Re: kernel questions

2002-03-09 Thread eric.s.cote
on 09/03/2002 10:11, Kevin van Haaren at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 1:40 AM -0500 3/9/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> hi, > > firewall code has changed, plus lots of underlying things (vitrual > memory, more hardware, etc...). Also I've had problems with the > 2.4.x stock kernel on PPC (this

Re: kernel questions

2002-03-09 Thread eric.s.cote
on 09/03/2002 10:03, Chris Tillman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 01:40:52AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As related to powerpc, 2.4 handles the hardware better, particularly > newer hardware such as iBooks and G4s. There is better support for > sound, AirPort, and

Re: Audio CDs in xmms on ibook2 2001 600Mhz

2002-03-09 Thread Derrik Pates
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 01:39:09PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > - tendency to skip, most notably when using APT This is something I see at times with DACA, but I am of the opinion that this is an IDE-related issue - not really a "bug" per se, but just because IDE tends to be such a CPU-hog. Unles

Re: Annoying trackpad behaviour in the iBook 2

2002-03-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 12:15:37AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > On Mar 05 2002, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > > After I lift my finger from the trackpad, the mouse cursor is > > still kept in the "move mode" for an amount of time, before it > > reverts to the "pointing mode", i.e, the window

Re: Annoying trackpad behaviour in the iBook 2

2002-03-09 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 05 2002, Rogério Brito wrote: > After I lift my finger from the trackpad, the mouse cursor is > still kept in the "move mode" for an amount of time, before it > reverts to the "pointing mode", i.e, the window is not > "dropped". (...) > I would prefer that the c

Re: Audio CDs in xmms on ibook2 2001 600Mhz

2002-03-09 Thread Gregorio Gervasio Jr.
> On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 17:24:03 -0500 (EST), "Christopher C. Chimelis" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [xmms-cdread with OSS output] c> I haven't tried it in a few weeks, but last time I did, I only got white c> noise (LE audio needed to be byteswapped/swabbed). Has this changed? If c> not,

Re: Audio CDs in xmms on ibook2 2001 600Mhz

2002-03-09 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On 10 Mar 2002, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > Following up to myself, it does seem to be worse with higher quality > sound (meaning higher data volume) and more graphics intensive apps, so > bus saturation sounds plausible. Why did this never happen on the Pismo? > Was the sound chip on a d

Re: Audio CDs in xmms on ibook2 2001 600Mhz

2002-03-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sam, 2002-03-09 at 23:52, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sam, 2002-03-09 at 23:24, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > > As for the random hangs, this may be caused by high system loads and > > happens on just about all of my machines when I saturate the bus... > > Again, this never happened with th

Re: Audio CDs in xmms on ibook2 2001 600Mhz

2002-03-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sam, 2002-03-09 at 22:11, Will Aoki wrote: > > > - some apps cause the driver to go into a weird state where all attempts > > to play sound fail, the only remedy is to unload and reload it > > is easily triggered by this: > > --- cut here --- > #include > #include > > int main () { > o

Re: Audio CDs in xmms on ibook2 2001 600Mhz

2002-03-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sam, 2002-03-09 at 23:24, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > On 9 Mar 2002, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > > I doubt xmms-cdread is broken at all, it works here with the OSS output > > plugin but not with crossfade (it doesn't matter if crossfade uses the > > OSS plugin or its own OSS s

Re: Audio CDs in xmms on ibook2 2001 600Mhz

2002-03-09 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On 9 Mar 2002, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > I doubt xmms-cdread is broken at all, it works here with the OSS output > plugin but not with crossfade (it doesn't matter if crossfade uses the > OSS plugin or its own OSS support). The xmms-cdread code also looks > sane, though a quick look at

Re: Audio CDs in xmms on ibook2 2001 600Mhz

2002-03-09 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Will Aoki wrote: > Not seen the first two, but the next: > > > - some apps cause the driver to go into a weird state where all attempts > > to play sound fail, the only remedy is to unload and reload it > > is easily triggered by this: I'll check this out... > Another th

Re: Audio CDs in xmms on ibook2 2001 600Mhz

2002-03-09 Thread Will Aoki
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 01:39:09PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: [snipsnip] > Speaking of tumbler sound, has anyone else noticed the following issues? > > - tendency to skip, most notably when using APT > - random hangs (constantly repeating a short part) with SDL apps Not seen the first two, but t

Re: kernel questions

2002-03-09 Thread Kevin van Haaren
At 1:40 AM -0500 3/9/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I have a question about the differences between the 2.2.x kernel, and the 2.4.x kernel. No need for exacting specifics, but mostly advantages of moving up. For example, is there better international keyboard support, better handling of firewa

Re: kernel questions

2002-03-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 01:40:52AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > > I have a question about the differences between the 2.2.x kernel, and > the 2.4.x kernel. No need for exacting specifics, but mostly advantages > of moving up. For example, is there better international keyboard > supp

Re: Audio CDs in xmms on ibook2 2001 600Mhz

2002-03-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sam, 2002-03-09 at 06:15, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Gordon Paynter wrote: > > > No, it's a "TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2002" -- a so-called combo drive. > > (That's probably significant, but it completely slipped my mind at the > > time. Oops.) > > Speaking of xmms and

Re: fbset problem or how to change the res?

2002-03-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Ron Farrer wrote: > Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Adding "offb:off" to the video line causes the offb to become the > > primary fb (see below), which causes the display to go blank, > > resulting in having to log in remotely and reboot the system. > > > > 'cat /pr

kernel questions

2002-03-09 Thread eric . s . cote
hi, I have a question about the differences between the 2.2.x kernel, and the 2.4.x kernel. No need for exacting specifics, but mostly advantages of moving up. For example, is there better international keyboard support, better handling of firewalls and other net-related things? Or is it ok fo