Java classpath on ppc

2003-11-04 Thread W. Crowshaw
Has anyone tried to build and use the java classpath lib on ppc. I'd used libgcj but its merge with classpath is slow and it just doesn't implement everything I need. Just curious for feedback. Thanks. -- wcrowshaw

Re: PPC waste compilation

2003-10-29 Thread W. Crowshaw
Nevermind. I had to re-write the crappy makefile. Now it compiles perfectly on the PPC. If anyone wants the Makefile to start your own private p2p network on your ppc, let me know. -- wcrowshaw

PPC waste compilation

2003-10-27 Thread W. Crowshaw
Has anyone tried building the encrypten waste p2p network software for the PPC platform? I've got some strange compilation errors that I can neither make heads or tails of. There related to rsaref2 which I have compiled successful. The mixmaster binaries are built around this same lib and it com

Re: Moz & Firebird

2003-09-18 Thread W. Crowshaw
That works for me perfectly too. Although I was hoping this bug had been fixed in the latest firebird. On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 04:06:20AM -0400, tvn wrote: > Yes, that happens a lot in Galeon using gecko engine too, especially > after resize the font. I just open a new tab or switch to a new t

Re: Enabling IBM Java 141 for web browsers

2003-09-16 Thread W. Crowshaw
I'm been using IBM ppc jdk 141 for sometime and it works okay. I would advise against using the IBM's jit (at least on my oldworld upgrade to a G3). Performs is dramatically reduced with the jit. Go figure! The only other problem I have encountered is that it won't run freenet (sadly). On Tue,

Re: [Q]IBM's Java 1.4.1 with IBM's JIT

2003-09-09 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:07:53PM +0200, Mich Lanners wrote: > On 3 Sep, this message from J. Javier Maestro echoed through > cyberspace: > > On Sep Tue 02 2003 09:49, William Crowshaw wrote: > >> Oh, by the way, the fixed worked on my G3 upgrade > >> card. Here's my /proc/cpuinfo > >> > >> cp

[Q]IBM's Java 1.4.1 with IBM's JIT

2003-09-01 Thread W. Crowshaw
Hi, Has anybody managed to get IBM's Java 1.4.1 (sadly, the only one available to us ppc'ers) working with the JIT its supplies. Its readme docs say that all you need to do is set the JAVA_COMPILER enviromental variable to: jitc. To test the docs say simply type: java -version and it will say "(

Quik and Kernel panic with Adaptec SCSI card

2003-08-16 Thread W. Crowshaw
Does anyone use quik anymore? I do on my PowerMac 7500 and it works fine (after some Open Firmware patches). But I get a kernel panic using quik when I add my Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI card to my machine. I've compiled support for this card into my kernel and yet it still panics. Any suggestions a

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-16 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:16:01PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Yes, I have an Xclaim3D with 3D RAGE II+. Works fine with atyfb (I originally > wrote atyfb for that card ;-). I still use XFree86 3.x BTW. > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert Cool

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-15 Thread W. Crowshaw
Just poked around in my 7500 Open Firmware with the card attached. The card is identified as a NexusGA. If it was an XClaim3D, the firmware would have said, because they use that card as an example on the Apple Firmware how-to's. Just another clue. -- wcrowshaw

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-15 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:21:43AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:17, W. Crowshaw wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:28:46PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 23:17, William Crowshaw wrote: > > > > > >

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-15 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:40:58AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > It could be a Xclaim3D. AFAIK these were built with either a 3D RAGE II+ (like > mine) or a 3D RAGE Pro. > > > smaller chip that says "Nexus GA 42601" on it. > > That's probably the firmware ROM. So it contains `Nexus GA' firmw

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-13 Thread W. Crowshaw
Thomas, Thanks for your help. However, I didn't take the card bus ID from lspci but from 'cat /proc/pci". Besides the ID is good because the computer does send signals to the moniter through the card at that busID because I do get really distorted crosshatched craziness for a picture. Perhaps I

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-13 Thread W. Crowshaw
Michel, Thanks for your response. See my responsed below. On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:28:46PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 23:17, William Crowshaw wrote: > > > > 4) the ATI card I believe is a NexusGA, because it > >matches specs on the ATI website. But the chip > >

Re: PowerMac 7500 with MAXpowrMP booting 2.4.20 in MP mode - some trouble

2002-12-15 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:32:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > pages of Forth code? then u have a patch in there - usually to sync > video, disk (?), and OF properly (it has issues with the disk and OF syncing > like the 7200 does, but on the 7500 can get an OF console on the box - no > ne

X problem with upgrade to kernel 2.4

2002-12-11 Thread W. Crowshaw
I'm trying to upgrade to kernel 2.4. I have normally been using 2.2.20-pmac which came with woody and which works well with my PowerMac 7500. Thought I would check out and see what 2.4 has to offer, downloaded the source and rsynced it from benh's tree following the instructions at penguingppc.org.

Re: MOL Modules Compilation weirdness

2002-11-25 Thread W. Crowshaw
So, I'm sorta following you here. However, I never touched /usr/include/linux. Its not linked at all to /usr/src/linux. Futhermore, I don't exactly understand the problem why one shouldn't have a /usr/src/linux directory. I mean, after all, when I installed the kernel-source package, it dumps

Re: MOL Modules Compilation weirdness

2002-11-25 Thread W. Crowshaw
-installed the glibc headers and now I correctly compiled the modules and mol recognizes them as belonging to my current kernel. mean while getting mol to actually run is my next problem, see my next post. Thanks for your help, W. Crowshaw On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 05:54:45PM -0500, Albert D

Mol run error

2002-11-25 Thread W. Crowshaw
Now that I have moved past the saga of mol module compiliation, I have encountered a problem actually running mol. All seems to work well, until I get this error message: Unimplemented load instruction. I realize this message is probably for the mol mailing list, but I thought I give you all a tr

Re: Why is X suddenly ignoring my dvorak settings?

2002-11-24 Thread W. Crowshaw
Well, the whole problem worked itself out, when I set /etc/boottime.kmap.gz to the i386 version of dvorak. I guess X just sets its keyboard based on this rather than the one in the XF86Config. Since there isn't a dvorak macintosh symbols file, I'll try to set it to "us". If that messes things up,

OpenOffice.org backported packages?

2002-11-24 Thread W. Crowshaw
Trying to get openoffice.org 1.0.1-5.6rc to run of my Debian woody PowerPC. Found the link to some PPC debs at http://people.debian.org/~dwhendon/oo/ However, I guess there are some backported packages from sid needed for it run on woody, namely packages containing the required lbic6, libgcc, and

Re: Mouse freezes after X logout - why?

2002-11-24 Thread W. Crowshaw
"Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Hope this helps W. Crowshaw On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 06:23:34PM -0600, Kent West wrote: &

MOL Modules Compilation weirdness

2002-11-24 Thread W. Crowshaw
So I'm trying to used the MOL 0.9.61-6 which was provided with the Woody CD. Since I'm using kernel 2.2.20-pmac supplied with Woody and the Woody's mol-modules were compiled with 2.2.19, I had to recompile from the modules from the source. Following the directions in the README.debian from the sou

Re: MOL (and ethernet)

2001-06-10 Thread W. Crowshaw
O.K. How do I enable "network address translation and "IP Forwarding" Are these kernel compile options? And if so, are there any others I need to enable, such as ip masquerading? On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:57:38AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > This will work if you enable network address t

Re: MOL (and ethernet)

2001-06-10 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 02:10:06PM +0200, Michel Daenzer wrote: > > respectively, that Linux uses for connecting to the outside world, and > > $MOLNET is the network used between Linux and mol (192.168.1.0/24 for > > you). > > Just my $0.02: apt-get install ipmasq does this automatically. Should

Linux Codewarrior on Debian PowerPC

2001-05-27 Thread W. Crowshaw
Although I have my reservations about using it, I would like to know if anyone has tried running Codewarrior 6 for linux on Debian Linux for PowerPC (potato). It's system requirements say that it is only suppose to work on YDL, SUSE, and LinuxPPC. I suspect that this means that its an .rpm packag

compiling pgp 2.6.2

2001-04-28 Thread W. Crowshaw
O.K. before I screw up compiling pgp 2.6.2 any further, I thought I would ask if anyone out there has any advice on compiling it for linux on the PowerPC. If you know anything about compiling it, I have already managed a successful compile by altering the linux makefile line to linux: $

Re: .sit files

2001-04-20 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:31:08PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:51:17AM -0500, W. Crowshaw wrote: > > Actually, it doesn't hurt anything if the MacOS HFS FS is mounted on the > > kernel > > and hmount'ed with hfsutils. I access the H

Re: .sit files

2001-04-19 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:02:48AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:55:26AM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > It is a Mac OS application, and therefore has a filetype, > > creator code, and resource fork. While you might be able to extract the > > bitstreams of all thes

Re: BIG Problem...need BIG Medicine

2001-03-28 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:13:51AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > zcat base2_2.tgz | tar -xvf - ./bin > > in your root filesystem, which you can mount on /mnt (from the boot > floppy) like so: > > mount -t ext2 /dev/hdaX /mnt > > hdaX being your root partition. > > > -- > Ethan Benson > ht

Re: BIG Problem...need BIG Medicine

2001-03-28 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:47:39AM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > > grep -l '^[\./]*bin/' /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | # find pkgs with file in > /bin > sed -e sX/var/lib/dpkg/info/XX -e 'sX\.list$XX' | # strip down to pkg name > xargs apt-get --reinstall install # reinstall them. > Thank you SO

Print Problem with Deskwriter...

2001-03-27 Thread W. Crowshaw
I'm trying to get my HP 600 Deskwriter printer working with my PowerPC 7500. I've followed the instructions on the FAQ-O-Matic, but I haven't got it to work. I had to modify the instruction somewhat because they are out-of-date and because i am using Debian with kernel 2.2.18pre21. Here's what I

Re: Gnome: Where's my panel?

2001-03-13 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 06:44:07PM -0500, Eric Youngson wrote: > I have recently gotten my xserver up and installed gnome. The only > problem is that my panel (you know the thing with the main menu) is MIA! I > can start it from the xterm, but it's seems kind of funky. Also, the xterm > goes

Sound in Gnome Root vs User

2001-03-08 Thread W. Crowshaw
Today I discovered that I have all the bells and whistle in Gnome when I log in as root, but I don't get any sound as a normal user. This is obviously a permissions problem. Does anyone know on what file I need to change r,w or execute privledge? -- wcrowshaw

Sound problem and Kernel configuration...

2001-02-27 Thread W. Crowshaw
I have been playing around with kernel compile configurations for 2.2.18pre21 and I have noticed a sound problem. VI beeps on error when sound support is complided into the kernel, but not when it is incorporated as a module. I am assuming sound support for my PowerMac 7500 involves module dmasoun

X4.0 debs for powerpc

2001-01-17 Thread W. Crowshaw
Are there any deb packages available of X4 for the powerpc? If so, where are they. I have already checked deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ woody/powerpc using apt-get and they don't appear to be there? thanks, -- W. Cro

Re: exiting minicom...

2000-12-29 Thread W. Crowshaw
e one with the apple and the funny sign on it)? Michel Nope, the command key fails as well. -- W. Crowshaw _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: XF4.0.1 on Debian and PowerMac problems....

2000-12-06 Thread W. Crowshaw
At 8:54 PM +0100 12/5/00, Michel Dänzer wrote: "W. Crowshaw" wrote: Since I could get X 3.3.6 running on my Debian 2.2.17 installed PowerMac 7500 (4MB VRAM, 604e ), What was the problem with 3.3.6? Pretty much the same problem. X wouldn't come up, either at startup or s

XF4.0.1 on Debian and PowerMac problems....

2000-12-04 Thread W. Crowshaw
One""CorePointer" InputDevice "KeyboardOne" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection end file /etc/X11/XF86Config There are some further details as well. I have made /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 my default X server in file /etc/X11/Xserver. Building X4.0.1 did not produce an Xserver called XF68_FBDev. My second problem with installed X 4.0.1 relates to xfs. Previously, using X 3.3.6, the font server would always come up on startup, even when X itself failed. With X 4.0.1, now xfs also fails. On startup I get the following message: "Starting X font server: xfs/usr/bin/X11/xfs: error in loading shared libraries: libXfont.so./: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" If you can provide me any information, I would greatly appreciate it. I am almost going to give up on Debian and move to LinuxPPC because I can get the Xserver 3.3.6 at least running on that install. Thanks, -- W. Crowshaw _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

xserver question...

2000-11-25 Thread W. Crowshaw
stall, in contrast to my Debian. So, why doesn't Debian have Xwrapper? -- W. Crowshaw _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: problems starting X

2000-11-24 Thread W. Crowshaw
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