Re: Source.list entries for unstable ppc

[Brian D. Hicks]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 04:14:31PM -0700, Gilger.John wrote:
> Another dumb question, I'm sure. But...
> 
> What are the "correct" /etc/apt/source.list lines for unstable/Sid?
> 
> I tried the obvious and simply copied my stable/Woody lines, substituting 
> "unstable". Apt kicks out a bunch of complaints when I try an apt-get update.

Is it just the security packages?  Unstable doesn't use security
packages because the packages should update fast enough with the normal
methods that it's not an issue.

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Re: iBook questions

[Brian D. Hicks]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:08:41AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> But i think to remember that a discution here some time ago gave the
> opinion that you could get some improvement from even g3 level assembly.

Yeah, I remember talk about somebody doing a simple re-write of the
memcpy routine in asm that provided speedups on G3 level machines.  And
I think somebody also re-wrote the code in C and got a nice speedup,
too.  Unfortunately, I don't know if that ever got put into the player
software.

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Re: Short battery life on Powerbook Prismo

[Brian D. Hicks]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:09:44AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> So the yesterday, I decided to bring it to work.  Unfortunately, the
> battery died, or at least went low enough for pmud to put the computer
> to sleep, in around 45 minutes, maybe even less.
> 
> I just wondering if this is a problem with the battery or is this a
> problem with Linux having less power control than MacOS.  I haven't
> tested it with MacOS yet...

I generally get about 3 hours out of each battery for my Pismo (more if
I turn off firewire, remove cd-rom, dim backlight, etc), so it's not a
Linux issue.  If you haven't been keeping the battery charged for long
periods of time, that might have lowered it's energy storage
capabilities, though.  Unfortunately, finding new batteries for a Pismo
is tough (Apple hasn't sold them for months).
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Sleep in X on pismo

[Brian D. Hicks]

I've been meaning to ask the list this for a month or so now, but a
while ago after an apt-get dist-upgrade on my Pismo running testing, it
no longer sleeps in X.  Or rather, it sleeps, but when it wakes up the
screen comes back but it won't accept any input except turning off or
rebooting.  

The powerbook still sleeps in console mode, but I've noticed that now
the backlight goes off, then on, then off again before it starts to
sleep.

Any help would be appreciated.
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3d support on pismo

[Brian D . Hicks]

I'm sorry if this has already been addressed, but I couldn't find it in 
the mailing list archives when I searched.

How do I set up my pismo to do hardware 3d?  I'm running sid, I believe 
I've got all the requisite kernel modules compiled, and I've got mesa 
installed. But I don't really know what to do to get it all working.

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Re: pmud on Pismo: no lid close sleep on 2.2.19

[Brian D. Hicks]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:08:58AM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> I've changed over from a Lombard to a Pismo, and found that it
> unexpectedly shuts down when I close the lid using the stock woody
> 2.2.19 kernel.
> 
> I notice in pwrctl that it suggests that recent 2.4 kernels support
> sleep on the Pismo properly. Does it?

It works on mine, running 2.4.17-rc1-ben0
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Re: OT: USB-S/PDIF-Converter

[Brian D. Hicks]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:17:13AM +0100, Daniel Kleine-Albers wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> it's a little bit off-topic, but maybe someone of you knows where i can 
> buy such a thing. I need a USB-S/PDIF-Converter Cable to output the 
> sound digitally to my minidisc recorder via an optical link (TOSLINK). 
> Does anyone know about such an adapter or where i should look further? I 
> looked already through the apple website and through cyberport.de and 
> found nothing.

I don't think you can get that sort of thing without buying a full-blown
usb audio device.  The first example of this which comes to my mind is
the SoundBlaster Extigy, which is probably more than you want to pay.
I'd expect that there is a cheaper option, though.

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Re: XFree86 and xinerama on ppc

[Brian D. Hicks]

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:58:45AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> >   And by the way, speaking of multihead, is there an easy way to set up
> >   a multiheaded configuration on second generation G4 Powerbooks, using
> >   the LCD screen, and the video output ? The default behavior for the
> >   video output is screen replication.
> 
> You need XFree86 4.2 for that; someone has binaries up on
> penguinppc.org. ;)
> 
> See XF86Config-4(5x) about the Screen directive in device sections.

Speaking of powerbook dualhead, I don't suppose any progress has been
made on xinerama support for the Rage 128 mobility in the Pismo?

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