Re: [damsnet@free.fr: update about rs6k arch install report]

el. > I got no particular problem exect for the video card which needs a patch > available here: > http://www.amberdata.demon.co.uk/carolina/ MfG, Hartmut -- Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Hartmut Koptein | Debian Maintainer and Porter Tel.: 0178-koptein (0178-5678346)| Use Debian G

Re: aumix binary NMU?

> > Currently,I tried to compile alsalib0.3.0-dev because I wanna aumix > > package. aumix needs alsalib0.3.0-dev to compile. > > OK, I build aumix package and I'm prepared to upload it. Can I binary > NMU for aumix? Sure, binary-NMU is always possible; source-NMU is different (you must ask firs

Re: accelerated fbdev X server ...

> i did put the XF68_FBDev executable for the X server with geert's fbdev accel > patches at : > > http://master.debian.org/~luther/xserver/ Please send the diff to Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, so he can include this for the next release. Only the diff for the fbdev accel, the other pro

Re: broken cat!

> In truth I don't know what the problem is. The only thing that > strikes me as peculiar is that /bin/cat is linked against > libnfslockfile or some such, while cat on my debian pc is not (but > then I don't have the same packages on that machine). Perhaps there's > a bug in nfslockfile? You ha

Re: Squid

> I installed squid_2.2.2-1_powerpc.deb on a prep machine, > but it seems it's segfaulting since I keep getting FATAL errors. Segfault shouldn't happen. It must be a different error (memory, ...) Thnx, Hartmut

Re: Netscape Communicator

> PPS: damn, my current installation is really a bit borken: no bug, no > su - get's a bit uncomfortable, especially if you can't report bugs bug -- ok, this is another problem, but why can't you use su? Thnx, Hartmut

Package status

Hi, a short info how many packages are up-to-date: Distribution unstable: -- Installed : 1244 (buildd: 940, koptein: 1, unknown: 303) Needs-Build : 1 Building: 200 (buildd: 200) Uploaded:70 (buildd: 70) Failed : 3 (koptein: 2,

Re: XFree86 just broke on PB3400 (Fri 5/28/99 AM (US))

> Bah, you all are lucky. Since the last apt-get update, I can't start X any > more: " Novalid mode found", although nothing changed (except the > X-Server, of course) - same XF86Config, same graphic card and same kernel > (and so same fbdev device). Yuck. Ok, back to command line Please test the

Re: XFree86 just broke on PB3400 (Fri 5/28/99 AM (US))

> >Please test the new version; should be available in the next two days. Warning: the new xfree version is possible broken for some ATI boards! Copy your old version of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF68_FBDev to a secure place. For the font problem: it is fixed in the newer version. Thanks, Ha

Re: Mozilla

> I've managed to compile the latest "milestone" release of Mozilla. > Naturally, there are *ahem* problems with it, such as an apparent > hatred for ftp:// urls. Haven't really tested it extensively, but if > anybody would like the binaries to turn them into a .deb, I'd be happy > to provide them.

Re: Auto-building on tervola...

> Can Hartmut or someone explain to me how the auto-building/uploading is > done on tervola? /etc/source-dependencies-unstable /system/debbuild/build-db-unstable /system/build /system/upload quinn-diff generates a list of new available packages. This list went into the data-base (build-db-unst

Re: gdb

> While I was trying to debug mysql, I found that gdb doesn't seem to want to > work.. > > Is this a known bug as well? I'm not sure wether or not this is an issue > with linux/ppc right now... > > gdb mysqld > [gdb output] > (gdb) run > Starting program: /usr/local/libexec/mysqld > Don't know

Re: XFb_Dev and one-button mouse

> > > How do you (all) cut and paste with apple's one-button mouse? > > > > You can download a patch at > > http://www.maths.univ-rennes1.fr/~costabel/linux/mouse/ > > or a precompiled kernel at > > http://www.maths.univ-rennes1.fr/~costabel/linux/boot/ > > > > Then, you need to add kernel opti

Re: missing header files?

> Either they're missing, or I don't know what package they're kept in, but I'm > missing files such as: > /usr/include/huge_val.h > /usr/include/bfd.h binutils-dev: /usr/include/bfd.h > On a redhat system, it looks like rpm reports them to be part of glibc-devel. > (on i386) With an glibc-2.1

Re: Are the Mac G3 laptops viable now?

> Do you have a pointer for more information on Mac-On-Linux? http://www.ibrium.se/linux/mac_on_linux.html

Re: XFree86 and ATI accel.

> Actually, it was an incomplete merge of VGER code. Try 2.2.10. 2.2.10 has also a problem on chrp (dunno about booting): make[1]: Entering directory `/project/Linux/kernel-source-2.2.10-2.2.10/arch/ppc/chrpboot' ./piggyback image < ../coffboot/vmlinux.gz | as -o image.o cksum = 6b3cd8a3 make[1

Re: gdb don't want my xserver core file ...

> Thanks, i extracted the srpm with rpm, and builded a gdb package with the > patch. it works fine. > > Is someone else interrested ? Should i make a NMU, or simply send the > maintainer of gdb the patch ? Both, for the maintainer as an bug-report.

Re: installation: problem booting

I've no experience with BootX, but one isn't correct: > I get stuck. Booting halts at "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs > on 08:17" 08:17 = 16 + 1 = sdb1 > We have two SCSI drives > Drive 1 (/dev/sda...) MacOS from which we run BootX > Drive 2 /dev/sdb5 MkLinux root >

Re: clock

> It seems that upon startup, my machine can't get the time properly > before mounting filesystems, so it resets my date back to 1969. Yay. > > hwclock says it's looking for /dev/rtc, which doesn't exist. hwclock is for powerpc-machines with pc'ish hardware as CHRP. Install the 'powerpc-utils` pa

[michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch: Re: PAM problems]

- Forwarded message from Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 15:05:08 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: ETH Zürich, Team *AMiGA* X-Accept-Language: de-CH, de, en To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re

Re: Rs6k remote boot

> 2nd q: why http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ is in german? Because i'm german :-) No, Coffee Cup said he would translate it to english but no response. So i copied the german web page (my test page) to the english one and i'll translate one or more sentences from one day to the other. > 3

Re: Dead modem, and other newbie install gripes

> One last question: is there an ssh package? If not I'll just build it, > but a package would be helpful. For apt-get in /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contr

Re: Dead modem, and other newbie install gripes

> > > One last question: is there an ssh package? If not I'll just build it, > > > but a package would be helpful. > > > > For apt-get in /etc/apt/sources.list > > > > deb http://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib > > non-free > > deb-src http://nonus.debian.org/debian-no

Re: Dead modem, and other newbie install gripes

> Thanks very much, got it successfully (though for others wishing to use it, > it depends > on perl-5.004, so it can't be used with newer perl5-dependent packages). I put the new ssh in some minutes on http://powerpc.debian.org/~koptein/nonus Hope this helps, Hartmut

Re: Dead modem, and other newbie install gripes

Moin, > > > Thanks very much, got it successfully (though for others wishing to use > > > it, it depends > > > on perl-5.004, so it can't be used with newer perl5-dependent packages). > > > > I put the new ssh in some minutes on > > http://powerpc.debian.org/~koptein/nonus > > I tried this deb,

Re: Where is KDE?

> Is the KDE package broken on Debian/PowerPC? Or is it not packaged because > the > current Qt license is not "free"? Try this for the moment: ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1.1/distribution/deb/hamm/binary-powerpc/kde MfG, Hartmut

Re: About PowerPC processors

> > If you think it's hard finding a price then try to actually purchase one. > > Once you get a salesperson to admit they exist getting them to sell you one > > is a good fight :) > > > > } Out of curiousity, what is the general price range on MTX's? I spent a > > } while digging around and coul

Re: util-linux and hwclock

> > The util-linux pkg provides hwclock which doesn't work on PPC. Should > > this be removed? > > I can remove it from the package for the powerpc arch., but I'd rather > appreciate if someone could send me the patch that would make hwclock work > on powerpc (I don't have a powerpc machine anymor

rotfl

Hi, have a look at: http://www.ibrator.com -- Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Hartmut Koptein EMail: Friedrich-van-Senden-Str. 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26603 Aurich Tel.: +49-4941-10390 PGP-Key Fingerprint = 6C E5 A0

Re: About PowerPC processors

ies) and better support for the X11 configuration. But this all needs time. What i like to have -- for all Subarchs -- is - one bootloader (quik, milo, plilo or what ever) - one fdisk with msdos + hfs(2) support - cd-rom autoboot support Regards, Hartmut (1) for a week or two

Re: [ANN] BootX 1.1.2 released

> The new BootX is finally here, it's at > . Thanks for the new version. > Note to distribution makers (especially Debian): The archive is still > compressed with Stuffit (proprietary), I'm looking for a simple and > efficient way of compressing

Re: Perl vs Apache -- dpkg loses

> > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:10:56PM -0600, Jeremiah Merkl wrote: > > > Now, I checked the bug list, and it says that the dependency problem for > > > apache-common on "perl" has been fixed, with apache-common_1.3.6-14. > > > Message date was July 12th. > > What stops You from using apache_1.3.6

Re: potato's base is broken

> The version I referred to is: > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/common/ This version is somewhat broken (mainly perl and the dbootstrap). It was a test-upload by me to see if all goes to the right place into the archive. I'll will upload a new version,

Re: Xautoconfig

> > I must have installed something wrong, I -still- find myself without > > any way to configure X. Could someone please do "dpkg -S Xautoconfig" > > and tell me what package you're getting it from? > > Xautoconfig is RedHatish-centric right now. I really would like to fix > this but I need a w

Re: time_t value too large (DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR August 16, 1999) (fwd)

> > FYI... I guess there's no longer a binary deb for tar 1.12 :-) > On http://powerpc.debian.org/~koptein/tar_1.12-7.1.deb is one. MfG, Hartmut

Re: /dev/adb and Batmon on Wallstreet G3

> Perhaps it was too presumptuous of me, but after grabbing Paul's new > kernel and getting sleep working, I wanted to see if I could access my > battery using Batmon et. al. No luck. > > Any ideas why I don't have a '/dev/adb', but do have '/dev/adb-'? cd /dev ; rm *- ; ./MAKEDEV adb

Re: specific to Hartmut Koptein

> >>as being active on the debian-powerpc list/developers and also perhaps > >>some experience with ibm-rs6000 and chrp-type motherboards. Yes, i have a chrp board. > >> > >>(1) the link on the debian web site for ibm rs6000 kernel images > >> > >>sun4u.unicent.com: /pub/linux/rs6000/ > >> > >>i

Re: specific to Hartmut Koptein

>>> RS-6000 <<< > Okay, being the guy who *runs* sun4u.unicent.com, or what *was* > sun4u.unicent.com, I can explain.. > > My idiot employer doesn't know how to manage anything. Including > domains. So unicent.com came up for renewal, NOBODY knew, and it was > deleted. So sun4u.unicent.com is now

Re: specific to Hartmut Koptein

>>> Your rs-6000 images > Okay, being the guy who *runs* sun4u.unicent.com, or what *was* > sun4u.unicent.com, I can explain.. > > My idiot employer doesn't know how to manage anything. Including > domains. So unicent.com came up for renewal, NOBODY knew, and it was > deleted. So sun4u.unice

Re: system working again...

> Building Dependency Tree... > Package emacs has no available version, but exists in the database. > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and > never uploaded, or that it is an obsolete package. > E: Package emacs has no installation candidate The database(s) depen

Re: gcc 2.95.1-2 and ld

> I upgraded gcc to version 2.95.1-2 and I cannot build any binaries. > > This is error messages. > --- > /usr/bin/ld: unrecognised emulation mode: elf32ppclinux > Supported emulations: elf32ppc > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > --- > > So I c

Re: Anacron and xcdroast problem report

> What is BTS? Bug-Tracking-System

Re: Debian/PPC (was: Re: console-apt)

> Judging by the number of deb packages that compile fine but are out-of-date > in the PPC tree, is more CPU horsepower needed to auto-build? No need, one auto-builder is enough. > I don't know what the protocol for this is, but I would be more than willing > to run a debian-compiler instead of

Re: Debian/PPC

> I was wondering how / offering to build PPC binary packages from source > packages that are new or updated, since the PPC binaries seem to be (at least > sometimes) dated. I don't know what kind of scheme is used to track such > rebuilds, or if additional CPU juice is really needed (maybe I j

Re: Debian/PPC (was: Re: console-apt)

> It shouldn't be difficult to modify the buildd package to check with > powerpc.debian.org (tervola) to check out packages to build and merge the > results back with tervola. Anybody real familiar with buildd and willing > to modify it? I think James Troup wrote it... Roman Hodek is the main a

Re: gcc 2.95.1-2 and ld

> Should i upload the X package i will build, or will the autobuilder > take care of it ? Upload it. > Also i noticed the following bug too : > > bahs$ vim > BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dl-runtime.c: 67: fixup: Assertion > `((reloc->r_info) & 0xff) == 21' failed! > > Is it the same bug, or sh

Re: gcc 2.95.1-2 and ld

> > > Should i upload the X package i will build, or will the autobuilder > > > take care of it ? > > > > Upload it. > > Ok, i will do it. What is the problem with the mach64 stuff ? any relation > with > the sparc mach64 stuff recently added to the package ? Yes, it is a problem with Ben's pat

Re: Debian/PPC

> Hmm... OK, but I've actually had pretty good luck compiling them (at least I > was until dselect took me up to gcc 2.95.1 and binutils broke. It differs very much if you build a package on your own machine or by the auto-compiler. Often the package builds cleanly for the maintainer but fails ho

Re: console-apt

> > Chris, any thoughts on a non-experimental upload of binutils in the > > near future? Powerpc is somewhat broken at present. > > It's coming soon (probably this weekend). I have to test the latest out > with Alpha and ask Sparc to test it also (there have been some issues on > both that have

Re: bug reporting?

> Do I send mail to the BTS for bugs against powerpc? Or is that > effectively for the x86 maintainer only? No, the bug reporting/tracking system is open for all architectures as is debian for a long time now. If you hear anything others about this, please email me this then. > I've checked the

Re: xfree86-1_3.3.4 now compiles on powerpc, mach64 mess fixed, patch included.

> > And another mistake in the patch, should have waited a bit more before > > posting, > > but since i was going away, i wanted to make things available. > > > > Anyway, the build process breaks again læter, didn't have time to check it > > out > > though. > > > > So the correct patch for the

Re: HURD on ppc

> I didn't see this in the archives, so I'd thought I'd ask: > > Is anyone working on/thinking of porting HURD to powerpc? A 'port' is on the way or allready available, but not (yet) for debian. This will be done after the release of potato. MfG, Hartmut

Re: Argh, PAM/login problem

> Greetings, I'm having a bit of trouble with non-root user accounts on my > freshly installed Potato. > > I created a new account, eg nick with useradd, and logged into it, at which > time I was > prompted for a new password. Fine I thought, makes sense. I changed it, and > then logged > into

Re: /etc set o-r?

> I performed an upgrade yesterday and suddenly found /etc was no longer > readable by other (751). Is this a bug or a feature? And how would I > go about seeing exactly which package caused this problem? Seems it > could have been alot of things. > > BTW I didn't have this problem in the Inte

Re: update-menus going higher and higher

Hi Geert, > These day update-menus seems to hang, causing infinite load averages when > doing > `apt-get upgrade -u'. i think it isn't a infinite loop, it is (sometimes) very recursivly but it will end after 5 - 20 minutes. ciao, Hartmut -- I see a little light at the end of the tunne

Re: update-menus going higher and higher

> > > > > These day update-menus seems to hang, causing infinite load averages > > > > > when doing > > > > > `apt-get upgrade -u'. > > > > > > > > i think it isn't a infinite loop, it is (sometimes) very recursivly but > > > > it will > > > > end after 5 - 20 minutes. > > > > > > Well... at

Re: Netscape for Debian/PPC

> Just to let you know: the new complete Netscape rpm for LinuxPPC (as it > was announced in the linux-pmac list) does convert to .deb quite nicely. > Since I had several problems with wrong library versions with Netscape's > versions of Netscape, so I was quite positively surprised by the now > ru

Re: what about cdrecord ?

> > > I have recompiled the kernel (APUS 2.2.10) with #define SHMMAX > > > 0x200, but now the system hangs when I try to write an image in > > > xcdroast. Are there other parameters to adjust, too? Or is this an > > > APUS specific problem? > > > > Reliable CD recording is something of a black

Re: Unrecognized emulation mode 'elf32ppclinux'

> I haven't been able to compile anything for a while, and it's driving me > batty. Here's what configure returns: > > /usr/bin/ld: unrecognised emulation mode: elf32ppclinux > > ii binutils2.9.1.0.25-2 The GNU assembler, linker and binary > utiliti > ii binutils-dev2.9.1.0.25

Re: Request a powerpc compilation of libforms0.89

> 1) debian/control needs to have architecture=any instead of i386 any is for all architectures, if its limitated to i386 and powerpc the control file has to be then: Architecture: i386 powerpc Greetings, Hartmut

Re: netbase doesn't build

> I can't get the binary package in the archive to install because > /bin/ping6 is missing. Trying to compile the source I get: A known problem, i've build it with this error, because we need the new layout of /etc/init.d/networking and some other stuff around it. I'll build a new one in the nex

Re: X patches

> Hello all. I was wondering where I could pickup the various patches used > on Debian/PPC to make X work? I'd like to compare patches (Trying to > cleanup/fix X 3.3.5, last "update" caused some problems..). Thanks. Debian src-packages are different to rpm src-packages (srpm). srpm often inclu

Re: potato boot-floppies for powerpc uploaded

> >Once you can get to OF, it'd be: > >'boot fd:linux load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 root=/dev/ram' (I think). > > > >To boot with bootx, copy root.bin into the same folder as the bootx > >app itself and rename it to ramdisk.image.gz, you also need the linux > >kernel image, which should be plac

Re: Here's the deal.

> The current [root.bin and "linux"] gives me, as I said, an error about a > not supported architecture. > That should be fixed with the new boot-floppies from Incoming ... if not, then mail us your /proc/cpuinfo. Thanks for your testing. Hartmut

Re: potato boot-floppies for powerpc uploaded

> >My beige G3 contains "Power Macintosh" in the "model" property, My wallstreet > >PowerBook contains "PowerBook" and an iMac I have here returns "iMac". > > > >I beleive you should also check the device tree's "compatible" property and > >look for "MacRISC", I think all PowerMacs have this one (I

Re: Anyone working on gcc 2.95.2?

> Oops, I've gotten behind again :) > > I'm generally the one who fixes this. I'll sit down with the toolchain > tonight if I'm feeling a little healthier. Please add also the patch for 'short' varargs. Bug#46819 Thanks, Hartmut

Re: Anyone working on gcc 2.95.2?

> version my fixes need to change. va_copy() is no longer available, > just __va_copy() yet that doesn't work pre 2.95.2. Argghhh. Looking > at the history of the varargs problems I feel like 2.95.2 is the light at > the end of the tunnel...I hope I'm right. __va_copy() is that what we've used

Re: Newbie Debian Questions

> I've been investigating the possibility of getting some form of Linux up > and running on my rev. A iMac for about a week now. Unfortunately, my > knowledge of *nix is weak, having never seriously worked with the OS. As > you all know, the learning curve for *nix is steep and I've been having > q

Re: X

> > Well, I got the base system plus most of the common packages > > installed. Went quite smooth. But - X does provide for a bumpy > > experience. Well, tI=ve gotten nowhere. > > Yes. Of course, I had a tarball of my old /etc when I switched to Debian from > LinuxPPC, so I used my old XF86Config

Re: debconf 0.1.71 broken

> The autobuilder built whiptail (which is within the newt source package) > against newt0.30 while it was building libnewt 0.50. Nice chicken or egg > problem, eh? I uploaded new binaries to master yesterday which are correctly > linked against newt 0.50. It is already fixed: isis:~# dpkg -s w

Re: PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1

> another data point: chrp appears to have problems with the new gcc. No, it isn't gcc2.95, it is the kernel, the 2.2.x one. 2.3.x will boot, but the curent kernel versions are so buggy with so many compile errors :-(( > using franz sirl's gcc 2.95.2 (0h), 2.2.12 (specifically, cort's 19990903 >

Re: Blackhawk problems

> Bad BogoMIPS calculation? saytime and mp3blaster play sounds at a really > high pitch. My 604/133 is reported as 266 BogoMIPS, which doesn't seem > right. 266 is a good value for 604e with 133 MHz. It is nearly factor 2 (1.99). 200 MHz gives nearly 400 (398), and my 233 MHz gives me 46

Re: what about potato boot-floppies for powerpc/apus ?

> potato will be freezing soon, or at least so they say, so it is time to add > some kind of install stuff for apus also. A little bit late, ehhh? I asked serveral times for this, but without any help this port is for the next release. > What about the kernel ? There are two problems with it :

Re: iMac & XF86Config

> Well, I've been working at it all week, and I think I've finally got potato > up and running on my iMac. Well, with one (rather large) exception: X! > > Since there is no Debian PPC utility for generating an XF86Config file, > I've been searching around the net for one. The best I found was: Ah

Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

> As you may have seen from recent bug reports ;), I'm currently adding > support for debconf-driven keymap choice to console-data and friends, > but need the following help for ppc/m68k machines: > > * what sub-architectures are there for each arch ? > My guess: m68k -> atari, amiga, sun, next(

Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

> And what about CHRP, PreP ? I guess some of them may only exist > as serial-console ? > > #elif #cpu (powerpc) > struct d_choices keymaps[]={ > { "i386/qwerty/us", "U.S. English (QWERTY)" , KBD_C}, ... > { "mac/mac-de-latin1-nodeadkeys", "Germany (Mac)" , 0}, > { "m

Re: iMac kernel?

> The features I want (please tell me if you want more) are: > > - hfs, hfs+, iso and ext2 support for loading the kernel and an eventual please msdos also ... > install ramdisk from hard disk and CDs. > - can be used to make bootable CDs (newworld only) > - graphical (hum... later...) > -

Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

> If you don't use XKB, XFree86 queries the kernel for the current keymap (it > traverses all keycodes and modifiers and asks for their mapping). Hence the > keymap will automagically be correct (assumed it's correct in the console). > > That's one reason to not use XKB :-) That's the theory, b

Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

> # Subarches > # FIXME: not done > # Issues: > # * ppc issues not fully asserted yet > # * /proc/hardware, which only exists on m68k and ppc, seems to be > # an OPTION while configuring the kernel ! > # Any fallback when it's not there ? > # * USB set of keymap should contain what ? mac ? i386

Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

> > # powerpc/apusamiga "Model: Amiga" > > # powerpc/chrpi386,mac"Model: CHRP" > > # powerpc/pmacmac "Model: > PowerMac|[Pp]ower[Bb]ook*|Power|iMac*|PowerMac1*" > > # powerpc/prepi386"Model: PReP" > > # powerpc/{bbox,mbx,ppc64,82xx,8xx} Not yet suppor

Re: RS6K PReP boot?

> the DOS floppy boot: PReP kernels don't appear to even start and CHRP > images hang after "copying OF device tree..." (sometimes before "done"). ^^ Bah! This stupid problem ... no actual 2.2.x doesn't work on chrp, and also 2.3.x are broken -- not all,

Re: netstd, fingerd and the r* gang

> >I would say that this is version skid then, Intel had the dependency > >problem for a couple of weeks. > > > >Obviously PPC netbase is older than PPC netstd (and Intel netbase). > >Once the version skid resolves the problem should therefore clear up. > > Is there an automatic way of keeping t

[mkoz@umich.edu: Debian PPC disks]

ron Ann Arbor, MI 48104 please let me know which ever way things go. thanks. Matt O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mkoz - End forwarded message - -- Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Hartmut Koptein EMail: Friedrich-van-Senden-Str. 7

Re: Xpmac

> > Does someone plain to add the Xpmac server in debian-powerPC ?? > > > > I doubt it, since that was a somewhat nonstandard server (requires it's own > > kernel config option). Why do you want it? Why not just use XF86_FBDev? > > Because, i want to connect a external monitor on my PB ! > It's wo

Re: Building Kerberos

> > It would also be nice if these packages could be updated to the latest > > upstream (0.10.1). I submitted this, but the BTS seems to have eaten it - I > > can get to it by #52178 but I haven't heard a reply and it's not showing up > > in > > the package's page. Oh well, that I certainly can

Congrat to Daniel Jacobowitz

Congratulation to Dan!! He cracked the crack.linuxppc.org machine.

Re: SSH

> Is there an SSH package for debian-ppc ? > > I need to use bitkeeper which requires ssh. When I tried "apt-get install > ssh", I got an error about an existing reference but no actual package to > download. ssh is in the non-us section. Use this in your /etc/apt/source.list # deb file:/your/m

Re: bug #52033: __linux is not defined on powerpc

> I fail to see why __linux is undefined for linux-powerpc. however this > bug should not be considered important, because it's easy to fix in > the xviewg-dev package. The problem is not that it is undefined for powerpc, the problem is, that it is defined for the other archs.

RS/6000 and other systems

> i'm starting soon on ppc too and collect some basic infos for my > 7248-133 (i.e rs6000 43p). i guess yours is a simmilar machine and what > you need is in http://www.debian.org/~porter/ for PPreP systems. if not, > i'm out of info... We need people who do tests with the current boot-floppies.

Re: RS/6000 and other systems

> I've tested the instlation floppies on a mac8500. Ahh, good. > Currently the rescue floppy is unreadable. > > when you fdflush /dev/fd0 it gives you error 115 Hmmm, this is a new bug. > When you install the base system, it reads the first floppy you stick in > the computer just fine, but aft

Re: RS/6000 and other systems

> > > > Which rs/6k is chrp, which one is prep??? > > IIRC 40P / 43P brand names cover a wide range of workstations, > > 40P was a pre release PC like workstation and should be PReP > > 7248-100,7248-120,7248-132 are PReP and boot a PPC kernel > > 7043-140,7043-240 should still be PReP, but

Re: Continuing Annoyances...

> Before I file more bug reports, I thought I'd see whether other > people are having the same issues I'm having. Wow, many problems :-) > 1. gdm locks up the keyboard when started at boot time. > >X starts, gdm comes up, the mouse works, but you can't type. >Which also means you can't s

Re: Debian Linux/PPC on G4.

> > > >- not contain JDK1.X, > > > > True. No one who cares enough about the non-free JDK has put in the > > effort yet. > > Yes, but potato for i386 contain JDK 1.1.7 ! I asked the debian jdk maintainer, if he could upload also the powerpc version. He said he will doit for a month, but

Re: RS/6000 and other systems

> > Many thanks also for the other people that will do some tests. > > I echo my question of where ones newer than October are publicly available. Net yet, sorry. We must first generate new kernel-iamges. > > For kevin: your mail-address isn't reachable. > > What did you get? [EMAIL PROT

Re: Continuing Annoyances...

> There's a seperate kernel-headers package which installs all the exported > headers into /usr/include/linux. Quite a lot of glibc relies on these at the no, /usr/include/linux is not a sym-link and it comes from the glibc package. The 'seperate kernel-headers package' is to be installed in /u

Re: 2.2.4 boot-floppies and powerpc/apus subarch.

> > * in utilities/libfdisk/fdisk.c,1030 : MAX_DISKNAME_LEN is not defined, > >anyone knows what is wrong here ? I defined it to 11 to test the rest of > >the bootfloppies. > > My fault, I think. This also happened on Alphas. MAX_DISKNAME_LEN > *should* be defined for all architectures

Blender

Hi, i will build a new blender package. What was the problem with the old one? Thanks, Hartmut

Re: Installing Debian over DHCP

Hi all, here are so many good ideas and hints and tips, why not testing yourself the current boot-floppies cvs and send patches? You know it all: debian is a free and 'open' project. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > you don't need to unless you are installing the base system from NFS! > > dbootstr

Re: How did you get X running in Debian PowerPC?

> >In general, how did the people with running Debian ppc boxes manage > > to get X up and running? I still can't get Xpmac to work, and if I > > switch to XF68_FBDev, there's no tool to generate a valid XF86Config file > > I could find. Since Debian PowerPC is about to get released very soon,

Re: How did you get X running in Debian PowerPC?

> > Unfortunately, the feeling out there seems to be that Debian PowerPC > > is at best unstable and only for pionners, and at worse that it's > > hacked on a LinuxPPC distribution. > > Well, LinuxPPC is the distribution that's "hacked on" top of someone > else's: Red Hat. We may have borrowed co

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