Re: Help Me plz

2006-07-14 Thread James Stallings II
Marc, Most things Java (for linux) are to be found at java.blackdown.org I cant tell you what to expect there in terms of versions and whatnot for the powerpc (I don't even have debian on the powerpc working yet), but that's generally where you have to go for java on linux of any sort. Best of

Re: ibook + USB hard drive = yaboot failure

2006-07-14 Thread Michael Hrivnak
When I got the drive, it had one big FAT32 partition. I just fired up the debian net install CD and used it to do the partitioning. Parted shows me this: /*--- # parted /dev/sda print Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0kB - 160GB Disk label type: mac Number Start E

RE: Help Me plz

2006-07-14 Thread Jean-Sebastien Pilon
Can you be more precise on what you are looking for?   From: MARC Torre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 4:14 PM To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Help Me plz   How do i get the java2tm file version 1.3.1 plz help i have spent so much money

Help Me plz

2006-07-14 Thread MARC Torre
How do i get the java2tm file version 1.3.1 plz help i have spent so much money trying to fix this problem online Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.

Re: Flash < v7 compatible?

2006-07-14 Thread Yavor Doganov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So on the PPC, when you need to read a flash page, what are the > alternatives? Gnash, as has been pointed out. But basically, if a website has something in flash, its content is not important. Or at least, for the creators of the page, users and their rights are no

booting the install on the H50

2006-07-14 Thread dtutty
Hello, My H50 vendor wants to ensure that the unit will boot the Debian 3.1 install before he ships the unit. He says he can't get it to and suspects he is not making the CD correctly since his running systems are windows. In reading the Installation manual for both 3.0 and 3.1 it says that "Cur

Re: Flash < v7 compatible?

2006-07-14 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On 7/14/06, Helge Kreutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [1] Last year I tried to find the prices of an huge german DSL provider but failed. Later (after deciding for an competitor) I saw on an windows box that all price information was "stored" in a flash movie. Well, too bad for the

Re: ibook + USB hard drive = yaboot failure

2006-07-14 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On 7/14/06, brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i think what Mr CS was describing was the partition map. that is usually followed by a bunch of device drivers, then the small 0.8-1.0MB yaboot partition - which often seems to be called the first partition, even though it is hda9 on my disk what did

Re: Flash < v7 compatible?

2006-07-14 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 01:28:17PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > There are at least two free flash player. One is swf-player, the other is > never, but i never tested it and didn't remember the name. It is called gnash and under heavy development. I read that the browser plugin is now getting

Re: kernel upgrade fails - 2.6.8-3 seems to not be a valid kernel to bootx

2006-07-14 Thread Dana Sibera
On 14/07/2006, at 7:01:54PM, Sven Luther wrote: The vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc is the one that came off the Debain 3.1r0 install disk back in January. The more recent one is the update installed by aptitude in April. I believe it to be the latest. This makes me believe that Dana replied somethi

Re: Flash < v7 compatible?

2006-07-14 Thread Patrick Bachmann
Sven Luther wrote: So on the PPC, when you need to read a flash page, what are the alternatives? There are at least two free flash player. One is swf-player, the other is never, but i never tested it and didn't remember the name. swf-player is not really working for the newer flash stuff, but

Re: Flash < v7 compatible?

2006-07-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 07:24:33AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 07:17:04PM +1000, David Howe wrote: > > Unfortunately flash although not great, is very pervasive across the > > net. Its absence in ppc linux is fairly remarkable and compares badly > > with the status

Re: Flash < v7 compatible?

2006-07-14 Thread dtutty
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 07:17:04PM +1000, David Howe wrote: > Unfortunately flash although not great, is very pervasive across the > net. Its absence in ppc linux is fairly remarkable and compares badly > with the status of flash for i386 > > Yes, I have tried the alternatives, basically i thin

Re: Need HowTo to solve Ubuntu Breezy PPC system freeze at login on G5.

2006-07-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 11:15 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 10:41 +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Search the debian-powerpc list archives for messages relating to sound and > > G5 - ISTR there is a new sound driver in the works that supports the G5 > > and newer G4 machines

Re: Flash < v7 compatible?

2006-07-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 07:17:04PM +1000, David Howe wrote: > Unfortunately flash although not great, is very pervasive across the > net. Its absence in ppc linux is fairly remarkable and compares badly > with the status of flash for i386 > > Yes, I have tried the alternatives, basically i thin

A quick tip for multi-boot on quik

2006-07-14 Thread Daniel Dickinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just thought I'd let you all know that if you want to multi-boot on old world with the quik boot loader you can use image=$bye label=MacOS in your /etc/quik.conf At least with my 2.0.2 Open Firmware Cheers, Daniel - -- And that's my crab

Re: Flash < v7 compatible?

2006-07-14 Thread David Howe
Unfortunately flash although not great, is very pervasive across the net. Its absence in ppc linux is fairly remarkable and compares badly with the status of flash for i386 Yes, I have tried the alternatives, basically i think they are not worth the hassle. d Jeremiah Benham wrote: On Thu

Re: kernel upgrade fails - 2.6.8-3 seems to not be a valid kernel to bootx

2006-07-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 11:20:23PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > $ ls -lA /boot > total 12684 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 944825 May 24 20:56 System.map-2.6.8-3-powerpc > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 944355 Nov 23 2005 System.map-2.6.8-powerpc > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40003 May 24 19:25 config-2.6.8-3

Re: kernel upgrade fails - 2.6.8-3 seems to not be a valid kernel to bootx

2006-07-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:14:34AM +1000, Dana Sibera wrote: > > On 14/07/2006, at 9:34:04AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > >For what it's worth, here is the kernel I have running on an up-to- > >date "sarge" machine (PowerMac Blue&White G3 - NewWorld, but just > >barely!). > > > >$ file /boot/vm

Re: ibook + USB hard drive = yaboot failure

2006-07-14 Thread brian
yes, using ybin, according to "man bootstrap" (man page is not always best in linix, but here it is, very good actually)and also  mightconsider reformatting just the yaboot partition, with parted beforereinstalling yaboot with ybin (rather than the whole disk).caution: the write map command in part