At 7:03 AM -0800 11/20/02, William Crowshaw wrote:
But I don't really know. Let me know if you have any
ideas for fixing this problem. Or any explanation of
what is going on at least.
Many thanks,
W. Crowshaw
I remember having problems with the Dvorak keyboard, too. The
solution I found w
Setting up kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc (2.4.18-1) ...
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.18-powerpc/pcmcia/serial_cs.o(...)
What should I do (if anything) about those unresolved symbols?
Well, do you have any pcmcia hardware on that computer? If you
don't,
Folks,
I'm trying to update the kernel on my old Macintosh 7200/90 PowerPC
(Oldworld).
I entered:
apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc
and Linux responded:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
At 2:38 AM -0300 9/28/02, Rogério Brito wrote:
On Sep 27 2002, William C Brennan wrote:
> How do I make the cdrom eject/open button work with Debian?
Did you read the last few days of traffic? There was a thread
for ejecting floppy disks, which works for CDs.
Ahh, becaus
Folks,
I have a G4 Mac 800 MHz "Quicksilver" machine. The cdrom drive on
this unit has no little button to open the cdrom door next to the
drive... on this machine Apple moved that button to the Apple Pro
keyboard. Unfortunately using Debian Linux (Woody), that keyboard
button is non-funct
I've seen many references to 'pmud' for PowerBooks, but I haven't been
able to find any information on putting a desktop system to sleep. Can
it be done under Debian/Linux?
Well, whatever you do, don't install and run pmud on a desktop
machine. It will lock your machine
up. Rebooting won't h
Michael Schmitz wrote:
Now I just need the log output from pmud on your box - it does report the
PMU version there (see /var/log/daemon.log). If yours is a yet unsupported
PMU version we can just tell pmud to fail on startup, instead of
confusing your machine.
Okay, here it is...
May 4 11:02
Bastien, Ben, Chris, Rogério, Will, Michel,
Thanks heaps for your collective help! I was able to circumvent the
regular bootup code and login (using the init/bin/sh parameter in the
yaboot boot prompt). I could then manually mount my disks, hunt down
the script running pmud and turn it off. Th
Yikes,
Until an hour ago, I was a really happy Linux user. But then, my
system became unusable -- it won't complete the bootup sequence.
Now, at the very end of the messages that scroll by... the screen
goes blank and the speaker beeps at me erratically. Every time I
boot up.
Here's how I
Folks,
I'm trying to get my new G4 Quicksilver 800MHz to run XFree86. This
machine comes with an ATI Radeon 7500 card. I've tried lots of
options and searched over the list archives to get hints at what to
do, but no success. Since I'm at a total loss at what to do (this
XFree stuff has al
Folks,
I have an hfs-formatted partition mounted on my Linux system which I
use to exchange data with my Mac when its booted with MacOS. For
some reason I can not change the permissions, even as superuser. I
would like to make the hfs partition writable even to the everyday
Linux users (wel
Thanks to everyone's help, I successfully moved from 2.2.18pre21 to 2.2.19.
Not a big leap, admittedly, but this was more of a feasibility study
than a real need. Actually, it was a good thing I took this rather
small step instead of a big one.
I don't current backup my Linux files (don't ha
Folks,
Okay, I'm ready to take the plunge and upgrade my kernel (first to
the most recent potato, then probably to woody), but I'm a fairly
naive user, so I could use a little help.
I've got an OldWorld Mac (PowerMac 7200) which means I'm using BootX
(ver 1.2.2) by necessity. BootX requires
Michael Dänzer wrote
> I just updated to version 4.1.0-9 ("testing") of XFree86 on my
> PowerMac 7200. I'm not even sure which version I had been previously
> running (I think it was a patched version of 4.0.3), but it had been
> working fine since May.
>
> When I try to run XFree 4.1.0 (v
Hi folks,
I just updated to version 4.1.0-9 ("testing") of XFree86 on my
PowerMac 7200. I'm not even sure which version I had been previously
running (I think it was a patched version of 4.0.3), but it had been
working fine since May.
When I try to run XFree 4.1.0 (via startx), the Gnome de
Title: ATI Rage Pro & XFree 4.0.3 config
problems
Folks,
Until recently, I've been
running XFree86 3.3.6 successfully with my
hardware.
I've tried to upgrade the
X-server to 4.0.3, and sadly haven't gotten anything but a
blank screen and a "fatal" error. I also tried 4.0.2
with the same result
Title: Re: Print Problem with
Deskwriter...
W. Crowshaw wrote:
I'm trying to get my HP 600 Deskwriter
printer working with my PowerPC 7500.
I've followed the instructions on the FAQ-O-Matic, but I haven't
got
it to work. I had to modify the instruction somewhat because
they
are out-of-date and
About 3 weeks ago I installed potato Debian from the CDRom onto my
Apple 7200/90. It was my first Linux installation. As David Roundy
mentioned, you really need to use BootX, the necessity of which is not
even mentioned in the installation guide, which is a serious oversight
of the PowerPC docum
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