Re: Installing alternative browser

2001-10-15 Thread Brice D Ruth
Hi there. You can use Opera by making a symlink from the existing libstdc++ library to the one Opera is looking for ... it should be happy enough then :) Opera works well enough, but you might want to give Galeon a try as well. I believe it is Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine (truly

Re: Newer kernel?

2001-08-31 Thread Brice D Ruth
Hi Brian, That would be great. Thank you. Brice Brian Alston wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Brice D Ruth wrote: Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:34:14 -0500 From: Brice D Ruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newer kernel? I'm looking for a Mandrake/PPC

Newer kernel?

2001-08-30 Thread Brice D Ruth
I'm looking for a Mandrake/PPC kernel more recent than 2.4.4-6.2 - I checked on rpmfind.net and saw a src.rpm for 2.4.8 - will this work?? I'm having serious stability issues between Mac-on-Linux, kernel 2.4.4-6.2 and MacOS 9.1 ... don't know exaclty who is the culprit, but I believe it may

Re: Sound, printing and cdrw

2001-08-21 Thread Brice D Ruth
the time to update Mac OS X, either ... *blech* too much work! -Brice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Jeff Hergan wrote: 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

Re: Sound, printing and cdrw

2001-08-17 Thread Brice D Ruth
OK, now for the sound - this can get a bit tricky, so bear with me, 'k? I have an iMac DV (late 2000) w/ sound working fine - so have hope :) First, you should know that I use alsa for sound - so if you have something against alsa, this won't work for you. Step one - configure

Re: oldworld computers

2001-08-13 Thread Brice D Ruth
Hey Stew, Does this mean I could use the new ISOs to install on my Performa 6290CD (603e Processor)?? -Brice Stew Benedict wrote: On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Mikko Västi wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if I can somehow skip installing yaboot(because I couldn't use it anyways) Yours Mikko VS(sti btw. Can

Re: RC1 installation report

2001-08-13 Thread Brice D Ruth
Stew, Yep - I'll try this. But it'll have to wait until this afternoon/evening or tomorrow. Got some things on my plate that will keep me away from my computers for most of the day. -Brice Stew Benedict wrote: On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Brice D Ruth wrote: I get the same behaviour. Might

Re: RC1 installation report

2001-08-12 Thread Brice D Ruth
I get the same behaviour. Might this be because no certificate is installed? I haven't actually checked the configuration ... I know a little about Apache, so I might take a look at this tomorrow or the day after. I do run a web design/production company, so I should know something about

Re: Mac-On-Linux

2001-08-09 Thread Brice D Ruth
Hi Sylvain - I was able to get MOL working w/o much of a problem. I might be able to help you a little bit, but your best bet is to post to the Mac-on-Linux mailing list - see the homepage for details. (http://www.mac-on-linux.org/ -Brice Sylvain OBEGI wrote: Hello Does anyone have reach

Re: iBook and XFree + French Keyboard + AirPort

2001-08-07 Thread Brice D Ruth
Hi Sylvain, I can't really help you with the first two questions - sorry ;( As for airport stuff, the first place to start is loading the module that supports the airport card, airport.o - the maintainer of this code is Ben Herrenschmidt, his site is a good place to start if you start

Re: Beta 2/RC1 + AirPort config/encryption?

2001-07-30 Thread Brice D Ruth
Hi Sylvain, A new release is in the works, but to my knowledge, it has not yet been released. The only way I could fathom installing directly by net would be to attempt to net-boot the installer and then choose to install via FTP and have the files from the ISOs mounted somewhere that you

Re: G4 PCI install problems

2001-07-28 Thread Brice D Ruth
LinuxPPC is certainly no longer the benchmark for PPC Linux distributions. My current Mandrake install splits a 5.2G partition into two partitions, one 3.1G, the other 2.1G. I don't believe YDL 2.0 has any limitation on the size of partitions, either. With the current installer, it is best to

Re: Memory support - FYI

2001-07-23 Thread Brice D Ruth
:) download location: http://www.webprojkt.com/mandrake.html Cheers, Brice Brice D Ruth wrote: Hi there. Back again with some news. I recently got my new memory (2 sticks of 512MB each) for my iMac DV (memory is so incredibly inexpensive now!). I installed the memory booted into Linux

Re: Memory support - FYI

2001-07-23 Thread Brice D Ruth
owerbook 5300, and unless I eBay it, I'm going to pay at least $77 bucks. Oh well... better than slapping down $1299 for a new iBook. Nick On Monday, July 23, 2001, at 05:27 PM, Brice D Ruth wrote: Hi Stew, Thanx for the tip on creating the src.rpm :) Check out ramseeker.com

Re: Memory support - FYI

2001-07-23 Thread Brice D Ruth
Hi Stew, Thanx for the tip on creating the src.rpm :) Check out ramseeker.com - that's where I go for links to cheap Mac Memory. I'm not sure what kind of powerbook the lombard is, but here's an excerpt from the bottom of the page: G4 (PC133) 16mb: | 32mb 19.00 | 64mb

Open Office 663 (Linux/PPC port)

2001-07-23 Thread Brice D Ruth
DV, ATI Rage 128 PR, Linux 2.4.4-6.2mdk, XFree86-4.1, 1024x768 Otherwise, absolutely fabulous :) With sincere regards, Brice D. Ruth

Memory support - FYI

2001-07-23 Thread Brice D Ruth
Hi there. Back again with some news. I recently got my new memory (2 sticks of 512MB each) for my iMac DV (memory is so incredibly inexpensive now!). I installed the memory booted into Linux - only to find that only 512MB was detected. Damn. My first thought was that it was a hardware

Re: unsubscribing

2001-07-22 Thread Brice D Ruth
I don't believe the sympa address is actually working - I recall that a message got bounced back to me because it was interpreted as possibly having commands in it, but when I wrote sympa, the user was not found - very annoying. However - for the folks that need to get off the list - set up a

FYI for upgrading to XFree86-4.1 on iMac DV (Rage 128 PR)

2001-07-18 Thread Brice D Ruth
I recently tried (again) to upgrade my XFree86-4.0.3 to 4.1 using Stew's kindly provided packages. There are two gotcha's that I noticed - (1) You won't get into X at all w/ a Rage 128 PR, because the r128 driver does not recognize this card - you need to masquerade it as a different (but

Re: SanDisk SDDR-09 - can't use :(

2001-07-12 Thread Brice D Ruth
My problem isn't so much that the usb-storage driver isn't loaded - I load it by hand - but rather that even when it is loaded, when the device is inserted, the USB stack claims that no active driver is available. -Brice Stew Benedict wrote: Followup - just tried it on a Mandrake system with

Re: SanDisk SDDR-09 - can't use :(

2001-07-12 Thread Brice D Ruth
Hi Stew, This is with the Mandrake kernel (2.4.4-6.2mdk). I'll check out the link you have ... I take it imaclinux.net is up again? :) Brice Stew Benedict wrote: You'll also need SCSI support setup, as it emulates a SCSI device. Here's a link to a piece I wrote on a CDDR-31 I setup a while

Re: Sound Issues

2001-07-12 Thread Brice D Ruth
Hi Dippy, No - I don't believe I did. I don't think I had any sound whatsoever. As far as alsa aRts goes, the following RPMs are installed here: libarts2-devel-2.1.2-2mdk arts-2.1.2-2mdk libarts2-2.1.2-2mdk alsa-lib-devel-0.5.10-2mdk alsa-utils-0.5.10-2mdk alsa-lib-0.5.10-2mdk Probably

Re: Where is webmin ???!!!???!!!

2001-07-10 Thread Brice D Ruth
To my knowledge, webmin is architecture independent (since it doesn't use any binaries) - hence, you need an RPM with the 'noarch' designation. Here's one: ftp://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/alpha/Mandrake/RPMS/webmin-0.87-1mdk.noarch.rpm If you have any problems with

Net Boot for Linux Mandrake ...

2001-07-09 Thread Brice D Ruth
One of the things I've been tossing around in my head is how I might go about setting up a Linux Mandrake image to be net booted ... it'd be a pretty sweet accomplishment, I would think. If anyone knows of anything that might snafu this, let me know ... my first order of business will be to

Mandrake/PPC on 603e

2001-07-08 Thread Brice D Ruth
I've installed LM8/PPC successfully on my iMac DV (Summer 2000) and I'd like to install it now on an old Performa I have (603e) - what do I need to do to get this rolling? From what I can tell, the Performa doesn't have Open Firmware, so I need to do something else to boot ... I'm not real

Re: Miscellaneous bugs

2001-07-03 Thread Brice D Ruth
... it seems that w/o choosing the card you have, it won't do you any good! -Brice Brice D Ruth wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> OK - I checked the config for Stew's 2.4.4-6.2 kernel and indeed, DRI is not enabled. So, you'll have to recompile to get it (and it may not recompile - I was havin

CD Audio on iMac DV?

2001-07-03 Thread Brice D Ruth
I'm at somewhat of a loss ... I appear to have audio working, however I cannot play my CDs. I'm using the ALSA system - and if I test the audio by going into Look'NFeel in the Control Center - I can play the system sounds just fine. However, neither kscd nor freeamp seem to be able to play

Missing (PPC) feature in KDE Control Center

2001-07-01 Thread Brice D Ruth
Just thought I'd mention this since I just got SCREWED by it ... ;-) In KDE Control Center, in the section 'Personalization', subsection 'Keyboard layout' - for the menu 'keyboard model' there isn't a selection for 'macintosh' which is what the XkbModel line in my XF86Config is set to ... now

Re: Linux newbie.

2001-06-30 Thread Brice D Ruth
Hey there ;-) I did a quick search on the UMAX Pulsar and found the following page where they describe getting LinuxPPC to work on a UMAX Pulsar: http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/4/1998/8/0/58721/ So, I think the first order of business would be getting Mandrake to work on your base

Re: Linux newbie.

2001-06-30 Thread Brice D Ruth
Here's another tidbit: Q: Will Linux/PPC work on my PowerMac with a G3 processor upgrade card? Yes, if your PowerMac already can run Linux/PPC, it will work fine with a G3 upgrade card, with full support for the cache. That's from the FAQ at the following link: http://old.linuxppc.org/faq/

Patch for 'Welcome' boot graphic

2001-06-28 Thread Brice D Ruth
Could someone point me to a patch to the kernel that replaces its standard 'penguin' boot graphic with the Mandrake 'Welcome' graphic? Much obliged. -- WebProjkt, Inc. (ph) 773.562.1008 (fax) 608.204.7004 http://www.webprojkt.com/

Re: Aurora: purple boot screen?

2001-06-28 Thread Brice D Ruth
All right - I was just thinking that something was fsck'd up with my fb video config for the kernel. About the only thing I've accomplished so far is getting the entire thing to take on a green hue ... :) Stew Benedict wrote: That's typical. It didn't work at all before I patched it, and

Re: FYI

2001-06-27 Thread Brice D Ruth
Got the MacOS version - sweet. Now I just need to save my XF86Config file (not that I don't trust the Mandrake install - I just don't trust it :)). -Brice Brice D Ruth wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Apparently I have the most recent version - 0.8-1. Don't know what the deal is exac