RFC - Linux PowerPC HCL- (machines, pci, and more)

2000-05-30 Thread jeramy b smith
http://ash.ixlhosting.net/hardware Look around and make notes and send me additions and corrections. Future sections will include Printers, Processor Upgrades, and of course a big miscellaneous section. First I just wanted to address the most commonly aaked about hardware (machine types, mice, e

Re: Helix GNOME 1.2 (moving somewhat OT)

2000-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:03:05PM -0400, Kevin Puetz wrote: > Actually, they do have linuxPPC RPM's it's just the debs that are i386 only. > I how offensive! ;-) once you get the powerpc debs built be sure to pass on the info to them they seem committed to building proper debian compliant de

Re: Helix GNOME 1.2 (moving somewhat OT)

2000-05-30 Thread Kevin Puetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > that would indeed be a good thing to do, the helix guys seem to be > interested in doing these debs right so maybe if you get them built > they will make them available. i would guess they don't have access > to any non-intel hardware which would explain the intel only bi

Re: Helix GNOME 1.2

2000-05-30 Thread C.M. Connelly
"EB" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EB> that would indeed be a good thing to do, the helix guys EB> seem to be interested in doing these debs right so maybe if EB> you get them built they will make them available. i would EB> guess they don't have access to any non-intel

Re: Helix GNOME 1.2

2000-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 08:58:06PM -0400, Kevin Puetz wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > if they have source debs and assuming there is no portability bugs a > > simple apt-get source helix-whatever and a dpkg-buildpackage should do > > the trick (or apt-get -b source) > > > i think they have th

Re: Helix GNOME 1.2

2000-05-30 Thread Kevin Puetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > if they have source debs and assuming there is no portability bugs a > simple apt-get source helix-whatever and a dpkg-buildpackage should do > the trick (or apt-get -b source) > i think they have thier page setup so its aptable no? yes, they have apt-getable source deb

``Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion'' errors

2000-05-30 Thread C.M. Connelly
Hmm. So I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade today, and now when I start xdvi (on a DVI file) or gv (on a PostScript file) I get the following warnings: Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset >From what I can tell from the

Re: sound on G3 Powerbook

2000-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 02:20:13PM -0600, Jeremiah Merkl wrote: > Joshua Holland wrote: > > > > I have no sound on my powerbook.  I am running Gnome with > > Enlightenment.  I have set sound in the Gnome control panel.  When I > > enable audio in the Enlightenment settings, I get a message saying

Re: sound on G3 Powerbook

2000-05-30 Thread Stephen Judd
on 31/5/00 8:20 am, Jeremiah Merkl at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Joshua Holland wrote: >> >> I have no sound on my powerbook.  I am running Gnome with >> Enlightenment.  I have set sound in the Gnome control panel.  When I >> enable audio in the Enlightenment settings, I get a message saying ther

Re: sound on G3 Powerbook

2000-05-30 Thread Jeremiah Merkl
Joshua Holland wrote: > > I have no sound on my powerbook.  I am running Gnome with > Enlightenment.  I have set sound in the Gnome control panel.  When I > enable audio in the Enlightenment settings, I get a message saying there > was an error communicating with the Audio server. I was just abou

Re: gnome broken in potato

2000-05-30 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:54:37PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >i do this all the time for various packages the build daemon > >natoriously neglects to build, i don't think i have ever had a problem > >with it. once the official debian package is installed in the archive > >it will be i

Re: delete key in eterm

2000-05-30 Thread Matt Brubeck
> Does anyone know how to change delete from ctrl-h to the Delete key in > Eterm.  I checked the faq at eterm.org, but I can't figure out how to > change it. Xterm and Gnome Terminal both already delete with the Delete key. Add a line like: eterm.keysym.BackSpace: ^H to your .Xresources file.

Re: sound on G3 Powerbook

2000-05-30 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Joshua Holland wrote: > I have no sound on my powerbook.  I am running Gnome with > Enlightenment.  I have set sound in the Gnome control panel.  When I > enable audio in the Enlightenment settings, I get a message saying there > was an error communicating with the Audio se

Re: no harddisk found, due to hfs+?

2000-05-30 Thread M.Stolte
Hi, unplugging my 2nd cdrom worked. Now i'm in the install, but debian can't resolve the hostname it wants to download the packages from. What packages does it download, and can i just download them into macos and then browse to them on my macos' dir? Maarten - Original Message - From: D

Re: no harddisk found, due to hfs+?

2000-05-30 Thread Daniel Fahlgren
hi > i'm trying to install debian on my powercenter pro. > It says it can't find any harddisks, could that be due to me having > installed macos with hfs+, and if so, how do i find out wether i have > installed it with hfs+? I have had a similar problem. Linux couldn't find my 1.2Gb apple scsi di

no harddisk found, due to hfs+?

2000-05-30 Thread M.Stolte
Hi, i'm trying to install debian on my powercenter pro. It says it can't find any harddisks, could that be due to me having installed macos with hfs+, and if so, how do i find out wether i have installed it with hfs+? Maarten

Re: gnome broken in potato

2000-05-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, May 30, 2000, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >probably the silly build daemon decided not to build it, try this: > >cd /usr/src >mkdir gnome-core >cd gnome-core >apt-get -b source gnome-core > >either as root or wrap the apt-get command in fakeroot, that should >build you a binary

Re: gnome broken in potato

2000-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:50:41AM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > I've installed potato on a brand new machine. Everything went fine > (congrats, Dan, for the installer !) except that the gnome packages > appear to be broken. > > gnome-panel can't be installed, there's apparently a conflic

gnome broken in potato

2000-05-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
I've installed potato on a brand new machine. Everything went fine (congrats, Dan, for the installer !) except that the gnome packages appear to be broken. gnome-panel can't be installed, there's apparently a conflict with gnome- panel-data requiring gnome-core >= 1.0.55-2 while only 1.0.55-1 is a

Re: Helix GNOME 1.2

2000-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:40:29PM -0400, Kevin Puetz wrote: > Is anyone working on making powerpc debs of the new helix gnome 1.2? I see > that they have source and x86 binaries on their site, so if nobody else is > I'm > going to take a shot at building them up, but I don't want to duplicate

delete key in eterm

2000-05-30 Thread Joshua Holland
Does anyone know how to change delete from ctrl-h to the Delete key in Eterm.  I checked the faq at eterm.org, but I can't figure out how to change it. Xterm and Gnome Terminal both already delete with the Delete key.

sound on G3 Powerbook

2000-05-30 Thread Joshua Holland
I have no sound on my powerbook.  I am running Gnome with Enlightenment.  I have set sound in the Gnome control panel.  When I enable audio in the Enlightenment settings, I get a message saying there was an error communicating with the Audio server.