Re: PowerMac G3 not booting after installation

2001-02-23 Thread Michel Lanners
On 20 Feb, this message from Mike Fedyk echoed through cyberspace: set the load-base to 60 (remember OLDWORLD ONLY do NOT do this to a newworld) we also applied the OF patches from darwin, you should be able to set these from linux from a text file which i can send you if you want it.

Re: Troubles upgrading from 200 MHz P2 to 400 MHz G3...

2001-02-23 Thread Michel Lanners
Hi, On 19 Feb, this message from Tovar echoed through cyberspace: Here's the whole bus, or, at least all of PCI bus that 2.2.18 vanilla can find: # lspci -v 00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Bandit PowerPC host bridge (rev 03) [snip] 'lspci' and/or LINUX only seems to

Re: [S.R.E.Turner@statslab.cam.ac.uk: Re: Bug#86356: analog: analog segfaults]

2001-02-23 Thread Michel Lanners
[cross-posted to linuxppc-dev] On 20 Feb, this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] echoed through cyberspace: Background: analog segfaults when using a custom config file. The author tried debugging the program on my B50 and replied with this message. Is gcc known to be buggy for powerpc? I'm

Re: Debian PC and PPC

2001-02-23 Thread Mike Fedyk
Lorenzo De Vito wrote: I'm a new user of Linux on Powerpc , which kind differences I can find with Linux on Intel platforms, all packages I've used on PC I can use on my G3, how can I find compatible software? If I want update my Kernel I must use a specific for LinuxPPC ? Excuse me for my

Re: BootX and the Stuffit Fiasco.

2001-02-23 Thread Michael Schmitz
With all respect, that is nonsense. Any problems are the fault of whoever originally picked Stuffit for packaging free software. No one is making you use Stuffit. If you don't like that format then you're free to find something you do like, reverse engineer it or write your own replacement

Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-23 Thread Christophe Suire
Hi I have install a Debian 2.2rev2 on a B50 using the kernel of YellowDog .. But i'm tring to install yaboot .. and it doesn't work :) (it says that the scsi card ncrXXX is not supported) Someone can help me ? -- Christophe Suire [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ingénieur

Re: netscape ??

2001-02-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
Eric Deveaud wrote: i'm just finishing to install the powerbook (pismo) of my boss. she want's to be abble to use netscape. when I apt-get install netscape (or communicator or wathever) I get the following error Sorry the following packages have unmet dependencies: netscape: Depends:

Re: BootX and the Stuffit Fiasco.

2001-02-23 Thread Sam Powers
On Thursday 22 February 2001 10:28, Advertising wrote: I believe the Stuffit self-expanding archive format works across the majority of the MacOS spectrum. (much wider that DebianPPC) Is there a reason not to use that file format for the Debian PowerMac install items? Yes, the reason is that

Re: BootX and the Stuffit Fiasco.

2001-02-23 Thread Sam Powers
On Thursday 22 February 2001 06:40, Ethan Benson wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 07:08:00PM -0600, Jonathan Wight wrote: On 02/22/2001 17:49, Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:28:04PM -0500, Advertising wrote: all the problems you describe are the fault of

Re: Troubles upgrading from 200 MHz P2 to 400 MHz G3...

2001-02-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Michel Lanners wrote: Regarding the S3 card, I supose this is a PC-type card? Then you might want to ask on the linuxppc-dev list or search the archives thereof (see lists.linuxppc.org) for somebody who has this type of card working via an i386 emulator to actually run and

RE: Pushing up daisies...

2001-02-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Leandro Dutra wrote: From: Mike Fedyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) Does that mean that the open specs from IBM have hardware made from them, or is this something else? It was the set of standards created for

Re: Pushing up daisies...

2001-02-23 Thread Jonathan Belson
How I miss the mass-market CHRP boards IBM promised us! IBM didn't want to produce the boards themself. They just provided a reference implementation. It's (a.o.?) Tatung and Umax that are to blame, for not wanting to produce those boards (they didn't believe in Linux) after Steve Jobs

CHRP (Was: Pushing up daisies...)

2001-02-23 Thread Leandro Dutra
From: Geert Uytterhoeven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Leandro Dutra wrote: From: Mike Fedyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) It was the set of standards created for Power PC computers that would be made by various

Re: BootX and the Stuffit Fiasco.

2001-02-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:05:38AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: I don't think BenH should have used anything other than .sit, from a pure user perspective. StuffIt is the de facto archiver on MacOS for all I know. If BenH had released BootX as a bunch of .bin files (or a tarball of those)

164sx PROBLEMS

2001-02-23 Thread Anish Patel
Can anyone help me out. I am thinking there has to be something wrong with the IDE driver in the Linux Kernels. every time I try to install I get an error about lost interrupt and also that the cd-rom can't decode or something of that sort. the only reason I think it is the kernel is because I

RE: 164sx PROBLEMS

2001-02-23 Thread Leandro Dutra
From: Anish Patel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with out a problem. This is on a 164SX that's booting and EB variant kernel from the SRM console. Isn't this an Alpha problem? --_  / \  Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra +55 (11) 246 96 07 resl  \ /  Amdocs Brasil Ltda,

Re: Debian PC and PPC

2001-02-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Lorenzo De Vito wrote: I'm a new user of Linux on Powerpc , which kind differences I can find with Linux on Intel platforms, all packages I've used on PC I can use on my G3, how can I find compatible software? If I want update my Kernel I must use a specific for LinuxPPC ? Excuse me for my

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-23 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
Christophe Suire wrote: I have install a Debian 2.2rev2 on a B50 using the kernel of YellowDog How did you do it? The only kernel that boot on my RS/6000 44P 170 comes from SuSE. But the install process die when it try to partition the disk. I'd like to install it and install Debian after

Re: [S.R.E.Turner@statslab.cam.ac.uk: Re: Bug#86356: analog: analog segfaults]

2001-02-23 Thread Kevin B . Hendricks
Hi, Most of the bugs in passing parameters have been fixed by the 2.95.3 series Franz Sirl has created. To see if it is indeed a parameter passing issue, I need to know what the types are for each parameter passed below (specifically if any are long long int or float or double types and what

Re: [S.R.E.Turner@statslab.cam.ac.uk: Re: Bug#86356: analog: analog segfaults]

2001-02-23 Thread Jerry Van Baren
I'm not a gcc guru either, but what is the function prototype for printtree()? The rules for passing parameters vary by what kind of parameters are passed. Also, make SURE you have the CORRECT function prototype for printtree() in the function that calls it. A classic problem is not having

mutt problems sending email

2001-02-23 Thread Taro Fukunaga
I am using Potato 2.2r2 and am having problems sending email with mutt. Has anyone experienced this? It seems that I can send email directly to myself, but other emails fail (there is no error message, the recipients just never receive it). Thank you for any suggestions, Taro

Re: mutt problems sending email

2001-02-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
Taro Fukunaga wrote: I am using Potato 2.2r2 and am having problems sending email with mutt. Has anyone experienced this? It seems that I can send email directly to myself, but other emails fail Sounds like you didn't set up your MTA (exim?) correctly. It can deliver mail locally but not to

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-23 Thread tom_gall
German Poo Caaman~o wrote: Christophe Suire wrote: I have install a Debian 2.2rev2 on a B50 using the kernel of YellowDog How did you do it? The only kernel that boot on my RS/6000 44P 170 comes from SuSE. But the install process die when it try to partition the disk. Hi German, For

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-23 Thread Christophe Suire
German Poo Caaman~o wrote: Christophe Suire wrote: I have install a Debian 2.2rev2 on a B50 using the kernel of YellowDog How did you do it? The only kernel that boot on my RS/6000 44P 170 comes from SuSE. But the install process die when it try to partition the disk. I'd like to

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-23 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the case of 170 German I'd recommend you stick with SuSE. Debian does not have the fixed glibc and without that you're dead in the water. Hi Tom, I knew that as you said me before. But, Debian can be installed over another distribution :-) I'm hoping so The

x-window on powermac G3

2001-02-23 Thread Alexander Kitzberger
Hello, i want to configure the x-window system on a powermac G3 after installing xserver-common, i can't find the program xf86config. Can anyone help me? Thanks a lot Alex

Re: Sustaining RedHat [was: BootX and the Stuffit Fiasco.]

2001-02-23 Thread Mike Fedyk
Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:05:38AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: getting a free (as in speech) StuffIt packager for Debian are practically nil as you pointed out rather convincingly. it will happen either when: 1) hell freezes over. 2) redhat (or someone) buys

Re: BootX and the Stuffit Fiasco.

2001-02-23 Thread Michael Schmitz
The problem is only with incorporating BootX into the Debian install files, and here we can indeed convert all files to MacBinary format once and have mkhybrid properly install them on the HFS part of the install CD if necessary. But I doubt that was the original question. mkhybrid is

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the B50 you should be able to use a CHRP kernel and get that to work. The problem is that the original CHRP boot disk for potato is ext2 instead of FAT, and OF can't load the kernel. Even after manually extracting the kernel it does not boot on a B50, I

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 23, German Poo Caaman~o [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only kernel that boot on my RS/6000 44P 170 comes from SuSE. But the install process die when it try to partition the disk. I'd like to install it and install Debian after that. You can try with a minimalist suse install and then

Re: Bug#86356: analog: analog segfaults

2001-02-23 Thread Stephen Turner
Thanks for your help with this, Kevin (I'm the upstream author). To see if it is indeed a parameter passing issue, I need to know what the types are for each parameter passed below (specifically if any are long long int or float or double types and what the return type is of that function so

need a little help installing

2001-02-23 Thread Otto
hi, I'm trying to install potato on my pismo. I have MacOS 9.04, MacOS X PB and LinuxPPC running, so I figured I could convert a spare HFS partition to ext2 and have debian and LinuxPPC share the existing swap partition. So I booted into the installer from CD, but for some reason, debian won't

Re: Bug#86356: analog: analog segfaults

2001-02-23 Thread Kevin B . Hendricks
Hi, I think the second double value is confusing the compiler into skipping a stack slot when it really shouldn't be doing that at all! This is wierd. Here is a quick and dirty way to test. Move both double parameters to the beginning of the function and caller and the problem should go

Re: Bug#86356: analog: analog segfaults

2001-02-23 Thread Stephen Turner
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: Here is a quick and dirty way to test. Move both double parameters to the beginning of the function and caller and the problem should go away. Another solution is to include a dummy int variable in both the caller and the function right

Re: need a little help installing

2001-02-23 Thread Andrew Sharp
I'm not familiar with LinuxPPC distro, but Linux requires a swap partition to actually contain a certain signature. If LinuxPPC is already using a partition as swap, then it should have that in it already, and then the installation is ALREADY using it as a swap partition, so you can skip that

Re: Bug#86356: analog: analog segfaults

2001-02-23 Thread Kevin B . Hendricks
Hi, I have a working gcc HEAD build from about 2 weeks ago. If you send me some standalone test code, I would be happy to test it. I also have 2.95.3 too and will test with both. Just create a main with a call to printtrace and have printtrace print all the values and just return and I will

Re: Sustaining RedHat [was: BootX and the Stuffit Fiasco.]

2001-02-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:00:05AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: 1) hell freezes over. 2) redhat (or someone) buys aladdin and GPLs all thier code. How is RedHat going to buy any company if the trends keep going the way they are? Redhat always ends up having more things wrong with it, maybe

Re: Bug#86356: analog: analog segfaults

2001-02-23 Thread Kevin B . Hendricks
Hi, Regardless of the interface or code, the compiler should be able to handle this case properly. I agree simpler is better but I am more interested in making sure this bug is fixed in gcc if it hasn't already been. If not, I personally want to see it fixed since the code I wrote for

Re: BootX and the Stuffit Fiasco.

2001-02-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 07:48:17PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: I'd venture a guess Apple's mindset about openness on hardware and OS software issues has fostered an equal mindset in other software companies working for the MacOS market. I should have been more explicit about that. probably

evolution etc...

2001-02-23 Thread Phil Fraering
Could whoever came up with the fixed version of evolution and/or its dependent packages (I think bonobo was one of the big problems) please kindly upload the newer versions they generated? Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mutt problems sending email

2001-02-23 Thread Taro Fukunaga
Ill check mailq and mail -v tonight. This problem just happened suddenly; mutt was working fine until this week. The only thing I've done this week that may have caused this was I installed apache. I have not touched exim's rc file for a while and it looks unchanged. But even after uninstalling

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:47:15PM -0300, German Poo Caaman~o wrote: Do it need a particular partition like Apple's PowerPC? (I mean an small partition to store the boot images) i think you need a small bootstrap partition that you directly dd yaboot to (no filesystem dd if=yaboot

Re: need a little help installing

2001-02-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:49:07PM +0100, Otto wrote: hi, I'm trying to install potato on my pismo. I have MacOS 9.04, MacOS X PB and LinuxPPC running, so I figured I could convert a spare HFS partition to ext2 and have debian and LinuxPPC share the existing swap partition. So I booted