Re: Installing debian on a beige g3

2000-02-04 Thread C.M. Connelly
> "LH" == Logan Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Logan, LH> Also will there be any problems using the 2.2.14 kernel i LH> compiled with LinuxPPC? I need a kernel with suport for LH> my NCR53C875 scsi card so i would like to use this kernel. I don't know how it would affect the

Re: Installing debian on a beige g3

2000-02-04 Thread Nelson Abramson
Logan Hall wrote: > (http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac) and i wan to make sure that > the base has pppd and chat in it so that i can connect to the net to compleate > the install. Also will there be any problems using the 2.2.14 kernel i > compiled with LinuxPPC? I need a kernel with

Re: Sound Recording on a Beige G3?

2000-02-04 Thread Kevin Puetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > did you have any success with openh323? with a recent snapshot and a > couple of patches, it compiles for me but segfaults when connecting a > call... Compiles, but I haven't even had a chance to try and call anyone yet... Besides, without sound-in it can't possibly wo

Re: Installing debian on a beige g3

2000-02-04 Thread Logan Hall
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Nelson Abramson wrote: > Logan Hall wrote: > > > (http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac) and i wan to make sure that > > the base has pppd and chat in it so that i can connect to the net to > > compleate > > the install. Also will there be any problems using the 2.2.

Re: Installing debian on a beige g3

2000-02-04 Thread Nelson Abramson
Logan Hall wrote: > > ok.. where should i put them? i have a /home partition and my / partition. I > can back them up to /home but then the installer probably wont find them. > where do you suggest? To store them during the install process, they just need to be on a drive that you aren't going

Re: Sound Recording on a Beige G3?

2000-02-04 Thread Brad Midgley
i wonder if in the interim a pci soundcard could be used...? usb mic...? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > did you have any success with openh323? with a recent snapshot and a > > couple of patches, it compiles for me but segfaults when connecting a > > call... > > Compiles, but I haven't even ha

Java development on debian

2000-02-04 Thread Logan Hall
are there deb's of the jdk? I would imagin that guavac is in there so i could compile my programs but are there any vm's? Logan "O God of Earth and Altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die, The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divi

Re: Sound Recording on a Beige G3?

2000-02-04 Thread Dan Malek
Kevin Puetz wrote: > Dan, the old message in the linuxPPC archive is yours so I'm including you in > the Cc. Did your work ever get merged? I updated the 2.3.xx tree a long time ago. Like the 8xx changes I was trying to update into 2.2.xx at the time, I was unable to do so when I had the time

Re: Sound woes

2000-02-04 Thread Kostas Gewrgiou
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, David Given wrote: > I'm running potato Debian on a boring beige 8200/120, using the DMA sound > driver compiled into kernel version 2.2.13. Now, it's mostly working very > well > --- the general sound quality is pretty good --- but I am having some > problems. > > You see

Powerbook G3 arch not supported?

2000-02-04 Thread Jefferson Provost
I tried to install on my Powerbook G3 (lombard) and got the "Your powerpc architecture is not supported yet" message from dbootstrap. Posts in the archive seemed to indicate that this is just a bug on the install image. Is that right? Any ETA on a working installer? Thanx, Jeff

RE: CHRP booting and ramdisk setup problem (43P-150)

2000-02-04 Thread Andreas Reeh
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Wootton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 12:24 AM > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Subject: CHRP booting and ramdisk setup problem (43P-150) > > > Hello. I am trying to install Debian on a 43-P Model 150. I can get t

Re: architecture not supported (sigh)

2000-02-04 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
hi, hre i am (again), Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Kazunori Miura's letter: > Federico Di Gregorioさんが00.1.21 9:35 PMに書きました: > >5. dibootstrap welcomes me by saying that my architecture is not > > supported yet, and reboots... > > > >what does that means? isn't a g3

Altivec and binary compatibility

2000-02-04 Thread Adrian Cox
Altivec raises an interesting question of binary compatibility, in the area of C++ exceptions and C setjmp/longjmp. As the jmp_buf is a different size in Altivec and non-Altivec code, it is not possible to jump or pass exceptions between the two. This is a problem, because: 1) Now would not be a

Re: Sound woes (& Platinum framebuffer advice)

2000-02-04 Thread David Given
[...] >DG> And is there any way of persuading the Platinum video hardware >DG> to do anything better than a frankly pathetic 640x480? > >Yes! Ta. I have successfully managed to put my machine into 800x600 mode. Pity the monitor couldn't handle it. So I'm stuck at 640x480 until I can trac

Re: Sound woes (& Platinum framebuffer advice)

2000-02-04 Thread C.M. Connelly
> "DG" == David Given <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DG> [...] And is there any way of persuading the Platinum video DG> hardware to do anything better than a frankly pathetic DG> 640x480? Me> Yes! DG> Ta. I have successfully managed to put my machine into 800x600 DG>