Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4

2008-04-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:59:31 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 23 2008, at 21:25 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:22:18 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ever having considered to install sid/unstable? Most of the time it

Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4

2008-04-24 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Apr 23 2008, at 21:25 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:22:18 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ever having considered to install sid/unstable? Most of the time it works like a charm on ab old titanium here: ** processor : 0

Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4

2008-04-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:01:49 +0200 Patrick Bachmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Amit, On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:25:50 +0200, Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, When I installed testing I changed the sources to sid and upgraded them. But I still couldn't get the

Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4

2008-04-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, Apr 22 2008, at 10:23 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I switched back to etch on this laptop and everything worked like magic. So right now I am back to running etch on this machine, which is great. I just had to recompile a lot of the software that I needed (claws mail 3.4.0,

Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4

2008-04-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:22:18 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 22 2008, at 10:23 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I switched back to etch on this laptop and everything worked like magic. So right now I am back to running etch on this machine, which is

Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4

2008-04-23 Thread Patrick Bachmann
Hey Amit, On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:25:50 +0200, Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, When I installed testing I changed the sources to sid and upgraded them. But I still couldn't get the Xorg issue figured out. The graphics controller I have is: description: VGA

Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4

2008-04-22 Thread Ralf Saalmüller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! It's my personal opinion that the xorg version lenny uses, still 7.2 and xserver v 1.3, are not useful and by far not up to date. i.e. no dual screen with xrandr which simply doesn't work as it should with that version of xorg. If

Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4

2008-04-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 17:50 +0200, Ralf Saalmüller wrote: It's my personal opinion that the xorg version lenny uses, still 7.2 and xserver v 1.3, are not useful and by far not up to date. i.e. no dual screen with xrandr which simply doesn't work as it should with that version of xorg.

Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4

2008-04-22 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:50:59 +0200 Ralf Saalmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! It's my personal opinion that the xorg version lenny uses, still 7.2 and xserver v 1.3, are not useful and by far not up to date. i.e. no dual screen with

Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4

2008-04-20 Thread El Amigo De La Playa
-Have you tried the vesa drivers ? 2008/4/20, Amit T Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4

2008-04-20 Thread Amit T Uttamchandani
Yes I have tried the VESA drivers but there is an error when loading it. I will post the exact error messages in a follow up email. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4

2008-04-20 Thread Amit T Uttamchandani
Thanks for the quick reply... I tried that as well...I have tried almost everything. I can't seem to figure out what the problem is. Maybe what I will do is reinstall Debian Etch and do a dist-upgrade to Lenny. I hope that works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

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: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4

2008-04-20 Thread Amit T Uttamchandani
Hi there, I'm actually using the r128 driver. I've also tried 'ati' but no luck as well. Thanks for the reply. Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4

2008-04-19 Thread Amit T Uttamchandani
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 are several issues I came across with: 1. Xorg.conf * No matter what I