Re: can not switch to virtual terminal since upgrading kernel and gdm

On 8/29/06, Christoph Ewering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am running an old G4/400 with a usb keyboard for testing reason with the current kernel (2.6.17.11 from kernel.org). I do not know when it happend but I am not able to switch to a virtual terminal anymore. If I remember right , I could sw

Re: acroread

On 11/7/06, Eddy Petrișor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cédric Boutillier wrote: > What can you do with acroread that would not work with kdpf for example ? Form templates. I second this comment -- does anyone know of any open pdf readers that can pr

Re: Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3?

On 7/26/07, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:55:33AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Do you think that the x-window-system and xfce can fit into a 1.3 Giga? > > (this is what is left in my pbg3 and I do not want to erase the Mac OS 8.6 > > partition since I

Re: How to unlock a hfs partition?

On Dec 12, 2007 12:33 AM, Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 the mental interface of > Ennio-Sr told: > > > * Ruben Vandeginste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> < > > > [2007-12-11]: > > > At Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:07:56 +0100, > > > Ennio-Sr wrote: > > > > > > > > > > fsck.hfs

Re: USB microphone or webcam with in-built mphone on iBook 300MHz

On 4/24/08, Ennio-Sr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> < > > [2008-04-24]: > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:42:32AM +0200, Ennio-Sr wrote: > > > Does any of you know whether there is any usb microphone (or webcam with > > > in built microphone) which can be used wit

Re: Re: Power Mac 6100/66

On 9/10/05, willie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi i got a mac 6100/66 and im trying to do system > recovery to restore the p.c. > or get to the utility. Your question is a bit ambiguous -- I came up with three options, but you may have yet ANOTHER question in mind. 1) Are you talking about t

Re: Power Mac 6100/66

On 9/14/05, Ernest Demaret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW... I got 2 nubus pmacs. Also a 9500/200 which is a dedicatedGeneWeb server running on 2.2 with a testing distribution (necessary to Sorry to interject but I am almost certain the 9500 is NOT Nubus -- I believe it is PCI. However, it IS an "o

Re: [OT] Spam

On 9/15/05, Federico 'Pain' Pistono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 just searc

Re: Proplems with printing

On 10/31/05, Rainer Gutkas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all!I use a G3 Powerbook Wallstreet as Server, now I tried to attach a USBprinter. I copied the configuration for Cups from my G3 Powerbook Pismo,which works fine with the same printer. Now I get Error -15 from usblp0 if I try to print on thi

Re: PowerBook G3 video resolution probs

On 10/30/05, Rainer Gutkas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes it's good to pass video parameters to old world maschines, at leastI do this on a G3 Powerbook Wallstreet. I've found them on the web:video=atyfb:vmode:14,cmode:32,mclkBut in my experience this only effects the command line. In Ubuntu you sh

Re: pbbuttonsd and NoTapTyping option?

On 11/20/05, Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does anybody use the NoTapTyping function of pbbuttonsd with success?> How much would you pay to keep it? ;-) I don't use that function - at least not in pbbuttonsd. moussemu takescare of that for me. I have noticed notap no longer gets set

Re: pbbuttonsd and NoTapTyping option?

On 11/21/05, Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You may be confusing two different notap aspects here - setting thetrackpad to notap mode (which may be done pretty much anywhere you like,and it doesn't hurt to do it in the rc scripts, pbbuttonsd and pmud all at the same time), and the 'no t

Re: Which Printer?

On 11/23/05, Fritz Wettstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,I use a Canon i550 right now but unfortunatley this model isn't suportedfor Linux by Canon... - so I have to look for another make. It's noteasy because it should be a model with different cassettes for every color and it should be supporte

sudden power loss (WAS: sudden power loss on tibook)

On 9/12/05, Ian Wienand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 07:34:06PM +1000, James Ballantine wrote:> I've been running cpufreqd for the last few days with full logging> enabled. the system powered off just now - I don't see anything> anomalous in /var/log/syslog (and no mention of

Fwd: sudden power loss (WAS: sudden power loss on tibook)

forwarding response sent off list-- Forwarded message --From: Ian Wienand <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Nov 23, 2005 11:31 PMSubject: Re: sudden power loss (WAS: sudden power loss on tibook)To: Tommy Trussell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:22:16PM -0600, To

Re: sudden power loss (WAS: sudden power loss on tibook)

On 11/23/05 at 11:31 PM Ian Wienand < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > have you found any interactions with any daemons such as pbbuttonsd?A long time ago people were talking about turning off NoTapTyping or something similarly named -- I tried that and it didn't make adifference. On a lark I am testin

Re: sudden power loss (WAS: sudden power loss on tibook)

On 11/24/05, Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The power loss most probably results from communicationbetween CPU and PMU breaking down, which should never be preempted by user programs (speaking of which - does your kernel have preemption enabled?). How do I tell? I don't see any such opt

Re: sudden power loss (WAS: sudden power loss on tibook)

On 11/24/05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 16:10 +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:> The power loss most probably results from communication> between CPU and PMU breaking down,It most certainly is. It can be the result of a very high interrupt latency at the w

Re: sudden power loss (WAS: sudden power loss on tibook)

On 11/27/05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you have an idea when the problem started ? On my system, the sudden shutdowns started when I upgraded from Ubuntu Hoary to Breezy. It looks like Breezy provides either kernel 2.6.10 or 2.6.11 (I probably had upgraded to the latter b

Re: sudden power loss (WAS: sudden power loss on tibook)

On 11/27/05, Tommy Trussell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On my system, the sudden shutdowns started when I upgraded from Ubuntu Hoary to Breezy. It looks like Breezy provides either kernel 2.6.10 or 2.6.11 (I probably had upgraded to the latter but I am not certain now), and Breezy uses 2.6.

Re: sudden power loss (WAS: sudden power loss on tibook)

On 11/29/05, sascha brossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: given the *extremely* irregular frequency of this failure i can wellimagine that it went by undiscovered until too late. and while i amsomewhat happy that it doesn't  happen very often, i suspect thatexactly this turns it into a harder proble

Re: sudden power loss (WAS: sudden power loss on tibook)

On 11/29/05, Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...]>> Hrm... never happen on any of the machines I have around here.>> Could it be related to the temperature ?> ... on my PowerBook6,8 itonly happend when the fan had spinning at full speed for some time (due to high CPU usage, so it w

Re: sudden power loss (WAS: sudden power loss on tibook)

On 11/30/05, Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > P.S. I've looked and even though lsmod says it has loaded several cpufreq> modules, there are no nodes for them in /proc/.  I'm going to download and > try an earlier kernel to see what it USED to do... (My apologies for not> doing that earl

Re: sudden power loss (WAS: sudden power loss on tibook)

On 11/30/05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been reviving my old wallstreet, I'll try to reproduce theshutdowns. Any specific action/load that tend to trigger them moreoften ? The bad news ... the only consistent thing is it ONLY happens when I am actively using the computer

Re: sudden power loss (WAS: sudden power loss on tibook)

On 11/30/05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you occasionally see weird Oopses or apps segfaulting  or is thisyour only problem ? I wonder if it could be bad RAM, though I doubt it. Nothing unexpected that would point to RAM. I was trying to remember the last segfault I had and

Re: xorg.conf (WAS: sudden power loss)

On 12/1/05, sascha brossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/1/05, Tommy Trussell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>  and Xorg won't let me switch to virtual consoles using keyboard commands.have you set your keyboard type to 'macintosh' in xorg.conf? changing it to'

Re: xorg.conf (WAS: sudden power loss)

On 12/1/05, Tommy Trussell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/1/05, sascha brossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On 12/1/05, Tommy Trussell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>  and Xorg won't let me switch to virtual consoles using keyboard commands. have you set your keybo

Re: xorg.conf (WAS: sudden power loss)

On 12/2/05, Cedric Pradalier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On 12/1/05, Tommy Trussell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>> > >  and Xorg won't let me switch to virtual consoles using keyboard >> > commands. >> >>> > have you set y

Re: Sudden Power Loss (Resolution?)

On 1/27/06, Ian Ruffell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 27 January 2006 18:01, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > About a week ago, I switched from pmud to pbbuttonsd, and today I had a > > sudden shutdown again, on AC and with mostly full battery. Note that I > > don't mean to blame pbbuttonsd, ... >

Re: Battery Problems / Re: off topic - Apple service sucks

On 3/1/06, anthony iles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Powerbook G3 Pismo/Firewire/Bronze keyboard model > which is dual boot Sarge and OSX does not switch on > anymore or does so only temporarily. > > For some time I have been running it without a battery > as the battery only held a charge for 3

Re: Can someone help, I screwed something up

> Jim wrote: > > Hello, I am running debian sarge on a powerpc and not to long ago I > > ran synaptic to update everything,I don'nt know what I did but now I > > X will not run after I ran the update I rebooted and now all I get is > > a black screen with the text login. > > I tried to run start

Worm / spam alert for debian-powerpc posters

The past 24 hours or so I've received two messages with debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org as the forged return address, probably in response to posts I made on the list. Both messages contain suspicious attachments, though I presume gmail did not recognize them as known worms. One originated from 59.

Re: RAM for iBook

On 8/4/06, brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i stick to my guns. people with way more experience than me have warned of standards like pc133 etc for use in macs. it may or may not work, may depend on the manufacturer. i have never heard though that if it could damage the machine, if it is cl

Re: still no macromedia flash support?

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:58:15 +0100, SteX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Firefox complains "Install Missing Plugins" now and then, though as > >directed, i installed it, but it still complains. Looking into > >`~/.mozilla/plugins', i found that libflashplayer.so is built on Intel > >80386, so there's

Re: still no macromedia flash support?

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:02:18 -0500, Mike Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:45:49AM -0600, Tommy Trussell wrote: > > Frustratingly, I have somehow enabled flash advertising (on web pages > > like http://www.economist.com/ ), which REALLY b

Re: OldWorld almost dead no booting?

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 21:36:55 -0700, Mauro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try to performing a HT (Hardware Test) with th CDs you got the machine > with. If you have one, just boot from it and run hardware test. I have a WallStreet/PDQ PowerBook a few months older than this one and I don't think it

Re: OldWorld almost dead no booting?

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:59:28 -0800, L. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The screen is dead. I used my Lombard G3 PowerBook, left it on for days, > etc, also. It started acting up, then the screen went for good, although > the machine still seemed to still boot and be running. > > You can probably s

Re: OldWorld almost dead no booting?

> Tommy Trussell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > So that doesn't sound like a dead screen -- to me it sounds like the > > power management circuit is doing something odd. I would suspect the > > PRAM battery or a bad processor. On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:25:33 -0300, Mau

Fwd: Hi question about mac - mini

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:44:15 +1100 (EST), Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > has anyone even put linux on the mac-mini yet? Here's a blog of a guy who did, and installed several distros, but he had some trouble (fan, sound, monitor detection) so he's selling it on eBay. http://krussell.co

Re: Fwd: Hi question about mac - mini

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:14:49 +1100, Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > would seem that sound doesnt work and the hard disk is > a laptop hard disk > > (5400rpm, 2mb sounds laptop to me) Yes, other places have reported that. Some have even reported exactly which model it is. Apple probably

Mozilla-Thunderbird PPC 1.0 ! Thank you.

Hooray! I want to publicly thank all the people who got the 1.0 release of Mozilla Thunderbird into testing for Power PC. I just updated the package and so far so good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: Howto set Mozilla Firefox mailto links

As I just mentioned in another message, I just installed the latest Mozilla-Thunderbird package from testing. [Why is there an update-alternatives option to set the mailto links in Mozilla Firefox? I've used Debian for a few years now but the Mozilla-Thunderbird package is the first time I've inte

Re: PCMCIA

> On Tuesday 01 March 2005 08:14 pm, Tommy Trussell wrote: > > ... on My "Wallstreet/PDQ" running sarge, I have trouble with > > PCMCIA. In fact, when I put in a pcmcia card it gets HOT. ... On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:57:12 -0800, Dylan Beaudette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: PCMCIA

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:57:12 -0800, Dylan Beaudette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, are you able to get sleep support on your machine This is a follow-up on my Wallstreet/PDQ -- as I mentioned I have not tried sleep in awhile -- I tried it again just now and while it did go to sleep, upon wa

Re: microphone support for mol

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:49:09 -0500, Tamas K Papp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a line-in/mic support for MOL? I have seen rumors on the > internet about people using Skype through MOL, but it cannot find the > microphone. Has anybody managed to make this work? I don't think MOL supports

Re: PowerMac G4 Single Prozessor Power Supply

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:19:00 +0100, Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciao Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > > > I can get a G4 (AGP AFAIK) (used by our marketing guys only problem the > > Power Supply is broken. > > I guess they use a standard ATX connectors, but I am

Re: Booting without BootX on Wallstreet?

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:56:51 +0100, Rainer Gutkas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a way to boot linux without having OS9 > installed on a G3 Powerbook wallstreet? I tried quick bootlader, but > didn't work and cause of only 2 Gigs of Diskspace aditional disk space > gets r

PowerMac G4 Single Prozessor Power Supply

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:40:15 -0500, Barry Schiffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We found one on eBay for about $60. Someone had reworked an ATX power > supply for the G4 and it's been working fine. If you search on the web > you can find the instruction for refitting the ATX's -- if that kind > of

Re: Canon i950 printer ppd file

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:29:46 -0800, MATT RICHARDSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2005, at 10:53 AM, MATT RICHARDSON wrote: > > > > > The short version is that you can use a Windows ppd. > > great! so you can use a WindowsNT ppd on a PPC machine? ... > This thread has some relevant inf

apt-build errors

My systems have worked VERY well with the pre-compiled Debian "testing" packages but I wanted to "get my feet wet" on compiling packages from source. I installed "apt-build," thinking it would be an easy "safe" way to try compiling from source. I had some trouble getting apt-build to work last we

Re: apt-build errors

On Apr 2, 2005 9:20 AM, David Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having mcpu set to 'Medium' is going to make it unhappy seeing as there isn't > a CPU type called Medium. The error from gcc says exactly that. > > You could either try setting -mcpu= correctly, or commenting out that line in > the apt

Re: apt-build errors

On Apr 2, 2005 10:57 AM, Tommy Trussell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to learn how to set mcpu. I gather I need to tell it what > processor I have, but I don't know the syntax. the gcc man page has lots of options... I have a PowerBook G3 Series ("PDQ"/"Wa

Re: apt-build errors

On Apr 2, 2005 11:22 AM, Tommy Trussell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the gcc man page has lots of options... I have a PowerBook G3 Series > ("PDQ"/"Wallstreet II"). Based on the info below I'm going to guess > -mcpu should be either 740 or 750. > > $

Re: apt-build errors

On Apr 2, 2005 12:13 PM, David Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The -mcpu isn't even appearing on the gcc command line. > > I suggest the format of apt-build.conf is double checked ;) > > > make[1]: Entering directory `/var/cache/apt-build/build/memstat-0.4' > > cc -O2 -Wallmemstat.c -o mem

Re: apt-build errors

On Apr 2, 2005 1:18 PM, vinai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just out of curiousity, what CPU is designated the "740" ? I though > G3's were 750, G4's == 74**, and G5 == 970. And the olders 604/604e/ > 603/603e/601 used those exact strings ... Thanks for the comment -- I Googled it and I gather 74

Re: apt-build errors

On Apr 2, 2005 1:18 PM, vinai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just out of curiousity, what CPU is designated the "740" ? I though > G3's were 750, G4's == 74**, and G5 == 970. And the olders 604/604e/ > 603/603e/601 used those exact strings ... I googled too fast -- here's a more explicit link: h

Re: Mac mini

In case folks didn't see it, today's edition (4/7/2005) of Macintouch had two interesting links about the Mini: Apple's Mac Mini Developer Note http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G4/MacMiniG4/index.html An embedded view

Re: PB Wallstreet doesn't boot from new hdd

On 5/3/05, Maximilian Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Though it should all have been solved by installing OS-X, did you try > > pressing "command - option - P - R" while booting? > > Normally solves this kind of boot probs after installing debian > > Pressing this key combination let t

Re: autoload modules

On 5/4/05, gm c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is my understanding that modules will auto load with an > appropriate alias in /etc/modprobe.d/alias for 2.6.x. I have not > been > able to get snd-powermac to load when I use xmms to play sound. Any > ideas? I have a PowerBook G3 Series running 2.6.

Re: autoload modules

On 5/7/05, Tommy Trussell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also see that I have snd-powermac as one of the lines in > /etc/modules, so I will try commenting it out and see if sound still > works. I apparently haven't relied on it autoloading on this machine. Just a follow-up --

Re: autoload modules

On 5/9/05, gm c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file with alias sound-slot-0 > snd-powermac. > It doesnt auto load the module when I open xmms to play a sound file. > I does load it on bootup which is strange. Here's where I hope someone who knows something about th

Re: Problem installing "Sarge" 3.1 on Oldworld 9600

On 5/15/05, nobut1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am attempting to install Debian 3.1 "Sarge" on my Power Mac 9600 (200 > MHz.) and I keep running into an error during partitioning. ... > The machine is stock, except for the ATI Rage 128 card I installed to > replace the aged ATI Mach 64 video card

Re: Getting Flash support on Sarge

On 6/6/05, David Schleef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:34:52AM -0400, Nathan Thrower wrote: > > I want to get a Flash plugin to run under Sarge. ... > apt-get install swf-player I agree that swf-player seems to work better than the others -- at least it doesn't crash as

Why is koffice missing from debian-ppc ?

I have heard some positive things about kword, but koffice is not in the debian-ppc standard archives, and packages for other distros look pretty outdated. Why is there no ppc version of koffice in Debian?

Re: Why is koffice missing from debian-ppc ?

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:49:12 +, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here koffice shows on both sid and woody (apt-cache search koffice). I > haven't checked sarge but I'd be surprised if it wasn't there also. Thank you -- I must have had some sort of archive issue because it's there now

Re: Why is koffice missing from debian-ppc ?

> On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 22:36, Tommy Trussell wrote: > > I have heard some positive things about kword, On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 23:03:00 -0500, Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Others: > > ted > OpenOffice > AbiWord > > I use ted. It's fast. It

Re: Why is koffice missing from debian-ppc ?

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:49:12 +, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here koffice shows on both sid and woody (apt-cache search koffice). I > haven't checked sarge but I'd be surprised if it wasn't there also. I tried to install it and cannot. To whom would I submit the bug (as apt sugge

hang on laptop mode during boot

I did an update today to whatever is the latest on testing and now my 1998 PowerBook G3 Series (Wallstreet / PDQ) hangs during boot at the "initializing laptop mode" line. Actually it hung at the "deactivating laptop mode" line when I powered it down a few hours ago, but it was a somewhat stressfu

Re: hang on laptop mode during boot

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 02:47:06 +, Tommy Trussell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did an update today to whatever is the latest on testing and now my > 1998 PowerBook G3 Series (Wallstreet / PDQ) hangs during boot at the > "initializing laptop mode" line. I saw (in the

Re: hang on laptop mode during boot

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 11:01:50 -0600, Tommy Trussell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 02:47:06 +0000, Tommy Trussell > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did an update today to whatever is the latest on testing and now my > > 1998 PowerBook G3 Series (Walls

Re: Memory and hard disk testers

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:48:51 -0500, Mehul N. Sanghvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wanted to test the RAM and make > sure the memory is good. There is a Debian package called sysutils that includes a memtest utility but I have not tried it. > The 13 GB IBM is just sitting around useless > beca

Re: Debian or Ubantu

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:02:28 -0500, Cris Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been experimenting with different PPC compatible Linuxes (Linuxi?). > I'm not a complete newbie but I'm not an expert either. I could not get > Mandrake installed, I was succesful with Gentoo but what a pain, YDL 4.

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:04:58 -0800, Dylan Beaudette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as for the trackpad try this as root; > > #trackpad notap > > I put this in a init.d script that is run at boot time... For those using pbbuttonsd, it can easily set notap using a line in /etc/pbbuttonsd.conf -- the

Re: Java debs anyone?

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:31:02 -0800, Eric Gaumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wish everyone would stop saying that mono is irrelevant. It is > absolutely relevant to this entire topic. We are arguing over licensing > issues. Mono is free and Java is not. C# is geared at superseding Java. Since I

Re: still no macromedia flash support?

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:58:15 +0100, SteX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Firefox complains "Install Missing Plugins" now and then, though as > >directed, i installed it, but it still complains. Looking into > >`~/.mozilla/plugins', i found that libflashplayer.so is built on Intel > >80386, so there's

Re: still no macromedia flash support?

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:02:18 -0500, Mike Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:45:49AM -0600, Tommy Trussell wrote: > > Frustratingly, I have somehow enabled flash advertising (on web pages > > like http://www.economist.com/ ), which REALLY b

Re: OldWorld almost dead no booting?

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 21:36:55 -0700, Mauro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try to performing a HT (Hardware Test) with th CDs you got the machine > with. If you have one, just boot from it and run hardware test. I have a WallStreet/PDQ PowerBook a few months older than this one and I don't think it

Re: emulate three-button mouse(macintosh)

On 7/4/05, Alfredo Pironti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have a notebook, you can also try is using the `Fn' key as a > modifier. However, as long as I know, it will simply act as a modifier > for another key, and not for the mouse click event! I just looked in my /etc/sysctl.conf file, and

Re: emulate three-button mouse(macintosh)

[sorry a slip of the finger sent that early] I opened an enhancement request in GNOME asking for the Macintosh Keyboard and MacOS-style modifier usage, but the request was closed, saying the option belongs in the X server. So this comes back around to a question of whether a custom X keymap can gi

updates to hfsplus partition unavailable until remount

I mount the hfsplus volumes used by MOL (Mac-On-Linux) read-only in linux so I can conveniently copy things from Mac to linux. When I make a change in MOL, however, the changed file will not appear on the linux side until I umount and mount the hfsplus volume, and even then it only reliably happens

Re: updates to hfsplus partition unavailable until remount

> On Jul 14 2005, Tommy Trussell wrote: > > Here's a line from my fstab -- is there a mount option that would tell > > the system to refresh occasionally? > > /dev/hda9 /mac/os9hfsplus defaults,user,ro0 0 On 7/14/05, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL

Re: updates to hfsplus partition unavailable until remount

> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 05:19:07PM -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote: > > Here's a line from my fstab -- is there a mount option that would tell > > the system to refresh occasionally? > > /dev/hda9 /mac/os9hfsplus defaults,user,ro0 0 > O

Re: Oldworld-Mac:Howto copy the kernel to an hfs partition during istallation?

On 7/25/05, Rainer Gutkas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there! > > Maybe I'm just to dumm to complete this task, because I know I did it > once, but can't remember how. > > The problem is that I try to set up Ubuntu-Warty as server OS on my G3 > Powerbook Wallstreet, which is old-world. So I got

pbbuttonsd and laptop-mode start sequence

I'm running Debian kernel 2.6.8-powerpc, on a 1998 PowerBook G3 Series "Wallstreet / PDQ." I've been trying to figure out why the hard drive would spin constantly, regardless of what I do with the laptop-mode.conf settings. Based on advice I read somewhere I installed metalog, removed sysklogd and

Re: pbbuttonsd and laptop-mode start sequence

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:23:04 +0200, Johannes Mockenhaupt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAIK pbbuttonsd still uses it's own version of laptop-mode (see > /etc/power/pmcs-config), pbuttonsd uses scripts and configs files from > /etc/power, it's actually another little init-script like system, with a