Re: Looking to buy old 68k Mac in Nova Scotia

Someone suggested I look on eBay. Searching for "macintosh classic" or "macintosh se" turns up several with prices ranging from $20 to $40. For $100 you can get one with lots of extras like an imagewriter printer and a bunch of installed software. However, shipping from the US to Canada will d

Looking to buy old 68k Mac in Nova Scotia

I have this crazy idea of porting uCLinux to the 68000-based Macs. Regular Linux won't run on such old hardware because they don't have memory management hardware, but uCLinux is among other things a patch that removes the need for an MMU from the linux kernel. (It also removes memory protectio

Re: setup needed for PowerPC assembler programming

how it works. I have read the info manual on it. It still leaves me clueless. Besides using GAS, you can also use inline assembler in C or C++ code with gcc. That's probably the best way to get started, rather than writing entire assembly source files from scratch. Regards, Michael

Re: Linux vs Mac OS 10.3(Panther)

OS X works pretty well when used for purely Unix applications, for example running servers like Apache, but when you do anything with the GUI, it runs very slow compared to Linux. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL

Re: instalation on a tricky 7500/100 with metabox G4

0 that I'm very attached to, that worked quite poorly when I got OS X installed on it, but that works great with Linux. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better To

Re: Low battery -> power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

erbook and my iBook don't have one. Best, Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.goingware.com/ Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads http://www.goingware.com/tips/legal-downloads.html

Can't set XMMS audio volume on 8500

recorded in audio files when I capture sound, but I'm not able to detect such noise when I either play or capture sound on my Mac. Thanks for your help, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Recommend an ethernet card?

x27;m in Nova Scotia now, and have found an authorized Apple VAR, but he doesn't keep stuff like ethernet cards in stock. Thanks for your help, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

running short on DMA buffers during badblocks

nk with the powerpc patch. Possibly it's got the benh patch, I don't know because I don't have my kernel sources online right now. /dev/sda11 is 16.7 GB in size. I will probably upgrade my kernel once I'm done with the installation of my new drive. Thanks for any advice

Re: Apple PowerMac G5

hey give you to test ;-> Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

Re: Firewire card supported by Linux?

Windows doesn't come with PCILynx drivers. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

Mozilla 1.2.1 for Woody PowerPC?

on windows and it works much better. If I could get 1.2.1 to run on woody, I'd probably be happy. Building Mozilla from source is a big job. I don't want to do it unless I absolutely have to. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulti

Re: in search of Programming tutorial

with ZooLib: http://zoolib.sourceforge.net/ I have the beginnings of a tutorial about it at: The ZooLib Cookbook http://www.goingware.com/zoolib/cookbook/ Regards, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROT

Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

ter when I get the cash. I'll probably start out with just a few CPUs to start, but would eventually build a full rackmount cabinet of them. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

Debugger break on busy system

The disk that's getting all the I/O is on an Adaptec 29160 host bus adapter. There is I think 164 MB of ram in the box. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

Resizing an HFS+ Partition?

ould be be better off to repartition, reformat and reinstall? I'm a happy user of Woody on my venerable old 8500. My iBook is one of the models released this last spring, it is a 700 Mhz G3 with 12 inch screen. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software

Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

e it. However, it is my experience that Mac SCSI tends to work OK with no termination at all (besides what is normally provided by the host bus adapter). I really suspect your problem is not really termination, but I'm sorry to say I don't know what else it could be. It would be best to eli

Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

ot sure but you might try it. Check at http://www.adaptec.com/ it should be available as a free download. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

Re: I'd like open the CD-ROM unit from Firmware

oking something through the little hole. That's probably the most elite solution to your problem but if you just want to get your CD open maybe this will suffice. Ever Faithful, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.c

Re: Umax SuperMac

me in doing what is necessary to get Free Software installed if the end result is a truly Free system. Regards, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

Re: Umax SuperMac

ly real problem I ever have is that if I stress the machine really hard, so that the swap is thrashing really bad, it will eventually drop into the debugger. That never happens during normal use though. Best of Luck to You, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and C

PCI versions that work in an 8500?

think mine was manufactured in 1996. You can get the newer tech pcilynx cardbus cards here: http://www.technowarehousellc.com/brannewfir2g.html Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting a

How to eject a floppy?

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Re: Automatic power-on

am in some way, maybe the Mac OS is trying to restore it to a default state. That would wipe out your control setting. I'm just speculating, I don't really know. Anyway, do each of the two chimes you hear sound like the normal boot chime? Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. -

Framebuffer and PowerPC's

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Machine check in install kernel

ion was potato followed by an upgrade to woody. I have run the woody installer on x86 though. Best, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

Boot iBook off firewire drive?

I have one of the recently released iBook 700MHz laptops and would like to try running linux on it at some point. But I don't want to partition my disk and reinstall everything, what I would like to do is use an external firewire drive and install Linux on that. Can the iBook boot off a firewire

Re: X server 100% CPU

. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to the GoingWare Newsletter at http://www.goingware.com/newsletter/ Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Debugging OS X from Linux with GDB?

x27;d appreciate any tips you have. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to the GoingWare Newsletter at http://www.goingware.com/newsletter/ Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

Re: Need help with afio on powerpc

> I have a Apple. PowerPC 7450 (PowerBook G4). Is it a big or a little > endian system? And where is the difference. I wrote an article about endian issues and some other basics of portable programming at: http://www.byteswap.net/mikesnotes/2002/getting-started/ Best, Mike -- Mic

Wacky 16bpp colors (KDE)

You need to use 15 bit color depth. I had the same problem. My Mac's not on right now or I could get you the XF86Config-4. Try configuring it yourself for 15 bit, and if you can't I'll boot it up later and post my config. Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software

Re: 8500 won't boot if unused drive disconnected

is the firmware - I have seen some mention on the web of someone flashing a PC 39160 (a 2-bus adapter) with Mac firmware and having it work). Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

8500 won't boot if unused drive disconnected

way around leaving this drive installed, which would be unfortunate, but workable. I'd have to mount my Linux disk in an external case to do my file transfer. Any ideas what is going on? -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTE

booting adaptec 29160 on Mac 8500

this won't fit mechanically. Is this a problem for the 8500? I want the 29160 rather than the 29160N because my mac already has old-fashioned SCSI connectors, and I'd like to have the option to attach Ultra160 devices externally. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Soft

ethernet for laserwriter select 360

ave to try ethernet. Also, is it possible to print to one of these printers from Linux via appletalk? I don't think it understands lpr protocols. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] T

Re: mol version mismatch in sid (MacOnLinux)

to be able to get mol to install, even though I can download and install the source. Can I make the mol-modules package myself from the source? Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Win

mol version mismatch in sid (MacOnLinux)

ol to install, but not the modules. I couldn't get the module source code to build, either from the release sources, or getting them from rsync or bitkeeper. Is there a mol-0.9.61 deb? I'd really love to give Mac On Linux a try. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Softw

Re: Memory tester for powerpc?

Just so I can be sure it's not my RAM causing my kernel oopses, is there a > utility for testing RAM in Linux? I know that there is one in the x86 world > that can test memory, but in the powerpc world...??? -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Cons

Re: Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration

, which I hadn't seen when I configured it before, so I guess that's why it ran the config. But instead of saving the other items from my configuration, or asking me to enter all the values again (resolution, driver, etc.), it just blew away all my old values. Seeing how a lot of people

Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration

40x480. I had to run, I think it was dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to get my proper video back. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.goingware.com/ Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

Re: Mozilla downloads disappear upon completion

On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 16:10, Michel Dänzer wrote: > but you're aware that Abiword binaries are available > in the Debian archive? :) Yes, I know, but I wanted to download 0.9.6. Sid only has 0.9.5. Gotta have the very latest. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expe

Mozilla downloads disappear upon completion

I've tried to download a couple of files via http from Mozilla, one of them being the AbiWord gnome deb from http://www.abisource.com/download/ The web server identifies my machine as a PowerPC linux host and offers me PowerPC debs. The download appears to go to 100% but then no file is left

single button mouse and Apple Keyboard II

I have a single button mouse and an old Apple Keyboard II. I had a much nicer keyboard but I mixed them up when I borrowed someone's old Mac for testing, and gave them back my nice keyboard by mistake, and then it sort of disappeared. So I only have one option key, on the left, and no functio

Re: What G3/G4 accelerator cards work with PowerPC Linux?

ve tested with linux pretty heavily. I have an 8500/150 with 192 MB of ram. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. "I give you this one rule of condu

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 r128 driver compilation

lleration? For 3D, most people usually report the framerate of glxgears, or for more in-depth testing, quake running in demo mode. But I haven't found a simple way to test 2D accelleration. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.

getting alternate kernels

This is a really dumb newbie question. I'm experienced with Linux (slackware) but not much at all with debian. In response to my question in IP Masquerading on a Mac, Adam Powell said to get a 2.4 kernel out of sid. How do I do that? I know how to use dselect to install and remove packages f

Re: trouble installing on a mac

I was finally able to install. Despite my observation that I didn't see lights blinking on my modem, it worked to use /dev/ttyS0. On some web page somewhere or other I found a statement to the effect that the modem port on older macs and the built-in modem on newer macs is /dev/ttyS1, but this

Re: trouble installing on a mac

Well, I've made some progess. What I needed was the file drivers.tgz, not either of the files driver-1.bin or driver-2.bin. Not sure what they're for. Once I was able to install my modules, I could enable the use of the ppp and compression modules. And _somewhere_ on a web page that some helpfu

trouble installing on a mac

c before, as I had the same problem with my modem then. But I am reluctant to try this because I have observed that WinRoute corrupts data transmitted through it; I don't want to try to download the many megabytes an OS install will require through buggy router software. Thanks for any he

MASQ/Firewall on a Mac?

ess, and when I use secure shell through it, the SSH session locks up after a few minutes. Also SMTP mail sometimes can't be sent through it. I'd like to stop using WinRoute and adopt a Free Software solution. At least I could fix it if there were problems. Thanks Michael D. Crawfor

Re: .sit files

It's not just that you _should_ unpack BootX on the Mac side, it's that you have to. It is a Mac OS application, and therefore has a filetype, creator code, and resource fork. While you might be able to extract the bitstreams of all these (and the data fork), they won't do you much good. What is

Debian X package shouldn't install XDM by default

n their own, personal, particular system. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

Re: Exhaustive memory test for Macs?

x27;s at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/memtester/ -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

Exhaustive memory test for Macs?

I'm buying a new DIMM for my Mac 8500, and would like to give it a thorough test when it arrives in a couple days. It wouldn't be a bad idea to test the memory I've got before I install the new DIMM, as it is old and has been in heavy use for years. I used memtest86 on a 128 MB PC133 memory modul

X Mouse doesn't work on 8500; how to accellerate X

a 2.4 kernel? Regards, Mike Crawford -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

Can't download packages upon initial boot

er installed it. I ran a very old version of MKLinux on this mac a while ago, but I'm coming back to powerpc linux for the first time in a long while. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.