More external VGA weirdness

2003-01-20 Thread Josef Spillner
Thanks to some of the hints, I got a mirror setup (both CRT + LCD) to work properly on an iBook. I'll give a presentation on Wednesday so that's pretty cool. Here's the way to go: - startup normally * booting with closed lid not required (1) * booting into OSX first not required - startup XF

Re: More external VGA weirdness

2003-01-21 Thread Josef Spillner
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 02:30, Mij wrote: > if josef would kindly post its XF86Config-4 we all could > put off something i'm quite fed up with. Oh, I didn't have an X-Homepage header field, this is now fixed :-) The direct link is: http://mindx.dyndns.org/stuff/ibook/ (See the files section on

Re: getting external monitors to work with 15" powerbook

2003-05-27 Thread Josef Spillner
On Monday 26 May 2003 18:13, John Leach wrote: > My friend has the same problem with his Radeon 7500 (mine is a Radeon > 9000). I got the external monitor in my iBook (Radeon 7.5k) to work with XFree86 4.2 (+ dri-trunk) but upgraded to XFree86 4.3 recently (dstone packages), which broke everythi

Re: no sound from audio cd

2003-07-06 Thread Josef Spillner
On Sunday 06 July 2003 19:29, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Yes, you need to login again, or execute a login shell before it's taken > into account. There's also newgrp and sg for testing such changes. I wonder whether group changes could be assigned on-the-fly to all running processes belonging to sai

Re: ibook2

2003-07-25 Thread Josef Spillner
On Thursday 24 July 2003 22:46, Heinz Kirchmann wrote: > Problem 2: > I would like to drive the external VGA connector for mirroring, but I > > didn't manage to enable it using m3mirror: There are 2 ways for M7, depending on your XFree86. - using 4.2.0 (I had dri-branch installed), VGA initializa

Re: tibook+vga

2003-07-25 Thread Josef Spillner
Hola, On Friday 25 July 2003 06:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > anyone knows how to use vga display? i need to give a linux talk and i > want to use linux, not osX. There are several suggestions in the list archives. One new way of doing it might be to try the Knoppix/PPC at: http://debian.tu-bs.d

Re: rar command

2003-10-13 Thread Josef Spillner
On Sunday 12 October 2003 22:45, Michael Flaig wrote: > strange... unrar exists, but not rar ? That's unrelated to PowerPC: Decompression algorithms are deterministic, while compression takes a lot of logic, heuristics and knowledge about specific data properties like periodic occurences of byte