Re: Questions about various upgrades: Netscape, XF etc.

2001-01-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
Renaud Dreyer wrote: I've been running potato on my PowerMac 7300 for almost a year now, and am wondering if it would be the time to upgrade various packages. First, I assume I can safely upgrade to the Netscape 4.7x packages in woody (or is it sid?)? I'm running Netscape 4.6 right

Re: Booting Patch

2001-01-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
Daryl Moulder wrote: Would it be possible to get the booting patch mentioned in this slashdot article http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/04/1336222.shtml Direct Link : http://lpp.FreeLords.org/ If it has anything to do with the pc bios probably not but if it just uses the

Re: r128 driver, unresolved symbols, XF86 4.0.2-1

2001-01-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
jingai wrote: 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

Re: Booting Patch

2001-01-05 Thread Adam Sjøgren
On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 17:50:07 +0100, nzer wrote: Would it be possible to get the booting patch mentioned in this slashdot article http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/04/1336222.shtml Direct Link : http://lpp.FreeLords.org/ If it has anything to do with the pc bios probably not but if it

Re: Booting Patch

2001-01-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
Adam Sjøgren wrote: On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 17:50:07 +0100, nzer wrote: Would it be possible to get the booting patch mentioned in this slashdot article http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/04/1336222.shtml Direct Link : http://lpp.FreeLords.org/ If it has anything to do with

Re: Booting Patch

2001-01-05 Thread Adam Sjøgren
On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 18:08:00 +0100, nzer wrote: I tried making an 800x600-image instead, but didn't succeed (black screen, one garbled line of funny chars and machine hangs). The original Debian-theme, 640x480, from the website works fine. This is a problem for Pismos and recent iBooks

IP MASQing on PPC…

2001-01-05 Thread Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
I compiled my kernel with these options: CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MOD=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPAUTOFW=m CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPPORTFW=m CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MFW=m and insmod’ed the modulebased kernel pieces. /sbin/depmod -a /sbin/insmod

Re: IP MASQing on PPC…

2001-01-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote: I compiled my kernel with these options: CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MOD=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPAUTOFW=m CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPPORTFW=m CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MFW=m and insmod?ed the modulebased kernel

Re: XFree86 on potato

2001-01-05 Thread Michael Schmitz
adbmouse. Then I edited /etc/X11/XF86Config so that the mouse device was adbmouse. DO NOT use the dev rpm, aliened or not, IT WILL RUIN YOUR SYSTEM! someone already made that mistake earlier and had to use boot floppies to recover. its not that hard to use mknod to create the handfull

mac-on-linux: any success yet?

2001-01-05 Thread Phil Fraering
I was wondering if anyone was trying to compile or put together a package for mac-on-linux? The docs that came with the tarfile weren't too clear on what extra libraries I need to get it to compile. Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: modem works!, battery drains fast?

2001-01-05 Thread Derek Homeier
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: Steven Hanley wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:44:35AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: Would that be via /proc/sys/vm/bdflush? What do the numbers mean? look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysctl/* notably vm.txt for the bdflush thing.

Email address change !

2001-01-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
My email address is changing ! Please, now use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks ! Ben.

Re: modem works!, battery drains fast?

2001-01-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Derek Homeier wrote: On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Reducing the speed of your CD-ROM helps as well. I know a friend who played MP3s from CD on his notebook. Everytime he started playing a new song his zillion-speed CD-ROM

Re: Re: r128 driver, unresolved symbols, XF86 4.0.2-1

2001-01-05 Thread jingai
hah, weird.. the ati driver works fine, and it is definitely accelerated.. .but the r128 driver won't load due to the unresolved symbols.. The former r128 and radeon drivers have been integrated into the ati driver, so r128_drv.o is only a submodule of ati_drv.o anymore. The question is

Re: mac-on-linux: any success yet?

2001-01-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:22:11PM -0600, Phil Fraering wrote: I was wondering if anyone was trying to compile or put together a package for mac-on-linux? The docs that came with the tarfile weren't too clear on what extra libraries I need to get it to compile. i have compiled it and have it

Re: r128 driver, unresolved symbols, XF86 4.0.2-1

2001-01-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
jingai wrote: hah, weird.. the ati driver works fine, and it is definitely accelerated.. .but the r128 driver won't load due to the unresolved symbols.. The former r128 and radeon drivers have been integrated into the ati driver, so r128_drv.o is only a submodule of ati_drv.o

Re: XFree86 on potato

2001-01-05 Thread Taro Fukunaga
I ran MAKEDEV generic-powerpc after rpm -e'ing the dev RPM. This created the devices I needed to run X and use the mouse, which is /dev/adbmouse. /etc/X11/XFree86Config looks like: Section Pointer Protocol BusMouse Device /dev/adbmouse ... Taro Michael Schmitz wrote: adbmouse. Then I

Re: mac-on-linux: any success yet?

2001-01-05 Thread John MacPhail
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:52:53PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: i can make a patch of my changes (against 0.53) available if anyone wants it. i know Dan was planning to package it but has been too busy and has not had a mac with a head on it to test with. If you make the path available, then