PPC reference

2001-04-16 Thread David N. Welton
Does anyone have the number(s) handy of the Motorola reference books for the PowerPC chips. I'm specifically hoping to pick up something that covers ppc, as well as extra stuff in the G4 (altivec, for instance). Thanks, -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~d

gdb doesn't build?

2001-04-16 Thread David N. Welton
or 2 Hrm. No rs6k here - I'm on an tibook... Shall I file a bug, or is this a known problem? Thankyou, -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/

Re: PPC reference

2001-04-16 Thread David N. Welton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason E. Stewart) writes: > "David N. Welton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Does anyone have the number(s) handy of the Motorola reference > > books for the PowerPC chips. I'm specifically hoping to pick up > > something that co

Re: What is /etc/X11/X ?

2001-04-17 Thread David N. Welton
rnel? It's disappointing to have to follow forks of the linux kernel to even have it compile or run decently. -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/

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

2001-04-17 Thread David N. Welton
uses, say, HFS+, which linux doesn't handle well right now (afaik), you can use this partition not only as a bootstrap, but also as a place to exchange files between Linux, and the other OS. -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/

Audio CD's on tibook?

2001-04-23 Thread David N. Welton
ld be a long process... -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/

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

2001-04-23 Thread David N. Welton
rap partition. if > you know what your doing and like booting manually at the > OpenFirmware prompt every time fine. if not you better follow my > instructions as you will get no sympathy from me otherwise. Probably a good idea in any case:-) -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://peopl

Re: Audio CD's on tibook?

2001-04-23 Thread David N. Welton
or some such. -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-04 Thread David N. Welton
No, but I hear that XFS works pretty well. -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/

Re: Audio CDs on Titanium G4 Powerbook

2001-05-07 Thread David N. Welton
; this fails. i dont see any ioctls() for the cdrom driver to swap > bytes or to report the endianness, so i guess that might be the only > way to tell. File bugs;-) Thankyou once again! -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-11 Thread David N. Welton
d performs faster while being more stable than Reiserfs). -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/

Re: Questions about kernel 2.4.4

2001-05-23 Thread David N. Welton
at are rumored to work well with PPC hardware and GNU userland environments. The Linux kernel, however, more often than not, won't even compile. Linus' idea of multiplatform: 386, 486, *and* Pentium. -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache

Re: startup jingle

2001-05-30 Thread David N. Welton
ld be able to make the machine operate quietly if you want. -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/

Re: Audio CDs on Titanium G4 Powerbook

2001-06-10 Thread David N. Welton
k by doing eject /dev/scd0 Seems to work pretty well... Although it still seems silly that ide-scsi is necessary when the device evidently can barf out audio data:-) -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http:/

Re: mozilla - 5 processes using 149Mb

2001-06-18 Thread David N. Welton
e threads, and mozilla is a tremendous hog. > > Anyway, the bottom line is that on my machine, Mozilla is unusably > > slow. Are there any lighter alternatives around? > w3m http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=w3m&archive=no Although it seems to work now... I susp

tibook speakers vs headphones

2001-06-21 Thread David N. Welton
When I play music on my tibook (ogg123 -d oss .ogg), even when I have headphones plugged in, the speaker emits sound too, which more or less defeats the purpose:-) Ideas? Thankyou, -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org

Re: gdb-cvs packages available

2001-06-29 Thread David N. Welton
S > version of GDB seems to grok well enough, so I'll probably maintain > the gdb-cvs package until 5.1 is released. How about altivec support? Does one or both of these support the altivec opcodes/registers? -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/

Re: gdb-cvs packages available

2001-06-29 Thread David N. Welton
y cool, this works nice - I can finally debug my .so Apache module:-) -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/

Re: new ibook (icebook) with debian ppc

2001-07-08 Thread David N. Welton
nux Kernel more often than not doesn't run (or even compile). However, there are variants on the Linux kernel that run quite well, and I think that sooner or later the Linux kernel will catch up. All in all, I'm happy with the computer.(1) -- David N. Welton Free Software: http:

Re: benh 2.4.6 kernel

2001-07-09 Thread David N. Welton
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, does sleep work with older kernels ? (you have the proper hacks > to pmud scripts for sleep to work properly on core99) ? Apropos... are we including the latest/best/brightest of these scripts in Debian? -- David N.

kernel oops in Debian's 2.4.4 + cdparanoia

2001-07-13 Thread David N. Welton
C3BB7040 125E8A10 Jul 13 13:46:23 localhost kernel: Call backtrace: Jul 13 13:46:23 localhost kernel: D183FEB8 D183FAF8 C003A0E8 C0003F5C 6FFD4574 6FFD93A0 Jul 13 13:46:23 localhost kernel: 6FFD602C 6FFD8BB8 6FFD3438 6FFA6E60 6FFA7308 1000327C 6FDE53F8 Jul 13 13:46:23 localhost kernel:

Re: kernel oops in Debian's 2.4.4 + cdparanoia

2001-07-13 Thread David N. Welton
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton) writes: > > > Jul 13 13:45:37 localhost kernel: TASK = c29fe000[1774] 'cdparanoia' Last > > syscall: 4 > > You need to save this to a file, then do: > > apt-get i

Re: JAVA on DebianPPC

2001-07-20 Thread David N. Welton
o on and so forth blah blah blah". This leaves you free to create derivates, but means that you can't pollute the standard. -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

Re: Altivec and G4

2001-07-28 Thread David N. Welton
Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Probably you need an option - did you try -m7400? That option makes it grok altivec for me... -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

Re: curious about java servlets

2001-08-13 Thread David N. Welton
Bill Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone shed some light on why jserv isn't available, or > recommend any next steps? "Write once, run anywhere" is hampered by crappy proprietary licensing from Sun. You might have better luck with a %100 open source sol

'fixing' tibook keyboard after latest testing upgrade

2001-08-25 Thread David N. Welton
_emulation set to 1, and the values mouse_button2_keycode = 96 mouse_button3_keycode = 56 Which means that the 'enter' key acts as mouse button two, and the 'alt/option' key acts as mouse button 3, which is convenient, as they are located just above the trackpad. -- David

i386->powerpc cross compiler

2000-04-10 Thread David N. Welton
nux. Ciao, -- David N. Welton, Responsabile Progetti Open Source, Linuxcare Italia spa tel +39.049.8043411 fax +39.049.8043412 cel +39.348.2879508 [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution.

Re: i386->powerpc cross compiler

2000-04-10 Thread David N. Welton
I forgot to say this, but I'll spell it out here: I read these mailing lists, so please don't CC replies to me. Thanks, -- David N. Welton, Responsabile Progetti Open Source, Linuxcare Italia spa tel +39.049.8043411 fax +39.049.8043412 cel +39.348.2879508 [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: i386->powerpc cross compiler

2000-04-10 Thread David N. Welton
^^ What is the story with these two bits? I am having trouble because it's not finding: ./libgcc2.c:41: stdlib.h: No such file or directory ./libgcc2.c:42: unistd.h: No such file or directory which seems odd. Ciao, -- David N. Welton, Responsabile Progetti Open Source

Re: i386->powerpc cross compiler

2000-04-10 Thread David N. Welton
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 03:09:38PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > Any plans to create an i386 to powerpc gcc crosscompiler package? I > think we'd increase our popularity amongst the embedded folks who > use PPC. Has anyone actually managed to create a cross-compiler using

Re: i386->powerpc cross compiler

2000-04-11 Thread David N. Welton
l headers? I don't think the kernel headers are sufficient by themselves. Thanks, -- David N. Welton, Responsabile Progetti Open Source, Linuxcare Italia spa tel +39.049.8043411 fax +39.049.8043412 cel +39.348.2879508 [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution.

Re: i386->powerpc cross compiler

2000-04-11 Thread David N. Welton
bio.h:30: _G_config.h: No such file or directory iogetline.c:27: string.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [iogetline.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/davidw/download/gcc-2.95.2/gcc-2.95.2/powerpc-unknown-linux/libio' Any ideas? Thanks:-) -- David N. Welton, Responsabile

Re: i386->powerpc cross compiler

2000-04-11 Thread David N. Welton
It gets a bit further using clean sources out of CVS, and then dies because one of the libiberty subdirectories has no makefiles in it. What a hideous f*(&&* mess.... -- David N. Welton, Responsabile Progetti Open Source, Linuxcare Italia spa tel +39.049.8043411 fax +39.049.804

so, how about 2.4.19 ?

2002-08-08 Thread David N. Welton
Any reports on the stock kernel so far? I want something stable for my original version tibook, and wonder if this kernel is indeed stable on powerpc? Thanks, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http

Re: Sony Handycam as USB mass storage hang

2002-09-04 Thread David N. Welton
US_DEBUGP("scsi cmd done, result=0x%x\n", us->srb->result); set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); I don't think it actually fixes the problem, but it keeps everything from brutally hanging. It's a complete shot in the

Re: Sony Handycam as USB mass storage hang

2002-09-04 Thread David N. Welton
nd already discussed it with the USB folks in any case. I used it as a stopgap to at least not have my computer lock up, and it worked ok for that. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesof

Re: Presentation with Free Software

2002-10-02 Thread David N. Welton
well it worked for him. I do my presentations with Mozilla. For example: http://tcl.apache.org/presentations/tcl/ (only the introductory page is in Italian). -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasy

Re: the apple key

2002-11-21 Thread David N. Welton
doesn't it? It's just available first in the benh kernel. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/

Re: Java

2002-12-08 Thread David N. Welton
Most Java implementations are not free software, but for one that is, have a look at the 'gcj' package, which even compiles to native code! -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/fr

turn on the fan

2003-05-26 Thread David N. Welton
I have a tibook - one of the older ones (400mhz). Anyone know how to turn the fan on from Linux? If that's not possible, is it in MacOS X? The computer feels awfully hot, and I'm worried... Thanks, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Pers

Re: XMMS + Ogg = hiss?

2001-08-31 Thread David N. Welton
er think it's a problem with either the sound > output plugin or the driver/hardware It's an xmms problem. But which distribution is this? The problem was fixed in testing, IIRC. I had a look, and the xmms folks were just passing a 0 to the 'is_big_endian' field

kde in testing?

2001-09-08 Thread David N. Welton
it's fixed, but no updated KDE packages appear in PPC. What's the deal? Are we just missing a recompile? -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

Re: [davidw@debian.org: Bug#111905: Upgrade to X in testing breaks alt keys]

2001-09-11 Thread David N. Welton
was chugging along happily as my Alt key (it's a better choice than Apple's "alt" key, as it's larger, so for someone who uses it in emacs all the time, it's easier to hit with my thumb). Ciao, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Softwar

Re: XFree86 update question

2001-09-11 Thread David N. Welton
wever, X is interpreting 125 as 115, so I had to add that to my Xmodmap: keycode 115 = Alt_R clear Mod1 add Mod1 = Alt_R (Thanks to Colin Walters for sharing some config files!) Strikes me as being a hack, though, and I'd like to figure out what the real problem is - what changed undernea

Re: [davidw@debian.org: Bug#111905: Upgrade to X in testing breaks alt keys]

2001-09-11 Thread David N. Welton
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:21:11AM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > > Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 07:16, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > Is this the linux keycodes issu

Re: [davidw@debian.org: Bug#111905: Upgrade to X in testing breaks alt keys]

2001-09-11 Thread David N. Welton
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:57:29AM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > > What changed then? Why did it work for me before and it doesn't > > work now, without Xmodmapping it? The heart of the question seems > > to be th

Re: [davidw@debian.org: Bug#111905: Upgrade to X in testing breaks alt keys]

2001-09-11 Thread David N. Welton
ing to be perfect. What I would like to know is why it > > worked one moment and didn't the next. What changed? > the keymaps became correct. Does someone have a tarball of /etc/X11/xkb/* from a non-updated woody system that I could look at? I would like to compare, for my own e

Re: OT: Darwin

2001-09-12 Thread David N. Welton
correct. The BSD license is more liberal than the GPL, actually. So liberal that someone else can take your code and release binary versions. Some people are ok with that, though, and they like that license. NetBSD is definitely free software. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www

Re: tuxracer...2

2001-09-13 Thread David N. Welton
ine - Germany has plenty of good beer, I imagine) to the above list, in Padova (Padua in English) Italy if you want to make a tour of it:-) Ciao, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

Re: OT: Darwin

2001-09-15 Thread David N. Welton
ode. Who cares about the details though, I hate licensing discussions - I just wanted to correct a rather gross error on the part of the original poster. Ciao, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

Re: DNS wierdness on a TiBook running unstable

2001-09-21 Thread David N. Welton
lems... Try running tcpdump to see what the traffic looks like and if you can see where the problem is. I had some network problems recently related to iptables, and lowering the mtu helped things out. You might try that... -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Softwa

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-23 Thread David N. Welton
#x27;s, and would much rather have a CDRW. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

2001-10-23 Thread David N. Welton
Linux some day. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

Re: Any PPC Java JIT compiler project around ?

2001-11-21 Thread David N. Welton
World.java @ashland [~/tmp] $ ./a.out Hello World! It's pretty easy, and it's free software! -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

m3mirror...

2001-12-05 Thread David N. Welton
0x7d48)= -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) ATI Rage M3 mirror tool, v0.1 error getting mirror value: Invalid argument (I changed my sources to use perror just for the heck of it) Kerplonk... Any ideas? Thanks, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Soft

Re: m3mirror...

2001-12-06 Thread David N. Welton
ashland:/home/davidw# ./m3mirror crt:1 lcd:0 ATI Rage M3 mirror tool, v0.1 error 1074020353 getting mirror value Any other ideas? -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/

Re: m3mirror...

2001-12-06 Thread David N. Welton
weekend) and I'll make sure to test m3mirror to see > if it still works. -- Just out of curiousity, would you mind sending an strace of a successful run to the list: ashland:/home/davidw# strace -o foobar ./m3mirror lcd:0 crt:1 ATI Rage M3 mirror tool, v0.1 error 1074020353 gettin

Re: m3mirror...

2001-12-06 Thread David N. Welton
s been there. It's about the > second head of the M3, and it's just fine that offb can't find an > address for it as it wouldn't work properly with aty128fb at the > same time anyway. I see... and in the meantime, I think I have a handle on the other problem,

Re: Stable kernel tree

2001-12-20 Thread David N. Welton
not boot because it cannot "find" /dev/rtc) and on my iBook > > (sound doesn't work yet). > Which iBook do you have? The teletubby model. I saw it myself at the PLUTO meeting! -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/

/etc/power/pwrctl-local vs anacron

2001-12-29 Thread David N. Welton
I have this in my pwrctl-local: wakeup) /sbin/fblevel on /sbin/trackpad notap /usr/sbin/anacron /usr/X11R6/bin/xrefresh ;; any idea why the last two don't do anything? -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~d

Re: CamediaPlay and Olympus D-460 Zoom

2002-01-07 Thread David N. Welton
ave to poke and prod a bit, but it does run. I haven't used it in a while through the serial port, though, I've been using a smart card reader, which is a lot faster. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apa

Re: (no subject)

2002-01-12 Thread David N. Welton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > HOW TO BURN A CD WITHOUT A CDBURNER Get a record player, put the CD on it, and when it's nice and sunny out, take a small magnifying glass, and burn the data into the CD as you spin it on the record player. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.ded

Re: latency of gdb and gcj

2002-02-18 Thread David N. Welton
off topic, but... wow, you can actually use gcj to make an applet that runs? With graphics and everything? -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http

crappy schedular in 2.4.18?

2002-03-11 Thread David N. Welton
My tibook becomes almost unusable interactively when there is a lot of disk activity (dselect unpackaging things, anacron running the find job). What's up with this?! Thanks, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Sof

slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use

2002-05-21 Thread David N. Welton
I never saw an answer for this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2002/debian-powerpc-200203/msg00202.html On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 00:01, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 20:57, David N. Welton wrote: > > > > My tibook becomes almost unusable interactively

Re: slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use

2002-05-21 Thread David N. Welton
/hd? in order to enable dma These are the default settings, afaik. What I (and the previous poster, I suspect) are curious about is 'unmaskirq', I guess, or anything else that will make the system more usable when the hard drive is at work. Ciao, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http:

tibook fan/heat regulation

2002-06-17 Thread David N. Welton
- 1) any way to just turn on the fan manually? 2) what should take care of regulating the temperature? 3) how hot is too hot anyway? Thankyou, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware

Re: tibook fan/heat regulation

2002-06-18 Thread David N. Welton
ibly accurate - it's telling me 16 degrees, whereas it's 36 degrees outside. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: tibook fan/heat regulation

2002-06-21 Thread David N. Welton
C after a few minutes of heavy work. Makes me want to > >climb inside that box, considering the temperature outside ;-) > None of the G4s CPU have properly calibrated TAU. Actually, the TAU > unit isn't even supported anymore by Moto on recent chips. Yuck. Mine seems to always go