First off, thank you everyone for your help in using yaboot! However, I'm
still having problems launching it... I burned it to a cd, and when I try to
launch it from the cd, I get this error:
unrecognized Client Program format
Any ideas? Once again, thanks so much!
Patrice LaFlamme wrote:
But that still wouldn't excuse the existence of the problem... and it still
happens even if I launch from the command line.
That's to be expected. But does it also happen with WindowMaker like this.
Here's a sample backtrace (when kcontrol crashes)
(no debugging
its bastards like that who make me wonder why i put so much time into
writing this utility and doing all the work of researching boot
problems and how to setup the *most reliable* bootstrap. but if
people really want me too ill be more then happy to take down my web
pages, stop maintaining
On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:
Hi, all. I just set up yaboot to boot instead of BootX. I rebooted, and
notice that the cursor is black. The kernel is 2.2.17 out of woody on a
Lombard (1999 G3 333MHz PowerBook).
Happens sometime, for reasons yet unknown. What seems to happen
Happens sometime, for reasons yet unknown. What seems to happen is
that the cursor changes color to black. Feel free to look up where
the cursor color gets set, and pepper the fbcon code with printk to find
where it goes wrong.
However, the reason is known: the fbcon-* code draws the
Hi!
Is there anyone which is working with the KDE2 stable release for
powerpc? Today, all I could find was directorys for sparc, i386 and
source. I looked in:
http://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/2.0/distribution/deb/Debian/dists/potato/
maybe I should have looked somewhere
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:
Happens sometime, for reasons yet unknown. What seems to happen is
that the cursor changes color to black. Feel free to look up where
the cursor color gets set, and pepper the fbcon code with printk to find
where it goes wrong.
However,
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Chad Miller wrote:
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:20:44PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Ah, that's another possible approach: initialize the palette such that
inverting the pixel value inverts the color.
But I see one problem with that: how to know you're in 16-color
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:44:45PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Chad Miller wrote:
I suspect he means to set the bootloader (yaboot) to initialize those
values.
But once you ran e.g. X, the problem may reappear.
That's true. I'm basing my hunch that it'll work
Paul Talacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hallo,
ich versuche verzweifelt Debian 2.2 auf meinem Powerbook zu
installieren. Jedesmal, wenn ich im Installationsprogramm PCMCIA
konfigurieren mchte, hngt sich der Mac auf (Kernel panic: machine
check rebooting in 180 seconds). Ich wei
What should we initialize the palette registers to, in order to make the
cursor visible again?
Ah, that's another possible approach: initialize the palette such that
inverting the pixel value inverts the color.
But I see one problem with that: how to know you're in 16-color text
Michael Schmitz wrote:
What should we initialize the palette registers to, in order to make the
cursor visible again?
Ah, that's another possible approach: initialize the palette such that
inverting the pixel value inverts the color.
But I see one problem with that: how to know
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:08:54AM -0500, Chris Bryan wrote:
First off, thank you everyone for your help in using yaboot! However, I'm
still having problems launching it... I burned it to a cd, and when I try to
launch it from the cd, I get this error:
unrecognized Client Program format
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 09:42:28AM +0100 or thereabouts, Michel Dänzer wrote:
Patrice LaFlamme wrote:
But that still wouldn't excuse the existence of the problem... and it still
happens even if I launch from the command line.
That's to be expected. But does it also happen with
I suspect he means to set the bootloader (yaboot) to initialize those
values.
But once you ran e.g. X, the problem may reappear.
XFree86 4.01 will save and restore color maps on VT switch when the
UseFBDev option is used (see Michel's post). And I don't see any point in
not using that
Package: www.debian.org
Version: 2000-11-07
Severity: normal
The link 'Be-Box System' to
http://www.guru.dircon.co.uk/belinux/status.html on
http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/bbox is broken.
The link 'MBX System'
http://linuxppc.cs.nmt.edu/embedded.html on
Well, it seems that today was the day my new iBook came in,
finally.
64 Megs Ram, 20 Gig Hard drive, and (of course) Blue, not Lime Green.
I thought I had paid enough attention during Hadess's experience
installing on his to handle the situation without problems.
Boy, was I wrong...
Anyway, I
The PowerPC pages at http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc are
really out of date (there has already been a bug report: #69947).
Information like 'There is a small chance, that APUS will be
integrated into the potato release' is really embarrassing.
Can someone please update these pages. If you
C.M. Connelly wrote:
If you want to have the packages *now*, you can download the
source and build them yourself (if your /etc/apt/sources.list file
has the necessary deb-src lines (just like the deb lines, but with
deb-src instead, usually), you can type (as root)
apt-get -b source
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