Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

2001-06-02 Thread Ani Joshi
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: I might do that, but then is there any benefit of vgaHW working on a Mac? It seems to work fine without, so I might as well hack the syscall to fail. Yes, vgaHW is very much indeed needed on Mac (or pretty much any platform). For boards

re: Two questions

2001-06-02 Thread Chris Tillman
Hi, The first question I have is what do I need to read (Like HOWTOs and stuff.) to setup my Linux PC, to download Debian PPC and upload it into my iMac? I don¹t have a floppy drive, and I heard it was possible. I have dial up and can't afford Linux on CD right now. Start with

postgresql?

2001-06-02 Thread Colin Walters
Does anyone know what's up with the main postgresql package in powerpc sid? It doesn't appear to be in the archive, and I didn't see a failed build log on voltaire. The postgresql-doc package is available, though, which indicates the buildd must have at least tried to build the postgresql source

Re: Trying to get 2.2.19+3dfx+reiserfs

2001-06-02 Thread Andrew Sharp
Anthony Lau wrote: At 2:51 AM +0200 6/2/2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: Anthony Lau wrote: I have tried 2.2.19 + 3dfx (works!) + reiserfs (doesn't!) linux-2.4-paulus (3dfx doesn't, can't see if reiserfs does or not) linux-2.4-benh(same problem as paulus) reiserfs needs endianness

Re: Xfree86-4.0.3 - iMac revA

2001-06-02 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: Eric Deveaud wrote: X starts correctly, BUT (yes there's a but) all the text is displayed in a `kind of mirror' mode, ie all letter are reversed. It's a driver bug which will be fixed in 4.1.0 and supposedly in the DRI packages I will make

Re: potato r3

2001-06-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:43:06PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: So, I finally got my TiBook back from Apple repair, who kindly reinstalled MacOS. After re-erasing it and installing potato r3, I tried to boot my new Debian system, and I got the image not found message from yaboot. At first,

Re: iBook2 install

2001-06-02 Thread Bastien Nocera
On 01 Jun 2001 19:29:25 -0700, Tom Rini wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:12:07AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: Tom Rini wrote: As far as I know, only pismo and later (I _think_ pismo can have an actual Apple Airport card, but I'm not sure) have this issue. Pismo sure take

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

2001-06-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Ani Joshi wrote: On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: I might do that, but then is there any benefit of vgaHW working on a Mac? It seems to work fine without, so I might as well hack the syscall to fail. Yes, vgaHW is very much indeed needed on Mac (or

Re: reiserfs empirical study (very long)

2001-06-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Anton Blanchard wrote: Hopefully we can get something into the boot-floppies libc to handle this (alternatively just get rid of the dcbf in memset(, 0, 0)) A bit off-topic, but you must not use memset() on a mapped frame buffer (non-cached) because of the dcbf.

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

2001-06-02 Thread Michel Lanners
On 1 Jun, this message from Adam Goode echoed through cyberspace: Sorry if this is completely wrong, but would Michel Lanners's PCI Fixup code be helpful here? http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan/linux/dev/pci.html Not really, since that is only a dirty hack to make IO port access somewhat more sane

Re: iBook2 install

2001-06-02 Thread Michel Lanners
On 1 Jun, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace: So PCMCIA wavelan cards are handled by the card services stuff - can't we get the airport handled by the pcmcia stuff as well? That might take care of it. Not really, since the Airport card is not seen as a PCMCIA device

Re: Two questions

2001-06-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 07:06:30AM -0500, chandler wrote: Perhaps BootX is needed on a model specific basis. I have used BootX on my iMac Rev. A for the last year for dual booting and it's worked great. Is there a reason I shouldn't be using it? Or is it the case that it just doesn't work

Re: Xfree86-4.0.3 - iMac revA

2001-06-02 Thread Ross Hamilton
On Saturday, June 2, 2001, at 07:06 PM, Eric Deveaud wrote: On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: Eric Deveaud wrote: X starts correctly, BUT (yes there's a but) all the text is displayed in a `kind of mirror' mode, ie all letter are reversed. It's a driver bug which will be fixed in

Re: iBook2 install

2001-06-02 Thread Tom Rini
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:03:19AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: On 01 Jun 2001 19:29:25 -0700, Tom Rini wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:12:07AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: Tom Rini wrote: As far as I know, only pismo and later (I _think_ pismo can have an actual

Re: X crashed after todays upgrade - addendum

2001-06-02 Thread Georg Koss
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:27:35AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: Georg Koss wrote: Sorry I forgot I'm running a G4 with kernel 2.2.19pre17 (BTW why identifies the X-server a 2.2.18pre21 ppc ?) The server reports the OS it was built on. Your log doesn't show an X server crash

Re: iBook2 install

2001-06-02 Thread Michael Schmitz
My iMac (that can sleep properly) will need that as well. FYI all the iMacs dubbed DV* should have Airport connectivity. Well the question is what version of a PMU does it have? With my patch 10 11 and 12 all get treated the same (and thus get airport removed). I think the iBook already

New Installation

2001-06-02 Thread Rod Brookes
Please can any one help I have installed Debian 2.2 r3 on my G4, started x ok but have been unable to sort out the mouse. I have been able to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config with emacs which at this present time is set at PROTOCOL PS/2 DEVICE /dev/mouse Can anyone offer any advice on the

Re: New Installation

2001-06-02 Thread Chris Tillman
Please can any one help I have installed Debian 2.2 r3 on my G4, started x ok but have been unable to sort out the mouse. I have been able to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config with emacs which at this present time is set at PROTOCOL PS/2 DEVICE /dev/mouse Can anyone offer any advice on the

woody apt-get dist-upgrade problem

2001-06-02 Thread Alan Macdougall
I'm fairly new at this, having come to Debian in the last month or so after using LinuxPPC 1999 very intermittently for a while now. (I would still consider myself a relative newbie!) I've been attempting to upgrade to Woody over a fresh installation of Potato r3 on my 7600/200. (I'm keen to

Re: New Installation

2001-06-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:57:42PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: Courtesy Ethan Benson (where should this be documented?) : these devices already exist in the potato r2 base system so the script isn't needed in that case... im not sure if woody's makedev supports them yet or not there was a bug

Re: postgresql?

2001-06-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
Colin Walters wrote: Does anyone know what's up with the main postgresql package in powerpc sid? It doesn't appear to be in the archive, and I didn't see a failed build log on voltaire. The postgresql-doc package is available, though, which indicates the buildd must have at least tried to

Re: Trying to get 2.2.19+3dfx+reiserfs

2001-06-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
Andrew Sharp wrote: As for the 3dfx, can't you just wait for X to start up? ~:^) Set your system up for serial console and network access for getting X to work. Don't think X will work without tdfxfb, 4.1.0 might though... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)\ Debian GNU/Linux

Re: postgresql?

2001-06-02 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:49:14AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: Colin Walters wrote: Does anyone know what's up with the main postgresql package in powerpc sid? It doesn't appear to be in the archive, and I didn't see a failed build log on voltaire. The postgresql-doc package is

Re: Xfree86-4.0.3 - iMac revA

2001-06-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
Eric Deveaud wrote: On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: Eric Deveaud wrote: X starts correctly, BUT (yes there's a but) all the text is displayed in a `kind of mirror' mode, ie all letter are reversed. It's a driver bug which will be fixed in 4.1.0 and supposedly in the

rtl8139

2001-06-02 Thread Chris Tillman
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rtl8139 driver for idepci woody and powerpc potato

2001-06-02 Thread Chris Tillman
Package: kernel-image-2.2.19 Version: 2.2.19-6 I was looking for info on the rtl8139 net driver module. I searched the list archives and ran across this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0105/msg00687.html (quoting aph) Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at

Re: postgresql?

2001-06-02 Thread Colin Walters
[ I'm on the list, no need to CC me ] Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see it's in non-US, is there a buildd for that? No, there isn't at present. Voltaire is a dual-processor machine, right? Could it run another buildd for non-US packages? Or would we need to actually build

Re: potato r3

2001-06-02 Thread Colin Walters
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: well thats normal... sortof. the kernel is installed as part of the `install OS and kernel modules' which copies the kernel from the rescue image. you should have at least had the quik cruft in thier though... Well, I did skip the tasksel installation