Powerbook still pops and clicks

2001-01-14 Thread Brendan J Simon
My powerbook (G3-500MHz-firewire) makes clicking and popping sounds. I've tried it with MacOS and with just the yaboot prompt and it *doesn't* click and pop. It only makes the clicking and popping sounds when running Debian GNU Linux. I'm running with kernel 2.2.17 and X-4.0.1. I might tr

Re: Powerbook still pops and clicks

2001-01-15 Thread Brendan J Simon
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: I'm running with kernel 2.2.17 and X-4.0.1. I might try disabling the X server and see if that makes any difference. Maybe I have to setup my sound system some how ??? Does anybody else have a new powerbook th Are you using a sound daemon like esound ? Or dir

Re: Powerbook still pops and clicks

2001-01-16 Thread Brendan J Simon
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Is esound known to be broken on powerpc ? Is there a better sound daemon that is recommended for powerpc ? It's known to have caused _me_ endless troubles ;) It's possible that E is trying to output sound via esound, causing the clicks. Can you try removing esound

Re: Powerbook still pops and clicks

2001-01-16 Thread Brendan J Simon
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Is esound known to be broken on powerpc ? Is there a better sound daemon that is recommended for powerpc ? It's known to have caused _me_ endless troubles ;) It's possible that E is trying to output sound via esound, causing the clicks. Can you try removing esound

Re: Powerbook still pops and clicks

2001-01-17 Thread Brendan J Simon
Michel Dänzer wrote: It's known to have caused _me_ endless troubles ;) It's possible that E is trying to output sound via esound, causing the clicks. Can you try removing esound and disabling E & gnome sound to see if it helps ? (At least, we would then know if esound is the culprit). I disab

Re: debian: where can I find ieeefp.h header file.

2001-02-04 Thread Brendan J Simon
Pollywog wrote: I'm trying to compile SystemC (opensource C++ HDL) from www.systemc.org. It configures but will not build because it can't find ieeefp.h. Does this file exist in any debian pacakges ? If so, which one ??? libc5-altdev: /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/include/i386/ieeefp.h OK I foun

Re: debian: where can I find ieeefp.h header file.

2001-02-05 Thread Brendan J Simon
Pollywog wrote: libc5-altdev: /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/include/i386/ieeefp.h OK I found this by doing the search, but I have a powerpc based machine. It doesn't seem to be available for powerpc !!! Anyone know if I can install this from a non-debian source ??? libc5-altdev: /usr/i486-linuxlib

Re: debian-powerpc: I can't find pmud

2001-02-26 Thread Brendan J Simon
I found it in testing and unstable only by updating my /etc/apt/sources.list file and doing an apt-get update. I didn't really want to do that but now I have taken the plunge. I tried searching packages at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages. I entered "pmud" and chose options of distriub

Re: debian-powerpc: I can't find pmud

2001-02-26 Thread Brendan J Simon
Paul Kimber wrote: I found it in testing and unstable only by updating my /etc/apt/sources.list file and doing an apt-get update. I didn't really want to do that but now I have taken the plunge. change /etc/apt/sources.list back to stable and run apt-get update again. You should be back to

debian-powerpc: kernel-source-2.4.1 on powerbook

2001-02-28 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm having problems with my powerbook clicking so I thought I would try upgrading to "testing". It didn't fix the problem (mad it worse actually) so I decided to do an "apt-get source kernel-source-2.4.1" and try to build/install a new kernel. I can't get it to compile. I get the following e

Re: debian-powerpc: kernel-source-2.4.1 on powerbook

2001-03-01 Thread Brendan J Simon
The webpage mentions using rsync from the fsmlabs repository but it doesn't work (at least for me). I get the following. $ rsync bitkeeper.fsmlabs.com::linuxppc_2_4 linuxppc_2_4 failed to connect to bitkeeper.fsmlabs.com - Connection refused Is it broken ??? Thanks, Brendan Simon. Michael

debian-powerpc: Keyspan USB to serial converter works :)

2001-03-04 Thread Brendan J Simon
To Debian PowerPC mailing list, I'd just like to let everyone know that I got my Keyspan USB to Serial converter working last night. I got the linux 2.4.2 sources (from fsmlabs) and built the kernel to include the Keyspan driver. I'm using the new devfs so the /dev entries are /dev/usb/tts/0

Re: debian-powerpc: Keyspan USB to serial converter works :)

2001-03-04 Thread Brendan J Simon
Alan DuBoff wrote: I just got my Belkin USB->Serial going last week and was able to talk to my embedded system as well, but I have a quirk with I was wondering if you see. The serial console on my embedded system is only 9600, and for some reason it seems that when I pull up minicom, even thoug

debian-powerpc: Apple Titanium notebooks ?

2001-03-06 Thread Brendan J Simon
Does anyone know if Debian Linux will run on the new Apple Titanium notebooks. I assume it's just a new kernel I need with the appropriate drivers. Has anyone got a new Ti machine running Debian Linux ? Thanks, Brendan Simon.

Re: debian-powerpc: Apple Titanium notebooks ?

2001-03-07 Thread Brendan J Simon
Peter Cordes wrote: There are a lot of PPC fixes that haven't been merged into Linus's tree. Have a look at http://www.linuxcare.com.au/paulus/kernels.html and http://www.fsmlabs.com/linuxppcbk.html. (The instructions for rsync given on the fsmlabs page don't work. I was able to get the kernel

Re: debian-powerpc: Apple Titanium notebooks ?

2001-03-07 Thread Brendan J Simon
jeramy b smith wrote: Apparently fmslabs is doing tons of traffic and rsync just adds to the load. Now you can rsync linux-2.4-paulus and linux-2.4-bk from penguinppc.org. We update the bk tree every time a commit happens and then export it to rsync. This is good news. Sounds like the fsmlab

debian-powerpc: upcoming 2.2r3 release

2001-03-14 Thread Brendan J Simon
I have some issues with the upcoming 2.2r3 release of Debian. 1) Communicator still doesn't work on PowerPC (I'm currently using testing with kernel 2.4.2). That's OK because I'd prefer to use Mozilla anyway, *but* unfortunately Mozilla M18-3 is quite old now. The Mozilla people have made an

Re: debian-powerpc: upcoming 2.2r3 release

2001-03-15 Thread Brendan J Simon
Olaf Grewe wrote: 1) Communicator still doesn't work on PowerPC (I'm currently using testing with kernel 2.4.2). That's OK because I'd prefer to use Mozilla anyway, *but* unfortunately Mozilla M18-3 is quite old now. The Mozilla people have made an official release (0.8) which should p

Re: debian-powerpc: upcoming 2.2r3 release

2001-03-15 Thread Brendan J Simon
Michel Dänzer wrote: I'd also like a kernel that doesn't click on my powerbook. I've tried 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels and they all click regardless of whether sound support is compiled in the kernel. Given this and the fact that you seem to be the only one experiencing this, it doesn't look like

debian-powerpc: error installing libpaperg on testing

2001-03-19 Thread Brendan J Simon
I get the following error messages when trying to install libpaperg on my PowerBook. I'm running Debian Testing. It seems to be some kind of perl error not being able to find ConfModule.pm. How can I fix this ? Thanks, Brendan Simon. $ apt-get install libpaperg Reading Package Lists... Don

debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-28 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm considering mirroring Debian for our company. I'd like to know how much diskspace I would require. Can someone tell me the size of the following Debian Distros. Is there a webpage with this information ?? Is it automagically updated ??? Diskspace required for each of these Debian dis

debian: cvs server giving permission denied

2001-04-03 Thread Brendan J Simon
I've got a CVS server on a PowerMac running Debian GNU Linux (stable). I can checkout from the repository but I can not do simple operations like status or update. This only happens when performing these operations on directories with subdirectories (excluding CVS). Is this a known problem a

Re: debian: cvs server giving permission denied

2001-04-04 Thread Brendan J Simon
They all looked OK, then I noticed that CVSROOT had ownership/group of root/root. I changed the group to cvsusers and now everything works ok. Thanks for giving me the prod to the obvious. Regards, Brendan Simon. Doug McNaught wrote: Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

debian-powerpc: snmp broken in testing

2001-04-05 Thread Brendan J Simon
It seems that snmp/snmpd is broke in testing. The new version of the libsnmp aren't available for some reason. I'm not sure what the status of snmp is in unstable but I thought that nothing was suppossed to enter testing unless it had no problems in unstable for at least two weeks. Is anyo

debian-powerpc: can't install gnome-core/testing

2001-04-25 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm trying to do an 'apt-get upgrade' on my PowerBook running Debian/Testing. It complained when trying to upgrade some gnome packages. This has been going on for a while now. It seems that gnome-core depends on libcapplet0 is the culprit. gnome-core requires version 1:1.4.0.1-3 but the lat

debian-powerpc: g4 powerbook and writeable CD/DVD

2001-05-15 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm going to buy a G4 PowerBook :) :) :) :) :) I currently run Debian Linux/PPC Testing with kernel 2.4.2 on my G3 PowerBook :) :) :) I want to buy a writeable CD or DVD drive so I can backup and also boot the machine from for installation and recovery purposes. Does anyone have a recommend

debian-powerpc: booting a PowerBook Titanium G4

2001-05-22 Thread Brendan J Simon
I've just bought a Titanium and am trying to get Debian going. I've got a PowerBook G3 and want to copy my root partition accross to the new machine via the network. I also have to partition and install yaboot. What is the easiest way to do this ? Will the PowerPC CD image boot the Titani

debian-powerpc: Airport with Titanium Powerbook

2001-06-04 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm trying to get my Airport wireless networking going with my TiBook. I have downloaded the latest kernel (2.4.5pre5) source from fsmlabs using rsync. I managed to compile the kernel but it crashes on startup. I have compiled most things as modules but the kernel doesn't even get as far a

debian-powerpc: debconf, perl, apt-get errors

2001-06-21 Thread Brendan J Simon
A few weeks, I did an "apt-get upgrade" on my Titanium and now my system wont upgrade many packages. I'm using testing and unstable with testing being the default. apt-get returns all sorts of errors and I think it is a perl script which is part of debconf. I have searched the archives but

Re: debian-powerpc: debconf, perl, apt-get errors

2001-06-22 Thread Brendan J Simon
Thanks Michel, Here is what dpkg says on my machine. $ dpkg -l | grep perl ii dpkg-perl 0.1-5 ii libnet-perl 1.0703-4.1 ii libperl5.6 5.6.0-21 ii perl 5.6.1-4 ii perl-5.005 6.1 ii perl-5.005-bas 6.1 ii perl-base 5.6.1-4 ii perl-modules 5.6.1-4 I left out the descriptions. Maybe i

Re: debian-powerpc: debconf, perl, apt-get errors

2001-06-22 Thread Brendan J Simon
apt-get install perl/testing or apt-get install perl-base/testing did the trick. Now debconf is happy, I can get my system back to some kind of stability. Thanks, Brendan Simon. Michel Dänzer wrote: > Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > > A few weeks, I did an "apt-get upgrade&quo

debian: mozilla-0.9.1 not as good as mozilla-0.8.1

2001-07-10 Thread Brendan J Simon
Hi, I have manually installed versions of mozilla on my PowerPC laptop. Version 0.8.1 worked fine with my internet banking and other java web sites. I was so pleased to see Mozilla-0.9.1 in the testing distribution and promptly did an upgrade. I now can not access any of my banking. I'm no

Re: debian: mozilla-0.9.1 not as good as mozilla-0.8.1

2001-07-10 Thread Brendan J Simon
Thanks Paul. I hadn't installed the PSM. I have now installed it but unfortunately it still doesn't work. I just get a sreen saying please wait while downloading your account information. Brendan Simon. Paul D. Smith wrote: %% Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write

debian: gnome is slower with testing distro

2001-07-19 Thread Brendan J Simon
I've been using testing for a while now on my Apple G4 laptop. I also use some unstable packages but the apt defaults are set to testing. I am using GNOME and Sawmill and I do an apt update/upgrade everyday. In the last month or so I have noticed that GNOME is *really* slow when invoking app

debian: Recommendation for scanner/printer/fax/copier

2001-07-26 Thread Brendan J Simon
Hi, I'm running an Apple Titanium G4 and an Intel Pentium-II machine (both with Debian ofcourse). I would like to purchase a scanner but would also like to be able to do photocopies. I could use a computer to scan then print but that can be a bit inefficient. I was thinking of an all in one

Debian Linux/PPC on G4.

2000-01-05 Thread Brendan J Simon
I am in the process of buying a PowerMac to be used as a compile/development server in our company. Everyone uses MSWin here but I have convinced the boss to purchase a PowerPC machine to run linux so that we can develop code for a powerpc embedded system. I was going to go for a G3 DVD Special

PowerPC bootdisks for potato release.

2000-02-10 Thread Brendan J Simon
Are the boot disks going to be "ready" for the upcoming relesae of powerpc-potato in February (it is still February isn't it ?) ? I want to buy a PowerBook but am waiting for Debian to be officially released and with boot floopies to install on my PowerBook. I really do not want to preinstall an

Docbook: section command not working.

2000-03-26 Thread Brendan J Simon
I have installed slink (r4 upgraded to r5) and am trying to use docbook. I have found that the tag does not work but the , , ... commands do work. I am very green with sgml and docbook. I am assuming that the tag is new. Is this true ? Maybe I am using an older version of DocBook ? Version

debian-Powerpc: Support for Apple DVD-RAM.

2000-04-04 Thread Brendan J Simon
My company is looking at buying an Apple G4 server to run Linux on. Does Debian Linux/PPC support the DVD-RAM drive ? If so, is it possible to burn ordinary CDs and DVD-DATA disks ? What about via a MS-Windows client machine ? Please CC replies to me as well as the list. Thanks, Brendan Simon.

debian-powerpc: g4 installation woes.

2000-04-06 Thread Brendan J Simon
I have just purchased an Apple PowerMac G4/450, 256MB RAM, 20MB IDE Hard Drive, Zip Disk and DVD-ROM. I want to install Debian Linux on it but it is proving to be a nightmare. I have read and read and read the mailing list archives but I can not get linux running. Can someone please help. I bel

linux-powerpc: booting from zip disk ?

2000-04-07 Thread Brendan J Simon
Does any one know if I can boot linux from a zip disk on a PowerMac G4 ? Ethan Benson mailed me a script to produce a CD image so I can boot from it and install Debian, but unfortunately I don't have access to a CD burner anymore. So can it be done ? Do I need to fool around in Open Firmware ? If

Re: linux-powerpc: booting from zip disk ?

2000-04-07 Thread Brendan J Simon
Nelson Abramson wrote: > > Does any one know if I can boot linux from a zip disk on a PowerMac G4 ? > > Well, that depends what you mean by boot. If you mean load yaboot and a > kernel, > then yes, most certainly. That's what I do. You just replace "hd:" with > "zip:" and you're all set. > > >

yaboot errors on g4

2000-04-07 Thread Brendan J Simon
I finally went out and bought linuxppc (AUS$15) and yellowdog (AUS$15) disks so I can boot into Linux. I don't plan on installing either, I just wanted a boot disk so I could untar the debian base2_2.tgz file and then use apt. I downloaded ybin (0.11), yaboot (0.5) and hfsutils and managed to ins

Re: yaboot errors on g4

2000-04-08 Thread Brendan J Simon
Ethan Benson wrote: > enclosed is a debug version of yaboot 0.5 if you don't find anything > else wrong.. the main thing to look for is that the OF path yaboot is > using to fetch the files looks sane. The yaboot-debug did not work but here is the output. (I transcribed this by hand. Whew !!)

Re: yaboot errors on g4

2000-04-08 Thread Brendan J Simon
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 11:23:07AM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > The output of "pdisk /dev/hda" is > > > > Edit /dev/hda - > > Command (? for help): p > > > > Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda

Re: yaboot errors on g4

2000-04-08 Thread Brendan J Simon
at 12:31:40PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > > > Really. What is it supposed to look like ? > > here is what my partition table looks like, and its working quite > well: > > /dev/hda > #type name length base

deb-ppc: Is debian-configuration broken ?

2000-04-09 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm using a G4 machine and am having problems with debian-configuration. It is using the dialog interface. I manage to get through stuff like setting up the network but when it asks me about using md5 passwords, I find that the keyboard no longer responds. I try to break to another console by pr

yaboot now working on g4.

2000-04-10 Thread Brendan J Simon
I changed the ofboot.b file so as to include the partition number. Apparently this is a bug in yaboot_0.5 and will be fixed in the next release. I changed the file from boot hd:,\\yaboot to boot hd:2,yaboot Thanks for everyones help. Brendan Simon.

Re: deb-ppc: Is debian-configuration broken ?

2000-04-10 Thread Brendan J Simon
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 09:10:15AM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > I'm using a G4 machine and am having problems with debian-configuration. > > > > It is using the dialog interface. I manage to get through stuff like > > setting up

Re: i386->powerpc cross compiler

2000-04-10 Thread Brendan J Simon
"David N. Welton" wrote: > Any plans to create an i386 to powerpc gcc crosscompiler package? I > think we'd increase our popularity amongst the embedded folks who use > PPC. I've been thinking about this just recently. We are developing an embedded product using the mpc860 and maybe a mpc8260. T

Re: i386->powerpc cross compiler

2000-04-10 Thread Brendan J Simon
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, David N. Welton wrote: > > > Any plans to create an i386 to powerpc gcc crosscompiler package? I > > think we'd increase our popularity amongst the embedded folks who use > > PPC. > > I was actually thinking about creating one myself, but I ca

XFree86 on a G4

2000-04-10 Thread Brendan J Simon
Anyone got XFree86 working on a G4 ? If so, what tricks did you use. I installed xserver-fbdev. Is this correct ? I think XFree86 is preferred over Xpmac. Is this correct ? Thanks, Brendan Simon.

Re: i386->powerpc cross compiler

2000-04-10 Thread Brendan J Simon
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > I've been thinking about this just recently. > > We are developing an embedded product using the mpc860 and maybe a mpc8260. > > There is the HardHat Linux distribution which is based

Debian cross-compilers

2000-04-10 Thread Brendan J Simon
Brent Fulgham wrote: > > > Any plans to create an i386 to powerpc gcc crosscompiler package? I > > > think we'd increase our popularity amongst the embedded folks who > > > use PPC. > > > > Has anyone actually managed to create a cross-compiler using the > > Debian GCC (+ binutils) sources? Foll

Re: Powerbook Issues

2000-04-12 Thread Brendan J Simon
Sam Powers wrote: > Hi, my name's Sam Powers, and i'm sort of new to the list. Anyway, > I've > been running Debian on my Powerbook G3 (Wallstreet) for about a month > now, and > i've been running Linux on and off now for about a year, first during > Summer of > '98, Slackware on a 486, an

Re: gnome-pim: Cannot open user-cal.vcf or GnomeCard.gcrd on PPC

2000-04-13 Thread Brendan J Simon
"C.M. Connelly" wrote: > "AP" == Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >AP> lexGetc is returning 255 for EOF instead of -1. This is >AP> because lexLookAhead is calling int lexGeta(), which >AP> returns the value from char lexGetc(). In the cast from >AP> char to int, it

char / unsigned char [was: gnome-pim: Cannot open user-cal.vcf or GnomeCard.gcrd on PPC]

2000-04-13 Thread Brendan J Simon
Jim Studt wrote: > Fortunately some wise soul extended the ARM compiler to print a warning > when a `char' is compared to a negative constant. We collect these during > the builds and list them over at... > http://www.federated.com/~jim/arm/charhell.html > ... there are only about 150 pac

Re: communicator-smotif-47 out of frozen.

2000-04-19 Thread Brendan J Simon
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > As some of you may have noticed, communicator is broken on powerpc now. > That is, > > apt-get install communicator > > won't work, since communicator-smotif-47 is in woody. I asked Richard > Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> about this and he told me that there are RC

deb-ppc: X server debian packages ?

2000-04-30 Thread Brendan J Simon
I've got a PowerMac G4 at work and am thinking of buying a PowerBook for myself. I have debian running very nicely on the G4 but I haven't got X running. I've installed task-x-window-system but that is all. I read on the mailing lists that XFree86 4.X and/or xpmac is required. Is this correct ?

Debian Powerbook install

2000-05-04 Thread Brendan J Simon
Hi Matt, I have just bought a powerbook and am seeing the same errors that you saw. ie. "hda: lost interrupt". This must be a kernel issue as I am using yaboot to boot the linuxppc cd. I have successfully installed debian on a G4. I did this by putting appropriate kernels and ramdisk images on

Re: XFree86 4.0 binaries

2000-05-09 Thread Brendan J Simon
Does this work on the new Apple PowerBook (the one with FireWire) ? I have installed the XFree86 4.0 server and get the following errors in the log file. It seems to be looking at "BusID PCI:0:16:0: even though the XF86Config expicitly states "BusID 0:1:0". Can someone post a working XF86Config f

Re: XFree86 4.0 binaries

2000-05-09 Thread Brendan J Simon
Nelson Abramson wrote: > Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > Does this work on the new Apple PowerBook (the one with FireWire) ? > > I have installed the XFree86 4.0 server and get the following errors in the > > log file. > > It seems to be looking at "BusID PCI

Re: XFree86 4.0 binaries

2000-05-09 Thread Brendan J Simon
Michel Dänzer wrote: > > (--) PCI: (0:16:0) ATI unknown chipset (0x4c46) rev 2, Mem @ > > 0xa400/26, 0xa000/14, I/O @ 0x0400/8 > > Are you sure the chip in those Notebooks is from the Rage128 family? Yep. It is a Rage 128 Mobility chip. > If it's in fact from the mach64 family, you

Re: XFree86 4.0 binaries

2000-05-09 Thread Brendan J Simon
Michel Dänzer wrote: > > How recent a kernel do I need ? One from CVS ? > > I am using the one from Ben H's site (vmlinux-2.2.15pre14). > > For a mach64 chip, you might need a 2.3.x kernel - don't know exactly. > > But as you have a Rage128, it doesn't matter, you can use the fbdev driver > (unti

Re: XFree86 4.0 binaries

2000-05-09 Thread Brendan J Simon
Tom Rini wrote: > Nope. Right now in 2.3.99preX (and for a while before) all usb mice look the > same. With the evdev stuff, usb stuff looks even more the same (no more > keycode translations). BTW, type "auto" doesn't seem to be too happy anywhere > (friend of mine on x86 warned me against usi

Re: XFree86 4.0 binaries

2000-05-10 Thread Brendan J Simon
Tom Rini wrote: > > I didn't have any video options set. I set video=aty128fb in yaboot.conf > > but it > > doesn't make any difference. I get the bright green screen. When I change > > video > > modes with ctrl-alt-+ I can see that the resolution changes but the > > background > > turns to

Re: How to switch to debian on a powermac G4?

2000-05-10 Thread Brendan J Simon
Christian Lynbech on satellite wrote: > However, besides missing the nice warm feel of a debian system, YDL is > not suitable for the software in question, since that requires glibc > 2.0 while YDL, like most other modern linuxes, comes with glib 2.1 (or > is 2.2, but not compatible), and my attem

Re: XFree86 4.0 binaries

2000-05-10 Thread Brendan J Simon
Michel Dänzer wrote: > > I didn't have any video options set. I set video=aty128fb in yaboot.conf > > but it doesn't make any difference. > You also need Option "UseFBDev" in XF86Config. I have the following: Section "Device" Identifier "Rage128" Driver "r128" Option "UseFBDev"

deb-ppc: can't switch to VTs using PowerBook

2000-05-10 Thread Brendan J Simon
I have a G4 and PowerBook (with Firewire). I can switch virtual terminals with the G4 using apple-Fx key combinations, but I can't switch VTs with the PowerBook no matter what combination of keys I try. Do I need to hold down the "fn" key ? This key is yellowish in colour and so is the Fx markin

Re: How to switch to debian on a powermac G4?

2000-05-11 Thread Brendan J Simon
Christian Lynbech on satellite wrote: > Daniel> Requires glibc 2.0? Are you sure? > Unfortunately yes. Trying to run against glibc2.1 makes the program > segfault which I recall as being one of the symptoms of lib mismatches > across those versions (and the recommended linux versions are listed >

can't ping localhost

2000-05-18 Thread Brendan J Simon
Andre Berger wrote: > Finally I figured out it wasn't fetchmail's fault; it wasn't able to > connect to localhost. The potato installer hadn't installed > /etc/init.d/network (or started /etc/init.d/networking, don't know > about that). I made /etc/init.d/network as follows (executable): > > #! /b

Re: can't ping localhost

2000-05-18 Thread Brendan J Simon
Brendan J Simon wrote: > Andre Berger wrote: > > > Finally I figured out it wasn't fetchmail's fault; it wasn't able to > > connect to localhost. The potato installer hadn't installed > > /etc/init.d/network (or started /etc/init.d/networking, do

Re: Errors and crashes

2000-05-20 Thread Brendan J Simon
Josh wrote: > > Have you checked $PATH and $LIBRARY_PATH for root and your users? > > the only difference in $PATH between root and my user acct is paths to > various /sbin's in root. I didn't see a $LIBRARY_PATH in either. How do I > set the $PATH permanently (if that's the issue)? It depends

Re: Where are the Netscape 4.7 Debian PowerPC packages

2000-05-22 Thread Brendan J Simon
Renaud Dreyer wrote: > Any idea where I can find the Netscape 4.7 Debian PowerPC packages? > I'm really sick and tired of 4.6 constantly crashing on me and > leaving stray processes behind, that have to be killed by hand. I > can't find Kostantinos Margaritis' packages anymore, they used to be > a

Linux/PPC: RS232 with new PowerBook.

2000-06-05 Thread Brendan J Simon
I have replaced an intel laptop with a new PowerBook (USB & Firewire). I used to use minicom to to communicate with an embedded system and wish to do the same with my PowerBook. The problem is that the PowerBook does not have an RS232 port. I assume there is something that will convert USB to RS23

Re: Linux/PPC: RS232 with new PowerBook.

2000-06-06 Thread Brendan J Simon
Michel Dänzer wrote: > Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > > I have replaced an intel laptop with a new PowerBook (USB & Firewire). > > I used to use minicom to to communicate with an embedded system and wish > > to do the same with my PowerBook. The problem is that the

Which /dev for modem on new powerbook

2000-07-02 Thread Brendan J Simon
I am trying to get my modem working with my new PowerBook. I have installed the latest kernel and Debian Potato. I have setup ppp with "pppconfig" but when I type "pon" the prompt just returns. I have a feeling that a device of /dev/ttyS0 is not appropriate for powerpc machines. What is the appro

Re: Which /dev for modem on new powerbook

2000-07-03 Thread Brendan J Simon
know). I guess the appropriate tty would be settable ? Thanks, Brendan Simon. Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 01:59:32PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wanted to say the > following: > > I am trying to get my modem working with my new PowerBook. > > I have installed

Re: usbmouse kernel 2.2.16pre4

2000-07-10 Thread Brendan J Simon
I have the following in my /etc/X11/XF86Config for XFree86 version 4.0b. The adbmouse is for the trackpad and the usbmouse is for the external mouse. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "BusMouse" Option "Device" "/dev/adbmouse" EndSection

Re: Partitioning--Advice?

2000-08-01 Thread Brendan J Simon
Look in the mail archives for Ethan Benson's detail advice and howtos on partitioning for PowerMacintosh's. Since you only have a 1GB drive, I would not worry about creating seperate partitions for /home, /etc, /var ... Just have one partition for everything. If you intstall more drives later

Re: [Q] .debs for X servers?

2000-08-20 Thread Brendan J Simon
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:28:10PM +, Jonathan Belson wrote: > > Hiya > > > > > > I've just managed to install Debian on my Powerstack > > Estrella, but I haven't managed to get X working yet > > due to the lack of xservers. > > > > What is the procedure? Do powerp

Re: [Q] .debs for X servers?

2000-08-21 Thread Brendan J Simon
I configure with an option of "prefix=/opt" so that it doesn't intefere with other binaries that the debian system uses. Debian has everything compiled and installed for /usr. An alternative to /opt is /usr/local but I don't like it as it lives under /usr. Brendan Simon. Jonathan Belson wrot

Re: touble making Power Mac 7200 boot directly into Linux

2000-08-29 Thread Brendan J Simon
Michael Lyngbøl wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 04:11:28PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > > > Still not able to boot directly into Linux. > > > > > > I've haven't figured out how booting of a PowerPC works? I suppose I'm > > > missing something? > > > > I'm guessing you need to use nvs

Re: touble making Power Mac 7200 boot directly into Linux

2000-08-29 Thread Brendan J Simon
Michael Lyngbøl wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 06:54:37PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > > > Still not able to boot directly into Linux. > > > > > > > > > > I've haven't figured out how booting of a PowerPC works? I suppose I&#

Re: Samba on PPC

2000-09-01 Thread Brendan J Simon
Kevin Puetz wrote: > On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Brendan Simon wrote: > > Does Samba work on Linux/PPC machines. > > I've done an "apt-get install samba" but I can't get it going. > > /etc/init.d/samba start doesn't seem to help. > > Doing a "ps aux | grep smb" yields no processes. I expect to see smb

Re: Samba on PPC

2000-09-03 Thread Brendan J Simon
Justin McKillican wrote: > I have it running on debian potato/ppc as well as woody/x86 (can't remember > if i tried it for woody, might of been netatalk). > > got any logs or errors messages you could look at? I've got it working now. I needed to run smbpasswd. Brendan Simon.

Which is the best DHCP client and server.

2000-09-04 Thread Brendan J Simon
Is there a recommended DHCP client and server combination for Debian systems ? Do any have advantages over the others ? Thanks, Brendan Simon.

How to get proposed-updates.

2000-09-05 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm running some PowerPC and Intel machines with Debian 2.2. How do I edit my /etc/apt/sources.list to access the proposed-updates or potato-proposed-updates directory on the Debian mirrors. I searched the archives but didn't come up with anything helpful. Is there a README, HOWTO, or website th

Re: How to get proposed-updates.

2000-09-06 Thread Brendan J Simon
Don't worry I figured it out. I didn't have a trailing / after propose-updates. ie. I had deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian dists/proposed-updates instead of deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian dists/proposed-updates/ Brendan Simon. Brendan J Simon wrote: > I&#

Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

2000-09-13 Thread Brendan J Simon
I need to install some IMAP and POP3 servers so users can read mail via Netscape/Outlook on other machines. I have exim as my mail server. I'm running Debian Potato on a PowerMac G4. The choice (according to "apt-get -s install imap-server") of available imap servers is: imap 4.7c-1 courier-

debian: dhcpcd with Microsoft Windows2000 server

2000-09-14 Thread Brendan J Simon
Our company has a Win2000 Domain server which has DNS and DHCP services. I have installed dhcpcd on our Debian Linux machines (PowerMac G4, PowerBook Pismo and a P133 machine) and they obtain the IP address and gateway from the Win2000 server without any problems. The problem I have is that the D

a2ps with 4 up printing.

2000-09-15 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm trying to print a postscript document with 4 pages to a single page. "a2ps -4 file.ps" complains that it can't find "psnup". I've done an "apt-cache search psnup" and an "apt-cache pkgnames | grep ps" but I can't find anything. Is psnup part of some debian package ? Thanks, Brendan Simon.

Re: getting pismo to boot by itself "smoke test"

2000-09-24 Thread Brendan J Simon
Gerhard Reuteler wrote: > Hi, > tried to follow the instructions to make pismo bootable. I have a few > questions: > --- must the bootstrap partition be the first on the disk? (The first 8 > partitions seem to be Mac Interna, like drivers, ..) If you want to use MacOS then leave the first 8 pa

Re: libgtkmm missing from ppc potato?

2000-09-25 Thread Brendan J Simon
Nick Bailey wrote: > Is there a .deb of libgtkmm 1.0.3-1.1 floating around? It isn't in the > mirrors I've looked at, and libgtkmm-dev (which is there) depends on it. > > I'd've thought this is a bit of a core package, so perhaps I'm missing > something... "apt-get install libgtkmm" works for

Re: Differences between i386 and ppc kernels?

2000-09-25 Thread Brendan J Simon
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:32:53PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > The ThinkPad works fine. Is there a known problem with the dhcp package > > > or is this really evidence that different kernel config options are > > > used on the

debian: C library man pages

2000-09-26 Thread Brendan J Simon
I can't find the C library manpages. I'm running Potato on a PowerMac and Intel system. I have install manpages, libc6 and glibc-doc. I can't find any other appropriate package by using "apt-cache pkgnames" or "apt-cache search". What package do I need to install to get the C library manpages.

debian-powerpc: Why does my PowerBook click ???

2000-09-26 Thread Brendan J Simon
I have a new PowerBook G3 and it continually clicks. Sometimes it doesn't click for 10 seconds or so and at other times it clicks close to every second. I'm running Potato with kernel-image-2.2.17-pmac, xfree-4.0.1 (self compiled) and with all the latest proposed updates. It's clicking through th

Re: debian: C library man pages

2000-09-26 Thread Brendan J Simon
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:31:22PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > > I can't find the C library manpages. I'm running Potato on a PowerMac > > and Intel system. > > I have install manpages, libc6 and glibc-doc. I can't

debian: lpr wont suppress headers

2000-09-28 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm using Debian-2.2 on Intel and PowerPC platforms. I am using magicfilter and lprng (couldn't get lpr working on my PowerMacs). It prints fine but I always get a header page printed. lpr -h does suppress the header page correctly but I don't want to have to type this everytime. I have put the

debain-powerpc: exim, zmailer, SSL.

2000-10-01 Thread Brendan J Simon
I've setup an email server on a PowerMac G4 for some people at work. I used exim and it seems to work pretty well. To receive email from outside the company some kind of security is needed. Forgetting about VPNs for now, I thought that SSL might be the way to go. It seems exim doesn't have any

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