Re: Newbie (to ppc), but glad to be here.

2003-08-04 Thread Jule Slootbeek
I can't answer 1 and 2, tight of the bat, but i can answer 3..:) i use xmms and the xmms-cdread plugin which has to run by itself so you'll have to disable the cdreading pluging that's built into xmms and enable this one, that way you can play audio CD's with a digitally. Jule On Mon, 2003-08-04

Newbie (to ppc), but glad to be here.

2003-08-04 Thread Jeff Feige
Boy, I've sure noticed that the PPC support is lacking compared to i386, but I'm sure all of you know that already. I'm running Debian (Woody) on a Snow 500MHz (Flower Power motherboard is what's reported in dmesg) CRT iMac. I have been fairly successful in getting *most* everything set up.

FW: Kernel Panic: no init found

2003-08-04 Thread deFreese, Barry
OK, I am ready to throw this PowerBook G3 (firewire/Pismo whatever) out the fricking window. For some reason it will not boot from the Debian "Woody" CD or anyother cd (including MacOS) for that matter. Actually I think the device alias for cd: is wrong but it won't let me change it with nvalias??

Re: Meta Alt oh my!

2003-08-04 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 01:04:00 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > ps aux|grep X > > should show what command line options the servers are started with. ~ # ps -ef | grep X root 711 1 0 Aug04 ?00:00:07 /usr/bin/X11/xfs -daemon root 774 770 0 Aug04 ?00:00:00 logger -p

Re: Meta Alt oh my!

2003-08-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 00:30, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 23:25:10 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 22:46, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra > > wrote: > >> > >>Any way to confirm it's a bug? Should I report it to XFree or >

Re: Meta Alt oh my!

2003-08-04 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 23:25:10 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 22:46, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra > wrote: >> >> Any way to confirm it's a bug? Should I report it to XFree or >> Debian? > > You can only know once you've confirmed it's a bug. :) That on

Re: Meta Alt oh my!

2003-08-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 22:46, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:18:38 +0200, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > Hmm. That it only works on display :0 seems like a bug. > > Any way to confirm it's a bug? Should I report it to XFree or > Debian? You can only know

Re: Meta Alt oh my!

2003-08-04 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:18:38 +0200, Frank Murphy wrote: > Hmm. That it only works on display :0 seems like a bug. Any way to confirm it's a bug? Should I report it to XFree or Debian? > Put these into a file .Xmodmap: > > keycode 116 = Meta_L > keycode 64 = Alt_L I gather the

Re: Soundless SWF player with esd

2003-08-04 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:40:52 -0700, David Schleef wrote: > You set the shell variable, but did you set the environment variable? It is there in /etc/environment, and it is there when I open the Gnome Terminal or the GNU Emacs eshell. > And is it getting passed to galeon? Is the

Re: Some sound doesn't work yet

2003-08-04 Thread Tim Froggatt
How do I select oss or esd output? Does each application have to specifically support them, because I haven't found any options? I've found an option to disable arts - in KDE's Control Center - The Sound System tab. So far, this hasn't improved sound. On Monday 04 August 2003 6:45 pm, Lee Brai

Re: S-Video, mol

2003-08-04 Thread Paul van Tilburg
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:44:12PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 12:38, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 11:59, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 04 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > > My short question for Powerbook users is, as I understand > > > > >

Re: Newbie: esound, mozilla and sockets

2003-08-04 Thread Wim
What did you choose for DSP wrapper on mozilla-browser installation? Use dpkg-reconfigure -plow mozilla-browser to choose again. It was on 'auto'. Also if I choose esddsp, it doesn't work. artdsp and none both work. Thanks Michel. Wim.

Re: Soundless SWF player with esd

2003-08-04 Thread David Schleef
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 08:12:57PM +0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > I am trying to vent off by watching those silly animations > from UserFriendly... > > > Even if: > > ~ $ echo $SDL_AUDIODRIVER > esd You set the shell variable, but did you set the environ

Some sound doesn't work yet

2003-08-04 Thread Tim Froggatt
I though that I'd finally got my sound-card working, but I'm not quite there. Most things seem to work. I can play mp3s, wavs, and all the system notifications, etc. However, when playing some sounds I just get lots random noise (a bit like white noise, but less soothing). This happens to the

Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Hardware

2003-08-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 11:26, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On 4 Aug 2003 at 10:24, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Because nobody has taken the time to do it ? Or if they did, which i > > believe is true, they have not cleaned up the patch and submitted it. > > At least for X, as said, the fbdev cause other pr

Re: S-Video, mol

2003-08-04 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 12:44, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 12:38, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 11:59, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 04 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > > My short question for Powerbook users is, as I understand > > > > > > > that the

IBM 7248/120 and serial speed...

2003-08-04 Thread Marco Gaiarin
[cc-d to debian-ppc list, i'm not subscribed so please reply also to this address...] I've a 7248/120 and i've found your HOWTO very useful. I'm using it with kernel 2.4.21, and seems that no patch are needed at all, apart enabling the ISA bus on config and (i suppose) the framebuffer (i'm using

Re: Meta Alt oh my!

2003-08-04 Thread Frank Murphy
> > About X, I did found about alt:swapmeta, and understand it is > > obsolete. I also found altwin:meta_win, is that the right one to use? > > Did some experimenting, altwin:meta_win does work, but only > for the first server -- I use two servers in this system, started by > gdm. Any

Re: Poll: Distro for audio and MIDI development

2003-08-04 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:33:06 +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > I dream about a development setup as stable but also as updated as posible. That's it, a dream. Remember, proprietary platforms achieve stability with updatedness by sacrificing other stuff: security updates, l

Re: sound issues--installing modules

2003-08-04 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:10:40 -0700, g c wrote: > I have a g3 powerbook (firewire pismo). Hello, I've a FireWire iBook that should be around the same generation, but isn't probably the same underlying hardware. > as I think I should. Using XMMS I can play a wav file from hard drive and I

Re: S-Video, mol

2003-08-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 12:38, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 11:59, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 04 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > My short question for Powerbook users is, as I understand > > > > > > that the S-Video nor DVI output works in Linux: > > > > > > > > > >

Re: S-Video, mol

2003-08-04 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 11:59, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > My short question for Powerbook users is, as I understand > > > > > that the S-Video nor DVI output works in Linux: > > > > > > > > DVI works. > > > > > > Oh, this works now? Any links on that? >

Re: S-Video, mol

2003-08-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Aug 04 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 11:53, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 04 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > My short question for Powerbook users is, as I understand > > > > that the S-Video nor DVI output works in Linux: > > > > > > DVI works. > > > > Oh, thi

Re: S-Video, mol

2003-08-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 11:53, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > My short question for Powerbook users is, as I understand > > > that the S-Video nor DVI output works in Linux: > > > > DVI works. > > Oh, this works now? Any links on that? You haven't been reading

Re: S-Video, mol

2003-08-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Aug 04 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > My short question for Powerbook users is, as I understand > > that the S-Video nor DVI output works in Linux: > > DVI works. Oh, this works now? Any links on that? -- Jens Axboe

Re: S-Video, mol

2003-08-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 23:16, Paul van Tilburg wrote: > I hope that I understand correctly that MOL (MacOnLinux) is not > an emulator like WINE Well, WINE is not an emulator anyway. :) > nor a complete VM in a WMware alike way I do think MOL is quite similar to VMware. It runs the code nativel

Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Hardware

2003-08-04 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On 4 Aug 2003 at 10:24, Sven Luther wrote: > Because nobody has taken the time to do it ? Or if they did, which i > believe is true, they have not cleaned up the patch and submitted it. > At least for X, as said, the fbdev cause other problems, and i doubt you > would get an x86 emulator into the

Re: problem with sound driver in iBook2

2003-08-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 10:18, Heinz Kirchmann wrote: > > ... > > They aren't conflicting. HAS_RECORD defines whether the code for > > recording is built in at all, dmasound.mach.record says whether > > recording is supported for the machine it's running on. > Yes, but we have two different concepts

Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Hardware

2003-08-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:03:42AM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 05:05:04PM +0200, Rose Humphrey wrote: > > > > > >>Le dimanche, 3 aoû 2003, à 09:45 Europe/Paris, Sven Luther a écrit : > >> > >> > >> > >>>On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 03:21:41AM +

Re: problem with sound driver in iBook2

2003-08-04 Thread Heinz Kirchmann
> ... > They aren't conflicting. HAS_RECORD defines whether the code for > recording is built in at all, dmasound.mach.record says whether > recording is supported for the machine it's running on. Yes, but we have two different concepts for the same functionality (en-/disabling recording support).

Re: XFS enabled Debian 3.0r1 powerpc installer

2003-08-04 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Stewart Smith writes: > But a word of warning, getting it to patch with the benh kernels can > be a little tricky If you use the Debian packages, there is only one minor glitch, and I am considering a split of the patch in order to take care of this. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fqu

Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Hardware

2003-08-04 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On 4 Aug 2003 at 9:03, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: > That would mean you have NO idea what's going on until X has started. > Not my favourite solution. I think the framebuffer drivers in Linux > should have the possibility to run the emulator long before X starts ;-) As I said before, if your Mac

Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Hardware

2003-08-04 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 05:05:04PM +0200, Rose Humphrey wrote: Le dimanche, 3 aoû 2003, à 09:45 Europe/Paris, Sven Luther a écrit : On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 03:21:41AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: No, as I said, this _won't_ work in general. Some low level ini