gnumeric won't run after stable->testing upgrade

2001-01-25 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
I was running stable, with helix gnome installed from idorulabs, and updated to testing. Now, gnumeric fails to run with the following error: error while loading shared libraries: libole2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Any hints?

Re: Java on debian ppc...

2001-02-20 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
Yes, I am currently running JDK 1.3.0 PL 1 and JDK 1.1.8 from Blackdown on Debian 2.2r2/testing on my PB3400. They work great... On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I noticed the other day at www.linuxppc.org/software that there > is a big release of Java JDK from blackdown. Has anyb

Re: Java on debian ppc...

2001-02-20 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> It's running so far for me. It's not so fast as on i86, but thats java. The 1.1.8 JDK is nice and fast if you use the metroworks JIT. Sadly, there is no JIT yet for JDK 1.3.0 on the PPC, and performance suffers quite a bit as a result.

mozilla 0.8 rpm from penguinppc.com

2001-02-20 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
I tried installing the mozilla 0.8 rpm from penguinppc.com, using alien. It installed fine, and I can run mozilla from the command line, which creates a .mozilla subdirectory in my home directory and spawns four /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin processes, but no window is actually ever displayed on th

Re: mozilla 0.8 rpm from penguinppc.com

2001-02-20 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
Good call! This did the trick. Moz0.8 up and running > my guess is that the rpm didn't bother to run the registry builder > utilities, if the registry is not built mozilla refuses to run unless > all its files are world writable. (all AOL/Netscape cares about is > win98 apparently), try runnin

mozilla 0.8 from penguinppc and PSM

2001-02-21 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
I'm still trying to get PSM to work with the mozilla 0.8 rpms downloaded from penguinppc.org. So far I have: 1) alien installed mozilla.rpm -at this point mozilla wouldn't put a window up on the screen 2) I ran the postinstall script that Ethan provided in his email as root -mozilla worked

Re: mozilla 0.8 from penguinppc and PSM

2001-02-21 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, jeramy b smith wrote: > I am not really sure if these packages work alien'ed or not. I built > them but make no claims that they do anything but render regular > pages. Well, does the psm package work when installed on, say, LinuxPPC or Yellow Dog?

more mozilla 0.8 fun (java plugin)

2001-02-21 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
Okay, even if I don't have PSM working, I thought I'd see if the java plugin works with moz 0.8 (from the penguinppc RPMs) So I made a link for the javaplugin.so (JDK 1.3 PL 1) into the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory, and restarted mozilla. At which point it registers the plugin under about 2

Re: mozilla 0.8 from penguinppc and PSM

2001-02-21 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
Okay, I now I'm thinking that mozilla 0.8 w/PSM might just not work on Debian. I removed the rpm versions of moz 0.8, replaced them with the tar.gz build off mozilla.org (which includes PSM), installed in my home directory so mozilla can scribble wherever it wants, and I get all the same errors.

Re: debian-powerpc: I can't find pmud

2001-02-26 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> In apt 0.5 it is now possible to do "apt-get install pmud/testing" to > install another release's version of a single package. > > apt 0.5 is only in unstable at the moment, so it wouldn't have helped your > particular case, but in the future these things should be easier. I'd read this elsewhe

Re: evolution etc...

2001-02-27 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> I've had a different experience - the Debian submenu hasn't been there for > months. I don't remember exactly but it went away at about the time I switched > to Helix. I'm running the Helix debs from idorulabs, and I have the Debian Menu. I recall, in order to get the Debain menu, I had to go i

Re: Powerbook 3400 install

2001-03-13 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> thats an oldworld so the CD is not bootable. you need to use the boot > floppies which may or may not work since they don't detect the > keyboard properly for most people. (when they ask for the root floppy) Although the original author wanted to be able to remove MacOS completely, I will pas

Re: Sun JDK

2001-03-15 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
>Speaking of JIT, I feel quite stoopid but I haven't found any >documentation on >how to actually install the Metrowerks JIT and verify >that it's being used. I >hope anyone knows? :) put the .so files in ${JAVA_HOME}/lib/ppc/${THREADS_FLAG}_threads add JAVA_COMPILER=mwjit-991122 to your envir

Re: Sun JDK

2001-03-15 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> Ooooh yes! Now I can finally run real apps: Sad thing is so many 'real' apps these days want Java2... And who can blame them? :/ > http://www.komplex.org/java.html Now these look cool ;)

Re: Sun JDK

2001-03-15 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> PS: Where would this be documented? Google didn't find it... Hmmm... It used to be in a readme that came with the JDK for PPC...

configuration problem in testing

2001-03-20 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
running apt-get upgrade from testing today produced the following error: Setting up libpaperg (1.0.5) ... Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/powerpc-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/powerpc-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/l

Re: configuration problem in testing

2001-03-20 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, David J. Roundy wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 03:27:25PM -0800, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > > running apt-get upgrade from testing today produced the following error: > > > > Setting up libpaperg (1.0.5) ... > > Can't locate Debconf/Cl

3-way boot? (was: OF reset ?)

2001-03-21 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> >Then it was no problem to get the information I needed. Now I can > >Install > >MacOS 9.1 & MacOS X 1.0. This leads me to ask: I'm looking forward to putting MacOS 9.1, OS X, and Linux on my newly purchased Tibook this weekend, and I'd like to ask up front, not having messed with the newworl

X probs after upgrade

2001-03-21 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
I've been tracking testing, but held back my X stuff because I didn't want to deal with potential X breakage, but then my upgrade last night left me with sawmill not working for some reason. So this morning, I decided to let X roll forward, and now I have this weird situation: On book, gdm starts

Re: X probs after upgrade

2001-03-21 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> On book... er, "on boot..."

Re: X probs after upgrade

2001-03-21 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> Does it stay the same if you choose a session explicitly instead of letting it > try to run your last one? Um, help me, I don't know how to do this... > Any hints in ~/.{gnome,xsession}-errors ? No, I checked those out right away, also /var/log/gdm One thing I did have to do to get the point

Re: conf problems in unstable?

2001-03-26 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> > basically i think the deal is you need a newer debconf. Newer than unstable?

Re: 3-way boot? (was: OF reset ?)

2001-03-26 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> note you should install MacOSX on UFS and not HFS+ since you can mount > UFS filesystems readonly in linux and MacOS will render HFS+ OSX > installs unbootable every time. create your linux placeholder first, > OSX UFS second, and macos last. then boot the debian installer delete > the first pl

Re: booting from CD on Ti PowerBook

2001-03-26 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> I just got my Ti PowerBook, and I'm trying to install Debian on it, > having no use for the proprietary software that came with it. I've > made a CD of the non-us 2.2r2 image using the pseudo-image kit and > cdrecord. I was just doing this last night > So, I get into OpenFirmware, and then I t

Re: booting from CD on Ti PowerBook

2001-03-26 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> On my system, after writing out the partition table, the installer > consistently segfaulted, but the partition table did get written, and I > just had to reboot into OF and restart the installer as above. For the wise who understand such things, I misspoke. It's not a segfault I get after savi

Re: TiBook X keyboard & battery question

2001-04-04 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Grant Hollingworth wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:43:22PM -0700, Wilhelm *rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: > > "/usr/bin/Batmon: no such file" (i.e. Batmon exists, but it is > > That error means that the shebang line isn't working. In Batmon's case, > you need to install wish,

Re: PB2400 pmud/kernel problem: lost interrupt

2001-04-04 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Philipp Kaeser wrote: > Hello, > > I'm afraid the problem with the pmud still exists. > Okay, I'm running 2.2.17 paulus (self-compiled) > on a powerbook 2400; dist is debian 2.2, pmud > is version 0.7-3 (the most recent). > > When the PB2400 is going to snooze while the > har

Re: pmud / harddisk / kernel problem

2001-04-05 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> It looks sometimes like there are still windows present, > but I don't know if this is rather a "feature" of TFT-displays > that the pixels retain at the state they've been unless > switched to another color; thus, if there's some light This may be the case... I know I don't see any "ghost" win

Re: pmud / harddisk / kernel problem

2001-04-05 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On 5 Apr 2001, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > Hmmm... using 'fblevel 0' I don't see any ghosts, but when I use > snooze I do... curiouser and curiouser. I just tested on my TiPB, with both fblevel and backlight (I assume they do the same thing), and setting the level to either 0 or off shows the same

Linux runs "hot" on TiPB?

2001-04-05 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
Have other TiPB owners noticed the 'book heating up more under Linux than MacOS(X)? I especially notice the area around the ethernet connector gets toasty. Keeps my right hand warm ;) What's the status of power management in the current kernels? -raf

Re: TiBook X issues

2001-04-06 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On 6 Apr 2001, Jonas M. Meyer wrote: > Could someone post a step-bystep tutorial of how to get X running at > the correct (largest) resolution on a TiBook? Well, I can give you a description of my muddled attempts. I am running a 2.4.3 kernel I created from the linux-2.4-benh tree at penguinppc.

Re: Installing Debian 2.2r2 on a Tibook : help needed !

2001-04-12 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> I have tried to type in the full path to my kernel at the yaboot prompt as > well (boot : hd:11,/target/boot/vmlinux-2.2.18pre21), but with no more > success... is the full path to your kernel really .../target/boot/... If you are booted into the installer, and your hd11 partition is mounted o

Re: Installing Debian 2.2r2 on a Tibook : help needed !

2001-04-12 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> My boot line in yaboot was originally: > > hd:11,/boot/vmlinux-2.2.18pre21 oops, I meant of course "image" line. I wouldn't want to incur Ethan's wrath ;) -raf

problems compiling lastest benh kernel?

2001-04-18 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
I'm having trouble building the latest rsync of the benh kernel. First I got an undefined symbol "xmon_printf" trying to link kernel.o, so I ran menuconfig and added xmon into the kernel. Now I fail trying to build misc.o with /usr/src/linux-2.4/include/asm/cputable.h:45: `NR_CPUS' undeclared he

Re: Power Management et. al.

2001-04-18 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation > > > echo 87 > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode > > > echo 88 > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode > > > > Oh, that's pretty straight forward. Where can I get a description of those > > numbers matching the keys on

BenH kernel weirdness

2001-04-19 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
I compiled and updated to yesterdays BenH 2.3.4pre3 from an older BenH 2.3.3, because Ben had alluded to adding some basic power management stuff for the TiBooks. I have to say that the new kernel seems to run significantly cooler than the old one (I 'book was getting hot enough that I started to

Re: anyone used freely available MacOS 7.5?

2001-04-19 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> Comments, anyone? how bad is 7.5.5? 7.5.5 was okay. Don't go near any of the earlier 7.5's with a ten foot pole. 7.6, and especially 7.6.1 were really good... -raf

Latest BenH kernel supports mixer on TiBook

2001-04-20 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
I can now use GMixer after installing the BenH kernel I built a few days ago (2.4.4pre3), which I was not able to do with the prior (also BenH) kernel (2.3.3) I had installed. Ben, thanks again for keeping the new hardware support coming thick & fast! -raf

Re: Audio CD's on tibook?

2001-04-23 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
No luck for me either. The Gnome CD player won't recognize any audio CD I put in the drive. I believe there was a thread earlier that mentioned that the drive in the G4 isn't hooked up to do its own audio out, that you need to read audio data from the drive and play it yourself... On 23 Apr 2001

Re: Woody Impressions

2001-05-22 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On 22 May 2001, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > I use mozilla daily (for browsing only) and have had scattered luck. I > find that there are more pages that won't display properly under 0.9 > than with 0.8. Also it just ate my bookmarks file. So now I keep > backups of my bookmarks. Wow, I must be real

Re: Woody Impressions

2001-05-22 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> > Wow, I must be really lucky because I've been using mozilla 0.9 for > > about two weeks now and have been blown away by its stability and > > speed > > Try this page: > > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/ Sure enough, it comes up blank for me as well. -raf

Re: Woody Impressions

2001-05-24 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> Just to answer a couple of questions, I am using Ethan's mozilla .debs > (thanks Ethan!), and they always open to the Mail/News reader. Strange. I have Ethan's debs, and they have always opened to the browser. Perhaps this is because of imported preferences from Netscape? > Finally, on perfo

Re: devfs support in ofpath: criteria for patches

2001-05-24 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> But how long will that last. What I want to know is, what question > was devfs an answer to? There must have been one, right? I believe it is the answer to the question what with usb, and firewire, and pcmcia, and all the other hotplug technologies, how does my system deal with the fact that

TiBook firmware update

2001-06-07 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
Since there have been reports of problems with Linux after installing Apple's latest firmware update for the Powerbook G4, I thought I'd ask TiBook users on the list if: a) they have installed the update? b) they have seen any problems after doing so? c) what kernel version they are using? -raf

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> interesting.. running showkey on both my x86 and powerpc the arrow > keys are producing the exact same keycodes. this is 2.2.19. i don't > see why X would have a problem.. are you sure this is still the case? > (i don't run X on powerpc) Surely so. I have X 4.0.3 from testing, and am using li

IR on TiBook?

2001-06-07 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
Recently there was a thread about using the IR port on Pismo's, saying that there is needed kernel support that is missing. Does this affect the TiBook as well? That is has anybody got IRDA support working with the TiBook? Or do I need to wait? -raf

Re: Wine

2001-06-27 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> [OFFTOPIC] Is there a Mac emulation layer similar to wine? Not similar to WINE (at least as free software). There is MOL (Mac-On-Linux) which is similar vmware, in that it allows you to boot MacOS on top of a virtual machine environment hosted inside linux. This will only work on a PowerPC proc

Re: What's the best replacement editor for ae?

2001-06-28 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > for simple GUI editors i would suggest nedit. for powerful ones i > suggest xemacs. As a long time MacOS user who does not fear the mouse, I can report that I used nedit happily for many years. It should be an easy transition for someone used to tool

Re: sleep with TiPB on 2.4.6 broken

2001-07-10 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
I can report that TiPB sleep works (in X only) with a BenH 2.4.5pre3 kernel as well if that helps narrow things down.

Re: debian: mozilla-0.9.1 not as good as mozilla-0.8.1

2001-07-11 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Brendan J Simon wrote: > Hi, > I have manually installed versions of mozilla on my PowerPC laptop. > Version 0.8.1 worked fine with my internet banking and other java web > sites. I was so pleased to see Mozilla-0.9.1 in the testing > distribution and promptly did an up

Re: realplayer question

2001-07-11 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Phil Fraering wrote: > Is anyone here using realplayer with Debian? Yes, I downloaded it and installed it in my home directory. It's been working great ever since. It crashes once a week or so, but other than that I've had good success with it. Note, I need to kill off e

Re: backdown JDK / XWindows

2001-07-11 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Damien GUIHAL wrote: > The problem I have is that when Swing windows opens, it gets very > often oversized (and so widgets inside) in height, so much that its > heigher than my screen, I mailed blackdown but I got nearly no > response. For information, I use the debian testing

upgrading testing?

2001-07-11 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
I've noticed for awhile now that pretty much everything in testing is held back when I go to do an apt-get upgrade. Today, as an emperiment, I tried to manually apt-get install libc6 to break through the log jam, and ulitimately I got this error: E: This installation run will require temporarily

Re: upgrading testing?

2001-07-11 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Did you try apt-get dist-upgrade first? No I didn't, I'll give that try.

Re: upgrading testing?

2001-07-12 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:34:03PM -0700, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > > E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential > > package libnss-db due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, > > but if

Magic SysRq on TiBook?

2001-07-13 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
I've searched mailing lists and the web and I have been unable to find any information as to what the Magic SysRq key might be on the TiBook. There is certainly no PrintScreen key on the TiBook keyboard. Anyone done this and willing to share? -raf

xemacs-basesupport in testing broke jde

2001-07-18 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
Got got a new xemacs-basesupport when I did an apt-get upgrade this morning, and since then, the functions provided by JDE (Java Development Environment for Emacs) no longer appear in xemacs. I tried an apt-get -reinstall install jde and that didn't help either. Does anyone have any suggestion a

Re: Newbie hat vier Fragen

2001-07-18 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> (a) Mein IMac hat ein slotloading CD-RW von Matshita Prod.ID CW7121. Potato > erkennt dieses und ich kann es mounten, etc. > Wie bringe ich aber die CD-ROM wieder aus dem Laufwerk, nachdem ich umount > /cdrom eingegeben habe? try the "eject" command. You may need to give it the device name of

Re: Newbie hat vier Fragen

2001-07-18 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Roland Wegmann wrote: > (c) beim Bootvorgang listet Linux alles mögliche auf dem Bildschirm auf. > Gibt es eine Möglichkeit dies auf den Drucker umzuleiten, damit man > analysieren kann, was Linux (Kernel?) alles erkennt und was nicht? The contents of the linux boot message

Re: gpm & X settings for titanium

2001-07-30 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> With Xkb, you probably need XkbModel "pc104" or any pc variant with Linux > keycodes, "macintosh_old" otherwise. Without Xkb, it should work either way. In my XF86Config-4, I have XkbModel set to powerpcps2. When I used pc104, some keys (such as the arrow keys) didn't work.

Strange HFS/cdrom interaction hoses clock!!

2001-08-02 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
This post is mostly an advisory issued in the faint hope that somebody kernel hackery might go "oh yeah, I know why that happened" and fix it, or failing that that others may avoid my tale of terror... The usual info: TiBook 400/256 MB, running BenH 2.4.6, libc6 2.2.3-5 Anyway, somebody handed me

Re: ibook2 questions

2001-08-03 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> 3) I can sommetimes switch between virtual consoles using fn+alt+F, > however > it often requires several tries, and it doesn't work at all from X. How can i > make that work? If it's anything like the TiBook, order is very important. I find I have no problem if I push the keys down in seque

Re: Strange HFS/cdrom interaction hoses clock!!

2001-08-03 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> Any idea how I can convince linux that it is once again the 21st century? Answering my own question, it seems that /etc/adjtime somehow became corrupted. deleting and rebooting seems to have restored my clock to normal operation... I still have a strong urge to Lindy Hop however...

Re: Strange HFS/cdrom interaction hoses clock!!

2001-08-03 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> Strange indeed. It used to crash right away on reading from HFS CD-ROMs. Ah... I hadn't recalled seeing anywhere that this was instant death. That's partly why I posted my message, in the hope of warning at least one other poor unfortunate. I'm especially impressed that a problem with the CD-R

no gdm after logout?

2001-08-05 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
Are there other folks on the list who have experienced the problem of gdm not relaunching after logging out of a gnome session? This has been a persistant problem for me for a long time (at least since i was running LinuxPPC R5). gdm had actually been behaving fine for me recently, until I update

Re: no gdm after logout?

2001-08-05 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> I think I used to have that problem with the gdm in testing. The one in sid > works fine and is much nicer in general. I updated my gdm from woody to sid, and it does solve the problem that I was reporting (gdm now comes up nicely after logging out) but I find now that my System menu in GDM is n

how to set PRAM audio level?

2001-08-05 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
Is there a tool that can be used to set the audio level stored in PRAM on Mac hardware? Can ntsetenv be used for this? I've found an init for MacOS that sets the stored audio level to 0 on reboot to supress the boot-chime, and sets it back up on boot, and I thought it would be nice to have the sa

Re: no gdm after logout?

2001-08-06 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> > that my System menu in GDM is non functional. Picking "Halt" or > > "Reboot" simply seems to restart gdm, and not in fact the computer... > > Works For Me (TM). Check the RebootCommand and HaltCommand entries in > /etc/gdm/gdm.conf. ... HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -h now "Halted from gdm men

puzzling message from ps

2001-08-06 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
So I just updated my kernel to the latest benh version, using kernel-package, and I notice that ps displays the following: {rtc_lock} {__VERSIONED_SYMBOL(rtc_lock)} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.4.8-pre4-ben0 does not match kernel data. any hints on what this means? The System.map-2.4.8-pre4-ben0

Re: Problems with Java

2001-08-06 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
This message indicates java cannot grow its heap any larger. This may be do to an actual inability to allocate memory, or more likely, the heap has grown to the maximum allowed size, which, with the 1.3.0 blackdown VM is 64MB. You can add override this using the -Xmx parameter to java by doing so

Re: Re: Problems with Java

2001-08-09 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> ok, but now I have the following problem (I use the jdk 1.3.0 from > blackdown and woody with kernel 2.2.18pre21): > > SIGSEGV 11* segmentation violation > si_signo [11]: SIGSEGV 11* segmentation violation > si_errno [0]: Erfolg > si_code [0]: SI_USER [pid: 0, uid: 0] >

How to teach Nautilus about Mozilla?

2001-08-09 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
I installed the Nautilus that is packaged in unstable (and I must say I am impressed). However, when I click on web pages, it shows them as text inside the Nautilus frame. I have the package 0.9.1 version of Mozilla from penguinppc.org, and it was my understanding that Nautilus was supposed to us

Re: Java with mozilla

2001-08-10 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> I downloaded the new Mozilla 0.93 (which works really great) and tried > to install the java plugin that comes with blackdown 1.3.0. To do so, > I created a link from $mozilla/plugins/javaplugin.so to > $java/jre/plugin/java/javaplugin.so. I also removed th plugin dirs > under ~/.mozilla and ~/.

root fs becomes ro after sleep!

2001-08-11 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
I experience a weird symptom the other day. After waking up my TiBook from sleep (running 2.4.8pre4-ben0) I noticed that the root file system was suddenly mounted read-only. I rebooted and everything was fine. This has only happened once, but it was sufficiently weird to cause me to ask if anyb

Re: Choosing which kernel tree to use

2001-08-11 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> > and the hardware clock doesn't work. > > Enable CONFIG_PPC_RTC but not CONFIG_RTC. So this causes me to ask again if anybody out there has a clue as to why whenever I use ps on my TiBook it says: {rtc_lock} {__VERSIONED_SYMBOL(rtc_lock)} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.4.8-pre7-ben0 does not mat

Re: More sound strangeness

2001-08-11 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Russell Hires wrote: > What happens is I've got the system beep, but not the other sounds, like I > can't play my CD's anymore, and hear them...I know I had trouble with all the > modules and such before, so I followed all the various things I did before to > get sound to w

Re: root fs becomes ro after sleep!

2001-08-11 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Tom Rini wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 11:43:16AM -0700, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > I experience a weird symptom the other day. After waking up my TiBook > > from sleep (running 2.4.8pre4-ben0) I noticed that the root file system > > was su

Re: root fs becomes ro after sleep!

2001-08-12 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:22:47PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > > Odd. Both of those imply that the kernel found the FS to be broken > > somehow and remounted it read-only to prevent further damage. > > debian always puts errors=remount-ro in the / files

Re: Choosing which kernel tree to use

2001-08-12 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> i don't have that problem... are you SURE that CONFIG_RTC is disabled? > grep -i rtc /boot/config-2.4.8-pre7-ben0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot$ grep -i rtc /boot/config-2.4.8-pre7-ben0 CONFIG_PPC_RTC=y # CONFIG_RTC is not set I'm assuming "not set" means it is disabled? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb$ una

Re: Choosing which kernel tree to use

2001-08-12 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 12:40:49AM -0700, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > i don't have that problem... are you SURE that CONFIG_RTC is disabled? > > > grep -i rtc /boot/config-2.4.8-pre7-ben0 > > > > [EMAIL PROT

Re: xfree86 4.x on a powerbook 3400c

2001-08-15 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Ian Eure wrote: > hi there. i recently installed debian on my powerbook 3400c, and it > seems to run ok, but i still have some problems. If no one has a more "up to date" suggestion, I'll mention that I ran Debian on my 3400c (always with a 2.2.x kernel) up until a few months

Re: wireless lan config

2001-08-15 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, NeilFred Picciotto wrote: > this is a pretty slick way of doing it. but does anyone have a convenient > way of switching between multiple locations (with different network > passwords, and so on)? Well, I wrote myself a little shell script that I keep in /usr/local/bin/net

Re: wireless lan config

2001-08-16 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Michel Lanners wrote: > Plus, it autodetects your network location. Yow! what will they think of next... ;) -raf

Re: Choosing which kernel tree to use

2001-08-20 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > So this causes me to ask again if anybody out there has a clue as to why > whenever I use ps on my TiBook it says: > > {rtc_lock} {__VERSIONED_SYMBOL(rtc_lock)} > Warning: /boot/System.map-2.4.8-pre7-ben0 does not match kerne

Xemacs getting unstable?

2001-08-20 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
Has anyone else noticed that the versions of xemacs in testing and unstable seem to be getting more and more unstable? The problem I'm seeing is that xemacs will stop responding, and top shows it eating all available CPU time. I first noticed this about a month ago, while using the version of xem

Re: Xemacs getting unstable?

2001-08-20 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On 20 Aug 2001, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > Yes I have noticed this, but not often. What I notice is that XEmacs > leaves screen turds all over the place in it's buffers. Also I seem to > get a lot more errors in installed packages than I ever did before. Good to know I'm not crazy, but still distu

Re: German Keymap for X4.0.3 (was: German keymap for G3/PPC)

2001-08-21 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > Manuel Reiter wrote: > > Time for another plug for APT's wonderful pinpointing feature. Perhaps you could explain in a little more detail what this is?

apt pinpointing

2001-08-21 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > >>Time for another plug for APT's wonderful pinpointing feature. > > > > Perhaps you could explain in a little more detail what this is? > > I've explained it in all detail here so many times that I'm tired to do it > again. See apt-get(8)

Re: JRE and Mozilla Pluggin

2001-08-27 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: > That would be me. I know it was working fine with 0.9.1. I'm not > sure if I've hit a java enabled page since updating to 0.9.3. I'll > make a point of trying that today and reporting my result to the list. Blackdown JDK 1.3.0 plug

Re: woody: [tftpd and bootp on ppc]

2001-08-28 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> nobody answered because its a rtfm question. so rtfm. I think it's the charm and grace of the maintainers that really make the Debian experience so wonderful ;) -raf

Re: JDK1.2 on debian-ppc

1999-07-22 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On 22 Jul 1999, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > Has anyone gotten jdk1.2 up and running yet? Is there a version of the jdk1.2 compiled for glibc 2.1 yet? I've been waiting for that, and the one at business.tyler.wm.edu is still the glibc 1.99 one... -raf

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> > Xpmac is so much faster than XF68_FBDev > Actually, Xpmac is very slow compared to XFree 4.0. If you > compare Xpmac vs. XFree86 4.0 r128... How does XFree86 4.0 on the ct6555x chipset (aka PB2400/3400) stack up against Xpmac? -raf

Re: Xpmac (was: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences)

2000-05-12 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> Is there a Debian potato compatible binary of Xpmac out there > somewhere? Well, on my PB3400, I first used Xpmac.rev10, which I got from Kevin Hendricks site (http://khendricks.ivey.uwo.ca/rage128_usb/) (which is not responding for me right at the moment) but acceleration on ct6555x is broken

Re: Debian pmud package available

2000-05-23 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> OK, the Debian package plus diff/changes/dsc stuff is up for testing on > ftp.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de:/pub/linux/powerpc - it's not a final > version yet, I need to figure out how to have the Debian postinst > automatically create the /etc/rc*.d symlinks. If someone wants to play > with it, g

Re: unzip

2000-07-06 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> from what I've learned, VMWare doesn't emulate but hands over the code to > the processor for execution. Thus it won't run on PPC since the PPC will > tell you that this code doesn't make sense to him (not that it would do > anyway ;) ) This is correct. VMWare simply creates a virtual machine e

Re: Helix Gnome for Debian/PPC available

2000-07-20 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
What is the difference between the debs available here and those at http://southpole.penguinpowered.com/ ? Are these "more official?" -raf On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Guys > > It is finally available, Helix GNOME is avaiable as .deb on > http://idorulabs.free.fr > > A

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> There's been a dma_intr status=0x00 message for the hda case as well, > apparently enabling the multiword DMA will generate a DMA interrupt. > Please note that the set multiword DMA 2 command succeeded earlier for hdc > during driver init. Seems the problem is only with this function being > used

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-25 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> New hypothesis: generic too short timeout - please increase timeout to > 5000 in wait_for_ready. There may be something here. I just updated to 2.2.17 as packaged in frozen (compile date of Jul 18th). I got some form of the usual IDE errors on boot, from which it finally recovered, which incl

Yow! No X mouse with 2.2.17

2000-07-25 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
I just updated by PB3400 with the latest packages from frozen, which included a 2.2.17 kernel (The .deb says pre11, the kernel just says 2.2.17 when it boots). GPM mouse works on consoles. But when X comes up... THE MOUSE DOESN'T MOVE! I'm still running the same Xserver (Xpmac-rev9) and booting

Re: Yow! No X mouse with 2.2.17

2000-07-25 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
X without gpm running, see if that fixes it. > > On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > I just updated by PB3400 with the latest packages from frozen, which > > included a 2.2.17 kernel (The .deb says pre11, the kernel just says 2.2.17 > > when it boots). &

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