Re: Kernel Strangeness, and Mouse Button emulation

2002-05-30 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:26:28PM -0700, Shawn Dunn wrote: > Hi All. > > I recently installed Debian/Woody on this machine (Performa 6360, > 136MB, Voodoo3 3000), and it's all working great, significantly better than > YDL-2.2 in fact, but I have a couple things I can't quite figure out.

Re: Kernel Strangeness, and Mouse Button emulation

2002-05-30 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 30 May 2002 06:26 pm, Shawn Dunn wrote: > > 2) I both recompiled the stock 2.2.20 kernel, and built a 2.4.18 > kernel, using make-kpkg, and they both boot, and find the modules and > devices fine, and everything else, but the keymap is screwed up so > badly that it makes the system unus

Why gcc-2.95.4

2002-05-30 Thread Brendan J Simon
I've noticed that my PowerMacs have gcc 2.95.4 running (reported by "gcc -v") but the gnu web site and mirror sites show no existance of such a version. The latest official version in the 2.95 series is 2.95.3. I assume that debian porters have increased the match number as there have been

Kernel Strangeness, and Mouse Button emulation

2002-05-30 Thread Shawn Dunn
Hi All. I recently installed Debian/Woody on this machine (Performa 6360, 136MB, Voodoo3 3000), and it's all working great, significantly better than YDL-2.2 in fact, but I have a couple things I can't quite figure out. 1) How do I emulate my middle and right mouse buttons? in YDL midd

Re: X server 100% CPU

2002-05-30 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I used to see something like this on my slackware box, and I think it was due to a memory leak in netscape. After a while it would start paging uncontrolably, and it was hard to get control of my system. The solution was to start using Mozilla. does it start happening if you leave your syste

Re: X server 100% CPU

2002-05-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 17:33, Luis M wrote: > sometimes my X server takes 100% of the cpu and stays there forever... I > cannot use CTRL-DEL (backspace) to restart X, but the mouse seems fine... my > only choise is to SSH to my box and kill all X processes... has anybody > experienced this? > th

keyboard under X

2002-05-30 Thread Sven Herzing
Hi folks, I installed sid on my powerbook G3 (Lombard) with a kernel 2.4.18-powerpc (precompieled) with linux keycodes. I used the german keymap which came with sid, but i wasn't able to write braces,brackets, bar and all these keys. I've written a own keymap and everything works fine, on cons

keyboard under X

2002-05-30 Thread Sven Herzing
Hi folks, I installed sid on my powerbook G3 (Lombard) with a kernel 2.4.18-powerpc (precompieled) with linux keycodes. I used the german keymap which came with sid, but i wasn't able to write braces,brackets, bar and all these keys. I've written a own keymap and everything works fine, on cons

Re: some newbie questions

2002-05-30 Thread Wouter Eerdekens
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:08:33PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello! > > i think this questions are not new but i haven't found anything good in the > archives! > i have a new ibook2 with a swiss-german keyboard, i selected swiss german > keymap in the installation procedure and a lot of ke

Re: Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-30 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 07:10:28AM -0400, Mo Oishi wrote: > Hi, Chris. Does this mean that the olemiss disk won't boot an oldworld > mac at all? Sorry, maybe I missed some context here. I thought the > advantage of the woody disks was the broad range of PPC it could be > gracefully installed on.

some newbie questions

2002-05-30 Thread cynite
hello!   i think this questions are not new but i haven't found anything good in the archives! i have a new ibook2 with a swiss-german keyboard, i selected swiss german keymap in the installation procedure and a lot of keys works, but not all: the @ symbol is drawed under the G but don't work

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Re: Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-30 Thread Mo Oishi
Hi, Chris. Does this mean that the olemiss disk won't boot an oldworld mac at all? Sorry, maybe I missed some context here. I thought the advantage of the woody disks was the broad range of PPC it could be gracefully installed on. Mo Chris Tillman wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:50:32PM

Re: Newbie/Novice Question

2002-05-30 Thread Michel Lanners
On 29 May, this message from Fred Heitkamp echoed through cyberspace: >> Hmm no, the drivers play not role here... Ah wait,. you mean a drive >> partitioned with DOS partitions, not Apple partitions? That would indeed > > Yep. > >> probably be seen as uninitialized by MacOS. But then again I lik

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2002-05-30 Thread Nomen Nescio
> I should have looked at this a long time ago: xpostitplus is > being kept out of testing because it hasn't been built for > powerpc. I've just tried to build it myself on voltaire, but it's > missing libxaw7-dev so I can't satisfy the Build-Depends. Can I ask > one of you nice powerpc peop