Re: Proper partitioning

2009-08-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:10:12PM +0800, Jason Hsu wrote: What are the appropriate partitions for using Debian on a PowerPC? So far, my partitioning experience has been limited to Puppy Linux and Damn Small Linux on a PC. Does a PowerPC require certain things that a PC does not? Don't know

Re: Proper partitioning

2009-08-20 Thread Chris Bigguy
Linux on a powerpc machine needs no partitions above and beyond what it needs on the Intel platform you're used to. If however, your powerpc machine is a New World Apple (almost anything made since 1999) then the Apple platform needs two partitions more. Fortunately, Debian sets this up for

Re: Proper partitioning

2009-08-20 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 19 2009, Jason Hsu wrote: What are the appropriate partitions for using Debian on a PowerPC? What powerpc do you have in mind? The partitioning scheme differs regarding the bootloader that you are using. If you are using uBoot, then a simple partition scheme like the old PC scheme works

xserver screen resolution problem

2009-08-20 Thread Dirk
Hello, I'm running debian lenny here on a G4 processor with ATI Rage 128 graphic card. All works fine up to now except the xserver screen resolution. It seems to be fixed to 800x600 and I can't find where / how to change it. My monitor supports 1280x1024, and KDE on 800x600 sucks... Although I

Re: Proper partitioning

2009-08-20 Thread Geoff Levand
Hi, On 08/19/2009 07:10 AM, Jason Hsu wrote: What are the appropriate partitions for using Debian on a PowerPC? So far, my partitioning experience has been limited to Puppy Linux and Damn Small Linux on a PC. Does a PowerPC require certain things that a PC does not? What partitions are

xserver Settings for ATI Rage 128

2009-08-20 Thread Dirk
Hello, I'm running debian lenny here on a G4 processor with ATI Rage 128 graphic card. All works fine up to now except the xserver screen resolution. It seems to be fixed to 800x600 and I can't find where / how to change it. My monitor supports 1280x1024, and KDE on 800x600 sucks... Although I

Re: Proper partitioning

2009-08-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 01:40:31PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: What partitions are you using on your PowerPC? --- # /sbin/mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda /dev/hda #type name length base ( size

Re: xserver Settings for ATI Rage 128

2009-08-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 20, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Dirk wrote: Hello, I'm running debian lenny here on a G4 processor with ATI Rage 128 graphic card. All works fine up to now except the xserver screen resolution. It seems to be fixed to 800x600 and I can't find where / how to change it. My monitor supports

Re: xserver Settings for ATI Rage 128

2009-08-20 Thread Clark Martin
Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 20, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Dirk wrote: Hello, I'm running debian lenny here on a G4 processor with ATI Rage 128 graphic card. All works fine up to now except the xserver screen resolution. It seems to be fixed to 800x600 and I can't find where / how to change it. My