Re: read apple partition scheme from amd64

2007-07-09 Thread Lawrence Li
i've taken out the hard disk from my old ibook g3 and i'd like to be able to read it from my new macbook (amd64). Your MacBook runs on AMD64? How could that be possible? Lawrence -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Kernel upgrade problem

2006-08-28 Thread Lawrence Li
hi lists: I would be grateful if you can share your expertise on the kernel upgrade of Debian PPC on Apple iBook. I'm trying to upgrade the kernel from the default 2.6.8 to the latest (from kernel.org), and I followed the drill using make-kpkg. However, after the compilation began (i.e.: after "

RAM for iBook

2006-08-02 Thread Lawrence Li
hi list: I hope this is not off-topic. My girlfriend's Fujitsu Lifebook broke (North Bridge burned) so I'm now in posess of the two 256 M RAM chips. I'm wondering if they'll run on an iBook G3 (late 2001) with Debian Sarge? I've heard that some Apple laptops are very picky about RAMs, and incom

Re: Clicks & pops when playing audio

2006-08-01 Thread Lawrence Li
> Personally, I use xmms with Blackbox on my Linux running PowerMacs, and I don't get any clicks or pops. Do you have both desktop environments installed (KDE and Gnome)? Or did you delete Gnome when you switched to KDE? No I didn't delete Gnome. Xmms doesn't work for me, in KDE it can't

Re: Clicks & pops when playing audio

2006-08-01 Thread Lawrence Li
; doesn't help. Lawrence On 01/08/06, Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: alsa or oss emulated output? Dean On Tue, August 1, 2006 4:19 pm, Lawrence Li wrote: > hi list: > > I've recently switched to KDE from Gnome on my iBook G3 with Debian > Sarge, so far I&

Clicks & pops when playing audio

2006-07-31 Thread Lawrence Li
hi list: I've recently switched to KDE from Gnome on my iBook G3 with Debian Sarge, so far I'm happy with KDE, except for one thing. I use amaroK to play audio files, during the playback, some clicks and pops turn up periodically, sometimes weak and sometimes quite loud. This also happens when I

Re: Audio driver for Debian / iBook G3

2006-07-26 Thread Lawrence Li
oh what a jerk I was: after a reboot, the sound is working! Thanks indeed! Lawrence -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Audio driver for Debian / iBook G3

2006-07-26 Thread Lawrence Li
hi Ludovic: Thanks for your reply. However... 1 - Have you loaded the kernel module of your sound card ? -> Make a lsmod and if you don't see snd_powermac, load it: modprobe snd_powermac Yes, I do see snd_powermac. 2 - If you had loaded in user mode, maybe it is a probl

Audio driver for Debian / iBook G3

2006-07-26 Thread Lawrence Li
hi list: My system is Debian Sarge / iBook G3, with the default kernel (2.6.8), I don't seem to be able to get the audio driver working. The volume control slider at the upper-right corner is currently being frozen, i.e.: it stays at the bottom (zero volume) and it's not slidable. I read somewher

Re: xorg nv options

2006-07-19 Thread Lawrence Li
hi all: I'm trying to figure out how to use external display on my iBook G3 (late 2001) / Debian, so it's great to see this thread going on. The display I have is an LG L194WT, which is sold only in Asia I think. As the "W" in the model suggests, it's a widescreen LCD (16:9), with a recommended

iBook Debian kernel upgrade

2006-06-30 Thread Lawrence Li
hi list: I have Debian (Sarge) installed on an iBook G3 (White book), the kernel is now 2.6.8, I downloaded 2.6.17.2 from kernel.org, would anybody tell me how to upgrade? The downloaded file is: patch-2.6.16.2, the content starts with these: diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 1700d3f..7b38

Re: Can't run RAR binary

2006-06-25 Thread Lawrence Li
Why bother with any of that when you can install this? http://packages.debian.org/testing/utils/unrar Thanks for the tip, but when I tried to install it with "dpkg --install ", it returned the following error msgs: (Reading database ... 37263 files and directories currently installed.) Unpac

Can't run RAR binary

2006-06-24 Thread Lawrence Li
hi list: I was trying to use RAR to unzip an .rar file on Debian / iBook G3. After downloading RAR and going through "./configure" >> "make" >> "make install", RAR was in /usr/local/bin, but neither rar nor unrar are executable. The error msg is: bash: /usr/local/bin/rar: cannot execute binary