Re: usb printing problem

2001-10-08 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Jack Howarth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the output is accepted by the device without complaint but > nothing happens with the printer. Any one else seeing issues? I gave up trying to get USB printing working on my pismo. I hooked it up to a windows box and used samba instead. I'd love to get

Re: Boot INSTALLED system from CD?

2001-10-08 Thread Chris Tillman
Also, the latest version of yaboot can be found at master.penguinppc.org/usr/yaboot or, if you get 403 no permission there like I do, try 66.61.122.101/~benh for a slightly older version or ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/y/yaboot for deb's -- *--

usb printing problem

2001-10-08 Thread Jack Howarth
Is anyone on debian ppc sid having printing problems with usb printers? I seem to have developed some severe ones with BenH's current kernels. I also now seem to have the same issue with my older kernels so its hard to figure out. My Epson 740i causes hotplug to load the usb/printer.o module and

Re: XF86 question

2001-10-08 Thread Colin Walters
"Paul F. Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've actually come to like the taskbar from the M$ WinBlows world. I > use icewm on my PC at home - small and usable (pain to > configure). Is there a site to find out which wm's are available for > PPC LINUX? They all should be available; there's r

Re: XF86 question

2001-10-08 Thread Colin Walters
"Paul F. Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That was it - my mouse was configured incorrectly. Now all I have to do > is: > 1) look into what window managers are available Just about every window manager you can possibly imagine (and then some) are packaged for Debian. > 2) get rlogin, etc.

Re: XF86 question

2001-10-08 Thread Paul F. Pearson
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > "Paul F. Pearson" wrote: > > > > That was it - my mouse was configured incorrectly. Now all I have to do > > is: > > 1) look into what window managers are available > > I use wmaker, otherwise known as WindowMaker, because I'm a die hard > NeXT user. Othe

Re: XF86 question

2001-10-08 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 08 2001, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > 0) Figure out how I'm supposed to use X with only one mouse button! :-) Use the three button emulation available in /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/* Hope this helps, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: XF86 question

2001-10-08 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 08 2001, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > That was it - my mouse was configured incorrectly. Now all I have to > do is: > 1) look into what window managers are available Many, many. Since I am using a quite old machine with only 64MB and PowerPC programs seem to be bigger than their

Re: XF86 question

2001-10-08 Thread Andrew Sharp
"Paul F. Pearson" wrote: > > That was it - my mouse was configured incorrectly. Now all I have to do > is: > 1) look into what window managers are available I use wmaker, otherwise known as WindowMaker, because I'm a die hard NeXT user. Others like sawfish and the gnome layer, and then there are

Re: New Altivec-enabled vlc available

2001-10-08 Thread David Schleef
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:08:27AM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Michel Lanners wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I've uploaded a new Altivec-enabled version of vlc (built from the > > 20011004 snapshot). It is available here: > > Wow you are a genius :):):) How did you manage

Re: woody ppc installer

2001-10-08 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 08 2001, Jack Howarth wrote: > What is the current state of the Woody ppc installer? Is it > usable? In the past I have installed Potato and did a dist-upgrade > to woody or sid. Thanks in advance for any info. Well, I think that it is. I have used the woody PPC bootdisks

Re: XF86 question

2001-10-08 Thread Paul F. Pearson
On 8 Oct 2001, Colin Walters wrote: > "Paul F. Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 0) Figure out how I'm supposed to use X with only one mouse button! > > :-) > > I don't think you can, seriously. How to set up mouse button > emulation is in the mailing list archives. I figured as much. H

Re: XF86 question

2001-10-08 Thread Colin Walters
"Paul F. Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 0) Figure out how I'm supposed to use X with only one mouse button! > :-) I don't think you can, seriously. How to set up mouse button emulation is in the mailing list archives.

automatic power-up

2001-10-08 Thread Philipp Kaeser
hej, I'd like to have my home machine as a part-time server, booting and shutting down automagically (to give me some sleep :) ). there's a tool called "pmacpow" I've found spoken of in the list archives; but it does not seem to be part of debian (yet). does anyone have experiences with that too

Re: New Altivec-enabled vlc available

2001-10-08 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Michel Lanners wrote: > Hi all, > > I've uploaded a new Altivec-enabled version of vlc (built from the > 20011004 snapshot). It is available here: Wow you are a genius :):):) How did you manage to get those nasty old Altivec tools to work on a recent Linux? Or did you x-comp

Re: XF86 question

2001-10-08 Thread Paul F. Pearson
0) Figure out how I'm supposed to use X with only one mouse button! :-) On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > That was it - my mouse was configured incorrectly. Now all I have to do > is: > 1) look into what window managers are available > 2) get rlogin, etc. installed > 3) look into Java

Re: XF86 question

2001-10-08 Thread Paul F. Pearson
That was it - my mouse was configured incorrectly. Now all I have to do is: 1) look into what window managers are available 2) get rlogin, etc. installed 3) look into Java 4) learn more about installing pacakages with Debian. My Linux on PCs experience is limited to Red Hat. Thanks to everyone. TH

Re: woody ppc installer

2001-10-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:44:53AM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > Hello, > As it appears that MacOS X 10.1 will always be complaining about > volumes that don't have a mountable (from the MacOS) HFS or HFS+ > partition I need to repartition my linux drive. Currently I have > a HFS bootstrap parti

Re: Boot INSTALLED system from CD?

2001-10-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:17:58AM -0400, Media 100 wrote: > Ethan, > Thanks for the message, I really appreciate it Your answer raises a further > question, if you don't mind: Can I get a different version of yaboot that > will work? Ideally via download and burning it to a CD that will boot, b

woody ppc installer

2001-10-08 Thread Jack Howarth
Hello, As it appears that MacOS X 10.1 will always be complaining about volumes that don't have a mountable (from the MacOS) HFS or HFS+ partition I need to repartition my linux drive. Currently I have a HFS bootstrap partition for yaboot but no Apple driver partitions left. I suspect repartiti

Re: Boot INSTALLED system from CD?

2001-10-08 Thread Media 100
Ethan, Thanks for the message, I really appreciate it Your answer raises a further question, if you don't mind: Can I get a different version of yaboot that will work? Ideally via download and burning it to a CD that will boot, but if that can't be made to work then in some other fashion. I wou

Re: yaboot-1.3.3, patch to seperate dhcp and tftp servers

2001-10-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:47:34PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > I wanted to boot a cluster of G4's using yaboot > and a tftp server, but since there were already two DHCP > servers on the network I thought it best to leave off a > third ;) > > Anyway, with the patch below my li

Mac nVidia GeForce2 support patches

2001-10-08 Thread Ani Joshi
Attatched is a patch which should apply to any recent 2.4 tree's drivers/video/riva directory. This adds ppc/general big-endian support for nVidia boards, and supports the GeForce2 MX found in Apple's new machines. The rivafb driver currently does not support the GeForce3 so if you Mac has that