ATI Rage 128 RE in blue Powermac

2001-05-17 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! I have a problem with the above card: Xfree 4.0 doesn't recognize it, although it gives this card as one of the available cards on startup. So now I am back to fbdev, only with the new server. Anybody has this card running with the ati or r128 driver? The xserver-xfree86 package is the cur

Re: problems with perl 5.6 and debconf

2000-12-17 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >version of perl everywhere. That's why it was a hardlink. But the postinst still uses update-alternatives, it just doesn't seem to work. Hmm. Ok, it's not a problem. It does work now and the possibility to switch pe

Re: problems with perl 5.6 and debconf

2000-12-16 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 03:30:13PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote: > It is? package name? dh-make-perl, if I recall correctly. bye, Georg

Re: problems with perl 5.6 and debconf

2000-12-16 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:58:17PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote: > CPAN modules would be cool. Since there is a standard way to build > them all (for ex. the perl CPAN module), this would be doable, IMHO. > > has anyone else thought of doing something like this? Yeah. And guess what? It's in the

Re: problems with perl 5.6 and debconf

2000-12-16 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:45:25PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just an observation: > We found ourselves removing and reinstalling debconf > and /var/lib/debconf on every machine. That's not a big > deal **once we figured it out.** I am stupid. I was just missing the perl-5.6 package.

problems with perl 5.6 and debconf

2000-12-16 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! The current woody is borken regarding perl5.6: most packages are still 5.005, so 5.6 programs usually won't work since there are not enough packages for basic tasks. So some programs barf if your perl 5.6 is your default perl (btw: why is there no alternative system installed on my machine

Helix Evolution any one?

2000-07-13 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Did anyone build packages for Evolution? It depends on a lot of packages, so it's a bit more work I currently would like to have, so if anybody already did it ... bye, Georg

Re: no sound on g3 under linux

2000-06-23 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 10:21:38PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Georg Bauer wrote: > Have you tried plugging in headphones or external speakers? I also don't get > sound from the internal speakers on my Pismo, but headphones work (try Yeah, after I asked, I found an old mess

no sound on g3 under linux

2000-06-22 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! As indicated by the subject, I have problems with my sound on the G3 b&w powermac. It just loads dmasound and doesn't complain. But there is _no_ sound. Since I am completely on yaboot and have absolutely no HFS partition with MacOS running, I can't check into MacOS for this - the installation

Re: [phil@hands.com: new powerpc CDs at cdimage.debian.org]

2000-06-17 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Give these a shot, if you can - they're on cdimage.debian.org and will > probably be mirrored out and about pretty soon now. I would like to, but they can't be found on the mirrors (maybe they don't mirror

Re: Is Netscape Navigator available for PowerPC?

1999-11-24 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Ericsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or, do you recommend another web-browser? You can use the Linux/PPC RPM and convert it to .deb with alien. Or include http://ns.gws-online.de/download/ in your sources.list for apt and fetch my converted nets

Re: Default kernel for powerpc may change

1999-11-08 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! > I'm curious if the pmac/chrp community has any feelings on this. I'm really > concerned about the pmac community since I don't have any good feedback Will your kernel include the de4x5 Patch for 6500 machines? If not, your kernel will break in funny ways on that machine, as I discovered wi

Kernel 2.2.13 (and earlier) and ethernet interrupt handler

1999-11-01 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! I have a problem with kernel 2.2.13 and some earlier kernels. With several versions there was the problem that when I did some intensive networking on the local network, I got "eth0 reentering interrupt handler". This was with 2.2.1, with 2.2.5 and now with 2.2.13. In between there were versio

Re: PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1

1999-11-01 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Frank Petzold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Use egcs-1.1.2. gcc 2.95.x did never work for mw compiling kernels for > APUS either. Hm. egcs isn't available for potato - at least not as an easily to spot package ... bye, Georg

Re: MOL works on PB3400

1999-10-26 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vinai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just checked out 0.9.22 with LinuxPPC, and it boots great with a 2.2.12 > kernel, unpatched !! Sam - tremendous job ;-) !! G. If I only had a 8500 to fetch a rom from ... bye, Georg (has to wait until the 6500/275 is

Sawmill for PPC available

1999-10-24 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Since the sawmill wm isn't currently available on ftp.debian.org, I did compile the packages myself. I am currently uploading them to http://www.gws-online.de/download/ You can ingetrate that into your source.list to be able to install the packages via apt. They should be integrated by tomor

Re: Netscape for Debian/PPC

1999-10-08 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why not making your .deb available in Debian's sites directly? Because I don't have an account there :-) Ok, I'm currently uploading it to my companies server. You will be able to fetch it in about 1 hour from n

Netscape for Debian/PPC

1999-10-07 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Just to let you know: the new complete Netscape rpm for LinuxPPC (as it was announced in the linux-pmac list) does convert to .deb quite nicely. Since I had several problems with wrong library versions with Netscape's versions of Netscape, so I was quite positively surprised by the now running

freeamp

1999-09-27 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Anyone got freeamp running? At my machine it just segfaults right after giving some informations. strace isn't helpfull, either. It's really directly after the informational output of the codec. bye, Georg

MOL on Debian/PPC?

1999-09-25 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Anyone had any luck getting Mac-On-Linux running on the current unstable? Even someone working on a package for that beast? bye, Georg

console-apt

1999-09-03 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Anybody working on porting console-apt to the powerpc plattform? bye, Georg (tired of old dselect ;-)) -- http://www.westfalen.de/hugo/

Re: XFree86 just broke on PB3400 (Fri 5/28/99 AM (US))

1999-05-31 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hartmut Koptein) wrote: >Warning: the new xfree version is possible broken for some ATI boards! Copy > your old version of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF68_FBDev to a secure place. Ups. Thanks. Actually I have an ATI board. And with my luck, it will b

Re: XFree86 just broke on PB3400 (Fri 5/28/99 AM (US))

1999-05-30 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hartmut Koptein) wrote: >Please test the new version; should be available in the next two days. Funny enough: after I started my system today, I didn't get the old message, but the "fixed font" message. So I recapitulated, what really happened ye

Re: XFree86 just broke on PB3400 (Fri 5/28/99 AM (US))

1999-05-30 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jeremiah Merkl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >ahh, growing pains, ain't they wonderful? :) Bah, you all are lucky. Since the last apt-get update, I can't start X any more: " Novalid mode found", although nothing changed (except the X-Server, of course) - same XF86Co

Re: Netscape Communicator

1999-05-24 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hartmut Koptein) wrote: >bug -- ok, this is another problem, but why can't you use su? Under X I get PAM-related problems as I posted some days before. Under console, everything runs fine[1]. Under X in a xterm, I get problems with PAM_RUSERS.

Netscape Communicator

1999-05-24 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! The currently uploaded Communicator 4.08 has a problem: it depends on libstdc++2.8, but that is not available for PPC. How is one supposed to get that to work? :-) bye, Georg PS: I would have sent a bug report using the usual tool, but actually since some updates my "bug" doesn't work any mo

Problem with PAM_RUSER

1999-05-22 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! After upgrading my system to the current packages in potato, I have a problem with su under X: "problem establishing PAM_RUSER" when I enter "su -" in an xterm. Any idea how to solve this? This only happens in an xterm, not in a console. Quite weird ... bye, Georg

bug failing to create bug reports

1999-05-01 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Just after the current upgrade, bug fails to create bug reports. When entering bug bug I can enter the $subject. But then bug exits, instead of the usual package dependency checking and $EDITOR starting. Any ideas what's gone wrong? Maybe it's just a dark conspiracy to prevent me from creat

Re: IMPORTANT : latest bash intall fails and bash is no more usable!!!

1999-04-19 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Konstantinos Margaritis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have at least 10 shells open. Unless I am greatly mistaken, running 10 static >bash's would be quite severe on memory use. The right way would be to have both statically and dynamically linked bash's. And t

known problems with libgtk1.2?

1999-04-17 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Currently many packages on my system segfault when called. This is with almost all packages that depend on libgtk1.2 - any known current instabilities with these? Packages like gtksee, gentoo, xchat (just to name a few) all segfault when called. Any idea where to search for solutions? bye, Ge

glibc currently unstable?

1999-04-03 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Anybody noticing lot's of segfaults when running applications? For example the last update on the system brought me a breaking man command, but there are lot's of others that are breaking, too. Any idea what's happening? It was quite stable for some weeks, but since the last upgrade to newest

new apache breaks old apache modules

1999-03-25 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! The new apache in the powerpc directories now breaks the apache modules. Will those be uploaded any time soon? It's not a big problem, but it would actually be nice to have all parts together ;-) bye, Georg

8bit-chars in X-applications

1999-03-12 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! One problem: in some packages I can't use 8bit-chars. Those packages usually use GTK or TK for graphic output. Most notably those are X-Chat, TkRat and Postilion. Any idea what happens here? Other X-Applications accept my umlauts just fine, only those named apps have a problem. Usually I woul

Re: backspace key under X

1999-03-05 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sven LUTHER wrote: >both under the console and X ? Sure. xmodmap only modifies the X keymaps. For the console, you have to use loadkeys and stty. bye, Georg

Re: backspace key under X

1999-03-04 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sven LUTHER wrote: >you have to play with the xmodmap stuff, i fixed it this way, but now both the >del and the BS are considered as backspace under the console :( ... xmodmap -e "keycode 59 = BackSpace" works for me. Delete has a different keycode, so there shoul

libstdc++.so.2.8 - any chance to get this?

1999-02-27 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Netscape for mklinux needs this library. Is it possible to have it besides the libstdc++.so.2.9 that is installed in Debian/PPC? There doesn't seem to be another version of Netscape that runs with the newer lib, I think that 2.9 came with GLIBC2.1, right? bye, Georg

Re: Single-button mouse

1999-02-26 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hubert Figuiere wrote: >BTW, my backspace key generates a ~ :-( Yup. Looks like the keymap is FUBAR. Actually I do have several keyboard related problems with the new 2.2.1 kernel and the current potato. For example my keymap that maps the special characters like @

Re: Single-button mouse

1999-02-25 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hubert Figuiere wrote: >Left and right while clokcing emulates button 2 and 3. >-2 and -3 also wroks (for those without right > like me). Hmm. Doesn't work for me. Anything needed to enable that feature? bye, Georg

Re: XF86Config for PowerMac 6500 (ATI graphic card with fbdev)

1999-02-25 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brad Midgley wrote: >i'm almost certain this is a symptom of the fact that accel is >incompatible with modes "default" on ati hardware at least. it sounds like >the problem i saw. disable accel or don't use modes default. After digging through many doc files and

Re: missing packages

1999-02-25 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Ramiega wrote: >know that Poland is not the best place for downloading from around the world >so maybe someone has some spare place on some server outside US ? I could make a place at our server. Try how good your connections are to ftp.westfalen.de (in /hom

Re: missing packages

1999-02-24 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Ramiega wrote: > Well i was also trying to suggest to see if those packages are in binary-all >dir (normally ther should be a link from binary-arch but it might be missing) That's libhtml-parser-perl. But where is mars-nwe? That's definitely not independend

slrn and popen in libc6

1999-02-23 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! And another one: when I try to reply by mail in slrn, it barfs about popen not being available in the libc6 in the right version. bye, Georg

Re: missing packages

1999-02-23 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Ramiega wrote: > Just get debian sources and make packages by Yourself (this is not arch >dependant packacge i suppose it is just set of Perl pod files or smething like >that) Sure, I can build all packages myself. But the question was more where those missi

XF86Config for PowerMac 6500 (ATI graphic card with fbdev)

1999-02-23 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Anybody has any hint's on this? The problem is, the documations is highly PC centric and I don't quite see how to fit it to my Mac. What driver entries have to be done? It's an ATI Mach64GT (3D Rage) board. If I use the XF86Config from /usr/doc/xserver-common and change /dev/mouse to /dev/adbm

missing packages

1999-02-23 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! In the last batch of new package-announcements, there are some that are not available on ftp.debian.org: mars-nwe libhtml-parser-perl (this is especially weird, because some other packages depend on it) Any idea where they are? Gone to the local pub? Oh, and does someone have a PGP2 (or 5,

current potato, kernel 2.2.1 and 6500 keyboard

1999-02-21 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Funny thing I discovered today: with the current potato, the 2.2.1 kernel and a 6500/275 with the standard keyboard, I can't use any combinations of shift, altgr (= option) and any key. For example I can't use my mac keyboard map where I maped the backslash to shift+altgr+7, although that work

Re: still ssh problems

1998-12-13 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! On Sat, 12 Dec 1998 00:18:15 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hartmut Koptein) wrote: >Hmm, not nice and not reproduceable for me; this versions was working >for me, before my harddisk crashed. > >Have you older libs installed? Nope. Everything the newest version. I did fetch the current potato-vers

still ssh problems

1998-12-10 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Still the same problems with ssh: I fetched the ssh from the Incoming from non-us, but the problem is the same: mpn_add_n is missing. Looks like the complete low-level functions in gmp2 are missing! (I looked at the symbols when linking ssh, all symbols where low-level functions) Anybody has

ssh on Debian/PPC

1998-12-06 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Since there is no ssh package on ftp.de.debian.org for PowerPC, I tried to compile it myself. Compilation runs fine, but linking gives the attached errors. Any idea how to fix? Is there some lib missing? libgmp2 and libgmp2-dev are installed, as are the other libs that are named in the command

Re: anacron madness

1998-12-06 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >contrary to what the manpage says, it neither forks nor sends mail nor writes >anything into the syslog, thus hanging the machine during init. Is this a Don't know if this helps, but I would like to add that I have the exactly same problem

Re: Installation of X on Debian-ppc

1998-12-01 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >There is a lynx package in unstable... The former package didn't work, because it depended on slang0 that was not available. The new one (2.8.1-2) does work, though. bye, Georg

Re: Sould-volume and CD-player

1998-11-29 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >as long as you're using the DMAsound driver (any kernel >= 2.1.100), you >can use aumix. there is a debian package, but it doesn't build right >now. Hmm. Doesn't sound too practical, to use a package that is not there ;-) Ok

Sould-volume and CD-player

1998-11-28 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Does anyone know what to use to control the sound volume on a Mac? I searched the available package list up and down but didn't find something that does this. cdtools works fine to play cds, but I think my neighbours will be a bit upset, if I always play it that loud ;-) X-players might work,

Re: Installation of X on Debian-ppc

1998-11-24 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >Right now, http://master.debian.org/~dan. They will be in the archive >when xfree 3.3.3 comes out; which is probably soon after thanksgiving >(a week). Uhm. I should say that I am a bit limited, currently: lynx does not work and none of t

Re: Installation of X on Debian-ppc

1998-11-24 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >You need a bunch more packages; for instance, xbase-clients. There Uhm. Where is it? I can't find it in sid. Shouldn't sid be identical to potato for powerpc? Or should I switch to potato? I checked against "unstable". Same result. Any h

Installation of X on Debian-ppc

1998-11-22 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Any hints on above topic? I do have debian-ppc up and running (sort of), most things run fine. But after installing xbase and xserver-fbdev, I still don't have something like startx or xinit, and there is no XF86config-script. Is this in another package that I am just to stupid to find, or do

apt 0.19 under debian-ppc

1998-11-22 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Above program makes trouble on my system: when updating the package cache, the system segfaults. Any known reason or any idea where to look for a solution? It is a bit awkward to install all packages by hand, if you are used to apt ;-) bye, Georg -- http://www.westfalen.de/hugo/

resc-disc

1998-10-25 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Is there such a thing available? The base-tar is already in sid, even a driver-disc (from the name I deduce that it is for chrp-machines). But no resc-disc. But without it is a bit of a problem to configure the base system - or are there any hints on how to configure the base system manually?

Realtek NE2000-clone or other PCI-Ethernet-Board

1998-10-16 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! I currently have an Realtek NE2000-clone. This card is correctly found with the ne2k-pci driver, but the driver is unable to send packages out to the ethernet - it send's out arp-requests for the destination address and creates lot's of errors. Does anybody have this card running? And if not: