available battery level indicators?

2000-12-29 Thread Steven Hanley
All I know about gkrelm (or whatever it is called) with the pmud plugin, however as it is a gnome panel applet I dont know if it will run without gnome, will it? The other availabe meter seems to be Batmon that paul wrote, it is in the pmud package, however it is an *ick* tcl/tk *ick* thing so I

Re: framebuffer problems on revA iMac

2000-12-29 Thread Mark Hepburn
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:56:18AM +1100, Mark Hepburn wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:34:56PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > > Mark Hepburn wrote: > > > > I finally cured the console problem by using a 'novideo' option in my > >

Re: framebuffer problems on revA iMac

2000-12-29 Thread Mark Hepburn
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:34:56PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > Mark Hepburn wrote: > > > I finally cured the console problem by using a 'novideo' option in my > > > yaboot.conf (after video=atyfb and aty128fb didn't work), > > > >

Re: more colours with atyfb?

2000-12-29 Thread Steven Hanley
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 02:46:37PM +1100, Steven Hanley wrote: > What can I do to get my display to use 24 bit (or 32 or 16 or 15) rather > than 8 bit colour? (pismo still) woops, that will teach me, I jsut tried with 32, and it worked fine, oh well, though I can see maybe why I should try to get

more colours with atyfb?

2000-12-29 Thread Steven Hanley
All What can I do to get my display to use 24 bit (or 32 or 16 or 15) rather than 8 bit colour? (pismo still) I tried adding append="video=atyfb:mode:1024x768,cmode:24" to my yaboot.conf and rerunning ybin now dmesg says Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda10 ro video=atyfb:mode:1024x768,cmode:

Re: exiting minicom...

2000-12-29 Thread Steven Hanley
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 06:24:27PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: > "W. Crowshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > At 1:13 PM +0100 12/29/00, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > >Chad Albers wrote: > > >> > > >> I'm trying to us minicom to debug a ppp connection, but I can't seem > > >> to use the meta key in

Re: Xfree 3.x opps... forgot the URL

2000-12-29 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 01:20:31PM -0800, I, Mark Jaroski wrote: > Hi Mark > > It's me again... I found this message in the archives that talks > a bit about the file I sent you earlier... http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc-0012/msg00653.html > In case you're wondering the program for conver

Re: Xfree 3.x for Cirrus Logic GD 5446 on a RS 6000 clone (Bull Estrella 320)

2000-12-29 Thread Mark Jaroski
Hi Mark It's me again... I found this message in the archives that talks a bit about the file I sent you earlier... In case you're wondering the program for converting rpm archives to debs is alien. Try this (as root): apt-get install alien alien something.rpm then you can inst

Re: Mouse setting in X

2000-12-29 Thread Cole Stewart
PS/2 seems to work, how do I get 3 button emulation working? on 00.12.28 10:58, Michael Schmitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> sucessful is /dev/adb, with this I get the WindowMaker dock and Debian >>> backround with no mouse movement. Any suggestions to get my mouse working? >>> >>> Thanks f

Re: exiting minicom...

2000-12-29 Thread Andre Berger
"W. Crowshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 1:13 PM +0100 12/29/00, Michel Dänzer wrote: > >Chad Albers wrote: > >> > >> I'm trying to us minicom to debug a ppp connection, but I can't seem > >> to use the meta key inside minicom (in a console) to access its > >> options. Neither escape nor

Re: framebuffer problems on revA iMac

2000-12-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > Mark Hepburn wrote: > > I finally cured the console problem by using a 'novideo' option in my > > yaboot.conf (after video=atyfb and aty128fb didn't work), > > Note that the colon at then of video=aty(128)fb: is vital. This is something I'

Re: wheee vmlinux worked

2000-12-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > i assume .coff ? personally i think it would be nice if yaboot > supported sparc style compressed images, that is plain gzipped > kernels, could be useful to speed up netboots (albeit not by that > much) M68k booters do the same. It's not that difficult

Re: exiting minicom...

2000-12-29 Thread W. Crowshaw
At 1:13 PM +0100 12/29/00, Michel Dänzer wrote: Chad Albers wrote: I'm trying to us minicom to debug a ppp connection, but I can't seem to use the meta key inside minicom (in a console) to access its options. Neither escape nor CTL or ALT work? What about the command key (the one with the

2.2.18 source patch; libc6-dev internal conflict?

2000-12-29 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, More "new input layer" drama... I got and unpacked kernel-source-2.2.18, copied /boot/config-2.2.18pre21 to .config, did make oldconfig (which changed nothing) and make-kpkg kernel_image. A pretty straightforward kernel build, which I'm doing to try the openafs modules. But it died i

Re: Status of PCI-PCI bridge on UMAX S900

2000-12-29 Thread Chas Williams
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,jingai writes: >Doh! I didn't even think to check if the second get_property() call >was returning > 0.. this fixes it! Thanks bunches for spotting that! it seems like someone was confused about the meaning of the 'interrupts' property when they wrote prom.c. its

Re: using the modem on a pismo?

2000-12-29 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 12:56:29AM +1100, Steven Hanley wrote: > Anyway right now I am looking at making a deb of modutils 2.2.23 for > potato r2 as it is needed to use this kernel nicely and I: dont want to hand > install it if I can help it. I also cant use the modutils form unstable as > it dep

Re: using the modem on a pismo?

2000-12-29 Thread Steven Hanley
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 02:39:32PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Steven Hanley wrote: > > > Every time I try to dial I get the error no dialtone. > > This sounds rather like a connection problem than a software problem. Do you > use the right connector etc.? oh yeah I forgot to mention, I tried

Re: using the modem on a pismo?

2000-12-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
Steven Hanley wrote: > Every time I try to dial I get the error no dialtone. This sounds rather like a connection problem than a software problem. Do you use the right connector etc.? Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (p

using the modem on a pismo?

2000-12-29 Thread Steven Hanley
All I have tried a few times to get the ppp stuff working with the modem on my pismo. I have just incase this was the problem upgraded to pppconfig 2.0.5 and ppp 2.4.0f-1 from testing (as I am using kernel 2.4.0-test13-pre3, although the ppp behaviour was evident with 2.2.17 also), I also download

Re: exiting minicom...

2000-12-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
Chad Albers wrote: > > I'm trying to us minicom to debug a ppp connection, but I can't seem > to use the meta key inside minicom (in a console) to access its > options. Neither escape nor CTL or ALT work? What about the command key (the one with the apple and the funny sign on it)? Michel --

printing help

2000-12-29 Thread Rolf Schatzmann
I am trying to set up an epson stylus 800 printer on a G3 upgraded 8500 running woody on 2.4. I had a look through the mailing list and found info on how to set up the printer using printtool. I have followed these instructions but i get an error when i try to print. The error is lpr:connect:No suc

Re: setserial question...?

2000-12-29 Thread Michael Schmitz
> /dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: unknown, Port: 0xf3013020, IRQ: 15 > Baud_base: 0, close_delay: 50, divisor: 16 > closing_wait: 3000 > Flags: spd_normal > > What I find most interesting is that the UART is "unknown" and that > the Baud_base: is zero. Are these the correct values for

Re: X permission problems

2000-12-29 Thread Mark Hepburn
Not sure how many people have been following this thread, but I've just apt-get upgraded and everything works fine. Not sure if it was something I'd inadvertantly done or not, but all seems to be fine now. Thanks to everyone, cheers Mark. At 12:10 PM 12/29/00 +1100, Mark Hepburn wrote: >anywhere

setserial question...?

2000-12-29 Thread Chad Albers
I am debugging some problems I am having setting up a ppp connection between my home computer and my isp. I'm using Debian Woody, kernel 2.2.17 and pppd 2.3.11 on a PowerMac 7500. Checking out all possibility and following a faqs instructions, I have tested the command setserial -a /dev/ttyS0

exiting minicom...

2000-12-29 Thread Chad Albers
I'm trying to us minicom to debug a ppp connection, but I can't seem to use the meta key inside minicom (in a console) to access its options. Neither escape nor CTL or ALT work? Has anyone else experienced this problem? How can I solve it? -- c h a d @ l b e r s [EMAIL PROTECTED]