Well, I thought I'd seen this problem in the archives, but I can't for
the life of me find it... so apologies if this is a FAQ by now:
I cannot seem to get xserver-xfree86 configured on a Powerbook G3
(Lombard). I've tried multiple kernels to no avail, including
yesterday's snapshot of Cort's p
I wrote:
> I cannot seem to get xserver-xfree86 configured on a Powerbook G3
> (Lombard). [...]
>
> The symptoms are that the xserver package hangs when configuring (both
> 4.0.2-13 and 4.0.3-1), forcing me to manually break (^C) to get back
> to that prompt.
For the record, the problem turn
A few "bugs" in package dependencies:
logrotate requires popt but popt "doesn't appear to be available"
hfsutils-tcltk requires "tk8.0" instead of "wish", and thus won't
accept the tkstep8.0 version of wish.
Bug in perl dependencies (or dselect itself, depending on how you look
at it), as evi
es/scripts work
together, but SIGINT should either work outright or be
trapped to produce a confirmation query.)
During the original config, I also specified 'n RET' as per the
instructions at http://www.debian.org/~wmono/powerpc/ , then hit
return again to abort the keymap selection process.
-- John Whitley
ple days now, and am at
wits' end. Any ideas? Am I missing something obvious, or a critical
bit of info about current bugs/install peculiarities?
Thanks much,
John Whitley
It appears that the http.us.debian.org site ftp1.us.debian.org, aka IP
206.187.92.15, isn't correctly mirroring the unstable/main directories
for powerpc. Specifically:
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/distsunstable/main/binary-powerpc
is an empty directory.
I took the liberty of emailing the
My sincere thanks to those who responded to my queries for install
assistance on a Lombard powerbook. I have finally determined the
source of the problem: a bad DIMM. !!! On the up side, I am now very
familiar with current linux library organization and the Debian
package management software.
Phillip R. Jaenke writes:
> For most of us, I don't think that's the question.. question
> is.. when can *WE* get our hands on it? :)
Ah, but that's a mere matter of shipping schedules and personal
finance... easily determined. 8-) My question is: when will gcc have
support for AltiVec instruc
T.E.Dickey (thru Deja) writes:
> your arrow keys are in normal mode, where the termcap says they're in
> application mode (a problem that happens when someone has removed the
> ti/te settings)
Hmm. On this basis, as a hack, I tried adding these codes (actually
smcap and rmcap for terminf
Robert Ramiega writes:
> Check Your mirror manually or change to some other Debian mirror. Here is
> what dpkg -l gives me:
Well, it's good to know that the package exists somewhere. ;->
I've checked numerous mirrors, also gone to saens.debian.org, and the
package just isn't there. There is
If anyone's interested, I managed to get xmcd working, but only from a
non-debian source install. Seems that the debian source and binary
xmcd packages (at least for powerpc) are broken; xmcdconfigure (sp?)
doesn't work and xmcd's configuration files aren't set up correctly.
Also, the behavior
Jeramy B Smith writes:
> Consider funtional sound on Apple equipment a black art for now.
I finally figured out what was going on with the mixer packages (at
least with wmmixer)
-- the master volume control seems to be for the external audio jack
-- the speaker control is for the internal
More wishful thinking:
Does there yet exist a way to turn off a Powerbook's LCD (ala the
MacOS option) when screenblanking takes effect?
-- John
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
> John Whitley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Does there yet exist a way to turn off a Powerbook's LCD (ala the
> >MacOS option) when screenblanking takes effect?
>
> It should be automatic. The various video drivers used by Pow
Frank Petzold writes:
> > problem. Here's a strace on "anacron -s":
FYI, the anacron -s problem has been identified, a patch submitted,
and should cease obnoxiously hanging your system once the next version
is uploaded. The current broken one is 2.1-1; wait for its successor.
-- John
Someone whose attribution got lost in the shuffle wrote:
> PowerPC is now completely broken, as the old binutils won't accept the
> target requested by gcc 2.95.1.
On a vaguely related topic, is gcc 2.95.1 safe to use for compiling
kernels yet? I've put my gcc related packages on hold until I
It seemed a good time to again compare notes with others running
Debian on Lombard, to share solutions and find common problems.
Notable packages/services that work:
X68_FBDev in unaccelerated mode (via "No video driver" in BootX)
anacron
-- I submitted a bugfix that corrects the hang on st
I wrote:
> problems abound in accelerated mode. It's the most hosed
> excuse for an X server I've ever seen.
Hmm, this was much harsher than I meant to be. Shouldn't post past
2am. I should say that accelerated mode is quite usable.. just
quirky at times.
For the record, I just no
Sergio Brandano writes:
> My X still does not work. Then I checked for an update.
> I checked all the tree in potato but I could not find
> any file, exept the single file xfree86-common_3.3.5-1.
> Where is XFree?
I noticed that the old xfree stuff vanished a coupled days ago when
the Debian X
I've encountered two new problems w/ my Lombard PB since upgrades
(including X 3.3.5) last night.
1) After X was upgraded to 3.3.5, the delete key is broken under X.
xev shows keycode 59, keysym 0x "Delete". This is "delete
forward", instead of the"delete backward" (BackSpace) keysym.
>[strace log elided...]
The strace is not terribly useful. I have already reported this
problem, including a working patch, and been ack'ed by the maintainer.
The fix was supposed to appear in 2.1-2, but hasn't shown up at all.
If you are still having this problem, submit it to the BTS, to get t
I have found an interesting bug. With a 256 MB DIMM installed in
addition to the stock 64 MB module, 'free' incorrectly reports only
256 MB memory installed. 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' correctly indicates that
320 MB are installed... but apparently the info from /proc/meminfo is
incorrect.
This is
Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> The most correct fix is to make opt an int.
Indeed. My patch makes this necessary correction, but I admittedly
hadn't delved into the headers once I got to the getopt() man page.
The man page states nothing about EOF, just that -1 was the
terminating return value. I
Brad Midgley writes:
> Have you tried removing the 64M so you have exactly 256?
Yes. Doesn't help one bit. I have tried all permutations of slots
and DIMMs (64/256, 256/64, 256/0, etc.). If the 256MB DIMM is present
anywhere, kablooie.
-- John
A few glitches here and there:
1) the netscape packages require a missing netscape-base-4;
netscape-base-4 doesn't exist (specifically, netscape-base-46
requires it). Is the dependency incorrect, or is a necessary
package simply missing?
2) I'm getting a strange problem with console te
Phillip R. Jaenke writes:
> Dan Green wrote:
> > We have a 37 gig drive in an Apple [... deletia ...]
>
> i'm more inclined to believe this is an error with ide before the
> kernel.
The problem is a non-ppc-specific kernel problem, caused by the
failure to properly handle "ide growing
Has anyone running a Lombard Powerbook with a recent kernel (I'm
running 2.2.14 now) managed to boot and get coherent console mode
video with "No video driver" unchecked in BootX? (Or else via
yaboot?) I've noted that atyfb acceleration doesn't get turned on if
I check "No video driver"... but
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