Re: BTTV and IxTV

2003-01-28 Thread vinai
This is (or at least WAS) not the case. Back in the days of the LinuxPPC distro (yes - that far back), with a lot of help from Takashi Oe initially, and then Anthony Sexton and Gerd Knorr afterwards, we got xawtv working with the bttv driver on my personal 7500 at that time, with a 2.2.6 kernel (~

Re: airport on ibook2

2003-01-28 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks Claas... I disabled eth0 and now the wireless network is picked up.. however, when I try to start KDE with startx, it gets to "Initializing System services" and hangs.. any ideas? Thanks, nirmal

Re: BTTV and IxTV

2003-01-28 Thread J Q Private
Nick, I am interested in the same exact thing. I e-mailed Vassili, um, Leo-something and he said any powerpc video capture things would definitely be USB based, even if he didn't help any more than that. If you learn anything more off-list, please CC: me! I think I'm going to end up

Re: French keymap

2003-01-28 Thread Willy Morin
Hi ! I was having the same problem on a powerbook g4 400. I believe we have the same keyboard. So I have made a file .Xmodmap who define the key that I want to modify. I use xev to see the keycode of the key and then I affect the symbol I want. I attach you my .Xmodmap To use it, put it in your hom

BTTV and IxTV

2003-01-28 Thread Nick Taylor
Hi, Has anyone had any sucess getting a video capture card to work well on a powerpc-based computer? I have tried with the most recent version of bttv, and have not been able to get a good picture: it's often yellow, and sometimes the framing isn't right (i.e. the top of the picture shows up at th

Re: quick questions Powerbase240 Mac clone install

2003-01-28 Thread Drazen BORCIC
...not really an answer, but I'm running Woody on such a machine (originally PB180 but replaced the daughtercard by a 240 one) and I could only get it boot from BootX. It is a bit slower but it works, so if you have enough space to keep a minimal MacOS on your HD, that might be a way out. "dmesg |

Re: ripping tracks from a audio-cd

2003-01-28 Thread florian
On Die, 2003-01-28 at 22:44, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 28 Jan, this message from florian echoed through cyberspace: > > when i do this: > > cdparanoia -B -- "-3" > > > > i get this: > > > > /dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible. By default, > > cdparanoia stops searching for an accessible dri

Re: ripping tracks from a audio-cd

2003-01-28 Thread Michel Lanners
On 28 Jan, this message from florian echoed through cyberspace: > when i do this: > cdparanoia -B -- "-3" > > i get this: > > /dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible. By default, > cdparanoia stops searching for an accessible drive here. > Consider using -sv to force a more complete autosense >

French keymap

2003-01-28 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, I can't manage to get a proper French keymap on my ibook (both with a fb console and with X). I tried the default ones and the one from linux-france.org but I miss some important characters like backslash, pipe and square brackets. Does any French ibook user have a better keymap to propose?

Re: scaling cpu frequency on new ibook 2.2?

2003-01-28 Thread Florian Feigenbutz
Claas Langbehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Florian, > you might want to have a look at this page: > http://ibook.rootdir.de/index.php?article_id=34&category_id=2 > it is in german and explains how to switch the speed. > Bye, claas Hi Claas, thanks a lot, this article seems very interesting

Re: rsync vs BK kernel trees

2003-01-28 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 18:51, Derrik Pates wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:08:21PM +1100, Andrew Nesbit wrote: > > One of the pages at ppckernel.org says that the BenH and BK trees are > > slightly different and maintained by different people: BenH doing one tree > > and Cort Dougan doing the BK

Re: scaling cpu frequency on new ibook 2.2?

2003-01-28 Thread J. Volkmann
Adam Lazur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) schrieb: > Florian Feigenbutz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > Hi, as I was checking some files in the /cat dir for fun some days ago > > I saw the following lines in "/proc/cpufreq": > > > > $ cat /proc/cpufreq > > minimum CPU frequency - maximum CPU frequency -

Re: USB-Audio

2003-01-28 Thread brett
> when i write to /dev/dsp1 my system crashes instantly! > i have some i2c stuff and dmasound stuff loaded! could this be the reson? Try getting things to work without the usb-hotplugging stuff first (try warm booting to linux from osx with the speakers plugged in), in my experience the usb-hotplu

ripping tracks from a audio-cd

2003-01-28 Thread florian
hi! im trying to rip oggs or mp3s out of audio cds, unfortunately without any success. i have one of the november 2002 ibooks here. when i do this: cdparanoia -B -- "-3" i get this: /dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible. By default, cdparanoia stops searching for an accessible drive here.

dhcp-client v pump

2003-01-28 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi FWIW I've just re-installed woody on my 8100/80 nubus Mac with the 2.4.19rc1 kernel. I reported previously that when I installed potato (kernel 2.2.5 IIRC) the installation automatically configured my network connection from the dhcp server but when reinstalling/upgrading to woody 2.4.19

Re: Keeeeyboard problems

2003-01-28 Thread Edward G. Speyer
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, A.J. Rossini wrote: > > "EGS" == Edward G Speyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > EGS> In the past week I have been suffering from a rather odd > EGS> bug (or pair of bugs perhaps) on my woody iBook: keys on > EGS> the keyboard seem to be sticking down and my mouse is quite

IBM-250

2003-01-28 Thread henrique
Someone have already instaled linux in IBM-250? Someone knows if it´s possible? thank´s Henrique.

Re: rsync vs BK kernel trees

2003-01-28 Thread Derrik Pates
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:08:21PM +1100, Andrew Nesbit wrote: > One of the pages at ppckernel.org says that the BenH and BK trees are > slightly different and maintained by different people: BenH doing one tree > and Cort Dougan doing the BK tree. Surely this is outdated information? > > Also, wh

iMac install: need to shrink UserSpace partition to add Debian

2003-01-28 Thread John van Vlaaderen
Hi -- I was excited -- just about to get to the task. I cant erase my OSX and OS9 installs, I have software there So I wanted to shrink UserSpace and add a ext3 partition there. Looked in /etc/fstab* Gack !! How is this done ?? TIA, John

airport on ibook2

2003-01-28 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. I'm trying to get airport to work on my ibook2.. I have the benh kernel and have airport, orinoco and hermes modules which load fine.. however, after booting up, if I try "iwconfig eth1", I see that the ESSID is empty and the card hasn't picked up the wireless network yet.. airport module is s

Re: USB-Audio

2003-01-28 Thread Clemens Mangler
On 28 Jan 2003, Edd Dumbill wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:37, Clemens Mangler wrote: > > hi! > > > > i finally bought the soundsticks! sound under macosx is great, but i don't > > know how to get them running under linux! > > where can i find a howto or something? > > > > i loaded the module

dri-trunk and the xlibmesa split in sid

2003-01-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
[ next time instead of picking up on a random thread please start a new one ] On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 13:38, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > BTW, XFree has been upgraded and there is some mess about xlibmesa > (which has been splitted ?). How to keep your DRI packages without > holding back all the XFr

VooDoo5

2003-01-28 Thread Matteo Bertolini
I have a VooDoo5 PCI card with 64 MB. I'm usign it with Xfree4.1 and fbdev driver. Can anyone help me using it accelerated? Thanks, Matteo P.S.: I have a PPC 7300

Re: Keeeeyboard problems

2003-01-28 Thread A.J. Rossini
> "EGS" == Edward G Speyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EGS> In the past week I have been suffering from a rather odd bug (or pair of EGS> bugs perhaps) on my woody iBook: keys on the keyboard seem to be sticking EGS> down and my mouse is quite jerky. This problem has not cropped

Keeeeyboard problems

2003-01-28 Thread Edward G. Speyer
Hi, In the past week I have been suffering from a rather odd bug (or pair of bugs perhaps) on my woody iBook: keys on the keyboard seem to be sticking down and my mouse is quite jerky. This problem has not cropped up in Mac OS X and I am pretty sure it isn't my hardware, but that is obviously no

Re: Where to get Gnome2 and kde3.1 for ppc ?

2003-01-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette fin de matinée radieuse du mardi 28 janvier 2003, vers 11:35, Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > Bug #178025 held up a lot of other packages, fortunately a fixed > bonobo-activation has been uploaded now so things will hopefully catch > up in the next days. BTW, XFree has be

Re: nvidia driver

2003-01-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 12:41, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > I've been trying some of the latest kernels. The 2.4.x versions seem to > work OK except I can't seem to get X to work. I have a dual proc G4 and > one CPU is pegged with usage at 99%. Attaching with gdb gives: Attaching > to process 2925 > 0x10

rsync vs BK kernel trees

2003-01-28 Thread Andrew Nesbit
I'm trying to wrap my head around all these PPC Linux kernel trees... One of the pages at ppckernel.org says that the BenH and BK trees are slightly different and maintained by different people: BenH doing one tree and Cort Dougan doing the BK tree. Surely this is outdated information? Also, what

Re: USB-Audio

2003-01-28 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:37, Clemens Mangler wrote: > hi! > > i finally bought the soundsticks! sound under macosx is great, but i don't > know how to get them running under linux! > where can i find a howto or something? > > i loaded the module audio.o, but what to do next? you should then be

nvidia driver

2003-01-28 Thread Fred Heitkamp
I've been trying some of the latest kernels. The 2.4.x versions seem to work OK except I can't seem to get X to work. I have a dual proc G4 and one CPU is pegged with usage at 99%. Attaching with gdb gives: Attaching to process 2925 0x106935a4 in ?? () Checking the logs shows no obvious errors t

Re: Where to get Gnome2 and kde3.1 for ppc ?

2003-01-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 22:36, Jorge Arcas wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 21:21, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 01:29, Willy Morin wrote: > > > > > I'm looking for sources for kde3.1 and gnome2 under a debian > > > unstable. Do you know where I can find them ? > > > > GNOME 2 (most

USB-Audio

2003-01-28 Thread Clemens Mangler
hi! i finally bought the soundsticks! sound under macosx is great, but i don't know how to get them running under linux! where can i find a howto or something? i loaded the module audio.o, but what to do next? is it possible to use both speakers and usb audio (not at the same time, but let's say

Re: Where to get Gnome2 and kde3.1 for ppc ?

2003-01-28 Thread Gary Sandine
Hi, On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 17:29, Willy Morin wrote: > I'm looking for sources for kde3.1 and gnome2 under a debian > unstable. Do you know where I can find them ? I successfully installed KDE3 in a new iBook2 for a friend (about three weeks ago) using this sources.list entry: deb http://bulmalug