Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-08-03 Thread Ross Vumbaca
Hi, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Hmm, last time I used a floppy on my LongTrail, it did work (to my surprise, since a few years earlier it was broken ;-) Yes, CHRP had PC-style floppy controllers. And decent South Bridges used on PPC (e.g. W53C883) usually support 32-bit ISA DMA. The South

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-03 Thread Ross Vumbaca
Hi, Sven Luther wrote: I have serious doubts the a1bootloader will be considered open source by debian-legal, but i may be wrong. How can you say this when you have never seen it in your life? The a1boot loader (which we call SLB) makes use of GPL code for the ext2/3 reading routines

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:21:12PM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote: Hi, Sven Luther wrote: I have serious doubts the a1bootloader will be considered open source by debian-legal, but i may be wrong. How can you say this when you have never seen it in your life? Well, AOS 4 was supposed to use

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-03 Thread Ross Vumbaca
Hi, Sven Luther wrote: Well, AOS 4 was supposed to use a hardware dongle to work, so ... Which is unrelated to the boot loader. The a1boot loader (which we call SLB) makes use of GPL code for the ext2/3 reading routines (taken from GRUB), so it will be GPL'd too. Cool. So i could try

RC bug fix: build needed on PPC MIPS and MIPSel

2004-08-03 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Greetings, One of my package (cups-pdf) has RC bugs that were just fixed by a new release. PowerPC MIPS and MIPSel have not attempted the build after 2 days, according to: http://buildd.debian.org/bymaint.php?maint=Martin-%C3%89ric+Racine+%3Cq-funk%40iki.fi%3E+ Could anyone please launch

Re: Debian Within a Darwin System

2004-08-03 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 02 2004, David Schleef wrote: (btw, I think a Darwin port would be cool. I'm tired of fixing Fink's brokenness.) I agree. Using Fink is a royal pain in the ass when you already know how Debian works. There are many problems with Fink, IMO. First of all, you have all those packages that

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-08-03 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:16:21PM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote: Hi, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Hmm, last time I used a floppy on my LongTrail, it did work (to my surprise, since a few years earlier it was broken ;-) Yes, CHRP had PC-style floppy controllers. And decent South Bridges used

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-08-03 Thread Ross Vumbaca
Hi, Gabriel Paubert wrote: Hmm, the DMA controller is called the 8237. The 8259 is the PIC, aka Painful Interrupt Controller. Sorry! You are right, I always get those to numbers confused ;). Once upon a while, Intel introduced a couple of PCI/ISA bridge with enhanced DMA capabilities: -

XFree86 keeps on freezing my PowerBookG4

2004-08-03 Thread SteX
Hi all, I have got (since a month) a new great Apple PowerBook G4(1.25GHz CPU) with ATI Radeon 9600 video card. My great problem is X: everytime I launched X (twm for instance, through the exec xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/twm command) it first seems to work fine. I launch a new xterm window, it appears

Re: 802.11

2004-08-03 Thread Florian Ragwitz
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 10:41:19AM +0200, Sebastian Henschel wrote: * Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-07-30 10:21 +0200]: On Friday 30 July 2004 09.41, Sebastian Henschel wrote: Can anyone recommend a good usb 802.11b/g adaptor? I have the ibook G4. I

Re: Display blanks when idle -- original ibook

2004-08-03 Thread Jorge Bernal \Koke\
Look at /etc/console-tools/config. There's a variable called blank time: # screen blanking timeout. monitor remains on, but the screen is cleared to # range: 0-60 min (0==never) kernels I've looked at default to 10 minutes. # (see linux/drivers/char/console.c) BLANK_TIME=30 On Monday 02

TiBook G4: microphone?

2004-08-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I've a TiBook G4 and I would like to try gnomemeeting and similar stuff. Looking at my laptop I'm starting wondering: do I have a microphone?. From the software point of view I see no microphone channel in the ALSA mixer (I see a mix channel, but I don't know what it does represetn). From the

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-03 Thread Ross Vumbaca
Hi, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: To clarify that, the a1bootloader isn't just using routines from GRUB, it is based around the same idea. It's a kind of GRUB for UBoot, currently only useful if you use RDB partition maps, but technically you can stuff it into an MBR as well. It isn't very

Re: quik and initrd and kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc

2004-08-03 Thread Derrik Pates
Christian Leimer wrote: Now I have this in my quik.conf: image = /boot/vmlinux ramdisk=/boot/initrd.img root=/dev/sda5 label = test but still does not work. My disk is connected to an uw adaptec card. How do I tell the kernel to use the aic7xxx module? Do you have a

Loading problem

2004-08-03 Thread Volodymyr_Podosinov-contractor
Hi, I have installed Debian 3.0 r3 on PReP and got 2 questions: First when the system boots it asks the prompt: Linux/PPC: I always need to type root = /dev/sda3, otherwise system will not boot. Which file do I need to edit, so that I do not need to type these words every time

RE: Loading problem

2004-08-03 Thread Volodymyr_Podosinov-contractor
On PReP, the boot arguments are part of the kernel image. Rebuild your kernel with CONFIG_CMDLINE set appropriately. Alternatively, use preptool, but that requires patching and rebuilding the kernel as well. Wait, basically you say that I need to recompile the whole kernel. If that is the

Re: Loading problem

2004-08-03 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Volodymyr Podosinov writes: First when the system boots it asks the prompt: Linux/PPC: I always need to type root = /dev/sda3, otherwise system will not boot. Which file do I need to edit, so that I do not need to type these words every time the system boots at the prompt? On PReP, the

airport and scanning

2004-08-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
anyone got a good patch against 2.6.7 that will allow scanning through my airport card? can anyone say why this hasnt been perfected and put into the driver? there seems to be alot of older patches that worked. why werent they accepted into the main driver? Dean -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-03 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Ross Vumbaca wrote: Hi, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: To clarify that, the a1bootloader isn't just using routines from GRUB, it is based around the same idea. It's a kind of GRUB for UBoot, currently only useful if you use RDB partition maps, but technically you can stuff it into an MBR as

Re: Debian Within a Darwin System

2004-08-03 Thread Scott Henson
David Schleef [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 02:01:43PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You really need to prefix these at build time. No I don't think you need a prefix. gromit:~$ grep -l '/usr' /usr/bin/*|wc -l 1055

Re: PPCBug or OpenFirmware

2004-08-03 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:08:57AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone still has an OpenFirmware or a latest PPCBug for Motorola PReP Platform machines? I think you can download the newest PPC Bug from Motorola FTP server, but I don't know how to install it. A number of years

Re: RC bug fix: build needed on PPC MIPS and MIPSel

2004-08-03 Thread Julien BLACHE
Martin-Éric Racine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, One of my package (cups-pdf) has RC bugs that were just fixed by a new release. PowerPC MIPS and MIPSel have not attempted the build after 2 days, according to: PPC build uploaded, MIPS on its way. I do not have a mipsel machine at hand.

Re: RC bug fix: build needed on PPC MIPS and MIPSel

2004-08-03 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Julien BLACHE wrote: Martin-Éric Racine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my package (cups-pdf) has RC bugs that were just fixed by a new release. PowerPC MIPS and MIPSel have not attempted the build after 2 days, according to: PPC build uploaded, MIPS on its

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-08-03 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:31:42PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: Quoting Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What Debian packages? ;) The debian kernel packages. There was/is no kernel packages! There's only a kernel and a root image:

Radeon 9600 dual head and XF86Config on PB G4 15

2004-08-03 Thread Peter Henseler
Hi, I just tried to get an external monitor running on my Alu Powerbook 15 (kernel version 2.6.7) with an ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card. Therefore I added in the XF86Config-4 file extra Device, Screen and Monitor sections and the xinerama option to the ServerLayout section. The screen of my

Re: Radeon 9600 dual head and XF86Config on PB G4 15

2004-08-03 Thread Scott Henson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Henseler) writes: I just tried to get an external monitor running on my Alu Powerbook 15 (kernel version 2.6.7) with an ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card. Therefore I added in the XF86Config-4 file extra Device, Screen and Monitor sections and the xinerama option to the

Re: quik and initrd and kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc

2004-08-03 Thread Christian Leimer
Derrik Pates wrote: Christian Leimer wrote: Now I have this in my quik.conf: image = /boot/vmlinux ramdisk=/boot/initrd.img root=/dev/sda5 label = test but still does not work. My disk is connected to an uw adaptec card. How do I tell the kernel to use the

Re: Radeon 9600 dual head and XF86Config on PB G4 15

2004-08-03 Thread Peter Henseler
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:16:30PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Henseler) writes: I just tried to get an external monitor running on my Alu Powerbook 15 (kernel version 2.6.7) with an ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card. Therefore I added in the XF86Config-4 file

Radeon 7550 video cloning on IBook G3 14 [Was: Re: Radeon 9600 dual head and XF86Config on PB G4 15]

2004-08-03 Thread ncrfgs
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:16:30PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: I just tried to get an external monitor running on my Alu Powerbook 15 (kernel version 2.6.7) with an ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card. Therefore I added in the XF86Config-4 file extra Device, Screen and Monitor sections and the

Re: quik and initrd and kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc

2004-08-03 Thread Rick_Thomas
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 14:54, Christian Leimer wrote: Anyone out there with an oldworld had luck with the kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc froms sarge? I don't use quik, so this may not be relevant to your situation, but I find that with BootX, the 2.6.7 kernel works just fine on my beige G3

Re: Radeon 9600 dual head and XF86Config on PB G4 15

2004-08-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 19:25 +0200, Peter Henseler wrote: I just tried to get an external monitor running on my Alu Powerbook 15 (kernel version 2.6.7) with an ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card. Therefore I added in the XF86Config-4 file extra Device, Screen and Monitor sections and the xinerama

Problems hitting Airport Extreme Base Station with WEP

2004-08-03 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'm trying to connect to an Airport Extreme Base Station using WEP. I am trying to connect from an iBook rev2.2 using the old wireless card -- I can connect fine without WEP. My interfaces file has the following stanza: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.1.11 netmask

Airport 802.11b and WPA access

2004-08-03 Thread airnx
Hello. I have a ibook running iwconfig to access a WEPd Access Point, and ( apart of MAC address limitation ) i wich to change the encryptation method to WPA. Is hostapd and utils enough to pass the needs to get connected ? Since debian apt repository do not have the