Re: Kernel Question (Johannes Berg?)

2006-03-02 Thread David Smoot
Dead link and Google was no help either.  Somebody have a working link?On 2/28/06, Yves-Alexis Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 14:34 +0200, Sammy wrote:> I have a PowerBook G4 1.67GHz with an ATi Radeon 9700 video card. (I have> noticed that Johannes Berg has the same system

off topic - Apple service sucks

2006-02-25 Thread David Smoot
I recently had to send my powerbook back for warranty repair because OSX was failing to recognize the extra 512 megs of ram in the lower ram slot.  Before I sent my system back, I had my 100 gig drive set up as dual boot with roughly an 80 - 20 split between OS X and Debian. I was irritated when I

Re: debian-PPC powerbook laptop support.

2006-02-20 Thread David Smoot
DOH!I misunderstood your answer... dammit.  I took your answer to say I would have to live without all those things.  And I just spent the weekend setting up OSX to be usable again because I could not live without those things I am very frustrated It's all my fault because I mis-read your a

debian-PPC powerbook laptop support.

2006-02-16 Thread David Smoot
What (if anything) do I give up by blowing out Mac OS X entirely and going to Debian-PPC on my powerbook?Airport?Sleep / power management?Bluetooth?External Monitor support?I have a 1.67GHz powerbook 15" with 1 gig ram purchased in April of last year.  I had the unit set up as dual boot debian to h

Re: Bluetooth on Aluminum Powerbook

2005-10-05 Thread David Smoot
I have not tried it but Ross Barkman's page (http://www.taniwha.org.uk/gprs.html) contains a reference to a linux tool that uses his database of phone data settings.  If I had time I would give it a try.  If you make it work, please report back. David

Re: Apple Touchpad Driver complains about no "usb_input.h"---resolved

2005-09-21 Thread David Smoot
Thank you to all who replied. The easiest thing was to revert to the 00.7 version. That worked beautifully. Thanks for a wonderful resource, this truly makes the powerbook usable for everyday work. I did not want to have to carry around an external mouse. Now to get my belkin 802.11g card runn

Re: Install second partition of powerbook?

2005-09-21 Thread David Smoot
I think you can do what you want fairly easily.  I had my system dual booting with Mac OSX and Yellow Dog Linux but Yellow dog was frustrating me.  I downloaded the net install iso for PPC and did manual partitioning and it all worked out.  I'm not sure about the boot strap stuff, that might have t

Apple Touchpad Driver complains about no "usb_input.h"

2005-09-20 Thread David Smoot
Good evening, my name is David Smoot and this is my first post to the list. I'm pretty new to linux and very new to Debian so my mistakes might be simple ones (in other words, assume I'm stupid and start with the dumb questions). I have a "post February 2005" powerbook.