Boot floppy for powerpc

2002-05-14 Thread Chris Tillman
I put together a script that patches the powerpc installer floppy image to create a new floppy image which will boot an installed system. (Or just add the boot arguments you want). Here it is. Is it worthwhile to try to work this into the 'Make a Boot Floppy' menu (after woody's release), or sh

Help me

2002-05-14 Thread Kim chulmin
You're not going to believe what's happening to me now.someone is doing an experiment on me.I mean an experiment on a living creature.   it's kind of hard to explain this situation.   Base: liquid thing interacting with human body in itself.1. they raise some koreans(about 20) and put liquid t

Re: Apache?

2002-05-14 Thread Lars D. Noodén
Yes, apt-get is trying to install potato. The man page for sources.list implies that I could just swap stable with woody. However, I've tried that without success. Should I point to different ftp mirrors? How did you get yours to work? -Lars 1) error message: # apt-get install apache

Re: Apache?

2002-05-14 Thread eric . s . cote
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 05:40:17PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 07:32:50PM +0200, Lars D. Nood?n wrote: > > Were can I find apache, apache-common and co.? > > apt-get gives me the error below. > > > > -Lars > > > > -- > > Lars Nood?n > > Lektor > > Institutt for dokument

Re: Apache?

2002-05-14 Thread eric . s . cote
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:15:22AM +0200, Lars D. Nood?n wrote: > Yes, apt-get is trying to install potato. The man page for sources.list > implies that I could just swap stable with woody. However, I've tried > that without success. Should I point to different ftp mirrors? > > How did you get

Re: XFree86 and xinerama on ppc

2002-05-14 Thread Thomas Seyrat
On May 14, 02:43 (+0200), Michel Dänzer wrote: > My usual reply to this kind of question is that Xinerama works with any > multihead display. :) > And multihead should work on PPC. And by the way, speaking of multihead, is there an easy way to set up a multiheaded configuration on second gener

Re: XFree86 and xinerama on ppc

2002-05-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 09:36, Thomas Seyrat wrote: > On May 14, 02:43 (+0200), Michel Dänzer wrote: > > My usual reply to this kind of question is that Xinerama works with any > > multihead display. :) > > And multihead should work on PPC. > > And by the way, speaking of multihead, is there an ea

Re: Apache?

2002-05-14 Thread Lars D. Noodén
Thanks. Replacing 'stable' with 'testing' in sources.list allows me to install Apache. -Lars On Tue, 14 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:15:22AM +0200, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > > Yes, apt-get is trying to install potato. The man page for sources.list > > implies

woody + apropos

2002-05-14 Thread Lars D. Noodén
Should the command apropos work 'out of the box'? I've recently done a fresh install of woody and get no hits when searching with apropos, even though the relevant man pages exist: # apropos ls ls: nothing appropriate. # apropos apt-get apt-get: nothing appropria

2 - two qustions from an X newbie

2002-05-14 Thread Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
My sawfish-gnome does not run, where did they hide its logs??? symptoms: when I choose sawfish in gdm on my log/pwd the screen turns black I here the monitor resync a couple of times and then I’m back at gdm login prompt. What happened to xdnd? X drag and drop, i. e. did they ever make it? or is

Re: XFree86 and xinerama on ppc

2002-05-14 Thread Brian D. Hicks
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:58:45AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > And by the way, speaking of multihead, is there an easy way to set up > > a multiheaded configuration on second generation G4 Powerbooks, using > > the LCD screen, and the video output ? The default behavior for the > > vide

Re: Apache?

2002-05-14 Thread eric . s . cote
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:15:33AM +0200, Lars D. Nood?n wrote: > Thanks. Replacing 'stable' with 'testing' in sources.list allows me to > install Apache. > > -Lars > eh, no problem. just passing on the little i know. eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-14 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170 workstation. I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org, while the root image is from Debian. I used the default power3 config file (power3_defconfig). Root image: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dis

Re: woody + apropos

2002-05-14 Thread David Stanaway
Works for me. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/doc/man-db$ man -k canonical canonical (5)- (unknown) canonical- format of Postfix canonical table (5) [canonical] - (unknown) cleanup- canonicalize and enqueue Postfix message (8) [cleanup] - (unknown) realpath (3) - return the canonicalized ab

Re: woody + apropos

2002-05-14 Thread brett-debianppc
mandb probably hasn't had a chance to index your manual pages yet. -Brett > "Lars" == Lars D Noodén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> Should the command apropos work 'out of the box'? I've Lars> recently done a fresh install of woody and get no hits when Lars> searching with apro

Re: 2 - two qustions from an X newbie

2002-05-14 Thread brett-debianppc
This is more of a general linux question than a debian/ppc linux question, you'll probably get a better answer posting to the debian-user list. I'll give you a hint though - try 'man 5 Xsession'. -Brett > "Gjermund" == Gjermund Gusland Thorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gjermund> My saw

Re: XFree86 and xinerama on ppc

2002-05-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 18:37, Brian D. Hicks wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:58:45AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > > And by the way, speaking of multihead, is there an easy way to set up > > > a multiheaded configuration on second generation G4 Powerbooks, using > > > the LCD screen, and

Re: Apache?

2002-05-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:15:22AM +0200, Lars D. Nood?n wrote: > Yes, apt-get is trying to install potato. The man page for sources.list > implies that I could just swap stable with woody. However, I've tried > that without success. Should I point to different ftp mirrors? > > How did you get

Re: woody + apropos

2002-05-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:23:42PM +0200, Lars D. Nood?n wrote: > Should the command apropos work 'out of the box'? > I've recently done a fresh install of woody and get no hits when searching > with apropos, even though the relevant man pages exist: > > # apropos ls > ls: nothing a

Re: XFree86 and xinerama on ppc

2002-05-14 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 14 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 18:37, Brian D. Hicks wrote: > > Speaking of powerbook dualhead, I don't suppose any progress has been > > made on xinerama support for the Rage 128 mobility in the Pismo? > > I'm not aware of any changes there. Porting that support from

Re: XFree86 and xinerama on ppc

2002-05-14 Thread Brian Victor
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:26:30PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: >On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 18:37, Brian D. Hicks wrote: >> Speaking of powerbook dualhead, I don't suppose any progress has been >> made on xinerama support for the Rage 128 mobility in the Pismo? >I'm not aware of any changes there. Portin

Re: iBook and playing DVDs

2002-05-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 22:04, Rogério Brito wrote: > On May 12 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 14:34, Rogério Brito wrote: > > > > All that I can say is that I feel cheated. :-( > > > > Well, the actual movies shouldn't be interlaced. > > Well, I read that also in Be

iMac USB keyboard LEDs

2002-05-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
I have an iMac running unstable with kernel 2.4.18 (though I think 2.2.20 had the same problem) and the keyboard LEDs are all wacked out. The "num lock" light reflects the inverse of the caps lock state (off=on, on=off). The "caps lock" light is always on. There is no "scroll lock" light or key,

Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close

2002-05-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:41:54PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: > I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170 > workstation. > > I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org, > while the root image is from Debian. I used the default power3 con

Re: iMac USB keyboard LEDs

2002-05-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 06:46:26PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > I have an iMac running unstable with kernel 2.4.18 (though I think 2.2.20 > had the same problem) and the keyboard LEDs are all wacked out. > > The "num lock" light reflects the inverse of the caps lock state (off=on, > on=off). >

Re: woody + apropos

2002-05-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:38:30PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:23:42PM +0200, Lars D. Nood?n wrote: > > Should the command apropos work 'out of the box'? > > I've recently done a fresh install of woody and get no hits when searching > > with apropos, even though the

Re: woody + apropos

2002-05-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:11:39PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > Nope, the poster was right. Since I shut off my machine at night, and > don't like anacron, cron never runs. I just ran /etc/cron.daily/man-db > as root, and it built the database and apropos works. Bug #133917. Highly non-trivial to

Re: woody + apropos

2002-05-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:25:52AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:11:39PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > It still might be worth a bug; the postinst only builds the database > > on fresh installs if man-db is not installed setuid. I don't > > understand that; seems like it

Re: woody + apropos

2002-05-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:34:37AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:25:52AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:11:39PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > It still might be worth a bug; the postinst only builds the database > > > on fresh installs if man-

Re: woody + apropos

2002-05-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:54:46PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:34:37AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > I've just remembered why things are done that way in the first place. > > See #100616, which caused problems for the boot-floppies. I'll see if I > > can come up with s

Re: woody + apropos

2002-05-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:02:46AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:54:46PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:34:37AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I've just remembered why things are done that way in the first place. > > > See #100616, which cause

base system woes on ibook2 (not 12 hours old)

2002-05-14 Thread K Clark
first caveat, this is my initial foray into mac hardware, w/exp. on i386 w/linux. ibook2 brand spanking new. followed several online guides http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html http://www.xiph.org/~jack/ibook/instnotes.html and have os9 and osx installed already. have booted into the