Re: Debian on an iBook

2006-04-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 15:07:43 +0100, James Dunn wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > >egrep "\((EE|WW)\)" /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > > Ok this is what I get: > > (ww) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown > (EE) VGA(0): Cannot read V_BIOS (5) > (WW) VGA(0): Mode po

Re: Debian on an iBook

2006-04-22 Thread James Dunn
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:28:10 +0100, James Dunn wrote: I can't find all the characters to type this command! egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/XFree86.0.log I guessing my keyboard is not configured properly either - the characters I can't find are ^ and ' al

Re: Debian on an iBook

2006-04-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:28:10 +0100, James Dunn wrote: > I can't find all the characters to type this command! > > egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > I guessing my keyboard is not configured properly either - the > characters I can't find are ^ and ' although there is a similar

Re: Debian on an iBook

2006-04-22 Thread James Dunn
I can't find all the characters to type this command! egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/XFree86.0.log I guessing my keyboard is not configured properly either - the characters I can't find are ^ and ' although there is a similar apostrophe. Here's is the contents of  /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 : # XF8

Re: Debian on an iBook

2006-04-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 02:21:16PM +0100, James Dunn wrote: > I've tried reconfiguring xserver as described below, but no luck. I > looked at lspci, and it says: > > :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon > Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > S

Re: Debian on an iBook

2006-04-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 14:21:16 +0100, James Dunn wrote: > I've tried reconfiguring xserver as described below, but no luck. I > looked at lspci, and it says: > > :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon > Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > Sub

Re: Debian on an iBook

2006-04-21 Thread James Dunn
I've tried reconfiguring xserver as described below, but no luck. I looked at lspci, and it says: :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility

Re: Debian on an iBook

2006-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:34:18AM +0100, James Dunn wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed Debian onto my iBook (900MHz PowerPC G3, 640MB > SDRAM, ATY Rage M7 Video). I followed the instructions here: > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html > 1) Debian boots ok, but the X Server isn't co

Re: Debian on an iBook

2002-11-15 Thread Jesus Climent
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:57:18PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I was wondering whether anyone has been able to successfully install > Debian on an iBook. What problems were there? And have you been able to > have it set up for dual boot between Debian linux and OS X? check www.hispalinux.es/

Re: Debian on an iBook

2002-11-14 Thread Scott Henson
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 15:57, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I was wondering whether anyone has been able to successfully install > Debian on an iBook. What problems were there? And have you been able to > have it set up for dual boot between Debian linux and OS X? > > Curtis Someone in my LUG is batt

RE: Debian on an iBook

2002-11-14 Thread deFreese, Barry
You may also want to check out the Debian PPC mailing list. I am on that and there are several folks installing Debian on all flavors of Mac machines and there has been quite a bit of discussion on the iBooks. Good luck Barry deFreese NTS Technology Services Manager Nike Team Sports (949)-616-40

Re: Debian on an iBook

2002-11-14 Thread Matt Richardson
I'm running an old Power Book G3 Series with OS X and Fink and it works wonderfully. The support from the email list is fantastic. I've only run into a couple of problems and they were resolved within a day thanks to the list. Because of Fink I'm cutting my teeth on Linux with Debian. Insta

Re: Debian on an iBook

2002-11-14 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Hickstein [mailto:jxh@;jxh.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 01:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian User List Subject: Re: Debian on an iBook I haven't tried this yet, but depending on your motivations you might want to know about Fink (fink.sourceforge.net), which ports Debian&#

RE: Debian on an iBook

2002-11-14 Thread Gilger.John
: Thursday, November 14, 2002 01:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian User List Subject: Re: Debian on an iBook I haven't tried this yet, but depending on your motivations you might want to know about Fink (fink.sourceforge.net), which ports Debian's apt system to MacOS X. Would that F

Re: Debian on an iBook

2002-11-14 Thread Jim Hickstein
I haven't tried this yet, but depending on your motivations you might want to know about Fink (fink.sourceforge.net), which ports Debian's apt system to MacOS X. Would that Fink got as much energy devoted to it as Debian generally --On Thursday, November 14, 2002 12:57:18 -0800 Curtis Vaug