Re: starmax 3000 boot settings

2003-03-04 Thread simonraven
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 14:18:31 +, Nicholas Helps composed: > Hello all, > > on my HD and I also can't find a quik.conf file. Without either of these, I > would imagine that linux can't boot. > It might also explain why all the common suggestions for solving problems by > entering "default

Re: Testing Sarge on IBM pSeries systems

2003-03-04 Thread simonraven
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 13:23:09 -0500, Narins, Josh composed: > > > How can I help out testing Sarge on IBM pSeries systems ( I > > have access to > > a lab full of these systems )? > > > > I was able to install Woody on a 44P-170 by obtaining the > > following files: > > - ramdisk.image.gz >

Re: review wanted of new Debian X FAQ entry

2003-03-04 Thread simonraven
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 17:12:37 +0100, Martin Kuball composed: > Am Montag, 3. März 2003 01:36 schrieb Branden Robinson: > > server uses to listen for events from the keyboard.) This is because the > > keyboard was connected to the computer using the Apple Desktop Bus, and not > > USB, which has

Re: Apt problems

2003-03-02 Thread simonraven
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 09:15:03 +0100, Theo Gutmann composed: > Hi > > I tried to run an apt-get update and received the following error > message: > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing muttzilla (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with

Re: I'm looking for Keymap for a french powerbook G4

2003-01-11 Thread simonraven
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 18:59:18 +0100, Willy Morin composed: > Hello, > > I have a powerbook since two month but my keyboard > configuration is bad. > > I'm french and I'm looking for the french keymap for the > POWERBOOK G4 400 keyboard. Where Can I find it ? and is > there a valid file for the

Re: HELP - can't boot into OSX - can I restore my data from debianppc?

2003-01-10 Thread simonraven
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 15:01:39 -0500, Derrik Pates composed: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:39:16AM -0800, Jim McLoughlin wrote: > > Ah, the joys of running a UNIX that doesn't have an fsck capable of > actually repairing its own filesystems... heh > You can 'apt-get install hfsplus', then use h

Re: 120 GB hardisk on beige G3

2003-01-06 Thread simonraven
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 18:10:18 +0100, umlt composed: > hi all > > i'm going to install debian on my beige G3, > > an easy question: > > can i use an 120 GB hardisk on that system ? of course. :D > > further questions when i install the x-server ;-) > > thanks > > martin krung > simon >

Re: HFS+ question ...

2003-01-05 Thread simonraven
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 12:08:14 -0800, CaRLoS mOGUeL composed: > Blessing All ... > > I've been using the hfsplus utilities to copy some > files from my MacOS partition, but I've havent found > how to copy from an Ext partition to the HFS+ using > hpcopy ... in the hfsplus manual saids about copy

ALSA and OSS WAS: Re: A happy story to end the year...

2002-12-31 Thread simonraven
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 01:34:21 -0500, Shawn Powers composed: > I am writing this on my freshly installed, Sid-based iBook. You might > recall my recent laments regarding 3D acceleration on my Rage128 card... > > I *finally* got everything working right! The secret? Search OLD debian > lists..

Re: Can't boot with new kernel

2002-12-30 Thread simonraven
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:21:53 +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt composed: > On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 03:00, Olivier Gaumond wrote: > > --- Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at > > > Do you have video=ofonly in your quik.conf? IIRC on my oldworld, the > > > 2.2.20 kerne

Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

2002-12-29 Thread simonraven
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 23:03:46 -0700, Jessica Blank composed: > On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > > How do I know if I got it right? I wish there was a "scsidiag" program > that would say "Your termination sucks, try this; your SCSI IDs have a > conflict, try this..." so do

Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

2002-12-29 Thread simonraven
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 00:51:09 -0500, Michael D. Crawford composed: > Jessica, > > However, it is my experience that Mac SCSI tends to work OK with no > termination at all (besides what is normally provided by the host bus > adapter). I really suspect your problem is not really termination, b

Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

2002-12-29 Thread simonraven
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 18:07:09 -0700, Chris Tillman composed: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Jessica Blank wrote: > > The poop: > > > > * First hard drive is a 1GB Quantum > > * Second hard drive is a 4GB something-or-other > > * Third hard drive is one of those big old "boat anchor

Re: Activating L3 cache on a Crescendo G4 400 card (powerMac 7300)

2002-12-29 Thread simonraven
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 23:17:11 +0100, Michel Lanners composed: > On 27 Dec, this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] echoed through cyberspace: > > too bad there isn't a kernel driver to enable the cache on those cards > > at boot up under debian, cuz then you wouldn't need bootx, you'd be > > able t

Re: The right Shift Key not working ?!?

2002-12-29 Thread simonraven
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 08:54:38 -1000, Angela Kahealani composed: > On Friday, 2002-12-27 01:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > between the YDL and Debian PPC ports is > the area of the kernel containing this error, > since both distributions exhibit the bug. The > keycode maps have been verified /

Re: The right Shift Key not working ?!?

2002-12-27 Thread simonraven
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 12:16:54 +0100, Philippe TEISSIER composed: > > Same here... YDL 2.3 plus latest apt-get from yellowdoggers, > > ADB keyboard Right Shift Key unusable console or in X11. > > Have tried alternate keyboard. Mapping looks correct. > > Am running modern Linux keycodes, not the o

Re: Activating L3 cache on a Crescendo G4 400 card (powerMac 7300)

2002-12-27 Thread simonraven
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 11:50:00 +0100, Philippe TEISSIER composed: > > I don't have the time right now to look at it, but could be interesting to > try to figure out how to add the support to the kernel. Can't be that hard > to put a value somewhere ... I'll recontact you if I have time for this

Re: The right Shift Key not working ?!?

2002-12-27 Thread simonraven
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 11:47:56 +0100, Philippe TEISSIER composed: > > > > no problem, it is strange. is this in console, X, or both? if in X, you > > can make a new keymap from the one you use at the moment. hm, dunno how > > exactly you'd do it, but i'd edit the map you're using (when u have a

Re: The right Shift Key not working ?!?

2002-12-27 Thread simonraven
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 11:19:40 +0100, Philippe TEISSIER composed: > I'll try to figure that out. But I can't understand why this happens ... > > Thanx for helping. no problem, it is strange. is this in console, X, or both? if in X, you can make a new keymap from the one you use at the moment. h

Re: Activating L3 cache on a Crescendo G4 400 card (powerMac 7300)

2002-12-27 Thread simonraven
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 11:18:34 +0100, Philippe TEISSIER composed: > > On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 11:12:12 +0100, Philippe TEISSIER composed: > >> Ok, > >> > >> Now the cache is enabled. I get the same Value as the GrabG3Cache Settings > >> app in the l2cr file. So seems to be OK. I'll try to do som

Re: Activating L3 cache on a Crescendo G4 400 card (powerMac 7300)

2002-12-27 Thread simonraven
On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 11:12:12 +0100, Philippe TEISSIER composed: > Ok, > > Now the cache is enabled. I get the same Value as the GrabG3Cache Settings > app in the l2cr file. So seems to be OK. I'll try to do some benchmarks > during next week just to try to 'see' the difference more precisely .

Re: 7600/g3 floppy woes

2002-12-19 Thread simonraven
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 00:54:45 +, peter composed: > folk, > > > 7600/120, OS 8.1, Disk Copy 6.3.3 > G3sonnet @ 400, 120MB RAM, 4 SCSI drives, and _way_ too much free time. hehehe @ "_way_ too much free time" - i know the feeling :) the disk copy in later versions of macos can handle .bin

Re: I'd like open the CD-ROM unit from Firmware

2002-12-19 Thread simonraven
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:53:22 +, Heissu composed: >Hi! > > I want to do that is in the subject. Everyone can help me? > well, let me peruse my printed copy of the OF quick ref. from openfirmworks.com: looking around i see... devalias- shows all device aliases (the vide

Re: KDE3 in iBook2

2002-12-17 Thread simonraven
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 21:33:11 -0700, Gary Sandine composed: > Hi, > > Is anyone using KDE 3.0.4 ppc from > > http://bulmalug.net/~primetime/kde3/ > > ? > > Everything works well, except konsole will not run. It brings up a > crash dialogue saying konsole crashed and caused signal 11. The >

Re: [help] galeon-snapshot

2002-12-15 Thread simonraven
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 15:23:32 +0100, Michel Dänzer composed: > On Son, 2002-12-15 at 12:18, Mark Howard wrote: > > > > > It'd be great if a developer could look into this and see what they can > > find. There is a gconf setting for right mouse button action - it would > > probably be useful to

Re: Which tools for compiling a kernel

2002-12-14 Thread simonraven
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 16:48:47 -0500, Derrik Pates composed: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 04:25:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > oh does anyone know if 2.4.20 is in a final release version? > > Yes. I'm running a mainline 2.4.20 kernel on this PowerMac right now > (with EA and ACL patches f

Re: Which tools for compiling a kernel

2002-12-14 Thread simonraven
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 21:10:44 +0100, Roland Wegmann composed: > Hello > > I am going to compile aBen's Kernel by myself. i read some howto's about > it but they gave different information which tools you have to install in > order to compile a kernel. So I tried the following apt-get install: >

Re: 2 issues Raid, Netatalk

2002-12-14 Thread simonraven
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 03:45:18 -0800, David Tisdell composed: i cant really say about your first issue. > Hi all, > Raid 1 as well? I posted this question last summer in > the Linux PPC newsgroup and never got an answer. That > was before I knew about this list which is far > superior to what g

Re: Sorted some things out

2002-12-13 Thread simonraven
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 02:49:08 -0500, Derrik Pates composed: > > My remaining problem is that using the hardware clock results in lockups > in SMP mode, especially when warm booting. I've just disabled > 'hwclock.sh' and 'hwclockfirst.sh' for now - I have to setup the clock > manually, but the s

Re: PowerMac 7500 with MAXpowrMP booting 2.4.20 in MP mode - some trouble

2002-12-12 Thread simonraven
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 22:14:15 -0700, Chris Tillman composed: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:51:08PM -0500, Derrik Pates wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:32:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > quik. > > > > > > > setting boot-file doesn't work usually, not for me (a single CPU 604e >

Re: PowerMac 7500 with MAXpowrMP booting 2.4.20 in MP mode - some trouble

2002-12-10 Thread simonraven
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 20:19:21 -0800, Brad Boyer composed: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:51:08PM -0500, Derrik Pates wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:32:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oh duh me, i just remebered something that you'll need to change to actually see that console: set au

Re: PowerMac 7500 with MAXpowrMP booting 2.4.20 in MP mode - some trouble

2002-12-10 Thread simonraven
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 21:51:08 -0500, Derrik Pates composed: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:32:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > yeh, booting natively in linux is really cool. the 7500 is one of those > > that can. for some reason a lot pf ppl have problems with the beige G3s > > - they need

Re: PowerMac 7500 with MAXpowrMP booting 2.4.20 in MP mode - some trouble

2002-12-10 Thread simonraven
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 20:52:01 -0500, Derrik Pates composed: > Hey, finally got myself another PowerPC to play with - it's an old > PowerMac 7500 with a dual-604e processor card. It works pretty well - > I've succeeded in getting a working Debian install on it - but I've got > a few issues. > >

Re: memory interleaving

2002-12-09 Thread simonraven
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:39:59 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven composed: > On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, David Ulrich wrote: > > Does the debian kernel support for the memory interleaving on a > > PowerMac 9500? (2.4.18 SMP) > > Isn't memory interleaving a hardware feature that's independent of software? yup.