On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:47:59PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:08:02PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:30:15PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > the console is not major problem, but this is still utterly broken in X,
> &
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:36:37PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:05:19PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > If we're discontining support for 2.4.x kernels on PowerPC, then we should
> > stop shipping packages for them.
[...]
> > Otherwise, suppo
gs. What he lacks is
Macintosh expertise. Perhaps someone here can help him.
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On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 10:11:46PM -0400, Francis Parent-Valiquette wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> I'm an old user of debian last month I bought a mac PowerBook G4 and
> I'm trying to install the Power Pc distro of debian on it I follow the
> how-to of Branden Robinson
> Tha
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particularly on recent hardware.
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On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:22:06AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (30/09/04 03:09), Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Is anybody else running 2.4.x on a PowerMac Dual G4? (I've got a "mirrored
> > drive door" model[1].)
> I've got a dual 450Mz which was runni
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[1] http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/g4-125.html
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2.6.7 kernel package.
I've got DVD playback working fine with kernel 2.4.25.
$ uname -a
Linux sisyphus 2.4.25-powerpc-smp #1 SMP mer avr 14 16:31:15 CEST 2004 ppc
GNU/Linux
One of your own kernels, even.
> 2) don't use ide-scsi, but play from the /dev/hdb or whatver directl
I'm running a
PowerMac G4 ("mirrored drive door" model), dual processor.
[1] My old PowerMac desktop didn't have the horsepower (400MHz G3).
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appreciated, and step-by-step instructions for doofuses like me are also
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:48:20AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> The stability leaves a little bit to be desired, as can be seen at the
> following URLs:
>
> http://redwald.deadbeast.net/tmp/kernel_fuckup_1.jpeg
> http://redwald.deadbeast.net/tmp/kernel_fuckup_2.jpeg
After 1
)
bogomips: 796.26
machine : PowerMac1,1
motherboard : PowerMac1,1 MacRISC Power Macintosh
detected as : 66 (Blue&White G3)
pmac flags :
L2 cache: 1024K unified
memory : 1024MB
pmac-generation : NewWorld
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Can anyone help?
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> I have been using PC for many years and this is my very first PB and i am
> missing some things... one of those is that functionality :-)
> Can any of you tell me how to map, for example, the F12 to make "supr",
> please?
What's a "supr" key?
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Thanks for letting me know; I have updated my page accordingly!
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On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 08:17:21AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:13:33 -0500
> Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Can everyone else please attempt a build
> > and if the build is
> > successful, upload the packages to expe
else please attempt a build, and if the build is
successful, upload the packages to experimental?
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On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 05:46:31PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> As of XFree86 4.3.0, the XFree86 X server doesn't have any built-in
> modelines for the display modes used by the 17" PowerBook G4 and more
> recent 15" PowerBook G4s. (To my knowledge, all other m
ith the debian-x list with modelines
for the bigger PowerBook G4s in the following format?
# 1152x768 @ 54.8Hz (Titanium PowerBook) hsync: 44.2kHz
ModeLine "1152x768" 64.995 1152 1178 1314 1472 768 771 777 806 +hsync
+vsync
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x27;t have any info
> on it on their spec site.
>
> Any info regarding this would be great, I'm still kinda new at running
> deb, so verbose description are much appreciated.
# modprobe dmasound_pmac
...has always worked for my on my B&W G3.
You may want to add that module n
eference to it in my FAQ; thanks for
bringing it to my attention!
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:15:03AM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le lun 03/03/2003 ? 01:36, Branden Robinson a ?crit :
>
> >To date, no kernels with the feature of sending Linux keycodes exist for
> >m68k-based Macintoshes.
>
> You should perhaps indicate the date
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 02:24:15AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Op ma 03-03-2003, om 01:36 schreef Branden Robinson:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm adding the following FAQ entry to the Debian X FAQ.
>
> You have a FAQ? Nice. Didn't know. Where can I find it?
you should use an XKB Model of "macintosh_old".
# CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES is not set
The above means that your kernel is sending Linux keycodes in "raw" mode,
and you should use an XKB Model of "macintosh".
[1] GNU GPL, version 2
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On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:06:10PM -0800, J Q Private wrote:
> Your TiBook page worked perfectly for my TiBook 667!
>
> Too bad I had tried Branden's page, MiJ's page, and
> someone else's first.
If you'll let me know what was insufficient about my page, I'
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:43:21PM -0700, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> "Branden Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Out of curiosity, do you regard *this* message as a flame?
>
> No, happily, this is one the more reasoned replies you made, thanks.
My
u don't
(well, except for the copyright notice and license statement :) ).
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messages that have anything but ebulliently positive content. When one
is composing a message to correct the discourteous behavior of another,
whether inadvertent or not, it is difficult to achieve the latter.
Out of curiosity, do you regard *this* message as a flame?
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applied, as I pointed out), I suppose I need to make clear the copyright
and licensing terms on (most of) my page.
You can use the following:
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Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
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the page up, put it back up.
> I give up.
I think this reaction is just about the least constructive possible.
The best solution is really quite simple; give credit where credit is
due. But as I said, I personally don't *want* credit until you've
credited everyone else. The prin
. But it necessarily implies copyright. It
means a copyright license that has non-traditional terms, covered in
detail at the URL you provided.
That which is not copyrighted is not "copyleftable", because it is in
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eed to explicitly identify any Invariant Sections and Cover Texts,
or explicitly declare that there are none. This is particularly
important for reasons of determining whether your document is DFSG-free.
If you have questions about these issues, you should ask the
debian-l
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On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 02:40:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> herbert, could you fix this, a lot of people will be extremely grateful
> if you did.
I'm pretty sure Herbert Xu doesn't read this list.
I could be wrong, though.
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year).
>
> I have a macintosh and I would like to help the linux comunity.
Someone's got to come up with patches first.
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On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:31:27PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Fre, 2002-11-01 at 17:10, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 02:18:56PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > The nv driver has only been fixed for PPC after 4.2.0, i.e. you'd need
> > >
my current 4.2.1 packages?
Alternatively, I'm willing to accept patches to the nv driver to bring
it into feature parity with i386 in 4.2.1.
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:30:08PM +0200, José Salavert Torres wrote:
> I haven't been able to configure XFree4.2.1pre1v2 to work with my
> Nvidia GeForce2 MX 400.
Why aren't you using XFree86 4.2.1-2?
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Alternatively, install "x-window-system" or "x-window-system-core".
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ess, dpkg-reconfigure implies "-plow".
What happens if you run
# dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86
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- explicitly tell dh_strip to strip the modules in
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 05:14:35PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote:
> Seems I need a cup full of RTFM every monday morning for breakfast.
But that's not nearly as good for you as a cup of STFU. ;-)
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I *do* wonder where you got 4.2.1-0pre1v3, given that I haven't released
it yet.
May I borrow your time machine?
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> should work better.
Have you thought about submitting a patch against xf-4_2-branch to fix
this?
Alternatively, you can send me one and I might just stick it in Debian's
XFree86 4.2.1. :)
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ng that this was a kernel problem. As opposed to say,
a package maintainer who doesn't read the reports before reassigning
them, and concludes they're not his problem within hours of receiving
them (within seconds, for all I know -- or perhaps seeing the control
message from "Branden
27;t work.
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> I think I would like to configure X to use the frame buffer, since I
> don't need 3D acceleration.
You should probably answer the questions the package asked you when it
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 07:34:40AM +0200, Paolo Orrù wrote:
> Who is the maintainer of Xkb package?
The contents of /etc/X11/xkb belong to the xlibs package, which I
maintain.
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:28:18PM -0400, Jeff Sheinberg wrote:
> Why does anyone need to read megabytes of urandom?
Nobody does. Or, at least, xdm doesn't. Markus is opining without the
benefit of having checked the facts.
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:10:54PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:50:22PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > I can't believe he actually intends to keep it like this..
> >
> > I'm going to #define DEV_RANDOM /dev/random for Linux
idea this
> really is, to show upstream the error of their ways.
Well, I hadn't reached that conclusion a priori.
> I can't believe he actually intends to keep it like this..
I'm going to #define DEV_RANDOM /dev/random for Linux systems.
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>
> *shudder*
I see you haven't read the thread.
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4) if scenario 3) causes problems, what the last line of output was
Remember, this program must be run as root. If normal users can read
from /dev/mem on your machine, you're in trouble. :)
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 01:16:25AM +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote:
> >>>>> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>> Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >> Changes:
> >> xfree86 (4.2.0-0pre1v3) unstable; urgency=low
> &
See subject.
Those of you with NVidia video hardware will likely be interested in
these.
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Thanks for helping to relieve the question load on me, though. :)
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As of 04:20:00 UTC this morning there was a fixed .diff.gz and .dsc.
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beating me to the punch! :)
Yes, I'll put them in my directory.
SPARC packages should be ready by now, too. I'll go check on the build.
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t; have any idea how to fix this??
FYI, folks, you might want to read the Debian X FAQ sometime.
/usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz
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>
> It does do 1280x960, too, but it's kinda uncomfortable on my eyes.
Yeah, locked at 60 kHz hsync the refresh at 1280x960 would probably be
uncomfortably low.
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Monitor, Screen, and Layout sections, outside the "debconf area" of your
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ModeLine "1280x960" 108.0 1280 1376 1488 1800960 961 964 1000 +hsync
+vsync
Why don't these work?
(I have only skimmed your very long bug report so far, sorry.)
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 04:02:49PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Thanks to Jimmy Kaplowitz, the "pgi" package should now be attempted
> > by the powerpc buildd (as of 0.9.6.3). Whoever's in charge of it,
>
Thanks to Jimmy Kaplowitz, the "pgi" package should now be attempted by
the powerpc buildd (as of 0.9.6.3). Whoever's in charge of it, please
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Source: xfree86
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Changes:
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.
* patch #065: updated comments to point to Debian m
)/(pScrn->bitsPerPixel/8);
modesFound = 1;
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You can probably drop XkbRules from the above.
Alternatively, the following should do the same thing:
XkbRulesxfree86
XkbModelmacintosh
XkbLayout fr_new
...and is even supported by the X server's debconf interface.
since I
went with the former solution, but you should be able to find more
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e get this straight - you want this built for unstable, not as a
> potato update?
That's correct.
> I'll add it for powerpc and m68k after taking the usual precautions WRT
> no_auto_build ...
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6/config/inputdevice/keyboard/model $MODEL
else
tsl xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/model "pc104"
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fi
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xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/
7;d let it take complete control
> of my X configuration, not having to worry about upgrades or
> hand-editing files.
IMO it's irrational to pursue a policy of commenting out a harmless
reference to a local font server. But if you want to write your own
Files sect
ver-xfree86.config and all will be
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>
> Seeing how a lot of people have a lot of trouble getting X to work at
> all, this isn't really desirable behaviour.
Indeed; the behavior you're think you're seeing, however, isn't actually
what's going on. Read the new XF
u wanted it to, but it didn't do it right?
>
> And when it writes a new one, it saves the old one with an extension,
> I'm pretty sure. XF86Config-4~ ?
In 4.1.0-11 and before, yes. In 4.1.0-12 and later, things work a
little differently. Read the changelogs.
But the bot
+hsync
+vsync
Apparently the iMac monitor is forgiving of the the less than 1%
difference between the VESA standard modeline and the one you quoted
above. Or perhaps, as someone else said, the monitor will eat anything
you feed it as long as it's 60.0kHz horizontal.
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Screen and ServerLayout section to use it.
man dexconf
man XF86Config-4
zless /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz
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> to use. Will I have to step back to XF863? Will that be difficult?
>
> I'd be interested in hearing other's stories (and solutions!) concerning
> this.
Use the "fbdev" driver.
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> > FontPath"unix/:7100"
> > EndSection
>
> Thanks very much, you solved the problem and made my day.
You could have gotten this fix for free if you'd use debconf to
configure the X server. :)
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conjunction with a laptop. It can be used in tight quarters since I
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about a cord that's short or that gets in the way (cordless).
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> >> then the console returns indicating an sigsegv error (see appended
> >> X server output).
> >
> >Add Option "UseFBDev" to Section "Device".
Just FYI, 4.1.0-12 will have a nice surprise on store for PowerPC users.
At least for those that use debconf
this
> documented in an easy-to-find place?
Yeah. The debconf template for the XkbModel question in xserver-xfree86.
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On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 05:38:29PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> Well he decided to spend his time elsewhere after getting all upset
> about the way a bug was being handled and inappropriately lashing out
> with personal attacks.
...and receiving quite a few in turn...
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control panel doesn't even have to be the same as the one
Linux uses. I suspect some weird issue with initializing the hardware.
Sorry, I don't have any advice for you, but this might point to an
architecture-independent bug or misfeature in the MACE driver code.
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All the changelog entry means is that you're on your own when it comes
to figuring out which X mouse protocol your /dev/gpmdata device uses.
I continue to assert that gpm is a waste of time for anyone who wants to
use X. No one appears to want to deal with gpm at the Debian package
level. It
Warnings I found in the same file are
> the following:
> (WW) R128(0): Video BIOS not detected in PCI space!
> (WW) R128(0): Attempting to read Video BIOS from legacy ISA space!
> (WW) R128(0): Video BIOS not found!
Your video card probably doesn't have an i386 BIOS on it, or the dr
Debian X
FAQ describing this sort of thing for people who can't be troubled to
read the XF86Config-4 manual page.
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tion/oversight on his part and he's done what he can to correct it
> for the future.
Under no circumstances was the config file deleted.
ls -l /etc/X11/XF86Config*
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