RE: Open Office PPC version:
I can be a mirror if you guys want -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stew Benedict Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 7:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Open Office PPC version: Oops, Just caught up on some older emails and Kevin asked not to load down his machine with downloads. I'll grab it and put it on my web space. quote: BTW, please do not load down my machine (crunch.ivey.uwo.ca is our main research machine) That binary was put there for SuSE to test first and then mirror for others if they are interested. If the load impacts machine performance I will not e able to use it to post things there for others in the future. /endquote Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC Faq: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcm=99441208917647w= On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: Kevin Hendricks has build up the latest version of Open Office for PPC: If you are interested, I would be happy to ftp them to whereever you want. Both installers are over 50 meg in size. The english version can also be downloaded from http://crunch.ivey.uwo.ca/khendricks/openoffice/ but I have not uploaded the german version anyplace since it has not been tested. Haven't tested it here yet - downloading now Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC Faq: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcm=99441208917647w=
RE: Open Office PPC version:
Sure, the more the merrier. The tarball and readme are up on my webspace referenced below now: Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC Faq: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcm=99441208917647w= On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Lin Jiaqi wrote: I can be a mirror if you guys want -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stew Benedict Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 7:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Open Office PPC version: Oops, Just caught up on some older emails and Kevin asked not to load down his machine with downloads. I'll grab it and put it on my web space. quote: BTW, please do not load down my machine (crunch.ivey.uwo.ca is our main research machine) That binary was put there for SuSE to test first and then mirror for others if they are interested. If the load impacts machine performance I will not e able to use it to post things there for others in the future. /endquote Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC Faq: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcm=99441208917647w= On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: Kevin Hendricks has build up the latest version of Open Office for PPC: If you are interested, I would be happy to ftp them to whereever you want. Both installers are over 50 meg in size. The english version can also be downloaded from http://crunch.ivey.uwo.ca/khendricks/openoffice/ but I have not uploaded the german version anyplace since it has not been tested. Haven't tested it here yet - downloading now Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC Faq: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcm=99441208917647w=
Re: unsubscribing
At 20:24 -0400 07/21/01, Dave Smith wrote: Ditto that! Usubscribe doesn't seem to work. I'm being flooded by emails that I really don't need or want at this time. please correct this before it is reported as abuse. Thanks Dave -- Q35. - I bought a couple of little doe fawns with a yellowish white matter in their eyes and tear duct. I gave them both a antibiotic, but now I notice it on some of my other stock. What is the cause of the mucus and how do I treat it? P.S. the fawns still have it. (Lee, Victoria) A. - If the ocular discharge is not acompanied by changes to the eyeball itself (cloudiness, ulceration), and the fawns are otherwise quite well, then it is probably a simple conjunctivitis you are dealing with. This tends to be most prevalent when the animals are run under hot, dusty conditions, and/or when flies are bad. Most cases recover without treatment, but some may require use of ocular antibiotic ointment. However, the handling required for this type of treatment usually makes it impractical, except in pet fawns. -- Hope this helps, Dave... -- BX -- This has been a Jest of the emergency BS system. This Jest, involuntary regurgitation of the rfc, has developed this Jest to keep you amused. If this had been an actual emergency, the message you just saw would've been followed up by serious replies This is only a Jest... --
Re: Memory support - FYI
No big problems after high mem support was compiled in - no need to specify boot flags or anything of the like. Only a cosmetic problem - when creating the login message (/etc/rc.d/rc.local) using linux_logo - the available RAM comes out to be 512M instead of 1024M (which is correctly reported in /proc/meminfo). So, I created a patch against the latest version of linux_logo. I only patched the PPC specific file because I don't have an x86 machine w/ 1G of RAM! Apparently the problem is the way linux_logo goes about determining the RAM size (stat /proc/kcore). I'm not sure why kcore is only 512M, didn't look too deep into that, but in any case - it is. So, I kept the bit about statting kcore and added a look into /proc/meminfo to see what was being reported as 'high memory' (HighTotal:) and added that in. I imagine this is prone to bugs, though I don't have a diverse number of systems to test against! In any case - (Stew) - the patch is attached. I integrated the patch into the .spec file, and created an RPM for those of you out there who'd like it - but I'm not sure how to create a src.rpm now. If someone would like to enlighten me, I'd be happy to learn :) download location: http://www.webprojkt.com/mandrake.html Cheers, Brice Brice D Ruth wrote: Hi there. Back again with some news. I recently got my new memory (2 sticks of 512MB each) for my iMac DV (memory is so incredibly inexpensive now!). I installed the memory booted into Linux - only to find that only 512MB was detected. Damn. My first thought was that it was a hardware problem - maybe my iMac wasn't *really* capable of handling 1G of memory. So, I booted into MacOS (native) - and it saw 1G of memory, no hardware problem here, apparently. Rebooted and somehow OS 9.1 had scrambled my bootstrap, because I only got a '?' folder - then a boot into MacOS :( - this happened before and I knew how to take care of it - boot into rescue from the CD and chroot/ybin - no problem. Except that apparently the kernel on the CD (2.2.19) can't handle having that much memory around - I didn't really know what to do at first, then I hit on some notes and booted into rescue mode with the flag 'mem=128M' - which worked fine. I did my thing and got back into Linux. I supplied my 2.4.4-6.2 kernel with the flag 'mem=1024M' - but it still didn't see the 1G of memory, only 512MB. So, I'm recompiling the kernel w/ High Memory Support enabled - hopefully that's what I need and hopefully it works well on Mandrake PPC :) I'll report back if I have any problems - just wanted to throw this out in case (a) anyone else runs into the problem or (b) you want to specify something in the install instructions or modify the boot kernel in some way shape or form to automagically figure this out. Basically an FYI like the subject says :) -Brice linux_logo-mem.patch.bz2
Re: Memory support - FYI
Thanks guys - I put an order in for 256MB, should speed things up a bit ;^) Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC Faq: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcm=99441208917647w= On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Brice D Ruth wrote: Hi Stew, Thanx for the tip on creating the src.rpm :) Check out ramseeker.com - that's where I go for links to cheap Mac Memory. I'm not sure what kind of powerbook the lombard is, but here's an excerpt from the bottom of the page: G4 (PC133) http://www.ramseeker.com/G4_PC133.shtml 16mb: | 32mb 19.00 | 64mb 6.33 | 128mb 14.00 | 256mb 26.50 | 512mb 62.50 iMac (slot loading) http://www.ramseeker.com/newimac.shtml 16mb: | 32mb 8.00 | 64mb 6.23 | 128mb 14.00 | 256mb 27.00 512mb 62.99 PowerBook G4 http://www.ramseeker.com/PBG4.shtml 16mb: | 32mb 9.00 | 64mb 13.00 | 128mb 15.94 | 256mb 44.25 | 512mb 153.00 iBook http://www.ramseeker.com/ibook.shtml 16mb: | 32mb 7.00 | 64mb 13.00 | 128mb 15.93 | 256mb 44.25 | 512mb 825.00 if its a G4 Powerbook, $153 for 512MB doesn't seem to bad :) More than the $62.99 (I paid $69) for the iMac, but still not bad :) For my x86 laptop (Dell Latitude CPi D266XT) 128MB costs roughly $400 ... a rip-off if I've ever seen one! -Brice Stew Benedict wrote: Thanks Brice, Creating the source RPM: rpm -bs some-spec-file You spurred me into looking to see if cheap RAM was to be had for my Powerbook Lombard, now that I've got drive space, but it doesn't look to be so cheap in the couple of places I looked ;^) I'll be sure to enable high memory in the next kernel I patch up for PPC. Thx, Stew Benedict
Re: Memory support - FYI
*sigh* I just love outdated systems... I'm trying to find _32_ megs for my Powerbook 5300, and unless I eBay it, I'm going to pay at least $77 bucks. Oh well... better than slapping down $1299 for a new iBook. Nick On Monday, July 23, 2001, at 05:27 PM, Brice D Ruth wrote: Hi Stew, Thanx for the tip on creating the src.rpm :) Check out ramseeker.com - that's where I go for links to cheap Mac Memory. I'm not sure what kind of powerbook the lombard is, but here's an excerpt from the bottom of the page: G4 (PC133) 16mb: | 32mb 19.00 | 64mb 6.33 | 128mb 14.00 | 256mb 26.50 | 512mb 62.50 iMac (slot loading) 16mb: | 32mb 8.00 | 64mb 6.23 | 128mb 14.00 | 256mb 27.00 512mb 62.99 PowerBook G4 16mb: | 32mb 9.00 | 64mb 13.00 | 128mb 15.94 | 256mb 44.25 | 512mb 153.00 iBook 16mb: | 32mb 7.00 | 64mb 13.00 | 128mb 15.93 | 256mb 44.25 | 512mb 825.00 if its a G4 Powerbook, $153 for 512MB doesn't seem to bad :) More than the $62.99 (I paid $69) for the iMac, but still not bad :) For my x86 laptop (Dell Latitude CPi D266XT) 128MB costs roughly $400 ... a rip-off if I've ever seen one! -Brice Stew Benedict wrote: Thanks Brice, Creating the source RPM: rpm -bs some-spec-file You spurred me into looking to see if cheap RAM was to be had for my Powerbook Lombard, now that I've got drive space, but it doesn't look to be so cheap in the couple of places I looked ;^) I'll be sure to enable high memory in the next kernel I patch up for PPC. Thx, Stew Benedict
Re: Memory support - FYI
I just checked on eBay for RAM for my Dell laptop and even if I get it there, it looks like I'll pay as much as I could sell the entire laptop for. No thank you. Brice Nick Meyer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> *sigh* I just love outdated systems... I'm trying to find _32_ megs for my Powerbook 5300, and unless I eBay it, I'm going to pay at least $77 bucks. Oh well... better than slapping down $1299 for a new iBook. Nick On Monday, July 23, 2001, at 05:27 PM, Brice D Ruth wrote: Hi Stew, Thanx for the tip on creating the src.rpm :) Check out ramseeker.com - that's where I go for links to cheap Mac Memory. I'm not sure what kind of powerbook the lombard is, but here's an excerpt from the bottom of the page: G4 (PC133) 16mb: | 32mb 19.00 | 64mb 6.33 | 128mb 14.00 | 256mb 26.50 | 512mb 62.50 iMac (slot loading) 16mb: | 32mb 8.00 | 64mb 6.23 | 128mb 14.00 | 256mb 27.00 512mb 62.99 PowerBook G4 16mb: | 32mb 9.00 | 64mb 13.00 | 128mb 15.94 | 256mb 44.25 | 512mb 153.00 iBook 16mb: | 32mb 7.00 | 64mb 13.00 | 128mb 15.93 | 256mb 44.25 | 512mb 825.00 if its a G4 Powerbook, $153 for 512MB doesn't seem to bad :) More than the $62.99 (I paid $69) for the iMac, but still not bad :) For my x86 laptop (Dell Latitude CPi D266XT) 128MB costs roughly $400 ... a rip-off if I've ever seen one! -Brice Stew Benedict wrote: Thanks Brice, Creating the source RPM: rpm -bs some-spec-file You spurred me into looking to see if cheap RAM was to be had for my Powerbook Lombard, now that I've got drive space, but it doesn't look to be so cheap in the couple of places I looked ;^) I'll be sure to enable high memory in the next kernel I patch up for PPC. Thx, Stew Benedict
Re: Memory support - FYI
Hi Stew, Thanx for the tip on creating the src.rpm :) Check out ramseeker.com - that's where I go for links to cheap Mac Memory. I'm not sure what kind of powerbook the lombard is, but here's an excerpt from the bottom of the page: G4 (PC133) 16mb: | 32mb 19.00 | 64mb 6.33 | 128mb 14.00 | 256mb 26.50 | 512mb 62.50 iMac (slot loading) 16mb: | 32mb 8.00 | 64mb 6.23 | 128mb 14.00 | 256mb 27.00512mb 62.99 PowerBook G4 16mb: | 32mb 9.00 | 64mb 13.00 | 128mb 15.94 | 256mb 44.25 | 512mb 153.00 iBook 16mb: | 32mb 7.00 | 64mb 13.00 | 128mb 15.93 | 256mb 44.25 | 512mb 825.00 if its a G4 Powerbook, $153 for 512MB doesn't seem to bad :) More than the $62.99 (I paid $69) for the iMac, but still not bad :) For my x86 laptop (Dell Latitude CPi D266XT) 128MB costs roughly $400 ... a rip-off if I've ever seen one! -Brice Stew Benedict wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Thanks Brice,Creating the source RPM:rpm -bs some-spec-fileYou spurred me into looking to see if cheap RAM was to be had for myPowerbook Lombard, now that I've got drive space, but it doesn't look tobe so cheap in the couple of places I looked ;^)I'll be sure to enable high memory in the next kernel I patch up for PPC.Thx,Stew Benedict
RE: Open Office PPC version:
can you contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more details. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stew Benedict Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 6:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Open Office PPC version: Sure, the more the merrier. The tarball and readme are up on my webspace referenced below now: Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC Faq: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcm=99441208917647w= On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Lin Jiaqi wrote: I can be a mirror if you guys want -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stew Benedict Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 7:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Open Office PPC version: Oops, Just caught up on some older emails and Kevin asked not to load down his machine with downloads. I'll grab it and put it on my web space. quote: BTW, please do not load down my machine (crunch.ivey.uwo.ca is our main research machine) That binary was put there for SuSE to test first and then mirror for others if they are interested. If the load impacts machine performance I will not e able to use it to post things there for others in the future. /endquote Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC Faq: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcm=99441208917647w= On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: Kevin Hendricks has build up the latest version of Open Office for PPC: If you are interested, I would be happy to ftp them to whereever you want. Both installers are over 50 meg in size. The english version can also be downloaded from http://crunch.ivey.uwo.ca/khendricks/openoffice/ but I have not uploaded the german version anyplace since it has not been tested. Haven't tested it here yet - downloading now Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC Faq: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcm=99441208917647w=
Open Office 663 (Linux/PPC port)
Excellent, excellent, excellent ;) Only one thing that I've noticed 'amiss' so far - my previous default color depth was 15bpp (not 16bpp) - with this color depth, the colors in OpenOffice were wrong - very pink, very blue. I upped my depth to 24bpp and all is good :) My configuration: iMac DV, ATI Rage 128 PR, Linux 2.4.4-6.2mdk, XFree86-4.1, 1024x768 Otherwise, absolutely fabulous :) With sincere regards, Brice D. Ruth
Memory support - FYI
Hi there. Back again with some news. I recently got my new memory (2 sticks of 512MB each) for my iMac DV (memory is so incredibly inexpensive now!). I installed the memory booted into Linux - only to find that only 512MB was detected. Damn. My first thought was that it was a hardware problem - maybe my iMac wasn't *really* capable of handling 1G of memory. So, I booted into MacOS (native) - and it saw 1G of memory, no hardware problem here, apparently. Rebooted and somehow OS 9.1 had scrambled my bootstrap, because I only got a '?' folder - then a boot into MacOS :( - this happened before and I knew how to take care of it - boot into rescue from the CD and chroot/ybin - no problem. Except that apparently the kernel on the CD (2.2.19) can't handle having that much memory around - I didn't really know what to do at first, then I hit on some notes and booted into rescue mode with the flag 'mem=128M' - which worked fine. I did my thing and got back into Linux. I supplied my 2.4.4-6.2 kernel with the flag 'mem=1024M' - but it still didn't see the 1G of memory, only 512MB. So, I'm recompiling the kernel w/ High Memory Support enabled - hopefully that's what I need and hopefully it works well on Mandrake PPC :) I'll report back if I have any problems - just wanted to throw this out in case (a) anyone else runs into the problem or (b) you want to specify something in the install instructions or modify the boot kernel in some way shape or form to automagically figure this out. Basically an FYI like the subject says :) -Brice -- WebProjkt, Inc. (ph) 773.562.1008 (fax) 608.204.7004 http://www.webprojkt.com/
Re: Memory support - FYI
Thanks Brice, Creating the source RPM: rpm -bs some-spec-file You spurred me into looking to see if cheap RAM was to be had for my Powerbook Lombard, now that I've got drive space, but it doesn't look to be so cheap in the couple of places I looked ;^) I'll be sure to enable high memory in the next kernel I patch up for PPC. Thx, Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC Faq: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcm=99441208917647w= On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Brice D Ruth wrote: No big problems after high mem support was compiled in - no need to specify boot flags or anything of the like. Only a cosmetic problem - when creating the login message (/etc/rc.d/rc.local) using linux_logo - the available RAM comes out to be 512M instead of 1024M (which is correctly reported in /proc/meminfo). So, I created a patch against the latest version of linux_logo. I only patched the PPC specific file because I don't have an x86 machine w/ 1G of RAM! Apparently the problem is the way linux_logo goes about determining the RAM size (stat /proc/kcore). I'm not sure why kcore is only 512M, didn't look too deep into that, but in any case - it is. So, I kept the bit about statting kcore and added a look into /proc/meminfo to see what was being reported as 'high memory' (HighTotal:) and added that in. I imagine this is prone to bugs, though I don't have a diverse number of systems to test against! In any case - (Stew) - the patch is attached. I integrated the patch into the .spec file, and created an RPM for those of you out there who'd like it - but I'm not sure how to create a src.rpm now. If someone would like to enlighten me, I'd be happy to learn :) download location: http://www.webprojkt.com/mandrake.html Cheers, Brice Brice D Ruth wrote: Hi there. Back again with some news. I recently got my new memory (2 sticks of 512MB each) for my iMac DV (memory is so incredibly inexpensive now!). I installed the memory booted into Linux - only to find that only 512MB was detected. Damn. My first thought was that it was a hardware problem - maybe my iMac wasn't *really* capable of handling 1G of memory. So, I booted into MacOS (native) - and it saw 1G of memory, no hardware problem here, apparently. Rebooted and somehow OS 9.1 had scrambled my bootstrap, because I only got a '?' folder - then a boot into MacOS :( - this happened before and I knew how to take care of it - boot into rescue from the CD and chroot/ybin - no problem. Except that apparently the kernel on the CD (2.2.19) can't handle having that much memory around - I didn't really know what to do at first, then I hit on some notes and booted into rescue mode with the flag 'mem=128M' - which worked fine. I did my thing and got back into Linux. I supplied my 2.4.4-6.2 kernel with the flag 'mem=1024M' - but it still didn't see the 1G of memory, only 512MB. So, I'm recompiling the kernel w/ High Memory Support enabled - hopefully that's what I need and hopefully it works well on Mandrake PPC :) I'll report back if I have any problems - just wanted to throw this out in case (a) anyone else runs into the problem or (b) you want to specify something in the install instructions or modify the boot kernel in some way shape or form to automagically figure this out. Basically an FYI like the subject says :) -Brice
