Re: Bug#167234: Problems XFree86 + NvidiaGeforce 2 MX400 twinwiev + Apple Studio Display 15'

2002-11-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 02:44:55PM +0100, José Salavert Torres wrote: > I would like to help testing patches, just give me them and the source > of Xfree86 which compiles and works on my machine (or instructions to > compile properly the source, I know C and I'm learning C++ this year). > > I have

tth_3.13_powerpc.deb request for build and upload

2002-11-03 Thread Ian Maclaine-cross
Dear powerpc porters, Package tth has not been built and uploaded on a powerpc for many months. Please would someone build tth_3.13-1_powerpc.deb from the latest sources and upload it. -- Regards, Ian Maclaine-cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

In order to get nvidia support (please read everybody)...

2002-11-03 Thread José Salavert Torres
Please send an e-mail to Nvidia asking about support for ppc of his video drivers. Here is the e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know if this could make anything, but can work...

Re: Macs doesn't have second mouse button+gnome/Xfree86

2002-11-03 Thread M J Pilvari Pirtola
On 4 Nov 2002, José Salavert Torres wrote: > Is there any way to emulate the second button in XFree86 or gnome??? echo "1" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation # this sets mouse button emulation on echo "87" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode #sets middle button to F11 e

Re: Macs doesn't have second mouse button+gnome/Xfree86

2002-11-03 Thread K. Reid Wightman
Edit your /etc/sysctl.conf and add dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation=1 dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode=125 dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode=96 Tho you'll probably want to replace the numbers on lines 2 and 3 with whatever keyboard keycodes you want. The above are for an ibook, using the comm

Macs doesn't have second mouse button+gnome/Xfree86

2002-11-03 Thread José Salavert Torres
Is there any way to emulate the second button in XFree86 or gnome???

Re: Screen garbled - Was :Re: Kernel panic : VFS : unable to mount root fs

2002-11-03 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:20:35AM -0800, Johan en Katrien Dewaele wrote: > Hi, > > > > > I acquired this old Mac PPC 4400/200 ... > One thing I noticed and find very strange: when I zap > the PRAM (alt-cmd P R) I almost immediatly get the > white screen with the arrow and then the Mac searche

Re: running debian on a mac laptop

2002-11-03 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 03 2002, Jesus Climent wrote: > Might want to try videolan.org with altivec optimizations. But as a G3 doesn't have altivec instructions, I don't know how those specific parts would show an improvement (except, perhaps, for better instruction scheduling). [

Re: running debian on a mac laptop

2002-11-03 Thread Jesus Climent
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 05:06:58PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > I'm not updated on these, but I'll check xine again as soon as > they have a new release. Might want to try videolan.org with altivec optimizations. J -- Jesus Climent | Unix System Admin | Helsinki, Finland. web: w

Re: How to distinguish a mac from an Amiga?

2002-11-03 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hello Sven Am 03-Nov-02 schrieb Sven Luther: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:10:31PM +0100, Andreas Wüst wrote: >> Hi >> >> Am 03-Nov-02 schriebst Du: >>> >>> >>> (our main OS isn't ready, and some hundred developers will have hardware >>> within a week or two. End user release aimed at the Linu

Re: How to distinguish a mac from an Amiga?

2002-11-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:10:31PM +0100, Andreas Wüst wrote: > Hi > > Am 03-Nov-02 schriebst Du: > > > > > >> (our main OS isn't ready, and some hundred developers will have hardware > >> within a week or two. End user release aimed at the Linux crowd is > >> before christmas, both in G3 and

Re: How to distinguish a mac from an Amiga?

2002-11-03 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hi Am 03-Nov-02 schriebst Du: > > >> (our main OS isn't ready, and some hundred developers will have hardware >> within a week or two. End user release aimed at the Linux crowd is >> before christmas, both in G3 and G4 versions) > Morphos? > Are you talking about PEGASUS or about AmigaNG ? He

Re: running debian on a mac laptop

2002-11-03 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 03 2002, K. Reid Wightman wrote: > No big troubles playing dvd's on mine. Really really crazy stuff > like Run Lola Run (lots of the camera getting jerked around and > floating) makes it drop the ocassional frame, but all in all its > pretty good. Well, seeing as yours is an iBook

Re: How to distinguish a mac from an Amiga?

2002-11-03 Thread Claas Langbehn
> (our main OS isn't ready, and some hundred developers will have hardware > within a week or two. End user release aimed at the Linux crowd is > before christmas, both in G3 and G4 versions) Morphos? Are you talking about PEGASUS or about AmigaNG ?

Re: Screen garbled - Was :Re: Kernel panic : VFS : unable to mount root fs

2002-11-03 Thread Johan en Katrien Dewaele
Hi, > > > > I acquired this old Mac PPC 4400/200 > > When boot-floppy boots I get a nice screenoutput > with > > the penguin on top : kernel detects following > (dmesg > > output) : > > > > MacOs display is /bandit/ATY,264VT > > Using unsupported 640x480 ATY,264VT at 81800480, > > depth=8, pitch=

Re: debian unstable + Gnome2

2002-11-03 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 11:35, Claas Langbehn wrote: > The following packages will be REMOVED: > gnome-core gnome-help This is completely normal. Don't be worried by it.

Re: How to distinguish a mac from an Amiga?

2002-11-03 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Alastair McKinstry wrote: Hello, Quick (hopefully simple) question: How do you tell the difference between an Amiga and a Mac (both ppc machines) in a script ? I need to distinguish them in picking keyboards correctly in the console packages. Thanks, Alastair McKinstry /proc/cpuinfo?

How to distinguish a mac from an Amiga?

2002-11-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hello, Quick (hopefully simple) question: How do you tell the difference between an Amiga and a Mac (both ppc machines) in a script ? I need to distinguish them in picking keyboards correctly in the console packages. Thanks, Alastair McKinstry -- Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key

Re: debian unstable + Gnome2

2002-11-03 Thread Claas Langbehn
> > When trying, dselect removed several packages, f.ex. the panels and the > > applets. That is not nice. Are those not yet available for gnome2? > > It should all be available. I am running GNOME 2 happily on powerpc > right now. Well, could it also have been the post/pre-install scripts? I

Re: debian unstable + Gnome2

2002-11-03 Thread Claas Langbehn
> I need more information; what happens when you say: > apt-get install gnome The following extra packages will be installed: at-spi bug-buddy eog file-roller gconf-editor gedit gnome-applets gnome-desktop-data gnome-doc-tools gnome-media gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session gnome-te

Re: debian unstable + Gnome2

2002-11-03 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 08:11, Claas Langbehn wrote: > Hi, > > I am still using gnome 1.4 (?) and I am interested in upgrading to > gnome2. My system is running debian unstable and I already tried to > upgrade. > > When trying, dselect removed several packages, f.ex. the panels and the > applets. T

2 package(s) to rebuild on powerpc/stable

2002-11-03 Thread Martin Schulze
These packages have to be rebuilt for stable on powerpc in order to let the packages go into 3.0r1. Please find URLs to source packages attached below for convenience. When uploading, please take care of the distribution, which should contain 'stable' and nothing else. For further explanation ple

debian unstable + Gnome2

2002-11-03 Thread Claas Langbehn
Hi, I am still using gnome 1.4 (?) and I am interested in upgrading to gnome2. My system is running debian unstable and I already tried to upgrade. When trying, dselect removed several packages, f.ex. the panels and the applets. That is not nice. Are those not yet available for gnome2? Or did I j

Re: Bug#167234: Problems XFree86 + NvidiaGeforce 2 MX400 twinwiev + Apple Studio Display 15'

2002-11-03 Thread José Salavert Torres
El sáb, 02-11-2002 a las 20:35, Branden Robinson escribió: > On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:31:27PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Fre, 2002-11-01 at 17:10, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 02:18:56PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > The nv driver has only been fixed for PPC

Re: running debian on a mac laptop

2002-11-03 Thread K. Reid Wightman
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 11:03, Eric Deveaud wrote: > see some news group related to Apple hardware, and you will find lots of > reports regarding combo problems, ethh/usb connectors problems (it's > really painfull to unplug the eth cable from the connector on the > tiBook. Weird...I had troubles w

Re: MountX?

2002-11-03 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, eric wrote: > i just can't remember the exact name of my other kernel.. and am not > looking forward to starting all over over again. you don't need to install over and over, remember linux is neither MacOS neither windows, ther's always a solution. boot on the installer CD,

Re: running debian on a mac laptop

2002-11-03 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Nov 02 2002, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > other fact to consider, is that iBook is much more robust than tiBook. > > I don't know about this. see some news group related to Apple hardware, and you will find lots of reports regarding combo problems, e