Re: Bluetooth mouse

2003-12-28 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 02:49, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > > http://www.visi.com/~pmk/msbtkb-linux.html> > > I found that on my google search. bthid doesn't compile at 2.6.0. I > am not able to change that Makefile. You should read the archives of the bluez-users list. bthid can be made to w

Re: mono?

2003-08-17 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 22:12, Andreas Wüst wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:23, Edd Dumbill wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:06, Andreas Wüst wrote: > > > Which version did you try? I have used 0.23 and 0.24 quite a lot > > > (without the garbage collector thoug

Re: mono?

2003-08-17 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:06, Andreas Wüst wrote: > Which version did you try? I have used 0.23 and 0.24 quite a lot > (without the garbage collector though), and have NEVER experienced any > crash of mint. 0.25 and 0.26 pre releases. Only about 50% of the gtk-sharp demos worked, as an example of

Re: mono?

2003-08-16 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 21:53, Lee Braiden wrote: > Anyone know what the status is of mono on debian/ppc? I've tried installing > the 0.16 debs available at debianplanet.org/mono, but they fail with serious > problems (like missing packages :)) > > They didn't seem to compile from source either,

Re: Reading memory sticks

2003-03-29 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 07:27, Mich Lanners wrote: > On 28 Mar, this message from Bastien Nocera echoed through cyberspace: > > On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 21:11, Mich Lanners wrote: > >> Is your kernel compiled with multiple LUN support > >> (CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN)? > > > > it is necessary to enable LUN

Reading memory sticks

2003-03-28 Thread Edd Dumbill
I have a 6-in-1 card reader. On my i386 machine (2.4.20) I attach the card reader and see the following in dmesg: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: Generic Model: Generic CF Rev: 2.5D Type: Direct-Access

Re: Mini-Howto on getting the AltGr-Key mapped to the Applekey (Re: using the 'alt' key to special characters)

2003-03-14 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 13:38, Claas Langbehn wrote: > Hello Edd, > > sure there are different solutions for this problem, but as far as I am > concerned, I think it is nicer to correct the wrong mapping of AltGr at > it's root which is in /etc/X11/... . Perhaps then you can submit a patch somehow

Re: Mini-Howto on getting the AltGr-Key mapped to the Applekey (Re: using the 'alt' key to special characters)

2003-03-14 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 07:20, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 07:59:39AM +0100, Claas Langbehn wrote: > > Hello, > > > > 1. change XF86config-4 to look like this for keyboard: > > > > 2. change your /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 to look > > like this: > > This is much nicer if yo

Re: last line displays on top of screen in X on iBook2

2003-02-24 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 21:02, Edd Dumbill wrote: > In X on my Debian sid iBook2 the very bottom line of pixels (including > the pointer when it's there) from the screen is displayed at the top of > the screen. Bad form to reply to myself, but I solved this. Looks as though I had mis

last line displays on top of screen in X on iBook2

2003-02-24 Thread Edd Dumbill
In X on my Debian sid iBook2 the very bottom line of pixels (including the pointer when it's there) from the screen is displayed at the top of the screen. I'm using the latest dri-trunk debs from Michel. There are no special modelines or anything in my XF86Config-4 file. Anyone seeing the same t

any hope for ibook2 500 users and external video?

2003-02-05 Thread Edd Dumbill
I know I've asked this before, but it's worth asking again in case of any progress. After all, I thought squeal-on-resume was just a fact of life, but it appears to be fixed... Do you think there'll ever be any chance of us iBook2 500 users getting external video to work? This is the current sit

Re: USB-Audio

2003-01-28 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:37, Clemens Mangler wrote: > hi! > > i finally bought the soundsticks! sound under macosx is great, but i don't > know how to get them running under linux! > where can i find a howto or something? > > i loaded the module audio.o, but what to do next? you should then be

Re: iBook, mobile phone, bluetooth and text messages (SMS)

2002-12-12 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 17:57, Claas Langbehn wrote: > Hi, > > I used to send some SMS via Internet, but unfortuneately there are not > any good services left on the market. Either I have to pay for my SMS or > I need to sign up. > > So i was asking myself, which alternatives I have: > > 1) sendin

newest dri-trunk causes corrupted screen on return from suspend

2002-12-09 Thread Edd Dumbill
On my iBook 500 (ATI Rage Mobility 128) the newest dri-trunk packages cause screen corruption in X on return from suspend. After that I must switch to a console and restart X to get out of it. Reverting to the 10.02-2 package made the problem go away again. Kernel is 2.4.20-rc4-ben0. -- Edd s

progress with iBook2/Mobility M3 external video?

2002-09-17 Thread Edd Dumbill
I decided to test out external video again today on my iBook2 500, which has Rage Mobility M3 in it. After starting X4.2 (Branden's testing packages) and then going back into console mode m3mirror gave a steady picture on the display (it used to wobble around), although there was some cruft on the

Re: MOL, GNOME 2 and so on

2002-09-12 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 04:41, Cesar Cardoso wrote: > 2) Is it just with me or in the latest GNOME 2 update from sid the > gnome-panel "lost" the place of the apps menu? It only shows Debian and > KDE menus. Nope, not just you. I get this too. -- Edd signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Success with iBook2 internal modem (was Re: Binary driver for conexant modems ("applemodems"))

2002-09-03 Thread Edd Dumbill
Today I updated my kernel (to 2.4.20-pre5-ben0) and the Conexant drivers to hcfusbmodem-0.98mbsibeta02090200ppc. Turning dialtone detection off, I managed successfully to connect to my ISP using the internal modem. Grateful thanks to Ben and Marc Boucher! -- Edd signature.asc Description: Th

Re: Binary driver for conexant modems ("applemodems")

2002-09-02 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 11:23, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > It's a known problem, there seem to be something wrong with dialtone > detection. That is easily worked aruond by using ATX1DT instead > of ATDT as a dial command though. Tried, unfortunately got NO CARRIER. -- Edd signature.asc Desc

Re: Binary driver for conexant modems ("applemodems")

2002-09-02 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 09:42, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Please, post the diff as a unified diff (diff -u) or it's perfectly > unreadable ;) Apologies, I was being lazy. > I've been able to live with the gawk bug though without too much > problems. > > You should send your fix to Marc anyway

Re: Binary driver for conexant modems ("applemodems")

2002-09-02 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 08:46, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En cette fin de nuit blanche du lundi 02 septembre 2002, vers > 05:15, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > Has anybody had any problems similar to this one? > > I have just downloaded it and the checksum matches. I haven't trie

Re: Auto-repeat problem: released key not always detected

2002-08-29 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 23:18, Nicolas Lopez wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:09:35PM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > > On 19 Aug, this message from Vincent Lefevre echoed through cyberspace: > > As you have found out ;-), many people have seen this problem, and it > > has been around for a long t

PowerPC Linux support for Intel v92 HaM chipset based modems

2002-08-07 Thread Edd Dumbill
7;ll collate and forward on. Feel free to forward this to anyone who might be interested. -- Edd -- Edd Dumbill -| phone: +44 1904 427740 fax: 44 8709 909625 |- | Managing Editor, XML.com, XMLhack.com -- Chair, XML Europe 2002 | I PGP sign my email; more info at http://heddley.com/e

Re: advice on iBook firewire, wireless & usb connections saught

2002-08-07 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 21:46, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > 1) Firewire >I have a Lacie 20Gb external firewire disk. Is it possible to mount >this if is formatted suitably (presumably as HFS) ? I'll take this one :) In short, yes. Here's what I did for my Lacie 80GB external: * ensure 'ho

problems with woody quik on beige g3 300

2002-07-26 Thread Edd Dumbill
So, I picked up a beige G3 300 from eBay. It has OpenFirmware 2.4, and has a Rage 64 Pro graphics chip. I'm trying to complete an install of woody on this machine. BootX works great, but I've had no luck with quik. Specifically, the symptoms are that it just sits there on reboot -- not even a m

Re: Evolution 1.0.7 and XFree86 4.2.0

2002-07-25 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 12:10, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 23:11, Edd Dumbill wrote: > > > > On powerpc sid, Evolution crashes the X server *every* time on main > > startup after the splash window disappears. I downgraded my X install > > to 4.1.

Evolution 1.0.7 and XFree86 4.2.0

2002-07-24 Thread Edd Dumbill
Not entirely sure where this should go to, as I'm running Branden's pre-release packages that aren't in the main archive yet... but posting it here at least to log the problem somewhere. On powerpc sid, Evolution crashes the X server *every* time on main startup after the splash window disappears.

Re: External monitor on ibook2

2002-07-10 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 05:37, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Has anyone had success getting the ibook2 to display properly using the > > external monitor port under Linux? I'd rather not use MacOS X at the LUG > > meeting tomorrow if I don't have to... > > > > BTW, I'm running Debian Sid with the stoc

Re: new iBook 700 LCD / ohci1394 driver.

2002-06-12 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 09:41, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 17:51, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > I don't know if there is a problem keeping ohci1394 from being able to > > >sleep properly, or if it's just a matter of nobody having done it yet. > > >Anyone care to comment? > >

Re: Altgr on iBook

2002-05-20 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 12:19, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > > If someone would like to contribute a little writeup about this, I could > > add it to the install manual's post-install section. > > I succseeded to have AltGR mapped to KpEnter (I Never used that key...) > on Console by writeing a new key

Turning Airport card off on iBook

2002-04-27 Thread Edd Dumbill
I'm going to be travelling shortly, and I expect the airline won't be happy if my iBook is emitting radio signals from the Airport card. Any idea how I can turn the card off from inside Debian, or do I need to remove it? -- Edd signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: iBook video output

2002-04-22 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 13:20, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > So, can anyone suggest how I solve the screwy colors problem, or make > > offb use a mode deeper than 8 bits? > > OFfb basically takes the display from Open Firmware and can't change > anything, so I'm afraid there's no way except maybe in OF.

Re: iBook video output

2002-04-22 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 13:56, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > I'll have the same issue for the presentations I'll be doing at XML > > Europe and I have just noticed that yaboot does pretty well with the > > external video! > > > > It's probably a bit tough to do a presentation with yaboot ;=) but I > >

[Fwd: loopback not working ? (was /floppy/type.txt required while installing from the network ???)]

2002-04-16 Thread Edd Dumbill
I'm posting this for Eric, as he's had troubles reaching the list. Please accept my apologies if you get two copies, and if you reply, please CC Eric as well as he's not currently subscribed. > From: Eric van der Vlist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Subject: loopback

Wireless scheme switching (was Re: Re: Installation-Problem (no harddisk found))

2002-04-15 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 16:58, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 16:43, Edd Dumbill wrote: > > > > * wireless networking -- under PCMCIA you can make schemes so you can > > easily switch been home and work. I found no easy way of doing this yet > > with the

Re: Re: Installation-Problem (no harddisk found)

2002-04-14 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 14:26, Frederic Gobin wrote: > It works !!! > I copied the contents of the install/powerpc-dir to my mac partition, > changed the yaboot.conf and boot it from OF ... > > The only that doesn't work is the key to eject CDs ... ikeyd rocks for this. I mention this in my recen