in X, only my left shift key and left control key work
properly. The ones on the right-hand side of the keyboard
are unresponsive. Here's the details:
i've been using xpmac as my xserver happily for quite a
while now on my g4, and have been tracking woody since
the stable/testing/unstable split
Andrew Sharp wrote:
> pohl wrote:
> >
> > in X, only my left shift key and left control key work
> > properly. The ones on the right-hand side of the keyboard
> > are unresponsive. Here's the details:
>
> Does the right shift work while on the console? I
I ran into this problem today while trying to get XFree86 v4
going. I managed to write a configuration file by hand, but
would have loved a configurator.
Paul, could you do a "dpkg -S Xconfigurator" and tell me what
package that thing came in?
Also, I recall running a configurator called "dexte
Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I updated my lot of Ximian Gnome packages. Take a look at
> http://hadess.net/idoru.shtml for more details.
I had been trying to update to the gnome 1.2 packages
in unstable without luck (gnome-panel and gnome-panel-data
aren't happy with each other)
t_0.5: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500,
version 1, statically linked, stripped
$ file yaboot_0.4
yaboot_0.4: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500,
version 1, statically linked, not stripped
$ ls -l yaboot*
-rw-r--r--1 pohl pohl 146804 Feb 28 20:15 yaboot_
I wrote:
>
> Also, does anybody happen to know what an error code of -2
> implies in 0.4?
I found in include/file.h the definition for the error
code. Now I just have to scrutinize file.c to figure out
why the config file isn't being found.
#define FILE_ERR_NOTFOUND -2
I'm looking th
> if you get a boot: prompt you can enter the command:
>
> hd:,/boot/vmlinux-2.2.14
Thank you, I hadn't realized that I was returning to a
yaboot prompt after the -2 error code. I wasn't watching
closely enough, and thought it was an OF prompt. I'll
give this a whirl.
Is there syntax for poi
My experiences with yaboot_0.5 are getting more interesting the
more I play with it.
I started giving the Open Firmware boot command silly arguments out of
frustration, and got some interesting results. Apparently, I can pick
random files that are sitting right beside yaboot_0.5 on the same HFS
I had a problem like this once on an old 7100 or 7200 (I can't
rember which -- it was a nubus machine with an 80Mhz 601 PPC
I think) and it turned out that xscreensaver was causing the
X display server to crash. The nice thing was that xscreensaver
was nice enough to give some message when I ran
Ethan wrote:
>
> not unfortunately, yaboot is more robust and reliable. just create a
> 800K bootstrap partition at the front of your disk to hold it after
> the install, and use my ybin utilites to manage it. just as easy as
> lilo. (in mac-fdisk use the C command and create the bootstrap
> part
Ethan wrote:
>
> OK, I got annoyed enough to go test this, and i plan to write a
> simple howto for partitioning (you're all in trouble now im annoyed
> enough to write docs!)
Thank you for spelling this all out for me. I'm sorry that I haven't
given you any feedback on this until now. I'm in t
Ethan wrote:
>
> the bootstrap partition will not inerfere with yaboot on the hfs
> partition, you just need to boot into OF and run the following
> command:
>
> boot hd:X,yaboot
For me, yaboot_0.4 cannot find its config file in this situation,
and yaboot_0.5 can't even be executed successfully b
This is exactly my experience on my sawtooth G4, except that
I had been trying to get ybin 0.10 to function. I had thought
maybe I wasn't following the installation instructions correctly,
but can't find any discrepencies between what Ethan suggests and
what I'm doing.
> I finally went out and b
Ethan wrote:
> you never got it to work? i really think this has to be some
> difference in some G4's OpenFirmware... though i think Ben has
> G4 and has yaboot working...
I guess there is a lot of hardware (and probably firmware) variance
even within the set of machines that go by the "G4" lab
Josh wrote:
>
> I've got a G4/500 running w/o any problems with yaboot here...
> Just got it from Apple 2 weeks ago.
Cool! Could you describe your partitioning scheme and attach
the yaboot.conf and ybin.conf files you used?
Thanks.
Josh wrote:
>
> I don't have a ybin.conf file. (don't use it...)
So you just manually enter OpenFirmware boot commands to boot?
What version of yaboot do you use?
Josh Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I'm using 0.5, which is think is the latest version.
> I just set the boot-device to hd:9,yaboot_0.5
I think this explains the difference between your machine
and mine. I have been trying to make a partition of type
"Apple_Bootstrap" to install ybin onto. You,
debian is now happily living on my G4 (though I had to
break down and buy a zip drive to accomplish the install)
but I need a dvorak keymap for the beast. Anybody
got a pointer to one?
This is strictlt for the console -- no X yet...
Today's thread on Xpmac spurred me to resume my efforts to get
it running. It turned out to be very easy after all, with one
exception: in the debian/x86 universe, I was never able to get
mouse support under X unless "gpm" was running, but under Xpmac
the exact opposite was the case: my mouse wo
After my last note, I discovered that Xpmac accepts a "-mode n" parameter
that seems to do the trick. I'm can't find a table that says what the
acceptable values of n are and what they mean, but I'm satisfied anyway.
Thanks again!
Thanks to Andre and tigert for the information on setting the
depth -- now does anybody know what the incantation for setting
the resolution is and where I should put it?
> > Now that it's running, I have a configuration question: I'm used to
> > tweaking XF86Config to get the resolution/bit-de
Michael wrote:
> Don't do that, then. I'd only use the kernel.org source as base for
> rsync'ing the PPC source.
My understanding, from the following release notes, is that
2.2.17 stands the chance of getting us past the separate-tree
madness. Could someone clarify?
http://www.linux.org.uk/VERS
I have a bootable debian CD in hand (from debian-cd.com), and an old
rev A iMac that refuses to boot it. The CD boots up on my G4 without
fail, but with this iMac it cannot boot. (open firmware says that it
has trouble reading block 0). The iMac won't even mount the CD on the
desktop in MacOS,
Ethan wrote:
>
> this is strange and disturbing. can it read regular ISO9660 CDs?
> (debian CD 1 is hybrid ISO/HFS)
Yes, it can read regular ISO9660s...what's more interesting is that
we have another iMac of the same vintage that I just tested -- it
boots just fine off of the same CD -- must be s
Thanks to your timely mini-howto, I managed to install debian
on the iMac with the flakey cdrom/cdrom-drive problem I posted
about last night. There was only one thing that definately
needs to be corrected in the document: where you suggest looking
at /var/log/daemon.log to get the MAC address,
I recently tried to install sawmill on a debian-stable system,
but dselect complained that sawmill depends upon rep, which depends
upon librep5, which appears to not be available.
I've tried this from several different mirrors now, all with the same
results.
Does anybody know the right way to sa
I managed to write yaboot to the Apple_Bootstrap partition so
that it boots linux off of the hard drive. It's starting to
make sense to me now.
Unfortunately, I cannot boot into MacOS unless I command-option-o-f
into open firmware and explicitly
boot hd:8,\\:tbxi
This is despite the fact t
Ethan wrote:
>
> this is ybin 0.16, 0.16 sucks ;-)
>
> install 0.21, you can get a deb from http://them.org/~drow/debian
There was a routing problem between us and them.org (and I was
impatient to try your suggestion) so I grabbed the tarball for
ybin 0.21 off of alaska.net. Since I wasn't usin
Ethan wrote:
> i think your OpenFirmware configuration is fscked...
Last night I had made sure (using "which ybin", "which mkofboot", and
"which ofpath") that the new 0.21 binaries were the ones being found.
I deleted the old binaries entirely before running mkofboot...and I
_did_ run "mkofboot -
Ethan, Matt...thank you for your assistance. I've broken through
the fog...the powerpc-utils must have made all the difference. I've
bounced this baby about a dozen times, adjusted the delay and
defaultos to where I'm satisifed. Awesome. Thanks again.
P.S. This is my son's machine...he wants
I'm trying to build a kernel from stock source to see if
it can be done, and managed to boot one that worked well except
for usb support. All usb devices were unresponsive, but I
could ssh into the box and see the following in the logs:
Sep 18 21:49:18 obelisk kernel: OHCI USB Driver loading
Sep
Ethan wrote:
>
> if you need to use USB then you must get the 2.3 USB backport.
Is this in what I've heard referred to as "Paul's rsync tree"?
In either case, where can I find it?
> I'm using a old 2.2.6-15apmac kernel on my Imac Rev B box (G3 266 Mhz)
> with bootX 1.2, all work perfectly. I try to use a new kernel, and I
> 'have built
> some differents kernel rev (2.2.13, 2.2.14, 2.2.15, 2.2.17 ) and I have
> always
> get USB troubles, with the keyboard and mouse.
I had t
> > btw: www.linuxppc.org evaluates to www.linuxppc.com
>
> Not for me. You probably have a caching nameserver somewhere
> that needs to be kicked real hard. The problem traces back to
> a botched zone data change for linuxppc.org that had a lot of
> name servers confused. But that's been months
> I am currently trying to install debian on a powermac g4, and usb
> seems to be causing some problems. Just to experiment, I tried booting
> without the keyboard and mouse plugged in, and it booted ok, but of
> course I couldn't go anywhere from there. Could anyone tell me what's
> going on??? A
deb packages that I needed that were
NOT on the installation CD. You see, the ybin program needs to
run a program called "nvsetenv" in order to make OpenFirmware
boot off of the yaboot partition automagically -- but it needed
to be a more recent version of nvsetenv than was in potato
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:13:25PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote:
> > I haven't figure out yet how to do a low-level format on
> > /dev/fd0 on PPCs, can anybody help me?
>
> i don't think you can... the tool used for this is superformat
> which function o
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