Re: iMac DV/iBook Firewire install follow-up

2000-10-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Hadess wrote: I just recompiled this very kernel, to try to get aty128fb to do something useful... configure X. But instead, it falls back to offb and tells me that my Horizontal refresh rate is 120 kHz (yep, kHz), and my Vertical one 186 Hz... No aty128fb lines in the

Debian GNU/Linux on the Apple PowerBook

2000-10-11 Thread Sergio Brandano
... to the new brothers and sisters of this list, an updated version of the tips and tricks for running GNU/Linux: http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~sb/PowerBook.html Feedback welcome. Sergio

Re: More Yaboot

2000-10-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 04:21:30PM -0700, Sam Powers wrote: I'm trying to do the yaboot thing on my Wallstreet powerbook, and having some trouble.. the guide said if you had a pismo or something equally new, you could just reboot and hold down option.. but it appears that i have to play

?Where to as kernel specific question ?

2000-10-11 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi, I'm trying to boot the latest kernel from fsmlab.com. I have PCI problem when I try to boot. Where can I discuss such kernel issue ? Here is my error message ? PCI: Probing PCI hardware Setting PCI interrupts for a MVME 2300 Relocating PCI address 3c00 - 100 Relocating PCI

pmud 0.7-1

2000-10-11 Thread Sergio Brandano
Package: pmud Version: 0.7-1 (powerpc) Description of bug: After wake-up on PowerBook G3 1999 (Lombard), the trackpad had the horizontal and vertical behaviour reversed. I mean, moving down the finger the cursor goes left (or was it right?), moving it left the cursor goes down etc. After

Re: XFBDev problem

2000-10-11 Thread Derek Homeier
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Andrew B. Arthur wrote: 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

PowerBook 3400, X...

2000-10-11 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Hello, After having suffered some ext2fs corruption (probably too much playing around with MOL), I decided to install everything from scratch. Debian installation went mostly well, and now I'm attempting to configure X. In my previous installation, I ran Xpmac because it was the easiest to

Re: ?Where to as kernel specific question ?

2000-10-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Xavier Grave wrote: I'm trying to boot the latest kernel from fsmlab.com. I have PCI problem when I try to boot. Where can I discuss such kernel issue ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux

Re: xserver crashes

2000-10-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Taro Fukunaga wrote: I removed xscreensaver but I still have this problem. Seems to be a problem when I'm moving mozilla 17 or netscape windows, which to be fairly large on my monitor. I have no other screensavers. Netscape is from an rpm which I repackages as a deb. And I think m17 is

Re: XFBDev problem

2000-10-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Derek Homeier wrote: On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Andrew B. Arthur wrote: 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. Just wanted to point out that fbdev (aka

Re: XFBDev problem

2000-10-11 Thread Derek Homeier
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Michel Dänzer wrote: That said, annex's ati driver in XFree86 4.0.1, crashes my box hard after moving a window or closing a window with the Mach64 VT. Which one is that? I've installed Ani Joshi's latest driver from Ani Joshi == annex (on IRC)

Re: XFBDev problem

2000-10-11 Thread Michael Schmitz
That said, annex's ati driver in XFree86 4.0.1, crashes my box hard after moving a window or closing a window with the Mach64 VT. Which one is that? I've installed Ani Joshi's latest driver from penguinppc.org, and that only crashes the machine when I've booted with BootX (right on

Re: pmud 0.7-1

2000-10-11 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
The same thing happens with pmud 0.7-1 on my PowerBook 3400. Patrix. On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 02:19:37PM +0100 or thereabouts, Sergio Brandano wrote: Package: pmud Version: 0.7-1 (powerpc) Description of bug: After wake-up on PowerBook G3 1999 (Lombard), the trackpad had the

Sound on the ibook

2000-10-11 Thread Kelsey Damas
Has anyone gotten it working?

Re: XFBDev problem

2000-10-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Derek Homeier wrote: I didn't compile the whole package myself, only Ani's ati driver, the rest was installed from rpm (yeah, making this more appropriate for linuxppc-user now). I'm afraid I don't have the disk space for the full compile, but I might try to compile the Xserver package..

Re: PowerBook 3400, X...

2000-10-11 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
A kernel recompile fixed most of these problems... gpm still seems to segfault though. Patrix. On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:19:46AM -0400 or thereabouts, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: Hello, After having suffered some ext2fs corruption (probably too much playing around with MOL), I decided to

Re: PowerBook 3400, X...

2000-10-11 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 09:18:13PM +0200 or thereabouts, Michel Dänzer wrote: Welcome to the wonderful world of woody. BTW, for /dev/adbmouse you need the Thank you, I feel right at home in this world! ;) bm protocol. Just in case. yes, I tried the busmouse protocol, but still it

qt2.2 and others: shared library linking errors

2000-10-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
It looks like we've been hit by a nasty little binutils bug; applications will often fail to link (at compile time) to things in .gnu.linkonce sections (e.g. templated code). There should be a fix in a few days, and then we can try to sort out and rebuild the problem apps - I know at least qt2.2

Breakthroughs! But need help with logon dialog box...

2000-10-11 Thread Chris Ivanovich
Okay, I have X up and running on my PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet). And I have my choice of a couple of window managers. Many thanks to the select few who took the time to give me some good suggestions...but it's still a lot of guesswork. Maybe I should put something together telling exactly

Re: iMac DV/iBook Firewire install follow-up

2000-10-11 Thread Hadess
Quoting Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just use video=aty128fb: so the problem must be with the iBook's new Mobility chip. There's a problem with the iBook and his new mobility chip. The problem is mostly in offb.c, which doesn't know about the OF name. (2.4 uses PCI probing

Re: X on a Bull Estrella

2000-10-11 Thread Xavier Saint-Jalmes
Le 10/10/2000 à 00:11, Michel Dänzer écrivait: I've tried a 2.4.0 kernel. clgenfb is present and the config tool allow to select it. But the kernel fail to compile :( Where did you get the 2.4 source from? You could post the compilation errors here and maybe on [EMAIL PROTECTED] . It's

Re: X on a Bull Estrella

2000-10-11 Thread Hadess
Quoting Xavier Saint-Jalmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Le 10/10/2000 à 00:11, Michel Dänzer écrivait: I've tried a 2.4.0 kernel. clgenfb is present and the config tool allow to select it. But the kernel fail to compile :( Where did you get the 2.4 source from? You could post the

Re: Re: More Yaboot

2000-10-11 Thread Sam Powers
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 04:21:30PM -0700, Sam Powers wrote: I'm trying to do the yaboot thing on my Wallstreet powerbook, and having some trouble.. the guide said if you had a pismo or something equally new, you could just reboot and hold down

Idorulabs debs fixed

2000-10-11 Thread Hadess
Hi, Just fixed the gnumeric, gnometris and gedit. Test it. Tell me if it works. http://idorulabs.free.fr for those who don't know. /Hadess

Re: Breakthroughs! But need help with logon dialog box...

2000-10-11 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Chris Ivanovich wrote: But I have a small annoyance. When the initial dialog box appears where you type in your user name and password, it isn't shown completely on the screen. The only thing that shows are the labels where you're supposed to type (but no text entry

Re: iMac DV/iBook Firewire install follow-up

2000-10-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Hadess wrote: Hi, I hacked offb.c to get aty128fb to recognize the new chipset called RageM3p1. I added line 449, a statement to use this name (sorry, no patches, it's already very dodgy to use lynx on a webmail interface...). The problem is that it doesn't show up more than 8bit colors. I

Re: iMac DV/iBook Firewire install follow-up

2000-10-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
BTW I finally got around to put an XF86Config with my DRI binaries again... Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project

Re: Re: More Yaboot

2000-10-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 02:43:37PM -0700, Sam Powers wrote: hda7 is my bootstrap partition, everything before that is random whatevers from hd setup.. hd:7\\:tbxi is the right thing to use in openfirmware, right? no hd:7,\\:tbxi note the comma I'm running woody right now, actually, and

Re: iMac DV/iBook Firewire install follow-up

2000-10-11 Thread Hadess
Quoting Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hadess wrote: Hi, I hacked offb.c to get aty128fb to recognize the new chipset called RageM3p1. I added line 449, a statement to use this name (sorry, no patches, it's already very dodgy to use lynx on a webmail interface...). The problem is

Re: iMac DV/iBook Firewire install follow-up

2000-10-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Hadess wrote: I could get Xpmac and XFree4 (debs) with native drivers to show up with 256 colors A bit more would be cool. Even the deb X4 should work fine in all depths without Option UseFBDev. I'm not using UseFBDev. I'm sorry, I feel that I'm always missing the spot not

Re: iMac DV/iBook Firewire install follow-up

2000-10-11 Thread Hadess
Quoting Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hadess wrote: I could get Xpmac and XFree4 (debs) with native drivers to show up with 256 colors A bit more would be cool. Even the deb X4 should work fine in all depths without Option UseFBDev. I'm not using UseFBDev. I'm sorry,

Re: iMac DV/iBook Firewire install follow-up

2000-10-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Hadess wrote: So it might be 15/16/24/32 bpp (and according to xdpyinfo it is), but the colors are all messed up. I can help giving any address range or whatever might help you. The FB penguin looks quite weird as well (looks as if Andy Warhol got crazy on it) Sounds like a

Re: pmud 0.7-1

2000-10-11 Thread Sam Powers
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Sergio Brandano wrote: Package: pmud Version: 0.7-1 (powerpc) Description of bug: After wake-up on PowerBook G3 1999 (Lombard), the trackpad had the horizontal and vertical behaviour reversed. I mean, moving down the finger the cursor goes left (or was it

Re: Re: Re: More Yaboot

2000-10-11 Thread Sam Powers
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 02:43:37PM -0700, Sam Powers wrote: hda7 is my bootstrap partition, everything before that is random whatevers from hd setup.. hd:7\\:tbxi is the right thing to use in openfirmware, right? no hd:7,\\:tbxi note the

Re: pmud 0.7-1

2000-10-11 Thread Chad Miller
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 05:02:23PM -0700, Sam Powers wrote: Speaking of pmud, is there any way to have something run when the machine wakes? my trackpad settings disappear on wake, and i figure doing trackpad notap on wake might help that.. See the /etc/power/ directory (IIRC). also, is

RS-6000 43P

2000-10-11 Thread Eric Reischer
PLEASE HELP!!! I have an RS-6000 43P Model 240 that I'm trying to install Debian onto, and I cannot get a single kernel to boot off of this blasted thing. Every time I try to boot a kernel image it pukes up an error, which varies depending on what kernel you're using. First, if anybody knows

Re: xserver crashes

2000-10-11 Thread Taro Fukunaga
Hi Michael and all, I thought I sent email out last night regarding this issue but somehow it never made it. Michel Dänzer wrote: Taro Fukunaga wrote: I removed xscreensaver but I still have this problem. Seems to be a problem when I'm moving mozilla 17 or netscape windows, which to be

Building PPC Kernel

2000-10-11 Thread Eric Reischer
OK I just got done reading through IBM's sketchy information pages, and it appears as though I need to build a 2.4 kernel in order to be able to boot off of my RS-6000 43P 240 machine. Can I build a kernel for a PPC architecture on an i386 machine, or do I have to find (fat chance) a powerpc

Re: Building PPC Kernel

2000-10-11 Thread Cort Dougan
Someone has a webpage full of builds of the daily snapshots from the 2.4 and 2.2 BK trees. You may want to make the workstation and linuxppc-dev list to find out where it is. } OK I just got done reading through IBM's sketchy information pages, and it } appears as though I need to build a 2.4

Re: Building PPC Kernel

2000-10-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:27:35PM -0400, Eric Reischer wrote: OK I just got done reading through IBM's sketchy information pages, and it appears as though I need to build a 2.4 kernel in order to be able to boot off of my RS-6000 43P 240 machine. Can I build a kernel for a PPC

Re: Re: Re: Re: More Yaboot

2000-10-11 Thread Sam Powers
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 05:46:05PM -0700, Sam Powers wrote: hmm, when running ybin with nonvram commented out, i get: ybin: Warning: Incompatible version of `nvsetenv', nvram will not be updated hmm, maybe dan didn't include `unstable' in the

Re: Re: Re: Re: More Yaboot

2000-10-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 07:40:49PM -0700, Sam Powers wrote: uh, i'm running woody.. same version, again.. hmm i need to check on this... the only other thing i can think of is hd: is not the right alias, but does not seem likely.. do a printenv boot-device after that set-defaults and

Re: Building PPC Kernel

2000-10-11 Thread Eric Reischer
At 10:38 PM 10/11/00 , Ethan Benson wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:27:35PM -0400, Eric Reischer wrote: OK I just got done reading through IBM's sketchy information pages, and it appears as though I need to build a 2.4 kernel in order to be able to boot off of my RS-6000 43P 240 machine.