Printing in Mozilla/Firefox with xprt-xprintorg - problems

2004-07-05 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Since postcript printing is no longer supported in Mozilla/Firefox, I've been trying to configure xprt to be able to print (before printing just worked). Now I either get no printers can be found or Mozilla and Firefox crash after looking as though they are about to print. /etc/printcap : #

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 05:28:26AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > Older 2.6 installs fail with the serial driver problem, and while > the more recent ones get past that, they fail right after a message > about AT keyboard support. I'm working on a possible fix for this now; if you could try the sid_d-

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-05 Thread Brad Boyer
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 01:39:29PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > How recent are we talking about here (URL of download), and exactly what > are the failures? I believe these are the three images I tried. I don't remember exactly which ones failed where on the 2.6, but they all died on various legac

Re: Power management

2004-07-05 Thread Cedric Pradalier
> >To make powermanagement working on an Apple Laptop you need pbbuttonsd >(and maybe the related packages gtkpbbuttons and powerprefs). or pmud ;oP (No flamewar please !) I don't know which one is better, but at least it is a possible solution. I like the existence of an alternative system (mayb

Re: pmud & pbbuttonsd confilct in sarge-testing ?

2004-07-05 Thread Matthias Grimm
Am Montag, 5. Juli 2004 11:34 schrieb Michael Schmitz: > > In fact if pbbuttonsd is forced to work in cooperative mode (which is > > still possible but not recommended) pbbuttonsd take only limited control > > over the powermanagement functions because pmud doesn't care about other > > programs whi

Re: Power management

2004-07-05 Thread Matthias Grimm
Am Montag, 5. Juli 2004 12:01 schrieb Adrian Lester: > My problem now is merely that I can not get the thing to standby or suspend > in the way I would expect on an x86 laptop, I have installed apm but cannot > seem to call it in a way which succeeds. Searching the internet is has not > proved part

Re: pbbuttonsd refuses to configure

2004-07-05 Thread Djoumé SALVETTI
Le lundi 07/05/04 James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I've been trying to install pbbuttonsd on my iBook (G3) and every time I > try to install it I get the following error: > invoke-rc.d: initscript pbbuttonsd, action "start" failed. > dpkg: error processing pbbuttonsd (--configure): > s

Re: pbbuttonsd refuses to configure

2004-07-05 Thread James Tappin
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 16:51:16 +0100 James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JT> I've been trying to install pbbuttonsd on my iBook (G3) and every time I I should have added that this is 0.5.9 in Sarge. James -- ++---+-+ | James Tappin

pbbuttonsd refuses to configure

2004-07-05 Thread James Tappin
Sorry guys it's me again. I've been trying to install pbbuttonsd on my iBook (G3) and every time I try to install it I get the following error: invoke-rc.d: initscript pbbuttonsd, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing pbbuttonsd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 05:28:26AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > > I'm not used to having to ask this sort of question, but has anyone > actually been able to finish an install with d-i on a G5? I just > got a dual 2.0 G5 (the original model, not the new one) and I can't > get the installer to work.

Re: pmud & pbbuttonsd confilct in sarge-testing ?

2004-07-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:53:53PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:10:36AM +0200, Sven Luther said > > On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 05:59:08PM +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote: > > > Am Sonntag, 4. Juli 2004 06:23 schrieb Sean Schertell: > > > > I think pbuttonsd obsoletes pmud -- because

Re: kernel selection: powerpc, power4 or power3?

2004-07-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 12:04, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > Not necessarily related to the original question, but well: > > How do I get a 750-optimized kernel for this iMac? I've noticed a new subarch > menu since 2.6.7, but the 750-enabled subarch option seems to be for something > competely diffe

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 05:28:26AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > I'm not used to having to ask this sort of question, but has anyone > actually been able to finish an install with d-i on a G5? I just > got a dual 2.0 G5 (the original model, not the new one) and I can't > get the installer to work. I'v

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G5 install?

2004-07-05 Thread Brad Boyer
I'm not used to having to ask this sort of question, but has anyone actually been able to finish an install with d-i on a G5? I just got a dual 2.0 G5 (the original model, not the new one) and I can't get the installer to work. I've tried beta4, tc1, and a daily sid_d-i for 7/4. They all fail in m

Re: pmud & pbbuttonsd confilct in sarge-testing ?

2004-07-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:10:36AM +0200, Sven Luther said > On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 05:59:08PM +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 4. Juli 2004 06:23 schrieb Sean Schertell: > > > I think pbuttonsd obsoletes pmud -- because it also provides power mgmt > > > including sleep/wake, etc. > >

Re: Debian support for the lastest Powerbook 12" (1,33Ghz)

2004-07-05 Thread Djoumé SALVETTI
Le lundi 07/05/04 Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Guido Guenther is working on backlight control for nvidia framebuffers - a > feature that gets broken by kernel upgrades on a regular basis, it seems. > Available support very much depends on the precise model of video > hardware, so

Re: Debian support for the lastest Powerbook 12" (1,33Ghz)

2004-07-05 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > I don't think the video card has anything to do with it. > > radeonfb is where there's the backlight control for ATI radeon card. > > so it probably means the nvidia framebuffer driver have to provide a > struct backlight_controller (which it doesn't seems to actually) Guido Guenther is workin

Power management

2004-07-05 Thread Adrian Lester
First, thanks for all the advice on other issues, I now have a working ibook. My problem now is merely that I can not get the thing to standby or suspend in the way I would expect on an x86 laptop, I have installed apm but cannot seem to call it in a way which succeeds. Searching the internet is

Re: pmud & pbbuttonsd confilct in sarge-testing ?

2004-07-05 Thread Michael Schmitz
> In fact if pbbuttonsd is forced to work in cooperative mode (which is still > possible but not recommended) pbbuttonsd take only limited control over the > powermanagement functions because pmud doesn't care about other programs > which may do a better job. In this case pbbuttonsd step back to ke

Re: Debian unstable, blackdown j2re1.3 and Mozilla

2004-07-05 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 05:29 PM, Ivo Marino wrote: > Any more specific informations regarding this topic? there was a previous discussion, you can find the more interesting message of that thread here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/11/msg00162.html Luca -- BOFH excuse #372: Fo

DMA, kernel 2.6.6 and CD/DVD

2004-07-05 Thread James Tappin
Is there a known problem with DMA for CD and DVD drives with the 2.6.6 kernel? On my G3 iBook (600MHz) I am getting very high CPU usage with copying from a DVD or CD, "cp /dev/hdb /dev/null" results in 100% CPU usage with about 80% being "iowait". hdparm indicates that DMA is enabled. I also get v

Re: pmud & pbbuttonsd confilct in sarge-testing ?

2004-07-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 05:59:08PM +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote: > Am Sonntag, 4. Juli 2004 06:23 schrieb Sean Schertell: > > I think pbuttonsd obsoletes pmud -- because it also provides power mgmt > > including sleep/wake, etc. > > Thats correct. > > In fact if pbbuttonsd is forced to work in coo

Re: How do i join this list?

2004-07-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 04:45:05AM -0700, Burt said > A1 PPC user. http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/ -- Words of the day: STARLAN Area 51 emc Majic ASO EuroFed USCODE mailbomb ICE signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: pmud & pbbuttonsd confilct in sarge-testing ?

2004-07-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:23:46PM +0900, Sean Schertell said > There's another little gui program you'll want to download to simplify > setting up your power mgmt prefs with pbbuttonsd but I can't remember what > it's called. gtkpbbuttons is the one. It gives you a nifty little OSD thing for w

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:29:16AM +1200, Paul William said > Hi Sam, > > Good to see I am not the *only* one with these problems :) Did you apply > both those kernel patches, as they are for 2.6.6? I am busy compiling > 2.6.7 now but will apply those patches if needed. The radeon support in 2.

Re: External monitor on iBook rev 2.2

2004-07-05 Thread Jaume Sabater
Cedric Pradalier wrote: You'll find data file and example on : http://mockenhaupt.homelinux.org/ibookWiki/Configuration Thanks! I'll try it tonight at home :-) -- Jaume Sabater http://linuxsilo.net "Ubi sapientas ibi libertas"