SCSI sick on 7300

2001-01-26 Thread Bruce McIntyre
Hello, When attempting to install Debian (2.2.17 and .19 so far) at various stages in the install process as well as on restart ( if I was lucky enough to get that far) I have been getting many SCSI errors. I have a Quantum Fireball TM2100s Rev 300Z which i am attempting to dual boot with BootX

SCSI woe

2001-01-28 Thread Bruce McIntyre
Hello, While attempting to install Debian (have tried 2.2.17 & .19) I have been getting many SCSI errors at various stages in the install process as well as on restart (the time I was lucky enough to get that far). I have a Quantum Fireball TM2100s Rev 300Z which I am attempting to dual boot w

Dvorak keymap

2001-01-28 Thread Bruce McIntyre
I have hacked together a Dvorak keymap (console) for the extended apple keyboard. How do I submit it to the Debian project for improvement/criticism. (my debian system is limping along so I can not test it as much as I might like, see my SCSI woe message). I am very much a newbie, but want to c

Re: Dvorak keymap

2001-01-28 Thread Bruce McIntyre
ch I don't know how to do!) It will be interesting to see if the new input layer will allow the user to reassign the caps lock key to meta or control... (yes I am wierd!) At 1:18 AM + 29/1/01, Bastien Nocera wrote: Bruce McIntyre wrote: I have hacked together a Dvorak keymap (c

MESH vs 53c94 (more SCSI woe)

2001-01-29 Thread Bruce McIntyre
I have been having a lot of trouble installing Debian 2.2.17 and 2.2.18 from the cdimage on the ftp site. scsi on both mesh and 53c94 has been unstable, (for other details see my previous post 'SCSI woe'. While the internal/external controller (53c94) is apparently slower than the internal (

Re: Newbie Install Question on Umax S900 (and now 7200! and 7300?)

2001-01-29 Thread Bruce McIntyre
Are you still getting the SCSI errors on startup, or was that a one-off result of hard booting because of the init respawning? I have been also getting the init id 1 respawning too fast on my 7300. I'm thinking that the disk 'repair' chucks important stuff into lost+found, although you should

Newbie Install Question on Umax S900 (and now 7200! and 7300?)

2001-01-30 Thread Bruce McIntyre
Before the errors, did you get any warnings, or go into fsck ? At 1:55 AM -0800 30/1/01, Ted Swinyar wrote: I worked on the S900 for a couple hours more today. Ditched the old hard drive that was spewing SCSI errors and reinstalled OS9/BootX from scratch on the "new" drive. On reinstalling deb

fdisk kernel panic

2001-02-01 Thread Bruce McIntyre
I am continuing to have frustration with my internal hard disk (7300, Quantum Fireball 2.1) I decided to this time mash Apple OS altogether, and so gave mac-fdisk the 'i' command to write a new patition map. I was suspecting that the apple patch and driver 43 patitions were causing the scsi err

Re: fdisk kernel panic

2001-02-01 Thread Bruce McIntyre
Bruce McIntyre wrote: I am continuing to have frustration with my internal hard disk (7300, Quantum Fireball 2.1) I decided to this time mash Apple OS altogether, and so gave mac-fdisk the 'i' command to write a new patition map. I was suspecting that the apple patch and

Re: fdisk kernel panic

2001-02-06 Thread Bruce McIntyre
even write the partition table. The drive is ok under mac OS. I have checked for errors a million and one times. Bruce McIntyre wrote: I am continuing to have frustration with my internal hard disk (7300, Quantum Fireball 2.1) I decided to this time mash Apple OS altogether, and so gave mac-

offset x screen

2001-07-13 Thread Bruce McIntyre
Hello all. I am the proud owner of a powermac 7300 (which uses the `control' video chipset). Using the unstable x packages is very strange, as my entire screen is offset to the right. The part that would be missing is on the left of the screen. Depending on the resolution i set in the config f

Re: offset x screen

2001-08-15 Thread Bruce McIntyre
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 07:28:42PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > as fbi (the frame buffer image viewer) also wraps the screen, albeit on the > > other side, does this mean we are barking up the wrong config? > > perhaps this is a kernel thing... > > Unlikely. As I m

Re: offset x screen

2001-08-16 Thread Bruce McIntyre
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 02:13:37AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > I have fixed fbdevhw beyond the patch on that page with the help of Geert. > > I have hopefully found the bug in the fbdev driver now, please test > > http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/patches/fbdev-fboffset.diff > > or > > http://p

Re: offset x screen

2001-08-16 Thread Bruce McIntyre
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 07:00:05PM +1000, Bruce McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 02:13:37AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > I have fixed fbdevhw beyond the patch on that page with the help of Geert. > > > > I have hopefully found the bug in the fbdev

Re: offset x screen

2001-08-16 Thread Bruce McIntyre
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:14:51PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Bruce McIntyre wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 07:00:05PM +1000, Bruce McIntyre wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 02:13:37AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > > I have ho

Re: offset x screen

2001-08-16 Thread Bruce McIntyre
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 02:40:35AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Bruce McIntyre wrote: > > [...] > > > > Thanks for trying to describe what you see, but I'm afraid I don't get the > > > picture. > > > > (Scratches his head) Ok, I'll do a

Re: offset x screen

2001-08-18 Thread Bruce McIntyre
* Bruce McIntyre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 02:40:35AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Bruce McIntyre wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > Thanks for trying to describe what you see, but I'm afraid I don't get >

ppp mystery

2001-09-17 Thread Bruce McIntyre
erate measure ) did not help, but cycling power fixed everything. Does anyone know what might be going on here? -- From ( a frequently mystified ) Bruce McIntyre

framebuffer questions

2001-09-19 Thread Bruce McIntyre
mmand does not use the fb.modes database to establish the correct timings, as the timings in fb.modes are different to those subsequently echoed by fbset. In Debian should fb.modes be auto-created on a per-device basis? -- Bruce McIntyre.

mouse button emulation

2001-09-24 Thread Bruce McIntyre
g kernel 2.2.19. -- Bruce McIntyre.

left & right mod keys have same keycodes (Was mouse button emulation)

2001-09-25 Thread Bruce McIntyre
* Bruce McIntyre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all, > For some reason or other mouse button emulation in x and gdm has just > stopped working (upon reboot). > > keyboard_lock_keycodes = 0 keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes = 1 > mouse_button_emulation = 1 mouse_bu

Re: left & right mod keys have same keycodes (Was mouse button emulation)

2001-09-28 Thread Bruce McIntyre
* Michel Dänzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Bruce McIntyre wrote: > > > > > Are you sure they ever produced different keycodes? Jens Schmalzing > > > thought so as well but couldn't reproduce it. > > > > I'm, say, 80% sure they did; at least I

Re: left & right mod keys have same keycodes (Was mouse button emulation)

2001-09-28 Thread Bruce McIntyre
* Michel Dänzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Bruce McIntyre wrote: > > > > * Bruce McIntyre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > For some reason or other mouse button emulation in x and gdm has just > > > stopped working (upon reboo

StyleWriter:Cupsys|lpstyl|?

2001-10-18 Thread Bruce McIntyre
more RAM (for oldworld the prices are crazy) nor a real postscript (tm) printer. :-( Thankyou in advance for any forthcoming ideas. -- Bruce McIntyre.

Re: ppp mystery

2001-11-14 Thread Bruce McIntyre
* Michel Lanners ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 18 Sep, this message from Bruce McIntyre echoed through cyberspace: > > Pinging anything aside from localhost results in 100% packet loss. > > Have you looked at: > > - 'ifconfig', to see whether you got an IP add

Re: ppp mystery

2001-11-20 Thread Bruce McIntyre
* Michel Dänzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 02:12, Bruce McIntyre wrote: > > * Michel Lanners ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On 18 Sep, this message from Bruce McIntyre echoed through cyberspace: > > > > Pinging anything aside from localho