Re: Sound on a PowerBook G3 Firewire

2002-06-24 Thread Brian Victor
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 01:22:33AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Has anyone been able to get sound recording working on the PowerBook >G3 Firewire? Using Gnomemixer, I can turn up the line in for the >build in mic, and hear the input from it, but when I try to use some >program like audicity, I

Re: Sound on a PowerBook G3 Firewire

2002-06-24 Thread Brian Victor
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:50:12AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Brian> I have never gotten the built-in mic or the built-in line >Brian> input to be useful under linux on my Powe

gsfonts-other incomplete install

2002-06-30 Thread Brian Victor
In attempting to install gsfonts-other from woody, apt reports the following: %apt-get install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 409 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of arch

usb-ohci hard lock

2002-07-03 Thread Brian Victor
I have a reproduceable condition which is producing a hard lockup (no keyboard input even at console, no network activity) consistently. I installed a Belkin BusPort USB card (listed as supported at penguinppc.org) and installed the usb-ohci driver as a module. I attached a Samsung ML-1210 printe

Re: mozilla problems

2002-09-20 Thread Brian Victor
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 10:14:07PM -0400, Chris Hoover wrote: >I'm having problems with mozilla. It now longer will fully launch. >When I run it from a xterm or from a menu, it starts up but I never get >the splash screen. The program never seems to die, and it does not give >me any errors. kill

Revisiting Pismo Multihead

2002-12-02 Thread Brian Victor
Given the recent update to the ATI Linux drivers, I was wondering if any more information was available to allow multihead operation on the Pismo. My guess is no, since the new drivers seem to be x86 only and for newer cards, but I thought something else might have happened since the summer when I

Getting my Alt key back

2002-12-12 Thread Brian Victor
I recently switched from WindowMaker to evilwm, and in the process, lost the swapmeta functionality. Is there anything I can do (including hacking evilwm, if necessary) to make the command key my alt key again? Portion of XF86Config-4: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboa

Re: Getting my Alt key back

2002-12-13 Thread Brian Victor
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 07:35:44PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: >On Fre, 2002-12-13 at 02:50, Brian Victor wrote: >> I recently switched from WindowMaker to evilwm, and in the process, lost >> the swapmeta functionality. >I think an X upgrade did that, haven't investigated

Re: tar ate my symlinks

2003-03-17 Thread Brian Victor
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:43:09AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: >* Brian Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030317 07:52 PST]: >> I backed up my debian installation with the following: >> >> tar --preserve -cv / | ssh 192.168.2.10 'cat > linuxbackup.tar.bz2'

Pismo question (was Re: powerbook 15" 1Ghz question ...)

2003-04-18 Thread Brian Victor
On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 01:31:30AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: >On Sam, 2003-04-19 at 01:53, Thomas Bodenmann wrote: >> Michel D?nzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > It did last I tried, that was with the M7, but I don't expect any change >> > with the M9 there. >> Mirroring or Xinerama? >Anything

Re: xorg 6.9.0 and DRI

2006-02-19 Thread Brian Victor
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 06:59:24PM +0100, Michel D�nzer wrote: >On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 18:34 +0100, CK wrote: >> on my tibook IV I kind of lost 3d accelleration since I upgraded xorg >> to 6.9.0 ... >Remove xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk (and all the other dri-trunk packages, for >that matter). I have also

Re: xorg 6.9.0 and DRI

2006-02-20 Thread Brian Victor
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 03:36:11PM +0100, Michel D�nzer wrote: >On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 23:46 -0500, Brian Victor wrote: >> When I strace glxinfo, >BTW, you can just set LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose to debug problems like this, >no need to mess with strace. Thanks for the tip! >> it

Re: xorg 6.9.0 and DRI

2006-02-21 Thread Brian Victor
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:42:00AM +0100, Michel D�nzer wrote: >On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 23:52 -0500, Brian Victor wrote: >> % LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo >> name of display: :0.0 >> libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 4.0.4 r128 (screen 0) >> libGL: OpenDriver: trying

Re: xorg 6.9.0 and DRI

2006-02-21 Thread Brian Victor
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 01:33:25AM +0100, Michel D�nzer wrote: >On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 21:34 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: >> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:29 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: >> > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 08:25 -0500, Brian Victor wrote: >> > > >> >

Netgear Card in Installer

2001-09-03 Thread Brian Victor
I'm attempting to migrate from LinuxPPC. I would like to install from network since I have a very local mirror. However, my beige G3's onboard ethernet is having compatibility issues with my campus network, so I need to use my Netgear FA311. Unfortunately, the National Semiconductor drivers aren

Partition Limit?

2001-10-16 Thread Brian Victor
I'm trying to triple boot (Mac 9/X, Debian) on my new 30 gig drive. OS X put a bunch of small partitions on the drive, bumping my linux partitions to numbers 14, 15, and 16. Before OS X did so, there were 4 more gigs of free space after the linux partitions. mac-fdisk no longer shows this space.

Re: 3d support on pismo

2001-11-25 Thread Brian Victor
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 12:48:56AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: >Read the documentation on http://dri.sf.net, in particular the DRI >Beginner's Guide and the DRI User Guide. I'm not the original poster, but the question and response were timely. Unfortunately, I'm still hitting some problems. In

Ogg Vorbis Hissing

2002-01-06 Thread Brian Victor
Ogg Vorbis files played through xmms on my beige G3 result in static. A nearly identical setup on my pismo works fine. ogg123 works fine on both machines. This is with xmms 1.2.5. Both machines are running ben0 kernels; the desktop has 2.4.17, while the pismo has 2.4.15. Is there a known fix f

Re: Ogg Vorbis Hissing

2002-01-07 Thread Brian Victor
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:23:25AM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote: >On Jan 06 2002, Brian Victor wrote: >> Ogg Vorbis files played through xmms on my beige G3 result in static. [snip] >The maintainer of the package has told me that it will be fixed in the >next version of xmms. Indeed

Re: deja vu: problems with latex and accents

2002-01-19 Thread Brian Victor
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 06:42:21PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: >There are two accents in the word deja, é and an à which I can see in >downloaded text (in an xterm) but cannot find the key combination for. >I'm using woody on a Lombard Powerbook. > >How do I get latex to 'render' these in the

Re: searching Java & flash for mozilla

2002-01-25 Thread Brian Victor
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 05:02:59PM -0800, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: >At 4:45 PM -0500 1/25/02, Adam Goode wrote: >>Java can be found (in various forms) as part of Debian, and as part of >>the Blackdown project (http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html). The >>Blackdown version contains Su

Re: How to switch between virtual terminals on PowerBook?

2002-03-20 Thread Brian Victor
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 07:46:47PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 18:31:22 +, Clive Menzies wrote: >> (held together) + works on my 8100/80. >Here it does nothing. :( It seems that my key isn't taken into >account, whatever I do. I'm kind of surprised no one has ment

G4 Upgrade

2002-03-28 Thread Brian Victor
I'm looking at finally taking the plunge and doubling the speed of my beige G3 by popping a G4 ZIF in. OWC says that the ZIF is linux-compatible. However, I have two questions: 1) Does the G4 have any advantage in linux over a G3? Last I knew, gcc didn't compile for Altivec, though I thought I

Slow Man

2002-04-01 Thread Brian Victor
My "man" command takes an inordinately long time to run: %time man foo No manual entry for foo man foo 0.01s user 0.02s system 0% cpu 21.026 total strace shows the process pausing for almost a full second at each _newselect() call (the below occurs 21 times for a nonexistent man page): open("/v

Re: Slow Man

2002-04-03 Thread Brian Victor
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 05:34:27AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: >On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 05:16:40AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: >> This looks like it might be #137908. I'd appreciate help on this - it >> seems to be powerpc-specific. >I've tried it on a powerpc now (thanks, Adam Conrad) and couldn't >

Re: Slow Man

2002-04-03 Thread Brian Victor
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:08:59PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: >Hm. Adam suggested that it could be a kernel 2.2 bug, if you're running >that, pointing to the various hits you get for '_newselect powerpc' on >google. I'm already way out of my league on powerpc-specific problems, >though. I'm runnin

Locale Settings

2002-05-05 Thread Brian Victor
I'm attempting to use translations for some programs, but have been unsuccessful. I've tried various settings for LC_ALL and LANG, including fr, fr_FR, and french, but gedit doesn't use the translated messages. /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gedit.mo exists. I have the gettext and locales pack

Re: Locale Settings

2002-05-05 Thread Brian Victor
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 02:31:01AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: >Run "dpkg-reconfigure locales" and make sure that fr_FR is one of the >locales you enabled and generated, otherwise it will silently fallback >to the C locale. That fixed it. Thanks! -- Brian

Re: XFree86 and xinerama on ppc

2002-05-14 Thread Brian Victor
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:26:30PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: >On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 18:37, Brian D. Hicks wrote: >> Speaking of powerbook dualhead, I don't suppose any progress has been >> made on xinerama support for the Rage 128 mobility in the Pismo? >I'm not aware of any changes there. Portin

Re: XFree86 and xinerama on ppc

2002-05-16 Thread Brian Victor
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:28:41AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: >On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 23:01, Brian Victor wrote: >> Do the changes need to be made to the kernel module, the XFree module, >> or both? >Depends what kernel module you mean, and what you want to use it for. Basicall

Re: windowmaker key combo. to switch workspaces, et al

2002-05-17 Thread Brian Victor
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:53:41AM -0400, K Clark wrote: >i haven't figured out the key combo to switch workspaces, or jump out of X to >another tty. Someone else answered the TTY question, so I'll cover windowmaker. The key combinations are defined in the WPrefs app, which I believe has an icon

Re: airport eth1, onboard eth0 & eth1 Tx error, status 1

2002-05-17 Thread Brian Victor
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:40:10PM -0400, K Clark wrote: >onboard eth0 is working flawlessly. have used dhclient-2.2.x and pump, both >without problems. > >airport worked ONCE last evening. so here's the dilemma, and how i got there. Someone more informed may be able to give you a better answer, b

Re: Slow Man

2002-05-19 Thread Brian Victor
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 09:35:05PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: >On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:40:06PM -0500, Brian Victor wrote: >> My "man" command takes an inordinately long time to run: [snip] >If /var/cache/man/oldlocal/index.bt is still zero-length, then you can >work ar

Fixing Broken System

2002-06-17 Thread Brian Victor
Due to an intermittent hard drive error which has since been fixed, my root partition has taken significant but not sweeping damage. Most binaries still work, but a few don't, such as df, cat, and mount. I don't know precisely how much was damaged, nor do I know an easy method of determining this

Pismo Multihead (again)

2004-06-24 Thread Brian Victor
Once again I have a use for multihead on my pismo. And once again, X political changes have moved the discussion venues. Should I be using [EMAIL PROTECTED] to ask about things like this now? At any rate, what's going on with multihead on the pismo? Last I heard (quite a while ago) someone on X

Re: External monitor on iBook rev 2.2

2004-07-08 Thread Brian Victor
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 08:07:19PM +0200, Cedric Pradalier wrote: >You'll find data file and example on : >http://mockenhaupt.homelinux.org/ibookWiki/Configuration > >I'll try to do a short summary: >With default X server, you can manage this with a two headed >setup, either in xinerama or in two d

Pismo External Display

2004-07-15 Thread Brian Victor
(Paging Michel Daenzer?) I grabbed dri-trunk-unstable in hope that external monitor (unmirrored) support for the r128 in it had found its way in. So far I've only been met with signal 7 crashes. Is support supposed to be in there already? If not, I'm willing to write and test code if someone po