Hi Robert,
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Robert Weißgraeber wrote:
[...]
> 2) Keyboard Issue
> I have a german keyboard layout which is working fine on öäü,
> but not on the pipe, (at). How can i get this?
[...]
I'm using this little script at login time:
snip---
#!/bin/sh
cat <
On 10 Aug 2002, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Like Kevin said, or:
>
> add to your sources.list:
> deb http://klecker.debian.org/~gibreel/debian unstable main non-free
>
> and apt-get install either the jre or the j2sdk.
That makes me wonder:
Is there any reason why these packages are not in the offici
On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Jean-Christophe Michel wrote:
> I get an error message compiling (with make-kpkg modules_images
> called from /usr/src/benh_kernel/ ):
>
> make[1]: dh_testdir: Command not found.
>
> All packages are updated...
> What can be the problem ?
run "apt-get build-dep mol-modules-sou
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Jul 08 2002, Danial Pearce wrote:
> > I mean how if you touch the mouse track pad, it emulates a click.
>
> See the trackpad program and its options. It can emulate all
> the behaviours you see in MacOS X.
That's good news! I only knew abo
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Fredrik Karlsson wrote:
> I am currently trying to install the pbbuttons deamon on my lombard
> PowerBook, but it fails to start up because there are no keyboard node in
> /dev/input/.
>
> Any ideas on how I fix this?
you could try ikeyd instead, which works here even without
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Joakim Andersson wrote:
[...]
> I have a ibook2 600 Mhz and now two times it has produced a _very_ loud
> and totally horrible sound when waking up from sleep. It's hard to
> describe the sound, it's like a mix between a very loud firealarm and
> the sound you get when a micro
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Stephen van Egmond wrote:
> > kernel-image-2.4.1*_custom.1.0_powerpc.deb package in /usr/src.
> > 9. dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.1*_custom.1.0_powerpc.deb
> > 10. Reboot computer and pray! (or play around with yaboot and set up
> > a second backup linux kernel to boot from.)
>
Hi,
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, nik gaffney wrote:
> has anyone managed to use minicom to communicate with a serial device, using
> a mac usb port?
Yup, works nicely with my iBook.
> ive setup usb-serial and some other kernel modules, mknod'ed a /dev/ttyUSB0,
> but minicom doesnt seem to think the
Hi Bob,
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Bob Torres wrote:
> I recently transferred some MP3s from my MacOS desktop to my Debianppc
> laptop. There are no file extensions for these mp3 files, so they're
> kind worthless for xmms in Linux.
hmmm, at least with mpg321, extensions don't make any difference.
Hi,
On 25 Apr 2002, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 17:39, David Stanaway wrote:
> > My TiBook is acting as a web/mail server at the moment and I would like
> > to be able to put the lid down when I am not logged in, but at the
> > moment this puts the system into sleep mode.
> >
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Guy Durand wrote:
[...]
> Date doesn't change anything. I'm stuck in March 1934 or 56 (machine is off
> and I'm at work).
Is it really impossible to change your date using something like
date 041022442002
as root??? I'd be _really_ surprised if that's the case...
After tha
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Riccardo Gusso wrote:
> Since I have an usb three-buttons mouse that works fine I would like to
> disable the emulation of central and right buttons in F11 and F12.
> If I am not wrong, this feature is built in the kernel, so I suppose I should
> rebuild it, but which option
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, jonas bandi wrote:
> I would like to use my firewire harddisk with linux. Can anybody point
> me to information how to do that?
Make sure you have firewire support enabled in your kernel, as well as the
OHCI firewire driver, SCSI support and support for firewire disks.
You mi
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, jonas bandi wrote:
[...]
> titan:~# dpkg-reconfigure dpkg
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome
> debconf: (DISPLAY problem?)
> debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
> titan:~#
>
> What could be the cause of that?
Looks
Hi folks,
Yesterday, I've upgraded my iBook (late) 2001 to the current benh-rsync
kernel, hoping to get an improved dmasound_pmac driver, and indeed, there
are some improvements (the Pcm mixer is stereo now, and the internal
speakers seem to sound better).
However, I still got white noise when I
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
> Bewan gazel works. But you should still bug them about releasing a PPC
> binary of their lib ;)
Well, I don't know anything else I could do, except trying to return the
adaptor to my dealer (it doesn't really have the announced Linux support
af
Hi again,
The folks at AVM have just answered my support request regarding the
FRITZ!Card USB v2.0 USB-ISDN Adaptor and their Linux support.
They do ship "Linux Drivers", most of which are available in Source
form. However, there's one central object file that's only available
precompiled for i38
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Rogério Brito wrote:
[...]
> I have a question here: what would a recommended USB mouse be
> for use with an iBook?
Hmmm, I guess that every USB mouse wil work fine. Personally, I'm using an
optical Wheel mouse by Logitech, which is nice to use on
"strange" surfac
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Georg Koss wrote:
[...]
> > Branden's instructions on http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html ?
>
> I read the page indeed.
>
> I've one major and one minor problem with it.
>
> I've a G4 (Woody3.0) with a 56k dialup as only working box.
> On the ibook2 (?) I was able
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Viral Shah wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:46:53PM +0100, Siggi Langauf wrote:
> > Oh, and if you want to keep OS X, do _not_ install it on an UFS
> > partition; it would be terribly slow then...
>
> Oh, that is counter-intuitive !
> I thought u
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Georg Koss wrote:
> I bought an ibook (M8597) last week intending to install Woody solely
> ;-).
[...]
Hmmm, I know it's easy to find by doing a list search, but then
again: searching Debian lists is not really easy, so... Have you tried
Branden's instructions on http://peop
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Stefan Pfetzing wrote:
[...]
> > There's the Fritz! card USB (2.0) by AVM, for which AVM even ships Open
> > Source Linux drivers.
> Nope, these drivers are only partial Open Source. A main library is only
> availible as "object" file.
[...]
Well, I'm afraid he's right here.
Hi,
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Daniel Kleine-Albers wrote:
> I have a little problem with my keyboard on the powerbook g4 titanium. I
> use a german keyboard layout, everything is working fine - even the
> umlauts - but i can't write an @ (at-sign) with it. If i press alt+l
> only a l appears. How c
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Georg Koss wrote:
[...]
> Is anybody aware about external USB-56k modems one can get today (kernel-Docs
> acm.txt is written in 1999) or even external ISDN-USB-modems (or
> probably any other mobile solution working with the ibook 500).
There's the Fritz! card USB (2.0) by AVM
Hi Dabowl,
first of all, that should probably be discussed on xine-user rather than
here, as there are both xine specialists and xine/ppc users
there. Moreover, that doesn't look very ppc specific to me...
On 8 Feb 2002, Dabowl wrote:
> > > When i launch it, i have theses messages (in french, so
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
[...]
> The m3mirror is a hack using the same kind of sync on the LCD and
> on the CRT output. Having a different sync, which is what you want,
> would require full dual head support. I don't think it will appear
> anytime soon in aty128fb, but I
Hi,
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Stefan Werner wrote:
[...]
> When I boot the iBook without the screen attached, do a 'm3mirror
> lcd:0 crt:1' and then connect the monitor, the screen shows the
> correct modes (I tried up to 1280x1024) with the correct frequencies
> but with a vertical wobble, like th
Hi again,
On 16 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
[...]
> That's not written in stone. ;) Anyway, I checked and the enter key
You're right, but I'm lazy ;)
> indeed produces keycode 96 in console here. Its default symbol in X is
> KP_Enter, sounds like a good victim, no? :)
Yes, but I already sac
On 16 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 01:22, Siggi Langauf wrote:
> > On 16 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >
> > > > That's a bad idea, as Mode_switch should really be one key ("\" is
> > > > produced by Shift+M
On 16 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > That's a bad idea, as Mode_switch should really be one key ("\" is
> > produced by Shift+Mode_switch+7, for example)
>
> I see, but the question is what key to sacrifice for it?
Well, there's not much choice on the iBook keyboard: you more or less have
to
On 15 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> How about this one:
>
> -key { [ Alt_L] };
> +key { [ Alt_L, Mode_switch ] };
That's a bad idea, as Mode_switch should really be one key ("\" is
produced by Shift+Mode_switch+7, for example)
> -key { [ Meta_L
Hi again,
this is more a powerpc hardware issue, but maybe there's someone her who
can shed some light on this. (hi, benh!)
Any other place to post this?
While writing a script that checks for some system properties that might
decrease video performance, I found that I'm missing one feature on pp
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Siggi Langauf wrote:
>
> > After a night of sleep and some more listening, I found out that these
> > sonds occur when there is acces to the hard disk drive.
> > I'm using ext3, therefore the
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
> > Well, now that I've listened closely to my earphones while plugged to the
> > iBook, I've noticed a very high-pitched sound that occurs roughly every 2
> > seconds and lasts for about half a second. Any guess what that could be?
>
> I'm stil
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, William R Sowerbutts wrote:
> Slightly offtopic post, sorry:
Hmmm, okay...
> On my iBook2 (600/DVD+CDRW) I can hear a low frequency humming on headphones
> plugged into the audio jack. The hum is only there when the system is plugged
> into the mains. I live in the UK and it
On 9 Jan 2002, MaX wrote:
> Howo to remap in the my mouse
>
> "button2" ==> "button3" ??
echo pointer = 1 3 2 4 5|xmodmap -
will exchange buttons 2 and 3 (assuming you have a 5 button mouse).
If you only have a 2-button mouse, there's "Emulate3buttons" option (not
sure about the correct spell
On 4 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
(...)
> > And can anybody help with some questions that I have regarding
> > the new iBooks? Are the 600MHz ones sufficient to play DVDs
> > under Debian (say, with xine or vlc)? I've read that both
> > programs currently work with altivec, but i
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, P Prince wrote:
> What do the 'lock' and 'drag' options of /sbin/trackpad do?
If I understand it correctly, they both activate dragging without the need
for a button (double-tap on the trackpad, but don't lift your finger after
the second tap. Now you can drag.)
The differen
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
[...]
> I can get my iPod to charge from the firewire port under Linux :) That's
> about it. The disk is formatted for HFS+, and there is precious little
> support for HFS+ under Linux[1].
[...]
Ummm, I'm sure you're aware of the user space tools tha
Hi Dominic,
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Dominic Buchstaller wrote:
> I'm having a ibook2 for 3 days now - and everything seems to run pretty
> well so far.
> Beeing used to work on PC style hardware (keyboards) I am wondering how
> to produce (sometimes useful characters ;-) like ~, @, [, ] on my ibook2
Hi,
I'm trying to install Debian GNU/Linux from current powerpc images, but
I'm not even able to boot. The installation manual hasn't been very
helpful (it didn't even tell me how to boot from CD by pressing "C" at
boot time, so I tried "boot cd:\\yaboot" from OpenFirmware, first...). But
maybe so
Hi,
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Siggi Langauf wrote:
>
> > So if you just get it running: fine! Nice if you'd send me a note.
>
> Built them on powerpc without a hitch, and they basically work. :)
That's good news.
> > If there are any severe
Hi all,
I'm maintaining the xine video player packages and after some, umm,
difficulties with several ports, I'd like to do it better this time.
I'd greatly appreciate any help testing the new packages and, even more
important, keep them as portable as possible.
Therefore, I've set up an apt-gett
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