Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-26 Thread Gary
r messages when I've had a chance to reproduce them again. -Gary

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-26 Thread Gary
I can provide more info if desired but I get similar results with the alpha1, weekly, and nightly builds. could it be SCSI_PROC_FS? Feb 26 20:19:12 anna-install: Installing fs-core-modules Feb 26 20:19:12 os-prober: unknown udeb fs-core-modules Feb 26 20:19:12 anna-install: Installing fs-secondary

Re: Debian or ubuntu

2010-03-16 Thread Gary
ed the Ubuntu PPC build in a couple of years or more. Re sound, Ive been looking through the wiki for info on enabling sound on the Mac G5. Has anyone found the solution & if so, did it work? much thanks, Gary On Mar 16, 2010, at 5:56 AM, Tiresia Giuno wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010

Re: Debian or ubuntu

2010-03-16 Thread Gary
as new or experimental when I compiled a recent kernel. -Gary

SheepShaver et al

2010-03-17 Thread Gary
Has anyone successfully compiled SheepShaver under Debian/PPC squeeze? Or is Mac-on-Linux a better option? -Gary

Re: Getting LXDE Debain

2010-03-18 Thread Gary
It's similar to a Ubuntu install but not exactly the same. That said, it's pretty straightforward and the XFCE/LXDE combo is quite nice. There's been some work with Ubuntu and XFCE/LXDE on the x86 architecture in the way of the U-Lite and Lubuntu projects but they're both still in beta. -Gary

Re: How to install java

2010-03-24 Thread Gary
for interested parties, here are IBM's instructions for installing on PPC Macs: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/systems/library/es-apple.html and here are the download links: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux/download.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@li

Re: How usable is Debian on PowerBook G4?

2010-03-30 Thread Gary
Robert Chamberlain wrote: Linux on the PPC seems to be just for > people wanting to use old PPC computers for servers etc... > Have you priced out *new* PPC hardware lately? It's still more expensive than most commodity x86-64 architecture gear. -Gary

Re: How usable is Debian on PowerBook G4?

2010-04-01 Thread Gary
GB RAM but it's more noticeable on a 1 GB memory starved G4 Mac mini running Tiger. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/3ea08e6f

Re: How usable is Debian on PowerBook G4?

2010-04-02 Thread Gary
the binaries otherwise. most of the flags have been discussed in detail in the Mozilla web fora -- links to which may be found via lowendmac and other community sites that have linked to the optimized OS X binaries. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: make-jpkg/java-package on unstable/experimental missing?

2010-04-14 Thread Gary
On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Rogério Brito wrote: The announcement that it was removed from unstable. I have to ask the obvious here; why are you using a development branch of _any_ OS in a production environment? -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: make-jpkg/java-package on unstable/experimental missing?

2010-04-14 Thread Gary
for all three layers as I've deployed each of them where appropriate over the years. Some time I'll tell you about a telco app that I had to support that was based on an unstable branch of FreeBSD. Let's just say they're no longer in business for a reason. -Gary --

Re: make-jpkg/java-package on unstable/experimental missing?

2010-04-15 Thread Gary
On Apr 15, 2010, at 4:28 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: If you were talking about the sun-java6-jre package I recommend keeping it, if it works: It's latest version is un-installable on unstable ppc currently, for "unmet" dependencies. Does Sun have a PPC JVM/JDK available? I had no idea such

Re: Partition and Boot loader for Squeeze on G4

2010-04-26 Thread Gary
software/grub/grub-2-faq.en.html -Gary

Re: Partition and Boot loader for Squeeze on G4

2010-04-26 Thread Gary
also see this wiki entry for steps on how to use/test grub 2: http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnPowerPC take note of this line, however: "*Do not delete yaboot.* You will need it when something goes wrong and GRUB fails to boot"

Re: Google Chrome for PPC Linux?

2010-05-05 Thread Gary
I think you'd have to start with the V8 JavaScript engine. The requirements listed for it are an ARM or x86 processor, however, so I don't know how much work it would take to port it to another architecture. http://code.google.com/apis/v8/build.html -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: ibm java

2010-05-28 Thread Gary
You can install java-package from lenny but it didn't recognize any of the tar.gz bundles. So instead I tried using alien on an RPM -- it completely failed on the 64-bit version but I got a tiny bit further with the 32-bit JDK. I must be missing something, however, as it won't actually run after in

Re: g5 install problem

2010-05-31 Thread Gary
did you install stable or testing? I've not encountered problems with stable on the G5 but testing is still a work in progress. as mentioned before, be sure to choose the 64-bit version. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

ZFS-FUSE

2010-06-22 Thread Gary
#x27;s a google group for project but I'm asking here first in case there are any PPC or Debian specific issues that anyone's come across. And yes, I do have the nfs-kernel-server package installed and running as well. thanks, Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.

Re: LXDE Rocks !

2010-06-26 Thread Gary
you might want to install the epiphany-browser package if you're looking for a lightweight browser. It has an ad block plug-in now, too. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-06-28 Thread Gary
to install stable, testing, or unstable. But that's not exactly a documented or acceptable workaround for the yaboot issue at hand. I have access to both ppc64 and 32-bit Macs if anyone needs help testing or troubleshooting this problem. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@l

fan management on G5

2010-06-30 Thread Gary
x27;t recall it being this noisy with OS X -- especially as it's mostly idle. Mine is either the PCI or PCI-X model of the PowerMac7,3 (dual 2.0 GHz procs). -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: fan management on G5

2010-06-30 Thread Gary
On 6/30/10, Mike Hore wrote: > Hi Gary - I've got a G5 iMac (Rev A) - I'm running squeeze and usually > get the latest updates every couple of weeks. The fan control has > always been fine, but with recent updates I've seen the same erratic > behavior you describe. Th

Re: Booting kernel on IBM RS/6000 7043 model140

2010-07-07 Thread Gary
d.php http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/prep -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktil6rfsiyu3iytl_zi6npfounyje6hj9xnffe...@mail.gmail.com

Re: ISO For Recent Debian Squeeze

2010-07-14 Thread Gary
Although the discussion is hopefully helpful, I'm not sure anyone's actually answered Richard's original question re where to find squeeze installer ISOs... http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

2010-07-15 Thread Gary
nly running Debian then mac-fdisk will partition your drive properly for yaboot to work with it. I don't remember having this issue with stable but the current testing builds have an issue where they only create an 800 K New World boot partition when it actually needs to be 800 Mb. -Gary --

Re: installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

2010-07-15 Thread Gary
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Just to be absolutely clear, the "NewWorld bootblock" partition I am talking > about, and I assume Gary is talking about, is the /dev/hda2 partition in the > following display, with type "Apple_Bootstrap".  This

Re: Sound on PowerMac G4 (digital audio)

2010-07-17 Thread Gary
ac3,4 - PowerMac3,5 - PowerMac4,2 - PowerMac4,5 q.v. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tumbler&arch=macppc&sektion=4 and http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=awacs&arch=macppc&sektion=4 -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

2010-07-19 Thread Gary
unstable. The drawback, however, is that ext4 isn't included. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktiltw9kcysu1zmd2jtbxnr

Re: installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

2010-07-19 Thread Gary
> PS: I'll also see if I can confirm your problem with whole-disk guided > partitioning, and report on that too.  Have you considered filing a bug > report? Yes. Is there a set of log files that I should include? much thanks, Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-po

Re: installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

2010-07-19 Thread Gary
files from this failed install... any suggestions? A different install image perhaps? I don't know if it makes a difference but I'm using the xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: How can I emulate Debian for PowerPC on Intel processor?

2010-07-30 Thread Gary
I've only used the x86 version of QEMU but it's supposed to emulate ARM as well as PPC. But it looks like PearPC is still around as well as PSIM. I forgot all about PSIM -- its docs say they try to emulate OpenFIrmware. q.v. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/pa-emulation.h

Re: Can't install acpi-support (no acpi-fakekey for PPC)

2010-08-15 Thread Gary
"PBButtonsd is a daemon which brings support for many Laptop specific functions to Linux. Basically it was designed to support Apple iBooks, Powerbooks or TiBooks but since version 0.5 the design has been changed to support any Notebook. >From its roots pbbuttons support Apple PowerBooks and iBook

Re: yaboot uuid and luks encryption

2010-09-09 Thread Gary
aboot&list=debian-powerpc&sort=date&HITSPERPAGE=10&language=en -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktim3y6

Re: About the FreeScale e500 series processor

2010-09-14 Thread Gary
upported these platforms for many years on stable, production ready embedded platforms. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktin

Re: Setup WOL (Wake On LAN) on PPC (MacMiniG4)

2010-09-18 Thread Gary
WoL should work on any hardware that will run Tiger or higher. Below is the only documentation I could find and it's not very specific as to what's considered 'modern' hardware. -Gary "Modern Mac hardware features integrated Wake-on-LAN functionality, controlled via th

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-20 Thread Gary
rry over in to the first update after Squeeze launches. Am I understanding the situation correctly? If not, please elaborate. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Help me, please.

2010-10-05 Thread Gary
I had pretty good luck with Debian and BootX on an a beige G3 a few years back -- I think I even had it booting off of an external SCSI Iomega Jaz drive. You might also consider NetBSD which will install on both "new world" and "old world" Mac PPC systems: http://netbsd.org

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-06 Thread Gary
iso http://ftp.extensis.com/it/deb/debian-unstable-ppc-bah.md5 http://ftp.extensis.com/it/deb/debian-unstable-ppc-bah.packages http://ftp.extensis.com/it/deb/debian-unstable-ppc-bah.README -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-07 Thread Gary
I just tested this disc on a G5 Mac and got the following error: Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: No volume groups found Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests on /dev/sda1 Oct 7 19:28:15 50mounted-tests: debug:

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-07 Thread Gary
o work on the G4 last night. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinndtt5ukrykoe5vz_jz9yw=6jz0ztbo9n5k...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-07 Thread Gary
It ought to look something closer to this when finished (same system, different drive)... boot=/dev/sda2 ofboot=/h...@0,f200/p...@5/k2-sata-r...@c/k2-s...@0/d...@0:2 device=/h...@0,f200/p...@5/k2-sata-r...@c/k2-s...@0/d...@0: partition=4 root=/dev/sda4 timeout=100 install=/usr/lib/yaboot/

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread Gary
w. I'll try an install in the lab later today or on Monday... http://ftp.extensis.com/ppc/ -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://list

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread Gary
I tried this on the same G5 with mostly the same results. I've archived /var/log/* and /etc/yaboot conf here: http://ftp.extensis.com/ppc/logs/ I will give a quick try on a G4 next so if you see additional files with today's date/time stamp then that is what they're from.

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-13 Thread Gary
ion (using expert64 boot option). I didn't look to see if a USB drive would show up as that's the only way I could provide a verbose listing of /sys/bus/scsi/devices. Should I try for the same output on an official testing or unstable weekly or nightly build? IIRC, I had a similar ofpa

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-13 Thread Gary
Also, I'm not sure if this is relevant but only the late 2005 Power Mac G5s has PCIe whereas all previous revs used PCI-X. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G5#Product_revision_history -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-13 Thread Gary
urrent ofpath, Joseph ? Thanks for the sleuthing, Ben. But I can't help but wonder how the Lenny installer works to allow me to install unstable or testing on my G5 with SATA...? Am I missing something important in the multiple threads spawned by this issue over the past few months? kind regard

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-13 Thread Gary
th need updated in the yaboot-installer package? I tried your latest image and get the same error. You can read my debug logs here: http://ftp.extensis.com/ppc/logs/ -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: wheezy netinst problem on G5 iMac

2011-05-12 Thread Gary
Did you un/plugging the USB devices? I haven't used the installers in a while but I usually avoid testing and unstable ISOs because of past problems. If you use the stable installer and choose the advanced options., it'll actually ask if you want to install stable, testing, or unstab

Re: Plymouth alternative for PowerPC?

2011-05-19 Thread Gary
You may wish to have a look at splashy instead: http://packages.debian.org/search?arch=powerpc&keywords=splashy q.v. http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/faq -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: debian-ppc port for ps3-otheros++

2011-06-26 Thread Gary
I was under the impression that much of this was already supported via the mainline PPC port but not in an official capacity via http://wiki.debian.org/PS3. q.v. http://fisica.ufpr.br/fandrade/ps3/ps3-debian-install-howto.html, http://www.keshi.org/moin/PS3/Debian/Live, http://ps3linux.radiolivre.

Re: [Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#636269:

2011-08-11 Thread Gary
chicken: debian installation disc doesn't include pata-macio in kernel -> refer to egg egg: can't install debian to build kernel needed to boot installation disc -> refer to chicken

Re: Question about compatibility...

2011-10-06 Thread Gary
For what it's worth, there is a dedicated XFCE & LXDE install CD for PPC in both stable and testing. Your mileage may vary but I've had better luck using the stable ISO which -- if you choose the advanced option -- will also allow you to choose to install a system from either stable, testing, or un

Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2014-01-06 Thread Gary
nd -hfs-bless options. q.v. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1335735 -Gary

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.17 req'd packages

2000-10-05 Thread Gary Kline
Porters, is anyone working on boot-floppies 2.2.17 for non-i386 ? > > I'll get sparc in the morning. I need to build new 2.2.17 kernel images > too. > It's been a long time since I've heard from this list. Is this pertaining to Debian-BSD still? gary -- Gary D. Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public service Unix

Re: Samba 3 on Sarge ppc

2002-12-10 Thread Gary Sandine
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 08:35, Arnaud Bled wrote: > i would like to install Samba 3 on a Sarge ppc , but without upgrade to > Sid, is there a procedure to upgrade only Samba ? I would add a sid entry to sources.list, do apt-get update, and then try # apt-get install [whatever samba packages I want

Re: 2 issues Raid, Netatalk

2002-12-15 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 04:45, David Tisdell wrote: > The server has dual ultra 3 scsi drives mirrored to > each other with soft raid (Raid 1). It also has 2 > firewire drives which I would like to mirror in raid > 1. How do I set up Raid in software? It is very easy > to do in Red Hat. Can I easily

Re: Report of success on iBook3 in woody/sid with video, dri and airport OK

2002-12-16 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 15:51, Nirmal Govind wrote: > > Hi, I'm trying (again) to get debian installed on my ibook3 (Nov 02).. I I just did one of these last night using X from unstable and benh kernel obtained (yesterday) with rsync as described at http://penguinppc.org/~benh/ It was unusable wi

Re: Report of success on iBook3 in woody/sid with video, dri and airport OK

2002-12-16 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 17:24, Michel Dänzer wrote: > The DRM shouldn't make a difference for how X runs per se. You probably > also installed xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk? No, I actually didn't. I'll have to double check the details below, but from memory: 1 radeonfb from 2.4.20-pre4-ben0 gave dark

Re: Report of success on iBook3 in woody/sid with video, dri and airport OK

2002-12-16 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 18:41, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > radeonfb and the radeon kernel module (the DRM) isn't quite the same > thing. Right; I'm just specifying which versions of each I needed. Without radeonfb from 2.4.20-ben1, I had scrambled text console and scrambled X. Without your radeon ke

Re: Report of success on iBook3 in woody/sid with video, dri and airport OK

2002-12-16 Thread Gary Sandine
I've done some more tests and am hoping something here rings a bell about how to fix the glxgears-induced corruption. (Evidently, snooze and wakeup is out of the question with Radeon M7 at this point in time.) For decent video at all (text or X), Radeon frame buffer (in console drivers) from >= 2

Re: Report of success on iBook3 in woody/sid with video, dri and airport OK

2002-12-17 Thread Gary Sandine
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 03:59, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > For X, agpgart and radeon.o (the former from 2.4.20-ben1 kernel, the > > latter from drm-trunk-module-src) must be loaded. > > No, problems with those don't keep the server from starting up but just > keep direct rendering from getting enable

KDE3 in iBook2

2002-12-17 Thread Gary Sandine
Hi, Is anyone using KDE 3.0.4 ppc from http://bulmalug.net/~primetime/kde3/ ? Everything works well, except konsole will not run. It brings up a crash dialogue saying konsole crashed and caused signal 11. The Backtrace tab info ends in: #0 0x0eadd9a8 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x0e

never mind! (was Re: KDE3 in iBook2)

2002-12-17 Thread Gary Sandine
Downgrading libqt3 items from 3.1.0+cvs.2002 to 3.0.5-3 fixed it. On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 21:33, Gary Sandine wrote: > Hi, > > Is anyone using KDE 3.0.4 ppc from > > http://bulmalug.net/~primetime/kde3/ > > ? > > Everything works well, except konsole will not r

Re: ibook, still questions

2002-12-20 Thread Gary Sandine
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 06:21, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > r128 ? I would say radeon... > > Right, or simply "ati", which works for all ATI chips. Yeah I thought radeon, too. I specify "ati" in my iBook2's XF86Config, and it looks like ati does: (II) Loading sub module "radeon" (II) LoadModule:

Re: remote session can't acess X

2002-12-22 Thread Gary Sandine
Hi Nirmal, On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 15:37, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Hi.. I'm trying to login to a remote Sun machine and start off an > application which would start the application's main window on my local > machine. Edit /etc/ssh/ssh_config By default, (if my memory serves me well) you will find

Re: ibook3 dvd/cdrw problems

2003-01-13 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 22:05, Jon Michaelchuck wrote: > When I attempt to run eject /dev/cdrom (as root) I get: > eject: unable to eject, last error: Input/output error Does a symlink /dev/cdrom exist? If so, it should be pointing to /dev/scd0. Do # rm -f /dev/cdrom ; ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom

Re: gdm 2

2003-01-13 Thread Gary Sandine
Hi, On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 12:32, Jorge Arcas wrote: > Is a gdm2 package for debian ppc? I put the line deb http://files.hadess.net/ debian/ and was almost able to "apt-get install gdm2". Installation scripts in the package failed (I don't know why), but I was able to finish the installation b

Re: create HFS partition

2003-01-14 Thread Gary Sandine
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 13:48, Kevin Smith wrote: > One last thing, make sure you format the Apple partition as HFS and NOT HFS+ > else you cannot access it when in Linux. Packages hfsplus + libhfsp0 provide utilities for accessing HFS+ volumes. I suggest beginning with hpmount(1) and reading all

Re: Looking for quiet Harddisk

2003-01-18 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 09:23, Claas Langbehn wrote: > The "Seagate Barracuda V" shall be amazingly quiet. I second that. I have extensive experience (I own a Web-based PC shop for 2.5 years) with IBM, Western Digital, and Seagate (7200 rpm IDE), and Seagate is typically quieter out of the box and

Re: Where to get Gnome2 and kde3.1 for ppc ?

2003-01-28 Thread Gary Sandine
Hi, On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 17:29, Willy Morin wrote: > I'm looking for sources for kde3.1 and gnome2 under a debian > unstable. Do you know where I can find them ? I successfully installed KDE3 in a new iBook2 for a friend (about three weeks ago) using this sources.list entry: deb http://bulmalug

Re: installing woody on G4 Cube

2003-01-29 Thread Gary Sandine
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 10:01, Ryan Singer wrote: > - reading OF device tree.. > - calling quiesce.. > - booting.. > > after it displays the "booting" line -- the thing just hangs. My iBook did this -- the installer would not boot unless I chose install-safe (rather than install or install24 or

Re: X-windows question

2003-02-07 Thread Gary Sandine
Hi, On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 11:38, Pedro Alves wrote: > Another question... how I mount a HFS particion on Linux? I installed > both hfsplus and hfsutils! You can learn this by reading hpmount(1) and the other man pages referenced at the bottom of hpmount(1). Usage of utilities in hfsplus is biza

Re: X-windows question

2003-02-07 Thread Gary Sandine
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 17:06, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:38:50PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote: > > > > Another question... how I mount a HFS particion on Linux? I installed > > both hfsplus and hfsutils! > > mount -t hfs > > You can put it in /etc/fstab also Oh yeah I did not

Re: cd-rw on ibook2

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 07:40, Guido Amoruso wrote: > Now, this is the present situation: I have in my yaboot.conf the line > "append ide-scsi" If that is your actual append entry in yaboot.conf, it is not correct. It should be: append="hdb=ide-scsi" plus whatever other options you might need in

Re: cd-rw on ibook2

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 14:01, Guido Amoruso wrote: > is it ok to have multiple "append"s? I don't know. The top of dmesg displays the append arguments in effect; perhaps $ dmesg | grep "Kernel command line" will tell.

Re: cd-rw on ibook2

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 15:19, Guido Amoruso wrote: > (append="hdb=ide-scsi video=ofonly keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1"). I think we have the same rev iBook. ofonly does not work for me if I want to use X and all the goodies you mention; I need atyfb (with drm-trunk-module-src for drm).

Re: cd-rw on ibook2

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 15:51, Guido Amoruso wrote: > Could you explain me what to do? Have I to replave video=ofonly with > video=atyfb, and/or change XF86Config-4? I'll search on the list for > drm-trunk: in the meanwhile, can you tell me something more? I learned how to do it here http://www.cat

Re: cdrecord and dma for cd

2003-03-09 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 07:06, Grzesiek Sedek wrote: > Ive got this problem: > I need ide-scsi to burn cd's but at the same time I'd like to watch > dvd's - so I need dma access. > How to do it? I've linked /dev/dvd to /dev/hdb but it didn't help. > Is there any quick fix for that? > I'm running iboo

Re: would this break my debian installation?

2003-04-07 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 15:16, florian wrote: > nobody got an idea if that would work? one the one side it > sounds possible to me, but i would like to avoid that i > lose all my data.. Every time I have tried to install OS X in a system already running Linux, OS X's installation disk utility plowed

Re: would this break my debian installation?

2003-04-07 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 04:12, Clive Menzies wrote: > I am no expert but I'm sure I've read here and elsewhere that the MacOS > Apple boot block needs to be the first partition on the disk. > Certainly when I installed Debian on my G4 I installed MacOSX first. Yes I had set it up ahead of time w

Re: would this break my debian installation?

2003-04-07 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 10:35, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > I guess Apple don't expect people to run anything but Darwin - strange > ;-) So are you saying that you can't install OSX on top of > Mac-on-Linux? I was thinking of trying it I figured it was just my problem not knowing how to use th

Re: would this break my debian installation?

2003-04-07 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 09:17, florian wrote: > why did you use the mac os x disk utility though? i mean, basically > you should be able to just choose a partition from within the normal > os x installer.. no? I did try making an HFS partition at the back of the drive (along with the necessary boots

Re: would this break my debian installation?

2003-04-07 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 10:02, florian wrote: > arg! okay. you should have not done that. as far as i know the > disk utility always claims the whole disk for itself. Yeah as far as I know, that's the case, too. Although I _did_ create a partition for OS X to claim, and it would not use it (I had

Re: would this break my debian installation?

2003-04-07 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 10:48, Michel Dänzer wrote: > But IMHO the point is that MOL, and by extension the OS and apps running > within it, can't access any parts of the disk unless you allow it to. > Did you let it access the whole disk? Or is/was there a bug which would > allow to circumvent this

Re: would this break my debian installation?

2003-04-07 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 11:11, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: > If you haven't done "hformat > /dev/whatever", that will probably do the trick. Indeed -- that sounds like just what I've been missing the few times I have tried this. Thanks.

Re: standby issue on a TiBook III / latest benh's and daenzer's

2003-05-05 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 11:27, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Stanby works correctly if X isn't running. If X is running (no matter on > which console) the laptop go in standby but fail to recover from it, > somethings wake up (like keyboard leds) but the display doesn't. The > machine seems not to be r

Re: standby issue on a TiBook III / latest benh's and daenzer's

2003-05-05 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 13:19, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Well... you shouldn't need pbbuttonsd for that... Went to sleep by closing lid, I meant. When in VT 7 with X running, unit would not wake up from sleep after closing and opening lid -- no keys had any effect. This changed once pbbutto

Re: standby issue on a TiBook III / latest benh's and daenzer's

2003-05-05 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 13:19, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Well... you shouldn't need pbbuttonsd for that... Naturally you are right I am no longer sure what the problem was I was having. Wake up works fine in my iBook2.2 using DRM and DRIReinit is not needed here. Sorry for my confusion

Re: cdrecord and devfs

2003-05-19 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 14:07, Martin Kuball wrote: > calling cdrecord -scanbus gives: > > # cdrecord -scanbus > Cdrecord 1.10 (powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg > Schilling > cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'c

Re: Reiserfs on an iBook?

2003-06-04 Thread Gary Sandine
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 08:56, Michel Dänzer wrote: > FWIW, I used to use it on my Macs a while ago, until it ate one > partition in the middle of normal operation. I'm sure that a lot of > problems have been fixed in the meantime, but I've even had problems > with it on x86, so I wouldn't trust any

Re: PBG4 12" sometimes disk problems during boot

2003-08-21 Thread Gary Sandine
Hi, On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:20, Pander wrote: > > Since a few days my PBG4 12" will not always boot completely. Somewhere > at the end of the boot sequence, just after it is loading some sound > stuff it says (something like): > > . > hda: lost interupt, > hda: lost interupt, lost dma status:

Re: weird problem with CD-drive eject

2003-09-22 Thread Gary Sandine
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 07:50, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Does this persist over a reboot? If not, maybe the key that initiates > the eject (using something like acme, ikeyd, ... ?) was 'stuck', either > physically or due to the infamous kernel bug, and kept autorepeating? I remember now this happening

Re: Spam alert

2003-10-02 Thread Gary Sandine
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 22:23, Chris Tillman wrote: > I also gave my ISP an earfull for > not affering any server side solutions. I don't think this particular rash of e-mails would have happened if the list archives altered e-mail addresses. Too late now, though.

No Keyboard Input

2003-11-02 Thread Gary Martin
I am a Linux newbie with a major problem. I did a minimum install (plus development tools) from the Woody 3.0r1 CDs, the updated everything using "dselect" to Sid over my slow internet connection. I re-booted with the aim of installing X11, but at the login prompt, the keyboard is unresponsive. Du

Evolution Strangeness

2003-11-07 Thread Gary Martin
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modconf stopped working

2003-12-22 Thread Gary Martin
Hope someone can help? All-of-a-sudden, modconf stopped working --- I type modconf at the prompt, there is disk activiety for a few seconds, then I am returned to the prompt. Any ideas. Regards Gary Martin (linux newbie) http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new

Re: ISO For Recent Debian Squeeze

2010-07-15 Thread Gary Driggs
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-dvd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.d

Re: Sound on PowerMac G4 (digital audio)

2010-07-17 Thread Gary Driggs
Is that the PowerMac3,4? If so, we might still have a couple in the office so I'll look around on Monday. Q.v. http://www.everymac.com/systems/by_capability/mac-specs-by-machine-model-machine-id.html -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

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