Debian Lenny & 'macserial' driver

2009-06-08 Thread Irena & Richard Jenkins
Some careful examination of the debian lists reveals that the command 'insmod macserial' will allow the machine to identify and configure the internal modem on a G4 Mac desktop. However, this command seems to have been dropped ... maybe incorporated into another command for the newer 2.6.xx ker

Debian on Xilinx FPGA's

2009-06-08 Thread Spenser Gilliland
Hi, My name is Spenser Gilliland. I am an Electrical and Computer Engineer at Baylor. I spent quite a bit of time over the past few months putting Debian on a cluster of FPGAs. It was quite an adventure with several pitfalls. In order to reduce the complexity, I have started collecting informa

Re: Cross-compile PPC kernel on x86

2009-06-08 Thread Eric Cooper
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 01:50:01PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > At this point I would like to use the make-kpkg command but how do I > specify the paths for the proper toolchain to use? > > Right now I am using the command: > > make-kpkg --initrd --cross-compile powerpc --revision=test.kern

Cross-compile PPC kernel on x86

2009-06-08 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I am trying to use an x86 host desktop PC to compile a kernel for an old PBG4. I got as far as setting up a cross compiler toolchain for powerpc (using buildtroot). I copied the config file over and made the necessary changes. At this point I would like to use the make-kpkg command but how do I

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 8, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: widux wrote: Am Montag 08 Juni 2009 19:34:24 schrieb Jan Willem Stumpel: Andrei Popescu wrote: (about getting ctl-alt-backspace back): You need Option"DontZap" "false" in the ServerFlags section of your xorg.conf (check the manpage