Re: OT: dirty tibook
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 14:39, Markus Frauenfelder wrote: Hi Have you ever tried a rubber (like the one you use to erase pencil)? This sometimes worked for me. Just wait 'till all the paint chips off, takes the dirt with it :) /Tuomas, with one of *those* tibooks -- Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is gnome 2 closer to OS X than 1.4 ?
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 11:47, Jean-Christophe Michel wrote: Hi, it's not a troll. I run successfully woody/benh on pwb Pismo (500 MHz) for some months, using Gnome 1.4. When I compare to mac OSX I'd like to have characters smoothing, copy/paste working between apps (Mozilla/console/editors) and I wonder if Gnome2 would have this features. Gnome 2 has text antialiasing using the Freetype library, so it is pretty high quality as well :-) There are some improvements with Cut and paste, like you can cut HTML from Mozilla and paste to Evolution mail composer, or you can cut a spreadsheet from Openoffice and paste it as a HTML table to your mail message.[*] O think those things are being improved continuously. Drag and drop for opening files works very well on Gnome2 Is it best to try to install Gnome 2 on woody or switch to testing ? Does mol (mac os 9.2) work with testing ? Mol should just care about the kernel more or less, so that it finds your MOL kernelmodules. If it also finds a working framebuffer and a MacOS to boot from it should be happy.. I use MOL in testing and unstable and it seems to work fine. Thouhg I dont update every day so some breakeage might have slipped through unnoticed :-) Best, Tuomas [* the subject of HTML mail is not the point in this message :-] -- Tuomas Kuosmanen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.ximian.com
Re: is gnome 2 closer to OS X than 1.4 ?
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 13:03, Sven Luther wrote: BTW, the real version of gnome you are wanting is 2.2, which is available for unstable, but not yet for testing, because the new libc6 is not yet in testing. So you can either try to rebuild your packages for woody, if it is not already done somewhere, wait a bit that gnome 2.2 finally enters testing or upgrade to unstable. Oh, I totally agree. Gnome 2.2 is the thing to get. Tuomas -- Tuomas Kuosmanen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.ximian.com
Re: tibook sleep support
On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 09:42, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Just hoping and or wondering if sleep support for powerbook G4 DVI's made it into the final 2.4.19 release? Unfortunately not. There are still issues with the L3 cache (AFAIK) and the graphics chip. L3 seems to be ok now (I had to have it working for the speed switch), though the M7 problem remains. Ben, so far everything is working great with ForcePCIMode true in XF86Config btw.. (tibook gen2 with Radeon) I got the messed up blits thing very often without that option. Could be just a lucky compile of the kernel though :) Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: Horrible sound then waking up ibook from sleep
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 14:15, Philipp Schmidt wrote: On Thu, 2002-06-27 13:41:10 +0300, Joakim Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, the first time it happened, about 1.5 week ago, I thought it was just a odd thing. But now it happened again last evening. ... known bug of the sound driver, somebody is going to fix it ... i tried the alsa drivers as alternative, but it only crashes the system ... if i had experiences in kernel debugging I've now disabled the sound server and it will be interesting to see if this happens again. Does anyone else have any suggestions what could be causing this? perhaps, i think best would be to remove the driver when going to sleep Yeah. it happens also on the Tibooks. Rarely, but usually when you dont expect it, and when everyone else just fell asleep.. :-] Sometimes removing the sound driver stops the noise. I think the reason why it happens is that it sets the mic input to full max, and also monitors it from the speaker, which, on the tibook, is next to the mic.. so it sounds like feedback noise. Since the sound changes if you tap the mic with your finger when it screams. (tibook's mic is next to the left speaker) But yea, removing the sounddriver prior going to sleep might work, though it probably sucks since it means you need to quit all your sound related apps so that the sound device is freed :-/ Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: :: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMWare Flash under PPC
On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 09:00, Michel Lanners wrote: On 25 Jun, this message from Danial Pearce echoed through cyberspace: I'm just wondering if anyone out there knows if it's possible to get VMWare to work under the PPC architecture? Nope, VMWare runs on top of an ix86 processor. It doesn't deal with emulating one processor on another, it only deals with virtualizing the hardware to run a second OS on a virtual machine. You want MacOnLinux if you want to run MacOS under Linux (there's Flash for macos..) There's a .deb of it in woody I think, it's called mol - see www.maconlinux.net - it is basically vmware for ppc that runs MacOS9. Quite fast and cool. Plus mol itself is GPL. Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: :: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing extensions, a little OT perhaps.
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 20:32, Bob Torres wrote: Hi All, I recently transferred some MP3s from my MacOS desktop to my Debianppc laptop. There are no file extensions for these mp3 files, so they're kind worthless for xmms in Linux. On the Linux side, how would I go about adding extensions to these files without doing it manually? In other words, is there something I could pass at the command line to accomplish this for a whole directory of files? I've been using Linux for three years or so now, and I've always wanted to know how to do this...anyone care to educate me? I'm hoping for something a little more substantive than go learn sed (or whatever program), though learning by example usually works the best for me. ; ) In terminal: for i in *; do mv $i $i.mp3; done - I hope the above works (I need to sleep soon, no guarantees :) This assumes all the files are MP3 on the directory you run it in. So beware, it adds a .mp3 extension to *all files* on current directory. Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: :: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA Firewire
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 18:55, Fritz Wettstein wrote: The Firewire issue: How do I mount a Firewire disk? Is the Orange Micro Firewire to SCSI converter of any use on my configuration? I have a Smartdisk firewire drive that works great on my tibook. Here's how I do it (usual DONT BLAME ME IF IT BECOMES A TOAST apply :-) You want at least these on the kernel: CONFIG_IEEE1394=m CONFIG_IEEE1394_OHCI1394=m CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2=m plus the SCSI-disk support. Then: # insmod ieee1394 # insmod ohci1394 # modprobe sbp2 The harddisk shows up /dev/sda[n] if you dont have any other scsi-disks on your system. Works then as any other harddisk. Fdisk etc unless it has filesystems already. You may need to insmod the SCSI stuff, but it looks like they load automatically for me when I modprobe sbp2. Unplugging: Just umount the disk, and unplug it. You might want to install scsiadd to make it easier to rescan your scsi bus when you add/remove devices. NOTE! As far as I know, the firewire drivers dont support sleep/wakeup yet. This means that you need to remove them from the kernel before you suspend the machine, and insert them again when you want to use the disk. You'll get a kernel hiccup if you forget to do that. I hope this helps, Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: :: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X 'loses text' after sleep
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 01:26, mallum wrote: Hi; Im running X4.2 ( built from source ) with debian unstable on a tibook 550 with radeon drivers. The kernel is 2.4.19pre4-ben0 . When I sleep and then wake up the machine in X, terms and various other apps now either lose characters or the text becomes distorted. No other graphical elements seem to be affected only text. Anyone else experienced this, have a fix ? Seems a bug in the radeonfb. Ben has been hunting for that one for months now, but as far as I know, it seems to be something hard to find and bizarre in nature. Seems like this happens with all gen2 tibooks that have the radeon. The fun thing is, it seems to be that it sometimes works, and if it works, then it will work forever until you reboot. And if it goes wacky, it breaks on wakeup and nothing but a reboot fixes it. I think I had it work better when I used just Driver FBDev with X (the radeonfb is also accelerated so X is fine, it's just that stuff like video overlay etc does not work) Of course everything works perfectly with NoAccel but nobody wants that really. Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: :: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 04:57, John Hughes wrote: Is there anything in the near future that says we( the ppc linux community) will ever get Flash that works? Mostly I have just chosen to ignore sites that use flash and don't provide an alternative.just sorta figured I need em, if thats how they are gonna make their website. Unfortunately, I have recently switched from skiing to snowboardingand litteraly every snowboarding site and manufacturer uses flash...I mean pretty much ALL of them. Which is making my life less than ideal. So, is there any hope at all?? Any? thanks There is that GPL flash plugin, but it only does some older version of flash, and has limitations too. Not really up to the task for sites like you mention. Those tend to use all the latest bells and whistles.. One option is to run MacOnLinux (mol) - MSIE on macos9 runs flash fine. Not an ideal solution, but better than rebooting to native macos anyway. There is a .deb of mol in debian/unstable atleast. See www.maconlinux.net for more info. Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: usb printer via pci usb card
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 04:53, Russell Hires wrote: Hello everyone, I've looked through a number of web pages that deal with USB printing, and followed their instructions and such, but no dice. I'm using KUPS for printer configuration, but I get a message at the bottom that says Can't connect to CUPS server. Check your options! I don't know what options to check for. I know that debian, kde, and the kernel can all see my printer (an Epson Stylus 777i), but for some reason, KUPS cannot. The printer is USB and is connected to a PCI USB card. I'm running a stock 2.4.17 kernel with the USB options turned on...I'm stuck. How do I get KUPS to connect to the CUPS server? I have no idea about KUPS, but I just setup CUPS on my all-round-server-box. Try using the web frontend if KUPS does not work; CUPS includes a built in web server you can use to configure stuff for it. It runs on port 631 by default, so point your web browser to http://printerhost:631/ - if your CUPS server is running on another computer, and you might get an access denied greeting - in that case you need to edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and add your hostname to the following part: Location / Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 192.168.1 /Location This allows access to the printers from my local network (192.168.1.*) Also do the same for the Location /admin part a bit down in the same file. Then again, if you just have one computer, no editing is necessary, since you can just access it from localhost by default. Once you edited the file, do /etc/init.d/cupsys restart and you should be able to access it. Now add a printer with the web based tool, and it should work. There was one thing I had to tweak by hand though, CUPS did not let me choose /dev/usb/lp0 for the printer port, so I had to first add a printer with /dev/lp0, and then edit the /etc/cups/printers.conf and change it to /dev/usb/lp0, it worked fine then. I hope this helps. To test the printer from commandline you can do lp -d printername file.ps - if that all works, then there is something wrong with KUPS I guess. Best wishes, Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: usb printer via pci usb card
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 14:15, Russell Hires wrote: Now add a printer with the web based tool, and it should work. Okay, this is where I'm failing. I go through with the web based tool (localhost:631), and it tells me to add a printer. Which option do I pick? IPP? Serial? I don't see USB... You go to Manage Printers-Add Printer - give it some name and description, click continue. Then you get the Device pulldown selector, where you can pick which port it is on. Funny, now I do see my USB port listed too, on the very bottom.. weird. Anyway, if you don't see USB option, just select Parallel Port #1, and later change it on /etc/cups/printers.conf, and restart cups and it should work. There was one thing I had to tweak by hand though, CUPS did not let me choose /dev/usb/lp0 for the printer port, Where do you get to make this choice? In the Device page of add printer. It probably does not say /dev/usb/lp0 but rather something like USB Printer #1 (foo smthing) It definitely helps. Thank you. I'm staying away from KUPS for now... Yea, it helps to debug the base system first, once that works you can try KUPS again. Once you added the printer, you can set the ServerName printerhost in /etc/cups/client.conf on all other machines on the LAN, so they print to your printer box. You might also want to install cupsys-bsd too to get CUPSified lpd and lpq commands as well so all applications that use lpd work right. Tuomas, who hit his head to the wall on the same issue a few weeks ago :-) -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: Memory tester for powerpc?
On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 07:06, Michel Lanners wrote: On 25 Jan, this message from Russell Hires echoed through cyberspace: Just so I can be sure it's not my RAM causing my kernel oopses, is there a utility for testing RAM in Linux? I know that there is one in the x86 world that can test memory, but in the powerpc world...??? None that I know off (and this has been asked a few times before, without answer...). Check out http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/memtester/ This one runs on ppc. I cannot tell if it is good or bad, since I dont know how a memory test should work to be good, but it prints nice stats to STDOUT, hogs the CPU and allocates a lot of RAM. I guess it works ;-) If it's SDRAM, stick it in a i386 and test there? That too. I wonder how hard it would be to port memtest86 to ppc, it is a neat one since it is basically a linux kernel that just runs the memory test. Nice way to minimize the reserved memory size.. But I guess it also writes its output directly to the VGA memory, which would be a problem for PPC I guess. Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: S-Video out on TiG4
On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 11:34, P Prince wrote: Hey all, I have a first-run TiG4 with the ATI Rage 128 card. Does S-Video output work with this under linux? If so, how do I configure it? IE, provide modeline. As far as I know, it does not. The VGA out works with m3mirror (use google to find it) but as far as I know, the svga out does not work on linux. Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: Patches for laptop owners
On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 11:44, Matt Brubeck wrote: This is a big problem on most (all?) Apple laptops, because they have ADB keyboards whose caps-lock keys do not send keyup events. This is a limitation of the hardware. If you search through the list archives you can find some fairly kludgey kernel patches that provide partial workarounds. In any case, if you want to change your keyboard map it it quite simple with xmodmap or xkb. Read the man pages. Or you can stick in a regular PC USB keyboard, AFAIK. Though I like the feel of the apple keyboards, they are nice to type at after I got used to them. Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: Benh's kernel and Firewire
On pe, 2001-10-12 at 10:45, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Jason E. Stewart writes: The issue is it works for some, but not all people (not for me and my pismo, unfortunately). Strangely enough, firewire works to some extent for me and *my* Pismo. Meaning I can load the ohci1394 and sbp2 drivers and use firewire disks and CDs. The machine only locks up when I try to access a CD writer. BTW, that's with the version of Ben's tree provided by the Debian packages kernel-source-2.4.10 and kernel-patch-benh. I also got the modules loaded, and the kernel noticed when I plugged in my Digital video camera. However, dvgrab and dvcont did not work. It is told that my DV camera works with the linux firewire/ilink/1394/whatever drivers (it's a Canon mv30i iirc) I remember Ben saying that the sbp driver (sp?) for disks should work on ppc, but the others might not. I need to get a firewire disk soon, since my harddisk is getting full :o) Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: DNS wierdness on a TiBook running unstable
On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 19:53, Gregory P. Keeney wrote: On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 08:55, Josh Huber wrote: do you have nscd installed? Doh! Ok... With that gone everthing should be quite happy. (Now all I need to do is write a network switching applet for the gnome panel...) FYI, there is work being done on Ximian Setup Tools (ximian-setup-tools on gnome CVS) to make a location tool similar to the macos location switcher. So you could define stuff like nfs mounts, network setup, whatnot and their cat that gets switched when you switch from home airport network to work LAN. I have no clue if it is working yet, and such, because I havent checked it out lately though. But it sounds like a cool thing really. Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: where is benh's page?
On Sun, 2001-09-16 at 14:20, Ethan Benson wrote: Does anybody know where benh's kernel and driver page is? http://master.penguinppc.org/~benh all user pages are only on master. Maybe it might be a good idea to use mod_rewrite to redirect all the ~something/blah.html -requests from www.penguinppc.org directly to master.penguinppc.org, or at least have the 404 page mention about it? At least Ben's page is linked from a gazillion places. We could fix this with Apache's mod_rewrite. The only problem is that mod_rewrite stuff is painful enough to qualify into the Debian definition of pain. Or as the Apache docs state: With mod_rewrite you either shoot yourself in the foot the first time and never use it again or love it for the rest of your life because of its power. And I am not yet sure which group I belong to :-) OH! Wow! I found this from the Apache documentation, so things turn out easy after all: --- 8 cut here Move Homedirs to Different Webserver Description: A lot of webmaster aksed for a solution to the following situation: They wanted to redirect just all homedirs on a webserver to another webserver. They usually need such things when establishing a newer webserver which will replace the old one over time. Solution: The solution is trivial with mod_rewrite. On the old webserver we just redirect all /~user/anypath URLs to http://newserver/~user/anypath. RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/~(.+) http://newserver/~$1 [R,L] --- 8 cut here Those probably go to your http_conf, or whatever your setup is in www.penguinppc.org. Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: Sharing a Cable Modem
On Fri, 2001-09-07 at 18:08, Bastien Nocera wrote: The box will have to do IP Masquerade, this is ipchains right? I think I can do ipchains. I have that as a script on my iMac to offer masquerading to my laptop. # install ipchains modulemodprobe ipchains # enable IP forwarding /sbin/sysctl -w net/ipv4/ip_forward=1 /dev/null # Deny all forwarding ipchains -P forward DENY # Forward (masquerade) to eth0 (internet) what comes from 192.168.1.2 ipchains -A forward -i eth0 -s 192.168.1.2/32 -j MASQ This works, or you can simply apt-get install ipmasq on the masquerading machine. First setup the networking so that the masq. machine can see outside world (the dsl/cable modem) and also the internal network (192.168.1.X for example, the hub), and if your masq. box has the internal network ip 192.168.1.1 for example, set that as the GATEWAY on the other machines. Then apt-get install ipmasq and it should start working. Of course one can do it by hand also, but the ipmasq package's scripts seen to have the nice effect of also working with dynamic ip addresses etc. In fact, as I am currently without a broadband connection (rgh! :) my ipmasquerading stuff works fine with a 33.6bps modem dialup on the same machine, I just start ppp instead of configuring eth0, and things work fine. Of course you very likely want to tune the firewall for security if you are on a broadband connection, but that is another topic. I have a separate script for that purpose I run after the ipmasq thingy. Tuomas * Yes, I dont claim to be a networking expert, but it works for me, and maybe this was useful information for someone else :o) -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: X 4.1.0 Hints for french PowerBook users...
On Tue, 2001-09-04 at 00:08, Florent Pillet wrote:
on 3/09/01 19:28, Tuomas Kuosmanen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This has the effect of making []{} etc to work. However, it disables ALT
for me (though I tried it on the finnish/swedish keymap) - thus you
cannot Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server, nor can you use Alt for
anything (alt-drag to move windows for example on many window managers)
Tuomas
Interesting.
I'm not an expert with this keyboard configuration yet. Since xkb setting
files seem to be under-documented, I'm trying to make my way through them.
I hear you... It is a pain to try to do something with the keyboard
files, I havent found much docs, and not many people seem to know about
them. And most of the people who might know, are in the US and thus dont
have these issues... The US keymap of course works..
I'm trying to find a fix for this. The default X mappings for Mac keyboards
are not perfect since I think ALT is misused (the Command key should be used
instead). Therefore, I wonder if it would not be more appropriate to use the
Command key as Alt_L and leave the Alt key for what it is really used
under MacOS, that is access additional characters on the various keys.
I have been thinking about this too. I think we have a lot of different
opinions about this. This changed when we moved to linux keycodes, I
think Cmd-key used to be ALT with ADB keycodes.
Yet another interesting analogy with MacOS would be to use Cmd as Ctrl.
It works much like Ctrl on MacOS (Cmd-X/C/V for cut-copy-paste vs.
Ctrl-X/C/V on PC world) - though I am not sure if this is practical. It
is an interesting thought for a person who switches a lot between Macos
(under MacOnLinux) and Linux. I find myself mixing those keys a lot
after I switch from the MOL console to Linux and back.. But I agree this
is not the way to do, as Ctrl is Ctrl in the Unix world.
The way I fixed this for myself: I noticed that Fn-Alt was
Mode_Switch in the new X 4.1 stuff. This works okay, one just needs to
press Fn-Alt-9 to get ] on the finnish keymap. Or that is how it
should work in theory. In practice pressing the Fn key kicks in the
keypad emulation, and 9 key changes to KP_9 (numeric keypad 9, same
happens with all keys that are inside the keypad emulation area, the
yellow marks on the powerbook keyboard). And Mode_Switch + KP_9 does
nothing by default. So my kludge was to use this little script to add
the additional characters to those keycodes that replace the ones if you
press Fn:
% cat keymapfix.sh
xmodmap -e keycode 79 = KP_7 KP_Home bar backslash
xmodmap -e keycode 80 = KP_8 KP_Up bracketleft braceleft
xmodmap -e keycode 81 = KP_9 KP_Prior bracketright braceright
This works for me on the fi/se keyboard.
Now it might be also possible to do something with the keyboard
modifiers (Mod1, Mod2 etc..), but I dont yet quite understand how they
work, but I wonder if it might be possible to have Alt_L (the current
Alt key) to also act as Mode_Switch. Maybe, I dont know yet. In that
case we wouldnt need the Fn, and thus the above would not be a problem.
However this was the first solution for me, I can now use the keyboard
fully to get things done (just as you did with your hack as well)
Best wishes,
Tuomas
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Re: Kernel Drivers in PPC build: where are they?
On Tue, 2001-09-04 at 04:01, Laurent de Segur wrote: on 9/3/01 5:48 PM, Ethan Benson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the kernel is not stored on teh bootstrap partition, its stored on your ext2 / partition or your ext2 /boot partition. never on teh bootstrap partition. Are you sure? That's big news to me! I need to readjust here (and I need a drink too :-) Depends if you installed The Ethan Way(tm) or the My kernels are in HFS Partition way like I did. As far as I understand, Ethan's way is better, as you can just dpkg -i kernel .debs and they work. My installation was originally made with LinuxPPC 2000 first, since there were no Debian CD's and I couldnt install otherwise. So I still have my kernels on the HFS partition. The good thing is that if things bork, I can fix some stuff from Macos if I need to. But the pain is that I need to manually copy the kernels to the HFS partition when I compile a new one. I guess both ways work, but the thing described in the ybin howto and stuff Ethan is maintaing is better and more sane. But my installation of Debian was so strange anyway, that I am happy that it works. I dont care much about the bootstrap stuff anyway once I have booted up. If what you say is correct, then I have always misunderstood this and probably got confused since the days of BootX where you needed to store your kernel in the hfs partition (where bootx was residing.) Now that you are saying that, I kinda understand why nowhere it was mentioned to copy the kernel image to the bootstrap partition. Indulge me, but please confirm this. Thanks, Yes, this is the Ethan Way(tm). He can correct me with the LART stick if I am sharing misinformation... :o) Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: X 4.1.0 Hints for french PowerBook users...
On Sun, 2001-09-02 at 14:53, Florent Pillet wrote:
After struggling with X keyboard configurations for a while, I finally found
a way to get access to {, }, [ and ] under X on a FRENCH PowerBook keyboard.
There is a problem with the standard key mappings under X 4.1.0 (I'm running
unstable), you should modify the file:
/usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/fr
and just after this line:
name[Group1]= FR-1;
add:
key LALT {
symbols[Group1] = [ Mode_switch, Multi_key ],
virtualMods = AltGr
};
This has the effect of making []{} etc to work. However, it disables ALT
for me (though I tried it on the finnish/swedish keymap) - thus you
cannot Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server, nor can you use Alt for
anything (alt-drag to move windows for example on many window managers)
Tuomas
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Re: downgrade sid to woody?
On Mon, 2001-09-03 at 16:08, Kevin van Haaren wrote: I messed up my machine a couple of times running unstable (huh, wonder why they call it that 8-) anyway I want to downgrade to just woody. I dug through the apt-get and dselect man pages and didn't see a way to do this. Is it enough to remove the unstable references in sources.list and run upgrade? or will that leave some of the unstable packages in place? IANADD*, so I am not In The Know(tm) on this, but I assume apt and dselect work by comparing package versions. So just changing the stuff in sources.list probably puts you up in the situation where upgrading the system makes apt think Hmm, he already has newer stuff installed than what I see on the ftp site... So I guess one would need to have something like dist-downgrade, but I have no clue if that is possible. Maybe someone In The Know(tm) would know better? Tuomas * IANADD = I Am Not A Debian Developer :o) -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: UK iBook2 keymaps
On Tue, 2001-08-21 at 14:35, Adrian Cox wrote:
Has anybody got any good recipes for the UK iBook2 keyboard?
I'm using Ken Moffat's console keytable from:
http:www.kenmoffat.uklinux.net/downloads
Everything is fine at the console, but in X I can't get a '#'. I'm using
X 4.1 out of unstable, and the rest of my system is from testing. I've
had to set XkbDisable in order to get the basic letters of the keyboard
to come out right. I now have the problem that the Command-3 combination
that should produce '#' actually produces '3'.
I have noticed something like this also: With a powerbook keyboard, if
you press [Fn] you get the keypad emulation turned on. Now this makes
the 9 key become keypad-9 instead of the normal 9.
On a finnish/swedish keymap (those are identical), Normal 9 has ]}
behind it when you press AltGr and shift-AltGr (I think AltGr is
Mode_switch when we talk about X here) Now, I think Mode_switch is
bound to Fn-alt here.
This can be a problem for keymaps on laptops. However, it works as
expected on MacOS, so one solution would be to map those extra chars to
the keypad keys that overlap as well? Maybe macos does that? My
understanding is *both* alt keys produce the same keycode on the pismo
and many other apple keyboards as well, so one must have both of them
produce the same key event, right? On macos it just works
Now this cannot be related to the # key, since that key is not part of
the keypad emulation thing, but it might be interesting to someone.
Actually, as a test, this works for me:
keycode 80 = KP_8 KP_Up bracketleft braceleft
keycode 81 = KP_9 KP_Prior bracketright braceright
/* newbie info */
Save that to a file, and xmodmap file or do a dump of your
current keymap by xmodmap -pke mymap, then edit mymap on
those lines (just need to add the two last words on those lines
so the brackets/braces start working) and xmodmap mymap next
time you start X.
/* end of newbie info */
Maybe someone could patch the X keymaps to take this into account? I am
going to look into this, but I dont grok the files yet.. :-( Though I am
planning to when I get some of the copious free time at hand :)
Anyway, the important thing is now I can use my .fi keyboard in FI mode
to write some perl/php since it was a bit hard without []{} chars before
:o)
I know another way would be to use the key-next-to-space that defaults
to the kp-enter or something as mode_switch, but I really like to use
that one as my mousebutton emulation key, since it is near the trackpad.
It is also not used as a modifier on macos, and my goal is to have less
adjusting madness between MOL and linux for keymaps. There is enough
pain learning from the US happy hacking kbd from my desktop machine to
this pismo keyboard..
Tuomas
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Re: Is the iBook2 really good?
On 18 Aug 2001 03:46:15 -0700, Russell Williams wrote: --- Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell Williams wrote: Is the iBook2 really a good choice as an inexpensive Debian notebook? Most definitely. My yeah here also. The specs are pretty much like the older black powerbook G3 (Pismo) anyway. The more memory you can stuff in the better, especially if you want to run MacOnLinux (www.maconlinux.net) since you want to give about 128Mb to MacOS if you intend to do anything useful with it (I run Illustrator on it, it works fine, but larger graphics could use 256MB for the macos session, thus I could use 512MB ram on this, currently it has 256 which is fine for just Linux use. Would the TiBook be worth the extra money? There is quite a bit of that extra money in between an ibook and tibook.. Do you absolutely need _Ximian_ GNOME? GNOME 1.4 is in the main Debian archive, and the Ximian debs tend to be worse integrated into the system. I don't need Ximian Gnome but I would prefer it. Can I recompile it or will I have many problems with it? Yes. You just want to stick to debian/stable then, as debian/unstable and debian/testing are not supported by Ximian Gnome - It might work, but you *will* face conflicting packages that try to overwrite each others files, since debian/unstable and thus testing also are changing rapidly and the packages are organized differently. It should build out of the box from the source .debs though. deb-src http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main is my apt-line. How long does it take to start Mozilla? (when running GNOME 1.4) Mozilla works perfectly fine on my pismo, and it is slow to start even on my desktop machine. But one doesnt start and close it all the time anyway, I just keep it running all the time. Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: Is the iBook2 really good?
On 18 Aug 2001 16:55:55 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: galeon uses the Mozilla rendering engine but is less of a resource hog BTW. galeon 0.11.5 with mozilla 0.9.3-1 have been proving to be very unstable on powerpc from my observation anyway. I can second that. It seems to crash very often. Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: lazy saturday notebook comparo (long)
On 18 Aug 2001 22:18:01 -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: I can't resist wading into this silly discussion. If you care about MacOS or Windows, my opinions are worthless, just hit delete now. The thing is, x86 laptop prices capabilities are far in excess of apple's meager offerings. I just went to dell.com and configured an inspiron 4000 with: * 1GHz P3 * 512MB memory * 59Whour battery * 30GB hard drive * 1400x1050 14.1 screen (sorry tibook) * aty128 w/8MB memory (agp4x I think) * combo dvd/cdrw drive * modem and ethernet 10/100 built in * free lexmark32 printer, or palm m100, or umax 3400 USB scanner $2926.00USD, $2876.00 after $50 mail in rebate. Yikes. I went to store.apple.com and configured a tibook with the memory and disk, and this is what I got: * pretty much the same as above except a much slower processor, Though dont compare the clock frequencies directly, ppc is different so a P5 500MHz is not the same as a G4 500MHz. * dell is 66% bigger display (exact same video cntr, btw) * only one pcmcia/cardbus slot. bummer. If you need wavelan, it fits in its own slot, and costs a lot less than the lucent card. So you still have the PCMCIA slot free for other stuff. Of course this is a real limitation if one happens to need two other PCMCIA cards, but most people I know are using the pcmcia for networking. The tibook and ibook have built in ethernet ports also, which work on linux if I remember correctly. * built in firewire; not working yet under linux Works under linux as far as I know, one needs a 2.4 kernel though. At least the firewire mass storage stuff should work, with some kernels and patching though.. The stuff is in the works anyway. I think people don't consider enough the coolness factor of the iBook2. It is plenty fast enough, except for compiling +large+ chunks of software. If you are building a kernel once or twice a week, no big deal at all. Take a deep breath, get some coffee, write that long notebook comparo email, whatever, it's not bad. As for regular apps, its more than adequate, in fact, I'd say it's even snappy. Plenty fast enough for the normal work apps or playing mp3s, surfing, etc. And the coolness factor can't be beat: you've got a very small, cool looking notebook with XGA resolution (not huge, but enough to keep you sane) that does everything, and doesn't look like every freakin' notebook on the planet. This counts for 200-300 MHz at least, trust me. If you do happen to come across someone else with one, chances are VERY slim they'll be running Linux, and, if you did it right, ~:^), your desktop will look WAY more beautiful than the MockOS one. Yeah, my thoughts as well. Speed is really not that big of an issue, unless you are a developer, who compiles a LOT of stuff daily, or if you do some other CPU intensive work. I can say that the Pismo, which pretty much matches the ibook2, is perfectly fine for all my graphics work for example. It is a *laptop* anyway, I do have a big-screen desktop machine with a lot of ram for digital photo and other huge graphics, but this works perfectly fine for most things. Actually, I just moved and didnt setup the other machines yet, so I am doing all my work with this laptop. I can do everything I need with this, so I could survive with just this one machine. It is not that the CPU grunt is the bottleneck on how fast I can create icons and other artwork.. :-) Luckily icons are small, so even a 1024x768 screen is fine. is amazing. Dell sells a laptop with a 16x12 screen if you can believe it. I was fairly underwhelmed by the tibook I looked at it Yea, those screens are incredible. Just like the VAIO screens are, the pixel density is around the same, VAIO screen is just about 1/4th of the Pismo screen with the same 1024x768.. Talk about small xterm sizes.. :) On the other hand, with unix/X11 we have the virtual desktops, which makes it a LOT more fun to run multiple applications even on a small resolution. Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: lazy saturday notebook comparo (long)
On 19 Aug 2001 10:19:48 -0700, Jeff Baker wrote: anyway the real cinch for me with the tibook is the battery life. i don't think any intel laptop can touch it, even with two heavy batteries installed. you're right about the ibook2, it rocks. So, I guess one can use one battery at once on the ibook2 and tibook, right? I really love the 8-9 hour battery life of my Pismo with 2 batteries installed, it goes a full work day which is pretty amazing.. Although I think the batteries are getting a bit old, the time has dropped a bit. But it is still impressive - makes sitting outside with wavelan much more fun when you dont need to stare at the battery meter all the time.. Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: PCMCIA (was: Re: BenH TiBook kernels @ debian.jones.dk)
On 09 Aug 2001 21:26:44 +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: What gphoto2 are you using? I have compile errors; even after multiple attempts to resolve the problems I've not succeded in compiling it... I heard there was gphoto2 on debian/unstable now.. It is just not being built for PPC, so you need to apt-get source -b it. First get libgphoto2port .deb and compile/install that (no binary .deb of that either..) Gphoto2 works fine on PPC though, I have it from sources. I used the gphoto2port -lib from the CVS tree, they apparently are having both the new and old libgphoto2 on the same source dir, and if I remember correctly, the libgphoto2port is the USB-port version. The libusb is from debian. Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: evolution builds for powerpc?
On 10 Aug 2001 20:00:57 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: p.s.: I had one minor problem building the package, because building evolution needs access to an XServer at some point (failed first with Cannot open display...). But I don't think this is powerpc specific. My understanding is gtk-doc package, that is used to generate some developer documentation on Evolution, needs a $DISPLAY for some strange reason. Maybe because of the gtk part? But I know a jack about it, I just heard it from somewhere. As you can see I am using evolution now and when you can read this it worked! Me too :) And we both apparently were smart enough to not send messages as HTML to a mailing list :) Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: PCMCIA (was: Re: BenH TiBook kernels @ debian.jones.dk)
On 07 Aug 2001 21:45:48 +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: For me PCMCIA works without problems (AFAICT; only old-style 16-bit PCMCIA tested so far) with BenH's kernels; however don't forget to adapt the resource ranges available to PCMCIA in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts: # PowerPC ioports and memory: include port 0x1000-0x10ff, port 0x1400-0x14ff include memory 0x8040-0x807ff000, memory 0xf300-0xf33ff000 Remove the default ranges. Above is for my TiBook. For other machines, get these ranges out of a lspci listing. Are you using pcmcia-cs or the stuff in the kernel? I have a pcmcia Smartmedia flash card reader, and it used to work once with ide_cs module. But now it doesnt seem to.. And since gphoto2 works with my camera over usb, I havent been trying too hard to get it working, but it might be nice if it did work. Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: BenH TiBook kernels @ debian.jones.dk
On 22 Jul 2001 20:22:35 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: (Hi Jonas btw!) - FireWire (IEEE 1394) My current tree contains partially working firewire. I can mount SBP2 hard disks and use them without trouble using an LSI-logic based disk. Some users reported either working or non-working disks depending, apparently, on the chipset they are based on. CD burning over firewire tends to lockup the kernel. This is still beeing investigated. I haven't got any FW devices myself. My brother has a Sony DV camera, and some other friends has a harddrive. Tell me what you'd like me to test next time I get close to the equipment. I am possibly going to get an external firewire harddisk, anyone know if those larger ones work without an external power supply? I know the LaCie pocketdrive 30GB can work with the power from the FW plug, but those 60GB ones would be even more interesting. They all cost quite lots, so I'd rather like to get a bigger one for the same money :) And external powersupply kind of defeats the whole idea of firewire disk on a laptop.. I tried dvgrab to get video from my digital video camera, but it didnt seem to work at all, I got nothing out of it. But I had heard it doesnt work on ppc anyway yet, so I didnt poke on it too much. But if there are people hacking on the drivers, I can test stuff with a Canon DV camera if needed. - PC-card (what once was called PCMCIA and noone realized the namechange) PC-Card works. The name change is old, PCMCIA is really a deprecated name since years ;) Ah - I am compiling with David Hinds' pcmcia-cs right now (discovered that it seems to actually compile with 2.4 - geee, it have been a long time ago I tested this...) I think one needed some kernel patch a while ago to get the pc card bridge chip recognized, is it now included in the kernel tree? I have tried with the kernel PCMCIA modules, but they dont seem to work for me, does one really need the PCMCIA-CS stuff still now that the PCMCIA drivers are in the kernel too? Are they alternative or what? The pcmcia thing I am using is a SmartMedia flash card reader. I once got it working with the kernel patch for 2.2.x, and the PPC patch for pcmcia + some other hackery, but it all got lost when I switched to 2.4. So, if you get this working, let me know how you did it, and what patches/sources you used.. :) I have the pismo though, but it might work the same way. o Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: powerbook, 99% done!!!
On 21 Jul 2001 01:01:25 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: i have different showkey codes but i think this step is ok... using echo n /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button(rigth place) with n=a lot of different tries but nothing seems to work. You need to input Linux keycodes, and you're probably using ADB keycodes. RTFM: http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Franz.Sirl/inputppc.html It works also without Linux keycodes, I had this working a long time ago, and I only recently switched to Linux keycodes. Btw, dont forget to echo 1 /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation This toggles the whole thing on and off. Also, I *think* it might require an X restart to get them working. Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: :: # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # # CONFIG_UID16 is not set # CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK is not set CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_KMOD=y # # Platform support # CONFIG_PPC=y CONFIG_6xx=y # CONFIG_4xx is not set # CONFIG_POWER3 is not set # CONFIG_POWER4 is not set # CONFIG_8xx is not set # CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES is not set # CONFIG_8260 is not set CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU=y CONFIG_ALL_PPC=y # CONFIG_APUS is not set # CONFIG_SPRUCE is not set # CONFIG_PCORE is not set # CONFIG_MENF1 is not set # CONFIG_MCPN765 is not set # CONFIG_MVME5100 is not set # CONFIG_PRPMC750 is not set # CONFIG_SANDPOINT is not set # CONFIG_K2 is not set # CONFIG_GEMINI is not set # CONFIG_ZX4500 is not set CONFIG_PPC601_SYNC_FIX=y CONFIG_SMP=y # CONFIG_IRQ_ALL_CPUS is not set CONFIG_ALTIVEC=y # CONFIG_TAU is not set # # General setup # # CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not set # CONFIG_ISA is not set # CONFIG_EISA is not set # CONFIG_SBUS is not set # CONFIG_MCA is not set CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y # CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y # # PCMCIA/CardBus support # CONFIG_PCMCIA=m CONFIG_CARDBUS=y CONFIG_I82365=y CONFIG_TCIC=y # # Parallel port support # # CONFIG_PARPORT is not set CONFIG_PPC_RTC=y CONFIG_PROC_DEVICETREE=y # CONFIG_PPC_RTAS is not set # CONFIG_PREP_RESIDUAL is not set # CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL is not set # # Memory Technology Devices (MTD) # # CONFIG_MTD is not set # # Plug and Play configuration # # CONFIG_PNP is not set # CONFIG_ISAPNP is not set # # Block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m # CONFIG_VIODASD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set # CONFIG_PARIDE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA is not set # CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960 is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y # # Multi-device support (RAID and LVM) # # CONFIG_MD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set # CONFIG_MD_LINEAR is not set # CONFIG_MD_RAID0 is not set # CONFIG_MD_RAID1 is not set # CONFIG_MD_RAID5 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LVM is not set # # Networking options # CONFIG_PACKET=y # CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP is not set CONFIG_NETLINK=y # CONFIG_RTNETLINK is not set # CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV is not set CONFIG_NETFILTER=y # CONFIG_NETFILTER_DEBUG is not set # CONFIG_FILTER is not set CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y # CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER is not set # CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set # CONFIG_IP_MROUTE is not set # CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y # # IP: Netfilter Configuration # CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK=m CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP=m # CONFIG_IP_NF_QUEUE is not set CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_LIMIT=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MAC=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MARK=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MULTIPORT=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TOS=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TCPMSS=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_STATE=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_UNCLEAN=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_OWNER=m CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=m CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT=m CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MIRROR=m CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=m CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=m CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REDIRECT=m CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_FTP=m # CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE is not set # CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG is not set CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TCPMSS=m CONFIG_IP_NF_COMPAT_IPCHAINS=m CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y # CONFIG_IP_NF_COMPAT_IPFWADM is not set # CONFIG_IPV6 is not set # CONFIG_KHTTPD is not set # CONFIG_ATM is not set # # # # CONFIG_IPX is not set CONFIG_ATALK=m # CONFIG_DECNET is not set # CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set # CONFIG_X25 is not set # CONFIG_LAPB is not set # CONFIG_LLC is not set # CONFIG_NET_DIVERT is not set # CONFIG_ECONET is not set # CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER is not set # CONFIG_NET_FASTROUTE is not set # CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL is not set # # QoS and/or fair queueing # # CONFIG_NET_SCHED is not set # # ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support # CONFIG_IDE=y # # IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices
Re: Please test mp3blaster on PowerPC
On 15 Jul 2001 07:27:19 -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: I was unable to confirm the bug (which involves static instead of music) because mp3blaster segfaulted the moment I loaded an mp3 file. I can second that, happens here as well. /aol type=me_too Tuomas -- .. | Tuomas Kuosmanen | Ximian | Art Director | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.ximian.com | `'
Re: Using Display and VGA Port !?
On 01 Jan 1904 19:49:50 +0100, Michael Flaig wrote: Hi! I want to connect an projector to the vga port and show some information on the wall at meetings. Can someone help me with the XF86Config? Under MacOS there are 2 Screens if I connect to the VGA Port. I have XFree4, sid, Kernel2.4 ... Thanks for your help! If you are at LinuxTAG, come to the GNOME booth, I can help you. In other case, check out http://penguinppc.org/~benh/ and the section about Powermac kernels, it has a little note about m3mirror program that will enable the external VGA for you. No need to tweak your XF86Config if your projector can do the same resolution. I hope this wasnt too late :-) Tuomas -- .. | Tuomas Kuosmanen | Ximian | Art Director | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.ximian.com | `'
Re: PPPoE and boot floppies
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 02:57:17PM -0800, thus said Ethan Benson: On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 12:43:24PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: So, what I want to do is take the binary that was created in my fully installed system, pack it up using tar, and then transport it to my new-install system, so I can be in the ramdisk, and then untar it so that it works, and I can connect to the 'net, and complete my install. like i said, i doubt this would work because the libc on the ramdisk is reduced, its not full libc. not even hfsutils will run off of it among other things. I just don't know how to collect everything I need to make sure the binary works on the ramdisk. Anyone got any ideas on how to do this? dpkg -L pppoe dpkg -s pppoe | gpep ^Depends you need everything not in /usr/share/doc for every package it depends on. and probably a real libc. will that fit on the root disk? no. Do we still use the base .tar.gz of the bare bones system? I remember fetching that into my macos partition and doing the base install using it - it contains dpkg and a functional base system so you should be able to install everything else after that? In my case I even had problems booting with the floppy images (since Pismo has no floppy drive, and there was no bootable CD for ppc at the time I could find) - So I just untarred the base .tgz into a new partition, removed /sbin/unconfigured.sh and off I went booting from that. Needless to say I did a LOT of stuff breaks and you fix it -work... Not recommended. :-P Is it possible for you to burn a bootable CD somewhere? That could be another option as well. (Do those work on oldworlds?) Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED].|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.ximian.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: Sound on G4 Cube
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:59:34AM +0200, thus said thomas graichen: Karl-Heinz Haag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *sound on/with G4 Cube* How to configure? Apples tech-information only tells: Sound card 16-Bit -PCI- 44.1 KHz stereo and Audio Output -- Sound card -PCI- integrated Which hardware is this? Is kernel 2.2.19 sufficient? Which modules do I need to compile? Is there something special about the order to load these modules? it is usb audio - so you usually just have to make shure that the audio.o module for usb audio is build and installed I tried the cube speakers on my Pismo with usb audio. I got a mixer device, apps could open the sound device and everything seemed fine, apart that there was no sound. Are the cube speakers known to work with Linux? They get recognized fine though but no matter what I do with a mixer program they dont seem to do anything. This is 2.4.5-pre3 from Ben's rsync, about 3 weeks old or so. Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED].|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.ximian.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: External vga resolution on pismo
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 05:05:20PM +0200, thus said Sebastian Horzela: Hello everyone, is there a way to set the external vga resolution on the pismo to 640x480 under linux? I need this because we have a video projector that only runs with 640x480. You should be able to switch resolution after you have enabled the VGA mirroring and disabling the internal LCD (it doesnt like weird resolutions probably) - Just start X with a different XF86Config that you have setup with 640x480 or, if you need console, use fbset. It should work fine. At least I managed to get 1600x1200 from the Pismo with an external monitor. And I also managed to change console resolution with fbset. Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED].|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.ximian.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: gs-stp (was: Re: firewire, printing, and sound on iBook DV 2K)
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:38:18AM -0500, thus said Charles Sebold: On 24 Sivan 5761, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: There is a debian package of it; it is called gs-stp. Good luck. I had it setup once, but I dont think it works for me anymore (been updating stuff since) - I mostly print from Gimp and it doesnt need the GS driver so it is not that important for me at the moment. But I remember the printout was just stunning quality. I couldn't find gs-stp. Any other ideas as to what it would be called? Or did you mean that somebody other than Debian has the Debian package? Couldn't find it on the sourceforge site. Oh. It's probably in testing/unstable then. You could try grabbing that package from there and seeing if it works with debian/stable version (I assume you have that as the package exists in testing) Or just get the sources if it depends on too many packages from unstable. There is a script to build the debian package of the ghostscript driver in the source tar.gz, with instructions. Best wishes, Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED].|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.ximian.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: compiling gimp 1.2
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 04:30:08AM -0800, thus said Ethan Benson: On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:04:57PM +0200, sisi wrote: hoi all, i am trying to compile gimp 1.2, and it is asking for GTK + 1.2.8 or higher. So... i would like to know whether there is ximian stuff for debian powerpc as i know that ximian for debian x86 has GTK + 1.2.10 ? if you want to install ximian execute rm -rf / as root, the damage will be about the same. Dude, I know we debian users are weird people, but hey, I know the ximian distro people try hard to get the packages right. A patch instead of a flame helps a lot more. There is Hadess's build of ximian gnome at http://www.hadess.net/idoru.shtml, you could try that as well. or is there some other solution like compling GTK myself (will i run into other dependancies?) install woody. or backport the woody gnome packages to potato (ive done it, its a pain but it can be done, note its far LESS of a pain then ruining your system with that ximian crap). But the main point here is that you dont need any GNOME stuff to get Gimp 1.2 running, just gtk. I guess there are such gtk packages in debian as well, at least in testing; brave souls could try install those on a potato system? Dunno if it breaks anything, shouldnt gtk 1.2.x be compatible with gtk 1.2.y anyway? Not that I really know anything but this is how I do things, if they break, I fix them then :) Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED].|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.ximian.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: broken libc6, looking for a working dpkg
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:19:46AM +0100, thus said Bastien Nocera: Hi, After downgrading my libc6 from 2.2.3-1 to 2.2.2-1, because the upgrade broke most of xmms' plugins and evolution (that even a recompile couldn't fix), I'm stuck with a version of dpkg that requires libc6 2.2.3. Does anybody have a binary of dpkg that I could use on a glibc 2.2.2 based system ? Did anybody else have these plugins problems ? I reckon it could be a problem with glib's dlopen() code (not glibc, glib), but didn't have the time to investigate. Ah! At least someone in the same boat I guess.. My Evolution broke as well. I noticed gdialog segfaulted after the glibc upgrade, but recompiling the gnome-utils package of which gdialog is part of, fixed it. Did you get something like this with Evo? http://tigert.gimp.org/things/aieee.png or is it something different? I am wondering why this broke, is it a broken glibc package or my own fault, and how to fix it the right way? Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED].|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.ximian.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: broken libc6, looking for a working dpkg
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:18:51PM +0100, thus said Bastien Nocera: or is it something different? I am wondering why this broke, is it a broken glibc package or my own fault, and how to fix it the right way? Much like it. I am _not_ restarting evolution until this is fixed ;) so here is what I get when I launch xmms, some plugins fail to load: /usr/local/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x6f6596d4 for symbol `' out of range /home/hadess/.xmms/Plugins/libkjofol.so: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x6f46aeb8 for symbol `' out of range % xmms usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x6ec51f38 for /symbol `' out of range So same thing. The weird thing is most apps seem to work, for example Nautilus is working fine, no problem on it. Was there something changing in the glibc that broke things for us between these versions? It seems to be related to linking or library loading, but I dont have much clue about those things.. :( Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED].|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.ximian.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: firewire, printing, and sound on iBook DV 2K
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 09:00:05AM -0500, thus said Phil Fraering: Using printtool, the Epson 1520 I have will finally print an ASCII test page. Although it doesn't seem to want to print a postscript test page or anything else other than straight to the port. Still, I can print something by cat'ing to /dev/usb/lp0, which is more than I could do before. Check out http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/, it's the Gimp print plugin project, but it also includes a Ghostscript and CUPS driver using the same backend. This will give you print quality that is in the same class as the native Epson drivers for Windows and Mac. In other words, it rocks. It is a bit tricky to setup, but there are instructions how to make it work with LPR, then you can just print postscript and the quality is _awesome_. To do it in a smart way, you want to setup many printer aliases, all with the same printer device, but with different options, so you can print to glossy paper, inkjet paper, plain paper, with different DPI etc. There is a debian package of it; it is called gs-stp. Good luck. I had it setup once, but I dont think it works for me anymore (been updating stuff since) - I mostly print from Gimp and it doesnt need the GS driver so it is not that important for me at the moment. But I remember the printout was just stunning quality. Finally, is anyone else using firewire on the mac? I had video1394.o compiled as a module, but it won't insert into the kernel. I dont have any firewire devices, but using Ben's kernel tree (linux-2.4-benh) from 2 weeks ago, version being 2.4.5-pre3, I get the module inserted ok, and it seems to recognize the thing. However I dont currently have any firewire devices. I am planning to buy a FW harddisk though, so I can volunteer as a guinea pig in the near future. Any recommendations on which ones should work on Linux? This is my kernel.log when I modprobe video1394: Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ieee1394: registered ohci1394 driver, initializing now Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394: looking for Ohci1394 cards Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: PCI: Enabling device 06:0e.0 (0010 - 0012) Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: remapped memory spaces reg 0xd1844000 Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: allocated interrupt 40 Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: soft reset finished Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: max packet size = 2048 bytes Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: 4 iso receive contexts available Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: 4 iso transmit contexts available Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: Receive DMA ctx=0 initialized Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: Receive DMA ctx=1 initialized Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: AT dma ctx=0 initialized Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: AT dma ctx=1 initialized Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: Receive DMA ctx=2 initialized Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: resetting bus on request Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ieee1394: detected 1 ohci1394 adapter Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: irq_handler timeout event=0x0002 Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: PhyControl: 8003017F Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: SelfID process finished (phyid 0, root) Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: selfid packet 0x807f8452 rcvd Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ieee1394: including selfid 0x807f8452 Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: This node self-id is 0x807f8452 Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: calling self-id complete Jun 15 22:50:07 localhost kernel: video1394: initialized with 1 ohci cards Best wishes, Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED].|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.ximian.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: firewire, printing, and sound on iBook DV 2K
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 04:26:21PM -0600, thus said Jason E. Stewart: Yes. Look at linux1394.sourceforge.net. They have a recommendations page. Okay, cool. Unless you've got an x86 box, I wouldn't run out and buy things just yet. The code to get firewire working on big-endian systems isn't even in CVS yet. Yah, good to know. The point is I would be using the disk under native MacOS with a digital video camera and iMovie2 to learn video stuff. One needs a lot of scratch disk for that, and my laptop internal HD is too full. It would work okay for that purpose until there is Linux support, so it wouldnt just be used as a fishing bait until then :) Hopefully someone will start a video editing suite for Gnome at some point, I would love to help with the interface stuff etc. Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED].|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.ximian.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: TiBook X keyboard battery question
On 04 Apr 2001 09:00:21 -0700, Jason E. Stewart wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's also a nice pmud plugin for gkrellm (www.gkrellm.net) Has anyone gotten the plugin display to work with two batteries simultaneously? When I have two batteries in my pismo, I only get a single display. It claims to support two, and Batmon show's both batteries, just not the pmud plugin... I have the same issue here. It seems to know I have two batteries, as right-clicking the display toggles between two different percentage values. But it indeed only shows me one battery in the display area. Tuomas Tuomas Kuosmanen - Art Director - Ximian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com
Re: External Monitor under Pismo
On 03 Apr 2001 19:03:28 -0700, Jason E. Stewart wrote: Tuomas Kuosmanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! mirror works fine for me even on kernel 2.4.3 on my Pismo. Weird. This kernel is from Ben's rsync and it contains the pismo sleep code as well. rsync -avz --delete penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh linux-2.4-benh I got scared because I am going to GUADEC (a GNOME conference in Denmark) this weekend and it would have sucked badly if it didnt work, but so far it looks good :o) I originally had just a binary of mirror which worked, but I compiled the one which was attached to Jason's mail and it worked as well. Glad it helped. I updated my copy of 2.4-benh, and it works now???!!! So I'm really happy ;-) Now... Since I'm mirroring the LCD I only get 1024x768, and the pismo can drive a [EMAIL PROTECTED] bit depth. So what needs to happen to aty128fb.c to support the external monitor, and what can I do to make it happen?? That is beyond *me* but maybe someone else knows. I am just the artist dude 'round the corner who likes to hack with perl and stuff.. :-) I think there is no support for the external monitor in that sense in the driver. In macos it can do real dualhead, so that would be possible at least in theory, and it would be pretty nice. But currently I think the mirrored display is all we have for Pismo. Which works nice for projectors though. Tuomas Tuomas Kuosmanen - Art Director - Ximian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com
Re: External Monitor under Pismo
Hi! mirror works fine for me even on kernel 2.4.3 on my Pismo. Weird. This kernel is from Ben's rsync and it contains the pismo sleep code as well. rsync -avz --delete penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh linux-2.4-benh I got scared because I am going to GUADEC (a GNOME conference in Denmark) this weekend and it would have sucked badly if it didnt work, but so far it looks good :o) I originally had just a binary of mirror which worked, but I compiled the one which was attached to Jason's mail and it worked as well. Best wishes, Tuomas On 03 Apr 2001 04:24:12 -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: Does your laptop have a key sequence that will switch the output from LCD to CRT(external monitor) and back? Mine does. Fn-F8. It's directly tied to the hardware and doesn't need any support in X or Linux. Of course it's an x86 laptop, but it's the same video controller, so maybe your Pismo has something similar? I have to hit it a couple-o' three times to get it to switch, and it does a three way deal: LCD, external, and both simultaneously. a Jason E. Stewart wrote: Hey All, So after 7 months of flailing I finally got my Pismo to run it's external monitor port, yeah!!! 3 days before I had a talk to give about our OpenSource project, I realized I was going to be using OpenOffice under linux, and I couldn't actually drive a projector... So after I got done panicing I hit google. I find a link on the YDL lists about the 'mirror' program that appears to have been originally written by Paul Mackeras. It gives me the functionality I need, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work with 2.4 kernels, only 2.2. The program is doing some pretty low-level memory mojo which I am clueless about. Could someone slightly wiser point out what would change between 2.2 and 2.4 that would cause this to break? Is it the base memory offset for the framebuffer? Cheers! jas. Name: mirror2.c mirror2.cType: text/x-csrc Encoding: quoted-printable -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuomas Kuosmanen - Art Director - Ximian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com
Re: X probs after upgrade
On 22 Mar 2001 23:42:04 -0800, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: Well, by using startx to bring up the xserver and then switching back to the console I can manually bring up gnome-terminal and even start sawfish as my window manager. I just think whatever startup stuff that is supposed to run is bombing. Attempting to log in via gdm, selecting any session or the default session, just causes gdm to respawn the xserver and put up the login dialog again, which is different from the behavior I saw yesterday, but I don't know that I changed anything... The thing GNOME runs on startup is gnome-session. Try running that from a terminal window (just run one terminal, no windowmanager) and see if it prints any error messages? That might give some trace, as might /var/log/gdm/\:0.log - but I think that logfile thing was mentioned already? If gnome-session just hangs you can always try stracing it (prints a LOT of info about what it is doing but should show at least the point where it stops.. -run strace gnome-session from the terminal) Anyway, I hope you find some info on what is failing. Tuomas Tuomas Kuosmanen - Art Director - Ximian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com
Re: Airport support in 2.4.x kernel
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:46:55PM -0800, thus said Alan DuBoff:
Bingo! A million thanks for posting that response Tuomas!!! I went into
the kernel configuration and saw the auto mount option set to yes, set it to
no, recompiled and I've just boot for the first time with the 2.4.3-pre3
kernel.
Whee :) It's always nice to see replies like this!
For the airport stuff, I try to share what I know so far:
You have set me on the right track here. I have the module now, and was able
to insmod it, but I don't see any wireless interfaces, so will go to the links
you gave and RTFM and see if I can get it started.
It is airport, not eth0 or wavelan0. So you can ifconfig airport blah
blah
I do have the wireless-tools package installed and have iwconfig, just need to
read up and learn how to use it (assuming similar to ifconfig, but for
wireless;-).
It is not. It is not for setting the ip and stuff, you use ifconfig for
that, but instead it is for setting the low level hardware stuff, like
frequency and such. Something to get you started again:
# iwconfig airport
airport IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:Helix Nickname:HERMES I
Frequency:2.442GHz Sensitivity:1/3 Mode:Managed
Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Bit Rate:11Mb/s RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link quality:31/92 Signal level:-62 dBm Noise level:-93 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:28480
So here you see the card has a link (the ESSID is showing the network name).
You really want to have some kind of wireless stats applet (or cat
/proc/net/wireless) - freshmeat.net should have lots of wireless stats
stuff, pick your favourite :) I use the plugin for gkrellm system monitor
that shows a nice graph for the wireless signal stregth.
So how iwconfig works? Some examples:
# iwconfig airport essid foobar
Sets the network name to something else, you need to use this if
your base station is using the private network setting, so the
essid is not visible to everyone.
This is pretty much the only command you need.
# iwconfig -h
Usage: iwconfig interface [essid {NN|on|off}]
[nwid {NN|on|off}]
[freq N.[k|M|G]]
[channel N]
[sens N]
[nick N]
[rate {N|auto|fixed}]
[rts {N|auto|fixed|off}]
[frag {N|auto|fixed|off}]
[enc -]
This shows the options you can do with it. Basically the frequency and stuff
should be working without messing around.
Anyway, I hope this was useful. Feel free to ask if you have questions,
Very much so! Thanks again for the help, you've put me on the right path
to the wireless promised land...g
Yea. And I'm afraid there is no point of return :) It's very convenient to
move to the lawn on summer instead of hacking inside.. The only sucking part
is there is no wireless electricity :^)
Best wishes,
Tuomas
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Re: Airport support in 2.4.x kernel
On 16 Mar 2001 22:47:56 -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote: I am so excited to send you the first message over my airport using the wireless in the room next to my office...G By the way, make sure you secure your wireless so it is not open for everyone with DHCP.. There are WAY too many of these, while it may be convenient to get free internet to a hotel room from a nearby new media agency, it is not fun from their point of view. Very often you get access to their very internal network, and a cool firewall for the internet connection is not very useful if you can access the internal network from the neigbouring apartment with a laptop and a wavelan card.. Tuomas Tuomas Kuosmanen - Art Director - Ximian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com
Re: Airport support in 2.4.x kernel
On 16 Mar 2001 22:47:56 -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote: I am so excited to send you the first message over my airport using the wireless in the room next to my office...G By the way, make sure you secure your wireless so it is not open for everyone with DHCP.. There are WAY too many of these, while it may be convenient to get free internet to a hotel room from a nearby new media agency, it is not fun from their point of view. Very often you get access to their very internal network, and a cool firewall for the internet connection is not very useful if you can access the internal network from the neigbouring apartment with a laptop and a wavelan card.. Tuomas Tuomas Kuosmanen - Art Director - Ximian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com
Re: Airport support in 2.4.x kernel
On 13 Mar 2001 19:08:06 -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote: After I get my airport module, I think I need to add my network wireless network name as an argument when the module loads, correct? If the network requires it, yes. I don't remember what the option names are. I understand there is some option for modprobe or insmod to show the options for a module but I can't find it right now. Well, I got the kernel built, but it doesn't want to run. I have some problems with ext2, it seemed it couldn't get the partitions mounted or something like that...I did have ext2 enabled, checked it a second time. The odd thing is that I had a 2.4.3pre2, did a build, but before installing it tried another rsync and it updated to 2.4.3pre3. Not sure if Paulus was going through changes yesterday or what, will look into that today when I get some time. I need to get some work done before playing with the PowerBook anymore. This sounds very much like DevFS. Install devfsd package that should set up the partition names for you in /dev. The problem with devfs is all the partitions look different, as it is not /dev/hda1 but something like /dev/disks/ide/lun0/partition-foo/blah/eek/1, which is nice, but your fstab is not happy with it. To get around it, you have 2 options: * Boot with devfs=nomount, so in the yaboot boot: prompt: linux devfs=nomount * See that the automatically mount at boot option of devfs is not set in the kernel configuration. For the airport stuff, I try to share what I know so far: If your airport network is not set in the secret mode where you need to know the network name to be able to connect, the driver should be able to figure it out by itself. So insmod the driver, and it should figure things out. If you use the WEP encryption you need to give the stuff in as parameters. These are the parameters you are interested in: (from Ben's webpage, http://penguinppc.org/~benh) insmod airport.o network_name=my_network [enc=key] Also, get the wireless-tools package that has the iwconfig tool which is incredibly useful for figuring out if the network works etc. I dont personally use the WEP, I just limit the harware address(es) that can connect to the base station. You can get iwconfig from http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html You can set most of the options with iwconfig if you dont want to use the module parameters, or if you want to tune the stuff later. Anyway, I hope this was useful. Feel free to ask if you have questions, this is roughly what came to my mind just now. I'll try to peek in here every now and then, though I have a lot of mail to take care of (and I am in the process of switching my mail load into Evolution which will help me a lot, it is becoming an awesome mailer! :o) Best wishes, Tuomas Tuomas Kuosmanen - Art Director - Ximian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com
Re: debian2.2r2 on powerbook G4
On 12 Mar 2001 22:30:27 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: Alan DuBoff wrote: Adam Goode wrote: Is it fixed? I found that this was the biggest problem I had on my iMac. Because this does not cause just ldconfig to fail, but MANY programs, randomly to fail on running. The most common case was in running subprograms out of emacs (latex, xdvi, ispell). It happened so often that I could not continue running Paulus's 2.4 kernel. And this was as recent as a week ago. This seems like a serious problem, and I'm surprised no one has mentioned it before. Now you're scaring me! Would I have to sacrifice emacs to get the airport? Maybe it's a good time to think about switching to VI to do all my coding...nah, I didn't think so...:-/ Don't worry, I'm running a kernel rsynced on Mar ch 10th and it hasn't shown shown any weird behaviour so far. I'd say it's fixed. FYI I had this too. Especially ldconfig, but also a lot of other programs would fail. Only on paulus' tree. I am currently running olaf's patches against 2.4.1 and they work ok so far. http://penguinppc.org/~olaf/linux-2.4.1/ (There are patches for 2.4.2 too, just do the obvious modification to the above url. But that 2.4.1 one is the stuff I am running currently.) I guess it might be fixed by now in Paulus' tree. This machine is a Pismo. Now, onto another weird problem. I am currently having some strange stuff happening with airport and NFS. If I use the internal ethernet, NFS works as well as NFS can work. But if I use it with airport, it blocks after a while. I get this stuff on my kern.log: Mar 14 03:11:30 localhost kernel: nfs: server foo.bar.baz not responding, still trying Mar 14 03:13:19 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17272 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:13:19 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17273 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:13:25 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17274 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:13:25 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17275 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:13:25 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17276 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:13:25 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17277 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:13:25 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17278 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:13:25 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17279 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:13:25 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17280 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:13:25 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17281 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:13:25 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17282 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:13:25 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17283 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:13:25 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17284 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:13:25 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17285 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:13:25 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17286 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:13:25 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17287 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:13:25 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17288 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:13:25 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17289 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:13:56 localhost kernel: nfs: task 17290 can't get a request slot Mar 14 03:34:30 localhost kernel: nfs: server foo.bar.baz not responding, still trying Mar 14 03:46:14 localhost kernel: nfs: server foo.bar.baz not responding, still trying And I can ping the machine fine. Everything else works on the network. The problem is fixed temporarily by doing ifdown/ifup or by remounting the NFS volume. And it only happens with NFS. If I scp large files accross the airport to another machine, it has absolutely no problems. And I have no clue. Eek. Sometimes I wish I could code a bit more than the daily perl spaghetti.. :-( I didnt notice this problem with 2.2 kernels. Has anyone else had anything like this? Tuomas Tuomas Kuosmanen - Art Director - Ximian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com
Re: evolution etc...
On 06 Mar 2001 01:12:20 +0200, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: Next I guess I gotta look with Chris (the addressbook dude) whether it crashes on Sparc too etc.. Duh. Well, good that I went for the Pismo instead of an IBM laptop, the end result would be one ppc-specific bug less.. Ok, we had a bug fixing session, and it was a typical one-liner in libversit (apparently a lib that Evolution uses to parse the addressbook vCards or something, I am not too familiar with the internals of Evolution and what libraries it uses etc..) It works fine on my machine now, so some email-client changing action is in the schedule soon :o) Here's the change: tigert ~/src/cvs/evolution/libversit % diff vcc.y vcc.y.orig 555c555 static char lexGetc_() --- static int lexGetc_() (excuse my sucky patch generating skillz :) This probably works for the latest developer release as well as CVS. Thanks Craige for help! And thanks to Peter for the useful ulimit tip, I knew such thing existed but I never actually used it for anything. Best wishes, Tuomas Tuomas Kuosmanen - Art Director - Ximian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com
Re: evolution etc...
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:26:10PM +1100, thus said Craige McWhirter: Toumas, not having really used the Evolution address book (I'm back to using Balsa/Mutt) I gave it a whirl and experienced exactly what you described. I could watch (with gkrellm) my RAM and swap get gobbled up. I averted a crash only by closing Evolution just before the swap filled up. It also works fine on my i386 machine. Scary stuff ;) Yep, but bugs happen when stuff is in progress.. :) Thanks for help though, I now know that it is just not my machine, but looks more likely that it is an endianness issue or something else that is processor architecture specific. Next I guess I gotta look with Chris (the addressbook dude) whether it crashes on Sparc too etc.. Duh. Well, good that I went for the Pismo instead of an IBM laptop, the end result would be one ppc-specific bug less.. Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED].|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.ximian.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: evolution etc...
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:09:31AM +1100, thus said Craige McWhirter: Phil, I think your message may be referrencing my messages about getting Evolution running. I didn't make any package changes (I wouldn't even know how) I merely installed evolution, libxml1 and bonobo (from Sid) to get Evolution functioning. It still does not perform as stable as my i386 laptop version. Neither are particularly stable but they are usable. Out of curiosity, does your Evolution addressbook work on ppc? I am having it crash if I run it on my debian ppc Pismo, however it works fine on the same debian testing i386 desktop machine. I have tracked it down to the Wombat (the evolution backend server process) crashing on lex_getword or something, I was just curious if anyone else has found similar problems when running it.. As is this just my system being weird or is this common to all linux/ppc systems? I am pestering the coder dudes here for it, but it seems to be something strange. Wombat starts chomping memory like crazy and when it cant get any more, as swap and mem are all eaten, it dies. Hmm. Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED].|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.ximian.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: mozilla 0.8 from penguinppc and PSM
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 09:10:10AM -0800, thus said Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick: Umm, it works pretty ok for me. It is stable too I think, I dont really see much crashes. I just took the build from mozilla.org that includes PSM and dumped into my homedir and ran it from there. Loading regular HTTP pages works fine for me, and I agree it is fairly stable (no worse than Netscape 4.7 ;) But I have been unable to get PSM to work... What version of Debian are you running? Umm, hmm. This is a testing of unstable+testing at the moment, probably more like unstable, as I was running unstable before the new stable/testing/unstable category thing came. Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED].|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.ximian.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: XFree86 3.3.6 config for pismo
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:17:39PM +0100, thus said Michel D?nzer: Grant Miller wrote: I've tried to get 4.0.2 working, but I've been fighting that for a week (or more). I'll survive with 3.3.6 until 4 is more mature on the PowerPC platform. Have you tried either Option UseFBDev or Option ProgramFPRegs No? I've used the Option UseFBDev without any luck. Please post the relevant parts of XF86Config and describe what happens. Are you running aty128fb in console? Just for the record, my Pismo is very happy with Xfree4. I have my XF86Config-4 on the web: http://tigert.gimp.org/files/Pismo/XF86Config-4 Hope it is helpful for someone. It has some extra XInput configs for a wacom intuos tablet, those can be snipped off, but it seems to work fine even without the tablet anyway. Best wishes, Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED].|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.ximian.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: Print Configuration and the Epson Stylus Photo 750
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 07:47:14PM -0800, thus said Donnell: Thanks for the replies. I tried magicfilter, utilizing Abe and Stewart's tips concerning the serial port settings. However, I was still unsuccessful in getting any output. I think it is because the Stylus Photo 750 is a 6-color printer. Respectively, they had success with the Stylus 800 and 600--both 4-color printers. Yes, the Stylus photo can also print with 4 inks, but that is kind of crappy when the hardware can do better. Gimp-print does 6-ink printing fine. Oh, they also do have a CUPS driver in gimp-print. (cups is the other printing system for unix, I have never tried it though) I am now attempting to work with gimp-print as Tuomas suggested. The .deb files I saw were for i386, so I had to opt for the source code. I've been having some difficulty with ld during the make. Since I'm not sure it is strictly gimp-print or Debian-powerpc related, I'll mention that I get the message /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgimpui during make. However if I issue ldconfig -v, I see the following: ... /usr/lib: ... libgimpui.so.1 = libgimpui.so.1.0.4 ... What could cause such an error given the above indication? You could check if you have the gimp-devel packages installed, it might be missing gimptool. The gimp-print source tarball has a make-deb.sh script that will fetch the source packages for gs and libjpeg and some stuff, and it will build a deb for you that works in your architecture. I know you then need to edit your /var/spool/lpd/lp/postscript.cfg to do something like this: - start - # # configuration related to postscript printing # generated automatically by PRINTTOOL # manual changes to this file may be lost # GSDEVICE=stp RESOLUTION=1440x720 PAPERSIZE=a4 EXTRA_GS_OPTIONS=-sModel=escp2-1200 \ -sQuality='1440 x 720 DPI Highest Quality' -sDither='Adaptive Hybrid' \ -sInkType='Six Color Photo' -sMediaType='Photo Quality Inkjet Paper' \ -dImageType=2 REVERSE_ORDER= PS_SEND_EOF=NO # # following is related to printing multiple pages per output page # NUP=1 RTLFTMAR=18 TOPBOTMAR=18 end Yes, I did make the initial config with printtool, then edited this by hand. The problem with this is I am not sure if this works now, as I mostly print from Gimp. It did work at some point though. But I got strange no spool file found -errors at some point. The guys at gimp-print list should know better than me though :) I hope you get it working. It would even make sense to package this for debian, though then we'd need some config tool for it, the options are many and not trivial to set without the documentation as they are case-sensitive and long. Also, note that you can create several printers on your /etc/printcap, each with their own spool directory and postscript.conf. Those would be identical except for paper and printing quality, if you want to print on plain paper for example. Then name the printers like Epson-plain, Epson-glossy etc. Also note that you want to change the sModel to represent your printer model. The source tree has some documentation on the options and what works for which. It works on other brands than Epson too, just that Epson was being helpful and gave specs and test printers for the developers, and can now enjoy a pretty much complete free driver for their products. Oh, and get some of the glossy paper to test the results with, the print quality looks a lot better on it. On Thu, 21 December 2000, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN [removed some ugly content that looks like a bad mix of perl and postscript] /TABLE /BODY /HTML Oh my gosh. How did this mail end up like this? When I mail from Evolution, it looks perfectly normal in Mutt and most other mailers.. Looks like the webmail you were using did something weird to my message.. Eeks. I apologize for the ugly sight :) Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: Print Configuration and the Epson Stylus Photo 750
On 20 Dec 2000 01:15:11 -0500, Donnell wrote: Has anyone successfully printed to an Epson Stylus Photo 750 from a Mac running Linux? I've tried unsuccessfully to print using the apsfilter-gs-lpd combination. I am running GNU/Linux 2.2 atop a G3/L2 cache-upgraded PowerBase 180. The printer is connected via the Mac serial port. Is apsfilter the way to go? I'd appreciate any configuration tips and suggestions. Thanks. Actually gimp-print does awesome (I mean it) output on Epson printers. They even include a patched Ghostscript driver (with a .deb build script for debian woody) that does a .deb for that ghostscript automatically. It is a little tricky to setup as there are a lot of options for gs to pass, but it has instructions and they have a mailing list too :o) Gimp-print is at http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net It also includes a ink status monitor and general config tool for Epson printers (escputil) I hope this was useful.. Tuomas Tuomas Kuosmanen Art Director Helix Code, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.helixcode.com
Re: Installing kernel 2.4.0-test11 on iBook
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:31:37PM -0500, thus said Charles Brunet: Hi! I'm trying to install Debian 2.2 on my new iBook (the blue one, with Firewire. I don't know how I should call it). I tried to follow most of Hadess' advices. Now I want to compile a 2.4.0 kernel to be able to use video acceleration, pmu and other useful stuff. When I boot with my newly compiled kernel, I got the error: reuest_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot aper roor device hda13 Looks like devfs got mounted during boot, but /etc/fstab has the old device names still. You can either not use devfs (disable it in the kernel config) or you can unset the automatically mount at boot option. Or you can use the boot-time option devfs=nomount to not mount it on boot time. I think there are docs in the kernel sources for how devfs works etc. But you dont necessarily need it if you dont want to use it. I hope this helps Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: Xpmac = no adbmouse?
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 03:32:28PM -0700, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wanted to say the following: I'm currently using the Aug 5 Paulus kernel (2.2.17pre15) from http://kernel.xorsis.com/ ... it doesn't have Ben's new input system yet... Just a dummy check: If you use the new input layer, did you create the new input devices as indicated in ben's page? http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/ -- cut 8 --- su - cd /dev rm usbmouse rm mouse mkdir input mknod input/mice c 13 63 ln -s input/mice mouse ln -s input/mice usbmouse --- 8 cut -- I am just asking because I am using a powerbook, and from what I understand, the glidepad is a adb mouse (gpm was using /dev/adbmouse atleast and was working before the new input stuff) This works just fine in Xpmac: # lsof /dev/mouse COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME gpm 181 root0u CHR 13,63 19747 /dev/input/mice Xpmac.rev 257 root0r CHR 13,63 19747 /dev/input/mice It follows the symlink and uses the /dev/input/mice -device. So check that you created the device and symlinked it to /dev/mouse, otherwise it wont work. Also make gpm use the new device. Hope this helps Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: internal speakers on Pismo
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:49:32PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wanted to say the following: after three days of fiddling with hardware registers, I managed to make it sound! I'll work with Iain Sandoe to clean it up and merge it into the mainstream kernel. For the really impatient: - use Ben Herrenschidt's 2.2.17pre10-ben2 kernel source - apply Iain's dmasound patch - replace drivers/sound/dmasound/dmasound_awacs.c and .../awacs_defs.h with the attached versions Note that this contains ugly hacks, lots of debugging code, may crash on any machine other than Pismo, ... you got the picture. Cool ;) I'll look at you stuff in more details tonight. I'll try to put a version in my rsync tree (using the old 2.2.x dmasound) making sure it doesn't break older boxes. I'll probably let Iain take care of 2.4 Ok, built linux-pmac-benh today from rsync and speakers work. Microphone input works too btw, but it gets mapped to the line in in gmix. Or at least I can hear the mic input from the speakers when I crank up line and speaker sliders.. dunno if I can record, havent had a change to test it yet. Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: USB mouse
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:17:05PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wanted to say the following: Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: Yea the mini logitech works great. The think to do is the input device stuff in Ben's kernel page and either compile your own or use his precompiled test kernels. They work fine. The url is http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/ (just for convenience here :) Thanks, but that's only for 2.2.17preX - I have the mouse working now, turned out I had to plug it into the other USB socket (the lower one). Is this normal or a bug? It works for me on both ports, even if I hot-swap it while X is running. I am using Xpmac Now let me recommend using X 4.0.1 :) Should be a much better experience than Xpmac... Well, Xpmac is painless and I tried the FBDev X server but that was much slower and I didnt have the time to start playing with it. For XF4 I am waiting for .deb's - Xpmac seems to work really well for my purposes, though there is no way to use a Wacom tablet with it. But I am going to switch to XF4 at some point - I guess it has native rage128 acceleration? I want to be able to use my USB Intuos with the laptop while on the road. But the Xinput driver for the USB Intuos also has some issues so it is not a reason alone to switch yet. What do you mean by much better experience? :) I assume the external display connector doesnt yet work for projector use? I'd assume it needs some kernel/whatever work to enable it? Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: USB mouse
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:03:19PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wanted to say the following: Hadess wrote: I'm using 2.2.15 (yes, I know about the vulnerability ;), and I can successfully load the usb-ohci, mouse and usbcore modules. But neither gpm nor XFree86 work with /dev/usbmouse, protocol IMPS/2 (also tried mman in gpm, no dice). Here are a few things you can try: - use hid module instead of mouse module Will try that. - try cat /dev/usbmouse and move the mouse, see if any output I redirected that to a file which was about 2 megs after a few seconds... 'file' said it was ASCII text, and the first few pages in 'more' were empty. Does that imply anything? You should probably do cat /dev/usbmouse it should print nice garbage stream to the terminal when you move the mouse, and it should stop if you dont move it. Example here (dont we all just love screenshots 8) ÿüý 8üþ8ûþ8øý8ôü8ôú8õù8óù8ùü8÷ù8ýú8ýú(û(û8þü8þÿÿþþý8üÿ8øþ8öý8õþ8ùý8óú8øú8÷ù8úù8ûû8þúÿ8ÿÿûúùûúúùù÷ø8ûÿ8úÿü8üÿ8üÿ8ýþ8þÿ8ýþþ8ÿÿ(ÿ(ÿ(ÿÿ(ÿ(ÿ8ÿÿÿ(ÿ8þÿ(ÿ8ÿþ(þ8ÿý8ÿý8ÿþ8ÿû8ÿû(ü(ü(ý(ü(ü(ý(þ(û(ü(ý( ÿÿþýþýþÿÿ(ÿ(ÿ It will mess up your terminal if you do it for a long time, typing reset helps if your characters get garbled. - install a newer kernel like Ben's 2.2.17-preX, and read the changes at http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Franz.Sirl/inputppc.html and try to apply them I'll do that sooner or later - are there any know problems left with those kernels? They seem to work fine. The nearly-latest one even made my powerbook (firewire, pismo) into sleep when I closed the lid.. Much rejoicing for that until I noticed it didnt yet know how to wake up.. Oh well :) I also doubt it because Tuomas recommended the mouse specifically for Pismos. Yea the mini logitech works great. The think to do is the input device stuff in Ben's kernel page and either compile your own or use his precompiled test kernels. They work fine. The url is http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/ (just for convenience here :) What protocol do you use? gpm and X 4 settings? I use imps2 protocol from the /dev/usbmouse which is a link to /dev/input/mice I am using Xpmac, but I had that setting once for the framebuffer X and it worked, even the wheel works if you set the ZAxisMapping 4 5. I think here exists a mouse-wheel howto (www.linux.com/howto is nifty, you can search the howtos for words and stuff) Hope you get everything working ;) Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:40:19AM +0200, Hadess wanted to say the following: Wahoo, Didn't know that so many people would jump in this thread, hehe. Thank you all for your tips, I just found that gFTP (which is quite buggy, though) supports SSH (much the same way sftp does, i think). For those interested, http://gftp.seul.org/ , no powerpc.deb yet, and no source either. There is source: snip gftp-2.0.7a.tar.gz - Source gftp-2.0.7a-1.src.rpm - Source RPM gftp-2.0.7a-1.i386.rpm - Binary i386 RPM gftp_2.0.7a_i386.deb - Binary i386 DEB /snip The url for the sources is http://gftp.seul.org/gftp-2.0.7a.tar.gz For ssh support it needs sftp installed though. But it has a gui. I wonder if it supports dragging stuff from gmc and such? Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: 2 or 3 button mouse emulation. again.
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 11:55:49PM -0400, Chris Sanner [ Hitchhiker ] wanted to say the following: I know this has been asked a million times. and I've RTFM'd until I think I'm going to scream. I need to use more than one mouse button. I must. I'm using XFree86 4.0. I've passed the kernel parameter adb_buttons=111,119 which are , according to xev, the correct keys. this I have passed in /etc/yaboot.conf under the append section, after the video information, tacked on with a semicolon. then I run ybin and reboot. it doesn't seem to be working. I dont know, I am using Xpmac currently and it has a command line param for the buttons. Sorry, cant help with that. But may I suggest a nice thing? I was in a computer shop and found a very nice USB mouse for the pismo: http://www.logitech.com/cf/products/productoverview.cfm/50 I know it is not a solution to you problem, but for all the people out there looking for a good laptop mouse, this is worth checking out. It has a short cord (with an extension piece if you need longer) so it is handy also in that sense. The whole mouse is also very small, I have sometimes used it on top of the pismo just fine (over the wrist rest). And nothing really beats a _real_ mouse for serious work (like using the gimp :) Drawing with the touchpad is not uhm.. ideal.. I wonder when someone makes a laptop with integrated Wacom Graphire in place of the touchpad.. That would rule :) Just felt like sharing my experience, I am not connected to Logitech and such, blah blah you get the idea :) It is just a very nice mouse for laptop use. can anyone help? I'm running a pismo... I only have a few more issues (getting airport working and sound on the internal speakers are the others) thanks! Airport should work fine with Ben's driver: http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/ The integrated speakers dont work yet in the pismo. Sound works ok through the headphone jack for now. From what I have understood, this requires some kernel work. I hope this was helpful Tuomas Kuosmanen -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:23:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted to say the following: I would need a pointer to an ftp over ssh program, or any good program to easily upload this stuff to sourceforge.net as it doesn't have a normal ftp... scp? (man scp) Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: nvram
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:14:28PM +0200, Claus Enneper wanted to say the following: please, could someone give me the major/minor of /dev/nvram? % file /dev/nvram /dev/nvram: character special (10/144) That is what I have. Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: Helix Evolution any one?
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 01:10:20PM +0100, Adrian Cox wanted to say the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tuomas et al, Does this mean that we can expect Helix Gnome debs for powerpc real soon ? Because I nearly finished compiling all of the debs, only the gtk-themes wouldn't be included (because they contains engine themes precompiled for x86). Should I keep on ? Or wait a bit for everything to be done ? Any chance there'll be debs for potato when this happens? My x86 systems are now a strange mix of frozen and unstable, as I don't want to run Woody to get the Helix desktop. It seems a little odd that Woody is the only Debian release supported, while Redhat's equivalent unstable tree, Rawhide, is not on the list. Helix Gnome for intel should work on both Potato AND Woody, and I told Peter (who makes the debs) that ppc should be built for Potato since Woody currently doesnt exist as a working system. I think it was first built on Woody because Woody had a newer gnome to start with. But as Peter said, if Helix Gnome doesnt work on Potato, it is considered a bug and should be reported and fixed. People are running it on Potato just fine from what I have heard (my intel box runs Woody though) Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: Helix Evolution any one?
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 09:02:58PM +, Georg Bauer wanted to say the following: Hi! Did anyone build packages for Evolution? It depends on a lot of packages, so it's a bit more work I currently would like to have, so if anybody already did it ... Hi! There probably will be a .deb of evolution for ppc too, as will also be helix gnome for debian ppc - the guys are working on it.. Currently the easiest way is via src-debs: -( quoted mail below )-- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 15:42:00 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], evolution@helixcode.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Peter Teichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Evolution] evolution packages for Debian I have built some Debian packages for Evolution and its dependencies, and am releasing them in the hopes that someone out there will find them useful. These aren't of nearly the same quality as the Helix GNOME debs. There are some known minor packaging issues, but things appear to work fine. Keep in mind that all the packages involved are in a prerelease state. In particular, the gconf deb runs a program in its postinstall script that requires oaf. This starts oafd, which remains running after the install is finished. Feel free to kill this root-owned oafd after the install is over. I don't know a good way to handle this problem, since root could be running some programs that require oafd to be running. That rules out killing it off in the postinst. I'll look into things to see what can be done. These have been built and tested under Woody, though they should work on Potato as well. As with the Helix GNOME debs, I consider any failure to work on Potato to be a bug. Please file a bug report if you see any problems of that sort. ( http://bugs.helixcode.com/ ) These have been built for the i386 architecture - that's the only machine I have available at the moment. Source packages are provided, though. The appropriate apt line is: deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian ./ Share and enjoy. Peter ---( end of quoted mail ) The stuff can be built with apt-get source --build packagename I dont remember the dependencies, but you can see what packages are in that dir.. And it is a dependency nightmare at the moment :) Anyway, I thought this might be useful for someone. Dont try this if you are unsure etc.. all the usual disclaimer applies here :) Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: fb-related kernel panic?
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 06:31:05PM -0800, Ethan Benson wanted to say the following: really the main thing i would like to fix with this silly framebuffer (othe then the annoying resync on VC switches) is this big ugly blinking block cursor. its a blinking _ on sparcs just like the intel VGA, so why not on ppc ! Time for framebuffer.themes.org? 8^) Btw, should it change if you change the console font to something else? I dont know how that works but the kernel config has options for that (Select compiled-in console fonts or something like that, it might work) There is a sun font also to choose from the options if I remember correctly. Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: dynamic dns [was unzip]
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 05:03:12PM -0500, Josh wanted to say the following: well, is it an Intel binary? mmm...probably Which one is it, btw? DynuPremium from dynu.com Do you know of any dynamic dns services with scripts for Linux PPC? Freshmeat.net is the place to look for these: http://freshmeat.net/search.php3?query=dynamic+dns resulted in 20 entries that contain dynamic and dns. Check those out, at least some of those should do what you want. I dont have experience with those personally. Hope this helps :) Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: Which /dev for modem on new powerbook
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 01:59:32PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wanted to say the following: I am trying to get my modem working with my new PowerBook. I have installed the latest kernel and Debian Potato. I have setup ppp with pppconfig but when I type pon the prompt just returns. I have a feeling that a device of /dev/ttyS0 is not appropriate for powerpc machines. What is the appropriate /dev for my internal powerbook modem ? Should I make a symbolic link called /dev/modem to it ? I assume you have the Pismo, in other words the powerbook with firewire. I had the same problem, and my trouble was caused by the irmanager, it thought it wanted to use ttyS0 for the infrared port. I had to change the port it was trying to attach to by editing /etc/irda/drivers and changing the port there. The modem on the Pismo is /dev/ttyS0 so you need to either change irmanager to use something else or disable irmanager completely so it doesnt start on bootup. A tool called update-rc.d is handy for the latter (need to be root to do this): # update-rc.d irmanager remove update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/irmanager exists during rc.d purge (use -f to force) That leaves the /etc/init.d/irmanager so you can start it by hand or restore it to start on boot with update-rc.d irmananger defaults later if you need to. At least my modem responds to AT commands now, so it should work. I hope this helped you. Btw, it has been suggested on the list that Woody should be used instead of Potato at the moment. Woody is very broken and incomplete. At least Potato has more recent packages of some things. (someone please correct me if I am wrong) Best wishes, Tuomas Kuosmanen -- .--- tigert @ helixcode.com .|\,/|tigert @ gimp.org -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Re: Mouse Keyboard settings on Debian for PowerPC
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 04:59:42PM -0700, Thomas Powell wanted to say the following: to get your keymap working, uncomment the lines under powermac in /etc/X11/XModmap and add exec xmodmap /etc/X11/Xmodmap to your .xinitrc file. I emulate a three button mouse by passing adb_buttons=103,55 to the kernel at boot (via quik or BootX) which uses the command key as button two and F11 as button three. You can modify these values to suit your needs. Note: This is using the FBDev xserver, XPmac is different, and can be changed on the command line, but I don't remember the particulars. For Xpmac, Xpmac.rev10 -h gives you the options to change. And putting them to the end of /etc/gdm/gdm.conf (where the [servers] section is, works if you run the Gnome Display Manager. Btw, I now have my font path fixed too! Since xpmac does not read the XF86Config file, I had to add the -fp unix/:7100 to gdm.conf to use the font server (and thus now I am able to add fonts to the font servers catalog.. phew.. finally everything seems to work fine :) Thanks for everyone who threw in the bits and pieces of info :) My gdm.conf now has this: 8- cut --- [servers] #0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 # - the old line 0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -middlekey 111 -rightkey 119 -nooptionmouse -once dpms +kb -fp unix/:7100 # this second line starts up :1 on vt8 # 1=/usr/bin/X11/X vt8 # - stuff that also was there before.. --- cut -8 Note that the above must be on one line even though it wraps here. So what this does? -middlekey 111 -rightkey 119 Use F11 and F12 (on Pismo) for mousebuttons. Check your keycode by running xev and pressing keys on its window, reading the output from the terminal. You get KeyPress and KeyRelease events, the value for keycode NNN gives you the code you add to the -middlekey and -rightkey -options. -nooptionmouse I dont want to press Option-F12 to get mousebutton3. Too clunky :) -once This kills the server after I logout. Gdm will restart it for you anyway. dpms This should turn on VESA power manangement, but it doesnt seem to work in my Pismo..? +kb Enable the X Keyboard Extension - Someone had this in his example, so I kept it. Seems to work anyway :) -fp unix/:7100 This sets the FontPath to use the font server. If you install the xfs-xtt package, you can also use Truetype fonts in your system. Add the font paths to the font servers config file, in debian it is /etc/X11/xfs/config I hope this was useful for someone :) Tuomas -- .--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -. + www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org + `- art director , `--')/ a gimp artist ---'
Finnish / swedish Xmodmap for powerbook (Pismo)
Hi!
I did a finnish keymap with Xkeycaps, and want to share it. How could this
end up in the right packages by default? If you read this, and are the
maintainer of the relevant package, feel free to exploit this :)
This works for my Pismo with a finnish/swedish keyboard. I based it on the
German mklinux keyboard layout since the number of keys and the keycodes
seemed to match.
http://tigert.gimp.org/files/Pismo/Xmodmap.Pismo.FI
It is done partly by using a standard PC keyboard as a guide, since the Mac
keyboard does not have everything printed on it (like @) and I didnt yet go
to MacOS to check how it works there - so this is
Better-Than-Nothing-Ware(tm) :)
{ [ ] } are found under Alt-[7890] (like on a .FI PC keyboard)
@ is found under Alt-2 and Alt-' (the lower key besides Return) -
this combines the Mac and PC layouts, both work.
Asciitilde (~) is found in Alt-¨ (the other, upper key besides Return)
Pipe character is found at Alt- (the key besides left shift).
Backslash is at Alt-+.
Of course this makes sense only on a right keyboard.. For a photo of the
layout, see
http://tigert.gimp.org/files/Pismo/Pismo-Keyboard.FI.png
Oh, and Alt (option) is Mode_Switch, Command (Apple) key is Alt_L. This
seems to work quite ok for me. If someone knows better how these should be,
patching the file is encouraged :) At least the accented characters work
now, and all the keys work as you expect by reading the symbols on the
caps..
I havent got around into looking at the key between space and right alt, it
reads:
__
| |
| /\ |
|__|
I wonder what that is? It generates keycode 60 and repeats. Might be
useful to define it to Compose or something.. I dont have that much Mac
experience that I dont know what key this is in MacOS.
Now I just hope I am not the only scandinavian user :)
If you improve this, let me know..
Tuomas
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Re: Xpmac.deb
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 09:50:32PM -0500, pohl wanted to say the following:
Now that it's running, I have a configuration question: I'm used to
tweaking XF86Config to get the resolution/bit-depth that I want, but
Xpmac operates on some magic principles that I don't understand. How
do I tell it these configuration values? Are there any arbitrary
limitations that I need to know about?
It works with command line arguments:
% Xpmac.rev10 -h
zap out stuff
-depth # run screen at depth {8,16,24}
zap
Like someone (thanks for the tip :) pointed out on this list, on debian this
works best by putting those options to
/etc/gdm/gdm.conf:
[servers]
#0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7
0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -depth 16
Also your /etc/X11/Xserver should point to Xpmac:
% cat /etc/X11/Xserver
/usr/bin/X11/Xpmac.rev10
Console
zap out rest
For some reason the command line arguments dont work if they are put into
the Xserver file. But they work fine on gdm.conf (of course, this assumes
you are running Gnome - for other login managers there should be equivalent
ways of accomplishing this.
(Hello folks on this list btw - reading the archives has been VERY helpful
in getting my powerbook (pismo) working on debian.. You are doing a great
job! :)
Best wishes,
Tuomas Kuosmanen
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