Re: Beige G3 and USB Mouse

2001-12-16 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 07:20:01PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > In other words, if you really are interested in using the mouse in X > > > applications, there's no need to muck around with gpm. In the most > > > recent revision changelog to the X packages, Branden says > > > (paraphrasing) if

Re: call for testers: new-powermac installer (yes, this means you!)

2001-12-16 Thread Colin Walters
Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) We need to compile hfs support into the supplied kernel. D'oh. I meant to do that. I'm uploading a fixed version now. > 2) The harddisk installation dialog is really hosed, whether I > choose harddisk or already-mounted. I tried dozens of differe

Strange network problem

2001-12-16 Thread Pan
I have a little home network, all of it with macs, and debian. I have them all connected to a linksys cable-dsl router. Everything works great, but I have a very strange problem, and I don't know if it's hardware, software or what. The problem is: I have a powerbook 300 (wallstreet PDQ I think it

Re: console help on ~, @, [, ]

2001-12-16 Thread Michael Flaig
Hi, On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 18:08:29 +0100 Dominic Buchstaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list > > 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 char

Re: Beige G3 and USB Mouse

2001-12-16 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I continue to assert that gpm is a waste of time for anyone who wants to > use X. No one appears to want to deal with gpm at the Debian package > level. It's maintainer certainly doesn't; he's looking to orphan it. What's the problem with gpm and X both opening /dev/input/mice? I thought /dev/

Re: Beige G3 and USB Mouse [solved]

2001-12-16 Thread mike
Thanks for all the replies, it didn't help my immediate problem, but I did learn a bit. I've solved the mouse problem by installing the 2.4.17-rc1 kernel from www.ppckernel.org. My mouse now works great, as well as a bunch of other things I'm discovering I like very much about the 2.4.x kernel seri

Re: Beige G3 and USB Mouse

2001-12-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 11:51, Chris Tillman wrote: > (paraphrasing) if you insist on using gpm, you're on your own getting > the mouse to work in X. That's because gpm imterrupts X's access to > the hardware (as understand it). That may be true for broken architectures, but we can use /dev/input/m

Re: m3mirror, ati r28 dualhead, TiPBG4 question

2001-12-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 23:16, Percy Zahl --> > I'm just wondering if there is support to use the dualheaded ati r128 > graphics card of my TiPBG4 to have two diffrerent screens side by > side: > The buildin LCD and an external screen. Not yet AFAIK. The radeon driver in XFree86 CVS does support it

Re: iBook2 keyboard ...

2001-12-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 23:58, William R Sowerbutts wrote: > 1. The Caps Lock key doesn't send key up/key down events like a PC-style caps >lock key, so I can't remap it to Ctrl. > >This turned out to be half true. It does send the events, but they're sent >in a slightly odd manner (and

Re: iBook2 keyboard ...

2001-12-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 06:03:00PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Additionally, this machine seems to periodically time-warp to 1904 -- I > > assume > > that it has no internal battery to power the RTC when the battery and mains > > power is disconnected? > Bingo. Something like ntp is your fri

Re: iBook2 keyboard ...

2001-12-16 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 06:03:00PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 23:58, William R Sowerbutts wrote: > > 2. The keyboard sometimes "misses" events. Most annoying is when it misses a > >"key up" event. Eg, I press and release the right cursor key, but it > > misses > >t

[광고] ★ 부동산 정보의 오아시스

2001-12-16 Thread 한석봉
Title: ::: 지역별 추천 공인중개사 모집 :::

nvidia driver on powermac

2001-12-16 Thread F. Heitkamp
I've read on penguinppc.org that the nvidia driver for PowerPC G4 Macintosh might at least be partially working. (both kernel and X). When I pull the Xfree86 sources from CVS, no "nv" module gets built. Does any one know about whether the nv driver works? Also, I have the kernel compiled with nv

Re: nvidia driver on powermac

2001-12-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 00:10, F. Heitkamp wrote: > I've read on penguinppc.org that the nvidia driver for > PowerPC G4 Macintosh might at least be partially working. > (both kernel and X). When I pull the Xfree86 sources from > CVS, no "nv" module gets built. So it doesn't get built on PPC by def

Re: nvidia driver on powermac

2001-12-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >> Also, I have the kernel compiled with nvidia support. What is the >> video command to pass to the kernel to load the nvidia driver? > >I use video=riva:[EMAIL PROTECTED],font:SUN12x22 on my i386 box. But are you >sure that your kernel contains the necessary fixes? Last I heard was >that not e

Re: m3mirror, ati r28 dualhead, TiPBG4 question

2001-12-16 Thread Leigh Dyer
On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 02:55, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 23:16, Percy Zahl --> > > > I'm just wondering if there is support to use the dualheaded ati r128 > > graphics card of my TiPBG4 to have two diffrerent screens side by > > side: > > The buildin LCD and an external screen. >

Re: m3mirror, ati r28 dualhead, TiPBG4 question

2001-12-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 00:45, Leigh Dyer wrote: > On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 02:55, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 23:16, Percy Zahl --> > > > > > I'm just wondering if there is support to use the dualheaded ati r128 > > > graphics card of my TiPBG4 to have two diffrerent screens side by

pb1400cs XF86Config potato->woody

2001-12-16 Thread Nick Croft
Hi all. I've recently installed potato on this powerbook 1400, using the nubus 2.4.1 kernel + installer. X worked fine out of the box on this model. There was general conflict raging between dselect, apt and tasksel and the potato disks. When I upgraded to woody yesterday a number of packages