Re: XFree86 on potato

2001-01-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:23:56PM -0800, Taro Fukunaga wrote: > > (In other words, why is Potato broken when it is supposed to be a stable > > distro?) > > debian does not use a package full of nodes, instead it uses > the /dev/MAKEDEV script like traditional *nix. it has n

Re: pmac_set_rtc_time: got 3 byte reply

2001-01-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Tom Rini wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:53:46PM -0800, Peter Abrahamsen wrote: > > > Now, 2.4.0-prerelease doesn't compile due to some errors in assembly. > > Unfortunately, gpm isn't working, but the error is in asm/mmu.h:10 > > Unrecognized opcode: 'typedef', which comes when it's compiling

Re: pmac_set_rtc_time: got 3 byte reply

2001-01-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > But even that doesn't work: > >[snip] > > Investigating... > > Add #include to the top of asm-ppc/delay.h. Just did the same > for > m68k :-) That was the first thing I did. :-)

Re: GNOME

2001-01-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
James Shearer wrote: > > On the Gnome website, it says it requires Debian 2.3 or higher. Is this > > true? > > No. As long as you have X and a recent GTK+, you can get the gnome > tarballs and compile from source. Even better, you can also build the Debian packages from source. All of the core

Re: Getting a mixed testing/unstable system.

2001-01-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Marshal Wong wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm currently running a testing system on my Powerbook Firewire. I do > have a few unstable packages installed (mainly X), but I'd like to get > more, like GNOME 1.2 for instance. For some reason a lot of GNOME 1.2 binaries are not being built for PPC. :-(

Re: make-kpkg trying to build wrong type of kernel

2001-01-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 02:58:34PM +, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > But the debian/rules file created by make-kpkg is supposed to take a > > look at the sub architecture and use that as the target. So, because I'm > > building on a Power Mac, it shouldn't build the .coff

Re: Compilation error of linux-2.4.0 with glibc 2.2.1-1

2001-01-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Bastien Nocera wrote: > Quoting Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > ... the kernel souces come from ftp.kernel.org, this is because > > the supposedly main tree at ppc.samba.org::linux-pmac-stable > > is still delivering a pre-version of 2.2.18. > > linux-pmac-devel is delivering 2.4

Re: USB Mouse Problem

2001-01-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Scott Cole wrote: > I could not find anythign on this at the web site, so I apologize if > it is an old question. > > I have an Imac DV (slot-loading New World Rom). My mouse does not > work at all. As the kernel boots I see that it will recognize my > intellimouse explorer. I rebooted with my hoc

Re: USB Mouse Problem

2001-01-18 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Bastien Nocera wrote: > Quoting Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I wonder if its worth attempting to get makedev fixed and installed > > into proposed-updates for potato r3, or has everyone already upgraded > > to r2 --> broke system --> fixed manually ? > > > > fixing makedev would at leas

Re: RealPlayer

2001-01-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Renaud Dreyer wrote: > > Is there anyway I can look at RealPlayer streamed media on Debian PPC? > > It's not a Debian package, but... > > http://scopes.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html?src=rpbform > > Just choose the Linux/PPC 2000 version, which is a simple installer. Cool! Maybe we should a

Re: Old gnucash bug

2001-01-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Nelson Abramson wrote: > Good afternoon- > > What was the resolution on the GNUcash bug that caused (on > apparently on PPC machines) GNUcash to automatically truncate all values > to an integer? I remember seeing a patch last year, but I am using the > newest version in the apt tree and gett

Re: Bug#83434: "apt-get install gnome-panel" complains about broken packages

2001-01-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Christian Marillat wrote: > [Please don't remove the Cc:] > > Hi, > > Somebody can fix this bug ? > > Christian > > From: "Federico Heinz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Bug#83434: "apt-get install gnome-panel" complains about > broken packages > To: Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Printer conundrum

2001-01-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Paul Talacko wrote: > I have a PowerMac 6500. I also have a Texas Instruments printer (it's > rubbish, > and I'll never buy another TI product again, but it has around 12,000 pages of > printing left in it, so I'll use it until the toner runs out). > > The problem is this. The printer has two p

Re: can't compile 2.2.18pre21

2001-01-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Christian Pernegger wrote: > > mac_hid.c: In function `mac_hid_sysctl_keycodes': > > mac_hid.c:296: structure has no member named `ppc_kbd_sysrq_xlate' > > mac_hid.c:303: structure has no member named `ppc_kbd_sysrq_xlate' > > At these positions, change 'ppc_kbd_sysrq_xlate' into 'kbd_sysrq_xlate'

Re: Bug#83434: "apt-get install gnome-panel" complains about broken packages

2001-01-31 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Christian Marillat wrote: > >>>> "ACPI" == Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ACPI> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:39:03AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > >> > I think this is just becaus

Re: Request: Success reports of using quik to boot an OldWorld Mac

2001-01-31 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Mike Fedyk wrote: > I'll start first: > > Success: > 7300 > > Failed: > 7200 > beige g3 Sucess: Motorola StarMax 300/160 Zeen, -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe!

Re: Newbie Install Question on Umax S900

2001-01-31 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ted Swinyar wrote: > Thank you to everyone who responded to my initial question about getting > Debian going on the S900. > > I've gotten BootX going and pointing to sdb4 where I've installed the / > partition in the initial configuration. On first boot into Debian I get the > following error m

Re: Bug#83434: "apt-get install gnome-panel" complains about broken packages

2001-01-31 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:39:03AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > I think this is just because gnome-core and gnome-applets haven't been > > built and > > uploaded for PPC in a *very* long time. Building those two packages (and > >

Re: Printer conundrum

2001-01-31 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Paul Talacko wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:39:20AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Paul Talacko wrote: > > > > > I have a PowerMac 6500. I also have a Texas Instruments printer (it's > > > rubbish, > > > and I'll never buy another TI

Re: Dvorak keymap

2001-01-31 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Matt Brubeck wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Bruce McIntyre wrote: > > > It will be interesting to see if the new input layer will allow the > > user to reassign the caps lock key to meta or control... > > I have actually done this in my own keymap (caps lock -> control). It > works just fine. Real

Re: Bug#83434: "apt-get install gnome-panel" complains about broken packages

2001-01-31 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Christian Marillat wrote: > >>>> "ACPI" == Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ACPI> I'm sorry, I use Netscape Mail, which has a habit of making the lines > way > too long > ACPI> sometimes. I'll convert as soon as soon

Re: LS-120 drive

2001-02-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michael Schmitz wrote: > Granted. So we can use digital cameras as portable storage - where's the > camfs ? Actually, gphoto2 has a gnome-vfs plugin so any and all suppored cameras can be browsed and have files drag-and-dropped from them (though not sure about to all of them) right in Nautilus.

Re: Printer conundrum

2001-02-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Paul Talacko wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 01:17:15PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > But in the meantime, kudos to InfoWave for at least giving us the specs. > > Now if > > I could only find a good serial reference for some kind of standard way to > > send

Re: What kernel to use?

2001-02-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > stick with 2.2.18, its stable from mainline, requires no patching, no > bk, no rysnc crap. Actually, stock 2.2.18 from kernel.org does *NOT* build without patches, if you build with the new input layer (i.e. with the Debian .config). The thing to do is probably to get kern

Re: DHCP client in unstable?

2001-02-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Peter Canning wrote: > As I mentioned in my original message, I've tried pump (0.7.3-2) on my > PowerMac running debian unstable (kernel version 2.2.17), but was unable to > get it to work. I don't know about pump, but dhcp-client required some kernel config options which were not in the powerpc

Re: What kernel to use?

2001-02-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:39:42AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > stick with 2.2.18, its stable from mainline, requires no patching, no > > > bk, no rysnc crap. > > > > Actually, stock 2.2.18 fro

Re: What kernel to use?

2001-02-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:14:41AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > # > > # USB HID > > # > > CONFIG_USB_HID=y > > CONFIG_USB_WACOM=y > > CONFIG_USB_WMFORCE=m > > CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV=y > > CONFIG_IN

Re: nautilus

2001-02-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Phil Fraering wrote: > I sort of had as a back burner project getting everything together > I'd need to compile nautilus. Nautilus actually has a real Build-Depends, but some of its dependencies don't (e.g. medusa), and libglade doesn't build out-of-box right now. I built libglade using the patc

Re: dist-upgrade removes apache et al?

2001-02-18 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > After an apt-get update, -upgrade I tried dist-upgrade today. But, > huh? I did't tell to remove apache or other services! I think this is another "Great Perl Upgrade" with massive associated breakage. For now, I'm holding all of the perl packages on my system, includ

Re: nautilus

2001-02-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Robert Ramiega wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:47:09AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > If nautilus works, does this mean evolution will compile? > > > > No, because there's no Debian evolution package. :-( > Well to be completely honest there is

Re: nautilus

2001-02-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Robert Ramiega wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Actually, now there is an official Debian package too. I compiled yesterday > > morning and uploaded around 1 PM (U.S. Eastern time), and was in the > > archive by > > 4

Re: Resolved (sorta) [Was: Re: Evolution Package [Was: Re: nautilus]]

2001-02-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Craige McWhirter wrote: > I'm upgrading a few other libs at the mo', so I'll see what difference they > make :) Do you use apt/dselect? Did it not get all of the new stuff automatically, from xml to bonobo to libglade? -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4

Re: netscape ??

2001-02-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: > Eric Deveaud wrote: > > > i'm just finishing to install the powerbook (pismo) of my boss. > > > > she want's to be abble to use netscape. > > > > when I apt-get install netscape (or communicator or wathever) > > I get the following error > > Sorry the following packages have

Re: Debian PC and PPC

2001-02-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Lorenzo De Vito wrote: > I'm a new user of Linux on Powerpc , which kind differences I can find with > Linux on Intel platforms, all packages I've used on PC I can use on my G3, > how can I find compatible software? If I want update my Kernel I must use a > specific for LinuxPPC ? Excuse me for my

Re: evolution etc...

2001-02-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Phil Fraering wrote: > Could whoever came up with the fixed version > of evolution and/or its dependent packages > (I think bonobo was one of the big problems) > please kindly upload the newer versions they > generated? There are new versions of everything now, but the holdup is guile-core, which

Re: evolution etc...

2001-02-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Matt Brubeck wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > There are new versions of everything now, but the holdup is > > guile-core, which doesn't build on PPC right now. See bug #86669. > > > > As soon as that's resolved, I'll u

Re: evolution etc...

2001-02-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: > Speaking of menus, I've also had a problem with the GNOME menus for some time. > The main menu (foot on panel) doesn't contain the Debian part, and it doesn't > follow changes in the Control Center. Sorry, I don't use sawfish, but on this second one, I've noticed the Debian

Re: evolution etc...

2001-02-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > Speaking of menus, I've also had a problem with the GNOME menus for some > > > time. The main menu (foot on panel) doesn't contain the Debian part, and > > > it doesn't follow changes in the Co

Re: evolution etc...

2001-02-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > > I've had a different experience - the Debian submenu hasn't been there for > > months. I don't remember exactly but it went away at about the time I > > switched > > to Helix. > > I'm running the Helix debs from idorulabs, and I have the Debian Menu. I > recall, in

Re: PowerPC install

2001-02-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ken Sandell wrote: > Yo. I have YDL installed on my PPC with MacOS and I use BootX to boot into > whichever one. I want to go to debian because I love it on my PC and it > rocks. So, is it hard to switch to debian? (i dont mind deleting > everything) That depends: what kind of PPC? -Adam P.

Re: Mozilla 0.8 unoffcial packages available

2001-03-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > Hi, > > Takuo KITAME built some unofficial 0.8 Mozilla packages, a simple > upgrade of the existing M18 packages in debian now. The debian > mozilla maintainer is still working on totally revamping his packages > which will take some more time (mail, chat and all that crap w

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Mike Fedyk wrote: > I'm going to keep my search to a text based email client, because I > don't like to have to use vnc to view my email from home... Mutt is > great in an Xterm, and picture viewing is good too. I wonder if mutt > can use links or netscape for html viewing... Anyone know? It's

Re: evolution etc...

2001-03-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > Here's the change: > > tigert ~/src/cvs/evolution/libversit % diff vcc.y vcc.y.orig > 555c555 > < static char lexGetc_() > --- > > static int lexGetc_() Indeed, this broke arm too. We had to make this same change in gnome-pim 1.0 and 1.2. Thanks for

Re: debian-powerpc: upcoming 2.2r3 release

2001-03-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Brendan J Simon wrote: > Olaf Grewe wrote: > > > > >> 1) Communicator still doesn't work on PowerPC (I'm currently using > >> testing with kernel 2.4.2). That's OK because I'd prefer to use > >> Mozilla anyway, *but* unfortunately Mozilla M18-3 is quite old now. > >> The Mozilla people have made

Re: what happened to gvim?

2001-03-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Matt Brubeck wrote: > > I worked around it by doing an "apt-get --compile source vim" and > > installing the appropriate generated .deb. > > Can we get a powerpc Debian developer to do this and make an NMU, or could > the autobuilder's maintainer cause it to rebuild vim-gtk? The right way to do t

Re: new input layer and mouse button emulation

2001-03-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andre Berger wrote: > #/etc/sysctl.conf > dev.mac_hid.mouse_button2_keycode = 76 > dev.mac_hid.mouse_button3_keycode = 127 > dev.mac_hid.mouse_button_emulation = 1 > > (and rebooted; /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse* are set to these values) > > Those keycodes are mapped to my keypad-enter (btn2) and t

Re: what happened to gvim?

2001-03-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Matt Brubeck wrote: > >> Can we get a powerpc Debian developer to do this and make an NMU, or > >> could the autobuilder's maintainer cause it to rebuild vim-gtk? > > > The right way to do this is to mail the bug telling the maintainer to > > add libgtk1.2-dev to Build-Depends, then the next versi

Re: Web site development

2001-03-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Lorenzo De Vito wrote: > I would like to ask to you, If you must create a website with over 40 pages > and > a database management (can be MySql) what kind of tool do you use, I know > that I > can use pure HTML with textual editor but if you know a RAD for HTML on > LinuxPPc > you make me happ

Re: Uploads required for 2.2r3

2001-03-29 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Martin Schulze wrote: > Jon Leonard wrote: > > > Last I checked (I currently have the package held), vim-gtk on Alpha needed > > to be rebuilt. It had been built without gtk installed, so didn't include > > the expected gvim binary. > > If others feel the same, somebody please provide us with a b

Re: [ANN] Gnome 1.4 debs available

2001-04-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Bastien Nocera wrote: > Hi, > > http://hadess.net/idoru.shtml for all the info > > No Fifth Toe applications available yet, old applications should work > alright, maybe a symlink here and there for the libraries. > I'll add them as I build them, after GUADEC. These are the Ximian .debs? If so,

Re: new installation on 4400/200

2001-04-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Bruno Waes wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 2:23 PM > Subject: Re: new installation on 4400/200 > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:00:21AM +0200, Bruno Waes wrote: > >> so far i managed to install debian on i386, s

Re: new installation on 4400/200

2001-04-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
D'oh! Jumped elsewhere mid-sentence... Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Uh oh... I wasn't able to get it to unpack in MockOS either (on a Motorola > StarMax- pmac 4400 clone with 7.6, the newer StuffIt don't run on <8.1), had > to > unpack the tarball in Linux (l

Re: new installation on 4400/200

2001-04-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andrew Sharp wrote: > Well, not really. I have a machine with only 7.5.2 on it, and was > able to get stuffit and bootx on there. You just have to use the > right version of stuffit. They have many on their ftp site. Really? What's the right version? I could only find the most recent, which

Re: new installation on 4400/200

2001-04-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > try ofpath /dev/sda first to see if it supports that machine, ofpath > supports most oldworlds but i may have missed a few, people need to > send me more device-trees. It doesn't work on my Motorola StarMax 3000/160 (pmac 4400/160 clone), here's the message: ofpath: This ma

Re: new installation

2001-04-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Bruno Waes wrote: > so, to use BootX i still need macos, now this system comes with only one hd, > and it has macos on it ... > does there exist something like fips, to shrink the macos partition ? so i > can make space for linux, or do i have to add a new hd ? and can i just add > a pc ide hd ?

Re: new installation

2001-04-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andrew Sharp wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > Hmm... here's something which may work. Is there a .coff kernel image on > > the > > CD, e.g. vmlinux-2.2.18pre21.coff? If so, try copying that onto an > > HFS-formatted blank floppy. Then w

Re: [ANN] Gnome 1.4 debs available

2001-04-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Bastien Nocera wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > These are the Ximian .debs? If so, they're binary incompatible with > > official > > GNOME .debs, and Ximian is no longer supporting sid: "unstable is changing > > a bit > > too fast under

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-04-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:42:54AM -0400, MC wrote: > [install experience and sucky powerpc docs snipped] > > > > So there's a few more criticisms: > > > > - after you start up in your initial install and you're trying to > > initialize apt for the first time, you should be g

Re: new installation

2001-04-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andrew Sharp wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > OF works quite well on my StarMax. That's why I'm thinking it will work on > > Bruno's > > 4400, since the StarMax is a 4400 clone. > > Not a wise inference, since Apple is involved. I

Re: [ANN] Gnome 1.4 debs available

2001-04-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Bastien Nocera wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > > > > > These are the Ximian .debs? If so, they're binary incompatible with > > > > official &g

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-04-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > well frankly you need to know the fscking network numbers before going > to setup a computer on the network, if you don't know what your > network numbers are that can hardly be blamed on debian. dammit Jim > im an installer not a psychic! :-) > and you can redo the `setup

Re: Call for info: slave drives bootable from OpenFirmware (OldWorld)

2001-04-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
A datapoint: on a StarMax 3000/160 (pmac 4400 clone), if I nvsetenv the ofpath boot device for an IDE slave device (with the new ofpath you emailed me, Ethan), OF gives me: specified partition is not bootable It boots just fine from a SCSI zip drive, and Ih haven't tested IDE master (I'll ha

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-05-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:54:29AM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: > > > the default (for a rev 3 install anyway) is to use the symlink /vmlinux. > > Which points to /boot/vmlinux-2.2.18pre21. When I was having problems > > after using the install instructions on debian we

Re: Call for info: slave drives bootable from OpenFirmware (OldWorld)

2001-05-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:11:25PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > A datapoint: on a StarMax 3000/160 (pmac 4400 clone), if I nvsetenv the > > ofpath boot device for an IDE slave device (with the new ofpath you > > emailed me, Ethan), OF gives me: &

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

2001-05-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > i think quik's symlink code is quite unreliable, as a friend of mine > always had his 7200 fail to boot if quik was pointed at a > /boot/vmlinux -> /boot/vmlinux-2.2.1X symlink. /boot is on the root > filesystem, not a separate partition, i could not concieve of why this > c

Re: Call for info: slave drives bootable from OpenFirmware (OldWorld)

2001-05-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:49:40PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > I don't know, will try to mark it bootable at some point using mac-pdisk > > (that > > won't mess up my hard drive, right? :-). > > well, i don't thin

Re: Woody Impressions

2001-05-21 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, Re Netscape->Mozilla, just one warning to Netscape Mail users: *** DON'T SWITCH TO MOZILLA! *** At least, not yet. I made this mistake, and want to warn everyone else not to, as loudly as possible. Mozilla is approaching stability, but it is not there yet, it is not beta

Re: Woody Impressions

2001-05-21 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[I'd quote your original message, but I'm using Mozilla, which can't do that. :-( ] On RedHat, I mentioned it because when I was deciding whether to switch to Mozilla, their decision to drop NS4.x in favor of Mozilla had just been announced, lending creditibily to the new platform. A lot of

Re: Woody Impressions

2001-05-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Just to answer a couple of questions, I am using Ethan's mozilla .debs (thanks Ethan!), and they always open to the Mail/News reader. Which is fine for me, since I'm using it for Mail/News, but must be annoying and resource-wasting for anyone using it just to browse. As for Netscape and Mozil

Re: mozilla - 5 processes using 149Mb

2001-06-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 09:18:21PM +1200, Alan Macdougall wrote: Vital stats: Pwer Macintosh 7600/200MHz/64Mb running Woody. Mozilla 0.9 seems a bit of a hog. (This is build 2001052403 downloaded from Ethan's penguinppc repository.) Typing "mozilla" at the command line s

Re: Realtek 8029 not recognized

2001-06-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Francesco Brasini wrote: Hello, I'm trying to bring new life to some old powermac 4400/200 here in the Dept. of Mathematics of the University of Bologna, Italy, installing Debian on them. Almost a success, but I'm still not able to see the ethernet card. "cat /proc/pci" outputs: Bus 0,

Re: realplayer question

2001-07-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Phil Fraering wrote: Is anyone here using realplayer with Debian? Yes, I downloaded it and installed it in my home directory. It's been working great ever since. It crashes once a week or so, but other than that I've had good success with i

2.4.6-benh and offb?

2001-07-18 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Is offb working in 2.4.6-benh? I can't get it to work, I get the little bit of BootX text and then it hangs before putting the console up on the fb. This is booting from BootX (or is that broken in 2.4.x?). I want 2.4 so I can hack on the clgenfb driver and see if I can (at last

Re: 2.4.6-benh and offb?

2001-07-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Olaf Hering wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Greetings, Is offb working in 2.4.6-benh? I can't get it to work, I get the little bit of BootX text and then it hangs before putting the console up on the fb. This is booting from BootX (or is that broken in 2.4.x?). wh

Re: Altivec and G4

2001-07-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Camm Maguire wrote: Greetings! Anyone using Debian on this platform? Anyone in the process of packaging the altivec capable binutils and/or gcc? Anyone interested? Tons of people are using this platform. I don't know of anyone using it for a Beowulf though. But I'm sure there are users o

Re: anyone using evolution?

2001-08-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Phil Fraering wrote: I was wondering if anyone out there is using evolution on debian-powerpc, and if so, what version they were using? I find that the 0.11.0-1 version, compiled from source, is very buggy, and a) won't reuse your old evolution/ directory, and b) will crash if you attempt to im

Re: Recommendation for scanner/printer/fax/copier

2001-08-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andrei Verovski wrote: Hi, You can find a guide for flatbed scanners at my web site. However, its not Linux centric, since I am from DTP/Repro world. You have to check Linux compatability if you select something. Indeed. I have a UMAX SCSI scanner which only works on PPC if I enable debu

Re: evolution builds for powerpc?

2001-08-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: p.s.: I had one minor problem building the package, because building evolution needs access to an XServer at some point (failed first with Cannot open display...). But I don't think this is powerpc specific. It would still be nice if you reported a bug against the offendi

Re: lazy saturday notebook comparo (long)

2001-08-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Andrew Sharp wrote: Now, when it comes to the iBook2, A Dell Inspriron 2100: 700MHz P3 (w/ SpeedStupid (tm)) 256MB mem external combo dvd/cdrw drive 1024x768 12.1" video 30GB hard drive 37Whour battery free palm m100 or lexmark32 printer or umax 3400 usb scanner $2227 after $100 mail in rebate

Re: lazy saturday notebook comparo (long)

2001-08-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michael Schmitz wrote: That's pretty close! One other factor nobody has mentioned here is SECURITY. For buffer-overflow type security holes, remote and local, almost all of the exploits are written for i386, so non-Intel platforms are inherently less vulnerable. Last week's LWN security secti

ssh stopped working

2001-08-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Because of network problems, I didn't upgrade sid between mid-July and three days ago. Then when I upgraded, I could no longer ssh into my Debian sid i386 boxes, I get: % ssh lyre ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host In that time, of course, the i386 boxe

Re: ssh stopped working

2001-08-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michael Schmitz wrote: % ssh lyre ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host I've had trouble with ssh whenever the MTU (PPP link) was set too small. Are you on ethernet, or some point to point link? A cable modem, the machine gets its address via dhcp... Oh, in the mont

Re: searching for xine testers

2001-08-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: Siggi Langauf wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: Siggi Langauf wrote: Also, I was excited at first to see that it has an ffmpeg plugin, but I couldn't play MJPEG nor DivX files, is that to be expected? This is expected to work, but I think ffmpeg still h

Re: lam4-runtime does not exist

2008-03-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:35 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-24 15:24]: > > > Damn! It fails now on ia64 [1] at Python checking. > > Fails on powerpc as well [1] with the same error message. > > [1] > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=pet

Re: lam4-runtime does not exist

2008-03-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 15:36 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:35 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > > * Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-24 15:24]: > > > > > Damn! It fails now on ia64 [1] at Python checking. > > >

Xmodmap, ctrl and lock

1999-09-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I'm having trouble switching the left ctrl and shift lock using xmodmap. The lines in .Xmodmap which work on other keyboards don't seem to work on adb, those are: remove Lock = Caps_Lock remove Control = Control_L add Lock = Control_L add Control = Caps_Lock The removes seem to work

SANE and UMAX scanner on MESH

1999-10-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I am having trouble getting my new UMAX Astra 1220S scanner recognized. It is at ID 6, with a zip drive at ID 5, on a StarMax 3000/160 (pmac 4400 clone). MacOS recognizes it and scans from it just fine- well, if you ignore the frequent crashes and required Adobe Deluxe shipped with the

Re: SANE and UMAX scanner on MESH

1999-10-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
ery 30 minutes but it's a pain.) * Anyone with a scanner success story (on PPC)? * Are there non-obvious things which must be done to enable sane to see the scanner? Thanks very much, -Adam P. (My old post...) Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Greetings, > > I am havin

Re: GIMP dependencies

1999-11-02 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Frank Petzold wrote: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > gimp: Depends: aalib1 (>= 1.2-15) but it is not installed > Depends: slang1 (< 1.3) but 1.3.9-1 is installed > E: Sorry, broken packages The slang business was fixed in source and on Intel a couple of da

Building Kerberos

1999-12-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, It's legal for Americans to send patches to Kerberos if they don't involve crypto, right? (Patch and question to follow if "yes"...) Zeen, -Adam P.

Re: Xpmac

1999-12-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
FASSINO Jean-Philippe wrote: > I think the frame-buffer (atyfb) kernel does not run with a external > monitor. > Because in MacOS, when bouting the display change in dual screen (LCD > + monitor). > When booting linux with BootX, the FB does not reconize the dual > screen. > It does not use it and

Re: Building Kerberos

1999-12-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > As far as I understand it. > > I patch it about a year ago and got a local install, but I remember > disliking my patches, so I never submitted them, and now they seem to > be lost :( I'd appreciate if you could post them. Nothing fancy at all, just some fixes to confi

Re: Building Kerberos

1999-12-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Kevin Puetz wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Nothing fancy at all, just some fixes to configure.in et al because > > ndbm.h is in /usr/include/db1 on Debian. The patch is very > > debian-specific (or glibc2-specific?), and should probably be made > > more generic so it looks first in the defa

Re: Xpmac

1999-12-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > Does atyfb work with XF68_FBDev at all? I tried it just a couple of > > Yes :-) Okay, I over-generalized. But the problem remains, I just tried it once again this evening. Again, I'm on

Re: Building Kerberos

1999-12-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Tom Rini wrote: > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Kevin Puetz wrote: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > Right, I've got arla & krb4 stuff going, but it needed a va_args patch > > > when I complied :) > > > > Odd - I never patched anything, in fact I just rebuilt it to be sure. What > > part of the packa

Re: Building Kerberos

1999-12-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 09:40:31PM +0000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Ah, but the maintainer is in the US, and possibly a US citizen! > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Actually, are you sure that's true? I talked to him a few months ago > and

Re: Xpmac

1999-12-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Ddnzer wrote: > --- Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This evening I noticed something new: some of the text seemed to be > > rendering on > > the whice screen! Indeed, there was just enough to sort of navigate > > through the > &g

Re: Xpmac

1999-12-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Adam C Powell IV wrote: > But going back to 8 bpp, 1152x864-75 is beautiful! Well, with one exception. > Dragging a window in E leaves a trail of cursors. As this doesn't happen on > any > other X server I've tried, nor in Xfb-offb (on the unsupported MacPicasso with >

Powerprint anyone?

1999-12-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I bought a LaserJet 1100 from a catalog, and it came with PowerPrint, which is a device to connect a Mac serial port to the printer's parallel port along with some drivers. How can I tell Linux I want to print to the serial port? I'd like to try sending lj4 commands to the serial port

Quik segfaults

2000-01-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, I just built a new 2.2.14 kernel package, and installed, but quik segfaulted. Unfortunately, it is stripped, so all I can get for a backtrace is (gdb) backtrace #0 0x10011a3c in ?? () #1 0x0 in ?? () This is on a StarMax with the latest potato and stock 2.2.13. I've got the boot stuff

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