On 30 May, this message from Branden Robinson echoed through cyberspace:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:43:01PM +0200, morten wrote:
I'm starting to wonder whether or not it was a good idea to install the
xf86_fbdev in my 7200/75. It works, but it seems kind of slow and I don't
suceed in
thanks for all the people supporting me in this issue!
i think i'll have a long long weekend (without any sleep) ;)
thanX!
timo
At 12:05 Uhr -0300 30.05.2001, Peter Cordes wrote:
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:52:15PM +, Cameron Berkenpas wrote:
I'm using a Netgear FA310TX card in my mac
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:39:09PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:09:16PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
Cameron Berkenpas wrote:
I thought I read somewhere that XFS is working on PPC..
I take it that info was incorrect?
I think what you read is that ...they are
hej,
but I have other things on my mind rigth now -
like finding a browser that is not mozilla
Tried konqueror yet?
I find skipstone is most intriguing... it's
mozilla-based, but does not come with such a
bloated interface.
you may find it in testing.
bye
Philipp KaeserMichel Dänzer
On Thu, May 31, Steven Hanley wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:39:09PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:09:16PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
Cameron Berkenpas wrote:
I thought I read somewhere that XFS is working on PPC..
I take it that info was incorrect?
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Steven Hanley wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:39:09PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:09:16PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
Cameron Berkenpas wrote:
I thought I read somewhere that XFS is working on PPC..
I take it that info was incorrect?
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:00:43AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Hmm, I thought we had convinced them to keep on using big-endian for the
metadata at Linux Kongress in Augsburg.
I dont know what the on disk format is, they may have kept the big endian
format, after all one would assume they
Jason E. Stewart wrote:
To switch from X to VC: Hold down command (apple), then press and hold
down 'Fn', then press the Function key (F7 depending on which VC X is
on).
Actually, Fn isn't needed for Fx where x 6 .
Hope this isn't too confusing. ;)
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)
Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
On Thu, May 31, Steven Hanley wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:39:09PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:09:16PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
Cameron Berkenpas wrote:
I thought I read somewhere that XFS is working on PPC..
I take
I managed to get a debian system installed on my new G4 533 dual. I have
only limited experience with debian. Please forgive my ignorance.
I could not used the debian ramdisk image for some reason so
I used the linuxPPC Q4 ramdisk. (The debian ramdisk would not go past the
release notes and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I managed to get a debian system installed on my new G4 533 dual. I have
only limited experience with debian. Please forgive my ignorance.
No worries, welcome Fred! :)
I could not used the debian ramdisk image for some reason so
I used the linuxPPC Q4 ramdisk.
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:14:18AM -0600, Pete Willemsen wrote:
Hi. I'm also very new to Linux on a PPC. Is it expected that these
newer PPCs with nvidia cards will actually have accelerated graphics
support via X at some point in the future? For instance, will nvidia be
release PPC-based
Peter Cordes wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:14:18AM -0600, Pete Willemsen wrote:
Hi. I'm also very new to Linux on a PPC. Is it expected that these
newer PPCs with nvidia cards will actually have accelerated graphics
support via X at some point in the future? For instance, will
Pete Willemsen wrote:
Michel Dänzer wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, lastly, is there an X server that works with the GForce2 video in
my new G4?
4.x (in testing or unstable) has the nv driver, but I wouldn't expect that
to work on PPC yet. You'll most likely have to use an
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:50:57PM +, Cameron Berkenpas wrote:
I thought you might find this info relevant.
I'm running a starmax 4000/200 with 80 megs of ram and a 200 mhz 604e.
I also run kernel 2.4.4-pre6 and I've been up for 9 days now.
Before this, I was up for about 25 days. I
On 31 May 2001 08:14:18 -0600, Pete Willemsen wrote:
Michel Dänzer wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, lastly, is there an X server that works with the GForce2 video in my
new G4?
4.x (in testing or unstable) has the nv driver, but I wouldn't expect that
to
work on PPC yet.
Peter Cordes wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:50:57PM +, Cameron Berkenpas wrote:
I thought you might find this info relevant.
I'm running a starmax 4000/200 with 80 megs of ram and a 200 mhz 604e.
I also run kernel 2.4.4-pre6 and I've been up for 9 days now.
Before this, I was
Geez, I would first try booting from the CD and doing an install the
real way. It's about a billion times easier than all this. If you
boot off the CD, the kernel chokes when trying to mount the
ramdisk? I certainly hope not. I drool at the thought of a dual
G4.
a
Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:57:52AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
I was misquoting someone else when I said it had endian problems.
My bad. I should have said that it has powerpc problems, but don't
take that as gospel, because I'm just parroting someone else.
It used to have ppc problems.
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:55:52AM +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
Since XFS runs stable on UltraSPARC, I see now reason why it should
not work on Linux/PPC. I don't know if the on-disk-format is compatible
between big- and little-endian systems, but this is in the moment no
major problem for
Rahul Jain wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:57:52AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
I was misquoting someone else when I said it had endian problems.
My bad. I should have said that it has powerpc problems, but don't
take that as gospel, because I'm just parroting someone else.
It used
-On Wed, 30 May 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
The big endian patches change the code to use little endian ordering
for all on-disk structures. IMO this is a mistake, and certainly
costs a dear performance penalty, because on big endian
I´m from the mac-side of live, i do not like options, i like smart
software that determinds the fs by its own.
Good luck with that approach.
I like options to force a program to do what I want, maybe doing stupid
things.
So i prefer to let the kernel look at the partition-table (or another
no one has answered this and though maybe this is the
wrong list to ask this question, i am in the same boat,
having installed recently on a 7300/200, and it is one
thing i am finding really frustrating. could someone
point us in the right direction?
The list archives, they're full of
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:15:19PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
Jason E. Stewart wrote:
To switch from X to VC: Hold down command (apple), then press and hold
down 'Fn', then press the Function key (F7 depending on which VC X is
on).
Actually, Fn isn't needed for Fx where x 6 .
We needed quite a while to install potato on the iMac. Basically the
problem seems to be incorporated in mac-fdisk. It partitioned the
harddisk according to the needs, but afterwards the install script could
not initialize and activate those partitions (We used option C to do
so). In the end
Andrew Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's really got a specific symptomology. I am almost tempted to say
it has something to do with powersaving/sleeping, as it only happens
when the system is idle, virtually always when the video is off
(although it runs for hours with the video off when
On 30 May, this message from Michael Shuey echoed through cyberspace:
If you have an old-world Mac, read www.netbsd.org's macppc System Disk
Tutorial (http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/SystemDisk-tutorial/). Since
the OF on oldworlds is buggy (to be polite) you should really run Apple's
OF
I'm trying to get Debian installed on a Power Computing PowerWave
604/132 (circa 1995) with a Sonnet Crescendo/PCI G3 accelerator [1]
(circa 1999). Some months ago I successfully installed and ran
Yellow Dog Linux 1.0 on this same hardware configuration and used
BootX to dual-boot with MacOS.
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:30:56AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
Rahul Jain wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:57:52AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
I was misquoting someone else when I said it had endian problems.
My bad. I should have said that it has powerpc problems, but don't
Brian Hicks wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:15:19PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
Jason E. Stewart wrote:
To switch from X to VC: Hold down command (apple), then press and hold
down 'Fn', then press the Function key (F7 depending on which VC X is
on).
Actually, Fn isn't needed
Just to follow up to myself, I've upgraded to woody and installed pmud.
With the patch at http://penguinppc.org/~trini/pmud_0.7-3-ibook2.patch
applied and using a 2.4 kernel from BenH's rsync with some other minor changes
which should be in soon (so screen works and the right features are picked)
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:41:02AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:14:18AM -0600, Pete Willemsen wrote:
Hi. I'm also very new to Linux on a PPC. Is it expected that these
newer PPCs with nvidia cards will actually have accelerated graphics
support via X at some point
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:59:43PM -0400, Rahul Jain wrote:
The PPC users only started complaining a week before that. (Good think, too,
since next week I start my job where I'll be playing with Linux 2.4 on an SMP
RS/6000. Unfortunately, IBM doesn't have debian as a supported distro...)
that
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:15:59PM -0400, Keith Dawson wrote:
The problem of the moment is that the boot process hangs (or rather,
loops indefinitely) at statement:
INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Any idea idea what causes this and how to fix it?
what version
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/31/01
at 09:37 AM, Andrew Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Geez, I would first try booting from the CD and doing an install the real
way. It's about a billion times easier than all this. If you boot off
the CD, the kernel chokes when trying to mount the ramdisk? I
KD:
The problem of the moment is that the boot process hangs (or rather,
loops indefinitely) at statement:
INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Any idea idea what causes this and how to fix it?
EB:
what version of boot-floppies are you using?
Thought I had a
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