Donation: PowerBook G3 Pismo

2015-06-15 Thread Olaf Hering
I have a spare PowerBook G3 Pismo to donate. If anyone wants to receive it for free, contact me offlist. (Also this delivery is for free!) Thanks. Specs: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g3/specs/powerbook_g3_400_fw.html 14.1 TFT / 400 MHz / 192MB / 40GB / 8MB Video / CD / 2x

Donation: PowerBook G3 Wallstreet

2015-06-08 Thread Olaf Hering
I have a spare OldWorld PowerBook G3 to donate. If anyone wants to receive it for free, contact me offlist. Thanks. Specs: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g3/specs/powerbook_g3_233.html Family number: M4753 Macintosh PowerBook G3 Series 14.1 TFT / 233MHz-512K / 192MB / 40GB / 4MB

Powerbook G3 wheezy upgrade udevd error #03

2011-07-01 Thread C-IT
27;testing' on Mac PowerBook G3 (Lombard) for quite sometime now (from when Squeeze was in testing) & uptill now with no serious issues. Update: I realised wheezy install cd (20110620-05:16) runs kernel 2.6.39-2 whereas my installed kernel was 2.6.32-5 However chroot, kernel upgrade &am

Re: Powerbook G3 wheezy upgrade udevd error #02

2011-06-30 Thread Brian Morris
onal keyboard or touchpad freeze up on LXDE for about 10-15 > seconds. However I normally run in console mode, ie gdm autostart disabled. > > hald is installed but not sure if I have udisks-daemon running. > > > Trust this helps. > Kind regards, > > Robert. > > > -

Powerbook G3 wheezy upgrade udevd error #02

2011-06-29 Thread C-IT
uchpad freeze up on LXDE for about 10-15 seconds. However I normally run in console mode, ie gdm autostart disabled. hald is installed but not sure if I have udisks-daemon running. Trust this helps. Kind regards, Robert. Original Message Subject: Re: Powerbook G3 wheezy

Re: Powerbook G3 wheezy upgrade udevd error

2011-06-26 Thread Risto Suominen
You could check the udev version on the CD: dpkg -l udev And then upgrade (or downgrade) the package from within chroot: apt-get install udev= BTW, you haven't been running earlier versions of Debian on your Lombard? I'm asking, because I have big problems on my Lombard: if I have either hald o

Powerbook G3 wheezy upgrade udevd error

2011-06-25 Thread C-IT
Hi debian-powerpc list, Any corrective advise on following problem will be most appreciated: I have a Mac Powerbook G3 (Lombard) which has been running Debian wheezy for some time. On 23 June 2011 as several times previously, I executed apt-get update/upgrade which completed successful as

Please post the xorg.conf file of Powerbook g3 “oldworld” wallstreet model 4753

2008-01-18 Thread bibinix
Please post the xorg.conf file of Powerbook g3 “oldworld” wallstreet model 4753. Hi guys, I managed to install the Dabian PPC etch r0 on my Powerbook g3 “old world” Wallstreet (model M4753). Don’t ask me how I did it was a nightmare (I am a newbie). I am now busy with the xorg configuration

Re: Booting powerbook G3 with Bootx or Quik

2008-01-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 12:04:17AM +0100, Paolo Perani wrote: > Hi guys out there, I have a problem that is driving me crazy (well I am a > newbie..). > I have installed the Debian 4.0 (I tried Netinstall and xfce) on my mac > Powerbook g3 wallstreet. The installation is no-proble

Booting powerbook G3 with Bootx or Quik

2008-01-08 Thread Paolo Perani
Hi guys out there, I have a problem that is driving me crazy (well I am a newbie..). I have installed the Debian 4.0 (I tried Netinstall and xfce) on my mac Powerbook g3 wallstreet. The installation is no-problema I install the minimal version of Debian because I only have 1,2G. I do the manual

Re: Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3?

2007-07-30 Thread Tommy Trussell
ine, which has 650MB in /home, and has in addition of xfce, apache, > postgresql and asterisk, 3 full compiler suites, and a bunch of > libraries installed. So, i am unsure if you can go down to 1.3GB or not. I, too am not sure what the minimum is, but you are lucky on that model --

Re: Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3?

2007-07-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:55:33AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the useful information. It is the first time I got such a detailed > and nice answer in a newsgroup. I will try to put (as soon as my wife goes in > holyday) your suggestion into practice, I hope I will do good use of

Re: Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3?

2007-07-25 Thread bibinix
Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:03:55 -0700 (PDT) Von: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3? > hi, > > like Sven says don't forget to copy your new &g

Re: Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3?

2007-07-25 Thread brian
about half so i need to either finish my debian updgrade or get more RAM. well good luck, brian --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have installed Debian Woody on my powerfull > PowerBook G3 266 Mhz (the black model without USB > ports, I think its called WallStreet) I was doing a > d

Re: Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3?

2007-07-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 05:45:13PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have installed Debian Woody on my powerfull PowerBook G3 266 Mhz (the black > model without USB ports, I think its called WallStreet) I was doing a > distro-upgrade with apt-get when the process signalised that

Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3?

2007-07-25 Thread bibinix
I have installed Debian Woody on my powerfull PowerBook G3 266 Mhz (the black model without USB ports, I think its called WallStreet) I was doing a distro-upgrade with apt-get when the process signalised that I have to upgrade also the kernel (I have the version 2.4). The command : apt-cache

Re: Re: problem boot debian on powerbook g3 (pismo/firewire)

2006-09-18 Thread brian
hello, very sorry you are having so much trouble, glad you are persistent, hope i have not made it any worse. here are things i have used in past with my pismo to reset: a) hold down the power key for about 30 seconds until you hear a long beep. b) press and hold the reset button on the back for

Re: Re: problem boot debian on powerbook g3 (pismo/firewire)

2006-09-17 Thread Florian Znottka
Good morning! I worked on this problem the hole weekend, so it seems to be a problem with the powerbook itself, because I used 5 different CD (3.0, 3.1, ubuntu, etc.) from a friend. He burned it with a plextor premium - so it can't be the fault of the cds. I don't know, what to do next! black s

Re: problem boot debian on powerbook g3 (pismo/firewire)

2006-09-14 Thread brian
uhmm, a couple more things to try: what cd do you have there ? I would try the sarge cd, don't throw away if you have the etch cd but realize It Is Still Beta (PreRelease). I think they should have this prominently stated on the web site. any/all of us having a tendency to seem to forget it. als

Re: problem boot debian on powerbook g3 (pismo/firewire)

2006-09-14 Thread Florian Znottka
Thanks for the quick answer, ... but: hi, i have a combo drive replacement in my pismo and it works (occassionally hangs at boot /temporarily, but "works" well enough) it might depend on the brand and type you have though. what do you have ? The combo drive is a Matsushita UJDA710, which is

Re: problem boot debian on powerbook g3 (pismo/firewire)

2006-09-12 Thread brian
hi, i have a combo drive replacement in my pismo and it works (occassionally hangs at boot /temporarily, but "works" well enough) it might depend on the brand and type you have though. what do you have ? besides holding down the "c" key at boot you can hold down the option key and you should see

problem boot debian on powerbook g3 (pismo/firewire)

2006-09-12 Thread Florian Znottka
Hello at all, I've got a problem with my powerbook firewire / pismo. I've bought a powerbook with a new cdrw/combo-drive - but this seems to be a problem. I can't boot from the cdrom-drive ("c" either with openfirmware). I can't set the debian-cd as a bootdevice in the macos9 settings. Is there a

Re: solution to: find a way to type bracket on powerbook g3

2006-05-27 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 13:41 +0200, domenico wrote: > At this time, just for trying, was > chosen as keyboard layout: > "mac / unknown / italian / standard / iBook" > Incredibly (standard? iBook?) works now. Can I ask which kernel are you running at this time ? (2.4 or 2.6 ?) -- Yves-Alexis Pere

solution to: find a way to type bracket on powerbook g3

2006-05-27 Thread domenico
g was upset, no charachter correspondence at all... in the meanwhile Wolfgang Pfiffer, Gabriel Paubert and Giovanni Ridolfi made some other useful suggestions, that I was not able to follow due to the upset, and asked about my keyboard layout (QZERTY, old italian typewriter, I don't know why in

Re: can't find a way to type brackets on powerbook g3

2006-05-27 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 01:51 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Actually I thought you could choose either a 'pc-type keyboard' or a > 'mac keymap', but not both of them: So what did I miss? When reconfiguring console-data, chose: pc / azerty / French / Apple USB / Standard for example. (and no

Re: can't find a way to type brackets on powerbook g3

2006-05-26 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 04:59:05PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 03:07 -0700, Derek wrote: > > I rebooted and now all is messed up...no character > > correspondence at > > all, I'm writing from my old win desktop :( > > and more, seem that

Re: can't find a way to type brackets on powerbook g3

2006-05-26 Thread ruben
At Fri, 26 May 2006 01:30:36 +0200, domenico wrote: > > QZERTY is not US, is old italian typewriter standard > > I rebooted and now all is messed up...no character correspondence at > all, I'm writing from my old win desktop :( > and more, seem that I've lost 'a' and 'tab', so I can't do > d

Re: can't find a way to type brackets on powerbook g3

2006-05-26 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 03:07 -0700, Derek wrote: > I rebooted and now all is messed up...no character > correspondence at > all, I'm writing from my old win desktop :( > and more, seem that I've lost 'a' and 'tab', so I can't do > dpkg-reconfigure console-dat

Re: Re: can't find a way to type brackets on powerbook g3

2006-05-26 Thread Giovanni Ridolfi
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 01:30:36AM +0200, domenico wrote: > > >my keyboard starts with QZERTY, I've chosen US standard, and now > >recognizes all characters as before... > > QZERTY is not US, is old italian typewriter standard > > I rebooted and now all is messed up...no character corresponden

Re: can't find a way to type brackets on powerbook g3

2006-05-26 Thread Derek
I rebooted and now all is messed up...no character correspondence at all, I'm writing from my old win desktop :(and more, seem that I've lost 'a' and 'tab', so I can't dodpkg-reconfigure console-datanow I'm reinstalling linux...--To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: can't find a way to type brackets on powerbook g3

2006-05-26 Thread Børge Holen
On Thursday 25 May 2006 21:35, domenico wrote: > Hello everyone, > I'm moving to linux and I installed debian sarge on my old powerbook g3 > (lombard). Everyting worked fine and I added window maker to get a > confortable developing platform with vi and gcc. > But I'm no

Re: can't find a way to type brackets on powerbook g3

2006-05-26 Thread domenico
I've said my keyboard starts with QZERTY, I've chosen US standard, and now recognizes all characters as before... QZERTY is not US, is old italian typewriter standard I rebooted and now all is messed up...no character correspondence at all, I'm writing from my old win desktop :( and more,

Re: can't find a way to type brackets on powerbook g3

2006-05-26 Thread rick
Not sure if I follow you, but If so, try putting a \ in front of the bracket first, then continue. On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:35:39PM +0200, domenico wrote: > Hello everyone, > I'm moving to linux and I installed debian sarge on my old powerbook g3 > (lombard). Everyting w

Re: can't find a way to type brackets on powerbook g3

2006-05-25 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:35:39PM +0200, domenico wrote: > Hello everyone, > I'm moving to linux and I installed debian sarge on my old powerbook g3 > (lombard). Everyting worked fine and I added window maker to get a > confortable developing platform with vi and gcc. > But

Re: can't find a way to type brackets on powerbook g3

2006-05-25 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:35:39PM +0200, domenico wrote: > Hello everyone, > I'm moving to linux and I installed debian sarge on my old powerbook g3 > (lombard). Everyting worked fine and I added window maker to get a > confortable developing platform with vi and gcc. > But

can't find a way to type brackets on powerbook g3

2006-05-25 Thread domenico
Hello everyone, I'm moving to linux and I installed debian sarge on my old powerbook g3 (lombard). Everyting worked fine and I added window maker to get a confortable developing platform with vi and gcc. But I'm not able to type square and curly brackets... I was trying option+(), op

Re: PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-11-01 Thread Tommy Trussell
On 10/30/05, Rainer Gutkas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes it's good to pass video parameters to old world maschines, at leastI do this on a G3 Powerbook Wallstreet. I've found them on the web:video=atyfb:vmode:14,cmode:32,mclkBut in my experience this only effects the command line. In Ubuntu you sh

Re: PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-10-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 22:22 +0100, Thomas Kühner wrote: > Nope! Same result I do not have this problem with Yellowdog and never > with OW-Macs. Did not try Fedora Core 4… What do you mean by "same result" ? What do you get when passing video=atyfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ? > I receive an "Out of sync

Re: PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-10-30 Thread Thomas Kühner
Nope! Same result I do not have this problem with Yellowdog and never with OW-Macs. Did not try Fedora Core 4… I receive an "Out of sync" with "154 Hz/81 KhZ" in my TFT if I do not pass kernel parameters manually- If I add video"atyfb at the boot prompt, this does not occcur. Strange behavi

Re: PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-10-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 10:30 +0100, Thomas Kühner wrote: > Hi Ben > > I tried "boot: Linux video=atyfb" and that's what dmesg lists > (unfortunately I couldn't get 'fbst -i' as root = Command not found): > > Most interesting: > > > Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda12 ro video=ofonly video=aty

Re: PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-10-30 Thread Rainer Gutkas
ect to it via ssh so this problems don't matter much to me. But I hope this post helps you along. Best regards, Rainer Thomas Kühner schrieb: Hi All I tried Ubuntu and Debian 3.1 on my PowerBook G3 Lombard. Both distribtutions have the same problem. The only resoultion available in X11

Re: PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-10-30 Thread Thomas Kühner
addington mac-io controller, rev: 0, mapped at 0xfdf35000 PowerMac motherboard: PowerBook 101 (Lombard) Found Grackle (MPC106) PCI host bridge at 0x8000. Firmware bus number: 0->0 PMU driver 2 initialized for 1999 PowerBook G3, firmware: 0b nvram: OF partition at 0x140 nvram: XP partition a

Re: PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-10-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 03:15 +0100, Thomas Kühner wrote: > Hi All > > > I tried Ubuntu and Debian 3.1 on my PowerBook G3 Lombard. Both > distribtutions have the same problem. The only resoultion available in > X11 is 640x480 @ 30 or 29 Hz. It's not the Open Firmware driver

PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-10-29 Thread Thomas Kühner
Hi AllI tried Ubuntu and Debian 3.1 on my PowerBook G3 Lombard. Both distribtutions have the same problem. The only resoultion available in X11 is 640x480 @ 30 or 29 Hz.As far as I know from other dists and Macs, video parameters have to be passed to the kernel at the boot: prompt in order to

PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

2005-10-29 Thread Thomas Kühner
Hi AllI tried Ubuntu and Debian 3.1 on my PowerBook G3 Lombard. Both distribtutions have the same problem. The only resoultion available in X11 is 640x480 @ 30 or 29 Hz.As far as I know from other dists and Macs, video parameters have to be passed to the kernel at the boot: prompt in order to

Re: Debian as only OS on a PowerBook G3

2005-07-16 Thread Brad Boyer
words" like you did above. The internal hard drive is definitely ATA. Apple hasn't shipped a laptop with internal SCSI drives for a really long time. Any ppc based laptop definitely has an ATA drive of some flavor, and a few of the 68k based ones did, too. Some of the PowerBook

Re: Debian as only OS on a PowerBook G3

2005-07-16 Thread Martin Habets
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 07:54:54PM +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Hello, > > Now I'm completely stuck. I tryed to install debian woody on a PowerBook > G3. The think worked well until I tryed to boot the new OS. All I tryed > did not help booting from the HD. > > The T

Re: Debian as only OS on a PowerBook G3

2005-07-15 Thread Paul Brossier
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 07:54:54PM +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Hello, > > Now I'm completely stuck. I tryed to install debian woody on a PowerBook > G3. The think worked well until I tryed to boot the new OS. All I tryed > did not help booting from the HD. > > The T

Debian as only OS on a PowerBook G3

2005-07-12 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Now I'm completely stuck. I tryed to install debian woody on a PowerBook G3. The think worked well until I tryed to boot the new OS. All I tryed did not help booting from the HD. The Technical: - - PowerBook G3 (black case) - - OldWorl

Re: Powerbook G3 Pismo - resolution change problem

2005-05-16 Thread Wojciech Owczarek
On Mon, 16 May 2005 17:54:09 -0500 (CDT) "vinai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't speak for OS 9 as it's been years since I used it on this PB, > but even now, under OS X 10.3, when you select 640x480 or 800x600, you > use all the pixels (i.e. the entire LCD area) - the 1024 x 768 pixels > are

Re: Powerbook G3 Pismo - resolution change problem

2005-05-16 Thread vinai
>> First, isn't (PB G3 Firewire)==(PB G3 Pismo)? > > Don't think so, but I could have gotten that wrong in my head. It is - the Pismo (Y2K powerbook, last "black powerbook") IS the PB G3 firewire - I'm typing this on one right now :) It is the only G3 PB with Firewire. Everything before had SCSI

Re: Powerbook G3 Pismo - resolution change problem

2005-05-16 Thread Mannequin*
On Mon, 16 May 2005 14:51:38 +0200 Wojciech Owczarek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 16th 2005 14:38, Mannequin* wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > As far as know, the Pismo, like my G3 Powerbook Firewire running the same > > card, has only one resolution; 1024x768. When you run MacOS, when you a

Re: Powerbook G3 Pismo - resolution change problem

2005-05-16 Thread Wojciech Owczarek
On Mon, May 16th 2005 14:38, Mannequin* wrote: > > Hi, > > As far as know, the Pismo, like my G3 Powerbook Firewire running the same > card, has only one resolution; 1024x768. When you run MacOS, when you ask > it to go to a lower resolution, it just reduces your desktop space on the > screen. It n

Re: Powerbook G3 Pismo - resolution change problem

2005-05-16 Thread Wojciech Owczarek
On Mon, May 16th 2005 14:38, Mannequin* wrote: > > Hi, > > As far as know, the Pismo, like my G3 Powerbook Firewire running the same > card, has only one resolution; 1024x768. When you run MacOS, when you ask > it to go to a lower resolution, it just reduces your desktop space on the > screen. It n

Re: Powerbook G3 Pismo - resolution change problem

2005-05-16 Thread Mannequin*
On Mon, 16 May 2005 13:41:53 +0200 Wojciech Owczarek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I'm not a Debian user (PLD Linux user actually), still I subscribed to this > list as I found it quite valuable for helping with my various PPC on Linux > issues. Now my problem (hopefully the

Powerbook G3 Pismo - resolution change problem

2005-05-16 Thread Wojciech Owczarek
Hello everyone! I'm not a Debian user (PLD Linux user actually), still I subscribed to this list as I found it quite valuable for helping with my various PPC on Linux issues. Now my problem (hopefully the last one ;] ) with the laptop I own from some time (my first ppc machine and I love it!) i

Re: problem with powerbook g3: black screen on boot

2005-04-18 Thread Maximilian Gerlach
Hi Rainer, hi vinai, thanks for your responses! It's a wallstreet, and I think it just had a loose contact - after the fifth time I tried it the display magically started to work :) Too bad it's an old world mac :/ New World would have been so much easier with linux. Thank you, Maxi -- To UN

Re: problem with powerbook g3: black screen on boot

2005-04-18 Thread vinai
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Rainer Gutkas wrote: Maximilian Gerlach schrieb: Hi everyone, I bought a Powerbook G3 on ebay. When I start it I hear the apple sound but the display stays black - any suggestions? :/ Thanks, Maxi Which kind of G3 Powerbook, Wallstreet, Lombard, Pismo, or if you don't

Re: problem with powerbook g3: black screen on boot

2005-04-18 Thread Rainer Gutkas
Maximilian Gerlach schrieb: Hi everyone, I bought a Powerbook G3 on ebay. When I start it I hear the apple sound but the display stays black - any suggestions? :/ Thanks, Maxi Which kind of G3 Powerbook, Wallstreet, Lombard, Pismo, or if you don't know that which connections has it got o

problem with powerbook g3: black screen on boot

2005-04-18 Thread Maximilian Gerlach
Hi everyone, I bought a Powerbook G3 on ebay. When I start it I hear the apple sound but the display stays black - any suggestions? :/ Thanks, Maxi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Powerbook G3 and dual-head display

2005-03-15 Thread Ian Langworth
have dual-head working with a Powerbook G3? > > I've got a Pismo (dual Firewire) running Ubuntu/Hoary with xorg-6.8.2. > I found this thread, describing a patch for the r128 driver and the > required configuration directives, but I'm not sure if that patch has > ac

Powerbook G3 and dual-head display

2005-03-14 Thread Ian Langworth
Does anybody have dual-head working with a Powerbook G3? I've got a Pismo (dual Firewire) running Ubuntu/Hoary with xorg-6.8.2. I found this thread, describing a patch for the r128 driver and the required configuration directives, but I'm not sure if that patch has actually been appli

Re: record mic and linein on powerbook G3

2005-03-05 Thread Martin Habets
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:49:13AM -0800, gm c wrote: > > > I was wondering if it is now possible to record from the mic or linein on the > powerbook G3 pismo? If so , how? Don't know about OSS. With current ALSA you have an "Input Source" selector in amixer/alsamix

Re: record mic and linein on powerbook G3

2005-03-05 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:49:13 -0800 (PST) gm c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if it is now possible to record from the mic or linein > on the powerbook G3 pismo? If so , how? Install (already done, if you use kernel 2.6) and run the ALSA sound driver. Pull Mic input lever

record mic and linein on powerbook G3

2005-03-04 Thread gm c
I was wondering if it is now possible to record from the mic or linein on the powerbook G3 pismo? If so , how? mike Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web

Re: Powerbook G3 Wallstreet Problems!!!

2005-02-22 Thread Dylan Beaudette
Here is some general old-world specific linux stuff: http://fungus.ucdavis.edu/~dylan/linux/ Note that I have Sarge installed on my powerbook G3 (now a powerbook G4), and sound works quite well, you just need to do a modprobe `dmasound_pmac`. Also, if you are interested, I have the 300Mhz + 1Mb

Powerbook G3 Wallstreet Problems!!!

2005-02-22 Thread Rainer Gutkas
Hi Everybody! I've just installed Debian on a G3 Powerbook Wallstreet 233 which an austriab celebrety gave to me and managed to get some problems out of the way - like getting x started without having the keyboard mixed around when I install a 2.4 kernel (it's funny but typing op63u´t for shu

Re: Sound on Powerbook G3

2004-12-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
alsaconf although for me, alsaconf doesnt generate a working alsa set up go figure. but it used to Dean Michael Valdes wrote: Does anyone know how to configure the sound on my Powerbook G3 Firewire? I remember when I used to have Yellow Dog Linux, it configured itself with having dmasound

Sound on Powerbook G3

2004-12-06 Thread Michael Valdes
Does anyone know how to configure the sound on my Powerbook G3 Firewire? I remember when I used to have Yellow Dog Linux, it configured itself with having dmasound. The sound worked very well with that setting but I don't know where to apply that in Debian linux. I don't think I got the

Booting powerbook g3 with VGA

2004-11-01 Thread David 'fenrus' Syk
I have a PowerBook G3/450MHz (pismo) with broken screen, i intend to use the box as a mediastation if i am able to get the vga to work. I have NO lcd-screen connected to the box. Booting from the CD i try to append the video=aty128fb:crt:1,lcd:0 And my connected crt-screen shows a white screen

Re: install (boot) problem sarge powerbook G3 (wallstreet)

2004-10-25 Thread Sebastiaan Molenaar
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 10:17, Sven Luther wrote: > > I'm not sure what the problem with quik is, actually. I've avoided > > using it because it requires messing with Open Firmware. The > > to me, it just doesn't seem worth while spending the time on it > > given that BootX works so well for me.

Re: install (boot) problem sarge powerbook G3 (wallstreet)

2004-10-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:30:26AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Monday, September 27, 2004, at 03:13 PM, Sebastiaan Molenaar wrote: > > >On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 05:42, Rick Thomas wrote: > >>Actually, miboot is a fully-fledged bootloader. The only thing it > >>needs is a very small HFS partiti

Re: Powerbook G3 "Pismo" Keyboard

2004-10-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > There is no official debian package of it currently. The best idea is > > > probably to include it in an existing debian package like powerpc-utils. > > > > powerpc-utils currently only has tools to configure some stuff, no daemons > > like mouseemu. mouseemu should be added as a separate pac

Re: Powerbook G3 "Pismo" Keyboard

2004-10-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:19:30PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > The second problem is... Well, it may sound as I'm stupid, buy I can't > > > find mouseemu. It isn't in the offical repositories and apt-get.org > > > package search shows 0 results... > > You can find it at > > http://honk.phys

Re: Powerbook G3 "Pismo" Keyboard

2004-10-21 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:19:30PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > The second problem is... Well, it may sound as I'm stupid, buy I can't > > > find mouseemu. It isn't in the offical repositories and apt-get.org > > > package search shows 0 results... > > You can find it at > > http://honk.phys

Re: Powerbook G3 "Pismo" Keyboard

2004-10-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > The second problem is... Well, it may sound as I'm stupid, buy I can't > > find mouseemu. It isn't in the offical repositories and apt-get.org > > package search shows 0 results... > You can find it at > http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-ppc/debian/mouseemu/ > > There is no official

Re: Powerbook G3 "Pismo" Keyboard

2004-10-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 04:42:35PM +0200, Pablo Gil wrote: > Well, there are some problems that I've encountered... First of all when > I run showkey I can't get no key for the apple key (not the fn one..). > It's like it doesn't exist! > > The second problem is... Well, it may sound as I'm stupid

Re: Powerbook G3 "Pismo" Keyboard

2004-10-20 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 04:47:11PM +0200, Pablo Gil wrote: > Thanks for answering > > The problem is that showkey doesn't give any key when I press the apple > button at all, so I can't bind it to the right button... > > I also tried putting in sysct.conf the f11 and f12 keycodes (the ones > show

Re: Powerbook G3 "Pismo" Keyboard

2004-10-20 Thread Pablo Gil
Thanks for answering The problem is that showkey doesn't give any key when I press the apple button at all, so I can't bind it to the right button... I also tried putting in sysct.conf the f11 and f12 keycodes (the ones showkey gave me) but the menu keeps on popping out when I press fn + Alt...

Re: Powerbook G3 "Pismo" Keyboard

2004-10-20 Thread Pablo Gil
Well, there are some problems that I've encountered... First of all when I run showkey I can't get no key for the apple key (not the fn one..). It's like it doesn't exist! The second problem is... Well, it may sound as I'm stupid, buy I can't find mouseemu. It isn't in the offical repositories and

Re: Powerbook G3 "Pismo" Keyboard

2004-10-19 Thread Guglielmo Dapavo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pablo Gil wrote: | Hi, I'm trying to make Debian work correctly on mi laptop but I've | encountered some problems. The first one involves the keyboard. | | I need the mouse right button emulation but I can't have it in a | proper way. I want it to be

Re: Powerbook G3 "Pismo" Keyboard

2004-10-19 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:39:31PM +0200, Pablo Gil wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to make Debian work correctly on mi laptop but I've > encountered some problems. The first one involves the keyboard. > > I need the mouse right button emulation but I can't have it in a proper > way. I want it to be i

Powerbook G3 "Pismo" Keyboard

2004-10-19 Thread Pablo Gil
Hi, I'm trying to make Debian work correctly on mi laptop but I've encountered some problems. The first one involves the keyboard. I need the mouse right button emulation but I can't have it in a proper way. I want it to be in the "apple" button, whose keycode is 115 (or at leats that's what xev s

Re: Re: Powerbook G3 and linux - boot CD problem

2004-10-11 Thread Walter J. Ferstl
Hello Mariusz, family number M4753 is clearly a Wallstreet PowerBook (probably 1998, but maybe 1997), which is considered Old World. You might enconter another "code" name (i.e. unofficial name) for this series of PowerBooks, which is PDQ. The official name for these PowerBooks is &qu

Re: Powerbook G3 and linux - boot CD problem

2004-10-05 Thread Clive Menzies
it. > > > > Is it new world or old world? If is one of these: > > PowerBook G3 FireWire Pismo (2000) powermac-NewWorld > > PowerBook G3 Lombard (1999) powermac-NewWorld > > > > it's new world > Where I can find this

Re: Powerbook G3 and linux - boot CD problem

2004-10-05 Thread Mariusz Antonik
Hi Clive Thank you for some information. > Hi Mariusz > > You could try booting whilst holding down cmd+opt+shift+delete - tells > your Mac to skip the first bootable device. If holding down C doesn't > do it. > > Is it new world or old world? If is one of these: >

Re: Powerbook G3 and linux - boot CD problem

2004-10-05 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Mariusz writes: > I have PowerBook G3 300Mhz, Family Number m4753. This is a Wallstreet. G3 PowerBooks are commonly referred to by their codenames. > I try run a linux on that laptop. I took Knoppix ppc, Mandrake PPC, > and debian sarga. I have one common problem - I can't

Re: Powerbook G3 and linux - boot CD problem

2004-10-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/10/04 12:16), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. > I have PowerBook G3 300Mhz ,Family Number m4753. > I try run a linux on that laptop. I took Knoppix ppc, Mandrake PPC, and > debian > sarga. I have one common problem - I can't start from CD - I don't have any > i

Re: Powerbook G3 and linux - boot CD problem

2004-10-05 Thread Marc
I use mklinux booter on a pb5300 w 32Mb ram. Installed from the single small woody cd (about 200Mb). Op 5-okt-04 om 18:16 heeft [EMAIL PROTECTED] het volgende geschreven: Hi. I have PowerBook G3 300Mhz ,Family Number m4753. I try run a linux on that laptop. I took Knoppix ppc, Mandrake PPC

Powerbook G3 and linux - boot CD problem

2004-10-05 Thread kajko04
Hi. I have PowerBook G3 300Mhz ,Family Number m4753. I try run a linux on that laptop. I took Knoppix ppc, Mandrake PPC, and debian sarga. I have one common problem - I can't start from CD - I don't have any idea about mac, somebody give me it some days ago. I found that suppostu st

Re: install (boot) problem sarge powerbook G3 (wallstreet)

2004-09-28 Thread Rick Thomas
There is a project to produce a free (as in "no IP encumbrances") version of miboot in a clean-room environment. Contact Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if you want to help! Rick

Re: install (boot) problem sarge powerbook G3 (wallstreet)

2004-09-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tuesday, September 28, 2004, at 03:43 AM, Sebastiaan Molenaar wrote: Hmm, so technically I'm supposed to pay Apple for the use of BootX / miboot ? But in practice, nobody does pay, and Apple doesn't ask. It's easier for all concerned -- especially Apple -- to just ignore the issue and

Re: install (boot) problem sarge powerbook G3 (wallstreet)

2004-09-28 Thread Sebastiaan Molenaar
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 05:30, Rick Thomas wrote: > The Debian developers use quik (and avoid miboot and BootX) for > reasons of political correctness. BootX and miboot use some binary > code that is lifted verbatim from Apple's boot disks. They are > therefor "not free" of Apple's intellectual p

Re: install (boot) problem sarge powerbook G3 (wallstreet)

2004-09-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Monday, September 27, 2004, at 03:13 PM, Sebastiaan Molenaar wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 05:42, Rick Thomas wrote: Actually, miboot is a fully-fledged bootloader. The only thing it needs is a very small HFS partition to run out of (just big enough for the initrd image and the compressed k

Re: install (boot) problem sarge powerbook G3 (wallstreet)

2004-09-27 Thread Sebastiaan Molenaar
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 05:42, Rick Thomas wrote: > Actually, miboot is a fully-fledged bootloader. The only thing it > needs is a very small HFS partition to run out of (just big enough > for the initrd image and the compressed kernel -- plus the miboot > program itself, of course!). It masquer

Re: install (boot) problem sarge powerbook G3 (wallstreet)

2004-09-26 Thread Sebastiaan Molenaar
On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 01:08, Rick Thomas wrote: > >>> For the moment I've got it working with bootX but I would really > >>> like to > >>> get it working with quik. > >>> > >> > >> Unfortunately, that part has never worked for me, either. > Wow, you're doing much better than I am. On the other han

Re: install (boot) problem sarge powerbook G3 (wallstreet)

2004-09-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Saturday, September 25, 2004, at 07:47 PM, Sebastiaan Molenaar wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 20:08, Rick Thomas wrote: For the moment I've got it working with bootX but I would really like to get it working with quik. Unfortunately, that part has never worked for me, either. For what it'

Re: install (boot) problem sarge powerbook G3 (wallstreet)

2004-09-25 Thread Sebastiaan Molenaar
On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 20:08, Rick Thomas wrote: > > For the moment I've got it working with bootX but I would really > > like to > > get it working with quik. > > > > Unfortunately, that part has never worked for me, either. > > For what it's worth, using BootX isn't so bad. You can fairly > e

Re: install (boot) problem sarge powerbook G3 (wallstreet)

2004-09-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Saturday, September 25, 2004, at 04:47 AM, Sebastiaan Molenaar wrote: For the moment I've got it working with bootX but I would really like to get it working with quik. Unfortunately, that part has never worked for me, either. For what it's worth, using BootX isn't so bad. You can fa

Re: install (boot) problem sarge powerbook G3 (wallstreet)

2004-09-25 Thread Sebastiaan Molenaar
On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 06:50, Rick Thomas wrote: > I put this aside when I first received it to answer later, then got > busy and forgot to answer! I apologize! > > Did you figure out how to solve your problem? If not, please reply > and I'll try to help. > > For the moment I have macos instal

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