Re: lam4-runtime does not exist

2008-03-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 15:36 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:35 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > > * Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-24 15:24]: > > > > > Damn! It fails now on ia64 [1] at Python checking. > > >

Re: lam4-runtime does not exist

2008-03-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:35 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-24 15:24]: > > > Damn! It fails now on ia64 [1] at Python checking. > > Fails on powerpc as well [1] with the same error message. > > [1] > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=pet

Re: Mozilla won't start on new Woody

2002-08-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, Joss Winn wrote: Hi, I've just installed Woody from CD and Mozilla won't start. It just hangs in the terminal and the mozilla-bin process stays idle. The problem is that esddsp and mozilla don't work together for some reason (bug 151504). Strace doesn't show anything obvious (at le

Re: DRI on r128 iMac using 2.4.18 woody?

2002-08-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Adam C Powell IV wrote: Michel Dänzer wrote: If you don't want to build your own kernel with it enabled, you can try kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc-xfs which seems to provide it. Unfortunately, when a GL window opened, the display hung and I had to remotely kill the process that tried to

Re: DRI on r128 iMac using 2.4.18 woody?

2002-08-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, not the original poster, but this answered a nagging question so I thought I'd give it a try... Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 06:03, Joss Winn wrote: I've had DRI working fine with SUSE on my iMac so I know it works but the same XFconfig doesn't work on my new insta

Re: SMP for 2.4.18 on duel G4 Mac

2002-05-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As it turns out there was a problem with CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION and CONFIG_SMP. Linux would compile with CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION defined without CONFIG_SMP but when I added CONFIG_SMP I got a link error. Ok, this is an upstream problem (not PPC specific), the ARM maint

Re: MESH testers

2002-04-18 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Adam C Powell IV wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Can people who used to have problems with the MESH SCSI controller (especially problem probing devices during boot or problems when a bus reset occurs) try my current rsync ? Excellent! I'm building now, and will test on a StarMax

Re: Why is quik statically linked?

2002-04-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Rogério Brito wrote: On Apr 15 2002, Jens Schmalzing wrote: I've been happily using quik for some time, so I'd like to adopt the Debian package. Can anybody give me a reason why the quik binary should be statically linked? Would a dynamically linked quik even work at all? I'd guess

Re: MESH testers

2002-04-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Can people who used to have problems with the MESH SCSI controller (especially problem probing devices during boot or problems when a bus reset occurs) try my current rsync ? I reworked the reset code to properly match what the "new" SCSI layer expects, and added a

Re: XFree86 multihead with debian woody ?

2002-03-18 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Harald Welte wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 06:55:23PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sam, 2002-03-16 at 18:40, Harald Welte wrote: So now after spending multiple days in trying to get a working multihead setup, can anybody recommend a PCI graphics board which does work with the debian woody

Re: No offb in kernel-image-2.4.16-powerpc

2002-02-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:46:26AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Adam C Powell IV wrote: Unfortunately, like 2.4.12, although CONFIG_FB_OF=y, it behaves as if there is no offb! Found the problem. In offb_init(), somewhere between 2.4.8 and 2.4.12, the normal

Re: Luxo jr.

2002-01-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Tom Gall wrote: Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, our department is thinking of buying a number of new desktop machines, and we are considering the new iMac as an alternative to the standard i386 boxes. Has anybody here run Debian on one of these things yet? Any glitches, caveats, pitfalls? Hi Je

Re: Powerpc (mac-G4) -essentially broken

2002-01-18 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 03:58, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Nick Bailey wrote: Thridly (out of two 8-): the mouse crashes when exiting KDE. I've not seen this in a bug report. It's a USB one and works fine until you exit KDE. The remapping of F11 and F12 as the

Re: Powerpc (mac-G4) -essentially broken

2002-01-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Nick Bailey wrote: Thridly (out of two 8-): the mouse crashes when exiting KDE. I've not seen this in a bug report. It's a USB one and works fine until you exit KDE. The remapping of F11 and F12 as the two mouse buttons works fine too (just left the stuff in from Potato). I know there's a

Re: hfsplus howto?

2002-01-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Bastien Nocera wrote: On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 14:54, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Alan Pater wrote: I am trying to read some files from the os X partition and found the hfsplus package. But how to I use it? I can type hpmount /dev/hda9 without an error, but then what? Where is it mounted? In

Re: hfsplus howto?

2002-01-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Alan Pater wrote: I am trying to read some files from the os X partition and found the hfsplus package. But how to I use it? I can type hpmount /dev/hda9 without an error, but then what? Where is it mounted? In which folder? Speaking of hfs(+), has anyone tried to make gnome-vfs or kioslave

Re: No offb in kernel-image-2.4.16-powerpc

2001-12-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Adam C Powell IV wrote: Unfortunately, like 2.4.12, although CONFIG_FB_OF=y, it behaves as if there is no offb! Found the problem. In offb_init(), somewhere between 2.4.8 and 2.4.12, the normal bootx way to initialize the video has been surrounded by #ifdef CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT which is not

Re: no DHCP with 2.4

2001-12-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Stefan Werner wrote: Did I forget an option when building the kernel? Do I need some extra kernel modules for DHCP? Get kernel-image-2.4.16-powerpc, it works as both DHCP client and server for me. Zeen, -- -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welco

No offb in kernel-image-2.4.16-powerpc

2001-12-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, First, thanks (Dan?) for a brand new 2.4.16 binary kernel image. I think everything in it works that didn't before, and will convert to ext3 soon. Cool! I've built openafs for it, will test soon, and upload if it works (can't test openafs-mp, sorry). Unfortunately, like 2.4.12,

Re: installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO

2001-11-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: Adam C Powell IV wrote: I'm having some trouble with mac-usb-us, I dpkg-reconfigure to select it, then reboot, but it goes back to the normal non-USB variant. So I have to dpkg-reconfigure each time I reboot. Is there some kind of auto-sensing going on which resets

Re: installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO

2001-11-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Brendan O'Dea wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 02:53:57PM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: Oh, one note that I forgot to mention. Don't use the mac-usb keymap on the TiBookit's apparently incorrect (as I found out when I rebooted after setting it). For now, the kernel keymap appears t

kernel-image-2.4.12-powerpc: broken offb

2001-10-30 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Thank you, Daniel, for uploading this new kernel-image package. [I'd roll my own from source, but on my 160 MHz 603e, that takes many hours... Also, I like to test the packaged binaries for those who don't build from source for various other reasons.] Anyway. I have a StarMax

Re: KDE: mouse problems

2001-10-30 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Roland Wegmann wrote: Hello, I have a curious mouse problem! When I start debian, the system recognizes my mouse (MS Wheel Mouse Optical USB) first. After kdm is launched, sometimes my mouse is inactive sometimes it works. In the former case I have to reboot the system (sometimes several tim

Re: OpenGL acceleration on a rage 128 pro

2001-10-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Derrik Pates wrote: The tdfxfb may be broken for big-endian, I don't know. Or it may just be because you have 2 vidcards. I've seen 2-vidcard problems, if one or both of them use fbgen.c for some operations. Many fbgen functions assume the framebuffer being operated on is the current console

Re: MASQ/Firewall on a Mac?

2001-10-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Kevin van Haaren wrote: At 3:39 PM +0200 10/13/01, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sat, 2001-10-13 at 06:27, Michael D. Crawford wrote: I'm thinking of setting up my Mac 8500 with Debian PowerPC to use it as a firewall and IP Masquerading server. Does this work OK, and are there any issues I

Re: Mapping cmd to alt in X with linux keycodes

2001-10-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: http://master.penguinppc.org/~eb/Xmodmap Thanks very much, this looks great! I'll fiddle with it slightly on my setup so both alt and meta are on 115 and 116. Can we suggest that to Branden for (commented) inclusion in /etc/X11/Xmodmap (or have you done so already)?

Mapping cmd to alt in X with linux keycodes

2001-10-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Using Linux keycodes, I'm trying to map the command keys (next to the spacebar on an ADB keyboard) to alt using xmodmap, but nothing I've tried works. [I use the alt keys for button emulation, keycodes 56 and 100; would like command for alt since alt is next to the space bar on al

kernel-image-2.4.8-powerpc

2001-09-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I finally had the time to give a good look at this pre-built kernel-image (I know, took me long enough :-), and got it working, but with a couple of problems along the way. Hardware: Motorola StarMax 3000/160 (pmac 4400 clone, 160 MHz 603e), built-in Mach64 VT 1MB, PCI MacPicasso

Re: XFree86 update question

2001-09-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:57:45PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: I'm not talking about changing the defaults for anything. I'm talking about a config option so that we default to Linux keycodes but anyone who needs ADB keycodes can get them. thats something different.

Re: XFree86 update question

2001-09-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:02:09PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 01:34:25PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Here's a possible way out: enable ADB keycodes in the new kernel, so the keycodes are selectable via the /proc file. Then put an ent

Re: XFree86 update question

2001-09-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: Adam C Powell IV wrote: So, no more desktop switching in the console or X, and more importantly, no ctrl-alt-f1 from X to the console, and when the mouse freezes (if I try to log out and back in), I am dead, and must use my wife's Windoze PC to ssh in and kill

Re: XFree86 update question

2001-09-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: Adam C Powell IV wrote: but it's also mouse button 2/3 for many of us, as advice on how to make it so with the new input layer was posted numerous times to this list. Forcing one to either not use alt, or change mouse button emulation keys which one has used for

Re: XFree86 update question

2001-09-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Adam C Powell IV writes: Now with Linux keycodes, command for alt no longer works, at the console or in X. [...] For this reason, I have reverted to ADB keycodes and the macintosh_old keyboard mapping in X, So you built a whole new kernel just for moving one

Re: XFree86 update question

2001-09-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: Michael Schmitz wrote: Make no mistake: the new input layer is the cleaner of both options, and having a common set of keytables for both ADB and USB keyboards also makes things easier in the long run. Plus we better hash this out now and come up with a few solutions for t

Re: XFree86 update question

2001-09-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michael Heironimus wrote: At 18:08 -0400 9/10/01, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Second problem: using gdm and gnome-session, the mouse stops working after the first logout, that is, the mouse is frozen at the second gdm login screen. I observed this behavior also on an i386 system freshly

Re: XFree86 update question

2001-09-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: Adam C Powell IV wrote: This is all a lot less important given this morning's events, but it is nice to have X working so I can use a graphival browser, etc. Thanks Michel! You're welcome, and you're right that this is relatively unimportant. Let me exp

Re: XFree86 update question

2001-09-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
This is all a lot less important given this morning's events, but it is nice to have X working so I can use a graphival browser, etc. Thanks Michel! Michel Dänzer wrote: On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 00:08, Adam C Powell IV wrote: [ broken keymap with XFree86 4.1.0 ] I tried both "maci

Re: Sharing a Cable Modem

2001-09-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: On Fri, 2001-09-07 at 18:08, Bastien Nocera wrote: The box will have to do IP Masquerade, this is ipchains right? I think I can do ipchains. I have that as a script on my iMac to offer masquerading to my laptop. # install ipchains modulemodprobe ipchains # enable IP

Re: XFree86 update question

2001-09-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:27:10AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: Hello everyone, I did my normal apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade for woody last night, and when XFree86 [server] | [common] | [whatever] replaces the version that was there before, it completely replace

Re: ssh stopped working

2001-08-29 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Colin Walters wrote: Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Oh, in the month or so since I last logged in via the cable modem, the IP address changed, but the machine name didn't (since the cable company puts the hardware address in the machine name), and AFAIK the key did

Re: searching for xine testers

2001-08-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: Siggi Langauf wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: Siggi Langauf wrote: Also, I was excited at first to see that it has an ffmpeg plugin, but I couldn't play MJPEG nor DivX files, is that to be expected? This is expected to work, but I think ffmpeg still h

Re: ssh stopped working

2001-08-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michael Schmitz wrote: % ssh lyre ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host I've had trouble with ssh whenever the MTU (PPP link) was set too small. Are you on ethernet, or some point to point link? A cable modem, the machine gets its address via dhcp... Oh, in the mont

ssh stopped working

2001-08-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Because of network problems, I didn't upgrade sid between mid-July and three days ago. Then when I upgraded, I could no longer ssh into my Debian sid i386 boxes, I get: % ssh lyre ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host In that time, of course, the i386 boxe

Re: lazy saturday notebook comparo (long)

2001-08-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michael Schmitz wrote: That's pretty close! One other factor nobody has mentioned here is SECURITY. For buffer-overflow type security holes, remote and local, almost all of the exploits are written for i386, so non-Intel platforms are inherently less vulnerable. Last week's LWN security secti

Re: lazy saturday notebook comparo (long)

2001-08-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andrew Sharp wrote: Now, when it comes to the iBook2, A Dell Inspriron 2100: 700MHz P3 (w/ SpeedStupid (tm)) 256MB mem external combo dvd/cdrw drive 1024x768 12.1" video 30GB hard drive 37Whour battery free palm m100 or lexmark32 printer or umax 3400 usb scanner $2227 after $100 mail in rebate

Re: evolution builds for powerpc?

2001-08-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: p.s.: I had one minor problem building the package, because building evolution needs access to an XServer at some point (failed first with Cannot open display...). But I don't think this is powerpc specific. It would still be nice if you reported a bug against the offendi

Re: Recommendation for scanner/printer/fax/copier

2001-08-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andrei Verovski wrote: Hi, You can find a guide for flatbed scanners at my web site. However, its not Linux centric, since I am from DTP/Repro world. You have to check Linux compatability if you select something. Indeed. I have a UMAX SCSI scanner which only works on PPC if I enable debu

Re: anyone using evolution?

2001-08-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Phil Fraering wrote: I was wondering if anyone out there is using evolution on debian-powerpc, and if so, what version they were using? I find that the 0.11.0-1 version, compiled from source, is very buggy, and a) won't reuse your old evolution/ directory, and b) will crash if you attempt to im

Re: Altivec and G4

2001-07-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Camm Maguire wrote: Greetings! Anyone using Debian on this platform? Anyone in the process of packaging the altivec capable binutils and/or gcc? Anyone interested? Tons of people are using this platform. I don't know of anyone using it for a Beowulf though. But I'm sure there are users o

Re: 2.4.6-benh and offb?

2001-07-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Olaf Hering wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Greetings, Is offb working in 2.4.6-benh? I can't get it to work, I get the little bit of BootX text and then it hangs before putting the console up on the fb. This is booting from BootX (or is that broken in 2.4.x?). wh

2.4.6-benh and offb?

2001-07-18 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Is offb working in 2.4.6-benh? I can't get it to work, I get the little bit of BootX text and then it hangs before putting the console up on the fb. This is booting from BootX (or is that broken in 2.4.x?). I want 2.4 so I can hack on the clgenfb driver and see if I can (at last

Re: realplayer question

2001-07-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Phil Fraering wrote: Is anyone here using realplayer with Debian? Yes, I downloaded it and installed it in my home directory. It's been working great ever since. It crashes once a week or so, but other than that I've had good success with i

Re: Realtek 8029 not recognized

2001-06-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Francesco Brasini wrote: Hello, I'm trying to bring new life to some old powermac 4400/200 here in the Dept. of Mathematics of the University of Bologna, Italy, installing Debian on them. Almost a success, but I'm still not able to see the ethernet card. "cat /proc/pci" outputs: Bus 0,

Re: mozilla - 5 processes using 149Mb

2001-06-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 09:18:21PM +1200, Alan Macdougall wrote: Vital stats: Pwer Macintosh 7600/200MHz/64Mb running Woody. Mozilla 0.9 seems a bit of a hog. (This is build 2001052403 downloaded from Ethan's penguinppc repository.) Typing "mozilla" at the command line s

Re: Woody Impressions

2001-05-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Just to answer a couple of questions, I am using Ethan's mozilla .debs (thanks Ethan!), and they always open to the Mail/News reader. Which is fine for me, since I'm using it for Mail/News, but must be annoying and resource-wasting for anyone using it just to browse. As for Netscape and Mozil

Re: Woody Impressions

2001-05-21 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[I'd quote your original message, but I'm using Mozilla, which can't do that. :-( ] On RedHat, I mentioned it because when I was deciding whether to switch to Mozilla, their decision to drop NS4.x in favor of Mozilla had just been announced, lending creditibily to the new platform. A lot of

Re: Woody Impressions

2001-05-21 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, Re Netscape->Mozilla, just one warning to Netscape Mail users: *** DON'T SWITCH TO MOZILLA! *** At least, not yet. I made this mistake, and want to warn everyone else not to, as loudly as possible. Mozilla is approaching stability, but it is not there yet, it is not beta

Re: Call for info: slave drives bootable from OpenFirmware (OldWorld)

2001-05-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:49:40PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > I don't know, will try to mark it bootable at some point using mac-pdisk > > (that > > won't mess up my hard drive, right? :-). > > well, i don't thin

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-05-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > i think quik's symlink code is quite unreliable, as a friend of mine > always had his 7200 fail to boot if quik was pointed at a > /boot/vmlinux -> /boot/vmlinux-2.2.1X symlink. /boot is on the root > filesystem, not a separate partition, i could not concieve of why this > c

Re: Call for info: slave drives bootable from OpenFirmware (OldWorld)

2001-05-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:11:25PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > A datapoint: on a StarMax 3000/160 (pmac 4400 clone), if I nvsetenv the > > ofpath boot device for an IDE slave device (with the new ofpath you > > emailed me, Ethan), OF gives me: &

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-05-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:54:29AM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: > > > the default (for a rev 3 install anyway) is to use the symlink /vmlinux. > > Which points to /boot/vmlinux-2.2.18pre21. When I was having problems > > after using the install instructions on debian we

Re: Call for info: slave drives bootable from OpenFirmware (OldWorld)

2001-04-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
A datapoint: on a StarMax 3000/160 (pmac 4400 clone), if I nvsetenv the ofpath boot device for an IDE slave device (with the new ofpath you emailed me, Ethan), OF gives me: specified partition is not bootable It boots just fine from a SCSI zip drive, and Ih haven't tested IDE master (I'll ha

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-04-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > well frankly you need to know the fscking network numbers before going > to setup a computer on the network, if you don't know what your > network numbers are that can hardly be blamed on debian. dammit Jim > im an installer not a psychic! :-) > and you can redo the `setup

Re: [ANN] Gnome 1.4 debs available

2001-04-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Bastien Nocera wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > > > > > These are the Ximian .debs? If so, they're binary incompatible with > > > > official &g

Re: new installation

2001-04-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andrew Sharp wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > OF works quite well on my StarMax. That's why I'm thinking it will work on > > Bruno's > > 4400, since the StarMax is a 4400 clone. > > Not a wise inference, since Apple is involved. I

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-04-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:42:54AM -0400, MC wrote: > [install experience and sucky powerpc docs snipped] > > > > So there's a few more criticisms: > > > > - after you start up in your initial install and you're trying to > > initialize apt for the first time, you should be g

Re: [ANN] Gnome 1.4 debs available

2001-04-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Bastien Nocera wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > These are the Ximian .debs? If so, they're binary incompatible with > > official > > GNOME .debs, and Ximian is no longer supporting sid: "unstable is changing > > a bit > > too fast under

Re: new installation

2001-04-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andrew Sharp wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > Hmm... here's something which may work. Is there a .coff kernel image on > > the > > CD, e.g. vmlinux-2.2.18pre21.coff? If so, try copying that onto an > > HFS-formatted blank floppy. Then w

Re: new installation

2001-04-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Bruno Waes wrote: > so, to use BootX i still need macos, now this system comes with only one hd, > and it has macos on it ... > does there exist something like fips, to shrink the macos partition ? so i > can make space for linux, or do i have to add a new hd ? and can i just add > a pc ide hd ?

Re: new installation on 4400/200

2001-04-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > try ofpath /dev/sda first to see if it supports that machine, ofpath > supports most oldworlds but i may have missed a few, people need to > send me more device-trees. It doesn't work on my Motorola StarMax 3000/160 (pmac 4400/160 clone), here's the message: ofpath: This ma

Re: new installation on 4400/200

2001-04-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andrew Sharp wrote: > Well, not really. I have a machine with only 7.5.2 on it, and was > able to get stuffit and bootx on there. You just have to use the > right version of stuffit. They have many on their ftp site. Really? What's the right version? I could only find the most recent, which

Re: new installation on 4400/200

2001-04-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
D'oh! Jumped elsewhere mid-sentence... Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Uh oh... I wasn't able to get it to unpack in MockOS either (on a Motorola > StarMax- pmac 4400 clone with 7.6, the newer StuffIt don't run on <8.1), had > to > unpack the tarball in Linux (l

Re: new installation on 4400/200

2001-04-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Bruno Waes wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 2:23 PM > Subject: Re: new installation on 4400/200 > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:00:21AM +0200, Bruno Waes wrote: > >> so far i managed to install debian on i386, s

Re: [ANN] Gnome 1.4 debs available

2001-04-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Bastien Nocera wrote: > Hi, > > http://hadess.net/idoru.shtml for all the info > > No Fifth Toe applications available yet, old applications should work > alright, maybe a symlink here and there for the libraries. > I'll add them as I build them, after GUADEC. These are the Ximian .debs? If so,

Re: Uploads required for 2.2r3

2001-03-29 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Martin Schulze wrote: > Jon Leonard wrote: > > > Last I checked (I currently have the package held), vim-gtk on Alpha needed > > to be rebuilt. It had been built without gtk installed, so didn't include > > the expected gvim binary. > > If others feel the same, somebody please provide us with a b

Re: Web site development

2001-03-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Lorenzo De Vito wrote: > I would like to ask to you, If you must create a website with over 40 pages > and > a database management (can be MySql) what kind of tool do you use, I know > that I > can use pure HTML with textual editor but if you know a RAD for HTML on > LinuxPPc > you make me happ

Re: what happened to gvim?

2001-03-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Matt Brubeck wrote: > >> Can we get a powerpc Debian developer to do this and make an NMU, or > >> could the autobuilder's maintainer cause it to rebuild vim-gtk? > > > The right way to do this is to mail the bug telling the maintainer to > > add libgtk1.2-dev to Build-Depends, then the next versi

Re: new input layer and mouse button emulation

2001-03-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andre Berger wrote: > #/etc/sysctl.conf > dev.mac_hid.mouse_button2_keycode = 76 > dev.mac_hid.mouse_button3_keycode = 127 > dev.mac_hid.mouse_button_emulation = 1 > > (and rebooted; /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse* are set to these values) > > Those keycodes are mapped to my keypad-enter (btn2) and t

Re: what happened to gvim?

2001-03-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Matt Brubeck wrote: > > I worked around it by doing an "apt-get --compile source vim" and > > installing the appropriate generated .deb. > > Can we get a powerpc Debian developer to do this and make an NMU, or could > the autobuilder's maintainer cause it to rebuild vim-gtk? The right way to do t

Re: debian-powerpc: upcoming 2.2r3 release

2001-03-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Brendan J Simon wrote: > Olaf Grewe wrote: > > > > >> 1) Communicator still doesn't work on PowerPC (I'm currently using > >> testing with kernel 2.4.2). That's OK because I'd prefer to use > >> Mozilla anyway, *but* unfortunately Mozilla M18-3 is quite old now. > >> The Mozilla people have made

Re: evolution etc...

2001-03-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > Here's the change: > > tigert ~/src/cvs/evolution/libversit % diff vcc.y vcc.y.orig > 555c555 > < static char lexGetc_() > --- > > static int lexGetc_() Indeed, this broke arm too. We had to make this same change in gnome-pim 1.0 and 1.2. Thanks for

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Mike Fedyk wrote: > I'm going to keep my search to a text based email client, because I > don't like to have to use vnc to view my email from home... Mutt is > great in an Xterm, and picture viewing is good too. I wonder if mutt > can use links or netscape for html viewing... Anyone know? It's

Re: Mozilla 0.8 unoffcial packages available

2001-03-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > Hi, > > Takuo KITAME built some unofficial 0.8 Mozilla packages, a simple > upgrade of the existing M18 packages in debian now. The debian > mozilla maintainer is still working on totally revamping his packages > which will take some more time (mail, chat and all that crap w

Re: PowerPC install

2001-02-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ken Sandell wrote: > Yo. I have YDL installed on my PPC with MacOS and I use BootX to boot into > whichever one. I want to go to debian because I love it on my PC and it > rocks. So, is it hard to switch to debian? (i dont mind deleting > everything) That depends: what kind of PPC? -Adam P.

Re: evolution etc...

2001-02-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > > I've had a different experience - the Debian submenu hasn't been there for > > months. I don't remember exactly but it went away at about the time I > > switched > > to Helix. > > I'm running the Helix debs from idorulabs, and I have the Debian Menu. I > recall, in

Re: evolution etc...

2001-02-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > Speaking of menus, I've also had a problem with the GNOME menus for some > > > time. The main menu (foot on panel) doesn't contain the Debian part, and > > > it doesn't follow changes in the Co

Re: evolution etc...

2001-02-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: > Speaking of menus, I've also had a problem with the GNOME menus for some time. > The main menu (foot on panel) doesn't contain the Debian part, and it doesn't > follow changes in the Control Center. Sorry, I don't use sawfish, but on this second one, I've noticed the Debian

Re: evolution etc...

2001-02-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Matt Brubeck wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > There are new versions of everything now, but the holdup is > > guile-core, which doesn't build on PPC right now. See bug #86669. > > > > As soon as that's resolved, I'll u

Re: evolution etc...

2001-02-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Phil Fraering wrote: > Could whoever came up with the fixed version > of evolution and/or its dependent packages > (I think bonobo was one of the big problems) > please kindly upload the newer versions they > generated? There are new versions of everything now, but the holdup is guile-core, which

Re: Debian PC and PPC

2001-02-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Lorenzo De Vito wrote: > I'm a new user of Linux on Powerpc , which kind differences I can find with > Linux on Intel platforms, all packages I've used on PC I can use on my G3, > how can I find compatible software? If I want update my Kernel I must use a > specific for LinuxPPC ? Excuse me for my

Re: netscape ??

2001-02-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: > Eric Deveaud wrote: > > > i'm just finishing to install the powerbook (pismo) of my boss. > > > > she want's to be abble to use netscape. > > > > when I apt-get install netscape (or communicator or wathever) > > I get the following error > > Sorry the following packages have

Re: Resolved (sorta) [Was: Re: Evolution Package [Was: Re: nautilus]]

2001-02-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Craige McWhirter wrote: > I'm upgrading a few other libs at the mo', so I'll see what difference they > make :) Do you use apt/dselect? Did it not get all of the new stuff automatically, from xml to bonobo to libglade? -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4

Re: nautilus

2001-02-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Robert Ramiega wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Actually, now there is an official Debian package too. I compiled yesterday > > morning and uploaded around 1 PM (U.S. Eastern time), and was in the > > archive by > > 4

Re: nautilus

2001-02-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Robert Ramiega wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:47:09AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > If nautilus works, does this mean evolution will compile? > > > > No, because there's no Debian evolution package. :-( > Well to be completely honest there is

Re: dist-upgrade removes apache et al?

2001-02-18 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > After an apt-get update, -upgrade I tried dist-upgrade today. But, > huh? I did't tell to remove apache or other services! I think this is another "Great Perl Upgrade" with massive associated breakage. For now, I'm holding all of the perl packages on my system, includ

Re: nautilus

2001-02-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Phil Fraering wrote: > I sort of had as a back burner project getting everything together > I'd need to compile nautilus. Nautilus actually has a real Build-Depends, but some of its dependencies don't (e.g. medusa), and libglade doesn't build out-of-box right now. I built libglade using the patc

Re: What kernel to use?

2001-02-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:14:41AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > # > > # USB HID > > # > > CONFIG_USB_HID=y > > CONFIG_USB_WACOM=y > > CONFIG_USB_WMFORCE=m > > CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV=y > > CONFIG_IN

Re: What kernel to use?

2001-02-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:39:42AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > stick with 2.2.18, its stable from mainline, requires no patching, no > > > bk, no rysnc crap. > > > > Actually, stock 2.2.18 fro

Re: DHCP client in unstable?

2001-02-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Peter Canning wrote: > As I mentioned in my original message, I've tried pump (0.7.3-2) on my > PowerMac running debian unstable (kernel version 2.2.17), but was unable to > get it to work. I don't know about pump, but dhcp-client required some kernel config options which were not in the powerpc

Re: What kernel to use?

2001-02-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > stick with 2.2.18, its stable from mainline, requires no patching, no > bk, no rysnc crap. Actually, stock 2.2.18 from kernel.org does *NOT* build without patches, if you build with the new input layer (i.e. with the Debian .config). The thing to do is probably to get kern

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