2 or 3 button mouse emulation. again.

2000-07-21 Thread Chris Sanner \[ Hitchhiker \]
I know this has been asked a million times. and I've RTFM'd until I think I'm going to scream. I need to use more than one mouse button. I must. I'm using XFree86 4.0. I've passed the kernel parameter "adb_buttons=111,119" which are , according to xev, the correct keys. this I have passed in /

Re: Bug#66540: kaffe on PowerPC: success

2000-07-21 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 04:50:18PM -0500, Ean R . Schuessler wrote: > Just realizing this. :) > > Does someone want to pick libffi up? Interesting enough Brent Fulgham just made a libffi package when he was hacking on sablevm another Java Virtual Machine. (See mail at end.) > On Fri, Jul 21

RE: Bug#66540: kaffe on PowerPC: success

2000-07-21 Thread Anthony Green
On Friday, July 21, 2000 2:50 PM, Ean R . Schuessler [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just realizing this. :) > > Does someone want to pick libffi up? I am the libffi author and would happy to answer questions should they arise. AG

Installing Debian on an iBook - a webpage with some pointers

2000-07-21 Thread Adam Sjøgren
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.os.linux.powerpc as well. Hi. With help from the net I succeeded in installing Debian GNU/Linux and X on my new iBook. I've made a little webpage with hints for others who want to do the same thing - it's not

Re: Bug#66540: kaffe on PowerPC: success

2000-07-21 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
Just realizing this. :) Does someone want to pick libffi up? On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 10:12:29PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Friday 21 July 2000, at 12 h 6, the keyboard of "Ean R . Schuessler" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On this note I guess that the most sensible thing to do

Re: Bug#66540: kaffe on PowerPC: success

2000-07-21 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 21 July 2000, at 12 h 6, the keyboard of "Ean R . Schuessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On this note I guess that the most sensible thing to do is go ahead and > put the CVS .debs I have in incoming. Do you plan to compile them with --with-libffi? At least on PowerPC, this is mand

Re: Bug#66540: kaffe on PowerPC: success

2000-07-21 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
Oh. Whoops. Thats what I meant. On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 10:29:47AM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Ean R . Schuessler wrote: > > > On this note I guess that the most sensible thing to do is go ahead and > > put the CVS .debs I have in incoming. > > > > I'm thinking that I'll n

Re: Bug#66540: kaffe on PowerPC: success

2000-07-21 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Ean R . Schuessler wrote: > On this note I guess that the most sensible thing to do is go ahead and > put the CVS .debs I have in incoming. > > I'm thinking that I'll name them 1.0.5.[cvs date DDMMYY]. Versioning should > work ok that way and I could even do daily CVS posts

Re: Bug#66540: kaffe on PowerPC: success

2000-07-21 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
On this note I guess that the most sensible thing to do is go ahead and put the CVS .debs I have in incoming. I'm thinking that I'll name them 1.0.5.[cvs date DDMMYY]. Versioning should work ok that way and I could even do daily CVS posts. Thoughts? On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 01:29:53PM +0200, St

Re: Partitioning disks without losing data.

2000-07-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
Brendan Simon schrieb: > If I do need to create a boot partition, then I need to move and resive > some/all of the partitions on hda. Can I do this without losing all the > information on the root partition. It takes s long to install all > this over the internet. Maybe I should burn a CD

Re: PowerPC potato bugs page

2000-07-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
"C.M. Connelly" schrieb: > Bug 54248 > Package: gmc > Description: gmc: X crashes when gmc icons are clicked on > Severity: normal > Reporter: "C.M. Connelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Comments: not sure if this is still relevant; I quit running gmc ages ago. If X crashes, it's not a gmc bug...

kaffe on PowerPC: success

2000-07-21 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
With the last CVS tree of kaffe and the help of Edouard Parmelan, fearless kaffe developer, everything works. Ultra-Short-HOWTO: 1) Get FFI from http://sourceware.cygnus.com/libffi/ (it does not seem to be in any Debian package) and install it (./configure; make

Re: Helix Gnome for Debian/PPC available

2000-07-21 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 10:16:04AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Adam Sjøgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 19:42:26 +0200, hadess wrote: > > > > > I'm working on a Debian-based distro for iMacs and iBooks > > > > Why not use ("plain") Debian? > > Not appealling en

Re: Helix Gnome for Debian/PPC available

2000-07-21 Thread hadess
Quoting Kevin Puetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > What is the difference between the debs available here and those at > > http://southpole.penguinpowered.com/ ? Are these "more official?" > > I don't know (I'm the creator of the SouthPole ones), does anybody else > know?

Re: Helix Gnome for Debian/PPC available

2000-07-21 Thread hadess
Quoting Adam Sjøgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 19:42:26 +0200, hadess wrote: > > > I'm working on a Debian-based distro for iMacs and iBooks > > Why not use ("plain") Debian? Not appealling enough to the new user... _I_ can cope with Debian, but I don't think a new user to Li