Re: Potato revision 1

2000-11-21 Thread Taro Fukunaga
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:35:36PM -0800, Taro Fukunaga wrote: As I'm still relatively new to Debian, I'm not sure how to find the maintainer of a package. How do I find the maintainer? Only these files were gzipped. The other directories don't have compressed files

Re: Potato revision 1

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:35:36PM -0800, Taro Fukunaga wrote: > As I'm still relatively new to Debian, I'm not sure how to find the > maintainer of a package. How do I find the maintainer? > > Only these files were gzipped. The other directories don't have > compressed files. You can use apt:

Re: Potato revision 1

2000-11-21 Thread Taro Fukunaga
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:48:35PM -0800, Taro Fukunaga wrote: Taro Fukunaga wrote: Hello, Also I found that several source files in the examples directory are gzipped which caused Make to fail until I ungzippped the files myself. The files are: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: CHRP boot disks

2000-11-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 21, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm not touching CHRP at this point in time - I'm nervous enough >touching powermac for potato, and I have one to test on. Sorry. We'll >try to get this right in woody. You can't do worse than the current situation: the CHRP boot disk f

Re: problems starting X

2000-11-21 Thread Donnell
What do your device (Section "device") and screen (Section "screen") sections look like? Could you post them? On Tue, 21 November 2000, William Crowshaw wrote: > > At 2:24 PM -0800 11/20/00, Donnell wrote: > >Check the Screen section of your XF86Config file. I > saw the same thing happen wit

Re: Searching for X11-Keymap german ...

2000-11-21 Thread Andre Berger
Michael Flaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:25:30PM +, Hadess wrote: > > Michael Flaig wrote: > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I'm searching for a german X11-keymap that works fine on the Powerbook > > > Firewire. > > > > There are 2 things that we would need to know

KDE2 ?

2000-11-21 Thread Michael Flaig
Hi! I've installed KDE 2 ... (I wanted to see KDE 2 before KDE 2.1 is out ;) ) Not bad ... Great Desktop Environment ... but a little Bit unstable. I saw that the potato packages are old ones ! kde2.0pre ... aren't there any packages more up to date ? thanks a lot... cu, mfl -- Michael Flaig

Re: helping?

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:43:14PM -0800, Pete Lypkie wrote: > Hi there. I've recently gained access to an imac that i can use at night, and > it has woody installed on it. > > i noticed tonight that there were no perl-5.6 packages available in the > archive, so i built the from the source packag

Re: CHRP boot disks

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 02:18:05AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 21, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Rescue.bin is intended to be dd'd onto a floppy. I think. I don't > >know much about CHRP booting, I'm afraid. > It needs to be a FAT disk with a kernel copied over it.

Perl 5.6 busted on powerpc [was: Re: Build request: libjcode-perl, libft-perl]

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:53:28AM -0800, Pete Lypkie wrote: > > libjcode-perl is architecture "all", and i can install it on my powerpc > machine. have you tried again lately? > > a side-note: > while playing around, i noticed that there was an incorrect symlink in the > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/powe

Re: Potato revision 1

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:48:35PM -0800, Taro Fukunaga wrote: > Taro Fukunaga wrote: > > > > Hello, > > Also I found that several source files in the examples directory are > gzipped which caused Make to fail until I ungzippped the files myself. > The files are: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/d

Re: XFree4.0x and Pismo touchpad

2000-11-21 Thread Michael Flaig
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 02:41:54PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > See the documentation on the new input layer, linked on BenH's page > > > (penguinppc.apple.com/~benh/). > > > > Are you sure the above url is correct? I seem to have trouble connecting > > to it. I also tried penguinppc.org/~b

Re: Searching for X11-Keymap german ...

2000-11-21 Thread Michael Flaig
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:25:30PM +, Hadess wrote: > Michael Flaig wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > I'm searching for a german X11-keymap that works fine on the Powerbook > > Firewire. > > There are 2 things that we would need to know to be able to give you a > proper keymap: > - the version of

Re: problems starting X...the gory details

2000-11-21 Thread William Crowshaw
At 4:40 PM -0500 11/20/00, Adam C Powell IV wrote: >William Crowshaw wrote: > >> For more clues about my problem, I could post all the gory details startx >> outputs. My monitor is a simple Apple Multiscan 15". > >Could you post the gory details? It's hard to do much without them... > >-Adam P. T

Re: problems starting X

2000-11-21 Thread William Crowshaw
At 2:24 PM -0800 11/20/00, Donnell wrote: >Check the Screen section of your XF86Config file. I saw the same thing happen with a powermac clone. >The driver was set to "accel". Try changing it to "fbdev". The screen section of my XF86Config file looks like this: # Server for the Linux Frame Buf

Re: XFree864.01, G4, Ati Rage Pro 128 & Apple Studio 17"

2000-11-21 Thread jon ewing
At 21/11/2000, 15:17, Olaf Hering wrote: On Tue, Nov 21, jon ewing wrote: > Hello, > > Just wondered if anyone has got XFree86 4.01 running at 1600x1200 on a G4 > with an ATI Rage Pro 128 (the card it was supplied with) and an Apple > Studio 17" monitor? > > If so, how? :-) I didn't try it. Bu

Re: CHRP boot disks

2000-11-21 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
> > Where is the CHRP boot disk image? > > > > I looked here but could not find one: > > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/ > images-1.44/ > > > > It can not be rescue.bin because that image will not fit on a > dos-format'ed floppy. > > >You need to downlo

apple vs ibm

2000-11-21 Thread Sowmya Shetty
dear sir i want to know the strengths of apple when compared to ibm.please comply as soon as possible.i am a student,require info for a competition. thanking you shravan

starting x

2000-11-21 Thread Frank Escher
i had first the same problems, i tried some things, so i think i found the problem. i have changed the following lines: # # Pointer Section # Section "Pointer" Protocol"BusMouse" Device"/dev/adbmouse" and please if you want to contact me don´t forget this, i´m a beginner of lin

Re: XFree864.01, G4, Ati Rage Pro 128 & Apple Studio 17"

2000-11-21 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Nov 21, jon ewing wrote: > > Hello, > > Just wondered if anyone has got XFree86 4.01 running at 1600x1200 on a G4 > with an ATI Rage Pro 128 (the card it was supplied with) and an Apple > Studio 17" monitor? > > If so, how? :-) I didn't try it. But it should work with the correct mod

XFree864.01, G4, Ati Rage Pro 128 & Apple Studio 17"

2000-11-21 Thread jon ewing
Hello, Just wondered if anyone has got XFree86 4.01 running at 1600x1200 on a G4 with an ATI Rage Pro 128 (the card it was supplied with) and an Apple Studio 17" monitor? If so, how? :-) thanks, jon

Re: XFree4.0x and Pismo touchpad

2000-11-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > See the documentation on the new input layer, linked on BenH's page > > (penguinppc.apple.com/~benh/). > > Are you sure the above url is correct? I seem to have trouble connecting > to it. I also tried penguinppc.org/~benh, but got the response 403 > Forbidden. Well, in this case try ppclinux

Re: XFree4.0x and Pismo touchpad

2000-11-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 02:25:16PM +0100, Magnus Forsberg wrote: > > See the documentation on the new input layer, linked on BenH's page > > (penguinppc.apple.com/~benh/). > > Are you sure the above url is correct? I seem to have trouble connecting > to it. I also tried penguinppc.org/~benh, but g

Re: XFree4.0x and Pismo touchpad

2000-11-21 Thread Magnus Forsberg
> See the documentation on the new input layer, linked on BenH's page > (penguinppc.apple.com/~benh/). Are you sure the above url is correct? I seem to have trouble connecting to it. I also tried penguinppc.org/~benh, but got the response 403 Forbidden. > > The other problem with the keypad is th

Re: XFree4.0x and Pismo touchpad

2000-11-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I have some really annoying problems with X11 and the touchpad on my > Powerbook Pismo. The first problem is the lack of three buttons. I know > from my pre-mac days that one could emulate three buttons, but I assume > that only works when you have at least two physical ones. Is there any way > t

Re: Installing kernel 2.4.0-test11 on iBook

2000-11-21 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:31:37PM -0500, thus said Charles Brunet: > Hi! > > I'm trying to install Debian 2.2 on my new iBook (the blue one, with > Firewire. I don't know how I should call it). I tried to follow most of > Hadess' advices. > > Now I want to compile a 2.4.0 kernel to be able to us

Re: CHRP boot disks

2000-11-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 21, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Rescue.bin is intended to be dd'd onto a floppy. I think. I don't >know much about CHRP booting, I'm afraid. It needs to be a FAT disk with a kernel copied over it. No other files are needed. Do you know why the suse kernel did not work

XFree4.0x and Pismo touchpad

2000-11-21 Thread Magnus Forsberg
Hi! I have some really annoying problems with X11 and the touchpad on my Powerbook Pismo. The first problem is the lack of three buttons. I know from my pre-mac days that one could emulate three buttons, but I assume that only works when you have at least two physical ones. Is there any way to ach

re: Build request: libjcode-perl, libft-perl

2000-11-21 Thread Pete Lypkie
> libft-perl isn't (to the best of my knowlege) in the archives. It depends on > libjcode-perl, which is also not in the archives, but I don't know why. > S'pose somebody could push the magic button to get the build daemon to make > 'em? libjcode-perl is architecture "all", and i can install it o

helping?

2000-11-21 Thread Pete Lypkie
Hi there. I've recently gained access to an imac that i can use at night, and it has woody installed on it. i noticed tonight that there were no perl-5.6 packages available in the archive, so i built the from the source packages...Is there a need for extra compile time? i can't give outside acce