Re: newworld g3 trying to get to 2.6.x; problems w/ udev

2006-04-29 Thread Seth Daniel
I have a followup solution to this problem. On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 12:30:59PM -0700, Seth Daniel wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Blue & White Newworld G3. I use it as a firewall and it works > very well. Currently it is running the 2.4.27-powerpc kernel. I am > trying (and failing) to upgrade to

Re: newworld g3 trying to get to 2.6.x; problems w/ udev

2006-04-24 Thread Matt Price
On 4/24/06, Seth Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:26:59PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > do you absolutely require an initrd? > > Probably not. However, will avoiding an initrd solve my udev problem? > If not, then the question is moot until I figure out why udev is > h

newworld g3 trying to get to 2.6.x; problems w/ udev

2006-04-24 Thread Seth Daniel
Hello, I have a Blue & White Newworld G3. I use it as a firewall and it works very well. Currently it is running the 2.4.27-powerpc kernel. I am trying (and failing) to upgrade to 2.6.x (primarily 2.6.16-1-powerpc). Whenever I boot with a >= 2.6.8 kernel udev will hang at "Waiting for /dev t

Re: TiBook / Debian / X problems

2003-09-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 19:49, Nick Allen wrote: > > I'd read somewhere that in order to use X with my TiBook, I would have > to use XFree86 4.2.0 because it's the only version with Radeon Mobility > support. I'm not sure 4.2 supported your chip. > The second method: Installing, apt-get'ing f

TiBook / Debian / X problems

2003-09-27 Thread Nick Allen
Hi, Yesterday I got a TiBook with an 800 MHz processor, 512MB of RAM, a 40GB HDD, Radeon Mobility 7500 [32MB] video card, and an airport card with it. My boss gave me his machine since he's just gotten one of the new ones. I mention the source because that same morning I'd seen everything func

Re: ibook 12" 800mhz/radeon -- X problems

2003-01-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sam, 2003-01-04 at 13:49, Jon Michaelchuck wrote: > I've installed debian on this box and am having problems with X 4.2.1.1. > X starts up, a cursor works, but the screen is messed up and when I try > ctrl alt backspace to exit X just locks, I can't get to any other ttys either. [...] > XFree

ibook 12" 800mhz/radeon -- X problems

2003-01-03 Thread Jon Michaelchuck
Hi, I've installed debian on this box and am having problems with X 4.2.1.1. X starts up, a cursor works, but the screen is messed up and when I try ctrl alt backspace to exit X just locks, I can't get to any other ttys either. Here is my log: This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not

X problems

2002-03-14 Thread Vaclav Hula
Hi, I just installed debian on PowerMac 8100/100 (NuBus), using MkLinux, kernel from nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net and potato cd#1, then upgraded to woody. Now I have two major problems: 1. under X, colors are totally screwed, no matter how I set the display. I tried 8/15/16/24 depths, and noth

Re: X problems on Potato 2.2v3 with grey G3

2001-07-15 Thread hansen
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 05:54:07PM +0100, Jan Vroonhof wrote: > > [Please CC me, I'm not subsribed. I am trying to follow using > the archives] > > Am having a lot of trouble getting XFree to work reliably > on a Grey G3 (with ATI rage card): > > When running in 8 bit the X server background is

X problems on Potato 2.2v3 with grey G3

2001-07-13 Thread Jan Vroonhof
[Please CC me, I'm not subsribed. I am trying to follow using the archives] Am having a lot of trouble getting XFree to work reliably on a Grey G3 (with ATI rage card): When running in 8 bit the X server background is all white and the mouse cursor leaves ghost images around. [It actually looks

Re: TiPB X Problems - solved!

2001-04-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>Thank you all for your help. Following michel's suggestion, I compiled >benh's kernel and changed my append to "video=aty128fb:vmode:14,cmode:8". >It work without problem after that. I tried taking out the append line, >but it would just hang with the OF path to the video card on a white >screen.

Re: TiPB X Problems - solved!

2001-04-22 Thread Matt Mohebbi
Hello, Thank you all for your help. Following michel's suggestion, I compiled benh's kernel and changed my append to "video=aty128fb:vmode:14,cmode:8". It work without problem after that. I tried taking out the append line, but it would just hang with the OF path to the video card on a white scree

Re: TiPB X Problems

2001-04-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
Matt Mohebbi wrote: > I have been faced with the same error messages starting X regardless of > the changes suggested by this list. I am running 2.4.3-pre6 kernel from > the linuxppc.org ftp site on debian unstable. I have had the problem with > X 4.0.2 and I just upgraded to 4.0.3 from branden's

Re: TiPB X Problems

2001-04-21 Thread Christophe Suire
Matt Mohebbi wrote: > Hello, > > I have been faced with the same error messages starting X regardless of > the changes suggested by this list. I am running 2.4.3-pre6 kernel from > the linuxppc.org ftp site on debian unstable. I have had the problem with > X 4.0.2 and I just upgraded to 4.0.3 from

Re: TiPB X Problems

2001-04-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Matt Mohebbi wrote: > I have been faced with the same error messages starting X regardless of > the changes suggested by this list. I am running 2.4.3-pre6 kernel from > the linuxppc.org ftp site on debian unstable. I have had the problem with > X 4.0.2 and I just upgraded to 4

Re: TiPB X Problems

2001-04-20 Thread Colin Walters
Matt Mohebbi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been faced with the same error messages starting X regardless > of the changes suggested by this list. I am running 2.4.3-pre6 > kernel from the linuxppc.org ftp site on debian unstable. I have had > the problem with X 4.0.2 and I just upgraded to

TiPB X Problems

2001-04-20 Thread Matt Mohebbi
Hello, I have been faced with the same error messages starting X regardless of the changes suggested by this list. I am running 2.4.3-pre6 kernel from the linuxppc.org ftp site on debian unstable. I have had the problem with X 4.0.2 and I just upgraded to 4.0.3 from branden's site and I still get

Re: X-problems on a Power PC 8500

2001-03-03 Thread Kin Chung
Dieter Faulbaum wrote: Michel Dänzer writes: > Dieter Faulbaum wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me where I can change `the 10 minutes' to > > `nonterminating'? > > [...] > > > Fatal server error: > > fbdevUpdateColormap: FBIOPUTCMAP failed (Function not implemented) > > Is this the scre

Re: X-problems on a Power PC 8500

2001-03-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
Dieter Faulbaum wrote: > > > Fatal server error: > > > fbdevUpdateColormap: FBIOPUTCMAP failed (Function not implemented) > > > > Is this the screensaver bug? If yes, 'xset s off' should be a workaround. > > Thanks, this workaround helps (a lot)! > > But I think it's really only a workaround

Re: X-problems on a Power PC 8500

2001-03-02 Thread Dieter Faulbaum
Michel Dänzer writes: > Dieter Faulbaum wrote: > > > After 10 minutes idle time the X-server (3.3.6) ends with the fatal > > server error shown below. > > > > Can anyone tell me where I can change `the 10 minutes' to > > `nonterminating'? > > [...] > > > Fatal server error: > > fbd

Re: X-problems on a Power PC 8500

2001-03-01 Thread Michel Dänzer
Dieter Faulbaum wrote: > After 10 minutes idle time the X-server (3.3.6) ends with the fatal > server error shown below. > > Can anyone tell me where I can change `the 10 minutes' to > `nonterminating'? [...] > Fatal server error: > fbdevUpdateColormap: FBIOPUTCMAP failed (Function not implemen

X-problems on a Power PC 8500

2001-02-28 Thread Dieter Faulbaum
I installed a potato-system with kernel 2.2.17 und a Mac 8500 (with a Accelerated G3 Card and 80MB memory). I boot it with bootx (1.2.2) and most thing work fine (after some configuration problems). But one `big' problem remains: After 10 minutes idle time the X-server (3.3.6) ends with the fatal

Re: X problems

2000-05-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 11:28:23PM +0100, Björn Johansson wrote: > > Once I added your script everything works very good :). I noticed that I had > to turn off gpm because it made some kind of conflict with the mouse, so > the mousepointer moved extremely slow, but after shutting this program down

Re: X problems

2000-05-21 Thread Björn Johansson
On 19-Maj-00, you wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 01:01:14PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > >> >> Meaning that the session probably gets started and terminates >> immediately, e.g. because some program doesn't exist or fails. >> >> You really have to check where and how wdm invokes the session

Re: X problems

2000-05-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 01:01:14PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Meaning that the session probably gets started and terminates immediately, > > e.g. because some program doesn't exist or fails. > > > > You really have to check where and how wdm invokes

Re: X problems

2000-05-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 01:01:14PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Meaning that the session probably gets started and terminates immediately, > e.g. because some program doesn't exist or fails. > > You really have to check where and how wdm invokes the session and try to find > out what goes wro

Re: X problems

2000-05-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
Björn Johansson wrote: > > On 18-Maj-00, you wrote: > > > Björn Johansson wrote: > > > >> It won't matter how I configure login.app or any other login-program for > >> that matter, because X won't start at all. It just starts and I can move > >> the mouse for 1 second or so. > > > > Do you get ba

Re: X problems

2000-05-18 Thread Björn Johansson
On 18-Maj-00, you wrote: > Björn Johansson wrote: > >> It won't matter how I configure login.app or any other login-program for >> that matter, because X won't start at all. It just starts and I can move >> the mouse for 1 second or so. > > Do you get back to the login prompt then or does it die

Re: X problems

2000-05-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
Björn Johansson wrote: > It won't matter how I configure login.app or any other login-program > for that matter, because X won't start at all. It just starts and I can move > the mouse for 1 second or so. Do you get back to the login prompt then or does it die altogether? > (--) FBDev: Using af

Re: X problems

2000-05-17 Thread Björn Johansson
On 17-Maj-00, you wrote: > Björn Johansson wrote: > >> I have been trying a lot to get the mouse working under X, but with no >> luck. GPM is configured to use the mouse, so I know which device it would >> be configured as. > > You need protocol "busmouse" and device /dev/amigamouse. Ok, fixed.

Re: X problems

2000-05-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
Björn Johansson wrote: > I have been trying a lot to get the mouse working under X, but with no luck. > GPM is configured to use the mouse, so I know which device it would be > configured as. You need protocol "busmouse" and device /dev/amigamouse. > I have also been experiencing problems with

X problems

2000-05-17 Thread Björn Johansson
Hi! I have been trying a lot to get the mouse working under X, but with no luck. GPM is configured to use the mouse, so I know which device it would be configured as. I have also been experiencing problems with X(Xfree86 3.3.6). After installing a program called: *app.login*(nextstep look) it did

Wierd X problems

2000-02-14 Thread Logan Hall
Ok. well i got X to come up now, but my virtual screen is about 4 feet tall. How can i get this set up correctly? i have it set to have a vertiual screen of 1024 by 768 and my resolution is 1024 by 768 so i shouldn't have to scroll. here is my X config file. anysuggestions? Logan "O God

Boot and X problems resolved!

1999-02-02 Thread Manuel Sickert
Hi all, many many thanks for your suggestions. Finally it was the right thing to get a precompiled kernel and boot this one with BootX. The system came up again without problems. I couldn't hesitate to try this kernel compiling again. This time I made the "make modules" and "make modules_install