Re: gs-stp (was: Re: firewire, printing, and sound on iBook DV 2K)

2001-06-16 Thread Charles Sebold
On 26 Sivan 5761, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: >> I couldn't find gs-stp. Any other ideas as to what it would be >> called? Or did you mean that somebody other than Debian has the >> Debian package? Couldn't find it on the sourceforge site. > > Oh. It's probably in testing/unstable then. You could

Re: New iBook and Debian

2001-06-16 Thread Tom Rini
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 02:30:35AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > Tom Rini wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 02:09:42AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > > Tom Rini wrote: > > > > > > > 4.0.x in woody worked great too and the 4.1.0 debs in testing work fine, > > > > w/ a minor issue on scrolling

Re: New iBook and Debian

2001-06-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
Tom Rini wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 02:09:42AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > Tom Rini wrote: > > > > > 4.0.x in woody worked great too and the 4.1.0 debs in testing work fine, > > > w/ a minor issue on scrolling (possibly in 4.0.x if you use the r128 > > > driver instead of fbdev). > > >

Re: New iBook and Debian

2001-06-16 Thread Tom Rini
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 02:09:42AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > Tom Rini wrote: > > > 4.0.x in woody worked great too and the 4.1.0 debs in testing work fine, w/ > > a minor issue on scrolling (possibly in 4.0.x if you use the r128 driver > > instead of fbdev). > > What issue? I'm not aware of a

Re: New iBook and Debian

2001-06-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 11:40:33AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > This is needed. Hopefully woody's boot-floppies will have the patch I put up > so that video is detected properly. boot-floppies use the kernel-image-pmac package (most recent revision of defined kernel version, that is right now 2.2

Re: New iBook and Debian

2001-06-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 04:38:17PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Earthling Michel Dänzer wrote: > > apparently doesn't work in MockOS. Hopefully only a brain dead software > > BTW, did you know there really is a MockOS? > > http://members.aol.com/macdabster/Pages/Shock/MockOS.html i usually c

Re: New iBook and Debian

2001-06-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
Tom Rini wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 03:35:42AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:28:02PM +1200, James Tyson wrote: > > > > > > Hi all. > > > > > > I just ordered one of the nice new 2001 iBooks - the 128Mb/DVD version > > > to be exact. > > > Are there any Gotcha's

Re: New iBook and Debian

2001-06-16 Thread Chris Tillman
Earthling Michel Dänzer wrote: > apparently doesn't work in MockOS. Hopefully only a brain dead software BTW, did you know there really is a MockOS? http://members.aol.com/macdabster/Pages/Shock/MockOS.html ** | .''`. | Debian G

Re: boot-floppies 2.3.5, call for testing

2001-06-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 05:19:48PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > But then it shouldn't offer to do it. It even offers slink, haven't tried > that. ;) its probably only there as an experiment, just to see what would happen. nobody cares about potato much less slink at this point (except the secur

Re: Woody Boot Floppies Report

2001-06-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 11:04:19AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > This is good to know. The thing I'm most afraid of is really doing some > damage with the whole booting procedure on the NewWorld machines. I'll > cross that bridge when I come to it. if you use ybin or the Make System Bootable comm

Re: New iBook and Debian

2001-06-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:28:02PM +1200, James Tyson wrote: > > > > I just ordered one of the nice new 2001 iBooks - the 128Mb/DVD version to > > be exact. > > Are there any Gotcha's that I should know about with this box? What > > hardware is supported, and what's not, et

Re: gs-stp (was: Re: firewire, printing, and sound on iBook DV 2K)

2001-06-16 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:38:18AM -0500, thus said Charles Sebold: > On 24 Sivan 5761, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > > > There is a debian package of it; it is called gs-stp. Good luck. I > > had it setup once, but I dont think it works for me anymore (been > > updating stuff since) - I mostly print

Re: External vga resolution on pismo

2001-06-16 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 05:05:20PM +0200, thus said Sebastian Horzela: > Hello everyone, > > is there a way to set the external vga resolution on the > pismo to 640x480 under linux? > > I need this because we have a video projector that only > runs with 640x480. You should be able to switch reso

Re: New iBook and Debian

2001-06-16 Thread Tom Rini
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 03:35:42AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:28:02PM +1200, James Tyson wrote: > > > > Hi all. > > > > I just ordered one of the nice new 2001 iBooks - the 128Mb/DVD version to > > be exact. > > Are there any Gotcha's that I should know about with thi

Re: Two problems

2001-06-16 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Lorenzo De Vito wrote: > 1) I've installed another disk on a new machine (G4) with MacOS, can I > boot both, Linux and MacOS, with Yaboot ?? Yes. Read "man yaboot.conf" for details. > 2) How can I access as normal user to "pon" ? I believe you just need to add your account

Two problems

2001-06-16 Thread Lorenzo De Vito
1) I've installed another disk on a new machine (G4) with MacOS, can I boot both, Linux and MacOS, with Yaboot ?? 2) How can I access as normal user to "pon" ?

Re: tripwire & freeswan in debian-ppc

2001-06-16 Thread Michel Lanners
On 16 Jun, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace: > Karl-Heinz Haag wrote: >> >> I want to use tripwire-2.3.?? and freeswan also on the macppc platform >> within Debian. >> >> Do you see possibilities for realizing that? >> In Debian-PPC there are no packages+sources for thes

Re: boot-floppies 2.3.5, call for testing

2001-06-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 03:49:39AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > I've tried the boot-floppies on my girlfriend's Cube without much luck. > > debootstrap failed due to problems with perl and groff for woody and > > unstable. When I finally tried stable, chroot said no such

External vga resolution on pismo

2001-06-16 Thread Sebastian Horzela
Hello everyone, is there a way to set the external vga resolution on the pismo to 640x480 under linux? I need this because we have a video projector that only runs with 640x480. Thanks for your help, Sebastian -- typedef long int __swblk_t; /* Type of a swap block maybe? */ Seen in line 86, /u

Re: Woody Boot Floppies Report

2001-06-16 Thread Russell Hires
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:06:42AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: >> Okay, >> >> No success just yet. I was able to boot using the kernel and booted into >> the ramdisk (named root.bin), but the kernel panicked. (I'm a holdout >> for BootX, BTW. I still like it, and I'm still dual booting, as I s

gs-stp (was: Re: firewire, printing, and sound on iBook DV 2K)

2001-06-16 Thread Charles Sebold
On 24 Sivan 5761, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > There is a debian package of it; it is called gs-stp. Good luck. I > had it setup once, but I dont think it works for me anymore (been > updating stuff since) - I mostly print from Gimp and it doesnt need > the GS driver so it is not that important for m

Re: Woody Boot Floppies Report

2001-06-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:06:42AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > Okay, > > No success just yet. I was able to boot using the kernel and booted into > the ramdisk (named root.bin), but the kernel panicked. (I'm a holdout > for BootX, BTW. I still like it, and I'm still dual booting, as I share > my

Woody Boot Floppies Report

2001-06-16 Thread Russell Hires
Okay, No success just yet. I was able to boot using the kernel and booted into the ramdisk (named root.bin), but the kernel panicked. (I'm a holdout for BootX, BTW. I still like it, and I'm still dual booting, as I share my computer with the computer illiterate :-) The error message is: Exception

Re: compiling gimp 1.2

2001-06-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
sisi wrote: > > > > if you want to install ximian execute rm -rf / as root, the damage > > > will be about the same. > > > > Dude, I know we debian users are weird people, but hey, I know the ximian > > distro people try hard to get the packages right. A patch instead of a > > flame helps a lot mo

Re: New iBook and Debian

2001-06-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:28:02PM +1200, James Tyson wrote: > > Hi all. > > I just ordered one of the nice new 2001 iBooks - the 128Mb/DVD version to > be exact. > Are there any Gotcha's that I should know about with this box? What > hardware is supported, and what's not, etc? as with all newwo

Re: mozilla 0.9.1 packages up

2001-06-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:20:32PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Where would that be, your mozilla repository? I've been building > nightlies for some time now (mainly to use Galeon) so I'm very pleased > with this. > > I've tried guessing quite some urls under http://www.alaska.net/~erbenso

Re: mozilla 0.9.1 packages up

2001-06-16 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have thus again updated my mozilla repository to include mozilla > 0.9.1 packages, as usual they are built for potato but should work > fine under woody/sid as well. > Enjoy. Where would that be, your mozilla repository? I've been building nightli

Re: compiling gimp 1.2

2001-06-16 Thread sisi
> > if you want to install ximian execute rm -rf / as root, the damage > > will be about the same. > > Dude, I know we debian users are weird people, but hey, I know the ximian > distro people try hard to get the packages right. A patch instead of a flame > helps a lot more. > > There is Hades

New iBook and Debian

2001-06-16 Thread James Tyson
Hi all. I just ordered one of the nice new 2001 iBooks - the 128Mb/DVD version to be exact. Are there any Gotcha's that I should know about with this box? What hardware is supported, and what's not, etc? Hopefully you guys will have given me a few clues by the time the box arrives on the 28th.

Re: MOL

2001-06-16 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Michel Daenzer writes: > > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j SNAT --to $IP -s $MOLNET -o $DEVICE > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > Just my $0.02: apt-get install ipmasq does this automatically. I'm afraid this is not quite true, ipmasq inserts a general MASQUERADE rule, while a

Re: Just how stable IS Debian PPC

2001-06-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 12:04:51AM -0700, chamster wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 07:48:51PM -0600, Patrick Klee wrote: > > I am getting Debian PPC, from a guy on the net, but I was wondering how > > stable is it? > > > does this mean I might need the open > > firmware update before I get

Re: Just how stable IS Debian PPC

2001-06-16 Thread chamster
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 07:48:51PM -0600, Patrick Klee wrote: > I am getting Debian PPC, from a guy on the net, but I was wondering how > stable is it? > does this mean I might need the open > firmware update before I get debian? My computer was bought in summer of > 2000. I don't think

Re: boot-floppies 2.3.5, call for testing

2001-06-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 03:49:39AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:33:58AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > Do they have an airport driver? I'd love to test them but it's gonna be a > > > pain without. > > > > if kernel-image-2.2.19-pmac