I've just installed DebianPPC3.0(Woody) on an 833Mhz iMac 17"LCD. I
cannot mount cdrom drive.
In /dev/cdrom the link to cdrom shows as:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root3 Nov 21 11:50 cdrom -> hdb
and hdb shows as:
brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 64 Mar 14 2002 hdb
In /etc/fstab the lin
I've just installed DebianPPC3.0(Woody) on an 833Mhz iMac 17"LCD and am
having trouble config'g XFree86--simply cannot startx.
X -showconfig
warning: process set to nice value 0 instead of -10 as requested
Have consulted man nice & info nice, but do not understand how an
adjustment of nice to
Thanks to John, Ricky, and others for their insights & suggestions about
getting my CD-ROM drive to mount. As usual, it wasn't any one thing that
was the magic bullet, but all together--plus of course much thrashing
about thru the documentation--that finally put together a correct
config. It's
I recently installed (from official CD set) DebPPC3.0(Woody) on 800Mhz
iMac 17" LCD. When it came time to install/format the filesystem I was
only given the option of ext2, which surprised me, since ext3 has been
available for some time. Did I miss something? (I know that you add a -j
to the fo
I installed DebianPPC3.0(Woody) on an 800Mhz iMac 17"LCD. Have completed
the basic install (though have not yet installed & config'd X). So far
I've installed exclusively from the official 7-cd set.
I want to start adding optional pkgs. Since emacs doesn't seem to be
installed:
#emacs
su: ema
I installed DebianPPC3.0(Woody) on an 800Mhz iMac 17"LCD. I'm having
trouble getting Debian to recognize a Diskonkey (a small USB data
storage device).
When installing, I made sure to include the module for usb-storage
support. I then did:
#modprobe usb-storage
#mkdir /mnt/diskonkey
and added
I installed DebianPPC3.0(Woody) on an 800Mhz iMac 17"LCD. When working
in Debian in a console, either from the command line or within a text
editor (nano), I don't have a cursor marking the point of input. This is
a little disconcerting, especially in those contexts where the presence
or absenc
Brito wrote:
On Nov 30 2003, Harvey Ussery wrote:
I installed DebianPPC3.0(Woody) on an 800Mhz iMac 17"LCD. I'm having
trouble getting Debian to recognize a Diskonkey (a small USB data
storage device).
If you install hotplug, then you won't have to manually load the
usb-s
I've installed DebianPPC3.0(Woody). How do I query apt-get about
availability of a pkg I'm interested in installing? I've entered the
index of all 7 of my Debian install cd's onto my system--how do I query
that database regarding a particular pkg using an apt-get option? I'm
imagining some sort
Hi Wolfgang,
I bought my 800Mhz iMac 17" LCD a year ago, along with an 800Mhz iBook
for my wife. Normally I do not add any sort of extended warranty/care
option to >anything< I buy. However, I was totally new to the ppc
platform, so I anticipated I might need help with various aspects of the
s
I bought an ergonomic keyboard from Kinesis because of prob's I was
having w my wrists. Solved the prob instantaneously-->love< this keyboard!
The main prob w the keyboard is that F12--clearly legended on the key
with the "eject" symbol--will not eject a loaded cd. As I understand it,
I have i
Yes, Bart, this is giving me fits, too. But as I understand it, the prob
is neither with the deb list nor with your own configurations. The
problem is that folks who use the deb list & who alse use Microsoft
Virus Assistance software have gotten infected; and as a result their
systems are firin
ss one of those arm-flailing things like
you see on Red Hat, PHP, or MySQL lists like "HELP! my l334 skillz
lack!". I know that sort of thing is _way_ annoying.
I would like to thank Harvey Ussery and point to one of his recent
posts, "Re: About SPAM.." on December 2,
I suppose you would only need to take these measures if you run Outlook
or MS Messenger or Internet Explorer, n'est-ce pas? I don't run any of
those, don't even have them on the system, use Moz for both browser &
mail. So there's no way I can actually be infected, right? Just getting
abused by
Alejo, Thanks for the link--I'm going to check it out right now. If
you haven't resolved the clock config problem, try this from the command
line:
#timeconfig
(Yes, you do have to be root.) What pops up is a Timezones Configure
dialog box you can use to set your time zone. There is also the
Joe Malik wrote:
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:45:02PM -0500, Harvey Ussery wrote:
I installed DebianPPC3.0(Woody) on an 800Mhz iMac 17"LCD. When working
in Debian in a console, either from the command line or within a text
editor (nano), I don't have a cursor marking the poin
Martin Habets wrote:
What is the name of your cd player application? (it's more than likely
that I'm not familiar with it). Maybe it uses the OSS emulation, so check
it's setup if it has any.
I've tried the cd players that come as a standard part of KDE (KsCD) and
Gnome. Haven't been able to g
Clive Menzies wrote:
Suggest you try the new sarge d-i rc2 - it's 'soon' to be the next
stable distribution and works pretty well. It also has heaps more
functionality than woody.
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
Have fun!
Clive
I'll second that. I tried a Woody install on my G4 iMac
Count me in. And yes, I have a PayPal acct. Keep us informed.
--Harvey (Great idea!)
Barry Hawkins wrote:
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Dean Hamstead wrote:
| thats $150
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| Dean
[...]
I am willing to give $50 as well, but I am pretty sure we could reach
the amount sooner with a wa
Dean Hamstead wrote:
So anyway. pledges come forward for g5. Any previous
quasi-pledges (like, people who said, ill pledge if
we get a g5), please confirm your pledges. Also be clear
as to if you wish to withdraw your macmini pledge.
This is not a new pledge--it is a clarification of my previous o
Dean Hamstead wrote:
what other ppc dists are there? deb, ubuntu, crux?
Dean
Well of course, there's YellowDog, the RedHat of PPC. That was my distro
the first 2 years I used PPC Linux. Man, I'm glad I switched to Debian. . .
--Harvey
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Tommy Trussell wrote:
Here is the technique I just used to make mailto links point from
Firefox to Thunderbird. This is for Firefox 1.0 (don't know about any
others):
1) Launch Firefox and view the configuration strings using the URL
about:config
2) using the field at the top, search for
This is an addendum to previous post to correct an error.
(More below)
Harvey Ussery wrote:
ls -l /dev | less
crw-rw-r-- 1 root audio10, 135 Dec 30 13:35 rtc
brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 Jan 1 10:29 sda
brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 16 Jan 1 10:29 sdb
brw-rw 1
I recently reinstalled Sarge PPC on a G4 iMac. Each time I boot up now,
I get an error warning:
"Error: Wrong permission for 'dev/pmu' device"
I've tracked thru the system & all the ref books on hand, also various
linux sites online. Conclusion so far is that this permission problem on
/dev
Matt Weber wrote:
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 20:04 -0500, Harvey Ussery wrote:
I recently reinstalled Sarge PPC on a G4 iMac. Each time I boot up now,
I get an error warning:
"Error: Wrong permission for 'dev/pmu' device"
I had this problem also. If I rememb
Brad Boyer wrote:
Just for completeness, I'll note that the PMU has very little to do
with sound or video as implied in previous posts. It's best for
people not to get more confused than already happens.
That's right, as I discovered when correcting the error message re
/dev/pmu. O
Have just started with Debian--Sarge on a G4 iMac.
Though I've been using Linux several years, have never dealt w sound
config issues. However, based on all resources I have to read and a lot
of googling, I'm pretty sure I have all the tools in place for
sound--alsa & company.
cat /etc/modul
Harvey Ussery wrote:
Have just started with Debian--Sarge on a G4 iMac.
Though I've been using Linux several years, have never dealt w sound
config issues. However, based on all resources I have to read and a
lot of googling, I'm pretty sure I have all the tools in place for
s
Martin Habets wrote:
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 11:50:33AM -0500, Harvey Ussery wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /dev/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.4 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux doob 2.6.8-powerpc #1 Sun Oct 3 13:22:21 CEST 2004 ppc
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type
Martin Habets wrote:
What is the name of your cd player application? (it's more than likely
that I'm not familiar with it). Maybe it uses the OSS emulation, so check
it's setup if it has any.
I've tried the cd players that come as a standard part of KDE (KsCD) and
Gnome. Haven't been able
Clive Menzies wrote:
Suggest you try the new sarge d-i rc2 - it's 'soon' to be the next
stable distribution and works pretty well. It also has heaps more
functionality than woody.
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
Have fun!
Clive
I'll second that. I tried a Woody install on m
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If this helps take a look at the kernel documentation for details,
the relevant part is "Software cursor for vga" (file VGA-softcursor.txt)
I'm embarassed to say so, but I couldn't find doc specifcally for
kernel. I looked in /usr/doc & /usr/share/doc
No n
I installed DebPPC(Woody) last month; then learned I was not going to be
able to run X with an nVidia card unless I had XFree86 4.3x (not
available on the install CD's). But then came the problem with the
Debian servers--so (if I understand the problem correctly) I cannot
download the "official
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