hi there,
Thunderbird 1.0 has not made it into unstable yet, but the maintainer has his
own repository here:
http://www.jwsdot.com/debian/index.html
with only i386 binaries.
i have no experience building debian packages... how would i go about creating
a powerpc .deb from the sources?
che
hi there,
Thunderbird 1.0 has not made it into unstable yet, but the maintainer has his
own repository here:
http://www.jwsdot.com/debian/index.html
with only i386 binaries.
i have no experience building debian packages... how would i go about creating
a powerpc .deb from the sources?
cheers,
Choy Kho Yee wrote:
2) I would like to get it to display at a higher screen resolution, like
1280x960. Is that possible?
what makes you think you can get more than 1024x768?? there are only 1024x768
*physical* pixels on your screen!!
cheers,
Sam
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hi there,
this happens every time i start up OS X in MOL and enter my
username/pass... a window pops up to say "unable to log you in at this
time", and then it logs me in! is there a way to stop the pop up window as
it is clearly in error...
cheers,
Sam
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Jose A. Ortega Ruiz wrote:
> Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra:
> > I did the blunder of removing Java from my system and trying
> > to live only with Kaffe and gij... now I needed Java again, and the
> > blackdown sites don't seem to have PowerPC Java anymore. Somewhere
> > else?
> i've
hi there,
has anyone else noticed the transparency effect of the MacOSX theme for
gtkpbbuttons has stopped working correctly in the last few days?
i am running testing on an iBook G4 with the -7 sleep patch applied to a
2.6.9-3 kernel.
cheers,
Sam
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hi there,
the following is an email suggesting a fix for a nasty bug in the vanilla
2.6.9 kernel:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0410.3/0086.html
the patch is here
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.9/2.6.9-ck3/patches/vm-pages_scanned-active_list.patch
are debian going to add
Djoumé SALVETTI wrote:
> Sam Halliday a écrit :
> > i am still not too sure what i am supposed to do with regards setting
> > up software suspend... i applied the swsusp-2.6.9.diff patch to a 2.6.9
> > kernel tree, but typing `hibernate` says my kernel does not support
> &
i am still not too sure what i am supposed to do with regards setting up
software suspend... i applied the swsusp-2.6.9.diff patch to a 2.6.9 kernel
tree, but typing `hibernate` says my kernel does not support hibernating. i
have set
CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y
CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION=""
so i th
John Goerzen wrote:
> 1. Sleep mode. According to [1], sleep doesn't work at all. However,
>others are not reporting any trouble with it (basically saying
>everything except the Airport Extreme works fine). Does sleep work
>on this unit?
it looks like benh has just started work on t
hi there,
i noticed that
http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-ppc/kernel/pmdisk-2.6.9-rc1.diff
does not apply cleanly to a 2.6.9 tree; does anyone have a 2.6.9 patch?
i'm currently trying to set up suspend-to-disk on my iBook G4 (i noticed
benh is working on sleep support :-D), but i ca
hi there,
i have had ALSA working fine on my G4 iBook since the initial install, but
lately i have been noticing in XMMS that if the machine is doing something
CPU intensive which causes a delay in the sound output of XMMS... then the
sounds just dies there; it doesn't ever pick up where it left o
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Therefore, the best thing is to get networking going between the Linux
> side and the Mac OS side, and then use some kind of networking
> filesystem. Personally, I've tried NFS and Netatalk with good
> results, but normally I don't bother and just copy stuff using ssh.
i
hi there,
in MOL i cannot seem to use the scroll button on my mouse? however the 3rd
button seems to have been mapped automatically to paste :-D, which is nice.
is there any way i could set up a directory in my debian ~/ which would
show up as a directory in my Max OS X MOL ~/ as well? at the mom
hi there,
could somebody please tell me if suspend is working for the iBook G4 yet?
last time i checked the radeon internals were stopping it from all working.
cheers,
Sam
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Cedric Pradalier wrote:
> According to Paul William, on Sat, 03 Jul 2004 23:04:04 +1200,
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Is it possible to sleep an ibook (1ghz G4, bought new a few weeks ago)?
> > I am running testing and a 2.6.7 kernel as well as pbuttonsd.
> >
> >I also cannot eject cds. I get this error when
Paul William wrote:
> Good to see I am not the *only* one with these problems :) Did you apply
> both those kernel patches, as they are for 2.6.6? I am busy compiling
> 2.6.7 now but will apply those patches if needed.
did you also remember to set the kernel option
video=radeonfb
instead of v
Paul William wrote:
> Which Post? I can't seem to find it at
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/06/threads.html#00026
there is a 2nd page there...
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/06/msg00649.html
Paul William wrote:
> Mine is also 0:16:0 :(
is your iBook relatively new? does lspci reveal a
Radeon Mobility 9200 M9+
if so... check out the posts i made last week as i encountered and fixed this...
turns out you need the use the radeonfb (not the OS one) on bootup, and that
requires the 2.6.
Jaume Sabater wrote:
> Warren A. Layton wrote:
> >>>Do you have CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG=y/m ?
> >>>
> >>>That's what caused my iBook to oops on suspend with 2.6.7-rc2. I'm not
> >>>sure if it has been fixed in 2.6.7 (final).
> >
> > I just did a quick diff between the pmac_zilog.{c,h} files in 2.6.
david howe wrote:
> What steps do I need to take to get the sdl implementation (pismo -
> using testing with a 2.6.5 kernel) working? alternetively has anyone got
> decent 3d acceleration happening?
whats your hardware? XFree86 acceleration is architecture independent, and only
depends on your gra
Adrian Lester wrote:
> Where the heck's 0:16:0 coming from? Well, it occurred to me that it might
> just be the other output so I changed XF86Config-4 accordingly and this time
> got no errors in the log files but, after a quick flick of the display and a
> gurgle from the HDD, a blank black screen
Adrian Lester wrote:
> lspci gives: 00:10:0 VGA Compatible Controller: ATI Technologies
>
> So in the XF86Config-4 file I set PCI to 00:10:0
lspci gives HEX output... 0x10 is actually decimal 16, so try 00:16:0 :-)
hi there,
i noticed my MACHTYPE is set to powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu, but since i am on mac
hardware should it not be set to powerpc-mac-linux-gnu? what sets this value,
and how can i fix it?
manually setting it as a shell variable does not mean programs, such as my email
client, inherit it. they
Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> Jens Schmalzing writes:
> > preliminary kernel-image packages and accompanying mol modules are
> > available at
> >
> > deb http://www.theorie.physik.uni-muencchen.de/~jens/kernel-patch-powerpc
> > ./ deb http://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~jens/mol-modules ./
> >
>
hi there,
i've been building my kernels the debian way, and a file
/boot/vmlinux.coff-2.6.7
keeps getting created. from some googling, i see this is some other binary type
of file than the ELF type which yaboot can load. i have no need for it. how can
i build my kernels without also creating thi
Timo Reimerdes wrote:
> On So, 2004-06-27 at 14:17, Derrik Pates wrote:
> >
> > The only time I ever ran into anything like that was when I enabled
> > DevFS, and had the kernel mount it on boot, but didn't have the devfsd
> > package installed. You sure you didn't do something like that? Maybe
> i have attached
no... no i hadn't. now attached.
ibookg4-british.kmap.gz
Description: Binary data
gb_new
Description: Binary data
pgpwd1nXVvgFl.pgp
Description: PGP signature
hi there,
to anyone looking for keymaps for the new iBook G4 British keyboard; i have
attached the console-data keymap (save as
/usr/share/keymaps/mac/ibookg4-british.kmap.gz). type `install-keymap
ibookg4-british` once to load and save the keys for good.) this keymapping was
written by George Wri
Rob Weir wrote:
> Sam Halliday said
> > Rob Weir wrote:
> > > Sam Halliday said
> > > > 1 - powernowd does not work! with cpu frequency stuff all built
> > > > into the 2.6.7 kernel, the modules loaded for 2.6.6 and
> > > > sys
Sébastien FRANÇOIS wrote:
> > Sam Halliday writes:
> > > i'm pretty lucky then that FB support for my graphics card was just
> > > added to 2.6.7 then!!
> I've probably missed something but I still use my ibook G4 with a 2.6.3
> kernel, using a FB for the
George Wright wrote:
> > 1 - i have a "british" keyboard (even though apple's is not even close to a
> > british pc keyboard) and i would like to be able to have this mapped
> > correctly. at the moment a lot of the non-character (such as tilde) keys
> > are not mapped correctly. i selected the bri
Jim Ricken wrote:
> Does Debian have any program to play video movies?
use the xine-ui (or totem) frontends to xinelibs. or you can set about compiling
MPlayer (or finding a .deb repository). MPlayer is currently not distributed
with debian for some complicated license thing which i fail to unders
hi there,
i have been trying to write a keymap file for my "british" iBook G4 keyboard.
and i have uncovered something very scary indeed... the macros for a lot of the
symbols do not translate into their respective font!
for example, if i bind "plusminus" to a key combination, i do not get output
Sam Halliday wrote:
> hi there,
>
> i was wondering if anyone has had any joy getting this to work on PPC
> http://www.bootsplash.org
> everything on the page seems to suggest that it is i386 only (mentioning
> lilo)... but the files which are patched in the kerne
hi there,
i was wondering if anyone has had any joy getting this to work on PPC
http://www.bootsplash.org
everything on the page seems to suggest that it is i386 only (mentioning
lilo)... but the files which are patched in the kernel look fairly arch
independent. unfortunately the latest patch i
Colin Watson wrote:
> Sam Halliday wrote:
> > the debian default of "video=ofonly" is what is breakign things!
> I couldn't quite tell which installer you were using, but if you're
> using the new debian-installer then video=ofonly is only the default
&g
> > You need to have at least 2.6.7-rc2, or the radeon is unusably flickery.
> > I've attached my XF86Config-4. Note that I have DRI disabled, since it
> > (iirc) makes pmdisk fail to resume.
> unfortunately this has brought me no closer to having X on my system. what
> framebuffer do you use? i h
Rob Weir wrote:
> Sam Halliday said
> > 1 - powernowd does not work! with cpu frequency stuff all built
> > into the 2.6.7 kernel, the modules loaded for 2.6.6 and
> > sysfs mounted correctly... the folder
> >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0
> >
Sam George wrote:
> Sam Halliday wrote:
> > i was wondering if there was maybe an FAQ for new installs of debian
> > GNU/Linux on powerpc... in particular for an iBook.
>
> This isn't exactly what you asked for, but it's related and you may
> find it quite use
Rob Weir wrote:
> Sam Halliday said
> http://lists.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-dev/200406/msg00024.html.
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=108782322527299&w=2
> My kernel .config is attaced to give you a head start.
rob... you are THE MAN! i'll try this all wit
Rob Weir wrote:
> > Sam Halliday wrote:
> > > i have been battling all night to try and get XFree86 set up on my iBook
> >
> > > i have placed all relevant files on my FTP Server here:
> > > ftp://fommil.homeunix.org/sam/xprobs/
> > > (X config,
Esteban Martinez wrote:
> I don't know much about this, but I have seen your config files and I
> think you can try with the "radeon" driver in the XF86Config-4 file
> instead of "ati" driver.
it doesn't work either way... and i thought "radeon" was just a stub for "ati"
anyway.
cheers,
Sam
--
hi there,
well, besides the lack of an Xserver yet, i am setting up my system according
to:
http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto.html
http://www.twolife.org/debian/ibook.php
but i am getting nowhere fast.
i have installed the latest kernel image from here
http://twolife.fre
Sam Halliday wrote:
> i have been battling all night to try and get XFree86 set up on my iBook
> i have placed all relevant files on my FTP Server here:
> ftp://fommil.homeunix.org/sam/xprobs/
> (X config, X log, uname+lspci and yaboot kernel parameters)
a day later... several
hi there,
i have been battling all night to try and get XFree86 set up on my iBook, but i
have lost. i am running testing on the 2.6.6-powerpc kernel, and no matter what
i do, when i start the xfree86-server the laptop screen goes blank and then
randomly changes between blank, white, red, green an
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> > well, using the debian 2.6.6-power4 image the installer does not do
> > this by default. and loading the kernel results in it just hanging
> > at the screen "opening video device..." or whatever it says.
>
> The power4 flavour is for the IBM Power4 processors that are bu
George Wright wrote:
> > 1 - i have a "british" keyboard (even though apple's is not even close to a
> > british pc keyboard) and i would like to be able to have this mapped
> > correctly. at the moment a lot of the non-character (such as tilde) keys
> > are not mapped correctly. i selected the bri
Sven Luther wrote:
> Sam Halliday wrote:
> > 1 - i have a "british" keyboard (even though apple's is not even close to a
> > british pc keyboard) and i would like to be able to have this mapped
> > correctly. at the moment a lot of the non-character (su
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> > 2 - maybe related to 1, but i cannot use the virtual terminals. when
> > i do Alt-F2 i just get "unknown scancode e0 54", and if i also hold
> > down the fn key i get no output at all.
> It's a bit complicated. You need to press and hold Alt and Ctrl, then
> press and al
hi there,
i was wondering if there was maybe an FAQ for new installs of debian GNU/Linux
on powerpc... in particular for an iBook.
i just installed debian testing on my 1GHz G4 14" iBook and i have a few, what
seem like standard, questions to ask. i will ask them here, but if my questions
are alr
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