Re: mac53c94.o tainted code !?!? can someone give me some directions...

2004-01-15 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On jeu, 2004-01-15 at 16:19, Carlos Eduardo Coelho Baptista wrote: today i did this , turned my zip 100 on , and loaded the mac53c94 into kernel... but then the surprise: Jurema:/home/carlos# modprobe mac53c94 Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.24/kernel/drivers/scsi/mac53c94.o will taint

Re: PowerBook Partition the Harddisc

2004-01-08 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On jeu, 2004-01-08 at 13:04, Christian Banik wrote: I want to Install Debian on my PowerBook. This is my harddisc: /dev/hda1 Apple driver /dev/hda2 Apple driver /dev/hda3 Apple driver /dev/hda4 Apple driver /dev/hda5 Apple driver /dev/hda6 Apple driver /dev/hda7 Apple driver /dev/hda8

Re: 17 inch powerbook 1.33Ghz problems

2003-12-31 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On mer, 2003-12-31 at 10:40, Colin Charles wrote: If I get an iBook G4 with the Airport Extreme card, can I just replace it with an Airport card and it'll work? Not at all. These are *physically* different. Look at : http://www.apple.com/airport/specs.html They definitely don't look

Re: Other Linux compatible Mini PCI 802.11g (Was: Re: 17 inch powerbook 1.33Ghz problems)

2003-12-31 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On mer, 2003-12-31 at 17:15, vinai wrote: Okay - so we're SOL if we go with Apple's 802.11g solution as far as Linux support goes, as Broadcom does not want their driver specs out in the wild But what about other mini-PCI cards ? Googling for mini PCI 802.11g gave the company Netgate as

Re: 17 inch powerbook 1.33Ghz problems

2003-12-23 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On mar, 2003-12-23 at 10:51, Sven Luther wrote: * Airport Extreme: forget it ;-) Can one of the older non Extreme airport card be used in one of the newer ibook/powerbooks ? AFAIK, Airport Extreme aren't like older Airport cards thus they are not physically compatible. But a standard

Re: 12 PB less supported than 15, 17 ?

2003-12-11 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On jeu, 2003-12-11 at 01:45, David Pye wrote: Admittedly sleep would be nice. I can't imagine using a laptop that can't go to sleep. That is one of the reason I love laptops: bring your computer everywhere and don't waste time bringing back you workspace. That is one of the reason I never

Re: 12 G4 iBook - AirPort Extreme support

2003-11-20 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On mer, 2003-11-19 at 22:23, Thomas Otto wrote: - AirPort Extreme support IIRC this won't happen since Broadcom is refusing to release specs for it :/ (which is why I'll stick to my 700Mhz G3 iBook). See http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200308/msg00789.html

Re: 12 G4 iBook

2003-11-20 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On jeu, 2003-11-20 at 10:04, Kristian Peters wrote: Guillaume Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: -maltivec allows acces to the Altivec ABI. But gcc cannot perform auto-vectorization on its own (yet). So compiling -maltivec won't change anything if the code does not contain Altivec

Re: 12 G4 iBook - AirPort Extreme support

2003-11-20 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On jeu, 2003-11-20 at 11:08, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: hmmhh but why did they write a GPLed bcm4401 driver then ? I mean where is the difference for them in supporting one device but not the other ?! Probably because bcm4401 is targetted at servers and that servers are more likely to run Linux

Re: Netscape 4.7x for Debian/PPC?

2003-11-13 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On lun, 2003-11-10 at 14:17, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: I them wrote a short and polite e-mail requesting that they stop scripting with specific browsers in mind and instead rely upon W3C standards. I even pointed out that since they are a Tech Jobs site, then they really ought to accomodate

Re: make-kpkg failure

2003-10-20 Thread Hubert Figuiere
Hi, On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 14:24, Hubert Figuiere wrote: I'm trying to cross-compile on Debian i386 a PowerPC kernel for a custom hardware running Debian/ppc, using kpkg-make (because I want to install it with dpkg). I do a: $ fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=+fbx --revision=+1

Re: make-kpkg failure

2003-10-20 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 13:35, Sven Luther wrote: I'm replying to my self. I'm crosscompiling, and the makefile can't guess the subarch. Anyway, the subarch I want is not supported, I had to patch /usr/share/kernel-package/rules Add the --subarch option to make-kpkg. Works fine for me

Re: make-kpkg failure

2003-10-20 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 13:55, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:53:13PM +0200, Hubert Figuiere wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 13:35, Sven Luther wrote: I'm replying to my self. I'm crosscompiling, and the makefile can't guess the subarch. Anyway, the subarch I want

Re: Second round of powerpc subarch investigation : boot-loaders.

2003-10-20 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:13, Sven Luther wrote: Ok thanks for this response, this clearly clarifies the situation for oldpmac, altough i don't really think this will modify our strategy for oldpmac : miboot or bootx for initial install, quik for running systems and miboot for those not

make-kpkg failure

2003-10-17 Thread Hubert Figuiere
Hi, I'm trying to cross-compile on Debian i386 a PowerPC kernel for a custom hardware running Debian/ppc, using kpkg-make (because I want to install it with dpkg). I do a: $ fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=+fbx --revision=+1 --arch powerpc kernel_image But it fails with: if test -d

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-06 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 13:31, Sven Luther wrote: 2) I am not sure about the miboot kernel image, there is a miboot.image in arch/ppc/boot/images, but i am being told that just gziping the standard vmlinux would do also. Last time I tried miboot.image build myself it did not boot. I'll

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-06 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 13:38, Sven Luther wrote: Last time I tried miboot.image build myself it did not boot. I'll try this one later this week to let you know. I just wanted to add that this was with benH tree grabbed from BK. My biggest problem is AHA2930B (SCSI controller) support

Re: Problems with Totem under Gnome/DebianPPC

2003-10-06 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 15:33, Stefano Barale wrote: Thank you very much Lucas. I had to run the script (that downloads some libs from an external site) and now the (obviously encripted) DVD is played fine under Totem. The only problem is that I can't get any gtk-based application (included

Re: Congrat to Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org

1999-12-21 Thread Hubert Figuiere
According to Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 06:16:53PM -0800, j a m b i wrote: congrates dan. i was wondering if you made any changes to the crack.linuxppc.org page as I can't see any obvious changes to the HTML to indicate that you broke in. They're there

Re: [ANN] BootX 1.1.2 released

1999-08-06 Thread Hubert Figuiere
According to Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The new BootX is finally here, it's at http://calvaweb.calvacom.fr/bh40/BootX_1.1.2.sit. [...] Note to distribution makers (especially Debian): The archive is still compressed with Stuffit (proprietary), I'm looking for a simple and

Official XFree ?

1999-04-29 Thread Hubert Figuiere
When will the offcial XFree package for PowerPC will be added to the main dist archive ? Hub -- Churn: A section of computer that is forever being rewritten or changed.

Re: Official XFree ?

1999-04-29 Thread Hubert Figuiere
According to Hartmut Koptein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When will the offcial XFree package for PowerPC will be added to the main dist archive ? If all goes cleanly then in some days; this xfree version is untested and Those unofficial xfree works great (unaccelerated because I'm on a laptop with

Re: XForms ?

1999-04-29 Thread Hubert Figuiere
According to Sven LUTHER [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think that linuxppc R5 had rpms for xforms at some point but i might be wrong. I couldn't find one. Not sure about this, but i got some linux/ppc glibc 2.1 xforms binaries from the official xform site, don't remember where, wanted to compile

XForms ?

1999-04-28 Thread Hubert Figuiere
Where can I find XForms for Linux Debian/PPC (ie compatible with glibc2.1) I couldn't find it, and source code is NOT available. I'm missing LyX very much. Thanks Hub -- Churn: A section of computer that is forever being rewritten or changed.

unzip

1999-04-28 Thread Hubert Figuiere
I can't find the unzip package in dselect... where is it ? I had to compile it :-) (easy, but I had to). Hub -- Churn: A section of computer that is forever being rewritten or changed.

Re: IMPORTANT : latest bash intall fails and bash is no more usable!!!

1999-04-19 Thread Hubert Figuiere
According to Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dbkg -i didn't work since it tried to spawn some bash's... Only the already opened consoles worked. I finally managed to sort this out by manually ftp'ing bash 2.0.2.xxx, unpacking it with dpkg-deb, and replacing the faulting bash

Re: IMPORTANT : latest bash intall fails and bash is no more usable!!!

1999-04-07 Thread Hubert Figuiere
According to VALETTE Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I updated two debianppc system this morning and the last bash version is bugged!!! (install failed...) As a result, you cannot do su anymore which is a pain to update the system again. People not having other shell installed may be

Re: new glibc, egcs, etc.

1999-03-22 Thread Hubert Figuiere
According to Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The new glibc (2.1.1-0pre1.3) and egcs (2.91.63-2.2) have been uploaded and installed. Go ahead and test them; let's find out what breaks. Don't know if it is related, but leafnode currently fails on a getpwnam(). I use leafnode 1.9.2-1

pilot-link package

1999-03-12 Thread Hubert Figuiere
pilot-link package seems to no be available while pilot-manager and other pilot related are (and depend on pilot-link). Can we find somewhere PowerPC .deb package for pilot-link or shall I compile it myself (I don't mind doing this) ? Hub -- World Wide Wait: the real meaning for WWW.

Re: debian for powerpc

1999-03-05 Thread Hubert Figuiere
According to Mikael Aaltonen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi! I?ve seen some mails in this list about people telling others about difficulties in Debian PPC version. My question is that which way have you installed that to ppc mac if there is no available any installer (at least I haven?t

option and command

1999-03-04 Thread Hubert Figuiere
Under XF68_FBDev, on a PowerBook 3400c command and option are mapped the same which cause trouble because they don't have the same meaning, and they prevent having the second and third button. Anyway to fix that ? Thanks. Hub -- Square-headed girlfriend: Another word for computer. The victim

Re: option and command

1999-03-04 Thread Hubert Figuiere
According to Hartmut Koptein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Under XF68_FBDev, on a PowerBook 3400c command and option are mapped the same which cause trouble because they don't have the same meaning, and they prevent having the second and third button. Please try this in /etc/X11/XF86config #

Re: PCMCIA

1999-03-03 Thread Hubert Figuiere
According to Anu bis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am going through the same situation with my PowerBook. At the moment, I am running LinuxPPC 4.1. I just installed the pcmcia-3.0.8.src.rpm from ftp.linuxppc.org (don't remember the exact dirctory it was in :( ). I unpacked it using rpm -U

Re: booting ...

1999-03-03 Thread Hubert Figuiere
According to Hartmut Koptein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: one question to the pmac guys: Will floppies from mac (68k) with auto-boot also work on pmac? Possible not, because it is m68k-code and not pmac code!? It wont. The 68k emulator is in *MacOS* PowerPC is a real RISC chips. Not some bloated

Re: Single-button mouse

1999-03-02 Thread Hubert Figuiere
According to Hartmut Koptein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BTW, my backspace key generates a ~ :-( Yup. Looks like the keymap is FUBAR. Actually I do have several keyboard related problems with the new 2.2.1 kernel and the current potato. For example my keymap that maps the special characters

PCMCIA

1999-03-02 Thread Hubert Figuiere
Where can I find the PCMCIA Package for Debian PPC ? I'm currently stuck without modem on my PowerBook :-( Hub

Re: Single-button mouse

1999-02-25 Thread Hubert Figuiere
According to Blackie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would like to ask if there is any method to emulate 3 buttons on a single button Mac adbmouse (gpm, XFBDev). Left and right option while clokcing emulates button 2 and 3. option-2 and option-3 also wroks (for those without right option like me).

xbase-clients

1999-02-24 Thread Hubert Figuiere
Package xbase-clients is NOT available, but required for the xserver-fb, xfonts-* and other X11 paraphanelia... Can anybody tell me were to find it ? Hub -- .sig on strike. Sorry for the inconveniance.

/dev/hda* bugs in base.tgz

1999-02-24 Thread Hubert Figuiere
I downloaded the latest base2_1.tgz. I found that there is no /dev/hda* after /dev/hda8... This caused me trouble because my root partition for Debian is /dev/hda10 (I also have hda11 and hda12). Shall I report this in the Debian bug tracking or not (what is the exact name of the package ?).

First Install help

1999-02-23 Thread Hubert Figuiere
I can't find an installation doc for Debian PowerPC... I have a question: how do I setup base system ? I have a Linux PPC R4 (Redhat based) installed. I have created a 150 MB partition to expand the 'base2_1.tgz file I grabbed from the debian archive. When I reboot using this partition as root

Re: First Install help

1999-02-23 Thread Hubert Figuiere
According to MURATA Nobuhiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I also try to install Debian/powerpc. LinuxPPC R4 is in /dev/sdb5 and I install Debian to /dev/sdd5. What I do in LinuxPPC R4 is as below; Thanks. I was about to do something like this based on my Intel workstation setup. I followed you