Re: note on Dual G4 benh install vs. rescue ultra-ATA device

2003-11-03 Thread Ben Reser
gkrellm -- i'm curious if this is correct, but > content that it works for now... thoughts, anyone?). What's the output of /proc/cpuinfo? -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

New pbbuttonsd and powerprefs packages

2003-10-23 Thread Ben Reser
27;ll upload the packages to cooker as soon as klama stops being hosed. Until then cooker people will have to wait. How's that for different, released distro people get something new first. :) -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice wh

Re: Setup system time over network?

2003-09-23 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 05:39:51PM +0100, Andreas wrote: > How can I synchronize my clock over network with timeserver? Install ntp package. Refer to: http://www.ntp.org/ for configuration instructions. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inn

Re: OT: OS X root (was Modem Configuration)

2003-09-04 Thread Ben Reser
you, maybe they won't. That's not entirely accurate. It does exist it just doesn't have a password set on it so you can't by default log into it. A little bit of sudo action can set one and enable it... If you search google you can find out how. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PRO

Re: OT: OS X root (was Modem Configuration)

2003-09-04 Thread Ben Reser
ecome a superuser from Darwin. What's the password? By default you can't su to root on OS X. However, you can use sudo. So this is effectively the same as su'ing to root: sudo /bin/bash The password will be your password for the account you are using, assuming it has Adminis

Re: Uncleanly shutdown message. more details...

2003-07-31 Thread Ben Reser
/dev/sda7 -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you." -- Nietzsche

Re: Uncleanly shutdown message. more details...

2003-07-30 Thread Ben Reser
f you uncleanly shutdown and it is in the middle of writing to the disk you'll have file system corruption. You'll have to run fsck /dev/sda7 against the drive in single user mode. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you." -- Nietzsche

Re: Other Kernels (than those included in 9.1)?

2003-07-28 Thread Ben Reser
is has been an issue since the 8.2 kernels. It's specific to certain memory cards. Some work, some don't. IIRC this issue appears on i586 not just PPC. In my case the machine just shuts off, I don't get any opportunity to get debugging info. So I gave up long ago on trying to t

Re: Anyone cooking? Cooker install ISO?

2003-07-08 Thread Ben Reser
So on my server the following URLs are already active... http://mirror.brain.org/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-ppc/stewb/MandrakeLinux-cooker.ppc.iso http://mirror.brain.org/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-ppc/stewb/MandrakeLinux-cooker.ppc.md5 -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "W

Re: Kppp KO but modem is OK

2003-07-07 Thread Ben Reser
tty standard issue with internal or PCMCIA modems. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you." -- Nietzsche

Re: Kppp KO but modem is OK

2003-07-05 Thread Ben Reser
nit sequence and kppp is thinking their is no modem there as a result. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you." -- Nietzsche

Re: Frozen G3 PB up wake up

2003-06-28 Thread Ben Reser
t 10 > sleeps so far without a crash). Great glad you found a solution that's working for you. P.S. I put this back on the list so people would realize you found a solution to your problem... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "What upsets me is not that

Re: Frozen G3 PB up wake up

2003-06-27 Thread Ben Reser
it was ethereal, but I can't reliably recreate it) In the past things like this have been bugs in the XFree86 code. If you switch to a VT before putting the PB to sleep and then switch back to X after and it works then it is a XFree86 bug. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.res

Re: Ethereal 0.9.13 for Mandrake PPC 9.1

2003-06-26 Thread Ben Reser
n ethat was put out not to long ago to deal with a security issue... The best way to see if something is built for Mandrake is to setup your sources for uprmi (see http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon or install and run urpmi.setup) and then do a urpmq. You can also find documentation on urpmi at http:/

Re: Ethereal 0.9.13 for Mandrake PPC 9.1

2003-06-26 Thread Ben Reser
GPG sig built into it. Doing urpmi ethereal against your updates source will give you the "official" package. Which is 0.9.11 + patches for security issues. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you." -- Nietzsche

Re: [secteam] detectloader fix

2003-06-19 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:11:33PM -0700, Ben Reser wrote: > /usr/sbin/detectloader will fail on any machine without a /etc/lilo.conf > file. chmouel updated the script to try and detect the boot partition > from the lilo.conf file. Problem is he made the script die if the file >

Re: [secteam] detectloader fix

2003-06-19 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:11:33PM -0700, Ben Reser wrote: > 9.1 (i586 and ppc) was shipped with this script. Correction, this was picked up by the initscripts update for 9.1. Cooker has this broken script in it as well, unless CVS is out of date. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

detectloader fix

2003-06-19 Thread Ben Reser
rly on PPC and with grub without lilo... initscripts will need to be updated for 9.1 before any kernel updates can go out or it will not happen cleanly for some users. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now

Re: Linux destroyed HFS+ drive :-(

2003-06-13 Thread Ben Reser
he > serials I have lost as well. I am completely stuck. > :'( > > Is there anything I can do? Usually it wouldn't mount something as the wrong partition type. If it did then very likely the information on what is where (Allocation Table) is completely scrambled. I seriously do

Re: 9.1 Installation problems...

2003-06-12 Thread Ben Reser
ot; > > Any ideas? Shoulds to me like the root partition (i.e. /) is out of space. How much space did you allocate to it? -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you." -- Nietzsche

Re: PPP problems

2003-06-06 Thread Ben Reser
gt; Haven't used these on PPC myself. Anyone? gnome-ppp doesn't have anyway to adjust the delay so it doesn't work. Never even looked at wvdial... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you." -- Nietzsche

pbbutonsd 0.5.3a and pbbcmd 0.5.3

2003-05-30 Thread Ben Reser
/ -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you." -- Nietzsche

Re: some quirks with pbbuttonsd, pmud, trackpad & mouse button emulation

2003-05-30 Thread Ben Reser
the newer version of pbbuttonsd that's on my private tree: http://mirror.brain.org/linux/breser/ppc/9.1/RPMS/pbbuttonsd-0.5.3a-1mdk.ppc.rpm Hopefully this will resolve your issue... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you." -- Nietzsche

Re: new user

2003-04-05 Thread Ben Reser
rwise all packages are built with the options in /usr/lib/rpm/ppc-mandrake-linux/macros file. These options are useful for G4s... but are of course incompatabile for the newer types... Requires GCC 3.2 or newer: -maltivec -mcpu=7450 -mabi=altivec -mpowerpc-gfxopt -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROT

urpmiable mirror of Stew's Webspace.

2003-04-03 Thread Ben Reser
rs for a bit. Note there is also a synthesis file available as well. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion only of her o

libtool-1.4.3 needed

2003-03-17 Thread Ben Reser
libltdl3 needs libtool-1.4.3. libltdl3 has turned up in main now. But libtool isn't there... :) -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of

gtkam needs rebuilding

2003-03-17 Thread Ben Reser
It requires libexif.so.7 which has been replaced by libexif.so.8 -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion only of her ow

libtdl3 missing

2003-03-17 Thread Ben Reser
The package and it's devel package are missing... :( -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion only of her own."

Re: Bugzilla

2003-03-01 Thread Ben Reser
ber? > > If it's not too much trouble, and it's not too big, could you email me that > package privately? Right now it's blocking me from upgrading the drak* tools > which are unusable at the moment. We've tried time and time again. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: old packages

2003-03-01 Thread Ben Reser
cott contributing to mdk. I've worked on something to this effect. But I'm so frustrated that I feel I'm alone in trying to get any changes effected. If you want I'll show you what I have, though I'll have to ask that it stay confidential for the moment as I want to finish i

Re: old packages

2003-02-28 Thread Ben Reser
tew not being able to fix this only to be ignored. I'm tired of fighting to contribute. It's not worth the effort. Which means at this point in time, I am not doing much at all on Mandrake. A lot of what I do anymore sits on my own mirror and doesn't get sent to Mandrake... -- B

Re: PPC - 2 ISOs still? (fwd)

2003-02-19 Thread Ben Reser
It's getting harder to pack everything folks would like to see in this > > footprint. > > You can go with 3 CD. If I understand correctly that means we get 3CDs for the ISOs/Standard Edition. Woohoo! -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America d

Re: trouble to install MDK 8.2 TiBook 12"

2003-02-18 Thread Ben Reser
this machine 8.2 is very unlikely to work well for you. Try the 9.1 beta ISO or wait for 9.1 to be released... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence o

Re: Any opinions on using 700MB ISOs?

2003-02-18 Thread Ben Reser
can just mount them in loopback. That's how I have the CD's accessible off my mirror as just sraight files. Mount it in loopback, copy the files over. Rerun the CD scripts with the size changed. :) -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does not go a

Re: Opinions on 700MB ISOs?

2003-02-13 Thread Ben Reser
reads them just fine. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion only of her own." -- John Quincy Adams, July 4th, 1821

Re: Install probs withcooker

2003-02-12 Thread Ben Reser
n anyone point me to where I could get the ISO's from? Look for the Mandrake-iso/ppc/ tree. It's not under the Mandrake-devel tree. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to

Re: Install probs for cooker

2003-02-11 Thread Ben Reser
or now > without trying to download the whole heirarchy of not only the > ppc/rpm directory but everything else as well? (which seems to be > what wget is doing) Stew told me that the mirrors were all really messed up. Right now the best way to install is with the beta CDs... -- B

Re: beta2 on ibook rev1.1 ;)

2003-02-10 Thread Ben Reser
's a PPC box and I used pdisk). In the case of the TiVo it assumes certain things are numbered certain ways so I was able to trick it into having a larger swap partition temporarily to get around a fsck type issue I had. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Amer

Re: Wrong keymap getting loaded during install.

2003-02-10 Thread Ben Reser
map, then the other (right) >default will be used. Nope not the issue. The keymap is correct after bootup. Just wrong during the install. Stew said he found the problem. So it's taken care of anyway. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does n

Wrong keymap getting loaded during install.

2003-02-10 Thread Ben Reser
Subject says it all. I didn't see anything obvious in the ddebug.log that I already posted... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She

Re: Compiler speed

2003-01-19 Thread Ben Reser
rdware. My AMD XP 2100+ primary box runs circles around the G4. One of these days I'm gonna setup a cross compiler on that box for PPC. I have one for building stuff for my TiVo. But never bothered to set something up for Mandrake. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser

Re: The good old days!

2002-12-16 Thread Ben Reser
? What is your opinion other > than the CVS changes too much etc, etc. Just an idea. This was only ever done on rare ocassions or for betas/release canidates. Not ever in such an early state of development as Cooker PPC is currently. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser

Re: Mirror Abuse!

2002-12-16 Thread Ben Reser
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 12:48:23AM -0800, Ben Reser wrote: > Some people have been abusing my mirror by making multiple connections > (as many as 8) and downloading different hunks of the same thing. Using > up all of my available bandwidth. One individual I caught doing this > toni

Mirror Abuse!

2002-12-15 Thread Ben Reser
him I happened to walk past the router when I did). If I see it happening again I'll throttle download speeds on a per host basis to prevent people from doing this anymore. I don't really want to have to do that. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you&

Re: PPC powerbook wallstreet 1 sucess with mdk 8.2

2002-12-13 Thread Ben Reser
nt? This should be helpful to you: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&m=103913177031350&w=2 -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard enough." - Jim Nichols

Re: Interface Hang with 2.4.18 kernel

2002-12-11 Thread Ben Reser
orked fine with ethereal. But then that is a > different disto AND kernel version. Not sure. I don't try to do that stuff from my laptop all that much so I just haven't worried about it. Unfortunately putting my laptop to sleep in X crashes it so that's not a good

Re: Interface Hang with 2.4.18 kernel

2002-12-10 Thread Ben Reser
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:09:30AM -0800, Ben Reser wrote: > I've had problems with nmap hanging my airport interface but that's it. > The solution I've found is to ifdown the interface. rmmod the modules > related to them. Then ifup the interface again. And it shou

Re: Interface Hang with 2.4.18 kernel

2002-12-10 Thread Ben Reser
or 8.2) I've had problems with nmap hanging my airport interface but that's it. The solution I've found is to ifdown the interface. rmmod the modules related to them. Then ifup the interface again. And it should start working again. Guess it's not really a solution.

Re: [Fwd: update problems...still]

2002-12-09 Thread Ben Reser
on of your MUA and get both the list and the person who sent it if they set the reply-to... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard enough." - Jim Nichols

Re: [Fwd: update problems...still]

2002-12-09 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:03:17PM -0500, Stew Benedict wrote: > 1st off, did the list change? I seem to have to jump through hoops now to > reply to anything and get it to go to the list. No problems here.. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you&

Re: New installer report

2002-12-07 Thread Ben Reser
the links are there also. Not sure what > happened in your case. %post scriptlet error perhaps? update-alternatives stinks... Every 9.0 install I've seen hasn't had the links for postfix made right. If you run update-alternatives --config mta then they get fixed... Why they aren

Re: New problem!

2002-11-25 Thread Ben Reser
ct a lot of this. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard enough." - Jim Nichols

Re: You're beautiful.

2002-11-20 Thread Ben Reser
t-stuff True... there are a number of ways around it. I just went with the one that I thought would be easiest and surest to work right... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard enough." - Jim Nichols

Re: Frozen on startup

2002-11-19 Thread Ben Reser
t;chkconfig --del internet" Then "exit" Then "reboot" Take the CD out of the drive and it ought to get past the whole checking internet connections stuff... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard enough." - Jim Nichols

Re: Frozen on startup

2002-11-19 Thread Ben Reser
net) get started by the network init script and will still startup fine. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard enough." - Jim Nichols

Re: Creating RPM's from source

2002-11-17 Thread Ben Reser
; always download the source and then compile locally, so I figured that > one more step and creating the RPM probably wouldn't hurt. Read this: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/howtos/mdk-rpm/ -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any

Re: more on RPMs

2002-11-04 Thread Ben Reser
ee just > doesn't get an installer, the rest does. Agreed. But somehow I don't see that as happening. The best alternative to an automated build system is to give you guys complete control over your archs. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard enough." - Jim Nichols

Re: more on RPMs

2002-11-04 Thread Ben Reser
stupid. I can't imagine how you can manage to get anything done. If the i586 guys want to continue to control stuff going into the PPC tree, perhaps they should actually start working on it, start accepting patches for it. Maybe Warly or someone should come over and do the PPC work fo

Re: Hardware DB/Tested configurations?

2002-10-28 Thread Ben Reser
ery few PPC machines had radeons at the time). -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard enough." - Jim Nichols

Re: Hardware DB/Tested configurations?

2002-10-28 Thread Ben Reser
ing it here and replying to messages here. If you want a site that has this information on it... why don't you build it? I'd rather Stew (the only person and Mandrake who works on PPC) to spend his limited time working on the actual distribution vs. FAQs, HowTo's, and Hardware datab

Re: No Mention of Mandarke on Everymac (was: Re: install-radeon broken for Cube...)

2002-10-28 Thread Ben Reser
lf a PC. If you really want to use Linux on Mac hardware be ready to be a trailblazer and figure out how to do it. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard enough." - Jim Nichols

Re: Australian PPC cooker mirror

2002-10-26 Thread Ben Reser
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 03:42:54PM +1100, Ken Simpson wrote: > Any ideas about Australian mirrors for PPC cooker? ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake/devel/cooker/ppc -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any mistakes, you're

Re: Digest for list cooker-ppc

2002-10-25 Thread Ben Reser
tall-iso]$ md5sum -c 9.1cooker_install.md5 9.1cooker_install.iso: OK Not sure what the problem is... If it isn't burning then you've definately got other problems because the burning program will gladly burn anything to a disk for you. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org

Re: Cooker Install ISO

2002-10-24 Thread Ben Reser
eser 66 Oct 24 10:21 .DCOPserver_occipital.brain.org__0 lrwxrwxrwx1 breser breser 47 Oct 24 10:21 .DCOPserver_occipital.brain.org_:0 -> /home/breser/.DCOPserver_occipital.brain.org__0 -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any m

Re: struggling with wireless device ...

2002-10-10 Thread Ben Reser
a switch offering the clients access to the > internet/intranet via dhcp everything works. But now the wireless lan > adapter should overtake this "service", I hope you'll find this basic > information useful to help me - thank you in advance! I can't help you with sett

Re: struggling with wireless device ...

2002-10-09 Thread Ben Reser
r details about topology of your wired and wireless network. If you can give me a better sense of exactly what you are trying to do I can probably answer better. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Never take no as an answer from someone who isn't authorized to say yes.

Re: iMac266, OSX Man82ppc installation won't boot

2002-10-03 Thread Ben Reser
trap partition and then puts /boot on just the root partition. Just a fundamentally different boot design. Threw me at first too. But as a result yaboot basically gets it's own partition, the bootstrap. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Never take no as an answer from someone who isn't authorized to say yes.

Re: iMac266, OSX Man82ppc installation won't boot

2002-10-03 Thread Ben Reser
do it is to leave a 1MB partition on the hard-drive as the first partition. Then use that as your boot strap. Make sure to leave it as Apple_Free. Otherwise the installer won't to cooperate with you and use it. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Never take no as an answer from someone who isn't authorized to say yes.

Re: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

2002-10-03 Thread Ben Reser
27;t check. Perhaps just not > fully up to date packages. I'm using devfs without any problems as well but I'm not running cooker on PPC. I don't think vdanen is either for the same reasons I'm not. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Never take no as an answer from someone who isn't authorized to say yes.

Re: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

2002-09-30 Thread Ben Reser
d certainly be something I'd use. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Never take no as an answer from someone who isn't authorized to say yes.

Re: mdk-server does not allow clients ftp-internet-connections/downloads...

2002-09-18 Thread Ben Reser
biggy we all have our moments. :) -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Never take no as an answer from someone who isn't authorized to say yes.

Re: mdk-server does not allow clients ftp-internet-connections/downloads...

2002-09-18 Thread Ben Reser
s to load the ftp helper module ip_conntrack_ftp and allow related connections in your iptables rule sets. ala: -A FORWARD -p tcp -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT Searching google for some the conntrack module and RELATED and iptables should yield some useful results. -- Ben Reser <[EMAI

Re: Club and rpm voting

2002-09-12 Thread Ben Reser
is for Jaques to make public statements (press releases that /. et al will pick up) announcing the coming of 9.1/PPC and asking the community to support it. It's probably too early for that right now. But I really doubt the vast majority of interested parties read this list. In fact I'd s

Re: enabling quota not possible....

2002-09-12 Thread Ben Reser
, but I'll be > happy to look at 8.2 quotas once that is done. If indeed it's not working > on 8.2 x86 also, you might post on Mandrake-expert and see if someone has > a solution there. I can confirm that I've seen similar behavior on x86 in the past. I'm not sure whi

Re: Flash Player for PPC

2002-09-06 Thread Ben Reser
rce flash players and well they stunk and were very buggy. Not that the closed source one isn't. But it's less so. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Never take no as an answer from someone who isn't authorized to say yes.

Re: Fwd: Club and rpm voting

2002-09-06 Thread Ben Reser
has actively development on it. If they have to look elsewhere to find that they will. At any rate this is my 2 cents on the issue. I continue to use my Titanium (though not as much as I did, I mostly use an x86 desktop lately). I have donated to Mandrake, tagging it for PPC. I have bought

Re: Flash Player for PPC

2002-08-29 Thread Ben Reser
have any idea what sort of numbers of Mandrake PPC users > there are out there? Yeah but you still replied to an existing thread which puts you some 200 messages up in my display in the middle of a thread on qt. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org If your love has no hope of

Re: qt3

2002-08-29 Thread Ben Reser
? Not nearly enough that what someone is going to tell you will make him care. From what I can tell even Mandrake seems to be disappointed in the PPC userbase. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org If your love has no hope of being welcomed do not voice it; for if it

Re: sleep mode revisited

2002-07-31 Thread Ben Reser
doesn't do devfs, but the linuxppc kernel does (just my playing > around). When I packaged it on my stock 8.2 system pbbuttonsd didn't like the symlinks. That may have been fixed in a subsequent release... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org We tend to

Re: sleep mode revisited

2002-07-31 Thread Ben Reser
never start because the paths to the mixer and pmu were > wrong. Running "pbbuttonsd" on the commandline directly will tell you > if there are errors in the config. Those config changes were only necessary because you weren't using devfs. Anyone using devfs will have pbbutto

Re: sleep mode revisited

2002-07-30 Thread Ben Reser
#x27;s not supported by the kernel/pmud. And just because other people have say a TiBook or whatever you have doesn't mean apple hasn't made some minute change that doesn't create an issue (they do it all the time). The issue that Vincent found a solution to was machine

Re: Current failed RPM builds

2002-07-30 Thread Ben Reser
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 06:04:07PM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote: > If people find these lists of any value, I could setup a cron job to > do updates to my web space. It'll be useful to me once I get back from vacation... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org W

Re: Quest for PPC cooker...

2002-07-30 Thread Ben Reser
ow. Okay well I guess that's what happens when I answer emails on vacation. :) Anyway while the specific issues might not exist right now I think the warning still holds true for all but the extremly committed user. :) -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org We tend to see al

Re: Quest for PPC cooker...

2002-07-30 Thread Ben Reser
ew has been kind enough to try to keep up rebuilding but he has other responsibilities and hasn't been concentrating on cooker. So frankly right now just don't run cooker. Unless of course you don't mind spending lots of time debugging a non-working system. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PRO

Re: putting system to sleep

2002-07-26 Thread Ben Reser
ybe > something in pmud needs/wants devfs (although I've modified the > configs to point to the proper non-devfs devices). Unless there is > something in X that is requiring devfs-style > devices hmmm... something else to test. > > Are you booting with devfs=mount? Nope

Re: timeline

2002-07-24 Thread Ben Reser
.0 for PPC but rather it will skip a release like we did for 8.1. Stew of course knows more (or maybe he doesn't ). -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org We tend to see all wars through the lens of the current conflict, and we mine history for lessons convenient to the present purpose. - Brian Hayes

Re: putting system to sleep

2002-07-24 Thread Ben Reser
ve a Powerbook G4 (Titanium) with the Rage 128 Mobility. It wasn't until realtively recently that I've had this problem. So I think one of the security updates did it actually. I know stock 8.2 worked fine for me. I haven't taken the time to install each set of updates one by one

Re: [Club-Volunteers] Updated gphoto2, gtkam, libexif, libusb et al

2002-07-18 Thread Ben Reser
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 05:33:25PM -0700, Ben Reser wrote: > I've built these packages for 8.2/ppc there all up on my site here: > http://mirror.brain.org/linux/breser/ppc/8.2/ FYI gphoto2 for 8.2/ppc has been updated to 4mdk from cooker that fixes a minor packaging bug. But still

Updated gphoto2, gtkam, libexif, libusb et al

2002-07-17 Thread Ben Reser
1:46:19 PM PDT Install date: (not installed) Build Host: titanium.brain.org Group : Graphics Source RPM: gphoto2-2.1.0-3mdk.src.rpm Size: 511785 License: LGPL Packager: Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL

Re: XFdrake and Xpmac

2002-07-17 Thread Ben Reser
ed however the internet startup script is designed to do just that. Bring up a dialup connection at startup. Unfortunately I seem to recall it's pretty buggy. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org We tend to see all wars through the lens of the current conflict, and we mine h

Re: Acard ATA 133 (as part of Cooker 'PPC & Radeon PCI')

2002-07-17 Thread Ben Reser
x.c (yes 6.10mdk was never released but it should be similar to the 8.?mdk that's in updates now) At least from what I can tell from the linux-ide site I would guess that would be the driver that supported those cards: http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ht

Re: Cooker PPC & Radeon PCI

2002-07-17 Thread Ben Reser
you mean by acard). At least my Promise ATA/133 card works fine for me. Though i must admit I'm not using it on PPC. But I'm pretty sure the driver is there. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org We tend to see all wars through the lens of the current conflict

Re: XFConfig screen sections modes

2002-07-15 Thread Ben Reser
ill > for flat display) > > Then (and because uninstall Xpmac wasn't working), i'm still under Xpmac. > How could > i change that manually. Changing only the X --> Xpmac symlink in /etc/X11 ??? Try running: XFdrake --expert Guess XFrake doesn't ask unless you do that

Re: XF86Config screen sections modes

2002-07-14 Thread Ben Reser
formac Pronitron is > more or les equivalent to some of those sony 17") Don't use the ibook display option. It's an LCD and even if the timings do work with your monitor they probably are way slower than what your monitor does support. Why don't you try some of the Sony displays? Then if that doesn't work you could just looking up the exact information for your monitor and edit the XF86Config-4 file. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org We tend to see all wars through the lens of the current conflict, and we mine history for lessons convenient to the present purpose. - Brian Hayes

Re: XF86Config pointer section

2002-07-14 Thread Ben Reser
Logitech mice > > #Option "ChordMiddle" > > EndSection > > this looks strange to me because i don't have any usb serial port rather > an adb one. > > how sould i change those line for my mouse ? You don't need to it looks right. The kernel treat

Re: Keyboard, modem, X11, and other problems..

2002-07-14 Thread Ben Reser
On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 04:47:21PM +0200, Anne et Bertrand wrote: > That's what I have in MdkPPC-8.2 : > > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 15 mai 23 17:36 > /usr/bin/X11/Xconfigurator -> ../sbin/XFdrake You must have upgraded from 8.0. Because 8.2 no longer makes t

Re: upgrade download

2002-07-13 Thread Ben Reser
to account by the package > manager ? Read this it explains your problem and provides the solution: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/2002/MDKA-2002-006.php?dis=8.2 -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org We tend to see all wars through the lens of the current

Re: Keyboard, modem, X11, and other problems..

2002-07-13 Thread Ben Reser
also tryed to disable local dns and other > options..) So do you or don't you have your modem working? Just an FYI. Linux on PPC is not very easy compared to on PC hardware. So just get used to the little issues... you'll have plenty of them. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MOL cuts off Sound for everybody else?

2002-07-13 Thread Ben Reser
: Sometimes there are some sounds that seem to be > "queued up" and all play at once when MOL quits. Not odd. If you enable sound in MOL you're giving the MacOS control of the sound hardware. Thus linux can't play sounds. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.r

Re: Keyboard, modem, X11, and other problems..

2002-07-12 Thread Ben Reser
nux ppc .. can I install the linux ppc rpms on mandrake > ppc ? I'd like to have the matrix > screensaver and xevil .. Probably not a great idea but I believe they are still binary compatable in 8.2/ppc. But I wouldn't count on that in future versions as soon as Mandrake rele

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