Re: xcdroast-scsi bus

2004-02-23 Thread J. MacPhail
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 04:20:05PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: Regarding 'finding' devices later on so xcdroast doesn't whine: there should be a script 'rescan-scsi-bus.sh' with xcdroast. Failing this, just do echo scsi-add-single-device 0 0 n 0 /proc/scsi/scsi where n is the SCSI ID

Re: [mflaig@uni.de: Re: Build errors for 2.4.25-ben1]

2004-02-23 Thread Michael Flaig
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:20:02PM +0100, Michael Flaig wrote: sorry, forgot cc to the list ... From: Michael Flaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Build errors for 2.4.25-ben1 On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:14:04PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On

Re: Installing Debian using debian-sarge-netinst.iso (powerpc)

2004-02-23 Thread Derrik Pates
sebyte wrote: I have partitioned my hard drive, (using Apple's Disk Utility), as follows: As was mentioned in another reply, you shouldn't try to do the partitioning through Apple's Disk Utility. IMHO, it's terrible, not to mention it wastes big chunks of space between partitions for no

Re: Installing Debian using debian-sarge-netinst.iso (powerpc)

2004-02-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Derrik Pates: sebyte wrote: I have partitioned my hard drive, (using Apple's Disk Utility), as follows: [snip] And since you're installing on a laptop, why are you splitting your main filesystem into partitions? Especially /boot, /tmp, /var, /usr, /home, etc. all on one FS?

Re: Installing Debian using debian-sarge-netinst.iso (powerpc)

2004-02-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from s. keeling: Incoming from Derrik Pates: sebyte wrote: I have partitioned my hard drive, (using Apple's Disk Utility), as follows: [snip] And since you're installing on a laptop, why are you splitting your main filesystem into partitions? Especially /boot, /tmp, /var,

Re: Airport on Powerbook(Al) 15 doesn't work

2004-02-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
I forgot to write the type of the actual card. lspci tells me it is a Broadcom BCM94306 802.11g card Broadcom seems to be uninterested in providing any kind of specs or driver to linux for this chipset... Ben.

Re: 2.6.3-benh1 does not boot

2004-02-23 Thread Victor Fuente
Hi David, recently i had the same problem with 2.6 and it was because i forgot to build pci support in the kernel. Hope it helps ;-) I am also having problems booting the new kernel. It complains about being unable to mount the root VFS hda11 or hda11 The kernel image is compiled with xfs

Re: Installing Debian using debian-sarge-netinst.iso (powerpc)

2004-02-23 Thread Klaus Ita
Hi s.! you might want to rethink not putting /tmp,/var/tmp on their own partitions. tmp might fill up especially in a testing (sarge), dist and that might lock up your root filesystem. then login into X might get very difficult. you might also want to try mounting different partitions with

Re: Bluetooth + kernel 2.6.3-ben2 doesn't work

2004-02-23 Thread Klaus Ita
Hi rusty! surfing the web via my palm/bluetooth right now ... uname -a Linux aibuk 2.6.3-ben2-20040222 #1 Sun Feb 22 18:35:59 CET 2004 ppc GNU/Linux modules involved: ohci_hcd, hci_usb, hci_vhci regs * rusty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-23 08:54: From: rusty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: 2.6.3-benh1 does not boot

2004-02-23 Thread Simon Bergamin
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 00:15, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 07:53, Simon Bergamin wrote: Hi, the kernel 2.6.3-benh1 (Gentoo ebuild) hangs on my PB 12. It happens when mounting the proc filesystem, I don't get any errors, it just stops with the boot process. The

Re: 2.6.3-benh1 does not boot

2004-02-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Ben, I have already disabled pmac_zilog, no difference. BTW, the ps/2 bug I mentioned in an earlier post is still reproducable with pmac_zilog not set. You can use xmon to find out where it is hung. (Break into xmon with cmd-power and get a backtrace with t) Ben.

Re: user processes shell scripts

2004-02-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/02/04 10:16), s. keeling wrote: Incoming from nico dreher: What do you use? w and top; once in the latter, press u and type the user's name. All this time I've been using top and never knew I could do that what a list! Thanks ;) Clive -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk

Re: 2.6.3-benh1 does not boot

2004-02-23 Thread Simon Bergamin
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 10:55, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Ben, I have already disabled pmac_zilog, no difference. BTW, the ps/2 bug I mentioned in an earlier post is still reproducable with pmac_zilog not set. You can use xmon to find out where it is hung. (Break into xmon with

Re: 2.6.3-benh1 does not boot

2004-02-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Uhh, I'm new to this and did not found any docs on the net about xmon. When am I supposed to break into xmon? During boot or when the system is up with another kernel? And with cmd-power you mean [apple][power-switch], don't you? I tried that on power-up (threw me into OpenFirmware, but t is

Re: Stopping X

2004-02-23 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hi nicholas... * Nicholas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-23 09:02 +0100]: I have just installed Debian onto my powerbook, but I think I misconfigured X. When it starts up, there is nothing but jumbled graphics. I would like to boot without X so I can try and fix it, but I cant seem to

[OT] fhs and multiple partitions (was: Installing Debian using ...)

2004-02-23 Thread Kiko Piris
On 23/02/2004 at 00:05, s. keeling wrote: This is ridiculous advice and I wish people like you would stop offering it. Multiple partitions make the system far more robust and usable in many ways, from backing it up through system stability. This is just as true for a laptop as it is for

Re: Bluetooth + kernel 2.6.3-ben2 doesn't work

2004-02-23 Thread Jean-Christophe Michel
Le lun 23/02/2004 à 10:05, Klaus Ita a écrit : Hi rusty! surfing the web via my palm/bluetooth right now ... uname -a Linux aibuk 2.6.3-ben2-20040222 #1 Sun Feb 22 18:35:59 CET 2004 ppc GNU/Linux modules involved: ohci_hcd, hci_usb, hci_vhci regs Please can you provide the right

Re: [OT] fhs and multiple partitions (was: Installing Debian using ...)

2004-02-23 Thread Colin Leroy
On 23 Feb 2004 at 12h02, Kiko Piris wrote: Hi, One other advantage in separating partitions is security: you can mount /boot ro,noexec,nodev,nosuid, /home nosuid,nodev, /tmp nosuid,nodev, etc. (http://www.seifried.org/lasg/installation/). /home nosuid is painful on real shared computers

Re: [OT] fhs and multiple partitions (was: Installing Debian using ...)

2004-02-23 Thread Kiko Piris
On 23/02/2004 at 13:02, Colin Leroy wrote: On 23 Feb 2004 at 12h02, Kiko Piris wrote: Hi, One other advantage in separating partitions is security: you can mount /boot ro,noexec,nodev,nosuid, /home nosuid,nodev, /tmp nosuid,nodev, etc. (http://www.seifried.org/lasg/installation/).

Re: [OT] fhs and multiple partitions (was: Installing Debian using ...)

2004-02-23 Thread Colin Leroy
On 23 Feb 2004 at 13h02, Colin Leroy wrote: Hi, Anyway, /lib/ld.so.1 has to be executable PS: please people don't chmod -x /lib/ld.so.1, you'd only get angry after that. -- Colin

Re: [OT] fhs and multiple partitions (was: Installing Debian using ...)

2004-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 01:02:42PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: On 23 Feb 2004 at 12h02, Kiko Piris wrote: One other advantage in separating partitions is security: you can mount /boot ro,noexec,nodev,nosuid, /home nosuid,nodev, /tmp nosuid,nodev, etc.

Re: [OT] fhs and multiple partitions (was: Installing Debian using ...)

2004-02-23 Thread Colin Leroy
On 23 Feb 2004 at 13h02, Kiko Piris wrote: Hi, I guess you mean noexec. I was talking about nosuid. They're not the same... Uh, yes, sorry for the noise :( -- Colin have to wakeup at least...

Re: Installing Debian using debian-sarge-netinst.iso (powerpc)

2004-02-23 Thread Derrik Pates
s. keeling wrote: This is ridiculous advice and I wish people like you would stop offering it. Multiple partitions make the system far more robust and usable in many ways, from backing it up through system stability. This is just as true for a laptop as it is for servers. The single partition

Re: Installing Debian using debian-sarge-netinst.iso (powerpc)

2004-02-23 Thread Pau Rul·lan Ferragut
Derrik Pates wrote: P.S. Are there any good reasons for choosing ext2 filesystems over ext3, or vice versa? Go with ext3. If the system crashes, or whatever, you don't have to sit and wait while fsck runs on the filesystem. Really? I thougth ext2 was better because it doesn't write

Re: [OT] fhs and multiple partitions (was: Installing Debian using ...)

2004-02-23 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 06:46, Kiko Piris wrote: On 23/02/2004 at 00:05, s. keeling wrote: This is ridiculous advice and I wish people like you would stop offering it. Multiple partitions make the system far more robust and usable in many ways, from backing it up through system stability.

Re: [OT] fhs and multiple partitions (was: Installing Debian using ...)

2004-02-23 Thread Kiko Piris
On 23/02/2004 at 07:52, Albert Cahalan wrote: If stability were an issue, we'd need to fix that instead of using a gross work-around. Yes, you're right. Nope. This is Linux, which kicks ass. On your single-partition Linux 2.6 system, do this: mount --bind /home /home mount --bind -o

Re: Installing Debian using debian-sarge-netinst.iso (powerpc)

2004-02-23 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Feb 23, 2004, at 1:45 AM, Derrik Pates wrote: sebyte wrote: I have partitioned my hard drive, (using Apple's Disk Utility), as follows: As was mentioned in another reply, you shouldn't try to do the partitioning through Apple's Disk Utility. IMHO, it's terrible, not to mention it wastes

Re: Installing Debian using debian-sarge-netinst.iso (powerpc)

2004-02-23 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Feb 22, 2004, at 5:26 PM, Seb Tennant wrote: [...] Did you burn your .iso image in OS X? If so, how did you do it so that it would boot from your computer? Yes I did burn my .iso image to disk in OS X. I used Roxio's Toast Titanium. I'm not sure why, but Toast often works where

Re: [OT] fhs and multiple partitions (was: Installing Debian using ...)

2004-02-23 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 10:25, Kiko Piris wrote: On 23/02/2004 at 07:52, Albert Cahalan wrote: Nope. This is Linux, which kicks ass. On your single-partition Linux 2.6 system, do this: mount --bind /home /home mount --bind -o remount,nosuid /home /home Oh!, nice thing. I discovered

Re: Fwd: Re: Airport Extreme Linux support [was: Apple iBook G4 GNU/Linux (Debian) compatibility?]

2004-02-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 07:08:14PM +0100, Le Sensei... wrote: I had just thought about that yesterday too ! Having the airport extreme card used by macosx under mol and using the mol machine as a gateway could probably be done. One would probably have to code some bits to let macosx see the

BenH 2.4.24 error on build

2004-02-23 Thread David Ulrich
When I compile the source on my 9500MP running 2.4.23 woody I have this error: make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/benH/src-linux-2.4-benh/arch/ppc/mm' /usr/bin/make CFLAGS=-D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/benH/src-linux-2.4-benh/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2

Re: 2.6.3-benh1 does not boot

2004-02-23 Thread David Stanaway
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 03:15, Victor Fuente wrote: Hi David, recently i had the same problem with 2.6 and it was because i forgot to build pci support in the kernel. I just tried the same .config with 2.6.3 vanilla and it is working, I will just stick with that for a bit. -- David Stanaway

Re: Java - Eclipse 3.0 Support (SWT) on PowerPc

2004-02-23 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Feb 23, 2004, at 11:44 AM, Fabio Poroli wrote: Hi Is somebody using Eclipse 3.0M... on a PowerPc - Linux? I tried few times to build SWT but without success. Any hints building it ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Kernel Backtrace 2.6.3-ben1

2004-02-23 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 the mental interface of Elimar Riesebieter told: On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 the mental interface of Benjamin Herrenschmidt told: On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 00:28, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 the mental interface of Benjamin Herrenschmidt told:

Re: Install Sarge on a Ibook ?

2004-02-23 Thread Andre Lehovich
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, [iso-8859-1] Diego Bellavia wrote: clear, but what I would like to do is to install a debian testing distribution (Sarge); I think the best way to do it is to install a very little core of debian from wich install the complete debian testing distribution (so,a network

Re: xcdroast-scsi bus

2004-02-23 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 04:06:51PM -0500, J. MacPhail wrote: My question, is it sensible to try for a little more convenience, by attempting to configure hotplug for automatic actions when an external scsi device is powered on/off? I could be wrong, but I'd be extremely surprised if the

radeonfb old driver

2004-02-23 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi all, I tried to build 2.6.3-ben2 with the old radeonfb but it failed the built with: drivers/built-in.o(.init.data+0x224c): undefined reference to `radeonfb_init' drivers/built-in.o(.init.data+0x2250): undefined reference to `radeonfb_setup' in the last step of building vmlinuz. Any hints?

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2004-02-23 Thread postmaster1
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suspend in ibook

2004-02-23 Thread Jess Roncero Franco
Hi, I'm sorry for this post as I believe it is a little bit offtopic. I own a G3 800 ibook and since some time, the ibook fails to suspend when I close it, as it used to before. I believe I read somewhere this could happen and it would require some kind of reset. Am I right? or is it a hardware

Look,my beautiful girl friend

2004-02-23 Thread MSN Hotmail
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Look,my beautiful girl friend

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Re: Install Sarge on a Ibook ?

2004-02-23 Thread Sebastian Tennant
After you're done please file an installer report, there haven't been enough people testing the PPC port. I've successfully installed Debian using the debian-sarge-netinst.iso installer on an Apple G4. I'd be happy to file an installer report. Could you post a link and/or describe how you

problem getting mol-modules with apt

2004-02-23 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm having problems getting mol-modules with apt. Every other package upgrades fine but mol-modules has been broken for some months now. The error message from apt is below. The following packages will be upgraded: mol-modules-2.4.22-powerpc 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11

Re: radeonfb old driver

2004-02-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 07:39, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: Hi all, I tried to build 2.6.3-ben2 with the old radeonfb but it failed the built with: drivers/built-in.o(.init.data+0x224c): undefined reference to `radeonfb_init' drivers/built-in.o(.init.data+0x2250): undefined reference to

Re: BenH 2.4.24 error on build

2004-02-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 18:10, David Ulrich wrote: my config for 2.4.24-ben1: http://www.geocities.com/wolfgangpfeiffer/config-2.4.24-ben1.txt It's a rather modular kernel ... :) cat /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 cpu : 7455, altivec supported clock : 867MHz revision

Re: suspend in ibook

2004-02-23 Thread Josh Lauricha
On Tue 02/24/04 01:18, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Hi, I think that the parent poster is not running Debian, but OS X. At least, that's what I read from it. If you check out the headers, you'll note that it was written in KMail and signed on a GNU/Linux box. So, my bet is Debian. --