missing? Is the just a ppc issue? or has it been removed for everyone.
I guess I may try to build from source but I would rather not.
Phil
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I had Debian running but I needed to reinstall (don't ask why - I was
stupid). Now these crashes. I also have to specify something greater
than 32K in mem for bootx or I get some other errors.
Phil
upport/hardware/breakdown/index.php?hw_cat_id=4
Thanks.
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Phil Brooke wrote:
> I'm trying to check that bug 171509 doesn't exist on the powerpc
> architecture (it's specific to stable).
> [...]
Bad form to follow-up my own emails, but no one else need chase this
query for me -- someone's already resp
f someone has a ppc machine running stable (or has stable chroots
available), could you install gnat and adacgi and check if the minimal.adb
program given in the bug report compiles? (I suspect that might be less
hassle than giving me a login)
Many thanks,
Phil.
>So how do the ramdisks get built these days? Just copy the binaries over?
Well, they get stripped first, see scripts/rootdisk/strip-executables.sh.
The kind of ELF damage that we're seeing here is usually a symptom of using
a "strip" that expected to target another architecture, or had some sim
Chris Tillman wrote:
>I did a serial install on ppc with 3.0.18. I checked
>/target/etc/securetty right after the installation of base, before
>even rebooting, and verified that ttyS0 is included there.
Thanks for checking this out.
Are you saying that the bug didn't happen for you, or that the f
I have exactly your setup right here :P Poke around on nubus-pmac.sf.net and
mail me if you have any questions.
The big problem is that PCMCIA is not supported. With no USB or built in
ethernet, the laptop is pretty much useless unless you like transfering
all your files via floppy (and i don't ev
g
that can work with mol; it's probably a good time to
double-check the keycodes too.
But is there a place out there I can get benh's kernel now?
Phil
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Well, my main concen is with the support for mac serial ports in linux. I
can't even get the mac to send a file to itself reliably, the flow control
doesn't seem to work so the file is full of holes and i get input overrun
errors.
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 04:20:28PM -0500, Aaron Schrab wrote:
> It
Well, because there is no pcmcia support i'd like to use a direct ppp link
over a nulmodem to the desktop in lieu of ethernet. However, I can't get the
darn thing to work; it seems the mac won't use flow control. If that much
would work, I think it's possible to get a low speed (56k maybe) connecti
I just started from the example file in /usr/doc/frambuffers_dir... and changed
the color depth. I believe that you must specify "default" as the mode. I
can't send you my config without coping it by hand, unless someone could write
PCMCIA drivers or make PPP work :)
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:57:
I got the default framebuffer server included with debian to run by changing
the default color depth. If I recall correctly I had to turn it up to 16 or
more.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:31:37AM +0200, "Berg, Bj?rn" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> although Debian does not support the Powerbooks 1400 series, b
s they forgot to
leave in?
Phil
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There should be no ' in CDs. Damn...I wish people would get their grammar
straight.
r the moment, I've gone back to exmh, and have moved
everything back to mh format.
Phil
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I'm tring to install debian on my laptop here, but I don't have a floppy
drive :/ I don't have linux working yet, I still have to get mac os on there
so i can boot it. I have a disk image I need to mount, only the disk copy that
comes with mac os 8.0 is too damn stupid to let me mount it because th
Is anyone here using realplayer with Debian? I downloaded the
binary installer, but I haven't run it yet; I was wondering if
there were a dummy .deb file for installing it.
Phil
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x27;t open when you press the eject button.
Hope that helps
Phil Frost
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:04:32PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote:
> Well, it's brand new audio CD's I've tried...maybe that's what's wrong? On
> the other hand, I tried to mount the cdrom wit
Hrm...is there a disk in the drive? ;) It could be a bad disk, so try
some others that you know to work. I'm also not sure what crazy things
macs might do with cdroms, so maybe someone with a little more macknowledge
could say something on this. Besides that, the line in fstab might be wrong,
here'
my macOS disk, mount the image,
and copy my files back over, will my system be restored? Phew...that
was a mouthfull...
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:55:07PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 07:30:53PM -0500, Phil Frost wrote:
> > [sigh] nope :( The netbsd powerpc port s
[sigh] nope :( The netbsd powerpc port seems very well supported and
developed, but there is no support for macs without open freeware
(like nubus machines). Shoot.
Does anyone have any experience with nubus?
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:22:01PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> I believe you may have a w
/dev/cdrom is not an accual device, it's just a symbolic link to the real
device. If you have an IDE cdrom, the correct decive is /dev/hda, /dev/hdb,
/dev/hdc, or /dev/hdd for the primary master, primary slave, seccondary
master, sec. slave...you get the idea :) If it's scsi, link to /dev/sd?.
Her
I have poked around on nubus-pmac.sf.net and found only a few refrences
to debian. I'm still wondering if debian will support things like pcmcia
on nubus macs (specificly a pb1400), or is there no such thing as usefull
linux on an old mac? :(
I really, really need some sort of unix flavored system
Just a polite request: could we please keep the html email
here to a dull roar? I'm stuck using text-based email until
evolution starts working again.
(regarding evolution: it looks like the new libgtkhtml showed
up, but we're still short an up-to-date libgal.
Phil
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y helpful for me to have newbies clogging the
list with what is essentially non-compliant (IMHO) email, of
which half of each message is an advertisement for a web browser
I can't run anyway.
Phil
t is not installable
Depends: libgtkhtml7 (>= 0.8.3-5) but 0.8.2-2 is to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages
Comments, anyone?
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on't know about those; basically, way back when I partitioned
everything,
I put a 600 meg or so exchange partition that uses HFS and can be read
and
written to by both MacOS and Linux.
There's something called hfsplusutils? Hmm. It doesn't seem to be
available
in debian-powerpc.
Phil
two computers for the price of one.
OTThirdH: Mac laptops aren't nearly as cost-ineffective for non-Mac
applications
as their desktops are.
Phil
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PS: I'm still trying to figure out how to deal with that dpkg problem
I'm having. It won't
let me purge the pack
I have found some messages in the ML archives about hacking debian
onto a PB 1400, but every time I find a link to the hack it's broken :(
Does anyone know if Debian can be put on to a nubus mac? I'm going to
die if I don't have a command line soon :) ...
there
are other gotchas there that I need to know about?
Phil
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I think). They cost 5x what a Promise Ultra66 for a PC card
costs, though :(
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There's no /dev/audio; that's a kernel compilation error on
my part, I guess?
BTW, I'm using the new devfs. It seems to work fine.
Finally, is anyone else using firewire on the mac? I had
video1394.o compiled as a module, but it won't insert into
the kernel.
Phil
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lso ppc developers in New Mexico
somewhere,
but I don't remember the names or locations. Does anyone have any
suggestions?
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not explicitly, but it wouldn't be a bit deal. i'm in the process of
getting it up on most 32-bit architec
On 14 May 2001 14:19:08 -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> Phil Fraering wrote:
> >
> > Hi. I need help getting oaklisp running on powerpc; I think
> > the main problem is with config.h in src/emulator/; I've included
> > the original version of the file as an attachment
n the list, probably).
Phil
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nor qscheme
have debian packages that I can see.
(You are lost in a twisty maze of lisp/scheme implementations,
all slightly different...)
Phil
ers from
www.scyld.com on my PowerMacs.
Keep in mind that some people find his drivers hard to compile, but once
they're compiled they work just as well (or better than) the drivers in
the main kernel tree.
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On 19 Mar 2001 16:25:24 -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 06:13:23PM -0600, Phil Fraering wrote:
> >
> > Then how in the world is Apple giving away a free proprietary
> > binary of the codec for Windows users?
>
> the anti-competition contract onl
pple because we have an anti-competitive contract with
> apple.
> apple: we can't provide even a proprietary binary of the sorenson
> codec because we don't own it, sorenson does.
Then how in the world is Apple giving away a free proprietary
binary of the codec for Windows users?
Phil
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rontab to run a regular intervals during the day.
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deb http://tux.creighton.edu/debian potato updates/main
if you want to trust that I haven't altered anything :) The entire tree
should be there, with the exception of the slink updates.
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g some 2.x version, you might want to give 1.3 a try,
> fith my first.b.
Yes, I'm using 2.x - that's what gets installed by default by Debian
2.2r2.
Do you have the source for 1.3 someplace? I can't seem to find any
reference as to where to get it - all I can find is some LinuxPP
Of course :) I'm keeping MacOS w/ BootX 1.2.2 around until I can:
1) Find a way to activate the G3 backside cache on my NewerTech card
without the NewerTech MacOS extensions
2) get quik working
But hey the 2.4.3 from the "devel" tree works great :)
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till, I'll keep this particular spell around.
I'll have to see if I can scare up a 604 card locally.
Thanks anyway.
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ot;
but in my 7200/90.
> you might try using your root partition instead of partition 0.
Tried that. I just got a different value for "code=somevalue".
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I wonder how hard it'll be to get miBoot working, as hideous as it is...
Thanks for the help, though :)
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and what they were
changed to.
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On 07 Mar 2001 17:21:11 +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> There is also a evolution package i have heard (even for unstable/ppc i think)
> that should be rather nice.
I'm using it now and it's very nice.
When it stops crashing it will be even nicer.
Phil
Could whoever came up with the fixed version
of evolution and/or its dependent packages
(I think bonobo was one of the big problems)
please kindly upload the newer versions they
generated?
Phil
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it's neat. Still
missing a couple features
compared to mozilla, but it's also missing all the features in mozilla
that you probably
don't want.
(I wish you could right-click on an image and save it to disk. OTOH, it
seems to run
in a reasonable amount of processor power).
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he weekend for my Pentium, and today for
my powerpc. It crashes a lot on the Pentium; on the powerpc, it hasn't
crashed yet, but it keeps saying it can't access the lockfile for
/var/spool/mail/pgf when I try to access it. On the iBook, that is.
Does that help any?
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e a command for apt-cache
or something like that?
Phil
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Hi. I thought I'd toss a feeler out, see if anyone
has compiled nautilus on debian-powerpc yet.
Thanks a lot!
Phil
A while back someone mentioned a patch that would help get
maconlinux working on a Debian machine.
Is this patch still available?
Phil
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wasn't working with my system and the old
config file, I downgraded to the old one, and due to some
rearrangement of things in X, I had to use --force-overwrite.
What's the best thing to do? Just stay with what I have, or get
back to the standard Unstable system?
Phil
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I was wondering if anyone was trying to compile or put together a
package for mac-on-linux? The docs that came with the tarfile weren't
too clear on what extra libraries I need to get it to compile.
Phil
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> > I tried the new 4.0.2 x last night; it crashed hard.
>
> What hardware?
It's blue!
Seriously, an iBook DV 366 Mhz.
I may try building from source in a little while. Should I
get official sources or the apt-get sources?
Phil
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the bootstrap partition isn't strictly non-editable.
Phil
ff
from
xserver-xfree to xserver-common or something like that, and had to use
--force-overwrite.
I guess I'll live.
Phil
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7;s the current leader in the laptop market, it's
kind of a bummer).
I thought I'd ask here just to double-check.
Phil
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Debian Woody/PPC crash test dummy
gt; >
> > 0 OFfb ...
>
> Nothing from aty128fb? Are you sure you built it in?
>
> Does anyone know if the iBook DV is supported by the aty128fb in 2.2.18?
Yes, I'm using it now.
Phil
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offical PPC debs soon.
I fixed the problem by downloading the 1.2.4 debs from hadess.net and
using them. I thought apt would automatically select them because
hadess.net's gnome stuff precedes all the other sources in sources.list.
But now lots of gnome stuff works.
Phil
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nd more "intel standard"
components these days on its motherboards, and you don't get a parts
breakdown list with the average iBook. Probably just a "not meant
for UMA architecture machines" in the help section would be
sufficient.
Phil
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Hmm. Just tried the newer pppd. It at least doesn't spit out the
error messages the other one was. (The phone line's connected to
the PC at the moment, where I'm typing in the message).
It also has the same version number.
If it's an improvement, shouldn't it superced
for AGP. I remembered that my video controller is an AGP chip, and set
it. It didn't compile. Unsetting that option, it compiled. And works.
Even with stuff like X. I'm going to have to start writing all these
gotchas down somewhere.
Phil
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Debian Woody PowerPC Crash Test Dummy
possibly never was, quite?
One more thing... does anyone here have a "favorite" kernel they're
using?
Phil
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g
a good set of applications. It's probably in the archives somewhere.
I'll probably check tomorrow, after downloading a bunch of stuff tonight.
I'm kinda drained right now.
G'night everyone!
Phil
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the
> XFree driver doesn't know how to initialize it again.
I'm using the options you told me about earlier.
> I'm using the last XF4 that Branden put on his website before it moved
> to Woody.
> (dselect says: Version: 4.0.1-0phase2v5)
I'm using 4.0.1-12, downloaded yesterday.
Do you have any idea where I could get 4.0.1-0phase2v5? :-)
Phil
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> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:00:19AM -0600, Phil Fraering wrote:
> > Well, I tried running X after downloading the new X b
Well, I tried running X after downloading the new X binary,
and got the same result as always... suggestions welcome. Who
else besides me and Hadess has an iBook DV here?
Phil
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ce archive gets changed to 4.0.12, and then all the
binary stuff follows afterwards thanks to the autobuilder?
Is X using the autobuilder, or are a lot of packages not autobuilt?
Phil
, is there anything I need to be doing wrt the iBook
and the hard disk parameters? Or is that done automatically?
Phil
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ave is a .20 version of sawmill. What's up?
Phil
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here's no place to stick a rescue floppy in the
machine. You can use the CD if things get that bad...
Anyway, I have to go. I hope that helped.
(Maybe it would help if some of us pitched in and donated memory for one
of the machines, so you would have faster compile times? I think we should
discuss this before I'm broke again).
Phil
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to be working.
> Grab the dmasound hack. http://students.washington.edu/mpalczew/
I will.
> > * How much would I benefit from trying to compile my own kernel, as
> > opposed to continuing to use 2.2.18pre17-benh?
> It's your own...
That's a point.
Unfortunately I have to make a quick business trip, but I'll try everything out
when I get back.
Phil
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I'm
missing something in /dev that could be causing the X crashes?
Thanks a lot for the help y'all have already given; I don't think I'd
have gotten to the point of having it lock up if y'all hadn't.
(Hey, it's at least progress :-)
Phil
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Is there a boot option that will get me out of this?
Phil
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ot; warning?
* Do I need to install the new input layer?
* After all that, _if_ the old phase 2 debs are around somewhere, would
xfree 4 conceivably work?
Phil
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mpile them from source.
Phil
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should go back to 3.3.whatever, although I didn't think it
was an option with this machine.)
Phil
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> Quoting Phil Fraering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Just checked the mailing list archive. I need to use
> > --force-architecture,
> > I guess. My mail is scattered back and forth between different machines,
> > sorry about the duplicated question.
>
> Th
Just checked the mailing list archive. I need to use --force-architecture,
I guess. My mail is scattered back and forth between different machines,
sorry about the duplicated question.
- Phil
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My apologies if this has already been covered.
Phil
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ption with pppd?
I don't remember right now; I'll check. I thought
"ifconfig ppp0 promisc" was supposed to do the same
thing, though.
Phil
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kernel.xorsis.net, probably the bitkeeper development tree. (I'm
getting it now from ftp.fsmlabs.com, because there was something
screwy about the net setup at xorsis). If I should use the Paulus
kernel instead, let me know...
I guess that's all for now.
Phil
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n
the cause? The main symptom seems to be that printing and sound doesn't
really work; it's an old Starmax 5000, so I'm not really expecting much.
The thing is, it's buggy, but it works, should I bother trying to fix
it?
Phil
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I thought I'd ask, did anyone ever get around to fixing
the gnomecal and gnomecard file reading bugs that I think
were caused by endian issues?
If not, how would I go about trying to fix them?
I don't really remember, but where else did those issues show up?
Phil
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Hi. I've been using debian-ppc with woody preceeding frozen
in the apt-souces list; sometime rather recently xemacs stopped
working. Has anyone out there run into this before, or should
I go into detail?
Phil
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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sven LUTHER writes:
>change the 'stable' distribution to 'frozen' or better yet 'potato' in the
>apt source file.
I've switched to potato. Dselect seems to be having problems displaying
packages that aren't already installed.
>You could also use and install conso
thinking of is starting from MkLinux and using it to put debian
on another partition.
Phil
existance of my level two cache. The default vmode is a lot nicer,
but I'm still stuck with what it boots with, it seems.
Just wondering, but where do y'all think I should go from here?
I'm willing to help out if I ever get spare time...
Phil Fraering
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