Re: Q: double Boot for SMP 7300

2001-03-02 Thread Peter Cordes
us's tree are screwed is pretty bad news in itself. :( -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: Q: double Boot for SMP 7300

2001-03-02 Thread Peter Cordes
042d34 val ff There are a couple error messages like this in the log files, but nothing from the crash. I'm compiling 2.4.2 now, with xmon included. (just Linus's tree, since I've already got that downloaded. What's the difference between the fsmlabs tree and the paulus

Re: Q: double Boot for SMP 7300

2001-03-02 Thread Peter Cordes
. This is still true, but I didn't mention that I was running MacOS in UP mode. I haven't had much luck getting the Daystar stuff working on MacOS. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to d

Re: evolution etc...

2001-03-04 Thread Peter Cordes
d/rc, since that script runs all the S* and K* scripts, so the limits will be inherited. see help ulimit for more info. (It's has to be a shell builtin to work, so it is, so bash has built in help for it. There's a man page too.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMA

Re: debian2.2r2 on powerbook G4

2001-03-05 Thread Peter Cordes
cross compiler to compile my x86 kernels on it. You can switch .config files by copying a new one in and running make oldconfig. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound h

Re: debian2.2r2 on powerbook G4

2001-03-05 Thread Peter Cordes
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:43:40PM -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote: > Peter Cordes wrote: > > > That's totally bogus. Nothing depends on the hardware of the computer the > > kernel is compiled on. With a cross-compiler, you should be able to use a > > fast PPC to compile

Re: Crash! kernel 2.4.2 jumps to mon

2001-03-06 Thread Peter Cordes
d enough" for a lot of people, since the source stays open if you do that. You don't have freedom to do stuff with it, but that shouldn't be too much of a problem for a driver for a specialized filesystem. Still, Free would be better. I don't remember how bad the apple license

Re: ATA booting problems & solutions

2001-03-07 Thread Peter Cordes
slave device on the first IDE controller. You don't need to change this, it won't run any faster by being the master or anything. I don't have anything to say about the rest of your questions, since I'm still getting the hang of ppc linux, and I'm still using BootX. -- #define

Re: debian-powerpc: Apple Titanium notebooks ?

2001-03-07 Thread Peter Cordes
kernels I've tried. I get unresolved symbols when linking if I try to put it in the kernel, or in rtc.o when I have it as a module. I've also had problems with building NFS or smbfs as modules with some kernels. (Are these known problems, or should I be telling people about this?) -- #d

Re: debian-powerpc: Apple Titanium notebooks ?

2001-03-09 Thread Peter Cordes
s. into /etc/modutils/local.config (or any other file. I like to not add stuff to the conffiles, so I don't have to edit by hand on every upgrade of the modutils package.) Don't forget to run update-modules after you add the file. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAI

Re: debian2.2r2 on powerbook G4

2001-03-09 Thread Peter Cordes
e (e.g. the machine you want the kernel for won't boot until you get the kernel compiled), it's certainly easier to just build the kernel on the machine that will run it. This is just for convenience in managing kernel config files and modules. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes

Re: Ti PB -- nervous breakdown

2001-03-12 Thread Peter Cordes
te the number of collisions reported. It should be really high on the machine that says it is using half duplex. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who i

Re: apt-setup from HFS

2001-03-12 Thread Peter Cordes
it mounted by default at boot time.) I've got: /dev/sdb6 /exch hfs defaults0 0 (exch == exchange. I got this computer with MacOS installed on an HFS+ partition, and I haven't messed with it much yet :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-

Re: running X on localhost with different user

2001-03-13 Thread Peter Cordes
therhost xauth merge - Also see X(7), and the section on ACCESS CONTROL. Magic cookies can be eaten by people sniffing your network. (as far as I can tell, they are sent in plaintext). -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man w

Re: what is minor number for /dev/fd0u1440?

2001-03-15 Thread Peter Cordes
s them on > > the G3 because it tries to read past the end of the disk > > (2880 sector to 2889 get errors, and I need to reboot after that) You could work around this by using dd if=/dev/fd0 of=foobar count=2880 (The default bs=512.) Does look like a bug though. -- #define

Re: apt-get hates me

2001-03-18 Thread Peter Cordes
rsions of currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded without changing the install status of another package will be left at their current version. ... upgrade is not aggressive. dist-upgrade is aggressive, and will happily unins

Re: SCSI Disk Errors With Cron

2001-03-19 Thread Peter Cordes
sn't wake up fast enough for the kernel? -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: SCSI Disk Errors With Cron

2001-03-19 Thread Peter Cordes
combat that? Is there a way to > have it spin up the disks before starting the log rotations? Install scsitools. I think there's a prog in there. Also, hdparm can set the spindown timeout for IDE drives, and might know how to do it for SCSI as well. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes

Re: configuration problem in testing

2001-03-20 Thread Peter Cordes
while ago. The plan is to let things migrate by having new uploads go in the pool, and leaving stuff in the old trees until it is replaced by a new version. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to

re: powerpc kernel problems

2001-03-26 Thread Peter Cordes
compile either. (I haven't checked if they work in a UP kernel. I don't really care, since I don't have any UP pmacs, and running my machine with 1 604 @ 150MHz would be a joke.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound

Re: conf problems in unstable?

2001-03-26 Thread Peter Cordes
ll as stuff like: /etc/cron.weekly/slrn: (in cleanup) Can't call method "close" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 476 during global destruction. (global destruction? I thought the cold war was over... gotta love language :) --

Re: Unable to create/save/open/delete files as root

2001-03-26 Thread Peter Cordes
t kernel makes no difference. > The problem is not having any write access to the partition. Try booting a kernel other than the one you compiled with devfs support. Or, mount / -o remount,rw. (make sure you mount / -o remount,ro before rebooting, if you used init=/bin/bash. If you don'

Re: conf problems in unstable?

2001-03-26 Thread Peter Cordes
; basically i think the deal is you need a newer debconf. Bugfixes for important packages should make it into testing faster than other random updates to unstable, or something. Or are we (users of testing) supposed to just grab pkgs from unstable when needed? BTW, these are some relevant bu

Re: Unable to create/save/open/delete files as root

2001-03-26 Thread Peter Cordes
27;t know how to do the latter, so getting a kernel is what I would do.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut

Re: powerpc kernel problems

2001-03-26 Thread Peter Cordes
to this post. It is only needed for MP powerpc > kernels/machines. It applys against the 2.2.18pre21 debian kernel > source. Thanks, but you don't happen to have anything for the 2.4-bk kernel tree, do you? 2.2 doesn't only runs in UP mode on my quad Daystar machine. -- #def

Re: Unable to create/save/open/delete files as root

2001-03-27 Thread Peter Cordes
.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: BIG Problem...need BIG Medicine

2001-03-28 Thread Peter Cordes
# strip down to pkg name xargs apt-get --reinstall install # reinstall them. BTW, you'll need to manually download grep and sed packages, since they live in /bin! :( Or you could do it with perl. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound th

Re: BIG Problem...need BIG Medicine

2001-03-28 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:01:55AM -0500, W. Crowshaw wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:47:39AM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > > > > grep -l '^[\./]*bin/' /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | # find pkgs with file in > > /bin > > sed -e sX/var/lib/dpkg/info/XX -

Re: Ethernet card problems on PPC

2001-03-29 Thread Peter Cordes
riting good NIC drivers, of course, but his drivers are good. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: arrow key problem, kernel 2.2.19pre17

2001-03-31 Thread Peter Cordes
lf > from kernel.org sources. What happens when you boot your old kernel? Does it work again then, or did the switch for that key die? It could be a hardware failure. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first

Re: Configure keys for my keyboard

2001-04-01 Thread Peter Cordes
d. It's great :) Unless you need some serious keyboard kung fu, xkeycaps should handle all the dirty work and spit out an xmodmap input file. (This won't help if you're going to mess with the xkb defs, though.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: network install problems on 7200/90

2001-04-02 Thread Peter Cordes
nal preference > would be to see dhcpcd un-obsoleted, and to make it the DHCP client used in > the install disks and base images. Until somebody can figure out how to > make pump work, I don't see why dhcpcd should be obsoleted. dhcpcd has moved to the dhcp-client package. -- #def

Re: new installation on 4400/200

2001-04-05 Thread Peter Cordes
not bad as long as you don't reboot very often... I wish I had my drives partitioned better, though. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this p

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-05 Thread Peter Cordes
usr/X11R6/* > > You'd have to set ProjectRoot in host.def before the build. You could move aside your old /usr/X11R6 temporarily for testing. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to dist

Re: Ancient date on TiBook (Was: Titanium trackpad blues)

2001-04-05 Thread Peter Cordes
ind its way through a whole pile of work before I can do anything. All my rcS.d stuff is in one file.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: Yaboot Config Question

2001-04-06 Thread Peter Cordes
re the L2 cache, and it isn't big enough to keep 4 gcc processes happy. That, and the limited memory bandwidth/latency bring it down. My Athlon 650 is about 5 times faster at compiling. Both machines have 128MB of RAM. The pmac has old (but decent) SCSI disks.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Pet

Re: 604e's suck (was Yaboot Config Question)

2001-04-07 Thread Peter Cordes
: 299.50 ... proc 1,2, and 3 identical ... total bogomips : 1196.53 zero pages : total: 0 (0Kb) current: 0 (0Kb) hits: 0/0 (0%) machine : Power Macintosh motherboard : AAPL,9500 MacRISC L2 cache: 512K unified memory : 128MB pmac-generation : OldWorld -- #defin

Re: 604e's suck (was Yaboot Config Question)

2001-04-08 Thread Peter Cordes
ose, but I'll let it go this time ;-) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

ppc kernel mailing list?

2001-04-08 Thread Peter Cordes
el.o(.text.init+0x754c): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_REL24 process_bridge_ranges make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 I'll try again with a different config and see if it'll compile. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the

Re: KDE2.1 and sound

2001-04-08 Thread Peter Cordes
g else from KDE. (I mostly use X to keep track of xterms, and I use uwm. It's nice and fast. :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this plac

Re: new installation

2001-04-09 Thread Peter Cordes
inux kernel selected. To completely get rid of macos, I guess you have to install quik. I haven't got it working yet. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who

Re: X/KDE2

2001-04-09 Thread Peter Cordes
it is not installable > Depends: xlibosmesa-dev but it is not installable > E: Sorry, broken packages What's in your sources.list, and when was the last time you did apt-get update? -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "T

gcc version for kernel compiles

2001-04-09 Thread Peter Cordes
What version of gcc should I use to compile the kernel (from the BK tree). Are there any known problems with 2.95.3? I'm compiling for an SMP machine. (so reordering locking-related things is a bigger problem than on UP.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROT

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-04-10 Thread Peter Cordes
00), I didn't have any trouble with the root floppy. I booted from the HFS image, and then loading the root image worked with no problem, IIRC. I've still got the disks sitting around... They are version 2.2.16-2000-7-26. I wrote the disk image on an x86 PC running linux. Maybe MC h

Re: new installation

2001-04-11 Thread Peter Cordes
o, and wait 10 minutes. This will reset your OpenFirmware settings. I need to find a mac serial <-> db25 adapter :( -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: Dumb question about Xfree 4.0

2001-04-11 Thread Peter Cordes
nstable for example. (If you do something that requires upgrading already installed packages from testing to unstable, you need to use -t unstable to do this.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how t

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-04-11 Thread Peter Cordes
pretty, but I haven't been using it for long, so I don't know how it is. I wish I had something like konqueror, but without using so much RAM, what with it's kdeinit processes as well as all the RAM it uses itself.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECT

Re: swapon

2001-04-11 Thread Peter Cordes
table), and 2.11a-2 (unstable and testing). Most other archs are at 2.11b-2. To get the source for the powerpc Debian package that's current, grab the 2.11a tarball and 2.11a-2 diff. (the -2 is the debian package version, the 2.11a is the upstream version.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes

Re: new installation - Next step !

2001-04-11 Thread Peter Cordes
it up last time I looked. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pie

Re: Installing Debian 2.2r2 on a Tibook : help needed !

2001-04-12 Thread Peter Cordes
t happening before, but good luck! happy hacking, -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: XFree4 on Pismo

2001-04-12 Thread Peter Cordes
... Try lspci. It might have a better PCI device database than the kernel. Also, with 2.4 kernels, you can choose whether or not to compile in the PCI name db, IIRC. lspci is in the pci-utils package. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods

Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4

2001-04-13 Thread Peter Cordes
#x27;t compiled linux for a Mac very often, you might have missed that. (BTW, you can check if this is likely to work by looking in /proc/interrupts: Look for SCC IRQs. That's the kind of chip the macserial driver supports (the z8530 is actually an ESCC).) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cord

Re: boot-floppies for stable

2001-04-13 Thread Peter Cordes
it installed. That can be an ordeal..., but it's not too bad if you are planning to leave MacOS installed (since then you can use BootX). -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hour

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
evel tools and unix style development... With MacOS X, strace and ltrace will be available, right? You can probably even strace the Classic process (or whatever it is), and run old apps to see what they do. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The go

Re: Exhaustive memory test for Macs?

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
emember the kernel's exact strategy for memory allocation, but I think the idea is that it puts itself at one end, and allocates from high memory down, or something like that. You could read up on the kernel if you need to figure this out. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL

Re: boot-floppies for stable

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
If the > LC475 seems too slow I can offer you access to a Quadra 650 with chroot > build environments for stable and unstable (650: 33 MHz 040, 40 MB RAM). Can't you cross-compile from something speedy? This would seem to be especially useful for something like boot-floppies, where you have

Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
ve endian bugs to get 16 bit sound (and without clicks or other noise). This works on my 9500-based desktop. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in thi

Re: Video Argument for BootX

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
ibfb.a (II) Module fb: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libshadowfb.a (II) Module shadowfb: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0 (--) Depth 24 pixmap form

Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
. unless maybe you > were fiddling with permissions and only changed some of the devices maybe. That still shouldn't make it skip, I don't think. You can do everything with just /dev/dsp and IOCTLs. (you adjust the volume in a different place, but not touching it wouldn't caus

Re: Audio CD's on a Pismo (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4)

2001-04-15 Thread Peter Cordes
ecode MP3s. > > Not an issue on the Pismo. I can rip and encode MP3's while playing an > MP3 at full speed. heh :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Con

Re: Audio CD's on a Pismo (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4)

2001-04-15 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:14:34PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 02:27:48AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > Most CD-ROM drives have a digital out as well as an analog out, I > > don't know why they didn't just connect the digital out to the sound >

Re: G3 keyboard

2001-04-15 Thread Peter Cordes
the key you want to change sends some X keysym already.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: openmotif and ppc .debs source ?

2001-04-15 Thread Peter Cordes
crunch through the dep checking. I sometimes press return by mistake...) Aside from dselect, debfoster is nice for letting you figure out how to get rid of unneeded packages stuff used to depend on. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods co

Re: Video Argument for BootX

2001-04-15 Thread Peter Cordes
-end to that, similar to redhat's ntsysv. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretch

Re: Mouse Question

2001-04-15 Thread Peter Cordes
/adbmouse? What > should my protocol be? dev = /dev/input/mice, Protocol = ImPS/2 (I just use PS/2, since my mouse has only one button anyway.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish

Re: ADB mouse not wroking on 9600/200

2001-04-16 Thread Peter Cordes
ven better is code that calls getpwnam, and, on failure, prints "you don't exist, go away". minicom does this. I once created an account for testing purposes, then deleted it while still logged in. I didn't exist! :( -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL

Re: 2.2.23 is out! [was: potato r3 is out, includes working boot floppies (was: Re: new potato boot-floppies)]

2001-04-17 Thread Peter Cordes
ies have their own version number, but the 2.2.23 boot floppies might well have a 2.2.19 kernel on them. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this p

Re: Floppy-less booting

2001-04-17 Thread Peter Cordes
sutils web page say they plan to support hfs+, but don't yet. The hfsutils from darwin do, I think, since I downloaded the source code a while ago, but I don't know if anyone's managed to do anything about porting them. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PRO

Re: .sit files

2001-04-19 Thread Peter Cordes
ition to posix file types, I wouldn't know since I don't use BeOS. Assuming there is a way to create an archive that saves everything needing saving, without any other compression, on BeOS, just bzip2 that. The only work one would need to do would be to create a driver/wrapper progra

Re: Airport quality levels?

2001-04-19 Thread Peter Cordes
llynet.com (or something like that). Find it yerself if ya want it :) One thing they mentioned was that the basestation radiates out mostly horizontally, so putting it on top of your house might be a bad idea since you'd be under it all the time. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-m

Re: Power Management et. al.

2001-04-19 Thread Peter Cordes
made copy-on-write. (You might want to do this within the program instead of leaving it to the kernel, so you could write changes to disk instead of leaving them in memory. I don't know how well Linux's VM would handle the situation, but if you had lots of swap space things should work :)

Re: .sit files

2001-04-19 Thread Peter Cordes
ount. The kernel could get itself confused because its cache would no longer agree with disk contents. (you would probably just get stale data, but you might actually get a kernel crash.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man w

anyone used freely available MacOS 7.5?

2001-04-19 Thread Peter Cordes
rappy installer...) I haven't spent much time trying to figure out quik, but I'll do that eventually. Comments, anyone? how bad is 7.5.5? -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish

Re: Power Management et. al.

2001-04-19 Thread Peter Cordes
u need a TLB entry for each page, IIRC.) OTOH, doesn't PPC allow big pages or something? I'm pretty sure you can set up mapping for big sections of memory, with block address translation stuff, but the kernel probably doesn't try to use these for big mmap()s. -- #define X(x,y)

Re: anyone used freely available MacOS 7.5?

2001-04-19 Thread Peter Cordes
as 7.5.3 is available for download, and 7.5.5 is available as an update. Oh great, so much for the 3 meter pole :( from the feature list of 7.5.3: * Connect to TCP/IP hosts -- including ones on the Internet WOW! IT LETS ME DO THAT? :-) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTE

free download macos 7.5

2001-04-20 Thread Peter Cordes
IL PROTECTED] : wrote on 4/19/01 4:57 PM: :> :> You can get a copy of MacOS 7.5.3 for free from: :> :> http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11258 :> :> Which'll run lightning fast on this machine :) :> :> -Graham -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ;

Re: no mouse in X mode

2001-04-20 Thread Peter Cordes
Does anyone has the solution ? FAQ: how do I set up X for the mouse. answer: device = /dev/input/mice, protocol = "ImPS/2" for GPM, use the same device, protocol = "ps2". -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The god

Re: Latest BenH kernel supports mixer on TiBook

2001-04-25 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:09:33AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > Most interesting is that it has an auto-MDIX feature, i.e. it can detect > if RX and TX are inverted. Cool! Are there any PC card NICs that do that? -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] ,

Re: debian-powerpc: can't install gnome-core/testing

2001-04-25 Thread Peter Cordes
sary when there are a bunch of packages which depend on other unstable packages, and you don't want to get them all by name, and you can hack your system out of its misery if something goes horribly wrong. :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The g

Re: Latest BenH kernel supports mixer on TiBook

2001-04-26 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:18:25PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Peter Cordes wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:09:33AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > > > Most interesting is that it has an auto-MDIX feature, i.e. it can detect > >

Re: ipmasq and rsh

2001-04-27 Thread Peter Cordes
come from a priviledged port. IP-based authentication is pretty weak. (but definitely better than nothing!). BTW, this really doesn't belong on debian-powerpc. It's not ppc specific at all. It doesn't obviously fall into some other category, so we'll let you live this time ;=

Re: compiling pgp 2.6.2

2001-04-28 Thread Peter Cordes
n debug symbols in object files, but I didn't think it took a numeric argument. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a su

Re: PANIC: How to get that boot floppy out!

2001-05-01 Thread Peter Cordes
xt to the disk drive. Turn off the computer first, of course. Straighten out the paper clip all the way, you'd be surprised how far you have to push it in on some drives. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man wh

Re: PC parrilel port zip drive?

2001-05-02 Thread Peter Cordes
tty common. One brand I remember seeing is Lava. They definitely have parallel adapters. I'm 99% sure the pport cards were available for PCI. MacOS probably wouldn't want to have anything to do with them, as usual, but this shouldn't stop Linux from using them. -- #define X(x,y)

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-05-02 Thread Peter Cordes
nt to play with it to see how it works. See readlink(1).) Someone should fix quik, if it can be done just by using realpath(). Note that the libc info page omits realpath. This sucks. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man wh

Re: PC parrilel port zip drive?

2001-05-02 Thread Peter Cordes
his would hurt in terms of CPU overhead, big time.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: PC parrilel port zip drive?

2001-05-03 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 07:33:09PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:25:12PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > I've never used a PCI parport card on any arch, so I don't know what kind > > of > Don't tell me you only have cpu <= 486? Did I

Nvidia's closed-source policy (was parport zip drive)

2001-05-03 Thread Peter Cordes
NV had accelerated 3D using Free software, I wouldn't think twice about buying their hardware. As it is, I'm in favour of Matrox or ATI. I'm getting a used 3dfx card, too. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who

Re: Colors and keyboard

2001-05-03 Thread Peter Cordes
you just mess with the palette, you don't have to redraw the whole screen. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: Two problems

2001-05-05 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:26:00PM +0200, Lorenzo De Vito wrote: > The first problem is: > my keyboard work fine without X and with X on text editor but it don't work > correctly with xterm. Exactly what happens when you type in xterm? Describe the problem. -- #define X(x

Re: Cannot boot anymore

2001-05-05 Thread Peter Cordes
doing that again by running make vmlinux instead of make zImage. If you don't ever need zImage, there's no need to create it! -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Con

Re: Audio CDs on Titanium G4 Powerbook

2001-05-08 Thread Peter Cordes
nciphering or encrypting) the filesystem on DVDs. I think he's saying you could always read the raw data from them, but you couldn't mount them or do anything other than get the data without the stuff that went into 2.2.17. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTEC

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-14 Thread Peter Cordes
then the block allocation algorithms would be seeing different free lists, and thus would be doing different things each time. If that's the case, it is interesting to note that the filesystem gives such variability. This could be due to fragmentation. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-m

Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive

2001-05-16 Thread Peter Cordes
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/hax0r doesn't bring the system to its knees, but it's still something to worry about. (BTW, this is why you don't want to use RAMFS. It doesn't have limit checking, but it works similarly.) Caveat: I haven't used anything but ext2 on my own machi

Re: manual install

2001-05-16 Thread Peter Cordes
irst time... BTW, the base system includes some stuff for configuring itself, so if you get the right directories mounted, etc.. Notice the start of /etc/init.d/rcS: # # See if system needs to be setup. This is ONLY meant to # be used for the initial setup after a fresh installation! # if

Re: some problems on recent installation(sid)

2001-05-17 Thread Peter Cordes
ther neat browser that embeds mozilla. I like its tabbed browsing feature, which lets you have multiple browser "windows" in the same X window, with tabs to flip between them. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man wh

Re: apt-get and /usr remount (was Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive)

2001-05-18 Thread Peter Cordes
- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: apt-get and /usr remount (was Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive)

2001-05-19 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:24:12AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 02:01:15AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:39:49AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > for example when you upgrade libc every bash process must be killed > > >

Re: apt-get and /usr remount (was Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive)

2001-05-19 Thread Peter Cordes
scriptor refering to the package control info file (in /var/lib/dpkg/info). Weird... -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to

Re: how to upgrade modutils

2001-05-20 Thread Peter Cordes
dealing with broken pre/post inst scripts, so I don't mind running a few packages from unstable, even if they are important ones, like libc :) Ben's probably pretty careful not to break everybody's system with a bad libc upgrade, but I could probably hack my way out of any problems if t

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