Re: Java 142

2005-06-22 Thread Alain Perry
hile > installing jdk is quite easy, i don't see many benifits by using it. Building a debian package allows apt-get to know you have a JRE/JDK installed, and thus allows you to install debian packages that depend on one. To use it (IIRC): make-jpkg where filename is your IBM*.ppc.tgz fil

Re: No suspend with 2.6.11-rc3

2005-02-13 Thread Alain Perry
the linux kernel, not debian-installer... Actually, it was quite easy to understand looking at the subject, don't you think ? :-) -- Alain Perry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No suspend with 2.6.11-rc3

2005-02-13 Thread Alain Perry
en't tested anything yet though. One thing that isn't at all clear to me right now is: are upstream kernels now able to put an albook to sleep ? Thanks BenH for all your hard work anyway :-) -- Alain Perry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: G3 Pismo Sound problem

2004-11-04 Thread Alain Perry
sue since you actually have sound working. What output plugin are you using with xmms and/or bmp ? -- Alain Perry

Re: Test patch for sleep on Aluminium PowerBooks

2004-10-28 Thread Alain Perry
is here: http://ccache.samba.org/ftp/ppclinux/misc/lsprop), and you'll find its output in the file attached. Hope this helps, -- Alain Perry model"PowerBook5,2" compatible "PowerBook5,2&qu

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-27 Thread Alain Perry
Le mercredi 27 octobre 2004 à 21:52 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:47:32AM +0200, Alain Perry wrote: > > Le mardi 26 octobre 2004 à 10:39 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > I am suspecting that this is a gonme 2.6 feature, or maybe something else > such. Wel

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-26 Thread Alain Perry
full on this though, so we are mostly alone on > this. If I can help you investigate the reasons for these differences, please do not hesitate. -- Alain Perry

Re: nvsetvol = -8

2004-08-21 Thread Alain Perry
.. But then I checked, and nowhere in its manpage is mentionned the possibility of it displaying a "-8"... Since I get the same value when running it, I'm getting curious... Thanks, -- Alain Perry

Re: no sound + backlit keyboard not lighting up (PowerBook G4/Sarge)

2004-08-19 Thread Alain Perry
is to work. I believe the backlit keyboard is supported on all powerbooks at the moment... Hope this helps... -- Alain Perry

Re: mono packages

2004-07-19 Thread Alain Perry
27;t remember if they were SIGILL... I didn't yet try dashboard, but muine seems to run fine with the install done with debian packages (powered by some dpkg-buildpackage where needed...) -- Alain Perry

Re: mono packages

2004-07-19 Thread Alain Perry
t; I've previously used Mono on an x86 Debian box with no problems Oddly enough, I have problems getting it to work on my x86 computer... mcs works fine, but I can't run my mono app. I haven't taken much time to investigate that for the moment anyways... -- Alain Perry

Re: mono packages

2004-07-19 Thread Alain Perry
g it to develop a toy app, and notticed no PPC related problem so far. Hope this helped. -- Alain Perry

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

2004-07-04 Thread Alain Perry
Le dim 04/07/2004 à 16:12, Vincent Hanquez a écrit : > radeonfb is where there's the backlight control for ATI radeon card. Thanks for that precision, and sorry about my mistake. -- Alain Perry

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

2004-07-03 Thread Alain Perry
2" says when you press one of them ? (garbage is good) > I supposed this is due to my graphic cards (NVIDIA) which is not the > same as yours. I don't think the video card has anything to do with it. -- Alain Perry

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

2004-07-03 Thread Alain Perry
ttonsd.conf. Hope this helps, -- Alain Perry # configdatei for PBButtonsd >= Version 0.5 # for complete list of options please see pbbuttonsd.conf man-page # [SYSTEM] #userallowed= "paranoid"; user who is allowed to use IPC autorescan = no; automatic

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

2004-07-02 Thread Alain Perry
it will work with my powerbook (NVIDIA chip)... I'm interested into this. Is it supposed to work on a PowerBook5,2 ? Should I try it ? Thanks, -- Alain Perry

Re: No 'startx' or 'xinit' command!

2004-07-01 Thread Alain Perry
ed in sid xfree packages and recent kernels. I might be wrong though, and if I am, at least using dri-trunk-sid packages (still from http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/) would probably be better. Hope this helps, -- Alain Perry

Re: Screen is worthless, other ideas ?? [Was] Cut and Paste on an iMac

2004-06-29 Thread Alain Perry
selected stuff. -- Alain Perry

Re: Keyboboard Illumination on Powerbook 5,4

2004-06-27 Thread Alain Perry
tch that I'm interested in this... I couldn't get suspend to disk to work on my powerbook5,2... Is this supposed to work ? Did I miss anything ? I tried pmdisk after patching the kernel to add sleep capability, but now, when the laptop goes to "sleep", the only thing I can do is to switch it off and on... Thanks, -- Alain Perry

Re: Now kernel 2.6.6 won't boot

2004-06-20 Thread Alain Perry
ll module-init-tools=3.0-pre1.4 instead of the "dpkg -i". You would still need to perform the command to put in on hold though. -- Alain Perry

Re: Did installing MOL *totally* trash my system?

2004-06-19 Thread Alain Perry
> 3) I type lowercase "L" to boot into Linux Can't you type "old" right after you type that single "L" ? You should have this opportunity just before yaboot enters the second stage (booting the default kernel)... -- Alain Perry

Re: Apple built-in Bluetooth not appearing in /dev

2004-06-18 Thread Alain Perry
used to. Really no need to worry. -- Alain Perry

Re: Apple built-in Bluetooth not appearing in /dev

2004-06-18 Thread Alain Perry
ould tend to say yes. What kernel version are you using ? Can you try a more recent one ? -- Alain Perry

Re: Apple built-in Bluetooth not appearing in /dev

2004-06-18 Thread Alain Perry
the one in the kernel for the moment. There have been problems committing the patches, and the prism54 team is trying to solve that issue). Hope this helps. -- Alain Perry

Re: [PATCH] Adb buttons Aluminium PowerBook G4

2004-06-17 Thread Alain Perry
7;m using pbbuttonsd BTW. Thanks again ! -- Alain Perry

Re: Apple built-in Bluetooth not appearing in /dev

2004-06-17 Thread Alain Perry
6.7 I tested today and file transfer worked between my computer and a Dell. Hope this helps, -- Alain Perry

Re: understanding extrange kernel options for ibook2.2

2004-06-13 Thread Alain Perry
interface > CHRP Apple Hydra Mac I/O I2C interface > > why we need I2C ? which options are required ? I'm no specialist of I2C, but it is a bus to control and monitor some pieces of hardware in your computer. Google should be your friend to understand it. I'm not sure it's really needed, but it enables nice things, like the keyboard backlight. Hope this helps. -- Alain Perry

[OT] gcc manpage and reality...

2004-06-11 Thread Alain Perry
ay have noticed, I am not very familiar with cross-compilation, and as a matter of fact not familiar with compilation at all (I usually only care about ./configure and missing dependencies...). Thanks for reading this. -- Alain Perry

Re: 2.6.4 and i2c-keywest

2004-03-27 Thread Alain Perry
much time right now, but I'll try to report as soon as possible. Thanks, -- Alain Perry

Re: 2.6.4 and i2c-keywest

2004-03-24 Thread Alain Perry
proper bug report... Thanks, -- Alain Perry

2.6.4 and i2c-keywest

2004-03-22 Thread Alain Perry
Hi list, I recently compiled a 2.6.4 kernel from mainstream. I first had compiled the radeonfb driver as a module, which turned out to be a big mistake, so I compiled again, setting it as static. Now, nearly everything is fine. However, I'm using a PB 15" and I can't use the i2c devices anymore.

Re: error compiling kernel

2004-03-22 Thread Alain Perry
> - the compiler (gcc-3.3.3 is very unstable and is crashing with > segfaults and assembly-error-messages very often). > Is there anyone, who seen something similiar? I had this problem when I was running a preemptible kernel compiled from the benh tree. Preemptible on PPC seems to be strongly