Buried in this is a little bit of grumpiness, but only a little. See if you
can find it. Mainly, this is about a success that I thought was worth
sharing.
Starting in 1999 or so I had Debian running on a PowerCenter Pro 180 (PPC
604 180MHz, 1997 vintage Mac clone) maxed out to 512MB of memory. I r
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 06:03:44PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
} On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 10:27:27AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote:
} > Buried in this is a little bit of grumpiness, but only a little. See if you
} > can find it. Mainly, this is about a success that I thought was worth
} >
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 05:26:55PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Peter Teunissen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > I see no reason to ban Sven completely from any debian lists and vote for
> > the ban to be lifted.
>
> Yea, that's nice. If you want to discuss Sven and his ban or whatever,
> take
I've used Debian on x86 a fair amount, and like it, but I use MacOS X on my
home machine. After innumerable frustrations with Fink, I came to the
conclusion that if I want Debian package management on my Mac I need actual
Debian. At nearly the same time, I became aware of Mac-on-Linux, which
should
I am preparing to install Debian on my dual-G4 system. I even have a
spare partition I can put it on (I don't have any desire to get rid of
MacOS or the various partitions I have made to deal with it). I was
hoping to follow the instructions in
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html but it se
Greg Howland sez:
} Which file or directory contains the list of packages
} that are installed on my system? Sorry to ask this to
} the list but I couldn't find this in the manuals.
dpkg --get-selections
} -- Greg
--Greg
Vincent Lefevre sez:
} On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 15:14:45 -, Kevin Smith wrote:
} > Can any suggest a "really" good email client that also supports IMAP?
}
} I'm using Mutt. IMAP support isn't very stable (it sometimes crashes,
} though I think it hadn't for a few months here) and it has some sm
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:16:16PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
} Yesterday, i tried to build a kernel-image ppc/pegasos package with
} make-kpkg. The built went well, but no package was created and i didn't
} see any particular message in the log that could explains this, in
} particular, there was n
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:25:43AM -0700, Eric Pretorious wrote:
} I'm looking for a Integrated Development Environment or a GUI-editor with
} syntax highlighting/coloring for scripting in PHP/Perl/HTML/Javascript
} files in KDE. Are there any that stand-out from the rest?
KDE is irrelevant to t
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 12:40:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
} sorry for the off-topic but i don't know any osX mailing list like this
} (they only talk about programs like photoshop, how to upgrade quiktime and
} thinks like that)
}
} Anyone can recomend a good osX mailing list, something
IBM provides an RPM of their JRE/JDK for Linux on PPC. It can be alien'd
and installed. I don't have a direct link for you, but google is your
friend.
--Greg
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:47:49PM +0200, Federico 'Pain' Pistono wrote:
} Dont' you get a bit too much spam in from this ML?
}
} Not that it bothers me that much, gMail thinks about it, but I do get
} a significant amount of unwanted email directed to the DebianPPC ML.
}
} What do you think?
I
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 10:06:03AM -0400, Tamas K Papp wrote:
} Hi,
}
} I reconfigured x.org with the macintosh layout, and now Ctrl-Option-F1
} switches to the console, so that is fixed. Could somebody please tell
} me how to make the Command key (the one with a cloverleaf on it)
} behave as Alt
I am having a problem with ieee1394. I have two essentially identical
external firewire drives. If I plug in either one, it seems to show up
properly as a device. If both are plugged in, however, there is only one
device. Any help is appreciated. This is what dmesg says when I plug in
one, then the
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 06:17:27AM +0100, Philippe Marzouk wrote:
} On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 04:48:20PM -0600, Mannequin* wrote:
} > Tamas K Papp wrote:
} > > Hi,
} > >
} > > Doing daily apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade, I got this error
} > > message:
} > >
} > > Failed to fetch
http://ftp.u
This is sort of a long shot, but there's always the chance that someone has
managed it. I just bought my wife a Mac mini. She has little use for Linux
on it, but I'm always into playing with such things. For that matter, I
have a dual G4 tower that I haven't bothered putting Linux on.
What I'd lik
I have a PowerComputing Mac clone from 1997 acting as my file server (among
other things). It appears to be having hardware problems, and is
spontaneously rebooting from time to time. It seems to be getting more
frequent. I have a Celeron box I can replace it with, but that won't work
if there are
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 06:00:05PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
} On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:37:03PM +0200, Alex Fernandez wrote:
} > Have you tried with vlc? It plays wmv:
} > http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html
}
} I tried, but it does not work for me, e.g.:
}
} [0249] main pla
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:35:27PM +0200, Jaume Sabater wrote:
[...]
} I had problems with ALSA using 2.6.6, but they were solved with 2.6.7.
} Now just XMMS is the only problem left, as it plays songs a bit faster
} than it should (but it must be only me -again- as other people with
} similar c
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 06:10:28PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
} On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:18:02AM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
} > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
} > Hash: SHA1
} >
} > "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
} >
} > > On the Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC PowerMac Page
} > > (htt
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 10:59:07PM +, Alexander Solla wrote:
} On Sunday 01 August 2004 07:13 pm, Gregory Seidman wrote:
} eat if Debian chose to begin supporting
}
} > I can't see Debian supporting MacOS X directly, since I believe there is
} > some bad blood between Apple and Deb
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:21:59AM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
} Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
}
} > On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 10:59:07PM +, Alexander Solla wrote:
} > I wouldn't be quite automatic. Among other things, I would want
} > Debian-managed software to
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 03:03:14AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
} On Friday, September 24, 2004, at 02:08 AM, Brad Boyer wrote:
} >I haven't tried it on ppc, but I use it on 68k macs sometimes. I usually
} >use ZTerm on another mac and a standard mac printer cable for the
} >connection.
}
} Don't you
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 01:57:51PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
} On Friday, September 24, 2004, at 09:17 AM, Gregory Seidman wrote:
} >In fact, I can attest to using an ordinary Mac printer cable between my
} >Oldworld Mac running Linux and my dual G4 with a Keyspan adapter and
} >running M
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 06:54:24PM +0100, Gunnar von Boehn wrote:
} >Well, i am having some trouble getting a DPT (now adaptec) smartraid V
} >scsi controller seeing my disks on pegasos, but i guess a OF-supported
} >pmac scsi card would have both less trouble, and be way more expensive.
}
} Me th
On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 04:28:42AM +0100, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz wrote:
[...]
} but, whenever i try to run any java program, i get at some point an
} 'illegal hardware instruction' error (plus a java core file). for
} instance, if i run policytool (which comes with the jdk):
}
} JVMDG217: Dump Handle
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 03:23:40PM +, Bjorn Johansson wrote:
} Where can I find Netscape for ppc?
} I think I found Netscape 4.72 for ppc att Netscape:s homepage,
} but that is not good enough. I need a browser which I can make
} bank transactions with. I tried Mozilla 1.8 alfa, and I managed t
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:41:49PM +0100, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz wrote:
} Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corcete DUTRA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
}
} > Sven Luther wrote:
} >> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:57:46AM +0100, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz wrote:
} >>
} >>>i've got ibm's jdk 1.4.2 working here on an ibook G4
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 01:32:28AM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
} Tue, 7 Dec 2004 08:51:40 -0500,
} Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
}
} > Has anyone thought to port/extend java-package to work with the IBM PPC
} > JDK? I've used it with great success on Sun's JD
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 12:01:40PM +0200, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti
Dutra wrote:
} I already reported my problems trying alien on the IBM Java
} SDK... perhaps someone would be willing to share it already
} debianised?
I will keep this up for a week. I don't have great bandwidth or
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:39:19PM -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote:
[...]
} This is what comes with IBM's Java SDK
}
} Licensed Materials - Property of IBM
} IBM(R) 32-bit SDK for Linux(R) on iSeries(TM) and pSeries(TM), Java(TM) 2
Technology Edition,
This is sort of a long shot, but there's always the chance that someone has
managed it. I just bought my wife a Mac mini. She has little use for Linux
on it, but I'm always into playing with such things. For that matter, I
have a dual G4 tower that I haven't bothered putting Linux on.
What I'd lik
I can't get DMA working at all on my dual G4 tower. When I try to turn it
on with hdparm (hdparm -d1 /dev/hda) I get errors on the console and it
gets turned off again. Is there some module I should have loaded? This is
really distressing; my swap partition is on this non-DMA drive, so things
get V
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:22:21PM +0100, David Pye wrote:
} On Friday 08 July 2005 16:30, Gregory Seidman wrote:
} > I can't get DMA working at all on my dual G4 tower. When I try to turn it
} > on with hdparm (hdparm -d1 /dev/hda) I get errors on the console and it
} > gets turned
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 11:44:32AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
} On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 21:34 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote:
} > On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:22:21PM +0100, David Pye wrote:
} > } On Friday 08 July 2005 16:30, Gregory Seidman wrote:
} > } > I can't get DMA wor
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:29:42AM +0200, Sebastien NOEL wrote:
} On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 06:32:54 +1000 , Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
}
} > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 20:19 +0200, vivenzio wrote:
} >
} > > Kernel version is 2.6.12.1 (but I noticed the "lost interrupt"
} > > messages already with previo
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 01:16:57AM -0400, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
}
} > Yes, exactly same machine and same symptoms.
} > i see these messages since a lng time.
} >
} > it happens when i copy big files or when i do huge & fast files transfert
} > via ftp/scp.
}
} Both of you are using A
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 01:16:57AM -0400, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
}
} > Yes, exactly same machine and same symptoms.
} > i see these messages since a lng time.
} >
} > it happens when i copy big files or when i do huge & fast files transfert
} > via ftp/scp.
}
} Both of you are using A
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 09:35:11AM +, Matthieu Oppliger wrote:
[...]
} After edition of my cupsd.conf on G3 - (Allow 192.168.1.11 as told in the
} Cups doc) - and installation and configuration of Gimp-Print and ESP
} Ghostscript on the G4, I can browse to 192.168.1.10:631 to access my
} Epson
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 09:45:10AM +0100, Joe Malik wrote:
} On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 12:35:25AM -0500, digger vermont wrote:
} > Hello All,
} > Does anyone have audacity working? In particular for me the playback is
} > horribly distorted.
}
} Works nice here:
} iBook rev. 2.2,
} Linux 2.6.
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 07:45:57PM -0500, digger vermont wrote:
[...]
} I tried 1.0.1 from testing and it does playback okay. The features are
} on the sparse side though. This is probably going over old ground but I
} did trace it to an endian problem.
}
} I decided to compile different versi
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:21:47PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
} Hello again all. I'm currently wiritng this from Konqueror. This is several
} steps further than I've ever gotten in the Debian install. Now I have a few
} small things to take care of.
}
} 1. External Mouse: I have a Microso
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 05:49:54PM +0200, Marcin Kurek wrote:
} I hear that some ppl use IBM java on PowerPC machines, I was able to found
} only a RedHat rpm package that installs in a bit weird place (/opt)
}
} I wonder can anyone prepare a unofficial Debian package ? Also if there is
} anythin
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:03:33PM +0200, Jaime Robles wrote:
} This is just a "FYI" email just to tell you in case there is somebody
} looking for a way to connect the powerpc with a USB "pendrive like"
} device.
}
} Some days ago there was a thread about this kind of devices.
}
} I am sending t
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 10:37:34AM +0100, Dave Turner wrote:
[stuff about a USB storage device deleted]
Please reread the messages in this thread. It has nothing to do with USB
storage devices. I am asking for a HOWTO *specifically* about the
NetGear MA111, which is a USB 802.11 device.
} Dave Tu
I'm running Debian stable (mostly) on my home server on an x86 box, and a
nearly identical setup on my parents' home server (which I administer) on a
Mac G4 tower. I recently built a netatalk package with OpenSSL (there are
licensing issues, which is why I had to build it myself) on both systems,
w
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 02:46:14PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On 02/12/10 13:04, Gregory Seidman wrote:
[...]
>> Has anyone else had any luck with netatalk (supporting OpenSSL) on PPC?
>>
>> --Greg
>
> Samba works well to do this:
> http://clivemenzies.co.uk/hel
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