Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-24 Thread Henrik Edlund
the lusers wanted Cool by Asus. I used to have Asus motherboards before I did the momentous decision to stop using IBM PC hardware after 15 years, and just use PowerPC and Sun hardware. Sorry for jumping to conclusions. -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.edlund.org/ &quo

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-24 Thread Henrik Edlund
Was that necessary?' I AS> said 'we still have choices.' The question is why you were buying IBM PC compatibles in the first place when you could have bought Sun hardware. And if you really needed PC hardware why not assemble the machines yourself? No Microsoft tax. -- Henr

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-23 Thread Henrik Edlund
choice. No, I will not run MacOS, but I will see if I can hurt Apple in some way. -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.edlund.org/ "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens." -- Angelina Jolie

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-23 Thread Henrik Edlund
. Otherwise it sounds good. But if it is lies... well then, let them burn in hell. -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.edlund.org/ "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens." -- Angelina Jolie

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-23 Thread Henrik Edlund
was blaming Apple, but anyway, whos fault is it? -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.edlund.org/ "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens." -- Angelina Jolie

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-23 Thread Henrik Edlund
On 23 Oct 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: MD> Which is always the case in MacOS because it uses the graphics MD> chip's iDCT and motion compensation capabilities, which we can't MD> for lack of documentation. Ugh. Closed hardware should be illegal. -- Henrik Edlund <[

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-23 Thread Henrik Edlund
ason why it would not be possible to get DVD playback to work either on the "old" iBook2. Isn't is supposed to work under MacOS9? And with how badly MacOS9 is designed Linux must be able to top that. -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.edlund.org/ "You&#

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-23 Thread Henrik Edlund
gh for smooth DVD playback. MD> Wouldn't it though not be false marketing (and hence illegal) to claim that the iBook2-500 can play DVDs when it drop frames? I believe you could get a court to rule that DVD playback means 0 frame drops. -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.edl

Re: Horked TiBook: need assistance

2001-10-20 Thread Henrik Edlund
he suggestions, JMG> JMG> Jason JMG> JMG> On Saturday 20 October 2001 14:24, Colin Walters wrote: JMG> > What you describe sounds like broken hardware; but two things. Have JMG> > you tried holding down Command-Option-p-r and letting it reboot three JMG> > ti

Re: 3 button emulations under X

2001-09-28 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: EB> On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 11:12:57AM +0200, Henrik Edlund wrote: EB> > EB> >_ EB> >^ EB> > EB> > Can someone help me with that keycode? (and maybe tell me what it is is EB> > named in in

Re: 3 button emulations under X

2001-09-28 Thread Henrik Edlund
like to use as buttons 2 DP> and 3? I can't seem to find the value for the pseudo enter (return) button found on my ibook2. The one right of space bar and left of the cursor keys. It looks like this: _ ^ Can someone help me with that keycode? (and maybe tell me wha

Re: Problem booting stable cd 1 on ibook2

2001-09-21 Thread Henrik Edlund
the gory details can be read on the web page LdS> above or other similar links. I got it to boot from CD, but after following the instructions on that page for installation and rebooting I get "Image not found" or something similar when it tried to boot. -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PR

Re: Problem booting stable cd 1 on ibook2

2001-09-21 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Colin Walters wrote: CW> Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CW> CW> > I then tried with "debian video=offb" at the boot: prompt but same result. CW> CW> Does it help to say 'video=ofonly' instead of 'video=offb

Problem booting stable cd 1 on ibook2

2001-09-21 Thread Henrik Edlund
Can anyone help me? -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.edlund.org/ "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens." -- Angelina Jolie