Re: IBM Servers to Pair Linux, New PowerPC Chips

2003-07-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 09:34:14PM -0400, Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote: Also, to ask my own question, did I hear someone say recently on this list that IBM might use Apple chips in it's PPC machines? Or am I confusing things? That would be silly: Apple doesn't make chips, it just designs

Re: Measuring latency on my Apple G3

2003-07-22 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Michel Dänzer escribio el 22/07/03 02:22: Probably a GTK bug, not related to this thread. I know, I know... ;) Which isn't very surprising, as they can use parts of the graphics chip that we don't have specs for, for one. Sure. Only I remember having installed Mandrake 9.1, and I think

Re: kernel SCSI woes

2003-07-22 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Michael Schmitz wrote: I have been trying to compile a new kernel for my newworld G4 SMP snakebite Mac. I've finally narrowed down the Oops problem to the Adaptec aic7xxx driver/modules. When I compile the aic7xxx support (either old or new) into the kernel it

Re: kernel SCSI woes

2003-07-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
When I compile the aic7xxx support (either old or new) into the kernel it Oopses. When I compile it as a module it getseither a bus error or: aic7xxx.o: unresolved symbol del_timer_sync aic7xxx.o: unresolved symbol kernel_flag Are these module load warnings? Bus error or

X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Steven Schlansker
The Opt-F1,F2,etc trick wasn't working, and neither does this. To those who wanted the logs, it was actually at /var/log/xdm.log And, to those who are saying that it's unsupported, the 'real' X server doesn't seem to support valkyrie video devices. The log follows: Woowoo Xpmac / X Window

Re:X Won't Log In

2003-07-22 Thread Steven Schlansker
Kernel options? Where do I set those? I set the video driver to the framebuffer one (fbdev I think) but it doesn't work. (in the real XFree86 that is) - I'll try to set the video=valkyriefb as soon as someone tells me where I set the kernel options. Thanks. On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Frank Murphy
The Opt-F1,F2,etc trick wasn't working, and neither does this. I think that the Xpmac server doesn't allow this ctrl-opt-F1 trick (but it is Control and Opt and Function key; I assume you typoed that above.) To those who wanted the logs, it was actually at /var/log/xdm.log And, to those who

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Steven Schlansker
(I switched X back to Xpmac before all of this) I actually didn't compile it - I found a .deb and installed it using dpkg. I turned authorization off as you said, and now I get a cooler-looking login screen, along with a little output-only console in the bottom right. When I enter my

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 17:20, Frank Murphy wrote: To those who wanted the logs, it was actually at /var/log/xdm.log And, to those who are saying that it's unsupported, the 'real' X server doesn't seem to support valkyrie video devices. The Xpmac seems to only log to the display manager,

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Steven Schlansker
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 09:02 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 17:20, Frank Murphy wrote: To those who wanted the logs, it was actually at /var/log/xdm.log And, to those who are saying that it's unsupported, the 'real' X server doesn't seem to support valkyrie video

Solved with fresh(er) kernels [was: Re: Powerbook G4 getting very hot. Solution?]

2003-07-22 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On 17 Jul 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 20:42, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: What I have: Kernel: 2.4.18-newpmac Hardware: Powerbook3.5 (version = 3.2) 867 MHz 768 MB SDRAM The problem is the machine is getting very hot at the bottom side of the metal case

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 18:06, Steven Schlansker wrote: On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 09:02 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 17:20, Frank Murphy wrote: But Xpmac is unsupported in Debian (which is why you had to compile it yourself), so that means that valkyrie video

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Frank Murphy
I turned authorization off as you said, and now I get a cooler-looking login screen, along with a little output-only console in the bottom right. When I enter my name/pass, the console prints (xdm) session opened by uid and the rest is cut off at the edge of the screen. The screen

Re: X Won't Log In

2003-07-22 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 4:48, Steven Schlansker wrote: Kernel options? Where do I set those? I set the video driver to the framebuffer one (fbdev I think) but it doesn't work. (in the real XFree86 that is) - I'll try to set the video=valkyriefb as soon as someone tells me where I set the

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Frank Murphy
But Xpmac is unsupported in Debian (which is why you had to compile it yourself), so that means that valkyrie video devices are unsupported in Debian. Unsupported? The fbdev driver should work with it, at least with valkyriefb. Ah OK. So Xpmac is unsupported, but valkyrie devices are

Re: X Won't Log In

2003-07-22 Thread Frank Murphy
I found this description on http://www.imaclinux.net/php/plain_page.php3?caller=imaclinux_g_h.php3+record=5 Apple Valkyrie Video (valkyriefb) The video chip in the Performa 6400 and the PowerMacintosh 6400/6500 is codename Valkyrie. It is an internal Apple chip, the only acceleration

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Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Frank Murphy wrote: But Xpmac is unsupported in Debian (which is why you had to compile it yourself), so that means that valkyrie video devices are unsupported in Debian. Unsupported? The fbdev driver should work with it, at least with valkyriefb. Ah OK. So

Re: X Won't Log In

2003-07-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Frank Murphy wrote: I found this description on http://www.imaclinux.net/php/plain_page.php3?caller=imaclinux_g_h.php3+record=5 Apple Valkyrie Video (valkyriefb) The video chip in the Performa 6400 and the PowerMacintosh 6400/6500 is codename Valkyrie. It is an

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Steven Schlansker
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 10:31 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: I turned authorization off as you said, and now I get a cooler-looking login screen, along with a little output-only console in the bottom right. When I enter my name/pass, the console prints (xdm) session opened by uid and

Re: Measuring latency on my Apple G3

2003-07-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:32, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: Michel Dänzer escribio el 22/07/03 02:22: Which isn't very surprising, as they can use parts of the graphics chip that we don't have specs for, for one. Sure. Only I remember having installed Mandrake 9.1, and I think video

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Frank Murphy
This does look like a problem: Xsession: unable to start X session; no /home/steven/.xsession file, no /home/steven/.Xsession file, no session managers, no window managers, and no terminal emulators found. Aborting. Seems that you don't have any X programs installed. I don't know if you

Re: Measuring latency on my Apple G3

2003-07-22 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Michel Dänzer escribio el 22/07/03 21:13: What exactly do you mean by 'video performance', anyway? Well, a faster and cleaner dragging of windows, in example. Look at the arch/i386/config.in hunk and merge it into arch/ppc/config.in, or try the attached patch. Then, make oldconfig and so

Re: Measuring latency on my Apple G3

2003-07-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 22:50, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: Michel Dänzer escribio el 22/07/03 21:13: What exactly do you mean by 'video performance', anyway? Well, a faster and cleaner dragging of windows, in example. Using the same window manager etc. ? 2D acceleration (in particular

Reconfiguring network

2003-07-22 Thread Steven Schlansker
How do you reconfigure the network interfaces, for example to use static addresses instead of DHCP? Thanks,. Steven

Re: Reconfiguring network

2003-07-22 Thread Fábio Rabelo
dpkg-reconfigure etherconf if etherconf isn't instaled yet : apt-get install etherconf Steven Schlansker wrote: How do you reconfigure the network interfaces, for example to use static addresses instead of DHCP? Thanks,. Steven