Re: Bug#76437: Broken PowerPC links

2000-11-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
Martin Michlmayr wrote: Package: www.debian.org Version: 2000-11-07 Severity: normal The link 'Be-Box System' to http://www.guru.dircon.co.uk/belinux/status.html on http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/bbox is broken. The link 'MBX System' http://linuxppc.cs.nmt.edu/embedded.html

Re: Installing on iBook DV, having trouble...

2000-11-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
Phil Fraering wrote: Anyway, I got through the initial base install easily enough, except for the minor problem that I now have the ethernet set up. I am not sure I wanted the ethernet set up... does anyone have any tips on how I should uninstall the ethernet drivers, and host information? I

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2000-11-07 Thread Gerhard Reuteler
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Re: Bug#76437: Broken PowerPC links

2000-11-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20001107 11:02]: While we're at it: the link 'Amiga PowerUP System' http://sunsite.auc.dk/ftp/pub/os/linux/apus on http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/apus.html is outdated. The Linux/APUS project has moved to SourceForge, http://linux

sg-latin1 layout on a mac-keyboard?

2000-11-07 Thread Gerhard Reuteler
High, installation on powerbook pismo succeded, but I could not find anywhere on the net or archive something like ./keymaps/mac/mac-sg-latin1-nodeadkeys... to launch the loadkeys command. Also under X11 (kde2.0) I wasn't able to find my way. I know how to change the layout in Xmodmap, but

sg-latin1 layout on a mac-keyboard?

2000-11-07 Thread Gerhard Reuteler
High, installation on powerbook pismo succeded, but I could not find anywhere on the net or archive something like ./keymaps/mac/mac-sg-latin1-nodeadkeys... to launch the loadkeys command. Also under X11 (kde2.0) I wasn't able to find my way. I know how to change the layout in Xmodmap, but

Re: sg-latin1 layout on a mac-keyboard?

2000-11-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
Gerhard Reuteler wrote: installation on powerbook pismo succeded, but I could not find anywhere on the net or archive something like ./keymaps/mac/mac-sg-latin1-nodeadkeys... to launch the loadkeys command. Also under X11 (kde2.0) I wasn't able to find my way. I know how to change the

Re: Installing on iBook DV, having trouble...

2000-11-07 Thread Hadess
Quoting Phil Fraering [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, it seems that today was the day my new iBook came in, finally. 64 Megs Ram, 20 Gig Hard drive, and (of course) Blue, not Lime Green. I thought I had paid enough attention during Hadess's experience installing on his to handle the situation

Re: Netscape package

2000-11-07 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 07:03:11PM -0500, Nelson Abramson wrote: C.M. Connelly wrote: snip I have to take another stab at it, and see if I'm still having problems before I file any bug reports, but I'm pretty disappointed, as M17 seemed better (if slower than the -2 version). snip

Re: Pros cons of motif vs. GTK vs. ?

2000-11-07 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:37:13AM -0500, Bill wrote: I need to choose a windowing environment. It needs to run on as many platforms as possible. Besides that criterion, what are the good and bad points of motif, GTK, and whatever? I would go for GTK+, it is said to be easier than motif,

Re: Motif or GNOME? (semi-repost)

2000-11-07 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 05:45:32PM +, Hadess wrote: Bill wrote: Hi, I tried to ask this earlier but got my terminology mixed up and I don't think my question made sense. I'll try again. I need to develop an app for analyzing data and graphically (3D) displaying results,

Re: Motif or GNOME? (semi-repost)

2000-11-07 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 01:34:39PM -0500, Bill wrote: Thanks Hadess. I wasn't aware of these issues. BTW, I did not mention that I will be using the application only under X Windows environments, and I guess what I was really asking was how does Motif compare to GNOME or KDE? Why is Motif

Re: Motif or GNOME? (semi-repost)

2000-11-07 Thread Jonathan Belson
Hiya You might want to look at Qt if your app is going to be GPL, it has a Windows port, and is C++ mainly (although Python bindings exist I've heard). I don't know about OpenGL, but if your app is not GPL, you'd have to pay big money. Why is that ? OpenGL is part of Xfree 4.0.x

pmud.deb ??

2000-11-07 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hello I'm wondering if pmud-0.7 was packaged for debian, or if I should compile it from pmud-0.7-1.src.rpm or 'alienate' the pmud-0.7-1.ppc.rpm thanks Eric -- CF: Et ton serveur l'a accepté? Moi quand ça m'arrive, j'ai un message : d'erreur duplicated article, et

Re: Motif or GNOME? (semi-repost)

2000-11-07 Thread Hadess
Quoting Sven LUTHER [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 05:45:32PM +, Hadess wrote: Bill wrote: Hi, I tried to ask this earlier but got my terminology mixed up and I don't think my question made sense. I'll try again. I need to develop an app for analyzing data and

Re: Motif or GNOME? (semi-repost)

2000-11-07 Thread Jonathan Belson
Hiya I already privately replied to Bill about this one, I said that I don't know if Qt has easy bindings for OpenGL, and that the Qt license is so that if your app It does. isn't GPL, you will have to get a license from Troll Tech and it can be expensive. Not quite correct: the free

Re: Motif or GNOME? (semi-repost)

2000-11-07 Thread Hadess
Quoting Jonathan Belson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hiya I already privately replied to Bill about this one, I said that I don't know if Qt has easy bindings for OpenGL, and that the Qt license is so that if your app It does. isn't GPL, you will have to get a license from Troll Tech and

Re: Netscape package

2000-11-07 Thread Nelson Abramson
Sven LUTHER wrote: snip I'm running 18-2 just fine right now as we speak in fact I'm writing this email from w/in the -2 emailer it seems a whole lot faster (and the gui is a lot nicer too) than 17 to me... You could always try deleting ~/.mozilla just in case (I didn't, but

Re: pmud.deb ??

2000-11-07 Thread Gjermund Thorsen
debian distros has a tendency to end with *-apt or *.apt On tirsdag 7. november 2000, Eric Deveaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'm wondering if pmud-0.7 was packaged for debian, or if I should compile it from pmud-0.7-1.src.rpm or 'alienate' the pmud-0.7-1.ppc.rpm thanks

Broken Potato Packages??? Build Daemon?

2000-11-07 Thread Alain Schroeder
I just wanted to install some stuff on my PowerPC System (Power Mac 8200) and I had to recognize a lot of broken Packages. I just compiled two manually and I had absolutly _no_ problem doing it (gnome-print - breaks at least gnumeric and gnumeric breaks task-gnome-apps, librep5 - needed for

X Window on Powerbook G3

2000-11-07 Thread Tobias Mohr - WestSurf
Hi, Every time I start my X Window system (startx) ... my Powerbook G3 - 333 (ATI 3D Rage LT Pro) show me an ugly monitor. I can't recognize anything. I can't find the xf86config in my debian distribution (2.2 - Joel 'Espy' Klecker" Release) I have installed nearly all xserver-packages

Re: pmud.deb ??

2000-11-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 04:56:34PM +0100, Gjermund Thorsen wrote: debian distros has a tendency to end with *-apt or *.apt Eh? No, they don't... Dan /\ /\ | Daniel Jacobowitz|__|SCS Class of 2002 | |

Re: pmud.deb ??

2000-11-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 03:36:16PM +0100, Eric Deveaud wrote: Hello I'm wondering if pmud-0.7 was packaged for debian, or if I should compile it from pmud-0.7-1.src.rpm or 'alienate' the pmud-0.7-1.ppc.rpm yep, it's in Debian/unstable a while now. Dan

I try to install deb 2.2 potato binary ppc iso

2000-11-07 Thread Gjermund Thorsen
on my G4/450MP… but i never reach amything that looks like Linux… I tried with bootX… but no luck… Gjermund Gusland Thorsen

Re: Broken Potato Packages??? Build Daemon?

2000-11-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 05:11:23PM +0100, Alain Schroeder wrote: I just wanted to install some stuff on my PowerPC System (Power Mac 8200) and I had to recognize a lot of broken Packages. I just compiled two manually and I had absolutly _no_ problem doing it (gnome-print - breaks at least

Re: pmud.deb ??

2000-11-07 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 03:36:16PM +0100, Eric Deveaud wrote: Hello I'm wondering if pmud-0.7 was packaged for debian, or if I should compile it from pmud-0.7-1.src.rpm or 'alienate' the pmud-0.7-1.ppc.rpm yep, it's in

I try to install deb 2.2 potato binary ppc iso

2000-11-07 Thread Gjermund Thorsen
on my G4/450MP… but i never reach amything that looks like Linux… I tried with bootX… but no luck… I would like to do the same as in RHat or already installed deb: dd fs=1440k IFS=root.bin OFS=/dev/fd0 but how do I do that from Mac? Gjermund Gusland Thorsen

Re: Broken Potato Packages??? Build Daemon?

2000-11-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 05:11:23PM +0100, Alain Schroeder wrote: There is no netscape-base-47, so that the packages netscape and communicator are broken. Right. That's a known bug in those packages, their dependencies only work for i386. But there is both

Re: X Window on Powerbook G3

2000-11-07 Thread Michael Flaig
Hi! You´ll find the config file under /etc/X11/XF86Config On my Powerbook Firewire Edition 400 - X was ready to go ... i think you need the same server for you PB. It´s xserver-fbdev greets, mfl On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 05:04:22PM +0100, Tobias Mohr - WestSurf wrote: Hi, Every time I

Re: I try to install deb 2.2 potato binary ppc iso

2000-11-07 Thread Nelson Abramson
Gjermund Thorsen wrote: on my G4/450MP? but i never reach amything that looks like Linux? I tried with bootX? but no luck? I would like to do the same as in RHat or already installed deb: dd fs=1440k IFS=root.bin OFS=/dev/fd0 but how do I do that from Mac? You need to use yaboot to boot

Re: I try to install deb 2.2 potato binary ppc iso

2000-11-07 Thread Gjermund Thorsen
Well… when I use yaboot… it skips loading from the CD… then it boots from my ordinary MacOS partition… On tirsdag 7. november 2000, Nelson Abramson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gjermund Thorsen wrote: on my G4/450MP? but i never reach amything that looks like Linux? I tried with bootX? but no

yaboot: Booting MacOS doesnt work

2000-11-07 Thread Michael Flaig
Hello! My Hardware is an Pismo 400 Modell Firewire ... I´ve problems booting macOS. It´s installed on /dev/hda10. My yaboot Bootstrap Partition is /dev/hda9 . I can boot Debian but when i press m only the floppy with the blinking questionmark appears. I´ve reinstalled MacOS with the restore cd

Re: Netscape package

2000-11-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
Nelson Abramson wrote: Sven LUTHER wrote: snip I'm running 18-2 just fine right now as we speak in fact I'm writing this email from w/in the -2 emailer it seems a whole lot faster (and the gui is a lot nicer too) than 17 to me... You could always try deleting

build german Keymap ...

2000-11-07 Thread Michael Flaig
Hi again ... I´ve build an German Keymap for my Pismo 400. It is only for the Pismo. (i´ve only testes on an pismo) i´ll send it to you ... ... perhaps someone needs it ... Greets, mfl -- Michael Flaig ... PROLinux # # Deutsche Tastatur - Powerbook G3 # abgeleitet von mac-de2-ext.map

Re: I try to install deb 2.2 potato binary ppc iso

2000-11-07 Thread Nelson Abramson
Gjermund Thorsen wrote: Well? when I use yaboot? it skips loading from the CD? then it boots from my ordinary MacOS partition? snip What commands do you use in yaboot? Do you mean yaboot or OF? If you can get yaboot loaded, it shouldn't boot MacOS HTH --Nelson Abramson -- Make your

Re: pmud.deb ??

2000-11-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
yep, it's in Debian/unstable a while now. pmud_0.7-3.deb, in section admin. tahnk's I will deb-get install pmud-0.7.apt ;- Nope, just do 'apt-get install pmud'. (assuming your sources.list points to unstable not stable). Hint for the newbies: Debian packages have a suffix of .deb not

powerpc dpkg arch problem

2000-11-07 Thread Nick Clifford
dpkg seems to be a bit screwed at the moment, anyone know whats going on, or when it will be fixed? # dpkg --print-architecture dpkg: warning, architecture `powerpc-linux' not in remapping table powerpc-linux # dpkg --print-installation-architecture powerpc-linux-gnu And during an apt-get

Re: yaboot: Booting MacOS doesnt work

2000-11-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 07:39:06PM +0100, Michael Flaig wrote: Hello! My Hardware is an Pismo 400 Modell Firewire ... I´ve problems booting macOS. It´s installed on /dev/hda10. My yaboot Bootstrap Partition is /dev/hda9 . I can boot Debian but when i press m only the floppy with the

Re: powerpc dpkg arch problem

2000-11-07 Thread C.M. Connelly
NC = NC Clifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] NC Anyone know if this problem is with dpkg (or gcclib (where NC dpkg gets its arch target from)) or have we somehow NC stuffed up our local configs (doubtful, but possible). No, it's dpkg. Same thing happened to me. If you haven't already, please

Re: powerpc dpkg arch problem

2000-11-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:56:50PM +1300, Nick Clifford wrote: dpkg seems to be a bit screwed at the moment, anyone know whats going on, or when it will be fixed? # dpkg --print-architecture dpkg: warning, architecture `powerpc-linux' not in remapping table powerpc-linux # dpkg

INIT under 2.4

2000-11-07 Thread Eric Reischer
Does anybody have an INIT binary compiled under the 2.4 kernel? The one provided with Debian's CD's is not working (it hangs before it loads, just after freeing unused kernel memory). I'm not sure what the problem is, but I think that is it, since I can get one from YellowDog Linux to work

Re: powerpc dpkg arch problem

2000-11-07 Thread Nick Clifford
Yup, fixes things, but have to install with dpkg --force-architecture Nick Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:56:50PM +1300, Nick Clifford wrote: dpkg seems to be a bit screwed at the moment, anyone know whats going on, or when it will be fixed? # dpkg

new Helix-gnome packages

2000-11-07 Thread Hadess
Hi, I just upraded the Helix-Gnome deb packages. Here are the *new* sources.list line deb http://hadess.net debian/helix/$(ARCH)/ deb http://hadess.net/ debian/contrib/$(ARCH)/ deb http://hadess.net/ debian/perso/$(ARCH)/ All were compiled using XFree4 debs from Branden. Source are included,

[dmoulder@csse.monash.edu.au: xlibmesa3 package]

2000-11-07 Thread Branden Robinson
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Re: Broken Potato Packages??? Build Daemon?

2000-11-07 Thread Taro Fukunaga
Adam C Powell IV wrote: Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:education On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 05:11:23PM +0100, Alain Schroeder wrote: There is no netscape-base-47, so that the packages netscape and communicator are broken. I compiled mozilla 18 out of M18 tarballs from mozilla.org and am using it