Re: mozilla-firefox: crash on extension installation

2004-05-31 Thread Rob Latham
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 12:37:38PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Anyone else suffering from this? yes, lots of people are. fixed upstream, so whenever the mozilla-friefox 0.9.0 is released and a debian package shows up, then we can go extension-crazy again. ==rob -- Rob Lat

Re: 802.11g on an ibook?

2004-05-28 Thread Rob Latham
plug scripts. Just make sure to read the whole README I missed some important wlanctl-ng commands, causing me some frustration when things apparently didn't work :> ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: 802.11g on an ibook?

2004-05-18 Thread Rob Latham
work :) I had good luck with the usb DWL-122 from D-Link. It's pretty unstable under os x, but it's rock solid under linux. ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: Linux vs Mac OS 10.3(Panther)

2004-05-13 Thread Rob Latham
up (pretty fast turnaround, if you ask me :> ) > you can't run valgrind heh. yes you can. http://valgrind.kde.org/related.html reports "Paul Mackerras has an experimental port of Valgrind 2.1.0 to PowerPC/Linux" http://ozlabs.org/~paulus/valgrind-2.1.0-ppc.tar.bz2 It works

X support on 2004 ibook (radeon 9200)

2004-05-12 Thread Rob Latham
ybody else have this problem? Thanks ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: ibook G4 questions

2004-05-04 Thread Rob Latham
h doesn't actually switch ctrl and caps lock. It just fakes the keypress events so that xmodmap can actually switch them. ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: Old airport card and new iBook G4

2004-05-04 Thread Rob Latham
rks great under linux :> I'm using 2.6.3-benh2 and the latest linux-wlan-ng (from source, not from debian packages). Follow the linux-wlan-ng README and everything should work. ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: Debian linux on Titanium 400MHz Powerbook: Screen too large?

2004-04-11 Thread Rob Latham
"Card0" > Monitor"LCD" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes"1280x854" > EndSubSection > EndSection For the g4-400, I'd suggest going with a depth of 16 and the aforementioned 1152x768. That will get you DRI for the all-important fast GL screen savers. ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: 2.6.0-test9 kernel on xserv

2003-11-20 Thread Rob Latham
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 12:37:57AM -0800, Adam Done wrote: > The root=/dev/hda9 is the actuall root partition now (i had switched the > hds from hde being the first drive to hda to the first drive) shot in the dark. try root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 ==rob -- Rob

Re: java with mozilla-firebird & mozilla

2003-11-08 Thread Rob Latham
lp page, I > understand I need jre 1.4 compiled with gcc3.2. But as far as I can > tell, no such jre exists for the powerpc, though some people seem to > have made unofficial .deb's for x86. No debs, but check out the 'contrib/linuxppc' directory o

Re: swap ctrl<->caps lock problem

2003-09-01 Thread Rob Latham
werpc/2001/debian-powerpc-200108/msg01075.html for a couple of years now and it works "well enough" (have to hit caps lock if it gets into a "ctrl-lock" state ). I don't know if this patch still works with the 12" powerbooks, since i don't have one of those :>

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

2003-07-14 Thread Rob Latham
problems with roman zippel's driver. ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: Ardis HFS+

2003-07-14 Thread Rob Latham
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 07:27:58PM -0500, Rob Latham wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:27:16AM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > If you use my "devel" tree (2.4.21-rc3 right now), it is included and > > works (rsync.penguinppc.org::benh-devel). > > I

Re: Ardis HFS+

2003-05-27 Thread Rob Latham
sourceforge archives are incomplete... i detailed the report in Message-ID <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> but will gladly reproduce the report if anyone is interested. ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: how to access hfs partition?

2003-05-07 Thread Rob Latham
n fsdevel) brad, since yours was one of the few hfsplus kernel projects for a while, do you had any relation to this new patch? ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: viewing linux partition on OS X?

2003-02-21 Thread Rob Latham
or OS X that lets one copy files from the linux partition? nope. one option might be to set up mac-on-linux and then nfs mount or scp files between os x and linux. ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: is gnome 2 closer to OS X than 1.4 ?

2003-02-14 Thread Rob Latham
from starting is also keeping apple's X11 from starting. http://lists.linuxppc.org/mol-general/200210/msg00084.html As for the acceleration questions, the mac-on-linux lists are exceedingly helpful. ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: pbuilder and dpkg remapping table

2003-02-13 Thread Rob Latham
and having CC="ccache gcc" confused it. for the record, it wasn't hte chroot that was getting confused, but rather the -none confused the process of finding the Release file from the mirror. thanks ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: pbuilder and dpkg remapping table

2003-02-13 Thread Rob Latham
cache gcc". for some reason, dpkg gets slightly confused and reports 'powerpc-none'. if i unset CC and rerun dpkg --print-architecture, then it reports 'powerpc'. thanks for the help. ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: pbuilder and dpkg remapping table

2003-02-13 Thread Rob Latham
at all. it's debian's gcc-3.2.2-0. As i bandaid, i rebuilt dpkg, adding "powerpc-none powerpc powerpc" to the "archtable" file, but i'm rather surprised that i would be the only one to run into this problem... thanks ==rob -- Rob LathamWoodridge, IL USA

pbuilder and dpkg remapping table

2003-02-13 Thread Rob Latham
-linux/3.2.2/libgcc.a) to find the key to use when it looks up stuff in archtable. at this point i gave up... is this a bug in dpkg, or i it operator error? thanks ==rob -- Rob LathamWoodridge, IL USA

Re: How to make the tv output work ?

2003-02-03 Thread Rob Latham
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:49:17PM +, matthew yee-king wrote: > So does this mean you have smooth dvd playback on a tibook 400 ? what > software you using? mplayer and recent versions of xine all work fine for my g4 400. ==rob -- Rob

Re: Automatic snooze on idle?

2002-10-13 Thread Rob Latham
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 11:14:18AM +0200, Claas Langbehn wrote: > It should also act like a screen saver but it should snooze the > whole machine instead of only screen saving. http://www.cymes.de/members/joker/projects/pbbuttons/pbbuttons.html ==rob -- Rob

Re: fPIC used to build packages

2002-04-10 Thread Rob Latham
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 12:04:40AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > It's probably considered a bug on any architecture, our policy requires > shared objects to be built with -fPIC. mpich does not provide shared libraries. all you get is libmpich.a ==rob --

Re: Caps Key

2002-03-26 Thread Rob Latham
7;t > seem to do anything :( Does anyone have a caps key reliably > functioning as a ctrl and if so how ? yup the patch is part one. it makes the caps-lock key remapable. you still have to use xmodmap to do the swapping. ==rob -- Rob LathamWoodri

Re: Making a bootable CD for newworlds?

2002-03-18 Thread Rob Latham
distributions, with my choice of tools etc). http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html#macppcimage but instead of the mkhybrid command, use mkisofs -hfs -part Since at least the last two debian releases have *not* booted on newworlds, maybe you shouldn't use debian-cd as a referenc

Re: XFree86 screensaver on iBook2: Power down the LCD?

2002-03-16 Thread Rob Latham
l it not to cycle, either, or your lcd flickers back on briefly every 10 minutes. ==rob -- Rob LathamWoodridge, IL USA EAE8 DE90 85BB 526F 3181 1FCF 51C4 B6CB 08CC 0897

Re: filesystem for shared disk

2001-11-26 Thread Rob Latham
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:27:54PM +0100, Fabian Jakobs wrote: > Hi, > > I am planning to by a new HDD and would like to reserve one partition as > shared disk between MacOS 9/X and Linux. Is there a filesestem that is read- > and writable under both systems? msdos if you can call it a file sy

Re: iBook internal modem experiences?

2001-11-24 Thread Rob Latham
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 12:07:55AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > 3) I *still* can't get the modem to work using pon/pppconfig, even with > a 2.4.14+benh(2001-11-21) kernel. I set the timeout to 5 seconds, and > it dutifully does so, twice. > > ATZ > expect (OK) > alarm > AT > expect (OK) > ala

Re: iBook internal modem experiences?

2001-11-22 Thread Rob Latham
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 08:31:13PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I've grepped the list archives of this list and cannot find anyone else > with my specific problem. pppd and chat can talk to either of > /dev/ttyS{0,1}, but no "OK" is returned after ATZ or AT is sent. did you try ATZ1 ? that w

Re: ext3 anyone?

2001-11-14 Thread Rob Latham
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:39:01PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > Laurent, > The conversion went fine for me. I built my own yaboot 1.3.5 debian > packages and after installing them used ybin to install the new yaboot > on my bootstrap partition. does anyone know why yaboot 1.3.5 hasn't hit unsta

xine 0.5.2 and performance

2001-09-03 Thread Rob Latham
there haven't been any improvements after all. Michel: did you just use the stock compiler optimizations when you built your xine debs ? thanks ==rob -- Rob Latham: linux A-Team Bethlehem, PA USA EAE8 DE90 85BB 526F 3181 1FCF 51C4 B6CB 08CC 0897

Re: Mac-on-Linux

2001-07-19 Thread Rob Latham
recent rsync's of mol have the fixes, but i don't know when such a version will hit debian. ==rob -- Rob Latham: linux A-Team Bethlehem, PA USA EAE8 DE90 85BB 526F 3181 1FCF 51C4 B6CB 08CC 0897