XFree86 4.0.3-0pre1v1 available for testing on powerpc & sparc

2001-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
Please try these out, guys. deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ woody/$(ARCH)/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ woody/source/ -- G. Branden Robinson|You don't just decide to break Kubrick's Debian GNU/Linux |code of silence and then get drawn aw

X Mouse doesn't work on 8500; how to accellerate X

2001-04-08 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I have a fresh install of Debian on a Power Mac 8500. This is an "old world" machine, with ADB keyboard and mouse and a PowerPC 604 processor. Using the framebuffer server, X startx up without complaint but I can't move the mouse. /dev/mouse is linked to /dev/input/mice. The major and minor num

Re: upgrade to MacOS 9.1, now lilo dissapears

2001-04-08 Thread Grant Miller
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 01:13:01PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote: > On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Grant Miller wrote: > > > At some point after I erased the OS 9.0.4 partition, a disk called > > bootstrap showed up on the MacOS desktop. This disk has never > > appeared before in MacOS. The bootstrap disk is a

Re: upgrade to MacOS 9.1, now lilo dissapears

2001-04-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 10:14:32PM +0800, Kin Chung wrote: > > >the Apple_Bootstrap type is better though, bootloaders should not be > >visable to MacOS. > > I've found that the bootstrap partition is visible under Darwin > (the #$%&* thing automounts it). This may or may not become a > problem

Re: X dies while I'm not looking...

2001-04-08 Thread Charles Sebold
On 15 Nisan 5761, David J. Roundy wrote: > I'm not sure if this is powerpc-specific, or not, but I have a > somewhat annoying issue where X will die if I stop using it for a > while (e.g. leave the room or work on a virtual terminal). It does > this whether I am just sitting in kdm or if I'm logg

Re: Playing CD's on Pismo

2001-04-08 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > > I am unable to get CD's to play on my Pismo. I've searched the WWW and > > found a few clues, but nothging that worked. Can someone provide a > > clue? > > apt-get install xmms-cdread/testing (or unstable) > The drive

Re: [off topic] more ram?

2001-04-08 Thread Matt Brubeck
> I can buy 128 MB dimm's in the shops for AU $100, so I am wondering > will normal dimm's work in the iMac, 192 MB Ram for half the price of > upgrading the computer to 128 MB through apple is definitely a good > thing as far as I can see. Yes, new iMacs use standard PC100 DIMMs. There is one is

Re: KDE2.1 and sound

2001-04-08 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 12:35:25PM -0500, Tim Fairbank wrote: > On March 15, 2001, Fabian Jakobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (It appears that the combination of debian-powerppc and KDE > is somewhat rare and unusual. Most developers posting to > this list seem to be using GNOME...maybe I should

Re: KDE2.1 and sound

2001-04-08 Thread Tim Fairbank
On March 15, 2001, Fabian Jakobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I recently installed KDE2 but I can't get the sound support working. >xmms works fine but as soon as a KDE-Application plays sound using >the arts server I get only strange speaker killing noise. >I'm using sid with kernel 2.4.1 on a Po

X dies while I'm not looking...

2001-04-08 Thread David J. Roundy
I'm not sure if this is powerpc-specific, or not, but I have a somewhat annoying issue where X will die if I stop using it for a while (e.g. leave the room or work on a virtual terminal). It does this whether I am just sitting in kdm or if I'm logged in under X, and seems to happen every ten minut

Re: Playing CD's on Pismo

2001-04-08 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > I am unable to get CD's to play on my Pismo. I've searched the WWW and > found a few clues, but nothging that worked. Can someone provide a > clue? apt-get install xmms-cdread/testing (or unstable) The drive isn't connected to audio out in current machines. For the c

[off topic] more ram?

2001-04-08 Thread Steven Hanley
All Curious, one of my friends is looking at buying an iMac (alas he will not be running linux) and I am wondering about putting additional RAM in it. On www.apple.com.au/store the Ram would cost another AU $200 on top of the price of the iMac ($2400 or so) for an upgrade from 64 to 128 MB. I can

Re: upgrade to MacOS 9.1, now lilo dissapears

2001-04-08 Thread Kin Chung
the Apple_Bootstrap type is better though, bootloaders should not be visable to MacOS. I've found that the bootstrap partition is visible under Darwin (the #$%&* thing automounts it). This may or may not become a problem in the future. Cheers, Kin Hoong _

cdparanoia package broken in unstable?

2001-04-08 Thread Kevin van Haaren
Is the cdparanoia package broken on powerpc? I tried installing the latest version via dselect but it goes into a weird dependency loop where it wants a particular version of the libcdparanoia0 package, but the one listed is newer than what it wants. I ftp'd to the package pool and there is a

Re: Can't download packages upon initial boot

2001-04-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 08:36:37AM +, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I am able to successfully initialize a Debian Potato system on a > PowerMac 8500 by booting with BootX and using the images and stuff in > the potato current directories for powermac. > > This is the "old world" power mac - a P

Can't download packages upon initial boot

2001-04-08 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I am able to successfully initialize a Debian Potato system on a PowerMac 8500 by booting with BootX and using the images and stuff in the potato current directories for powermac. This is the "old world" power mac - a PowerPC 604 system, with the old, big roms. When I start up off of the freshly

Re: ppc kernel mailing list?

2001-04-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 03:02:55AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > Where should I send reports about problems compiling/running linux-2.4-bk > rsync'ed from penguinppc.org? [EMAIL PROTECTED] yes, thats the only `linuxppc' list that happens to be distribution neutral. its purely technical discus

Keyboard conversion (mac -> pc kvm switch)

2001-04-08 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I have an eight port kvm switch with only three ports used and three macs that I want to put on it. I found one once, but it was $100+ and since these are all oldworld machines, I'm looking for something cheap. I already have the converters to use the monitors, but I need something to conver

ppc kernel mailing list?

2001-04-08 Thread Peter Cordes
Where should I send reports about problems compiling/running linux-2.4-bk rsync'ed from penguinppc.org? [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got a Daystar Digital Genesis MP, with four PPC604 CPUs. I'm currently running 2.4.3-pre2 from the bk tree. I've had it lock up under high load (4*distributed.net cl

Re: 604e's suck (was Yaboot Config Question)

2001-04-08 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 03:17:24PM -0700, Taro Fukunaga wrote: > I don't have the technical background to follow a lot of this thread, > but I've been studying pthreads, and it seems that whether a certain > process gets executed more quickly on a multiprocessor computer depends > on how well the p