Re: poor relative G4 performance iBook/PowerBook

One other thought- to get an idea of real speeds you might try copying one of your entire source trees with cp -r dir1 dir2 Or something like that On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:30 AM Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > > Brian Morris wrote: > > % time cat huge_file_copy > >

Re: poor relative G4 performance iBook/PowerBook

Try % time cat huge_file_copy Install smartctl to check drive health I also have a PowerBook 1ghz which is quite a bit faster than my 1.5ghz tho could be because the former has a bit more ram and a newer hard drive and the latter has a defective 2nd ram slot On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 7:27 AM Ric

Re: Installation of Debian on an iMac PowerPC

is there any need to worry about non-free firmware, ie http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/archive/8.11.0+nonfree/powerpc/iso-cd/ (only the net install image is available). possibility of I might install on a 2002 g4 tower On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 1:47 PM Ric

Re: What are you guys running on your PowerBook G4's Debian PPC?

links2 is my fav minimalist browser. Supports pictures and basic formatting, very clean. Also, a hint, often prefixing a website name with "m." will give you a mobile version which loads faster to bookmark for later Have benefitted from PowerPC Debian (also netBSD) : emacs (for both terminal i

Re: Old World Mac mounting troubles

I recall dealing successfully with this issue. I think you had to go into the partitioning stage where it creates device nodes and then cancel the partitioning. But I also had a rescue cd which was Gentoo installer a live console. But recently a rescue option has been added to the Debian insta

Re: iBook G4 on offer for Debian PPC developer

Testing is Important. When I was more active I had some interactions with developer says "I don't have that machine". Sometimes we could work together to track down bug and test patch. But another time DD did have the machine like mine "in a drawer" but no time to deal with it So since yes your

Re: iBook G4 on offer for Debian PPC developer

d kernel of 1000 Hz. Unless >> you are running [too much stuff] on your iBook, it is fast enough for >> development. >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Brian wrote: >> How about just someone who will run testing / unstable and submit bug >> reports and is

Re: iBook G4 on offer for Debian PPC developer

How about just someone who will run testing / unstable and submit bug reports and is willing to work with developers testing patches This model not fast enough for general development and with so many models would be unfair to give special attention to one On Aug 25, 2013, at 6:30 AM, Jack Ma

Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

think it might be fun to learn more about the process. >>>>> >>>>> Maybe my google foo is at a low ebb today: I did my duty as a >>>>> question-asker -- searching the web for answers before I ask the list -- >>>>> but came up dry. In

Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

the need to roll my own. >>> >>> And besides, I think it might be fun to learn more about the process. >>> >>> Maybe my google foo is at a low ebb today: I did my duty as a >>> question-asker -- searching the web for answers before I ask the list -- >

Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

How about editing the amd64 template? On Jul 3, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to create a > customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC? > > I'd like to create a 32GB (or larger?) USB memory stick that can be

Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

card which could fit the bill... Has anyone used a setup like this? Any drawbacks, gotchas, or other experiences with such a setup? Thanks again! Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

On 01/14/2013 01:06 PM, David Ricar wrote: At silicon image website in support. There are both raid and nonraid versions of the bios. As I do not have a single windows around me, I did it under FreeDOS well. Ahh, I see them now. Thanks very much for your help! Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

Excellent, that's good to know. But where does one acquire a non-raid bios for the card though? Thanks! Brian On Jan 14, 2013 12:12 PM, "David Ricar" wrote: > Hi, > sil3124 may need to be booted in a pc with a drive attached and flashed > with nonraid bios. At leats th

good sata card for pci-x powermac?

boot/etc. to see the thing at all. as my root volume will be attached to the onboard sata. Surely someone has looked in to this before? Or is my best bet really to go with some sort of external enclosure? Thanks in advance for any advice! Brian Szymanski -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How to report bugs against PPC builds?

lace to report bugs is the Debian BTS, regardless of architecture. If you use reportbug (you should), then it will include the architecture in the bug report. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only O

Re: ATLAS on PowerPC

ure that it does not include instructions that only POWER processors have, or it will not work on PowerPC processors. > BTW, if you could answer the same question concerning the ppc64 and > powerpcspe ports, that would be great. I don't know enough here to have an opinion, sorry. -- br

Re: Question about compatibility...

You are running unstable, just wait and you will see something critical break. Good luck. On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Mandrantosoa 'Ndrianiaina wrote: > I'm on wheezy/sid on a PowerBook G4 15" 1.67/1.5GHz for everyday use. > > Everything does work correctly but the grahic card has some > is

Re: Question about compatibility...

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:51 PM, John Ames wrote: > On 10/6/11, Brian Morris wrote: > > if you get the 15", make sure it has the full RAM in case you want it > > someday. I have one with the common defect of the bad 2nd slot. > Oh, naturally. I had both a 1GB DDR stick (

Re: Question about compatibility...

s. And you should also install the firmware for the Radeon as well to get acceleration. Brian On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:21 AM, John Ames wrote: > I'm going to be purchasing an aluminum Powerbook G4 on which I want to > run Debian. However, I'm trying to decide which model. In

Re: Newbee

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 12:24 AM, David Lowe wrote: > On 13 Aug, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Brian Morris wrote: > > >?!? I didn't think trackpads from this era were able to recognize > multiple fingers. > > > > Oh, wait which exact model do you have ? mine is earl

Re: Newbee

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:34 PM, David Lowe wrote: > On 11 Aug, 2011, at 8:17 PM, Brian Morris wrote: > > > I have a g4 powerbook with debian and I can send you the configurations > file /etc/xorg.conf (tomorrow, when I have the computer) or you can find it > yoursel

Re: Newbee

I have a g4 powerbook with debian and I can send you the configurations file /etc/xorg.conf (tomorrow, when I have the computer) or you can find it yourself by searching web. If you want it. What it does is force you to use the button for clicking. However what gave me some adjustment challenges:

Re: Powerbook G3 wheezy upgrade udevd error #02

What happened to Squeeze ? = the current *stable* version. version of udev in Squeeze is 1.64 : http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/udev On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:38 PM, C-IT wrote: > Hi Risto, > > Many thanks for your help. > > # dpkg -l udev > > dpkg not found on install CD environment, who

Re: fresh install of squeeze cannot compile alsa

s probably mpg321 which > > plays gibberish still. > > Indeed, mpg321 doesn't work anymore here either. Are you going to report > the bug? Is it just mpg321 or is it also other libao-using packages? If the latter, see #588901. -- brian m. carlson / brian wi

Re: Multicore kernel

wrong one. You can install the "powerpc-smp" variant to use more than one CPU; there's really no reason not to. As always, remember not to uninstall the old kernel package while that kernel is running. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | h

Re: Something that we don't want to happen to PowerPC on Debian

. Obviously in Debian becoming dependent on commercial interests in software development is a killer. Brian p.s. I am shopping for a development board for my research in autonomous systems, and wouldn't it be nice to have powerpc ? but affordability is an issue and also community software support --

Re: A short tutorial on running GRUB2 on a PPC

Some limited tests here show 2-3 times speedups. nevertheless the rebuild process is so painful (especially by my lonesome) for debian and so painless for netBSD that I am planning a ground up build of the latter as soon as 6.0 comes out (they are a bit slower in the compiler updates). Brian 201

Re: Error creating a PIC EXECUTABLE in a POWER-PC Debian

full command line, including the locations of the crt*.o files. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: R_PPC_REL24 relocation __libc_start_main/__nptl_deallocate_tsd out of range

ks on hppa with this kind of problem is to use -ffunction-sections. You might try it and see if it works for you. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F

Re: After sid dist-upgrade 3d acceleration has gone

it to me and I will try it. Not high res screen but maybe some help to both of us ? Brian On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Hi all, > > I've dist-upgraded my PowerBook5,8 for unstable. There ist no more > acceleration in 3-D games like foobillard. >

Re: Busybox for powerpc doesnt compile

double) > See `config.log' for more details. You should look at config.log and see why it fails. Search for the text "size of long double" and you'll probably find the right place. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.cru

Re: Debian Lenny on IBM JS21

shipped before June 2003? (There's a compatibility issue with some CD-ROM drives.) I see a lot of these types of problems (on all systems) with bad CDs or bad CD drives. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My

Re: IA32 libs dependency, how do I get around it?

older binary-only packages that are linked against it. That doesn't mean it should be used. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA

Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 06:59:08PM -0800, Gary Driggs wrote: > On Dec 18, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Brian Morris wrote: > > > My main gripe as I have said before here is that there are no > > G4-Altivec optimized binary packages Debian based to be found > > anywhere. This

Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

been put into that ? On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Gary Driggs wrote: > On Dec 18, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Brian Morris wrote: > > > My main gripe as I have said before here is that there are no G4-Altivec > optimized binary packages Debian based to be found anywhere. > > I was

Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

Ubuntu although "community supported" works well. At least, I have installed 10.0LTS on a couple ancient G3 powermacs with LXDE desktop from server install cd. The reason I did is because wifi support was broke on the laptop in Debian Lenny but worked in Ubuntu. I know Ubuntu is sort of the consum

Re: Squeeze

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Thomas Carlson wrote: > I now have a functioning Sid installation on my PowerMac G4 (digital > audio). Thanks for the help. > > As to the sound problem... it's still there.The speakers don't work. > When I open Alsamixer in a terminal I'm still not able to un

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

gt; shipped with these units? I guess I should search the list archive, > eh? ;) On some PowerMacs, you need to use video=ofonly on the kernel command line to avoid this kind of problem. I own an iBook G3 that required that. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] I am planning to restart ppc64 ports project

On 10/5/10, Thibaut VARÈNE wrote: > > Are you a Gentoo user? ;^P > No because I do not have the steady internet needed and besides I would wish to do custom build as a group. But I know what you mean Gentoo lets you auto build everything yourself from scratch. Its a pain besides that's why I pref

Re: I am planning to restart ppc64 ports project

d have a larger user base, especially since there were no G5 laptops, a lot of people still using the g4 and more might if they were speeded up by 3x, seeing as how they are priced so low, lower than a new netbook. Is there really much maintainance work, I don't know of any problems here. Brian

Re: I am planning to restart ppc64 ports project

On 10/4/10, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: > > > The same reasoning as before applies -- why would you want to do this? > What are the benefits compared to multiarch ppc32/ppc64? > If you are using double precision floating point, the speed of a program compiled 32bit on a 64bit machine is much much slo

Re: Debian powerpc binary compatibility?

n you build a package with dpkg-buildpackage, it sets certain environment variables to a default value (for example, CFLAGS=-g -O2). You may be able to modify that slightly for your needs. Note that that doesn't guarantee that the package in question won't override it. -- brian m. carls

Freescale in the News (and more)

Linux. As far as Debian goes, at least there are the bits about Debian being a basis upon which Linux grows in several ways, or at least it is supposed to be. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: debian-powerpc support

fficial or "community" supported, I believe that it is polished up from the debian it is derived from, as more of a production system, however for development purposes plain debian may be a better bet. Brian Note there are millions of power processors sold every month, tens of millions pro

Re: debian-testing-powerpc-xfce+lxde, 7/26/10

On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 12:41:44PM -0600, Thomas Carlson wrote: > AlsaMixer doesn't give me any control of Headphones or Speakers. Just a box > with MM in it. "MM" means muted, "OO" means on. Hit m to disable the muting. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals

Re: How can I emulate Debian for PowerPC on Intel processor?

long time ago, I tried to install Mac OS X 10.1 but was unsuccessful. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Installing Debian Lenny on MacMini G4

ble with the Mac Mini. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: booting gparted live cd

Isn't parted now on the netinstall debian cd ? try checking advanced install, then load optional parted, then skip the rest of the install including partitioner just go into the shell option at the main menu, you should have parted there. I used parted a lot and gparted once only when I had to bec

Re: ISO For Recent Debian Squeeze

ist-upgrade. I run sid on all my machines, and that's the way I've installed all of them. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 022

Re: video problem on powerbook g4 in squeeze

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:46:24AM -0700, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > video=radeonfb:off > > only problem is I don't actually know where to put that... You'll probably want to put that in the append option for yaboot.conf, IIRC. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Housto

Re: fan management on G5

hen you don't get TSO, but the card will work normally. > W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3.bin for module tg3 This is important if you have an early model card (a 5701 rev A0), because it contains a patch for a significant bug. Otherwise, it's irrele

LXDE Rocks !

(but that support in Elinks wasn't working too well for me anyway). bbc.co.uk takes you to a simplified version of their site with text and pictures only (no "flashy" stuff). Links2 can also do gmail pretty well. Graphical mode also includes buttons and a pull down menu. Brian

Re: battery status applet not working

I think it may depend on what model you have. at some time there was a switch from pmud to pbbutonsd as the power management daemon, maybe 2003 ?? On 6/19/10, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > > Does anyone know how to get a battery status applet in the panel? I am in > Squeeze / LXDE and I checked that k

Re: R_PPC_REL24 relocation ... out of range

need to contact whomever you got it from and report it there. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How usable is Debian on PowerBook G4?

p.s. sorry that figure was from osX Tiger. I haven't finished the comparison on current unstable yet. On 4/1/10, Brian Morris wrote: > On 3/31/10, Michel Dänzer wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 17:21 -0700, Brian Morris wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Aris

Re: How usable is Debian on PowerBook G4?

On 3/31/10, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 17:21 -0700, Brian Morris wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Aris Monazteriaz wrote: >> > How usable is Debian on PowerBook G4? Can I install programs right away >> > or >> > I have to compil

Re: How usable is Debian on PowerBook G4?

ight for your cpu optimized it will run a lot faster. Especially these days more than ever as auto-altivec optimizing has been greatly improve with gcc4.5 Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: Debian or ubuntu

Hej Jordan, My experience is from a G5, but everyone with an Apple based computer is pretty much in the same lurch these days. Most things work fine in Debian Lenny PPC. The Debian team seems to do their best for us orphans, whereas Ubuntu sometimes has the feel of being a part-time project si

Debian PPC user group on identi.ca

I just wanted to let people on the list know that I have started a Debian PPC (debianppc) group on identi.ca You can find the group here: http://identi.ca/group/debianppc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: HowTo Nouveau on PPC64.

Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 04:39:09PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote: I have a standard Lenny system installed on a G5 single with a 1.8 GHz. processor and GeForce FX 5200 graphics card. I understand that the Nouveau driver is still in experimental, but that there are

HowTo Nouveau on PPC64.

to find any information about where to download a PPC64 version or how to install it. Is there a HowTo somewhere? Cheers, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

le is not guaranteed to do anything except that (do I have this exactly right) certain very severe bugs cause it to reject moving to testing, after a short period of time the item either moves to testing or to experimental or nothing (in that particular version). I am no DD I have just listened to the lists for a few years. Brian

Fwd: Installing on a firewire drive.

-- Forwarded message -- From: Brian Morris Date: Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:40 PM Subject: Re: Installing on a firewire drive. To: "Frank J. R. Hanstick" On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote: > Hello, >I have a PPC Quicksilver runn

Re: Is this the appropriate list?

On 12/19/09, Thomas Carlson wrote: > I have given up on getting the sound card working as it will just be a > development machine anyway. Any suggestions for a good development > environment other than the standard GNU/GCC compiler tools collection? > > Perl. Lisp (lots of choices here, some ar

suspend/off on a G5

. /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00clear resume: success. Sun Nov 15 22:29:49 PST 2009: Finished. Is this a kernel problem, or maybe something which can be helped with some configuration magic ? Thanks, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: Hard Crash Xserver on Powerbook (Pismo) Sid

>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Morris writes: Brian> but its interesting you can't even ping in. I wonder if that Brian> could be a kernel bug, the driver problem shouldn't kill the Brian> whole OS, should it ? It certainly will if the video d

Re: Hard Crash Xserver on Powerbook (Pismo) Sid

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Stephane Louise > wrote: > Hi, > > > Brian Morris wrote: > >> Hey I just did an update today at the console, and >> starting up the window system after, the Xserver hangs. >> >> >> >> I can try reconfigu

Hard Crash Xserver on Powerbook (Pismo) Sid

s. My temptation is just to wait a week or two and see what happens. Brian

Re: Market research for new PowerPC system

one other idea (sorry) Debian is not providing an altivec optimized version. If you want that you have to go with Gentoo. If you were building cpu optimized from the ground up with the libaltivec and perhaps the c++ altivec libraries (that require translation for the changed library calls to all th

Re: Market research for new PowerPC system

I think that you should start out with something of the sub-netbook type. These are the next generation and coming up very soon. For a home computer you need at least dual core and at those speeds it will need a very low price and small footprint. If you could sneak in on the sub-net quick perhaps

Re: PowerPC 8500??

Might be the cpu. Mine has a 250mhz 604ev that came out of a '97 Power Computing Tower. I'm pretty sure it was a 2.6.18 I booted, as I remember all that pain around the 2.6.8 on my 3400 'book and booting the 2.6.15 from ubuntu and running etch on that until 18 and 20 where the RAM disk still wouldn

Fwd: view flash website

-- Forwarded message -- From: Brian Morris Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 19:27:51 -0700 Subject: Re: view flash website To: the grv On 9/2/09, the grv wrote: > Hi everybody. Sorry for my bad english. > Oh yes, finally i do it. I setting up my debian-box into my powerbook. I&#x

Installer hanging wifi install PowerbookG3

even so. Anybody have any experience with the issue or can suggest anything I would appreciate. Before I go and file a bug against installer. Thanks Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Installing Synaptic on Lenny KDE PPC system.

I ran a "sudo aptitude -y install --without-recommends synaptic" Still a lot of junk installed in my opinion, but I guess it could be worse :-) Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Installing Synaptic on Lenny KDE PPC system.

Is there a way to install Synaptic on a KDE system and keep the GTK+ libs to a minimum? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Lenny KDE newbie with Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro for Mac.

D1,PAL_K,PAL_Nc,(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null)]): Invalid argument Segmentation fault I have absolutely no idea what that means . I hope you have an idea :-) Cheers, Brian On 5/4/09, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sat, 2 May 2009, Brian Durant wrote: >> Is there a KDE alter

Re: Lenny KDE newbie with Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro for Mac.

RGB() D: >> CVideoDeviceLinux::run()... D: << CVideoDeviceLinux::StartCapture() D: << CVideoDevice::IncrementPalette() >> void CWebCamViewer::ClickedVideoConfig() << void CWebCamViewer::ClickedVideoConfig() D: >> CVideoDevice::DecrementPalette(0) D: >> C

Re: Newbie with intermittent sound problems on Lenny KDE system

As I understand it, I should use that command to determine what is wrong with the sound, when it doesn't function. It puts out a text log output that needs to be looked through? Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Lenny KDE newbie with Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro for Mac.

Is there a KDE alternative to Cheese? I want to avoid installing 36 GNOME packages on my system. Kopette can be used with Gtalk, but Gtalk video isn't supported on PPC. On 5/2/09, José JORGE wrote: > A Saturday 2 May 2009 17:41:05, Brian Durant escreveu: >> Any idea how to do

Newbie with intermittent sound problems on Lenny KDE system

I am a newbie experiencing intermittent sound problems with Lenny KDE installed on a G5. I have tried the following: $ strace -o sound.txt bash: strace: command not found -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: Lenny KDE newbie with Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro for Mac.

I contacted Logitech's QuickCam team about the issue. Here is the reply I received: "Setting up the Linux UVC driver (uvcvideo) is enough. Just make sure it can be loaded automatically or try to load it manually. You can also keep an eye on your syslog to see if it gets recognized." Any idea how

Re: Lenny KDE newbie with Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro for Mac.

Hi José, There is a /dev/video0 file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Lenny KDE newbie with Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro for Mac.

I have a Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro for Mac. The QuickCam is supposed to be in practice cross-platform according to ASE Labs , as the webcam has no drivers. I have tried checking to see if the device is recognized by the system, so I ran: lsusb The r

Re: Getting Gnash and Java to work with Lenny KDE.

None that I have found seem to work. All I get are big, blank spaces. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Sound AWOL after install.

I installed k9copy, kid3, audacity and vlc (as well as bits that Audacity included) and now I have no sound kmix shows the sound is at 85%, but if I press the up and down volume buttons on my keyboard, the volume thingy that pops up only moves between 0% and 10%. I am newbie with Lenny PPC install

Re: Getting Gnash and Java to work with Lenny KDE.

Apparently swfdec-mozilla was already installed when I installed gnash. No incompatibilities? Weird. Anyway, I uninstalled gnash again and I still can't get YouTube to work. Ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Getting Gnash and Java to work with Lenny KDE.

Does Open JDK perform as well? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Getting Gnash and Java to work with Lenny KDE.

Gnash doesn't seem to want to work with YouTube on my new, clean, Lenny KDE install. What do I need to do to get gnash to cooperate? I would also like to install Java, but haven't been able to find a PPC oriented HowTo. Cheers, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-po

Diagnosing early kernel hang [was Re: kernel .config for Debian stock kernel?]

Brian P. Flaherty wrote: Wartan Hachaturow wrote: [...] Kernel configs are available in kernel image packages, and reside in /boot/config-*. Thank you, I'll try to build a new kernel using the 2.6.18 config. I built a 2.6.26 kernel today starting from the 2.6.18 config. That c

Re: kernel .config for Debian stock kernel?

Wartan Hachaturow wrote: On 3/18/09, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: I now just boot 'old' and it works. I'd like to get the .config from both kernels (working and not), so I can compare them and build a new kernel that works. Can you point me to the package I install to get that st

kernel .config for Debian stock kernel?

hat works. Can you point me to the package I install to get that stock .config, if there is one? I'd like it as a starting point. I'd rather not take the time to do the kernel config from scratch right now. Thank you for your time and help. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-po

Re: G3 Beige Tower install help

--- On Sat, 9/6/08, Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In terms of the disk partioning. Is the MacOS partition > supposed to be overwritten and that's why the > installer wants to install Quik ? I can't seem to find > an option to toggle Quik off. > > -- > I believe it is possibl

Re: What is your opinion?

--- On Mon, 7/7/08, Esteban Monge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Esteban Monge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: What is your opinion? > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, July 7, 2008, 9:26 AM > Hello partners > > I want install Debian GNU/Linux Etch in my powermac g4 > 450Mhz,

Re: Cell SDK in Debian

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Brian Pellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there an ongoing effort to get the Cell SDK into Debian? > > I saw a thread about it in February [1], but I haven't seen much > since. I would like to see this happen, so if people are working o

Cell SDK in Debian

hat Ubuntu developers have packaged it, so this shouldn't be a huge project. Thanks, Brian [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2008/02/msg00054.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Right-Click - Middle Click Lombard Keyboard - etch

g the trackpad? It would be nice if I could hold down control-click for right click and alt-click for middle click. Comments appreciated Brian - -- program, n.: A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. tr.v. To engage in a pastime similar

Re: Correct Linux Kernel for Sonnet G4 in PowerMac 7500 with Sarge?

--- Ralf Saalmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello at Debian, > > >> however, one old 8500 i had to turn up the bright > and > >> contrast all the way and then could barely still > >> see the console at night with all the lights out. > >>

Re: Correct Linux Kernel for Sonnet G4 in PowerMac 7500 with Sarge?

ch of old macs but even without upgrade cards i would say you have to be really determined to work on them. it has rewards but it is hard work. also takes a lot of patience you cannot be in so much of a hurry upgrading three things at once ! (make that 6 things since 601 to g4 is three alread

Re: browser

--- Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These PowerPC machines are getting rather weak by > modern standards. What do we do for a browser? > My 512 MB G4 is now worse than my old 64 MB > Pentium-133 which ran Netscape. > > I just got rid of all my firefox plug-ins, and it's > still it w

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