Re: gdm

2001-05-06 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Daniel Bondurant wrote: > I am having a problem with gdm. it keeps trying to re launch every 5 > minutes, even if I am logged into Gnome - which kills X, brings up the > login screen again, but doesn't log out the current session. > > also, the when computer is idle and no one

gdm

2001-05-06 Thread Daniel Bondurant
I am having a problem with gdm. it keeps trying to re launch every 5 minutes, even if I am logged into Gnome - which kills X, brings up the login screen again, but doesn't log out the current session. also, the when computer is idle and no one is logged it, it keeps killing X and restarting g

reqs for vlc ?

2001-05-06 Thread Vinai
Hi Folks, I wanted to try out playing DVD's under Potato PPC. So I grabbed a vlc .tgz archive from www.videolan.org. Everything seemed to compile, but on launching vlc, I get a window, the DVD drive spins for a while, but nothing else seems to happen. I let it spin for a while in case it is jus

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-06 Thread Jason E. Stewart
OK. What's the deal with ReiserFS on PPC? When I go to JeffM's page it lists the patch to reiserfsprogs3.x.0j. But debian already has a reiserfsprogs. However, when I try to run 'mkreiserfs /dev/hda13' I just get a 'Usage: ...' line. So I did a apt-get source of resierfsprogs, but the patch does

Re: ximiam gnome

2001-05-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:32:39AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Yeah, sure... Nautilus is version 0.8.2. That's because the (said broken > by the maintainers) version 1.0.1 (or so) that's packaged for x86 > already doesn't compile on PPC. (2 files missing in the music-view > component) so fix

Re: ximiam gnome

2001-05-06 Thread Bastien Nocera
On 06 May 2001 15:26:08 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 09:47:24AM -0700, Daniel Bondurant wrote: > > is there a way to run ximiam gnome without having to compile it. > > there doesn't seem to be a powerpc .deb for it. > > just use debian gnome, that is in unstable or testing,

Re: ximiam gnome

2001-05-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 05:57:55PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > The only thing that are in Ximian that aren't available yet on Debian is > nautilus. I really hope that the Nautilus maintainer gets us 1.0.3 > (which should be out very soon), in a timely manner. nautilus 1.0 is in unstable, at le

Re: ximiam gnome

2001-05-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 09:47:24AM -0700, Daniel Bondurant wrote: > is there a way to run ximiam gnome without having to compile it. > there doesn't seem to be a powerpc .deb for it. just use debian gnome, that is in unstable or testing, its up to date and current. speaking from experience (on

Re: I sometimes lose 'q' key in profit of 'a' using mac-fr3 keymap...

2001-05-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 03:29:17PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > franck routier wrote: > > > rem : Switching to linux keycodes dinamically by setting > > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes > > doesn't work. (I think it's because the ckeymap is loaded very early in the > > boot pro

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-06 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Still fails. Log attached. > > It tries to initialize int10 which can't work for us yet. Try Option > "NoInt10" (hasn't worked for me yet) or move away libint10.a . I moved libint10.a to libint10.a.bak and it still fails. log attached. jas. This

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-06 Thread Just a friendly Jedi Knight
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:41:52PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > Andrei Verovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Anyone knows what is the status of RaiserFS support on PPC kernel 2.4.x? > > > > Kernel compilation configuration tool (menuconfig, xconfig) presents > > RaiserFS, but no status d

Re: Airport in BenH's kernels (a few tips & tricks)

2001-05-06 Thread Michel Lanners
Hi all, On 6 May, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through cyberspace: > - typicall setup sequence: > > modprobe airport > ifconfig eth1 netmask up > iwconfig essid > iwconfig enc Here is my take at integrating the configuration with a Debian system (most of

SUCCESS running JBuilder4 on DebianPPC

2001-05-06 Thread franck routier
Hi everybody, I just wanted to report my experience, in case someone would be interested. I succeded installing and running JBuilder4 on my new Tibook/DebianPPC system. The steps are : 1) Install jsdk1.3 from www.blackdown.org there is sufficient docs on it, but if someone needs help, I can tr

Re: ximiam gnome

2001-05-06 Thread Bastien Nocera
Hi, On 06 May 2001 09:47:24 -0700, Daniel Bondurant wrote: > is there a way to run ximiam gnome without having to compile it. > there doesn't seem to be a powerpc .deb for it. I've been compiling Ximian Gnome for nearly a year now for the Debian PPC. They have not made the debian sources availab

ximiam gnome

2001-05-06 Thread Daniel Bondurant
is there a way to run ximiam gnome without having to compile it. there doesn't seem to be a powerpc .deb for it. -- daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Turn off your computer and go outside

Re: Two problems

2001-05-06 Thread Lorenzo De Vito
Xterm don't recognize some types but these work fine with any text editor, when I type don't print anything on the screen, Wvdial don't recpgnize my password and it close the connection, pppd connect but I cannot see with "ifconfig" the ppp connection. What I can use for internet connection ?

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Still mostly 4.0.3 modules. Try with all 4.0.99.3 . > > Aah. I see. Sorry my misunderstanding, I thought you meant just the > video drivers... Mixing modules between versions may work but it's not guaranteed to. BT

Re: I sometimes lose 'q' key in profit of 'a' using mac-fr3 keymap...

2001-05-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
franck routier wrote: > rem : Switching to linux keycodes dinamically by setting > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes > doesn't work. (I think it's because the ckeymap is loaded very early in the > boot process) You have to unlock the keycodes first. Snippet from my /etc/sysctl.c

Re: Two problems

2001-05-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
Lorenzo De Vito wrote: > my connection on internet (ppp) don't work with wvdial and also with pon or > pppd. Does it fail to establish a connection, or what's the problem? A problem with wvdial is that it doesn't handle DNS servers. Have you tried pppconfig? It has an option for that. -- Eart

Re: Bug#96251: [powerpc] xmms fails to play mp3/ogg files

2001-05-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
Colin Walters wrote: > > Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > XMMS with OSS works fine here on a Pismo running testing, xmms > > 1.2.4-4, kernel 2.4.4 (BenH). > > Hm, I'm running sid as of a week or two ago on my tibook, with the > same version of xmms and BenH's 2.4.4 kernel (+ ipsec