Re: Using MacOSX drivers from Linux

2005-02-26 Thread Jérôme Marant
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 02:30:32PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Noone seems to hope that Airport Extreme hardware will be >> usable from Linux someday. > > Hehe, well, there is at least two

Using MacOSX drivers from Linux

2005-02-26 Thread Jérôme Marant
avour and drivers on both systems might have similarities. I can't believe that noone has already though about it, or attempted to do so. TIA. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: True state of support for 12" iBook G4

2004-11-01 Thread Jérôme Marant
Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 01:21:57PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 10:48:54AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> >> > And non-f

Re: True state of support for 12" iBook G4

2004-11-01 Thread Jérôme Marant
Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 10:48:54AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> >> Non-free sucks. But non-free drivers is better than no driver at all. > > Pretty much means they play ball and win. As long as they dont realiz

Re: True state of support for 12" iBook G4

2004-11-01 Thread Jérôme Marant
Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 10:48:54AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> > And non-free sucks even more. It is like admiting that close source drivers >> > for ATI cards are good enough. Then they dont work on your iBook and peopl

Re: True state of support for 12" iBook G4

2004-10-31 Thread Jérôme Marant
Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 04:52:00PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> > >> > Which sources you base your information on? >> >> There are many. http://petitiononline.com is one of them. I signed twice. > > Chec

Re: True state of support for 12" iBook G4

2004-10-31 Thread Jérôme Marant
Enrico Nardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:52:00 +0200, Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> >> There are many. http://petitiononline.com is one of them. I signed twice

Re: True state of support for 12" iBook G4

2004-10-30 Thread Jérôme Marant
Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 05:48:03PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> >> Buying Apple hardware is often a bad choice regarding linux support. I >> bought an iBook 2 years ago because the ratio quality/price was good, but >>

Re: True state of support for 12" iBook G4

2004-10-29 Thread Jérôme Marant
right now. I'm amazed. What's the point buying hardware you won't be able to use and which forces you to buy additional hardware? How about refusing to play Apple's game instead? -- Jérôme Marant

Re: True state of support for 12" iBook G4

2004-10-28 Thread Jérôme Marant
gt; would probably be less rugged than the iBook. These days, people seem to recommend IBM X40 series, but I don't know if they are cheap enough for you. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: True state of support for 12" iBook G4

2004-10-28 Thread Jérôme Marant
'm > wondering if someone could help clear this up for me. Buying Apple hardware is often a bad choice regarding linux support. I bought an iBook 2 years ago because the ratio quality/price was good, but these days, there are much nicer alternatives in the x86 world. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant

Strange troubles with X and cursors on iBook

2004-08-25 Thread Jérôme Marant
t the touchpad while editing. Has anyone already experienced this? Thanks in advance. -- Jérôme Marant

Angry at Apple

2004-08-19 Thread Jérôme Marant
ardware, 2/ if the customer service is always that bad? Feedback anyone? TIA. -- Jérôme Marant, considering saying Apple goodbye.

Unidentified subject!

2004-08-19 Thread Jérôme Marant
ering ordering this part, but I still wonder if there are hardware disparities between iBooks sold in the USA, and those sold in Europe (especially France). Has anyone heard of such disparities? Thanks. -- Jérôme Marant

Re: [OT] iBook hardware problems

2004-07-27 Thread Jérôme Marant
know about this problem and how to fix > it is in the Apple support forums. Yep. I found many people with that problem. And someone mentioned www.smalldog.com with the incriminated part at $20. (not checked) Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant

Re: [OT] iBook hardware problems

2004-07-27 Thread Jérôme Marant
ich doesn't seem to be my case. Thanks. -- Jérôme Marant

Re: [OT] iBook hardware problems

2004-07-27 Thread Jérôme Marant
repaired? > > > > Expanded iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program: > http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/faq/ Thanks. However it doesn't look like the problem I encounter. I think Bill brought the solution. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant

Re: [OT] iBook hardware problems

2004-07-27 Thread Jérôme Marant
Quoting bill traynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jérôme Marant wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I bought an iBook one year and a half ago, and I recently > >experienced some hardware failures. > >It seems that closing/opening the iBook managed to damage > >the vid

[OT] iBook hardware problems

2004-07-27 Thread Jérôme Marant
screen. Has anyone experienced this before? It is easy to be repaired? Thanks. -- Jérôme Marant

Re: Conexant modem on ibook

2003-08-05 Thread Jérôme Marant
Quoting Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi du mardi 05 août 2003, vers > 13:37, Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > > I downloaded the linux driver for the conexant usb modem from the > > conexant site, but

Re: Conexant modem on ibook

2003-08-05 Thread Jérôme Marant
in > the meantime. Very nice, thanks you for this information. -- Jérôme Marant

Conexant modem on ibook

2003-08-05 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, I downloaded the linux driver for the conexant usb modem from the conexant site, but I didn't manage to make ppp work with it. Has anyone already started a ppp successful PPP connexion with those drivers? Thanks in advance. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant

Re: Tuxracer on ibook (radeon 7500 + DRI trunk)

2003-06-10 Thread Jérôme Marant
86 bugzilla. I'll do so. Thank you. -- Jérôme Marant

Re: Tuxracer on ibook (radeon 7500 + DRI trunk)

2003-06-07 Thread Jérôme Marant
hes appear elsewhere :P > or > > RADEON_TCL_FORCE_DISABLE=1 /usr/games/tuxracer This doesn't change anything. Then I tried the following xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk: 2003.04.23-1: works fine but seems much slower than 2003.05.04-1 2003.04.25-1: works the same way as 2003.04.23-1. I hope this helps. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: Tuxracer on ibook (radeon 7500 + DRI trunk)

2003-06-05 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 15:04, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > > > I tried recently Tuxracer on ibook whose video card is a > > radeon 7500, and I noticed a lot of gitches: fishes and > > banners are not rendered

Re: Gentoo PPC LiveCDs

2003-06-04 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Eric Pretorious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Rather a Linux/PPC mailing list. > > Relax - It's all good! :^) I've neve been convinced by source-based distributions being the way to go. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marant.org

Re: Gentoo PPC LiveCDs

2003-06-04 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Oliver Ripka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > One can get the images here: > http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/releases/ppc/livecd/1.4_rc7/ We are on a Debian mailing list, aren't we? -- Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marant.org

Re: Tuxracer on ibook (radeon 7500 + DRI trunk)

2003-06-03 Thread Jérôme Marant
es. I noticed the same sort of > thing in the small screenshots when choosing a gnome theme. i haven't > had time to correlate all this and chase it down as yet. Could it be some endianness problem? Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant

Tuxracer on ibook (radeon 7500 + DRI trunk)

2003-06-02 Thread Jérôme Marant
. -- Jérôme Marant

Re: [OT] mplayer

2003-05-16 Thread Jérôme Marant
". How about trying ogle (+ ogle-altivec)? Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: iBook and different network configurations

2003-04-27 Thread Jérôme Marant
etect when there is > a link. So when you plug your laptop, ifup ethX is called automatically > and ifdown when you unplug. > In the second category, the link is supposed to be there and they tru to > identify the network (home or work?) by sending arp requests. Thanks. -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: iBook and different network configurations

2003-04-25 Thread Jérôme Marant
able to your > ethernet > interface and act accordingly. > > whereami and friends, IIRC, are tools that try to identify to which > lan > you are connected to. Hmm, I don't understand the difference between both. Could you please tell me? Thanks. -- Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PR

Re: iBook and different network configurations

2003-04-25 Thread Jérôme Marant
. You can specify a > mac > address, which is specific for every network and let laptop-netconf > configure your mac automatically according to your settings. Thanks. -- Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marant.org

Re: iBook and different network configurations

2003-04-25 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OoO En cette matinée ensoleillée du vendredi 25 avril 2003, vers > 09:51, Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > > There are many network environment configuration tools in Debian > > and I don'

iBook and different network configurations

2003-04-25 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, I'm sorry if this question also apply to the debian-laptop list. There are many network environment configuration tools in Debian and I don't know any of them except from "netenv". Which one would you advice? Thanks in advance. -- Jérôme Marant

Re: Petition for a Flash plugin for Linux on PPC

2003-04-23 Thread Jérôme Marant
; survival, not convenience. I don't care for what you do personaly. I'm talking about the corporate world. -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: Petition for a Flash plugin for Linux on PPC

2003-04-18 Thread Jérôme Marant
ftware at work is possible). What if some customers only speak MS Word? Will you piss them off, or will you grab OpenOffice? -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: Petition for a Flash plugin for Linux on PPC

2003-04-18 Thread Jérôme Marant
d it. I'm perfectly OK with reading flash with free flash players. Nowdays, I'm happy that OpenOffice is free because I can read MS Word files when I really need to. -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: Petition for a Flash plugin for Linux on PPC

2003-04-18 Thread Jérôme Marant
a SWF player/ plugin. As long as there isn't any patent on the format like the MP3 patent, I don't see anything preventing anyone to develop a SWF reader. Is there such a patent? -- Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marant.org

Re: Is 2.4.20-ben9 considered as stable?

2003-03-26 Thread Jérôme Marant
8 (T kernel_thread+0x2c) I hope this helps. Thanks in advance for your help. -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Is 2.4.20-ben9 considered as stable?

2003-03-25 Thread Jérôme Marant
meant to be stable or is it the work in progress BK tree accessible via rsync? Thanks in advance. -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9

2003-03-15 Thread Jérôme Marant
uilt APM emulation into the kernel. Thanks a lot for the info! Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9

2003-03-15 Thread Jérôme Marant
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sam, 2003-03-15 at 13:04, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> David MENTRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > I works!! In fact, the /dev/apm_bios character device was missing. >> > >> > Doing a 'mk

Re: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9

2003-03-15 Thread Jérôme Marant
David MENTRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I works!! In fact, the /dev/apm_bios character device was missing. > > Doing a 'mknod /dev/apm_bios c 10 134;chmod 770 /dev/apm_bios' as root > make it works. What in the patch makes this necessary, please? Thanks. -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

French keymap

2003-01-28 Thread Jérôme Marant
opose? Thanks in advance. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: Suggest a really good email client

2003-01-18 Thread Jérôme Marant
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 22:38:12 +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> Would you please stop being stupid and prove what you tell before >> spreading FUD? > > *You* are stupid. You can't tell what I receive from this maile

Re: Suggest a really good email client

2003-01-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 21:12:32 +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> It seems that you have no clue on what you are talking about. > > I often receive messages sent by Gnus, so I know what I'm talking > about. Gnus is like

Re: Suggest a really good email client

2003-01-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
; I haven't a clue about the gnus emacs or whatever, since I tend to stay > far far away from Emacs > in general. Gnus for Emacs does comply to all standards and this clueless guy is trying to spread FUD. -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: Suggest a really good email client

2003-01-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
. > Amongst the messages I receive, Gnus may be the worse. Would you please stop being stupid and prove what you tell before spreading FUD? -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: Suggest a really good email client

2003-01-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 13:52:10 +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> En réponse à Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Mutt, there is no better :) >> >> The usual answer is: yes, there is. Gnus for Emacs.

Re: Suggest a really good email client

2003-01-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
yes, there is. Gnus for Emacs. In order to be objective, we can propose multiple choices of clients supporting IMAP, with respect to user's desirata, i.e.: GTK graphical interface: Evolution, Sylpheed KDE/Qt graphical interface: KMail Emacs mailers: Gnus, Wanderlust Textual interface: Mutt -- Jérôme Marant

Re: Suggest a really good email client

2003-01-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Allan Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Kevin Smith wrote: > > > Can any suggest a "really" good email client that also supports > IMAP? > > Well I like Pine. Please mention Free Software only. Pine is a bad advice. -- Jérôme Marant

Re: Powermanagment of the new iBook (11.2002)

2003-01-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 21:45, Jérôme Marant wrote: > >> But aren't your devel snapshots available with rsync? >> I was dealing with them, not the bitkeeper ones, for those like >> me who don't w

Re: Powermanagment of the new iBook (11.2002)

2003-01-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 21:08, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> >> >> >> Beware that it will still die with DRI enabled, even if you only try to >> >> enable the DRI after sleep. >> > >> >

Re: Powermanagment of the new iBook (11.2002)

2003-01-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
kernel ? >> >> It may only be in his development tree yet. >> >> Beware that it will still die with DRI enabled, even if you only try to >> enable the DRI after sleep. > > How could I download the development tree? You can get the devel tree via rsync. Instructions here: http://penguinppc.org/~benh Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: Powermanagment of the new iBook (11.2002)

2003-01-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
, it's > the best we have for now for M7's. This is far better than having nothing at all. If DRI must be disabled, then I'll disable it. Thanks a lot for you good work! Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: Powermanagment of the new iBook (11.2002)

2003-01-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Isn't this patch in the current benh kernel ? > > It may only be in his development tree yet. > > Beware that it will still die with DRI enabled, even if you only try to > enable the DRI after sleep. I'll di

Re: Powermanagment of the new iBook (11.2002)

2003-01-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
n I found the patch? > > Yes, you need the pmud. > > The kernel patch is at http://people.debian.org/~hafre/radeonfb.c.diff Isn't this patch in the current benh kernel ? -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: iBook power management

2003-01-10 Thread Jérôme Marant
Some French guy wrote to me personaly about this and I lost his mail, my apologies. I thank him, he knows who he his :-) -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: iBook power management

2003-01-10 Thread Jérôme Marant
o and out of > power-management mode. So until he does, system suspend won't work on > the latest iBooks. Thanks for the information. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

iBook power management

2003-01-10 Thread Jérôme Marant
hen I "close" the ibook, it seems to be suspended properly but never wake up when I "reopen" it. Did I miss something? Thanks in advance. Cheers, PS: many thanks to people that wrote installation guides (Branden, Jesus, and those I do not mention), they were of

Mozilla/galeon make X crash on ibook2 debian woody

2002-12-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
is basic and was taken from different HOWTOs Kernel is 2.4.18-newpmac Can someone enlighten me, please? Thanks in advance. -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org