Re: To Kill An X Server...

2001-08-20 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:31:10PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: > Anyone know where I can find an XF86Config-4 file for an imac g3? These might help: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/olh_ppc_71_xf410.html http://www.imaclinux.com/ -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Wizard's Fi

Re: To Kill An X Server...

2001-08-20 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 05:15:03PM -0700, Ben Reser wrote: > > Also, to switch to a vc, using CTRL-APPLE-F1 does the trick. > > Unfortunately, when switching from a vc back to X, it seems to lock up > > and I need to send the X server a HUP to get it to come back up (but > > this is with the mac X

Re: To Kill An X Server...

2001-08-20 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 03:23:45PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: > Also, to switch to a vc, using CTRL-APPLE-F1 does the trick. > Unfortunately, when switching from a vc back to X, it seems to lock up > and I need to send the X server a HUP to get it to come back up (but > this is with the mac X ser

Cinema Display not supported?

2001-08-20 Thread Ron McCall
Hi, I tried installing Release Candidate 1 this past weekend but could not get the graphical installer to work with my G4/466, Rage 128 Pro and 22" Cinema Display (even with ofonly). It seems that the supplied 2.4.4 kernel does not have the 22" Cinema Display patch to enable vmode 22 (1600x1024)

Re: To Kill An X Server...

2001-08-20 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 02:00:37PM -0700, Ben Reser wrote: > However, this does little good in your situation. > Ctrl+Option(Alt)+Delete works just fine for me. I think your keyboard > layout is messed up. Try changing: > Option "XkbRules" "xfreex86" > to > Option "XkbRules" "macintosh" Aha! O

Re: To Kill An X Server...

2001-08-20 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 02:00:37PM -0700, Ben Reser wrote: > > > xkill, in a blank space on the desk top? > > > it works in x86. > > > > Do I need to open a terminal to do this? If so, then that's a > > problem... I had X hang on a startx so all that was there was the grey > > X screen... prior

Re: To Kill An X Server...

2001-08-20 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 01:01:47PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: > On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 06:39:35PM +, james McCorkle wrote: > > > xkill, in a blank space on the desk top? > > it works in x86. > > Do I need to open a terminal to do this? If so, then that's a > problem... I had X hang on a st

Re: To Kill An X Server...

2001-08-20 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 05:15:55PM -0300, Rafael Rigues wrote: > > Just out of curiousity... noticed your email address... is Conectiva > > coming out with a PPC version soon too? =) > > Officially, no. But 1/4 of the packages on my iMac (LinuxPPC 2000 Q4) > are from Conectiva 6.0. I've recompil

Re: To Kill An X Server...

2001-08-20 Thread Rafael Rigues
On 20 Aug 2001 14:03:46 -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: > Just out of curiousity... noticed your email address... is Conectiva > coming out with a PPC version soon too? =) Officially, no. But 1/4 of the packages on my iMac (LinuxPPC 2000 Q4) are from Conectiva 6.0. I've recompiled them myself, just

Re: To Kill An X Server...

2001-08-20 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 04:55:13PM -0300, Rafael Rigues wrote: > It depends. Usually this will kill the KDE Desktop Manager, Nautilus, > GMC, whatever you are using to manage your desktop. Of course, if you > are not using any kind of desktop manager, this will kill the root > window, and X. Righ

Re: To Kill An X Server...

2001-08-20 Thread Rafael Rigues
It depends. Usually this will kill the KDE Desktop Manager, Nautilus, GMC, whatever you are using to manage your desktop. Of course, if you are not using any kind of desktop manager, this will kill the root window, and X. On 20 Aug 2001 18:39:35 +, james McCorkle wrote: > xkill, in a blank sp

Re: To Kill An X Server...

2001-08-20 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 06:39:35PM +, james McCorkle wrote: > xkill, in a blank space on the desk top? > it works in x86. Do I need to open a terminal to do this? If so, then that's a problem... I had X hang on a startx so all that was there was the grey X screen... prior to anything like gn

Re: To Kill An X Server...

2001-08-20 Thread james McCorkle
xkill, in a blank space on the desk top? it works in x86. Original Message Follows From: Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: To Kill An X Server... Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:10:02 -0600 I'm used to CTRL-ALT-Bkspace but on my mac

To Kill An X Server...

2001-08-20 Thread Vincent Danen
I'm used to CTRL-ALT-Bkspace but on my mac keyboard there is no backspace and using CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't work. How do I shut down X on my mac (forcibly)? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD - Danen

BootX Workaround

2001-08-20 Thread macpulse
Phil's bootx workaround solved my issues on my PM 4400 series machine! I was able to completely install RC1, no issues. I had an issue with the Mandrake Control Center not changing my X server resolution and color. Seems that most of the things in the mandrake control center don't work on ppc

Re: yaboot problem

2001-08-20 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:10:06AM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote: > That's actually the ofboot.b menu you are seeing - sounds like yaboot.conf > is corrupted or missing. You could try to boot in rescue mode and see if > you can take a look at the file and make sure it is in /etc as well as on > teh

Re: Sound, printing and cdrw

2001-08-20 Thread Jeff Hergan
On Monday 20 August 2001 09:13, Brice D Ruth wrote: > The problem doesn't seem to be the driver, in this case - it appears to > be the format that the data is sent to the printer. From what Vincent > wrote, the USB system picks up the wrong format to send the data - hence > the problem. > That's

Re: Sound, printing and cdrw

2001-08-20 Thread Brice D Ruth
The problem doesn't seem to be the driver, in this case - it appears to be the format that the data is sent to the printer. From what Vincent wrote, the USB system picks up the wrong format to send the data - hence the problem. -Brice Vincent Danen wrote: >On Sat Aug 18, 2001 at 12:09:34AM

Re: Sound, printing and cdrw

2001-08-20 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 12:18:36AM -0700, Ben Reser wrote: > > > > Can't help you with this... I don't think there's much that can be > > > > done here until the appropriate drivers are written. I've got a > > > > Lexmark Z22 (USB) that's connected to my mac machine and the drivers > > > > are e

Re: yaboot problem

2001-08-20 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I just installed Mandrake PPC b2. The expert install worked and after > modifying OF I get to the yaboot prompt. Funny thing is, I can load OS > X, MacOS 9 etc. without a problem, but Linux ("l") fails with the > following error: "can't