Re: Do you think Debian will run on this PowerPC board?

2002-12-03 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:11:33AM +1100, Ross Vumbaca wrote: > Hi, > The AmigaOne already runs Linux, I am running Debian 3.0. Other people > run SuSe. Actually I'd like to create a custom boot-floppy for it, so > installation of Debian 3.0 can be easy for end users, but haven't had > much tim

Re: Using XFree86 on the new iBooks

2002-12-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2002-12-04 at 01:16, ERDI Gergo wrote: > On 3 Dec 2002, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > > Why not the ati driver with Option "UseFBDev"? > > I'll give it a try. Is there any reason why it would be better? Two words: hardware acceleration. :) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)

Re: Using XFree86 on the new iBooks

2002-12-03 Thread ERDI Gergo
On 3 Dec 2002, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > Why not the ati driver with Option "UseFBDev"? I'll give it a try. Is there any reason why it would be better? -- .--= ULLA! =-. `We are not here to give users what \ http://cactus.rulez.org \ they want' -

Re: Do you think Debian will run on this PowerPC board?

2002-12-03 Thread Ross Vumbaca
Hi, William Crowshaw wrote: This may be good news for people like me who'd rather not support Apple by buying their over-priced, eye-candy hardware and yet still want to use a PowerPC. The company that produces YDL is selling a PowerPC motherboard and complete systems. Here's the link with mor

Re: Using XFree86 on the new iBooks

2002-12-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-12-03 at 18:33, ERDI Gergo wrote: > On 19 Nov 2002, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > > > - If yes, where can I download the patch? > > > > I'd tell you, unfortunately I haven't heard of it. And people are still > > discussing the problem on IRC... > > Just for the record: wit

Re: how to downgrade

2002-12-03 Thread Ashifi
But sid should be able to run GNOME 2 just fine right? I was told GNOME 2 comes with Sid. I just want GNOME 2, so running woody or sid doesn't matter. I tried following the steps for "downgrading" but it only tried to update what I already have. I guess you're right... downgrading didn't work

Re: pmud on new (Nov 2002) iBooks

2002-12-03 Thread christophe barbe
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:35:16PM +0100, ERDI Gergo wrote: > [please CC replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > I've installed pmud from Debian unstable on a Nov 2002 iBook (iBook3?). I > expected it to Just Work out of the box, however, it doesn't: when I close > the lid, the thing goes to sle

Re: how to downgrade

2002-12-03 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 01:15, Michael Hope wrote: > I've never tried it, but dpkg does have a --force-downgrade option. I > don't know how this interacts with apt (you may have to download the > pacakges yourself) nor with meta packages such as gnome2. It's worth noting that downgrading packages

Re: Special keys outputs to console and kernel log. Can be avoided?

2002-12-03 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 05:48, Jesus Climent wrote: > Hi! > > My white hat penguin (iBook2) has the brightness/loudness/eject keys > funtioning using pbuttonsd, but still, everytime I press them the kernel > leaves a dmesg entry such as: > > keyboard.c: cat't emulate rawcode for keycode XXX acme d

Re: Do you think Debian will run on this PowerPC board?

2002-12-03 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
William Crowshaw wrote: This may be good news for people like me who'd rather not support Apple by buying their over-priced, eye-candy hardware and yet still want to use a PowerPC. The company that produces YDL is selling a PowerPC motherboard and complete systems. Here's the link with more in

pmud on new (Nov 2002) iBooks

2002-12-03 Thread ERDI Gergo
[please CC replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I've installed pmud from Debian unstable on a Nov 2002 iBook (iBook3?). I expected it to Just Work out of the box, however, it doesn't: when I close the lid, the thing goes to sleep like it should, but when I open the lid it doesn't wake up. In fact, I

Re: Using XFree86 on the new iBooks

2002-12-03 Thread ERDI Gergo
On 19 Nov 2002, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > - If yes, where can I download the patch? > > I'd tell you, unfortunately I haven't heard of it. And people are still > discussing the problem on IRC... Just for the record: with the help of the nice guys at #ppclinux, I got a patch for t

Do you think Debian will run on this PowerPC board?

2002-12-03 Thread William Crowshaw
This may be good news for people like me who'd rather not support Apple by buying their over-priced, eye-candy hardware and yet still want to use a PowerPC. The company that produces YDL is selling a PowerPC motherboard and complete systems. Here's the link with more information: http://www.osne

gedit

2002-12-03 Thread Jack Howarth
Is anyone else on debian ppc sid seeing this? On my machine I am finding that both the Print and Print Preview commands in gedit are failing because it can't find any fonts. If I go into the Preferences panel of gedit I also find that under Fonts the selections are blank and if I click them to