Re: kernel-2.6.9 config for G5

2004-11-22 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Eric Deveaud wrote: > On 19 Nov 2004, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > > Eric Deveaud writes: > > > > > could someone point me to a working 2.6.9 kernel config file for a > > > dual-1.8 g5 > > > > You will find one in /boot/confi

Re: kernel-2.6.9 config for G5

2004-11-19 Thread Eric Deveaud
On 19 Nov 2004, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Eric Deveaud writes: > > > could someone point me to a working 2.6.9 kernel config file for a > > dual-1.8 g5 > > You will find one in /boot/config-2.6.9-power4-smp if you install the > kernel-image-power4-smp package from un

kernel-2.6.9 config for G5

2004-11-19 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, I'm trying to set up 2.6.9 kernel on a dual-1.8 G5, installed with di using the make pmac_defconfig as bases and setting the smp. the kernel boots fine but hangs on with the following RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at bock 0 RAMDISK: image too big! (4728KiB/4096KiB) VFS: Cannot ope

G5 install media.

2004-10-13 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, Some times ago I installed sarge on a biG5-1.8GHz with some debian installer tweaking. today I have the same machine kind to install for a workmate, wich installer did you recomend dailly build or the current sarge installer-powerpc thank's Eric -- «Le monochrome

Re: install sarge on dual G5 -> quasi-success

2004-06-01 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Mon, 31 May 2004, Michal wrote: > > tip for the fans. modprobe therm_pm72 > > the modprobe is succesful in the 2.4 kernel, but does nothing to > reduce the vacuum-cleaner level of the fans... sorry I could not answer as the G5 is running an home brew self compiled 2.6.4 Eric -- E

Re: install sarge on dual G5 -> hang

2004-05-27 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 05:46, Michal wrote: > > > Fill a bug report against debian-installer with this info for start, > > > so it gets fixed. > > > > ok, done. > > > > Here's hoping for a fix, as otherwise I'm sitting on a useless > > dual G5...

Re: G5 report problematic succes

2004-04-01 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 04:50:33PM +0200, Eric Deveaud wrote: > Notice that normally, you should have been able to use the > debian-installer for installing debian. I have a power4 config and > altough i don't know if the yaboot on the c

G5 report problematic succes

2004-04-01 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi today was quite work free, please don't repeat it to my boss ;-) I started playing seriously with the G5 booting the k-mib-ppc-beta-pre-10, in single mode and isntalling debian thru debootstrap was quite simple. just to note that debootstraps hangs (at least the one located on the k-

Re: G5 install media

2004-03-29 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Yves Combe wrote: > Eric Deveaud a écrit : > > OK it work's but just a question before my 3 workmate kills me. > > is there such news about the fan support ? > > > > or should I have to put the machine to the server room ? > modprobe therm_p

Re: G5 install media

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Yves Combe wrote: > Eric Deveaud a écrit : > > OK it work's but just a question before my 3 workmate kills me. > > is there such news about the fan support ? > > > > or should I have to put the machine to the server room ? > modprobe the

Re: G5 install media

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > Le dernière (k-mib-ppc-beta-pre12) ne marche pas sur les G5. Mais la > > pre10 si. > > ftp://ftp.crihan.fr/mirrors/knoppix-mib.org/ > thank's I'll give a try to the pre10 or pre7 > as you mentionned the pre12 does

Re: G5 install media

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Yves Combe wrote: > Eric Deveaud a écrit : > Bonjour Eric, > > > Hi, > > > > I have a biG5 lying on my desktop, could someone point me to a iso > > image that will allow me to install debian on this machine > > > > thank&#x

G5 install media

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, I have a biG5 lying on my desktop, could someone point me to a iso image that will allow me to install debian on this machine thank's -- à mail and news de microsoft, ont pouvait faire un del total de tous messages sur tous les news groupes (c'est l'un des bugs du logicie

Re: kernel-2.6.0-test9-benh fails to build

2003-11-20 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > CPU: G4 - 1.250 Ghz > > I've rsync'ed the benh 2.6.0-test9 kernel and tried to build it but it > fails with these lines just before it stop making it: > > [...] > > CPP arch/ppc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.s > CC arch/ppc/platforms/pmac_pic.o > CC

Re: 2.6.0-test9 kernel on xserv

2003-11-19 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Adam Done wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 02:19, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Tried my tree with a pmac_defconfig ? (then eventually turning on SMP) > > Yes, I rsync but what do you mean with pmac_defconfig? Was I suposed > to turn something off first? just that pma

Re: Twin Turbo 128 in PPC 9600/350

2003-02-21 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Feb 21 2003, David Campillos wrote: > > I'm trying to configure gdm with a Twin Turbo 128 video card in a PPC > > 9600/350. > (...) > > I know that lspci can help me, but I have 2.2 kernel, and that > > command only outputs hex addresses. > > Fi

Re: install MacOSX after Debian GNU/Linux

2002-12-05 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Charles R.Twardy wrote: > Why do we need to put the Apple_Bootstrap partition in 2 (or nearby)? in case something went wrong or in case you wippee the PRAM, the boot process on the Mac is to check the partition in ordered way, to find one partition wich is bootable. if your Ap

Re: Quicksilver Install problem

2002-12-04 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Yojimbo wrote: > can't you exaplain better what should I do? I am a linux linux newbie. in this case switch the disk to the ATA66 bus, and follow the Xavier tips > I have read the yaboot configuration manual and i have not understood > waht exactly is > the Boot Menu, an

Re: Quicksilver Install problem

2002-12-04 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, KingOfShadow wrote: > On my new G4 Quicksilver 867x2 I cannot install woddy because it cannot > find a my hard disk. Probably i think ithe problem si in the bus cose > the it has only ATA/66 and ATA/100 ( the disk is a ATA/100). > What can I do. either switch the disk on the A

Re: [XFree] switch to console ?

2002-11-28 Thread Eric Deveaud
On 28 Nov 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Why on earth do you report this here? ;) mistyping the alias;-( Eric -- «Dès que je clique sur "mount", il ne fait rien et le cdrom reste "unmount". Quel est le pb ?» -+- Popol in Guide du linuxien pervers : "De l'avantage des interfaces..." -

[XFree] switch to console ?

2002-11-28 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, running XFree86 Version 4.2.99.2 on bipro G4 I cannot switch to the console with the key comboe ctrl-alt-F{1-6} eg: ctrl-alt-F1 gives me a P under X the keys are mapped corectlyas xev comfirm it how can I swithc back to the console without killing X Eric PS crtl-alt-back

Re: Eject CD

2002-11-23 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > > Looking through these lists I noted that one has to install the eject > package in order to open the CDRom drive door. Well, I have it > installed and regardless I can't open it. > > Here't the response: > > eject /dev/cdrom > eject: unable to find

Re: Debian on iBook issues

2002-11-20 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Mouse: > > Is there a way to make the really stupid one-button mouse do a right > click, say, as holding the Ctrl key and clicking? somebody, some times ago post a patch to do this. browse the archives it will be easy to find > What do I need to do to

Re: TiBook 867mHz + ATI Radeon 9000

2002-11-18 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Raph HP wrote: [OT] could you please set your mailer to wrap lines arond something readable eg 70/75 characters, please > > Sounds like an endianness problem, but the driver actually attempts to > > handle that... what depths have you tried? > I've tried 8bpp, 16bpp and 24 (d

Re: XFree86 4.2.99.2 / radeon 9000

2002-11-18 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Ross Vumbaca wrote: > I've got a problem with radeonfb whereby, if I change resolution with > "fbset", the screen will go blank (monitor enters power saving mode), > and the remedy is to press Alt-F2 (or whatever) to change tty, and then > to change back again. the problem i

Re: XFree86 4.2.99.2 / radeon 9000

2002-11-18 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Eric Deveaud wrote: > I have now X displaying correctly on the flat pannel. just one note, as some people repoorted on Xpert list, I have also some "yellowing problems". most of the colors presents a yellow domminance. it produce some funny effects

Re: XFree86 4.2.99.2 / radeon 9000

2002-11-18 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Ross Vumbaca wrote: > Eric Deveaud wrote: > > > > As I was experimenting some problems with the radeonfb driver, before > > BenH solve the problem, I was mind blinded, and was thinking of a radeon > > related problem. > > What's the

Re: XFree86 4.2.99.2 / radeon 9000

2002-11-18 Thread Eric Deveaud
On 18 Nov 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mit, 2002-11-13 at 17:26, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > > > using the 17' Apple flat monitor hooked on the ADC connector, it always > > ends with a black screen (I guess "signall lost" as the flashing power > > ligth

Re: XFree86 4.2.99.2 / radeon 9000

2002-11-13 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Eric Deveaud wrote: > On 8 Nov 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Don, 2002-10-31 at 10:00, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > > > > > I'm trying to set up X with a radeon 9000 with a 17'' Apple flat pannel > > > plugged on ADC &

Re: Installer doesn't see the drive on a dual 867

2002-11-13 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Pan wrote: [ONCE AGAIN] please answer UNDER the previous post it's easier to read and please cut what's not usefull > Apparently the disk is /dev/hda for the installer, but it's ultra2 for > OF. yes > I have to reboot the machine, and if I go to the OF promp

Re: Installer doesn't see the drive on a dual 867

2002-11-12 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Pan wrote: > I tried swaping the drive to the ATA66 bus... but after doing so and being > able to install the base system, I get a white screen when I boot up. > > I can't even get to the Open Firmware prompt... and not even pressing > option gives me a list of available driv

Re: Installer doesn't see the drive on a dual 867

2002-11-09 Thread Eric Deveaud
On 9 Nov 2002, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > but BenH recommend to not use the disk for important datas (as the whole > > system is) > > So far, I didn't get any report of problems with it though. OK, I'll open the box and try to put the main disk on the ATA100 bus, and tell you the results.

Re: Modem on G4 PowerBook

2002-11-09 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Gilger.John wrote: > The modem on my G4 PowerBook (Ti 550 MHz) seems to be a winmodem. Is there a linux driver for it somewhere? regarding the generation of your tiBook, the modem is either a "standard" modem hooked on /dev/ttyS0 and stock driver should do the job either a "

Re: XFree86 4.2.99.2 / radeon 9000

2002-11-09 Thread Eric Deveaud
On 8 Nov 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Don, 2002-10-31 at 10:00, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > > > I'm trying to set up X with a radeon 9000 with a 17'' Apple flat pannel > > plugged on ADC > > Can you try my latest DRI packages from > > deb http://

Re: Installer doesn't see the drive on a dual 867

2002-11-09 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Pan wrote: > I just got a new dual proc 867 and I wanted to install debian on it. done the same on a dual 1.25 > I downloaded one of the network install images and after burning it, I > rebooted the machine. It boots fine, but... it doesn't see hda... no > hard drive. > Any

Re: MountX?

2002-11-03 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, eric wrote: > i just can't remember the exact name of my other kernel.. and am not > looking forward to starting all over over again. you don't need to install over and over, remember linux is neither MacOS neither windows, ther's always a solution. boot on the installer CD,

Re: running debian on a mac laptop

2002-11-03 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Nov 02 2002, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > other fact to consider, is that iBook is much more robust than tiBook. > > I don't know about this. see some news group related to Apple hardware, and you will find lots of reports rega

Re: running debian on a mac laptop

2002-11-02 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO Pendant le temps de midi du samedi 02 novembre 2002, vers 12:19, > Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > > If you have the money, I would go for the PowerBook since its processor > > is much more powerfull. > > The fact that sleep does not wo

Re: share data with macos

2002-11-01 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Jean-Christophe Michel wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to put some data on my mac hfs partition on a dual boot > pwbk. > But i cannot mount partition in writable mode: > > mount -t hfs -w /dev/hda12 /mac > mounts it in read only... no I guess that you don't have the rigths to writ

Re: install MacOSX after Debian GNU/Linux

2002-11-01 Thread Eric Deveaud
On 1 Nov 2002, Soeren Dam wrote: > Has anyone experience installing MacOS X after Debian GNU/Linux ? yes on my powerbook > I am VERY tired of Macos 9.x beeing unstable and reeinstalling it. > I've seen on the internet that almost all manuals suggests that you > install MacOSX FIRST and Linux aft

Re: XFree86 4.2.99.2 / radeon 9000

2002-10-31 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Eric Deveaud wrote: > I'm trying to set up X with a radeon 9000 with a 17'' Apple flat pannel > plugged on ADC not reaaly an answer, but just some new insigth on the problem kernel inclusion of CONFIG_FB_RADEON results on lost signal with the flat

XFree86 4.2.99.2 / radeon 9000

2002-10-31 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, I'm trying to set up X with a radeon 9000 with a 17'' Apple flat pannel plugged on ADC my kernel is a fresh 2.4.20-pre11-ben0 from Tue Oct 29 with # CONFIG_FB_RADEON is not set CONFIG_AGP=y CONFIG_DRM=y CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y I've got the X sources by CVS-ing it from xfree86.org build

Re: Problems with kernel 2.4.20-pre11-ben0 (worked fine)

2002-10-30 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En cette aube naissante du mercredi 30 octobre 2002, vers 07:24, > Eric Deveaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > > I'm experimenting problems with the couple sungem/dhcp. I suspect the > > client, but I haven't l

Re: Problems with kernel 2.4.20-pre11-ben0 (worked fine)

2002-10-30 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, José Salavert Torres wrote: > Package:kernel > Version: 2.4.20-pre11-ben0 > > No sound, and no net, but drivers load properly, and older versions > (pre7) worked okay. > > Machine: Powermac G4 733Mhz grey-tower. Your Kernel config shows that you are using sungem, for eth. I

Re: New at this

2002-10-21 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, S. Wendel P. Schultz wrote: > Well, I have an "old world" PowerPC 8600/250 and want debian on it. I have > 160MB of RAM, so I figure I'll have a pretty decent little box. I have > downloaded the first installation .iso and cut it; I don't know where to go > now. I can't fi

Re: kernel biG4 1.25

2002-10-18 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Ok, since the ATA-100 may be the culprit, you may also try > to edit drivers/ide/ide-pmac.c > > Just before line 995, add a "return;" statement (that is > just before the pci_device_from_OF_node call). I think I THANK'S it does it, it allows t

Re: kernel biG4 1.25

2002-10-18 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > pmac-ide: enabling IDE bus ID2 > > pmac-ide: enabling IDE bus ID0 > > Machine check in kernel mode > > caused by (from SRR1=149030): Transfer error ack signal > > Serial port locked ON by debugger > > > > > >I

kernel biG4 1.25

2002-10-17 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, please help I'm going crazy I've installed the computer using the Debian 3.0 CD set. booting the 2.4.18-newpmac kernel everything went OK, except that just one cpu is recognized. (correct SMP is not compiled in the kernel) after setting up the minimum (ssh, rsync, compil tools) an

Re: bi-G4 1.25Ghz

2002-10-15 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > I have similar problem in that I have a ATTO SCSI card that is > not supported in the Debian install kernel as well. I have built > working kernels myself though. How hard would it be to > edit the CD image a put a kernel that works for me on it? th

Re: bi-G4 1.25Ghz

2002-10-15 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >Santa-claus comes today with this new machine. > > Hrm... This machine isn't yet pefectly supported, it would help > if I could have physical access to one of those for a couple > of days (btw. I'm in France ;) sure great I'll be very happy to

bi-G4 1.25Ghz

2002-10-14 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, Santa-claus comes today with this new machine. I've asked him to add a SCSI card and a 73Gb SCSI disk, in order to put linux. the SCSI card is an adaptec 29160N whille trying to boot on the debian-30r0-powerpc-binary-1, bad luck, neither the ata100 drive, neither the SCSI disk are s

Re: ieee1394 some problems.

2002-10-10 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, BuG wrote: > On (09/10/02 17:45), Eric Deveaud wrote: > > Did you enable SCSI Support, SCSI disk support and SCSI generic support > while compiling the kernel? Yes as the firewire disk are maped as scsi drive I include the SCSI support either as modules either com

Re: ieee1394 some problems.

2002-10-09 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > the trick iss to load ohci1394 _after_ connecting the device - only then > registering the scsi emulation works for the first device, then you can > hotplug more devices Hummm pluggin the device while the machine is not booted and trying to load t

Re: ieee1394 some problems.

2002-10-09 Thread Eric Deveaud
On 9 Oct 2002, Claas Langbehn wrote: Hello > Try connecting the Firewire drive before booting your Mac. done same problem... > Then load the following modules: > ieee1394, ohci1394, sbp2, scsi_mod, sd_mod > Insmod them in this order or use modprobe. done this way to, but I'm still stu

ieee1394 some problems.

2002-10-09 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, for the little introduction story. I'm trying to validate the use of an external firewire harddrive, for one of our scientist here in pasteur. I ask me if it could plug and use his external 30Gb Lacie firewire drive on his PB-G4 under linux. I've tell him, let me try on my PB-G3 bef

Re: Presentation with Free Software

2002-10-03 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, vinai wrote: > I've also done this. I used the prosper package (prosper.sf.net) which > provides another document class in LaTeX. I've used it also to generate > PDF's but for my final presentation, I had to use Acrobat in full screen > mode on a PC running XP (double yuk !!

Re: Yaboot question

2002-09-20 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Gilger.John wrote: > It's a wierd day. > > I dual boot Debian and MacOSX on my Ti PowerBook. It has been working > fine for quite a whiile. > > Today, I started my laptop and it did not display the usual yaboot > screen giving me a choice between OSX and Dabian. It simply boot

Re: Sleep on desktop system?

2002-09-11 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >And like you, I'm still waiting to see if any sleep application has > >been written for a desktop machine. humm just a stupid question, why to put to deep sleep a linux desktop machine. I assume it should be up and runnig 24/24 7/7 no ? what

Re: new G4, radeon9000 support

2002-08-20 Thread Eric Deveaud
On 20 Aug 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 11:49, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > > > my boss told me that christmas is comming now, I can order a new bi G4. > > with a 17' ADC flat panel > > You've got a nice boss. :) isn't it ;-)) > &

new G4, radeon9000 support

2002-08-20 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, my boss told me that christmas is comming now, I can order a new bi G4. with a 17' ADC flat panel I think I will order the following: biG4 1.25GHz 1Gb SDRAM 2 UltraSCSI 72 Gb ATI Radeon 9000 SCSI card I want to now about the Xfree support of the radeon9000 (I don't want a nvidia

Re: list of packages

2002-07-16 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Lars Noodén wrote: > I would like to do a fresh install, but record all the packages I > currently have. How do I get a clean list of packages without > truncated package names and without all the crud that dpkg -l > produces? man dpkg and take a look at dpkg --get-selectio

Re: Why is quik statically linked?

2002-04-15 Thread Eric Deveaud
On 15 Apr 2002, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > I've been happily using quik for some time, so I'd like to adopt the > Debian package. Can anybody give me a reason why the quik binary > should be statically linked? just an hypothesis and a guess. hyp: quik allow single boot => minimalistic environmen

wacom palette

2002-03-11 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, I've just set my kernel to recognise the wacom graphire palette. evrithing is OK. Is there a tool/tip/hack that allow someone to configure the behaviour of the pen-buttons ?? as the comercial wacom tools allows you to configure the behaviour of the palette. I would like to disable, t

Re: Kernel 2.4.17

2002-02-16 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Ricardo Pardini wrote: > > I use BootX. Is there some way smarter than this > to install new kernel? take a look a quik. > Can I somehow mount the MacOS partition and write > vmlinuz there? yes, you can use a spare partition (HFS or DOS formated). on my 9600 I use a 500Mb (

Re: Beige G3 won't boot

2002-02-13 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Bertram Bourdrez wrote: > Ah, thanks. I still have a few questions remaining... will I need to > download the entire Debian CD or can I get away with getting some files into > MacOS through sneakernet? no you don't need to download the entire Debian CD, just fetch vmlinux and

adding a keycode to a keymap ?

2002-02-06 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, as I'm using an apple extended keyboard, I would like to use the 3 separated keys F13 F14 and F15 as mouse button_emulation F13 and F14 are Ok, as they are respectively mapped to keycodes 99 and 70 but unfortunatly F15 under showkey, gives me "keyboard: unknown scancode e0 45" is

Re: zip mediume question ?

2002-02-06 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > why the zip drive, removable disk, is tested while there is no > > > medium ?? is there a way to correct/enhance this. > > The simplest way to tell if there's media in the drive is to try and read > the drive's capacity, then figure out what the

[newbie] ram and network problems.

2002-02-06 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi. I'm facing a strange behaviour. and I'm very curious to know/understand more about it. the computer (PowerMac 9600) the RAM (32 Mb) when the ram is plugged on. network become quitte unreachable. ie, ping lost between 75-85% paquets ssh to other mahine fail fpt can't reach an

Re: zip mediume question ?

2002-02-05 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Charles Sebold wrote: > On 23 Shevat 5762, Eric Deveaud wrote: > Not sure why it says this, but that doesn't affect the usage of the > drive. rigth it still useable. > > why the zip drive, removable disk, is tested while there is no > > medium ??

zip mediume question ?

2002-02-05 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, once again a little help needed... the powermac 9600 I'm setting up, has an internal zip drive located on /dev/sdc (as told by dmesg, see relevant part bellow.) at boot time when there is no zip in the drive, dmesg complains about "READ CAPACITY failed" and kernel is assuming that

Re: PowerMac 9600 video questions

2002-02-02 Thread Eric Deveaud
On 2 Feb 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mit, 2002-01-30 at 14:01, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > > > PowerMac 9600 > > video card IMS Twin Turbo (IMS,tt128mb8A) > > booted with BootX > > kernel 2.4.18-pre7-ben0 with CONFIG_FB_IMSTT=y > > b

Re: perl5.6.1 and automake1.5

2002-02-01 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, David Roundy wrote: > woody does have automake 1.5. It's called automake1.5. OK but what the perl5.6.1 deb is mising ??? Eric -- >netmask: host name lookup failure netmask en short dans le DNS. -+- CB in Guide de linuxien pervers - Réseau en vacances, repassez pl

perl5.6.1 and automake1.5

2002-02-01 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, just a dumy question. my woody box presents some problems with automake-1.5 ig:~ > dpkg -l |grep perl ii libperl5.6 5.6.1-7 Shared Perl library. ii perl-5.005-bas 6.3 Transitional package. ii perl-base 5.6.1-7 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. as I need

Re: PowerMac 9600 video questions

2002-01-30 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Eric Deveaud wrote: > On 29 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > The ati driver only works with ATI chips. ;) Try imstt or fbdev. OK the story is continuing the context PowerMac 9600 video card IMS Twin Turbo (IMS,tt128mb8A) bo

Re: PowerMac 9600 video questions

2002-01-29 Thread Eric Deveaud
On 29 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > The ati driver only works with ATI chips. ;) Try imstt or fbdev. OK I fix that. Thank's Eric -- Toutes sociétés, macro ou micro necessite son punk... Un vrai regal !!! -+- DeadEnd in NPC : La subversion, un suppo et au lit ! -+-

PowerMac 9600 video questions

2002-01-29 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, I'm setting up a powerMac 9600/350 (currently 128Mb ram but should jump to 512 soon) with 2 HD (2Gb MacOS / 9Go Debian woody) install method was: get Ramdisk.image.tgz vmlinux from potato boot with BootX minimal NFS potato install edited /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody apt-ge

Re: boot problems after install on Pismo

2002-01-23 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I've gone through the install procedure of potato on a pismo (a new > world powerbook). > Is there a way of booting linux from the open firmware command line so > that I can then run ybin after configuring it? yes boot on cd (as for installation)

Re: pmud core99 shutdown

2002-01-18 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > I think, well no problem, (except the cpu time lost, and uptime lost > > ;-) ) pmud should have notice that battery is going out, and should have > > cleanly shutdown the machine > > Nope, it should have put the machine to sleep mode. After consider

pmud core99 shutdown

2002-01-18 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hello, As I'm so stupid, I let my pismo run out of battery this nigth (just forgotten to plug it ...) this mornig, I found it stopped. I think, well no problem, (except the cpu time lost, and uptime lost ;-) ) pmud should have notice that battery is going out, and should have cleanly shu

Re: Keyboards on PowerPC....

2002-01-15 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, The Doctor What wrote: > You know, I actually did that. I have no idea what I was thinking > when I turned on CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYS. I think I probably read the > description and saw it could be turned off via a /proc control > > Of course, you had to be able to login firs

Re: swiching console?

2002-01-11 Thread Eric Deveaud
On 11 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 10:50, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > If you're using an Apple keymap, you have to use the Apple key instead > of alt/option. ctrl isn't needed in console but shouldn't hurt either. Thank's that&#

swiching console?

2002-01-11 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, since I've updated my config to use the keyboard_send_linux_keycodes. I've lost the ability to switch from one console to an other. 1) under console. pressing ctrl-command-fn-F# (fn cause it's a laptop) just spit some garbages characters. alt-(leftt|rigth) arrow allow me to switch

Re: MOL and kernel 2.4

2002-01-06 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Derrik Pates wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > > I can start mol as root (sudo startmol) but not as a lambda user. > > I bet if you started it once as root, then started it again as a normal > user, it'd work. sure, as startm

MOL and kernel 2.4

2002-01-04 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, today was a compil and setting day, but I'm stumped with a MOL problem. - rsynced BenH kernel tree (2.4.17-ben0) and freshly compiled uname -rv gives me 2.4.17-ben0 #2 Fri Jan 4 13:38:08 CET 2002 2) get and compiled from sources mol-0.9.60 added -DEXPORT_SYMTAB to kernel_

Xfree 4.1.0.1 and GetModeline

2001-12-12 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, while using Xfree on my pismo, everithing is OK but I notice the following on the /var/log/XFree86.0.log file GetModeLine - hdsp: 1024 hbeg: 1048 hend: 1184 httl: 1344 vdsp: 768 vbeg: 771 vend: 777 vttl: 806 flags: 10 GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 65000 repeated and rep

Re: 2.4.15-pre7-ben0, console and lost lines

2001-12-07 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Laurent de Segur wrote: > It's in this mailing list archive @ > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2001/debian- > powerpc-200109/msg00110.html Thank's humm, I must confess that either I have not searched enough the archive, either my search criterias were not good

2.4.15-pre7-ben0, console and lost lines

2001-12-07 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, I'm running 2.4.15-pre7-ben0 on my pismo, and while working pn the console the 5 first lines over the 48 availables are lost I mean, they stay on top of the screen, and never refreshed. did I miss something somewhere Thank's Eric -- «Je suis en train de p

Re: MacOS/MaxOSX/Debian install order

2001-11-22 Thread Eric Deveaud
On 22 Nov 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 11:06, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > > > could someone remaind me the "rigth way" > > > > did I have to install MacOSX first and debian after, or debian and after > > MacOSX > > IME MacOSX

MacOS/MaxOSX/Debian install order

2001-11-22 Thread Eric Deveaud
I'm on the way to give install a new machine. I want it to hold debian and (MacOS / MaxOSX). It seems to me that I recall some problems regarding the installation order caused by MacOSX. could someone remaind me the "rigth way" did I have to install MacOSX first and debian after, or debian and

Re: Of Mice and Modems

2001-10-09 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Thanks. I'll try those (Stty0 as opposed to ttyS0, which I did try) > > Stty0 is a typo. On the Lombard, the modem is at ttyS0. On Wallstreet it's > at ttyS1. Just try both. oops thank's for the correction, yes it's a typo. Eric -- à mai

Re: Of Mice and Modems

2001-10-09 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, mmissett wrote: > I finally have things up and running on the G4, but I'm stuck on a > couple of snags: pppconfig can't figure out where the modem is and > it's asking... me. /dev/Stty0 > success. Also, startx is failing, saying "cannot open mouse (no such > file or directo

Re: strange kernels behavior

2001-09-06 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Damien GUIHAL wrote: > OK thanks, now console is running correctly (even login, why now and > not before, that's the question), I almost get X keymap working, but, > as I'm a french user, i use a french keyboard, and I do not have > special characters : "pipe", "backslash", "ti

Re: Dual booting?

2001-08-07 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Patrick Klee wrote: > Hi, > I have an iMac DVSE with MacOS. But I want MacOS to coexist with > Debian PPC? I there a HOWTO on acheiving this on a single12 gig hard > drive? first of all see http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson> the mac-fdisk tutorial after that check the yabo

Re: benh kernel 2.4.6 + gpm

2001-07-09 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Eric Deveaud wrote: > let's see. > yoko:~ > grep CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE /usr/src/linux/.config > CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y > > ok, I clean rebuild. thank's it solve the problem. Eric -- ED : (Intel) ne fait que des circuits electroni

Re: benh kernel 2.4.6 + gpm

2001-07-09 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >with benh kernel, when I mouse select something, all caracters turns as > >strange hierogliphs. > >and paste gives the same hierogliphs. > > You probably have VGA console enabled. You should disable it and do a > clan rebuild of the kernel (bac

benh kernel 2.4.6 + gpm

2001-07-09 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, I just finished to rsync and compile benh kernel for my pismo(thank's ben for your work) and I notice a problem wille using gpm, with my usb external 3 buttons mouse as I spend a lot of time in console mode, I eavily use gpm. with 2.2.19 everything is OK with benh kernel, when I mous

Re: mozilla - 5 processes using 149Mb

2001-06-19 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 02:46:41PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 04:30:15PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > there should be a galeon package in non-US any time now that mozilla > > is packaged. having said that you don't NEED a deb

Re: Xfree86-4.0.3 - iMac revA

2001-06-03 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Eric Deveaud wrote: > > I'll grab the cvs tree to see how it works. > > Make sure to get xf-4_1-branch or xf-4_1_0, the trunk might be broken. thank's for the advice. I'll let you know it works. Eric -- L

Re: Xfree86-4.0.3 - iMac revA

2001-06-02 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Eric Deveaud wrote: > > > X starts correctly, BUT (yes there's a but) all the text is displayed in > > a `kind of mirror' mode, ie all letter are reversed. > > > It's a driver bug which will be fixed in 4.1.0 a

Xfree86-4.0.3 - iMac revA

2001-06-01 Thread Eric Deveaud
I've just installed woody on an old Imac (one of the first one) just to ask about something strange whith the following Device section in XF86Config-4 Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "ati" BusID "PCI:0:18:0" EndSection X starts correctly, BUT (yes

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