Re: Triple booting OS 9,X Debian

2004-03-03 Thread Ryan Verner
On 03/03/2004, at 10:08 PM, Clive Menzies wrote: I am sure you can also include OS9 as a boot option in yaboot but I've not done it 'cos I don't use it enough to be concerned. You can, it's the macos= option that was mentioned in the previous post. It differs from the macosx= option in the re

Re: Triple booting OS 9,X Debian

2004-03-03 Thread Ryan Verner
Howdy, On 03/03/2004, at 12:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I've tried this once before and wound up with a mess, but does someone know how to get this configuration working. I have OS9 installed from my Titanium software restore disk onto a Panther OS X (They are on the same seem to

Re: OT: Upgrading DVD firmware on TiBook

2004-02-28 Thread Ryan Verner
On 29/02/2004, at 8:54 AM, christophe barbe wrote: I wonder if someone know a way to install a new firmware for a DVD player (to fix a design design flaw, sort of) that is provided as a MacOS9 binary. I have MacOS X on dual boot but not MacOS 9. Is it possible somehow to do it from the Mac OS 9

Re: XFree86 touchpad driver on iBook

2004-01-29 Thread Ryan Verner
On 29/01/2004, at 7:29 PM, Colin Leroy wrote: The apple touchpad driver support these. Synaptics driver, IIRC, supports more things, like double-tap (with two fingers) for middle-click, scrollwheel emulation using the right border of the pad, etc. Ah. I've been missing out :-) R -- Colin Ne

Re: XFree86 touchpad driver on iBook

2004-01-29 Thread Ryan Verner
On 29/01/2004, at 6:25 PM, Colin Leroy wrote: I'm wondering if someone got the Synaptics driver from http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/ to work on an iBook G4. I don't think Synaptics driver is for the Apple laptop's ADB touchpads. The list at http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touc

Re: dist upgrade experiences and problems

2004-01-26 Thread Ryan Verner
On 27/01/2004, at 12:33 AM, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Martin Kuball writes: I'v just upgraded my woody to testing. You have, probably out of a momentary fancy, squandered a highly stable and reliable operating system and switched to its inherently broken cousin. Deal with it. I'd personally su

Re: Mol + Powerbook G4 17"

2004-01-26 Thread Ryan Verner
On 27/01/2004, at 7:16 AM, listas wrote: Anybody could tell me if could it be possible to have mol working properly with Alu 17"?, i only have 8 bit and the graphics are really ugly. Works here on an Albook 15" (same video chipset, right?). Perhaps you haven't configured your mol.video cor

Re: no virtual terminals with 2.6.x?

2004-01-26 Thread Ryan Verner
On 26/01/2004, at 7:33 PM, Christoph Ewering wrote: Hello ! I am thinking about switching from kernel 2.4.x to 2.6.x because of the dvb-support. At the moment I am using a dvb-c-card with my beige G3. I was able to compile a 2.6 kernel and boot with it, but as soon as the kernel starts my

Re: ppc memory

2004-01-26 Thread Ryan Verner
On 19/12/2003, at 2:04 AM, Ryan Verner wrote: what do you mean with same type (size, manufacturer,pins,...?) sorry that i dont have a clue about hardware. There's a program available on VersionTracker for OS X that lists every mac ever made, it's specs, and replacement part

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-22 Thread Ryan Verner
On 22/01/2004, at 6:56 PM, Angel wrote: Are apple powerbooks and debian good friends? Mine works perfectly. Getting it running can be fun, but that's what this list is for :-) R -- Signature space for rent.

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-21 Thread Ryan Verner
On 21/01/2004, at 5:42 PM, Andreas Jaggi wrote: Am 20.01.2004 um 19:34 schrieb Alexander Clausen: But we really should try to cook up a patch for pbbuttonsd, because it already does all that display backlight stuff. I've already contacted the author of pbbuttonsd. He can integrate this fun

Re: Audio/Video editing

2004-01-20 Thread Ryan Verner
On 20/01/2004, at 2:35 AM, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Hi, I've recently installed debian sid in my iMac DV+, but I'm having problems both with audio and video editing. If you're serious about video editing, I'd stick with OS X - the platform has the best damn editing applications on the planet, and

Re: 2.6 kernel on an iBook2.2

2004-01-10 Thread Ryan Verner
On 10/01/2004, at 11:13 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: You can hound me too, I'll be at linuxconf.au as well :) Nice, everybody's who anybody seems to be coming - I'm pumped, this is going to be the greatest LCA yet. Run a PPC Linux FIXIT! (hint hint) ;-) R -- linux.conf.au 2004 - Adel

Re: Debian or Gentoo?

2004-01-06 Thread Ryan Verner
On 07/01/2004, at 10:48 AM, J.Manrique Lopez de la Fuente wrote: Hello, Sorry if this begins a flamewar, but some friends of mine are using Gentoo on their iBooks G4, and they have recommended me to use Gentoo instead of Debian for my iBook G4. Despite Gentoo famous emerge system to compile

Re: realplayer on ppc

2004-01-03 Thread Ryan Verner
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 10:36, Matt Price wrote: > anyone know if it's possible to play real player streams on a ppc? > THis is on g3 running sid. I think x86 Linux applications that can handle realplayer stuff do so by using the win32 .dll's supplied with the real realplayer. Because this is a

Re: Caution when choosing PCMCIA wireless cards (was Re: 17 inch powerbook 1.33Ghz problems)

2003-12-23 Thread Ryan Verner
On 24/12/2003, at 1:38 AM, Barry Hawkins wrote: 1.) Not all Orinoco cards are equal. I just found this out the hard way when I bought an Orinoco Silver 802.11b/g card after hearing that an Orinoco Silver card should work fine for Mac OS and Linux. If you are looking to buy one of those, be su

Re: 17 inch powerbook 1.33Ghz problems

2003-12-23 Thread Ryan Verner
On 23/12/2003, at 9:49 PM, Hubert Figuiere wrote: On mar, 2003-12-23 at 10:51, Sven Luther wrote: * Airport Extreme: forget it ;-) Can one of the older non Extreme airport card be used in one of the newer ibook/powerbooks ? AFAIK, Airport Extreme aren't like older Airport cards thus they

Re: Recommended Orinoco PCMCIA card?

2003-12-21 Thread Ryan Verner
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 14:33, Barry Hawkins wrote: > of free software. I will Google for the 802.11g-compatible Linux > chipsets as you mentioned. If anyone has good links for Linux and > wireless, please feel free to post them. Sadly, it seems there are bugger all. There's drivers around the

Re: ppc memory

2003-12-18 Thread Ryan Verner
On 19/12/2003, at 12:41 AM, florian klinglmueller wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 what do you mean with same type (size, manufacturer,pins,...?) sorry that i dont have a clue about hardware. There's a program available on VersionTracker for OS X that lists every mac eve

Re: [LONG] new 15

2003-12-16 Thread Ryan Verner
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 00:28, Wright G. wrote: > Clock slewing not sorted out yet - machine runs at 765MHz with a FSB clock of > 102MHz. /proc/cpuinfo lies about it being 1250MHz :) You can tell this > because the bogomips rating is way down in the ~750 region, when it should be > up in the ~1200

Re: Recommended Orinoco PCMCIA card?

2003-12-15 Thread Ryan Verner
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 08:16, Barry Hawkins wrote: > List, > It looks like the Proxim Orinoco wireless cards work well with those > needing to avoid the Broadcom-based Airport Extreme cards in Apple > portables. Any recommendation or enlightenment on whether the Silver > World card versus

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"? (Modified by Ryan Verner)

2003-12-15 Thread Ryan Verner
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 03:48, Ralf Angeli wrote: > Hm, I will need it for a dial-up connection at home. If it is a > Conexant modem it shouldn't be a problem to make it work with a driver > from http://www.linuxant.com/>. I'll try that later today. > In the Gentoo forums I found a quite interesti

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"? (Modified by Ryan Verner)

2003-12-15 Thread Ryan Verner
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:41:06 +0100, Ralf Angeli wrote > As I said before I am in course of deciding wether to buy an AlBook > or not. It would be nice if you could say something about what is > working and what is not to help me with this decision. (c; The > following would be especially inter

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"? (Modified by Ryan Verner)

2003-12-15 Thread Ryan Verner
On 13/12/2003, at 11:55 PM, Ralf Angeli wrote: Via Google I found a post to the Debian X mailing list where somebody offers XFree86 debs (PowerPC) for downloading.[2] Apparently these are from September 2003 but that should do it. [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2003/debian-x-200311/

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-13 Thread Ryan Verner
Apologies for the previous subject change, 10.3's Mail.App sure is interesting... On 13/12/2003, at 11:55 PM, Ralf Angeli wrote: Hmm, this makes things especially ugly if this is the case. Haven't the 9600's been around for ages, though - it seems odd that they're only now just recently supp

Re: Netgear wg511

2003-12-13 Thread Ryan Verner
On 14/12/2003, at 12:03 AM, Colin Leroy wrote: Bogomips don't mean anything. Bogomips is about 2x MHz on x86, 1x on PPC. Just try CPU-intensive, unoptimized (ie, no mencoder as it has a lot of assembly) applications if you want to do benchmarks. You can also try some highly optimized things li

Re: Netgear wg511

2003-12-13 Thread Ryan Verner
On 13/12/2003, at 11:43 PM, Everett Coleman II wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:gcc80x86# cat /.proc/cpuinfo cpu : 7450, altivec supported clock : 667MHz revision: 2.1 (pvr 8000 0201) bogomips: 663.55 As a complete aside (sorry), is a bogomips this low normal; I a

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"? (Modified by Ryan Verner)

2003-12-13 Thread Ryan Verner
On 13/12/2003, at 11:21 PM, Ralf Angeli wrote: The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc as well. * Ryan Verner (2003-12-13) writes: I've just done a 2.6.0-test11 compile (from the rsync tree you gave me), and sti

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-13 Thread Ryan Verner
On 13/12/2003, at 11:14 PM, Ryan Verner wrote: I've just done a 2.6.0-test11 compile (from the rsync tree you gave me), and still no luck :-( Exactly the same issues as before, even with your As a followup, my config/output files for the 2.6 run are here: dmesg:

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-13 Thread Ryan Verner
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:06, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:34:01PM +1030, Ryan Verner wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 20:28, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I rsynced Ben's 2.6 tree from source.mvista.com::linuxppc-2.5-benh and > > > built that

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-12 Thread Ryan Verner
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 20:28, Colin Watson wrote: > I rsynced Ben's 2.6 tree from source.mvista.com::linuxppc-2.5-benh and > built that. http://www.penguinppc.org/ has directions. Oh.. heh, he has a 2.6 tree too :-) Go figure. Cheers, I'll try this tomorrow once I'm on a decent connection again.

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-12 Thread Ryan Verner
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 20:13, Ryan Verner wrote: > Interesting. Is all the goodies required in ben's kernel tree present > in 2.6.0-testXX? (forget what's there, but I know that some of the stuff > isn't there in the vanilla 2.4 tree; some hardware support for various >

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-12 Thread Ryan Verner
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 20:01, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:33:34PM +0930, Ryan Verner wrote: > > Any other tips, XFree86 related or not, from other Albook users would > > also be greatly appreciated. > > Various people told me on IRC that I needed to

XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-12 Thread Ryan Verner
Hiya, I'm a proud owner of a new 15" 1.25ghz (w/ Superdrive) Powerbook, and although OS X runs beautifully on this, I'm keen to dual boot it with a small Debian install; my previous laptop (15" 500mhz Powerbook) absolutely screamed with a Sid install. It's been a while since I've done PPC Debian,

XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-12 Thread Ryan Verner
Hiya, I'm a proud owner of a new 15" 1.25ghz (w/ Superdrive) Powerbook, and although OS X runs beautifully on this, I'm keen to dual boot it with a small Debian install; my previous laptop (15" 500mhz Powerbook) absolutely screamed with a Sid install. It's been a while since I've done PPC Debian,