Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-04-02 Thread befu
> On Mit, 2003-04-02 at 05:05, befu wrote: >> >> 3.) With this new kernel I can't see any cursor on my black text screen. How >> do I get my cursor back? It is annoying to guess where the cursor could be >> and input text on the command line or in pico. > > Does disabling acceleration with fbset

Re: possible php bug on powerpc/4.2.3

2003-04-02 Thread Jean-Christophe Michel
Le mer 02/04/2003 à 09:49, Jean-Christophe Michel a écrit : > Hi all, > > var_export() seems to print delirious contents when printing an array: > only the first two or three values are correctly printed. Then it seems > to be like utf8 printed in iso-latin1... The package maintener, Adam Conrad,

Re: Weird keymap problem

2003-04-02 Thread Marc Menem
Blam wrote: Hi, I'm using an iBook2.0 running 2.4.20-ben8 kernel. I'm just installing Debian for the first time but I'm having a strange problem with the keyboard. All the letters/numbers work fine but the other symbols are all out of place, even for an iBook keyboard. Eg, the underscore and mi

Re: Debian with Mac.

2003-04-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> I'm in love with the 12" G4 but I'm beginning to fear that the Airport > Extreme will never work, which would be a major handicap, and until > sleep is working I'm dual-booting to OS X. Also, I liked being able > to slip pieces of paper behind the apple logo on the iBook, and this > seems to be

Re: Debian with Mac.

2003-04-02 Thread Orion Buckminster Montoya
I've run Debian on a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet (233MHz), iBooks 500MHz and 600MHz, and now a PowerBook G4 12". I think an 800MHz iBook is an ideal machine. The softmodem is most unfortunate, but I haven't dialed up anywhere in a while so it doesn't bother me. DVD playing on my 600MHz was a little

Re: Debian with Mac.

2003-04-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 20:48, stamp wrote: > BJ> 12,1-tums TFT XGA-screen > BJ> 800 MHz PowerPC G3 > BJ> 512 K L2-cache (vid 800 MHz) > BJ> 256 MB SDRAM-memory > BJ> 30 GB Ultra ATA-unit > BJ> DVD/CD-RW-unit > BJ> ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 > BJ> 32 MB graphic mem > BJ> 10/100BASE-T Ethernet > BJ> Int

Re: battery life

2003-04-02 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:27:12AM +0100, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: >http://ryoko.camperquake.de/solutions Anyone tested it. Is that working? -- .''`.Jan-Hendrik Palic | : :' : ** Debian GNU/ Linux ** | ** OpenOffice.org ** ,.. ,.. `. `' http://www.debian.org | http://

Weird keymap problem

2003-04-02 Thread Blam
Hi, I'm using an iBook2.0 running 2.4.20-ben8 kernel. I'm just installing Debian for the first time but I'm having a strange problem with the keyboard. All the letters/numbers work fine but the other symbols are all out of place, even for an iBook keyboard. Eg, the underscore and minus symbol are

Re: Debian with Mac.

2003-04-02 Thread stamp
BJ> 12,1-tums TFT XGA-screen BJ> 800 MHz PowerPC G3 BJ> 512 K L2-cache (vid 800 MHz) BJ> 256 MB SDRAM-memory BJ> 30 GB Ultra ATA-unit BJ> DVD/CD-RW-unit BJ> ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 BJ> 32 MB graphic mem BJ> 10/100BASE-T Ethernet BJ> Internal 56K-modem BJ> AirPort-ready works really fine for me, e

Re: Debian with Mac.

2003-04-02 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Björn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PLEASE, mail me privately since I'm not a member > of the mailinglist. I'm sure you meant to say "please cc me, since I'm not a member of the mailing list, but this way the answers will be seen by all and will become part

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-04-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2003-04-02 at 05:05, befu wrote: > > 3.) With this new kernel I can't see any cursor on my black text screen. How > do I get my cursor back? It is annoying to guess where the cursor could be > and input text on the command line or in pico. Does disabling acceleration with fbset -accel fa

Re: possible php bug on powerpc/4.2.3

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Hampson
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:49:41AM +0200, Jean-Christophe Michel wrote: > Hi all, > > var_export() seems to print delirious contents when printing an array: > only the first two or three values are correctly printed. Then it seems > to be like utf8 printed in iso-latin1... > > I experienced this

Re: possible php bug on powerpc/4.2.3

2003-04-02 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Hi Jean-Christophe I am running testing and did the force-upgrade to unstable to get php 4.2.3. Using your test file I got: // file test.php var_export test array ( 0 => 'hello', 1 => 'bonjour', 2 => 'Guten Tag', 3 => 'Hayo', 4 => 'Salam', 4 => 3 => [EMAIL PROTECTED]@D$??ÿÏ`$$?

Debian with Mac.

2003-04-02 Thread Björn Johansson
Hi! I'm going to buy a Mac in a not far away future. So I'm wondering what Macs works best with Debian3.0? How about this one? 12,1-tums TFT XGA-screen 800 MHz PowerPC G3 512 K L2-cache (vid 800 MHz) 256 MB SDRAM-memory 30 GB Ultra ATA-unit DVD/CD-RW-unit ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 32 MB graphic m

Re: evolution 1.2

2003-04-02 Thread raphaello-debianuser
Thanks for the info: for use of people as newbie as I am, and to avoid them the searchings I did, here is how I have found to do (I have testing version on my Power Book Wall Street): - add in /etc/apt/source.list the lines corresponding to unstable and sid - I added in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d

possible php bug on powerpc/4.2.3

2003-04-02 Thread Jean-Christophe Michel
Hi all, var_export() seems to print delirious contents when printing an array: only the first two or three values are correctly printed. Then it seems to be like utf8 printed in iso-latin1... I experienced this on a powerpc/testing with php as cgi and module, php -v gives 4.2.3. Could someone hav

Re: evolution 1.2

2003-04-02 Thread raphaello-ilsole24
Thanks for the info: for use of people as newbie as I am, and to avoid them the searchings I did, here is how I have found to do (I have testing version on my Power Book Wall Street): - add in /etc/apt/source.list the lines corresponding to unstable and sid - I added in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debc

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-04-02 Thread Michael Schmitz
> 2.) With this kernel I can finally run the ati driver instead of the fbdev > driver (which was the only driver able to run on kernel 2.4.18). > I just get some 3-5 seconds of "erupting colourful clouds" on my screen when > starting the kde environment with startx just before the light grey screen

Re: hwclock on a PowerMac 9500 and summertime

2003-04-02 Thread Mich Lanners
On 1 Apr, this message from Boris Bezlaj echoed through cyberspace: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:25:39PM +0200, David Ulrich wrote: >> >> I put it on summertime and add a ntp server (ntp, ntp-simple and >> ntpupdate). So the clock is always on time. >> My debian is always on time now: >> But I