Debian Sarge Installation on Powermac 8600

2004-08-31 Thread Matthew Reath
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been trying to get Debian installed on a Powermac 8600 with the following specs: Powermac 8600 256MB RAM G4 400 Upgrade Card ATI Radeon 7000 PCI 2GB + 1GB SCSI drives /chaos/control model I've been fighting with it for months. I can get the k

Powermac 8600 Radeon 7000 Woody Video Problems

2004-07-09 Thread Matthew Reath
I am running Debian Woody with a 2.4.25 benh kernel on my Powermac 8600 (/chaos/control) with a Radeon 7000 pci card and can only get my install to boot using bootx with no video driver (ofonly) whenever I choose video=radeon or radeonfb not sure which to use I get the bootx text dump but it just

Re: Sonnet Tempo Serial ATA Card with Debian

2004-06-26 Thread Matthew Reath
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do you happen to have a step-by-step setup guide for doing a Sarge install on the PowerMac 8600. I would like to do that but not sure where to start. Did you just get a Sarge disc set and make boot floppies? Do you use BootX to boot? I also have

Re: Sonnet Tempo Serial ATA Card with Debian

2004-06-26 Thread Matthew Reath
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Sonnet Tempo Serial ATA Card with Debian

2004-06-26 Thread Matthew Reath
Has anybody used the Sonnet Tempo Serial ATA Card with Debian. I'm converting my already grossly over upgraded Powermac 8600 to serial ata and was wondering what sort of support was available in debian? Matt

Re: Powermac 8600 Bootx and 2.4

2004-06-25 Thread Matthew Reath
de in the X config file to 832x624 for all depths. If anybody can give me some direction I'd really appreciate it. Thanks, Matt On Jun 24, 2004, at 6:37 PM, Matthew Reath wrote: All, I recently have setup Debian Woody r2 on a Powermac 8600. I'm using BootX for my bootloader. The d

Powermac 8600 Bootx and 2.4

2004-06-24 Thread Matthew Reath
All, I recently have setup Debian Woody r2 on a Powermac 8600. I'm using BootX for my bootloader. The default install installed a 2.2 kernel. I want to upgrade to a 2.4 kernel. I installed the 2.4.18-powerpc kernel package and copied the kernel to Mac OS for bootx. Whenever I select it and tr

Re: Hauppage Nexus DVB-S PCI card in PowerMac 8600

2004-06-06 Thread Matthew Reath
:09 schrieb Matthew Reath: I was just wondering if it is possible to use a Hauppage DVB-S card with Debian Linux on a powermac. I know you can't use a standard PC PCI video card but is it possible to use standard PCI sound cards or tv tuner cards? I would like to use a Hauppage DVB-S PCI ca

Re: Ctrl Click with single button mouse

2004-06-03 Thread Matthew Reath
Thanks, I'll try it out. I appreciate the help. Matt -Original Message- From: Colin LEROY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Jun 3, 2004 1:46 AM To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, Matthew Reath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Ctrl Click with single button mouse Hi, > Has

Ctrl Click with single button mouse

2004-06-02 Thread Matthew Reath
Has anybody sucessfully setup a Ctrl-Click configuration in X? I have an old 8600 with a G4 upgrade card and also have a new Al Powerbook with the one button trackpad. I was just curious if anybody was able to setup Ctrl-Click to emulate the second mouse button? I was thinking you could do it b

Hauppage Nexus DVB-S PCI card in PowerMac 8600

2004-06-01 Thread Matthew Reath
I was just wondering if it is possible to use a Hauppage DVB-S card with Debian Linux on a powermac. I know you can't use a standard PC PCI video card but is it possible to use standard PCI sound cards or tv tuner cards? I would like to use a Hauppage DVB-S PCI card in my Powermac 8600 using De