Re: Which installation on Pmac 867 single-cpu?

2004-07-24 Thread jon salenger
Hi Colin, Thanks for your reply. Yours is the only one I've received so far about anything other than linux graphic apps ;P Perhaps I hit a nerve. > The community is often forthright, but I love it. :-) Forthright is good, IMHO. Everything else is kind of a waste of time. > I think you're right

Re: pbbuttonsd new problems - Problem solved

2004-07-24 Thread Adam Done
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 11:46, Matthias Grimm wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 14. Juli 2004 20:12 schrieb Matthias Grimm: > > In the last time a lot of error reports arrived that pbbuttonsd would crash > from time to time on new 2.6 kernels. The phenomenon occoured after > triggering sleep. In some cases the

Re: Which installation on Pmac 867 single-cpu?

2004-07-24 Thread Ted Gould
On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 15:26, jon salenger wrote: > If this helps, I'm planning on using typical net software (mozilla, email, > ftp, telnet, etc), mp3 (???) and video stuff (mplayer?), some office > software (mostly WP), definitely X, and MOL for mac graphics app (eg, Adobe > Illustrator). * > >

Re: Which installation on Pmac 867 single-cpu?

2004-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:26:29PM -0700, jon salenger wrote: > Anyway, because my initial interest in GNU/linux was inspired by 'The > Cathedral and The Bazaar' (which a friend, the sysadmin of AMNH, pointed me > to) and lectures by Richard Stallman, the distro I really want to use is > Debian, as

Which installation on Pmac 867 single-cpu?

2004-07-24 Thread jon salenger
Hi, # Skip intro if you don't care (paragraph 2 for hardware desc.) # Sorry about the length. I talk too much in person, too :) # If I do anything flame-able, please let me know. I'll learn. I've been curious about GNU/linux for some years now, and have just recently found a block of time to devo

creating kernel debs on other architectures

2004-07-24 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hello, I have a slow powerpc mac and a fast i386 machine. I know how to crosscompile the kernel on the i386 (just change ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE variables in the top Makefile) and do "make zImage" but then I must move all the modules to the ppc by hand. Better way is to crosscompile it using make-k

Re: how to map apple key to ALT with xmodmap

2004-07-24 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
Hi, On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 05:01:35PM +0200, Pander wrote: > Hmm, can't find the keyboard settings for gnome They're in Applications -> Desktop Preferences -> Keyboard, and then in the Layout Options tab. However, I don't think any of those options do what you want. > and the two examples previ

Re: how to map apple key to ALT with xmodmap

2004-07-24 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 16:46 +0200, Pander wrote: > > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 10:18 +0200, Pander wrote: > > Have you tried the Layout Options in the GNOME Keyboard Preferences, in > > particular the ones about Alt/Win key behaviour? > > Sometimes I run KDE or iceWM so I wou

Re: how to map apple key to ALT with xmodmap

2004-07-24 Thread Pander
Hi all, Hmm, can't find the keyboard settings for gnome and the two examples previously send for xmodmap resulted in apple key being mapped to the TAB key. Are there any other alternatives? Thanks, Pander

Re: how to map apple key to ALT with xmodmap

2004-07-24 Thread Pander
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 10:18 +0200, Pander wrote: Have you tried the Layout Options in the GNOME Keyboard Preferences, in particular the ones about Alt/Win key behaviour? Sometimes I run KDE or iceWM so I would like xmodmap to handle it so it always work. Thanks, Pande

Re: how to map apple key to ALT with xmodmap

2004-07-24 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 the mental interface of Pander told: > Hi all, > > I have this in my xmodmap file: > > !! map both [APPLE] keys to [left ALT] > !TODO does not work > keycode 115 = Alt_L > > but it doesn't work and my left had is getting tired of ALT-TAB without > the help of my right hand.

Re: no sound in B&W G3

2004-07-24 Thread david howe
add the macintosh sound module to your kernel. do a modconf and look for dmasound - there are 2 modules i think david On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 18:31, bhuvan krishna d wrote: > hi > > > i installed debian on B&W G3 after a great struggle and now i had even > started X and runing Gnome in i

Re: how to map apple key to ALT with xmodmap

2004-07-24 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 10:18 +0200, Pander wrote: > > I have this in my xmodmap file: > > !! map both [APPLE] keys to [left ALT] > !TODO does not work > keycode 115 = Alt_L > > but it doesn't work and my left had is getting tired of ALT-TAB without > the help of my right hand. > > Does anybody

Re: how to map apple key to ALT with xmodmap

2004-07-24 Thread Johannes Mockenhaupt
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 10:18:35AM +0200, Pander wrote: > Hi all, > > I have this in my xmodmap file: > > !! map both [APPLE] keys to [left ALT] > !TODO does not work > keycode 115 = Alt_L > > but it doesn't work and my left had is getting tired of ALT-TAB without > the help of my right hand. >

no sound in B&W G3

2004-07-24 Thread bhuvan krishna d
hi i installed debian on B&W G3 after a great struggle and now i had even started X and runing Gnome in it. I updated it to testing/sarge with the command apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade and now i have gnome 2.6 and kde 3.2 both runing were well. The only problum is with the sound on

how to map apple key to ALT with xmodmap

2004-07-24 Thread Pander
Hi all, I have this in my xmodmap file: !! map both [APPLE] keys to [left ALT] !TODO does not work keycode 115 = Alt_L but it doesn't work and my left had is getting tired of ALT-TAB without the help of my right hand. Does anybody know how to fix this (I use Gnome bby the way). Thanks, Pan

Re: PMU_IOC_SLEEP: Device or resource busy

2004-07-24 Thread Leandra Rajapakse
Hi Michael, Thanks for your reply. > Seems like the kernel never fully recovered from the > first sleep. Does > switching to a 2.4 kernel, or perhaps another 2.6 >kernel, improve things? Yeah, that's what I figured too... switching to 2.4 does help. What I don't understand though is how or why