On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:59:08AM +1100, Steven Hanley wrote:
agreed, it seems I will get about 3 and a half to four hours with out taking
any precautions, still it would be nice to be able to get over 5 hours like
macos allegedly (so claimed in apple advertiisng and such) can on the
Mark Jaroski wrote:
Hi Mark
First of all let me thank you for all your efforts, swell. I installed
debian on my I386 (P3 with 3dfx Banshee) to see how it works. Different
arch, so different programs with the default XF86Setup settings I was on
the move :-)
In case you're wondering the
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 10:40:22AM +0100, Mark Lamers wrote:
then you can install the now debianized package using dpkg -i.
I get aan error that libc6 = 2.1.97 and it's 2.1.3-13, strange isn't
that newer?
no 2.1.97 is the devel library currently used in unstable (and maybe
ttesting, not
Hi,
I have an Apple iBook with FireWire (Summer 2000 model), and it seems I
run into troube installing Debian.
1) Potato 2.2r2 CD#1 could not be used as startup - hangs at the
beginning with strange video artifacts. Nothing helps.
2) I can install LinuxPPC (Red Hat v7 based) without complete
I have an idea.
If you run the app xviddetect on a mac linux box it shows you the pci
devices it can see.
It can see any pci devices and they don't have to be made for mac, I know
this because I have 2 additional nics in my 8500, one generic Realtek 8029
and a Digital Decchip 21142. Neither of
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Rolf Schatzmann wrote:
If you run the app xviddetect on a mac linux box it shows you the pci
devices it can see.
It can see any pci devices and they don't have to be made for mac, I know
this because I have 2 additional nics in my 8500, one generic Realtek 8029
and a
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote:
speaking of which, do you know how to control the powersaving features
of the framebuffer console? setterm does not work like it does on a
VGA text terminal on i386. (aty128fb)
fblevel is for that. AFAIK it goes from 0 (off) to 15 (maximum
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, starlett wrote:
I have an Apple iBook with FireWire (Summer 2000 model), and it seems I
run into troube installing Debian.
1) Potato 2.2r2 CD#1 could not be used as startup - hangs at the
beginning with strange video artifacts. Nothing helps.
Pop said CD into
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Steven Hanley wrote:
so, I disabled the fbdriver and did a make World again, 45 minutes later (is
there an option to the make command so it actually uses make's dependances
and goes to where the compile crapped out or whatever and starts from there?
Yes. `just type make'
Since gcc 2.7.2.3 can no longer build correct m68k-kernels, I'm rebuilding a
new cross-compiler on my PPC box, using the Debian sources for
binutils-2.9.5.0.37 and gcc-2.95.2.
I created a cross-binutils in /usr/local, using the configuration options
--enable-shared --build=powerpc-linux
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 05:45:22AM +0100, Björn Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 02 January 2001 03:14, Brendan J Simon wrote:
Does Mozilla have Java support ???
I am using Mozilla as it is the only browser that I know of the works on
the PowerPC machines. I guess Communicator would be my
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Since gcc 2.7.2.3 can no longer build correct m68k-kernels, I'm rebuilding a
new cross-compiler on my PPC box, using the Debian sources for
binutils-2.9.5.0.37 and gcc-2.95.2.
I created a cross-binutils in /usr/local, using the configuration
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:30:53PM +0200, starlett wrote:
2) I can install LinuxPPC (Red Hat v7 based) without complete
reformatting my HD (I have 6 GB MacOS 9 partition and 4 GB unallocated).
Is it possible to use LinuxPPC partitioning scheme later with Debian?
LinuxPPC uses 32 MB HFS
Hi,
I have an Apple iBook with FireWire (Summer 2000 model), and it seems I
run into troube installing Debian.
I had trouble initially. I've gotten past it.
1) Potato 2.2r2 CD#1 could not be used as startup - hangs at the
beginning with strange video artifacts. Nothing helps.
Are
I reinstalled Potato on the following machine and can't start the mouse
(Bin X:
(B
(BMachine: PowerComputing PowerCenter 120
(BVideo:XClaim3D 8MB
(BOF: Old World
(B
(BReading an older post, I experimented with various Devices. Only
(B/dev/adb and /dev/mouse allow me to boot
The problem is that I do not see yaboot prompt, it hangs almost
imediately. Looks like Debian kernel does not like my motherboard with
FireWire or video. BTW, hardware is OK because MacOS 9 runs without any
problems.
Pop said CD into drive, and boot with debian video=ofonly at the
Taro Fukunaga wrote:
I reinstalled Potato on the following machine and can't start the mouse
in X:
Machine: PowerComputing PowerCenter 120
Video:XClaim3D 8MB
OF: Old World
[snip]
What can I put in my Device section so that I can use my mouse?
The big question here is: which
Michael Flaig wrote:
I4m using communicator under Debian ... woody ...
it is available ... i4m not sure if it is in potato but in woody it is ...
Yes, it is in potato, but the communicator package depends on 4.7, which is
only
in woody (bug #66350). Try searching in dselect (or your
Thank you. I am using 2.2.18, compiled from sources from kernel.org. I guess
I'll work on it tonight.
-- Taro
--Original Message--
From: Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Taro Fukunaga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: January 2, 2001 4:13:27 PM GMT
Subject: Re: XFree86 on potato
Taro
maybe i should clarify my question (mostly pertaining to desktops, but
laptops all the same)
currently after about 10 minutes idle the monitor is put into
powersave mode (this is console, no X) on x86 this behavior is
controled via setterm -powersave and setterm -powerdown. these same
agreed, it seems I will get about 3 and a half to four hours with out taking
any precautions, still it would be nice to be able to get over 5 hours like
macos allegedly (so claimed in apple advertiisng and such) can on the
machine.
if you read the fine print on such advertising you
fblevel is for that. AFAIK it goes from 0 (off) to 15 (maximum brightness).
Isn't it 35?, or to put it this way: Is 35 dangerous (PB 3400)?
1-35 is used by some other tool that talks directly to the PMU (bypassing
the kernel, that's why the kernel never learns about the changed setting
and
Björn Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 02 January 2001 03:14, Brendan J Simon wrote:
Does Mozilla have Java support ???
I am using Mozilla as it is the only browser that I know of the works on
the PowerPC machines. I guess Communicator would be my preferred choice
because it is much more
I'm trying to get Debian/powerpc running on an embedded PowerPC (to
(Bbe specific on a digital satellite receiver / pay tv box).
(B
(BI've installed the base.tar.gz, but when trying to reconfigure base-config
(Bto setup the system i get:
(B
(Bbash-2.03# dpkg-reconfigure base-config
(BPerl
I recall seeing a message on the m68k list some time ago, from someone who
got debian-powerpc running on a pb1400cs using some combination of the
mklinux installer and the debian-powerpc base files.
Is this true? Are there any success stories? Or is my memory distored by
wishful thinking?
Nick
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 03:56:06PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Since gcc 2.7.2.3 can no longer build correct m68k-kernels, I'm rebuilding a
new cross-compiler on my PPC box, using the Debian sources for
binutils-2.9.5.0.37 and gcc-2.95.2.
Björn Johansson wrote:
On Monday 01 January 2001 17:18, Michel Dänzer wrote:
Björn Johansson schrieb:
How will the Debian distribution take advantage of the new features
which comes with the 2.4 kernel? If I run Debian2.2r2 with a 2.4 kernel
rather than with a 2.2 kernel, what's the
Phil Fraering wrote:
ahh I must say this is good, of course now I am wondering about getting
dri working, just for the heck of it, to see how good this card is at 3d
stuff :)
It doesn't work yet, please be patient.
In the old 4.0.1 phase 5 version, I'm able to run xlock-gl
Michael Schmitz wrote:
Any suggestions how I can find out what accesses my disk every few seconds
and thus keeps me from powering it down?
My guess is you have all sorts of funny daemons running that peek at the
disk every few seconds. With LinuxPPC I had to disable things like
icecast,
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
I tried video=map:1 and all I know is that it hung real early, before any
disk activity. My kernels are on a zip disk and root on an IDE drive, so I
can tell when the kernel loading stops and the disk activity starts, but
can't see any boot messages- nothing appears
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:44:35AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote:
Michael Schmitz wrote:
I didn't tweak any bdflush parameters (tried that before disabling the crazy
services and it didn't help).
Would that be via /proc/sys/vm/bdflush? What do the numbers mean?
look in
Hullo,
I recently installed a Newer tech (gack!) G3 upgrade card, and now I get the
following message periodically:
pmac_set_rtc_time: got 3 byte reply
Does anyone know what this means, or how to make it go away?
Thanks,
Peter
Ani Joshi wrote:
I have recently updated my XFree86 tree to 4.0.2 with my updated
drivers. Here are some notes which will be usefull:
* Accelerated drivers which are now ppc safe in my tree include:
ATI Mach64
ATI Rage128/Pro/Mobility
3Dfx Banshee
3Dfx
Steven Hanley wrote:
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:44:35AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote:
Michael Schmitz wrote:
I didn't tweak any bdflush parameters (tried that before disabling the
crazy services and it didn't help).
Would that be via /proc/sys/vm/bdflush? What do the numbers mean?
Umm, so I forgot some information
/proc/cpuinfo:
--
processor : 0
cpu : 750
temperature : 0 C
clock : 195MHz
revision: 131.0
bogomips: 797.90
total bogomips : 797.90
zero pages : total: 0 (0Kb) current: 0 (0Kb) hits: 0/0 (0%)
machine
I tried the new 4.0.2 x last night; it crashed hard.
What hardware?
It's blue!
Seriously, an iBook DV 366 Mhz.
I may try building from source in a little while. Should I
get official sources or the apt-get sources?
Phil
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Hello all, I am having troubles with the latest XF86 packages (4.0.2-1)
and the r128 driver module.. X complains of numerous unresolved symbols
in the r128 driver, as shown below. It also aborts and dumps core, so if
anyone needs the core file (approx. 6MB) I do still have it.
Any help is much
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