Re: openoffice.org in Sid

2003-09-24 Thread Oliver Ripka
According to Adam Hewitt on Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:46:05PM +0800: > Hi All, > > I find it hard to believe that everyone who is running Sid has been > without Oo for the past two weeks (due to no openoffice.org-bin), can > someone tell me what the deal is and what you have done to get around > it?

Re: powerbook, airport and kismet

2003-07-24 Thread Oliver Ripka
According to Michael Flaigq on Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:25:50AM +0200: > > BTW what are kismet and MacStumbler? > > MacStumbler is kismet for Mac OS X :) little bit more graphical... ;) hi, you don't want to use macstubler on mox, try kismac instead, which is much more advance. olliwolli

Re: External CDROM RW through USB

2003-07-10 Thread Oliver Ripka
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:04:46PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Has anyone had success hooking up external cdrom through the USB? Does > it have to be MAC compliant? I came into a Pacific Digital drive which > would be great to use on my iBook if possible. Of course, I'm talking > about usi

another mol issue - failed to map RAM

2003-07-02 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi, mol bugs me since the new year began. Here the latest problems: when I run startmol -X I get following error: /dev/zero, open: No such file or directory a "man zero" helped out. But why wasn't the zero device created during the install process? olliwolli

Bootsplash / atirage

2003-06-26 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hey, anybody got bootsplash running on an powerpc(esp. ibook w. ati12rage)? I to apply the patch to 2.4.21, which did not work at all. So I tried 2.4.20, that worked but the kernel was not compiled error-free. Then I found this package "kernel-patch-lpp". Tried that. Wont work. olliwolli

some basic problems with ppc assembler

2003-06-25 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi, I try to understand some ppc-assembler-code but it is harder than x86 to me because of the missing documentation. I have a big reference from ibm here. And some websites which deal with this topic. So I experiment now with the assembler code of c programms translated with gcc -S file.c For a

Re: Gentoo PPC LiveCDs

2003-06-06 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi, > I suggest a sid-system. does someone else have suggestions ? > Think, in 1 or 2 days we have somewhat useful. Nice thing, you are doing there. So the treath was not in every way useless. But, do you really want to make the cd off a the unstable tree? IMHO the current unstable tree is _rea

Re: Gentoo PPC LiveCDs

2003-06-04 Thread Oliver Ripka
> We are on a Debian mailing list, aren't we? Yeah, but sometimes a live cd is even useful for people who use debian. olliwolli

Gentoo PPC LiveCDs

2003-06-04 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi, this may be interesting for some people on the mailing list. There is now a live cd available for ppc like knoppix, etc. I am referring to this slashdot article: http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/03/06/03/1625222.shtml?tid=106&tid=185 One can get the images here: http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu

Re: 2-4-21-rc3-benh0 - hfsplus

2003-05-29 Thread Oliver Ripka
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 07:22:24PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > No seriously, I quite like it. I dunno how much noise the older > powerbooks make, but the one I have is dead silent. So it's impossible > to know when the disk is churning away without having to put your ear on > the keyboard. And ho

2-4-21-rc3-benh0 - hfsplus

2003-05-29 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi, I just compiled the kernel from the rsync-server. Mainly because of the included hfsplus support. Beside the really annoying "Blink laptop LED on activity", which I turned out after having it first compiled in(I think on can use this access to the LED for better purposes like programming a g

Re: next power up time, scheduled startup?, pmacpow does not work, nvram-wakeup?

2003-05-09 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hey, On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 08:45:26AM +0200, Christoph Ewering wrote: > Hello Oliver! > > So how about doing it together to get pmacpow working with the current > kernel? nice intention! > But as I said I am not a programer, long time ago I wrote a little > program

Re: next power up time, scheduled startup?, pmacpow does not work, nvram-wakeup?

2003-05-09 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hey, On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 08:45:26AM +0200, Christoph Ewering wrote: > Hello Oliver! > > So how about doing it together to get pmacpow working with the current > kernel? nice intention! > But as I said I am not a programer, long time ago I wrote a little > program (ANSI-

Re: next power up time, scheduled startup?, pmacpow does not work, nvram-wakeup?

2003-05-06 Thread Oliver Ripka
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:17:24PM +0200, Christoph Ewering wrote: > Hello! > > I just ran vdr (video disk recorder) on my good old beige G3 without a > problem :-) > > Now I have the next problem: How can I switch on the G3 at a given > time? > > First I tried pmacpow but this does not work

MOL not working after latest apt-get upgrade

2003-04-30 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi list, since the latest upgrade of the debian/ppc unstable dist i get errors if I start mac os x within mol. I can not try with an other OS. Sequentially listing of problem: 1. I do "startmol --session=5" as su 2. mol starts up switches the terminal and displays the grey mox screen 3. mol hangs

Re: airport monitor mode/ ben8

2003-04-04 Thread Oliver Ripka
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:27:01AM -0600, Mark Barr wrote: > Oliver, all- > [..] > with no problems, but when I kick off Airsnort and tell it to start > sniffing, I get the error > > "Could not set promiscuous mode". > > Mark I think you have to set monitor mod

airport monitor mode/ ben8

2003-04-03 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi list, got a ibook500/standart airport here. I just tried to run kismet, but the ben8 airport module seems not to be patched for montior mode. I remeber that older kernels supported that. So, am I just doing something wrong or is the support simply not included in ben8? TIA olliwolli

Re: Altgr on iBook

2003-03-08 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi, maybe it is helpful for me, who just posted something relating to that problem. so thanks. olliwolli

Xmodmap for german Keyboard - where are the braces?

2003-03-07 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi, This is an iBook with german locales. Console keymap is not mapped as the keys are labeled on the keyboard, but I can enter every char. I was researching now for half an hour to find braces like "[] {}" and "@|€..." on the X keyboard layout. I played with xkeycaps using an the german pc layo

tkispell + gocr.tcl

2002-12-26 Thread Oliver Ripka
hi has anybody got experience with that? i am just trying gocr with very bad results. so i tried gocr.tcl, too. gocr.tcl tells me i have not got tkispell installed, that's ok though i have not. but i am also not able to find this package in the whole debian distribution. may there be a bug in de

Re: Postgresql won't start, libreadline problem ?

2002-07-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
.so.4 : Undefined symbol : PC > > Running psql gives me the same result... I take it the dependencies are satisfied? There's no problem on i386 sid. Has there been some change to the ppc libreadline? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wi

Re: [Fwd: Bug#138311: Version 7.1 postmaster crashes, impossible to upgrade to 7.2]

2002-03-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 17:27, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Don, 2002-03-14 at 18:42, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Could powerpc peopls please look at this bug report; I am unable to do > > anything about it without a suitable machine. > > Can't you investigate with your accoun

[Fwd: Bug#138311: Version 7.1 postmaster crashes, impossible to upgrade to 7.2]

2002-03-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
Could powerpc peopls please look at this bug report; I am unable to do anything about it without a suitable machine. Explanation: When postgresql is upgraded with a new upstream version, it is frequently necessary to dump the database, destroy and recreate the database files and reloa

postgresql_7.1.3-4_powerpc.changes REJECTED (fwd)

2001-09-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
I don't know who did the build, but... --- Forwarded Message Date:Sat, 08 Sep 2001 20:54:40 +0200 From:Debian Installer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: postgresql_7.1.3-4_powerpc.changes REJECTED Rejected: Can't read

postgresql waiting for buildd

2001-08-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
3-1 | unstable | s390 postgresql |7.1.3-2 | unstable | source, alpha, arm, i386, m68k, mips, mipsel, sh, sparc I would dearly like to get rid of 7.1release-4. Is there anything I can do to speed up building on these architectures? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: pmud on pismo ?

2000-11-11 Thread Oliver
On Thu, 09 Nov 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote: [] > Nope, these only actually write to disk when there's dirty buffers or > metadata. [] I found it a big help to ad "-" in front of the logfilenames in /etc/syslog.conf. Without it, each logfile is automatically flushed to disk on every write

Bug #60469: reported problem on PowerPC with PostgreSQL

2000-03-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
es:' /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $6}' | head -1` if [ -z "$POSTGRES_HOME" ] then POSTGRES_HOME=/var/lib/postgres fi PGDATESTYLE=GERMAN PGALLOWTCPIP=yes Has any other PowerPC user expe

Re: postgresql-6.5 beta3

1999-07-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
Robert Ramiega wrote: >On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 05:17:48PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> The latest beta release (6.5 beta3) is currently being uploaded to > > Postgresql packages for PowerPC are buggy because they cannot destroydb. Th >is >can be

postgresql-6.5 beta3

1999-06-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
shows beta3 instead of beta2. The PostgreSQL team now hope to release the official 6.5 next Monday. -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Uploaded postgresql 6.4.2-9 (source i386 all) to chiark

1999-06-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Oliver Elphick" wrote: >Christopher C Chimelis wrote: > > >The tarball on your site is fubar :-( It's only showing as being 2.77 MB > >or so when it should be more like 5MB. > >I exceeded my disk quota. I've changed the link to point to

Re: Uploaded postgresql 6.4.2-9 (source i386 all) to chiark

1999-06-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
-digital.de/spam/ ==== Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers;

Re: Uploaded postgresql 6.4.2-9 (source i386 all) to chiark

1999-06-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
Christopher C Chimelis wrote: > >On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote: > >> I have put together a preliminary release of 6.5 (beta2) and the source >> for it can be obtained from http://www.lfix.co.uk/postgresql. Could you >> please try to build that an

Re: Uploaded postgresql 6.4.2-9 (source i386 all) to chiark

1999-06-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
lease cc me. -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www

kernel

1999-03-16 Thread Oliver Neukum
Hi, having recently switched to ppc, i have some questions. Is the standard "Linus" kernel supposed to compile ? TIA Oliver Neukum

rescue disk image

1999-02-28 Thread Oliver Neukum
Hi, is there a rescue ramdisk image available ? I can't find it, but need it to install. TIA Oliver Neukum

Debian Documentation Project: Documentation for non-x86 Debian

1998-07-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
if you have any installation or other documentation that could be included in the Debian Documentation Project, or, if there is none now, what documentation you think there should be. The DDP home page is at <http://www.debian.org/~elphick/ddp/>. [This is cross-posted to five lists, so plea