Re: lazy saturday notebook comparo (long)

2001-08-22 Thread Michael Blakeley
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED] e>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Schmitz) wrote: > > > > One other factor nobody has mentioned here is SECURITY. For > > buffer-overflow type security holes, remote and local, almost all of the > > exploits are written for i386, so non-Intel platforms are inherently

spanish keymap for ibook

2001-08-22 Thread Ivan Fernandez Calvo
I left in the incoming ftp the Xmodmap and sdt-kmap to spanish keyboard on a ibook Thx kuisathaverat -- Un Saludo Ivan Fernandez Calvo Universidad Pontificia de Comillas [EMAIL PROTECTED] SysAdmin de ICAI

Re: Huge Log Files

2001-08-22 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Russell Hires wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > I've got a problem: I'm running woody, and recently (in the last week or so) > two of the files in /var/log have become so large that KDE can't start, and > I'm unable to run some other applications. The two files that are 200 MB > each

Huge Log Files

2001-08-22 Thread Russell Hires
Hey Everyone, I've got a problem: I'm running woody, and recently (in the last week or so) two of the files in /var/log have become so large that KDE can't start, and I'm unable to run some other applications. The two files that are 200 MB each? kern.log and syslog. What could be making these t

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Re: graph OF hangs - Please help

2001-08-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:33:00AM +0200, Georg Koss wrote: > Hello Ethan! > > Thanks for the complete answer, I'll follow your suggestions :-). > > > > > the only other thing i could suggest is removing or zeroing out the > > bootstrap partition on /dev/hdb having two bootable partitions in the

Re: graph OF hangs - Please help

2001-08-22 Thread Georg Koss
Hello Ethan! Thanks for the complete answer, I'll follow your suggestions :-). > > the only other thing i could suggest is removing or zeroing out the > bootstrap partition on /dev/hdb having two bootable partitions in the > same place on different disks could be confusing OpenFirmware. (it > st

Re: ibook2 not reading Debian PPC disk

2001-08-22 Thread Brendon Colby
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 05:27:09PM -0500, Vinai wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > }Don't try to use a CD-R disk in a DVD drive. The laser is the wrong > }color. Sometimes a CD-RW will work. > > Not sure if that holds. I've read a few CD-R disks in a GD-7500 and > my Lomb

Re: graph OF hangs - Please help

2001-08-22 Thread Georg Koss
Hello again! I did partitioning with mac-fdisk (woody) and reinstalled without Apple-Drivers - it worked great =8-)). > > please let ybin take care of boot-device, it will do it correctly. I did with ybin-0.30 form potato's CD1. First trial: Just typing ybin with a written yaboot.conf adapted t

Re: mac-fdisk trouble on G4 double disk

2001-08-22 Thread Georg Koss
Hi! Thank's again for all help :-) ! > But I'll try it again now, probably with woodies mac-fdisk ;-) > Worked great :-))) Cheers -- mfg Georg Koss mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting the alt (option) key to work as Altgr

2001-08-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
Adrian Cox wrote: > > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > I suspect the result is the same because Xkb is disabled in both cases. > > "XkbModel" "none" sounds fishy... check the log. If Xkb is disabled, that > > might explain why the modifiers don't work. > > > > You should be able to get Xkb working by c

Re: graph OF hangs - Please help

2001-08-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:14:20PM +0200, Georg Koss wrote: > Hello again! > > First of all thank's to Ethan Benson for the reply and help. > > Basically, I want to erase macos from my box (as complete as possible > :-/ ) and install on each of my disks one seperate debian. easy > > > > > > pr

Re: vlc 0.2.82 debs available

2001-08-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
Andrew Sharp wrote: > > Mmm, delicious, thank you. I don't suppose you have the source debs > available? ~:^) They are in sid. As there are libdvdcss packages, I assume Michel built from videolan CVS though. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)\ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS

Re: lazy saturday notebook comparo (long)

2001-08-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> That's pretty close! > > One other factor nobody has mentioned here is SECURITY. For > buffer-overflow type security holes, remote and local, almost all of the > exploits are written for i386, so non-Intel platforms are inherently > less vulnerable. Last week's LWN security section opened with

Re: vlc 0.2.82 debs available

2001-08-22 Thread Andrew Sharp
Mmm, delicious, thank you. I don't suppose you have the source debs available? ~:^) a Michel Lanners wrote: > > Ooops > > On 21 Aug, this message from Andrew Sharp echoed through cyberspace: > > Well, one thing you did wrong was that I get > > > > File not Found > > > > for both http:/

Re: Getting the alt (option) key to work as Altgr

2001-08-22 Thread Adrian Cox
Michel Dänzer wrote: I suspect the result is the same because Xkb is disabled in both cases. "XkbModel" "none" sounds fishy... check the log. If Xkb is disabled, that might explain why the modifiers don't work. You should be able to get Xkb working by choosing the correct XkbModel and setting y

Re: ibook2 not reading Debian PPC disk

2001-08-22 Thread Vinai
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: }Don't try to use a CD-R disk in a DVD drive. The laser is the wrong }color. Sometimes a CD-RW will work. Not sure if that holds. I've read a few CD-R disks in a GD-7500 and my Lombard's drive, both DVD-ROM drives - including discs I made off the lin

Re: ibook2 not reading Debian PPC disk

2001-08-22 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
> For some reason I can't get any Debian PPC disks to work on my new iBook > (DVD/ CDRW). MacOS does NOT recognize the disk, neither does OF (in OF > I did a "dir cd:\" - returned "Cannot open DIR device"). When I try to Don't try to use a CD-R disk in a DVD drive. The laser is the wrong color. So

ibook2 not reading Debian PPC disk

2001-08-22 Thread Brendon Colby
Hello all, For some reason I can't get any Debian PPC disks to work on my new iBook (DVD/ CDRW). MacOS does NOT recognize the disk, neither does OF (in OF I did a "dir cd:\" - returned "Cannot open DIR device"). When I try to boot using: boot cd:,install\powermac\yaboot I get a badPtr error. I'v

Re: vlc 0.2.82 debs available

2001-08-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
Michel Lanners wrote: > For all those interested in DVDs and video in general, I have just > finished uploading debs for vlc_0.2.82: > > http://www.cpu.lu/ftp/debian/vlc_0.2.82 > > The complete list of .debs is there. > > Have fun! > > Michel > > PS Built on a woody system, X 4.0.3 out of woo

Re: Getting the alt (option) key to work as Altgr

2001-08-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
Håvard Wigtil wrote: > I've set up a norwegian keyboard (heavily based on the swedish ;) that > work perfectly on the console. But I can't get the option or command key > to do anything under X, which means that i can't get a bar (norwegian > alt+7) amongst others. > > What I'm trying to do is to

Re: Problem with Keyboard

2001-08-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > today I upgrade my woody powerpc. It is an ibook with german > keyboard. It's my own fault but I don't want a new install. > After a reboot my keyboard ist wrong. Backspace is 2 and so on. The > install srcipt give me the following info and I try it at yaboot prompt. >

Re: Problem with Keyboard

2001-08-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
Derrik Pates wrote: > > On 22 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > today I upgrade my woody powerpc. It is an ibook with german > > keyboard. It's my own fault but I don't want a new install. > > After a reboot my keyboard ist wrong. Backspace is 2 and so on. The > > install srcipt give me the

Re: Problem with Keyboard

2001-08-22 Thread Derrik Pates
On 22 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > today I upgrade my woody powerpc. It is an ibook with german > keyboard. It's my own fault but I don't want a new install. > After a reboot my keyboard ist wrong. Backspace is 2 and so on. The > install srcipt give me the following info and I try it at yab

Re: graph OF hangs - Please help

2001-08-22 Thread Georg Koss
Hello again! First of all thank's to Ethan Benson for the reply and help. Basically, I want to erase macos from my box (as complete as possible :-/ ) and install on each of my disks one seperate debian. > > > > printenv boot-device gives: > > ultra1:9,\\yaboot hd:,\\:tbxi > > this is wron

Re: mac-fdisk trouble on G4 double disk

2001-08-22 Thread Georg Koss
Hello again! Thank's again for reply :-) ! > > you do NOT need the driver crap then, and i HIGHLY reccommend that > you remove it. follow mac-fdisk basics on how to use the `i' command > and give the CORRECT number of blocks. everything will work fine > then. > > dbootstrap nor GNU/Linux now

Problem with Keyboard

2001-08-22 Thread thorsten_nicklaus
Hi, today I upgrade my woody powerpc. It is an ibook with german keyboard. It's my own fault but I don't want a new install. After a reboot my keyboard ist wrong. Backspace is 2 and so on. The install srcipt give me the following info and I try it at yaboot prompt. debian video=ofonly root=/dev/h

Re: lazy saturday notebook comparo (long)

2001-08-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andrew Sharp wrote: Now, when it comes to the iBook2, A Dell Inspriron 2100: 700MHz P3 (w/ SpeedStupid (tm)) 256MB mem external combo dvd/cdrw drive 1024x768 12.1" video 30GB hard drive 37Whour battery free palm m100 or lexmark32 printer or umax 3400 usb scanner $2227 after $100 mail in rebate

Re: Is the iBook2 really good?

2001-08-22 Thread Russell Williams
Can I use the international kernel patch (www.kerneli.org) to decrypt my file system on an iBook2? Regards Russell __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

Re: installation oddities

2001-08-22 Thread Bob Hunter
In summary, this is not a bug at all, but a deliberate design decision, that makes debconf a lot more powerful, at the expense of not letting it try to go in and make the kind of fool-hardy modifications to a possibly-corrupted debconf database which you are suggesting. Well, it is a "feature"

Re: UK iBook2 keymaps

2001-08-22 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Tue, 2001-08-21 at 14:35, Adrian Cox wrote: > Has anybody got any good recipes for the UK iBook2 keyboard? > > I'm using Ken Moffat's console keytable from: > http:www.kenmoffat.uklinux.net/downloads > > Everything is fine at the console, but in X I can't get a '#'. I'm using > X 4.1 out of u

Re: nice console res with platinum

2001-08-22 Thread Steven Hanley
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 07:41:06AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > Yes there is: platinumfb. Have a look under > drivers/video/platinumfb[c,h] > > > so I cant do something like > > append="video=atyfb:vmode:12", when I try that line with no atyfb: it just > > ignores the vmode:12 and comes up in 80

Re: nice console res with platinum

2001-08-22 Thread Michel Lanners
On 12 Aug, this message from Steven Hanley echoed through cyberspace: > 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 Yes there is: platinumfb. Have a look under driv