Re: Interesting shell prompts (bash or otherwise)

2004-05-29 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 23:12, Dean Hamstead wrote: > has anyone got an intersting shell prompt or a link or something > > maybe a little more jazzy than... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > i know i just need edit ~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile > im just not very creative today =) Sure, if USEFUL is wha

Interesting shell prompts (bash or otherwise)

2004-05-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 has anyone got an intersting shell prompt or a link or something maybe a little more jazzy than... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ i know i just need edit ~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile im just not very creative today =) Dean -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ve

Re: kernel 2.6.6 and pmud

2004-05-29 Thread Joss Winn
that fixed it. thanks Joss On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 10:31:03PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Joss Winn writes: > > > i've just installed the 2.6.6 kernel from unstable and noticed that > > pmud is not working. I get: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ snooze > > connect: Connection refused

SATA, PCI, or both ...?

2004-05-29 Thread Thomas S
I'm very happy : Debian (woody) booted (floppy) this morning on my PowerPC (I'm totally novice yet)...but it didn't detect a partitionned SATA (Hitachi VNRB3E C2D4HWSL) hard drive (connected on PCI TAT1 Sonnet Tempo SATA card) on which I'd like to install the kernel ! I've lots of GB to use

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2004-05-29 Thread Thomas S
I'm very happy : Debian (woody) booted (floppy) this morning on my PowerPC (I'm totally novice yet)...but it didn't detect a partitionned SATA (Hitachi VNRB3E C2D4HWSL) hard drive (connected on PCI TAT1 Sonnet Tempo SATA card) on which I'd like to install the kernel ! I've lots of GB to use

Re: Xautoconfig

2004-05-29 Thread Rainer Lau
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cedric Pradalier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to Rainer Lau, on Fri, 28 May 2004 23:43:55 +0200, > >Hi, > > > >is there an Xautoconfig on debian.powerpc? I can't startx. > > > >At my first run, there war an text-based x-server setup tool. What is > >the

Re: kernel 2.6.6 and pmud

2004-05-29 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Joss Winn writes: > i've just installed the 2.6.6 kernel from unstable and noticed that > pmud is not working. I get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ snooze > connect: Connection refused > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > Is this known? Is there a reason for it? Is pmud running at all? If not, did it le

kernel 2.6.6 and pmud

2004-05-29 Thread Joss Winn
hello, i've just installed the 2.6.6 kernel from unstable and noticed that pmud is not working. I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ snooze connect: Connection refused [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Is this known? Is there a reason for it? thanks Joss --

Re: 802.11g on an ibook?

2004-05-29 Thread Michael Rex
Quoth Rob Latham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > linux-wlan-ng works great with the dwl-122, debian unstable, and > 2.6.3-benh2 (and presumably any recent 2.6 kernel.org kernel). Had > some problems on yellowdog but they went away when we upgraded the > hotplug scripts. Ok, I think I'll look for a DWL-1

Re: General LinuxPPC question ...

2004-05-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 linux also has vastly superior hardware support. eg. Any usb device supported by linux can be run on my debian ibook. macosx doesnt even really come close. this hardware compatability extends into pci as well (linux supports many more sound, network

Re: General LinuxPPC question ...

2004-05-29 Thread Lee Braiden
Marcin Kurek wrote: The question is why use Linux on PowerPC and not on x86 architecture ? I think there is no way to avoid such question durning the show and currently I can't answer to it. Of coz I know the good sides of PowerPC CPU's (low power consumption, AltiVec, fast context-switches) but

General LinuxPPC question ...

2004-05-29 Thread Marcin Kurek
Hell[o] I have maybe a bit strange question for this ML, but I hope I will be able to get some answers here. I was forced to make a symphosium about Pegasos/MorphOS the presentation will me maked on Pegasos 2 machines (www.pegasosppc.com). One part of the presentation is a Linux presentation an

Re: Xautoconfig

2004-05-29 Thread Cedric Pradalier
According to Rainer Lau, on Fri, 28 May 2004 23:43:55 +0200, >Hi, > >is there an Xautoconfig on debian.powerpc? I can't startx. > >At my first run, there war an text-based x-server setup tool. What is >the command-line name of this tool? > >Rainer > > I know it's dpkg-reconfigure, but I can't re