Re: no sound - iBook G3

2007-08-06 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On 8/6/07, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just recently installed etch on my laptop as well. Although this one is a > PowerBook G4. Sound worked out of the box without configuring. However, I did > have the issue of sound on my desktop with etch. So I just ran the following > com

Re: Debian ppc install in process on rs6000

2007-08-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 08:36:38AM -0500, Greg Trigg wrote: > > How large do I want my boot partition to be? At the moment it's 100Megs > with a root partition of 10Gig, a swap partition of 1.5Gig and a home > partition of 2Gig. If I should do something different, I would also > welcome that

Re: Xorg won't start on a PowerMac 9600 (ATI Mach64)

2007-08-06 Thread Rob Homsi
Hi, I've got a powermac 6500/225, which is a bit older than yours. My graphic card is built in: 00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT] (rev 41) It uses the ati module and not the atimisc that you're using. have you tried substituting "atimisc" with

Re: Debian ppc install in process on rs6000

2007-08-06 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 the mental interface of Greg Trigg told: [...] > I'm thinking that 100Megs is way too much, but I'd rather have that than > too little. 50M should be enough for at least 4 modulized kernels. But hey, /var, /usr, /tmp should be on separate partitions as well: Filesystem

Debian ppc install in process on rs6000

2007-08-06 Thread Greg Trigg
This is probably a dumb question, but one I thought would be best answered here. I have finally managed to get an install started on my 44P-170 RS/6000. I got the scsi module loaded and I have removed the AIX label from one of the hard drives (I have two in it). To make a long question short

Re: no sound - iBook G3

2007-08-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I just recently installed etch on my laptop as well. Although this one is a PowerBook G4. Sound worked out of the box without configuring. However, I did have the issue of sound on my desktop with etch. So I just ran the following commands. Install 'alsa-base' and recommended packages from aptitud