debian-powerpc: nightly backup of G4 required

2000-10-23 Thread Brendan J Simon
I need to backup our G4 server every night. Our tape backup unit an internal scsi unit on a Win2000 based Dell server. I have samba working on the G4 so I could make a backup file to the G4 itself and then I can configure the Win2000 backup software to copy that file. Alternatively, the output f

debian-powerpc: sawmill wont install

2000-10-23 Thread Brendan J Simon
I can't get sawmill to install on my G4 due to dependency problems. Has anybody worked around this and able to install sawmill from a .deb repository ??? Thanks, Brendan Simon.

Re: ppc vs. i386

2000-10-23 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:22:49PM +0100, thus said Sergio Brandano: > > >debian ppc is slow compared to debian i386 > >what do u think about...? > > I think you are wrong. > I can not give any number, but I perceive my PowerBook G3 1999 > 400Mhz, as fast as, if not faster than, a new Athlon 8

Re: mixer support on dmasound

2000-10-23 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, C.M. Connelly wrote: > On my Powercenter 132 with gnome-applets 1.2.1-1, the mixer applet > controls only work for the line-out jack and have no effect on the > internal speaker. To control the internal speaker volume, I have to > start gmix and adjust the ``Spkr'' slider --

Re: mixer support on dmasound

2000-10-23 Thread C.M. Connelly
"ACP" == Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ACP> Here it is, against gnome-core_1.0.55-1 (patch -0 within ACP> the directory) but should work against -2 (current potato ACP> version). Also see bug #63215 which was (supposedly) ACP> closed by the upload of the gnome-applets

Kernel image

2000-10-23 Thread Eric Reischer
If anybody is running an RS-6000 43P that has a 2.4 kernel built, could you please sent it to me (off list)? I don't have a PowerPC machine to build a kernel on, and none of the ones offered with any of the distros are working with my machine. Thanks. Eric

Re: iMac network (BMAC) broken?

2000-10-23 Thread Hadess
Hi, I've had this experience with my iBook, my iMac DV was unaffected. Martijn van de Streek wrote: > > Today I discovered that my iMac has problem with NFS and/or the network > driver. > > When doing TCP-transfers all is fine, but when doing heavy NFS stuff > (loads of UDP, "./configure && mak

Re: LICQ problem

2000-10-23 Thread Björn
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, you wrote: > Hi! > > This happens when I try to start LICQ: > > 20:04:15: [ERR] Unable to load plugin (qt-gui): > /usr/lib/licq/licq_qt-gui.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file > or directory. > > I know that the required packages isn't broken: > > licq_0.76-2.1.deb

iMac network (BMAC) broken?

2000-10-23 Thread Martijn van de Streek
Today I discovered that my iMac has problem with NFS and/or the network driver. When doing TCP-transfers all is fine, but when doing heavy NFS stuff (loads of UDP, "./configure && make" on a medium-size project triggers the hang 90% of the time, for example), the network card suddenly stops respon

Re: Re: ppc vs. i386

2000-10-23 Thread Daniel P. Hembree
This is a nice test for the sort of thing your doing. At their web site they have a lot of published results so you can just reference them for doing the comparisons after running the suite on your machine. More info and the database can be found at http://scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/HINT __ |

Re: Re: ppc vs. i386

2000-10-23 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > ive found my G3/400 to be about on par with my celery 466, the only > > > thing that seems slower on ppc to me is the compiler, and the > > > framebuffer (compared to VGA textmode which is not fair ;-)) > > > > That's about what I see (scaling the performance to equal CPU clock). > > Where

Re: mixer support on dmasound

2000-10-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Rob Andrews wrote: > In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > package which makes it work on internal speakers too. If you're > interested, I > > can send it. But first try gmix and see if any of the sliders change the > volume > > for you. > > They don't for me - I'd be in

Re: mixer support on dmasound

2000-10-23 Thread Rob Andrews
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > I'm getting the same thing too, but since I only use xmms, I've resorted to > > setting the preamp to lower the volume. > I'm using dmasound on stock 2.2.15 from kernel.org, and the mixer works fine. > (Tried aumix, gmix, gnome mixer panel

Re: mixer support on dmasound

2000-10-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>I can't use mixer on my ibook. >Is there anyone uses mixer on dmasound? >Can I control volumn? > >updong:~# uname -a >Linux updong 2.2.17pre10-ben3 #2 Fri Jul 21 00:42:09 PDT 2000 ppc unknown >updong:~# lsmod >Module Size Used by >dmasound 30176 0 (unused) >upd

Re: open office

2000-10-23 Thread Christer Gustavsson
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ../unxlngppc.pro/slo/multipro.o(.text+0xa5e): relocation truncated to > > fit: R_PPC_GOT16 cpp_acquire > > Any clues on how to solve them? > Search for cpp_acquire in the sources, perhaps one of the object files > wasn't built so cpp_acquire could not

Re: mixer support on dmasound

2000-10-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Rob Andrews wrote: > In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Keun-woo Ryu wrote: > > I can't use mixer on my ibook. > > Is there anyone uses mixer on dmasound? > > Can I control volumn? > > I'm getting the same thing too, but since I only use xmms, I've resorted to > setting the preamp to lower the volume.

Re: Re: ppc vs. i386

2000-10-23 Thread jingai
> > > If you're interested (and not just trolling) I can give you some CPU > > > benchmarks run with a floating point intensive number crunching > > > application to compare a G3/400 with a range of Intel machines > > > (PI/233 to PIII/500 currently). > > > > ive found my G3/400 to be about on pa

Re: open office

2000-10-23 Thread Michael Schmitz
> ../unxlngppc.pro/slo/multipro.o(.text+0xa5e): relocation truncated to > fit: R_PPC_GOT16 cpp_acquire > Any clues on how to solve them? Search for cpp_acquire in the sources, perhaps one of the object files wasn't built so cpp_acquire could not be resolved on the final link stage. Micha

Re: mixer support on dmasound

2000-10-23 Thread Rob Andrews
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Keun-woo Ryu wrote: > I can't use mixer on my ibook. > Is there anyone uses mixer on dmasound? > Can I control volumn? I'm getting the same thing too, but since I only use xmms, I've resorted to setting the preamp to lower the volume. -- Rob

Re: ppc vs. i386

2000-10-23 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > If you're interested (and not just trolling) I can give you some CPU > > benchmarks run with a floating point intensive number crunching > > application to compare a G3/400 with a range of Intel machines (PI/233 to > > PIII/500 currently). > > ive found my G3/400 to be about on par with my ce

Re: ppc vs. i386

2000-10-23 Thread Matthias Pfisterer
Hi, I'm interested in these figures. Matthias Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > debian ppc is slow compared to debian i386 > > So what? Debian/i386 is slow compared to Debian/alpha I guess. Debian on a > 386 sure is hell of a lot slower than Debian on my G3/400. What exactly is > your point here?