Re: install on a old world ppc without floppy

2002-07-02 Thread Anthony Lau
On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 09:54:19PM +0200, Vinai Kopp wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a Apple 9600 on which I would love to have Woody (only). > The trouble is I removed the floppy years ago to make room for another > harddisk. > As far as I understood from the install manual I need to use floppies > for

Re: Voodoo3 2000 problems in Woody

2002-07-02 Thread Anthony Lau
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 05:21:01PM -0700, Shawn Dunn wrote: > > No i386 machines around, cept for a laptop, and this card is rocksolid in MacOS using the beta14(? I think drivers), and running as a simple fbdev device, it's just the accelerated X-server that seems to give it fits. I *think*

Re: Multiple Swap Partitions? Re: Sudden loss of keyboard and mouse

2002-04-16 Thread Anthony Lau
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 11:07:26AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > At 8:16 pm -0700 14/4/02, Anthony Lau wrote: > >I think I have found the answer. It seems my setup with 2 swap > >partitions on separate IDE drives made something very unstable. It > >doesn't make sense that

Multiple Swap Partitions? Re: Sudden loss of keyboard and mouse

2002-04-14 Thread Anthony Lau
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 01:30:59PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > It's very hard to troubleshoot seemingly random occurrences. If you > don't think it's related to anything you're doing at the time, maybe > you could start disabling daemons to see if one of them can be related > to it? gpm was a

Re: Sudden loss of keyboard and mouse

2002-04-13 Thread Anthony Lau
and adding a second swap partition. Anthony On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:43:46AM -0700, Anthony Lau wrote: > My setup is: > > OldWorld StarMax4200 (PMac 4400 clone) > 160MB RAM > /dev/hda contains / and 256MB of swap > /dev/hdc contains 600MB of swap > 2.4.14 with XFS patch

Re: Amazing I have posted twice to this list and not one answer

2002-04-09 Thread Anthony Lau
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:33:25PM -0400, Guy Durand wrote: > I have posted to this list in hopes of finding an answer about resetting > the hardware clock on my > powercenter 120 but I haven't received any answer. > > I can't do much on the system (like compiling a kernel) since tar craps > out i

Re: Sudden loss of keyboard and mouse

2002-04-09 Thread Anthony Lau
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:43:46AM -0700, Anthony Lau wrote: > My setup is: > > OldWorld StarMax4200 (PMac 4400 clone) > 160MB RAM > /dev/hda contains / and 256MB of swap > /dev/hdc contains 600MB of swap > 2.4.14 with XFS patch Oops forgot to add the keyboard and mou

Sudden loss of keyboard and mouse

2002-04-09 Thread Anthony Lau
Hello, I have a very strange problem with my Keyboard and Mouse. Without warning, my computer will fail to recognize any input from either keyboard or mouse (ie the computer does not recognize any input coming from the keyboard or mouse). It is nearly random when it will happen. The only thing th

Re: woody/PowerMac 6400 - NIC driver install trouble

2002-03-05 Thread Anthony Lau
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:59:34PM -0600, Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. wrote: > I'm trying to install woody on a PowerMac 6400 with an AsanteFAST 10/100 > card, but having no luck. The NIC, which works fine in MacOS, isn't > recognized. The only driver that looks remotely suitable is the ng_tulip > driver

Re: PowerMac 4400/200 32M RAM

2002-02-25 Thread Anthony Lau
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 07:13:15PM +, John Fremlin wrote: > Hi, > > We should like to run debian (or any other free UNIX) on an old mac > called on the front cover a Power Macintosh 4400/200. I'm running a clone of that right now. The easiest way to install Debian was keeping a small MacOS

OT: Network traffic induced crashes

2002-02-23 Thread Anthony Lau
Hi, This is completely off topic, but google'ing hasn't come up with any thing close to an answer. I was wondering if anyone else had this problem. During high network traffic, my Mac (Starmax 4200, 96MB RAM, 100mbit card) randomly freezes, requiring a hard reset. This happens in both MacOS and L

Re: DRI on Voodoo3 PCI and OldWorld

2002-01-24 Thread Anthony Lau
Hello Michel, On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:13:59AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > You won't get it working without getting your hands dirty. The tdfx DRI > driver needs glide3 to work. So you'd have to to build that first, then > tdfx_dri.so, and then make those and the DRM behave as expected by > th

DRI on Voodoo3 PCI and OldWorld

2002-01-21 Thread Anthony Lau
Hi, Is it possible to get accelerated X with a Voodoo3 PCI on an Old World? I've gotten DRI/DRM going in the kernel: [drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0 and in X running 16bit: (II) TDFX(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler (II) TDFX(0): [DRI] installation complete (==) TDFX(0):

Re: installing debian on ppc

2001-12-06 Thread Anthony Lau
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:50:59AM +0100, Wicher W.O. Deddens wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian on a PPC 8500/150, 96 Mb, 2 Gb HD for > Webserving and Mailserving purposes. I downloaded CD1 for PowerPC, wrote > it to a > bootable disk, made a boot floppy and a root.bin floppy, made partitions

Re: filesystem for shared disk

2001-11-26 Thread Anthony Lau
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:27:54PM +0100, 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? How timely! I was just about to ask

Re: filesystem for shared disk

2001-11-26 Thread Anthony Lau
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:34:19PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > HFS (the standard variety). At least there's a kernel module, and it won't > crash each time you use it (there's a good chance of crashing the kernel > by copying large files or deleting directories with lots of files in them > IIRC

Re: Need 2.4.9-benh0 snapshot or diff

2001-11-02 Thread Anthony Lau
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:41:08PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 08:44:04AM -0800, Anthony Lau wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Did a really stupid thing and rsync'd away my working > > 2.4.9-benh0 directory and turned it into a 2.4.14-pre5-ben0 > &

Need 2.4.9-benh0 snapshot or diff

2001-11-02 Thread Anthony Lau
Hi, Did a really stupid thing and rsync'd away my working 2.4.9-benh0 directory and turned it into a 2.4.14-pre5-ben0 directory. It wouldn't be too bad if 2.4.14 was usable on my machine (PowerMac4400/200MHz 604e, 96MB RAM) but it's constantly swapping, swapping appears to be slower than in 2.4.9

Re: Internal Speaker on Blue G3 part III

2001-10-09 Thread Anthony Lau
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 08:38:23PM -0400, Alexander N Gould wrote: > Thanks for all the advice so far: In Kmix, the available sliders are > Volume, Speaker, Line, Microphone, CD, and Pcm2. All are set on the > highest except for microphone, which won't allow itself to be moved. > Still no sound.

Re: XMMS + Ogg = hiss?

2001-09-13 Thread Anthony Lau
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:06:02AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > Anthony Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've been encoding some of my CD's into Ogg RC2 files using > > GRIP. ogg123 plays the resulting files fine, but XMMS just produces > > hiss. i

Re: XMMS + Ogg = hiss?

2001-08-31 Thread Anthony Lau
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 03:31:11PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > > It's an xmms problem. But which distribution is this? The problem > was fixed in testing, IIRC. I had a look, and the xmms folks were > just passing a 0 to the 'is_big_endian' field of the library call, > possibly assuming tha

Re: XMMS + Ogg = hiss?

2001-08-31 Thread Anthony Lau
SS module that seemed to fit. Which modules did you build? It's funny that xmms can output MP3's to esound, but not Ogg. I also tried freeamp. This just stops playing and hangs after ~1'30" of play. -- Anthony Lau

XMMS + Ogg = hiss?

2001-08-31 Thread Anthony Lau
Hello, I've been encoding some of my CD's into Ogg RC2 files using GRIP. ogg123 plays the resulting files fine, but XMMS just produces hiss. i386 version of XMMS plays the same files just fine. Anybody else having this problem? Anthony

Re: 2.4.9-benh0 crashes during boot with 7600 and Voodoo3

2001-08-26 Thread Anthony Lau
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 08:54:58AM -0700, Lee Cremeans wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Lau) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > > > I'm using the 2.4.9-benh0 kernel with a StarMax 4000 and a Voodoo3. > > Also, with the Voodoo3, your co

Re: 2.4.9-benh0 crashes during boot with 7600 and Voodoo3

2001-08-26 Thread Anthony Lau
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 08:49:30AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > For me, it stops booting at several points: one time it stops at Init:, and > another time it stops at calculating module dependencies. Interestingly, it > does boot (I'm using BootX) if I boot from the extension rather than going

Re: 2.4.9-benh0 crashes during boot with 7600 and Voodoo3

2001-08-25 Thread Anthony Lau
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 02:13:16PM -0700, Lee Cremeans wrote: > I just rsync'd the latest benh kernel tree last night, and I'm finding > it has an odd problem when I try to boot my Power Mac 7600 and use my > "new" (just received) Voodoo3 3000 instead of /chaos/control (the > onboard video)...it wi

Re: Help with XFree86 V4.10 and Voodoo3

2001-07-08 Thread Anthony Lau
.1. I read in the changelogs that 4.1 is supposed to have been endian-patched. PS I can also send you my XF86Config-4 file, separately, if anyone thinks it might be useful... I would most interested in comparing my config file with yours. Please send me a copy, thanks! -- Anthony Lau

Help with XFree86 V4.10 and Voodoo3

2001-07-07 Thread Anthony Lau
d my XF86Config-4 and the log file. Thanks, -- Anthony Lau

Re: Trying to get 2.2.19+3dfx+reiserfs

2001-06-01 Thread Anthony Lau
At 2:51 AM +0200 6/2/2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: Anthony Lau wrote: I have tried 2.2.19 + 3dfx (works!) + reiserfs (doesn't!) linux-2.4-paulus (3dfx doesn't, can't see if reiserfs does or not) linux-2.4-benh(same problem as paulus) reiserfs needs endianness patches for

Trying to get 2.2.19+3dfx+reiserfs

2001-06-01 Thread Anthony Lau
Is there anyway to tell if reiser was compiled into the kernel? cat /proc/??? Thanks, -- Anthony Lau