Debian 2.2 PPC freezes on PCP 210 (now 410 G3)

2000-09-07 Thread Matt Christian
er (as my primary OS) but am so far unable to do so. I have successfully run LinuxPPC on my machine in the past but prefer Debian as a distribution (and philosophy) over RedHat derivatives. Unfortunately, if LinuxPPC works and Debian doesn't, I will be inclined to go with the former. Than

Re: Debian 2.2 PPC freezes on PCP 210 (now 410 G3)

2000-09-07 Thread Matt Christian
> > This is a purely kernel, not distribution, issue. I really strongly > suspect you have hardware trouble - it may just be Linux trying to > utilize something more than MacOS does and causing it to break. Well then my fears of hardware failure may not be totally unfounded... unfortun

Re: Scheduled Startup & Shutdown under Linux

2000-09-08 Thread Matt Christian
"pmacpow" that can be used to set the next power up time on Power Macs. Found at: <ftp://ppc.linux.or.jp/pub/users/toe/pmacpow-tool/> Referenced on Linuxppc's Power Macintosh Development page at: <http://linuxppc.org/dev/pmac/> For interesting PowerPC "hacks" and ot

Re: Debian 2.2 PPC freezes on PCP 210 (now 410 G3)

2000-09-17 Thread Matt Christian
ually going to use the HD attached to its SCSI chain to run Linux full-time. Moral of the story: Check your hardware setup first before blaming the OS for your troubles. A happy Debian user, Matt -- Matt Christian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.visi.com/~mattc/ ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/mattc/ Learn to love and love to learn.

Running X on a Power Mac clone...

2000-09-22 Thread Matt Christian
avoid using 24 bpp if possible, is this true? I can send out the exact messages I'm getting if need be. - Matt -- Matt Christian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.visi.com/~mattc/ ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/mattc/ Learn to love and love to learn.

Re: Re: Disabling Builting Speakers On TiBook

2002-09-27 Thread Matt Christian
(the top two lines of the display). I've also found that the setmixer program works wonders by saving and restoring your the mixer parameters over reboots. apt-get install setmixer - Matt -- Matt Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learn

Re: Re: Re: Disabling Builting Speakers On TiBook

2002-09-27 Thread Matt Christian
arned you. You probably had a feedback loop where the slightest noise (like typing on the keyboard) would feed into the microphone which would then output to the speakers which would then feed into the microphone and create a feedback loop. - Matt -- Matt Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learn to love and love to learn. http://www.visi.com/~mattc/ 0111 ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/mattc/ 5468652073656372657420697320131b331b2e1b311b341b311b351b39110d0a

Re: memtestPPC ?

2001-09-05 Thread Matt Christian
sts (which catch mainly memory bits which are stuck permanently high or low) so that they run approximately an order of magnitude faster. It is freely available and licensed under the GNU GPL. I've used it on my Linux/PowerPC machine and it seems to run fine. I cannot attest to how well it cat

Mozilla 0.9.4 distribution built for GNU Linux/PowerPC

2001-09-17 Thread Matt Christian
aced the distribution file on my public FTP site at: ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/mattc/mozilla/0.9.4/ The FTP directory contains: MD5SUMS mozilla-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz Please feel free to email me with any questions/comments. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Christian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: More macromedia flash player

2002-02-20 Thread Matt Christian
o much... AFAIK, Macromedia hasn't released their "official" Flash plugin for any other Linux architectures but x86. - Matt -- Matt Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learn to love and love to learn. http://www.visi.com/~mattc/ 0111 ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/mattc/ 5468652073656372657420697320131b331b2e1b311b341b311b351b39110d0a

Re: More macromedia flash player

2002-02-20 Thread Matt Christian
this bug and fix it. At least > it's the same on i386. :) Yes, at least the bug is consistent. :) > Thanks for your interesting pointers. And thank you for the -fPIC pointer. - Matt -- Matt Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learn to love and love to learn. http://www.

Re: Look for RAM DIMMS for PowerMac 8500

2002-04-06 Thread Matt Christian
ow Memory Solutions), they always seem to have very low prices. See: http://www.memorysolutions.com/168pindimms.html Thanks for all your work, Ben. - Matt -- Matt Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learn to love and love to learn. http://www.visi.com/~m

Mozilla 1.0rc2 distribution built for GNU Linux/PowerPC

2002-05-13 Thread Matt Christian
G/PGP key. Finger my email account (listed below) for my GPG/PGP public key. Please feel free to email me with any questions/comments. - Matt Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Matt Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learn to love and love to learn. http://www.visi.com/~mattc/ 0111 ftp://ftp

Re: Re: Mozilla 1.0rc2 distribution built for GNU Linux/PowerPC

2002-05-13 Thread Matt Christian
inux/PowerPC distributions including Debian (stable), SuSE, Yellow Dog, LinuxPPC, etc. I know of at least several people running Yellow Dog and one person using LinuxPPC that use my "official" Mozilla distribution. - Matt -- Matt Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learn to love and lo