Re: Problem raid IBM RS6000 B50

2004-01-22 Thread Nik(uff)
Hi Sven Luther ,thank you very much for your reply. > I believe that you are not running the debian powerpc kernel on that > box. I would be very interested in getting access to both your kernel > source tree, (or info on where you got it from and what patch you did > apply, if any) as well as the

Re: Configuring XFree86 on PowerBook G3 Lombard (Bronze)

2003-06-10 Thread nik gaffney
this page is probably as usefull (explains how to get DRI running on mach64) http://www.geekounet.org/powerbook/driplusxv.html > Bad news: Sergio Brandano's Mach64 page > (http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~sb/First-Aid/) is gone! Do you still have > Sergio's file? > > Eric P. > Sunnyvale, CA > > > F

Re: Configuring XFree86 on PowerBook G3 Lombard (Bronze)

2003-06-09 Thread nik gaffney
> I need your help: I can't get Xserver 4.1.0.1 to work on my PowerBook G3. > (I'm using Woody.) i recall several threads here about getting xfree86 working on lombard, the reassuring answer it that it does! and with acceleration ( if you are looking for a challenge. . see http://people.debian.

Re: installing xfree86 4.3.0

2003-03-06 Thread nik gaffney
> I'm trying to install X 4.3.0 from: > http://capricorn.woot.net/~daniels/current/sid/powerpc/ > > How do I add this to /etc/apt/sources.list so that I > can install it using apt. try adding the line deb http://capricorn.woot.net/~daniels/sid/powerpc/ ./ > Also I trying installing using lynx a

Re: Woody KDE 3.0.3

2002-10-06 Thread nik gaffney
try deb http://kde.ping.uio.no/ppc ./ also chekout the pages at http://mypage.bluewin.ch/kde3-debian/ the howto info should probably be read carefully > Has anyone gotten KDE 3.0.3 working on PowerPC yet? If so, got an apt > source for it? > > Thank you! > > Barry deFreese > NTS Technology

Re: modem, mol, gnome session on Pismo/woody

2002-08-05 Thread nik gaffney
>> Second point is the maconlinux that i would like to >> use to have some MacOS specific soft running. >> It always tell me that no modules are found. >> Maybe it's because i compiled the benh kernel ? >> (2.4.19-rc1-ben0) > > You need to install the package mol-sources and to compile it. you can

Re: KDE 3 and PowerPC (was: Re: KDE 3.0.2 problem)

2002-08-03 Thread nik gaffney
On Saturday 03 August 2002 17:11, Egidio Corsini wrote: > On i386 side kde 3.0.2 is available since june. And 3.0.1 version has some > BIG performance problem with the new qt (3.0.4). I really don't know if and > when kde3 will enter the official unstable distro. Probably we'll have to > ask it to

Re: Woody on a powerbook G3

2002-06-28 Thread nik gaffney
> If anyone has a woody on a powerbook G3 series "Lombard", i have debian running happily on my lombard, using the 'unstable' (or sid?) which i upgraded to after getting base install working. i used the disks from here -> http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net/ and there are some usefull instructi

Re: A couple of questions (more specific...Sorry)

2002-06-26 Thread nik gaffney
> Sorry John, > I meant to say XFree86 4.2. I apologize, I wrote the email too fast I add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file deb http://people.debian.org/~branden sid/powerpc/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: KDE 3.0.1 powerpc.deb

2002-06-01 Thread nik gaffney
> I've seen (with happiness) the release of a pre-definitive version of kde > 3.0.1 debs. But AFAIK only on i386 arch. The ppc debs are still dated. > Anyone knows if they've been compiled? > And if yes any apt-url some of the .debs can be found here http://kde3.geniussystems.net/debian-ppc/ unf

minicom + usb-serial

2002-04-12 Thread nik gaffney
hi, has anyone managed to use minicom to communicate with a serial device, using a mac usb port? ive setup usb-serial and some other kernel modules, mknod'ed a /dev/ttyUSB0, but minicom doesnt seem to think the device exists. (im also using the 'ipaq' module in an attmept to communicate with

Re: Installing onto a powerbook for the first time

2002-04-03 Thread nik gaffney
> > > I started installing Debian onto a powerbook (or any PowerPC hardware > > > for that matter) for the first time. When I originally set the system > > > up I predicted that Linux may be on the cards at a later stage and I > > > split the hard disk into 2, and left roughly half the disk unuse

Re: ARM cross compiles

2002-03-26 Thread nik gaffney
:: Saturday 23 March 2002 22:48, Laurent de Segur :: i found this to be quite usefull -> http://www.gimp.org/~crichton/make.sh.txt (and im almost certain i didnt have to modify anything, but dont quote me!!) the ARM toolchain "works", but was incredibly slow to compile compared to a simila

Re: map 2nd 3rd mouse buttons?

2002-03-19 Thread nik gaffney
On Tuesday 19 March 2002 10:07, ragnar wrote: http://lists.debian.org is a good place to start. for example -> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2001/debian-powerpc-200105/msg00791.html > I'm using a powerbook 3400c which of course has a one button touch pad. > Does anyone know how to map

Re: powerbook g3 lombard crashes

2002-03-11 Thread nik gaffney
On Monday 11 March 2002 21:29, Christian Jaeger wrote: > Hello > > I'm continuing to be annoyed by the relative instability of my > powerbook. Well first I had these X crashes once or twice a week, but > these seem either to have vanished in the mean time or been drowned > by the recent hard lockup

Re: Lombard, woody, need some docs. ;)

2002-03-11 Thread nik gaffney
On Monday 11 March 2002 04:23, Chris Tillman wrote: > sysctl.conf it should contain something like .. . .. # use f11 and f12 for middle and right mouse button dev.mac_hid.mouse_button_emulation=1 dev.mac_hid.mouse_button2_keycode=87 dev.mac_hid.mouse_button2_keycode=88

Re: mol + networking problems

2002-03-08 Thread nik gaffney
> > the sheep_net isnt intialising for some reason. [...] what could be > > going wrong??! > > Does the device node /dev/sheep_net exist? If not, you have to create > it manually with mknod. > > Regards, Jens. /mknod /dev/sheep_net c 10 198 seemed to do the trick, thanks jens (and the mol arch

mol + networking problems

2002-03-07 Thread nik gaffney
hi, im having some problems getting tcp/ip to work under MOL, ive built the modules from the source .deb but the sheep_net isnt intialising for some reason. this is its error -> Can't open /dev/sheep_net, please check module is present ! Failed to initialize the sheep- device yet lsmod

Re: hfs related crashes

2002-03-05 Thread nik gaffney
> Do not use the HFS file system support in the kernel. If you want to > access HFS partitions, use the tools from the hfsutils package which > are stable and do not corrupt data. If you want a partition that you > can share between Mac OS and Linux, use some sort of FAT format. > > Regards, Jens

Re: hfs related crashes

2002-03-04 Thread nik gaffney
aps thru the kio-mac bridge), so i think ill go with the FAT partition. > If you want a partition that you > can share between Mac OS and Linux, use some sort of FAT format. what is the support like on the mac side for this now?+ (the last windows disk i mounted was an 800k floppy!) thanks, nik

hfs related crashes

2002-03-04 Thread nik gaffney
hi, currently im having consistent (but erratic) problems reading from an hfs partition using kmail. im not sure what the problem is, but quite often when i try to access a mail folder which is symlinked to the hfs partition, i get some nice blakc lines at the top of my screen + the system is comp

Re: sound and 2.4.16

2001-11-29 Thread Nik
hi, im not using the cd player, but xmms works fine with a 2.4.16 kernel im running on a g3 lombard. relevent options -> power mac DMA sound driver, OSS support, with persistent DAM buffers, all compiled into the kernel. the sound didnt work with the same kernel source when each of the

Re: Mac-On-Linux?

2001-11-20 Thread Nik
> > failing that, download the source, and compile everything.. ,. > > Please. If a Debian package fails in any way, you should file a bug > against it, so the maintainer (in the case of mol, yours truly) can > fix it. ok, sure. thanks for the reminder :) in this case, i consider it a bug that m

Re: Mac-On-Linux?

2001-11-20 Thread Nik
> I'm wanting to install Mac-On-Linux on my potato system at work. The > problem is, the downloads are in RPM format. I tried using alien to > convert them to .deb, but I get an error message saying that the major > number must be <= 3, or something like that. doesnt this work -> apt-get install