Re: XFree-4.0.1/4.0.2 debs

2001-01-18 Thread Chris Lawrence
orge.net,freesoftware.com,ftp.us.debian.org and a few > other sites that I know of. Try in pool/main/x/xfree86/ on any Debian mirror. apt-get will find it automagically if you point it at sid. Chris -- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ Computer Systems

Re: XF86Setup

1999-06-07 Thread Chris Lawrence
moment... Chris -- ===== | Chris Lawrence | You have a computer. Do you have Linux? | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.linux-m68k.org/index.html | ||

PowerPC alien patch (to run Netscape on Debian potato)

1999-06-15 Thread Chris Lawrence
(see previous messages) sudo alien --to-deb netscape-4.6-1.rpm [wait a while] sudo dpkg -i netscape_4.6-2_powerpc.deb Chris -- ===== |Chris Lawrence | You have a computer. Do you have Linux?

Re: PowerPC alien patch (to run Netscape on Debian potato)

1999-06-15 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Jun 15, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Chris Lawrence wrote: > > > > Since I suspect many of you want to use the Netscape RPM from > > LinuxPPC-r5 on Debian, > > Does it work well? Does it include Roaming Access? Does it include Messenger? It seems to include everything

Re: XEmacs configuration

1999-06-27 Thread Chris Lawrence
nd binary packages are out-of-sync (the powerpc build daemon seems hopelessly confused at the moment), so it probably won't install properly unless you tell dpkg to ignore the dependencies. Chris -- ===

pm2 acceleration patch for X -> Debian?

1999-06-27 Thread Chris Lawrence
Has anyone submitted the Permedia2 acceleration patch to the Debian X maintainer? It'd be nice to get it into potato (I'm assuming XF86 4.0 won't make it in there, of course...). Chris -- = |

Re: pm2 acceleration patch for X -> Debian?

1999-06-28 Thread Chris Lawrence
w; thanks! Chris -- ===== |Chris Lawrence |Get your Debian 2.1 CD-ROMs| | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|

Re: specific to Hartmut Kuptein

1999-08-23 Thread Chris Lawrence
21 02:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hartmut Koptein 99-02-23 23:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hartmut Koptein 1999-08-19 17:32 Try one of those :-) Chris -- ===== |Chris Lawrence |Get your Debian 2.1 CD-ROMs

Re: dhcp?

1999-09-17 Thread Chris Lawrence
by default. Chris -- = | Chris Lawrence| The Linux/m68k FAQ | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.linux-m68k

Re: what about cdrecord ?

1999-10-01 Thread Chris Lawrence
k) and recompile the kernel. Chris -- ===== | Chris Lawrence | Get your Debian 2.1 CD-ROMs | |<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |http://www.lordsutch.com/| | | | | Amiga A4000 604e/233Mh

Re: what about cdrecord ?

1999-10-09 Thread Chris Lawrence
too slow to keep up (I know I had problems under APUS with both a A4091 and GVP Series II). The SCSI drivers are probably also buggy... Chris -- = | Chris Lawrence | Get your Debian 2.1 CD-ROMs | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: The new Debian distribution

1999-12-19 Thread Chris Lawrence
me of that is due to the 2.3 kernels it's based on being highly flaky as well). Chris -- = |Chris Lawrence | It's 2/3 of a beltway... | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| http://www.lordsutch.com/tn385/ | |

Re: How did you get X running in Debian PowerPC?

2000-01-15 Thread Chris Lawrence
someone else's: Red Hat. We may have borrowed code here and there from Red Hat, but I doubt we've used much of anything from LinuxPPC. I think we may have butchered up some of their Netscape packages at times, though ;-) Chris -- ==

Re: powerpc build daemon vs apt-get -b source

2000-08-02 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Aug 02, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Can someone here explain to me how the build daemon is supposed > to work? Last week I was whining to our debian packager about > the ppc guys being so slow to build new packages. He enlightened > me saying that (in this case lilypond1.3) had been accepted in

Re: Voodoo3 2000 problems in Woody

2002-07-01 Thread Chris Lawrence
should give your answer. You might also want to try the pre-release 4.2.0 packages, but I doubt that will fix the problem. Chris -- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to distinguish a mac from an Amiga?

2002-11-04 Thread Chris Lawrence
Getting to the original poster's question: I believe APUS kernels will have a /proc/hardware, which isn't present at all on other PPC architecture. Testing for the existence of the /proc/bus/zorro directory would be another reasonable Amiga test. Chris -- Chris Lawrence <[EM

Re: slink Tarball Progress

1998-07-29 Thread Chris Lawrence
e kernel layer (because there are umpteen hardware clocks on m68k: Atari, two varieties on Amiga, Mac...). Ideally /dev/rtc should be used, but for various reasons (which I'm not exactly clear on... probably because it's optional) it isn't. Chris -- =====

Re: freezing powerpc and sparc

1998-11-09 Thread Chris Lawrence
7. My understanding (from James Troup) is that a new xfree86 package should be out Real Soon Now that compiles on PowerPC and m68k. Until then we're all screwed. Chris -- = | Chris Lawrence | M