Re: ppp and powerbook

2001-07-27 Thread Chad Miller
Well, it's not magic. What interface is it using? (Psst -- it's the last column.) Why is that configured and up? (Pssst -- see the /etc/network/interfaces file.) > Chad: > > Having your powerbook use dhcp and request an ip address every time it's > > booted/

Re: ppp and powerbook

2001-07-27 Thread Chad Miller
x27;. Where's your default route? Having your powerbook use dhcp and request an ip address every time it's booted/resumed will make your life easier. Don't hard-code addresses (and routes) -- get them from the environment and release them when going to sleep.

Re: Sleep on TiBook, getting Gnome sounds working

2001-07-09 Thread Chad Miller
not necessarily chip) abandoned it, and created another power management system, using what Apple calls the PMU. Remove the apm-related daemons and install 'pmud'. For sound, I can't help. Anyone else? - chad -- Chad Miller <

Re: Xfree4(.1) on Lombard?

2001-07-03 Thread Chad Miller
k on a Lombard. deb http://people.debian.org/%e7branden/ woody/powerpc/ - chad

Re: devfs rants & raves

2001-05-26 Thread Chad Miller
hardware. It's _useful_ to be able to insert a few discs _anywhere_ in your IO chain and not affect the naming of other devices. In the struggle between usefulness and blind inertia, usefulness wins in the Linux world. - chad -- Chad Miller <[

modules.conf, modules.dep and module dependencies problems?

2001-05-23 Thread Chad Albers
I'm sorting out why I can't seem to get atalkd running. I recompiled the kernel to support appletalk, but now I seem to have run into a modules problem. On startup, modprobe complains: "Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/ modules.dep" This is indeed true because

what this about a missing msdos printer module?

2001-03-30 Thread Chad Albers
Working away towards solving my Deskwriter printer problem I have noticed the following message on start up: msdos printer modprobe: can't locate printer module Strangely, this line is not recorded in the syslog or display with dmesg. Anyway, maybe this is the cause of my problem getting my 750

Re: HELP ME !!!!

2001-03-24 Thread Chad Miller
filesystem is mounted read only and I cannot login, as root > because it don't recognize password and with other users it come back > to shell. Use 'mount -o remount,rw /' . - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: debian-powerpc: upcoming 2.2r3 release

2001-03-15 Thread Chad Miller
IC. it may be an interrupt problem. 'cat /proc/interrupts' - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Policeman: You're playing God! unix bruhjo, shutterbug, bookworm| Dr. Hfuhruhurr: *Somebody* has to! URL: http://web.chad.

Re: debian-powerpc: kernel-source-2.4.1 on powerbook

2001-02-28 Thread Chad Miller
Versions 2.4.1 and .2 are broken for the PPC arch for pmac, it seems. With for .3 -- I am. - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Policeman: You're playing God! unix bruhjo, shutterbug, bookworm| Dr. Hfuhruhurr: *Somebody*

Re: The solution to Mach64 problems on Lombard

2001-02-28 Thread Chad Miller
I wonder if some kind soul who's using kernel 2.2.x on a yabooted Lombard could post a working X4 config file? I'm hoping that my problem is ineptitude at writing a correct XF89Config-4 file. - chad -- Chad Miller <[EM

serial and suspend-resume funniness

2001-02-19 Thread Chad Miller
IAL TONE) Feb 19 07:45:05 cahoots chat[12585]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Feb 19 07:45:05 cahoots chat[12585]: send (AT&F1^M) Feb 19 07:45:05 cahoots chat[12585]: expect (OK) Anyone seen this? - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Policem

Re: The solution to Mach64 problems on Lombard

2001-02-12 Thread Chad
Chad: > > But damn! it blanks and sleep(120)s and reboots like the first x4 did. On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 05:42:38PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Lemme guess - still using BootX instead of yaboot? Bt. Nice try, though. :) I'm going to build it again, and make sure I ju

Re: The solution to Mach64 problems on Lombard

2001-02-09 Thread Chad Miller
d soon. But damn! it blanks and sleep(120)s and reboots like the first x4 did. Has anyone here had any success with this? - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://web.chad.org/ (GPG) "Any technology distinguishable

Re: DHCP client in unstable?

2001-02-07 Thread Chad Miller
TP client written by RedHat. This replaces the dhcpcd package. - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://web.chad.org/ (GPG) "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced". First corollary to Clarke's Third Law

Titanium experience?

2001-01-17 Thread Chad Miller
Has anyone tried booting on the new Titanium PowerBook? I'm wondering how funky the hardware is. I'm considering burning a CD and visiting retailers, if I can find any with a demo model. - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gpg key generation

2001-01-03 Thread Chad Miller
orary files, but I don't know if network and disk IO touch the /dev/random code. - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://web.chad.org/ (GPG) "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced". First corollary to Clarke's Third Law (Jargon File, v4.2.0, 'magic')

setserial question...?

2000-12-29 Thread Chad Albers
I am debugging some problems I am having setting up a ppp connection between my home computer and my isp. I'm using Debian Woody, kernel 2.2.17 and pppd 2.3.11 on a PowerMac 7500. Checking out all possibility and following a faqs instructions, I have tested the command setserial -a /dev/ttyS0

exiting minicom...

2000-12-29 Thread Chad Albers
I'm trying to us minicom to debug a ppp connection, but I can't seem to use the meta key inside minicom (in a console) to access its options. Neither escape nor CTL or ALT work? Has anyone else experienced this problem? How can I solve it? -- c h a d @ l b e r s [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Framebuffer X

2000-12-27 Thread Chad Miller
t; using the XFree 4's Framebuffer server and it is working so far. But > instead of white it always shows a turkey like color. Does anybody know > how to fix this? At what color depth are you running? 16? If so, try 15 or 24. Yum...turkey.

Re: powersaving on NW iMac?

2000-12-03 Thread Chad Miller
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 09:42:57AM +0100, Ralf Stephan wrote: > Hi, > would it be possible to turn off a ruby iMac hd/monitor by > using a kernel module for Powerbooks - which one? Use 'setterm' for the console. - chad --

Re: X and Woody

2000-11-17 Thread Chad Miller
's a patch in BTS for AXP that would solve our builds if tweaked propely. I'm waiting for it to be applied. - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://web.chad.org/ (GPG) "Any technology distinguishable from magi

fw: Re: cursing my yboot'd Lombard (forw from cmiller@surfsouth.com)

2000-11-06 Thread Chad Miller
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:44:45PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Chad Miller wrote: > > I suspect he means to set the bootloader (yaboot) to initialize those > > values. > > But once you ran e.g. X, the problem may reappear. That's true. I&#x

Re: cursing my yboot'd Lombard

2000-11-05 Thread Chad Miller
ourse, the kernel should do all it can, but if the loader makes a tremendous difference Does anyone have a yaboot'ing Lombard that _does_ have a nonblack cursor. Does the ``happens sometimes'' mean that it doesn't happen sometimes? It's awfully hard to code this way.

cursing my yboot'd Lombard

2000-11-04 Thread Chad Miller
-softcursor.txt, with no change in behavior, which surprised me. - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://web.chad.org/ (GPG) "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced". First corollary to Cl

xserver-common_4.0.1 powerpc autobuild

2000-11-04 Thread Chad Miller
#x27;s simply not yet uploaded. - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://web.chad.org/ (GPG) "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced". First corollary to Clarke's Third Law (Jargon File, v4.2.0, 'magic') pgpJqNrPFsnjV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: pmud 0.7-1

2000-11-04 Thread Chad Miller
rhaps backgrounding the parallelizeable commands will help with speed. - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://web.chad.org/ (GPG) "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced". First corollary to Clarke's Third Law (Jargon File, v4.2.0, 'magic')

Re: ppc vs. i386

2000-11-04 Thread Chad Miller
xt framebuffer console. I wish it were speedier. - chad (with a 333, and not about to try to fix the fb spinlocks) -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://web.chad.o

Re: pmud 0.7-1

2000-10-11 Thread Chad Miller
but if it could possibly wake up faster, > it'd > be nice to have. Golly. My Lombard wakes in ~0.75 seconds. How slow is slow? - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://web.chad.org/ (GPG) "Any technology di

Re: xserver crashes

2000-10-10 Thread Chad Miller
> I am beginning to long for the days of slow but trusty MkLinux! Too wierd. How's the temperature inside your case? Overheating causes spurious problems w/ CPU, memory (main and video card). Even if it's cold, have you tried a memory tester? I hear SGI's is nice. - chad

Re: libiberty.h (issues compiling MOL)

2000-07-04 Thread Chad Miller
ine, and the maintainer left it open waiting for feedback (which I haven't given him :( ), so if the newer version works for you, please send him a message. - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://web.chad.org/ (G

Xpmac.deb

2000-06-25 Thread Chad Miller
Why isn't there an Xpmac .deb, even in contrib or non-free? It seems 'alien' might become a main+essential package, according to advice around here, wrt Xpmac. - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://web.c

Re: audio killed the debian box

2000-06-09 Thread Chad Miller
out. The dmasound mixer_ioctl is sufficiently borken to crash my box. Now, to finish figuring it out, and actually solve it... - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://web.chad.org/ (GPG) "Any technology distinguishable from ma

audio killed the debian box

2000-06-08 Thread Chad Miller
S. of A.) . I can play .au, and I can play mp3 with 'mpg123', but 'mp3blaster' tickles a null-pointer deref in the kernel, and does The Big Ugly. The Oops looks funny (maybe 'cause I'm accustomed to IA32 and AXP), and I want to see if it's my hardware.

Re: harddrive troubles with install on G3 powerbook

2000-06-08 Thread Chad Miller
n), so you might try that. This might superficially work-around our problem, but I'd love to use that 400M as swap. I can warm-boot after that using yaboot (the video doesn't have quite the same behavior) but it appears to be fine. - chad

Re: debian installed, how to boot it?

2000-05-31 Thread Chad Miller
the correct partition. - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://web.chad.org/ "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced". First corollary to Clarke's Third Law (Jargon File, v4.2.0, 'magic')

Re: mouse buttons...still...

2000-05-26 Thread Chad Miller
for me with my > kensington turbo mouse. Might want to put it in /etc/rc.boot, if it works. Aiiigh! It deleted /etc and mailed itself to every address in my .muttrc ! Kidding. Still, source? Love You, chad

Re: Including Xfree4.0 in potato/ppc (Was : Re: deb-ppc: X serverdebianpackages ?)

2000-05-02 Thread Chad Miller
a full fortnight. - chad

what the hell is ``bondi blue?''

2000-05-02 Thread Chad Miller
info (I'll compile mine) on what options BootX should have for initial booting (and it might vary, by machine). - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://web.chad.org/ "Any technology distinguishable from magic is in

Administrivia (was Re: 7200 installation - floppy)

2000-04-25 Thread Chad Miller
full headers) to me. Grassy. - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://web.chad.org/ "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced". First corollary to Clarke's Third Law (Jargon File, v4.2.0, 'magic')

Re: UDP datagram

2000-04-25 Thread Chad Miller
s off topic here. - chad -- Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://web.chad.org/ "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced". First corollary to Clarke's Third Law (Jargon File, v4.2.0, 'magic')