Next Mozilla Question

2001-02-21 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Is there some post install magic that needs to happen for the Mozilla PSM stuff as well. After getting Moz 0.8 running from the penguinppc .rpm by alien installing it, and running the post install script provided by Ethan, I then alien installed the mozilla-psm rpm from the same location. But moz

Re: Java on debian ppc...

2001-02-21 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
>> is the "metroworks JIT" freely available or a "to buy" product? >> where may it be found? > >ah - found it myself ... for others maybe asking themself the same >question - look at: > > http://penguinppc.org/usr/java/ Yes, that's correct, and let me re-emphasize for those who have just tuned i

Re: mozilla 0.8 from penguinppc and PSM

2001-02-22 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
>Umm, it works pretty ok for me. It is stable too I think, I dont really >see much crashes. I just took the build from mozilla.org that includes >PSM and dumped into my homedir and ran it from there. Loading regular HTTP pages works fine for me, and I agree it is fairly stable (no worse than Netsc

Re: more mozilla 0.8 fun (java plugin)

2001-02-22 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 3:23 PM +1100 2/22/01, Ross Hamilton wrote: >Blackdown's JDK 1.3 (a "final release candidate" from around ten days >ago) is in /usr/local, along with the required OpenMotif package. Well, I'm using the JDK 1.3 PL1 release from penguingppc.org I note in the release notes, it mentions: - once

Re: Sun JDK

2001-03-15 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
>I've a trouble while installing JDK, I've get it from Sun server Presumably, since you are posting to debian-powerpc, you are using a powerpc based machine. Sun's JDK for Linux is x86 only (does linux run on other platforms? I wasn't aware). You need to make use of the Blackdown JDK port, whic

Re: X probs after upgrade

2001-03-23 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
>I don't know if you can do this (ie whether you have a spare machine >to do a remote login from) but if you can login from a remote >machine with a dumb terminal program (eg telnet), then setting your >DISPLAY variable to your current X display should allow you to try >things like `gdm &', `xterm

conf problems in unstable?

2001-03-26 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
I'm in the process of getting Debian installed on my TiBook (using some the great hints on this list) and after installing from the 2.2r2 CD I first tried upgrading to testing, but ran into a bunch of errors seemingly involving debconf, and then after that go weird, I tried again with unstable and

What ethernet HW is in the TiBook??

2001-03-26 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
I want to try building my own kernel for my TiBook (2.4.x) but I don't know what sort of ethernet hardware it has. Thanks in advance for any info. __ Eric: I want to live in a world where software doesn't suck // Richard:

Re: What ethernet HW is in the TiBook??

2001-03-26 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
>>Should be gmac, like any recent Apple machine. > >I've had reports that the ethernet PHY of the TiBook was not recognized by >the current kernel. Ah, I guess that explains the "unknown PHY" message I'm getting at boot from the kernel off the Debian 2.2r2 CD. The ethernet does seem to work thou

Recommendation *against* UFS

2001-03-27 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
After playing around with my now triple booting (debian/osx/classic) PBG4 for a couple hours, and discovering that a) osx was slow b) airport was broken c) classic was broken I reinstalled OSX formatting the partition to HFS+, instead of UFS as it had bit. OSX runs about twice as fast now, airpo

Re: Recommendation *against* UFS

2001-03-27 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
>as for slowness my testing of the beta showed HFS+ to be 10 times >slower then UFS. a simple chmod on a single file was instant on UFS >but took nearly 5 seconds on HFS+ Hmmm... Well, all I can tell is you that switching from UFS to HFS+ on my system amazingly improved responsiveness. My origin

Re: pmud / harddisk / kernel problem

2001-04-01 Thread Wilhelm *rafial* Fitzpatrick
I just updated linux-2.4-benh, and now sleep works on my Ti. Thanks! Interesting, I tried with an rsync kernel has night and couldn't get it work. When did you rsync? -raf --

Re: pmud / harddisk / kernel problem

2001-04-01 Thread Wilhelm *rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 8:06 PM -0600 4/1/01, Grant Hollingworth wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 12:43:44AM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: It's stable ? I have another user who says his Ti will just die instead of entering sleep mode... When I close the lid the pulsating sleep light comes on, and when I ope

Re: pmud / harddisk / kernel problem

2001-04-03 Thread Wilhelm *rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 1:09 AM +0100 4/4/01, Christoph Ewering wrote: This is reproduceable. The TiPB dies in its sleep if you close the lid within a text-terminal, this also happens when I type snooze in a text-terminal. The TiPB goes to sleep and wakes up if I run X and type snooze in a Xterm. Yes! That's it!

TiBook X keyboard & battery question

2001-04-04 Thread Wilhelm *rafial* Fitzpatrick
I've made it to the point that my TiBook is successfully running X. I don't know if I'm using the graphics hardware to its best advantage (in fact I suspect not since the gnome logout fade takes about 3 seconds to grey out the screen) but it works for now. But on the plus side I haven't had to

Re: pmud / harddisk / kernel problem

2001-04-05 Thread Wilhelm *rafial* Fitzpatrick
Another interesting thing about the current implementation of sleep on the TiPB is that I noticed that the LCD screen is still on (i.e. I can see windows) even though the backlight goes off and the sleep light comes on. BTW, I did confirm that it works for me under X, as has been everybody els

Re: TiBook X keyboard & battery question

2001-04-06 Thread Wilhelm *rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 12:30 AM -0400 4/5/01, Colin Walters wrote: By the way, for any GNOME users out there: I have Debianized the (very cool) gpmudmon GNOME applet. http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~walters/debian/gpmudmon-applet_0.1.1-1_powerpc.deb> It is indeed very cool, and it works great with my TiBook. Wow,

Re: TiBook X issues

2001-04-07 Thread Wilhelm *rafial* Fitzpatrick
sorry this won't work, yaboot has no such option `video=' so the kernel never sees this. the correct way is: Interesting... I certainly believe you, since you would know. There are number of sample yaboot configs floating around in the mailing list archives with video=foo, obviously misinfo

Re: Keyboard converter - ADB to AT or PS/2

2001-04-09 Thread Wilhelm *rafial* Fitzpatrick
I found one once, but it was $100+ and since these are all oldworld machines, I'm looking for something cheap. I already have the converters to use the monitors, but I need something to convert adb --> (AT,PS/2). The only unit I have ever run across that does this was an adapter made by Silico

Re:

2001-04-16 Thread Wilhelm *rafial* Fitzpatrick
In the meantime, I've been scratching my head wondering how I can manage to install Debian on my NewWorld iMac 350, unless I get a CD. I was sort of avoiding buying a CD because I wanted to learn more about how the whole thing goes together as I install. This guy describes an install on a TiBook

Re: Power Management et. al.

2001-04-19 Thread Wilhelm *rafial* Fitzpatrick
> So far, so good. Closing it makes it sleep. [...] Does anyone know if there is support for this for the tibook? This works fine on my TiBook as long as I am in X when I put it to sleep. Sleep on the TiBook was failing in console a while back, I don't know if BenH has fixed it yet. Anyway

Re: Power Management et. al.

2001-04-20 Thread Wilhelm *rafial* Fitzpatrick
You're saying it goes to sleep for you automatically when you close the lid (i.e. not by typing snooze -f in X)? Yes, I'm running pmud 0.7 (using the deb from unstable) If so, what did you have to change in /etc/power/pwrctl (or elsewhere)? Comment out all the stuff in the Core99 function.

Re: woody apt-get dist-upgrade problem

2001-06-03 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 10:28 AM +1200 6/3/01, Alan Macdougall wrote: 100% [Scanning packages] Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debconf/Template.pm line 60, chunk 3 E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure

Re: j2sdkee1.3.0 availability on DebianPPC

2001-06-20 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 12:19 AM -0700 6/20/01, Taro Fukunaga wrote: Has anyone been able to get j2sdkee 1.3.0 to work? I develop software using j2ee for a living, and I develop on Debian PPC on my TiBook. You can use the j2ee sdk from Sun to compile your code, but the reference servlet and ejb containers that S

Re: gpm & X settings for titanium

2001-07-19 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
BTW, which version of XF86 is prefered for a tibook? (I am using potato). I've had great luck with 4.1.0 in testing (woody). DRI and acceleration is nice. Here is a good link for TiPB resources: http://debian.jones.dk/debian/local/auryn/ look in etc for a sample XF86Config-4, I'm using tha

Re: curious about java servlets

2001-08-13 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Bill Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Can anyone shed some light on why jserv isn't available, or > recommend any next steps? I'm happily developing JSPs and servlets on my TiBook under Debian. As you have already figured out, you have to install the Blackdown JDK by hand. In order to

Re: JRE and Mozilla Pluggin

2001-08-27 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 9:43 AM -0400 8/27/01, John Hughes wrote: Does anyone know if Blackdown has gotten a pluggin working for mozilla yet? Most of the readmes seem to state thay havent, but I seem to recall someone on the list saying they were useing a blackdown jdk _with_ the pluggin. That would be me. I know

Re: /dev/adb and Batmon on Wallstreet G3

1999-08-19 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 00:40 +0200 8/19/99, Hartmut Koptein wrote: >> Perhaps it was too presumptuous of me, but after grabbing Paul's new >> kernel and getting sleep working, I wanted to see if I could access my >> battery using Batmon et. al. No luck. >> >> Any ideas why I don't have a '/dev/adb', but do have '/dev/

Adding options to Xserver

2000-05-04 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
I've just switched from LinuxPPC to Debian, and I'm trying to get my setup back to the way I like it. I'm using Xpmac.rev9 (since rev10 has broken accelleration on the CT65550) and I put the name of Xserver in /etc/X11/Xserver, and it starts from gdm fine. However, I can't add options (like --mid

Re: Adding options to Xserver

2000-05-05 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
>If you are running gdm, the file /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf has a section near >the bottom called [servers]. You should find a line like this: > >0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 > >feel free to change this to > >0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -middlekey xxx -rightkey xxx This works great, thanks. I didn't realize the De

how to report installed packages by size?

2000-05-14 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
I've done this with rpm, but I can't figure out how to use dpkg or apt or some debian package tool to give me a list of installed packages along with their installed size... I'm trying to build a mozilla snapshot, and running out of disk space, even with over 600 meg free after installing the sour

Re: how to report installed packages by size?

2000-05-14 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
>2) are you aware that ppc binaries are available from ftp.mozilla.org, and >weeklies (or so) from http://southpole.penguinpowered.com/)? They are >built on >debian by yours truly... if you just need a more recent one, I'll upload a >new >one to southpole tonight. Cool, I was not aware... I'll ch

Mozilla on PowerPC (was: how to report installed packages by size?)

2000-05-16 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
>2) are you aware that ppc binaries are available from ftp.mozilla.org, and >weeklies (or so) from http://southpole.penguinpowered.com/)? They are >built on >debian by yours truly... if you just need a more recent one, I'll upload a >new >one to southpole tonight. Well, with your hints I built a n

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 08:32 +0200 7/25/00, Andre Berger wrote: >I get the follpwing message every now and then on my potato box, a >PowerBook 3400 (custom 2.2.17pre11, IDE settings not changed from pmac >standard), or even a complete lockup at boot time which forces me to >press the reset btn, and has already resulte

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-31 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
>what's with your problems, -raf , Andre? I've not had time to do any kernel compiles, so I haven't been trying out any of this stuff. But if somebody has a pointer to a precompiled kernel, I'd be happy to give it a whirl... __

Helix GNOME Updates?

2000-09-22 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Is anyone keeping the Helix GNOME packages for PPC up to date? I have a set that was put out awhile back, but things gedit don't work and gnumeric has checksum errors, so I'm wondering if anybody has come out with something more recent... -raf

Re: did anyone get XFree86 4.0.1-8 working with PB3400?

2000-12-06 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
>I remember a few months ago seeing a "New input layer" in the >configuration. I can't find it anymore. Or is it in linux-pmac-benh, which >I can't download (failed to chroot, rsync tells me..._) I built linux-pmac-stable a week ago, and the new input layer option was available. As I recall, its

Re: TiBook Keyboard Question

2002-07-15 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 6:30 PM + 7/15/02, Cory Watson wrote: How do you switch virtual terminals with a TiBook? I've managed to get it to work once, only to forget what combination of fn, ctrl, option, and the apple key it took. It depends on how your keyboard is set up. First poke F1 and F2 and see if the

Re: Function keys without fn (was: TiBook Keyboard Question)

2002-07-15 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 2:24 AM +0200 7/16/02, Vincent Lefevre wrote: How can one do that? I'd like to be able to access the function keys directly, and use fn-F1 and fn-F2 to change the brightness. There is a program called fnset that lets you poke the pmu to change that setting. I'm not if it has been rolled in

Re: Function keys without fn (was: TiBook Keyboard Question)

2002-07-16 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 10:15 AM +0200 7/16/02, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:02:43 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Thanks, I've downloaded the source of pmud (apt-get source pmud) and fnset.c is in the contrib subdirectory. I've compiled it, but unfortunately, fnset has no effect on my PowerBo

RE: Modems on PowerBook 3400

2002-07-16 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 9:51 AM +0100 7/16/02, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'll also try fiddling with my /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. The How-To has include memory 0x8000-0x80ff while message and one other PPCLinux sou

Re: Function keys without fn (was: TiBook Keyboard Question)

2002-07-16 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 08:16:29 -0700, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: What machine do you have? I'm using it on an original 400Mhz TiBook. Me too. I found my original version of fnset.c, attached. Somebody with a little time on their hands probably ought to reconcile

RE: Modems on PowerBook 3400

2002-07-16 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 1:42 AM +0200 7/17/02, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >For what it is worth I just installed an Orinoco card in my old 3400 and nothing PCMCIA would talk to me until I used the 0x9000 range. There is a rule to pick those ranges. With a recent kernel (>=2.4.18), do cat /proc/iomem Hmm

/proc/iomem (was: Modems on PowerBook 3400)

2002-07-17 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 2:18 AM +0200 7/17/02, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Copy your /proc/iomem here and I'll explain Thanks for taking the time to do so. I and future generations of archive searchers will be in your debt. The 3400 (2.4.19rc1benh): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/iomem 8000-afff : /[E

Re: Function keys without fn (was: TiBook Keyboard Question)

2002-07-17 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
I've tried with the -d option. It seems that the program doesn't find a keyboard, as "Found keyboard at ADB id ..." is never written. I have a kernel that needs keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1. Can it be the problem? Hmmm interesting, I get "Found keyboard at ADB id 2" I also have a kernel wit

Re: get-apt issues & where can i get j2re1.3 for the ppc

2002-07-18 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Java was one of the things apt forced an unstall without me authorizing the removal.. and when I go back to install it.. I don't have j2re1.3 for the ppc. I can't find it even with a search on the internet.. Blackdown at: http://penguinppc.org/projects/java/ IBM at: http://www6.software.ibm.c

Re: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-30 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
O.K. so I was running potato and last night I get a dist-upgrade. Everything looks fine but everything still looks like it's running Potato. What's the best way to verify? Well, you can cat out /etc/debian_version. If you did update to stable, it should say 3.0. Also, I did an apt-get upgra

RE: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-30 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 1:09 PM -0700 7/30/02, deFreese, Barry wrote: Thanks for the tip. /etc/debian_version does say 3.0 but the kernel is 2.2.19, is that correct? I thought they were using 2.4 now?? kernel version is independent of distribution version. You can run Debian 3.0 on top of either a 2.2 or a 2.4 k

RE: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-30 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 4:38 PM -0700 7/30/02, deFreese, Barry wrote: O.K., I fixed my XFree86 problem and am now running 4.1.0.1. Now my question is, how do I get it running in 1024x768 or 1280x1024? I am using the FBDevice and the only options configure in my XF86Config-4 is "800x600" and "640x480". Can I just a

Re: XF86Config-4 - Was: RE: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-31 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 9:03 AM -0700 7/31/02, deFreese, Barry wrote: One more question if you don't mind. The entry FontPath "unix/:7100" in the config file. What does that mean?? Connect via a unix ipc to the font server (xfs) running on port 7100. -- ___

Re: Airport weirdness with GUI web browsers?

2002-08-07 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Anybody experiencing weirdness with web browsing in particular with moz or galeon over airport? Pages just spin and spin and spin, while other network actions (mail, irc, im) aren't problematic at all. Hmm... I just switched over to wireless on my 1st Gen TiBook, and so far its been rock solid.

Re: Airport weirdness with GUI web browsers?

2002-08-07 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 4:34 PM -0400 8/7/02, andrew lattis wrote: I had forgotten about it, but i had the same problem with encryption in osx on a 800mhz tibook. turn off encryption and everything works fine... haven't used the airport much under debian so i'm not sure if the problem carried over or not. I'll prov

how update wireless-tools version?

2002-08-09 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Okay, I just updated to 2.4.19 on my TiBook, and iwconfig & friends now complain that eth1 has been compiled with version 13 of the Wireless Extension, while the tools are using 12. I apt-got source wireless-tools and built it, but that produces the same warning. I then looked around in the

Airport conking out (was: Airport weirdness with GUI web browsers?)

2002-08-09 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Well, I guess I get to add myself to the list of victims with strange unexplained airport failures. Tonight, after about 5 hours of working flawlessly, suddenly I couldn't get my airport connection to work anymore. I updated to 2.4.19 last night, but I don't know if that is related. One th

Re: Airport conking out (was: Airport weirdness with GUI web browsers?)

2002-08-09 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 12:35 AM -0700 8/9/02, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: One thing I *did* notice was that iwconfig stopped reporting the encryption key of the card. Oops, my mistake here, turns out iwconfig reports different things depending on whether you are root or not

Re: how update wireless-tools version?

2002-08-09 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 4:12 PM +0200 8/9/02, Michel Dänzer wrote: /usr/include doesn't contain any kernel headers, nor is it supposed to. Actually, it turns out that it does, which is obviously what is messing me up. And libc6-dev put them there... -- _

Re: how update wireless-tools version?

2002-08-09 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 9:42 AM -0700 8/9/02, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: At 4:12 PM +0200 8/9/02, Michel Dänzer wrote: /usr/include doesn't contain any kernel headers, nor is it supposed to. Actually, it turns out that it does, which is obviously what is messing me up. And libc6-dev put them

building mol-module-sources (Re: how update wireless-tools version?)

2002-08-09 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 2:54 PM -0400 8/9/02, Zachery Bir wrote: On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 02:29:13PM -0400, Josh Huber wrote: > Since the wireless-tools has no > mechanism to do this, just add: -I/path/to/kernel/source/include/ to the proper place in the makefile. (i.e. to the CFLAGS variable) Can I take it t

Re: how update wireless-tools version?

2002-08-09 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 2:29 PM -0400 8/9/02, Josh Huber wrote: You should just build the wireless-tools against the correct kernel includes, by specifying (usually in the makefile) the location of the kernel source you want to build with. Since the wireless-tools has no mechanism to do this, just add: -I/path/to/k

Re: how update wireless-tools version?

2002-08-09 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 18:42, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: At 4:12 PM +0200 8/9/02, Michel Dänzer wrote: >/usr/include doesn't contain any kernel headers, nor is it supposed to. Actually, it turns out that it does, which is obviously what is messing me up. And libc6-dev

Re: MOL 0.64 deb?

2002-08-10 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Is there a deb for the latest MOL? I have the 2.4.18 kernel modules but I can't seem to find the binary deb anywhere. I just keep seeing the 0.61 release. 0.63 mol & mol-modules-source are available from testing. I just installed them a few days ago. 0.64 is not packaged yet that I know of

Re: JSP - How to install?

2002-08-19 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 9:49 AM -0700 8/19/02, deFreese, Barry wrote: I installed the 1.3.1 Java SDK from Blackdown and am trying to install Tomcat. When I run "apt-get install tomcat" is says that there are dependencies for j2sdk1.3 and it is not installable. I already have it installed, what am I doing wrong??

RE: JSP - How to install?

2002-08-19 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell -Original Message- From: Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 10:04 AM To: deFreese, Barry Cc: 'debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: JSP - How to install? At 9:49 AM -0700 8/19/02, deF

RE: JSP - How to install?

2002-08-19 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 11:42 AM -0700 8/19/02, deFreese, Barry wrote: No problem thanks for the response. Just an FYI, I used "apt-get install tomcat4" and it appears to be working. I will let you know how it goes. Great! yes, I see tomcat4 accepts java-virtual-machine-dummy as satisfying its dependency. Well

Re: Stupid wireless questions

2002-09-04 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Yes, but I _think_ (not an expert though), you will have to flash the card. Instead you will have to be in "Ad-Hoc Mode" which one permit to clients to talk together without a base. But this mode doesn't support stats so no signal strength and so on... But I'm sure it's doable... As a datapoint,

Re: Stupid wireless questions

2002-09-04 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Note that Apple's latest MacOS airport driver update (or MacOS X 10.2 update) will update the airport card firmware to revision 8.40 which seems to have lots of problems with our driver. Is there any incantation to report the firmware version on an airport card? I've poked around with iwlist a

Re: Powerpc Newbie (linux oldie)

2002-09-10 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 2:20 PM -0400 9/10/02, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2. How do you get around the fact that the ibook only has one button? Many of the window managers have menus set to right/left/double clicks. The method I use on my TiBook is to activate the kernel's mouse button emulation feature and ass

Re: Powerpc Newbie (linux oldie)

2002-09-10 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
corresponds to F11 and F12, respectively. i'm not sure if the dots will work but if it doesn't work try with slashes. Uh, they work just fine for me. Thanks for the additional info. -- __ Wilhelm Fitzpatrick | Wh

Re: wireless configuration problem

2002-09-12 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 3:38 PM +0100 9/12/02, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: I wrote yesterday about my wireless configuration problem. No responses - perhaps I was unclear. iwconfig gives me (amongst other things) Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:295 Rx invalid frag:0 Is this a clear sign that my network pass

status of libberkeleydb-perl on powerpc

2002-09-16 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Can anyone comment on the status of libberkeleydb-perl on the powerpc platform? I tried to install pop-before-smtp from stable (and also testing) which failed due to the lack of this package. I attempted to apt-get source and build the package that way. It appears to build, but as part of

Java plugin fails after testing upgrade

2001-09-20 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
After upgrading this morning (9/20/01: which included mozilla 0.94) I find mozilla no longer starts when the blackdown java plugin is install, with an interesting error message: INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not load /usr/local/j2sdk1.3.0/jre/lib/ppc/libjavaplugin_oji.so: linking error

Re: DNS wierdness on a TiBook running unstable

2001-09-21 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
can ping the DNS servers (or any numeric address), but ping cannot resolve any names. Galeon cannot seem to resolve any names either. The bizare thing is that dig, host, and the deprecated nslookup have no problems... ... Any ideas? Have you tried just restarting Galeon? I'm doing something sim

Re: DNS wierdness on a TiBook running unstable

2001-09-21 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
A minor follow up: I noticed from reading the reference Mozilla bug that some work had been done on rereading resolv.conf when toggling on and off line, and I in fact confirmed with 0.9.4 that after switching networks I could get Mozilla working again by toggling it off and online using the co

Re: www.debian.org down?

2001-09-26 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 9:59 PM +0200 9/26/01, Georg Koss wrote: I tried to reach www.debian.org and got no answer (mozilla and ping) - other adresses - among them the Austrian mirror responded - is debian.org down? :-/ Does anybody know about? It's working fine from my location... -- _

Can't get rid of postgresql

2001-10-01 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
I've got a munged up postgresql configuration on my machine, and I'd like to get rid of the whole thing. Don't care about data, I just want to remove it all and start over. Thing is, when I try to apt-get remove postgresql or dpkg -P postgresql, the script that runs before removal wants to st

Re: Can't get rid of postgresql

2001-10-02 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 2:30 AM +0200 10/2/01, Robert Ramiega wrote: another way might be to have a look at /var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql.*rm and see what they are trying to do and help them in some way (like commenting out those troublesome line) Thanks, that was the hint I needed. I am now 100% certified post

Re: segfault in mozilla-browser-0.9.4-3 postinst

2001-10-04 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Shouldn't this be cross posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -raf

Re: Mapping cmd to alt in X with linux keycodes

2001-10-11 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 7:58 AM -0700 10/11/01, Gregory P. Keeney wrote: Of course us poor incorrigible emacs user are quite happy with the command key being were it is, and making option Alt... That way, the command key becomes Meta, and we have both Meta and Alt... (Throw in a Hyper and Super, and let the custom ke

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
On 11 Oct 2001, John Goerzen wrote: An update -- xmms works fine on my tibook, with one exception. It's > volume control has zero effect. I don't know if this will be of use to anyone, but gmix works fine on my tibook (and has for many months) using benh kernels. The speaker slider cont

Re: Palm sync with irda

2001-10-17 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 6:07 PM -0400 10/17/01, Pan wrote: Anyone got to sync the palm with infrared? I'm trying to get that to work... I have a Pismo and I've been poking around with it, but with no success. Sadly, to the best of my knowledge, the IR hardware is not working on newer PBs (Pismo, TiBook). Apparent

Re: and an insomniac pismo (with 2.4.14-pre5-ben0)

2001-11-01 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
my point is that putting a laptop to sleep instead of shutting it down entirely when transporting it is not a good idea IMO and IME. IMO & IME, putting a laptop to sleep is an essential part of the laptop experience. Being able to grab & go, and pop the 'book open at the other end and and be

Re: and an insomniac pismo (with 2.4.14-pre5-ben0)

2001-11-01 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
no they don't, my 540c did not, and it had a mechenism where when the lid is closed it went to sleep, but when it awoke for whatever reason it usually stayed awake and became very hot. I think that's called a bug ;) You *did* say it was MockOS, didn't you? -- ___

PPC blackdown JDK... any news?

2001-11-02 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
I was just wondering if anybody on this list has their ears near the blackdown JDK porters for PPC. PPC never had a 1.3.1 release, and searching on debian-java and linuxppc-user & dev doesn't seem to reveal any JDK related traffic in many moons. Anybody here happen to know if the porting ef

Re: Any PPC Java JIT compiler project around ?

2001-11-21 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 11:55 AM -0700 11/21/01, Jason E. Stewart wrote: That's not the issue. Without a fast JVM or JIT, java on linux is *dog slow*... I've been corresponding with Laurent de Segur, one of the folks who are working on blackdown JDK 1.4 for LinuxPPC, and they've apparently got a port of Hotspot

Re: debian-powerpc: closer to solving sawfish crash on TiBook

2001-11-26 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 6:02 PM +1100 11/23/01, Brendan J Simon wrote: Some time ago I asked if anyone had problems with the sawfish window manager crashing on a TiBook (running testing). I have come some what closer to solving the problem. I removed esound and some gnome sound applets (the mixer) and now my mach

Mozilla problems after testing update this morning?

2001-12-01 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
After doing an apt-get dist-upgrade on my TiBook running testing (with mozilla installed from unstable) this morning, Mozilla will no longer launch from the gnome panel, or from the command line when typing just "mozilla". Looking at the output of ps in both cases shows that the mozilla-bin --

Re: mozilla on sid

2001-12-06 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 8:49 AM -0500 12/6/01, Jack Howarth wrote: I would be extremely interested to hear if anyone else has seen this behavior which seemed to develop in mozilla at the 0.9.6 release. Yes, I'm having the same problem with woody, but running the mozilla from sid. --

Re: m3mirror...

2001-12-06 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
I have updated to the latest benh kernel and get this WRT to the video system: aty128fb: Rage Mobility M3 (AGP) [chip rev 0x0] 8M 128-bit SDR SGRAM (1:1) Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 Registered "ati" backlight controller, level: 14/15 fb0: ATY Rage128 frame buffer devic

Re: m3mirror...

2001-12-06 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 9:57 PM +0100 12/6/01, David N. Welton wrote: Just out of curiousity, would you mind sending an strace of a successful run to the list: attached. -- __ Eric: I want to live in a world where software doesn't suck // R

Re: Can't run atalkd.

2001-12-13 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 10:13 AM +0200 12/13/01, filipp wrote: I don't have any extra NIC's in my setup - eth0 is also used for IP stuff. I'm pretty sure I compiled the 2.4.16 with appletalk support as a module. But you probably didn't include DDP. DDP is the underlying protocol for Appletalk. -- __

gnomecal failing

2001-12-17 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Sometime in the last week of updates from testing, gnomecal has started failing with the message: gnomecal: relocation error: gnomecal: undefined symbol: stat I'm afraid I can't pin down the exact date when it started failing, I usually only use gnomecal a couple times a week. Anybody else se

Re: Can't run atalkd.

2001-12-18 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 11:27 AM +0100 12/18/01, Leandro Noferini wrote: >> I don't have any extra NIC's in my setup - eth0 is also used >> for IP stuff. >> I'm pretty sure I compiled the 2.4.16 with appletalk support as a module. Wilhelm> But you probably didn't include DDP. DDP is the underlyin

Re: gnomecal failing

2001-12-19 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 7:04 PM +0100 12/19/01, Georg Koss wrote: > gnomecal: relocation error: gnomecal: undefined symbol: stat I think it was that err-message I had a fortnight ago. I contacted the maintainer and he recommended upgrading to sid's gnome-pim, which worked for me at that time. Yes indeed, after up

Error compiling latest benh

2001-12-29 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
I'm compiling a benh rsync from this morning, I decided to compile the IRDA stuff into the kernel, but I fail with: net/network.o: In function `irda_cleanup': net/network.o(.text.exit+0x108): undefined reference to `irttp_cleanup' net/network.o(.text.exit+0x108): relocation truncated to fit: R_

Re: MOL and kernel 2.4.17

2001-12-31 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 1:36 AM +0100 1/1/02, MaX wrote: I have a Powerbook g3 with sid, kernel 2.4.17, and Ext3 as filesystem. Now I want to try mac on linux, but as described in the doc. I need to downgrade to 2.2.19 is there another way? yes, in fact there is. I myself just updated my TiBook to 2.4.17 last

Re: MOL and kernel 2.4.17

2001-12-31 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 5:00 PM -0800 12/31/01, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: apt-get install mol-modules-sources Oops, that should be "mol-modules-source"

Re: MOL and kernel 2.4.17

2002-01-01 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 1:22 AM +0100 1/2/02, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 01:17, MaX wrote: Il mar, 2002-01-01 alle 02:31, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick ha scritto: > Oops, that should be "mol-modules-source" Tanks, but now i have an

Re: PowerBook G4

2002-01-03 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Well, the above paragraphs assume that the pb *has* f11 and f12 buttons and that other people also care for extended battery life, but I've never touched an apple notebook with which I could play for more than 1 hour. :-) I can't speak to the battery impact of an

Re: lost left alt-key with todays X-upgrade in woody

2002-01-07 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
I don't know if this is related at all but I did the same upgrade last night, and this morning I've just noticed that my meta key and emacs has migrated from the Alt key back to the Command key. And just when I had trained myself to hit Alt most of the time! Seems like somebody is mucking wit

Re: Powerpc (mac-G4) -essentially (less) broken

2002-01-19 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 10:48 AM + 1/19/02, Nick Bailey wrote: Mozilla looks good so far, but it's strange you have to invoke it "mozilla-bin": I can't see any thing wrong in the "mozilla" script, but it just seems to suspend (never returns from the prompt, but the rest of the system responds perfectly normally

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