gcc 3.1 + graph coloring based reg alloc

2002-04-26 Thread Viral Shah
Hello list, Looking at the projects on gcc.gnu.org, one sees work being done on a new graph coloring based register allocator for gcc 3.1. I hear that it might even make its way into 3.1.. The gcc open projects page only says: New register allocator Daniel Berlin and Michael Matz are worki

Re: X 'loses text' after sleep

2002-04-01 Thread Viral Shah
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 06:54:02PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > When editing in emacs, if I kill the last half of the line, or use > Ctrl-Q to re-wrap, a 'shadow' of the letters that were there remains > at the end of the paragraph. I see a similar effect on the command > line, so I guess readlin

Re: new kernel, old modules

2002-04-01 Thread Viral Shah
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 01:26:47PM +0200, raphaello wrote: > Hi, > I downloaded a bin new kernel, from www.ppckernel.org (because mine couldn't > recognize Ethernet card), but this kernel hasn't incorporated ppp and nfs > modules, which I needs. This might not be related, but the -ben0 kernels

Re: heavy problems installing woody on a brand new iBook

2002-03-20 Thread Viral Shah
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:20:45AM +0100, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > > a few days ago I bought a new 12.1" iBook 600 to use it primary as linux > machine, but during my various tries all i saw were kernel panics. > > The Debian installer (from NetInstall CD 2002-02-15) claims the computer

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

2002-03-20 Thread Viral Shah
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:24:58AM +0100, Michel Dnzer wrote: > On Mit, 2002-03-20 at 22:40, Viral Shah wrote: > > > > With xine, the dvdnav and css plugin just segfaults on my machine. > > Works here, have you tried several DVDs? I will try that.. > MPEG2 CPU requiremen

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

2002-03-20 Thread Viral Shah
> Two things you can do: either bget vlc from their CVS; it is > debian-buildable by default; just cd into the top-level dir, and do: > > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot Ok. I did try the install-css.sh script with ogle sometime back, but it seemed to use version 0.3 of libdecss or something. The

Re: USB Mouse recommendation for iBook? (was: Re: usbmouse and docs)

2002-03-15 Thread Viral Shah
> I would like to control this delay (in fact, I would like it > to instantly change). > > Is there anybody here that knows if this a limitation of the > ADB bus (which I read is quite slow)? Or is it controllable > via software? > > I hope benh reads this e-ma

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

2002-03-15 Thread Viral Shah
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:17:10PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Mar 15 2002, Viral Shah wrote: > > So, I guess > > > > hdparm -d1 -u1 /dev/hda > > hdparm -d1 -u1 /dev/cdrom > > > > to enable dma and irq unmasking for hd and cdrom are required.. >

Re: USB Mouse recommendation for iBook? (was: Re: usbmouse and docs)

2002-03-15 Thread Viral Shah
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:45:40PM +0100, Siggi Langauf wrote: > Hmmm, what exactly is unsatisfactory? Have you tried "trackpad lock" as > well? > The only thing I find annoying from time to time is the trackpad's > over-sensitivity which often makes me tap anywhere on the screen while > typing...

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

2002-03-14 Thread Viral Shah
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 using UFS might have been better, considering OS X was a port of FreeBSD etc.. T

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

2002-03-14 Thread Viral Shah
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:31:41PM +0100, Georg Koss wrote: > I bought an ibook (M8597) last week intending to install Woody solely > ;-). Good reason to buy one ! I just bought one recently for a similar reason, though I really needed something to work ;-) > Nope - I tried a lot of different se

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

2002-03-14 Thread Viral Shah
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:31:41PM +0100, Georg Koss wrote: > Hi all! > I bought an ibook (M8597) last week intending to install Woody solely > ;-). I bought one too with a similar intent, though I really needed a machine to use too. ;-) > Nope - I tried a lot of different settings resulting all