Re: Supported Hardware ?

and possibly improve. I know that it mostly works on e500mc because I briefly had access to a machine with that core. Apparently it also worked on old PPC Macs but I don't have any experience with those. Kind regards, Erik Brangs

Re: Supported Hardware ?

t on PPC 64-bit using the GCC compile farm which provides access to shared machines for free software developers. They have IBM POWER7 and POWER8 server class machines (i.e. 64-bit Big Endian and 64-bit Little Endian). Kind regards, Erik Brangs

Re: Supported Hardware ?

d Macs. From what I could gather from reading this list, it seems that there a quite a few problems with those. Also, I'd prefer something newer, if possible. Kind regards, Erik Brangs

Re: Bug#713943: Lack of i2c_powermac module may be the cause

37 (PowerMac G5 Dual Core) Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

, Python Ocaml, Haskell etc and some linux kernel and device driver stuff a long time ago) I am rather short on spare time. Cheers, Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: PowerPC assembler help

. Cheers, Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

PowerPC assembler help

Hi all, Anyone know/understand PowerPC assembler? I have the instruction: lwz 30, .label - (1b)(31) >From reading the documentation I could find, I have figured out that it loads a 16 bit value into register 30. The rest has got me somewhat flumoxed. Clues? Cheers, E

Re: Any hope for Skype on an iMac G4 with Squeeze?

d I don't believe that one exists for powerpc-linux. Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Getting cdrom open on G5 running debian.

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > It seems I've messed up yaboot on a G5 running debian. anyone know how > I get the cdrom door open to boot from cdrom? I'm using a standard PC > usb keyboard. Ah, got it. The little aluminium door can be physically slid down to expose the cdr

Getting cdrom open on G5 running debian.

Hi all, It seems I've messed up yaboot on a G5 running debian. anyone know how I get the cdrom door open to boot from cdrom? I'm using a standard PC usb keyboard. Cheers, Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.meg

Re: fan management on G5

H, Erk -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://

Re: Debian or ubuntu

tting things like wireless and > sound to work be harder in Debian than Ubuntu? Debian is not really more difficult that Ubuntu IMO. Erik -- ------ Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: keyboard backlight on PB 5,4 and question about modem

d not have to mknod the i2c device btw: this should happen automatically if your kernel is correctly configured. You can then add i2c_dev to your /etc/modules to have it load on boot automagically. Erik Quoting Marco Stagno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: the module i2c-dev is loaded but not use

ATI Radeon 9600 & GATOS for TV-out

Has anybody tried using GATOS to provide S-Video out on a Radeon Mobility 9600? http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ -- ___ ERIK CHAKRAVARTY [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: adding plugins to web browsers

If you want to upgrade to Xorg, change your apt-get sources (/etc/apt/sources.list) from sarge to unstable and run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. Note this will upgrade all packages from the stable sarge release to the newest versions which have not been as thoroughly tested. Make sure yo

Re: [edlug] Planet & People Society Event - Call for Volunteers

apologies - this was sent to the wrong list - please ignore On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 03:49 +, Erik Chakravarty wrote: > I'm a new list member of edlug (12 months), I'm a second-year > Psychology/Philosophy student at Edinburgh Uni and I run the following: > > Debian/

Re: [edlug] Planet & People Society Event - Call for Volunteers

21 Please call if you're interested - I can't be 100% on my availability at the moment but I can change plans now to fit this in if I know relatively soon. Take it easy - Erik On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 19:41 +, C. Dominik Bódi wrote: > [Call for volunteers for the P&P Society Eve

Re: Apple iSight

touch with the maintainers of the iSight audio drivers http://lsight.sourceforge.net/ and will not hold my breath for any progress soon. On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 12:08 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 10:50 +, Erik Chakravarty wrote: > > But video only, no s

Re: Apple iSight

wrote: > According to Erik Chakravarty, on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:37:47 > +, > >Is anyone using this webcam? What's the support status? > > > > > > > > Worked well with coriander the last time I tried... > > > > -- > Cedric > > -- To UNS

Apple iSight

Is anyone using this webcam? What's the support status? Thanks Erik -- Erik Chakravarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gphoto 2

make sure you have permissons on your USB device. try running gtkam with sudo and see if that works. On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 08:44 +1100, david wrote: > Hi all > > I have a mini mac, running sarge. The standard 2.6.8 kernel makes no > sound, so I have installed the stock 2.6.15 kernel from >

Upgrading Xorg & r300 driver stability

Hi Is it now safe to upgrade a PowerBook 5,4 to xorg 6.9.0-dfsg-1.4? Video card is ATI Mobility Radeon M10 Is it necessary to disable DRI to prevent lockups? Cheers Erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Surprise, surprise...

Apple's benchmarking tests for the new Intel-in-Mac lines are total bullsh*t. http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/01/23/intel_macs_25pc_faster/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bcm43xx finally working, with encryption too!!!

Broadcom 43xx driver & softmac working here on a 2004 Albook 15" I had to set 'iwconfig eth1 rate 11M' to even ping my router - it seems that this card will not operate at full 54M speed. DHCP does not seem to be working - I read reports of people running scans before running dhclient eth1 but th

EXT2 Filesystem driver for OSX

yet? Erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TV-Out on a Powerbook5,6

Has there been any progress on this? Are there any experimental drivers out there that we can test? Erik On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 08:51 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 21:01 +0200, Johannes H. Jensen wrote: > > > have anyone of you gotten TV-Out working on the

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > I can send you code of a userland SEGV handler that emulates such > load/store accesses later, possibly tomorrow, if you are interested, > that I wrote for spying some video drivers for sleep issues. Yes please, I'd love to see that made

Re: G3 iBook still hanging when coming out of sleep.

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > After spending an evening hand applying diffs, looking at PPC > assembler and compiling kernels instead of hacking on my own > code I'm inclined to try winding back pbbuttonsd instead of > more futzing with kernels. After trying pbbuttonsd version

Re: G3 iBook still hanging when coming out of sleep.

of hacking on my own code I'm inclined to try winding back pbbuttonsd instead of more futzing with kernels. I will continue messing with kernels if someone can tell me what link between the new version of pbbuttonsd and the kernel could be causing these problems. Erik -- +---

Re: G3 iBook still hanging when coming out of sleep.

Ian Wienand wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 07:34:37AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > I then grabbed 2.6.12.3 as you suggested. Again, most of the patches > > had already been applied. > > Sorry, it's 2.6.12-*rc3* (rather than the .3 update). I'm not su

Re: G3 iBook still hanging when coming out of sleep.

Ian Wienand wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 10:27:15PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > How can I confirm that and how can I fix it. > > Well, as a start, if you apply the patches mentioned in > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/04/msg00069.html > &g

G3 iBook still hanging when coming out of sleep.

ly to be a kernel sleep problem. How can I confirm that and how can I fix it. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +---+ "The music bus

Re: Power management issue on G3 iBook

Michael Schmitz wrote: > Now try running pmud to see if the hangs are power management related (as > opposed to buttons handling related). Yep, pbbuttonsd running with pmud not running doesn't seem to hang. However, it still hangs when comming out of s

Re: Power management issue on G3 iBook

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Ok, I'm at friends place today, hacking on some code and I've > had two of these hangs in the last two hours :-(. > > The first time the external mouse was plugged in, the second time > it wasn't. I tried the mouse both times to see if

Re: Power management issue on G3 iBook

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > That actually aligns nicely with another symptom I'm seeing. > > Very ocassionally when I'm using an external mouse on this iBook > I get a system freeze. The mouse locks in position, the keyboard > doesn't respond and the machine

Re: Power management issue on G3 iBook

I unplugged the mouse and plugged it back in and the machine came back to life. I can't remember if I tried this on previous freezes. I think I've had about 4 of these freezes and they started happening at the same time as the failure to wake from sleep problem. Erik -- +------

Re: Power management issue on G3 iBook

console, ran "/etc/init.d/gdm stop", disconnected ethernet etc and then closed the lid. On openning it again, it hung just like before. So, I think this is not X related. Its also not cpufreq related. Any others ideas? Anyone? Cheers, Erik -- +------

Re: Power management issue on G3 iBook

the apt-get upgrade my X cursor had changed. Did the upgrade possibly install Xorg? How can I tell? Cheers, Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +

Re: Turning off and hard lockup on older G3 iBook

y started after an "apt-get upgrade" a couple of days ago. One of the things that changed in the "apt-get upgrade" was pbuttonsd. Anyone know where I might be able to find an older version of pbuttonsd? I looked in /var/cache/apt/archives/ but some geius ran apt-get autoclean!

Re: Power management issue on G3 iBook

c module before sleeping. > 2- Shut down dbus-1 before sleeping. > > With that sleep/resume works most of the time. It does happen on occasion > that > the resume fails and freezes after 'eth0: resuming'. Yep, thats exactly what I get. Cheers, Erik -- +--

Power management issue on G3 iBook

nd it woke up. That all changed about 2 days ago. I did and apt-get upgrade on the system and power management hasn't worked since. Anybodu have any idea what changed and how to fix it? Cheers, Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL

Unable to boot OSX

) Linux swap /dev/hda6 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 linux 123731888 @ 32569584 ( 59.0G) Linux native /dev/hda7 Apple_Free Extra 16 @ 156301472 ( 8.0k) Free space What should the 'macosx=' line in my yaboot.conf read? I'm sure it&#

Re: Porting ppc Linux to Xbox 360?

sold and makes it up in games sales. If people buy an xbox and only run Linux on it, then that does hurt m$. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +

Re: 2.6.12-rc4 lots faster than any kernel before?

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 00:00 +0100, Erik Chakravarty wrote: >> PowerBook 5,4 >> >> >> My XFree86 config has corepointer set to /dev/psaux. The new kernel >> config has PS2 disabled, so /dev/psaux was not available I'm assuming >> that's why it would

Re: 2.6.12-rc4 lots faster than any kernel before?

oes exactly the same thing as /dev/input/mice. I'm getting strange i2c related messages now though in my /var/log/syslog. I'd better fix my X config and change kernel back to how it was. Erik On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 08:45 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I switched the

Overkill debugging output

ioctl, cmd: 0x703, arg: 42. [ 3268.993955] i2c-dev: i2c-4 writing 3 bytes. [ 3268.993958] i2c_adapter i2c-4: master_send: writing 3 bytes. How do I switch this off? -- __ ERIK CHAKRAVARTY (0452958) mobile: (+44) 7720 850521 email: [EMAIL

Re: 2.6.12-rc4 lots faster than any kernel before?

. Sound appears to be working fine, suspend is fixed and yes, the HDD blink is cool. Good job guys. Erik On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 13:21 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:12:34AM +0100, Erik Chakravarty wrote: > > Hi Wolfgang > > > > Could you pleas

Re: 2.6.12-rc4 lots faster than any kernel before?

Never mind I see you have disabled CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2 OK let's try again. :-) On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 13:36 +0100, Erik Chakravarty wrote: > This kernel breaks my touchpad > > X won't start - > > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux > No su

Re: 2.6.12-rc4 lots faster than any kernel before?

type: MOUSE) (II) Server_Terminate keybinding not found (II) Generic Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded No core pointer Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices The touchpad works fine with the stock 2.6.11-powerpc kernel in the Debian/PPC repository. On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 13

Re: HELP! Can't mount my hard disk :-0

n Fri, 2005-05-13 at 17:13 +0100, Erik Chakravarty wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me quickly what the major and minor numbers for my > > main ext3 > > partition should be if it's hda6? I have to create the character > > devices so I > > can mount the disk and sor

HELP! Can't mount my hard disk :-0

reate the character devices so I can mount the disk and sort out my kernel images. Thanks a lot Erik - ERIK CHAKRAVARTY (+44) 7720 850521 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT - HP Surestore DAT40 & PM7600

board ROM anyway, so it shouldn't matter. If you do want to use it with MacOS, you should get a Mac version. > - has anyone made a setup with similar hardware (pm6700 & > surestore40gb) and willing to share the experience I only have a malfunctioning HP DDS 2 tape drive. Erik -- T

Re: (albook g4) DVD writing

at 07:50 +, David Pye wrote: > On Monday 28 February 2005 02:30, Erik Chakravarty wrote: > > Anybody have any success with this? > > Yes, works fine here. > > David -- _ Erik Chakravarty (0452958) 07720 850521 x83085 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

(albook) macchanger

Hey there Does anybody know whether or not there might be any adverse impacts of running macchanger to alter the MAC address of the network interface in a new Powerbook G4? Is this a firmware level change? How does macchanger work? Cheers Erik -- _ Erik

(albook g4) DVD writing

Anybody have any success with this? -- _ Erik Chakravarty (0452958) 07720 850521 x83085 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gramofile wav format not accepted by other sound programs

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:44:15 +1100 Nick Croft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Erik de Castro Lopo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > My guess is that gramofile uses its own WAV file writing code instead of > > using something proven like libsndfile: >

Re: gramofile wav format not accepted by other sound programs

to compile from source. My guess is that gramofile uses its own WAV file writing code instead of using something proven like libsndfile: http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/ Try grabbing the the sndfile-programs package and use sndfile-info on the file. You can post the output here and I'll hav

Installing K2.6.9 with sleep patch #5

the initrd.img file which I cannot find in the tree. Is there a separate "make" required to build this image? (I didn't have this issue on i386 but this is the first ppc kernel I have tried to build - sorry for the ppc newbie question :-) ) Cheers --

Configuring X on a Powerbook G4 17" with Mobility Radeon 9600 (128 MB)

Hello, I described my problem in . Like I said there, I can get X running with ati, radeon and fbdev drivers, but there's still a horizontal flickering. Can I somehow combine the kernel paramete

Re: Touchpad control on a PowerBook

move a window with Alt/Meta+MMB and Alt/Meta+RMB > > respectively. > > Are you sure of it ? mouseemu should not lock the trackpad when modifier > keys are down (ctrl, alt, command, shift). What keys are "MMB" and "RMB"? > > -- > Colin > Ha

Touchpad control on a PowerBook

the Eject key, then when I hit it again the touchpad is reenabled. Is this possible with pbbuttonsd? Thanks -- _ Erik Chakravarty (+44) 7720 850521

Software Suspend

;t have to keep rebooting. Thanks ----- Erik Chakravarty (+44) 7720 850521

DRI / 3D acceleration (G4 AlBook)

Hi I'm a new member of this list. I recently got sarge up and running on my 2004 G4 PowerBook. Most of the hardware seems to be working OK - but has anyone got DRI/3D hardware acceleration working on the ATI Mobility Radeon 9700? -- - Erik Chakravarty (+44)

Re: Most Polite Apps for Window Managers?

run in a window manager (that is, using just the gnome toolkit.) E-mail (Thunderbird) Web (Firefox) Office (OpenOffice) these run ok with different WMs in general there are (almost) no problems related to running apps in different WMs Contacts (Rubrica) never tried this one, erik

Re: Thinking of Debian

openoffice.org 1.1.0+1.1.1rc3 Debian specific parts of OpenOffice.org ii openoffice.org 1.1.1-2English (US) language package for openoffice Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lo

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/7025-F50 (PPC 604e, CHRP)

partition of type 41, then you dd your kernel into it. On my PReP box I usually just do... dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 dd if=/usr/src/linux/arch/ppc/boot/images/zImage.prep of=/dev/sda1 to install a new kernel, -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --Thi

External monitor on an ibook 2

nologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) I can turn thge external monitor on and off using m3mirror crt:[01] but the image onf the monitor has a bad case of the shakes. Has anybody got this to work reliably? TIA, Erik -- +---+ Erik d

Re: gliv: Segmentation fault

s to any obvious bug. A better bet would be to run it inside gdb and when it crashes grab a backtrace using the bt command. Some thing like this: prompt > gdb /usr/bin/gliv (gdb) run .. gliv segfaults ... (gdb) bt and then post that to the list or you website d

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

this subject. I have a prep box... -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--

Re: Linux voiding warranty for Apple Hardware, or not?

d so quickly I had to wonder if they actually did anything to it). Then again, I might have forgotten to mention the Linux install (the drive was dead, so it was kind of academic...) Erik

Re: playing mp3's from my mac on linux?

le, prepending the resource fork onto the start of the file. You might want to see if hfsplus has a mount option to present just the data fork of the file. Hope this helps, Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it'

Re: Enabling IBM Java 141 for web browsers

ONE > JAVA_HOME=/opt/IBMJava2-ppc-141 You got this working? I haven't played too much with it, but the version of 1.4.1 for ppc I downloaded a couple weeks ago would crash as soon as the JVM started. Kind of a downer given I'd like to have the same JVM across all my systems (and the re

Re: [OT] usb-{irda,serial} adaptors

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 06:46:52PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > can anyone recommend any specific usb<->irda and usb<->serial adaptors > > that work reliably under ppc linux, preferably under 2.4.X? > > Thanks, > > -- Guido > > > > For an usb<->serial adaptors > > > I've pu

Re: screaming ibook in 2.4.20

t; I always know when it will happen. > > Sometimes on wakeup, the speakers click every few seconds. > The next wakeup, they will scream, because the mic goes live. > The one after that, they might scream, or hiss, or be OK. Etc. That used to happen to me until I switch to the ALSA drivers

Re: Reiserfs on an iBook?

is very detrimental to realtime audio processing (my little area of interest). Maybe I should try Reiserfs on my desktop first. Thanks, Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-

Reiserfs on an iBook?

Hi People, Is anybody running reiserfs on an iBook? Opinions? Comments? Gotchas? Cheers, Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +---+ "The

Re: libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13) & liba52-0.7.4

e package and get around > > your versioning problems. (I'm using liba52-0.7.3 on x86 - my > > laptop's at home and running OS X at the moment). > > > > thanks Erik.. I managed (after several installs and reinstalls mainly > due to the unorderly fashion in which I set

Re: libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13) & liba52-0.7.4

the source package and get around your versioning problems. (I'm using liba52-0.7.3 on x86 - my laptop's at home and running OS X at the moment). Erik -- If I didn't ruin the mood by saying something stupid, I wouldn't be me, would I? - Davan (www.somethingpositive.net)

Re: New - Newbie apt-get question

place one can find a sort of "debian tips and tricks" list? I've used Debian for years and never knew about goodness like "apt-cache search" until I started reading this list. Has someone compiled a list of those really useful things that set Debian apart? Erik &

Re: External monitor on iBook wobbles

I can do to help? Cheers, Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +---+ "TLC declared bankruptcy after they received less than 2 percent of th

External monitor on iBook wobbles

Hi all, When I connect an external monitor to my iBook and run BenH's m3mirror program, I get a screen which seems to have a screwy hsync. I've search through Goole groups on this and have seen posts from people descibing the problem but I can't find a solution. Is there

Re: Mouse button 2&3 on iBook

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:36:03 -0700 "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 07:48:43AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > In MacOSX with XDarwin, I have the the button set up > > as mouse button 2 and a

Mouse button 2&3 on iBook

able to set this up correctly? I'm only interested in X, not the console. TIA, Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +---+ "Indeed, I am

Blackbox in Woody?

Hi all, Is anyone seeing anything odd with blackbox on PPC Woody? I'm missing all menus. I have two WMs installed, IceWM and Blackbox. IceWM works as expected but when I use the WM menu item to switch to BB there's no menus at all. Ch

Re: airport eth1, onboard eth0 & eth1 Tx error, status 1

look at the signal strengths you're seeing. I just grabbed linux-2.4.19-pre8-ben0 and suddenly all timout messages are gone, with or without rate limitting from the router. Then again, there are changelog entries talking about makeing RX and TX errors quieter (so they might still be

Re: airport eth1, onboard eth0 & eth1 Tx error, status 1

tation - I used to have one (perk from previous job) and I never had to power cycle it or do other weirdness to keep it happy (using a WaveLAN card in a Thinkpad). Erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: airport eth1, onboard eth0 & eth1 Tx error, status 1

roblem, which I gather has something to do with the WAP11 drinking from a 100mbit firehose. Too bad I still have to powercycle the damn thing regularly :-( Erik -- Pretend that you are not limited by your programming -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerBook 520c

"Erik C.J. Laan" wrote: > > Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 09:27:48AM +0100, Sacred Eagle wrote: > > > Hello all! > > > I just received an old Mac PowerBook 520c and I wonder if it is at all > > > possible to install Debian on

Re: PowerBook 520c

Matthew Eis. Please ask at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3) Because debian potato and woody only have 2.2 kernels you'll maybe need to take a few extra steps. One I'm certain is manually installing 2.4 modules. Don't know of any other. Please do

Re: Airport "Tx error" problem

staking it for OS X. :-) In all seriousness, the oversensitivity of the trackpad (it registers movement before you actually touch the surface - including having your palms above it while typing) makes me not like running X on this guy. Erik

Re: Airport woes

out" messages (and a mention of fixing them in the TODO list). I have noticed that the WAP11 needs to be powercycled every few days (sometimes daily) because things will just mysteriously quit working (with no error messages). I haven't looked into firmware upgrades for it. Erik >

Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

h tasksel - is there a way to query what tasks you have installed? Re-running it just shows the ones you /didn't/ choose. I ran dselect afterward and added some individual packages (but didn't turn any off). Thanks for all the hard work. I know that getting installers right is a royal pain. Erik

Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

yaboot in it as soon as you start the Linux install. That gets rather awkward if anything bombs out. Then again, now that I have an up to date install I might not be reinstalling for a bit (though I'll give it a try when the new-powermac stuff goes into the default install - just to make sure it keeps working as well as it does now). Erik

Re: powerpc b-f build compiles the kernel

prep box.. I used a prep box a while back. I recall the build process needed to compile the initrd into some special section in the kernel so the thing could netboot... -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--

Re: ATA hard disk not recognized

It turns out that for this drive, you need to pass the hard drive geometry explicitly to the kernel. If you're booting from CD, restart holding Command-Option-O-F, and type boot:cd,\\yaboot to get the boot: prompt. In this case the arguments were: linux hda=16383,2,63 root=/dev/hda13

ATA hard disk not recognized

the 20GB Maxtor disk that came with it, and had no problems. /proc/modules and /proc/ide return nothing; /proc/dma says "4: cascade". modprobe says "Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/modules/dep (no such file or directory)". I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. -Erik

ProTV and DVD

grateful :) // Erik

Re: Help - cross-compiler for powerpc-linux

er an alterative? - maybe even a system to ftp files > from? It might be better to use pristine sources. You need the sources for binutils, gcc. If you want to be able to build binaries for the PowerPC platform, you need glibc and linux sources as well. Anyway, the Gcc FAQ has an entry

Re: Embedded Debian (was: compaq iPaq)

The source code in the boot floppies CVS tree is out of date, since we froze it quite a while ago, and has a number of bugs (none release critical, but some a bit annoying) that are fixed in the latest and greatest... -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.xmission.com/~andersen/