Re: Installation problems on StarMax

2003-06-02 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:10:47PM -0700, Thanasis Kinias wrote: Greetings, I'm installing Woody on a StarMax 5000/300. It's got an IDE HDD and SCSI CD-ROM and ZIP. It will not boot from the CD-ROM drive, so I have to use floppies to install. I've gotten as far as ``Make System

Woody 3.0r1: HELP!

2003-06-02 Thread Eric Pretorious
Hello, All: I am SO frustrated!!! I was _almost_finished_ installing Woody onto my PowerBook G3 Bronze/Lombard (using the LordSutch.com ISOLINUX mini-ISO image) when my connection to the Berkley FTP server timed-out and my PowerBook went to sleep. When I woke the PowerBook, it couldn't

powermac kernel 2.4.21 config

2003-06-02 Thread Brendan J Simon
Has anyone got a .config for a powerpc 2.4.21-rc6 kernel ?? The debian 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 kernels have a bug in smbfs that causes the date of files to be shown as Jan 1 1970. I couldn't get the debian-2.4.20-powerpc kernel to boot for some reason. Aparently the smbfs bug is due to an

Re: Evolution Segmentation fault in unstable

2003-06-02 Thread John Leach
Apt (unless configured differently) stores an archive of downloaded packages in the directory /var/cache/apt/archives. In here I found the two packages I needed to roll back: evolution_1.2.4-1.1_powerpc.deb libcamel0_1.2.4-1.1_powerpc.deb To install them: dpkg -i libcamel0_1.2.4-1.1_powerpc.deb

Re: ibook and sleep

2003-06-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 05:00, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. I have the ibook2 and benh kernel 2.4.20-ben10 .. when I put the ibook to sleep by closing the lid, the display and the backlight go off, then come on again and then go off.. is this the same behavior in the latest kernel too?

Re: getting external monitors to work with 15 powerbook

2003-06-02 Thread John Leach
Hello again Michel, One more bit of information for you. When in the dual monitor mode with the crazy messed up colours, I've observed that uninterrupted blocks of solid colour are drawn correctly. For example, I use the Gnome desktop background (Nautilus in my case). If I set the solid

best way to run stable or testing program on ustable system

2003-06-02 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
Hi, I run my system as unstable, but in certain situations (i.e. recent Evolution Segfault oo Mozilla problem) I'd like downgrade certain programs back to testing or stable - until the problem is resolved. I know that it is possible so could anyone point me to a document about it or show me their

Re: Evolution Segmentation fault in unstable

2003-06-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 11:44, John Leach wrote: I had some problems starting Evolution after the downgrade, seemingly related to Wombat and some process still running (Oaf or Bonobo or something). The easiest way to deal with this is to log in and out, which should stop all these processes.

Re: Evolution Segmentation fault in unstable

2003-06-02 Thread John Leach
Attempts to fix the problem with killev, oaf-slay or bonobo-slay failed. In the end I think it may have been a gconfd thing but I can't be sure now. (The error message from Evolution seemed to be related to a configuration database or something, I cannot fully recall now). On Mon, 2003-06-02

Re: Installation problems on StarMax

2003-06-02 Thread Nicholas Helps
Hi there, Chris is right. They are oldworld and quik will work (at least on my 3000/180). You need to set (at least initially) openfirmware to not autoboot. You also need to set it to use the keyboard and monitor as input/output for OF (the default on mine is to use the serial port, which is

Re: best way to run stable or testing program on ustable system

2003-06-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:05, Grzesiek Sedek wrote: Hi, I run my system as unstable, but in certain situations (i.e. recent Evolution Segfault oo Mozilla problem) I'd like downgrade certain programs back to testing or stable - until the problem is resolved. I know that it is possible so could

Re: best way to run stable or testing program on ustable system

2003-06-02 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
On 2 Jun 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:05, Grzesiek Sedek wrote: Hi, I run my system as unstable, but in certain situations (i.e. recent Evolution Segfault oo Mozilla problem) I'd like downgrade certain programs back to testing or stable - until the problem is

Still mol compiling problems...

2003-06-02 Thread Benjamin Swatek
Hi, please tell me if I do something wrong, but I still can't compile the mol-modules. I do make-kpkg (--append_to_version benno.x) modules_image or make-kpkg modules and do get this error: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/mol' m4 -DKVERS=2.4.20-ben10benno.4 -DKSRC=/usr/src/linux

devel kernel

2003-06-02 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi Ben, I read a post of yours on debian-powerpc which said that the devel kernel tree had the Ardis HFS+ support. I just rsync'd the devel tree and in the help for the HFS+ support, it says that full read support exists. Ardis HFS+ is supposed to have write support too, is the Help missing

Re: Evolution Segmentation fault in unstable

2003-06-02 Thread Jack Howarth
Grzesiek, Evolution is currently broken because it is now linked against both gtk/glib 1.2 and 2.0 due to the introduction of the new gnome 2.0 based gnome-pilot. Jack

OpenOffice on Mac G4

2003-06-02 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi After googling around and updating my sources list to include: Hit http://ftp.freenet.de testing/main Packages Hit http://ftp.freenet.de testing/main Release Hit http://ftp.freenet.de testing/contrib Packages Hit http://ftp.freenet.de testing/contrib Release Get:1 http://ftp.freenet.de

Re: ibook and sleep

2003-06-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 14:05, Nirmal Govind wrote: Thanks for the files Michel.. I saved them in the appropriate folders, changed permissions to 755, stopped the pmud daemon and restarted it. Still have the same behavior where the display goes off, then on and then off (and to sleep).. am

Re: devel kernel

2003-06-02 Thread Nirmal Govind
What tree did you rsync exactly ? Just checking the Configure.help entry, it seems it's the old one and wasn't updated. Hi Ben, I rsync'd the rsync.penguinppc.org::benh-devel kernel.. so it's just the help file that's old and write support exists then? thanks, nirmal

Re: devel kernel

2003-06-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 14:43, Nirmal Govind wrote: What tree did you rsync exactly ? Just checking the Configure.help entry, it seems it's the old one and wasn't updated. Hi Ben, I rsync'd the rsync.penguinppc.org::benh-devel kernel.. so it's just the help file that's old and write

Re: pan segfaults regularly

2003-06-02 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Sat, 31 May 2003 19:52:34 +0200, Sebastian Raible wrote: Hi, while composing my last message, pan segfaulted three or four times (so I started again and again and.. :). Pan 0.14 doesn't support lignet2, and libgnet1 was removed from unstable. The pan maintainter instead

Re: best way to run stable or testing program on ustable system

2003-06-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:48, Grzesiek Sedek wrote: On 2 Jun 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:05, Grzesiek Sedek wrote: Hi, I run my system as unstable, but in certain situations (i.e. recent Evolution Segfault oo Mozilla problem) I'd like downgrade certain

Tuxracer on ibook (radeon 7500 + DRI trunk)

2003-06-02 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, I tried recently Tuxracer on ibook whose video card is a radeon 7500, and I noticed a lot of gitches: fishes and banners are not rendered properly. I also tried foobillard with is nicely rendered. Has anyone had the same problem? (I used the latest DRI module). Thanks. --

Re: Can't comile mol-modules against benh

2003-06-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 19:21, Benjamin Swatek wrote: /linux/modversions.h -c -o Linux/fault.o Linux/fault.c Linux/fault.c: In function `get_phys_page': Linux/fault.c:107: too few arguments to function `expand_stack' make[3]: *** [Linux/fault.o] Error 1 Looks to me like MOL needs to adapt

Re: booting Debian cd freezes on iBook 600Mz (G3)

2003-06-02 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, Rodrigo Otavio Weymar Fonseca wrote: Nice, the installation worked with install24-safe. But, when rebooting the system after the installation, the same error that occurred when booting from CD occurs. As I said, pass video=ofonly to the boot target. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld

Re: OpenOffice on Mac G4

2003-06-02 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Clive Menzies: After googling around and updating my sources list to include: Hit http://ftp.freenet.de testing/main Packages Hit http://ftp.freenet.de testing/main Release Hit http://ftp.freenet.de testing/contrib Packages Hit http://ftp.freenet.de testing/contrib Release Get:1

Re: Installation problems on StarMax

2003-06-02 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 04:39:13AM -0700, Thanasis Kinias wrote: scripsit Chris Tillman: The system seems to be working fairly normally now, provided I stick with the 2.2 kernel. When I boot the 2.4.20-powerpc kernel, I get an immediate kernel panic. (This is the stock apt-gotten Debian

Re: booting Debian cd freezes on iBook 600Mz (G3)

2003-06-02 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 04:09:20PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Hi, Rodrigo Otavio Weymar Fonseca wrote: Nice, the installation worked with install24-safe. But, when rebooting the system after the installation, the same error that occurred when booting from CD occurs. As I

Re: 2-4-21-rc3-benh0 - hfsplus

2003-06-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 09:15, Jens Axboe wrote: On Thu, May 29 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please excuse my ignorance - but is there any other way to access the LED -- say to have it be controlled for something more interesting than HD access? if so -- how would it be done? I dunno

Re: 2-4-21-rc3-benh0 - hfsplus

2003-06-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 09:56, Jens Axboe wrote: On Fri, May 30 2003, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 09:12, Jens Axboe wrote: On Thu, May 29 2003, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: [...] You shouldn't run noflushd, it's a bit more clever than that.. I could tell you all

Re: Installation problems on StarMax

2003-06-02 Thread vinai
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Chris Tillman wrote: BTW, I don't remember any reports about 2.4 working on OldWorlds, so aside from the fact that I got one to work with BootX, you may be a pioneer. Been running 2.4.20 on my 8500 for quite a while now atop a Woody installation. I think what might be

Re: getting external monitors to work with 15 powerbook

2003-06-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 11:55, John Leach wrote: Hello again Michel, One more bit of information for you. When in the dual monitor mode with the crazy messed up colours, I've observed that uninterrupted blocks of solid colour are drawn correctly. For example, I use the Gnome desktop

Re: Installation problems on StarMax

2003-06-02 Thread Boris Bezlaj
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:38:39AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: My first suspicion is that the kernel doesn't fit in the memory space provided by quik. Do you still have MacOS on the machine? If so, you can try it with BootX to see if it gives the same result. I have oldworld CHRP here

Re: Installation problems on StarMax

2003-06-02 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Chris Tillman: My first suspicion is that the kernel doesn't fit in the memory space provided by quik. Do you still have MacOS on the machine? If so, you can try it with BootX to see if it gives the same result. The box came with a very decrepit and unlicensed OS8, which I fdisked

Re: OpenOffice on Mac G4

2003-06-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/06/03 07:19), Thanasis Kinias wrote: scripsit Clive Menzies: After googling around and updating my sources list to include: Hit http://ftp.freenet.de testing/main Packages Hit http://ftp.freenet.de testing/main Release Hit http://ftp.freenet.de testing/contrib Packages Hit

Re: Wanted: PVR Mentor

2003-06-02 Thread vinai
I'm by no means what anyone should call mentor but here's information that should get you started. The driver for Brooktree-based capture / tuner cards is the bttv driver, and the page is at: http://bytesex.org/bttv/ I think Hauppage has some cards that are supported by this driver, but you

Re: Status of PowerPC Debian Installer.

2003-06-02 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Sven great offer! Sven Luther wrote: I will probably be doing some debian-installer work for the Pegasos powerpc motherboard in the next time. As such, i would like to enter in contact with who is currently working on debian-installer for ppc. I am also trying to get an idea of the current

Re: Can't comile mol-modules against benh

2003-06-02 Thread Benjamin Swatek
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 13:00, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 19:21, Benjamin Swatek wrote: /linux/modversions.h -c -o Linux/fault.o Linux/fault.c Linux/fault.c: In function `get_phys_page': Linux/fault.c:107: too few arguments to function `expand_stack' make[3]: ***

Re: ibook and sleep

2003-06-02 Thread Nirmal Govind
Does /etc/init.d/pmud-utils status work? (is pmud-utils installed?) Yes, that was the problem, didn't have pmud-utils.. so I got it to work in 2.4.20-ben10.. I then upgraded to Ben's current benh-devel kernel (21-rc3-ben0) and now if I close the lid, the display goes off just once but when it

Re: OpenOffice on Mac G4

2003-06-02 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jun 02 2003, Clive Menzies wrote: I'm actually running woody but apt-get install openoffice.org did the trick and I now have OOo installed and working ;-). Someday I ought to upgrade to testing but because it's been such a long haul to get thus far, I'm reluctant to tamper with it in case

Re: mplayer and rtc _and_ possible kernel bug of enhanced rtc in 2.4.21-rc3?

2003-06-02 Thread Tom Rini
[skipping some of the replies to this, to get at the real problem] On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 02:31:51AM +0200, Claas Langbehn wrote: Hello Vicent! Documentation of mplayer says to use the command echo 1024 /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq to allow the use of RTC by mplayer. However, this

Re: OpenOffice on Mac G4

2003-06-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/06/03 14:03), Rogério Brito wrote: On Jun 02 2003, Clive Menzies wrote: I'm actually running woody but apt-get install openoffice.org did the trick and I now have OOo installed and working ;-). Someday I ought to upgrade to testing but because it's been such a long haul to get

usb keyboard and keypad equals

2003-06-02 Thread Frank Murphy
Is anyone here able to use the equals key on the keypad in X? For me, it moves the cursor back one space, like the left arrow. Looking at xev, it seems that the keycodes for these two keys are the same: KeyPress event, serial 22, synthetic NO, window 0x1e1, root 0x48, subw 0x0, time

Re: Wanted: PVR Mentor

2003-06-02 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 11:16:41AM -0500, vinai wrote: The driver for Brooktree-based capture / tuner cards is the bttv driver, and the page is at: http://bytesex.org/bttv/ I think Hauppage has some cards that are supported by this driver, but you have to check the docs to see. Most

Re: direct reboot into MacOS X needed after a system update?

2003-06-02 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hi Just for the records. I've talked to a true mac addict, and he told me it shouldn't do any harm (of course he didn't tell me that whithout muttering something about gnu/linux and dual booting.. ;) ). Hi The subject sounds rather ot, but I guess normal apple users wouldn't be able to

Re: OpenOffice on Mac G4

2003-06-02 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 06:50:19PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: On (02/06/03 14:03), Rogério Brito wrote: On Jun 02 2003, Clive Menzies wrote: Is there a better way of upgrading in the meantime without disturbing what I currently have installed? Well, you can see what it _would_ do using

Re: Tuxracer on ibook (radeon 7500 + DRI trunk)

2003-06-02 Thread Ian Wienand
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:04:17PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: I tried recently Tuxracer on ibook whose video card is a radeon 7500, and I noticed a lot of gitches: fishes and banners are not rendered properly. does it look like http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/~ianw/ibook-glx/tux.png ??.