, William Xu wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4. > >> Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.1

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-27 Thread William Xu
Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We've had this topic - kernel compiles going wrong - often > here. IIRC. And I've given detailed instructions on how to do it: You > can search Google on it, with these patterns (including the quotes): > > "time makeflags" "wolfgang pfeiffer" > > Or

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-27 Thread William Xu
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:18:01PM +0800, William Xu wrote: >> Hi, >> >> In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4. >> Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.15.5(current kernel). When i try to > > The current debian kernels are etch

Re: Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-04-27 Thread Wakko Warner
Charles Plessy wrote: > I have just installed Etch on a powermac7,3 with a cinema display, but > very unfortunately, the screen flickers, making it difficult to work > with the computer. > > I have found a hint on the fglrx page > (http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/fglrx-installer.html): it

Re: Beryl - do I dare?

2007-04-27 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:00:25 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Instead of doing GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap by reading pixels[cut] Thanks Michel, always a pleasure to read your messages :) > I think that should be fixed in xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.6.191-1 in > experimental. I'll check it out then

Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-04-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I have just installed Etch on a powermac7,3 with a cinema display, but very unfortunately, the screen flickers, making it difficult to work with the computer. I have found a hint on the fglrx page (http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/fglrx-installer.html): it seems necessary to redu

Using a mac UFS external hard disk (USB)

2007-04-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everybody, can you help me with this problem? I can't read the data stored on my external usb hard disk using my powerbook with Debian 4, the disk was written with Mac OS X with UFS filesystem. I can read the disk from another iMac with Mac OS X, but I don't have enough free space to bring ev

Re: major problem booting Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 on a Workgroup Server 8550/200

2007-04-27 Thread Ralf Saalmüller
Hello Pierre, Hi there, After several installation attempts, I am stuck with a very weird problem. The machine is a Workgroup Server 8550/200. There's MacOS 9.0.4 on it, and remaining free space on the disk. ... When Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 is installed, well, the only thing left to do is t

major problem booting Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 on a Workgroup Server 8550/200 : apparently solved

2007-04-27 Thread Pierre Bauduin
Hi there, After some research I found what went wrong. As I told you, I installed Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 on the /dev/sda10 partition Then I mounted the MacOS 9 volume on /mnt/MacOS And I copied the kernel and initrd from /boot to /mnt/MacOS The problem is that these two files on the MacOS 9 partit

Did not manage to resize an HFS+ partition on a powermac G5.

2007-04-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear lists, I am trying to install Debian on a powermac7,3 at work, but I did not manage to resize the main HFS+ partition. Although I have a backup, I would like to avoid reinstalling MacOS X. I saw on the web reports from 2005 in which an HFS+ partition was sucessfully resized with the debian-in

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-27 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, Apr 27 2007, at 13:18 +0800, William Xu wrote: > Hi, > > In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4. > Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.15.5(current kernel). When i try to > boot the newly built kernel, it dies even before loading the kernel: > > Can't rea

major problem booting Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 on a Workgroup Server 8550/200

2007-04-27 Thread Pierre Bauduin
Hi there, After several installation attempts, I am stuck with a very weird problem. The machine is a Workgroup Server 8550/200. There's MacOS 9.0.4 on it, and remaining free space on the disk. Here is how I installed Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 on it: - I downloaded http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-cd

Re: Beryl - do I dare?

2007-04-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 05:41 +, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:00:22 +0200, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > > What graphics card? Compiz runs fine on my ATI RV350 with the free > > radeon driver (well, what else?) and these patches: > > > > http://people.freedesktop.org/~daenzer/aig