Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Derrik Pates
ies to /etc/modules to reload them in that same order. (I don't understand why there are _three_ molsymglue's, and why only one of the three seems to actually work, though. For that, you'd have to ask Samuel. :) Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School|_ #linuxO

Audio (DACA) on FireWire iBook doesn't like signed samples

2001-08-08 Thread Derrik Pates
ntrol for it, other than the keys on the keyboard (which don't seem to affect the volume from external speakers)? Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Re: benh kernel - compile time error

2001-08-09 Thread Derrik Pates
got? I assume you've enabled some of the AGP support code in the kernel - did you then turn on the UniNorth option? If so, I don't recommend using UniNorth AGP support yet - it's still very broken. (It blackscreens the iBook I'm using when starting X with DRI enabled when it&#x

UniNorth AGPGART status (was: benh kernel - compile time error)

2001-08-09 Thread Derrik Pates
en it comes to providing docs for some of their more proprietary stuff...) Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Trashed audio out on Tumbler (iBook audio device) when samples are little endian - fixing it now

2001-08-09 Thread Derrik Pates
2 or newer (FireWire iBooks have rev. 3) as not able to do the byteswap in hardware. I will have a diff soon. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Patch against 2.4.8-pre7-ben0 for Tumbler no little endian support

2001-08-09 Thread Derrik Pates
byte reordering in little-endian samples, so that the audio output will be correct. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN --- /home/linux-2.4-benh.dist/drivers/sound/dmasound/dmasound_awacs.c Thu

Re: Patch against 2.4.8-pre7-ben0 for Tumbler no little endian support

2001-08-09 Thread Derrik Pates
Err. Not Tumbler, but DACA. Why I got Tumbler stuck in my head, I don't know... Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Re: tibook keyboard right alt

2001-08-09 Thread Derrik Pates
the correct keycode? I tried the same thing. They both appear as left ALT when you map the left ALT keycode as a mouse button using sysctl.conf. It's apparently hardwired that way in the keyboard itself, it doesn't seem to be related to Linux. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas Sch

Re: Trashed audio out on Tumbler (iBook audio device) when samples are little endian - fixing it now

2001-08-09 Thread Derrik Pates
and discussion. Oh. Well, then I suppose I'd better send it to them. Do I have to join the list to post to it, or will it accept non-member messages? Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Re: Trashed audio out on Tumbler (iBook audio device) when samples are little endian - fixing it now

2001-08-09 Thread Derrik Pates
PPC systems that don't understand many audio formats natively, and are going to need help. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Re: installation

2001-08-10 Thread Derrik Pates
robably use miBoot or quik instead of BootX if it's not super old (I'm talking like 6100 or 6150 old). I believe both will let you boot without MacOS (setting up a fake System folder in a small HFS bootstrap filesystem, with a fake System and Finder, to make the oldworld ROM hap

Re: Audio on the Pismo

2001-08-10 Thread Derrik Pates
e > that got it to work. Well, for someone to tell you where you're going wrong, we have to know what you're doing, and what you're getting back. :) Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Re: Audio on the Pismo

2001-08-10 Thread Derrik Pates
ing the CD after installing the xmms-cdread plugin? You're supposed to open the CD device node, then all the tracks from the CD will be added to the playlist. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Re: Choosing which kernel tree to use

2001-08-11 Thread Derrik Pates
eds to shut down). Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Re: Choosing which kernel tree to use

2001-08-13 Thread Derrik Pates
ed figuring out how to program the KeyLargo's I2C bus, and then using the Darwin drivers as a model (is that possible? License restrictions?) for the Linux drivers, instead of trying to program the DACA directly like the current drivers do? Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#

Re: Bootable cdrom powerpc? (no floppy)

2001-08-14 Thread Derrik Pates
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Maybe you have to enter boot cd:,\\yaboot at the OF prompt (ctrl & command & O > & F to boot to get there). That shouldn't be necessary with woody CDs though. That'd be Command + Option + O + F, actually. :) Derrik Pate

Re: Bootable cdrom powerpc? (no floppy)

2001-08-15 Thread Derrik Pates
open Apple and the 4-way-curly-que thing. Basically, they'll both be on the bottom row of your keybaord, and neither will be marked "Ctrl". Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Re: Bootable cdrom powerpc? (no floppy)

2001-08-15 Thread Derrik Pates
y defense is that I've never seen a foreign keyboard for any Apple system. :) Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Re: iBook (firewire) backlight

2001-08-16 Thread Derrik Pates
to use it to control the backlight (getting EINVAL on write, and EIO on read), and doesn't try anything else, whereas with the '-q' switch, it tries /dev/adb, then tries /dev/pmu (which, as I said, works right). Just thought that since the subject had arisen, this was worth mention

Re: iBook modem?

2001-08-16 Thread Derrik Pates
e found, but I don't know what other device the modem might > > be...can anyone give me a hand? (I'm using pon/poff and a chatscript) > > Do you have the macserial module loaded? Also, does the device node exist? If you're using a 2.4 kernel with devfs, is devfsd

Re: Error making shared lib

2001-08-17 Thread Derrik Pates
e definition of `__dummy' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/2.95.4/libgcc.a(__dummy.o)(.text+0x0): first defined here Yeah. Try passing -Wl,-whole-archive if you want to pass that option via a gcc command line, instead of to ld itself. Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is the iBook2 really good?

2001-08-18 Thread Derrik Pates
e mixer support tho). I don't need Ximian Gnome but I would prefer it. Can I recompile it or will I have many problems with it? If you have source deb's, you should be able to. Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Performa 6200 & Debian

2001-08-18 Thread Derrik Pates
et-install the rest, with decent bandwidth, or sufficient time). Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New with PPC soon...

2001-08-19 Thread Derrik Pates
rs (I'm betting on a data-structure change). Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Re: ibook2 hangs during install

2001-08-19 Thread Derrik Pates
s same behavior on a G4 tower - it needed a firmware update before the installer would go anyplace, it'd just freeze up otherwise. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Wireless device control fails using wireless-tools after sleep on iBook FireWire

2001-08-20 Thread Derrik Pates
ry to call 'iwconfig' on the wireless card. The sleep notify routine for the airport driver seems to be gettiing called, but it doesn't appear to be taking care of saving and restoring some settings somewhere. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EF

Re: Wireless device control fails using wireless-tools after sleep on iBook FireWire

2001-08-20 Thread Derrik Pates
ing now). With older kernels, interestingly, this didn't happen. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Re: airport / pcmcia ?

2001-08-20 Thread Derrik Pates
e a PCMCIA slot, and he'd have to use a PCMCIA card (a Lucent Orinoco would work). Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Re: airport / pcmcia ?

2001-08-20 Thread Derrik Pates
he G3 tower systems, which I thought excluded all the G3 PowerBooks. I'll have to remember that. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Re: airport / pcmcia ?

2001-08-20 Thread Derrik Pates
ec or SSH or SSL with strong crypto if it's important to you - WEP isn't going to help if someone really cares about it. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Writing I2C support code - questions (maybe a bit offtopic?)

2001-08-21 Thread Derrik Pates
'm going about it right. It doesn't look like it should be too hard to program, but without some sort of reference, it's confusing. Ben? Michel? Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Re: Is the iBook2 really good?

2001-08-21 Thread Derrik Pates
seems to be slow in general). Insignia used to sell a PC emulator for MacOS (and others), but seems to have left the emulator business, leaving (far as I know) only VPC. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Re: Problem with Keyboard

2001-08-22 Thread Derrik Pates
odes=1 to your /etc/sysctl.conf. You may have to boot with the 'init=/bin/bash' flag so that the keymaps aren't changed (after which, you'll have to manually mount all your filesystems, or at least / and /usr). Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#

Re: error compiling kernel

2001-08-24 Thread Derrik Pates
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Ivan wrote: > hi all, i'm having this error compiling the 2.4.9 benh kernel Disable the UniNorth AGP GART support for now. It's still very in development (and apparently broken as of now quite completely). Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |

PowerMac 7500 with MAXpowrMP booting 2.4.20 in MP mode - some trouble

2002-12-10 Thread Derrik Pates
, apparently taking up most of the space in the NVRAM, so setting the 'boot-file' parameter for quik to autoboot doesn't work - OF says "string too long", nvsetenv in Linux just segfaults. Any alternate possibilities for me? It seems to mostly ignore what I've told it in quik.conf, other than when installing the bootblock. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerMac 7500 with MAXpowrMP booting 2.4.20 in MP mode - some trouble

2002-12-10 Thread Derrik Pates
was using to load Linux via BootX previously, but I'd rather not mess with that if I don't have to. > to make sure that quik writes to the bootblock, run quik -vf (force, > verbose). -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sorted some things out

2002-12-13 Thread Derrik Pates
so that might be the issue. I'll see if I can get a replacement battery for it, I guess. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sorted some things out

2002-12-13 Thread Derrik Pates
box will be 100% operational. (Even the PlanB video in works - though I don't actually have a use for it.) If you need someone to test a patch, let me know. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sorted some things out

2002-12-13 Thread Derrik Pates
o bad there's not just a way to tell the Voodoo3 "treat these colors like they're big endian - because they are"... -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sorted some things out

2002-12-14 Thread Derrik Pates
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:47:04PM -0500, Derrik Pates wrote: > I may play with it further, after I straighten out this color thing. Too > bad there's not just a way to tell the Voodoo3 "treat these colors like > they're big endian - because they are"... Well, I wa

Some fixes for tdfxfb on big-endian systems

2002-12-14 Thread Derrik Pates
r docs, writing to the same offset in the register memory range for the 3Dfx does the same thing, plus it removes the issue of IO port accesses on a non-primary PCI bus (where its port IO register window is not at 0). -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- /usr/src/linux/drivers

Re: Some fixes for tdfxfb on big-endian systems

2002-12-14 Thread Derrik Pates
t working right that's kind of needed is the hardware cursor. I'll try to figure that out. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which tools for compiling a kernel

2002-12-14 Thread Derrik Pates
g the rest of it JFS, just for fun. (This is my play box, in case you couldn't tell. :) ) -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

tdfxfb fixes - take 2

2002-12-14 Thread Derrik Pates
Ok, I'm attaching a better version of the previous patch, including a fix that makes the boot logo appear correctly. I'm still trying to sort out the hardware cursor. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux/drivers/video/tdfxfb.c.old2002-12-14 12:42:10.0

Re: Ethernet and AAUI

2002-12-19 Thread Derrik Pates
C and throw it in, and go with that; it'd probably be your best bet. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: drm message while X starts up

2002-12-19 Thread Derrik Pates
like something KDE is doing? That's related to DRI. That wouldn't have anything to do with starting KDE. What happens when you try starting KDE? Are you using a display manager (GDM, KDM, WDM, XDM, etc.), or running startx/startkde/etc. at a prompt? -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: drm message while X starts up

2002-12-19 Thread Derrik Pates
mp directory set with the right permissions? It should be owned by root, mode 1777 (a+rwxt). If not, fix it, and try again. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: suspend + disabling trackpad + audio CD

2002-12-20 Thread Derrik Pates
eed out through sound device), so you have to use something else. I always used XMMS with the xmms-cdread plugin installed - it'll read the PCM stream from the disc and play it through your PCM output device. (And you can use ESD or aRts output with xmms, so you can play more than one thing at a

Re: [nevermind..]iBook and Video (RTFM bait... I know)

2002-12-20 Thread Derrik Pates
en reading recent threads, you're probably seeing stuff about the newest iBooks with the RageM7, which is a newer, Radeon-derived laptop display chip. The support for it is still improving, but will hopefully be to the same level as the support for the M3 before long. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [nevermind..]iBook and Video (RTFM bait... I know)

2002-12-20 Thread Derrik Pates
out of ATI to properly handle sleep with the M7 chip, doesn't he? Once those two things happen (getting that info and the XF 4.3 release), I figure the M7 will have achieved parity with the M3 as far as Linux support goes. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /dev/dvd

2003-01-05 Thread Derrik Pates
as supported them for quite a long time). > > All media players I know use Altivec asm functions, so you don't need > gcc3. Though you do need a system with a G4 processor - the iBook that the original poster was talking about won't get any help from Altivec instructions. --

Re: installing woody on PowerMac 6500 w/3c905 PCI NIC

2003-01-10 Thread Derrik Pates
drivers on > a disk. > > Otherwise can I use the 3c509 driver or one of the other ones until I can > get on the network and download the proper one? Use the '3c59x' module. That also drives the 3c90x family cards. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iBook power management

2003-01-10 Thread Derrik Pates
mething? Apparently. The Radeon M7 (aka the 7500 Mobility) uses a different power-management arrangement than the M6 did, and Ben hasn't yet been able to pry the needed info out of ATI to get the chip into and out of power-management mode. So until he does, system suspend won't work o

Re: HELP - can't boot into OSX - can I restore my data from debianppc?

2003-01-10 Thread Derrik Pates
etc. It won't overwrite the bootstrap partition, but it will change what's set in the NVRAM as the boot device. You can either hold Option at boot (if your system has an OF with the Option menu feature - 4.x only?), or boot to the OF prompt and type: boot hd:[bootstrap partition number],\\yaboot at the prompt, and Linux should boot normally. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installing woody on PowerMac 6500 w/3c905 PCI NIC

2003-01-10 Thread Derrik Pates
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:39:31PM -0800, Tim Moss wrote: > Apparently, on Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:53:03PM -0500, Allan Streib wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Derrik Pates wrote: > > > > > Use the '3c59x' module. That also drives the 3c90x family cards. >

Re: console rows/cols -- configurable?

2003-01-14 Thread Derrik Pates
lution (640x480 will get you an 80x30 console). -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with ati r128 and xfree86 4.2.1 (unstable)

2003-01-14 Thread Derrik Pates
Does it really mean that it must be compiled as a module ? No. Did you specify the "UseFBDev" option in the "Device" section? It needs that. Though I can't imagine it causing that. Can you provide more context from the logs than just one line? -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: create HFS partition

2003-01-14 Thread Derrik Pates
with no lost data, but I can't make any guarantees to anyone else that it will work for them. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: create HFS partition

2003-01-14 Thread Derrik Pates
quot;Mount on boot" checkbox. Then MacOS should automatically mount the volume to your desktop next time MacOS is booted. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: create HFS partition

2003-01-14 Thread Derrik Pates
No, HFS itself is limited to a partition size of 2 GB. HFS+, on the other hand, is not. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: create HFS partition [solved]

2003-01-14 Thread Derrik Pates
#x27;hfsplus' package will let you read (and now write, also, I believe?) HFS+ filesystems, similarly to how mtools works for MS-DOS filesystems. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: create HFS partition

2003-01-14 Thread Derrik Pates
- had to use this knowledge a lot due to OS X's lame-ass SCSI support (?) breaking a coworker's HFS+ partitions. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: create HFS partition

2003-01-16 Thread Derrik Pates
anyone, should it? Wouldn't think so. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-16 Thread Derrik Pates
ss that's changed, Linux won't see or talk to a SWIM2 at all. If you have a box with one, I'm sure there would be some happy folks if you could figure out how to talk to it. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: create HFS partition

2003-01-16 Thread Derrik Pates
ux and doing 'od -t x2 /dev/sda1' showed that that bit was changed in the MacOS partition's layout. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenGL support?

2003-01-19 Thread Derrik Pates
.apt-get.org/) would provide that. Don't expect big things from it though - you're probably not going to get huge performance gains with, say, QuakeII. But if lspci, or the board itself, says the card is just a Mach64, don't bother, you're not going to get any 3D acceleration, because it's not in the hardware. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HFS+ in fstab

2003-01-21 Thread Derrik Pates
ounting an HFS+ filesystem made by MacOS will always show what you described, because MacOS makes a thin HFS wrapper around the HFS+ filesystem, for the sake of older MacOS versions. You can use the 'hfsplus' package to read and write HFS+ filesystems completely in userspace (not transparent

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-23 Thread Derrik Pates
t commercial software (which I'm not sure is even available anymore - probably not), you certainly can't do TCP/IP via PhoneNet. Get a 10Base/T-to-AAUI transceiver - they're dirt cheap on eBay. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-23 Thread Derrik Pates
ort. > > If I reboot I'm dead in the water right? > > I don't have the MACOS installation disks He needs to stop what he's doing, go get a Mac System 7.5/7.6 or System 8 CD, reinstall a small MacOS partition, then install Linux from there. If he continues on as he's going, he'll have a perfectly good Linux install which he won't be able to boot. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-23 Thread Derrik Pates
y barely knows Linux at all - getting a distro like Debian on a well-supported NewWorld can be occasionally trying. Installing it on a NuBus system can be a bear. (Besides the fact that the kernel is at best sporadically maintained for them.) -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rsync vs BK kernel trees

2003-01-28 Thread Derrik Pates
vel is where any remaining 2.4-specific development by Cort is going on, and linuxppc_2_4_benh is Ben's tree (where the really experimental stuff is). The rsync is just a regular snapshot of the BitKeeper tree. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ripping tracks from a audio-cd

2003-02-03 Thread Derrik Pates
etZ/lunN/generic, if you're using devfs), and make sure that the user you're ripping as has permission to to read and write to that device. (Ripping with SCSI drives is done by issuing raw SCSI commands - you're using IDE-SCSI, so same thing applies.) -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-07 Thread Derrik Pates
OSX. Will yaboot only boot OSX using the two stage boot process? Yes, because the Forth bootscript that ybin generates and blesses is what puts up the multiboot menu - yaboot itself just loads Linux kernels. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adaptec 2940 ultra2

2003-04-20 Thread Derrik Pates
xactly the same as the x86 counterparts, other than an OF ROM. > If it's some other PPC machine, don't know.. If it also has an OpenFirmware implementation, odds are it'll just work. If not, then probably no. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: G3 B&W won't boot on CD install

2003-04-20 Thread Derrik Pates
boot cd:,\\:tbxi > > but it can't found the device!?!? > > What's wrong? Is the CD-ROM in your master on the secondary IDE channel? If not, the 'cd' devalias in OF will not work. You'll have to navigate the OF device tree manually. 'dev / ls' will get you started there. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adaptec 2940 ultra2

2003-04-21 Thread Derrik Pates
PowerDomain firmware, since they are the same card otherwise. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ibook2 help

2003-06-06 Thread Derrik Pates
0.9.0beta12): no sound cards defined.. You probably need to build and install the modules for ALSA, and make sure that the appropriate driver (snd-powermac, I think?) is loaded. Read /usr/share/doc/alsa-source/README.Debian.gz for more info. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I move a disk from one 7xxx to another and related matters?

2003-07-12 Thread Derrik Pates
p a tty to the modem port. The 7300 can be configured to use the system console for OpenFirmware, according to http://www.penguinppc.org/projects/quik/quirks.shtml - however the 7200 can't (because apparently OpenFirmware doesn't know how to talk to its video device). -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Printing problems - again!

2003-07-13 Thread Derrik Pates
in", you should be able to add a printer. How is the printer in question attached to your computer? Serial port, USB, network? >I know a hard way of printing again, that is re-installing the whole > system. Frankly, I'm trying to avoid that. Not a solution. Though it sounds like you're missing something. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie: no screens found

2003-07-13 Thread Derrik Pates
river for that one. Use the 'fbdev' driver and don't specify a BusID at all. (Run 'dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86' if you used debconf to configure your XF86Config-4, as I'm guessing you did.) -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot adjust audio balance with OSS on old iBook

2003-07-18 Thread Derrik Pates
nt for the DACA mixer-control code when I wrote that stuff. (Frankly, I was so happy to have mixer control at the time, balance control didn't really cross my mind.) I'm guessing no one's played with it since then. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6-test1 on ppc?

2003-07-19 Thread Derrik Pates
to make a couple hacks to the source to get it to build clean though, and the SWIM3 floppy controller driver doesn't presently build right (it prevents a successful build). I'm rather surprised that I had to tweak the source, especially at this late stage, to get it to build successfully. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: please explain to me

2003-10-01 Thread Derrik Pates
ces? > 5--How do I know that I need i2c-keywest? For a Pismo, you don't. It's needed for PowerBook G4s and iBooks with DACA, Tumbler/Texas, and Snapper audio chips, where the mixer control is done via an I2C bus. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Power management support in ALSA PowerMac audio driver?

2003-10-02 Thread Derrik Pates
ver? I've fought with the dmasound driver in the kernel before, so if I could use the ALSA driver instead, and still be able to suspend my laptop, I'd definitely prefer that. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: re:please explain to me

2003-10-05 Thread Derrik Pates
d drivers for them. 'apt-cache show discover' will give you more info about it. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gnome-panel unresponsive and taking over the processor

2003-10-06 Thread Derrik Pates
tion was to stop portmap, and make /etc/init.d/portmap not executable, to keep it from starting at all. Apparently it's actually a FAM bug, and supposedly rebuilding it will produce a version that will work better. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED]

GNOME 2.4 prerelease debs for PowerPC

2003-10-08 Thread Derrik Pates
Powerbook Pismo, and they're working great with the gnome-themes-extra package (which includes several SVG themes). If anyone wants to try them, add the following to your sources.list: deb http://platinum.heliacal.net/~demon/gnome2.4-ppc/ ./ -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Commercial games for Linux/PPC

2003-10-20 Thread Derrik Pates
recent system, they just segfault on > startup... Not true. I have a couple of those games, and they run just fine on my Pismo (running Debian sid). You might need the patches, but you can still download them. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Second round of powerpc subarch investigation : boot-loaders.

2003-10-20 Thread Derrik Pates
an OF 2.x system can look at /proc/device-tree/packages/ and see if they have an 'elf-loader' package and prove me wrong, but this was my understanding. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DRI module loading trouble on PPC, xfree86, debian/unstable

2003-11-08 Thread Derrik Pates
disabled'. If it says 'Direct rendering enabled', then the problem is something in the client side, and you should see what 'glxinfo' says. and thus I do not have the DRI working and no 3d accel:-( See above. Those messages aren't relevant. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: booting old world mac from floppy

2003-11-18 Thread Derrik Pates
'boot /AAPL,ROM', which will load the Mac ROM, which will load miBoot from the floppy (may need to hold F after pressing Enter at the OF prompt). -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: orinoco wifi init error

2003-12-07 Thread Derrik Pates
perfectly with it. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: yaboot not coming up

2005-10-10 Thread Derrik Pates
machine is not an early iBook or G3 blue&white tower), select the cute penguin, and boot into Linux, then rerun ybin? -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread Derrik Pates
Will i have to reinstall my Debian ? No. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Was: backup of the whole hd Now: Partition type significant?

2005-10-29 Thread Derrik Pates
nFirmware knows (yaboot uses HFS via hfsutils) for loading the bootstrap. OF doesn't know any Linux-specific filesystems, so you definitely won't be able to boot from it. Did you make a separate bootstrap partition for yaboot's use? If not, you need one. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL P

Re: installing G3/266 beige: which vmlinux ??

2005-11-06 Thread Derrik Pates
got quik set up on my PowerMac 7500 with a JFS root filesystem and an ext2 /boot, and it works just fine. I didn't install it just recently (it's probably been 2+ years since I installed it, actually). I can tell you that it does work, at least. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

RE: 3ButtonEmulation with ADB Mouse

2001-08-30 Thread Derrik Pates
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Manuel Reiter wrote: > Warning: I'm not 100& sure about the keycodes. The correct keycodes can be gleaned by browsing through /usr/include/linux/input.h. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District

Re: XMMS + Ogg = hiss?

2001-09-01 Thread Derrik Pates
ing kernel bloat, that's all. It adds _zero_ functionality soundwise. Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A couple of more issues...

2001-09-04 Thread Derrik Pates
gt; and edit the inittab to bump the run level from 2->5. Installing X, I > thought that it would do that for me. I thought wrong. Do 'ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /etc/X11/X'. Then try again. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN

Re: A couple of more issues...

2001-09-04 Thread Derrik Pates
than, I think) that that's what it is being called. Don't blame me for what someone else has decided to call it, I'm just trying to follow some convention so that people know what is being talked about. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PRO

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