Troubleshooting X server

2002-07-26 Thread Michael Hackett
Please help! My X environment keeps shutting down on me without warning and very little information. All I've found as far as errors go is the following from /var/log/syslog: Jul 26 13:28:01 crimson gnome-name-server[310]: input condition is: 0x10, exiting Jul 26 13:28:03 crimson gdm[248]: gdm_sla

Re: Slow disk performance (was: Re: install help 6400/200)

2002-07-26 Thread Michael Hackett
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 22:31:25 +0200 (CEST) Michel Lanners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The 9500 has an additional problem, because its 512 Kb L2 cache is > > soldered in the mainboard and can't be replaced, but usually it is a > > good quality component. > > Sure about that? All the other first-

Re: Troubleshooting X server

2002-07-27 Thread Michael Hackett
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:56:05 -0700 "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 01:54:47PM -0300, Michael Hackett wrote: > > Please help! My X environment keeps shutting down on me without > > warning and very little information. All I'

Re: Troubleshooting X server

2002-07-27 Thread Michael Hackett
On 27 Jul 2002 23:25:35 +0200 Michel D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 18:54, Michael Hackett wrote: > > Jul 26 13:28:01 crimson gnome-name-server[310]: input condition is: > > 0x10, exiting > > Jul 26 13:28:03 crimson gdm[248]: gdm_slave_xioerr

Re: Troubleshooting X server

2002-07-29 Thread Michael Hackett
On 28 Jul 2002 14:26:01 +0200 Michel D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That doesn't tell a lot. As Chris said, the server log should > > > contain more information, but you might have to start X directly > > > instead of via a display manager for it to be available. > > > > There was nothing in

Re: PCI bus speed on OldWorld PCI macs

2002-08-01 Thread Michael Hackett
On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 13:50:07 -0500 Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pardon my ignorance but in a conversation a while ago someone asked > this listserve if upgrading to 100mbs ethernet on an older PCI > powermac lab would be worth it to improve terminal performance. > > Most people seemed to sa

Re: PCI bus speed on OldWorld PCI macs

2002-08-01 Thread Michael Hackett
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:50:41 -0400 (EDT) "Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Hackett writes: > > No, because you can't change the PCI clock. > > Do you know this specifically for his hardware? Remember that > it is 100% allowed to run P

Scanner disappearing

2002-08-30 Thread Michael Hackett
Can anyone explain this?: My scanner, a Umax Astra 610S, initially shows up fine with sane-find-scanner and 'scanimage --list-devices' (as umax:/dev/sg3), but when I try to scan from it, the program gives up after a minute or two with an I/O error, and the scanner no longer shows up with any of the

Re: Scanner disappearing

2002-08-30 Thread Michael Hackett
Oops! Forgot to mention that I'm running woody on a PowerMac 9500, scanner on the external SCSI bus (bus 1). scanimage is v1.07, the standard version in woody.

Re: Signal 11

2002-09-03 Thread Michael Hackett
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 20:32:25 +0200 (CEST) Michel Lanners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2 Sep, this message from Marvin Germain echoed through > cyberspace: > > I have had Woody installed for a couple of days now > > on my powerbase 180, which contains a powerlogix G4 upgrade card. > > I am

Sleep on desktop system?

2002-09-09 Thread Michael Hackett
I've seen many references to 'pmud' for PowerBooks, but I haven't been able to find any information on putting a desktop system to sleep. Can it be done under Debian/Linux? TIA, -- Michael

Re: Sleep on desktop system?

2002-09-11 Thread Michael Hackett
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:03:05 +0200 (CEST) Eric Deveaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > humm just a stupid question, why to put to deep sleep a linux desktop > machine. > I assume it should be up and runnig 24/24 7/7 no ? > what about cron, waht about long works, what about eth going down, etc > etc..

Re: deskwriter driver, or set up

2002-10-17 Thread Michael Hackett
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:26:21 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i've also gone to lok around at linuxprinting.org, and they don't have > a driver for deskwriter, only deskjets - deskjets IIRC use PS, and the > printer i have is just a serial printer. i've also tried playing > around with the serial

Re: Umax SuperMac

2002-12-08 Thread Michael Hackett
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 18:46:11 -0700 "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you're correct about the display being the issue. I'm pretty > sure this computer was built before the machines were made compatible > with regular multisync monitors. There's no built-in video on these machine

Re: Umax SuperMac

2002-12-09 Thread Michael Hackett
On 08 Dec 2002 19:33:37 +0100 Leandro Guimar Faria Corsetti Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # Video: ixMicro Twin Turbo Graphics Accelerator [...] > > I could find no DIP switches on it. By adapter, I meant a little box (about 1.5"x1.5"), aka a dongle, that converts an old-style Mac monitor

Permedia3 console & 2.4.x kernel

2003-02-17 Thread Michael Hackett
I recently upgraded from the 2.2.20-pmac kernel to the 2.4.18-powerpc version, in order to get usb-storage support for my SmartMedia reader, and in doing so, I lost my console display. X still runs fine, and that's mostly what I use, but it would still be nice to have console working as well. Prev

Re: Permedia3 console & 2.4.x kernel

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Hackett
On 18 Feb 2003 13:58:06 +0100 Michel D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Die, 2003-02-18 at 03:20, Michael Hackett wrote: > > > I used to get the following during startup: > > > > MacOS display is /bandit/formacGA12 > > Using unsupported 1280x960 formacGA12 a

Re: Debian comes up with clock 14 hours off

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Hackett
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:50:05 -0600 (CST) Craig P Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The story so far; in Debian on my iBook, the clock is 14 hours ahead > (it's set correctly in Mac OS X). The problem is consistent and > reproducible. [...] > Someone asked what time zone I'm in; I'm in Central

Re: Permedia3 console & 2.4.x kernel

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Hackett
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 08:52:14 +0100 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a quick question. You did rebuild and reconfigure the kernel > yourself, right, and you did enable the pm3 framebuffer. I think it is > not enabled by default, and that is why you don't see a thing. No, I didn't buil

Re: Twin Turbo 128 in PPC 9600/350

2003-02-22 Thread Michael Hackett
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:36:19 +0100 (CET) Eric Deveaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > correct me if I'm wrong (long time that my 9600 died) but > if your booting via BootX, (as some of the material initialisation is > performed by MacOS before linux boots up) you also have to play with > resolutions