Re: deb-ppc: recommended browser and email client ?

2000-06-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:38:52PM -0700, C.M. Connelly wrote: > After having checked the archives on ftp.debian.org, looking at > the contrib and non-free directories for both potato and woody, as > far as I can see the only installable versions of Communicator for > PowerPC are 4.6 and 4.7 (and m

Re: deb-ppc: recommended browser and email client ?

2000-06-09 Thread C.M. Connelly
"BS" == Brendan Simon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "MD" == Michel Daenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "ACP" == Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BS> I've just got X windows running (limping) on my powerbook. BS> I was using communicator on my Intel laptop and would BS> probably stuck with it (e

Re: deb-ppc: recommended browser and email client ?

2000-06-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: > Brendan Simon wrote: > > > > I've just got X windows running (limping) on my powerbook. I was using > > communicator on my Intel laptop and would probably stuck with it (even > > though it is a *big* memory hog and has some bugs) but it is not > > packaged for powerpc. > >

Re: audio killed the debian box

2000-06-09 Thread Chad Miller
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 10:23:55AM -0600, (quoted source) wrote: > Actually, I've noticed that mp3blaster just doesn't work under PPC properly. > xmms does, among other music players, but then aumix and the mixer in > general are a little broken too. Yup. I figured it out. The dmasound mixer_ioc

Re: deb-ppc: recommended browser and email client ?

2000-06-09 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 10:47:45AM +0100, David Given wrote: > [...] > >What are other people using for web browsing and email clients on their > >powerpc machines ? > >Any recommendations ? > > Well, these are purely religious issues and you are as likely to get a > consensus as a politician is

is anyone working on powerpc install docs?

2000-06-09 Thread Ethan Benson
Hi, I was wondering if anyone is working on improving the install docs for powerpc? i have written some starts to the steps required for newworld installs, but this only covers yaboot. from messages on the list some help on BootX may also be needed for the few newworld machines where yaboot does

Re: deb-ppc: recommended browser and email client ?

2000-06-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
Brendan Simon wrote: > > I've just got X windows running (limping) on my powerbook. I was using > communicator on my Intel laptop and would probably stuck with it (even > though it is a *big* memory hog and has some bugs) but it is not > packaged for powerpc. What's the problem? I installed comm

Re: deb-ppc: recommended browser and email client ?

2000-06-09 Thread David Given
[...] >What are other people using for web browsing and email clients on their >powerpc machines ? >Any recommendations ? Well, these are purely religious issues and you are as likely to get a consensus as a politician is to be honest. Personally, I use mh/exmh as my mailer; mh is *the* most po

Re: harddrive troubles with install on G3 powerbook

2000-06-09 Thread David Brown
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 09:17:16PM -0400, Chad Miller wrote: > I see somewhat the same; booting cold from 'yaboot', mine hangs near the > SCSI initialization. I find I must boot (BootX) from MacOS (but not > necessarily with BootX' `Force SCSI Init.' on), so you might try that. This > might supe