make `caps_lock' behave as `control' ?

2006-08-14 Thread William
Hi, Tried various ways to make `caps_lock' key behave as `control' on my ibook G4, but never succeed. I've made `caps_lock' report as Control_L in xev, but seems it still has no effect. Any ideas? kernel version: 2.6.15.5 xorg Version: 1:7.0.22 -- William -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-27 Thread William
e/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12_powerpc.deb | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ` > While, my current partition table is: [...] This still seems like a mac. Please try : dpkg-reconfigure mkvmlinuz, and chose yaboot. It already

airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-02 Thread William
x | ieee80211softmac 30240 1 bcm43xx | ieee80211 50420 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac ` ,[ uname -r ] | 2.6.18 ` Any suggestions or tips on this? Thanks in advance. -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

BIG Problem...need BIG Medicine

2001-03-27 Thread William Crowshaw
O.K., I am a little embarrased to admit it but I just remove the all important /bin directory. Am I simply screwed? Do I need to do a clean install? If not, how do I re-install the missing apps? Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated. THANKS, wcrowshaw __

Re: make `caps_lock' behave as `control' ?

2006-08-17 Thread William Xu
ould allow > this functionality to be committed upstream :) When i'm able to and have enough time.. :-) -- William Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

compiz startup error

2006-11-26 Thread William Xu
indow manager is already running on screen: 0 | /usr/bin/compiz.real: No manageable screens found on display :0 | $ ` Any idea on this? -- William See store for details. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with MOL: start in a window + networking

2006-11-26 Thread William Xu
vailable. Here are some helpful links, , | /usr/share/doc/mol/Networking.gz | http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~ctwardy/mol-debian-benh.html | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacOnLinuxHowto ` -- William Never ask two questions in a business letter. The reply will discuss the one you are least

Re: compiz startup error

2006-11-27 Thread William Xu
Yves-Alexis Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On lun, 2006-11-27 at 14:58 +0800, William Xu wrote: >> | /usr/bin/compiz.real: Another window manager is already running on >> screen: 0 >> | /usr/bin/compiz.real: No manageable screens found on display :0 > > Jus

unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-26 Thread William Xu
this? Attachment is .config file. -- William NATHAN ... your PARENTS were in a CARCRASH!! They're VOIDED -- They COLLAPSED They had no CHAINSAWS ... They had no MONEY MACHINES ... They did PILLS in SKIMPY GRASS SKIRTS ... Nathan, I EMULATED them ... but they were OFF-KEY ... # # Automatically gene

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-27 Thread William Xu
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:18:01PM +0800, William Xu wrote: >> Hi, >> >> In order to get airport extreme working, i just built linux-2.6.18.4. >> Its .config is mainly based on 2.6.15.5(current kernel). When i try to &

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-27 Thread William Xu
pkg -i linux*.deb ` I will try your .config at the same time. Thanks ! -- William It was a JOKE!! Get it?? I was receiving messages from DAVID LETTERMAN!! YOW!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-28 Thread William Xu
e problem is that i need to apply Andy Wingo's capslock patch again.. Thanks a lot ! -- William To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching. -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: unable to boot linux-2.6.18.4

2007-04-28 Thread William Xu
Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:40:11 +0200, William wrote: > >> And >> i'm suprised that the error is different from previous. > > Maybe it's time for a good hardware check. If you have a RAM module > installed, try

Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-03 Thread William Xu
g: Operation not permitted". What's wrong here? -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-03 Thread William Xu
2007/5/3, Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Did you used bcm43xx-fwcutter for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware? Yes. i apt-get it, then run the script installed by bcm43xx-fwcutter. bcm43xx out of 2.6.21 is working like a charme here: Glad to know... -- William -- To UNSUB

Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-05 Thread William Xu
3 May 2007 17:17:43 GMT, Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, 03 May 2007 09:20:10 +0200, William Xu wrote: > "ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted". What's wrong here? I had that for a while, and it turned out to be some wrong iptables setting as a resu

Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-05 Thread William Xu
3xx/bcm43xx-firmware_1.3-1ubuntu2_all.deb) FYI, it works here with firmware-cutter(with bcm4306) ;-) Thanks anyway. -- William

keyjnote doesn't work

2007-05-18 Thread William Xu
Using GL_ARB_texture_rectangle. | Background rendering finished, used 2.2 MiB of disk space. | Total presentation time: 0:06. ` What i'm missing here? William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: keyjnote doesn't work

2007-05-18 Thread William Xu
around. No, it won't work either. ;( William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: keyjnote doesn't work

2007-05-18 Thread William Xu
it's all black all the time, even if i press "F" or most other keys(except the Q, ESC keys for exiting works). Looks like the modes are not switched, i didn't see a window size change. William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: keyjnote doesn't work

2007-05-18 Thread William Xu
William Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Which version of libgl1-mesa-dri are you using? > > Version: 6.5.2-4. Especially if you're using the r300 driver, can you try building 6.5.3~rc3-1

Re: keyjnote doesn't work

2007-05-18 Thread William Xu
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 17:42 +0800, William Xu wrote: > Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Your 3D driver may be broken. > > How to confirm this? Some 3d games like ppracer, works smoothl

Re: keyjnote doesn't work

2007-05-18 Thread William Xu
ully soon). I just installed Mesa-6.5.3rc3 from debian experimental. Yeah, like you said, it works now. The effects of keyjnote is really impressive. Thanks ! William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing Mac OS X without destroying Debian

2007-06-11 Thread William Xu
r interoperability? I hear Mac OS X has FUSE now, so perhaps it can read and write Ext2/3 as there is a FUSE driver for that. I doubt FUSE is capable of reading local devices.. I only know sshfs + FUSE could read/write remote disks. -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

bcm43xx wireless with static ip

2007-07-04 Thread William Xu
ireless-apany | | address 192.168.0.2 | netmask 255.255.255.0 | broadcast 192.168.0.255 | gateway 192.168.0.1 ` Any ideas on this? -- William 《夜泊牛渚怀古》 作者:李白 牛渚西江夜,青天无片云。 登舟望秋月,空忆谢将军。 余亦能高咏,斯人不可闻。 明朝挂帆去,枫叶落纷纷。 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: bcm43xx wireless with static ip

2007-07-04 Thread William Xu
William Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When using DHCP, the wireless works just fine. But with a static ip, it > fails. Ooh, by "fails", i meant "ping 192.168.0.1" fails, it returns "Destination Host Unreachable". -- William 题目:《寓居吴兴》 作者:曾几(1084-11

Re: bcm43xx wireless with static ip

2007-07-05 Thread William Xu
"Felix C. Stegerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But I was wondering how you made the above "print". Is > there some handy utility to pretty-print files like that? Or did you > [have to] do it by hand? Of course not by hand, ;-) The answer: GNU Emacs + b

Re: Installing Debian base2_2.tgz

1999-06-07 Thread William Ono
sh-old - mv /bash-new /bin/bash - apt-get install bash .. and hopefully this time it'll work. (By the way, if anyone knows a better procedure for this, I would be delighted to hear it!) I hope this helps. -- William Ono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP key: 0x9

Re: root.bin

1999-06-12 Thread William Ono
n of LinuxPPC http://www.linuxppc.org/>. If there's any interest (in private mail, please) I'll write up a HOWTO Hijack LinuxPPC for Debian document. :> Good luck! -- William Ono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP key: 0x93BA6AFD fingerprint = E3 64 C5 4

Request proof-reading: installing Debian over LinuxPPC

1999-06-14 Thread William Ono
://www.soundwave.net/~wmono/linuxppc-debian/> and let me know what you think. If you feel the page is worth linking to, please feel free to do so. Thanks! -- William Ono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP key: 0x93BA6AFD fingerprint = E3 64 C5 43 3E B3 2D A6 C6 D7 E3

Re: Ready to install on a G3 laptop. What's the current procedure?

1999-06-14 Thread William Ono
ouncing my page, it occurred to me that a page on a similar theme had crossed the list. I checked my list archive, found your page, read it, and discovered that we were discussing much the same thing. I hope the credit line that appears near the top of my page is acceptable to you. Thanks. --

Re: Request proof-reading: installing Debian over LinuxPPC

1999-06-14 Thread William Ono
(I didn't see that the mail I responded to was Cc:'ed to the list.) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 00:01:24 -0700 (PDT) From: William Ono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "aaron .'. culich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Request

Re: Request proof-reading: installing Debian over LinuxPPC

1999-06-14 Thread William Ono
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, William Ono wrote: > I couldn't find tar [on the LinuxPPC installer initrd] Before I get deluged with email about this, I just took another look at the initrd and discovered cpio there. And g(un|)zip. Duh! (Yes, I followed up to my own post. Yes, I&

Unidentified subject!

2000-11-20 Thread William Crowshaw
I just installed Debian 2.2 on my powermac 7500. I am having problems bringing up x. First, upon boot, the system tries to start xdm, but it fails after the screen flashes black three times. Next, if I simply try startx as root I get a error message that I should report this crash to the develope

problems starting X

2000-11-20 Thread William Crowshaw
Here's a repost of the message I sent out whose Subject: line disappeared. I just installed Debian 2.2 on my powermac 7500. I am having problems bringing up x. First, upon boot, the system tries to start xdm, but it fails after the screen flashes black three times. Next, if I simply try startx a

Re: problems starting X

2000-11-21 Thread William Crowshaw
At 2:24 PM -0800 11/20/00, Donnell wrote: >Check the Screen section of your XF86Config file. I saw the same thing happen with a powermac clone. >The driver was set to "accel". Try changing it to "fbdev". The screen section of my XF86Config file looks like this: # Server for the Linux Frame Buf

Re: problems starting X...the gory details

2000-11-21 Thread William Crowshaw
At 4:40 PM -0500 11/20/00, Adam C Powell IV wrote: >William Crowshaw wrote: > >> For more clues about my problem, I could post all the gory details startx >> outputs. My monitor is a simple Apple Multiscan 15". > >Could you post the gory details? It's hard to

Rolling my own Powerpc kernel from Debian sources

2002-07-17 Thread William Crowshaw
I was going to upgrade my powerpc to kernel 2.2.19, when I noticed that there isn't a kernel-image of 2.2.19 for the powerpc. So I found the source and have decided to roll my own. I have one question though...I noticed that there was a kernel-patch 2.2.19 for the powerpc debian package. Opening

Re: [Maxima] Re: Query about Downloading and Running Debian maxima on a Mac G4 running OS X

2002-09-07 Thread William McCallum
I made a fink package for OS X out of the 5.9pre tarball a while ago. It's buggy under certain window systems, but works. Fink is a debian-like package management system for OS X. Once you have installed fink, you install maxima by doing "fink install maxima". Go to http://fink.sourceforge.net

Why is X suddenly ignoring my dvorak settings?

2002-11-20 Thread William Crowshaw
Just when I thought I got it all figure out, X 4.0.1 on my PowerMac 7500 threw me for a loop. I just upgraded to Debian Woody and I'm using the 2.2.20 kernel. I'm also using the new input layer, forgoing the old ADB stuff. This has greatly simplfied keyboard issues that I have always had when it

Mouse freezes after X logout - why?

2002-11-22 Thread William Crowshaw
Just upgraded to woody (PowerMac 7500 using kernel 2.2.20). Every time -- and I mean every time -- I logout of an X session (regardless of which wm I'm using) and am thrown back to gdm, my mouse freezes up. The keyboard works, but I loose the mouse entirely in gdm and when I log back in. I have t

Do you think Debian will run on this PowerPC board?

2002-12-03 Thread William Crowshaw
This may be good news for people like me who'd rather not support Apple by buying their over-priced, eye-candy hardware and yet still want to use a PowerPC. The company that produces YDL is selling a PowerPC motherboard and complete systems. Here's the link with more information: http://www.osne

Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-11 Thread William Crowshaw
Not to be too dramatic, but getting my video card to work on my PowerMac 7500 running debian is killing me. I apologize in advance for the length of this post. Here are the os/hardware facts 1) OS - Debian woody 2) kernel = linux-2.4.21-ben2 3) the kernel has the atyfb and the aty128fb modules

Re: X Crash after installing msttcorefonts, cabextract, x-ttcidfont-conf

2003-08-20 Thread William Crowshaw
I installed these fonts by hand (because ttcidfont IMO is a piece of crap) with woody's default X server (4.1.0.1?) and it worked. I think you may need to change the case of your font filenames to lower. --- Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is what I have: > > Tit

Re: X Crash after installing msttcorefonts, cabextract, x-ttcidfont-conf

2003-08-20 Thread William Crowshaw
t works. These above steps I have given you are from memory, so I might have made a mistake. Go to the Linux Documentation project -- tldp.org -- and find the Font Deuglification (FDU) Howto for perhaps the correct instructions about creating the fonts.dir files. Defoma instructions for debian can

Re: X Crash after installing msttcorefonts, cabextract, x-ttcidfont-conf

2003-08-21 Thread William Crowshaw
--- Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The basic problem I have here, is that on Debian I > have a whole bunch (or > perhaps better: a wonderful mess) of different font > config files: > > XF86Config-4, > XftConfig, > in /etc/fonts/ fonts.conf and local.conf, > in /etc/X11/fs/ conf

Re: X Crash after installing msttcorefonts, cabextract, x-ttcidfont-conf

2003-08-22 Thread William Crowshaw
--- Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 23:31, William Crowshaw wrote: > > > > But I haven't researched the issue because I'm > unable (due to debian > > policies) to develop debian specific apps. > > Why?

Re: [Q]IBM's Java 1.4.1 with IBM's JIT

2003-09-02 Thread William Crowshaw
Great Kevin! Thanks. The export line really did the trick. Can't wait to see if freenet and jedit run better! William --- "Kevin B. Hendricks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > You might want to check out the dev list at > YellowDogLinux. > > it se

Re: [Q]IBM's Java 1.4.1 with IBM's JIT

2003-09-02 Thread William Crowshaw
. > > Kevin > Whew, building eclipse is easier said than done. Mind giving detailed instructions for building eclipse from source in this way. I worked on it for sometime, but with no success. Frustrated, I went to jedit, which is a beautiful app, but no java debugger. S

Re: [Q]IBM's Java 1.4.1 with IBM's JIT

2003-09-02 Thread William Crowshaw
erMac 7500) pmac flags : L2 cache: 256K unified memory : 640MB l2cr override : 0xbd08 pmac-generation : OldWorld Strangely, it only says my clock in 195Mhz when its supposed to be at 300MhZ. Oh well, another ppc problem I got to work out. William --- Wi

Re: Help! Not able to mount FAT filesystems

2005-08-26 Thread William XWL
f using a > debian supplied one... expecting people running an open-source OS to not > compile software themselves seems silly. You're using debian, right? Do you compile all the softwares yourselve? -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Help! Not able to mount FAT filesystems

2005-08-26 Thread William XWL
Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 26 August 2005 04:48, William XWL wrote: >> Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> [...] >> >> > >> > Sven, if you read all of his problem, you'll see it has n

Re: [debian-powerpc] New Ibook no sound

2005-09-14 Thread William XWL
2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11624 1 snd_pcm snd_mixer_oss 23232 1 snd_pcm_oss snd66744 6 snd_seq, snd_seq_device, snd_pcm_oss, snd_pcm, snd_timer, snd_mixer_oss Hope that helps, -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: [debian-powerpc] New Ibook no sound

2005-09-14 Thread William XWL
2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11624 1 snd_pcm snd_mixer_oss 23232 1 snd_pcm_oss snd66744 6 snd_seq, snd_seq_device, snd_pcm_oss, snd_pcm, snd_timer, snd_mixer_oss Hope that helps, -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Anyone experiencing bash hangs?

2005-10-12 Thread William Xu
the system. After retrying and reproducing several times, it seems pressing TAB key is the main cause. This problem is really weird. For this reason, i dare not use any terminals under X. While, luckily, Emacs(who provides several shells) and Console don't have the above problem, they save me

how to play .mkv files?

2005-10-15 Thread William Xu
Hi, all~ Any way to play .mkv and .wmv files? I've been able to make mplayer play most video file formats, including .rm and .rmvb, but i've never succeeded with .mkv files... Any successful stories? -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: how to play .mkv files?

2005-10-15 Thread William Xu
Luca Bigliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 12:25 AM, William Xu wrote: > >> Any way to play .mkv and .wmv files? > > mkv is matroska and mplayer should support it, the same for wmv. On my x86 machine, mplayer does support them. But seems not

Re: how to play .mkv files?

2005-10-15 Thread William Xu
I can't connect to www.mplayerhq.hu now... -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

unable to compile kernel 2.6.13-4

2005-10-20 Thread William Xu
Hi all. When i try to compile kernel 2.6.13-4 (from kernel.org), i got the following compile errors. Any hints? -8<- williamxu:/home/william/studio/build/linux-2.6.13.4# make-kpkg kernel_image Please ignore the warning ab

Re: backup of the whole hd

2005-10-28 Thread William Xu
esults in the root partition, each time i've to reinstall the base system, and then `apt-get ***' crazily... There should be some better methods. -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

partition problem

2005-11-08 Thread William Xu
partition), it can't recognize the disk. What's wrong here? -- William ((email . "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") (blog . "http://matchsticker.mysmth.net";)) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: partition problem

2005-11-08 Thread William Xu
Milan Toth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > William Xu at Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 02:19:41PM CET wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> on linux, i could mount both partitions - sda1, sda5 successfully. But >> on windows (i wish it could access the 40G vfat partition), it can'

Re: partition problem

2005-11-08 Thread William Xu
GONG Jie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 08 November 2005 21:19, William Xu wrote: >> Hi there, >> I have an 80G removable hard disk, which i divided into 40G xfs + 40G >> vfat partitions. (In detail, cfdisk first, then mkfs.xfs and mkfs.vfat >> for each

Re: partition problem

2005-11-08 Thread William Xu
Extended LBA). I made it, by changing sda5's FS type from Linux(82) to Win95 Fat32(0B), without damaging data on that partition. (it doesn't allow me to change it to Win95 Extended LBA.) Many thanks. -- William ((email . "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") (blog . "http://match

arm-linux cross compiler

2005-11-09 Thread William Xu
Hi guys, I'm trying to set up a arm-linux cross compiler environment. Are there any precompiled debs? since i've met various problems trying to compile from source myself... Any suggestions would be appreciated. -- William ((email . "[EMAIL PROTECTED]&qu

Re: arm-linux cross compiler

2005-11-10 Thread William Xu
Harald Krammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For a glibc system you can try the buildscripts form Dan Kegel > http://kegel.com/crosstool/ i've already tried that many times...but no success... -- William ((email . "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") (blog . "http://matc

Re: arm-linux cross compiler

2005-11-11 Thread William Xu
verable error, will exit immediately." is translated from local language by me.) -- William ((email . "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") (blog . "http://matchsticker.mysmth.net";))

Re: arm-linux cross compiler

2005-11-11 Thread William Xu
-8<- crosstool: binutils built ok + echo 'Install glibc headers needed to build bootstrap compiler -- but only if gcc-3.x' Install glibc headers needed to build bootstrap compiler -- but only if gcc-3.x + grep -q 'g

Re: arm-linux cross compiler

2005-11-17 Thread William Xu
Harald Krammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The footprint is much smaller with uclibc. > look here for more deatils: > http://www.uclibc.org/FAQ.html buildroot works great ! I've set up the arm toolchain successfully, finally. Many thanks. -- William ((email . "[

Re: glibc problem ?

2005-11-19 Thread William Xu
upgrade solved it. Maybe you could take a try. -- William ((email . "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") (blog . "http://matchsticker.mysmth.net";)) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mplayer

2006-02-15 Thread William Xu
Bartosz Sokolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone using Mplayer, any sources for binary packages?? deb http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-ppc/debian/ mplayer/ -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

TP-LINK usb wireless network card support

2006-02-19 Thread William Xu
h_pci,ath_rate_sample Things seem okay for now. But when i try to bring up ath0, # ifconfig ath0 up ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device any thoughts? -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mplayer

2006-02-20 Thread William Xu
Paul TT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:46:57 +0800 > William Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Bartosz Sokolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Anyone using Mplayer, any sources for binary packages?? >> >>

boot problem

2006-03-14 Thread William Xu
11656 1 snd_pcm snd_mixer_oss 21536 1 snd_pcm_oss snd67316 7 snd_powermac,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ignore accidental input

2006-04-23 Thread William Xu
the pad itself >> > can be pretty annoying. >> >> You can use mouseemu to ignore trackpad input while typing. > > I have to install another program to shut down the trackpad then? > nevermind I found the /sbin/trackpad. I simply run the following command upon each restart, # trackpad notap -- William

Re: cross compiling Mozilla for Power PC

2006-06-06 Thread William Duke
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 16:18 +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > You seem intent on doing it the interesting way, though. > Isn't the interesting way of doing things usually the most fun? I mean, anybody can just do something, but it takes a really skillful person to do things the interesting way..

Recording On PowerMac

2006-07-31 Thread William Duke
I'm looking for a way to record sound from a telephone line on Mac using Linux. Does anyone know of a Linux app that will record from the internal modem? Even a Linux app that lets you use your internal modem as a speakerphone would probably suffice, as I don't imagine it would be too difficult

Can't view partitions - Installation screen too small

2002-04-13 Thread William Brennan
Folks, I've been struggling for the past several weeks trying to install Debian on my new Quicksilver Mac. Finally, today I was able to get to the installation screen. But there is a problem... The default screen used is primitive, with a super-large-font, and of limited dimension (80chars

Re: Can't view partitions - Installation screen too small

2002-04-14 Thread William Brennan
On Saturday, April 13, 2002, at 11:51 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 17:13, William Brennan wrote: Ideally, could someone direct me how to get more characters on my screen for installation, so I can view my partition map? (I've got an ATI Radeon 7500 card) Or su

Device name for internal modem on new G4 machine?

2002-04-14 Thread William Brennan
Folks, The good news (for me, anyway) is I've finally achieved some level of success in installing a base system on my new Power Mac G4. (Hurrah!) The bad news is I can't figure out what the device name for my internal modem is. I need it, of course, to download the rest of Debian. First I trie

Emacs: eshell can't receive C-q C-c ?

2005-01-15 Thread William Xuuu
Hi, folks. I'm using an ibook. When in eshell, it seems that eshell can't receive C-c signal to kill a process ? e.g, find and then try C-q C-c. It used to work fine on my pc. Any ideas? -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

cdrecord a bootable cd

2005-01-19 Thread William Xuuu
Hi, Anybody knows how to burn a bootable cd using cdrecord ? With a simple command `cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 boot.iso' , i'm able to burn a cd with exact same data in boot.iso, but i can't boot from it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: cdrecord a bootable cd

2005-01-20 Thread William Xuuu
"Mauricio Hernandez Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > William Xuuu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Anybody knows how to burn a bootable cd using cdrecord ? With a simple >> command `cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 boot.iso' , i'm a

Re: cdrecord a bootable cd

2005-01-20 Thread William Xuuu
"Mauricio Hernandez Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] >> Block size=512, Number of Blocks=58605120 >> DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 >> >> -- >> William > > Hmmm, so you mean you installed your system using that very ISO? Yes, exactl

still no macromedia flash support?

2005-01-21 Thread William Xuuu
Hi, 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 still no support in linuxppc arch ? -- William

Re: still no macromedia flash support?

2005-01-21 Thread William Xuuu
plugins", click on it and the Firefox will > search for it. I succesfully installed a Macromedia plugin. > Have a look. -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: still no macromedia flash support?

2005-01-21 Thread William Xuuu
riate plugin for my platform. Interestingly, when i'm installing the missing plugin, it complains nothing, just installs it smoothly, and i can reach the final `finish' option. While after that, it still complains about the missing plugin! It's cheating me! I've been cheated

Re: cdrecord a bootable cd

2005-01-22 Thread William Xuuu
William Xuuu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> I can't tell you much about it because I have not burnt any cds with 2.6.x >> yet >> (I was going to but my oldworld powerbook has not turned on/booted for the >> last 5 days :( ) >> >> Secondly, a

Re: G4 sound hardware question

2005-01-25 Thread William Xuuu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I own a G4 iBook 1GHz and the alsa snd_powermac module is used for sound. > If you're using OSS, I have no idea. dmasound_pmac is for OSS emulation, while one should not make both built-in kernel. Make both built as modules seems a good choice. -- Willi

Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block..

2005-05-05 Thread William Xuuu
stage of yaboot type either >>`/vmlinux.old' or `/vmlinux.old root=/dev/hdc4' is fine; while, to boot >>the new 2.6.11 kernel, root=/dev/hdc4, /dev/hda4, hd:4, >>/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:4, ... won't work. >> >> I'm kin

Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block..

2005-05-05 Thread William Xuuu
.. won't work. > > > I don't reboot very often, so please forgive my lousy memory if the > following is bs: Did you try to boot your new kernel manually with > something like debiannew, at the prompt? yup, i just append `root=somthing' at the prompt. > Or, IIRC, at

Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block..

2005-05-05 Thread William Xuuu
Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 08:16:45PM +0800, William Xuuu wrote: >> Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:56:45PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >&g

Re: mount a new partition on /home

2005-05-25 Thread William Xuuu
/home/* to /home and unmount /mnt. > Or, simply change mount point to /home/me: /dev/hda4 /home/me ext3rw,auto,user 0 0 -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge

2005-06-07 Thread William Xu
Guillaume Florey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everybody, > Just wanted to say that sarge is out ! And I also like to know who is going > to > use it (inclusive me ;-) Why not sid ? :P -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

d-i install failure on powerbook 2400c

2004-06-30 Thread William Ross
p with a fully functional system. Any help or suggestions on how to reattempt the install gratefully appreciated. William

X wont start on ibook

2004-06-30 Thread Paul William
Hi all, My first post on this list :) I am following the instructions at http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto-5.html#ss5.2 to get X going on my ibook G4 (1ghz). X gives me the following error: (--) Assigning devices with no BusID to primary device (EE) No devices detected Fat

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-01 Thread Paul William
Mine is also 0:16:0 :( James Tappin wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 16:37:35 +1200 Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PW> Hi all, PW> PW> My first post on this list :) I am following the instructions at PW> http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto-5.html#ss5.2

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-01 Thread Paul William
I only bought the ibook a few weeks ago. Only took a few weeks to get sick of osx / miss my debian desktop ;) Sam Halliday wrote: Paul William wrote: Mine is also 0:16:0 :( is your iBook relatively new? does lspci reveal a Radeon Mobility 9200 M9+ if so... check out the posts i made

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-01 Thread Paul William
Which Post? I can't seem to find it at http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/06/threads.html#00026 Cheers Paul Sam Halliday wrote: Paul William wrote: Mine is also 0:16:0 :( is your iBook relatively new? does lspci reveal a Radeon Mobility 9200 M9+ if so... check out the

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-02 Thread Paul William
Hi Sam, Good to see I am not the *only* one with these problems :) Did you apply both those kernel patches, as they are for 2.6.6? I am busy compiling 2.6.7 now but will apply those patches if needed. Thanks again, Paul Sam Halliday wrote: Paul William wrote: Which Post? I can't se

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