Re: mac53c94.o tainted code !?!? can someone give me some directions...

On jeu, 2004-01-15 at 16:19, Carlos Eduardo Coelho Baptista wrote: > today i did this , turned my zip 100 on , and loaded the mac53c94 into > kernel... but then the surprise: > > Jurema:/home/carlos# modprobe mac53c94 > Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.24/kernel/drivers/scsi/mac53c94.o will >

Re: PowerBook Partition the Harddisc

On jeu, 2004-01-08 at 13:04, Christian Banik wrote: > I want to Install Debian on my PowerBook. This is my harddisc: > > /dev/hda1 Apple driver > /dev/hda2 Apple driver > /dev/hda3 Apple driver > /dev/hda4 Apple driver > /dev/hda5 Apple driver > /dev/hda6 Apple driver > /dev/hda7 Apple driver > /

Re: Other Linux compatible Mini PCI 802.11g (Was: Re: 17 inch powerbook 1.33Ghz problems)

On mer, 2003-12-31 at 17:15, vinai wrote: > Okay - so we're SOL if we go with Apple's 802.11g solution as far as > Linux support goes, as Broadcom does not want their driver specs "out > in the wild" > > But what about other mini-PCI cards ? Googling for "mini PCI 802.11g" > gave the company "Net

Re: 17 inch powerbook 1.33Ghz problems

On mer, 2003-12-31 at 10:40, Colin Charles wrote: > If I get an iBook G4 with the Airport Extreme card, can I just replace > it with an Airport card and it'll work? Not at all. These are *physically* different. Look at : http://www.apple.com/airport/specs.html They definitely don't look

Re: 17 inch powerbook 1.33Ghz problems

On mar, 2003-12-23 at 10:51, Sven Luther wrote: > > * Airport Extreme: forget it ;-) > > Can one of the older non Extreme airport card be used in one of the > newer ibook/powerbooks ? AFAIK, Airport Extreme aren't like older Airport cards thus they are not physically compatible. But a standard P

Re: 12" PB less supported than 15", 17" ?

On jeu, 2003-12-11 at 01:45, David Pye wrote: > Admittedly sleep would be nice. I can't imagine using a laptop that can't go to sleep. That is one of the reason I love laptops: bring your computer everywhere and don't waste time bringing back you workspace. That is one of the reason I never switc

Re: Linux on new powerbooks

On mer, 2003-11-26 at 01:53, B. Bogart wrote: > Features that I would like: > airport extreme support Forget airport Extreme. These run with a Broadcom chipset, and Broadcom is not willing to disclose documentation to write drivers to support these. Badge Broadcom. And blame them. Hub

Re: 12" G4 iBook - AirPort Extreme support

On jeu, 2003-11-20 at 11:08, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > hmmhh but why did they write a GPLed bcm4401 driver then ? I mean where > is the difference for them in supporting one device but not the other ?! Probably because bcm4401 is targetted at servers and that servers are more likely to run Linu

Re: 12" G4 iBook

On jeu, 2003-11-20 at 10:04, Kristian Peters wrote: > Guillaume Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > -maltivec allows acces to the Altivec ABI. But gcc cannot perform > > auto-vectorization on its own (yet). So compiling -maltivec won't change > > anything if the code does not contain Altivec ins

Re: 12" G4 iBook - AirPort Extreme support

On mer, 2003-11-19 at 22:23, Thomas Otto wrote: > > - AirPort Extreme support > > IIRC this won't happen since Broadcom is refusing to release specs for > it :/ (which is why I'll stick to my 700Mhz G3 iBook). > > See > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200308/msg00789

Re: Netscape 4.7x for Debian/PPC?

On lun, 2003-11-10 at 14:17, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > I them wrote a short and polite e-mail requesting that they stop scripting > with > specific browsers in mind and instead rely upon W3C standards. I even pointed > out that since they are a Tech Jobs site, then they really ought to accomod

Re: radeon 9600 and XFree

On mer, 2003-11-05 at 11:18, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Is it a PlanB video problem, like say Brad Boyer ? > > No, as Michel Lanners said, PlanB is OldWorld hardware. It is the analog video capture chipset that was in Power Mac 7500/8500/9500 I think it is found in earlier hardware too. Hub --

Re: evolution and ical

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 13:19, Jean-Christophe Michel wrote: > Hello, > > What is the good solution to have some people exchange their calendars > when they use iCal or Evolution ? > Is there any free solution ? Just exchange the .ics files. For iCal they are in ~/Library/Calendars You can send th

Re: Second round of powerpc subarch investigation : boot-loaders.

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:13, Sven Luther wrote: > Ok thanks for this response, this clearly clarifies the situation for > oldpmac, altough i don't really think this will modify our strategy for > oldpmac : miboot or bootx for initial install, quik for running systems > and miboot for those not sup

Re: make-kpkg failure

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 13:55, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:53:13PM +0200, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 13:35, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > I'm replying to my self. > > > > > > > > I'm cro

Re: make-kpkg failure

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 13:35, Sven Luther wrote: > > I'm replying to my self. > > > > I'm crosscompiling, and the makefile can't guess the subarch. Anyway, > > the subarch I want is not supported, I had to patch > > /usr/share/kernel-package/rules > > Add the --subarch option to make-kpkg. Works

Re: make-kpkg failure

Hi, On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 14:24, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > I'm trying to cross-compile on Debian i386 a PowerPC kernel for a custom > hardware running Debian/ppc, using kpkg-make (because I want to install > it with dpkg). > > I do a: > $ fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-

make-kpkg failure

Hi, I'm trying to cross-compile on Debian i386 a PowerPC kernel for a custom hardware running Debian/ppc, using kpkg-make (because I want to install it with dpkg). I do a: $ fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=+fbx --revision=+1 --arch powerpc kernel_image But it fails with: if test -d

Re: Problems with Totem under Gnome/DebianPPC

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 15:33, Stefano Barale wrote: > Thank you very much Lucas. I had to run the script (that downloads some > libs from an external site) and now the (obviously encripted) DVD is played > "fine" under Totem. The only problem is that I can't get any gtk-based > application (include

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 13:38, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Last time I tried miboot.image build myself it did not boot. I'll try > > this one later this week to let you know. I just wanted to add that this was with benH tree grabbed from BK. > > > > My biggest problem is AHA2930B (SCSI controller)

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 13:31, Sven Luther wrote: > 2) I am not sure about the miboot kernel image, there is a > miboot.image in arch/ppc/boot/images, but i am being told that just > gziping the standard vmlinux would do also. Last time I tried miboot.image build myself it did not boot. I'll

Re: Congrat to Daniel Jacobowitz

According to Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 06:16:53PM -0800, j a m b i wrote: > > congrates dan. > > i was wondering if you made any changes to the crack.linuxppc.org page as > > I can't see any obvious changes to the HTML to indicate that you broke in. > > They'

Re: Phase 5 Statement on Linux for PowerPC

According to Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Another possibility I thought of is semi-emulating the ThinkPad 860. > > There's 4.3G SCSI *laptop* HDDs now, apparently. And we all know SCSI > > beats IDE any day. Sooo.. well.. you know where I'm going. (The ThinkPad > > 860 (603/166) has

Re: [ANN] BootX 1.1.2 released

According to Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The new BootX is finally here, it's at > . [...] > Note to distribution makers (especially Debian): The archive is still > compressed with Stuffit (proprietary), I'm looking for a simple an

Re: XForms ?

According to Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I think that linuxppc R5 had rpms for xforms at some point > > but i might be wrong. I couldn't find one. > Not sure about this, but i got some linux/ppc glibc 2.1 xforms binaries from > the official xform site, don't remember where, wanted to c

Re: Official XFree ?

According to Hartmut Koptein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > When will the offcial XFree package for PowerPC will be added to > > the main dist archive ? > > If all goes cleanly then in some days; this xfree version is untested and Those unofficial xfree works great (unaccelerated because I'm on a lapto

Official XFree ?

When will the offcial XFree package for PowerPC will be added to the main dist archive ? Hub -- Churn: A section of computer that is forever being rewritten or changed.

unzip

I can't find the unzip package in dselect... where is it ? I had to compile it :-) (easy, but I had to). Hub -- Churn: A section of computer that is forever being rewritten or changed.

XForms ?

Where can I find XForms for Linux Debian/PPC (ie compatible with glibc2.1) I couldn't find it, and source code is NOT available. I'm missing LyX very much. Thanks Hub -- Churn: A section of computer that is forever being rewritten or changed.

Re: IMPORTANT : latest bash intall fails and bash is no more usable!!!

According to Konstantinos Margaritis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >I still don't understand while binaries in /bin are NOT > >statically linked as the should be. Have a look at what BSD does. > >/bin an /sbin contains statically linked binaries :-) > > I have at least 10 shells open. Unless I am greatl

Re: IMPORTANT : latest bash intall fails and bash is no more usable!!!

According to Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > dbkg -i didn't work since it tried to spawn some bash's... Only the > already opened consoles worked. > > I finally managed to sort this out by manually ftp'ing bash 2.0.2.xxx, > unpacking it with dpkg-deb, and replacing the faulting bash

Re: IMPORTANT : latest bash intall fails and bash is no more usable!!!

According to VALETTE Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I updated two debianppc system this morning and the last bash > version is bugged!!! (install failed...) > > As a result, you cannot do su anymore which is a pain to update > the system again. People not having other shell installed may be >

Re: new glibc, egcs, etc.

According to Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The new glibc (2.1.1-0pre1.3) and egcs (2.91.63-2.2) have been uploaded > and installed. Go ahead and test them; let's find out what breaks. Don't know if it is related, but leafnode currently fails on a getpwnam(). I use leafnode 1.9.2-1 pack

pilot-link package

pilot-link package seems to no be available while pilot-manager and other pilot related are (and depend on pilot-link). Can we find somewhere PowerPC .deb package for pilot-link or shall I compile it myself (I don't mind doing this) ? Hub -- World Wide Wait: the real meaning for WWW.

Re: debian for powerpc

According to Mikael Aaltonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi! > > I?ve seen some mails in this list about people telling others about > difficulties > in Debian PPC version. My question is that which way have you installed that > to > ppc mac if there is no available any installer (at least I h

Re: option and command

According to Hartmut Koptein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Under XF68_FBDev, on a PowerBook 3400c command and option are > > mapped the same which cause trouble because they don't have the > > same meaning, and they prevent having the second and third button. > > Please try this in /etc/X11/XF86config

option and command

Under XF68_FBDev, on a PowerBook 3400c command and option are mapped the same which cause trouble because they don't have the same meaning, and they prevent having the second and third button. Anyway to fix that ? Thanks. Hub -- Square-headed girlfriend: Another word for computer. The victim of

backspace key under X

I appears that the Backspace Key under XFB_Dev is considered as a forward delete instead of a backspace (^H). Any idea on how to fix this ? Hub -- Square-headed girlfriend: Another word for computer. The victim of a square-headed girlfriend is a "computer widow".

Re: booting ...

According to Hartmut Koptein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > one question to the pmac guys: > > Will floppies from mac (68k) with auto-boot also work on pmac? > > Possible not, because it is m68k-code and not pmac code!? It wont. The 68k emulator is in *MacOS* PowerPC is a real RISC chips. Not some blo

Re: PCMCIA

According to Anu bis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am going through the same situation with my PowerBook. At the moment, > I am running LinuxPPC 4.1. I just installed the pcmcia-3.0.8.src.rpm > from ftp.linuxppc.org (don't remember the exact dirctory it was in :( ). > I unpacked it using rpm -U

PCMCIA

Where can I find the PCMCIA Package for Debian PPC ? I'm currently stuck without modem on my PowerBook :-( Hub

Re: Single-button mouse

According to Hartmut Koptein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >BTW, my backspace key generates a ~ :-( > > > > Yup. Looks like the keymap is FUBAR. Actually I do have several keyboard > > related problems with the new 2.2.1 kernel and the current potato. For > > example > > my keymap that maps the specia

Re: Single-button mouse

According to Georg Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > > >Left and right while clokcing emulates button 2 and 3. > >-2 and -3 also wroks (for those without right > > like me). > > Hmm. Doesn't work

Re: Single-button mouse

According to Blackie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I would like to ask if there is any method to emulate 3 buttons > on a single button Mac adbmouse (gpm, XFBDev). Left and right while clokcing emulates button 2 and 3. -2 and -3 also wroks (for those without right like me). Hub -- .sig on strik

/dev/hda* bugs in base.tgz

I downloaded the latest base2_1.tgz. I found that there is no /dev/hda* after /dev/hda8... This caused me trouble because my root partition for Debian is /dev/hda10 (I also have hda11 and hda12). Shall I report this in the Debian bug tracking or not (what is the exact name of the package ?). Hub

xbase-clients

Package xbase-clients is NOT available, but required for the xserver-fb, xfonts-* and other X11 paraphanelia... Can anybody tell me were to find it ? Hub -- .sig on strike. Sorry for the inconveniance.

Re: First Install help

According to MURATA Nobuhiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I also try to install Debian/powerpc. > > LinuxPPC R4 is in /dev/sdb5 and I install Debian to /dev/sdd5. > > What I do in LinuxPPC R4 is as below; Thanks. I was about to do something like this based on my Intel workstation setup. I followed y

First Install help

I can't find an installation doc for Debian PowerPC... I have a question: how do I setup base system ? I have a Linux PPC R4 (Redhat based) installed. I have created a 150 MB partition to expand the 'base2_1.tgz file I grabbed from the debian archive. When I reboot using this partition as root par