Re: KDE2/libqt2 errors on sid.

2001-06-11 Thread Chris Tillman
> I installed the xlibmesa3 package (and removed the mesa3 package because > of depends.). > > How do I file a bug-report? Check out bugs.debian.org -- Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kaffe only for i386?

2001-06-11 Thread Chris Tillman
> I used to work for Transvirtual, the firm responsibly for kaffe. I > personally, several times, asedk them about PowerPC support. They > seemed interested, but whenever I tried mentioning we should get some Macs > for development, they lost interest. I even mentioned that I could bring > in my ow

Re: keymap in X

2001-06-11 Thread Karl-Heinz Haag
Quoting Michel Dänzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Karl-Heinz Haag wrote: > > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Keyboard0" > > Driver "keyboard" > > Option "CoreKeyboard" > > Option "XkbdRules" "xfree86" > > Option "XkbdModel" "macintosh

Re: Did I produce a brick of my PPC8200?

2001-06-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:52:42AM +0200, Sven Lankes wrote: > And then: nothing. The screen stays blank. I guess that > it hangs in the OF-Prompt which I cannot see because > it's a 7200/8200 which cannot display the OF on the screen > (this is just sick!). this should work on a 7200 class machin

Re: Did I produce a brick of my PPC8200?

2001-06-11 Thread Andrew Sharp
Did you change the boot-command to the one mentioned in the nvsetenv man page? With the disk that I have, on my 7200, it often took several tries before it would boot using quik off the hard drive (let's say a success rate of 20%). Strangely, having a floppy in the drive increased the success rat

Re: Did I produce a brick of my PPC8200?

2001-06-11 Thread Sven Lankes
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:02:38PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > um, something that people informed me about when I hosed my system > was that you can boot the system holding down the cmd-opt-P-R keys, > and it will reset the nvram to the defaults so you can start all > over again trying to get it

Re: kaffe only for i386?

2001-06-11 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
I used to work for Transvirtual, the firm responsibly for kaffe. I personally, several times, asedk them about PowerPC support. They seemed interested, but whenever I tried mentioning we should get some Macs for development, they lost interest. I even mentioned that I could bring in my own mac as

Re: Powerbook G3 1999 xfree 4.0.2 accel?

2001-06-11 Thread Michel Daenzer
Matthew Bernhardt wrote: > > Well, I got X to work with the ati driver finally. I used 4.0.3-3 for > everythiong except xserver-xfree86, which is at 4.0.2-7. > > The only problem now is that a 'startx' brings a blank screen that dies > after about 10 seconds. There is 'NO' error, just a d

Re: Powerbook G3 1999 xfree 4.0.2 accel?

2001-06-11 Thread Matthew Bernhardt
Well, I got X to work with the ati driver finally. I used 4.0.3-3 for everythiong except xserver-xfree86, which is at 4.0.2-7. The only problem now is that a 'startx' brings a blank screen that dies after about 10 seconds. There is 'NO' error, just a die. I thought it was all of X until I

Re: KDE2/libqt2 errors on sid.

2001-06-11 Thread Mark Nellemann
I installed the xlibmesa3 package (and removed the mesa3 package because of depends.). How do I file a bug-report? Michel Daenzer wrote: Mark Nellemann wrote: The package (xlibmesa3) wasn't installed at all! KDE is working again after I installed it. Which package providing libgl1 did

Re: X screen wraps around

2001-06-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > > Depth 8 Result: screen off by about +22 pixels > > > > Depth 15 Result: screen position ok > > > > Depth 16 Result: screen position ok, colours no good > > > > > > Normal - XFree doesn't cope with 565 (16 bit) color for me either. > > > > It

Re: X screen wraps around

2001-06-11 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > Depth 8 Result: screen off by about +22 pixels > > > Depth 15 Result: screen position ok > > > Depth 16 Result: screen position ok, colours no good > > > > Normal - XFree doesn't cope with 565 (16 bit) color for me either. > > It's a framebuffer device bug. Definitel

Re: X screen wraps around

2001-06-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > withOUT kernel parameter video=controlfb:vmode:14,cmode:0 > > > > Depth 8 Result: screen off by about +22 pixels > > Depth 15 Result: screen position ok > > Depth 16 Result: screen position ok, colours no good > > Normal - XFree doesn't cope wi

Re: X and console with "Apple Pro Mouse"

2001-06-11 Thread Michael Schmitz
> With my newworld Cube G4 I got an optical "Apple Pro Mouse" on USB. > The Cube has an ATI Rage128. > > 3 Questions: > > 1. Is it possible to use the gpm for the console? Just like any other USB mouse that's supported by the kernel: yes. >With which configuration? Device /dev/input/mice, -t

Re: X screen wraps around

2001-06-11 Thread Michael Schmitz
> withOUT kernel parameter video=controlfb:vmode:14,cmode:0 > > Depth 8 Result: screen off by about +22 pixels > Depth 15 Result: screen position ok > Depth 16 Result: screen position ok, colours no good Normal - XFree doesn't cope with 565 (16 bit) color for me either. >

X and console with "Apple Pro Mouse"

2001-06-11 Thread Karl-Heinz Haag
With my newworld Cube G4 I got an optical "Apple Pro Mouse" on USB. The Cube has an ATI Rage128. 3 Questions: 1. Is it possible to use the gpm for the console? With which configuration? 2. How is it possible to emulate the second and third mouse key in X with this "one-key" Apple Mouse

Re: X screen wraps around

2001-06-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Duncan Sands wrote: > Note 1: X fails to start. Find the following in the log: > Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp > Fatal server error > AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 This is little information, but I guess it's the framebuffer device failing to initialize the requested mode. Is it su

Re: X screen wraps around

2001-06-11 Thread Duncan Sands
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 08:13:21PM +0200, Michel Daenzer wrote: > Duncan Sands wrote: > > > > > > I am running X 4.0.3 on an 8500 powermac (controlfb), kernel 2.4. > > > > If I use 8bpp all is well (kernel parameter: > > > > video=controlfb:vmode:14,cmode:0). > > > > > > Well, I guess this answers

Re: Did I produce a brick of my PPC8200?

2001-06-11 Thread sisi
yea, i forgot about that pram zapping. but it never worked for me at all. it's a better way though if it works :) grts, sisi On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:02:38PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > um, something that people informed me about when I hosed my system > was that you can boot the system holdi

SUCCESS - ReiserFS on PPC Mac

2001-06-11 Thread Andrei Verovski
Hi, Finally, journaling file system ReiserFS coming to the Mac, thanks to Jeff Mahoney from SuSE. Installation of ReiserFS on Mac is rather tricky, but really worth trying. Step-by-step instruction available at: http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/linux_tips_and_tricks.html PS. MOL seem

Re: keymap in X

2001-06-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Karl-Heinz Haag wrote: > Working on X is not very useful. > Because, what and where I type in the X environment -be it into xterms > or somewhere else- I only get weird characters. > I.e. I don't get typed the signs that I press on the keybord. > Even pressing 'Enter' gives a comma sign on the scr

Re: gcc-3.0 update

2001-06-11 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:23:45AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > hurd - should bootstrap (CVS 010610 needed?). Okay, thanks. My last attempt wasn't succesful, but I'll try again. Tks, Jeff Bailey

Re: XFree 4.01->4.02 Upgrade problem

2001-06-11 Thread Brian Hicks
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:17:01AM +0200, Andrei Verovski wrote: > Hi, > > > I have encontered the following problem (on Apple iBook FireWire Indigo, > Summer 2000 model with Rage 128 Mobility) while upgrading from XFree 4.01 > to 4.02 - my manually tweaked XF86Config does not work anymore. sta

gcc-3.0 update

2001-06-11 Thread Matthias Klose
Yesterday I uploaded new gcc-3.0 packages. Close before the gcc release I'd like to check the status of the Debian architecutres: alpha - 010526 arm - 010526, no java i386- 010609 hppa- 010427, no java, "old" ABI, Matt Taggert working on a new patch powerpc - 010609, no java (link er

XFree 4.01->4.02 Upgrade problem

2001-06-11 Thread Andrei Verovski
Hi, I have encontered the following problem (on Apple iBook FireWire Indigo, Summer 2000 model with Rage 128 Mobility) while upgrading from XFree 4.01 to 4.02 - my manually tweaked XF86Config does not work anymore. startx results abort either in libxramdac either in libxaa. What could be the

Re: kaffe only for i386?

2001-06-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Russell Hires wrote: > I've just installed kde, and I'm attempting to run Konqueror as my web > browser. However, I can't seem to run java applets! I've researched the > java-vm and it appears that it is only set to look for kaffe, which doesn't > seem to be available for powerpc...is there anythi

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:27:11AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > gzipping a gzipped file doesn't make it any smaller, so compressing before > making it part of the filesystem won't save space. The larger filesystem > created by leaving it uncompressed will be matched by the better > compressabili

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-11 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 09:34:50PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 04:41:59PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > >> > > >> nano-tiny -T15 -v /help.txt > > > > > > why not zcat /help.gz | more ? > > > > That would work, but I used tabs to make two columns; using the editor let

Re: Did I produce a brick of my PPC8200?

2001-06-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:02:38PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > um, something that people informed me about when I hosed my system > was that you can boot the system holding down the cmd-opt-P-R keys, > and it will reset the nvram to the defaults so you can start all > over again trying to get it t

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 04:41:59PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > >> > >> nano-tiny -T15 -v /help.txt > > > > why not zcat /help.gz | more ? > > That would work, but I used tabs to make two columns; using the editor lets > me choose how much space for a tab so it's more readable and also gives

Re: 2.3.5 powerpc installation

2001-06-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:43:37PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Well one of the options is 'already mounted partition' so I thought that > should be tested. You're right, it's probably not a common choice. That's > interesting about the fstab; so if I manually mount an HFS disk during > install

kaffe only for i386?

2001-06-11 Thread Russell Hires
Hello all, I've just installed kde, and I'm attempting to run Konqueror as my web browser. However, I can't seem to run java applets! I've researched the java-vm and it appears that it is only set to look for kaffe, which doesn't seem to be available for powerpc...is there anything I can do abo