Hey All,
Ever since I switched over to the new input layer I've had a really
annoying problem with my keyboard modifier keys. If I hold a modifier
key down for more than 5 secs without hitting another key, I get a
spurious key-up event, so that even though I'm still holding the key
down, whatever
Well, I'm having some minor problems trying to compile evolution.
First, it said that bonobo-conf and some related packages, along
with gtkhtml and related packages, were needed to compile evolution.
I was able to compile bonobo-conf, but only after getting some
packages that _weren't in the buil
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 06:24:03PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> "Martin Breidung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > booting a floppy isn't possible because g4-400pci neither have a
> > floppy build-in nor a controller onboard and i don't have any
> > external fdd's for it...
>
> You could also t
"Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote:
> It does seem dangerous to install a new package which might make the
> computer unusable unless further actions are taken. Perhaps instead of
> asking "are you ready to do this", you should ask "has one of these things
> been done already?",
Not a bad idea, but it cou
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
> "Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote:
>
> > I tried to rebuild me kernel to follow the instructions, but the machine
> > checked in the middle.
>
> So why didn't you say so in your initial complaint? It really sounded as if
> you had intentionally or at
Hi,
since about version 0.7.4 console-common doesn't install anymore. It only
gives me this error-message:
schw-zimmer8:/home/fabian# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept
"Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote:
> I tried to rebuild me kernel to follow the instructions, but the machine
> checked in the middle.
So why didn't you say so in your initial complaint? It really sounded as if
you had intentionally or at least knowingly ignored the warning. Which has
been changed in the
"Martin Breidung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> booting a floppy isn't possible because g4-400pci neither have a
> floppy build-in nor a controller onboard and i don't have any
> external fdd's for it...
You could also try netbooting. I played around with it once, and I
couldn't get it to work,
Martin Breidung wrote:
>
> >Ethan Benson
> >http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
>
> >woody boot-floppies take care of all these steps for you with its
> >make system bootable step, they are only required on potato, another
> >reason not to use potato bootfloppies, unless you really want to run
> >p
>Ethan Benson
>http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
>woody boot-floppies take care of all these steps for you with its
>make system bootable step, they are only required on potato, another
>reason not to use potato bootfloppies, unless you really want to run
>potato (i only know of 2 or 3 people tha
Hi Stefan,
thanks for your help, I'm getting closer.
> > - My german Apple Extended ADB keyboard is working on console and in X.
> > However, the keys '<' and '^' seem to be swapped and, more importantly,
> > I have no way to type an '@' or the pipe character ('|'). I can't even
> > begin
On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 12:40:49AM -0700, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > > i don't have that problem... are you SURE that CONFIG_RTC is disabled?
> > > grep -i rtc /boot/config-2.4.8-pre7-ben0
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot$ grep -i rtc /boot/config-2.4
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 03:06:25PM +0200, Manuel Reiter wrote:
> Hi everybody,
Hi!
I use a Powerbook G3 (Pismo). I don't know if my settings will work
for you, but I think so, because I've had exactly the same problems
> - My german Apple Extended ADB keyboard is working on console and in X.
>
> Apple hardware is different, there is no speaker dedicated only to
> beeping, thus the system beep must go through the sound hardware.
This would make sense, except that I have experienced two different problems
with my sound since upgrading...the first one is that when I start up KDE I
get th
Hi again,
and sorry for answering my own mail, but I have an update regarding the
colour problem:
> - I have X 4.0.3 up and running on the onboard video hardware (2MB of
> video RAM) using the framebuffer device. However, everything has a
> magenta hue, regardless of resolution. I include XF
Hi everybody,
I just spent the better part of yesterday installing testing on my
PowerMac 7600/132 and am now at a point where I have a roughly working
system. I do, however, still have three major problems:
- I have X 4.0.3 up and running on the onboard video hardware (2MB of
video RAM) using
All
Anyone know how to get a good console res, such as 128x48 or something with
the platinum card in an oldworld. There doesnt seem to be an explicit fb
driver for the platinum so I cant do something like
append="video=atyfb:vmode:12", when I try that line with no atyfb: it just
ignores the vmode:
Wilhelm Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Incidently, I was wondering the other day if I moved /var /usr and
> /etc to their own partitions, is there any reason why / needs to get
> mounted rw at all?
You also need /dev mounted rw. Devfs is a nice way to get around
this.
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 12:36:12AM -0700, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote:
> M... yes, this is the case for me... And yes, it probably would be
> better to have var on a seperate partition for times like these...
>
> Incidently, I was wondering the other day if I moved /var /usr and /etc to
> thei
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 06:41:42PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
>
> So, to reiterate, FUCK YOU. (And you just hit my kill file).
*plonk*
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:22:47PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > Odd. Both of those imply that the kernel found the FS to be broken
> > > somehow and remounted it read-only to prevent further damage.
> >
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 12:40:49AM -0700, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > i don't have that problem... are you SURE that CONFIG_RTC is disabled?
> > grep -i rtc /boot/config-2.4.8-pre7-ben0
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot$ grep -i rtc /boot/config-2.4.8-pre7-ben0
> CONFIG_PPC_RTC=y
> # CONFIG_RTC is n
> i don't have that problem... are you SURE that CONFIG_RTC is disabled?
> grep -i rtc /boot/config-2.4.8-pre7-ben0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot$ grep -i rtc /boot/config-2.4.8-pre7-ben0
CONFIG_PPC_RTC=y
# CONFIG_RTC is not set
I'm assuming "not set" means it is disabled?
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb$ una
On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:22:47PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>
> > Odd. Both of those imply that the kernel found the FS to be broken
> > somehow and remounted it read-only to prevent further damage.
>
> debian always puts errors=remount-ro in the / files
Hi there. Just subscribed to this list, and thought I'd share a solution
to a problem before I start asking about the problems I haven't solved
yet. And also I'm curious if anyone has a better way to do this.
I'm running woody on a Pismo PowerBook G3, with Ben's rsync kernel... I
wanted to have
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