second Printer

2002-01-21 Thread Miguel Romero
I need to install a second Printer on my Pentium 130 . Mother board its Pentim MMX the 2 printers use  parallel port , data switch are lousy, why not a second parallel port. I tried controller card from an old 386 no video possible conflict. have a small net with a linksys router perfect sol

Re: Netscape with Woody install problems

2002-01-21 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 05:13:34PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 05:09, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > > On 20 Jan 2002, Colin Walters wrote: > Only sid yet, but getting it from there is easy. 'Pinning' is the magic > word to unleash apt's super cow powers. :) That's untrue. 'moo'

Radeon DRI support patch

2002-01-21 Thread Ani Joshi
For those interested in testing Radeon DRI, I've placed a patch located at http://www.unixbox.com/~ajoshi/radeon-dri.diff which whould patch cleanly against recent Ben H.'s kernel. You must turn on AGPgart support, PCIgart isn't done yet. Also, you will need to replace your /usr/X11R6/lib/module

DRI on Voodoo3 PCI and OldWorld

2002-01-21 Thread Anthony Lau
Hi, Is it possible to get accelerated X with a Voodoo3 PCI on an Old World? I've gotten DRI/DRM going in the kernel: [drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0 and in X running 16bit: (II) TDFX(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler (II) TDFX(0): [DRI] installation complete (==) TDFX(0):

Re: Powerpc (mac-G4) -essentially (less) broken

2002-01-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 22:19, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 13:13, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 19:55, Nick Bailey wrote: > > > > > > > Success on the 24-bit mode. I found out that on this G4, append > > > video=atyfb:vmode=22:cmode=24 works wonders. Then the D

Re: Powerpc (mac-G4) -essentially (less) broken

2002-01-21 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 13:13, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 19:55, Nick Bailey wrote: > > > > > Success on the 24-bit mode. I found out that on this G4, append > > video=atyfb:vmode=22:cmode=24 works wonders. Then the DefaultFbBpp line > > in the XF86Config-4 file is unnecessary (

Re: Powerpc (mac-G4) -essentially (less) broken

2002-01-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 19:55, Nick Bailey wrote: > > > Success on the 24-bit mode. I found out that on this G4, append > video=atyfb:vmode=22:cmode=24 works wonders. Then the DefaultFbBpp line > in the XF86Config-4 file is unnecessary (in fact, has to be removed). Color depth in console and X

Re: A troubling plethora of OOPSs

2002-01-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 18:25, Arlie Glenn Capps wrote: > I have been having a troubling problem: kernel Oops have been occuring quite > often. It may be that I am running out of memory; my PowerPC 6500 has 32MB > RAM > and 80 MB swap. This problem only seems to happen in X, running several > dif

Re: A troubling plethora of OOPSs

2002-01-21 Thread Arlie Glenn Capps
> Hello, [snip] > I'm running woody with packages from main, non-free, contrib and > non-US. Oh yes, and kernel 2.4.16. And now INIT is panicking because of segfaults and sleeping for 30 seconds.(!!) I don't think it's hardware, because right now Mac OS is running just fine. I looked back at old

Re: Powerpc (mac-G4) -essentially (less) broken

2002-01-21 Thread Nick Bailey
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 11:48, Nick Bailey wrote: -ves: I can't seem to work out how to get 24bit. When booted into MacOS 9, you can select "Millions of colors", but I didn't type the RAM into the XF86Config-4 file at any point and the auto-probe returns 1600K or somethin

Re 3 newbie questions

2002-01-21 Thread Jean-Michel Deleu
I'm running Xfree3x and have tried both 15 & 16, as to passing kernel arguments they get joyously ignored (video=controlfb:vmode:17,cmode:15). As to using Woody, that's what i had ordered from the "official" Debian cd reseller and was told he couldn't fill the order (unavailable, too many cds e

A troubling plethora of OOPSs

2002-01-21 Thread Arlie Glenn Capps
Hello, I have been having a troubling problem: kernel Oops have been occuring quite often. It may be that I am running out of memory; my PowerPC 6500 has 32MB RAM and 80 MB swap. This problem only seems to happen in X, running several different apps, but quite inconsistently. However, when I lo

Re: Netscape with Woody install problems

2002-01-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 05:09, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > On 20 Jan 2002, Colin Walters wrote: > > > Meanwhile, Galeon continues to be the best web browser ever :) > > It really needs to get into woody... > > It's not in Woody? :-( Only sid yet, but getting it from there is easy. 'Pinning' is the ma

Re: Segfault compiling kernels: solved!

2002-01-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > > make3.79.1-10 testing > > > ^ > > > exactly what I rebuilt today... > > > > > > > libc6 2.2.4-7 testing > > > > fileutils 4.1-9 testing > > > > > > I can't check (box at work), but probably exactly the same. The

Re: Segfault compiling kernels: solved!

2002-01-21 Thread Michel Lanners
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Re: 3 newbie questions (colour depth, wvdial & overall sluggishness)

2002-01-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 04:05, Jean-Michel Deleu wrote: > This might be the wrong place to post such evidently juvenile questions > but I haven't found any other suitable list. If anyone has another > suggestion please tell me. It's the right list, it has searchable archives though. ;) > I've in

Re: Can anyone help with #112770?

2002-01-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > The upshot is that powerpc compilers enforce the correct usage of > > varargs, where most i386 compilers do not. It's not really a powerpc > > specific problem. In this case it's rather incorrect usage on PowerPC leading to disastrous results, while you can get away with incorrect usage on oth

Re: Powerpc (mac-G4) -essentially (less) broken

2002-01-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 10:37, Nick Bailey wrote: > I set linux keycodes in yaboot.conf, and seem to have got them... but > > cmtdb121:~> cat /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes > cat: /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes: No such file > or directory Your kernel lac

Re: deja vu: problems with latex and accents

2002-01-21 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 20/01/02, Daniel Lamblin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020119 19:22]: > > There are two accents in the word deja, ? and an ? which I can see in > > downloaded text (in an xterm) but cannot find the key combination for. ... > > How do I get latex to 'rend

Re: macserial problem on headless servers with kernel 2.4.17

2002-01-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>(I have a Griffin CubePort instead of the internal modem on ttyS0.) >When I traced through macserial.c, I found the problem: it was calling >set_scc_power to disable the port. But that logic is broken when >you're running headless; IMO it should be disabled by >CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE. > >As a work

Re: Powerpc (mac-G4) -essentially (less) broken

2002-01-21 Thread Nick Bailey
Hummm. I set linux keycodes in yaboot.conf, and seem to have got them... but cmtdb121:~> cat /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes cat: /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes: No such file or directory cmtdb121:~> ls /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid mouse_button2_keycode m

Re: 3 newbie questions (colour depth, wvdial & overall sluggishness)

2002-01-21 Thread Nick Bailey
Derrik Pates wrote: What driver are you using in the XFree86 config? Are you using XFree 4.x or 3.x? If you're using the 'fbdev' driver with XFree 4.x, or the XF68_FBDev driver, then you may have to start the system with the appropriate options passed to the kernel so the frame buffer starts in