debian G4 insatallation problem

2007-07-11 Thread Fred
I have a big problem with the installation of DEBIAN ETCH in my Powermac G4 dual processor. The problem is that: the screen (apple studio with digital cable and graphic card AGP ATI RV250) at the first restart come black but I hear the sound of login. I try to push ctrl+alt-f7 but nothing h

Government funding available

2007-02-02 Thread Fred
Press Release debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org The American Grants and Loans Book is now available. This publication contains valuable information with more than 1500 financial programs, subsidies, scholarships, grants and loans offered by the United States federal government. It also includ

Re: Recompiling Kernel on G4 PowerMac Gigabit dual 450Mhz

2003-09-11 Thread Fred Heitkamp
re there any docs that give an idiots guide to config selection for > this machine? Don't know about this. I used the "trial-and-error" method. > Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows. begin 644 config.uue M'XL("-K*&S\``V1O="UC;VYF:63,

debian scripts for Xfree86

2003-08-25 Thread Fred Heitkamp
Is there an archive of the debian rules scripts and so forth for XFree86? Fred

Re: kernel oops aic7xxx driver (warning attachments!)

2003-07-29 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On 27 Jul 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 08:39, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > I think you are hitting a bug in the driver I'm currently > trying to track down. Can you verify that putting the aic7xxx > driver from 2.4.20 into 2.4.21-ben2 makes it work

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll: Distro for audio and MIDI development

2003-07-29 Thread Fred Heitkamp
ave a Turbo Linux distro on my Laptop once. My biggest gripe with Debian is that the stable distribution is too old and the testing/unstable distribution is just.. well.. too unstable. Actually unstable isn't all that unstable for me. The biggest problem is lack of modern kernels for the newer hardware. I always have to roll my own and all my computers (except my new laptop) are at least two years old. Fred

Re: kernel SCSI woes

2003-07-27 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Are these module load warnings? Bus error or warnings happen with the same > identical modules? The bus error happens with the benh kernel. The module load warnings happened with the linuxppc_2_4 2.4.22-pre6 kernel. Fred Error Loading Explor

Re: kernel oops aic7xxx driver (warning attachments!)

2003-07-26 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On 24 Jul 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 09:53, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > On 23 Jul 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > It seem you have something not matching between the running kernel, > the modules installed and /boot/System.map. Make su

Re: kernel oops aic7xxx driver (warning attachments!)

2003-07-24 Thread Fred Heitkamp
lt;.data.end+3b21/> Trace; c001cc70 Trace; c0005f1c Trace; 30049008 Before first symbol Trace; 10003b0c Before first symbol Trace; 10004c1c Before first symbol Trace; 10008fc8 Before first symbol Trace; 100091e0 Before first symbol Trace; 0fec3d04 Before first symbol Trace; Before first symbol 22 warnings issued. Results may not be reliable. > > Ben. > Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows.

Re: kernel oops aic7xxx driver (warning attachments!)

2003-07-22 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On 21 Jul 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 14:43, F. Heitkamp wrote: > > I hope know one beats me up too bad for posting this. > > This is a oops I got when trying the aic7xxx driver. > > > > Fred > > Send me machine model, kernel ve

Re: kernel SCSI woes

2003-07-22 Thread Fred Heitkamp
C and untar'd them on the Mac. Both compilers are gcc 3.3.x vintage but the binutils may be quite different versions. I think the cross binutils on the PC is a bit older than the binutils on the Debian PPC setup. Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows.

kernel SCSI woes

2003-07-21 Thread Fred Heitkamp
her a bus error or: aic7xxx.o: unresolved symbol del_timer_sync aic7xxx.o: unresolved symbol kernel_flag Does any of the kernel people read this list? Who, or what list, do I report this too? Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows.

Testing

2003-07-18 Thread Fred Heitkamp
Since my testing upgrade blew up on me a couple days ago I have been wondering if a fresh install of it will run OK. Can anybody fill me in, or point me to a message that explains what happened to Testing. Unless it was just me. In that case forget it. :) Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You

Re: Woody modules

2003-07-17 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:14:38PM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:08:23AM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > > > > > The root.bin i

Re: Woody modules

2003-07-16 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:08:23AM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > > > Hmmm... You could burn a CD with your kernel substituted for the > linux.bin file in the install/new-powermac folder; I think that's what > you were sugges

Woody modules

2003-07-16 Thread Fred Heitkamp
new Woody disk with my own kernel? Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows.

Re: Need recommendation for SCSI card

2003-07-09 Thread Fred Heitkamp
G4 Mac. Maybe in the zip drive slot or take out the CDRW drive and put it there. Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows.

Re: brother hl-1440 on usb with CUPS

2003-07-03 Thread Fred Heitkamp
any print filters. After that I can't help you since I use LPRng instead of CUPS. But if you got that far, you know it's not a device problem but a CUPS installation/configuration problem. Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows.

Re: Apple PowerMac G5

2003-07-02 Thread Fred Heitkamp
r > > happened. The situation has changed today though. I think IBM and Apple were working on a next generation OS. Wasn't it called Pink or something. I'm seriously considering getting a G5 when they're widely available and the bugs seem to be worked out. Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows.

libxslt problem

2003-06-22 Thread Fred Heitkamp
status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: gnome-system-monitor gnome-terminal E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) pmac:/home/heitkamp# Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows.

Re: recent kernel on SMP machine.

2003-05-21 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On 21 May 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 03:39, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > Did you use my devel rsync/bk or the official Marcelo one ? I use this one: source.mvista.com::linuxppc_2_4 > > Can you copy me the messages ? > I will try. I will be out

recent kernel on SMP machine.

2003-05-20 Thread Fred Heitkamp
e" G4 Macintosh. Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows.

kernels and macintosh keyboards

2003-04-27 Thread Fred Heitkamp
It's seems like every once in awhile after I install a new kernel my keymap gets messed up when using X. The keys no longer match there labels. What is the typical setting in XF86Config-4 for a macintosh USB keyboard on a powermac G4? Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows.

Re: updating yaboot

2003-04-13 Thread Fred Heitkamp
all. Can anyone point me to some infomation on what Jaguar has done to my system? It won't boot a Debian CDROM (or even an OS 9 CDROM) when I hold down the "C" key during boot. Fred

Re: using my X display

2003-04-13 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On 13 Apr 2003, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > On Son, 2003-04-13 at 02:01, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > I have changed the default xserverrc by deleting > > the nolisten but I still get "can't open display" > > when trying to open windows on Debian from a >

using my X display

2003-04-12 Thread Fred Heitkamp
I have changed the default xserverrc by deleting the nolisten but I still get "can't open display" when trying to open windows on Debian from a remote computer. Is there something else blocking Debian from accepting X from another computer? Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You

Re: comparing x86 and powerpc laptops

2003-04-09 Thread Fred Heitkamp
on (already ordered). I'll see if Debian works on it. :) Fred > My personal opinion is that Apple laptops are great hardware, but the > linux community using them is so much smaller that it was hard to get > some of the things common on x86. It's much improved in the past year

installing xfree86 4.3.0

2003-03-05 Thread Fred Heitkamp
when I attempt to install xlibs. Fred

Re: DMASOUND, scsi

2003-02-27 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Paul Talacko wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 07:59:38AM -0500, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > In regards, alsa, you haven't said exactly what you've tried. Have you > installed > the alsa-0.9 source and compiled it using 'make-kpkg modules'?

Re: DMASOUND, scsi

2003-02-27 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Paul Talacko wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 07:59:38AM -0500, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > > > So far I have been unable to get satisfactory sound using either > > OSS or Alsa. The OSS driver plays sound through the built in > > speaker and I don&#x

Re: DMASOUND, scsi

2003-02-26 Thread Fred Heitkamp
al 500 MHz snakebite. I use a combination of Debian unstable and some programs compiled from scratch. I have been using recent CVS kernels from Ben's trees. Good news is I finally got X working again. Has anyone gotten satisfactory sound on similar hardware? Fred > Paul Talacko wrote: > &

G4 with GForce 2MX

2003-02-17 Thread Fred Heitkamp
about this idea? Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows. (II) NV(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) NV(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) NV(0): Not using default mode

nvidia driver

2003-01-28 Thread Fred Heitkamp
Radeon card in there PPC machine? I'm considering getting one because It seems the open source drivers are better. Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows.

Re: movie editing programs & options

2003-01-12 Thread Fred Heitkamp
this software it looks pretty good AFAICT http://heroinewarrior.com/index.php3 Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows.

alsa snd module

2003-01-11 Thread Fred Heitkamp
Jan 2 07:32:33 EST 2003 ppc unknown Fred

Re: DRI not working with ATI Radeon M7

2002-12-30 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Vincent Bernat wrote: I'm forwarding this to all. I hope I don't piss anyone off. It's a small file anyway. Hope you can read it. > OoO Vers la fin de l'après-midi du lundi 30 décembre 2002, vers 16:40, > Fred Heitkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> d

Re: DRI not working with ATI Radeon M7

2002-12-30 Thread Fred Heitkamp
't know if I'm helping here. I had the same problem with the kernel module not being compatible with xfree86. I downloaded the CVS sources from gatos.sf.net and compiled and installed the drm-kernel and now my Radeon 8500 is working great, over 1100 fps from glxgears. My xfree CVS build is just a couple days old. Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows.

Re: NO sound on powermac G4

2002-10-25 Thread Fred Heitkamp
ut Linux. You really have to hose things real bad to reinstall. If you have a rescue disk or partition you can fix almost everything that goes wrong. Of course this is more for the advanced user. Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows.

Re: xfs install on powermac?

2002-10-15 Thread Fred Heitkamp
ushd sucks with any journalling FS. > Do you remember where you read about XFS working? I used JFS on one large partition on my PC running Linux. It works great though it is slow when deleting files or, more precisely directories containing lots of files. Has anyone tried JFS on PPC? Fred

Re: preparing for an install

2002-10-15 Thread Fred Heitkamp
I couldn't comment on that. Fred

Re: bi-G4 1.25Ghz

2002-10-15 Thread Fred Heitkamp
there is only two to three choices of SCSI cards, Adaptec and ATTO. It's not like on a PC where there are dozens. Plus you don't have the kernel size limits AFAIK. Why not even put another SCSI mac kernel image on the disk? Also someone said you could download modules for the SCSI driver from the net when using the net install CD. How do you do this? Fred

Re: OT: Re: Mozilla plugins

2002-10-12 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > To be fair there is nothing like plugger for OS/2. > > apt-cache show plugger Sorry I did not word that too clearly. What I meant was there should be an application like plugger on Linux ported to OS/2. > > -Brett > Fred

OT: Re: Mozilla plugins

2002-10-11 Thread Fred Heitkamp
ve a powerpc plugin that works > OS/2 (talk about a dead platform...) Not that it means anything here exactly: I always wondered why there was a Flash player for OS/2 too. Maybe IBM payed for it? It's made by a German company I think. Is OS/2 used more in Germany? To be fair there is nothing like plugger for OS/2. Fred

USB support on oldworld G3 only with BootX extension

2002-10-05 Thread Fred Klein
ll or * system freeze after some key hits while installing base system SOLUTION Boot to Linux via the BootX extension and *not* via the BootX app. Ben: any idea why? Did I miss something in some documentation? Cheers Fred

Re: OranegMicro USB/FW PCI card on beige G3

2002-10-04 Thread Fred Klein
r what, nothing happens; when I hit a key, the system does not respond. I cannot tell if the system froze or if it just stopped supporting my keyboard. What could that be? TIA Cheers, Fred

OranegMicro USB/FW PCI card on beige G3

2002-09-28 Thread Fred Klein
. Any idea? Is there a chance that getting some working ADB keyboard I could install Debian and recompile a working kernel? (I have NO clue about how to do that) Thanks in advance. Cheers Fred

Non native USB Mac

2002-09-27 Thread Fred Klein
r of my ADB kb is dead? Thanks a lot in advance for your valuable help. Cheers Fred

Re: make *config & benh 2.4.20

2002-09-25 Thread Fred Heitkamp
configuration scripts. The Linux kernel configuration can be very complicated. As as last resort you can edit the .config by hand and run make oldconfig. Basically you'll have some feature: # CONFIG_BLAH is not set # Just change it to: CONFIG_BLAH=y # or CONFIG_BLAH=m Fred

setup BootX for Beige G3

2002-09-25 Thread Fred Klein
a lot in advance. Cheers Fred

apt

2002-09-17 Thread Fred Heitkamp
Can apt be used to query just the updated packages for a system so one could choose just to upgrade certain ones? Fred

Re: Debian 3.0 bootable through cds?

2002-09-10 Thread Fred Heitkamp
em dialup, it could be a bit of a pain. Fred

Re: Programs...

2002-09-09 Thread Fred Heitkamp
se exist in Debian3.0? You can try apt-get. Fred

Re: trying to boot with yaboot

2002-09-08 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 04:26:11PM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > > > > > > > boot /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATTO,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@6:7,yaboot > > Another option is to edit the yaboot.conf next to the yaboot you can

trying to boot with yaboot

2002-09-07 Thread Fred Heitkamp
( 2.0G) 3: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 export 12582912 @ 4194368 ( 6.0G) 4: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap1059388 @ 16777280 (517.3M) Fred

Re: booting a kernel through open firmware.

2002-09-07 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 09:58:20AM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > > > The instructions for using yaboot are in the manual (link in my .sig). > Thanks! > OpenFirmware is not a boot loader; yaboot was designed to bridge the >

booting a kernel through open firmware.

2002-09-07 Thread Fred Heitkamp
root partition is wrong but I know the SCSI device is ID: 1. Any suggestions would be appreciated (At least the well meaning kind.) Fred

woody install sees no disks

2002-09-07 Thread Fred Heitkamp
rnels that boot on my Mac. Is there a way for me to edit the ISO and put my kernel inside or make a bootable CD myself somehow. Fred

Re: using apt to install system to another partition

2002-09-03 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 03:49:41PM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > > > I want to make a backup debian installation on another disk or partition. > > Steps were recently added in the install manual which would work for this >

using apt to install system to another partition

2002-09-01 Thread Fred Heitkamp
= might work. Using apt would probably be more convienient though I didn't see a "--root" option in the man page. Fred

Re: xfree86 with nvidia card, ppc woody

2002-06-12 Thread Fred Heitkamp
on this list. I have sucessfully built xfree on PPC with the nvidia driver. It works but is not quite stable for me. I have a Snakebite 533 dualie. Fred -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie/Novice Question

2002-05-29 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 29 May, this message from Fred Heitkamp echoed through cyberspace: > > Hmm no, the drivers play not role here... Ah wait,. you mean a drive > partitioned with DOS partitions, not Apple partitions? That would indeed Yep. > prob

Re: Newbie/Novice Question

2002-05-29 Thread Fred Heitkamp
can use a native Linux formated drive with Linux on it and since the Apple OS can't see it, it is completely left alone. I.e. No "Initialize" dialog pops up. Of course installing the Apple drivers would get rid of these messages and not take that much disk space... Fred > On Tue

Re: Help! Major KDE Problems

2002-04-09 Thread Fred Laxton
They must point to a KDE menu item, so if it moves, the icon is broken. HTH Fred On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 09:30 AM, Russell Hires wrote: This is what's going on with me...konqueror does not work. Neither does kmail. I click on their icons, they look like they're going to start

airport on pismo / 2.2.18pre21

2001-01-15 Thread Neil &#x27;'Fred'' Picciotto
on 2.2.17pre13-ben1 while this kernel is version 2.2.18pre21 /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/airport.o: unresolved symbol loops_per_sec - Any suggestions would be appreciated... Thanks. ...derF\lieN Neil "Fred" Picciotto -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] updated : 2000 sep 22

Re: what about cdrecord ?

1999-10-12 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On 12 Oct 1999, Jesper Skov wrote: > >>>>> "Fred" == Fred Heitkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Fred> On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Jared wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Reliable CD recording is > >> something of a black ar

Re: what about cdrecord ?

1999-10-12 Thread Fred Heitkamp
. If I stay away from using SCSI at all, the systems stays up for as long as I've left it on. I can copy over my "network", compile programs etc. all day long. Fred