Re: optimizing my debian

2003-02-16 Thread J Q Private
I have run 64MB systems before. 1. Do not use any gnome or kde stuff. sorry, too big! 2. use fluxbox, blacbox, ratpoision for window manager 3. your ps -ef shows many more processes than mine, but I do not recognize some of them. This is what mine shows before I start X I also see the last ti

DVD-R writing does work

2003-02-16 Thread J Q Private
I just feel bad I only had 1.x Gig of stuff to put on the darn thing. I only bring it up because I had not heard of other people doing it, it was likely to work, in any case. I just made an archive disk, not anything bootable or playable by a DVD player. ___

Re: AW: Building kernel

2003-02-16 Thread J Q Private
Actually, devfs is neat, and I do not know why you need to do without it. That is not saying you can do it, I just do not know. A clean /dev directory can be so nice! Although you _must_ have devfsd installed before it will work, otherwise you will not be able to mount your root partition on rebo

Kernel announcements.

2003-02-16 Thread J Q Private
Ben, this is a question for you, but maybe someone else can answer, too. Once I got your kernel working to my satisfaction I just stopped playing with it. Do you post to the list when you think a good improvement to your kernel has been made? Is there an online changelog? Thank you quite mu

Re: What is pbuttonsd ?

2003-02-16 Thread J Q Private
I am having trouble with this. I do _not_ have pbbuttonsd running. But my F1 through F7 buttons do not work as I would want/expect (as F1-F7) Why would I need to change brightness? I do not know. Volume? I use aumix. Num Lock? I have no keypad. Pardon my ignorance, but I thought I needed pbbutt

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread J Q Private
--- Jeroen Diederen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > MacOS should be in the 1st 8 or 9 GB... > Huh? My MacOS isn't until the 40th Gigabyte. The apple driver partitions and Apple_bootstrap are right at the beginning of the drive, though. _

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-09 Thread J Q Private
> I've read Chris's excellent HOWTO on Booting with > Yaboot on PowerPC and > the penguinppc.org mac-fdisk doc. Have created and > reordered the > Apple-Bootstrap partition to /dev/hda2. I can OF > boot Linux and can > get into OSX by holding down Option key during > start-up. But I am > h

M-O-L in the TiBook

2003-02-02 Thread J Q Private
Christophe, Although I followed the instructions on your page for installing mac-on-linux (mol-modules), it fails to work because it expects a number of files under /etc/mol that I have no idea how to configure. Can you provide a link to your /etc/mol/* files? It's really no big de

Re: BTTV and IxTV

2003-01-28 Thread J Q Private
Nick, I am interested in the same exact thing. I e-mailed Vassili, um, Leo-something and he said any powerpc video capture things would definitely be USB based, even if he didn't help any more than that. If you learn anything more off-list, please CC: me! I think I'm going to end up

g4 and switching consoles

2003-01-22 Thread J Q Private
Minor note: I read, early on, that I'd have to type the alt/option key first, then Fn, then F[1-7] to get the different consoles, and that worked. Hitting Fn before alt/option does not. But once X starts, it does not work anymore. I found that hitting alt/option + ctrl + fn and then F[1-7] does w

Re: Problems with 3com812

2003-01-17 Thread J Q Private
You were correct to send your kernel config, because it has a problem. You need CONFIG_FILTER=y --- José_Salavert_Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone experienced problems with 3com812 ADSL > router and the benh > kernel 2.4.20-ben1? > > After starting I have message saying "Network

communication partition

2003-01-16 Thread J Q Private
I was under the impression that Mac OS X has trouble writing to ext2/3 and that Debian has trouble writing to hfs+ At least, that's what I understood when I partitioned my drive. So I have a 2GB partition sitting between my 2 OS, which is still hfs+ Should I convert it to vfat? Something else?

Re: Debian using GCC-3, causing problems.

2003-01-11 Thread J Q Private
Someone I've never met wrote: > > The kernel was compiled using 3.0 or 3.2, can't > remember. The > > drm-trunk-module was compiled with the same > compiler as the kernel (as I > > compiled them both after one another). I'd lay good money there will never be a stable release of debian based on 3

Re: G4 1000 /proc/sys/cpu help

2003-01-05 Thread J Q Private
Yes, unbelievable work. I guess I might just get bitkeeper. --- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 18:24, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du samedi 04 > janvier 2003, vers 18:17, > > J Q Private &l

Re: G4 1000 /proc/sys/cpu help

2003-01-04 Thread J Q Private
--- Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du samedi 04 janvier > 2003, vers 18:17, > J Q Private <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > > Well, I'm very excited, great news. > > By "latest" do you mean the rsync fro

Re: G4 1000 /proc/sys/cpu help

2003-01-04 Thread J Q Private
--- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 09:32, J Q Private wrote: > > http://www.brodo.de/cpufreq/kernel.html > > /proc/cpufreq is for 2.5 kernels. > > > > Looking further down that page, I see that my arch > >

Re: G4 1000 /proc/sys/cpu help

2003-01-04 Thread J Q Private
http://www.brodo.de/cpufreq/kernel.html /proc/cpufreq is for 2.5 kernels. Looking further down that page, I see that my arch isn't supported. --- Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du samedi 04 janvier > 2003, vers 01:28, J Q > Priva

G4 1000 /proc/sys/cpu help

2003-01-03 Thread J Q Private
Hi Ben, Michael, Michael, etc... I had a working kernel, X is beautiful, the mousepad is great, I hear beeps, dual boots great. 4Gig /usr is already 43% full with just debian packages. But it's effectively running as a 667 (/proc/cpuinfo) In the Platform Support section I added /proc/sys/cpu

Re: PowerPC boot disks

2003-01-02 Thread J Q Private
Michael, Pardon my ignorance about a "complete set of boot disks" I burned a powerpc stable CD for woody binary 1 You aren't talking about just burning the other 6 CDs, are you? The first one worked well enough, it shouldn't be any trouble to burn the others. Thx, Josh --- Michael

G4 mouse button problem

2003-01-01 Thread J Q Private
Hi folks. I've got a TiBook 667 and it's working well, but the mouse is being slightly problematic in two ways. 1. It's way too fast, but there is probably a non debian-ppc specific way to deal with that. 2. The mouse button "clicks" even when I don't touch it sometimes. Twice, for instance, dur

Re: Thanks Christophe!

2003-01-01 Thread J Q Private
Sorry, it was late. Thanks to Ben, and all the other powerpc people who made this possible, too! --- J Q Private <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your TiBook page worked perfectly for my TiBook 667! > > Too bad I had tried Branden's page, MiJ's page, and > someo

Thanks Christophe!

2002-12-31 Thread J Q Private
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. One thing though, the ~daenzer archive moved. The new source is deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer ./ __ Do you Ya

Re: OT : How best to prolong iBook battery longevity (not Debian specific)

2002-12-31 Thread J Q Private
Historically, "NiCad" and other rechargeable batteries had to be "deep cycled" (completely drained before recharging) in order to avoid "loss" in total battery charge. Generally, if you discharged to 10% before recharging, when you got back down to 10%, the battery pretty much thought it was empty

Re: Can't boot with new kernel

2002-12-31 Thread J Q Private
Oliver, perhaps I'm missing something, but I thought you were supposed to "make clean" _before_ you "make menuconfig" I _think_ you are configuring your kernel, erasing the configuration information, and then compiling. Sorry if someone has already suggested this, this mail program