Re: is there an Adobe Air or Flash package for Debian on PPC G5?

2014-11-26 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Try browser-plugin-gnash or browser-plugin-lightspark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54763554.4090...@zoho.com

Re: Mount error during boot

2010-01-28 Thread Dustin N. Jenkins
fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=shawn) $ uname -a Linux mungo 2.6.31-14-powerpc #48-Ubuntu Fri Oct 16 14:11:44 UTC 2009 ppc GNU/Linux -- Dustin N. Jenkins | Tel/Tél: 250.363.3101 | dustin.jenk...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca facsimile/télécopieur: (250) 363-0045 National Research Coun

Yaboot and volume labels

2010-01-27 Thread Dustin N. Jenkins
I'm running an unstable 5.0.3 on a 15" PowerBook G4 on a custom 2.6.32.3 kernel. I have a single partition that is a reiserfs file system. When I tried to upgrade to a 2.6.32.4 kernel (or higher as the current stable kernel is 2.6.32.6), I got the "Waiting for root file system..." hang. Debi

Rotate monitor on Powerbook 5,7

2006-11-17 Thread Rub?n G?mez Antol?
Hello all, Anyone know any way to rotate LCD on powerbook 5,7? I search on google but I'm afraid that only nvidia users can do it, true? I found some information on gentoo [0], but I had tried it with no sucess: --- xorg.conf cut --- Section "Device" Identifier "ATI

Re: Memory and hard disk testers

2004-11-20 Thread Mehul N. Sanghvi
Mehul N. Sanghvi wrote: Tommy Trussell wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:48:51 -0500, Mehul N. Sanghvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wanted to test the RAM and make sure the memory is good. There is a Debian package called sysutils that includes a memtest utility but I have not tr

Re: Memory and hard disk testers

2004-11-19 Thread Mehul N. Sanghvi
Tommy Trussell wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:48:51 -0500, Mehul N. Sanghvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wanted to test the RAM and make sure the memory is good. There is a Debian package called sysutils that includes a memtest utility but I have not tried it. The 13 GB IBM i

Memory and hard disk testers

2004-11-19 Thread Mehul N. Sanghvi
'allo, I've got a G3 B&W with 768 MB of RAM in it, one 6 GB Maxtor and a 13 GB IBM DeskStar. The disks are both IDE. On my old PowerMac 7100, under MacOS 7.6.1 I used to have something that tested the RAM and hard disk to see if things were working fine. It also tested the L2 cache as well

Re: albook 15": bluetooth stopped working after firmware upgrade to 1.1

2004-04-26 Thread Pierre N
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 12:24, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 14:58, Sebastian Henschel wrote: > > [...] > > apple.com, on its "Bluetooth Firmware Updater 1.1": > > "Important: Applying this firmware updater to a D-Link USB to Bluetooth > adapter will make it incompatible with non

Re: serial interface in iBook G4

2004-04-02 Thread Pierre N
Not that I want to start a flame war, but it looks to me like Apple has started (a while ago actually) to behave a lot like standard white box PC manufacturer, no? Before the Powerbook G4 (TiBook) you could find dual USB bus, and dual Firewire bus. No you have shared USB bus, shared Firewire bus,

Re: serial interface in iBook G4

2004-04-02 Thread Pierre N
lin Leroy wrote: > On 02 Apr 2004 at 12h04, Pierre N wrote: > > Hi, > > > Wrong: > > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G4/iBookG4/3_Input-Output/chapter_4_section_5.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP3000909/BCIEAJEI > > "The

Re: serial interface in iBook G4

2004-04-02 Thread Pierre N
u, 2004-04-01 at 22:13, Joerg Sommer wrote: > begin Pierre N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > This is most likely your modem and something unknown. I've a PowerBook > > G3 and it's the modem and the IrDA controller. I suppose you kno

Re: Strange modem prob on pismo, redux

2004-04-01 Thread Pierre N
The Pismo is well known for some modem laziness. It takes between 3 and 5 seconds to initialise it with the default init string. I changed my init string to: ATX1 and now it connects straight away every time. That could be your problem. -- Pierre On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 09:11, Benjamin Herrenschm

Re: serial interface in iBook G4

2004-03-26 Thread Pierre N
Hello, This is most likely your modem and something unknown. I've a PowerBook G3 and it's the modem and the IrDA controller. I suppose you know where they are located on your machine. In your filesystem they are the /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 devices. Hope it helps... -- Pierre On Wed, 2004-03-

Re: OpenOffice broken in unstable?

2004-03-22 Thread Pierre N
Ok, thanks a lot, I'll try just that. Got even some info on using the apt-listbugs package to prevent this (off the list). Thanks everybody for all this great information. -- Pierre On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:10, Klaus Agnoletti wrote: > Hi, > > Start it from a terminal window, and take note of

OpenOffice broken in unstable?

2004-03-22 Thread Pierre N
Hi, Just wondering if anybody has the same problems than me. OpenOffice doesn't start. HD makes noise, CPU goes up, but nothing happens. Printer admin works fine though... -- Pierre signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Problems with keyboard

2004-03-17 Thread Pierre N
It's because by default (I believe) your fonction keys (F1 F2...) are mapped to the volume control, mute... You need to change this setting, I believe fnset does exactly this. Use it as root (sudo fnset) I can switch from one console to another one using alt + F1 (don't even need ctrl anymore), b

Re: install failure

2004-02-26 Thread Pierre N
Your install CD is most likely corrupted. Ask nicely to the vendor to send you a replacement, and you should get it. I got this problem myself on my Pismo. -- Pierre On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:39:16AM -0500, Bill wrote: > Hello everyone. I am having a frustrating time of installing Debian on >

Re: Going mad?

2004-02-01 Thread Pierre N
On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 12:40, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 01:22:15PM +, Pierre N wrote: > > Well, since you are asking so nicely: > > > > - I have a USB D-link dbt-120 bluetooth adapter, and I can't get it work > > at all. I installed hotplu

Re: Going mad?

2004-02-01 Thread Pierre N
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 09:00, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:56:34PM +, Pierre N wrote: > > Is there actually differences like these between 'minor' kernel > > versions? I didn't even realise... > > Yes, naturally, look at : > >

Glade-2 unstable

2004-01-28 Thread Pierre N
Hi, Anybody knows what's going on with this? There is some simple (apparently simple) dependency problem, and nobody seems to be talking about it anywhere (IRC, mailing list...). By the way, any good source for information about Debian package somewhere (debian-user? IRC? web? newsgroup?) you kno

Re: Going mad?

2004-01-27 Thread Pierre N
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 15:13, Joe Malik wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:46:45PM +, Pierre N wrote: > > Ok, I know how to search for a file or a module. > > glad to hear that ;-) > Hey hey, I'm not so bad... > > This module has not been installed, it w

Re: Going mad?

2004-01-27 Thread Pierre N
tally mad yet, just a bit of a panic... -- Pierre On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 14:37, Joe Malik wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:08:05PM +, Pierre N wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm using debian unstable, kernel-image-2.4.22 with > > kernel-modules-2.4.22 and I can&#

Going mad?

2004-01-27 Thread Pierre N
Hi, I'm using debian unstable, kernel-image-2.4.22 with kernel-modules-2.4.22 and I can't find the usb-ohci module anywhere on my system. It's supposed to be there isn't it? -- Pierre

Re: Bluetooth D-Link USB

2004-01-26 Thread Pierre N
ng to make it > into the main archive as it's binary only. > > I've got these in my sources.list: > # for bluetooth firmware > deb http://bluez.sourceforge.net/download/debian/ ./ > deb-src http://bluez.sourceforge.net/download/debian/ ./ > > so they may

Bluetooth D-Link USB

2004-01-26 Thread Pierre N
Hi, I'm having a hard time getting this piece of hardware to work. Looked in mailing list archives, Google groups, YDL even, and I can't seem to find anybody even using the beast. Anybody had some pointers for me? Running unstable, kernel 2.4.22 on Powerbook G3 Pismo. And it's a D-Link DBT 120, b

Re: Defunct problems

2004-01-24 Thread Pierre N
I just upgraded to kernel 2.4.22, and everything is going great so far. Thanks for the info about dbus-1!! -- Pierre On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 01:56, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 18:40, Pierre N wrote: > > > > I'm having some strange behaviour lately. Gk

Defunct problems

2004-01-23 Thread Pierre N
Hi, I'm having some strange behaviour lately. Gkrellmd and evolution processes keep staying , the number of processes grows and, since I'm using Bastille with 150 processes max, prevent me from starting anything. I have to quit something (usually epiphany), start to do some killall, and everything

Re: [LONG] new 15

2003-12-17 Thread N
On Tue, 16 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mine was in Holland for the screen too. But with Linux installed :-) Aren't these white spots fun? :) > > First, 2.4.x doesn't work too nicely (obvious) but 2.6.0-testX works fine > > (brightness > buttons, volume control etc). > > F

Re: [LONG] new 15

2003-12-16 Thread N
Hi all, Whilst I don't use Debian on my PowerBook G4 (I use Gentoo), I'll still post my experiences as they are essentially generic across all distros :) Be warned, some of this info may be a bit out of date - they are from my experiences a month ago (deleted linux when I sent it in for white s

turn on the fan

2003-05-26 Thread David N. Welton
I have a tibook - one of the older ones (400mhz). Anyone know how to turn the fan on from Linux? If that's not possible, is it in MacOS X? The computer feels awfully hot, and I'm worried... Thanks, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Pers

Re: Java

2002-12-08 Thread David N. Welton
Most Java implementations are not free software, but for one that is, have a look at the 'gcj' package, which even compiles to native code! -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/fr

Re: the apple key

2002-11-21 Thread David N. Welton
doesn't it? It's just available first in the benh kernel. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/

Re: Presentation with Free Software

2002-10-02 Thread David N. Welton
well it worked for him. I do my presentations with Mozilla. For example: http://tcl.apache.org/presentations/tcl/ (only the introductory page is in Italian). -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasy

Re: Sony Handycam as USB mass storage hang

2002-09-04 Thread David N. Welton
nd already discussed it with the USB folks in any case. I used it as a stopgap to at least not have my computer lock up, and it worked ok for that. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesof

Re: Sony Handycam as USB mass storage hang

2002-09-04 Thread David N. Welton
if (us->srb->result != DID_ABORT << 16 - && us->srb->result != DID_ERROR << 16) { + if (us->srb->result != DID_ABORT << 16) {

so, how about 2.4.19 ?

2002-08-08 Thread David N. Welton
Any reports on the stock kernel so far? I want something stable for my original version tibook, and wonder if this kernel is indeed stable on powerpc? Thanks, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http

Re: tibook fan/heat regulation

2002-06-21 Thread David N. Welton
C after a few minutes of heavy work. Makes me want to > >climb inside that box, considering the temperature outside ;-) > None of the G4s CPU have properly calibrated TAU. Actually, the TAU > unit isn't even supported anymore by Moto on recent chips. Yuck. Mine seems to always go

Re: tibook fan/heat regulation

2002-06-18 Thread David N. Welton
ibly accurate - it's telling me 16 degrees, whereas it's 36 degrees outside. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

tibook fan/heat regulation

2002-06-17 Thread David N. Welton
- 1) any way to just turn on the fan manually? 2) what should take care of regulating the temperature? 3) how hot is too hot anyway? Thankyou, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware

Re: slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use

2002-05-21 Thread David N. Welton
/hd? in order to enable dma These are the default settings, afaik. What I (and the previous poster, I suspect) are curious about is 'unmaskirq', I guess, or anything else that will make the system more usable when the hard drive is at work. Ciao, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http:

slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use

2002-05-21 Thread David N. Welton
I never saw an answer for this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2002/debian-powerpc-200203/msg00202.html On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 00:01, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 20:57, David N. Welton wrote: > > > > My tibook becomes almost unusable interactively

crappy schedular in 2.4.18?

2002-03-11 Thread David N. Welton
My tibook becomes almost unusable interactively when there is a lot of disk activity (dselect unpackaging things, anacron running the find job). What's up with this?! Thanks, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Sof

Re: latency of gdb and gcj

2002-02-18 Thread David N. Welton
off topic, but... wow, you can actually use gcj to make an applet that runs? With graphics and everything? -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http

Re: (no subject)

2002-01-12 Thread David N. Welton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > HOW TO BURN A CD WITHOUT A CDBURNER Get a record player, put the CD on it, and when it's nice and sunny out, take a small magnifying glass, and burn the data into the CD as you spin it on the record player. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.ded

Re: CamediaPlay and Olympus D-460 Zoom

2002-01-07 Thread David N. Welton
ave to poke and prod a bit, but it does run. I haven't used it in a while through the serial port, though, I've been using a smart card reader, which is a lot faster. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apa

/etc/power/pwrctl-local vs anacron

2001-12-29 Thread David N. Welton
I have this in my pwrctl-local: wakeup) /sbin/fblevel on /sbin/trackpad notap /usr/sbin/anacron /usr/X11R6/bin/xrefresh ;; any idea why the last two don't do anything? -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~d

Re: Stable kernel tree

2001-12-20 Thread David N. Welton
not boot because it cannot "find" /dev/rtc) and on my iBook > > (sound doesn't work yet). > Which iBook do you have? The teletubby model. I saw it myself at the PLUTO meeting! -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/

Re: m3mirror...

2001-12-06 Thread David N. Welton
s been there. It's about the > second head of the M3, and it's just fine that offb can't find an > address for it as it wouldn't work properly with aty128fb at the > same time anyway. I see... and in the meantime, I think I have a handle on the other problem,

Re: m3mirror...

2001-12-06 Thread David N. Welton
weekend) and I'll make sure to test m3mirror to see > if it still works. -- Just out of curiousity, would you mind sending an strace of a successful run to the list: ashland:/home/davidw# strace -o foobar ./m3mirror lcd:0 crt:1 ATI Rage M3 mirror tool, v0.1 error 1074020353 gettin

Re: m3mirror...

2001-12-06 Thread David N. Welton
ashland:/home/davidw# ./m3mirror crt:1 lcd:0 ATI Rage M3 mirror tool, v0.1 error 1074020353 getting mirror value Any other ideas? -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

m3mirror...

2001-12-05 Thread David N. Welton
0x7d48)= -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) ATI Rage M3 mirror tool, v0.1 error getting mirror value: Invalid argument (I changed my sources to use perror just for the heck of it) Kerplonk... Any ideas? Thanks, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Soft

Re: Any PPC Java JIT compiler project around ?

2001-11-21 Thread David N. Welton
World.java @ashland [~/tmp] $ ./a.out Hello World! It's pretty easy, and it's free software! -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

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

2001-10-23 Thread David N. Welton
Linux some day. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

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

2001-10-23 Thread David N. Welton
#x27;s, and would much rather have a CDRW. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

Internal Speaker on Blue G3 part III

2001-10-07 Thread Alexander N Gould
Thanks for all the advice so far: In Kmix, the available sliders are Volume, Speaker, Line, Microphone, CD, and Pcm2. All are set on the highest except for microphone, which won't allow itself to be moved. Still no sound. Does it matter that I am using BootX instead of yaboot? Any other ideas?

Blue G3 internal sound part II

2001-10-07 Thread Alexander N Gould
Ok, I insmod'ed sound, dmasound_core and dmasound_pmac. Now the mixer programs work, i set the volume to 100%, but when I try to play an mp3, there is silence. Sorry if I'm doing anything obviously stupid, I'm a newbie. Thanks for your everyone's help so far. -- "Of

Re: internal speaker on blue G3

2001-10-07 Thread Alexander N Gould
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > Increasing the speaker volume with something like gmix or aumix doesn't > work? > when I type aumix I get an error "aumix: error opeing mixer" > > -- > Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer > XFree86 a

internal speaker on blue G3

2001-10-06 Thread Alexander N Gould
Is there any way to make sound come out of the internal speaker on my "Blue" G3? I am running the standard Debian kernel-image-2.4.8-powerpc. Thanks in advance. -- "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." -- Martin L

Re: DNS wierdness on a TiBook running unstable

2001-09-21 Thread David N. Welton
lems... Try running tcpdump to see what the traffic looks like and if you can see where the problem is. I had some network problems recently related to iptables, and lowering the mtu helped things out. You might try that... -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Softwa

Devfs problem

2001-09-17 Thread Johan N-P
Hi, I have a problem with devfs. I have used devfs for about half a year without any problems, and I've always tracked the latest kernel tree at source.mvista.com very closely. My problem is that since my latest rsync, my kernel doesn't mount devfs at boot. It says something like "Unable to mount

Devfs problems with the latest kernel

2001-09-16 Thread Johan N-P
Hello all, I've had devfs working for some time with the "official" powerpc kernel source tree (I rsync from source.mvista.com), but just recently it stopped working. At boot it says "unable to mount devfs, err: -13" and then the kernel panics, because init can't open an initial console. Does any

Re: OT: Darwin

2001-09-15 Thread David N. Welton
ode. Who cares about the details though, I hate licensing discussions - I just wanted to correct a rather gross error on the part of the original poster. Ciao, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

Re: tuxracer...2

2001-09-13 Thread David N. Welton
ine - Germany has plenty of good beer, I imagine) to the above list, in Padova (Padua in English) Italy if you want to make a tour of it:-) Ciao, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

Re: OT: Darwin

2001-09-12 Thread David N. Welton
correct. The BSD license is more liberal than the GPL, actually. So liberal that someone else can take your code and release binary versions. Some people are ok with that, though, and they like that license. NetBSD is definitely free software. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www

Re: [davidw@debian.org: Bug#111905: Upgrade to X in testing breaks alt keys]

2001-09-11 Thread David N. Welton
ing to be perfect. What I would like to know is why it > > worked one moment and didn't the next. What changed? > the keymaps became correct. Does someone have a tarball of /etc/X11/xkb/* from a non-updated woody system that I could look at? I would like to compare, for my own e

Re: [davidw@debian.org: Bug#111905: Upgrade to X in testing breaks alt keys]

2001-09-11 Thread David N. Welton
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:57:29AM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > > What changed then? Why did it work for me before and it doesn't > > work now, without Xmodmapping it? The heart of the question seems > > to be th

Re: [davidw@debian.org: Bug#111905: Upgrade to X in testing breaks alt keys]

2001-09-11 Thread David N. Welton
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:21:11AM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > > Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 07:16, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > Is this the linux keycodes issu

Re: XFree86 update question

2001-09-11 Thread David N. Welton
wever, X is interpreting 125 as 115, so I had to add that to my Xmodmap: keycode 115 = Alt_R clear Mod1 add Mod1 = Alt_R (Thanks to Colin Walters for sharing some config files!) Strikes me as being a hack, though, and I'd like to figure out what the real problem is - what changed undernea

Re: [davidw@debian.org: Bug#111905: Upgrade to X in testing breaks alt keys]

2001-09-11 Thread David N. Welton
was chugging along happily as my Alt key (it's a better choice than Apple's "alt" key, as it's larger, so for someone who uses it in emacs all the time, it's easier to hit with my thumb). Ciao, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Softwar

kde in testing?

2001-09-08 Thread David N. Welton
it's fixed, but no updated KDE packages appear in PPC. What's the deal? Are we just missing a recompile? -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

Re: XMMS + Ogg = hiss?

2001-08-31 Thread David N. Welton
er think it's a problem with either the sound > output plugin or the driver/hardware It's an xmms problem. But which distribution is this? The problem was fixed in testing, IIRC. I had a look, and the xmms folks were just passing a 0 to the 'is_big_endian' field

'fixing' tibook keyboard after latest testing upgrade

2001-08-25 Thread David N. Welton
_emulation set to 1, and the values mouse_button2_keycode = 96 mouse_button3_keycode = 56 Which means that the 'enter' key acts as mouse button two, and the 'alt/option' key acts as mouse button 3, which is convenient, as they are located just above the trackpad. -- David

Re: curious about java servlets

2001-08-13 Thread David N. Welton
Bill Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone shed some light on why jserv isn't available, or > recommend any next steps? "Write once, run anywhere" is hampered by crappy proprietary licensing from Sun. You might have better luck with a %100 open source sol

Re: Altivec and G4

2001-07-28 Thread David N. Welton
Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Probably you need an option - did you try -m7400? That option makes it grok altivec for me... -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

Re: JAVA on DebianPPC

2001-07-20 Thread David N. Welton
o on and so forth blah blah blah". This leaves you free to create derivates, but means that you can't pollute the standard. -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

Re: kernel oops in Debian's 2.4.4 + cdparanoia

2001-07-13 Thread David N. Welton
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton) writes: > > > Jul 13 13:45:37 localhost kernel: TASK = c29fe000[1774] 'cdparanoia' Last > > syscall: 4 > > You need to save this to a file, then do: > > apt-get i

kernel oops in Debian's 2.4.4 + cdparanoia

2001-07-13 Thread David N. Welton
C3BB7040 125E8A10 Jul 13 13:46:23 localhost kernel: Call backtrace: Jul 13 13:46:23 localhost kernel: D183FEB8 D183FAF8 C003A0E8 C0003F5C 6FFD4574 6FFD93A0 Jul 13 13:46:23 localhost kernel: 6FFD602C 6FFD8BB8 6FFD3438 6FFA6E60 6FFA7308 1000327C 6FDE53F8 Jul 13 13:46:23 localhost kernel:

Re: benh 2.4.6 kernel

2001-07-09 Thread David N. Welton
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, does sleep work with older kernels ? (you have the proper hacks > to pmud scripts for sleep to work properly on core99) ? Apropos... are we including the latest/best/brightest of these scripts in Debian? -- David N.

Re: new ibook (icebook) with debian ppc

2001-07-08 Thread David N. Welton
nux Kernel more often than not doesn't run (or even compile). However, there are variants on the Linux kernel that run quite well, and I think that sooner or later the Linux kernel will catch up. All in all, I'm happy with the computer.(1) -- David N. Welton Free Software: http:

Re: gdb-cvs packages available

2001-06-29 Thread David N. Welton
y cool, this works nice - I can finally debug my .so Apache module:-) -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/

Re: gdb-cvs packages available

2001-06-29 Thread David N. Welton
S > version of GDB seems to grok well enough, so I'll probably maintain > the gdb-cvs package until 5.1 is released. How about altivec support? Does one or both of these support the altivec opcodes/registers? -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/

tibook speakers vs headphones

2001-06-21 Thread David N. Welton
When I play music on my tibook (ogg123 -d oss .ogg), even when I have headphones plugged in, the speaker emits sound too, which more or less defeats the purpose:-) Ideas? Thankyou, -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org

Re: mozilla - 5 processes using 149Mb

2001-06-18 Thread David N. Welton
e threads, and mozilla is a tremendous hog. > > Anyway, the bottom line is that on my machine, Mozilla is unusably > > slow. Are there any lighter alternatives around? > w3m http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=w3m&archive=no Although it seems to work now... I susp

Re: Audio CDs on Titanium G4 Powerbook

2001-06-10 Thread David N. Welton
k by doing eject /dev/scd0 Seems to work pretty well... Although it still seems silly that ide-scsi is necessary when the device evidently can barf out audio data:-) -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http:/

Re: startup jingle

2001-05-30 Thread David N. Welton
ld be able to make the machine operate quietly if you want. -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/

Re: Questions about kernel 2.4.4

2001-05-23 Thread David N. Welton
at are rumored to work well with PPC hardware and GNU userland environments. The Linux kernel, however, more often than not, won't even compile. Linus' idea of multiplatform: 386, 486, *and* Pentium. -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-11 Thread David N. Welton
d performs faster while being more stable than Reiserfs). -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/

Re: Audio CDs on Titanium G4 Powerbook

2001-05-07 Thread David N. Welton
; this fails. i dont see any ioctls() for the cdrom driver to swap > bytes or to report the endianness, so i guess that might be the only > way to tell. File bugs;-) Thankyou once again! -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-04 Thread David N. Welton
No, but I hear that XFS works pretty well. -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/

Re: Audio CD's on tibook?

2001-04-23 Thread David N. Welton
or some such. -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/

Re: Call for info: slave drives bootable from OpenFirmware (OldWorl d)

2001-04-23 Thread David N. Welton
rap partition. if > you know what your doing and like booting manually at the > OpenFirmware prompt every time fine. if not you better follow my > instructions as you will get no sympathy from me otherwise. Probably a good idea in any case:-) -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://peopl

Audio CD's on tibook?

2001-04-23 Thread David N. Welton
ld be a long process... -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/

Re: Call for info: slave drives bootable from OpenFirmware (OldWorl d)

2001-04-17 Thread David N. Welton
uses, say, HFS+, which linux doesn't handle well right now (afaik), you can use this partition not only as a bootstrap, but also as a place to exchange files between Linux, and the other OS. -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/

Re: What is /etc/X11/X ?

2001-04-17 Thread David N. Welton
rnel? It's disappointing to have to follow forks of the linux kernel to even have it compile or run decently. -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/

Re: PPC reference

2001-04-16 Thread David N. Welton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason E. Stewart) writes: > "David N. Welton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Does anyone have the number(s) handy of the Motorola reference > > books for the PowerPC chips. I'm specifically hoping to pick up > > something that co

gdb doesn't build?

2001-04-16 Thread David N. Welton
or 2 Hrm. No rs6k here - I'm on an tibook... Shall I file a bug, or is this a known problem? Thankyou, -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/

PPC reference

2001-04-16 Thread David N. Welton
Does anyone have the number(s) handy of the Motorola reference books for the PowerPC chips. I'm specifically hoping to pick up something that covers ppc, as well as extra stuff in the G4 (altivec, for instance). Thanks, -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~d

XFree86 4.0.2 ATI module/driver

2001-03-29 Thread Michael N. Hallquist
ated. I have very little idea of what's going on here that would prevent X from finding the card. Thanks, Michael N. Hallquist

Oldworld Mac

2001-03-14 Thread Michael N. Hallquist
Hi all, I just got an old Motorola StarMax 5500/200 in an auction at work. I already have a Mac G3 that runs MacOS just fine, so I have no need to dual boot the StarMax. I decided to install Debian/PPC on it and have a couple of problems and questions. Firstly, my keyboard was un

Re: re adbmouse

2001-03-03 Thread N Cohen
Ethan many thanks for your reply to my adbmouse. I am a complete newbie to linux and to Debian in particular. I have successfully installed PPC2000 and Suse on my other machines both Macs. I wanted to use Debian because I want to understand the processes of Linux. Simply changing the symlink a

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