where is the tilde ~ on my TiBook?

2003-02-28 Thread Benjamin Swatek
Hi! I'm a newbie to this list, linux and debian, but I'm trying to install debian on my tibook. now i found "Debian GNU Linux on a TiBook III" on the web, which seems to be a good help to get debian running, but to work as described there, I need the ~ for a web direction. Where is it? besid

Re: where is the tilde ~ on my TiBook?

2003-02-28 Thread Benjamin Swatek
I guess it depend where you bought your laptop. I have a US TiBook3 and the ~ is just below the ESC small key and need the Shift modifier. I am not sure to understand why you need this key to start. But if this is to type the URL of my page that you seems to mention, you can forget the tilde:

Re: where is the tilde ~ on my TiBook?

2003-02-28 Thread Benjamin Swatek
You did not read the instructions well enough :( It says, on the christophe/titanium page, that you need to apt-get install libncurses5-dev before running make menuconfig Well, i did install this, and just to make sure I did it again, but after typing: make menuconfig I still get: make

did i destroy kde? newbie

2003-03-14 Thread Benjamin Swatek
Hi, finaly i got it all debian and the XServer working (i was the one searching for the ~). now i somehow destroyed kde, i tried to upgrade it via apt-get from http://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian/ woody main and http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde stable main this told me some u

Re: did i destroy kde? newbie

2003-03-17 Thread Benjamin Swatek
well, got kde working again apt-get install kdebase -t 3.1 worked, but now i don't have no more the option to start kde from gdm, it#s just not there, how do i get it back into gdm? cheers benno On Saturday 15 March 2003 17:04, Russell Hires wrote: > Nope...you didn't kill kde...for some reason

Few Newbie Questions TiBook III - woody

2003-04-01 Thread Benjamin Swatek
Hi there! I finaly got debian up and running, and everything works more or les fine Thanks to christophe for his page. now I still do have some questions or troubleshooting to solve, first: the keyboard, I solved the tilde problem during installation with "loadkeys us" an have it where anyone w

Re: Few Newbie Questions TiBook III - woody

2003-04-01 Thread Benjamin Swatek
> > UFS is not supported at all. HFS filenames can be up to 31 characters. > Both systems can access the files; assuming you have an application capable > of handling mp3 in both, then an mp3 file is useful on both. well ok, I'll try mol, the tip form chrisophe > > > other thing is, that when I l

Re: Few Newbie Questions TiBook III - woody

2003-04-09 Thread Benjamin Swatek
Hi there, sorry for not respongding a time, was offline... > > > > > > > other thing is, that when I log in as root on the console, a lot of > > > > things flash by, too fast to read, whats that??? > > > > > > The normal login messages, you can check them out using dmesg. > > > > no, its not! th

keymaps

2003-04-10 Thread Benjamin Swatek
Hi, I'm still trying to get my keyboard working, can someone mail me please the following files or point me out where to download them: mac-usb-qwertz-layout mac-linux-keys-bare.inc mac-usb-euro.kmap or point me out in dummy style how to get the keyboard of my TiBook working in german layout. all

Re: keymaps

2003-04-10 Thread Benjamin Swatek
> > > Well yes, this is indeed a very interesting question: I was (and still > am) looking for a the Swiss-German Keyboard for about two days for my > Tibook but did not find anything so far. At the moment I am using the > qwertz with PC-Layout, so I get the | @ ~ etc. signs. > > Have you trie

Re: keymaps

2003-04-10 Thread Benjamin Swatek
ver time. Especially check that you can switch from the Linux > console to X by using -- and -- as that > was a problem for Woody and US keymaps. > > Also, these fixes are only in the console, not in X. > > Frank > > On Thursday 10 April 2003 3:04, Zeno Davatz wr

Re: keymaps

2003-04-11 Thread Benjamin Swatek
On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 21:37, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > I have a keymap "ibook2-de-latin1" of which i thought it might help me > > to get a working alt and/or apple key,anything that lets me have these > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. signs by holding down the alt or the apple key so i > > don't > > lo

Re: Howto: german keymap for X11

2003-04-12 Thread Benjamin Swatek
Hi! Great!! Thanks a lot, it works!! Thanks benjamin On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:57, Claas Langbehn wrote: > Hi! > > > To get the german keymap working with X11, do the following: > > 1.) Edit your XF86config-4's InputDevice-Section as follows: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier

Re: Howto: german keymap for X11

2003-04-24 Thread Benjamin Swatek
On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 16:02, Benjamin Swatek wrote: > Hi! > > Great!! > Thanks a lot, it works!! > > Thanks > > benjamin > > On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:57, Claas Langbehn wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > > To get the german keymap working with X1

Re: Howto: german keymap for X11

2003-04-29 Thread Benjamin Swatek
On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 08:16, Claas Langbehn wrote: > > Well, Yeah, it still works somehow, but I still can't write accents! > > How do I get accents?? > > Just don't use this line in /etc/X11/XF86config-4: > > > > Option "XkbVariant""nodeadkeys" > > Bye, claas > Well, okay,

Re: Howto: german keymap for X11

2003-04-29 Thread Benjamin Swatek
On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 16:42, Claas Langbehn wrote: > Hello! > > > Well, okay, accents like áè work now, but how do I get the ~ above the n > > like this: > > > > ñ > > to get the ñ, just press "~" and afterwards "n", just the way you get > all the others with accents, too > > Yeah, that would

can't ./configure kallery....

2003-05-06 Thread Benjamin Swatek
Hi, I'd like to try out kallery, but I can't compile it,the ./configure skript stops with the following error: checking for libz... configure: error: not found. Check your installation... I attach the config.log. I tried apt-get install libz and zlib but don't find no package(libz doesn't ex

can't ./configure kallery....

2003-05-06 Thread Benjamin Swatek
Hi, I'd like to try out kallery, but I can't compile it,the ./configure skript stops with the following error: checking for libz... configure: error: not found. Check your installation... I attach the config.log. I tried apt-get install libz and zlib but don't find no package, so what's missi

Re: can't ./configure kallery....

2003-05-06 Thread Benjamin Swatek
On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 13:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You have to install zlib1g-dev... > > > #line 4499 "configure" > > #include "confdefs.h" > > > > #include > > > > int main() { > > return (zlibVersion() == ZLIB_VERSION); > > ; return 0; } > > And the last, but not the least : > > ./

Re: can't ./configure kallery....

2003-05-08 Thread Benjamin Swatek
On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 21:34, Mich Lanners wrote: > > Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library > > > > Whats this? seems like everything installs, but anyway I don't like > > WARNING and more over when I don't understand it and its about C > > librarys. > > Well, the message is clear, no?

What do I have to have installed ?

2003-05-08 Thread Benjamin Swatek
Well, hi everybody, as I keep getting ./configure errors I'd like to know what you guys 'n' girls think that anyone has to have installed on his/her debian-system. Yeah, I'm still a newbie and have to recognize I don't have no idea. I'm running on a TiBook III and followed the advices on the famo

Is my combodrive dying (again)

2003-05-12 Thread Benjamin Swatek
Hi I don't know if this is realy ppc-specific, but as you guys and girls probably know the best about mac-hardware I have a TiBook III Thing is I can't read nor write CD-RWs, when I have a CD-RW in the Drive I get this message: scsi0:ERROR on chanel0, id0,lun0 CDB:Request sense 00 00 00 40 0

Can't comile mol-modules against benh

2003-05-27 Thread Benjamin Swatek
Hi, I see in the mol-user-guide that there should be some links on my system that i don't have: /usr/include/linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include/asm -> /user/src/linux/include/asm now these directories aren't empty in /usr/include and I don't have the faintest Idea if it's safe to

Re: Can't comile mol-modules against benh

2003-05-27 Thread Benjamin Swatek
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 15:44, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 18:22, Benjamin Swatek wrote: > > > > I see in the mol-user-guide that there should be some links on my system > > that i don't have: > > /usr/include/linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/linu

Re: German keyboard and X on PB Ti 1GHz

2003-05-29 Thread Benjamin Swatek
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 16:08, Francis Pressland wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to install debian onto my 1GHz Powerbook 15" with German > keyboard. I > downloaded and burned to CD the Powerpc_woody iso using jigdo from my i386 > Linux > machine. (Jan this year) > > I installed booting from the CD

Still mol compiling problems...

2003-06-02 Thread Benjamin Swatek
Hi, please tell me if I do something wrong, but I still can't compile the mol-modules. I do make-kpkg (--append_to_version benno.x) modules_image or make-kpkg modules and do get this error: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/mol' m4 -DKVERS="2.4.20-ben10benno.4" -DKSRC="/usr/src/linux"

Re: Can't comile mol-modules against benh

2003-06-02 Thread Benjamin Swatek
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 13:00, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 19:21, Benjamin Swatek wrote: > > > > /linux/modversions.h -c -o Linux/fault.o Linux/fault.c > > Linux/fault.c: In function `get_phys_page': > > Linux/fault.c:107: too few arguments to fu

KDE is about to be removed from my TiBook, why??

2003-06-26 Thread Benjamin Swatek
Hi, I'running KDE 3.1.2 on debian testing (and a bit unstable), for a long time apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade had packages kept back that come from KDE, a apt-get upgrade today still had them kept back : The following packages have been kept back flashkard gnome-control-center kalzium keduca