Re: debian-powerpc: g4 powerbook and writeable CD/DVD

2001-05-16 Thread Stefan Kluth
for mass storage in 2.2.x is "experimental". I know nothing about being able to boot via USB mass storage. I have no experience with firewire. A SCSI PCMCIA card works fine on my laptop to connect our external DVD-RAMS for backups. good luck, Stefan ---Stefan Kluth---Wis

compiling XF4 on potato?

2001-01-29 Thread Stefan Kluth
h a clean Debian potato install and working XF3. Any ideas? ---Stefan Kluth---Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter--- - MPI fuer Physik - phone: +49 89 32354 468 - OPAL& - - Foehringer Ring 6 - fax:+49 89 32354 305 - ATLAS - ---D-80805 Munich, Germanye-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X on G4 with ATI Rage 128 Pro and LCD Panel

2001-01-29 Thread Stefan Kluth
ting? It has X4 now. Good question, perhaps. I suppose once I have suffered enough with XF3 or building XF4 myself I'll switch to testing. Cheers, and thanks for your patience with silly questions! Stefan ---Stefan Kluth---Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter--- - MPI

Re: X on G4 with ATI Rage 128 Pro and LCD Panel

2001-01-29 Thread Stefan Kluth
r. That leads me back to the question for to the name of the debian package to give to apt-get source --compile to get X4 compiled. I seem to be unable to find that by myself. Cheers, Stefan ---Stefan Kluth---Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter--- - MPI fuer Physik - phone: +49 89 32354 468 - OPAL& - - Foehringer Ring 6 - fax:+49 89 32354 305 - ATLAS - ---D-80805 Munich, Germanye-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X on G4 with ATI Rage 128 Pro and LCD Panel

2001-01-29 Thread Stefan Kluth
1 777 806 Flags"-HSync" "-VSync" EndMode but that lead to a complete freeze, kernel and all. I got this from "fbset -x". It looks like a sensible modeline for the StudioDisplay Flat Panel Display we have. Cheers, Stefan ---Stefan Kluth---Wissenschaftlic

Re: can't compile 2.2.18pre21

2001-01-29 Thread Stefan Kluth
d! Applying the kernel-patches was all I needed to do. Thanks a lot, Stefan ---Stefan Kluth---Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter--- - MPI fuer Physik - phone: +49 89 32354 468 - OPAL& - - Foehringer Ring 6 - fax:+49 89 32354 305 - ATLAS

Re: can't compile 2.2.18pre21

2001-01-25 Thread Stefan Kluth
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Stefan Kluth wrote: > I tried to compile a 2.2.18pre21 kernel on a potato system but it failed > like this: > > ... > > cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.18pre21/include -Wall > -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-ali

can't compile 2.2.18pre21

2001-01-25 Thread Stefan Kluth
-ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple -mstring -c -o mac_hid.o mac_hid.c mac_hid.c: In function `mac_hid_sysctl_keycodes': mac_hid.c:296: structure has no member named `ppc_kbd_sysrq_xlate' mac_hid.c:303: structure has no member named `ppc_kbd_sysrq_xlate' Stefan

Re: X on G4 with ATI Rage 128 Pro and LCD Panel

2001-01-25 Thread Stefan Kluth
, V: 116.318 Hz DotClock 100.001 HTimings 1024 1040 1048 1064 VTimings 768 784 792 808 Flags"-HSync" "-VSync" EndMode which has almost twice as much vertical refresh than Apple says? Should I paste this into XF86Config? Or will I smoke-test the display? Che

Re: X on G4 with ATI Rage 128 Pro and LCD Panel

2001-01-25 Thread Stefan Kluth
p://packages.debian.org/testing/x11/ ---Stefan Kluth---Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter--- - MPI fuer Physik - phone: +49 89 32354 468 - OPAL& - - Foehringer Ring 6 - fax:+49 89 32354 305 - ATLAS - ---D-80805 Munich, Germanye-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X on G4 with ATI Rage 128 Pro and LCD Panel

2001-01-24 Thread Stefan Kluth
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > Stefan Kluth wrote: > > > I have potato 2.2r2 with kernel 2.2.18pre21 on a 500MHz G4 with an ATI > > Rage 128 Pro AGP 4x and it works fine on the console. I boot with > > video=ofonly. X doesn't work though,

X on G4 with ATI Rage 128 Pro and LCD Panel

2001-01-24 Thread Stefan Kluth
e 3-button emulation to work. Turning it on in /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid has no effect. A Logitech USB wheelmouse worked just great though. Cheers, Stefan ---Stefan Kluth---Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter--- - MPI fuer Physik - phone: +49 89 32354 468 - OPAL& - - F

Re: debian-powerpc: nightly backup of G4 required

2000-10-24 Thread Stefan Kluth
scue discs and install CDs bursts into flames you should still be able to completely restore from fresh boot floppies. Cheers, Stefan ---Stefan Kluth---Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter--- - MPI fuer Physik - phone: +49 89 32354 468 - OPAL& - - Foehringer

Re: success on 500MHz G4

2000-08-31 Thread Stefan Kluth
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 06:33:58PM +0200, Stefan Kluth wrote: > > > > 5) Eventually you get to the "Make Linux Bootable ..." stage. Follow the > >installation manual and SKIP this step. Now we need to deal with &

success on 500MHz G4

2000-08-30 Thread Stefan Kluth
by clicking icons. Really cool! The line in /boot/ofboot.b boot hd:m # m=partition number of MacOS boot partition will make MacOS the default. Cheers and good luck! Stefan ---Stefan Kluth---Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter--- - MPI fuer Physik - phone: +49

Re: ISO Images of Debian PPC?

2000-08-29 Thread Stefan Kluth
g transmits a few 10 MB of data at most, thus taking load of the CD image servers. The bonus you get is that if a CD image should get updated, say rev1, you only have to rsync again instead of pulling the whole 650MB again. The only gripe I had was that I had to try a lot of rsync servers be

lossless disk partitioning?

2000-08-22 Thread Stefan Kluth
possible at all on a Mac? cheers, Stefan ---Stefan Kluth---Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter--- - MPI fuer Physik - phone: +49 89 32354 468 - OPAL& - - Foehringer Ring 6 - fax:+49 89 32354 305 - ATLAS - ---D-80805 Munich, Germanye-mail: [E

Re: booting 500 MHz G4 from cd?

2000-08-22 Thread Stefan Kluth
cs during the installation. cheers, Stefan ---Stefan Kluth---Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter--- - MPI fuer Physik - phone: +49 89 32354 468 - OPAL& - - Foehringer Ring 6 - fax:+49 89 32354 305 - ATLAS - ---D-80805 Munich, Germanye-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: booting 500 MHz G4 from cd?

2000-08-22 Thread Stefan Kluth
e in with details? Maybe trivial, but I am not a great expert. Cheers, Stefan ---Stefan Kluth---Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter--- - MPI fuer Physik - phone: +49 89 32354 468 - OPAL& - - Foehringer Ring 6 - fax:+49 89 32354 305 - ATLAS - ---D-80805 Munich, Germanye-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: booting 500 MHz G4 from cd?

2000-08-21 Thread Stefan Kluth
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:46:20AM +0200, Stefan Kluth wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I made a binary-powerpc-1.iso with pseudo-image-kit-2.0 (2.2_rev0) and > > tried to boot a 500 MHz G4, Apple family number M5183, wi

booting 500 MHz G4 from cd?

2000-08-21 Thread Stefan Kluth
ppear on the initial yaboot console screen and then the boot hangs with a blank screen. Any help greatly appreciated, cheers, Stefan ---Stefan Kluth---Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter--- - MPI fuer Physik - phone: +49 89 32354 468 - OPAL& - - Foehringer Rin