well this may be mundane and boring with the excitement over the cross-compilers and aranym (congratulations, looks very hope inspiring there)
i am still working at booting 2.6.17-2. in case you missed my previous mail i have a couple quadras now, one at least is running, the 630. i updated my etch cd with jigdo that was a couple months old and then update the necessary package to dependencies of the kernel (about 13 of them). that did not help with trying to boot 2.6.17, i still the following problems: 1) udev starting up complaints: udevd udevd [770] inotify_init failed: no such file or directory 2) ide drive loading module complaints ( i am not using it for linux, i am using an external scsi but i wish i could and i hope it is not disrupting things more, since it does work in sarge) like a whole page or more errors. 3) even though in this kernel config says adbs are all y and sonic is n. i still have no good adb. that is it boots through to login prompt but i can't login due to bad keymap. improved just a little - before it was completely locked, now i get scrambled keymap. the only thing i could find that worked was command/ option/power to reboot. part II i am setting up local (sub-)network. i am pretty confused at this. i got by using ifconfig and a cross over cable to ping my powermac from either direction. i am installing now openssh. so if i try that kernal again or another 2.6 version, maybe i can ssh in to shutdown gracefully... (put in as 192.168.0.255 subnet with powermac as hopefully maybe gateway to internet that is 192.168.1.255) another idea i had was to pull the nic card -- maybe it is not just sonic that conflicts with adb ? p.s. jigdo is pretty cool. if you have a funky wireless place like mine with flaky internet it goes back and retries until it gets all the file(s) (basicly it uses the regular package sites to make up a cd image, all you download from the cd itself is a couple templates), also it reuses as much of the cd as has not changed (here about 25%). also you have a much greater choice of mirrors. brian -- also i saw/picked up a 2.6.8-mac kernal package. i could actually run most etch software (not udev) with 2.6.8 on powerpc. also i notice that things like xorg say they were compiled with that (even though it is running under 2.6.17 ). no tried it yet. this is standard sarge kernel for powerpc, but can use with etch, too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
