CD output problem

2004-12-09 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

I'm running debian unstable on my pismo.

Back about 4 months ago, I used to be able to play audio CD's directly
from XMMS, but then it stopped working. Now when I attempt to add
/dev/cdrom to the playlist like I used to I get a bunch of error
messages in /var/log/syslog:

  Dec  9 08:29:31 amadeus kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:00 (hde), 
sector 29
  Dec  9 08:29:31 amadeus kernel: hde: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady 
SeekComplete Error }
  Dec  9 08:29:31 amadeus kernel: hde: command error: error=0x54
  Dec  9 08:29:31 amadeus kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:00 (hde), 
sector 30
  Dec  9 08:29:31 amadeus kernel: hde: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady 
SeekComplete Error }
  Dec  9 08:29:31 amadeus kernel: hde: command error: error=0x54
  Dec  9 08:29:31 amadeus kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:00 (hde), 
sector 31

etc... I am using ALSA, but I found the sound quality was poor, so I
use the OSS output plugin.

When I attempt to use another CD program, grip or cccd, they appear to
play the CD but I get no sound output.

Assistance greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
jas.



Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-07-02 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Lucas Moulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Jaume Sabater wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> I had problems with ALSA using 2.6.6, but they were solved with
>> 2.6.7. Now just XMMS is the only problem left, as it plays songs a
>> bit faster than it should (but it must be only me -again- as other
>> people with similar configs do not suffer from this behaviour).
>
> Just go to Preferences > ALSA output > Advanced Settings and set the
> period length to 100ms and it should work fine.

Hey! Cool! I was wondering why the ALSA plugin didn't work for XMMS,
and when I saw this I thought I'd give it a try and voila! it did...

Thanks,
jas.



Galeon not respecting CSS keyword font sizes??

2004-05-24 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

I've been a bit frustrated lately by pages in galeon having noticeably
small fonts, but I didn't do much about it.

Then I started an overhaul on a site I maintain, and suddenly there
were huge differences between what mozilla was showing me and what
galeon was showing me. The difference seems to be that galeon displays
all fonts at the same size regardless of what the style sheet
says. Using font-size: large, or font-size: x-large has no effect
under galeon but works under mozilla.

This seemed to happen more than a month ago after a galeon
upgrade. But it seemed to have something to do with using truetype
fonts. But now that there is such a difference with Mozilla on the
same machine I'm confused.

I'm using the latest galeon on unstable:

ii  galeon 1.3.14a-1  GNOME web browser for advanced users  

Is this just me, or has anyone else seen this?

Cheers,
jas.



Re: Sending Faxes from G4

2004-05-18 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi
>
> I'm exploring how to set up faxing from my G4 and looked at
> mgetty+sendfax and efax.  Most of the threads I've pulled from google
> seem quite dated (1997 etc) and I'm wondering whether these are the
> right packages or is there something else I should try.
>
> Either way, if someone has a working setup, I'd appreciate some pointers
> to appropriate documentation.  I've looked at info mgetty and it talks
> about settings for inittab.  I'm trying to get my head around which is
> the modem port ;)

You can also try internet fax:

  http://www.tpc.int/

I've been using it for months from India, and I'm very satisfied.

Cheers,
jas.



Re: Strange modem prob on pismo, Solved!

2004-04-02 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

I'm embarassed to say that the modem problem seems to have been
related to my init string not working properly. I used kermit to login
manually to my ISP and it all worked??!! So I looked more carefully at
my chatscript at noticed that I had been using:

  '' ATZL1M1X3

it seems that the extra 'Z' was part of a 'Z0' that got mangled. So
the modem was returning 'OK' and continuing without executing the
other commands.

I don't know why trying the MacOS init string didn't work, though, but
since all I wanted was for it to work, I'm now content.

Thanks for all your advice,
jas.



Strange modem prob on pismo, redux

2004-04-01 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hi all,

I wrote in a month back about not being able to connect to my Indian
ISP under Linux. I have a Pismo, and I can connect under MacOS, but
under linux I simply get chat timeout alarm and 'pon' fails.

When I changed to my new house my modem couldn't recognize the phone
dialtone, so I disabled dial tone checking. Under MacOS this is good
enough to create a connection. But under Linux I do not get a
connection using 'pon'. Because the modem speaker on the pismo doesn't
work, it's dificult for me to debug the problem.

If someone could give me an idea how to proceed, I will be most
grateful. Either some explanation of how the modem connection process
could differ under linux and MacOS, or some advice for how to debug
what is happening without a working modem speaker.

Thanks in advance,
jas.



Re: Announcing: PPC Linux Version of OpenOffice.org 1.1.1

2004-04-01 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Kevin B. Hendricks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > If we use the debian packages, can these facilities be added in later?
> > Or is it too late because they have been compiled out of the code?
> >
> > I've been trying to use the Report Wizard and the docbook filter and
> > haven't been able to make them work - this might explain why.
> 
> Yes, neither of those filters will work with a non-java build
> like the one Debian uses.
> 
> AFAIK, official Debian builds do not have the java_uno bridge or
> even include it so they will not work with Java. So none of the java
> features will work even if you have the Blackdown of IBM java virtual
> machine.

Right. It looks like I'll continue to use your build of OO.o,
then. The debian build also has a bug that causes a segfault when I
attempt to open an external database connection using ODBC, which
doesn't work for me since I'm working to connect OO.o to my gene
expression DB...

> As I said, work is now beginning on trying to use gcj/kaffe so hopefully
> with free java versions can help solve this.

That will be great.

Thanks again Kevin for all that you've done for the community, both
with Java and now OO.o, it's certainly made my life a lot richer.

Cheers,
jas.



Re: Announcing: PPC Linux Version of OpenOffice.org 1.1.1

2004-03-30 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Kevin B.Hendricks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > (BTW. What kind of functionality Java brings to OOo that you don't have
> > in the first place ?)
> >
> 
> Java is currently used both in the build itself and for
> - All accessibility features for handicapped and disabled (requires
> JDK 1.4.1)
> - Flat XML file filter
> - All jdbc database connectivity
> - Report Wizard features
> - Applets and java as used in Html web page editing
> - pocket excel and pocket word import features
> - XSLTFilter and Validation
> - docbook format filter
> - the java-uno bridge which allows Java components to talk to
>   Basic and C++ components via the uno bridge
> - Used in the SDK to control and automate OOo
> - It is used along with rhino and js to provide scripting for OOo 2.0

Hey Kevin,

If we use the debian packages, can these facilities be added in later?
Or is it too late because they have been compiled out of the code?

I've been trying to use the Report Wizard and the docbook filter and
haven't been able to make them work - this might explain why.

Cheers,
jas.



Re: Strange modem prob on pismo

2004-02-04 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > Since it isn't the modem hardware, I'm guessing that I need a
> > different initialization string? However OS 9 doesn't seem to give any
> > useful way of finding what init string is being used.
> > 
> > Does anyone have suggestions as to:
> > 1) How to get the init string from OS 9
> 
> Look at the "Modem Scripts" in the MacOS system folder, and edit
> the one for this modem with a text editor.

OK, I mounted my mac partition and got the init string, but sadly it
didn't work. Same result:

Feb  3 19:33:43 amadeus pppd[11610]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
Feb  3 19:33:45 amadeus chat[11612]: abort on (BUSY)
Feb  3 19:33:45 amadeus chat[11612]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Feb  3 19:33:45 amadeus chat[11612]: abort on (VOICE)
Feb  3 19:33:45 amadeus chat[11612]: abort on (NO ANSWER)
Feb  3 19:33:45 amadeus chat[11612]: send 
(AT&FL3E0W1Q0V1X4&C1&K3S95=1&D3S7=75S0=0+MS=11,1,300,33600^M)
Feb  3 19:33:46 amadeus chat[11612]: expect (OK)
Feb  3 19:33:47 amadeus chat[11612]: 
AT&FL3E0W1Q0V1X4&C1&K3S95=1&D3S7=75S0=0+MS=11,1,300,33600^M^M
Feb  3 19:33:47 amadeus chat[11612]: OK
Feb  3 19:33:47 amadeus chat[11612]:  -- got it 
Feb  3 19:33:47 amadeus chat[11612]: send (ATDT172226^M)
Feb  3 19:33:47 amadeus chat[11612]: expect (CONNECT)
Feb  3 19:33:47 amadeus chat[11612]: ^M
Feb  3 19:33:52 amadeus chat[11612]: ^M
Feb  3 19:33:52 amadeus chat[11612]: NO DIALTONE^M
Feb  3 19:34:32 amadeus chat[11612]: alarm
Feb  3 19:34:32 amadeus chat[11612]: Failed
Feb  3 19:34:32 amadeus pppd[11610]: Connect script failed
Feb  3 19:34:33 amadeus pppd[11610]: Exit.


> > 3) Other possible causes solutions?
> 
> A common problem is that the modem takes some time to power up (up
> to 2 seconds). It powers up when the port is opened. However, the
> dialers tend to usually expect that the modem replies to the first
> "AT" command right away and thus will timeout.
> 
> You can play with the dialer timeout values, that usually helps.

I'm not using a dialer, though, I'm just using 'pon' and editing
/etc/chatscripts/provider. Also, my modem works on my old phone line
just not the new one.

I also changed the script to *not* look for CONNECT, but instead to
just pause 10 seconds and succeed (letting pppd do its thing), but
that didn't work either.

Without the modem speaker I can't hear what's going on, either.

I'm pretty stumped :-(

Any help appreciated.
jas.



cupsd problem solved

2004-02-03 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

I haven't been able to print from cups for a month or so. Eventually I
noticed a boot time error (it's linux, so I don't need to reboot very
often ...) about unresolved symbols in libgnutls7. So I did an apt-get
update for libgnutls7, and viola! cups is happy again.

Seems like the dependancies needs to be updated ...

Cheers,
jas.



Strange modem prob on pismo

2004-02-02 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

I've been living in India for 6 months, and I recently changed
apartments, and my dialup has stopped working.

The first issue was that the modem didn't recognize the dial tone on
my new line (which I fixed by telling it to ignore no dialtone
errors), but then the pon chatscript just times out without a
connection. 

Under MacOS it works fine (I still have to tell it to ignore the
dialtone). So I'm not clear why it can connect under OS 9 but not
linux.

Since it isn't the modem hardware, I'm guessing that I need a
different initialization string? However OS 9 doesn't seem to give any
useful way of finding what init string is being used.

Does anyone have suggestions as to:
1) How to get the init string from OS 9
2) What init string to use under linux
3) Other possible causes solutions?

Thanks!
jas.



Re: Ext3 fs

2003-11-27 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Harvey Ussery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I recently installed (from official CD set) DebPPC3.0(Woody) on
> 800Mhz iMac 17" LCD. When it came time to install/format the
> filesystem I was only given the option of ext2, which surprised me,
> since ext3 has been available for some time. Did I miss something?
> (I know that you add a -j to the format command if working from the
> command line; but I was not at the command line, I was simply
> responding to the installer's prompts.) Will I be able to reformat
> my Deb install to ext3 later?  Thanks.  --Harvey

Yes, all you need to do is rune 'tune2fs -j /dev/hdaN' to add
journalling to an existing partition. Then you simply change the entry
in /etc/fstab to be ext3. No repartitioning needed.

Cheers,
jas.



What is linux-kernel-headers?

2003-11-17 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey,

I just went to update subversion to the new 0.33 version (fixes a big
speed issue with checkout), but suddenly, libc6-dev wants to install
the linux-kernel-headers package version 2.5.999 ...

What is this package? 

How is it different from kernel-headers?

I'm concerned because I'm not using a 2.5 kernel (I'm at 2.4.20), how
is this going to affect my system?

Thanks,
jas.



Re: powerpc 2.4.22-3 kernel packages ready.

2003-11-14 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Christian Leimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> And I can not print with cups. Dont know why there are no errors in the
> logs. 

I, too, cannot print from cups anymore and don't have a clue why - no
log messages help - but I'm using 2.4.20-benh1...

I'd like to know how to debug this.

jas.



old libXrender blocks galeon2

2003-10-30 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

I just had a major pain in the ass when I upgraded to galeon2. I was
getting undefined symbol errors for libXft.so.2:

   /usr/lib/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libXft.so.2:
  undefined symbol: XRenderQuerySubpixelOrder

The problem was a set of old cruft links in /usr/X11R6/lib that didn't
get removed when apt-get installed the latest version of libxrender1. 

My solution:
* rm /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender*
* apt-get install --reinstall libxrender1
* apt-get install --reinstall libxrender-dev

and galeon started like a charm...

Cheers,
jas.



libns{jpg,gif,mng,png} and mozilla-browser in sid

2003-10-30 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey all,

I just updated galeon yesterday and suddenly the regxpcom call in the
postinstall script for mozilla-browser was crashing due to undefined
symbols in four old libraries in /usr/lib/mozilla/components. 

dpkg -S shows that they don't belong to any package, so I moved them
out of the way, and now regxpcom and regchrome run fine.

Any idea how they got there? I know that OpenOffice has been
needed it's own version of mozilla libs a while back, could they be
from an old openoffice.org-bin package but not have been listed
somehow? 

Cheers,
jas.



apt-get install mozilla-browser is broken in sid

2003-10-29 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

I went to upgrade galeon today, and now I'm getting relocation errors:

Setting up mozilla-browser (1.5-2) ...
Updating mozilla chrome registry...regxpcom: relocation error: 
/usr/lib/mozilla/components/libnsgif.so: undefined symbol: 
NS_NewGenericModule__FPCcUiP21nsModuleComponentInfoPFP9nsIModule_vPP9nsIModule
E: regxpcom was exited: 127
regchrome: relocation error: /usr/lib/mozilla/components/libnsgif.so: undefined 
symbol: 
NS_NewGenericModule__FPCcUiP21nsModuleComponentInfoPFP9nsIModule_vPP9nsIModule
E: regchrome was exited: 127
mv: cannot stat `/usr/lib/mozilla/chrome/*.rdf': No such file or directory
done.

I get the same relocation error trying to start galeon itself.

I've googled for a few hours for various problems with regxpcom, but
nothing has helped.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
jas.



Re: trouble using IBM 1.4.1 jdk for ppc on Debian

2003-10-24 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Frank Routier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have trouble using IBM 1.4.1 jdk for ppc on Debian.
> 
> It runs quite fine once I set JITC_COMPILER_TYPE=6, as I have a G4
> processor, BUT when a java program calls a native method, I get this
> kind of exception :

[snip]

> What bothers me is that the exception refers to sun.reflect.* while
> I am using IBM jdk and all my environment variables are set to IBM
> jdk.

I, too, have had a number of aggrevating problems with reflection in
the IBM jdk. The Perl module Inline::Java uses reflection very
heavily, and I'll always get an exception after creating a few hundred
java objects, unless the methods get pre-cached.

No, solutions, but I'm having trouble with it too.
jas.



Re: change internal hd

2003-10-09 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Jean-Christophe Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'd like to change my internal dd on my Pismo (from 20G to 60G,
> maybe even one 7200rpm)

I'm planning on doing the same thing. I was curious though. Won't a
7200rpm disk use a lot more battery power than a 5200rpm?

For me the access speed is less important than battery life.

Cheers,
jas.



Re: openoffice.org in Sid

2003-09-26 Thread Jason E. Stewart
David Oakes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Adam Hewitt wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I find it hard to believe that everyone who is running Sid has been
> 
> > without Oo for the past two weeks (due to no openoffice.org-bin), can
> > someone tell me what the deal is and what you have done to get around
> > it??
> 
> Actually, it has been more like a month since 1.0.99+1.1 was released
> without openoffice.org-bin for anything other than i386, but nobody
> should be without Oo. 

I went and read the bug report about this at bugs.debian.org, and
posted a request for status on the bug. I just got word from Chris
Hall about what's going on.

The problem was that openoffice.org-bin would build but on powerpc,
but setup would not run. The issue got resolved when Kevin Hendrick's
figured out that it was being linked with an out-of-date java library
on Jan's computer when he built the package. That was a month ago when
it was 1.1rc3.

Since then we are now at 1.1rc5 and other things have changed and they
are working on resolving them, and have asked for patience.

HTH,
jas.



Re: Enabling IBM Java 141 for web browsers

2003-09-18 Thread Jason E. Stewart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason E. Stewart) writes:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:19:44PM +0200, Pander wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I have installed IBMJava2-ppc-141 and it works great although it doens't 
> > > run applets in mozilla and konquerer. What do I need to do to get this 
> > > working?
> > > 
> > > I have already
> > > JAVA_COMPILER=NONE
> > > JAVA_HOME=/opt/IBMJava2-ppc-141
> > 
> > You got this working?  I haven't played too much with it, but the
> > version of 1.4.1 for ppc I downloaded a couple weeks ago would crash
> > as soon as the JVM started.  Kind of a downer given I'd like to have
> > the same JVM across all my systems (and the rest are x86).
> 
> Read the following thread:
> 
>  
> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-devel/2003-June/000231.html

FWIW,

I read the other thread on *just* setting JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE=6, and
with that solution you avoid a kernel recompile, or hacking the
libraries with Emacs.

I unhacked my libs to use /proc/cpuinfo again, and using
JAVA_COMPILER=NONE works for my Perl picolo app, and
JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE=6 now also works.

Doesn't seem particularily zippy, though - I was hoping that would
somehow activate the compiler, and it would speed the rendering up.

Any ideas why the /etc//cpuinfo hack with the processor set to 604e
would cause reflection errors when the JIT kicks in, but using
JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE=6 doesn't?

Cheers,
jas.



Re: Enabling IBM Java 141 for web browsers

2003-09-18 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Kevin B. Hendricks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> As far as I know, the IBM jdks do not come with a Mozilla plugin so
> they won't work with Mozilla period.
> 
> You should be able to use in in Konqueror just by opening it up and editing 
> its setting and changing the path to find java in the settings.
> 
> >From there you should be good to go.
> 
> If you want to use the JIT compiler under IBM's jdk please put the following 
> in your .bashrc or .profile
> 
> export JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE=6

Hmmm... I finally found my trouble.

I've been using the Perl module Inline::Java with the 1.4.1 JDK to run
the picolo zooming graphics library from UMD, and if I create too many
objects (a few hundred) I always get a java reflection
error. Inline::Java uses reflection really heavily, and after a while
the IBM 1.4.1 JDK chokes and dies, but the same code runs just fine on
the blackdow JDK on an x86 machine.

I' tried the JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE=6 fix, but the code still throws a
reflection error. Using JAVA_COMPILER=NONE solves the problem totally!
The code definately runs slower, though.

Kevin, what if I have the following for my /etc/cpuinfo hack:

  cpu   : 604e
  temperature   : 27-29 C (uncalibrated)
  clock : 500MHz
  revision  : 131.0 (pvr 0008 8300)
  bogomips  : 996.14
  machine   : PowerBook3,1
  motherboard   : PowerBook3,1 MacRISC Power Macintosh
  detected as   : 70 (PowerBook Pismo)
  pmac flags: 0007
  L2 cache  : 1024K unified
  memory: 256MB
  pmac-generation   : NewWorld

Do I need a different setting for the processor type, because I've
pretended my CPU is a 604e?

Cheers,
jas.



Re: Enabling IBM Java 141 for web browsers

2003-09-18 Thread Jason E. Stewart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:19:44PM +0200, Pander wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have installed IBMJava2-ppc-141 and it works great although it doens't 
> > run applets in mozilla and konquerer. What do I need to do to get this 
> > working?
> > 
> > I have already
> > JAVA_COMPILER=NONE
> > JAVA_HOME=/opt/IBMJava2-ppc-141
> 
> You got this working?  I haven't played too much with it, but the
> version of 1.4.1 for ppc I downloaded a couple weeks ago would crash
> as soon as the JVM started.  Kind of a downer given I'd like to have
> the same JVM across all my systems (and the rest are x86).

Read the following thread:

 
http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-devel/2003-June/000231.html

Cheers,
jas.



Re: Modem makes no sound on pismo

2003-07-09 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> It depends on each machine model it seems. The modem sound can be analog
> & wired on a mixer input of the sound chip, or it can be all digital
> on an i2s channel (I _think_, I'm not too sure about this one). For
> the USB softmodem, I think you can ask them modem to give you sound
> on the data line when dialing and the driver could try to route
> that to the sound driver, but it's a lot of work

Ewww...

Doesn't sound like how I need to be spending my time. Thanks for the
info.

Cheers,
jas.



Re: Modem makes no sound on pismo

2003-07-09 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 17:54, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 16:45, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
>
> > > The internal modem on my pismo has always worked fine, and under MacOS
> > > I could hear dial tones and dialing noises, etc. But under linux, I've
> > > never been able to hear anything no matter what settings I use for the
> > > AT 'L' and 'M' commands.
> 
> Ì don't support sound pass-through on the internal modems. Maybe
> one day...

Ah - so it's a kernel issue. I thought the modem has it's own
speaker. Just out of curiousity - with a possibility of helping,
just maybe, what is the issue to why it isn't supported - what needs to be
added to the kernel?

Cheers,
jas.



Modem makes no sound on pismo

2003-07-09 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

The internal modem on my pismo has always worked fine, and under MacOS
I could hear dial tones and dialing noises, etc. But under linux, I've
never been able to hear anything no matter what settings I use for the
AT 'L' and 'M' commands.

Is there something special that I'm missing? It still works fine, but
it would be nice to have a little audio feedback when dialing
sometimes.

Cheers,
jas.




Re: OpenOffice 1.01c crashes when opening files

2002-11-22 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Curtis Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> So, I installed Openoffice 1.0.1c, but every time I try to open Word
> and Excel docs, it crashes.  Anyone had similar problems?

You may want to try the debian-openoffice list for this one.

jas.



Re: Tuxracer stopped working after the latest dri-trunk upgrade.

2002-11-21 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Branden Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Out of curiosity, do you regard *this* message as a flame?

No, happily, this is one the more reasoned replies you made, thanks.

I would like to know what your intent was. Did you wish to express
anger? Did you wish to make people on this list aware that Jesus was
not giving you (and possibly others) credit? Was it your desire to
educate someone to better understand the complicated IP issues around
copyright? 

I'm kind of surprised that all of this happened over a WWW site
designed to help people install linux on a laptop. Nobody stands to
gain any prestige or money from putting together such resources. 

Why make a big public stink?

Why not simply send a polite (private) letter indicating the problem
and proposing a solution: "I believe it would be fair and correct for
you to properly cite the work that I and others have produced that
allowed you to create your site".

I think those two lines would have avoided this entire scene. But it
doesn't seem that it was your intent to find an easy solution - or at
least that is how it reads in your emails. And if that is how I read
it, how do you think a non-native english speaker reads it? 

>From my (limited) experience, you've done a lot of amazingly excellent
work for the debian community, but you also have an attitude of
greeting people at the door with both guns drawn - not a particularly
warm greeting. If that's how you wish to be perceived, then
continue. However, it will certainly have consequences such as
potentially alienating people like Jesus who have an honest desire to
help, but get greeted by one of your full-frontal-assaults.

Cheers,
jas.



Re: Tuxracer stopped working after the latest dri-trunk upgrade.

2002-11-21 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Branden Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > I give up.
> 
> I think this reaction is just about the least constructive possible.

If I hadn't seen you in action for 3 years I probably would have done
exactly the same thing.

> The best solution is really quite simple; give credit where credit is
> due.  But as I said, I personally don't *want* credit until you've
> credited everyone else.  

Jesus did his best to help people and you publicly eviscerated him for
being a plagerizing thief. How is this supposed to be helpful?

If you want to educate people, you can be constructive or you can spit
in their face and call them names. You chose the latter, and Jesus
feels like he got shit on for trying to help.

> The principle I am defending is more important.

Prinicples are an important thing, but so is attitude and behavior.

How about next time you ask nicely first and give people a chance to
correct their errors? Instead assuming that people are willfully
stealing your ideas? Then if they don't care you flame-on all you
want.

I just hope for our sake that your flame-first attitude hasn't cost
the debian-powerpc community another civic minded individual.

jas.




Re: g3 and sleeping time

2002-11-15 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"marco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> # uname -a
> Linux 2.4.18-newpmac #1 Thu Mar 14 22:44:49 EST 2002 ppc  740/750
> GNU/Linux
> 
> Hi, my box is going sleeping 10 minutes after idle, I just want to know
> if it is a way to configure this.

Yup, this must have changed just recently, it does it for my pismo as well:

Linux amadeus 2.4.19-pre10-ben0 #1 Thu Dec 12 15:20:53 MST 2002 ppc
unknown

I find it really frustrating when giving a presentation on
batteries. Shouldn't something like this be handled under
/etc/power/pwrctl? 

jas.



Re: Mozilla Flash Plugin (was Re: Mozilla Plugins)

2002-11-13 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Bill Traynor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> >-Original Message-
> >From: K. Reid Wightman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> >Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 2:07 PM
> >To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> >Subject: Mozilla Flash Plugin (was Re: Mozilla Plugins)
> >
> >
> >Since this issue seems to get brought up a lot, I started 
> >poking and prodding the folks at macromedia.  I got an actual 
> >person to respond to my request, and he recommended that 
> >people go here: 
> >http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/wishform/ , and write 
> >a nice polite message saying that you use linux-ppc and would 
> >like to have the flash player plugin ported.  I specify it as 
> >a "Feature Request", product name "Flash Player", no version, 
> >OS "Linux", OS version "Debian-PPC" (maybe PPC-Debian would be 
> >better so it gets noticed?)
> 
> Isn't there a swf-player0.1.2-2 in Unstable that includes a Mozilla
> plugin?

 $ apt-cache show swf-player

Description: SWF (Macromedia Flash) player
 A GTK+-based player for Macromedia Flash animations.  Includes a
 Mozilla plugin, that embeds the player into Mozilla-based browsers,
 in order to allow seamless viewing of Flash animations in web
 pages.

Cheers,
jas.



Re: video=ofonly

2002-11-11 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"eskimo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Tuesday 12 November 2002 00:32, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> > "eskimo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > ./patch-floppy-image.pl: line 1: boot-floppy-hfs.img: command not found
> > > ./patch-floppy-image.pl: line 13: my: command not found
> > > ./patch-floppy-image.pl: line 18: my: command not found
> > > ./patch-floppy-image.pl: line 22: my: command not found
> > > ./patch-floppy-image.pl: line 23: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> > > ./patch-floppy-image.pl: line 23: `my $pad_len = $absolute_max_length -
> > > length( $maintain );'
> >
> > That looks suspiciously like you need to run with:
> >
> >   perl ./patch-floopy-image.pl
> >
> > and not just:
> >
> >   ./patch-floopy-image.pl
> >
> > the 'my: command not found' seems to indicate its using /bin/sh and
> > not /usr/bin/perl.
> >
> > jas.
> 
> 
> at the beginning of the script there's that
>  #!/usr/bin/perl -w 

Hmmm.. maybe your perl isn't in /usr/bin/perl?

> and i've tried what you said and i have this:
> 
> Scalar found where operator expected at ./patch-floppy-image.pl line 13, near 
> "$absolute_max_length"
> (Missing operator before  $absolute_max_length?)
> syntax error at ./patch-floppy-image.pl line 13, near "$absolute_max_length "
> Execution of ./patch-floppy-image.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

This is at least perl complaining that the script has syntax errors
and can't be run. 

Sorry, I don't have the script, so I can't help more.

jas.



Re: video=ofonly

2002-11-11 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"eskimo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> ./patch-floppy-image.pl: line 1: boot-floppy-hfs.img: command not found
> ./patch-floppy-image.pl: line 13: my: command not found
> ./patch-floppy-image.pl: line 18: my: command not found
> ./patch-floppy-image.pl: line 22: my: command not found
> ./patch-floppy-image.pl: line 23: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> ./patch-floppy-image.pl: line 23: `my $pad_len = $absolute_max_length - 
> length( $maintain );'

That looks suspiciously like you need to run with:

  perl ./patch-floopy-image.pl

and not just:

  ./patch-floopy-image.pl

the 'my: command not found' seems to indicate its using /bin/sh and
not /usr/bin/perl.

jas.



Keyboard hack for powerbooks no longer works

2002-11-07 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

The lovely keyboard hack that enables you to remap the caps-lock key
to be control on powerbooks stopped working in BenH kernels sometime
after 2.4.16-pre1. I've got a whole series of 2.4.19 kernels and even
though I added the adbhid.c patch it no longer works.

Any ideas what might have happened?

Thanks,
jas.



openoffice.org 1.0.1-5 is a no go

2002-10-30 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

I just upgraded OpenOffice and it won't run. I get the splash screen,
then some debugging output: 

  SIOCGIFADDR got '00:00:00:00:00:00'

and then the splash screen just hangs around doing nothing. 

I did an strace, and it sits waiting on a read:

[snip]

read(21, "[__Global_Printer_Defaults__]\n; "..., 3486) = 3486
access("/home/jasons/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/user/psprint/psprint.conf", F_OK) = 0
lstat("/home/jasons/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/user/psprint/psprint.conf", 
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3486, ...}) = 0
close(21)   = 0
lstat("/SGENPRT", 0x7fffc228)   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/SGENPRT", O_RDONLY)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
lstat("/usr/lib/openoffice/program/../share/psprint/driver/SGENPRT", 
0x7fffc298) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/openoffice/program/../share/psprint/driver/SGENPRT", O_RDONLY) = 
-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
lstat("/usr/lib/openoffice/program/../share/psprint/driver/SGENPRT.PS", 
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=25278, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/openoffice/program/../share/psprint/driver/SGENPRT.PS", 
O_RDONLY) = 21
close(21)   = 0
pipe([21, 22])  = 0
fork()  = 13404
close(22)   = 0
fstat64(0x15, 0x7fffbee8)   = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
0x30021000
read(21,  

any help appreciated.
jas.



Re: date is 1934 on reboot

2002-10-21 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Rogério Brito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Oct 21 2002, John Goerzen wrote:
> > I believe there are firmware and/or OS bugs that cause the date to
> > show up incorrectly.  I have seen this numerous times on my
> > Powerbook, even when brand new, especially when booting one OS and
> > then another.
> 
>   The only time I saw something like that was when I left the
>   battery of my iBook drain completely. I suppose that the iBook
>   I have doesn't have an internal battery for the computer's
>   clock.

OS9 resets my clock everytime I boot into it.

jas.



Re: Batmon & Current

2002-09-19 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> >I've noticed that popping out the DVD/CDROM from the media makes a
> >pretty big difference even if there is no CD in the cassette. Any way
> >to get the same effect without having to physically remove the drive?
> 
> Dunno. It does that with no disk in ?

When I'm on long flights I've noticed that my voltage stabilizes
around -797 with the drive in and -747 with it out, and no disk
inside.

jas.



Re: Batmon & Current

2002-09-18 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> >Ok. I ran Batmon for the first time, after I became aware of it's
> >existance. Generally, current sits on ~ -800 -> -1000. Does the negative
> >sign  signify anything? 
> 
> Yes, negative means it's discharging the battery, positive means it's
> charging.
> 
> Your current seem ok, you can see it get lower if you dim the backlight,
> if you ifconfig your ethernet down, remove your airport module, etc... :)

I've noticed that popping out the DVD/CDROM from the media makes a
pretty big difference even if there is no CD in the cassette. Any way
to get the same effect without having to physically remove the drive?

Thanks,
jas.



libstlport4.5gcc3.2 is still not available

2002-09-08 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey Jan, 

I still can't install OpenOffice.org because of stlport, did it ever
get built?

Thanks,
jas.



Re: bash glob bug?

2002-09-05 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Jon Leonard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 05:30:45PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> > I seemed to have found a bug in bash's globbing behavior. 
> > 
> > Can someone explain to me how the file functions-sql.xml can possibly
> > be included in the ls command below?
> 
> [ command pattern was [E-G]*.xml, output included a file starting with 'f' ]
> 
> Is it possible that you have your locale (or one of the related environment
> variables) set to something other than C?  I don't get similar behavior by
> default from bash on my computer, but if I set LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 I do.
> 
> What's happening there is that the sort order for [] ranges is changed so
> that instead of being EFG ... efg, it's eEfFgG, and f is the the range
> between E and G.  If this is undesired behavior, you may want to set
> LC_COLLATE=C.

Great! Thanks for the explanation.

jas.



Re: bash glob bug?

2002-09-03 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"wes schreiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> 
> >Hey All,
> >
> > I seemed to have found a bug in bash's globbing behavior. Can
> > someone explain to me how the file functions-sql.xml can possibly
> 
> >be included in the ls command below?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >jas.
> >
> >~/work/GeneX-Server/DB/xml $ ls -l [E-G]*.xml
> >-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   1514 Jul 11 17:29 ExperimentFactors.xml
> >-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   4237 Jul 11 17:29 ExperimentSet.xml
> >-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   2090 Jul 11 17:29 ExternalDatabase.xml
> >-rw-r--r--1 jasons   jasons687 Jul 11 17:29 FeatureExtraction.xml
> >-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   5761 Jul 11 17:29 Feature.xml
> >-rw-r--r--1 jasons   jasons   2712 Jul 11 17:29 functions-sql.xml
> >-rw-r--r--1 jasons   jasons915 Jul 11 17:29 GenexAdmin.xml
> >-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   1198 Jul 11 17:29 GroupLink.xml
> >-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   1859 Jul 11 17:29 GroupSec.xml
> >
> >
> >
> 
> What locale are you using? (type "locale" and see) I have the default
> "C" locale here and your example works as expected. Bash honors the
> locale's collating sequence, so my guess is that your locale is set to
> something other than "C", something that has a case-insensitive
> collating sequence.

Ah. I have LANG=en_US. With C it works for me as well.

I still think it's a bug, though. Look at this:

~/work/GeneX-Server/DB/xml $ ls -l [D-E]*.xml F*.xml
-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   1514 Jul 11 17:29 ExperimentFactors.xml
-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   4237 Jul 11 17:29 ExperimentSet.xml
-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   2090 Jul 11 17:29 ExternalDatabase.xml
-rw-r--r--1 jasons   jasons687 Jul 11 17:29 FeatureExtraction.xml
-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   5761 Jul 11 17:29 Feature.xml

~/work/GeneX-Server/DB/xml $ ls -l [D-F]*.xml 
-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   1514 Jul 11 17:29 ExperimentFactors.xml
-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   4237 Jul 11 17:29 ExperimentSet.xml
-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   2090 Jul 11 17:29 ExternalDatabase.xml
-rw-r--r--1 jasons   jasons687 Jul 11 17:29 FeatureExtraction.xml
-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   5761 Jul 11 17:29 Feature.xml
-rw-r--r--1 jasons   jasons   2712 Jul 11 17:29 functions-sql.xml

It only seems to happen when the F is part of a character class. Is
this how en_US is supposed to work?

jas.



bash glob bug?

2002-09-03 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

I seemed to have found a bug in bash's globbing behavior. 

Can someone explain to me how the file functions-sql.xml can possibly
be included in the ls command below?

Cheers,
jas.

~/work/GeneX-Server/DB/xml $ ls -l [E-G]*.xml
-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   1514 Jul 11 17:29 ExperimentFactors.xml
-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   4237 Jul 11 17:29 ExperimentSet.xml
-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   2090 Jul 11 17:29 ExternalDatabase.xml
-rw-r--r--1 jasons   jasons687 Jul 11 17:29 FeatureExtraction.xml
-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   5761 Jul 11 17:29 Feature.xml
-rw-r--r--1 jasons   jasons   2712 Jul 11 17:29 functions-sql.xml
-rw-r--r--1 jasons   jasons915 Jul 11 17:29 GenexAdmin.xml
-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   1198 Jul 11 17:29 GroupLink.xml
-rwxr-xr-x1 jasons   jasons   1859 Jul 11 17:29 GroupSec.xml



libstlport4.5gcc3.2 wherefore are thou??

2002-09-02 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

I tried upgrading my OpenOffice.org installation, and it complained
that it couldn't install libstlport4.5gcc3.2, and sure enough only
libstlport4.5gcc3.1 seems to be available?

Jan, is the libstlport deb available someplace else besides the
openoffice mirrors? The debian-openoffice WWW page says that 1.0.1-5
has been available since Aug 20, what happened to stlport?

Cheers,
jas.



Re: [ANNOUNCE for PowerPC] OpenOffice.org 1.0.1rc and status update

2002-07-14 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Jan-Hendrik Palic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> You need 
> libstdc++4
> libstlport4.5gcc3.1 (>=4.5.3-5cjh2)
> libc6-2.2.5 (>=2.2.5-9.1)
> 
> except libstdc++4 you can find the libs at 
>
>deb http://openoffice.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice unstable main contrib
> 
> Put this line into /etc/apt/sources.list and do:
> 
> apt-get update ; \
> apt-get install openoffice.org openoffice.org-bin libstdc++4 \
>   libgcc1lib stlport4.5gcc3.1 

Besides the typo that Michel already pointed out:

~ $ /usr/bin/openoffice running openoffice.org setup...
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/setup.bin: relocation error:
./libsal.so.3: undefined symbol:
_ZN4_STL12__node_allocILb1ELi0EE11_M_allocateEj setup failed.. abort

I installed both libstlport4.5 and libstlport4.5gcc3.1 and neither
removed the relocation error.

Cheers,
jas.


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Re: Some program for monitoring cdrom and hdd activity?

2002-07-14 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Jesus Climent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Just wondering if there is any program (gnome applet, console) to
> monitor hard disk drive and cdrom activity. 
> 
> I am not looking for "monsters" line The-GTK-Monitor-That-You-Cant-Spell
> which provides all that functionality.

I guess you mean gkrellm...

Don't see what you have against it, it's totally configurable so you
can just disable the bits you don't want.

Cheers,
jas.


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Re: Linux 2.4 on PowerBook G3 pismo

2002-07-09 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Paul Caspi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Does anybody have some explanation to this or knows where I can find a
> correct 2.4 kernel image for my PowerBook ?

I don't have a good explanation for why it doesn't work for you. I do
recommend that you build your own kernel from source. It's pretty
easy, and you can get some significant advantages, such as a nice
patch that enables you to switch the capslock and control keys on the
pismo. 

I've been using BenH's kernels for a long time and am happy with
them. You can rsync his latest from:  

 rsync -avrz rsync.penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh . 

Cheers,
jas.


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Re: pilot

2002-07-08 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Mij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> did someone try pilot-xfer on debian ppc?  I get much "error
> accepting data" etc.

Yes,

Depends on what sytem you're using. The IR chip on the pismo now works
if the speed is throttled to 56k. I'm not sure what chip is in the
TiBooks or the iBooks.

jas.


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Re: Presentation with 2nd gen TiBook

2002-07-07 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Multihead isn't supported yet. Xinerama would work for free if it
> was.

I remember someone offered to work on it, I sure don't have the time
just now...

> I understand, but it's easy to go back both with my binaries and the
> 4.2 debs.

When I read the discussion about 4.2, the main advantage seemed to be
better support for Radeon - which doesn't help me in the least. Is
there any reason for rage128 users to upgrade?

Thanks,
jas.


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Re: Presentation with 2nd gen TiBook

2002-07-07 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Fabian Jakobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Am Samstag, 6. Juli 2002 16:43 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
> > On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 16:01, Fabian Jakobs wrote:
> > > I have to do an presentation with my 2nd gen TiBook (Radeon). I can use
> > > the external VGA port in a multihead environment (XFree86 4.2) but I
> > > would like to mirror the contents of my LCD. Is there a way do archive
> > > this?
> >
> > Make the two screens overlap in the layout section.
> 
> Thanks,
> it works now after activating the xinerama extension.

Hey Michel (and others),

Is Xinerama and multi-head working with the rage128 in the pismo? 

X now works beautifully on my pismo thanks to m3mirror, so I'm kinda
loathe to mess with it (why I'm still using X4.1 out of sid instead of
michel's 4.2 binaries).

Thanks in advance,
jas.


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Re: potato or woody on emac?

2002-07-06 Thread Jason E. Stewart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> hello;
> 
> anyone install potato or woody on an emac?

I'm just waiting for the interesting confusion on comp.editors.emacs
when apple users start writing in for help...

jas. 


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Re: Lombard, pcmcia-cs, cisco aironet

2002-06-26 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Lanners" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On  26 Jun, this message from B.C.J.O echoed through cyberspace:
> > I have been struggling to get the cardbus socket in my Lombard to
> > recognise and init the cisco aironet 340 wifi card I have. I am using
> > benh's kernel tree, currently at 2.4.19-rc1, and have tried both the
> > kernel pcmcia driver modules and the separate pcmcia-cs modules with no
> > luck. Does anybody have this functioning? if so, I'd appreciate it if you
> > could send me the .config file from your kernel and pcmcia recipe. Any
> > help appreciated.
> 
> I have had no problem to use my Aironet 350 card with a BenH 2.4.19-pre
> kernel; in fact it worked out-of-the-box with the kernel PCMCIA driver
> for the Aironet.

Hey Michel,

What tool do you use to configure the card - iwconfig or wlanctl-ng?
I'm having trouble configuring another Prism2 PC card, the 2632-v1
from SMC. 

Thanks,
jas.


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Re: Lombard, pcmcia-cs, cisco aironet

2002-06-26 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"B.C.J.O" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have been struggling to get the cardbus socket in my Lombard to
> recognise and init the cisco aironet 340 wifi card I have. I am using
> benh's kernel tree, currently at 2.4.19-rc1, and have tried both the
> kernel pcmcia driver modules and the separate pcmcia-cs modules with no
> luck. Does anybody have this functioning? if so, I'd appreciate it if you
> could send me the .config file from your kernel and pcmcia recipe. Any
> help appreciated.

According to the 802.11b client adaptor list at:

  http://seattlewireless.net/?HardwareComparison

The cisco aironet uses a Prism2 chip. This means that you will have to
use the prism driver included with the wlan-ng driver set at:

  http://www.linux-wlan.org/index.html

Also, this posting on the wlan list has some helpful links:

  http://www.luni.org/pipermail/luni/2002-March/004662.html

HTH,
jas.


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Re: -L not working properly?

2002-06-16 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Daniel Jacobowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > > So am I delusional, and -L never worked in 'last seen, first used'
> > > order? I thought the whole point was to be able to do things like:
> > > 
> > >   -L/priv/lib1 -llib1 -L/priv/lib2 -lib2 -L/priv/lib2 -lib3 ...
> > > 
> > > and ensure you were getting the correct libraries?
> > 
> > Please RTFM. :) One of the next sentences I omitted is: 'All -L
> > options apply to all -l options, regardless of the order in which
> > the options appear.'

I understand that they all apply, that isn't the issue. The issue is
what is the search order of the -L directories:

1) first in first out (queue)
2) last in first out  (stack)

My understanding (which seems to be flawed) was that it was 2) and not
1). The way makefiles are constructed, you have little control about
what comes first on the link line, but you can easily add: 

  -L/my/private/lib -lmylib

to ensure that the private lib gets searched first. 

What is happening to me is that the search order seems to be happening
the opposite of the way I believed it to have always been working.

> > > I'm downloading code off standard repositories that is suddenly not
> > > linking because of this - did it change recently??
> > 
> > No idea, I wouldn't expect it it did though.
> 
> No, this has not changed in some time.

So has the search order been 'first in first out' all along? I can't
find this documented anywhere, it seems like an important thing to
know.

Thanks,
jas.


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Re: -L not working properly?

2002-06-15 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > I thought the order of -L flags was 'last seen, first used'? What
> > would make the linker not use that order?
> 
>The directories are searched in the order in which they
>are specified on the command line.
> 
> So it seems -L/usr/lib is not only redundant but harmful here.

Hey Michel,

So am I delusional, and -L never worked in 'last seen, first used'
order? I thought the whole point was to be able to do things like:

  -L/priv/lib1 -llib1 -L/priv/lib2 -lib2 -L/priv/lib2 -lib3 ...

and ensure you were getting the correct libraries?

I'm downloading code off standard repositories that is suddenly not
linking because of this - did it change recently??

Cheers,
jas.


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-L not working properly?

2002-06-15 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey,

I'm running an up-to-date sid on my pismo, and in the last month I've
started getting strange behavior when compiling code that uses dynamic
libraries that I have multiple copies of (devo versions and stable
versions).

I've got link lines like:

g++ -DLINUX -fpic  -L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/lib \
 [bunch of .o files]
 /home/jasons/work/xml-xerces/c/bin/DOMPrint
 -L/home/jasons/work/xml-xerces/c/lib -lxerces-c -lc 

but I get a bunch of link errors because the linker is actually using
the libxerces-c.so in /usr/lib and not the one in
/home/jasons/work/xml-xerces/c/lib

by hard-coding the exact path to the library it worked fine.

This also happened to a CPAN module I downloaded and compiled, which
required a completely different library.

I thought the order of -L flags was 'last seen, first used'? What
would make the linker not use that order?

Thanks,
jas.


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Re: Pismo LCD

2002-05-17 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Thomas Peri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm installing debian on a 400-Mhz Pismo, and I'm at the point at
> which it asks for the monitor's best video mode.  Since I remember
> hearing a few years ago that laptop LCDs can get damaged if the wrong
> settings are used, I thought I'd ask here before picking one thing or
> another.  Which settings are appropriate for the Pismo's screen?

I'm attaching a copy of the XF86Config that I use with my pismo 500.

Cheers,
jas.
--
Section "DRI"
#   Mode 0666
EndSection


Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"

FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"

#ModulePath "/usr/XF86-DRI/lib/modules"
EndSection


Section "Module"
Load"dbe"
Load"type1"
Load"freetype"
Load"extmod"
#Load   "glx"
#Load   "dri"

# You can load other modules as well of course
EndSection


Section "ServerFlags"
Option  "blank time""5"
Option  "standby time"  "7"
Option  "suspend time"  "10"
Option  "off time"  "15"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard1"
Driver  "keyboard"
Option  "AutoRepeat""500 5"
Option  "XkbDisable"
Option  "XkbOptions""ctrl:nocaps"
Option  "XkbRules"  "xfree86"
Option  "XkbModel"  "macintosh"
#Option "XkbLayout" "us"
#Option "XkbVariant"""
#Option "XkbOptions"""
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard2"
Driver  "keyboard"
Option  "AutoRepeat""500 5"
Option  "XkbDisable"
Option  "XkbOptions""ctrl:nocaps"
Option  "XkbRules"  "xfree86"
Option  "XkbModel"  "pc"
#Option "XkbLayout" "us"
#Option "XkbVariant"""
#Option "XkbOptions"""
EndSection


# ADB mouse
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse1"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "Protocol"  "BusMouse"
Option  "Device""/dev/mouse"
EndSection

# USB mouse
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse2"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "Protocol"  "IMPS/2"
Option  "Device""/dev/mouse"
Option  "Buttons"   "5"
Option  "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
EndSection

#TrackBall
# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier"Mouse3"
# Driver"mouse"
# #Option   "Protocol"  "ThinkingMousePS/2"
# Option"Protocol"  "IMPS/2"
# Option"Device""/dev/mouse"
# Option  "Buttons"   "3"
# EndSection


Section "Monitor"
Identifier  "PowerBook Display"
HorizSync   30-64 # multisync
VertRefresh 50-100# multisync
Option  "dpms" "on"

Mode "1024x768"
# D: 78.740 MHz, H: 60.015 kHz, V: 75.019 Hz
DotClock 78.741
HTimings 1024 1058 1154 1312
VTimings 768 769 772 800
Flags"+HSync" "+VSync"
EndMode
EndSection


Section "Monitor"
   Identifier  "Viewsonic21"
   VendorName  "Viewsonic"
   ModelName   "Unknown"
   HorizSync   30-82
   VertRefresh 50-150
#Mode "1024x768"
#   DotClock 85.00
#   HTimings  1024 1076 1196 1356 
#   VTimings 768 780 783 823
#   Flags"+HSync" "+VSync"
#   EndMode
#   Mode  "1280x1024" 
#   DotClock 110.00
#   HTimings 1280 1368 1552 1720 
#   VTimings 1024 1025 1028 1078
#   Flags"+HSync" "+VSync"
#   EndMode
#Modeline  "1200x900"  100.00 1200 1259 1418 1554 900 901 911 940
#Modeline  "1152x864"   92.00 1152 1208 1368 1506 864 865 875 911
#Modeline  "800x600"60.75 800 852 916 1060 600 604 609 637 -hsync -vsync
#Modeline  "640x480"36.00 640 680 736 860 480 481 484 513 -hsync -vsync
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Rage128 LCD"
Driver  "r128"
BusID   "PCI:0:16:0"
Option  "UseFBDev"

# Remove this option if there is AGP GART support
Option  "ForcePCIMode"

# Enable flat panel (especially for Pismos)
# Option  "ProgramFPRegs" "No"
# Option"EnableFP"
# Option"PanelX" "1024"
# Option"PanelY" "768"

Option  "XAANoDashedBresenhamLine"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Rage128 External"
Driver  "r128"
BusID   "PCI:0:16:0"
Option  "UseFBDev"

# Remove this option if there is AGP GART support
Option  "ForcePCIMode"

Option  "XAANoDashedBresenhamLine"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
Identifier  "LCD Screen"
Device  "Rage128 LCD"
Monitor "PowerBook Display"
DefaultDepth 24

# Only depth 16 and 24 (fbbpp 32) are supported for DRI
SubSection "Display"
Depth   16
Modes"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   

Re: possiblity that usb<->serial converter works?

2002-05-16 Thread Jason E. Stewart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> Yup, the USB support is pretty good.  I run a USB mouse and keyboard
> just fine.  Check the archives, somebody here said they were using a
> usb->serial adapter & minicom, so I'd imagine it's possible.

I *believe* case the Nokia adaptor does work, but be careful, not
all adapters are created equal. It took almost two years to get the
Palm adapter supported. 

jas.


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Re: eth0 link state change

2002-05-15 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Nicolas Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Check the port on your laptop.  I somehow managed to compress the
> pin on my ethernet port down enough so that they only make
> intermitant contact at best.  A bit of fiddling with a paper clip
> and how they're back in position making good contact.  I thought it
> was odd because I rarely use the ethernet port (gotta love
> wireless).

Yup, intermittent connection.

Thanks!
jas.


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eth0 link state change

2002-05-15 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

For about a week now my logcheck emails have been flooded with the
following: 

May 15 07:05:16 amadeus kernel: eth0:Link down !
May 15 07:05:16 amadeus kernel: eth0: Link state change, phy_status: 0x7809
May 15 07:05:18 amadeus kernel: eth0:Full Duplex: 0, Speed: 100
May 15 07:05:18 amadeus kernel: eth0:Link up ! BCM5201/5221 aux_stat: 0x003e
May 15 07:05:18 amadeus kernel: eth0: Link state change, phy_status: 0x782d
May 15 07:05:24 amadeus kernel: eth0:Link down !
May 15 07:05:24 amadeus kernel: eth0: Link state change, phy_status: 0x7809
May 15 07:05:26 amadeus kernel: eth0:Full Duplex: 0, Speed: 100
May 15 07:05:26 amadeus kernel: eth0:Link up ! BCM5201/5221 aux_stat: 0x003e


Any idea why my eth0 link might be going up and down all the time? Is
this a local issue with my laptop, or is it likely an issue with the
router on the other end of the ethernet link? I upgraded the OS on my
cisco router just about the time I started seeing this, so it makes me
suspicious.

Any help appreciated,
jas.


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Re: Uploaded OpenOffice-1.0.0 for PowerPC

2002-05-07 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Jan-Hendrik Palic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi .. 
> 
> I just uploaded OpenOffice.org 1.0.0 for PowerPC to 
> 
> ftp.vpn-junkies.de
> 
> Put this in your /etc/apt/spources.list:
> 
>   deb ftp://ftp.vpn-junkies/openoffice unstable main contrib
  

probably want ftp.vpn-junkies.de there.

Thanks for making this available,
jas.


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tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

2002-05-05 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

I was trying my hand at building my first debian package (actually
updating the libxalan1.2 package to the new 1.3 version) and I get a
wierd result with tar:

( cd xml-xalan/c/samples ; tar cf - --exclude CVS . ) | ( cd 
debian/libxalan1.3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxalan1.3-dev/examples ; tar xf - )
/home/jasons/debian/xalan-1.2/debian/libxalan1.3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxalan1.3-dev/examples
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

When I execute the command without the first subshell, it works. Why
is the first subshell confusing tar?

Thanks,
jas.

  


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Re: capslock fix for powerbooks

2002-04-12 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Josh Huber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason E. Stewart) writes:
> 
> > Yeah, that's the version I'm using on my pismo, and I did get it
> > working. Rememeber to use xmodmap to move the keys around, or it
> > won't do you any good. Also be careful if you've modified your
> > default keymap (which I had done) to remove the capslock altogether.
> 
> Well, I hadn't got to moving the keys around yet, since I was just
> testing with showkey -k & xev.
> 
> I'm seeing the usual pattern -- keydown event with no keyup event, and
> the next time and key up event with no corresponding key down event.
> 
> I don't need to use ADB keycodes for this to work, do I? (I hope
> not...)

I *do* use ADB keycodes (too lazy to read how to figure out how to
switch).

jas.


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Re: capslock fix for powerbooks

2002-04-12 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 18:38, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> > 
> > PS. Here's my xmodmap file, and I decided that I didn't want capslock
> > at all.
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > 
> > xmodmap -e "remove Lock = Caps_Lock"
> > xmodmap -e "remove Control = Control_L"
> > xmodmap -e "keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L"
> > xmodmap -e "add Control = Control_L"
> 
> This can be achieved with Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps".

Hey Michel,

Does it work together with the capslock keyboard hack? If so, that
would be great.

Thanks,
jas.


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Re: capslock fix for powerbooks

2002-04-12 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Josh Huber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> There are several messages in the archive about this fix -- is anyone
> using it successfully?  I'm trying it out with 2.4.19-presomething,
> and it doesn't seem to do the trick.  Is this the most up to date
> version of said hack (below)?  I'm using a Lombard, btw.

Hey Josh,

Yeah, that's the version I'm using on my pismo, and I did get it
working. Rememeber to use xmodmap to move the keys around, or it won't
do you any good. Also be careful if you've modified your default
keymap (which I had done) to remove the capslock altogether.

jas.

PS. Here's my xmodmap file, and I decided that I didn't want capslock
at all.

#!/bin/sh

xmodmap -e "remove Lock = Caps_Lock"
xmodmap -e "remove Control = Control_L"
xmodmap -e "keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L"
xmodmap -e "add Control = Control_L"

#
# I don't need a caps lock
# 
# keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
# add Lock = Caps_Lock


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Re: libXrender bug crashes OpenOffice

2001-11-27 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey Michel,

I took the liberty of moving this over to debian-powerpc

"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > > On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 23:37, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> > >
> > > > While running Kevin Hendrix's build of OpenOffice I kept getting
> > > > Abort's for no reason. We've finally limited down to the Xrender
> > > > lib. When it's not on my system, OpenOffice runs fine, with it I get
> > > > crashes.
> 
> BTW how can I reproduce those crashes? No 'success' so far.

It only appeared in build 638C. If you have truetype fonts in your
font path try opening the font pull down. Crashes instantly for me
with libXrender.so from xlibs-4.1.0-9.

> PS: No, you can't build only libXrender.

Anyway to build something small, like just the libs and not the
server?

Thanks,
jas.



Re: Any PPC Java JIT compiler project around ?

2001-11-21 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"David N. Welton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Franck Routier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > I think this is a real bottleneck in using GNU/Linux PPC (with Java,
> > of course !)
> 
> Well, yes, that's what comes of becoming attached to proprietary
> systems.  You find that they are not portable, and that you are tied
> down to a whole series of things.

That's not the issue. Without a fast JVM or JIT, java on linux is *dog
slow*...

> > I know gcj might be a partial solution, but didn't figured out how
> > to use it.
> 
> class HelloWorld {
> public static void main(String[] args) {
> System.out.println("Hello World!"); 
> }
> }
> 
> @ashland [~/tmp] $ gcj-3.0 --main=HelloWorld HelloWorld.java 
> @ashland [~/tmp] $ ./a.out 
> Hello World!
> 
> It's pretty easy, and it's free software!

Doesn't help if you've got someone else's .class files. A fast JVM/JIT
would help.

jas.



Re: IrDA-patched binaries

2001-11-12 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > > Yup, 2.4.15-pre2 has my better fix. :)
> > 
> > sorry Michel, I don't understand. Is the irda_pv_t listed above your
> > fix?
> 
> Yes, it's in Linus' 2.4.15-pre2 and thus of course also in Ben's.

Ah.. Thanks. So I assume that I can use BenH's kernel as is with my
Pismo and my Palm, with no patch needed?

Thanks,
jas.



Re: IrDA-patched binaries

2001-11-12 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> "Jason E. Stewart" wrote:
> > 
> > "Jonas Smedegaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > I have made available kernel and irda-packages with the irda-hacks
> > > added to make .
> > 
> > I was totally thrilled to see this. Because of reiserfs, I need to
> > compile my own kernel, so I grabbed the patches a couple of weeks
> > ago. I just had time to look at them and it seems that parameters.h
> > has changed a *lot* since this patch was made.
> > 
> > >From BenH's latest kernel:
> > 
> > typedef union {
> > char   *c;
> > __u32   i;
> > __u32 *ip;
> > } irda_pv_t;
> 
> Yup, 2.4.15-pre2 has my better fix. :)

sorry Michel, I don't understand. Is the irda_pv_t listed above your
fix? Or will your fix being showing up in BenH's kernel soon, or??? 

> Now we're working on fixing macserial such that the 'cat /dev/ttyS1
> trick' isn't needed anymore...

Hmmm.. Sorry, must have missed that one. What is the trick, and why is
it needed?

Thanks,
jas.



Re: IrDA-patched binaries

2001-11-11 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Jonas Smedegaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have made available kernel and irda-packages with the irda-hacks added
> to make .

I was totally thrilled to see this. Because of reiserfs, I need to
compile my own kernel, so I grabbed the patches a couple of weeks
ago. I just had time to look at them and it seems that parameters.h
has changed a *lot* since this patch was made.

>From BenH's latest kernel:

typedef union {
char   *c;
__u32   i;
__u32 *ip;
} irda_pv_t;

from the patch:

+#if   defined(__BIG_ENDIAN)/* TODO: not 64bit safe (when casting __u32 to 
ptr) */
 typedef union {
char   *c;
-   __u8b;
-   __u16   s;
+   struct {
+   __u8mm,ml,lm,ll;/* most to least significant */
+   }   b;
+   struct {
+   __u16   m,l;/* most to least significant */
+   }   s;
__u32   i;
__u8  *bp;
__u16 *sp;
__u32 *ip;
 } irda_pv_t;
+#elif defined(__LITTLE_ENDIAN) /* TODO: not 64bit safe */
+typedef union {
+   char   *c;
+   struct {
+   __u8ll,lm,ml,mm;/* least to most significant */
+   }   b;
+   struct {
+   __u16   l,m;/* least to most significant */
+   }   s;
+   __u32   i;
+   __u8  *bp;
+   __u16 *sp;
+   __u32 *ip;
+} irda_pv_t;
+#else
+#error "unknown endianness"
+#endif
 

So it looks like the irda_pv_t has lost the *sp,*bp,s, and b fields
since the patch was made. Since the primary change of the patch is to
make the b and s fields into structs, I don't really have a clue how
to procede.

Can someone suggest anything?

Thanks,
jas.



Re: Recent PPC Reiser support & Reiser strategy

2001-11-04 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Jean-Francois Landry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Guess it boils down to: It Works For Me(tm), It Doesn't For You(tm).
> Since this thread seems to be going nowhere, I'll just advice everyone
> on the list to stress test their environment before storing important
> data on (possibly horribly b0rken) storage subsystems/filesystems.

I still use Reiser and I've had one issue that makes me want to
switch. That was reading Jeff Mahoney's porting page a month or so ago
in which he had discovered that he introduced a bug in his endianess
patch that made Reiser scatter what should have been contiguous blocks
randomly across the disk. 

Reiser on PPC/big-endian is just not very heavily tested.

jas.



Re: GConf/galeon problems solve

2001-10-16 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 16 Oct 2001, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> 
> > I don't know about galeon, but mozilla is pretty up-to-date in:
> >
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib 
> > non-free
> >
> > I've just built galeon from source and installed it in /usr/local
> 
> Galeon and Mozilla are both the latest released version in unstable.

Yes!!!

And with libc6-2.2.4-3, mozilla installation actually works!!!

jas.



Re: GConf/galeon problems solve

2001-10-16 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Blake Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> While we're on the subject 
> 
> Is there a good APT source to get galeon and mozilla or am
> I on my own?  They're in x86/unstable but I didn't see them right
> away in powerpc/unstable.
> 
> I'm currently *lame* and am using the
> 
> "http://http.us.debian.org/debian";'ish
> 
> lines in my sources.list.  Is there a better APT source for the latest
> powerpc stuff?

I don't know about galeon, but mozilla is pretty up-to-date in:

deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

I've just built galeon from source and installed it in /usr/local

Cheers,
jas.



GConf/galeon problems solve

2001-10-16 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

In case it's useful to others, there is an email describing a solution
for getting galeon working if you get the dreaded:

 'Cannot find a schema for Galeon preferences. Check your gconf setup,
 look at Galeon FAQ for more info. '

problem.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200108/msg00620.html

Cheers,
jas.



Re: Benh's kernel and Firewire

2001-10-12 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Derrik Pates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 11 Oct 2001, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> 
> > There's been quite a bit of discussion about this on the linux1394
> > list lately. The issue is it works for some, but not all people (not
> > for me and my pismo, unfortunately). BenH seems to be working pretty
> > steadily on this.
> 
> linux1394-devel or linux1394-user? I check the lists on the linux1394 site
> every so often, but I rarely see any conversation going on on those
> lists.

devel.

jas.



Re: Benh's kernel and Firewire

2001-10-11 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Derrik Pates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> It's the same story on the FireWire iBook I'm running Linux on. I'm
> running 2.4.11-pre6-ben0, and loading the ohci1394 driver results with a
> hard shutdown within ~5 seconds, and a system clock reset (to 1904?).
> Where are the patches? The code in Ben's kernel, and in the Linux1394 CVS
> tree, both have a comment saying they know how to detect the OHCI1394
> FireWire controller in the PowerBooks, but they don't know how to drive it
> then. I would like to have FireWire work on the iBook (and on this G3
> tower system, but it's outfitted with a non-OHCI-compliant TI FireWire
> controller - the PCILynx2).

There's been quite a bit of discussion about this on the linux1394
list lately. The issue is it works for some, but not all people (not
for me and my pismo, unfortunately). BenH seems to be working pretty
steadily on this.

jas.



Re: Mozilla problems with PPC?

2001-10-09 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Paul F. Pearson wrote:
> 
> > I downloaded and installed Mozilla M18-?? using dselect.
> 
> M18 is over a year old.  Ten releases have followed, and many proxy
> auto-configuration bugs have been fixed.

M18 is whats in stable. To use 0.9.4 you have to add unstable to your
package list in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

Mozilla is in non-US because of crypto stuff.

HTH,
jas.



Re: usb printing problem

2001-10-08 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Jack Howarth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> the output is accepted by the device without complaint but
> nothing happens with the printer. Any one else seeing issues?

I gave up trying to get USB printing working on my pismo. I hooked it
up to a windows box and used samba instead. I'd love to get it
working, but nothing I tried succeeded.

jas.



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

2001-10-04 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Branden Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> You reap what you sow, buddy.  If it weren't for people like you
> providing such a magnificent example, I wouldn't be half the asshole
> I am today.

I don't suppose that anyone has pointed out that if you spent half the
time writing abusive flame mails that you do, you would in fact be
half the asshole you pretend to be. 

Besides that might actually give you more time to code, and be useful.

jas.



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

2001-10-02 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 07:36:50PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> > "Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > > Ok. I lied, galeon only works for root. If I try to run it as a
> > > 
> > > you should not even be trying that, ever.
> > 
> > Advice is good, reasons are even better. Why shouldn't I run it as root?
> 
> no X program should ever be run as root.  period.

I disagree. 

When I first tried the new build of galeon, I mistakenly ran one of my
old builds, and reported success. When I realized the error, and
discovered the new build wouldn't run, I ran galeon as root to test
whether there was a permissions issue. 

So, I didn't intend to use it as a web browser, merely to test what my
error was.

> root is for system administration ONLY not for random web browsing and
> daily use.  you should be root as little as possible.

This is useful advice, and I agree. If you had indicated this in your
first email, we could have avoided the entire discussion.

Thanks!
jas.



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

2001-10-02 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 07:36:50PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> > > "Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > > Ok. I lied, galeon only works for root. If I try to run it as a
> > > > you should not even be trying that, ever.
> > > Advice is good, reasons are even better. Why shouldn't I run it as root?
> > Read Bugtraq.
> 
> The best policy is to only use root for system administrative tasks
> that cannot be done by normal users.  To use the root account, log
> into a regular account and "su".  Do not run X, GNOME, and KDE as
> root.

Thanks Jeff, that was helpful. I thought I was running the risk of
damaging my machine becuase of some programming error in galeon. 

I ran galeon as root to see if the issue was a permissions problem,
and since it worked, it seemed for root and not for any other
non-priveleged user, that seems to be the issue.

As advice to Ethan and Branden:

Instead of taking the 5 seconds it takes to make a pointless cryptic
reply, why not take the 30 seconds to include a URL, or slightly more
verbose one? 

Otherwise, why bother?

Cheers,
jas.



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

2001-10-01 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > Ok. I lied, galeon only works for root. If I try to run it as a
> 
> you should not even be trying that, ever.

Advice is good, reasons are even better. Why shouldn't I run it as root?

> > non-priveleged user I get an error dialog:
> > 
> >   Cannot find a schema for galeon preferences. Check your gconf setup,
> >   look at galeon FAQ for more info.
> > 
> > So I read the galeon FAQ and did what it said, including running
> > gconftool --shutdown, and no luck same error.
> 
> chmod -R go=rX /etc/gconf

That's one of the things I tried. No luck same error.

Thanks,
jas.



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

2001-10-01 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 23:33, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> 
> > I went to upgrade to the mozilla-browser in unstable, and I get a
> > segfault on line 24 during the dpkg configuration that line is just:
> 
> Downgrade libc6 to 2.2.4-1 . BTW no more need to submit a bug about
> this. ;)

Ok. I lied, galeon only works for root. If I try to run it as a
non-priveleged user I get an error dialog:

  Cannot find a schema for galeon preferences. Check your gconf setup,
  look at galeon FAQ for more info.

So I read the galeon FAQ and did what it said, including running
gconftool --shutdown, and no luck same error.

Help?
jas.



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

2001-10-01 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 23:33, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> 
> > I went to upgrade to the mozilla-browser in unstable, and I get a
> > segfault on line 24 during the dpkg configuration that line is just:
> 
> Downgrade libc6 to 2.2.4-1 . BTW no more need to submit a bug about
> this. ;)

Yup, that did it. I had to 'apt-get remove locales' as well, as it
required glibc2.2 ...??

Now galeon works. Thanks Michel,
jas.



segfault in mozilla-browser-0.9.4-3 postinst

2001-10-01 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

I went to upgrade to the mozilla-browser in unstable, and I get a
segfault on line 24 during the dpkg configuration that line is just:

regxpcom >/dev/null 2>/dev/null

Running it by hand gives the same result. Running it under gdb gives
the uninformative:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xff64030 in nsComponentManagerImpl::Shutdown () from /usr/lib/libxpcom.so
(gdb) bt
#0  0xff64030 in nsComponentManagerImpl::Shutdown () from /usr/lib/libxpcom.so
#1  0xff1df5c in NS_ShutdownXPCOM () from /usr/lib/libxpcom.so
#2  0x10001064 in ProcessArgs ()
#3  0xfc8c9a0 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6


Anyone seen this? Anyone got 0.9.4 working? With galeon?

Thanks,
jas.



Re: New with PPC soon...

2001-08-21 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Maybe I should thank Hans for scaring me off his crap. ;)

Sorry Michel,

I haven't been following the thread. What caused you to switch from
reiser to xfs?

Thanks,
jas.



Re: Xemacs getting unstable?

2001-08-20 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Wilhelm Fitzpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 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 xemacs that was in testing
> at the time, so I updated to unstable, and since then have gone
> through several version in unstable, with problem just seeming to
> get more frequent.  Sometimes after I kill a runaway xemacs process,
> xemacs will no longer run, and I have to reinstall it.

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.

jas.



Re: switch from ADB to linux keycodes ...

2001-08-20 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Colin Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> NeilFred Picciotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > oh, and on the subject of the keyboard, is it still the case that
> > there's no way to make Pismo's caps-lock key be control?  
> 
> Yep, I believe this is because they key press generates one hardware
> interrupt, but the key-up never generates an interrupt.  Thus,
> software has no way to tell if you're holding the key down or not.

It's locking... 

So the first press doesn't generate a KeyUp the second press doesn't
generate a KeyDown, but it does generate a KeyUp. Still not very
useful.

jas.



Re: Error making shared lib

2001-08-17 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Daniel Jacobowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:14:34PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote:
> > Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> > > I just went and ressurected some old code I wrote 3 years ago. It
> > > wants to take a couple of static libs, and make a shared lib out of
> > > the whole bunch using the --whole-archive flag to ld.
> > 
> > Yeah, but you're not passing the flag to ld, you're passing it to gcc.
> > 
> > > Here is the link/compile line:
> > > gcc -shared -Xlinker --whole-archive -L../bin-ppc-Linux 
> > > -L./../kpl/bin-ppc-Linux -L/usr/lib/ -L/usr/lib/ -lpad
> > > 
> > > Here is an example of the errors:
> > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/2.95.4/libgcc.a(__dummy.o): In function 
> > > `__dummy':
> > > __dummy.o(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `__dummy'
> > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/2.95.4/libgcc.a(__dummy.o)(.text+0x0): 
> > > first defined here
> > 
> > Yeah. Try passing -Wl,-whole-archive if you want to pass that option via 
> > a gcc command line, instead of to ld itself.
> 
> Naw, -Xlinker does that too.
> 
> Try ending with -Xlinker --no-whole-archive?  Leaving --whole-archive
> on is never what you really want.

Dan, you're beautiful ;-)

That was it.

Thanks,
jas.



Error making shared lib

2001-08-16 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

I just went and ressurected some old code I wrote 3 years ago. It
wants to take a couple of static libs, and make a shared lib out of
the whole bunch using the --whole-archive flag to ld.

Problem is I get a huge mess of 'multiple definition' errors all from
libgcc.a 

Any idea what's up?

Here is the link/compile line:
gcc -shared -Xlinker --whole-archive -L../bin-ppc-Linux 
-L./../kpl/bin-ppc-Linux -L/usr/lib/ -L/usr/lib/ -lpad

Here is an example of the errors:
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/2.95.4/libgcc.a(__dummy.o): In function 
`__dummy':
__dummy.o(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `__dummy'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/2.95.4/libgcc.a(__dummy.o)(.text+0x0): first 
defined here


Thanks,
jas.



Continued Keyboard probs with new input layer

2001-08-12 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

Ever since I switched over to the new input layer I've had a really
annoying problem with my keyboard modifier keys. If I hold a modifier
key down for more than 5 secs without hitting another key, I get a
spurious key-up event, so that even though I'm still holding the key
down, whatever application I'm using doesn't know it. It seems to
affect all modifier keys (alt, control, shift)

This is a real pain with Emacs.

I know that Michel said he too had experienced this, but does anyone
have an idea *why* it's happening, or how to fix it?

jas.



Re: Galeon History problem

2001-08-06 Thread Jason E. Stewart
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:22:28AM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> 
> I've compiled and installed galeon 0.11.2 on my testing/unstable
> pismo. It has been working fine, but I have one HUGE complaint. The
> 'Go' menu behavior is completely screwed up. History works fine as
> long as I limit myself to using forward or back. If I hop backward
> using the go menu it seems to pop that item to the top of the history
> stack instead of scrolling history back to that point. 
> 
> So if I jump to item 6 in the go menu, and then hit 'back', instead of
> going to item 7, I'm back at item 0...

I wrote to the galeon-dev list and there was a suggestion to use
right-click on the back button instead, which gives a near infinite
history list.

This works perfectly well.

HTH,
jas.



Re: xfree-4.1.0-1 vs benh-kernel

2001-08-02 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michael Flaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > 
> > I am running 2.4.7-pre7 now, which sounds like 2.4.6. Wakeup and tapping
> > are OK. I have a problem with the modem though, as it is not recognised.
> > 
> 
> thats´s right. The modem doesn´t work on my pimso, too.
> it worked a few weeks ago with old 2.4.0testxxx paulus kernel.
> 
> I´m rsyncing right now and will test if the problem appears with
> 2.4.8pre3-benh as it does with 2.4.7 ...

H... I'm running 2.4.7-pre6 and my pismo's modem works just fine.

jas.



Re: Galeon History problem

2001-08-01 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Bastien Nocera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:23:47PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> >
> >>Thanks for the warning Ethan. So galeon 0.11.2 expects mozilla 0.9.1,
> >>so I don't have a mismatch there. How do I tell what version of Gnome
> >>I'm running? Some libraries are versioned 1.2.x and some 1.4.x
> >>
> >>So do you not see the behavior I mentioned?
> >>
> >
> >i haven't tried 0.11.2 yet, i was not aware it was out until you
> >mentioned it.i don't think galeon is as sensitive to gnome lib
> >versions since those are real libraries being developed as libraries,
> >unlike mozilla.
> >
> 0.11.3 is current, btw.

Yes, but it needs mozilla 0.9.2, and as Ethan was so helpful in
pointing out, it has not been packaged for debian yet.

jas.



Re: Kernel source

2001-08-01 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Jeremy T. Bouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>   Are there any known issues with the latest 2.4.7 kernel source and
> PPC builds? Specifically with PReP systems? I've got to get something more
> than 2.2.19 on this machine because I need IPv6 support, but haven't do
> a PPC kernel build yet and been inform'd the 2.4.* kernel build available
> through apt-get is broken... 

It seems that there's always trouble with PPC on the 2.4 kernel
sources. I'd grab yourself a local copy of Ben H's kernel tree:

rsync -avrz --delete penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh . 

jas.



Re: Galeon History problem

2001-07-31 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:22:28AM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> > Hey All,
> > 
> > I've compiled and installed galeon 0.11.2 on my testing/unstable
> > pismo. It has been working fine, but I have one HUGE complaint. The
> > 'Go' menu behavior is completely screwed up. History works fine as
> > long as I limit myself to using forward or back. If I hop backward
> > using the go menu it seems to pop that item to the top of the history
> > stack instead of scrolling history back to that point. 
> > 
> > So if I jump to item 6 in the go menu, and then hit 'back', instead of
> > going to item 7, I'm back at item 0...
> > 
> > This does not happen with mozilla 0.9.2 (or any others). 
> 
> since when is mozilla 0.9.2 packaged?  

My mistake, I'm running 0.9.1-2...

> > Before I go posting a Galeon bug, do others see this behavior as well?
> > Is this some feature I just don't understand? 
> 
> galeon is very sensitive to be run against the exact same mozilla
> revision it was compiled against, since debian does not have mozilla
> newwer then 0.9.1 the galeon packages are (or should be) compiled
> against that version, thus you must run galeon with mozilla 0.9.1 not
> 0.9.2 installed.  doing otherwise may produce odd and unexpected
> results (believe me ive seen it).

Thanks for the warning Ethan. So galeon 0.11.2 expects mozilla 0.9.1,
so I don't have a mismatch there. How do I tell what version of Gnome
I'm running? Some libraries are versioned 1.2.x and some 1.4.x

So do you not see the behavior I mentioned?

Thanks,
jas.



Galeon History problem

2001-07-31 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All,

I've compiled and installed galeon 0.11.2 on my testing/unstable
pismo. It has been working fine, but I have one HUGE complaint. The
'Go' menu behavior is completely screwed up. History works fine as
long as I limit myself to using forward or back. If I hop backward
using the go menu it seems to pop that item to the top of the history
stack instead of scrolling history back to that point. 

So if I jump to item 6 in the go menu, and then hit 'back', instead of
going to item 7, I'm back at item 0...

This does not happen with mozilla 0.9.2 (or any others). 

Before I go posting a Galeon bug, do others see this behavior as well?
Is this some feature I just don't understand? 

Also, there doesn't seem to be any way to regulate the length of the
list in the 'Go' menu, anyone know how?

Thanks,
jas.



Re: Wherefore art thou fblevel??

2001-07-23 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michael Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > fblevel seesm to have vanished without a trace from pmud-0.7-5, what
> 
> Should have gone into pmud-utils (the rationale being that pmud contains
> the bare essentals, and since pmud can now save/restore backlight levels
> fblevel isn't that essential anymore).

Also, just to be helpful:

  Description: Apple PowerBook power management daemon utils
   pmud is a daemon which periodically polls the PMU
   (power manager) and performs various housekeeping functions
   depending on the power status.
   This package contains additional tools including a battery
   status monitor, a tool for adjustment of screen backlight
   level and tool to preserve X mouse settings across sleep.

Perhaps you can include the name of the tools in the
description. It would help out those of us who use apt-cache or grep
to find what package a tool is located in.

Thanks,
jas.



Re: Wherefore art thou fblevel??

2001-07-23 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michael Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > fblevel seesm to have vanished without a trace from pmud-0.7-5, what
> 
> Should have gone into pmud-utils (the rationale being that pmud
> contains the bare essentals, and since pmud can now save/restore
> backlight levels fblevel isn't that essential anymore).

Ok, that's fine so two questions:

1) how do I tell pmud to change the backlight level without fblevel?

2) /usr/share/doc/pmud/examples/powerfail references fblevel, you may
   want to indicate that it's not part of pmud anymore.

Thanks,
jas.



Wherefore art thou fblevel??

2001-07-23 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey,

fblevel seesm to have vanished without a trace from pmud-0.7-5, what
gives? Has something replaced it? Is this a mistake? I can find no
mention of it in the archive.

jas.



Re: X4.1 with benh 2.4.7-pre6

2001-07-19 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> In drivers/video/aty128fb.c, find
> 
> #define BACKLIGHT_DAC_OFF
> 
> and change it to
> 
> #undef BACKLIGHT_DAC_OFF

Works like a charm,

Thanks Ben,
jas.



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