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 requirement > DivX CPU requirement

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

2002-03-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
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 got ogle to work, and mplayer to work too.. Both were ok, but dropped > frames.. > mplayer suggests using alsa for sound. Would that

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

2002-03-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-03-19 at 08:04, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 14 Mar, this message from Viral Shah echoed through cyberspace: > > OTOH, has anyone got xine to play encrypted DVDs on an ibook ? > > Yes, but you will probably need to get libdecss (or whatever it's > called) from source; for obvious reaso

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

2002-03-19 Thread Michel Lanners
On 14 Mar, this message from Viral Shah echoed through cyberspace: > OTOH, has anyone got xine to play encrypted DVDs on an ibook ? Yes, but you will probably need to get libdecss (or whatever it's called) from source; for obvious reasons it's not in any Debian archive. You may be able to find pr

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

2002-03-15 Thread Georg Koss
Hello again! First of all thanks for all the replies and help :-)) On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:42:38AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > mac-usb-us-keycodes on the images-1.44/* files - so I've no at, pipe > > > ... > > [...] > > > > Strange. When I followed these instructions, the woody boot-flo

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.. > > Yes. And the strange thing is that so

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

2002-03-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 14 2002, Viral Shah wrote: > The only reason to keep OS X around is to be able to watch DVDs. The > 500 MHz ibook falls just a little bit short of DVD playback in > software. Maybe the 600 MHz should be ok. No, playing DVDs is not OK, at least not with my 600MHz combo iBook

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

2002-03-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2002-03-15 at 09:03, Siggi Langauf wrote: > 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)

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

2002-03-15 Thread Siggi Langauf
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

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

2002-03-15 Thread Siggi Langauf
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 using UFS might have been be

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 Georg Koss
Hi Siggi! On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:46:53PM +0100, Siggi Langauf wrote: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Georg Koss wrote: > > > I bought an ibook (M8597) last week intending to install Woody solely > > ;-). I meant that I want to have Woody as the only OS (God my English :-( ) > [...] > > Hmmm, I know

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 Siggi Langauf
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

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

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

2002-03-14 Thread Georg Koss
Hi all! I bought an ibook (M8597) last week intending to install Woody solely ;-). I installed a minimal system with Woody's rescue-discs. As you know, this installation has a working 2.2.20-pmac kernel with it. For further installing (I just own a 56k-modem) I tried to get connected via my w