debian on 4400

2002-10-29 Thread samuel desseaux
hello! just one question: is it possible to install debian on an old mac (i've got a 4400)? thanks sam -- Samuel Desseaux 01j, square des ormes 59510 Hem france tél:03.20.80.12.62 mobile:06.80.96.67.27

Re: debian on 4400

2002-10-29 Thread marco
Le Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:20:50 +0100 samuel desseaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait : Yes you must ! ;-) I've installed it on an old 6100/60 hello! just one question: is it possible to install debian on an old mac (i've got a 4400)? thanks sam -- Samuel Desseaux 01j, square des ormes

Fwd: Re: debian on 4400

2002-10-29 Thread Clive Menzies
Title: Fwd: Re: debian on 4400 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:20:43 + To: samuel desseaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: debian on 4400 Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: hello! just one question: is it possible to install debian on an old mac (i've got a 4400)? See:

RE: debian on 4400

2002-10-29 Thread dylan
hi- don't forget: http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes otherwise your keyboard wont work as you expect. also a great pre-compiled kernel + modules can be found at: http://www.ppckernel.org/kernel.php?id=24 i use this on an 8500 + debian 3.0 and it works great! cheers, dylan on

PCI PCMCIA adaptor wierdness

2002-10-29 Thread mallum
Hi; I recently plugged PCI PCMCIA Adaptor into my 8600. I was then greeted with the following on boot : Welcome to Linux kernel 2.4.19 linked at :Oxc000 framebuffer at: 0x9400 (phys), 0xd080 (log) MSR :0x3070 MIB0 :0x8c084 pmac_init(): exit id mach():

Sonnet G4 800 in 1st gen PCI mac + linux ...

2002-10-29 Thread vinai
Hey Folks, I posted a note to one of the mac sites with this question and I thought I'd ask here as well. Is anyone using (or has tried to use) one of the new Sonnet G4 CPU's in a 1st generation PCI mac (7300 to 9600) with any degree of success ? I'm considering trying this in my 8500 ...

Re: G4 Cube CD Eject

2002-10-29 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Chris Tillman writes: On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 03:08, Thomas Dial wrote: dselect prompted me to switch media in order to grok the available packages from the other CD's, I was unable to eject the CD. ... aptitude is the updated dselect type program. But I'm sure it doesn't take account of the

Re: scsi emulation

2002-10-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-10-29 at 04:56, bill traynor wrote: I'm getting the following errors with kernel 2.4.20-pre11-ben0: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 Consequently, I can't mount my DVD/CD-RW on sr0. I noticed a previous thread regarding changes to scsi

Re: Sonnet G4 800 in 1st gen PCI mac + linux ...

2002-10-29 Thread Andreas Tobler
vinai wrote: Hey Folks, I posted a note to one of the mac sites with this question and I thought I'd ask here as well. Is anyone using (or has tried to use) one of the new Sonnet G4 CPU's in a 1st generation PCI mac (7300 to 9600) with any degree of success ? I'm considering trying this in

Screen garbled - Was :Re: Kernel panic : VFS : unable to mount root fs

2002-10-29 Thread Johan en Katrien Dewaele
Hi again, --- Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 04:56:56AM -0700, Johan en Katrien Dewaele wrote: Hi people, I need your help/advice on this one : I'm a newbie in this PPC-Linux thing. I acquired this old Mac PPC 4400/200 wants to mount root fs I get

Re: PCI PCMCIA adaptor wierdness

2002-10-29 Thread simon . raven
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 16:44:03 +, mallum composed: Hi; I recently plugged PCI PCMCIA Adaptor into my 8600. I was then greeted with the following on boot : Welcome to Linux kernel 2.4.19 linked at :Oxc000 framebuffer at: 0x9400 (phys), 0xd080 (log) MSR

Problems with kernel 2.4.20-pre11-ben0 (worked fine)

2002-10-29 Thread José Salavert Torres
Package:kernel Version: 2.4.20-pre11-ben0 No sound, and no net, but drivers load properly, and older versions (pre7) worked okay. Machine: Powermac G4 733Mhz grey-tower. I don't know what to door what I've done, please make things work as best as you can in sarge. Here is my

iBook2 screen resolutions

2002-10-29 Thread Mark Williams
Howdy, On iBook2s, what screen resolutions are supported under Linux? I've only been able to get 1024x768 to work, specifically in X. It'd be nice to get tuxracer running... Thanks, Mark

Re: iBook2 screen resolutions

2002-10-29 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Mark Williams writes: On iBook2s, what screen resolutions are supported under Linux? I've only been able to get 1024x768 to work, specifically in X. It'd be nice to get tuxracer running... Same here, except with a G4 Cube and the Apple Cinema Display. Did you get to play with poorly

airport card on iBook2

2002-10-29 Thread bill traynor
Trying to connect my iBook2 running Debian to my Netgear MR314 access point. I did the following: Edited my /etc/network/interfaces to include iface eth1 inet dhcp wireless_essid * wireless_nick ** Then: modprobe airport modprobe orinoco modprobe hermes apt-get