Re: Woody, security and architectures

2001-08-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 05:04:06PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > I realize that setting up rbuilder is not trivial, but given that > woody won't be released soon there should be plenty of time for > people to set those up. Where do I find out what architectures already have rbuilder support? -

Re: evolution builds for powerpc?

2001-08-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: p.s.: I had one minor problem building the package, because building evolution needs access to an XServer at some point (failed first with Cannot open display...). But I don't think this is powerpc specific. It would still be nice if you reported a bug against the offendi

Re: Choosing which 2.4 kernel tree to use for OldWorld

2001-08-13 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 09:25:29AM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > I've never been quite clear on what kernel I should use. There seem to be > kernels on mvista.com, which I gues are considered the "official" powerpc > kernel. Then there are the benh kernels which I used to use but don't > anymo

Re: Compiling EIDE patch on PPC

2001-08-13 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 08:47:04AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > Hi all, > > On 10 Aug, this message from Mike Fedyk echoed through cyberspace: > > OK, I've been able to compile it successfully. Changes included. > > Good. > > > I haven't booted the kernel yet. Can someone take a look at the

ibook: Problem with booting

2001-08-13 Thread Thorsten Nicklaus
Hi, I try to install Linux Debian on the new ibook. After some help and problems my debian was on the ibook. I wanted the new kernel and installed it. It's Ben's new 2.4. After the reboot yaboot say it was the wrong kernel.I try to boot from cd (potato). After the booting the install startet. I ca

Re: curious about java servlets

2001-08-13 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Bill Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Can anyone shed some light on why jserv isn't available, or > recommend any next steps? I'm happily developing JSPs and servlets on my TiBook under Debian. As you have already figured out, you have to install the Blackdown JDK by hand. In order to

Re: curious about java servlets

2001-08-13 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Bill Lovett wrote: > when try to apt-get gnujsp, I get: > > gnujsp: Depends: jserv (>= 1.102) but it is not installable It looks like jserv hasn't been build for powerpc. Voltaire is down right now, but when it's back you can find out why jserv is missing at: http://voltair

Woody, security and architectures

2001-08-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
As people have probably noticed we've done a number of security advisories over the last few days, and doing those has made it clear that the way we currently do those will not scale with future release. The problem is the number of architectures we have to support. For potato we have to recompil

Re: curious about java servlets

2001-08-13 Thread David N. Welton
Bill Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone shed some light on why jserv isn't available, or > recommend any next steps? "Write once, run anywhere" is hampered by crappy proprietary licensing from Sun. You might have better luck with a %100 open source solution. -- David N. Welton Fre

curious about java servlets

2001-08-13 Thread Bill Lovett
Hi! I'd like to introduce the Apache server on my mild mannered PowerMac 8500 to the wild and crazy ways of jsp. I'm learning as I go, but I'm missing a couple pieces of the big picture. From a thread on this list last month, I know to get the JDK/JRE tarball from Blackdown since a deb is not av

Re: New: installation on g4

2001-08-13 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Aug 13, Ehtan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:36:16AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 12, Ehtan Benson wrote: > > > > > netbooting depends on OpenFirmware being sane. that is not true of > > > any OldWorld machine. > > > > What problems do you see? > > with OldWorl

iBook (firewire) backlight

2001-08-13 Thread Kin Chung
Machine: iBook 366 FW Kernel: linux 2.4.4-pre4 (benh) glibc: 2.1.3-17 with 2.4.4-pre4 headers* I am having trouble getting Debian to control the backlight. The "backlight" program (both the potato distribution and the pmud 7.2 version) does nothing, and neither does fblevel. It does not seem t

Debian on new ibook dual USB: Net Install

2001-08-13 Thread Matthias Geiser
[I posted this to debian-laptop a week ago, but got no reply. I hope you can help me.] Hi, Saturday I tried to install Debian on my friend's brand new ibook. I am experienced with debian on i368, but don't know about macs. Also, I don't have any Debian CDs of the PPC build, so I tried a net insta

Re: *mostly solved* Re: X4.0.3 and (german) keyboard problems on PM7600/132

2001-08-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:47:54PM +0200, Manuel Reiter wrote: > Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap This message means: "I'm throwing all out your XKB configuration and falling back to whatever the kernel tells me the keymap is." -- G. Branden Robinson|

Re: New: installation on g4

2001-08-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:36:16AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, Ehtan Benson wrote: > > > netbooting depends on OpenFirmware being sane. that is not true of > > any OldWorld machine. > > What problems do you see? with OldWorld OpenFirmware? where have you been... -- Ethan Ben

Re: iBook2: mostly working

2001-08-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 04:17:59PM +1000, Mr. Stuart Lamble wrote: > * Booting: yaboot doesn't seem to like the configuration; > it can't find the kernel. If I type in the full path > (hd:14,/boot/vmlinux-2.4.5), it's happy. sounds like you didn't set --partition when you ran mkofboot.

Re: *mostly solved* Re: X4.0.3 and (german) keyboard problems on PM7600/132

2001-08-13 Thread Manuel Reiter
Hi again, > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Generic Keyboard" > > Driver "keyboard" > > Option "CoreKeyboard" > > Option "XkbRules" "macintosh" > > Option "XkbModel" "pc104" > > Option

Re: *mostly solved* Re: X4.0.3 and (german) keyboard problems on PM 7600/132

2001-08-13 Thread Stefan Heimann
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:45:40AM +0200, Manuel Reiter wrote: > > > - 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 >

Re: *mostly solved* Re: X4.0.3 and (german) keyboard problems on PM7600/132

2001-08-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
Manuel Reiter wrote: > > The best solution would probably be to switch to Linux keycodes and use > > XkbModel "macintosh" (may only work with XFree86 4.1.0). > > How would I do this? At the moment, the keyboard section of my > XF86Config-4 looks like this: > > -- snip > > Section "InputDevice"

Re: *mostly solved* Re: X4.0.3 and (german) keyboard problems on PM7600/132

2001-08-13 Thread Manuel Reiter
Hallo Michael, danke fuer die prompte Antwort :) > > I'd still be interested to know why 16 bpp doesn't work, but 15 bpp at > > 1152x864 is fine for me. > > Depth 16 is broken because the framebuffer device is broken. I see. > The best solution would probably be to switch to Linux keycodes and

Re: problems compiling evolution (again)...

2001-08-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
Phil Fraering wrote: > > 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 som

Re: *mostly solved* Re: X4.0.3 and (german) keyboard problems on PM7600/132

2001-08-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
Manuel Reiter wrote: > > - 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 XF86Config-4 and > > xdm.log and would be grateful for any help. > > X s

*mostly solved* Re: X4.0.3 and (german) keyboard problems on PM 7600/132

2001-08-13 Thread Manuel Reiter
Hi again, > - 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 XF86Config-4 and > xdm.log and would be grateful for any help. X seems to be fine in 24 a

Re: New: installation on g4

2001-08-13 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sun, Aug 12, Ehtan Benson wrote: > netbooting depends on OpenFirmware being sane. that is not true of > any OldWorld machine. What problems do you see? Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

Re: Choosing which kernel tree to use

2001-08-13 Thread Derrik Pates
On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Just comment out the bogus code in /etc/power/pwrctl if your kernel supports > sleep. That did work, the iBook sleeps and wakes up fine. Thee only problem is the DACA audio controller now produces crap audio (like the audio is byteswapped) anytime any a

iBook2: mostly working

2001-08-13 Thread Mr. Stuart Lamble
(Sounds like a Douglas Adams novel of some sort, doesn't it? *ducks* Anyway.) I recently (two-three days ago) purchased a brand-spanking new Apple iBook (the new model, that is, not the original.) I have installed Linux upon it, and so far, things are going reasonably well. There are a few little