Re: summary of ALSA status on PPC as of kernel 2.6.13 (ALSA 1.0.9)

2005-09-22 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
x27;t ever realize that bugs remain. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://q-funk.iki.fi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: summary of ALSA status on PPC as of kernel 2.6.13 (ALSA 1.0.9)

2005-09-18 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
la, 2005-09-17 kello 21:27 +0200, Sven Luther kirjoitti: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 10:02:35PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > The long promised table of ALSA PowerMac support is finally available. > What about adding support for other powerpc arches in your table ? Like the &g

Re: summary of ALSA status on PPC as of kernel 2.6.13 (ALSA 1.0.9)

2005-09-18 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
ling sound, in > that it works but the automute stuff doesnt work at all, so plugging > in headphones does nothing. i have submitted alsa bugs for it but > nothing. I'd like pointers to the ALSA BTS for these bugs, so that I could point to them in the table, in addition to the exis

summary of ALSA status on PPC as of kernel 2.6.13 (ALSA 1.0.9)

2005-09-17 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
additional data. If anyone wants to discuss and compare their findings before committing changes to the document, please drop by #DebianPPC on Freenode. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://q-funk.iki.fi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: volunteer to fix ALSA for every PPC subarch found! :-)

2005-08-11 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Johannes Berg wrote: On a related issue, snd_powermac doesn't do power management on my PowerBook5,6 so whenever it comes up from hibernation (I use suspend2 over encrypted swap) sound is gone until I kill all applications using it and reload the module. I have no idea how t

Re: volunteer to fix ALSA for every PPC subarch found! :-)

2005-08-09 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: I can provide almost all the necessary informations. I have specs for most chips, and those I don't have spec for have Darwin drivers that should tell us all we need to know. There are several issues though, as I wrote earlier. More than just

Re: volunteer to fix ALSA for every PPC subarch found! :-)

2005-08-08 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 11:41 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: Basically, if you have been trying to switch to ALSA on your PowerMac but found out that support for your computer's chipset was lacking or severely broken, or if you have al

volunteer to fix ALSA for every PPC subarch found! :-)

2005-08-07 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Basically, if you have been trying to switch to ALSA on your PowerMac but found out that support for your computer's chipset was lacking or severely broken, or if you have already switched but a few rough edges remain, now is a good time to let the ALSA coders know about it. See: https://bugtr

Debian versus custom kernel (was: Re: Linux on the Mac Mini -- Updated)

2005-02-11 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
ustom kernels produce a dramatic increase in perfomance. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/

Re: imacmini & paypal

2005-02-09 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
issing hardware mentioned at http://sowerbutts.com/linux-mac-mini/ -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-05 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>>>On the other hand, I am sorry I have not put any money to BenH's pool, > > >>>>>but I > > >>>>>am in the process of buying a house and I am rather broke. Anyway, I > > >>>>>would put > > >>>>>a bounty, I would give it to BenH and then I would think about a > > >>>>>second bounty > > >>>>>for the sound problems. > > >>>> > > >>>>On that note, ben has published his paypal account. > > >>>> > > >>>>Ill send an email to everyone who pledged for the minimac to get them > > >>>>to send their money. Id be happy to receive direct deposits from > > >>>>australians and then send it on through my paypal account (if people > > >>>>trust me). > > >>>> > > >>>>As for the g5 project, we have a handfull or pledges but not even > > >>>>close to enough to get an imac g5. > > >>>> > > >>>>Dean > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:22:40PM +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:21:33PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > > > > Wouldn't it be a good idea to place a bounty to encourage Ubuntu PP

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:21:33PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > > Wouldn't it be a good idea to place a bounty to encourage Ubuntu PPC > > developers to get around fixing snd-powermac for all Mac PPC chips? >

bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
onder the snd-powermac driver is such a mess! Wouldn't it be a good idea to place a bounty to encourage Ubuntu PPC developers to get around fixing snd-powermac for all Mac PPC chips? -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/

Re: Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B

2005-01-19 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Chris Doherty wrote: > Could anyone help me with the steps for compiling the stock 2.6.8 Debian > kernel for the powerpc (specifically a 233MHz rev B iMac)? I already have such a kernel available at: http://funkyware.konflux.at -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Cons

Re: Help compiling a kernel for iMac rev B

2005-01-19 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Chris Doherty wrote: > Could anyone help me with the steps for compiling the stock 2.6.8 Debian > kernel for the powerpc (specifically a 233MHz rev B iMac)? I already have such a kernel available at: http://funkyware.konflux.at -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Cons

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-10 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
't access the pmu (for whatever reason) it will > just output a warning to .xsession-errors which is harmless and not in the > users way.. This fixes makes sense to me and it essentially corresponds to solution #1 in my bug report. Coukd you please apply it and upload? -- Martin-Éric

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-10 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
't access the pmu (for whatever reason) it will > just output a warning to .xsession-errors which is harmless and not in the > users way.. This fixes makes sense to me and it essentially corresponds to solution #1 in my bug report. Coukd you please apply it and upload? -- Martin-Éric

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-10 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
r user level > access to /dev/pmu, for those who don't wish to install pbbuttonsd. (The > alternative, for acme to set the effective user ID to root before opening > the PMU, is perhaps too unsafe to consider). That could work too. Please add it as a fourth option to bugs 281952+284328. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-10 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Greetings, Please see my extensive overview of the situation, added to bugs 281952, 284328. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-10 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
hands full with other tasks, so your trivial fix would be highly appreciated. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-10 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
r user level > access to /dev/pmu, for those who don't wish to install pbbuttonsd. (The > alternative, for acme to set the effective user ID to root before opening > the PMU, is perhaps too unsafe to consider). That could work too. Please add it as a fourth option to bugs 281952+284328. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-10 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Greetings, Please see my extensive overview of the situation, added to bugs 281952, 284328. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-10 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > The error message won't appear if your user has access to the pmu, Stop. That's already wrong. Users should not have direct control. Install pbbuttonsd instead. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-10 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
hands full with other tasks, so your trivial fix would be highly appreciated. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-10 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > The error message won't appear if your user has access to the pmu, Stop. That's already wrong. Users should not have direct control. Install pbbuttonsd instead. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-09 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
stream ever gets around cleaning up this code to use safer, more generic methods, such as doing everything via 'pmud' then we could reintroduce it. Any objection? -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-09 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:33:58AM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > The ACME fix exists and is already patched into Ubuntu packages for Warty, > > according to Sebastien Bacher. For some reason, it's not applied in Debian.

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-08 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
fore the sarge release. You seem informed about this issue, could you > follow up on this, and make sure it just doesn't get forgotten and we release > with this ugly bug ? The ACME fix exists and is already patched into Ubuntu packages for Warty, according to Sebastien Bach

Re: No /dev/pmu

2004-12-27 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
am? I have > not looked at the code or configuration files. > > [0] - http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/11/msg00187.html Ubuntu already found a workaround for this, according to Debian GNOME team member Sebastien Bacher. The patch has yet to be added to Debian packages. See Bug #284328 -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-22 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
n, 1 = little-endian, -1 = > others */ > + signed char signd; /* 0 = unsigned, 1 = signed, -1 = others */ > unsigned char silence[8]; /* silence data to fill */ > }; > > > > > -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/

Re: 2.6.8 kernel seems to have b0rked my iMac.

2004-12-13 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Chris Doherty wrote: > I'm trying to install debian-powerpc on an iMac 233 MHz/B. You might wanna try my small kernel for those early iMac models at: http://funkyware.konflux.at You need at least module-init-tools and Testing versions of base packages. -- Mar

Re: G3 iMac Rev. B install pointers?

2004-08-13 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > On such hardware you should have no problem in X or something. Everything > should Just Work (TM). Keyboard maps are still problematic for any non-US language. Myself, I ended up using the i386 keyboard map because of that. -- Martin-Éric

Re: G3 iMac Rev. B install pointers?

2004-08-13 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
my iMac kernel ready-to-use. Make sure you have the module-init-tools package installed first. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/

Re: RC bug fix: build needed on PPC MIPS and MIPSel

2004-08-03 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Martin-Éric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One of my package (cups-pdf) has RC bugs that were just fixed by a new > > release. > > PowerPC MIPS and MIPSel have not attempted the build after 2 days, > > a

RC bug fix: build needed on PPC MIPS and MIPSel

2004-08-03 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
the build on those 3 ports? Thanks! -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/

Re: creating kernel debs on other architectures

2004-07-26 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
ables is not enough. You must first compile yourself a cross-compiler and cross-binary-utils for a PPC target: http://people.debian.org/~debacle/cross.html Once this is done, you can use: $ CC=/usr/bin/powerpc-linux-gcc make-kpkg --config menuconfig --revision mykernel.1 kernel_image I hope this

Re: kernel selection: powerpc, power4 or power3?

2004-07-01 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Not necessarily related to the original question, but well: How do I get a 750-optimized kernel for this iMac? I've noticed a new subarch menu since 2.6.7, but the 750-enabled subarch option seems to be for something competely different than this powermac. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consu

status of ALSA on PPC/Burgundy?

2004-05-08 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Greetings, I'm just wondering if any developments have been made on this for kernel 2.6? Last time I tried it (2.6.5), the module would compile but the driver itself did not work (alsamixer controls could not be moved, etc.). My hardware is an iMac CRT with Burgundy chip. -- Martin-Éric R

Re: Need Configuration help for 3.0r2 on Rev A iMac

2004-04-02 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
e display > manager through an inittab entry. That's correct. Of course, you realize that this is one thing on which Debian is not standards-compliant? :) -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: Need Configuration help for 3.0r2 on Rev A iMac

2004-04-01 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
l on an iMac CRT rev.D. You would need the module-init-tools and other 2.6 goodies from Sarge to use it though. If that's not a problem for you, try the kernel at: http://funkyware.konflux.at/ -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: Is 2.6.x being updated from rsync?

2004-03-19 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
7;s G5. As such, powerpc is now as mainstream as i386 has been, which means you can and should use the upstream 2.6.4 to build on PPC. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: keyboard maps in 4.3.0 for Europe

2004-03-08 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Mich Lanners wrote: > On 5 Mar, this message from Martin-Éric Racine echoed through cyberspace: > > I was wondering if xfree86 ever got around including a keyboard map > > variant that inverts the locations of keycodes 49 and 94? This kuldge > > is n

keyboard maps in 4.3.0 for Europe

2004-03-05 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
chips used in MacAlley and most other non-Apple brands of USB Mac keyboards. Thanks! -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: Kernel Newbie Needs Help

2004-03-05 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 18:41, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > Depending on what iMac model it is, you may have either a sungem chip > > > or a tulip chip.

Re: Kernel Newbie Needs Help

2004-03-05 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
and didn't need anythign else. Are you saying that some G3 iMac (CRT) also need CONFIG_SUNGEM to work? Btw, which of the Tulip drivers is needed for the other cases? PS: is there any page on the penguinppc.org site that lists what drivers are needed for different PowerMac models? -- Mar

Re: Need to Install Benh iMac Kernel -- But How?

2004-03-01 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
shpool.fi/~q-funk dists/ deb-src http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk dists/ Right now, this is a 2.6.3 built from a vanilla tarball. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: 2.6.3: dmasound_pmac: Unknown symbol pmac_xpram_read

2004-02-20 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 21:09, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > Hello Ben, > > > > After compiling 2.6.3 vanilla and rebooting, trying to load DMASOUND_PMAC > > gives > > me the following error, which I've ne

2.6.3: dmasound_pmac: Unknown symbol pmac_xpram_read

2004-02-20 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
d but that I might have skipped, perhaps? Thanks! -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: CUPS 1.1.20final-14 is a kernel 2.6 killer on PPC

2004-02-19 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 00:52, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > I'm on an iMac CRT (rev.D, 333MHz). > > > > Today's CUPS upgrade in Sarge manages to kill kernels upon loading: > > 1) Why do I get this t

CUPS 1.1.20final-14 is a kernel 2.6 killer on PPC

2004-02-18 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
eout on IrDA port, even though this hardware has none? 2) How could trying to access the port manage to crash 2.6.3? -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: 2.6.2 vanilla broken on iMac CRT 333MHz

2004-02-06 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 03:47, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > Vanilla 2.6.1 was working fine, but 2.6.2 is definitely broken: > > > > 1) dmasound_pmac is gone, yet this is the only sound driver that ever > > worked on

Re: 2.6.2 vanilla broken on iMac CRT 333MHz

2004-02-05 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
I2C and CONFIG_I2C_KEYWEST. I also have CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV). That's what I have in 2.6.1, indeed. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: 2.6.2 vanilla broken on iMac CRT 333MHz

2004-02-05 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
_CORE is not set" (or anything similar) line anywhere in the config? > Make menuconfig and enable them in drivers/i2c (if i'm not mistaken). I repeat: I2C is nowhere to be found. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: 2.6.2 vanilla broken on iMac CRT 333MHz

2004-02-05 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
.1 and answered no to every new feature. Looking at the config, there is no I2C feature at all in 2.6.2, not even any "I2C_BLAH is not set" line. However, "ALSA PowerMac (AWACS, DACA, Burgundy, Tumbler, Keywest)" is configured as a module, so this should work. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

2.6.2 vanilla broken on iMac CRT 333MHz

2004-02-04 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
therefore leaves me without sound, which is unacceptable. Back to 2.6.1... -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

kernel .config merging tool?

2004-01-29 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
nce? Thanks to anyone who can provide any help with this. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: 2.4.24-ben1 black console

2004-01-25 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > At this point, the new machines aren't fully supported in 2.4, > but only with my 2.6 tree Any plans to backport support for newer hardware to 2.4? -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Input Device section on 2.6.1

2004-01-21 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
27;m wondering which drivers I can remove? Thanks to anyone that can shed a light on this. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

grsecuirty on 2.4.24-ben1

2004-01-19 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
egards, -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

grsecurity for 2.4.23-pre5-ben0 ?

2003-12-29 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Would anybody know of a PPC-adjusted patch to add grsecurity support? The upstream patch fails to apply to Ben's 2.4 rsync tree. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: CD-ROM hardware failures on 2.4.23-pre5-ben0

2003-12-29 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
ted options in the kernel? Or do you > have any automounting related daemons running? (magicdev seems to work > without constant activity here though) Enabled in the kernel, but no utility using it, for now. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

CD-ROM hardware failures on 2.4.23-pre5-ben0

2003-12-25 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
eaches the conclusion that the drive cannot be accessed and the only cure is to reboot; neither audio or data CDs can be accesed anymore, I instead get IDE errors. This is on an iMac CRT rev.D 333MHz. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: debianppc list and sven virus

2003-11-26 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Kiko Piris wrote: > On 26/11/2003 at 12:10, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > On (26/11/03 13:39), Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > > Nice, but this really ought to be implemented on the mailing list host, > > > not by > > > each and every

Re: debianppc list and sven virus

2003-11-26 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Project leaders ought to be wisen up on the basics of network security and spam prevention. > FWIW I use mailfilter in conjunction with fetchmail to remove most of > the swen stuff before download. Attached is a copy of my mailfilterrc. Nice, but this really ought to be implemented on t

Netscape 4.73/PPC deb available

2003-11-20 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Brad Boyer wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:23:11PM +0200, Martin-?ric Racine wrote: > > > if there ever was a release of Netscape 4.7x for Linux/PPC? > > > > There was never a Debian package

Re: Nautilus and gnome-vfs-sftp

2003-11-18 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Lucas Moulin wrote: > On lun, nov 17 22:45 > Martin-Éric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Lucas Moulin wrote: > > > >> I'd like to use Nautilus to view my files on my other computer via ssh. > >&g

Re: gnome still not working properly on powerpc/testing

2003-11-18 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:48:18PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > Maybe I should try to install gnome 2.4 from unstable but I don't > > > really want to do t

Re: gnome still not working properly on powerpc/testing

2003-11-18 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
omponents to unstable, and > that didn't help. This really wrecked gnome on my machine, I have yet > to get it right again. Delete the .gnome2/session file, kill X and login again. That should fix it. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: gnome still not working properly on powerpc/testing

2003-11-18 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
tp://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/dists/ > Maybe I should try to install gnome 2.4 from unstable but I don't really > want to do that yet. I recommend it. However, it looks like Gnome 2.4 components ahave started trickling down to testing, so, who knows, maybe we'll have the full

Re: Nautilus and gnome-vfs-sftp

2003-11-17 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
there, then we know for sure that it's endian-related. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

ALSA on 2.4.23-pre5-ben0 (iMac CRT) broken

2003-11-16 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
limit=4 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/dsp* snd-pcm-oss alias snd-card-0 snd-powermac alias snd-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias soun

Re: Netscape 4.7x for Debian/PPC?

2003-11-13 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, 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

Re: Netscape 4.7x for Debian/PPC?

2003-11-10 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
r i386, and uploading it to my package repository, in case anyone needs it. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: Netscape 4.7x for Debian/PPC?

2003-11-10 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
stop scripting with specific browsers in mind and instead rely upon W3C standards. I even pointed out that since they are a Tech Jobs site, then they really ought to accomodate whatever geeks are using and not force everyone to keep an old version of NS. Never even got _one_ reply back. -- Martin-Ér

Re: Netscape 4.7x for Debian/PPC?

2003-11-10 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
.xpi>. They have scripted their site to specifically respond to Navigator 4.7x's bugs. I've tried with Opera user agent switching too and it fails. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: Netscape 4.7x for Debian/PPC?

2003-11-10 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 21:23, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > There is a favorite web site that unfortunately has hardcoded their > > scripting to > > specifically respond only to IE 5.x or Navi

Netscape 4.7x for Debian/PPC?

2003-11-09 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Greetings, There is a favorite web site that unfortunately has hardcoded their scripting to specifically respond only to IE 5.x or Navigator 4.7x, so I was wondering if there ever was a release of Netscape 4.7x for Linux/PPC? Thanks! -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http

Re: xpdf vs. gv or kghostview

2003-11-07 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
es not as neat as XPDF but still pretty good. GPDF is the real problem; it's crap. > I like xpdf but there's no option to print in it Yes there is. Notice the little button for printing? Press P. You must first define the printer in the configuration file, though. -- Martin-Éric

changes to "Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For PowerPC - Before Installing Debian GNU/Linux"

2003-10-30 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
I realize that Debian installation are essentially adapted from the generic i386 document, but IMHO, now would be a good time to update it for powerpc specifics. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

openfirmware question (firmware 1.2 before 256mb upgrade on iMac CRT)

2003-10-29 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
en me as to how I could verify this? Thanks! -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: poewerpc kernel 2.4.22-2 ...

2003-10-16 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Sven's above 5 powerpc subrach variants are a great move, but to really be usefull, one should be capable of selecting among them during Sarge installation to actually get a subarch-optimized kernel right on their system from the start. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: PINE for ppc?

2003-10-15 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
ian's already cleaned-up Lintianized sources, would be: apt-get --compile source pine Btw, is there a list of all Debian packages available in source only? -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: Firmware upgrades

2003-10-10 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
ithout it ? > > Mac On Linux won't allow you to do this upgrade. You can just try to > find a CD of the latest Mac OS X and boot on it, the upgrade will be > done without installing anything. Any link from apple.com, or some other authoritative source, that would tell me more about this? Thanks! -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: linux-2.4.22-ben2-stew1-xfs available

2003-10-02 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
shpool.fi/~q-funk/debian stable main The same page (without the "stable main" part) tells more about the goodies. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: Spam alert

2003-10-02 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
ives altered e-mail addresses. Too late now, though. Altering them is not good enough. They should be stripped, before nay message is archived to somewhere publically accessible by browser. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: Spam alert

2003-10-02 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
gierer... The onyl real answer is to strip off e-mail addresses before archiving the posts to something accessible by a web browser, such as the Debian list server. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: openoffice.org in Sid

2003-10-01 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Wednesday 01 October 2003 9:36, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > > As it so happens, the official 1.1.0 version is finally released, so I'm > > guessing that we can expect packages pretty soon, at this point. :) > > A

Re: openoffice.org in Sid

2003-10-01 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
ial 1.1.0 version is finally released, so I'm guessing that we can expect packages pretty soon, at this point. :) -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: openoffice.org in Sid

2003-09-26 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, David Oakes wrote: > Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > There are NO powerpc binaries there, only i386; same thing in main and > > contrib. > > Check the content of 'pool' and tell me if you see anything for powerpc > > there. > >

Re: openoffice.org in Sid

2003-09-26 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, David Oakes wrote: > Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > There are NO powerpc binaries there, only i386; same thing in main and > > contrib. > > Check the content of 'pool' and tell me if you see anything for powerpc > > there. > >

Re: openoffice.org in Sid

2003-09-25 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, David Oakes wrote: > Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Oliver Ripka wrote: > > >>deb > >> > >> http://ftp.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/mirror/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/ > >>testing main, >

Re: openoffice.org in Sid

2003-09-25 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
: debhelper_4.0.2.openoffice_all.deb Presumably used to allow someone to "easily" roll out their own packages. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: kernel 2.4.22 fails to build completely

2003-09-25 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 03:29:23AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > > NOTE: One buglet remains: during bootup, several daemons try to load > > > > char-major-6 (lp.o) which, for ovious reasons, is absent

Re: kernel 2.4.22 fails to build completely

2003-09-23 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 03:29:23AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > NOTE: One buglet remains: during bootup, several daemons try to load > > char-major-6 (lp.o) which, for ovious reasons, is absent from this iMac. > echo "

Re: kernel 2.4.22 fails to build completely

2003-09-22 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > I've tried building myself a kernel with both the Debian > kernel-source-2.4.22-1 > and the vanilla tarball, in both cases patched with 2.4.22-ben2, with both GCC > 2.95.4 and GCC 3.3.2, which fails in all cases, ending with somet

Re: Bug#212089: kernel-package: PPC: insists upon producing zImage, which yaboot doesn't support

2003-09-22 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
age] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22' make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2 X8 From that perspective, it doesn't matter exactly which kind of powermac I have; the point is thta building the kernel fails - whether I try the vanilla kernel from upstream or Herbert&#x

kernel 2.4.22 fails to build completely

2003-09-21 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
22/arch/ppc/boot' make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22' make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2 X8 Am I dreaming this, or is kernel-package trying to build a compressed kernel, which IIRC yaboot doesn't support? If not, what is causing this and

iMac CRT's hdparm capabilities?

2003-09-16 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
donly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 13328/15/63, sectors = 12594960, start = 0 -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: ALSA, problem

2003-09-16 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
lf-compiled kernels. I cannot get either one to work. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

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