Re: Getting Gnash and Java to work with Lenny KDE.

2009-04-29 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 07:37:53PM +0200, Brian Durant wrote: Apparently swfdec-mozilla was already installed when I installed gnash. No incompatibilities? Weird. Anyway, I uninstalled gnash again and I still can't get YouTube to work. Ideas? Did you confirm that gnash was there in

Re: adobe flash

2009-02-23 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:26:48PM +0100, Javier Serrano Polo wrote: El dl 23 de 02 de 2009 a les 12:08 -0800, en/na Chris Bigguy va escriure: How about gnash for ppc? Is that ready for prime-time yet? You may have read the release announcement: http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090214

Re: adobe flash

2009-02-23 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:08:28PM -0800, Chris Bigguy wrote: - On Mon, 2/23/09, Javier Serrano Polo jas...@terra.es wrote: How about gnash for ppc? Is that ready for prime-time yet? - Chris Reich; Rochester, New York On all the platforms I've tried, when gnash works, it is nice (and

Re: Can't get xorg working on iBook - Help please!

2008-12-26 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:39:29PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:27:10 -0700 Bob Lounsbury boblounsb...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone experienced the error in the attached Xorg.0.log file? I've also attached my xorg.conf. I've tried all sorts of changes to the

Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4

2008-04-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:18:52PM -0700, Amit T Uttamchandani wrote: Hey everyone, I recently upgraded the hard drive of my laptop and decided to take the chance and plunge to lenny. I had Etch running beautifully on this laptop. The lenny experience started out beautifully but there

Re: Debian ppc install in process on rs6000

2007-08-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 08:36:38AM -0500, Greg Trigg wrote: How large do I want my boot partition to be? At the moment it's 100Megs with a root partition of 10Gig, a swap partition of 1.5Gig and a home partition of 2Gig. If I should do something different, I would also welcome that

Re: [iBook 300Mhz] ybin: undocumented error ?

2007-06-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:55:20PM +0200, Ennio-Sr wrote: Hi all, [still quarrelling with my old iBook which seems to refuse an 80GB hd] One thing I had not noticed before: when I 'run ybin -v' I get: / ybin: Finding OpenFirmware device path to `/dev/hda9'... / / Cannot create temp file,

Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

2007-05-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 02:48:53PM +0200, Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote: Therefore: is it possible to explicitly tell X11 how to handle the behaviour of a given keystroke that is not otherwise handled by the 'normal' keymap settings? If so, I'd like to make 'Alt-g' to produce an '@'

Re: Problem with cpufreqd

2007-01-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 08:48:06AM +0100, leandro noferini wrote: Ciao a tutti, I am finding an error in my syslog for cpufreqd using a new kernel 2.6.19.1 compiled by myself: Jan 14 08:45:22 janni cpufreqd: cpufreqd_set_profile : Couldn't set profile Powersave Low set for cpu0

Re: Battery use. was Re: Scary IDE message and a hang in fresh Etch installation

2007-01-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 04:54:05PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: I think I'm seeing a reduced sleep time with 2.6.18.2 on an ibook G4 (7447A cpu). At first I assumed the battery was showing it's age, but I've just run some tests and I think there _is_ heavier battery usage. My test

Battery use. was Re: Scary IDE message and a hang in fresh Etch installation

2007-01-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:09:53PM +0100, César Gómez Martín wrote: Eddy Petrișor escribió: I think I have seen also a decrease in battery time in sleep mode with the new kernel (2.6.18-3), but I am not sure is the kernel since I have seen this only with the original battery. I haven't

Re: Lost interrupt, page allocation failure, and kernel oops

2006-04-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Kaspar Fischer wrote: I see that I have 190MB RAM, and running memtest on some 160MB of these works fine: bumbum:/tmp/ramtest/memtester-4.0.5# ./memtester 160 memtester version 4.0.5 (32-bit) Copyright (C) 2005 Charles Cazabon. Licensed under the GNU General Public

Re: Re: Powermac G5 yaboot install failed

2005-12-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, john fisher wrote: Ken, I haven't tried ofpath /dev/sda4 but it may be useful in a few minutes. It was only to find out if you had the unpatched version of it. As Shyamal remarked, it doesn't like dev/sdX (since the 2.6.12 kernel changes). If you've got a version

Re: Re: Re: Powermac G5 yaboot install failed

2005-12-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, john fisher wrote: boot: [EMAIL PROTECTED],f200/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/k2-sata@)/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:4,/boot/vmlinux # and a lot of variations on the linux image name # (which do exist on /boot ) These returned invalid device, even though thats the default

Re: AmigaOne 2.6.x Linux kernel port

2005-12-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Gerhard Pircher wrote: Did you have other unreleased patches, too? Anyway it would be good, if you could comment on these patches, as I'm just beginning to understand how the Linux kernel works. Therefore I really appreciate any help! About the inadequate cooling: I have

Re: AmigaOne 2.6.x Linux kernel port

2005-11-30 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Gerhard Pircher wrote: I have another question regarding the cputable.c file. Ken Moffat commented out CPU_FTR_NEED_COHERENT for the AmigaOne platform. I tried to find information about why this define is needed, but couldn't find anything. Does anybody know, how

Re: AmigaOne 2.6.x Linux kernel port

2005-11-30 Thread Ken Moffat
and arch/ppc/kernel/amigaone_dma-mapping.c. The other patches were either made by some OS4 developers (Ross Vumbaca) or Ken Moffat (ported the patches to 2.6.x). If somebody wants to take a look at all the patches for the 2.6.x kernel, just write me. My attempts to port this should still be somewhere

Re: AmigaOne 2.6.x Linux kernel port

2005-11-30 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Ken Moffat wrote: My attempts to port this should still be somewhere at http://www.ntlworld.com/zarniwhoop/ if anybody cares make that http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zarniwhoop/kernel/ (don't you just hate it when you can't remember your own URL, or does that only apply

Re: cant install yaboot on G5

2005-11-25 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Enrique Morfin wrote: When i tried to install debian: With sarge netinstall iso: linux-power4 video=ofonly, but can't use cdrom, not ide detected. Some missing modules (ide-modules) error. Sarge is probably too old to be useful on these machines. With etch beta1

Re: G5 powermac installer queries

2005-11-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:48:43AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: Hi, me again. I won't have a network connection with kernels 2.6.14 (I need that to get sungem support for my PHY), so I'm trying to install from the weekly d-i binary CD 1. This seems to go

Re: G5 powermac installer queries

2005-11-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote: You could try with firewire networking ? No firewire devices here, and no firewire on my other desktops. Mmm, no X should be used, but i guess this means you didn't get the language question, right ? Right. Whizzed through the framebuffer, then

G5 powermac installer queries

2005-11-10 Thread Ken Moffat
Hi, me again. I won't have a network connection with kernels 2.6.14 (I need that to get sungem support for my PHY), so I'm trying to install from the weekly d-i binary CD 1. This seems to go ok until it gets to installing yaboot, then it fails with the following messages (sorry about the

G5 install problem - no network

2005-11-09 Thread Ken Moffat
Hi, I've got myself a refurb 1.8 GHz single processor powermac, according to /proc/cpuinfo this is a PPC970FX PowerMac9,1 detected as 337 (PowerMac G5). This is the second version, with the cheaper motherboard. My problem is that the nic doesn't seem to work in linux (although osx gets

Re: G5 install problem - no network

2005-11-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: The sungem module is loaded. I'm more than a little puzzled - the box works adequately in osx (increased and tested memory yesterday, partitioned, reinstalled panther, upgraded to tiger) but it just doesn't want to network with linux.

Re: G5 install problem - no network

2005-11-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: dmesg has PHY ID: 2060d2, addr: 0 and eth0: Found Generic MII PHY That means your kernel is too old :) You need up to date sungem support for the Vesta PHY chip Ben. Oh well, so much for a network install. Thanks for clarifying the

Re: ondemand and conservative scaling governors

2005-11-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot wrote: I sent this mail but didn't make into the list, so I'll repost: Hi list: I've been using ondemand or conservative governors in x86 without a glitch sometime ago, but it seems I can't use them on ppc. Eventhough I've the proper cpufreq_*

Re: 'gdm could not write to the auth file' -- ubuntuPPC_5.04

2005-10-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Kim Cascone wrote: I have two machines (both of which dual boot into Ubuntu 5.04 and OS X 10.3.9) - an iBook G3 running Ubuntu 5.04 (all current updates) on a 4G partition - an iMac DV G3 running Ubuntu 5.04 (all current updates) on a 5G part I have a 10G external (pocket)

Re: acroread+qemu

2005-07-30 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Sean Neakums wrote: In case it's of interest, evince (version 0.3.0-2 from unstable here) can handle this with aplomb, although it seems to have a problem with images at present. Nevertheless I'm able to get the majority of my PDF reading done with it. I just had a go

Re: Still Deadlock problem with pbbuttonsd 0.6.10?

2005-06-23 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Matthias Grimm wrote: On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:41:08 +0200 Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 07:44:39PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: I had what I _assume_ was this problem (machine apparently locked and feeling warm or hot, I don't know

Re: Still Deadlock problem with pbbuttonsd 0.6.10?

2005-06-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Matthias Grimm wrote: Hi, does anybody still have 100% CPU load problems with pbbuttonsd 0.6.10 and kernel 2.6.12 (or any other)? I received one report that pbbuttonsd 0.6.10 caused 100% CPU load after disconnecting USB devices. I'm looking for more information on

Re: date wrong when ext3 fs mounted, 2.6.12-rc kernels

2005-06-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Ken Moffat wrote: Last night I booted, and after I'd logged in I looked at dumpe2fs for the /home fs - although I'd only just mounted it, the 'last mount time' was Mon Aug 22 02:33:35 2005 instead of the expected Wed Jun 15 23:45:00 2005 or thereabouts. By the time I

date wrong when ext3 fs mounted, 2.6.12-rc kernels

2005-06-16 Thread Ken Moffat
Hi, this isn't specifically a debian issue. I've been running 2.6.12-rc6 on an iBook G4 for a week or so, and it's recently started to fsck /home on boot because it hasn't been checked for an unfeasibly large number of days. Fortunately, I think I've now got pbbuttonsd tamed, so I'm not having

Re: Complie error while build cross compile toolchain for i386-linux

2005-03-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, GONG Jie wrote: Hi, all I try to build a cross compile toolchain for i386-linux on my Apple PowerBook G4. I get the debian package toolchain-source and follow the following instructions http://people.debian.org/~debacle/cross.html Now, I'm all in favour of taking

Re: ***kernal panic on starting Appletalk services***

2005-03-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Kim Cascone wrote: On Mar 2, 2005, at 3:17 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: If you've got the ubuntu install CD boot from that, then hit 'tab' at the yaboot prompt. There is an image called rescue (or something very like that) there are: install-powerpc custom-powerpc

Re: initrd.img ?

2005-03-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Paul J. Lucas wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Eric Cooper wrote: If you compile in enough drivers, instead of making them modules, you won't need an initrd. Enough means at least the driver for your hard disk, the filesystem for your root partition, and maybe your

Re: keyboard layout under X11

2005-03-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Jochen Voss wrote: Hello, since yesterday I am proud owner of a shiny new Apple powerbook G4. My attempts to run Debian on it are summarised at http://seehuhn.de/comp/powerbook/ My question for now is: is there a simple way to get the keyboard working correctly

Re: ***kernal panic on starting Appletalk services***

2005-03-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Kim Cascone wrote: On Mar 2, 2005, at 12:18 PM, David Pye wrote: this doesn't work either...I can get to the yaboot prompt but when I type in 'linux single' or 'single' or other permutations I get a no such file or directory Try pressing tab instead, and see what

Re: Memory and hard disk testers

2004-11-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Mehul N. Sanghvi wrote: Mehul N. Sanghvi wrote: All right, so I tried it out, and nothing happens. I did a test run on my UltraSPARC 2 at the office where it worked just fine. I ran it as: root# memtest all -l after which I get a screenful of things where it

Re: iBook 2 sterling symbol won't display in terminal windows

2004-11-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Archie Maskill wrote: To answer my own post On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:23:10 +, Archie Maskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get the SHIFT+3 combination to produce the sterling symbol in the console. It works just fine in Firefox and other applications,

Re: strange keyboard behaviour on 2.6.9

2004-10-24 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: I have switched to vanilla 2.6.9. I have compiled it and it apears to work properly except one thing: with *every single* button pressed i get: Oct 20 12:28:39 wolverine kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev: adb2:2.c3/input, Type: 1, Code: 103, Value: 0

Re: Permission denied on startx after suspend resume

2004-10-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Barry Hawkins wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 List, I rebooted after waking from suspend on my Titanium PowerBook G4 500MHz and began experiencing an inability to log on via the KDM prompt. I would enter my credentials, the screen would go

Re: airport and encryption - ALMOST FIXED

2004-09-18 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Adam Done wrote: I got connected to the base station and can ping my LAN but I can't ping anything on the Internet yet. The /etc/resolv.conf file has the proper DNS addresses and with eth0 active I can connect to the Internet. Route is properly configured but the DNS

Re: 2.6.8 kernel issues

2004-09-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 07:17:47AM -0400, Bradley M Alexander wrote: On Friday 17 September 2004 02:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Is this a self-build kernel or a kernel-image from Debian? It looks like you're missing a framebuffer driver,

Re: I have rpm archive from YDL; what to do in debian

2004-09-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Sebastian Henschel wrote: salut Marc... * Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-09-16 09:21 +0200]: How can I install a rpm archive in debian It s about pcmcia the package alien allows you to convert an .rpm to a .deb, but you need to have the package rpm installed, too.

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: I'm aware that the PowerBook G4 has ``Open Firmware'' -- is this part of the BIOS or some kind of in-ROM bootloader? I have searched on the Apple web site and can't find any definitive answer, nor a list of the numerous keyboard shortcuts there

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Carlos [ISO-8859-1] Perelló Marín wrote: OF is primarily the equivalent of the bios, and like any bios it knows how to boot (but not how to _select_ an OS to boot). So far, I haven't found any comprehensive list of keyboard shortcuts. That's not true :-) Press the

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-08-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: That's not the correct fix. VGA_MAP_MEM() should take into account the ISA memory space offset. And in fact it does, cfr. include/asm-ppc/vga.h, just make sure to initialize vgacon_remap_base with the correct ISA memory space offset. There's

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-07-31 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: Quoting Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED]: might be because you don't have ide=nodma in the bootargs. That way lies pain and an eventual reinstall. We suspect a faulty memory. I'll try your solution, and we'll see... Update: Nope, 'ida=nodma

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-07-31 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote: Also notice that powerpc is phasing out the 2.4.x kernels in favor of the 2.6.x ones, which will be installable by default, so if you would be able to forward patch those, it would be really great, and we may even consider adding them to the debian

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-07-31 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 03:14:01PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote: Also notice that powerpc is phasing out the 2.4.x kernels in favor of the 2.6.x ones, which will be installable by default, so if you would

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-07-31 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:24:09PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote: What graphic card and thus fbdev are you using ? The notorious radeon 9200se, but under 2.6.7 I'm not using a console fb yet, just a vga

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-07-31 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Ken Moffat wrote: * amigaone-2.4.25.patch.txt This is the AmigaONE patch modified slightly for 2.4.25... It's ONLY the AmigaONE relevant part. Umm, looks like you've got Configure.help.orig in your non-A1 tree, probably from a failed patch, and that forms 99

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-07-30 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: I got my AmigaOne yesterday, and I'm currently trying to install it with the ISO @ SourceForge. However, I'm having some troubles with the IDE disk, cable or something completley different - 'device not ready for command' or something like that.

Re: invalid ELF header

2004-07-23 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, dylan wrote: greetings: i have been running debian-stable (woody) for the last year or so on my 1998 PB G3 (with a 500mhz G4 installed)... and have been noticing some strange errors after the last few apt-get upgrade cycles... after libmysqlclient10 was installed, ld

Re: PowerStack DT604-100

2004-07-22 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I got a question about Debian Linux on Motorola PowerStack DT604-100. It seems that the linux works for it, but it does not load the base system after I install it and then load off the hard drive. It calls some type of mistake saying it

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: Since I'm no kernel hacker I'm not the guy to bug about this. Like I said, I can help with patches to kernel-package and amiga-fdisk. Kernel is not my field. I know MAI themselves were working on porting the 2.6 kernel, but I haven't heard a

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: U-Boot comes with a tool that does more or less the same as mkvmlinuz, called mkimage (takes in an elf and an optional ramdisk image and outputs a bootable image) The mainline 2.4 kernel is already patched to use mkimage to create a uImage, it's

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Not really. I don't remember having seen your patch on linux-kernel or linuxppc-devel either. Send me a pointer to the patches and I'll review then and try to get them in. If you actually want the stuff maintained in newer releases I'd need

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ken Moffat wrote: Can I ask the idiot's question ( where can I subscribe to linuxppc-devel ) please ? Google seems to think an embedded '-' is some sort of wildcard these days. Ken Sorry, I see it's -dev, so lists.linuxppc.org -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das

gcc-3.3.3 make check hangs

2004-02-24 Thread Ken Moffat
Not a debian-specific question, but is anybody else seeing `make -k check' hang when building gcc-3.3.3 ? It happens for me (maybe only with something like ` ~/logfile 21' ) and is in the libstdc++-v3/27_io/filebuf_members.cc part of the testsuite. Seems to be solved by reverting the changes

iBook stuck in yaboot

2004-02-16 Thread Ken Moffat
Not exactly a debian question, but you guys seem to know about these beasties. I've just got a fresh installation of yaboot (1.3.11) installed on my iBook2. Worked fine, except that it went straight through to the second stage (select which kernel), and I wanted the option for os9 and cdrom.

Re: iBook stuck in yaboot

2004-02-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, J. Javier Maestro wrote: On Feb Tue 17 2004 00:06, Ken Moffat wrote: Not exactly a debian question, but you guys seem to know about these beasties. I've just got a fresh installation of yaboot (1.3.11) installed on my iBook2. Worked fine, except that it went

Re: Problems with 2.4.23-ben1

2003-12-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Jesus Climent wrote: 3. APM (or PMU) does not work anymore. with woody i got it working out of the box. now, the pmud daemon complains it cannot open the socket: syslog: bind socket syslog: daemon stopped (bind socket) Don't know if this is relevant to you, but I've

Re: iBook G4 800MHz configuration

2003-11-25 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thing (I'm very new under ppc arch), is it normal that the kernel compilation takes more that 20minutes to finish?? With a basic configuration, it took 10mins on a i386 arch with a 850Mhz...If someone can shortly learn me some things

Re: Setting Up General Console Font DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, SpawnPPC wrote: [ I've cut the general users list ] Dear Debian(PPC) user's, I'm Emanuele, from Italy. I have a great AmigaONE computer with DebianPPC Sid (unstable) version. Today I have installed, with apt-get all latest updates, but, when the computer reset and

Re: Setting Up General Console Font DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Thomas Otto wrote: $ cd /etc/init.d $ grep -i font * [...] console-screen.sh: echo -n Setting up general console font... [...] That looks like the script you'll have to look into. Maybe it tries to set a font defined in /etc/console-tools/config that is not

Re: Setting Up General Console Font DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Thomas Otto wrote: Or, wait to see if somebody else here has an easier way. ;-) I would say you just boot your current system with the parameter 'init=/bin/bash', then do an fsck of the root fs, remount the root parition read-write and try to fix it. Now that

Re: Setting Up General Console Font DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Thomas Otto wrote: Wonder why they didn't use openfirmware like most PPCs - backwards compatibility to older AmigaOS - or is this firmware not as open as in speech? It sort-of thinks it's an x86, so you can (have-to) use non-mac graphics cards (well, radeons and tdfx at

Re: new Apple symbols map (exposes kernel buglets?)

2003-08-23 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Frank Murphy wrote: On Saturday 23 August 2003 6:25, Michel Dänzer wrote: Don't (some) international Mac keyboards have specific modifications vs. their PC counterparts though? I don't think there are that many. There were some Apple keyboards that had the Euro

procmail recipe for this list ?

2003-08-14 Thread Ken Moffat
Please, can somebody point me to how I ought to filter the mail for this list, so that it drops into its own mailbox ? I can't see any obvious list identifier headers, so I've been filtering on 'To:' and 'for' which catches most of the mail, but every few days several postings drop through.

Re: procmail recipe for this list ?

2003-08-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, David [iso-8859-1] Röhr wrote: How about List-Id: debian-powerpc.lists.debian.org Thanks, I'd better save up for some new glasses :-) I guess in the past I've stopped looking at the headers when they come from the MUA, and this one comes after that /excuses -- Peace,

[ANN] Keyboard table for uk iBook2001

2001-08-08 Thread Ken Moffat
I've now posted a revised (console) keytable (and separate file for the numeric keypad) to my website at http:www.kenmoffat.uklinux.net/downloads in the file uk_Book2001.kmap.tar.gz . All the keys now work, and I've included the standard latin1 compose definitions - some of these, such as compose