Re: Some questions, plus hfsprogs is missing

2021-05-02 Thread James Madgwick
On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 19:28:53 +0200 "Johannes Brakensiek" wrote: > I’m using a Radeon HD 6570 now in a PowerMac11,2 and it works quite > well - it is as fast as I’d expect it to be from a machine of this > age. The PowerMac11,2 already has got PCIe (1.00) of course, so I > don’t know if it is sp

Re: Some questions, plus hfsprogs is missing

2021-04-25 Thread James Madgwick
the startup disk. This didn't work and with the Mac disk unplugged I now get the flashing "?" folder (I can still boot manually from OpenFirmware). I guess MacOS has erased an nvram variable set by the Debian installer? Is there an easy way to reproduce what the installer did and get Debian booting automatically again? -- Regards, James

Some questions, plus hfsprogs is missing

2021-04-24 Thread James Madgwick
firefox codebase (https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2017/02/msg00081.html). james@PowerMac-G5:~$ firefox Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: glxtest: No visuals found (t=4.23128) [GFX1-]: glxtest: No visuals found Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: glxtest

Re: Removing powerpcspe from Debian Ports

2019-05-28 Thread James Clarke
he instructions on the page and you should be good to go. Specifically, you want [1], as linked to by the news entry announcing its removal[2]. James [1] http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/20190519/ [2] https://www.ports.debian.org

Re: Bug#876147: camp frequently FTBFS on 64bit big endian: camptest-qt (Failed)

2017-12-08 Thread James Clarke
catch these out-of-bounds reads regardless of the system's endianness. TL;DR camp needs to stop treating longs like ints. Regards, James

Bug#874074: ld.so: TLS relocations against local symbols don't work on powerpc, sparc and sparc64

2017-09-02 Thread James Clarke
was first seen. Regards, James [0] http://paste.debian.net/plain/984146

Sophos/SonicWall Users

2017-03-10 Thread andrew . james
Hi, Would you be interested in *Sophos/SonicWall Users* contacts ? * We also have Sophos users for XG Firewall, SG UTM, Sophos Cloud, Endpoint Protection, SafeGuard Encryption and many more..* We also provide other Network & Securit Users like: * WatchGuard, Panda Security, Arbor Networks, A

Sophos/SonicWall Users

2017-03-10 Thread andrew . james
Hi, Would you be interested in *Sophos/SonicWall Users* contacts ? * We also have Sophos users for XG Firewall, SG UTM, Sophos Cloud, Endpoint Protection, SafeGuard Encryption and many more..* We also provide other Network & Securit Users like: * WatchGuard, Panda Security, Arbor Networks, A

Bug#849542: PIE specs ignored even with DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS hardening

2016-12-28 Thread James Clarke
g++: note: pie specs /usr/share/dpkg/pie-compile.specs ignored when pie is > not enabled Regards, James

Re: Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-10-30 Thread James Cowgill
Control: tags -1 - help Control: severity -1 important Control: retitle -1 vlc: should prevent installation on powerpc G3 Hi, On 30/10/16 00:16, Robert Ou wrote: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 3:43 PM, James Cowgill wrote: >> Control: tags -1 help >> Control: severity -1 grave >&g

Re: Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-10-29 Thread James Cowgill
ally what powerpc hardware do you have? Could you run vlc within gdb to determine which instruction it SIGILLs on (try 'layout asm')? Can a powerpc porter help here? Thanks, James signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

How's it going?

2016-06-01 Thread JAMES LANDRUM
Howdy I saw your website yesterday. I'm currently looking for employment either part time to get experience in the field. Please look over my Resume . Thank you for your assistance in this matter, -- JAMES LANDRUM JAMES-Resume.doc Description: MS-Word document

Bug#767599: lldb-3.5: enable lldb on arm64 and ppc64el

2014-11-01 Thread James Cowgill
Package: lldb-3.5 Version: 1:3.5-6 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-...@lists.debian.org, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Hi, Can you enable lldb on arm64 and ppc64el please? I have no idea if it will build or work though - maybe someone can test it? Thanks, James -- System Information

X server strangeness on iMac G5

2014-03-23 Thread James Durham
Hi All, I installed Debian 7.4 PPC on my iMacG5. Here is list of things that I observed in case it helps anyone. Desktop had black background on bottom 1/2 of screen. Windows seemed to not be effected and would open over the black part of the screen. However, I opened emacs and noticed that

Re: Python pyinstaller produces bad binary file

2014-03-23 Thread James Durham
d this package from scratch on your system. > Or is this truly a PowerPC executable and the ELF header has been corrupted? > Either way, I think rebuilding from source will be the best path forward. > Dave > > From: James Durham > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 12:35 PM > To:

Re: Python pyinstaller produces bad binary file

2014-03-21 Thread James Durham
Sure does! I was reading the specs for binary headers for 64 bit PowerPC and it looks like this is a 32 bit Intel file and the address that is jumped to to execute the program is all 0's ? Check me on this as I haven't looked at this kind of stuff since college (long time ago). Looks like Mag

Re: changing the java default to java7, and dropping java support for some architectures

2013-05-13 Thread James Page
Hey Matthias On 06/05/13 15:22, Matthias Klose wrote: It's time to change the Java default to java7, and to drop java support on architectures with non-working java7. +1 Patches for the transition to Java7 should be available in the BTS, mostly submitted by James Page. Some may be

Re: newest linux-image-3.0.0-1 doesn't recognize HD

2011-10-10 Thread James Tappin
as no hda3 in /dev (must be something at a lower level). -- +----+---+-+ | James Tappin | School of Physics & Astronomy | O__| | s...@star.sr.bham.ac.uk | University of Birmingha

Re: [racket-dev] Build failure on specific PPC systems

2011-08-28 Thread James Vega
f memory space. Hence no ppc64 port in debian. > > I even tried doing 'linux32 dpkg-buildpackage' which makes the uname -m > claim to be 32bit, and even then with 32bit userspace and a kernel > claiming to be 32bit, it still failed the same way. So, does anyone have an idea on ho

Re: [racket-dev] Build failure on specific PPC systems

2011-08-28 Thread James Vega
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 05:42:10AM -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote: > Two days ago, James Vega wrote: > > > > Since I've generally had more luck using the cgc GC on less > > mainstream systems, I set the build to use that for PowerPC and let > > it be in case thing

Re: Build failure on specific PPC systems

2011-08-25 Thread James Vega
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:31:05PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:58:04PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 07:30:07PM -0400, James Vega wrote: > > > Since at least 4.2.4, Racket has been failing to build[0][1] for Debian

Build failure on specific PPC systems

2011-08-24 Thread James Vega
[2]: http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=praetorious [3]: http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=poulenc [4]: http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=pescetti [5]: http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=shooreinet -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: kernel stops recognizing uuid labels after update

2011-05-25 Thread James Tappin
fusing to boot from CD) and then booting into rescue mode and running "apt-get update" and "apt-get dist-upgrade". -- ++-------+-+ | James Tappin | School of Physics & Astronomy | O__| | s...@star

Re: kernel stops recognizing uuid labels after update

2011-05-23 Thread James Tappin
ave networking and if pen drives aren't properly handled how do you get the new (or older) version onto the machine? [If I'm lucky there may be something in the apt cache, but I doubt it] TIA James -- ++---+-+ | Jam

Re: iBook G3 & Squeeze -- any hope? (Duh)

2011-04-07 Thread James Tappin
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 14:49:13 +0100 James Tappin wrote: JT> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:39:46 +0200 (CEST) JT> "Jeroen Diederen" wrote: JT> JT> JD> Try here: JT> JD> http://mac.linux.be/content/xorgconf-ibook-g3-500-dual-usb-0 JT> JD> JT> JD> JT> JT&

Re: iBook G3 & Squeeze -- any hope?

2011-04-07 Thread James Tappin
anything. However that does remind me that I think I have an old Ubuntu live CD that used to work so maybe I can use that to make a valid Xorg.conf. -- ++---+-+ | James Tappin | School of Physics & Astronomy | O__|

iBook G3 & Squeeze -- any hope?

2011-04-06 Thread James Tappin
onger have. Does anyone have any links or advice or is the whole system a non-starter. TIA James [*] I'll need to reinstall to get the exact message as I've currently got Archppc on the disk but that's even worse--can'

Re: Adjust imac G3 monitor?

2010-04-14 Thread James Tappin
ut I've never figured out how to work them out. -- +----+---+-+ | James Tappin | School of Physics & Astronomy | O__| | s...@star.sr.bham.ac.uk | University of Birmingham

Re: xserver Settings for ATI Rage 128

2009-08-24 Thread James Tappin
.conf safe (e.g. at least have a copy somewhere outside /etc in case a later upgrade overwrites it). ++---+-+ | James Tappin | School of Physics & Astronomy | O__| | s...@star.sr.bham.ac.uk | University of Birmingham

Re: hwclock: NVRAM flat battery sets date to 1904

2009-05-19 Thread James Tappin
en the time went to 1904. My guess then was that the 2 systems had different origins for the H/W clock, and if there was no ntpdate to fix it, then the system clock was set from an h/w clock in a different format (I don't recall a corresponding problem going the other way (no 2104 date). -- +-

Re: iBook G3 - Debian Lenny and one projector

2009-03-24 Thread James Tappin
graphics outputs (I don't recall the URL). You may also find you need a kernel patch to get rid of the waves in the external display -- I know I posted that to the Ubuntu forums a couple of years back. -- ++---+-+ | James Tappin

Re: broadcom 4306 rev 3 ndiswrapper

2009-02-27 Thread James Tappin
iswrapper or am I out of luck. SS> thanks SS> I'm afraid you're out of luck, ndiswrapper loads windows drivers and is therefore x86* only. AFAIK there's no equivalent to load MacOS drivers on PPC. -- ++---+-+ | J

Re: No X on iMac G3 400MHz

2009-02-11 Thread James Tappin
r than Debian (you may get X but only 600x480 resolution. -- +----+---+-+ | James Tappin | School of Physics & Astronomy | O__| | s...@star.sr.bham.ac.uk | University of Birmin

Re: Can't get xorg working on iBook - Help please!

2009-01-05 Thread James Tappin
ng) fix is to keep an oldish live-CD that is known to work, boot that and copy the xorg.conf to a pendrive, then use that xorg.conf. [I used the Ubuntu 6.06 install CD, but Knoppix of comparable vintage should also be OK]. -- ++---+-+ | James Ta

Re: G3 Beige Tower install help

2008-09-06 Thread James Kozak
ot; and rename it to ramdisk.image.gz ? James

Re: Very weird results with X.org and fresh sid install

2008-06-02 Thread James Tappin
ars back at least in which it was suggested that the wiring to the built-in screen for iBooks of that era was "non-standard"). James -- ++---+-+ | James Tappin | School of Physics & Astronomy | O__| | [EMAIL

Re: PowerMac 9500 + etch = no boot to hard drive (now post boot glitches)

2007-12-15 Thread james cox
Well, guys, thank you for the help, i got it to boot. Now I need to figure out how to start the KDE configuration manager program to tell KDE that i replaced the ix micro twin turbo card I used during the install with a Voodoo3 (stupid move). It can't find it & exits with the message "can't find

PowerMac 9500 + etch = no boot to hard drive

2007-12-14 Thread james cox
I have installed etch onto a Powermac 9500 using boot x & the specified kernel - initrid & install .iso on a USB stick. The installer ran successfully other than failing to install quick (expected) & exited normally. This is where my problems start. I reset bootx to boot to my root partition (boot

distributed.net on PowerPC

2006-11-29 Thread James Stark
t I can forward them upstream. Any help that can be provided in this matter would be appreciated, as I have no way of checking out this problem myself. Thanks, James P.S. Please CC me with any responces as I'm not on this list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Mouse/keyboard problem

2006-11-25 Thread James Dunn
t-clicking in the right place (such as OK button dialogs, or text entry forms on webpages, etc) seems to free it up. Does anyone know anything about this? James Javier Ramirez wrote: I am having another issue realted to this. I am currently runnind debian on my powerbook and for some reason wh

Mouse/keyboard problem

2006-11-24 Thread James Dunn
tably fall into this state at some point. I thought it might be firefox at first, but removing that did nothing. I also tried removing and reinstalling mouseemu and pbbuttonsd. Does anyone have any idea what this could be? I'd appreciate any suggestions of where to look.. many thanks

Re: Help needed with Alsa

2006-11-12 Thread James Dunn
Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 the mental interface of James Dunn told: [...] So for some reason, I guess snd-powermac is not loaded when booting... $ echo snd-powermac >> /etc/modules Elimar Ah ha! Brilliant, thank you so much for your help Elimar and Jo

Re: Help needed with Alsa

2006-11-12 Thread James Dunn
Johannes Berg wrote: On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 20:34 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: It would be a great advantage to install alsa-source, build and install the 1.0.13 drivers for your soundcard. But we know that is snd-powermac or snd-aoa for those machines. James, is either of those

Re: Help needed with Alsa

2006-11-12 Thread James Dunn
-1 ALSA library ii linux-sound-base 1.0.13-1 base package for ALSA and OSS sound systems James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help needed with Alsa

2006-11-12 Thread James Dunn
Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 the mental interface of James Dunn told: [...] "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found." Is gstreamer0.8-misc installed? Elimar No - it wasn't. I have installed it now, but there is no change.

Help needed with Alsa

2006-11-12 Thread James Dunn
to it unless I logout and then back in again. However, I have to do all this everytime I boot - how can I save these settings permanently? Many thanks for any help... James PS: The volume icon has now disappeared from the system tray/notification area - I can only put it back to the panel, not th

Help needed with update-manager

2006-11-09 Thread james
t API not stable yet", FutureWarning) current dist not found in meta-release file Can anyone help? Many thanks James (my computer is an ibook G3 900Mhz 640mb RAM) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Volume Control Error

2006-11-08 Thread james
I think I've sorted it out now - no need to worry. cheers james [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I finally successfully installed Debian on my ibook G3! :) However, the sound isn't working... when I click the volume control icon, I get this message: Error The volume c

Volume Control Error

2006-11-08 Thread james
the right GStreamer plugins installed, or that you don't have a sound card configured. You can remove the volume control from the panel by right-clicking the speaker icon on the panel and selecting "Remove From Panel" from the menu. Can anyone help me resolve this? thanks Jam

Re: Help with compiling new kernel

2006-11-03 Thread James Dunn
Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 12:31:31PM +, James Dunn wrote: I am trying to install Debian on my ibook according these instructions: http://linux.looplab.org/html/ibook.html Well, don't. Apparently this page is ways outdated, use this in

Help with compiling new kernel

2006-11-03 Thread James Dunn
should be doing? many thanks James

Newbie help with X Server on ibook G3

2006-11-02 Thread James Dunn
with the Sync or refresh rates? Now, when I boot up, I just get the X Window System login screen, but I can't seem to login. I've tried with root and my user name. Please help! How can I disable the X Window System / X server to reconfigure it again from the command line? Many thanks James

Re: Help Me plz

2006-07-14 Thread James Stallings II
. Best of Luck Cheers James On 7/14/06, MARC Torre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do i get the java2tm file version 1.3.1 plz help i have spent so much money trying to fix this problem online Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls t

Re: Kernel Oops - Post install on Dual G4 Mac

2006-07-03 Thread James Stallings II
of the crash? ctrl+pgup doesn't seem to do it for me - this is with the stock (read default) kernel image. Cheers, James On 7/3/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 06:38 -0500, James Stallings II wrote: > Greetings All, > > I'

Kernel Oops - Post install on Dual G4 Mac

2006-07-03 Thread James Stallings II
hroot sheel (expert mode) but this had no effect on the problem. Please advise asap, I'd hate to have to give up on this for lack of support. BTW, the hardware runs fantastically under OSX. Cheers, James -- === Woulds't thou so blame the fragrant blos'

SCSI driver kernel opps on Dual G4 PowerMac (Mirror front)

2006-06-26 Thread James Stallings II
more 'in-the-know' would be highly appreciated. Cheers, James Hardware Overview: Machine Model:Power Mac G4 CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (3.3) Number Of CPUs: 2 CPU Speed:1.25 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB L3 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB Memory: 1 GB Bus Speed:167 MH

Re: Xorg upgrade breaks keyboard settings on powerbook3,3

2006-06-08 Thread James Tappin
lso had to use pc105 and also switch KDE from using the gb layout to the us layout (it remains gb in the xorg config file). (I even tried using an external keyboard with the same results). Unfortunately on the Ubuntu lists I didn't get any answers. Sorry I can't give more help, but you'

Re: On the status of support for the current generation iBooks

2006-03-22 Thread James Montgomery
#x27;' PowerbookPPC for sometime now. My only concern is; will PPC development be droping off? I know it won't disappear overnight, but how do the next 2-5 years look? And if they can get XP to boot on the x86 MacBook, how long before linux x86 will be running on Apple hardware? Than

Debian on a mac mini

2006-03-09 Thread James Ricken
How would debian work on a mac mini? I own one,just wanting to know how hard it would be to install? Also should I use sarge or what? Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

powercenter ethernet problem (mace)

2006-01-17 Thread James Taylor
Hey guys first post!   I have a problem with my PowerCenter Pro 180, I have tried both Debian 3.0r5 and also 3.1r1.   The Ethernet refuses to function correctly, I can assign it an ip and bring it up – but as soon as It has received the exact same number of bytes that the MTU is set to

powercenter ethernet problem (mace)

2006-01-12 Thread James Taylor
Hey guys first post!   I have a problem with my PowerCenter Pro 180, I have tried both Debian 3.0r5 and also 3.1r1.   The Ethernet refuses to function correctly, I can assign it an ip and bring it up – but as soon as It has received the exact same number of bytes that the MTU is set to

Re: Bug#322821: libpng12-0: new version breaks pdflatex

2005-09-27 Thread James Ballantine
en (no button images) with 1.2.8rel-1 and fixed with 1.2.8rel-1.0.1, same as for the Gimp. /james -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sudden power loss on tibook

2005-09-11 Thread James Ballantine
slog for the last few seconds of uptime. The last line is the system booting (with the clock reset). I've now disabled cpufreqd and am testing powernowd to see if I get the same behaviour. Subjectively, it seems like these resets happen during times of higher system load: Fan running, disk

Re: sudden power loss on tibook

2005-09-05 Thread James Ballantine
mes unresponsive? If not, involvement of the PMU > isn't that likely anymore, and CPU frequency switching looks more likely. No, not really. there is no noticeable time between normal interactive behaviour and complete power-off - it's effectively instant. /james -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sudden power loss on tibook

2005-09-05 Thread James Ballantine
link or otherwise. Is that what you meant? /james -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sudden power loss on tibook

2005-09-03 Thread James Ballantine
shutdowns? Does this imply anything about where the fault is occurring? /james -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sudden power loss on tibook

2005-09-03 Thread James Ballantine
er-loss after a few hours of that - so for me, the problem isn't caused by mouseemu. I'm now using powernowd instead of cpufreqd - I'll report back on how that goes. thanks, /james -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sudden power loss on tibook

2005-09-03 Thread James Ballantine
come in anyway :-) I've told mouseemu "-typing-block 0" - is that the same as disabling it? /james -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sudden power loss on tibook

2005-09-03 Thread James Ballantine
so it's hard to describe behaviour causing it, but it's always been while I'm actually using the computer (not while running idle), so it's quite possible that I was sending mouse/keyboard events at the moment of power loss each time. I'm going to try telling mouseemu not

Re: sudden power loss on tibook

2005-09-02 Thread James Ballantine
I should report for the record that for me this problem persists in kernel 2.6.13 (self-compiled, with the recent pci patch). My machine is a powerbook 12" (powerbook 6,2). Does anyone know if this has been brought up on the LKML? Would that be appropriate? /james -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Modify the brightness without the use of Framebuffer

2005-08-22 Thread James Ballantine
blems as often as you like, until you next reboot the system. Hope this helps! /james Mickael Royer wrote: Hi I have the post 02/05 powerbook 12''. To use the suspend-to -disk with X, I have to disable the framebuffer (video=ofonly). But, when i do this, i can not anymore modify th

Unidentified subject!

2005-07-01 Thread James Buchanan
unsubscribe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge

2005-06-07 Thread James Tappin
me ;-) WX> WX> Why not sid ? :P WX> In the next few months there will probably be a lot of upheaval in Sid (e.g. xorg, gcc 4 ...) so it's likely to actually be unstable for a bit. James -- ++---+-+ | James Tappi

munged yaboot.conf

2005-05-31 Thread james houston
I have OS X (10.4.1) and Sarge on my iBook (dual USB). I tried to customize my yaboot.conf file and messed up the syntax so now when I choose "l" in yaboot, I get this error: Config file error: newline is not allowed in quoted strings near line 7 in file \\yaboot.conf Syntax error or read error c

Re: PowerPC kernels, partitioning on macppc

2005-05-24 Thread James Buchanan
let MacOS boot from the disk. Only Apple disk > utilities can generate these partitions. The Debian installer created the partitions even after I had trashed them a few times, so the developers must have figured out how those partitions work and how to create them. James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: zillion printk messages suppressed

2005-05-24 Thread James Buchanan
On Mon, 23 May 2005 04:24 pm, James Buchanan wrote: > When installing debian-sarge-netinst for PowerPC rc3 on an iBook it prints > a message like "500 printk messages suppressed" every couple of seconds. > Does anyone know what this is? It was so annoying I had to power o

PowerPC kernels, partitioning on macppc

2005-05-23 Thread James Buchanan
here. If this is so, how is the kernel linked? Must it somehow relocate itself? And how to handle interrupts on the MacPPC, and all that stuff the kernel does... books, docs on the net, etc. Thanks for your help. :) James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

zillion printk messages suppressed

2005-05-23 Thread James Buchanan
ut F1 and so on, but that didn't work and confused the installer.) Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [wireless question] debian 3.1 on iBook G4 1.2

2005-05-05 Thread James Tappin
is NOT (The 54Mb/s version) I'm not sure when they switched for the iBook -- my 3 year old G3 has the original Airport. -- ++---+-+ | James Tappin | School of Physics & Astronomy | O__| | [EMAIL P

Re: some way to start gtkbuttons at X startup

2005-04-22 Thread James Tappin
it in appropriate runlevels so that it starts AFTER the display manager. Of course there may be security implications for running gtkbuttons as root which would make this inadvisable. Any comments anyone? James -- ++---+----

Re: dvd hdparm?

2005-04-20 Thread James Tappin
st picked up on this thread, but my experience with a *600MHz* G3 iBook is that it can't keep up with playing DVDs and xine eventually gives up with a message that the CPU is too slow. It is however possible to play a DVD on OSX -- so

Re: Dual-boot problem with OSX 10.3.9 (OT ish)

2005-04-18 Thread James Tappin
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:28:17 +0100 James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JT> I have a G3 iBook that is supposed to dual-boot Debian/Sarge and JT> MacOS X. JT> JT> I use the yaboot boot loader, but since the latest OSX release JT> (10.3.9) I can only boot Linux. Whenever

Dual-boot problem with OSX 10.3.9 (OT ish)

2005-04-18 Thread James Tappin
o joy. My question therefore is: Has anyone else had a similar problem and if so have you found a solution (e.g. a change in the yaboot config files)? TIA James -- ++---+-+ | James Tappin | School of Physics &

Re: list of PowerMac sound hardware TO-DO (help welcome)

2005-03-22 Thread James Tappin
; 'dmesg' and 'hwinfo' - MÉR> just to name a few. MÉR> G3 iBook (600MHz) reports, awacs chipset. ALSA playback works, but the microphone doesn't. Beep -- I'm not sure but I don't think it works (cat beep.txt where beep.txt is a file with ^G's in it yi

Re: `dd` problem from cdrom

2005-03-16 Thread James Tappin
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:31:14 +0100 Colin Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CL> I didn't try older kernels yet; Any idea about this? Is it a kernel bug CL> or a configuration issue? Or a bad CD? -- ++---+----

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-02-24 Thread James Tappin
Herrenschmidt's 2.4 kernel from penguinppc.org? BH> BH> Cheers, BH> BH> Ben BH> BH> Airport should be OK, with the stock kernels (you need the airport module to be loaded -- as I recall that was figured by the installer). airport extreme on the ot

Re: m3mirror and distortion (Problem solved -- patch attached)

2005-02-16 Thread James Tappin
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:09:39 + James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JT> I've been trying to get the external monitor output of my G3 iBook JT> (ca. 2002) working. JT> JT> Does anyone know which (if any) of the various kernel patches that JT> are floating around

Re: dpkg problems...

2005-02-14 Thread James Tappin
hanks to all that have made V> LinucPPC so great! You might try a few iterations of apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get -f install Probably best to avoid dselect (if you want a similar tool aptitude is much better). James -- ++---+-+ | Ja

Re: where's tfm?

2005-02-14 Thread James Tappin
articular the basic 75 & 100 dpi bitmaps fonts they may be ugly but at least they are something). James -- ++-------+-+ | James Tappin | School of Physics & Astronomy | O__| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | University of Birmingh

m3mirror and distortion

2005-02-14 Thread James Tappin
f not whether there is anything that does fix the problem -- or what settings I might try tweaking? TIA James -- ++---+-+ | James Tappin | School of Physics & Astronomy | O__| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | University o

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-11 Thread James Tappin
message to this list or somewhere CL> > else? CL> CL> Yes, here :) CL> I think you mean sudo tar -zcf device-tree.tgz /proc/device-tree ^ James -- +----+---+-+ | James Tappin | School of Physics & As

Re: Auctex on iBook fails (same version works on x86)

2005-02-04 Thread James Tappin
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:13:47 +0100 David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DK> DK> [Copy by mail since I don't know whether posting to the Usenet DK> mirror will propagate back to the list] DK> DK> James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DK> DK> >

Auctex on iBook fails (same version works on x86)

2005-02-04 Thread James Tappin
is is a packaging problem, a configuration problem on my iBook (and if so what) or an upstream problem? FWIW auctex does work with "carbon emacs" on the Mac OSX side. TIA James -- ++---+-+ | James Tappin | S

Re: gramofile wav format not accepted by other sound programs

2005-01-24 Thread James Tappin
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:53:53 +1100 Nick Croft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: NC> Can't see these two as debppc packages. Need to look further afield. arecord is in alsa-tools, gwc is in testing and unstable. James -- ++---+

Re: gramofile wav format not accepted by other sound programs

2005-01-24 Thread James Tappin
as sending anything to your speakers as the results could be harmful to them and to your ears. As far as getting anything done about it -- I wouldn't hold you breath; to be perfectly honest it is legacy software. For recording, I usually use arecord from the command line these days and gwc

Re: can't boot with my 2.6.9 kernel...

2005-01-15 Thread James Gibbs
ithout formatting because I couldn't figure it out. I saved the /etc/kernel-img.conf file and see it somehow got changed to link_in_boot = no. Don't know how that happened. James

Re: can't boot with my 2.6.9 kernel...

2005-01-15 Thread James Gibbs
ithout formatting because I couldn't figure it out. I saved the /etc/kernel-img.conf file and see it somehow got changed to link_in_boot = no. Don't know how that happened. James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Microphone input (iBook G3)

2004-12-16 Thread James Tappin
ECTED]:~$ ls -l /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 24 2004-06-30 11:41 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups james dialout cdrom floppy audio video [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsmod | grep snd snd_mixer_oss 23264 0 snd_powermac 44304 2 snd_pcm 1198

Re: problems installing Debian on iBook G3 - The attempt to extract the Rescue Floppy from disk failed

2004-11-30 Thread James Tappin
succesfull. I founded [1] RW> and other similar messages, but all refering to RW> different installation methods. RW> RW> Any hints are welcome! RW> RW> Thanks in advance, RW> Rodrigo The fact that you are getting a segmentation fault on two different installation

Re: airport and encryption

2004-09-17 Thread James Gibbs
ure the base station. Click where it says "password" to see what the password key is in hex. Then change the wireless_key line to "wireless_key ABCDEF0123", rather than entering as a string. Also, don't know if it matters, but my interfaces file uses "wireless-key" rather than "wireless_key". James

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