Keyboard map for X on iBook

2001-05-21 Thread Leandro Noferini
Ciao a tutti, I have a woody on an iBook old model (tangerine). I got patched sources for X from linuxppc and I compiled them and now X goes: the version is a mix from 4.0.3 and 4.0.99. I have a trouble with the keyboard because every key is wrong: can I find somewhere a map for my

Mc troubles

2001-05-21 Thread Leandro Noferini
Ciao a tutti, I have the same woody on an iBook old model (tangerine) but i can't use midnight commander if I am not using root account. When I try mc hangs and I have to kill it from a different console. Some trouble of permissions from libncurses? -- Ciao leandro Email: [EMAIL

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
Adam Di Carlo wrote: Hi. I'm another PowerBook G3 Wallstreet user having problem running X11. I'm using xserver-xfree86 (and other X packages) version 4.0.3-3. Symptoms are: * ATI driver If I use the ati driver, (WW) ATI: PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 0:17:0 could not be detected! (EE) No

xdm

2001-05-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is a good idea disable xdm starting at boot removing K01xdm from rc1.d and rc6.d and removing S99xdm from rc2.d,rc3.d,rc4.d,rc5.d ?

Re: xdm

2001-05-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is a good idea disable xdm starting at boot removing K01xdm from rc1.d and rc6.d and removing S99xdm from rc2.d,rc3.d,rc4.d,rc5.d ? No, the best way is apt-get remove xdm . If you can't do that for some reason, man update-rc.d . And I see absolutely no reason why

Re: ATI Rage Pro XFree 4.0.3 config problems

2001-05-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
William C Brennan wrote: Until recently, I've been running XFree86 3.3.6 successfully with my hardware. I've tried to upgrade the X-server to 4.0.3, and sadly haven't gotten anything but a blank screen and a fatal error. I also tried 4.0.2 with the same results. Any hints, suggestions,

Problems with limited numbers of partitions

2001-05-21 Thread Kin Chung
In another thread related to ReiserFS, it has been mentioned that it is a good idea to put various items in their own partitions or even discs! This is fine if you have lots of discs or partitions handy. On my iBook, I have theoretically got up to 15 partitions (is it possible to have 16 if

Little-endian sound broken on TiBook/dmasound_pmac?

2001-05-21 Thread Daniel Kobras
Moi! Is 16bit little-endian sound working for anyone using dmasound_pmac? I've tried with various pristine 2.4 kernels as well as benh's latest 2.4.4 an my TiBook. (Awacs/Screamer Codec Mfct: 1 Rev 3 it reports.) Big-endian sound output works fine. Little-endian sound on the other hand produces

Re: Little-endian sound broken on TiBook/dmasound_pmac?

2001-05-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
Daniel Kobras wrote: Is 16bit little-endian sound working for anyone using dmasound_pmac? I've tried with various pristine 2.4 kernels as well as benh's latest 2.4.4 an my TiBook. (Awacs/Screamer Codec Mfct: 1 Rev 3 it reports.) Big-endian sound output works fine. Little-endian sound on the

Re: Woody Impressions

2001-05-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:44:33PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: Being that it's unstable/testing, I am having problems (I'm just reporting, not complaining :-), mainly with using apt-get. I did a minimal install starting with potato and then upgraded to woody by changing my sources.list

Re: Problems with limited numbers of partitions

2001-05-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 06:13:54PM +0800, Kin Chung wrote: In another thread related to ReiserFS, it has been mentioned that it is a good idea to put various items in their own partitions or even discs! This is fine if you have lots of discs or partitions handy. On my iBook, I have

Re: basic installation on 7200/75 gone really bad

2001-05-21 Thread morten
On 20-May-2001 Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 05:03:40PM +0200, morten wrote: ofpath /dev/sda which gave me /bandit/gc/53c94/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 ok then run: chroot /target /sbin/quik -f It said command /sbin/quik which I interpreted as a succes I

Mpeg video player

2001-05-21 Thread Mark Nellemann
Hi, I've just installed sid on my Ti-powerbook and got X up and running with help from the powerpc mail archives. Everything works perfect, but I dont have a video player. Could someone on the list recommend a player that works well on the powerpc platform. Thanks Mark Nellemann

Re: basic installation on 7200/75 gone really bad

2001-05-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:58:48PM +0200, morten wrote: I did a chroot /target /sbin/quik -fv and it told me that it installed on /dev/sda2 ... making /dev/sda2 bootable (map entry 2) ... which is my /root partition Is this correct? yes does this mean

Re: ISDN-hardware for G4 available?

2001-05-21 Thread Alexander Feder
On Thursday 17 May 2001 23:49, Georg Koss wrote: Hello all! If this topic spams the list I apologize - and please mail me private. As the ISDN-cards mentioned in kernels config seem not to be available for a G4, as my dealer told me, I wonder if there is any hardware solution running ISDN

basic installation on 7200/75 (still)

2001-05-21 Thread morten
ok I think it is time to summarize I'm installaing on a powerpc 7200/75 I'm installing debian potato using a network installation I install everything and just before rebooting I do... # ofpath /bandit/gc/53c94/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I change /target/etc/quik.conf to include the line

Re: Mpeg video player

2001-05-21 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Mark Nellemann wrote: Everything works perfect, but I dont have a video player. Could someone on the list recommend a player that works well on the powerpc platform. For mpeg video I use gtv from the smpeg-gtv package. It's a very basic player without many features, but

Re: ISDN-hardware for G4 available?

2001-05-21 Thread Olaf Hering
On Thu, May 17, Georg Koss wrote: If this topic spams the list I apologize - and please mail me private. As the ISDN-cards mentioned in kernels config seem not to be available for a G4, as my dealer told me, I wonder if there is any hardware solution running ISDN with debian/G4. Probably

Re: Little-endian sound broken on TiBook/dmasound_pmac?

2001-05-21 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:38:46PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: Daniel Kobras wrote: Is 16bit little-endian sound working for anyone using dmasound_pmac? I've tried with various pristine 2.4 kernels as well as benh's latest 2.4.4 an my TiBook. (Awacs/Screamer Codec Mfct: 1 Rev 3 it reports.)

Re: Little-endian sound broken on TiBook/dmasound_pmac?

2001-05-21 Thread Adrian Cox
Daniel Kobras wrote: In a perfect world, yes. But there are simply too many broken programs out there that rely on AFMT_S16_LE being available without properly checking for it. (And even if they check, few have a suitable fallback.) Most of the programs using the old SNDCTL_DSP_SAMPLESIZE call

Re: oaklisp questions, with fw mesg. from maintainer

2001-05-21 Thread Phil Fraering
I recently emailed one of the authors of the oaklisp package, about getting it to work on debian powerpc, and he said that he's in the process of getting it to work on all 32 bit computers for debian in general, and that he would need a powerpc account somewhere. I asked him if I could forward the

Re: oaklisp questions, with fw mesg. from maintainer

2001-05-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
Phil Fraering wrote: I recently emailed one of the authors of the oaklisp package, about getting it to work on debian powerpc, and he said that he's in the process of getting it to work on all 32 bit computers for debian in general, and that he would need a powerpc account somewhere. He has

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
The winning solution came from Kimmo Lehtonen, who told me to use the .debs at http://penguinppc.org/~puetzk/ . I was able to just install the xserver-xfree86 package from there (the -7 one) and all is now well with the ATI driver. Excellent! -- .Adam Di [EMAIL

Re: oaklisp questions, with fw mesg. from maintainer

2001-05-21 Thread Barak Pearlmutter
Thanks. It's not a critical problem. A friend has been uploading packages for me. It's not like personal access to the Debian machines is necessary. (Well, except for porting ... and after all, that's not really important anyway, is it? Since after all i386 has won.) I travel a reasonable

woody?

2001-05-21 Thread morten
ok assuming that potato just won't install itself on my 7200/75, and I feel like trying woody, which you've said had an improved installation on ppc. How do I get it? morten -- -- E-Mail: morten [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 21-May-2001 Time: 20:14:52 Currently working

RE: basic installation on 7200/75 (still)

2001-05-21 Thread morten
On 21-May-2001 morten wrote: ok I think it is time to summarize I'm installaing on a powerpc 7200/75 I'm installing debian potato using a network installation I install everything and just before rebooting I do... # ofpath /bandit/gc/53c94/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I change

Re: basic installation on 7200/75 (still)

2001-05-21 Thread Craig S. Cottingham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2001-05-21 13:44, morten at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering why it does its double jingle. I get the impression that it reboots itself an extra time. I just switched my 7200/90 to boot from quik this morning. The first time I rebooted

Re: Keyboard map for X on iBook

2001-05-21 Thread David Bryson
Leandro, Sounds like a problem with your keyboard map type in your XF86Config file. On my 300mhz powerbook 6gig drive ( which i think is the same model number as yours ) i have: Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel macintosh Option XkbLayout us Option

Re: basic installation on 7200/75 (still)

2001-05-21 Thread Andrew Sharp
morten wrote: ok I think it is time to summarize I'm installaing on a powerpc 7200/75 I'm installing debian potato using a network installation I install everything and just before rebooting I do... # ofpath /bandit/gc/53c94/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I change /target/etc/quik.conf to

Re: how to upgrade modutils

2001-05-21 Thread Andrew Sharp
Thanks, guys. The install thing was probably on the right track, but didn't do anything either, except give me an error message which I probably deserved. All the other stuff (messing with sources.list) was way too complicated, so I just downloaded the source and built it on my machine. Duh.

Re: basic installation on 7200/75 (still)

2001-05-21 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:10:12PM +0200, morten wrote: ok I think it is time to summarize I'm installaing on a powerpc 7200/75 I'm installing debian potato using a network installation I install everything and just before rebooting I do... # ofpath /bandit/gc/53c94/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: woody?

2001-05-21 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:16:13PM +0200, morten wrote: ok assuming that potato just won't install itself on my 7200/75, and I feel like trying woody, which you've said had an improved installation on ppc. How do I get it? Don't blame the Dist, since everything has worked on that part. You

Re: basic installation on 7200/75 (still)

2001-05-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:10:12PM +0200, morten wrote: ok I think it is time to summarize I'm installaing on a powerpc 7200/75 I'm installing debian potato using a network installation I install everything and just before rebooting I do... # ofpath /bandit/gc/53c94/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: some problems on recent installation(sid)

2001-05-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:21:23PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: Hi all, I installed Debian/PowerPC recently and found some problems, but now I have not enough time to investigate if they are bugs or not, so I report them to the list first. First, it seems dpkg-divert left several

Re: Woody Impressions

2001-05-21 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, Re Netscape-Mozilla, just one warning to Netscape Mail users: *** DON'T SWITCH TO MOZILLA! *** At least, not yet. I made this mistake, and want to warn everyone else not to, as loudly as possible. Mozilla is approaching stability, but it is not there yet, it is not beta

Re: Woody Impressions

2001-05-21 Thread Andrew Sharp
Adam C Powell IV wrote: Hello, Re Netscape-Mozilla, just one warning to Netscape Mail users: [snippage] So Mozilla is not at all beta quality, rumors to the contrary notwithstanding. RedHat will someday replace Netscape 4.x with it, but I'm sorry, what did you say? Who is `RedHat'?

Re: Woody Impressions

2001-05-21 Thread Adam C Powell IV
[I'd quote your original message, but I'm using Mozilla, which can't do that. :-( ] On RedHat, I mentioned it because when I was deciding whether to switch to Mozilla, their decision to drop NS4.x in favor of Mozilla had just been announced, lending creditibily to the new platform. A lot of

Re: Woody Impressions ; Mozilla

2001-05-21 Thread hansen
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:01:24PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Hello, Re Netscape-Mozilla, just one warning to Netscape Mail users: *** DON'T SWITCH TO MOZILLA! *** At least, not yet. I made this mistake, and want to warn everyone else not to, as loudly as possible.

Re: how to upgrade modutils

2001-05-21 Thread Steven Hanley
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:56:28PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: Thanks, guys. The install thing was probably on the right track, but didn't do anything either, except give me an error message which I probably deserved. All the other stuff (messing with sources.list) was way too complicated,

Re: how to upgrade modutils

2001-05-21 Thread Andrew Sharp
Steven Hanley wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:56:28PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: Thanks, guys. The install thing was probably on the right track, but didn't do anything either, except give me an error message which I probably deserved. All the other stuff (messing with

cdparanoia and the 7200

2001-05-21 Thread Craig S. Cottingham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I installed cdparanoia-3a9.7-2 with dselect, then tried to run it in query mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cdparanoia -vsQ cdparanoia III release 9.7 (December 13, 1999) (C) 1999 Monty [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Xiphophorus Report bugs to

Can't change initial video mode on a 7200

2001-05-21 Thread Craig S. Cottingham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried to set the initial video mode on my 7200/90 in quik.conf: image=/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19 label=Linux read-only append=video=platinumfb:vmode:12,cmode:16 But according to dmesg, my vmode is being ignored: Total

Re: cdparanoia and the 7200

2001-05-21 Thread Steven Hanley
do you have the scsi generic ddriver loaded? modprobe sg ls -l /dev/sg0 crw---1 root root 21, 0 Jul 21 1998 /dev/sg0 or similar (maybe you want different permissions. See You Steve -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wibble.net/~sjh/ Look Up In The Sky Is