Re: OpenGL acceleration on a rage 128 pro

2001-10-23 Thread Colin Walters
Nathan Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a Macintosh G4 (AGP) with a rage 128 pro card. I've tried to > 'apt-get install xlibmesa3', but after doing this, my computer > freezes when attempting to run a OpenGL program. For example, when > I open glxgears, A black window pops up and the s

Re: [OT] the powerpc kernel patches family.

2001-10-25 Thread Colin Walters
Derrik Pates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> PPS: is help needed in compiling packages for debian-ppc ? >> i'm afraid i'm not talented enough to become a developer, >> but i can readily lend a hand, some time, and some computing >> power. > > Debian has an automated build system for their packages,

Re: CUPS and Netscape Communicator

2001-10-28 Thread Colin Walters
"Roland Wegmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it true, that Netscape is only available for the > intel-architecture. We don't have the souce code, so our hands are tied in fixing its numerous bugs. I think there is an ancient version available, which is filled with security problems. > I a

Re: Next problem on the road to iBook Debian Linux

2001-11-01 Thread Colin Walters
Bill Vinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have tried to install over http/ftp and it asks if it can use DHCP > (What I use with x86) and it goes off to do it and says everything > worked, but I get hostname lookup failures. It didn't set anything > up. So, I configure it manually but that seem

Re: Mundane question about memory needed

2001-11-02 Thread Colin Walters
Mike Yukish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am a Linux newbie, and I just managed to get the Debian 2.2 R3 > booted up on my PowerMac 7600/120. Tried to do 'startx' and the > kernel paniced. I loaded the Gnome package on the initial > installation. What was the text from the kernel panic? It sho

Re: woody boot-floppies

2001-11-03 Thread Colin Walters
Joseph Fannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I bootable CD for oldworld machines isn't possible, eh? > S'funny, I have one right here. Apparently it requires proprietary software to create; read the list archives.

Re: Mo longer memory question, now just 'startx'

2001-11-05 Thread Colin Walters
Mike Yukish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I try to do 'startx', a couple of full screens worth of > messages flow past too fast to read before the screen goes blank, As Georg said, you can redirect this to a file. > then the background of the Debian logo appears, I get what looks to > be an

Re: XFree 86 color palette screwed up.

2001-11-08 Thread Colin Walters
Laurent de Segur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This problem came after a fresh install of Woody. XFree hasn't run > on the system yet. I am in ofonly mode installing all the bits and > pieces. I set up for the first time the XF86Config file to use 16 > bit depth, and restart the machine (I know th

Re: Problem with Kernel Installation

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Walters
"Douglas G. Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the reply. I looked into it and finally found that the > problem was that I was compiling a zImage, not a vmlinux. I also > was not copying the System.map file over to the /boot directory > after compiling. My kernel now works :) U

Re: sane for ppc

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Walters
Georg Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to find SANE in debian. On home-page's package-search > sane-1.0.5-3 should be in sid and *-1.0.4-1 in woody. When trying > to install them dselect and apt-cache search failed to find them. You probably searched the x86 package listings. > With e

Re: Startx - almost home!

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Walters
Mike Yukish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I decided I was far enough behind the 8-ball to just reinstall > the potato. So I increased Swap space as recommended, modified the > XF86config file to fix the mouse problem, keyboard problem, and > screen depth problem, and now I get a beautiful st

Re: QUIESCE + MacOS still hangs (was Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found)

2001-11-11 Thread Colin Walters
Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > yaboot.conf (on my server): > --- > device=enet: > partition=0 > timeout=50 > init-message="Debian GNU/Linux Network boot" > default=linux > append="video=ofonly" > read-only > > image=linux > label=linux > root=image-1.44/root.bin This is w

Re: Unable to boot Potato from Pismo HD

2001-11-11 Thread Colin Walters
Mark Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When booting from the Potato CD, everything works fine right through > the set-up, including the "make Debian bootable from HD" step. I > assume therefore, that the necessary boot files are getting written > to the bootstrap partition but I have no idea how

Re: Quake and Quake 2 on PowerPC (Might be of topic)

2001-11-13 Thread Colin Walters
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Doesn't look like, but try this: > > http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/quake/ Hm, looks like it needs to be recompiled because of the whole libsdl1.2debian thing. Where can I find the "quake-game" package? And where's the source? :)

Re: gdb

2001-11-19 Thread Colin Walters
Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to get gdb set up on my machine but it's giving me some > problems. I'm running testing on G4 briq from Total Impact. When I > try to run a program in a gdb session it fails saying it doesn't > know how to run. Here's an example session: > > [

Re: sane for ppc

2001-11-20 Thread Colin Walters
Georg Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to find SANE in debian. On home-page's package-search > sane-1.0.5-3 should be in sid and *-1.0.4-1 in woody. When trying > to install them dselect and apt-cache search failed to find them. > > With e.g. libsane-1.0.4-2 (in woody) the SANE-backend

Re: Any PPC Java JIT compiler project around ?

2001-11-21 Thread Colin Walters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason E. Stewart) writes: > Doesn't help if you've got someone else's .class files. A fast JVM/JIT > would help. GCJ can compile .class files to native code as well. Try it.

Re: sane for ppc

2001-11-21 Thread Colin Walters
Georg Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IIRC it should be v-1.0.6 =8-). I did use 1.0.6. [...] > For my feeling (I'm no hacker :-( ) this problems were in 1.0.4 and > 1.0.5 as well. I got the same make-error when compiling it from > deb-src. I talked with upstream about it, and they will hav

Re: Nautilus unstable install fails.Bug?

2001-11-21 Thread Colin Walters
Laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not so fast... It worked when I was doing an apt-get > update/dist-upgrade on a woody machine with apt/sources.list > pointing to unstable deb packages. Then you would be just upgrading to unstable. > Now, if I do the nautilus install on another system with

Re: Can't run yaboot under 2.4 kernels

2001-11-22 Thread Colin Walters
"Kafu Nagai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For some reason, I can't run mkofboot under 2.4 kernels. The process > stalls where nvsenenv is invoked, which consumes almost all the cpu > time. I don't have this problem under 2.2 kernels. The version of > yaboot is 1.3.4. I am using a debian 2.2r3 on

Re: debian-powerpc: closer to solving sawfish crash on TiBook

2001-11-23 Thread Colin Walters
Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some time ago I asked if anyone had problems with the sawfish window > manager crashing on a TiBook (running testing). I have come some > what closer to solving the problem. I removed esound and some gnome > sound applets (the mixer) and now my machi

Re: X on the new TiBooks

2001-11-23 Thread Colin Walters
"Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Great. The backlight adjustment seems to work pretty well on mine > (at least with 2.4.15-pre7-ben0), fyi. Oh, I don't know if I > mentioned it to you, but closing the lid powers off the system > uncleanly. I was going to look at it as wel

Re: Switching to 2.4.12 found ADB keycodes (long)

2001-11-24 Thread Colin Walters
Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was trying to track down a crashing bug, and decided to try the > system with the 2.4.12 kernel from kernel-image-2.4.12-powerpc. I > did apt-get on that package (and kernel-source / kernel-patch for > good measure). There were no bad messages during t

Re: yaboot fails on iBook 2001

2001-11-25 Thread Colin Walters
Siggi Langauf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to install Debian GNU/Linux from current powerpc images, > but I'm not even able to boot. Unfortunately, the r4 CDs were made incorrectly, and they are not bootable. If you can find an r3 image somewhere, then try that. Otherwise, basically

Re: Base system stalls during boot

2001-11-27 Thread Colin Walters
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > File a bug against boot-floppies please. I'm just guessing here, > someone from the boot-floppies team might have another explanation. I already forwarded a copy of this to the BTS; it's bug #121734.

Re: French keymap on TiBook ?

2001-11-27 Thread Colin Walters
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BS. Anyone is 'allowed' to send bug reports. Only developers can > _close_ or otherwise modify bug reports (severity, merge with other > bugs of the same kind, etc.) Actually you don't need to be a developer at all to close bug reports or merge them.

Re: Bootable offical Debian-CD

2001-11-28 Thread Colin Walters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: > I've now tried all version of the first Debian Potato rev1-4 CD plus > the GNU/Darwin-CD but none does boot on my b&w G3. Of course any > MacOS CD does boot correctly. Potato r4 isn't bootable on PowerPC, although earlier releases should be. > When I try t

Re: TiBook crashing while asleep

2001-11-29 Thread Colin Walters
"Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why do I have version 0.9 on an up-to-date Debian unstable? You need to rerun "ybin" to reinstall it on your bootstrap partition.

Re: Can I upload ptex-bin to ppc and/or sparc?

2001-11-29 Thread Colin Walters
Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is very inconvenient for me (or for all Japanese?) that there is > no ptex-bin package except i386 and alpha. ptex-bin is non-free, so the autobuilders ignore it. If you care about it, you have to build it yourself. voltaire.debian.org is a power

Re: PowerPC boot images

2001-12-02 Thread Colin Walters
Shaun Kruger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been trying to get woody to boot on my RS/6000 43P. The default > ISO for potato seemed to work except for one of the SCSI drivers. I found > that using SYM53C8xx driver instead of the NCR53C8xx driver cleared up > this problem. The latter of th

Re: Woody base disks?

2001-12-04 Thread Colin Walters
Michael Dartt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there disk images for the Woody base installation, can I use the potato > ones, or should I try to create them myself? http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/ Please report success or failure to debian-testing@li

Re: Woody base disks?

2001-12-04 Thread Colin Walters
Michael Dartt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ah. I have these, and I've used them all (root, rescue, drivers-1, > drivers- 2). I'm stalled at the point in installation when it asks > to install the base system. I'm sorry. I misunderstood you. The way to install the base system without using HT

Re: installing debian on ppc

2001-12-07 Thread Colin Walters
"Wicher W.O. Deddens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to install Debian on a PPC 8500/150, 96 Mb, 2 Gb HD for > Webserving and Mailserving purposes. I downloaded CD1 for PowerPC, wrote > it to a bootable disk What do you mean you wrote the CD to a bootable disk? Do you mean a hard driv

Re: OS 10.1 upgrade CD

2001-12-09 Thread Colin Walters
Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sounds like we should advise people to keep those partitions around > rather than using i to initialize the partition table. Isn't there a way to prevent MacOS from asking questions like that? I would suggest to download the source code and fix the bug

Re: updatedb+checksecurity are killing my battery

2001-12-10 Thread Colin Walters
Laurent de Segur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > End result: I get longer battery life. However, there is probably > something I missed that could help more in this direction. I would > appreciate if people on the list could post more hints in order to > get more juice off the hook. Thanks in advan

Re: Potato 2.2_rev4 cd iso not bootable?

2001-12-12 Thread Colin Walters
skatefraggle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry for asking such newbie questions but going through the mail > archive of list.debian-powerpc and from my own expierienc i got the > impression that the rev4 iso doesn t boot on ( tried on g4 titanium, > g4/466 and g4/800) new world machines i get

Re: Potato 2.2_rev4 cd iso not bootable?

2001-12-12 Thread Colin Walters
Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That sounds really good. It's a pity the server wants a username and > password. Oops. I think they probably did that because I posted a direct link to the master site. My bad. If you want to download the image, it is definitely better to use the

Re: opengl hardware acceleration on ibook2

2001-12-14 Thread Colin Walters
Dominic Buchstaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering how far hardware acceleration is implemented on > ibook2. I was able to compile my 2.4.17-pre8-ben0 kernel agpgart, > Apple UniNorth and DRI (ATI Rage 128) support. The acceleration > results have been quite poor so far. The way

call for testers: new-powermac installer (yes, this means you!)

2001-12-15 Thread Colin Walters
A while ago, it was decided that PowerPC, like most other architectures, would use the 2.2 kernel. However, this kernel simply does not work on newer PowerMac hardware, and it is also less than ideal even on older systems. So I've been working on a "new-powermac" installer, which will use the 2.4

Re: call for testers: new-powermac installer (yes, this means you!)

2001-12-16 Thread Colin Walters
Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) We need to compile hfs support into the supplied kernel. D'oh. I meant to do that. I'm uploading a fixed version now. > 2) The harddisk installation dialog is really hosed, whether I > choose harddisk or already-mounted. I tried dozens of differe

Re: 4 package(s) to rebuild on powerpc/stable

2001-12-23 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 07:08, Martin Schulze wrote: > These packages have to be rebuilt for stable on powerpc in order to let > the packages go into 2.2r5. Done.

Re: single button mouse and Apple Keyboard II

2001-12-27 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 01:26, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > So I only have one option key, on the left, and no function keys (no > F1-F12 keys). I can't find a way to emulate a three-button mouse. > > I am running unstable with kernel 2.4.14 and the benh patch applied. > > There are some messages

Re: pbg4 modem wakup

2001-12-28 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 16:44, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > I have read in the archives, that the modem of the pbg4 (titanium 1st > generation) needs some time to wake up. So I know, that some programs can > not detect the modem imediateley. But I am completely unable to wakeup my > modem and I did not

Re: Please rebuild samba 2.0.7-4 for potato

2001-12-31 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 21:53, Steve Langasek wrote: > Samba 2.0.7-4 has just been uploaded to potato-proposed-updates in the > hope that 2.2r5 will release with a working package on architectures > (the current package is broken on Alphas). Binaries have already been > uploaded for i386 and alph

extra 128MB 100MHz TiBook RAM

2002-01-05 Thread Colin Walters
Hello everyone, I recently upgraded the memory in my 1st-gen TiBook, and that has left me with an extra 128MB of TiBook memory (maybe it will work in other machines; I don't know) which I'd like to donate to some other free software hacker out there. If you are interested, send me a GPG signed

Re: post install lib woes...

2002-01-06 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 13:22, Richard D'Addio wrote: > continuing to have woody post-install woes with libs. either not found > or configed leading to seg. faults and other related fun such as dpkg > and dselect failures. Are you still having problems? I suspect the hardware (likely memory) is at

PReP hackers wanted

2002-01-06 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 14:15, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Well, the only reason I could see is if it either needs a kernel > config option enabled, not provided by the kernel-image-*-prep > package, or else if it needs a file from the kernel build not normally > provided by the package. It should be pr

Re: post install lib woes...

2002-01-06 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 11:57, Richard D'Addio wrote: > colin, > this was an old posting, prior to when i used your new installer and the > 2.4 kernel. i have had no problems since. > > as mentioned earlier the new installer and the 2.4 kernel worked like a > charm on my G4. Ooops. Ok, I was just

Re: powerpc b-f build compiles the kernel

2002-01-06 Thread Colin Walters
[Incidentally, I'm on both -boot and -powerpc, so CCs are not necessary] On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 15:54, Tom Rini wrote: > Can someone post that? I'm sort-of curious what needs to be done > 'special' for a prep box.. As far as I can tell, this script just builds a kernel at boot-floppies build time

Re: Segfault compiling kernels: solved!

2002-01-07 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 14:00, Michel Lanners wrote: > OK, I tried other memory DIMMs: no dice. I then tried to recompile make > locally: that worked! (rebuilt the .deb, in fact). A few weeks ago, after a dist-upgrade, I was getting just segfaults from gnome-session. I tried debugging it, but it wa

Re: PReP hackers wanted

2002-01-07 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 20:28, Tom Rini wrote: > And it just works now. I'll test this tomorrow too probably and post > the patches (I've cleaned up a few things too..) Very cool! Now we just need someone to look at CHRP :) Let's move this discussion completely to debian-boot; that's the most

Re: Another powerpc Buildd?

2002-01-08 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 12:44, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > I would like to offer my G3 enhanced Mac 7500 as a permanent buildd for > powerpc. Do we really need one? I was under the impression that the only trouble we had with our autobuilder was processing failed builds and such (which you seem to

Re: The broken fdisk

2002-01-13 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 12:46, The Doctor What wrote: > I have a fixed root.bin that can be used. It has the mac-fdisk that > someone else posted put in place within in: > > http://docwhat.gerf.org/files/fixed3018.bin > > It is otherwise identical to the 3018 root.bin available now. > > Why can'

Re: The broken fdisk

2002-01-13 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 19:43, Chris Tillman wrote: > If the mac-fdisk problem is really a kernel issue with this machine > (probably not too farfetched), Ah, I originally thought this thread was about the corrupted mac-fdisk binary problem we had, but going back and rereading it I'm not sure. > w

Re: Keyboards on PowerPC....

2002-01-14 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 18:46, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Anyone using the distribution kernels shouldn't need to care anymore. If > you build your own kernels, you need to know what you're doing. And if you do build your own kernels, you should copy the kernel config file from /boot/config-VERSION to .

Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

2002-01-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 01:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just finished using this to get woody up and running on my ibook2. > worked great. It even got X running properly (which Yellow Dog didn't > without some tweaking). I used fbdev, btw. Wonderful! This is good to hear. I hope you don't mi

Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

2002-01-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 22:11, Chris Tillman wrote: > You're going to uncomment the Makefile for the next release? Already done. > > This would be a good idea. Can anyone think of a good way to implement > > it? We could traverse the partition table and look for file systems > > that are Apple_H

Re: Netscape with Woody install problems

2002-01-20 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 18:42, Rogério Brito wrote: > In my humble opinion, I think that you should give Opera a > try. Even with its problems (no software is perfect after > all), Opera is getting better quickly and it is the only > graphical browser actually usable with a l

Re: boot problems after install on Pismo

2002-01-23 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 08:24, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I've gone through the install procedure of potato on a pismo (a new > world powerbook). > > However the next to last step "make linux directly bootable from hard > disk" runs quik rather than yaboot/ybin. I've tried going to console 2 > at

Re: unp build failed - source not found!?

2002-02-15 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 09:14, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Checking available source versions... > Can't find source for unp_1.0.5-5 > Giving back package unp_1.0.5-5 after failure in fetch-src stage. Probably just an out-of-date mirror. Give the autobuilder a few days to retry.

Re: Floppy boot for powerpc: add video=ofonly?

2002-02-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 00:22, Chris Tillman wrote: > Many oldworld powerpc computers need the video=ofonly boot argument in > order to use the installer. The hfs-boot-floppy image we currently > provide does not supply this argument. > > I used a binary editor (beav) to add video=ofonly into the m

Re: Testing boot-floppies on iMac

2002-02-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 15:27, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Yesterday, I got an iMac (NewWorld) to play with at work, and decided to > install woody on it. It has no floppy drive, so the only bootable woody > installation media that I could find were ISO images at: > > http://people.debian.org/~ieure/ne

Re: Post-install problems

2002-02-24 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 12:57, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 07:05:17PM -0500, David Weingart wrote: > > >Did you try the new-powermac flavor? > > > > No, I don't think so... What's the difference? > > > > I'll give that a whirl and report back. > > > > It uses a 2.4 kernel which

Re: Woody install docs and Nubus

2002-03-01 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 11:40, Derrik Pates wrote: > I know that Nubus isn't officially supported by Debian, but I have > Debian running on 3 PowerMac 6100s, so I can say that it does work. The > main thing is it involves getting a kernel from > http://nubus-pmac.sf.net/. Please don't recommend MkLin

Re: Debian Install on PowerBook G4

2002-03-01 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 15:42, Daniel Hoffman wrote: > however it will not boot from the HD, i have install quik, but it will not > boot > from the HD, it boots from cd and I can boot it up with > > debian root=/dev/hda2 video=ofonly If you're going to be installing potato on NewWorld hardware, y

Re: Hints for notebook users

2002-03-06 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 07:32, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > I have some criticisms too, of course: It would be nice if you > elaborated some more on the why's and how's of some of the guidelines > you give, perhaps by refering to the relevant section in the > Battery-Powered mini HOWTO (it's not enti

Re: Lombard, woody, need some docs. ;)

2002-03-10 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 15:52, B.C.J.O wrote: > > After growing weary of getting screwed by apple in the support for my > hardware department, I took the plunge and after six years erased all > apple os' from my main mac. Cool. > Is there a FAQ or a quick doc somewhere that > gives instruction abo

Re: powerbook keymap

2002-03-11 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 13:48, B.C.J.O wrote: > > I'm up to my neck in configuration issues here. =) I grabbed benh's > patched ppc source tree and compiled a set of kernel packages which > support the sound hardware in my powerbook, but I've obviously overlooked > a signifigant detail somewhere. Wh

Re: powerbook keymap

2002-03-11 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 20:34, Chris Tillman wrote: > Hmmm. 'Best' under what conditions? I'm assuming his kernel already has > that set, and that's why it's failing ('cuz he didn't change his keymap)? I would rather guess that his kernel is using ADB keycodes, and the rest of his system is set up

Re: powerbook keymap

2002-03-11 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 23:17, B.C.J.O wrote: > I'm wondering where I can find a copy of the kernel .config file that was > used to generate the generic 2.4 kernel shipping with the woody install > media? It should be in /boot/config-VERSION.

Re: Problems booting for the first time, Titanium PowerBook

2002-03-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 23:07, Chris Tillman wrote: > I don't think the Titanium Powerbook is well supported with the 2.2 > kernel. Try the new-powermac flavor available in the woody branch > (see the url in my .sig for the install manual). woody in general is just going to work better on newer har

Re: Making a bootable CD for newworlds?

2002-03-18 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 09:06, Rogério Brito wrote: > I would like to know if anybody here has any recipe for making > bootable (ISO9660) CDs for newworlds. My intention is to make > me a rescue CD (something akin to those loads of mini-Linux > distributions, with my choice of

Re: heavy problems installing woody on a brand new iBook

2002-03-21 Thread Colin Walters
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 04:17, Valentin Podlovchenko wrote: > I've bought new 14,1" iBook month ago and had the same problem > it seems that new iBook hardware and linux kernels work not properly > each with other (at least some 2.4.X kernel which I've tried to boot > with) The problem is when you b

Re: abiword testing package (0.99.2+cvs.2002.02.25) : powerpc binaries

2002-03-21 Thread Colin Walters
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 09:10, Francois Taiani wrote: > Hi everybody > > I've compiled the testing version of abiword for powerpc from the debian > sources. If anyone is interested I've put the binary (& modified > sources) packages on : > > http://www.laas.fr/~ftaiani/debian/abiword_0_99_2_power

Re: pcmcia-cs

2002-03-21 Thread Colin Walters
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 05:14, Anthony Towns wrote: > Hi all, > > Please get the current pcmcia-cs built on your respective architectures > (alpha, powerpc and arm). It doesn't build from source; Bug filed, with patch.

Re: Help - problem after installing a new kernel

2002-03-29 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 04:09, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > In fact, the problem was the fact that the kernel name doesn't match > its version number (vmlinux-2.2.20-newpmac, though its version, given > by uname -r, is 2.4.16-newpmac). Can you give more details on exactly how you arrived at this situat

Re: Help - problem after installing a new kernel

2002-03-30 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 01:37, Chris Tillman wrote: > Looks like it does. Cool; good catch. I can't believe we didn't see that before. > But to build, I had to manually retrieve the > kernel-image-2.4.18-newpmac This should be in woody as of yesterday. > and pcmcia-2.4.16-newpmac (and rename

Re: Recommended kernel? (current one crashes)

2002-04-08 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 10:40, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I'm using a 2.4.16-newpmac kernel on a Titanium (this was the latest > proposed kernel when the Debian distribution was installed on my > machine). I wanted to compile Mozilla (I tried twice), but twice, > the machine completely froze during the

Re: [Fwd: loopback not working ? (was /floppy/type.txt required while installing from the network ???)]

2002-04-17 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 16:50, Eric van der Vlist wrote: > Oooops, sorry for the noise! > > I had a typo in the size of my root partition and the images which were > installed on /target/tmp were not complete and created this very > misleading error message. Phew. That's reassuring, because I wa

Re: X & No keyboard input with new kernels

2002-04-19 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 10:36, Mark T. Valites wrote: > I recently did a woody net install on my first generation tibook (booting > the installer from OF...). I never had luck too much luck with the X in > debian, but it worked fine for me in yellow-dog 2.1 & 2.2. But since I > would much rather ru

Re: fickle backlight goes off permanently

2002-04-20 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 18:05, Ali Bahar wrote: > the backlight of my ibook has become increasingly fickle over the last > 10 days. It turns off with slight movements or with slight tilts of > the screen, and does so permanently: fblevel, or /sbin/backlight, do > not undo it; only a reboot does. I

Re: fickle backlight goes off permanently

2002-04-20 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 20:38, Ali Bahar wrote: > - this does not happen under osx. Weird. I've never used MacOS X, so I don't know if the problem I had with my first TiBook was really hardware or not. Regardless, they *did* replace the motherboard (since my MAC address changed), so I assume t

Re: Netbooting

2002-05-21 Thread Colin Walters
[ Still on this list, but I've been busy with other stuff ] On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 18:23, Russell Hires wrote: > Hello, this in reference to something on the debian-powerpc list that you did > in October 2001. I've successfully netbooted, but now I want to mount my / > directory (partition? I've

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: Keyboard and kernel 2.4.19-pre8

2002-05-25 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 09:39, Emmanuel wrote: > > Hi, > > I compiled with success this kernel on my G3 B&W 300 but after the boot the > keyboard (USB) doesn't work. I set all config options for USB. You're probably running stock woody, and you left CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES enabled. http://www.debi

Re: MP3 encoders

2002-06-01 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 02:11, Shawn Dunn wrote: > Hey, just a question, but I'm used to using lame for mp3 encoding, [...] Or just use Ogg Vorbis, which is a non-proprietary encoding format. This means that installing an encoder is as easy as firing up aptitude and installing 'vorbis-tools', or ju

Re: X won't start

2002-06-15 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 14:23, Josh Huber wrote: > You'll need to setup http proxy settings. In /etc/apt/apt.conf you > should put something like: Adding http_proxy to /etc/environment is probably the easiest way, if you want every app to respect it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/environment htt

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