Re: Porting ppc Linux to Xbox 360?

2005-07-01 Thread Lee Braiden
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Re: Porting ppc Linux to Xbox 360?

2005-06-19 Thread Lee Braiden
On Sunday 19 Jun 2005 14:09, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > > Apple clone manufacturers > > I thought they were all long dead... URLs? Never mind; I figured some of these were still going, since they supported PPC before, and new ATX-based PPC boards would presumably just ma

Re: Porting ppc Linux to Xbox 360?

2005-06-18 Thread Lee Braiden
On Sunday 19 Jun 2005 00:31, Wouter van Heyst wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 12:23:42AM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > What then do you suggest we do? PS3? POWER workstations? Well, we can say that a certain course of action is unwise without already having the alternatives worked out.

Re: Porting ppc Linux to Xbox 360?

2005-06-18 Thread Lee Braiden
On Sunday 19 Jun 2005 00:41, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > With the current Xbox, m$ takes a loss on every machine sold and > makes it up in games sales. > > If people buy an xbox and only run Linux on it, then that does > hurt m$. Nope. Why do you think they are in a market they are losing money

Re: Porting ppc Linux to Xbox 360?

2005-06-18 Thread Lee Braiden
On Sunday 19 Jun 2005 00:02, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Are there chances that those maintaining today's ppc branch of the > Linux kernel, and the rest of the ppc linux system, might want to turn > Xbox 360 to a full fledged PPC Linux computer? Anyone out there with > the necessary knowledge being

KDE 3.4

2005-06-06 Thread Lee Braiden
Anyone know what's holding up KDE 3.4 on PPC? It doesn't even seem to be in Alioth yet, although KDE 3.4.1 is there for other archs (even non-x86 ones). Is KDE 3.4 for PPC being staged somewhere else? Anyway, can someone point me to a good apt source for it? -- Lee. Please do not CC replies

Re: WMV DLL for ppc.

2005-06-06 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 06 Jun 2005 17:00, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:37:03PM +0200, Alex Fernandez wrote: > > Have you tried with vlc? It plays wmv: > > http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html > > I tried, but it does not work for me, e.g.: Your only option (apart from avoiding c

Re: grub 2?

2005-05-20 Thread Lee Braiden
On Friday 20 May 2005 18:03, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > After my degree is over soon and I have some time on my hands I may try > using it when I put Linux over the whole disk. It's at times like this that I wish I had an identical iBook just for foolish experiments that might fry my data ;) -

Re: grub 2?

2005-05-20 Thread Lee Braiden
On Friday 20 May 2005 18:01, Colin Watson wrote: > I tried current CVS earlier this month and it fell over while trying to > load an initrd. Ahh, it's interesting that you even got that far. Thanks :) -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: MOL

2005-05-19 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 19 May 2005 21:11, Fallen_Angel wrote: > I'm not sure the question I asked is a "bug" I didn't say that it was. What I'm saying is that you should probably go up the "chain" of responsibility from ubuntu's mailing lists to debian's, just as debian itself does when bugs are reported

grub 2?

2005-05-19 Thread Lee Braiden
I see that the HURD wiki talks about grub 2, and its powerpc support. Has anyone tried it on ppc yet? Might be nice to have an alternative to yaboot :) -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: MOL

2005-05-19 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 19 May 2005 01:09, Fallen_Angel wrote: > Hi, it's been a while since I have posted to this list, and for that I > apologize. Am I still welcome to post here since I have changed to > ubuntu? At first I would think no, but then again it is based on SID, > so I am not sure. Well if not

Re: instruction cache throttling

2005-05-18 Thread Lee Braiden
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 18:36, Mauro wrote: > I'm not a corder but I believe this would involve creating a library > such as the one proposed for L4 for memory management. This would > entail taking an app's word for how much memory they need, regardless of > this being in user space or in the ke

Re: instruction cache throttling

2005-05-18 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 23:39, John Steele Scott wrote: > datasheet), then ICTC is only going to reduce power consumption for loads > which will be using 100% of CPU at high speed. But this application is not > particularly useful for a desktop machine. Speaking of this... kernel scheduling folks s

Re: Seriuos stability problem using KDE apps

2005-05-14 Thread Lee Braiden
On Saturday 14 May 2005 18:36, Colin Leroy wrote: > That's the sort of stuff one can't mess with on an iBook... But faulty > hardware still is possible. Ahh, of course :) I guess I thought this was in debian-user :) -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address. -- To UNS

Re: Seriuos stability problem using KDE apps

2005-05-14 Thread Lee Braiden
On Saturday 14 May 2005 17:56, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > I have an iBook G4 on Sid, 2.6.9 custom kernel (but that is not important, > it happens with any kernel) and I am a Gnome user. I used to experience > some "sudden" problems in audio, stability of some apps (especially the > less "stable", as

Re: Ata Raid HD

2005-05-13 Thread Lee Braiden
On Friday 13 May 2005 19:48, João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste wrote: > I can't install debian in my ibook g4 because the sistem don't > recognize my Hard Disk. What can i do. I saw in the debian site that > have a floopy with the drivers that are missing. boot I dont have > floopy drive Look for a

Re: I updated MacOSX to Tiger...

2005-05-13 Thread Lee Braiden
On Friday 13 May 2005 15:17, Bart Dorsey wrote: > BTW, for something cool to try that wasn't advertised much about Tiger, go > into the Utilities folder and try out Grapher, the 3d Graphing calculator. > > Very nice. I'd like to have a play with it all just for curiosity's sake, but I think, in t

Re: I updated MacOSX to Tiger...

2005-05-12 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 12 May 2005 16:44, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > And btw, great work Tiger. Although Dashboard is just a damn ripoff is > much better than gDesklets (I love them, but hey, dashboard looks better); > spotlight is very good (/me waits for Beagle) and I have to try Automator, > whatever it does

Re: Help with inkscape bug #303551

2005-05-12 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 12 May 2005 04:30, Michel DÃnzer wrote: > On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 21:16 +0200, Wolfram Quester wrote: > > In bug #303551 it was reported that inkscape segfaults on startup. > > strace output and a core file are attached to the bugreport. ltrace > > outputs nothing and never finishes. gdb

Re: flakey ibook keyboard

2005-05-12 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 18:27, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 02:46:29PM +0200, [ATR]Dj-Death wrote: > > same problem here with ibook G4. If it's a bug or whatever. I just know > > this often happens when I press several key at the same time. > > Has anyone an idea to fix it ? > > I thi

Re: crashes / hardware related

2005-05-11 Thread Lee Braiden
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 21:22, Antonin AMAND wrote: > THANK YOU !!! > > I was sure it wasn't the airport card but it was. I'm so happy this > isn't more (i'm stupid and i've lost my warranty). > > So finally this thing that i use one day a year and which cost me 90 > euros his the caus

Re: flakey ibook keyboard

2005-05-11 Thread Lee Braiden
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 16:39, Wolfram Quester wrote: > > Sometimes, a key gets 'stuck', I don't know if this is a hardware or > > software issue. The trick is to find the key and press it again. > Some time ago I worked quite a bit in OF and there I noticed this > behaviour too, also in MacOSX.

Re: crashes / hardware related

2005-05-10 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 13:17, AMAND Antonin wrote: > Hi, > > I have some troubles with my 7 months year old ibook G4 12''. > > Here is the problem : Few weeks ago, my computer start to crash when i > move it a bit. > Under debian, the mouse freeze and the screen become unstable, under > osx, the s

Re: flakey ibook keyboard

2005-05-10 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 10:37, Lee Braiden wrote: > Sometimes it won't recognise the qualifier keys when I press > mode_switch+shift. So, for example, it'll print g OK, and shift-g (G), and > mode_switch+g (Ä), but most of the time shift+mode_switch+g (which should > be Ä)

flakey ibook keyboard

2005-05-10 Thread Lee Braiden
Anyone else have trouble with their ibook keyboard? Mine suddenly takes to repeating 222s or some other key in X (but 2 is quite common), and I just discovered that, with the g key xmodmap'ed to: g G gcircumflex Gcircumflex Sometimes it won't recognise the qualifier keys when I press

Re: ati rage 128 dri: trunk, xorg, and debian's xfree

2005-05-09 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 09 May 2005 23:46, Mauro wrote: > What machine are you using? Which rage 128 card are you using? Does it > freeze during screensaver startup? I run a iMac DV with Rage 128 RL/VR > AGP. I used to use Danzer's X to get around a a bug that froze my > system when accel was enabled. It do

ati rage 128 dri: trunk, xorg, and debian's xfree

2005-05-09 Thread Lee Braiden
What exactly is the situation with ati r128's 3d support? It used to all work fine, but lately I've had to use Michel Dänzer's old (2004) trunk xserver packages in order to prevent blender crashing on startup. I had assumed this was just a bug in the outdated xfree packages in sid, and that xo

Re: some way to start gtkbuttons at X startup

2005-04-20 Thread Lee Braiden
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 23:04, Eddy Petrisor wrote: > Is there a way to start automatically gtkbuttons at X startup? > I am really annoyed of the fact that I saw the equivalent in kde 3.4 > (kubuntu) made by default (although i don't know if it was at X startup > or just user login) and I have b

Re: NES emulation with Sarge?

2005-04-07 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 07 April 2005 11:08, Björn Johansson wrote: > Is there a NES emulator for Debian Sarge(PPC) somewhere? > I've managed to get the source from different projects, but I have not been > able to compile them. It seems that they only work for pc:s. Try "apt-cache search nes" or "apt-cache s

Re: mplayer and real movies

2005-04-01 Thread Lee Braiden
On Saturday 02 April 2005 01:21, Daniele Menozzi wrote: > Hi all, I was trying to watch .rm movies with mplayer, on my ibook g3, but > I get this error: > > Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad... > Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder > opening shared obj '/usr/lib/win32/

Re: Downgrading from Sid to Sarge ?

2005-04-01 Thread Lee Braiden
On Friday 01 April 2005 09:28, Eugen Dedu wrote: > If this is the case and you want to stay with sarge (testing) only, I > propose you to remove the lines for unstable (or sid) from your > /etc/apt/sources.list. That means that from now on you would not > install packages from unstable. After a f

Re: keymap

2005-03-29 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 23:49, Michael wrote: > Just a quick question. Had to redo my whole Hard Drive in order to get > OS 9 back in and bootable. But in doing this I decided to change the > keymap I used for debian to an apple_usb_keyboard. And that Solved my > virtual console problem. But t

Re: Accessing LogWatch via web

2005-03-29 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 21:51, Mehul Sanghvi wrote: > Does anyone know how to get LogWatch to create web based reports ? > If I understand it You could filter it through a script via procmail or some other filter, use a web-based email server, or just have it redirected to a remote email add

Re: Linux PPC Java development

2005-03-29 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 21:03, Barry Hawkins wrote: > ~Hello and welcome. If you would like, you can use the gcjwebplugin; > that is about your only option for applets. Marcellus: Just to give you an informed decision, the gcj plugin had SERIOUS security issues last time I looked at it. (I

Re: Linux PPC Java development

2005-03-29 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 20:14, Marcellus_Listas wrote: > I have a 'newbe' question... I'm using an old IBM 7248 PowerPC machine, > running Debian Linux. I downloaded the IBM JDK but I can not find a JAVA > Plugin ( version 1.4 or newer ) to use with Mozilla 1.7. Konqueror seems to have its own ja

Re: kernel 2.6.11.5 compile errors (fwd)

2005-03-26 Thread Lee Braiden
On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:17, Rolando Abarca wrote: > I was trying to compile kernel 2.6.11.5 and got this error: > > drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.c: In function `pmac_ide_build_dmatable': >[...] > drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.c:2026: error: `__ide_dma_timeout' undeclared (first > use in this function) > > any i

Re: xdga colors problem

2005-03-25 Thread Lee Braiden
On Friday 25 March 2005 20:10, Michel DÃnzer wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 21:23 -0500, Tamas K Papp wrote: > > When I use xdga (fullscreen), the colors are weird, eg the blue is > > replaced by cyan and the whole thing looks psychedelic. Is this a > > known problem, and is there a workaround? >

Re: changing hostname

2005-03-25 Thread Lee Braiden
On Friday 25 March 2005 15:47, Paul J. Lucas wrote: > If I want to change a host's name, I edit: > >/etc/hostname >/etc/mailname >/etc/hosts > > which I did, but 'uname -n' still prints the old hostname. Is a > reboot necessary? I have seen advice to reboot VERY soon after chang

Re: list of PowerMac sound hardware TO-DO (help welcome)

2005-03-22 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 15:20, Mike Small wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 04:13:15PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > Mine is a G4 466 desktop (Digital Audio is the nickname) and uses > tumbler. Alsa works fine on it. I'm not sure about beep. What is that > exactly and how would I test it?

Re: java 1.4 in browser -- is it possible?

2005-03-19 Thread Lee Braiden
On Saturday 19 March 2005 20:21, Barry Hawkins wrote: > ~You interpreted it correctly[0], I was wondering if you were running > sid. If so, you might want to try out java-package for bundling the IBM > JDK as a .deb so that all your dependency management for Java works. > Version 0.22 has supp

Re: java 1.4 in browser -- is it possible?

2005-03-19 Thread Lee Braiden
On Saturday 19 March 2005 18:23, Barry Hawkins wrote: > ~Which release do you run? Not sure what you're asking, but... sid, with KDE 3.3, just upgraded to 3.4. I don't think it matters though. -- Lee. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: java 1.4 in browser -- is it possible?

2005-03-19 Thread Lee Braiden
On Saturday 19 March 2005 15:46, Tamas K Papp wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:03:50AM -0500, Tamas K Papp wrote: > If anybody gets it working under Firefox/Mozilla/anything, please let > me know. I simply downloaded it and installed it to /usr/local, and then made a /usr/local/bin/java script

Re: pbbuttonsd eats my cpu

2005-03-19 Thread Lee Braiden
On Saturday 19 March 2005 09:43, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Hi all, > PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% 10:40+ > 4661 root 25 0 2256 856 760 R 99.3 0.2 8:01.34 > Command > /usr/bin/pbbuttonsd --configfile=/etc/pbbuttonsd.conf -d > > Does one experienced simil

Re: benefits of apt-build for powerpc?

2005-03-14 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 14 March 2005 22:13, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > PBG4 -- I mean with x86 the i386 packages are a long way behind in terms > of instruction set. Is this the same for PowerPC? I gather G3 optimisations can be quite effective, even without altivec. Problem I have is getting debian (and

Re: Airport Express

2005-03-14 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 14 March 2005 21:13, mike dentifrice wrote: > I'm wondering what to do with an Airport Express, and have a few > questions in mind, that a first bunch of google queries didn't really > solve: As far as I know, Airport Extreme (or at least the central chip behind it) is undocumented, so

Re: mplayer!

2005-03-12 Thread Lee Braiden
On Saturday 12 March 2005 02:08, Rainer Gutkas wrote: > http://www.utv.at/direct.php?id=164 > > It's a film completly made by me (the video is just a snapshot with a digi > cam, the overlayed video effect was programmed by me, the music recorded > mixed and cut by me and the guitar is also me ...)

Re: wxgtk packages missing (and weird?) on PPC?

2005-03-11 Thread Lee Braiden
On Friday 11 March 2005 16:30, Johannes Mockenhaupt wrote: > So this seems to be wanted like that and not a bug. Out of curiosity, what > does 'apt-cache showpkg libwxgtk2.5-dev' output? (My ppc machine is out > for repair atm). Hmm.. just the reverse dependencies. But the second of the dependenc

Re: wxgtk packages missing (and weird?) on PPC?

2005-03-11 Thread Lee Braiden
On Friday 11 March 2005 14:39, Johannes Mockenhaupt wrote: > Anyway, you can 'apt-get source' the package, apply the patch from: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285186 > and build the package yourself Great, thanks for clearing all that up :) > > Interestingly, apt-cache show l

Re: ibook system bus speed

2005-03-10 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 10 March 2005 17:40, Christophe Branchereau wrote: > So it "looks like" the pci buses on this machine are all working at > 66MHz, and therefore the ide bus, or am I wrong again? I think we're probably talking about the bus that connects the physical drives to the controller (in other

Re: ibook system bus speed

2005-03-10 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 10 March 2005 12:43, Christophe Branchereau wrote: > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx > > A quick look on google told me that the system bus speed of this model is > 66MHz, as http://www.apple-history.com specifies. > > Isn't it degrading disk

wxgtk packages missing (and weird?) on PPC?

2005-03-10 Thread Lee Braiden
Anyone know what's happening with wxgtk2.5 on PPC? After checking the pool for the pgadmin3-data package, it seems it hasn't built on PPC for about 5 versions now, and the reason appears to be that it build-depends on libwxgtk2.5-dev. querybts on that gives no reports though, and it doesn't se

Re: gnome silliness

2005-03-08 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 04:31, Dean Hamstead wrote: > thats kind of the wierd thing > gdm is happy with less colors more pixels. then gnome fires up and ruins > everything > > kill gdm and use startx > get nice little X cursor, gnome starts and the res goes all stupid Sounds like you've set gnome

Re: ibook2 r128 xv colour corruption

2005-03-06 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 03 March 2005 23:05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > When playing large movies (say 800x600; definitely 1024x768) using Xv, it > > seems to be unable to allocate the memory required. As a result, mplayer > > crashes, and xine shows only a green screen. > That used to work. I'll have

Re: ibook2 r128 xv colour corruption

2005-03-06 Thread Lee Braiden
On Sunday 06 March 2005 10:40, Mauro wrote: > try it with the official. Don't fix it if it doesn't give you problems. > To be honest again, It could be something other than the rage 128 on my > iMac that is causing the freezes because some ppc users with this card > apparently have better success

Re: ibook2 r128 xv colour corruption

2005-03-05 Thread Lee Braiden
On Saturday 05 March 2005 06:23, Mauro wrote: > This results in the freeze with the default xfree and not freezing with > daenzer's xfree as stated above. Hmm.. so should I still be getting an XFree for R128 from somewhere other than the official sid sources? I used to do that, but I thought t

ibook2 r128 xv colour corruption

2005-03-03 Thread Lee Braiden
Hi all :) I've noticed a driver-ish problem with Xv recently, with my ATI Rage 128 mobility M3... When playing large movies (say 800x600; definitely 1024x768) using Xv, it seems to be unable to allocate the memory required. As a result, mplayer crashes, and xine shows only a green screen. Re

Re: Getting to command line from GDM or KDM...

2005-03-02 Thread Lee Braiden
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 02:07, Mauro wrote: > Suggesting probably just ctrl-alt and then the fn key doesn't sound like > a correction. It sounds like a "cover all grounds" solution. Thus, my > clarification. Well, yes, I have seen it work both ways, so obviously I'm going to cover both just

Re: Building a Custom Kernel

2005-03-01 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 22:16, Ben Hill wrote: > Could anyone give me a quick bullet-point list of the stages of building > a 2.6.8 powerpc kernel? > > I'm used to the traditional method, but I'd like to do it the Debian > way. apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8 cd /usr/src tar xvjf kernel-sourc

Re: Getting to command line from GDM or KDM...

2005-03-01 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 19:58, Mauro wrote: > I have an apple keyboard and its cntrl-option(alt)-F1 to get into > console. There is no apple key involved. Yep, which is why I corrected myself ;) -- Lee. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: mouseemu replacement in pbbuttonsd

2005-03-01 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 19:23, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:08:37PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > hotplug is a better place to disable/enable the touchpad when you plug > > an external mouse. > > How would you go about doing that? Does anybody have any examples they > can p

Re: changing the harddisk of a 12" PowerBook 1.33GHz

2005-03-01 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 18:38, Rogério Brito wrote: > Just for the sake of curiosity are all these machines able to drive > high-capacity HDs? Is there a maximum limit that a notebook can drive (say, > the 137GB barrier)? The limit seems to be physical: they can't/don't make the slim laptop hard

Re: Getting to command line from GDM or KDM...

2005-03-01 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 18:44, Lee Braiden wrote: > Yep, but if you have an Mac keyboard, it'll be Alt+Apple+F1 or > fn+Alt+Apple+F1 *sigh* I must've been thinking of something completely different when I wrote this. Like food :D If your Mac keyboard is doing strange things, l

Re: Getting to command line from GDM or KDM...

2005-03-01 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 18:07, George Wright wrote: > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 17:58, Charles Read wrote: > > Simple one here... how can I get back to the command line once the > > computer automatically starts GDM? > Ctrl Alt F1-F6 will get you back to the console VTs. Yep, but if you have an M

Re: mouseemu replacement in pbbuttonsd

2005-03-01 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 11:08, Vincent Bernat wrote: > hotplug is a better place to disable/enable the touchpad when you plug > an external mouse. Ahh, thanks :) -- Lee. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mouseemu replacement in pbbuttonsd

2005-03-01 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 28 February 2005 21:47, Matthias Grimm wrote: > > But pbbuttonsd already watches for key events. Isn't it possible to > > make it switch the mode of the touchpad, while typing? > > Yes it would be. Is this a feature request? :-) I've mostly gotten used to having a touchpad in my way, but

Re: gnomemeeting on ibook2.2

2005-02-28 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 28 February 2005 09:49, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > According to Lee Braiden, on Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:35:17 +, > >On Sunday 27 February 2005 10:13, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > >> Impossible to open the selected audio device (PowerMac Snapper) for > >> playi

Re: gnomemeeting on ibook2.2

2005-02-28 Thread Lee Braiden
On Sunday 27 February 2005 10:13, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > Impossible to open the selected audio device (PowerMac Snapper) for > playing. Please check your audio setup, the permissions and that the device > is not busy. Have you checked any of those things yet? -- Lee. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: General LinuxPPC question ...

2004-05-29 Thread Lee Braiden
ch better, and Debian can provide a very similar OS across 11 different architectures, which is not to be sniffed at for admins :) -- Lee Braiden [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: r128 and fullscreen (sdl?)

2004-05-23 Thread Lee Braiden
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 11:18, Lee Braiden wrote: Is it possible to force SDL and other engines to use smaller ares on a 1024x768 screen (ie display 800x600 etc unscaled, with a big border), rather than trying to switch resolution? You can try only setting up one

r128 and fullscreen (sdl?)

2004-05-23 Thread Lee Braiden
ack screen. Is it possible to force SDL and other engines to use smaller ares on a 1024x768 screen (ie display 800x600 etc unscaled, with a big border), rather than trying to switch resolution? - - Lee Braiden [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMP kernels on single processor machines

2004-05-21 Thread Lee Braiden
onfig. -- Lee Braiden [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMP kernels on single processor machines

2004-05-20 Thread Lee Braiden
, etc. Given that I *already* have problems with PPC kernels -- latency/lockups, (preempting?), alsa sound, video res, etc., I personally wouldn't go near this until I'm fairly confident that the other stuff is solid in its own right. But then, I'm just a luser, not a kernel m

802.11g on an ibook?

2004-05-18 Thread Lee Braiden
d laptop PCs too, so recommendations for those would be nice as well, if you happen to know :) -- Lee Braiden [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem compiling kernel 2.6

2003-12-26 Thread Lee Braiden
On Friday 26 Dec 2003 9:54 pm, Mich Lanners wrote: > PlanB in 2.6 kernels is completely foobar'ed. Don't attempt to compile > it until further notice :-) (that is until I have time fixing it). Isn't there an option in 2.6 that needs to be specifically enabled to include non-compiling drivers? --

Re: error mounting empty file as disk with MOL

2003-12-24 Thread Lee Braiden
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 4:58 pm, Graham Wilson wrote: > Maybe MOL is compiled without Large File Support? Can anybody confirm > this? If so, this could be why you are getting the errors. Yes, I recall that, now that you mention it. -- Lee.

Re: error mounting empty file as disk with MOL

2003-12-24 Thread Lee Braiden
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 2:58 pm, Josh Lauricha wrote: > I am just now starting to play with linux on powerpc's, so I've never > setup MOL. But my expectation is you need to make a loopback device for > MOL to use. Its been a while sence I've done that but its something > like: No, MOL understands

Re: error mounting empty file as disk with MOL

2003-12-24 Thread Lee Braiden
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 2:39 pm, Nicolas Bertolissio wrote: > # hformat /home/mol/macosx > hformat: /home/mol/macosx: error opening medium (File too large) > > 3GB is too much for ext3? You're formatting a file as an HFS filesystem. I think the limit is 2Gig (but I gather there's no real reason

Re: need (pmac owner help) with powerpc package.

2003-12-23 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 23 Dec 2003 9:54 am, Michael Schmitz wrote: > If you have a better idea - it only affects text console, and unless you > find someone to debug the accel routines, it's better than screen garbage. > Ben disabled text accel in 2.6, BTW. Damn. It sounded like you were discussing my proble

Re: modconf stopped working

2003-12-22 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 22 Dec 2003 6:38 pm, David Kimdon wrote: > You may want to file a bug against modconf > (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting). To get around modconf > breakage you can add modules manually to /etc/modules and/or use > modprobe. Speaking of which... are there plans to make modconf work

Re: 2.6.0[-test11] compile errors

2003-12-18 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 9:49 pm, Lee Braiden wrote: > Hi, > I'm currently running -test10. When compiling both -test11 and 2.6.0, I > get the following errors: Oh, both of those were benh's rsyncs, btw :) -- Lee.

2.6.0[-test11] compile errors

2003-12-18 Thread Lee Braiden
Hi, I'm currently running -test10. When compiling both -test11 and 2.6.0, I get the following errors: CC arch/ppc/kernel/traps.o In file included from arch/ppc/kernel/traps.c:29: include/linux/interrupt.h:38: error: syntax error before "irqreturn_t" include/linux/interrupt.h:38: warning

Re: ppc memory

2003-12-18 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 1:47 pm, florian klinglmueller wrote: > so is it possible to use standard memory, and are there any cautions to > consider? Standard laptop memory, yes. You want a SODIMM, if it's anything like my g3/500 ibook. Just watch the maximum sizes it'll recognise, etc. Read the

Re: Would setting the CONFIG_RTC option break the powerpc kernel on your machine ?

2003-12-17 Thread Lee Braiden
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 6:24 am, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > CONFIG_RTC will definitely break a pmac I think I heard something about clock/timer problems on PPC a long time ago, but could never track down an issue. Wouldn't it be best to remove RTC on PPC or document the problem with a (re

Re: PPCConfDB - I want your configs!

2003-12-09 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 4:46 pm, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Hi everybody, i'll make this short and to the point. > > I've started a project to collect all relevant configuration files for > PowerPC machines running GNU/Linux (& BSD). Excellent! A database of configs for all standardised sys

Re: XFS and Preempt for benh?

2003-12-09 Thread Lee Braiden
On Wednesday 03 Dec 2003 5:21 am, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 23:41, Lee Braiden wrote: > The 2.4 version is definitely a no-no. 2.6 went through a bunch > of infrastructure changes to do preempt "properly" (read: without > adding races all ove

Re: gmt or localtime (was: Regarding GTKPBBUTTONSD and list participation)

2003-12-09 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 9:56 am, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Since MacOS X is actually BSD UNIX I guess it handles the clock in GMT, > unlike older versions of MacOS. My system has been getting the incorrect time on bootup recently too, although it has worked fine before. HWClock is set to GMT (

XFS and Preempt for benh?

2003-12-02 Thread Lee Braiden
Hi, Are there xfs and preempt patches around for benh's 2.4.23? I'd like to upgrade, given some recent events :) -- Lee.

Re: Netscape 4.7x for Debian/PPC?

2003-11-25 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 9:38 am, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > On lun, 2003-11-10 at 14:17, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > I them wrote a short and polite e-mail requesting that they stop > > scripting with specific browsers in mind and instead rely upon W3C > > standards. I even pointed out that since

Re: dma_sound problems on 12" pbook

2003-08-23 Thread Lee Braiden
On Saturday 23 Aug 2003 1:25 am, J. Javier Maestro wrote: > On Aug Sat 23 2003 01:58, Thomas Otto wrote: > > That is expected since dmasound doesn't support recording. You'll have > > to wait for 2.6 with alsa - see some older threat here. > > You mean the sound input on Powerbooks G4 / iBooks will

Re: mono?

2003-08-18 Thread Lee Braiden
On Sunday 17 Aug 2003 10:12 pm, Andreas Wüst wrote: > But hey, not every app needs a gui.. ;) Lee didn't tell us yet what he > intended mono to use for! Dashboard ;) -- - Lee.

Re: lcd resolution scaling?

2003-08-17 Thread Lee Braiden
On Sunday 17 Aug 2003 3:23 pm, you wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:22, Lee Braiden wrote: > > On Sunday 17 Aug 2003 1:43 pm, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 14:33, Lee Braiden wrote: > > > I guess nobody has cleaned it up (it hardcoded the panel re

Re: netbase 4.11

2003-08-17 Thread Lee Braiden
On Sunday 17 Aug 2003 3:36 pm, Jule Slootbeek wrote: > Morning everybody, > i just did a dist-upgrade in unstable (yes i know, unstable is unstable > and can die on you) and it upgraded netbase to 4.11, well it tried, > because it hangs it gets till here: > > Preparing to replace netbase 4.11 (usin

Re: mono?

2003-08-17 Thread Lee Braiden
On Sunday 17 Aug 2003 3:06 pm, Andreas Wüst wrote: > I would recommend to download the source packages from > http://www.debianplanet.org/mono/ and compiled them, or > http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/mono/ sports 0.23 for woody and 0.24 > for sid. Or just go to http://go-mono.org download and com

Re: lcd resolution scaling?

2003-08-17 Thread Lee Braiden
On Sunday 17 Aug 2003 1:43 pm, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 14:33, Lee Braiden wrote: > > No, it's a rage128. I think I saw that patch around, but wasn't sure if > > it was advisable/still necessary/etc. If you've no horror stories and > > such

Re: lcd resolution scaling?

2003-08-17 Thread Lee Braiden
On Sunday 17 Aug 2003 1:17 pm, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 08:44, Lee Braiden wrote: > > Yes, that's what I mean. If I ctrl-alt-+ to 640x480, for example, I get > > normal 1024x768 resolution, but only see a 640x480 window, and a few ugly > > copies of

Re: mono?

2003-08-17 Thread Lee Braiden
On Sunday 17 Aug 2003 12:31 am, Edd Dumbill wrote: > 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 > > Basically, until the JITter is ported to powerpc you're in a for a lot > of pain. I have succe

Re: lcd resolution scaling?

2003-08-17 Thread Lee Braiden
On Sunday 17 Aug 2003 1:10 am, Thomas Otto wrote: > > Do ibook kernels support scaling of other resolutions to a laptop's > > native res? I understand the rage mobility can do this with little or no > > (in later revisions?) performance loss, and it would solve some issues > > nicely, such as mol

mono?

2003-08-16 Thread Lee Braiden
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, but I might have missed something there, being new to mon

lcd resolution scaling?

2003-08-13 Thread Lee Braiden
Do ibook kernels support scaling of other resolutions to a laptop's native res? I understand the rage mobility can do this with little or no (in later revisions?) performance loss, and it would solve some issues nicely, such as mol support, hard-coded games, etc. On a related note, is there a

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