Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-14 Thread Kin Chung
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: First of all: Where did DeCSS come from, huh? And secondly, maybe we'll have a better chance with MacOS X, concerning free devel tools and unix style development... I must admit, having had a good look at what is available in the Darwin repository that it does

Re: ibook keyboard not correct under X

2001-04-14 Thread Kin Chung
Jean-Noel Colin wrote: I have successfully installed potato on my ibook indigo with a french keyboard. I configured the keyboard properly under console mode (even though I need to rerun kbdconfig each time I reboot), but under X, I have some problems. All alphanumeric keys work properly, but

Re: Audio CD's on a Pismo (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4)

2001-04-14 Thread Nelson Abramson
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > "Peter Cordes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I use enlightenment, so I'm using Eterms, but yes I have two Eters, > one I've su'ed to root, and the other I'm just plain old me. As me, I > can use the volume control on xmms and it works, but playing MP3's > sounds

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-14 Thread Steven Hanley
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:55:39PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > With MacOS X, strace and ltrace will be available, right? You can probably > even strace the Classic process (or whatever it is), and run old apps to see > what they do. not exactly, well strace will be available in some form, as al

Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4

2001-04-14 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > you need to logout and relogin before group membership takes affect. Oh, I forgot, I haven't logged out in about a week Isn't linux great? > i don't see why root privileges would improve the quality of playback, > running as root is of course not

Audio CD's on a Pismo (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4)

2001-04-14 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Peter Cordes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Makes no sense to me, either. Maybe he's got extra stuff running when he > is logged in as an unpriviledged user. Jason: do you have two xterms, one > with a root shell and one with a user shell, and you're running the same > program with the same ar

Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4

2001-04-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 08:19:10PM -0700, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > If I try to play xmms, I get 'permission denied'. So I have to first > do 'newgroup audio', and then play xmms... But then I get popping. If > I do it as root no trouble. you need to logout and relogin before group membership t

Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4

2001-04-14 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 06:45:40PM -0700, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > > > OK. I've discovered that the skips and pops only happen if I am an > > unpriveleged user. If I'm root, everthing plays fine > > that makes no sense, are you a member of grou

Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:41:17PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 06:45:40PM -0700, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > "Steven Hanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > As for sound, you just want the sound enabvled with the AWACS (mac sound) > > > driver enabled. I have it comp

Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4

2001-04-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 06:45:40PM -0700, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > "Steven Hanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As for sound, you just want the sound enabvled with the AWACS (mac sound) > > driver enabled. I have it compiled in not as a module (I dont know if it > > works as a module or not)

Re: lids

2001-04-14 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 02:39:18AM +0200, Zeno Gantner wrote: > > What are the LIDS packages? I can add it to the hurd-i386 autobuilder > > tonight if you'd like... Is there a good one to start with? The sources > > file doesn't tell me enough to pick one. > > I guess it's the Linux Intrusion

Re: Video Argument for BootX

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:18:36PM -0400, michael sean edwards wrote: > I am having some trouble with X Windows and my video card. Its a standard > ATI card that came with my 9500. Anyway what is the argument I need to tell > the system what my resolution and bit depth is? Thanks to anyone who can

Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4

2001-04-14 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Steven Hanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As for sound, you just want the sound enabvled with the AWACS (mac sound) > driver enabled. I have it compiled in not as a module (I dont know if it > works as a module or not) and have no problems with sound, I can play any > sort of sound with no ski

Re: lids

2001-04-14 Thread Zeno Gantner
Jeff Bailey wrote: > What are the LIDS packages? I can add it to the hurd-i386 autobuilder > tonight if you'd like... Is there a good one to start with? The sources > file doesn't tell me enough to pick one. I guess it's the Linux Intrusion Detection System, so it is not interesting for Debian

[SECURITY] Last call for 2.2.19 kernel images

2001-04-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
I am going to release a security advisory tomorrow for the security problems in the Linux kernel: all kernels before 2.2.19 have a couple of nasty security problems that can be exploited both locally or remotely. Currently I have no kernel packages for the arm, m68k and powerpc architectures. If

Re: problems realtek 8139 ?

2001-04-14 Thread Chris Tillman
> >> mine works fine in a UMax C500. I have an AOpen card using the 8139c >> chipset. I used the 8139too driver rather than the older realtek driver. >> and my kernel is newer. >> >> Driver: >> Apr 14 06:39:15 mojo kernel: eth0: 8139too FastEthernet driver 0.9.14-2.2 >> Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-04-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:10:20AM -0700, Tovar wrote: > thou shall not bitch about thine boot floppies unless thy wish to > fix them thyself. > > OK, then, how does one generate OldWorld boot floppies? What packages > are required to do that, so whoever takes this on doesn't have to g

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:55:39PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > With MacOS X, strace and ltrace will be available, right? You can probably > even strace the Classic process (or whatever it is), and run old apps to see > what they do. maybe if you recompile the darwin kernel and drop it in. in t

Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:47:49PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: > On Saturday 14 April 2001 04:35, Steven Hanley wrote: > > As for sound, you just want the sound enabvled with the AWACS (mac sound) > > driver enabled. I have it compiled in not as a module (I dont know if it > > works as

Re: boot-floppies for stable

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:19:19PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > > > m68k: Christian recently relocated to the US, and no one else is > > > willing to do boot-floppies. > > > > What work is required for them? I have a very slow LC475 that I can > > attempt to build them on if that's any hel

Re: Exhaustive memory test for Macs?

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 04:05:30AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:35:35PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > but its true the only way to really test virtually all the memory is > > to write the memory tester as a OpenFirmware client and boot it > > directly -- no OS at all. >

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:28:50AM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: > First of all: Where did DeCSS come from, huh? Uh, Norway, IIRC. Somehow the US still managed to get the guy in trouble. > And secondly, maybe we'll have a better chance with MacOS X, concerning free > devel tools and u

Re: lids

2001-04-14 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 07:48:39PM +0200, David Spreen wrote: > The LIDS packages in the debian distribution are built for all architectures. > No I would like to know if Anyone has seen it running on any other > architecture than i386. > Additionaly I would be glad to see porters of other archit

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-04-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:10:20AM -0700, Tovar wrote: > thou shall not bitch about thine boot floppies unless thy wish to > fix them thyself. > > OK, then, how does one generate OldWorld boot floppies? What packages > are required to do that, so whoever takes this on doesn't have to g

Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4

2001-04-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: > Okay, the KDE sound server aRts produced real bad noise (like radio static > but even worse). Then I changed the sampling rate to 8 bit and it worked > with the effect that mp3s out of the KDE media player sometimes click and > pop. I think I read on KC KDE that

Re: ibook keyboard not correct under X

2001-04-14 Thread Tovar
Try adding '-kb' to the relevant line in '/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers'. Mine says: :0 local /usr/bin/X11/X vt9 -deferglyphs 16 -kb The '-kb' turns off the 'xkb' hackery. Or put: XkbDisable in your XF86Config file. The 'xkb' stuff works great for in most cases, but occasionally, it gets in

lids

2001-04-14 Thread David Spreen
Hi there, The LIDS packages in the debian distribution are built for all architectures. No I would like to know if Anyone has seen it running on any other architecture than i386. Additionaly I would be glad to see porters of other architectures testing the packages. so long... David -- __

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-04-14 Thread Tovar
thou shall not bitch about thine boot floppies unless thy wish to fix them thyself. OK, then, how does one generate OldWorld boot floppies? What packages are required to do that, so whoever takes this on doesn't have to grovel through alot of documentation (if it exists) to figure this

Re: problems realtek 8139 ?

2001-04-14 Thread Kevin van Haaren
hmmm, have you checked the cable? could be a bad cable. Also what about the hub/switch you're plugging into? Bad port or the card could be auto-detecting the wrong mode (going into full duplex when the hub is only half-duplex) Kevin --On Saturday, April 14, 2001 6:21 PM +0200 Bruno Waes <

Re: problems realtek 8139 ?

2001-04-14 Thread Bruno Waes
- Original Message - From: "Kevin van Haaren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruno Waes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 4:22 PM Subject: Re: problems realtek 8139 ? > mine works fine in a UMax C500. I have an AOpen card using the 8139c > chipset. I used the 8139too driv

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > >Nope, plese disassemble the control panel that permits you to set > > >this, > > > > Seriously, though... are you actually allowed to disassemble > > the Apple code? The license agreement suggests that one is not > > licensed to disassemble any of the Macintosh OS code (or is it > > one of th

RE: boot-floppies for stable

2001-04-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Michael Schmitz; are you saying that NO PowerPC's will build on Debian? I Nope. All I said was that no one is building boot-floppies (the installer stuff) for m68k (Motorola 680x0). Someone posted 'whats up with boot-floppies for m68k' to debian-ports, I replied. Sorry if reading this on debian

Re: boot-floppies for stable

2001-04-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > > m68k: Christian recently relocated to the US, and no one else is > > willing to do boot-floppies. > > What work is required for them? I have a very slow LC475 that I can > attempt to build them on if that's any help and I'll have a go at doing > some sanity testing on them too. Would that b

Re: problems realtek 8139 ?

2001-04-14 Thread Kevin van Haaren
mine works fine in a UMax C500. I have an AOpen card using the 8139c chipset. I used the 8139too driver rather than the older realtek driver. and my kernel is newer. Driver: Apr 14 06:39:15 mojo kernel: eth0: 8139too FastEthernet driver 0.9.14-2.2 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uname -a:

Re: ibook keyboard not correct under X

2001-04-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Jean-Noel Colin wrote: > Hi > > Thanks for your help. Could you please tell me how you > upgraded to XFree 4.0? I only have 3.3 installed and did > not find the debian packages of the new version. Ah - I use the unstable "sid" version of Debian, not the officially released

Re: ibook keyboard not correct under X

2001-04-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Jean-Noel Colin wrote: > I have successfully installed potato on my ibook indigo with a french > keyboard. I configured the keyboard properly under console mode (even > though I need to rerun kbdconfig each time I reboot), but under X, I > have some problems. All alphanumeri

Re: Exhaustive memory test for Macs?

2001-04-14 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:35:35PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > but its true the only way to really test virtually all the memory is > to write the memory tester as a OpenFirmware client and boot it > directly -- no OS at all. > What if you have two or more ram chips and rotate them between memo

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 06:20:57PM +1000, Steven Hanley wrote: > > we are also allowed to reverse engineer and such in .au, however I have > never programmed in macos and dont have any macos devel tools, so wouldnt > even know where to begin doing the equivalent of > strace -f -p `pidof controlpa

Re: problems realtek 8139 ?

2001-04-14 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:37:13PM +0200, Bruno Waes wrote: > are there any know problems with using realtek 8139 cards on powerpc (4400 > tanzania to be more exact) ? > > with kernel 2.2.12 it is initialized but when i ping a host i hardly get any > packets back, now with a 2.2.18pre21 kernel it

Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4

2001-04-14 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
On Saturday 14 April 2001 04:35, Steven Hanley wrote: > Hmm, I have both modem and sound working perfectly on my pismo under a > recentish benh kernel > > For the modem you need the macserial module (or compiled in which will give > you a device for the modem and one for the ir port) once htis is l

Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4

2001-04-14 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
On Saturday 14 April 2001 02:04, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 03:29:02PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: > > Then I just made one more modification to my 2.4 kernel because wvdial > > woudn't find the internal modem. I figured that I hadn't compiled serial > > support, so I

problems realtek 8139 ?

2001-04-14 Thread Bruno Waes
are there any know problems with using realtek 8139 cards on powerpc (4400 tanzania to be more exact) ? with kernel 2.2.12 it is initialized but when i ping a host i hardly get any packets back, now with a 2.2.18pre21 kernel it kernel panics with a null pointer ... any idea ? bruno

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-14 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
On Saturday 14 April 2001 10:20, Steven Hanley wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:52:39PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:43:08PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > In the European Union, reverse engineering for reasons of > > > interoperability is explicitly allowed.

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-14 Thread Steven Hanley
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:52:39PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:43:08PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > In the European Union, reverse engineering for reasons of interoperability > > is > > explicitly allowed. > > the US is far less sensible unfortunatly. w

Re: Kernel image

2001-04-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:29:40PM -0400, dan jewett wrote: > >also make sure that /dev/hdb6 is type Apple_Bootstrap and not > >Apple_HFS. otherwise MacOS will screw it up. > > Does this mean that when I run mkofboot and I'm prompted with "make > hfs filesystem on /dev/hda9? [y/N]" that I should

Re: SMP on UMAX S900/180 604e and processor from 8600/250

2001-04-14 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:31:42AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > I know that you can under-clock the 250MHz processor and that should work, > but I don't remember if it's a 604 or 603. > > Has anyone else tried something like this? > > Mike I guess not... Maybe I should repost...? I'll wait anoth

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:43:08PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > In the European Union, reverse engineering for reasons of interoperability is > explicitly allowed. the US is far less sensible unfortunatly. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp39OkGFCiQi.pgp Descriptio

Re: potato/ppc 9500/180mp

2001-04-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:40:42PM +0200, Francois Scala wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install gnu-linux-debian to an powermac 9500/180mp. The boot > floppy work well, but when it ask for the root floppy, the keyboard does not > work. arghghghghgh blah blah known *OLD* boring issue blah blah b

ibook keyboard not correct under X

2001-04-14 Thread Jean-Noel Colin
Hi I have successfully installed potato on my ibook indigo with a french keyboard. I configured the keyboard properly under console mode (even though I need to rerun kbdconfig each time I reboot), but under X, I have some problems. All alphanumeric keys work properly, but the backspace key does