Re: Debian on a PowerBook 1400cs/133

2007-11-19 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 05:35:44PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > my vietnames neighbour has a PowerBook 1400cs/133 with broken MacOS > (which was generaly only the Mac basic software). > > Now we have tried to install Debian from CD, but Etch does not boot. > > Can anyone help me?

Re: xkb-data with support for Mac keyboards into unstable

2006-09-24 Thread Nicolas François
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 03:30:04PM +0200, Djoume SALVETTI wrote: > > Is there anybody with a french apple keyboard who know how to delete the > character after the cursor? Does fn + backspace works? -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-09-13 Thread Nicolas François
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 03:26:50PM +0200, Sylvain Joyeux wrote: > > Fix that on *your* system or for *your* user account. Some people > > actually _need_ it. > Just *calm down*, my question was specifically "how to fix that *here*". > Could > you enlighten me and tell me for *what* it is used ?

Re: Upgrade to Debian testing

2006-08-05 Thread Nicolas François
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 07:14:20PM -0400, You wrote: > > First, I get the following messages when attempting to begin a session > on the console or via Telnet. Secure shell sessions do not produce > these messages. The messages are as follows: > > configuration error - unknown item 'FAIL_DEL

Re: Test version of the glibc built with gcc-4.0

2006-02-19 Thread Nicolas François
Hi, I've noticed the following. I don't know if it's a gnome or libc bug (or if it's a normal behavior) I was using: * libc6 2.3.6-1+gcc4.0 * libc6-dev 2.3.6-1+gcc4.0 * libc6-dev-ppc64 2.3.6-1+gcc4.0 * libc6-ppc64 2.3.6-1+gcc4.0 * locales 2.3.6-1+gcc4.0 Af

Re: failed to install a debian netinst (etch) on an old G4 (400mhz)

2005-12-08 Thread Nicolas Hognon
Charles Plessy wrote: > In my case, I had a similar problem and I actually reformatted the partition 2 in hfs+ format using the osX installation disk. Actually, as the partition tables did not look exactly the same, I re-partitionned the whole drive, to be on the safe side (this means re-install

Re: failed to install a debian netinst (etch) on an old G4 (400mhz)

2005-12-07 Thread Nicolas Hognon
inst bootable cd and I'll try to fix it latter because I have to go to work (yes I try to install a debian before going to work :) I think the problem is about this hfsutil tool which is not here. thank for your help perhaps someone as another idea Regards, nicolas -- To UNSUBSCRIB

failed to install a debian netinst (etch) on an old G4 (400mhz)

2005-12-07 Thread Nicolas Hognon
d it will I am installing the debian from a bootable cd ? someone can help me ... perhaps the answer is simple but I am lost. nicolas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Patch for 2.6.12 and +

2005-09-14 Thread Nicolas DET
Hello, You can find enclosed and here http://arrakin.homedns.org/~nicolas/mol-0.9.70_patch_2.6.14-rc1.diff a patch for MOL modules. Changes: * properly handles different sk_alloc() proto. Indeed, the API changed since 2.6.12 * Use access_ok() instead of verify_data() which is obsolete. The

Re: ITA: Mac on Linux packages

2005-09-10 Thread Nicolas DET
kages and maintain them in a sort of >> > packaging group. >> >> I could build mol-modules from the mol-modules-source package 10 days >> ago (debian unstable and 2.6.12/13), but now I can't : > Nicolas DET has fixed a bug related to sk_alloc : > http:/

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

2005-01-13 Thread Nicolas Lebas
Thank you everybody, i download the iso image of the linux rescue and burn it... And so i could look at my yaboot.conf ; finaly the kernel-image package i installed didn't create the symbolic link "initrd.img", and so i create it and now it's ok... Baba

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

2005-01-13 Thread Nicolas Lebas
Thank you everybody, i download the iso image of the linux rescue and burn it... And so i could look at my yaboot.conf ; finaly the kernel-image package i installed didn't create the symbolic link "initrd.img", and so i create it and now it's ok... Baba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

can't boot with my 2.6.9 kernel...

2005-01-12 Thread Nicolas Lebas
Hello, 2 weeks ago i update my "kernel-image-2.6.9" on my ibook g4, and since i can't my boot on linux os ! The error message is : "kernel panic - not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)" If i'm looking from mac os the content of /boot/ i find 2 files : "vmlinuz" a

can't boot with my 2.6.9 kernel...

2005-01-12 Thread Nicolas Lebas
Hello, 2 weeks ago i update my "kernel-image-2.6.9" on my ibook g4, and since i can't my boot on linux os ! The error message is : "kernel panic - not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)" If i'm looking from mac os the content of /boot/ i find 2 files : "vmlinuz" and "v

Re: umlauts once again :)

2004-12-27 Thread Nicolas Juge
ny letter. Example: " + u will give you ü. If you want the double quotes, you have to press " + space bar. Hope this helps. Nicolas > > thanks again! -- Nicolas Juge Université Laval njuge at bioinfo.ulaval.ca Centre de bioinformatique

Re: Problem, installing Debian on RS6000 P43-140

2004-09-05 Thread nicolas
go through the install process to the detect hardware and partition hard drive? You'll see if your card is detected or not Nicolas

Re: Problem, installing Debian on RS6000 P43-140

2004-09-05 Thread nicolas
he debian installer detects your scsi card and can install the right module ? Thanks Nicolas

Re: Debian and Ibm RS6000 7043-150

2004-09-04 Thread nicolas
The added modules that fix this are not yet in sarge, and will probably not be > until RC2 is released. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther Hi, I've tried this yesterday (even append DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low on the ppc bootloader) but it always tells me that some modules are missing to support my hardware, and that included NCR/Symbios logic module. Regards Nicolas

Re: Debian and Ibm RS6000 7043-150

2004-09-03 Thread Nicolas Raspail
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:48:24AM +0200, Nicolas Raspail wrote: >> >> For the mkvmlinuz, I've found an old 7043-140 (Prep box, Ram 768 Mo, >> 2 >> >> go hd) and tried to install Debian as it's easier I think, but I got >> >> kernel panic

Re: Debian and Ibm RS6000 7043-150

2004-09-03 Thread Nicolas Raspail
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:48:24AM +0200, Nicolas Raspail wrote: >> >> For the mkvmlinuz, I've found an old 7043-140 (Prep box, Ram 768 Mo, >> 2 >> >> go hd) and tried to install Debian as it's easier I think, but I got >> >> kernel panic

Re: Debian and Ibm RS6000 7043-150

2004-09-02 Thread Nicolas Raspail
d problem. So, as I've no more idea about this probleme, I'll wait your new upload of kernel 2.6.8-5 with scsi transport to install my 7043-140 and use mkvlinuz to try your tip > Friendly, > > Sven Luther > Regards Nicolas

Re: Debian and Ibm RS6000 7043-150

2004-09-01 Thread Nicolas Raspail
Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:31:41AM +0200, Nicolas Raspail wrote: Hi, I've tried to netboot the vmlinux-prep/chrp.initrd and none works for me. Here is some logs extract Ok, since now we know that your box is a chrp one, we can tell a bit more about this : 0 &

Re: Debian and Ibm RS6000 7043-150

2004-09-01 Thread Nicolas Raspail
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 08:12:29AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: >> Sven Luther said: >> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:57:40PM +0200, Nicolas Raspail wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I've a problem installing Debian on my 7043-150 (powerpc 604e,

Re: Debian and Ibm RS6000 7043-150

2004-09-01 Thread Nicolas Raspail
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:57:40PM +0200, Nicolas Raspail wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've a problem installing Debian on my 7043-150 (powerpc 604e, chrp I > > Are you sure that this is a chrp, and not a prep machine ? > >> think). I've tried the DI rc1 on s

Debian and Ibm RS6000 7043-150

2004-08-30 Thread Nicolas Raspail
uild them. I don't have access to a powerpc host, only x86 Thanks Regards Nicolas

Re: Best Linux Database

2004-08-13 Thread Nicolas Bertolissio
look at sqlite http://www.sqlite.org there is a debian package with various modules for perl and others. Regards Nicolas --

Re: three different sets of daily ISOs -- what's the difference?

2004-07-11 Thread Nicolas Bertolissio
Le dimanche 11 juillet 2004, Rick Thomas écrit : > There are three (seemingly) different sets of daily ISOs at [...] > Can anybody explain what the difference is? And which one should I > use for testing? http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/builds Regards Nicolas --

Solved: error mounting empty file as disk with MOL

2003-12-24 Thread Nicolas Bertolissio
mention it. I have made a new file (1.9 GB) and formatted it (I tried not formatted but it failed) and Mac OS X installation was a success. thanks a lot Merry Xmas Nicolas

Re: error mounting empty file as disk with MOL

2003-12-24 Thread Nicolas Bertolissio
Selon Joe Malik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 02:00:51PM +0100, Nicolas Bertolissio wrote: > > So I have created a 3GB file with (home/ has an ext3 filesystem): > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/mol/macosx bs=3k count=1M > > This file is not moun

error mounting empty file as disk with MOL

2003-12-24 Thread Nicolas Bertolissio
How can I find which value is too large and what the maximum value is? Nicolas Bertolissio

Re: comparing x86 and powerpc laptops

2003-04-10 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 11:54:52PM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > My price includes tax (which we call GST of 10%). I like PowerPC (I have > an 800Mhz 7451 on an ATX board), but I find it hard to accept that a P4 > 1.6 is similar in speed to an 800Mhz G4, I think it would be rath

Re: console: aty128fb on G4

2003-03-11 Thread Nicolas Bertolissio
Le mardi 11 mars 2003, Alessandro Selli écrit : > Il giorno Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Nicolas Bertolissio così ha scritto: [...] > |aty128fb:1280x1024-75 > |aty128fb:1600x1200-64 > > Of course, you put "video=" before those lines. yes, I've alse tried with a `@'

Re: console: aty128fb on G4

2003-03-11 Thread Nicolas Bertolissio
Le mardi 11 mars 2003, Michel Dänzer écrit : > On Son, 2003-03-09 at 16:12, Nicolas Bertolissio wrote: > > > > I've trouble in making aty128fb work on a G4, I have a kernel compiled > > with make-kpkg from the last kernel-source-2.4.20 and kernel-patch-benh. > >

console: aty128fb on G4

2003-03-09 Thread Nicolas Bertolissio
log (parts) follow. Thanks for any help Nicolas B. Kernel config: CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y [...] CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y [...] CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not set # CONFIG_FB_CLGEN is not set # CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set # CONFIG_FB_PM3 is not set # CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000

Re: 10mbit iBook nic

2003-02-06 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 04:02:13PM +, Laurens Kraal wrote: > Hi! > Does anyone knows howto set the nic of the iBook to 10mbit? My networks > needs it and the mii-tool i use on an other platform doesn't work.. > Cheers, > Laurens I believe miitool has been depricated. Try ethtool. I'm not su

Re: ibook2 airport card monitor mode problem

2003-01-15 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 09:52:29PM +, Knight Industries 2k wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running a 700Mhz iBook2, Benh 2.4.20. I'm trying to get my airport > card into monitor mode with the orinoco_cs-0.11b patch from here: > > http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html Yup, I've used that. > E

Re: OT : How best to prolong iBook battery longevity (not Debian specific)

2002-12-31 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 09:36:29AM +1100, Tim Bateman wrote: > That is interesting, thanks. My max charge was 3475 but I have an iBook > 12", is yours a 14" and thus the larger battery ? Nope 12.1, 500Mhz. I don't recall seeing the first battery over 4000 though. My fuzzy memory places it betwee

Re: OT : How best to prolong iBook battery longevity (not Debian specific)

2002-12-31 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 05:00:09PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 10:40:22AM +1100, Tim Bateman wrote: > > > > Sorry this is slightly off topic but given recent discussions re iBook > > battery life I though this is worth asking here given the technical > > knowledge of the

Re: Volunteer with Mac wanted to verify bug

2002-11-12 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:16:08AM +0100, Claas Langbehn wrote: > > ACK. > > it trashes the keyboard. > but there is no need to reboot. > If you can logout of X, then it works again at the login-prompt > of xdm. After a couple hours of trying to find and fidle with the keymaps over ssh (I wasn

Re: Booting from external FW cdrom

2002-09-18 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:16:20PM +0200, BuG wrote: > I'd like to be able to boot from an external FireWire cdrom directly > from openfirmware. > Is it possible? Should be, though I'd advise agains't battling OF needlessly. Holding down C might do it, if not "Option" should. I've not tested t

Re: Auto-repeat problem: released key not always detected

2002-08-28 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:09:35PM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 19 Aug, this message from Vincent Lefevre echoed through cyberspace: > As you have found out ;-), many people have seen this problem, and it > has been around for a long time. > > It is most probably a problem in the ADB driver.

Re: firewire bus after waking from sleep

2002-08-26 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:31:43AM +0200, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2002-08-24 11:39:24 +0100, Joss Winn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If I put my iMac to sleep, the CD-RW is useless after waking up > > until I reboot. Scanning the bus with gscanbus or anoth

Re: FireWire Hard Disk

2002-07-18 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:26:50AM +0200, jonas bandi wrote: > Thanks a lot, I got step further now... > > Now I have a rather ignorant question: > > How do I format my firewire-harddisk so that i can mount it in linux? > > I formated it in OsX as DOS-Type. I assume you formatted the drive and

Re: Boot iBook off firewire drive?

2002-06-11 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 05:10:17PM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I have one of the recently released iBook 700MHz laptops and would like to try > running linux on it at some point. > > But I don't want to partition my disk and reinstall everything, what I would > like to do is use an externa

Re: new iBook 700 LCD / ohci1394 driver.

2002-06-11 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:15:29AM +0100, William R Sowerbutts wrote: > My initial scheme for installing debian was to put the new iBook into firewire > target mode (hold down "T" as the system boots), connect it up to my old > iBook, and then partition, format, and copy from the old iBook to the n

Re: eth0 link state change

2002-05-15 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:25:40AM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > Hey All, > > For about a week now my logcheck emails have been flooded with the > following: > > May 15 07:05:16 amadeus kernel: eth0:Link down ! > May 15 07:05:16 amadeus kernel: eth0: Link state change, phy_status: 0x7809

Re: TiBook keyboard/X questions

2002-05-01 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 10:17:24AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got sid installed, and X working great on my 550Mhz powerbook G4, > however there's a few things that drive me crazy in X: > 1. I've got the ctrl:nocaps option in my XConfig, and xkb enabled, but > the Capslock key simply doe

Re: USB-modem for ibook - any recomendations

2002-03-06 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 05:42:03PM +0100, Georg Koss wrote: > First of all a friendly hello to all! Hola > I ordered an ibook 500 today 8-))). Only a 500? > I need to have a dial-up connection either by 56k or ISDN. As I > read, the internal modem doesn't work - so I'm looking for another so

Re: firewire hard drive

2002-03-04 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:18:21PM +0100, Herv? MATHIEU wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to install debian on a external firewire hard drive and to > boot it normaly ? I have a powerbook G4. (the openfirmware is updated). Boot is no problem, OF handles it pretty well. Linux, however, does not han

Re: Stable kernel tree

2001-12-19 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 11:27:39AM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > :-) I meant the new TiBook :-) If the iBook2 has tumbler as well, then > try rsync'ing today from Ben's tree. It has a functional tumbler driver > that works quite well (I've been working on it so that Ben can concentrate

Re: iBook2 keyboard ...

2001-12-16 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 06:03:00PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 23:58, William R Sowerbutts wrote: > > 2. The keyboard sometimes "misses" events. Most annoying is when it misses a > >"key up" event. Eg, I press and release the right cursor key, but it > > misses > >t

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-23 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:17:55AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:14:39PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > It might be. On this good ol' PowerBook with a 400 Mhz G3, about a third > > of the frames are skipped or dropped. And as the software seems to be > > improving rat

Re: Has anyone a working XF86Config-4 for ibook2 with dri enabled?

2001-10-18 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:46:18PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:25:09PM -0700, Nicolas Lopez wrote: > But does the iBook have enough VRAM to do DRI on even 640x480 at >16bpp? Um, yeah. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is less than a 1M framebuffer. There's 8M there

Re: Has anyone a working XF86Config-4 for ibook2 with dri enabled?

2001-10-18 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:10:17AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 21:26, Thorsten Nicklaus wrote: > > > Without dri enabled X is working. But with it I fail. No sreens found is > > the error. Hmm, "No Screens found" shouldn't be happening, should just give up on DRI and get

Re: dmasound

2001-09-30 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 12:37:28PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Nicolas Lopez wrote: > > > I don't know. The mixer support is still in dmasound_pmac, it just needs > > to use the keywest i2c bus to talk to the mixer. I seem to have the > > impr

Re: dmasound

2001-09-25 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:47:24PM -0700, Ron Golan wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 02:21:14PM -0700, Nicolas Lopez wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:40:47PM -0700, Ron Golan wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:51:07PM +0100, Ba

Re: dmasound

2001-09-25 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:19:40PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Nicolas Lopez wrote: > > > Did you remember to compile/load i2c-keywest? The tumbler controls the > > mixer over i2c. > > Does the i2c-keywest driver provide the necessary support fo

Re: dmasound

2001-09-24 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:40:47PM -0700, Ron Golan wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:51:07PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Read the mailing list archive, and look for the iBook2 sound driver. > > It's not in Ben's tree afaik. > > It is now. Sound worked on my ibook2 as of

Re: X Success and New Questions

2001-05-17 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:16:38AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > Okay, I finally got X up and running. My mouse works and everything. My > next questions relate to the new input layer, as in, how did this come > about? I know that it's related to the 2.4 kernel, but why does it also > show up in t