disk labels and partitions for IBM Power to boot

2011-03-01 Thread Adrian Zaugg
Hello I have partitioned my boot disk in a IBM Power 740 Express with cfdisk (msdos disk labels) to have a PReP bootpartition first and a Linux partition behind it. The system doesn't recognize this disk as a boot disk, although I have activated it. Some questions do arise: - Can I use PC disklab

install of squeeze fails on IBM Power 740 express

2011-02-25 Thread Adrian Zaugg
s? Thank you for your help. Best regards, Adrian. -- .... ETH Zürich Adrian Zaugg, HIL F 51.3 Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme CH-8093 Zürich +41 44 633 37 93 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.d

Re: X11 Keyboard mapping with hal: How?

2010-01-21 Thread Adrian Zaugg
Sorry, Michel On 01/21/2010 02:12 PM, Adrian Zaugg wrote: console-setup maybe? No, this does not ask for the layout and afaik only affects the console and not X11. Which is not true...sorry. Maybe the statement below explains that there should be the questions for the layout (from Debian

Re: X11 Keyboard mapping with hal: How?

2010-01-21 Thread Adrian Zaugg
On 01/21/2010 12:55 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 03:01 +0100, Adrian Zaugg wrote: If I wtach the Xorg.0.log I see with hal working it choses a keyboard layout "sg" (instead of "ch" Variant "de_mac") and I remember vaguely typing this once in a

Re: X11 Keyboard mapping with hal: How?

2010-01-20 Thread Adrian Zaugg
On 01/20/2010 06:44 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: Just put Section "ServerFlags" Option_·"DontZap" "off" Option_·"AutoAddDevices""off" EndSection to your xorg.conf and configure your keyboard as usual with xorg.conf. Unfortunately I get: "Failed to load module "kbd"

X11 Keyboard mapping with hal: How?

2010-01-20 Thread Adrian Zaugg
Dear List On my PowerBook G4 12" using testing I can not configure my keyboard layout right for X11, on the console the keyboard layout is fine. Settings in xorg.conf get ignored since the information is taken from hal. How can I tell hal I have a Swiss German macintosh keyboard? Thank you

Re: Debian PowerPC Squeeze - "packages have unmet dependencies"

2009-12-18 Thread Adrian Zaugg
Dear Rick Rick Thomas wrote: >> gnome: Depends: tomboy (>= 1.0) but it is not installable I think that is answered in the Thread "Problems with Debian PowerPC" by Rick Thomas of 12/16/2009 09:23 PM. Regards, Adrian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: java IDEs on linux-ppc

2009-08-03 Thread Adrian Zaugg
Have you tried OpenJDK? You can apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk in Lenny and onwards. You can point Eclipse to use openjdk or install the version of eclipse from the Debian repositories. Tell the list please about your (un-)success, thank you. Regards, Adrian. Piotr Kopszak wrote: > Hello list, >

Re: Suggestions for running Mac OS 9.0.1 on debian-x86-64

2008-07-31 Thread Adrian Zaugg
Hi Christian You may run pearpc and mol, SheepShaver or Basilisk II. You can get more info from http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060509180914879&lsrc=osxh about the latter two. Easiest would be to get an old mac from someone... Best Regards, Adrian. Christian Jaeger wrote:

Re: Debian Sarge y Debian Multimedia

2008-06-18 Thread Adrian Zaugg
Hola Esteban There is http://snapshot.debian.net/ for that purpose. Regards, Adrian. Esteban Monge wrote: Hello... even need repositories for SARGE of Debian Multimedia for PowerPC, my machine is old and i like backup these repository I dont need the packages for Etch, is for SARGE.

Re: Java Fun in Debian PPC

2007-04-07 Thread Adrian Zaugg
Dean Hamstead wrote: > firstly, is there a debian way of pointing the /usr/bin/java to the jvm > you plan to use? it points at /etc/alternatives/java, which then points > to a binary. i have just relinked this, but am curious if there is > debian tool to manage alternatives update-alternatives

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Adrian Zaugg
Hi all Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:17:26PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: That's not to say, of course, that fresh porting blood wouldn't be a good thing. Why must it be "fresh blood"? Isn't "blood" enough? I don't see the point revoking rights of a developer, who helped and seems

seti & boinc for powerpc

2005-11-14 Thread Adrian Zaugg
Dear List Frank S. Thomas prepares a new debian package boinc client. I compiled his source on powerpc and I will send it to him for uploading in deb http://pkg-boinc.alioth.debian.org/debian sarge main deb-src http://pkg-boinc.alioth.debian.org/debian sarge main Documentation can be fo