On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:35:47PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Hi,
I've just uploaded new versions of my preliminary Mac-on-Linux
packages to incoming. As usual, they can also be found in
deb http://samiel.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/debian sid main
deb-src
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Let's try to fix this 'q' - 'a' problem. It was a real pain for me
when I first installed Debian on a mac with a French keyboard: you need
to be able to hit 'q' to get out of the fdisk program, and maybe it comes
up in other parts of the
Hi,
I have a bunch of 7200 Macs that I want to turn into servers, and I'm having
trouble getting them to boot without the monitor. I've tried it on a
7300 and a beige g3, and they work fine without a monitor.
Are there any tricks that will let me do this? Maybe a resistor or
something that
Let's try to fix this 'q' - 'a' problem. It was a real pain for me
when I first installed Debian on a mac with a French keyboard: you need
to be able to hit 'q' to get out of the fdisk program, and maybe it comes
up in other parts of the installation too. This hassle already came up on
the
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:02:12PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:50:41PM -0700, Peter Canning wrote:
Ctrl-Shift-Power works fine (just like ctrlaltdel on an intel debian
machine) for me. I've been using this key
Hi,
Ethan Benson writes:
you need to move the nvram file to /var/lib: i keep /usr mounted
read-only, the FHS allows this, and debian policy mandates FHS
compliance.
I knew I had forgotten one. Thanks for pointing this out.
you need to save the md5sum of the debconf generated config and
Hi,
David J. Roundy writes:
I'm using kernel 2.2.19pre17, [...]
I get a mol-modules-2.2.17_0.9.58+Custom.1.00_powerpc.deb,
Unless the line above contains a typo, your mol-modules package
appears to be compiled with the wrong kernel headers or the wrong
kernel source or both. The package
Hi,
Jens Schmalzing writes:
You should be able to `insmod molsymglue0 mol' successfully if you
are running a 2.2 kernel.
`startmol --loadonly', that is. Sorry for the error and for following
up on my own post.
Regards, Jens.
--
J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe!
Le veux aimeb et mqubib
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 01:33:06PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Presently, i.e. in the version I am working on, I use the approach of
the xserver-xfree86 package. If a configuration file exists, debconf
asks whether to overwrite it based on the answers to the following
questions.
just so
Ethan Benson wrote:
i think quik's symlink code is quite unreliable, as a friend of mine
always had his 7200 fail to boot if quik was pointed at a
/boot/vmlinux - /boot/vmlinux-2.2.1X symlink. /boot is on the root
filesystem, not a separate partition, i could not concieve of why this
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this the correct list to talk about my
gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
make [1]: ***[cPersistence.o] Error 1
http://voltaire.debian.org/buildlogs/zope
It builds fine on voltaire which hints that you really hit a
Ethan Benson wrote:
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:49:40PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
I don't know, will try to mark it bootable at some point using mac-pdisk
(that
won't mess up my hard drive, right? :-).
well, i don't think mac-fdisk will do it. looking at quik this is not
your
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
Ethan Benson wrote:
btw, can you please toss a \n in your message every once in a while?
like say every 72 characters. thanks ;-)
Sorry about that. Netscape Mail is sometimes good about that, sometimes
not. :-(
It works for me when I both set the Message
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 07:33:09PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:25:12PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
I've never used a PCI parport card on any arch, so I don't know what kind
of
Don't tell me you only have cpu = 486? Did I miss understand you to think
that you
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 01:57:14PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
`startmol --loadonly'
I have now recompiled using the correct kernel source, and when I do
`startmol --loadonly', I get the following error message:
# startmol --loadonly
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:25:21AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
No, you missed something there. I said I've never used a
PCI parport card, not that I've never used PCI. I've used parallel ports,
and I've used PCI, but I've only ever used parallel ports that were build
into the motherboard
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:44:53AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:43:40AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
Hi,
I have a bunch of 7200 Macs that I want to turn into servers, and I'm having
trouble getting them to boot without the monitor. I've tried it on a
7300 and a
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:25:21AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
No, you missed something there. I said I've never used a
PCI parport card, not that I've never used PCI. I've used parallel ports,
and I've used PCI, but I've only ever used parallel
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:39:43AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
I kinda agree with nvidia myself. They've got the 3d graphics market on the
PC corned. Why would you give away that just for a driver? From what I've
seen, they have OSSed the kernel-interfaces of the driver. That's fine with
me.
Well, it's a little more complicated than that. They have hard-won
software optimizations in their drivers that they don't necessarily
want to give away to their competitors any faster than they have
to. As for competitors disassembling their binaries, you may be
assuming a competence level that
Well, I thought I'd seen this problem in the archives, but I can't for
the life of me find it... so apologies if this is a FAQ by now:
I cannot seem to get xserver-xfree86 configured on a Powerbook G3
(Lombard). I've tried multiple kernels to no avail, including
yesterday's snapshot of Cort's
Hi all,
On 2 May, this message from Mike Fedyk echoed through cyberspace:
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:22:59PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:23:33PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:51:49PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
I haven't seen too many [OK,
Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am reluctant to do that. I'd prefer to get a solution into XFree86.
Someone please try the attached patch against current CVS. It turns Option
UseBIOSDisplay (which probably doesn't work for us - no BIOS here...) into
Option Display which accepts
hello,
I've two question. The first one concern a color problem which is not only
cosmetic, but is really annoying. For example, when I launch linuxconf in X,
a lot of error message appears in the shell, telling me that the color has not
been allocated and that it will be replaced by black. Of
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:10:31PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
I tried to use my old X configuration and it doesn't work at all,
server just hangs. I figured some configuration files in /etc/X11 must
have gotten stomped by the CVS install of X, so I ran dpkg --remove of
xserver-common and
Jason E. Stewart wrote:
Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am reluctant to do that. I'd prefer to get a solution into XFree86.
Someone please try the attached patch against current CVS. It turns Option
UseBIOSDisplay (which probably doesn't work for us - no BIOS here...) into
Option
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:11:31AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
There used to be a problem with symlinks from / (I forget whether it liked
links to have a leading / or not, e.g. /zip - /zip/boot worked but -
zip/boot didn't or vice versa). I sent a patch to fix that before the potato
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:50:51PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
Ethan Benson wrote:
btw, can you please toss a \n in your message every once in a while?
like say every 72 characters. thanks ;-)
Sorry about that. Netscape Mail is sometimes good about
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:19:27AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
Okay, then it works on /dev/sda4, but fails on /dev/hdb6. I guess this means
that OF
can't boot from the slave device.
most likely...
i think i am going to leave support for finding the device in
ofpath.. since its
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:42:18AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
Ok... but I remember doing something very similar before, and that was with
2.2.17.
you also need to compile your kernel without BootX support. that at
least used to break quik, it may be ok now, but i still prefer to keep
bootx
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:21:39PM -0700, Paschoud Alain wrote:
hello,
I've two question. The first one concern a color problem which is not only
cosmetic, but is really annoying. For example, when I launch linuxconf in
X, a lot of error message appears in the shell, telling me that the
I heard a rumour,
Well, benh, the yaboot author, said he plans to make yaboot work on all
Power Macs, so he will do it. He has a 8100AV, and, so, I or somebody
needs to fix the Apple AV card support before that is possible. Or else,
we need to get him a NuBus/PDS video card which works with
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:45:01PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:42:18AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
Ok... but I remember doing something very similar before, and that was with
2.2.17.
you also need to compile your kernel without BootX support. that at
least used to
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 06:43:01PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
MacOS was installed on the first possible partition (mostly /dev/sda5) with
linux on sda = 6.
I'm going to initially try quik with a MacOS clean setup, but I'm wondering
about these machines I've already setup.
Since OF looks
One note on this problem - older versions of Netscape caused this
kind of thing pretty often because it tried to grab all the colormaps
it could as soon as it opened. The result? Open Netscape, and then
everything you open afterwards runs out of colors. I haven't checked
the newer versions on
Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jason E. Stewart wrote:
Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am reluctant to do that. I'd prefer to get a solution into XFree86.
Someone please try the attached patch against current CVS. It turns
Option
UseBIOSDisplay (which
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