Re: success on a PowerPC iMac 6,1

2021-11-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Ken! On 10/31/21 23:39, Ken Cunningham wrote: > I thought I would mention a successful debian install on a PowerPC iMac 6,1: > > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > cpu : 7455, altivec supported > clock : 999.97MHz > revision : 3.3 (pvr 8001 0303) > bogomips

Re: Success on an iBook G4 - X not working out of the box

2020-04-29 Thread jjhdiederen
Hi Adrian, Did you actually enable LXDE from the task selection during installation? When I tested the image on my G4, I selected MATE and it installed fine. I did have to install the firmware though but nothing else. I installed LXDE manually, so no, I did not use the task selection. I am al

Re: Success on an iBook G4 - X not working out of the box

2020-04-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Jeroen! On 4/29/20 8:57 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > First of all I want to thank Adrian Glaubitz for the fantastic job he did. You're welcome and thanks for the appreciation. It does consume a lot of time and efforts, so I'm glad my work is appreciated. And since there is still so much to do

Re: Success with Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 4/20/20 6:57 PM, Charles E. Lehner wrote: > The mirrors list was empty, but the default one worked and is probably best > for me anyway since I'm in the US. I have just performed a test installation myself and you are indeed correct that the mirror list is empty and just the default mir

Re: Success with Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Charles! On 4/20/20 6:57 PM, Charles E. Lehner wrote: > Another sometime powerpc user here. I successfully used the 2020-04-19 > image today to install Debian on a PowerBook6,4. Thanks for making it > work. It was cool that the CD showed the GNU icon in the Mac boot > menu - I dunno if that is

Re: Success with Motorola Powerstack II

2007-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 07:04:56PM +0100, Alexander Baldeck wrote: > Christian Walther wrote: > >The installation works very well, booting from a tftp-Server is no > >problem, partitioning the disks is none, too. I used the "Guided > >Partitioning - Entire disk using LVM" method and the Debian-Inst

Re: Success with Motorola Powerstack II

2007-03-09 Thread Alexander Baldeck
Christian Walther wrote: The installation works very well, booting from a tftp-Server is no problem, partitioning the disks is none, too. I used the "Guided Partitioning - Entire disk using LVM" method and the Debian-Installer created and configured a PReP Boot Partition (8 Megs). Firewire is wo

Re: Success Installing Debian on Power Mac G3 oldworld

2007-03-03 Thread Marko Kaiser
Claudux wrote: > Oups !! > > Sorry Brian for the private message ! > I forward to the list > > Message original ---- > Sujet: Re: Success Installing Debian on Power Mac G3 oldworld. > Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:53:34 +0100 > De: Claudux <[EMAIL PR

Re: Success Installing Debian on Power Mac G3 oldworld

2007-03-03 Thread Claudux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oups !! Sorry Brian for the private message ! I forward to the list - Message original Sujet: Re: Success Installing Debian on Power Mac G3 oldworld. Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:53:34 +0100 De: Claudux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Répo

Re: Success with Motorola Powerstack II

2007-03-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:00:09PM +0100, Christian Walther wrote: > On 02/03/07, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:26:29AM +0100, Christian Walther wrote: > >> Hi list, > >> > [...] > > > >Cool, you used an etch installer,did you not. > > I forgot to mention, bu

Re: Success Installing Debian on Power Mac G3 oldworld.

2007-03-02 Thread brian
--- Claudux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello from Brittany (France), (can say in Breton ?? :)) > > few words to tell you I succeed installing a Debian > system on an > powermac G3 oldworld. you then are running now woody, or did you afterwar

Re: Success with Motorola Powerstack II

2007-03-02 Thread Christian Walther
On 02/03/07, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:26:29AM +0100, Christian Walther wrote: > Hi list, > [...] Cool, you used an etch installer,did you not. I forgot to mention, but you're right, yes I did. Would you care to review the installation manual in orde

Re: Success with Motorola Powerstack II

2007-03-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:26:29AM +0100, Christian Walther wrote: > Hi list, > > I found a thread concerning installing Debian on a Motorola Powerstack > II from December last year in the archives. Since I have one of those > machines here I tried to install Debian on it. (One reason being to > h

Re: Success compiling Drivers for Proxim/Orinoco Silver (based on Hermes I and II chipsets)

2006-09-30 Thread Stuart Arden
Hi Frank, you haven't by chance got a driver working for Mac OSX 10.2.8, on a Wallstreet powerbook with a Proxim (Agere) Orinoco Silver PC Card, model no. 8421-wd?Sounds abit cheeky when one puts it like that.I found that you had a driver working on an older powerbook with Debian (beyond my ken), b

Re: [Success!] Airport Extreme

2006-09-01 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 12:43:05PM +0200, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:50:11 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > But anyway I still need to pre-up the interface, even to associate with an > > open network. And I don't think that network-manager knows how to do that > > Well I

Re: [Success!] Airport Extreme

2006-09-01 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:50:11 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > But anyway I still need to pre-up the interface, even to associate with an > open network. And I don't think that network-manager knows how to do that Well I guess it might be worth a try, in case you haven't tried yet! I am going thr

Re: [Success!] Airport Extreme

2006-09-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 09:56 +, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:50:08 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > hmhm, what kernel version are you using ? > > I am using the latest Debian kernel (2.6.17-2 IIRC). As for your issues... > not sure, maybe WPA2 is the problem? Well, I d

Re: [Success!] Airport Extreme

2006-08-30 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:50:08 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > hmhm, what kernel version are you using ? I am using the latest Debian kernel (2.6.17-2 IIRC). As for your issues... not sure, maybe WPA2 is the problem? I am actually using networks *ahem* not really mine... what do people expect by

Re: [Success!] Airport Extreme

2006-08-30 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:40:05 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > You want networkmanager-gnome too (and then start nm-applet) so you > don't need network-admin Oh yes, got that too... really sweet actually, it's a breeze. The next time I hear someone complaining "wireless linux sucks" I'll just scream

Re: [Success!] Airport Extreme

2006-08-30 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 09:04 +, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > apt-get install wireless-tools bcm43xx-fwcutter networkmanager hmhm, what kernel version are you using ? I currently need to ip l set eth1 up before trying to associate, and networkmanager really don't know how to handle this, it seems. A

Re: [Success!] Airport Extreme

2006-08-30 Thread Johannes Berg
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 09:04 +, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > networkmanager > 3) Configure the card through the Gnome network-admin utility You want networkmanager-gnome too (and then start nm-applet) so you don't need network-admin :) johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: success story and RFC: boot debian powerpc from external firewire hd without messing with initrd image

2005-11-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 12:27:17PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > --- Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > Ah, so you compile your own kernel to make it work, > > hardly the best way. What > > you need is firewire support in > > yaird|initramfs-tools. > > Beware the yaird pack

Re: success story and RFC: boot debian powerpc from external firewire hd without messing with initrd image

2005-11-25 Thread dllm70-boborosso
--- Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Ah, so you compile your own kernel to make it work, > hardly the best way. What > you need is firewire support in > yaird|initramfs-tools. Beware the yaird package description says firewire is unsupported and scsi untested. When I have time I wi

Re: success story and RFC: boot debian powerpc from external firewire hd without messing with initrd image

2005-11-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 12:23:22AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I succesfully booted debian on my v.2 powerbook > titanium from an > external firewire disk (a maxtor one touch), without > having to mess > with an initrd kernel. > > The procedure uses the etch beta installer (sarge > installer

Re: Success story : 802.11g on ibook

2005-04-30 Thread Guido Guenther
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:18:23PM +0200, Yannick Roehlly wrote: > Good evening! (at least in France) > > I've been searching for a zydas zd1201 based 802.11b device for a long time. > In vain... As a sidenote, 802.11b at76c503a based chips are working wonderfully. I'm using the berlios driver for

Re: Success story : 802.11g on ibook

2005-04-30 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Matthias Kirschner wrote: >> This afternoon, I decided to buy a Trendnet TEW-424UB which is base on >> zd1211 chipset, chipset for which a free driver exists at >> http://zd1211.sourceforge.net/. I was not sure if it would work, but the >> device is quite cheap (29¤) and I really wanted to have wi

Re: Success story : 802.11g on ibook

2005-04-30 Thread Matthias Kirschner
Hi Yannick, * Yannick Roehlly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-29 23:18:23 +0200]: > This afternoon, I decided to buy a Trendnet TEW-424UB which is base on > zd1211 chipset, chipset for which a free driver exists at > http://zd1211.sourceforge.net/. I was not sure if it would work, but the > device i

Re: Success: serial console works...

2004-10-07 Thread Simon Vallet
Hi, On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 23:18:33 -0400 Russell Hires <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In BootX, I put the line (among the other things I've got in there): > console=ttyS1,9600n8. (This is the default setting for kermit, so I > just used that for both sender and receiver) Click the "linux" button, > a

Re: Success: serial console works...

2004-10-06 Thread Rick Thomas
Congratulations on getting that far! I didn't know the part about having to compile in the serial console, so I haven't gotten even to that point. You've given me hope. Please keep all of us on the mailing-list up-to-date on your progress! Enjoy! Rick On Wednesday, October 6, 2004, at 11:

Re: Success!

2004-04-05 Thread Simon Vallet
Hi, On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 12:28:26 -0400 Ron Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There used to be a bug in quik that made it break on G3 processors. > > It was originally written for 601 and 604 based boxes, and most > > people started using BootX about the same time that G3 boxes became > > popul

Re: Success!

2004-04-04 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 12:28:26PM -0400, Ron Murray wrote: > > 00:0e.0 Display controller: Integrated Micro Solutions Inc.: > > Unknown device 9135 (rev 01) > > Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 24 > > Memory at 8800 (32-bit, prefetchable) > > Expansion ROM at 8184 [disabled] > > >

Re: Success!

2004-04-04 Thread Ron Murray
Brad Boyer wrote: On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 04:24:57AM -0400, Ron Murray wrote: I suspect the basic problem is that, since the on-board display in this Mac has failed, I had to use the PCI display. Either the board is faulty in some strange way (although it seems to work perfectly under MacOS), o

Re: Success! (was: Problems with install on Power Mac G3 minitower)

2004-04-04 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 04:24:57AM -0400, Ron Murray wrote: > I suspect the basic problem is that, since the on-board display in this > Mac has failed, I had to use the PCI display. Either the board is faulty > in some strange way (although it seems to work perfectly under MacOS), > or the driver i

Re: Success with iBook2 internal modem (was Re: Binary driver for conexant modems ("applemodems"))

2002-09-03 Thread Eric van der Vlist
Same for me. Following the fresh track I have compiled and installed 2.4.20-pre5-ben0 on my ibook2 and the Connexant drivers worked like a charm (with dialtone detection off)... Thanks to Ben, Marc,... and Edd! Eric On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 11:11, Edd Dumbill wrote: > Today I updated my kernel (to

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-25 Thread Rick Lutowski
Franck Routier wrote: > > So what ? Are you all telling me you are going to develop a Moz plugin > for IBM JDK, or that your are going to implement a jit for Blackdown, or > what How about a Java3D-based applet that seamlessly extends IE and Netscape to handle 3D pages as well as 2D pages?

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-25 Thread Rick Lutowski
Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > What is so bad about Java and Flash anyway? > > They're not bad per se, but IME they're mostly good for complementary > stuff and sites which require them are simply broken IMHO > ('accessibility' comes to mind). The problem IMO is that these powerful technologies are

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 05:08, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Josh Huber writes: > > Rick Lutowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Yes, it's a _much_ bigger problem than generally realized. > >> 1. No Java Plug-in = no Java 2 for browsers > >> 2. No Java 2 for browsers = no Java 3D for browsers > >>

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-25 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Sure, but the subject was : we've finally got a JVM with JIT under PPC Linux, and that's nice... Oh I agree. I installed it earlier today and it makes Tomcat go "whoosh!". Strangely it makes BeanShell take much longer to start up though. So what ? Are you all telling me you are going to d

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-25 Thread Franck Routier
Le ven 24/05/2002 à 21:54, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick a écrit : > As satisfying as it may be for us to wallow in our "uphill, both > ways, in the snow, img tag the cause of all moral failings" > attitudes, it does occur every now and then in my workaday life that > I must go and wrest some ti

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Josh Huber
"Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You prefer VBscript and ActiveX controls then? That's what you > encourage. Java must run everywhere, else we have no argument > against 100% Microsoft solutions. Ah, of course I don't. I prefer none of those. > What is so bad about Java and Fla

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Josh Huber writes: > Rick Lutowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Yes, it's a _much_ bigger problem than generally realized. >> 1. No Java Plug-in = no Java 2 for browsers >> 2. No Java 2 for browsers = no Java 3D for browsers >> 3. No Java 3D for browsers = no 3D for the Web > > And this is a pro

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 9:44 AM +0900 5/25/02, electric-light-heads wrote: mmm..then which JDK wil be the best to do only text oriented io & claculations? am only planning to use java to do xml > calc > text > csound > jsyn If you are not planning to use any of the UI toolkits (Swing/AWT) you might give gcj a whi

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Rick Lutowski
electric-light-heads wrote: > > mmm..then which JDK wil be the best > to do only text oriented io & claculations? > > am only planning to use java to do > xml > calc > text > csound > jsyn xml = JDK 1.4 More rationale for Java Plug-in Browsers can't stay stuck at 1.1 forever or we all suffer (

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread electric-light-heads
mmm..then which JDK wil be the best to do only text oriented io & claculations? am only planning to use java to do xml > calc > text > csound > jsyn > > Yes, it's a _much_ bigger problem than generally realized. > > 1. No Java Plug-in = no Java 2 for browsers > > 2. No Java 2 for browsers = no Ja

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
> And this is a problem why? IMHO, the web is much nicer without java & > flash. Amen. As satisfying as it may be for us to wallow in our "uphill, both ways, in the snow, img tag the cause of all moral failings" attitudes, it does occur every now and then in my workaday life that I must go

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Franck Routier
Le ven 24/05/2002 à 20:23, Josh Huber a écrit : > > And this is a problem why? IMHO, the web is much nicer without java & > flash. I also don't think java is for client side stuff. Anyway, one can still use Blackdown JDK if java plugin is needed :-) But if you run stuff like Tomcat, JBoss, Jona

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Rick Lutowski
Josh Huber wrote: > > Rick Lutowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yes, it's a _much_ bigger problem than generally realized. > > 1. No Java Plug-in = no Java 2 for browsers > > 2. No Java 2 for browsers = no Java 3D for browsers > > 3. No Java 3D for browsers = no 3D for the Web > > And this

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 14:23, Josh Huber wrote: > Rick Lutowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yes, it's a _much_ bigger problem than generally realized. > > 1. No Java Plug-in = no Java 2 for browsers > > 2. No Java 2 for browsers = no Java 3D for browsers > > 3. No Java 3D for browsers = no 3D

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Josh Huber
Rick Lutowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, it's a _much_ bigger problem than generally realized. > 1. No Java Plug-in = no Java 2 for browsers > 2. No Java 2 for browsers = no Java 3D for browsers > 3. No Java 3D for browsers = no 3D for the Web And this is a problem why? IMHO, the web is

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Rick Lutowski
Franck Routier wrote: > > At 12:06 24.05.2002 +0200, Jeffo wrote: > >Allready adopted it a month or two ago. > >Nevertheless, there is a big probleme : > >NO JAVA PLUGIN. > > > >that's a quite big problem for a notebook used for accessing the internet !! > > Is it ?? Yes, it's a _much_ bigger pr

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 12:06 PM +0200 5/24/02, Jeffo wrote: Allready adopted it a month or two ago. Nevertheless, there is a big probleme : NO JAVA PLUGIN. that's a quite big problem for a notebook used for accessing the internet !! Hey, I've already got two JVMs installed because Tomcat crashes constantly under

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Franck Routier
At 12:06 24.05.2002 +0200, Jeffo wrote: Allready adopted it a month or two ago. Nevertheless, there is a big probleme : NO JAVA PLUGIN. that's a quite big problem for a notebook used for accessing the internet !! Is it ?? Franck --- Franck Routier SHC - Support FIH9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Jeffo
Allready adopted it a month or two ago. Nevertheless, there is a big probleme : NO JAVA PLUGIN. that's a quite big problem for a notebook used for accessing the internet !! jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Update on the problems with X (was: Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X)

2001-09-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 00:06, =?us-ascii?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito wrote: > On the other hand, when I had MacOS installed here, it ran > flawlessly. Also, I have one LinuxPPC 2000 Q4 CD here that is > able to use this card just fine with the Xpmac X server, but > since I want to u

Update on the problems with X (was: Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X)

2001-09-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Sep 30 2001, Thomas Powell wrote: First of all, I'd like to thank everybody that has already replied to my question with hints or suggestions. Thank you very much. Your help is appreciated. I am still not able to use the X server while running Debian (us

Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

2001-09-30 Thread Thomas Powell
I am using a 4mb imstt128 on a dual processor s900 (same motherboard as 9500). I can get up to 1600x1200 with the fbdev or 1280x1024 with the imstt driver - both at 16 bit color depth. The relevant section of my XF86Config-4 is: Section "Device" Identifier "imstt128mb" BusID

Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

2001-09-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 23:12, =?us-ascii?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito wrote: > In fact, I'm lying here: when I tried using the fbdev with > 640x480 with 15 or 16 bit colors, X started, but with weird > colors, like if I had taken a negative of the Debian default > desktop with Window

Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

2001-09-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 06:12:26PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > The PowerMac that I have here has a video card named IMS TT > (that's what the kernel framebuffer driver tells at dmesg), > with 4MB of VRAM. > Section "Device" > Identifier "Generic Video Card" > D

Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

2001-09-29 Thread Philipp Kaeser
hej, > And this brings me to another question: since this machine has > PCI slots, is it able to use any PCI card that I would use on > a regular PC? What requisites should a PCI card fulfill to be > usable with this machine? normal (PC x86) PCI gfx cards use to have some

Re: Success!! [was: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor]

2001-05-14 Thread Steven Hanley
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:05:12PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 07:53:46PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > designed for anything but bootable CD's and floppies. its useless for > > bootable CDs since it requires non-free, non-distributable Apple CDROM > > drivers. > > > Do

Re: Success!! [was: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor]

2001-05-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:05:12PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 07:53:46PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > designed for anything but bootable CD's and floppies. its useless for > > bootable CDs since it requires non-free, non-distributable Apple CDROM > > drivers. > > > Do

Re: Success!! [was: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor]

2001-05-13 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 07:53:46PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > designed for anything but bootable CD's and floppies. its useless for > bootable CDs since it requires non-free, non-distributable Apple CDROM > drivers. > Do we have anyone that could convince Apple to open this part of their old

Re: Success!! [was: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor]

2001-05-13 Thread Mike Fedyk
Ethan Benson: > > > BenH has been talking about throwing away quik's second > > stage code and making yaboot compatible with Oldworld OF and quik's > > first stage. this way there would effectivly be only one codebase for > > both oldworld and newworld bootloaders. only the installer and fi

Re: Success!! [was: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor]

2001-05-13 Thread basicprinting
BenH has been talking about throwing away quik's second stage code and making yaboot compatible with Oldworld OF and quik's first stage. this way there would effectivly be only one codebase for both oldworld and newworld bootloaders. only the installer and first stage loader would be diff

Re: Success!! [was: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor]

2001-05-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:21:39PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >i am not sure if its the disk based MacOS that trashes nvram or the > >ROM based MacOS that does. if its ROM based then the MacOS version is > >irrelevent, if the ROM is ever run, regardless of whether it even > >finds a co

Re: Success!! [was: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor]

2001-05-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>i am not sure if its the disk based MacOS that trashes nvram or the >ROM based MacOS that does. if its ROM based then the MacOS version is >irrelevent, if the ROM is ever run, regardless of whether it even >finds a copy of macos on any disk, the nvram will be reset. > >someone was saying on irc

Re: Success!! [was: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor]

2001-05-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:40:56AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > image=$bye > > label=macos > > > > this may work as well > > > > image=$boot /AAPL,ROM > > label=macos > > > > There's an example of a dual boot menu Forth script at > > http://members.nbci.com/bsa89/quik/bootmenu.html > >

Re: Success!! [was: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor]

2001-05-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:28:03PM -0700, Tovar wrote: > I don't know when/if LINUX is going to support high quality printing on an > Epson Photo 700 directly, and MOL doesn't currently support serial lines. i recently had an encounter with an epson printer. i got rid of it and replaced it with

Re: Success!! [was: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor]

2001-05-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 01:56:56PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > it hasn't been entirely clear that it didn't until recently.. it > > really should since its was derived from silo which supports symlinks > > fine. unfortunatly quik is pretty stripped down and broken compared > > to silo... > > > >

Re: Success!! [was: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor]

2001-05-12 Thread Tovar
>> It would be cool to have (I still have a MacOS backup system) :( MacOS on >> the system with BootX, and in the linux init scripts, rerun the lines above. >> To get to MacOS, just reset boot-device, and up comes MacOS. BootX back to >> linux, and you have a seemingly MacOSless system, quik resta

Re: Success!! [was: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor]

2001-05-12 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:03:43AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 07:20:50PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Why is quik setup to point to a symlink on initial install if it doesn't > > support them? > > it hasn't been entirely clear that it didn't until recently.. it > really s

Re: Success!! [was: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor]

2001-05-12 Thread Chris Tillman
>> It would be cool to have (I still have a MacOS backup system) :( MacOS on >> the system with BootX, and in the linux init scripts, rerun the lines above. >> To get to MacOS, just reset boot-device, and up comes MacOS. BootX back to >> linux, and you have a seemingly MacOSless system, quik resta

Re: Success!! [was: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor]

2001-05-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 07:20:50PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > With debian2.2r3 kerenel and custom kernel. > > nvsetenv boot-command "begin ['] boot catch 1000 ms cr again" > nvsetenv boot-device "$(ofpath /dev/sda)0" > #edit link instead of /etc/quik.conf > ln -f /boot/vmlinux-2.2.19 /boot/vmli

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Still fails. Log attached. > > > > It tries to initialize int10 which can't work for us yet. Try Option > > "NoInt10" (hasn't worked for me yet) or move away libint10.a . > > I moved libint10.a to libint10.a.bak an

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-06 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Still fails. Log attached. > > It tries to initialize int10 which can't work for us yet. Try Option > "NoInt10" (hasn't worked for me yet) or move away libint10.a . I moved libint10.a to libint10.a.bak and it still fails. log attached. jas. This

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Still mostly 4.0.3 modules. Try with all 4.0.99.3 . > > Aah. I see. Sorry my misunderstanding, I thought you meant just the > video drivers... Mixing modules between versions may work but it's not guaranteed to. BT

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-05 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Still mostly 4.0.3 modules. Try with all 4.0.99.3 . Aah. I see. Sorry my misunderstanding, I thought you meant just the video drivers... Still fails. Log attached. jas. This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bu

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-05 Thread Michael Schmitz
> >Please do - I tried Ben's mirror utility on the Lombard but no success. > >And I still have no aty docs to look up the details in. > > Well, if you do that, it may be interesting to impement the same > ioctls I have in my aty128fb version (I'll send it to you later > if you don't want to rsync

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It's using the 4.0.3 modules... did you give it the (correct) -modulepath > > option? > > Damn. Sorry. Wrong log file. > > This is the correct one. Still mostly 4.0.3 modules. Try with all 4.0.99.3 . -- Earthlin

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's using the 4.0.3 modules... did you give it the (correct) -modulepath > option? Damn. Sorry. Wrong log file. This is the correct one. jas. This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to XFre

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Note that you needn't install anything to try a new version, check out the > > -modulepath option of the XFree86 binary. Sorry I forgot to point this out > > earlier. > > Aaah... yes, that would have helped. I figure

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> Yep. The same is true for atyfb (yes, I should add mirrorring/dualhead >support >> for the Mobility in my Vaio :-). > >Please do - I tried Ben's mirror utility on the Lombard but no success. >And I still have no aty docs to look up the details in. Well, if you do that, it may be interesting to

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > So i suppose the you will need to use a trick similar to the matrox one to > > get > > dual headed accelerated X to work. > > Yep. The same is true for atyfb (yes, I should add mirrorring/dualhead support > for the Mobility in my Vaio :-). Please do - I tried Ben's mirror utility on the Lomba

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Jason E. Stewart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason E. Stewart) writes: > I'm attaching the whole log, as well as my config file. no really, now I am. jas. This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to XFree86@XFree86.Org and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] B

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bummer... seems like XFree86 has ProjectRoot hard-coded into the > > binary. I'll have to recompile with ProjectRoot not redefined. > > Why? > > Note that you needn't install anything to try a new version, check out the > -modulepath option of the

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note that if you don't want to mess with XFree, I recently added the > ability to control the CRT & LCD outputs of the Rage M3 to aty128fb in my > rsync tree. The tool to control it is on www.penguinppc.org/~benh Excellent. Works nicely. Th

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > >If you point the second CRTC to the same frame buffer region, you'll have >mirrorring, else you have two different heads. In most cases (like what I do with aty128fb), you don't even need to use the second CRTC. Just enable both outputs and let them source from the first CRTC. >> So i suppos

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:14:36PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:57:29PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > >> Note that if you don't want to mess with XFree, I recently added the > > > >> ability to control the CRT

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:57:29PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > >> Note that if you don't want to mess with XFree, I recently added the > > >> ability to control the CRT & LCD outputs of the Rage M3 to aty128fb in my > > >> rsync tree. The tool t

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >So mirroring will work, i guess. Well, it works fine on the Pismo, but the composite output may need additional configuration of the composite encoder. >for dual head you will need X, isn't it, fbdev seems broken (well at least >those using fbgen) for dualhead anyway. Don't know if aty128fb us

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:57:29PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >> Note that if you don't want to mess with XFree, I recently added the > >> ability to control the CRT & LCD outputs of the Rage M3 to aty128fb in my > >> rsync tree. The tool to control it is on www.penguinppc.org/~benh > >

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> Note that if you don't want to mess with XFree, I recently added the >> ability to control the CRT & LCD outputs of the Rage M3 to aty128fb in my >> rsync tree. The tool to control it is on www.penguinppc.org/~benh > >BTW, the recently released ibook is said to only have the capacity to mirror,

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:29:35PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Note that if you don't want to mess with XFree, I recently added the > ability to control the CRT & LCD outputs of the Rage M3 to aty128fb in my > rsync tree. The tool to control it is on www.penguinppc.org/~benh BTW, the re

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Note that if you don't want to mess with XFree, I recently added the ability to control the CRT & LCD outputs of the Rage M3 to aty128fb in my rsync tree. The tool to control it is on www.penguinppc.org/~benh Ben.

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > > > > "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > >> I am reluctant to do that. I'd prefer to get a solution into XFree86. > > >> Someone please try the attached patch against curre

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-03 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > > "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > >> I am reluctant to do that. I'd prefer to get a solution into XFree86. > >> Someone please try the attached patch against current CVS. It turns > >> Option > > >> "U

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
Jason E. Stewart wrote: "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am reluctant to do that. I'd prefer to get a solution into XFree86. Someone please try the attached patch against current CVS. It turns Option "UseBIOSDisplay" (which probably doesn't work for us - no BIOS here...) into O

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-03 Thread David J. Roundy
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:10:31PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > I tried to use my old X configuration and it doesn't work at all, > server just hangs. I figured some configuration files in /etc/X11 must > have gotten stomped by the CVS install of X, so I ran dpkg --remove of > xserver-common

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-03 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am reluctant to do that. I'd prefer to get a solution into XFree86. > > Someone please try the attached patch against current CVS. It turns Option > "UseBIOSDisplay" (which probably doesn't work for us - no BIOS here...) into > Option "Display" whic

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-04-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
(Adding CC: to linuxppc-dev to reach more potentially interested people) "Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > I'm writing this email to you off my ViewSonic21 running at measly > 1280x1024 but it's much better than the 1024x768 I got using > 'mirror'. > > I rebuilt r128_driver.c with the CRTOnly code co

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