linux-apus-user

Re: Cant attach tty to PPP ?

[John L. <ch...@la...>]

Hi Michel

, On 08-Oct-01, you wrote:

> On Sun, 2001-10-07 at 20:19, John Lord wrote:

>> Just trying to get my net connection working again after loosing the >
> settings.

>> I use tail to direct the output to another terminal.

>> If I run pon I get the following error message after the serial connection
>> is established:

>> pppd[461]:Couldn't attach tty to PPP unit 0: Invalid argument

>> Can you tell me what to look at to track this down please?

>> I have /dev/modem->/dev/ttyS0 set up the same as other times, and I am
>> using the vmapus2.4.4 kernel

> Is pppd recent enough? You need a late 2.3 or better 2.4 version for a
> 2.4 kernel.

I have version 2.3.11-1.4 have tried to find a more recent one in a .tar file
but couldn't find one so havn't been able to do anything yet.

Can someone let me know where to look please? I just cant remember where I got
it before ;-(


Regards
-- 
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Re: Corrupted X11 screens

[Alan B. <al...@ms...>]

hi,

> I've finally gotten around to installing DebianPPC Linux on my machine and
> everything went fairly smoothly, little convoluted as I am using the CD's
> from AmigaActive but it is all in place.
>
> Only problem I have is that my X11 display is corrupted, I can see what I'm
> doing but when a menu is opened and then closed, it leaves a copy of itself
> on the screen, so it looks like nothing gets deleted.
>
> Any ideas ?  Is it worth getting X11 4.x ? if so which version from where ?

its an XFree 3.3.x bug/problem.   upgrading to XFree4.1 (via a Debian
apt-get upgrade   will fix this problem....download a working config from
the APUS site

> Thinking about it it might be a good idea to get a newer version of Debian,
> are there any mail order shops in the UK who sell the PPC version ?

??? you've got Debian installed....all you have to do it go oline and use
the apt-get tool  (after configuring it)

alan

Corrupted X11 screens

[Mark S. <ma...@ma...>]

Hi there,

I've finally gotten around to installing DebianPPC Linux on my machine and
everything went fairly smoothly, little convoluted as I am using the CD's
from AmigaActive but it is all in place.

Only problem I have is that my X11 display is corrupted, I can see what I'm
doing but when a menu is opened and then closed, it leaves a copy of itself
on the screen, so it looks like nothing gets deleted.

Any ideas ?  Is it worth getting X11 4.x ? if so which version from where ?

Thinking about it it might be a good idea to get a newer version of Debian,
are there any mail order shops in the UK who sell the PPC version ?

Regards

Mark Smith

XFree 4.1.0-7 start problem

[<Pio...@t-...>]

I have Debian Woody installed on my amiga. This week I upgrade XFree 4.1.0-6 
to XFree 4.1.0-7. After that I was unable to start Xwindow on my system so I 
downgrade XFree to 4.1.0-6. Are some changes between this release? Are 
someone success with this upgrade?
thanks
Piotr

Re: Debian install

[Pieter E. <pi...@ba...>]

Hi Michel,

>> > I'm trying to move from LinuxPPC to Debian and was wondering if this is
>> > the correct place to post newbie-Debian-install-issues?

> Non-APUS-specific posts go to a Debian list preferrably.

Ok, i assume only the kernel is Apus-specific, not the
Debian-Apus-installer?

>> > I'm currently stuck setting up the base system from the internet; it
>> > fails on the /proc filesystem already being mounted.

iirc, the message was: Failed to mount -t proc proc /proc
This happened on both the internet and harddrive methods.

>> Ok, lol, i was testing woody, the potato installer is rock-solid!
Switched
>> to woody after installing.

> What version of the woody boot-floppies did you try? This sounds like a
> bug which was fixed a few versions ago...

I used excactly these:

http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/apus/
images-1.44/

It seemed to me that they were up to date, being in the 'current' directory.
Maybe the mirror is lagging a bit?

Regards, Pieter Ennes.

Re: Debian install

[Pieter E. <pi...@ba...>]

> I'm trying to move from LinuxPPC to Debian and was wondering if this is
the
> correct place to post newbie-Debian-install-issues? I'm currently stuck
setting up
> the base system from the internet; it fails on the /proc filesystem
already being
> mounted.

Ok, lol, i was testing woody, the potato installer is rock-solid! Switched
to woody after installing.

> Kind regards, Pieter Ennes.

Same again...

Debian install

[Pieter E. <pi...@ba...>]

Hi all,

I'm trying to move from LinuxPPC to Debian and was wondering if this is =
the correct place to post newbie-Debian-install-issues? I'm currently =
stuck setting up the base system from the internet; it fails on the =
/proc filesystem already being mounted.

Kind regards, Pieter Ennes.

PS. Thanks for all the efforts so far!!

Re: Short question concnerning PCI support within APUS

[Alan B. <al...@ms...>]

hi,

> But by the way, I also thinking about to buy a G-Rex board and if I have
> the time and money I will try to get it running on APUS. But there are 2
> problems. First we probably need some information how we can scan the
> G-Rex PCI-bus (maybe from Mr. Dellert). Second, if the G-Rex is in the
> slot, the CV-PPC is not in the slot and so you probably have to work on
> the G-Rex driver with AmiFb...

hmm, I'm tempted byt he Mediator, which is now very popular in the AmigaOS
world.... *that* board would also require its access to PCI space. In this
way we could have a similar 'access port'

fortunately work could be done on it under the PM2FB as that can coexist


I'm more 'worried' about AmigaONE as that works backwards.....the PPC is
on the AmigaONE and the old Amiga is accessed as a PCI device....
perhaps a new kernel... Linux/A1 project would have to be done for this?
..except that it should be so much closer to a CHrp/PreP Mac kernel
than the current APUS one.

alan

Re: Short question concnerning PCI support within APUS

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On 8 Oct 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] D=E4nzer wrote:
> On Sun, 2001-10-07 at 21:08, Rene Brothuhn wrote:
> > But by the way, I also thinking about to buy a G-Rex board and if I h=
ave=20
> > the time and money I will try to get it running on APUS. But there ar=
e 2=20
> > problems. First we probably need some information how we can scan the=
=20
> > G-Rex PCI-bus (maybe from Mr. Dellert).
>=20
> As the other Rene mentioned in his post, it might only be a matter of
> knowing the addresses of PCI config and memory space. But of course
> vendor supplied information would always be appreciated.

I think I once found the information about one of the two PCI bridges (do=
n't
remember which one) on the website of its company.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m6=
8k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. =
But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like=
 that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds

Re: Short question concnerning PCI support within APUS

[Michel <mic...@ii...>]

On Sun, 2001-10-07 at 21:08, Rene Brothuhn wrote:

> I`m working on the UW-SCSI driver and I`ll give you some information=20
> about it`s state. The 53c770 chip is detected and configured by the=20
> driver and then the driver makes some tests, which works fine. The 4k=20
> on-chip RAM is used for SCSI-SCRIPTS and the chip can execute SCRIPTS at=20
> on-chip RAM and also at system-memory. The LED is working, which is=20
> switched on and off by SCRIPTS in on-chip RAM when the scsi-bus is=20
> selected or reselected. Also the driver is reacting on IRQ`s and calls=20
> by the generic SCSI driver. After booting, you can find some information=20
> about the driver in /proc/scsi/53c770.

Wow, this sounds very promising, keep up the good work!

> And there is the problem, the generic driver tries to detect devices on=20
> the scsi-bus and fails. I don`t know whats wrong here, maybe its another=20
> cache related problem.

Or endianness? Just to cover the usual suspects. :)


> But by the way, I also thinking about to buy a G-Rex board and if I have=20
> the time and money I will try to get it running on APUS. But there are 2=20
> problems. First we probably need some information how we can scan the=20
> G-Rex PCI-bus (maybe from Mr. Dellert).

As the other Rene mentioned in his post, it might only be a matter of
knowing the addresses of PCI config and memory space. But of course
vendor supplied information would always be appreciated.


--=20
Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

Cant attach tty to PPP ?

[John L. <ch...@la...>]

Hello,


Just trying to get my net connection working again after loosing the settings.

I use tail to direct the output to another terminal.

If I run pon I get the following error message after the serial connection is
established:

pppd[461]:Couldn't attach tty to PPP unit 0: Invalid argument

Can you tell me what to look at to track this down please?

I have /dev/modem->/dev/ttyS0 set up the same as other times, and I am using
the  vmapus2.4.4 kernel

I have gone through the various 'help' files but am not sure of the way to
correct this.



Best Wishes,

-- 
John

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the first one was useless.
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Re: Short question concnerning PCI support within APUS

[Rene B. <re...@we...>]

Ren=E9 Thol wrote:

> By the way are there any news concerning support of FASTLANE or even
> UW-SCSI?
> I also asked Mr. Dellert for documents which enable the APUS coders=20
> finally
> to support the UW-SCSI. He told me that he can't do anything concerning
> this point but asking Ralf (forgot the surname) and I was told to call =
him
> back later this week (tomorrow; today Mr.Dellert was not in house).


Hi!

I`m working on the UW-SCSI driver and I`ll give you some information=20
about it`s state. The 53c770 chip is detected and configured by the=20
driver and then the driver makes some tests, which works fine. The 4k=20
on-chip RAM is used for SCSI-SCRIPTS and the chip can execute SCRIPTS at=20
on-chip RAM and also at system-memory. The LED is working, which is=20
switched on and off by SCRIPTS in on-chip RAM when the scsi-bus is=20
selected or reselected. Also the driver is reacting on IRQ`s and calls=20
by the generic SCSI driver. After booting, you can find some information=20
about the driver in /proc/scsi/53c770.
And there is the problem, the generic driver tries to detect devices on=20
the scsi-bus and fails. I don`t know whats wrong here, maybe its another=20
cache related problem. But in this state I think there is no need for=20
help from Ralf Schmidt anymore (unless he has a working=20
linux-driver...). So let him work on MorphOS.

But by the way, I also thinking about to buy a G-Rex board and if I have=20
the time and money I will try to get it running on APUS. But there are 2=20
problems. First we probably need some information how we can scan the=20
G-Rex PCI-bus (maybe from Mr. Dellert). Second, if the G-Rex is in the=20
slot, the CV-PPC is not in the slot and so you probably have to work on=20
the G-Rex driver with AmiFb...


Ciao, Ren=E8

Re: Short question concnerning PCI support within APUS

[Alan B. <al...@ms...>]

hi,

> I only want to know if there are plans to support upcoming PCI-hardware for
> our Amigas used with Mediator or G-Rex. Concerning G-Rex I was told by Mr.
> Dellert (DCE) that writing drivers should be no problem, as the coder only
> has to know, where the appropriate memory addresses will be. Mr. Dellert
> also said, that there is a Software coming with the G-Rex boards which
> solves exactly this question.
>
> Are there already plans for supporting the "new" hardware? Cause I want to
> keep my Amiga as only computer and therefore I want to buy an expansion for
> the A4000 enabling me the use of faster network cards, sound-, GFX- and
> TV-cards!
>
> Hope APUS won't miss these new developing direction of our Amiga!


well, supporting these PCI cards shouldnt be too much of a problem - it is
just finding where the PCI access point is in memory space (as such).
however there are 2 issues.

no APUS developers have such board (iirc!) and secondly there are quite a
few cards out there that are x86 centric.....ie the drivers have the wrong
bit order and x86 asm code .  those are, however , minor issues really ;-)

> I also asked Mr. Dellert for documents which enable the APUS coders finally
> to support the UW-SCSI. He told me that he can't do anything concerning
> this point but asking Ralf (forgot the surname) and I was told to call him
> back later this week (tomorrow; today Mr.Dellert was not in house).
> I hope I'll have some good news leading in this direction soon!

I believe that Ralph Schmidt was already asked several times...and did
profer some info (to one indivisual iirc

alan

Re: Short question concnerning PCI support within APUS

[Michel <mic...@ii...>]

On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 19:13, Ren=E9 Thol wrote:

> I only want to know if there are plans to support upcoming PCI-hardware f=
or
> our Amigas used with Mediator or G-Rex. Concerning G-Rex I was told by Mr=
.
> Dellert (DCE) that writing drivers should be no problem, as the coder onl=
y
> has to know, where the appropriate memory addresses will be.

If that's true, adding support for it should be straightforward looking
at the existing PCI support for the B/CVisionPPC. Someone with the
hardware will have to do it, what about you? :)

> Mr. Dellert also said, that there is a Software coming with the G-Rex boa=
rds which
> solves exactly this question.

How so? They don't provide source code, do they?


> By the way are there any news concerning support of FASTLANE or even
> UW-SCSI?

There have been posts about the latter on the devel list lately which
looked rather promising.

> I also asked Mr. Dellert for documents which enable the APUS coders final=
ly
> to support the UW-SCSI. He told me that he can't do anything concerning
> this point but asking Ralf (forgot the surname) and I was told to call hi=
m
> back later this week (tomorrow; today Mr.Dellert was not in house).
> I hope I'll have some good news leading in this direction soon!

That certainly wouldn't hurt, thanks for your efforts!


--=20
Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

Short question concnerning PCI support within APUS

[T. <Ren...@gm...>]

Hi everybody!

I only want to know if there are plans to support upcoming PCI-hardware f=
or
our Amigas used with Mediator or G-Rex. Concerning G-Rex I was told by Mr=
=2E
Dellert (DCE) that writing drivers should be no problem, as the coder onl=
y
has to know, where the appropriate memory addresses will be. Mr. Dellert
also said, that there is a Software coming with the G-Rex boards which
solves exactly this question.

Are there already plans for supporting the "new" hardware? Cause I want t=
o
keep my Amiga as only computer and therefore I want to buy an expansion f=
or
the A4000 enabling me the use of faster network cards, sound-, GFX- and
TV-cards!

Hope APUS won't miss these new developing direction of our Amiga!

By the way are there any news concerning support of FASTLANE or even
UW-SCSI?
I also asked Mr. Dellert for documents which enable the APUS coders final=
ly
to support the UW-SCSI. He told me that he can't do anything concerning
this point but asking Ralf (forgot the surname) and I was told to call hi=
m
back later this week (tomorrow; today Mr.Dellert was not in house).
I hope I'll have some good news leading in this direction soon!

Kind regards
-- =

Ren=E9 Thol
Mail: Ren...@gm...=

Re: Linux-APUS-user digest, Vol 1 #420 - 3 msgs

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Alan Buxey wrote:
> > I installed LinuxPPC2000 with the 2.2.x Apus kernel one year ago.
> > Everything worked (+ or -) well.
> > On the top of this installation I have putted 2.4.x kernels; but whe I boot,
> > my Linux box opens on a low resolution screen (I think a 320x256 screen
> > 30KH orizz and 60HZ vert.) difficult to handle...
> > I use the MuiRexx starter for Apus with the option 800x600 a 72HZ on my
> > Permedia2board.
> 
> i am running the 2.4.9 kernel, i use 800x600-60 at my pm2fb:mode: call.
> 
> either the 72 isnt set up in your /etc/fb.modes file
> 
> (add it there by doing
> 
> fbset 800x600-72
> and then
> fbset -a  and saving the output, adding it to /etc/fb.modes

Won't work. You have to add it to drivers/video/modedb.c and recompile your
kernel instead.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@li...

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds

Re: Linux-APUS-user digest, Vol 1 #420 - 3 msgs

[Alan B. <al...@ms...>]

hi,

> I installed LinuxPPC2000 with the 2.2.x Apus kernel one year ago.
> Everything worked (+ or -) well.
> On the top of this installation I have putted 2.4.x kernels; but whe I boot,
> my Linux box opens on a low resolution screen (I think a 320x256 screen
> 30KH orizz and 60HZ vert.) difficult to handle...
> I use the MuiRexx starter for Apus with the option 800x600 a 72HZ on my
> Permedia2board.

i am running the 2.4.9 kernel, i use 800x600-60 at my pm2fb:mode: call.

either the 72 isnt set up in your /etc/fb.modes file

(add it there by doing

fbset 800x600-72
and then
fbset -a  and saving the output, adding it to /etc/fb.modes

OR

that MUIRexx launcher doesnt handle the pm2fb calls correctly, creating
wrong output

OR

change setting to 800x600-60,  which i know works  ;-)


> The reason I use Apus is the hope to help one day the porting of MacOnLinux
> on Amy ;-)

good, i need the extra help  :-)   (seriously, very close to getting it
working now)

alan

Re: Linux-APUS-user digest, Vol 1 #420 - 3 msgs

[Paolo C. <eva...@li...>]

Ciao linuxian and amiga friends.
I have a little problem.
I installed LinuxPPC2000 with the 2.2.x Apus kernel one year ago.
Everything worked (+ or -) well.
On the top of this installation I have putted 2.4.x kernels; but whe I boot,
my Linux box opens on a low resolution screen (I think a 320x256 screen
30KH orizz and 60HZ vert.) difficult to handle...
I use the MuiRexx starter for Apus with the option 800x600 a 72HZ on my
Permedia2board.

Thanks, thanks, thanks.

PS
The reason I use Apus is the hope to help one day the porting of MacOnLinux
on Amy ;-) 

Re: Problems with kernel 2.4.9

[Michel <mic...@ii...>]

Ondra Zima wrote:

> I installed latest kernel 2.4.9 from APUS home on sourceforge but I have
> many errors, krenel panics and lists-of-registers.
> All this errors I get when labouring with network.
> Because I never debuging or analyzing debug output can anyone point me to
> get this outputs for sending to this/other mailing list?

Add 'debug debug=mem' to your boothack line. Then after the crash reboot into
AmigaOS and run dmesg.

The best thing would be to learn to use ksymoops in Linux though.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

Problems with kernel 2.4.9

[Ondra Z. <Ond...@ho...>]

Hi all,
I installed latest kernel 2.4.9 from APUS home on sourceforge but I have many
errors, krenel panics and lists-of-registers.
All this errors I get when labouring with network.
Because I never debuging or analyzing debug output can anyone point me to get
this outputs for sending to this/other mailing list?

I have installed BlizzPPC with SCSI, 128MB RAM, BVisionPPC.
Linux is Debian testing version installed on two SCSI disks - 2GB Seagate and
2GB IBM.

--
Ondra Zima <an...@ho...> AndreW
         Member of czech ATO

Re: Already UWSCSI in sight?

[Alan B. <al...@ms...>]

hi,

> Is there already support for Fastlane or UWSCSI (or is there development on
> these things), cause the GVP I bought last year for using CDROM and ZIP
> drive within APUS is too slow (it has GuruRom 4.15, I couldn't get version 6, and
> I won't buy it for DM 100,-, cause I bought the GVP used for only DM 50,-
> with 8MB RAM).

download the 2.4.9 kernel archive and read the Config file
 
alan

Already UWSCSI in sight?

[T. <Ren...@gm...>]

Hello everybody!

Sorry for questioning a probably FAQ again (but I did not read mails within
these lists for a long time):

Is there already support for Fastlane or UWSCSI (or is there development on
these things), cause the GVP I bought last year for using CDROM and ZIP
drive within APUS is too slow (it has GuruRom 4.15, I couldn't get version 6, and
I won't buy it for DM 100,-, cause I bought the GVP used for only DM 50,-
with 8MB RAM).

Many thanx in advance

Bye

-- 
================
René Thol
================
Ren...@gm...

GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet.
http://www.gmx.net

Re: XFree86 4.1.0

[Jarmo L. <jam...@ko...>]

Jarmo näpytteli jotain tällaista:

>> Don't know about 2.2.10 as i haven't been using it for a while now. 
>> Try adding  
>> Option          "NoInt10"

>> to device section in XF86Config

This did the trick. Thank's for your help.

-- 
http://www.kolumbus.fi/jami.laakkonen/ppc/index.html
A1200T 040-25MHz & PPC 603e-240MHz, 96MB RAM, BVision

Re: XFree86 4.1.0

[Jarmo L. <jam...@ko...>]

Just wrote something like this:

> Don't know about 2.2.10 as i haven't been using it for a while now. 
> Try adding  
> Option          "NoInt10"

> to device section in XF86Config

I will try that.

> also after recovering from crash check /var/log/XFree*log as it might
> have some info on what went wrong.

I did, but didn't see anything special there.

-- 
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A1200T 040-25MHz & PPC 603e-240MHz, 96MB RAM, BVision

MOL again

[Francois P. <fp...@uu...>]

Guys - anyone managed to get MOl (mac on linux) to work with APUS
yet? Looks like the newer version is becomming less tied to specific
setups...? 

Cheers

FP