Re: Kernel crashing problems on oldworld

2001-11-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 08:44:31PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > Chris Tillman wrote: > > > Another interesting point is that I can run all the ncurses test > > > programs except worm, which crashes in a few seconds, but only wh

Re: filesystem for shared disk

2001-11-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
Fabian Jakobs wrote: > > Hi, > > I am planning to by a new HDD and would like to reserve one partition as > shared disk between MacOS 9/X and Linux. Is there a filesestem that is read- > and writable under both systems? vfat ~:^o

Re: iBook internal modem experiences?

2001-11-24 Thread Andrew Sharp
Derrik Pates wrote: > > One thing I have noticed, however, in common with what Branden was > mentioning was that the macserial driver sees 2 serial devices on this > FireWire iBook - ttyS0 (aka tts/0), which is the modem (I'm using it now, > so it does work), and ttyS1, which doesn't seem to be an

Re: Kernel crashing problems on oldworld

2001-11-24 Thread Andrew Sharp
Chris Tillman wrote: > > I have a PowerBase 180 oldworld powerpc with Debian woody > (2.2.19-pmac). I started having a crashing problem about 4 weeks ago, > the easiest way to repeat it was to use nano (1.0.5/1.0.6) to edit a > document, and select the Search function or the save-file function. In

Re: e2fsck - file system revision to high for this version

2001-11-18 Thread Andrew Sharp
Gerhard Reuteler wrote: > > After having built in a bigger disk to my pismo, I tried to make a bigger > /usr (/usrneu) with parted. Now the whole disk is recognized: > > pismo:/home/gerhard# mac-fdisk /dev/hda > 2.0G) Linux native > /dev/hda17Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /usrneu 50

Re: get_hardsect_size not exported

2001-11-16 Thread Andrew Sharp
Laurent de Segur wrote: > > Hi, > > >From what I found when looking things up, starting from 2.4.4, > get_hardblocksize(dev) has been removed from the kernel. and seems to have > been replaced by a new call named get_hardsect_size(dev). > > I compiled a module on a kernel prior to 2.4.4 that use

Re: boot - powermac 7300 : in english now... sorry.

2001-11-10 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 10:04:19AM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > A small bug which is harmless if you input the correct size, as you > > did. Of course it has been fixed by now but you don't need the fix > > because you have the wo

Re: boot - powermac 7300 : in english now... sorry.

2001-11-09 Thread Andrew Sharp
"Antonio M. Moreiras" wrote: > > I'm trying to install debian in a Power Mac 7300. > > I don't have any experience in macs... > > I do have some experience in debian (x86). > > I've downloaded the first cd of the powermac cd set > and the boot and root discs. I want to install the base > system

Re: xsane-0.78 - problem?

2001-11-09 Thread Andrew Sharp
Georg Koss wrote: > > Hello all! > > I installed xsane-0.878 from woody, Hardware is G4, scanner UMAX 2100U. > I'm running kernel 2.4.14-ben0, which shows this type of scanner in > /usb/scanner.h . It seems to be recognized during boot-time as I can > find the scanner-device-id of my printer with

Re: install guide for ppc-mac

2001-11-04 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 01:03:44PM +0100, sisi wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 10:45:02PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 09:51:49PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > > > > > When I found that a few months ago, dan explained that the doubled >

Re: upgrade lombard potato to woody

2001-10-31 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:06:53PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > You got confused by a unique event. sid will be (and has been if I'm not > > mistaken) unstable forever now. The difference between testing and woody > > (or later releases) will be when it becomes stabl

Re: upgrade lombard potato to woody

2001-10-30 Thread Andrew Sharp
Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 10:12, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > Am I the only one that favors using the actual names rather than the > > aliases? I used unstable for a while, then, with no warning, > > unstable was bumbed from woody to a very broke

Re: upgrade lombard potato to woody

2001-10-30 Thread Andrew Sharp
Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 01:24, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > I've been having trouble getting X to run on my Lombard powerbook, and I > > hope that if I update my install to woody things will get a little > > easier. > > > > I'd be grateful to know what I should change in m

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
Unfortunately, those aren't the only bastards skulking about. Let's not get started about the MPAA or the RIAA. But the documentation for the parts of the hardware from ATI had to be available to someone, because even Apple was able to write software for it. OK, stop laughing, I was just kidding

Re: Trouble copying a large number of files to last ext2 partition

2001-10-25 Thread Andrew Sharp
gt; > Thanks for your help, > > Laurent > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:59 AM > Subject: Re: Trouble copying a large number of files to last ext2 partition >

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-25 Thread Andrew Sharp
Henrik Edlund wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > AS> Sounds like you are talking about a lot of choices. Choices are > AS> good. In this case, though, we were talking about laptops. We > AS> could've gotten laptops from ASUS, for example,

Re: Trouble copying a large number of files to last ext2 partition

2001-10-25 Thread Andrew Sharp
Laurent de Segur wrote: > > Hi, > > I run into this bizarre problem trying to copy a large amount of files to > the last partition on my disk. The disk is 10GB and the last partition > occupies the last 1GB of the disk (minus a few extra spare sectors.) > > I did an fschk on the partition and no

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-24 Thread Andrew Sharp
Henrik Edlund wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > AS> Actually, I don't get the joke, but I'm dense like that sometimes. > AS> However, I will relate an unrelated story. I was representing a > AS> company that spent large amounts

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-24 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:22:53PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Remember that these computers *come* with MacOS, which you paid for, > > > and DVDs play fine with that. >

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-24 Thread Andrew Sharp
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > David Brown wrote: > > > I can see background tasks wanting to run while doing other things in > > > the foreground. Do you ever go read something while the kernel is > > > compil

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-23 Thread Andrew Sharp
Henrik Edlund wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > AS> not) then just set your system up to be dual boot. Problem solved, > AS> geez can we move on? Please don't tell me that you want to do other > AS> things while watching your DVDs, th

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-23 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 03:42:29PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > The time it takes to compile a kernel on my x86 laptop isn't long > > enough to watch a scene from a movie. Heh. However, the time it > > takes to compile a kernel on

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-23 Thread Andrew Sharp
David Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 03:16:52PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > doing. So if DVD playback is really all that important (hint: it's > > not) then just set your system up to be dual boot. Problem solved, > > geez can we move on? Pleas

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-23 Thread Andrew Sharp
Henrik Edlund wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Laurent de Segur wrote: > > LdS> I just got a new iBook 2001 600MHz+COMBO-DVD/CDRW+256MB. It > LdS> plays DVDs both under macos9 and running debian using the vlc > LdS> package without any problem at all. The previous one had many > LdS> troubles even

Re: Linux on RS/6000 E20

2001-10-22 Thread Andrew Sharp
Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 19, Benny Siegert wrote: > > > >>> Shawn D'Alimonte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16.10.2001 13.55 Uhr >>> > > On Tuesday 16 October 2001 04:44, Benny Siegert wrote: > > > > Does anyone know what could cause this problem? I can supply a > > > > complete boot log if you w

Re: XF86 wants a mouse file

2001-10-19 Thread Andrew Sharp
mmissett wrote: > > George, > Thanks a lot for your reply, I really appreciate it, and > will take a look at the settings you included. I guess, > though, that you're using Woody (or Sid), because you say > you are running XFree86 4.1 and your configuration shows > an ati driver. I have potato w

Re: getting alternate kernels

2001-10-17 Thread Andrew Sharp
"Michael D. Crawford" wrote: > > This is a really dumb newbie question. > > I'm experienced with Linux (slackware) but not much at all with debian. > > In response to my question in IP Masquerading on a Mac, Adam Powell said to > get > a 2.4 kernel out of sid. > > How do I do that? > > I know

apple hardware stories

2001-10-17 Thread Andrew Sharp
Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:41:13PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:56:18AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > An aborted attempt to switch? It makes no sense to even have > > > the OpenFirmware code if it isn't used. > > > > Oh, it's used

Re: Advice on a iBook ...

2001-10-16 Thread Andrew Sharp
Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > For instance, some time ago I asked what x86 (mobile) > > processor the iBook2's could be compared to and I received all > > answers from a Celeron 300 to a Pentium III 800. :-/ What is > > a realistic figure? Is this a troll? > Irrelevant. An

Re: Install: force Lombard to use yaboot, not quik

2001-10-16 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:53:30PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > Hi Ethan > > > > Thanks for all your time so far. > > > > For anyone else who is coming in on this thread, I'm trying to install > > Debian on a Lombard. The potato installers set quik as the boot syst

Re: trouble installing on a mac

2001-10-14 Thread Andrew Sharp
"Michael D. Crawford" wrote: > > Well, I've made some progess. What I needed was the file drivers.tgz, > not either of the files driver-1.bin or driver-2.bin. Not sure what > they're for. > > Once I was able to install my modules, I could enable the use of the ppp > and compression modules. >

Re: Mapping cmd to alt in X with linux keycodes

2001-10-11 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 06:49:26PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > As far as hacking keymaps goes, yes. If the xkb data is wrong for a > > model of keyboard, I think it should be fixed and I'd like to receive > > patches to this effect. > > the trouble is nobody ca

Re: Mozilla problems with PPC?

2001-10-10 Thread Andrew Sharp
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, [iso-8859-1] Rogério Brito wrote: > > > On Oct 09 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > Ebay is your friend. > > > > > > Closing your eyes to a

error building xfsprogs

2001-10-10 Thread Andrew Sharp
I'm trying to build xfsprogs, and I get this error, which seems awfully familiar. Anybody know what the fix is for this? potato/2.4.5-pre3 a gcc -O2 -DDEBUG -funsigned-char -Wall -Wno-parentheses -I../include '-DVERSION="1.2.0"' -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DXFS_BIG_FILES=1 -DXFS_BI

Re: Mozilla problems with PPC?

2001-10-10 Thread Andrew Sharp
Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > > you should install mozilla 0.9.4-4 which is in sid. (not woody). > > > > > > Which works OK, but which, unfortunately, needs immense > > > amounts of RAM. > > > > > > This is an especially unfortunate situation with older > > > mach

Re: Mozilla problems with PPC?

2001-10-10 Thread Andrew Sharp
Rogério Brito wrote: > > On Oct 09 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > you should install mozilla 0.9.4-4 which is in sid. (not woody). > > Which works OK, but which, unfortunately, needs immense > amounts of RAM. > > This is an especially unfortunate situation with older >

Re: HFS+ (MacOS) in contrast to EXT2 (Linux-i386)

2001-10-10 Thread Andrew Sharp
Colin Walters wrote: > > Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Besides ext3, which other journaled FSes support data journaling? > > > > I know not ReiserFS... I think IBM's JFS does. Can XFS? > > XFS doesn't support data journaling, and I don't think there are any > plans to in the nea

Re: OF output to monitor on 9500

2001-10-10 Thread Andrew Sharp
Rogério Brito wrote: Yo, try to keep unrelated questions in separate message threads so the archives are useable, ya? > P.S.: An unrelated question: I'm having some severe problems getting > the pmac 9500 working with OF (I can't for the life of me make this > thing send the output to the monito

Re: XF86 question

2001-10-08 Thread Andrew Sharp
"Paul F. Pearson" wrote: > > That was it - my mouse was configured incorrectly. Now all I have to do > is: > 1) look into what window managers are available I use wmaker, otherwise known as WindowMaker, because I'm a die hard NeXT user. Others like sawfish and the gnome layer, and then there are

Re: XF86 question

2001-10-07 Thread Andrew Sharp
What window manager are you using? One thing to try right off the bat is to stop gdm before logging in, just in case there is something wrong there. The other thing is to make sure that your XF86Config file has the right setup for the mouse, namely /dev/input/mice and protocol IMPS/2. Also, what

Re: Problems with SMP

2001-10-07 Thread Andrew Sharp
Christoph Ewering wrote: > > Hello ! > > I´m running a 604/200 MP in a 7300 PowerMac and they work fine since kernel > 2.4.6 or so. > > Looks to me that you boot into Linux with BootX. > > You have to use miboot or quik to boot a MP Old-World Mac to get both > processors for Linux. Not true.

Re: HFS Plus on Linux ?

2001-09-22 Thread Andrew Sharp
Christoph Ewering wrote: > > Hello Kevin! > > Kevin van Haaren schrieb: > > > > At 12:31 AM -0800 9/13/01, Ethan Benson wrote: > > >On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:17:54PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > >> > > >> Ethan, do you have any specific information on when/how HFS was > > >> corrupted? > > > >

Re: keymap-help request

2001-09-05 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:22:42PM +0200, Robert Bar wrote: > > g'day to all: i'm rather new - not only to the list. > > > > searching the archiv, lurking the list, studying several man-pages > > didn't help me to a solid keymap right from start-up/login. Hmm, how long hav

Re: compiling 3c59x driver on PPC

2001-09-05 Thread Andrew Sharp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hej Richard, > > > I got a PowerMac 7200 cheap on eBay, and a 3Com > > ethernet card. The idea is to set up a router to > > share our cable modem. > quite the same thing that my PM 7300 is doing at > home, also with a 3com card. > > the problem you have is that you'r

Re: Woody Boot Disks (was downgrade sid to woody?)

2001-09-05 Thread Andrew Sharp
Kevin van Haaren wrote: > > At 8:08 AM -0500 9/3/01, Kevin van Haaren wrote: > >I messed up my machine a couple of times running unstable (huh, > >wonder why they call it that 8-) anyway I want to downgrade to just > >woody. I dug through the apt-get and dselect man pages and didn't > >see a way

Re: Difficulty installing woody OR potato on Beige G3

2001-09-04 Thread Andrew Sharp
ozymandias G desiderata wrote: > > Sorry to follow up my own post, but you know how it is... > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:37:03PM -0700, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: > > In any case, I was able to get the base distribution installed via the > > potato boot-floppies, leaving only the problem w

Re: adaptec 2906 scsi card

2001-09-03 Thread Andrew Sharp
crisbill wrote: > > I wrote to the list on August 18 reporting problems getting debian to > boot/install on a G4 mac (Subject:boot problems on g4). I should have > mentioned that I had installed an Adaptec 2906 SCSI card in the machine. > > As I reported, booting got stuck with the kernel from Wo

Re: Where to get plastic drive guides for oldworld 7200

2001-08-30 Thread Andrew Sharp
Frank Escher wrote: > > the order number for the carrier you aked is922-0621 originally from > apple. > > tschau > frank escher > > Frank Budesa schrieb: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have several 7200 PPC machines that I'm adding hard drives for raid1. > > > > > > One little problem

Re: switch from ADB to linux keycodes ...

2001-08-30 Thread Andrew Sharp
Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > What about mouse data on the adb bus? Would the device address be > > the resolution for whether it is mouse or keyboard? > > The mouse data packets will have a different device address > (data[0]>>4) & 0xf, so you can filter on that for debugging purpose (the > adbh

Re: switch from ADB to linux keycodes ...

2001-08-29 Thread Andrew Sharp
What about mouse data on the adb bus? Would the device address be the resolution for whether it is mouse or keyboard? a Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > >From the iControl code, it would appear that there is more to an ADB > > event than just the key code... And that there is enough extra > > infor

Re: airport / pcmcia ?

2001-08-24 Thread Andrew Sharp
Michel Lanners wrote: > > Hi all, > > On 20 Aug, this message from Andrew Sharp echoed through cyberspace: > > Colin Walters wrote: > >> > >> Michael Flaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > Well ... no encryption is bad :-( E

Re: Altivec tools?

2001-08-23 Thread Andrew Sharp
With assembly is the way you want to do it anyway. That is how they did the MMX versions, and I would actually try and port as much of that as possible. Many of the macroized functions can possibly be implemented with altivec instructions or combinations instead of mmx instructions. That way you

Re: vlc 0.2.82 debs available

2001-08-22 Thread Andrew Sharp
Mmm, delicious, thank you. I don't suppose you have the source debs available? ~:^) a Michel Lanners wrote: > > Ooops > > On 21 Aug, this message from Andrew Sharp echoed through cyberspace: > > Well, one thing you did wrong was that I get > > > > F

Re: airport / pcmcia ?

2001-08-20 Thread Andrew Sharp
Derrik Pates wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > Which is better than no encryption, hello. Also, the key size is > > not fixed but only depends on how you set it up. A key size of 40 > > bits prevents casual sniffing of your "con

Re: mac-fdisk trouble on G4 double disk

2001-08-20 Thread Andrew Sharp
Georg Koss wrote: > > Hello all! > > I'm intending to install Debian 2.2.r3 on my second HD. > > Short description of my system: > G4 - two HD - primary boots _ultra1_ (Debian/Woody). > Changed original CD-ROM/DVD to CD-RW Plextor. > > What I did on ultra0 until now: > > mac-fdisk which gave m

Re: airport / pcmcia ?

2001-08-20 Thread Andrew Sharp
Colin Walters wrote: > > Michael Flaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well ... no encryption is bad :-( Everyone with a laptop in front of > > my door could sniff my network, or isn´t it so easy ? > > As I understand it, WEP is bad becuase the key size is far too small. > This means an attack

Re: airport / pcmcia ?

2001-08-20 Thread Andrew Sharp
Michael Flaig wrote: > > > > Is Airport a security problem ? how good is encryption and can i > > > configure a > > password ? > > > > WEP is a joke, do not use WEP for encryption, either just use no encryption > > at > > all or set up proper point to point encrypted tunnels (VPN), I use CIPE

lazy saturday notebook comparo (long)

2001-08-19 Thread Andrew Sharp
I can't resist wading into this silly discussion. If you care about MacOS or Windows, my opinions are worthless, just hit delete now. The thing is, x86 laptop prices capabilities are far in excess of apple's meager offerings. I just went to dell.com and configured an inspiron 4000 with: * 1GHz

OT powerpc processor Q

2001-08-18 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > Apple's OpenFirmware has many proprietary extensions. apple's > OpenFirmware has also been known to ignore the spec all over the > place. Apple also typically doesn't bother to implement anything they > are not using at the moment correctly, if at all. That's the best desc

Re: New: installation on g4

2001-08-12 Thread Andrew Sharp
Martin Breidung wrote: > > >Ethan Benson > >http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ > > >woody boot-floppies take care of all these steps for you with its > >make system bootable step, they are only required on potato, another > >reason not to use potato bootfloppies, unless you really want to run > >p

Re: More sound strangeness

2001-08-11 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 03:44:05PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > > > By the way, I don't think the system beep is produced through the > > sound card. > > on x86 hardware that is correct, since the internal speaker on x86 > hardware is not attached to sound hardware (at

Re: installation

2001-08-10 Thread Andrew Sharp
I think this is a newworld machine and as such will work quite nicely w/o bootx, youse new world users get the lovely yaboot system, which together with a non-brain damaged OF seems to work pretty well. It's definitely well documented. ~:^) Seriously. It is. a Ian Eure wrote: > > hi there. i r

Re: ibook2 questions

2001-08-03 Thread Andrew Sharp
Peter Meilstrup wrote: > > Well, I went and got the new ibook, and swapped a 20gig hard drive into it > (which was an awful experience. If ever an engineer comes to me with plans > for a plastic > case which "snaps" together I will personally drag him out to the curb and > shoot him, > we don't

Re: not playing nicely

2001-07-30 Thread Andrew Sharp
James Moss wrote: > > On Monday, 30 July 2001, at 11:22:58 (-0700), chamster wrote: > > Have you been able to boot off this CD on other Macs, preferably a similar > > model? > > > Oddly enough, I was able to boot this very machine several times and install > debian, etc... but then I got a new har

Re: Problems Farallon Fast Ether TX-10/100 (DEC 21143)

2001-07-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
Jeff Blaufuss wrote: > > Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > Jeff Blaufuss wrote: > > > > > > I recently installed Debian 2.2 on my Powermac 4400, everything seems to > > > have installed fine, but my ethernet card (a Farallon Fast Ether > > > T

Re: [Q] where to get iso image of "extra" packages

2001-07-15 Thread Andrew Sharp
sisi wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 01:31:31PM +0200, Han The Thanh wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I am new to debian and I have been trying to install debian to a G4 > > powerbook. I downloaded the official iso images for powerpc (potato) and > > installed debian using them. Then I found that c

Re: [OT] Network file sharing

2001-07-13 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:59:05PM +1000, Steven Hanley wrote: > > > > admittedly I and you both avoid macos to the extent of not having it > > installed > > or never booting into it, however I am pretty sure apple had to bow into the > > pressure annd make their desktop s

Re: nVidia support: Where to start?

2001-07-13 Thread Andrew Sharp
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > >> So your best chance would be to reverse engineer either the macos or > >windows driver, and try to get something out of it. > > > >Set your email client to wrap lines, would ya'? And don't be daft. > >Nvidia just released their latest driver for X4 for x86 lin

Re: [OT] Network file sharing

2001-07-13 Thread Andrew Sharp
Steven Hanley wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:51:45AM +0200, Christoph Schaefer wrote: > > Salut, > > > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:24:37PM +1200, James Tyson wrote: > > > > > > I have NFS and SMB shares on my network for accessing things like my mp3 > > > and DivX archives, (SMB for my nei

Re: nVidia support: Where to start?

2001-07-13 Thread Andrew Sharp
Sven wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 10:28:19AM +1000, Tony Arnold wrote: > > Thanks for the speedy reply Michael! > > > > > > > > If I had to deal with this (I'm glad I don't) I'd start with the XFree86 > > nv > > > driver because it offers more benefit (decent 2D acceleration, XVideo, > > ...

Re: nVidia support: Where to start?

2001-07-12 Thread Andrew Sharp
First, try to avoid html formatted email on this list -- there are some heated opponents to such things on this list who might be hazardous to your health. Personally I find that netscape often crashes when replying to html emails with plain text formatted option set. So often I don't reply to su

Re: Endless loop

2001-07-09 Thread Andrew Sharp
Russell Hires wrote: > > > what command did you use? > > > > dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=2880 conv=sync > > Well, I used the one listed in the main install doc: > dd if=file of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync > I even preserved the whitespace. Except, I replaced the word "file" with

Re: new ibook (icebook) with debian ppc

2001-07-07 Thread Andrew Sharp
They've released the source for StarOffice/OpenOffice these days. a "Dhruva B. Reddy" wrote: > > On a similar note, can anyone who has experience with Linux on a PPC comment > on software support? Unfortunately, I find myself running closed-source apps > (such as StarOffice). I have been toyin

Re: Wine

2001-07-06 Thread Andrew Sharp
I'm sorry to have to tell you this but it just doesn't count unless you're running Linux. a "McNiel, Jeff" wrote: > > Well, I haven't done that (I haven't yet taken the time > to get MOL to work), but I have run a GNU shell (cygwin) > and emacs on WinNT4 under VirtualPC on MacOS9 and it runs > r

Re: EXT2 directory corrupted

2001-07-05 Thread Andrew Sharp
You have a hosed root directory and/or inode. You should say 'no' to these questions and see if that gets you past the problem. Barring that there is debugfs that I once used back in the 2.0 kernel days to fix an obnoxious problem like this, turned out the corruption was very minor, but the fsck

Re: What's the best replacement editor for ae?

2001-06-30 Thread Andrew Sharp
I think this sums it al up: http://segfault.org/story.phtml?id=3b3b46fb-005dd860 a Otto Wyss wrote: > > > > change xemacs to my liking but have given up. The situation currently is > > > not satisfying, there seems to be no editor which is (IMHO) good on > > > Linux. I thought at least on PPC

Re: Compiling 2.4.x no success

2001-06-29 Thread Andrew Sharp
Georg Koss wrote: > > Hello all! > > Having a G4 with woody/2.2.19-pre17 and the Gnome-desktop running. > I tried a couple of times to compile a 2.4.x kernel with make-kpkg > - latest trial was linux-benh-devel (2.4.6-pre3). > All failed until now with nearly the same problem on beginning > > fi

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 08:22:40AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > Are you sure it's an elf? Now you've done it. I'm going to have to > > fire up the mac to see where I went wrong on this. Oh, what a > > bother. I

Re: What's the best replacement editor for ae?

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:56:14PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > What small editors are in use on the PowerPC? Is there any editor which > > is similar to BBedit in respect of the key shortcuts? > > better editor then ae... hmm lets see: > > echo with redirection > printf w

Re: JFS compile?

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
My flying monkeys guess is that it will compare favorably to xfs, in other words, similar excellent performance and stability, but with a kernel bloat price. these days 256MB of memory is $40US, so do we care? maybe: memory for older machines is not trivial to get and not as cheap. a Kevin van

Re: ata/100

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Noah John wrote: > > are there any ata/100 drivers available for debain on PPC? also, are there > any ata/100 drivers available anywhere for macos? I'm planning on getting a > pm9600 and putting an ATA controller card in it. My question is, can i use > Maxtor's ata/100 or am I limited to an ata

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:39:45AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > OMG, I forgot about apus. I give up. As for zImage, let's strickly > > stick to ppc, zImage is the compressed coff format kernel which has > > only one single use

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:14:23AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:15:18AM +0100, Josh Berdine wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm hoping someone will know of some miboot/kernel docs that I haven't > > > managed to uncover. > > > > > > The short st

Re: openfirmware display

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:06:46AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > And no, I wasn't kidding, the binary driver works OK on my X86 > > gaming box. By that I mean in locks up and crashes 50-100% less >

Re: distribution of 2.4.x source for PPC (Re: Install on UATA)

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:16:50AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > Ner. It uses a gzip'd coff linked kernel. And bizarrely you do > > have to make it part of the package because you are supposed to be > > able to make bootable floppi

Re: Wine

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > A good friend of mine was one of the chief architects of the Pentium > > and later the Itanium. He told me that when they were designing the > > pentium, a very ground breaking design at the time,

Re: Wine

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
A good friend of mine was one of the chief architects of the Pentium and later the Itanium. He told me that when they were designing the pentium, a very ground breaking design at the time, they used a cray-xmp to run their processor simulator on. A very fast machine, and still not too shabby toda

Re: distribution of 2.4.x source for PPC (Re: Install on UATA)

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:35:09PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > > Well, the chrp package can contain 3, the pmac 3 (I don't know if the > > miboot image should be included or not..) and PReP 1. > > no don't bother with the miboot image, miboot is not a supported nor > usabl

Re: openfirmware display

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Peter Cordes wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:50:03AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/26/01 > >at 10:33 AM, Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > >Ethan Benson wrote: > > >> > >

Re: Problems installing on new iBook dual USB

2001-06-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:36:40PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:24:48AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > ~:^) One of those little things that just isn't annoying enough is > > > that it could so easily sup

Re: Problems installing on new iBook dual USB

2001-06-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:24:48AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > mac-fdisk is no longer broken, lets not fix it until it is. > > > > I had occassion to experience the broken mac-fdisk not too long > > ago. It wasn't all that cat

Re: Booting up for first time

2001-06-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
Hmm, that is not good. Are you using the CDs or are you using some disk space on the mac side for the base install and such? If you're using the CDs, I would take a few minutes and verify them. I had a weird problem with a basic part of the install on a sparc machine that no one could figure out

Re: glibc 2.1.13-17 and kernel headers

2001-06-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Kin Chung wrote: > > > > >Ethan Benson wrote: > > >On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:01:37PM +0800, Kin Chung wrote: > > [snip] > > >what security problem? add potato r3 has all the current libc > > >security fixes. or is there a new one im not aware of? > > > > Oops. I'm runni

Re: openfirmware display

2001-06-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:17:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ouch!! I just noticed that I could have ordered my Mac with the Radeon > > instead of the GForce 2 card. The Radeon card is around $200 and > > supposedly is quite a bit slower than the GForce 2 MX tho

Re: Problems installing on new iBook dual USB

2001-06-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:21:54PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > I'm pretty sure he corrected bugs on handling of ATA (IDE) disks also, and > > mac-fdisk in woody works perfectly with ata disks now that the `i' > command is fixed. > > > other refinements like going

Re: Postgresql

2001-06-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > True, but why don't you just download the latest version from > > > unstable/non-US? Is there something wrong about these packages? > > > > Dunno, I had assumed Russell was trying to build them himself for a reason. > > Well, it was a good exercise in 'why did they

Re: Problems installing on new iBook dual USB

2001-06-24 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:14:04PM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > > > > > > http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/netboot.shtml > > > > I had tried your guide too, Ethan, but it didnt work the same way Ron > > describes it here (on a TiBook). > > > > I had first tried with a p

Re: pcmcia ethernet?

2001-06-21 Thread Andrew Sharp
"Bradley C. Midgley" wrote: > > thanks for the note, yes this did work. > > for others' reference, using the 2.4.3-benh kernel, i had to compile my > own current pcmcia-cs (the one in unstable didn't work) > > i had to modify the file /etc/pcmcia/config.opts to contain > > include port 0x100-0x

Re: New iBook and Debian

2001-06-20 Thread Andrew Sharp
Chris Tillman wrote: > > Earthling Michel Dänzer wrote: > > apparently doesn't work in MockOS. Hopefully only a brain dead software > > BTW, did you know there really is a MockOS? > > http://members.aol.com/macdabster/Pages/Shock/MockOS.html I don't know about flash, but this web site required

Re: mozilla - 5 processes using 149Mb

2001-06-20 Thread Andrew Sharp
Alan Macdougall wrote: > > On 17/6/01 at 1:45 AM, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Typing "mozilla" at the command line seems to > > > cause 5 separate processes to be started, > > > taking in total 149Mb of memory (accorting to > > > gtop). Given that I only have 64Mb of real RAM

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