netatalk -user error

2003-10-01 Thread Adam Done
It has been a long time since I have set up netatalk on a server.  I  have ran into a snare. 1. when I try to connect to the netatalk server via os x and type my passwd it gives me "You have entered more characters than the maximum number allowed" This happens as soon as I press one key and

Re: Spam alert

2003-10-01 Thread Chris Tillman
from web.iscali.it . It took a little while to get going, but does the job nicely. The nice thing is you don't have to download the message (with the damn attachment), it deletes remotely. Here's a .email_blacklist I've used to get most of these bastards: 20031001 =>Micros

Re: Advansys driver freezes kernel

2003-10-01 Thread Brad Boyer
As I understand, the problem before was using bitfields in the structs mapped onto the device registers. However, I just looked at the current version of the driver, and those are all gone. There's even an explicit comment about why they were converted. Other than that, it's likely to be something

Re: Spam alert

2003-10-01 Thread Chris Wenn
> At 8:12 PM -0700 10/1/03, Robert Persson wrote: >>I have also just subscribed and I am wondering about these emails. >>I am subscribed to a number of lists so I don't know which one these >>come from. Are the Debian lists particularly prone to this sort of >>stuff, or have we just been unlucky?

Re: Advansys driver freezes kernel

2003-10-01 Thread Robert Persson
Thanks Brad. What would it be likely to take to fix the driver? I learned C a long time ago, but I am not an expert and I wouldn't have time to do a really major engineering project. Would it just be a question of trawling through the source code and changing little-endian things into big-en

Re: Spam alert

2003-10-01 Thread Zach Archer
At 8:12 PM -0700 10/1/03, Robert Persson wrote: I have also just subscribed and I am wondering about these emails. I am subscribed to a number of lists so I don't know which one these come from. Are the Debian lists particularly prone to this sort of stuff, or have we just been unlucky? I co

Re: Spam alert

2003-10-01 Thread Robert Persson
I have also just subscribed and I am wondering about these emails. I am subscribed to a number of lists so I don't know which one these come from. Are the Debian lists particularly prone to this sort of stuff, or have we just been unlucky? Robert On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 19:12:26 -0700, Zach Arche

Re: [PATCH] : fix dmasound_awacs record down sampling

2003-10-01 Thread J. Javier Maestro
M... perhaps it's time to live with OSS and ALSA... and write some nice scripts to quick ALSA out when I want to use microphone and stuff... I will think about this when I build a 2.6 :-))) Thanks for your answer! -- J. Javier Maestro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://rigel.homelinux.com On Sep

Spam alert

2003-10-01 Thread Zach Archer
Hi. I started receiving a whole lot of spam last night, shortly after subscribing and posting to this newsgroup for the first time. I'm not sure which brand of net-annoyant it is, but I'm receiving a lot of messages with big .exe files attached (funny that I can't open these in my macintosh hou

Re: CPU and Memory usage of XFree86

2003-10-01 Thread Nirmal Govind
Michel Dänzer wrote: X server memory consumption is a FAQ and has recently been discussed here, but the X server should normally never hog the CPU (and it doesn't here) unless there are clients flooding it with requests. If there are no suspect clients, does the CPU hogging prevail over an X s

Re: openoffice.org in Sid

2003-10-01 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
FYI: Tomorrow OOo 1.1.0 final for PPC Linux will/should be available on the YellowDogLinux mirrors in pub/yellowdog/software/openoffice/ These are NOT debs but instead the Official OOo installer build done for PPC Linux. It should work on any system using late versions of glibc-2.3.1 (such as

Re: openoffice.org in Sid

2003-10-01 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Wednesday 01 October 2003 9:36, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > > As it so happens, the official 1.1.0 version is finally released, so I'm > > guessing that we can expect packages pretty soon, at this point. :) > > Actually, there's a build problem wit

Re: openoffice.org in Sid

2003-10-01 Thread Frank Murphy
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 9:36, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Adam Hewitt wrote: > > I find it hard to believe that everyone who is running Sid has been > > without Oo for the past two weeks (due to no openoffice.org-bin), can > > someone tell me what the deal is and what you

Re: kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc and multiple subarches.

2003-10-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:17:57PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 09:20, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:13:19AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 10:16, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > > > Still apus would use its own kernel (which does

Re: kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc and multiple subarches.

2003-10-01 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 09:20, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:13:19AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 10:16, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > Still apus would use its own kernel (which does not build udebs, Michel > > > could you look into it if we want to have

Re: please explain to me

2003-10-01 Thread Derrik Pates
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:56:11PM -0700, gm c wrote: > example: for my powerbooks ethernet hardware- how do I know that it should > be : > alias eth0 gmac Use this, because the device name is eth0. Though I prefer to use discover, and just let it load the sungem driver at boot. > alias ethernet

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Re: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/diff_2.8.1-3_powerpc.deb

2003-10-01 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 21:53, Pander wrote: > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/diff_2.8.1-3_powerpc.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/info/dir.gz', which is also in package > indent See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213495 - yes, the BTS is

please explain to me

2003-10-01 Thread gm c
I have a g3 powerbook -firewire (pismo). I would appreciate someone explain to me how to find or determine the proper terms to use when associating a module to something the kernel will recognize. example: for my powerbooks ethernet hardware- how do I know that it should be : alias eth0 gmac o

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/diff_2.8.1-3_powerpc.deb

2003-10-01 Thread Pander
Anyone as a sollution to this? # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded cmap-adobe-japan1 dia-common dia-gnome diff gimageview gnome-bin gnome-libs-data kernel-package libart-dev l

Re: openoffice.org in Sid

2003-10-01 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Adam Hewitt wrote: > I find it hard to believe that everyone who is running Sid has been without > Oo for the past two weeks (due to no openoffice.org-bin), can someone tell > me what the deal is and what you have done to get around it?? As it so happens, the official 1.1.0 v

Re: [PATCH] : fix dmasound_awacs record down sampling

2003-10-01 Thread David Kimdon
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:58:31PM +1000, J. Javier Maestro wrote: > Just a quick silly question... > > This patch is for the OSS kernel driver, and not for ALSA, isn't it? That is correct. > How > hard/time consuming would it be to port it to the ALSA tree? I don't even know if ALSA has the sam

Re: Installing onto external FireWire drive.

2003-10-01 Thread Nick Lopez
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:07:32PM -0400, Zachary Brewster-Geisz wrote: > Hello. I'm a new subscriber, so please kick me in the right direction > if my question has been answered before (I have done a good deal of > searching). > > I'm trying to install Debian GNU/Linux onto an external FireWir

Re: vpn for net/apple-talk

2003-10-01 Thread Volker Birk
Jean-Christophe Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tkhs to your help, netatalk in testing is well working here. > Now i'd like to access the netatalk server from outside the network; > i plan to use the firewall (shorewall) to redirect a port to appletalk; > are there some traps to avoid doing thi

vpn for net/apple-talk

2003-10-01 Thread Jean-Christophe Michel
Hi, Tkhs to your help, netatalk in testing is well working here. Now i'd like to access the netatalk server from outside the network; i plan to use the firewall (shorewall) to redirect a port to appletalk; are there some traps to avoid doing this ? -- Jean-Christophe Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S

Re: Ethernet problem -- Network completely dies

2003-10-01 Thread Nathan Ingersoll
I'll test it out tonight and get back to you on it. Thanks, Nathan On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 04:43:20PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Nathan Ingersoll wrote: > > Not at one of those machines presently, and I don't recall the specific > > model > > atm, but it uses the de4x

Re: Ethernet problem -- Network completely dies

2003-10-01 Thread Nathan Ingersoll
Not at one of those machines presently, and I don't recall the specific model atm, but it uses the de4x5 or tulip drivers. The fix I've seen in the past was to buffer the descriptors to 32 bytes (cache line size?). I've had to do the same for the epic100 driver when using it in that machine. On W

Re: Ethernet problem -- Network completely dies

2003-10-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Nathan Ingersoll wrote: > Not at one of those machines presently, and I don't recall the specific model > atm, but it uses the de4x5 or tulip drivers. Does this patch help? --- linux-ppc-2.4.21/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c.origFri Jun 13 18:05:48 2003 +++ linux-ppc-

Re: CPU and Memory usage of XFree86

2003-10-01 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 00:42, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Hi.. I've noticed that the XFree86 process on my ibook is taking up a > decent chunk of memory and some CPU and this seems to be slowing down my > machine a bit .. when I do 'top', XFree86 is a process that's constantly > at the top of the lis

Re: Installing onto external FireWire drive.

2003-10-01 Thread Zachary Brewster-Geisz
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 10:54 PM, Chris Tillman wrote: I believe the powerpc installation kernel doesn't include drivers for Firewire. You would need to obtain or compile a kernel that does, and substitute it for the linux.bin you are using, or load the module separately (I'm not qui

Re: linux-2.6.0-test6 and sleep

2003-10-01 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 16:14, Colin Leroy wrote: > > Does anyone have issues with kernel 2.6.0-test6 (vanilla kernel from > kernel.org) and sleep? It works a first time on my powerbook G3 (Lombard), > and subsequent tries to make the powerbook sleep (by closing the lid) > yields that "hardware ref

Re: Ethernet problem -- Network completely dies

2003-10-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Zach Archer wrote: > >Also, what ethernet card are you using? the onboard one? > > Yep, it's the onboard one. What type is the onboard? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [E

Re: kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc and multiple subarches.

2003-10-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:13:19AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 10:16, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Still apus would use its own kernel (which does not build udebs, Michel > > could you look into it if we want to have debian-installer support for > > apus), > > I don't have

Re: Ethernet problem -- Network completely dies

2003-10-01 Thread Nathan Ingersoll
Did you build your own kernel? If so, which version? You might need a small patch for that driver to work correctly. On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:12:32PM -0700, Zach Archer wrote: > >The 6500 has some quirks, I've got a couple of the 250 MHz model, and > >have had plenty of annoyance dealing with th

Re: please build xfree86 4.3.0-0pre1v3 from experimental

2003-10-01 Thread raffaele . salmaso
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:13:33 -0500 Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can everyone else please attempt a build > and if the build is > successful, upload the packages to experimental? It builds fine (ibook 800 dual-usb). The only things: -) I cannot find is how to use dri, now that drm

Re: Ethernet problem -- Network completely dies

2003-10-01 Thread Zach Archer
The 6500 has some quirks, I've got a couple of the 250 MHz model, and have had plenty of annoyance dealing with these issues. Just to be sure, if you do "ifdown eth0" then "ifup eth0", does it re-enable the ethernet? Thanks, in fact if the computer's network has hung, then the command "ifdown e

Re: Ethernet problem -- Network completely dies

2003-10-01 Thread Nathan Ingersoll
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:17:14PM -0700, Zach Archer wrote: > Hi. I just installed Debian Woody on my PowerPC 6500/225. After the > initial shock, everything seems to be working and I've even set up > SSH accounts for my friends, and am hosting a webserver... Just like > a real system admin!!!

Re: Ethernet problem -- Network completely dies

2003-10-01 Thread Zach Archer
At 9:33 PM -0700 9/30/03, Chris Tillman wrote: But it's quite likely there could be some oxidation on the 6500's connector pins. This might be helped by simply plugging and unplugging the cable, say 100 times, to rub through the oxidation layer. Hmm well I'll give it a shot. Related question: