Re: Firefox (still missing here...)

I dont have it either,Im using ftp.us.debian.org.On 9/21/06, brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:--- Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 06:36:00PM +0200, Marko> Kaiser wrote:> > Firefox 1.5.0.6-5 for PowerPC got uploaded> yesterday so it's working again.>well its th

Re: question about yaboot and radeon 9200

Roger,thanks for the reply.On 9/17/06, Roger Leigh < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Derek < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:[ Please feel free to space your text into paragraphs, and put spacesafter sentences and punctuation; it will make it much more readable,and hence easier for people to help you.  Thanks

question about yaboot and radeon 9200

ase?Any help is very much appreciatedThanks,Derek

Re: grub2 on powerpc

Does it work on old world macs?On 9/7/06, Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sep 7, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Robert Millan wrote:>> Hi,>> As you might know, experimental grub2 support has been added to d-i> when using> the expert mode, but it is only yet available on i386/amd64. >> I made this pat

Re: video problem with bootx on 7200

>Is that the same as XPostFacto?XpostFacto is for os x,os9 helper for os9.I actually was using OS 10.2 awhile ago on my 604e with xpostfacto,it ran pretty good.      >Is there any compelling reason to update to 9.2?  Does it affect bootx?Thats a good question

Re: X on imac

I had X working fine with etch on my 233 MHz tray load imac,16 and 24 bit.I'm pretty sure I had sound working too,but I'm not sure.Did you run alsaconf yet(comes with alsa-utils package)?Here is the important parts of my xorg.conf Section "Device"    Identifier  "ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D R

Re: video problem with bootx on 7200

You can run os 9.2 with a little thing called os 9 helper,I have os 9.2(and debian) running on my 604e mac clone with with it,and bootx.Works good

Re: can't boot debian etch beta 2 install cd or stable cd on imac g3 revA 233mhz

I've installed debian on my 233MHz imac without problems.I bet it is that you need to upgrade your firmware

Re: can't find a way to type brackets on powerbook g3

I rebooted and now all is messed up...no character correspondence at all, I'm writing from my old win desktop :(and more, seem that I've lost 'a' and 'tab', so I can't dodpkg-reconfigure console-datanow I'm reinstalling linux...--To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: How do you use right or middle mouse buttons on iMac?

you can do echo "1" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation echo "87" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode echo "88" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode that will make f11 and f12 the two other mouse buttons Derek On 3/17/06, Ter

Questions about realplayer

player and real player?Do I even need real player? Thank you, Derek

Re: Video capture cards?

Thanks again for the help Sven,I appreciate it.This is the card I should be getting right? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815116620On 1/19/06, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:27:31PM -0800, Derek wrote:> Hello Sven,thank you for the

Re: Video capture cards?

Hello Sven,thank you for the reply.Do all the Hauppage PVR's work for powerpc or do you know which ones are known to work? Thanks, DerekOn 1/19/06, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:30:18AM -0800, Derek wrote:> Hello,I wanted to turn my old powermac i

Video capture cards?

card for powerpc? Thank you, Derek

Re: Debian install on biege G3

Hello,thank you for posting that up Hans,worked like a charm. Thanks again :), Derek On 12/6/05, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:15:48AM +, David Pead wrote: > I have not done this recently, so some parts might be wrong. I > addition to tha

Re: Debian install on biege G3

I am having this same problem on my old world.Im still not quite sure how to fix it.Can anyone explain exactly how I should have bootx set up? Thanks, Derek

Re: Old world 2.6 kernel?

without a ramdisk.I will try that with the initrd-tools. Thanks for the help, Derek On 12/3/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 11:04:34AM -0800, Derek wrote: > > yep I didnt give it a initrd,didnt know about that.I gave bootx the > > initd from

Re: Old world 2.6 kernel?

yep I didnt give it a initrd,didnt know about that.I gave bootx the initd from the debian netinstall cd and in the kernel arguments I put root=/dev/sd3 but I still get the same problem.Is there a certain initd I should be using? Thanks for the help, Derek On 12/2/05, Hans Ekbrand <[EM

Old world 2.6 kernel?

Hello,is it just me or does the kernel that comes with sarge not work on old world macs?The kernel works for the install,but it wont recognize my root partition.The 2.4 kernel works fine.Anyone else having this problem? Thanks, Derek

Re: Powermac G3 graphics card question

Dont know too much about this stuff but I have had this link with my bookmarks for awhile. http://strangedogs.proboards40.com/ On 12/1/05, Robin Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes what im interested in is dual display maybe it might be easier for > me just to add another mac rage 128? i dont

Re: 3d acceleration on pci radeon 9200 mac edition?

That is good to hear,thanks for the help I appreciate it. Derek On 10/26/05, Kelner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dnia 26-10-2005 o godz. 10:47 derek o napisał(a): > > Hello,I was wondering if it is possible to get 3d acceleration under > > linux for the pci radeo

3d acceleration on pci radeon 9200 mac edition?

Hello,I was wondering if it is possible to get 3d acceleration under linux for the pci radeon 9200 mac edition graphics card. Thanks, Derek

Re: Sound on powermac g3 blue and white

Hello Alex,thank you for the tip.I will have to check that out. Cya, Derek On 10/22/05, Alex Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well I got it to work finally :D.I had to install alsa-base,I also had > > to change to 8bits sound,and I have to do a killall artsd befor

Re: Sound on powermac g3 blue and white

Well I got it to work finally :D.I had to install alsa-base,I also had to change to 8bits sound,and I have to do a killall artsd before I start some applications,but it seems to work great now.Time to go play some quake 3. Thanks, Derek On 10/21/05, derek o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Sound on powermac g3 blue and white

Hello ben,thank you for the reply.How would I go about getting sound working in other applications(like armagetron for example)?I also dont understand why /dev/dsp does not exist.Is is something different. Thanks, Derek On 10/21/05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On

Sound on powermac g3 blue and white

center but It says /dev/dsp does not exist(which is true).Does anyone have one of these computers and have alsa or oss working?Thank you for the help. Derek

Re: Config X in Sarge

nice debian gui login screen. Logged right in to KDE. Sarge looks great and it is probably only going to get better. Thanks for your help, Derek Enz On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 04:28 PM, Derek Enz wrote: Hello Thanks for the info. I have not checked the log yet but, I did see an EE

Re: Config X in Sarge

manually. Thanks Derek Enz --- jon salenger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Derek, > > I just went through setting up X myself, with the > same error. I can't even > guess what the problem is from your email, though, > so I suggest the > following: > > Chec

Config X in Sarge

Hello When I startx I get the error NO SCREENS FOUND. It also gives an error 104. Tried to reconfigure X a few times and it still will not work. Any suggestions? THANKS Derek Enz

Installing Sarge

NEWWORLD BOOT message came back. Just went to the partition and reselected NewWorld boot partition selected finish and the install proceeded. Sarge installed just fine. Again the machine is a Quicksilver G4- one hard drive for debian and the other for OS X. THANKS Derek Enz

Installing sarge

suggestions? THANKS Derek

Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You are mistaken. Do yourself a favour and get a book about (pseudo) > random number generators, entropy, hash functions and cryptography. > If you don't start with random numbers, you can turn the numbers upside > down, it won't get any more random t

Kernel help for newbie

ake a new zImage from my new kernel? I had this idea as you do need to point BootX to the correct kernel after an update, for example. TIA. Direct replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be great! Derek Hall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: PowerBook G4

duce with any of my mice, so if you have any plans to use XFree under MacOS X you might want to take this into consideration. The Saitek notebook mouse and all my Logitech mice have allways worked very well for me (in fact, I might still go with one of their Trackmans, if only they had a smaller version available). HTH, Derek

Re: X together with dual scan passive matrix PB display

fig). BTW, the Gnome will _never_ work without the X server running, so you'd really need to get this fixed first. Gnome is rather one of the last things I would try to get working, actually. HTH, Derek -- --

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1 for powerpc at X Strike Force repository

stuff I don't know about... Ah, when I was using it I still used an old 8100 with mechanical CapsLock ;-) Derek

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1 for powerpc at X Strike Force repository

lems with the Mod keys which I solved with Xmodmap mainly due to laziness... Derek

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

lot since X was broken an my machine till yesterday and I really needed the console for work. I'll look at the keymaps and the output of showkey. Derek

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:29:33PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:10:57PM -0400, Derek Homeier wrote: > > > Yeah, that's probably a matter of taste, but a more substantial issue > > might be if there are localized Linux-keymaps available for Appl

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

e and faulty international keymaps used to float around before, I consider it still an issue. OTOH, I am not sure that even the existing ADB keymaps have a 100% correct layout (I am mostly using my own ones), so if that work is to be done anyway, it would surely make most sense to do it for the Linux keycodes right away. Cheers, Derek

Re: fans in Powerbooks (was: Re: iBook2 install)

ve been reports from Arizona or California :o). I'm also rather sure I have read on this list that it's not sw-operated, but I can't give any technical documentation on that. HTH, Derek -- -

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

ybe the rest of the tree is not up to date enough with Ani's xfree86 (the only source I could locate was the X401 from linuxppc.org). Cheers, Derek

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

On Fri, 25 May 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Derek Homeier wrote: > > > > to my sources.list, but apt-get update invariably tells my it's ignoring > > that archive: > > > > Ign http://www.penguinppc.org/~puetzk/debs unstable/x4 Release > > This doesn&

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

ans mozilla dir, which did work before...). Is there anything additional I have to change in APTs configuration (I'm running testing)? Alternatively, are the 4.0.99 sources available for rsync anywhere? TIA, Derek

Re: modem works!, battery drains fast?

ettings to set different timeouts on battery vs. mains in the original thread. 3600 secs was definitely too risky for development kernels, at least when there's no need to save power ;-). Cheers, Derek

Re: modem works!, battery drains fast?

at, which I find even more appealing, but How did you do it, Geert? Is this a hdparm option? Cheers, Derek

Re: modem works!, battery drains fast?

, though) 3. More memory (192 vs. 64 MB). I hoped this would _reduce_ power consumption, actually, with more memory for disk cache... Any ideas? Cheers, Derek

Re: XFree4.0x and Pismo touchpad

erBook and > iBook ADB) and then do the register write of a 2 bytes message > (0xc6 0x01). I can't try this now, but if someone wants to look at it... > If someone more insightful has some time to spend on this, this should be a very useful addition to powerpc-utils (essentialy a powerbook-util, of course, but there probably isn't such a package). Regards, Derek

Re: MacPPC 6100

h... In fact, I'm not positive if the installer currently works with 24 MB, it's quite close to the limit, but once installed, it would work with 24 MB. Feel free to ask on the newly re-created mklinux-users list for more info. Cheers, Derek

Re: Disabling Trackpad.

put/mouse2 mouse (if this wrecks something, do a ln -sf input/mice mouse to restore your input)? Cheers, Derek :On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 01:38:20, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :> :> >> :> >> On my pismo

Re: XFBDev problem

s wmcpu that causes the crashes, quite reproducible, in any environment. Lots of VC switching or loading background images seems to enhance the chance of crashing, though. Recompiling didn't help anything. In case anyone wants to investigate, I've put wmcpu with my original binary up on ftp://saturn.astrophysik.uni-kiel.de/pub/homeier/ppc/ . Thanks for the advice, Derek

Re: XFBDev problem

for 1-5 hours now including some heavy use of mtvp and GL animations. I'll try to single out the culprit among the wmaker applets, maybe a recompile of the app will fix it. Cheers, Derek

Re: XFBDev problem

ati driver, the rest was installed from rpm (yeah, making this more appropriate for linuxppc-user now). I'm afraid I don't have the disk space for the full compile, but I might try to compile the Xserver package.. Cheers, Derek

Re: XFBDev problem

load the fonts, but maybe that's just a problem with the font paths. Still, Xpmac seems about up to 3.3.6 FBDev speedwise and rather better quality-of-display-wise. The only thing I'm missing is the mousewheel. Thanks, Derek

Re: XFBDev problem

ssing up my console when I'm using the SUN12x22 console fonts and booting with yaboot. Switching to a 16 pixel font fixed that for the moment. Cheers, Derek

OF UK keymap and menu_ofboot.b

ave the Same problem with my UK Rev B iMac . I cannot get the '\' in OF ( 3.0f2 OF ). The low level keyboard mapping also seems different such that the menu_ofboot.b ( renamed to ofboot.b due to known issues ) script does not work for me. It been driving me crazy! Has anyone got any ideas on how to resolve this ?? Thanks Derek

debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org

Could someone point in a good direction of DebianPPC install docs? Anything I could find at www.debian.org were broken links. Thanks PS. Sorry for the repost but the last post was messaged up cause of a bad replyto. Please don't reply to it. Thanks -- Derek Schrock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PowerPC Install docs

Could someone point in a good direction of DebianPPC install docs? Anything I could find at www.debian.org were broken links. Thanks -- Derek Schrock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

architecture not supported (sigh)

way ). If you want anyone to try out newer boot floppies on a 1st Generation iMac I'd be pleased to help Cheers Derek

Re: Glibc2.1 and Netscape

On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 07:59:16PM -0400, Deirdre Saoirse wrote: > Paul Mackerras pointed out to me yesterday why my netscape wasn't working: > Glibc2.1, which is incompatible with the version used to compile Netscape. > > Two points: > > a) does anyone know if and/or when a newer version of Nets