Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
Not really, quik != bootx Where can I find some docs on quik? Does it allow me to boot without having macos? I'd love to remove MacOS, as it crashes more than windows. -Cameron On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Cameron Berkenpas wrote: How do you get 2.4 to boot? Do you use

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
Oh, I'm sorry, I misunderstood. So ya, it does answer my question. Thanks. On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Cameron Berkenpas wrote: How do you get 2.4 to boot? Do you use bootx? From my original post, as quoted in your email: On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote:

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:09:25AM +, Cameron Berkenpas wrote: Not really, quik != bootx Where can I find some docs on quik? Does it allow me to boot without having macos? I'd love to remove MacOS, as it crashes more than windows. yes quik does not require macos, it is a real

Re: iMac DV/iBook Firewire install follow-up

2000-10-10 Thread Hadess
Quoting Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:08:41PM +0200, Hadess wrote: Right now, I'm using boot to boot my computer. From the install doc I sent: setenv boot-device hd:9,yaboot you shouldn't have to do this.. Otherwise it booted MacOS, so yes, I had to do

Re: iMac DV/iBook Firewire install follow-up

2000-10-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 01:57:31PM +0200, Hadess wrote: you shouldn't have to do this.. Otherwise it booted MacOS, so yes, I had to do this... something is broken in your setup then, that should not happen. probably the ybin your using is too old and the ofboot script lacks the necessary

Re: rtl8319

2000-10-10 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, C.M. Connelly wrote: PT == Paul Talacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PT D-LINK DFE-530TX (apparently it should work with de4x5) We have one of these (the ``+'' model, which supposedly does 10/100), and it works great with the rtl8139 driver on our PC (acting as a

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:09:25AM +, Cameron Berkenpas wrote: Not really, quik != bootx Where can I find some docs on quik? Does it allow me to boot without having macos? I'd love to remove MacOS, as it crashes more than windows. yes quik does not require

X refuses to start!

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Ivanovich
I was hoping that someone out there can help me with the next step... I've finally successfully loaded Debian Potato on my G3 Powerbook (old world ROMs). By the way, thanks to Will Dukes for the suggestions on this one. In order to make that work, I had to install the BootX 1.2.2 that came

Re: X refuses to start!

2000-10-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
Chris Ivanovich wrote: X /tmp/x.out Z1 ^ Should be a '2'. I'd use 'X 21 | tee /tmp/x.out' though so you also see messages on the console in case this helps any. I get a lot of disk thrashing and then nothing. So when I look in the /etc/x.out file to see what the server

Re: X refuses to start!

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Ivanovich
X /tmp/x.out Z1 ^ Should be a '2'. I'd use 'X 21 | tee /tmp/x.out' though so you also see messages on the console in case this helps any. Yup, now I get a long report which may or may not be helpful... I'd be happy to share it, but I have no net access from the Linux box

Re: iMac DV/iBook Firewire install follow-up

2000-10-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
Hadess wrote: 5. This one's for Michel (BTW, thanks for the snapshot, I'll install it in a couple of minutes, if my boss doesn't disturb me ;P): Looks like I've forgotten to upload the XF86Config, I'll do it tonight. I couldn't get the drm to compile in BenH's latest kernel

downloading linux-pmac-stable

2000-10-10 Thread Sergio Brandano
About three weeks ago the distribution of linux-pmac-stable, which is the stable kernel for PPC, as it was claimed, has been given to the samba group in the USA. This was in order to release the previous server from the load, and allow for a cheaper/faster distribution. The new server,

Re: iMac DV/iBook Firewire install follow-up

2000-10-10 Thread Hadess
Quoting Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hadess wrote: 5. This one's for Michel (BTW, thanks for the snapshot, I'll install it in a couple of minutes, if my boss doesn't disturb me ;P): Looks like I've forgotten to upload the XF86Config, I'll do it tonight. I couldn't get

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
Wow. Thanks. So the file format is basically like that of lilo or at least close to it? To set MacOS up with lilo, it would something like this? other = /dev/hda1 table = /dev/hda label = MacOS On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:09:25AM +, Cameron

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Cameron Berkenpas wrote: Wow. Thanks. So the file format is basically like that of lilo or at least close to it? To set MacOS up with lilo, it would something like this? other = /dev/hda1 table = /dev/hda label = MacOS The exact line in your yaboot.conf

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
But isn't yaboot really meant for g3 or newer Macs? On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Matt Brubeck wrote: On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Cameron Berkenpas wrote: Wow. Thanks. So the file format is basically like that of lilo or at least close to it? To set MacOS up with lilo, it would something like this?

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 03:44:52PM +, Cameron Berkenpas wrote: But isn't yaboot really meant for g3 or newer Macs? yes, i think he missed that we were talking about quik. the config files look so much alike. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgprjD5wxDuq9.pgp Description:

Re: XFBDev problem

2000-10-10 Thread ciroaisa
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 02:46:48PM -0500, Uwe Muench wrote: I have a problem with installing X on a Powermac 4400/220 with a 1-button mouse connected to /dev/adbmouse. I installed the xserver-fbdev package, copied the example XF86Config and boiled it down to the attached version. Now, my

Re: iMac DV/iBook Firewire install follow-up

2000-10-10 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Oct 10, Hadess wrote: The only error: (II) r128(0): initializing int10 (EE) r128(0): Cannot read V_BIOS (4) I just use video=aty128fb: so the problem must be with the iBook's new Mobility chip. Doesn't work. I don't mind Frame-buffer not being accelerated, but I (would)

Re: iMac DV/iBook Firewire install follow-up

2000-10-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
Olaf Hering wrote: Edit your XF86Config and remove Option usefbdev. The r128 can be used native. You can't use the plain cvs, either use the rpms at penguinppc.org or the new dri stuff. The debs from http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/woody/ should also work. Thanks Olaf, Michel --

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
Ok, that makes sense, Thanks for the help. On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 03:44:52PM +, Cameron Berkenpas wrote: But isn't yaboot really meant for g3 or newer Macs? yes, i think he missed that we were talking about quik. the config files look so much

Re: xserver crashes

2000-10-10 Thread Taro Fukunaga
Hi, (B (BTaro Fukunaga wrote: (B (B I get the same problem, turning off the the screensaver should (B prevent it, of course you'll be wanting your screensaver though. (B It may be just one of the savers, not all. Try running different savers (B to see which one might be causing

Re: xserver crashes

2000-10-10 Thread Chad Miller
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 07:15:58PM -0700, Taro Fukunaga wrote: Well I am still getting this problem. About every 30 minutes or so, a window I'm trying to move becomes unplacable, meaning if I click my mouse nothing happens and after about 10 tries or so X locks up. Also I found that I have to

Re: XFBDev problem

2000-10-10 Thread Andrew B. Arthur
Uwe Muench wrote: Hello, I have a problem with installing X on a Powermac 4400/220 with a 1-button mouse connected to /dev/adbmouse. I installed the xserver-fbdev package. Just wanted to point out that fbdev (aka XF68_FBDev in XF3.3 or the fbdev driver in XF4) in my experience in both