Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Harware

2003-08-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 19:54, Simon Vallet wrote: > On 02 Aug 2003 16:11:52 +0200 > Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not hardware per se, but the firmware is a problem. IIRC only the tdfx > > driver(s) can initialize a card from the ground up, for others you > > should pick a 'Mac' card.

Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Harware

2003-08-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 20:40, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > If you keep using the original graphics device alongside the new add-on > card or instead of it, this won't be a problem: Linux will recognise > the card by its PCI vendor:device string, so you can still bring up X. No, as I said, this _won

Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Harware

2003-08-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 18:11, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > >On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 13:38, Simon Vallet wrote: > > > > > >>I consider purchasing a graphic card for my beige G3. Is it possible > >>to simply pick a "PC" card, or are there any hardware incompatibilities > >>w

Re: Xboing: no sound, missing soundIt.h

2003-08-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 23:19, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On 2 Aug 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 20:53, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > > > Can't init soundIt library. yech.. > > > XBoing - Warning: Audio unavailable or not supported. > > > > > > Is soundIt part of the kern

Re: Meta Alt oh my!

2003-08-02 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 10:43:41PM +0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Perhaps only being finicky, but... > > I use GNU Emacs extensively, and I get bothered by having the > Alt keyboard on my iBook working as the Meta key in Emacs, and then having > no Alt whatsoev

[Addendum] Re: Xboing: no sound, missing soundIt.h

2003-08-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > I downloaded the xboing tarball this afternoon from ... should read "a xboing tarball" ... Sorry Wolfgang > http://www.techrescue.org/xboing/ -- Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer

Re: Xboing: no sound, missing soundIt.h

2003-08-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On 2 Aug 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 20:53, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > When trying to start xboing I get this: > > > > $xboing -sound > > XBoing - Please wait [ ... ] User, initialising xboing ... > > No access to sound device: Permission denied > > Are you in group au

Meta Alt oh my!

2003-08-02 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Perhaps only being finicky, but... I use GNU Emacs extensively, and I get bothered by having the Alt keyboard on my iBook working as the Meta key in Emacs, and then having no Alt whatsoever. In other words, is there an option either in Linux, X or GNU Emacs to make the Alt

Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Harware

2003-08-02 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On 2 Aug 2003 at 19:54, Simon Vallet wrote: > On 02 Aug 2003 16:11:52 +0200 > Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not hardware per se, but the firmware is a problem. IIRC only the tdfx > > driver(s) can initialize a card from the ground up, for others you > > should pick a 'Mac' card. Do

Soundless SWF player with esd

2003-08-02 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
I am trying to vent off by watching those silly animations from UserFriendly... ~ $ galeon userfriendly.org./animation/episode1.html [...] argv[0] src http://graphics.userfriendly.org/anim1.swf argv[1] pluginspage http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/ argv[2] type application/x-sh

Java & Galeon

2003-08-02 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
I tried to follow the instructions on the Debian Java FAQ, to use latest unstable Galeon with Blackdown by creating the link: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 35 Jun 7 03:48 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji.so /etc/alternati

Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Harware

2003-08-02 Thread Simon Vallet
On 02 Aug 2003 16:11:52 +0200 Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not hardware per se, but the firmware is a problem. IIRC only the tdfx > driver(s) can initialize a card from the ground up, for others you > should pick a 'Mac' card. Do you have any particular card(s) in mind? I was thinkin

Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Harware

2003-08-02 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 13:38, Simon Vallet wrote: I consider purchasing a graphic card for my beige G3. Is it possible to simply pick a "PC" card, or are there any hardware incompatibilities which would prevent it from working ? Not hardware per se, but the firmwa

Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Harware

2003-08-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 13:38, Simon Vallet wrote: > > I consider purchasing a graphic card for my beige G3. Is it possible > to simply pick a "PC" card, or are there any hardware incompatibilities > which would prevent it from working ? Not hardware per se, but the firmware is a problem. IIRC on

Newbie: esound, mozilla and sockets

2003-08-02 Thread Wim
Hi all, I'm using the 'Tasks/End-user/desktop environment' section of aptitude and installed succesfully gnome/sawfish/mozilla/gdm on my PowerMac8600-Woody/stable-2.4.18. Next I installed esound and managed to get sounds, also because I installed the module 'dmasound_pmac'. But now, when I

PC graphic adapters on Mac Harware

2003-08-02 Thread Simon Vallet
Hi, I consider purchasing a graphic card for my beige G3. Is it possible to simply pick a "PC" card, or are there any hardware incompatibilities which would prevent it from working ? -- Simon Vallet Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon eqdar at castalie dot org

bluntness

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