Re: Galeon History problem

2001-08-01 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:22:28AM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: Hey All, I've compiled and installed galeon 0.11.2 on my testing/unstable pismo. It has been working fine, but I have one HUGE complaint. The 'Go' menu behavior is completely

Re: Modem problems...

2001-08-01 Thread Steven Hanley
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:30:34AM -0400, Gaby Levinson wrote: I have a pismo powerbook and I am trying to get the modem working. Running kernel 2.4.6pre my modem onlky works in minicom. WVdial cant find it. you need the macserial thing, either as a module or compiled into the kernel, do

Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-01 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear people, I've been tracking this list lately with some interest since I got an old Power Mac 9500/180MP to play with one month ago. Unfortunately, I couldn't install Debian on this machine, due to some hardware problems (I think) and I don't have this

Gnuermic compilation

2001-08-01 Thread Paul Talacko
Hi all, My laptop is off being repaird *again* by Sony, so I'm trying to get gnumeric for my potato on this ppc machine. When I download the source (from gnome.org) and run configure, I get the error that libxml is too old and I need to upgrade. Currently, I have libxml 1.8.2. The latest

questions about sources.list and apt-cdrom

2001-08-01 Thread Roland Wegmann
Hello, may I ask some questions about sources.list and apt-cdrom? I certainly hope so! When I want to modify my sources.list I've to add something like this deb ftp://ftp/.../ potato main crypto ... Now, the frist question is: Does apt automatically know, which plattform (intel, powerpc, or

Re: Gnuermic compilation

2001-08-01 Thread Michael Flaig
EMail from Paul Talacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] to debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org with message [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:07:07 +0100 Paul Talacko wrote: Hi all, My laptop is off being repaird *again* by Sony, so I'm trying to get gnumeric for my potato on this ppc machine. When I

Re: es keymaps advise needed

2001-08-01 Thread Jaume Teixi
hello, with my oldworld powerbook g3 with an spanish keyboard, as no macintosh spanish layout exists at the moment, the only way to deal to get the spanish keys and accents like à á ñ ç is this bogus setup: Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-01 Thread Noah John
the ibook is definatly a good purchase. from what i gather, some sound still doesn't work. However, what i really meant to say was: G3 500 MHz vs. i386. is about an 800-933 MHz P3 is about a 733 MHz Athlon or P4 is about a GHz celeron (celeron has no b-side cache). *however* it must be

kernel Oops

2001-08-01 Thread Ivan
Hi all, I got this doing 'rm -rf sys.img'. sys.img was a file of 1400MB in a hfs partition. the file was deleted correctly at the second try. No error removing a 800MB file. Someone ( like benh ) is interested in? ) kernel BUG at /usr/src/linux-benh/include/linux/dcache.h:244! Oops: Exception

Re: kernel Oops

2001-08-01 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Aug 01, Ivan wrote: Hi all, I got this doing 'rm -rf sys.img'. sys.img was a file of 1400MB in a hfs partition. the file was deleted correctly at the second try. No error removing a 800MB file. Someone ( like benh ) is interested in? ) kernel BUG at

More info on modem problem

2001-08-01 Thread Gaby Levinson
/dev/ttyS0 exists and is valid... In one window i 'cat'ed /dev/ttyS0 and in another window I ran minicom. the cat window displays all the stuff that minicom sends to it, and responds just fine, minicom gets all the modem reponses. ok thats all well and good. Now, I ran wvdial, with the cat

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-01 Thread Bastien Nocera
Noah John wrote: the ibook is definatly a good purchase. from what i gather, some sound still doesn't work. However, what i really meant to say was: G3 500 MHz vs. i386. is about an 800-933 MHz P3 is about a 733 MHz Athlon or P4 is about a GHz celeron (celeron has no b-side cache). You

Re: kernel Oops

2001-08-01 Thread Michael Schmitz
I got this doing 'rm -rf sys.img'. sys.img was a file of 1400MB in a hfs partition. the file was deleted correctly at the second try. No error removing a 800MB file. Someone ( like benh ) is interested in? ) So? HFS filesystem module still buggy, film at 11. I'm surprised it didn't eat your

xfree-4.1.0-1 vs benh-kernel

2001-08-01 Thread Bob Hunter
Arch: PowerBookG3 1999/lombard. OK stuff: - ATI Mach64 LI accelerated: OK - Keyboard: OK no-OK stuff: 1. at wakeup, after sleep, the computer crashes! [kernel] 2. one single touch of the trackpad is like a double-click [kernel] 3. group of pixels change color, like moving around [both

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-01 Thread John Hughes
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 12:24, Bastien Nocera wrote: Noah John wrote: the ibook is definatly a good purchase. from what i gather, some sound still doesn't work. However, what i really meant to say was: G3 500 MHz vs. i386. is about an 800-933 MHz P3 is about a 733 MHz Athlon or P4

Re: kernel Oops

2001-08-01 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 10:25, Ivan wrote: Hi all, I got this doing 'rm -rf sys.img'. sys.img was a file of 1400MB in a hfs partition. the file was deleted correctly at the second try. No error removing a 800MB file. Someone ( like benh ) is interested in? ) [...] Ivan This doesn't

Kernel source

2001-08-01 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Are there any known issues with the latest 2.4.7 kernel source and PPC builds? Specifically with PReP systems? I've got to get something more than 2.2.19 on this machine because I need IPv6 support, but haven't do a PPC kernel build yet and been inform'd the 2.4.* kernel build available

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-01 Thread Bastien Nocera
John Hughes wrote: On Wednesday 01 August 2001 12:24, Bastien Nocera wrote: Noah John wrote: the ibook is definatly a good purchase. from what i gather, some sound still doesn't work. However, what i really meant to say was: G3 500 MHz vs. i386. is about an 800-933 MHz P3 is about a 733

Re: Kernel source

2001-08-01 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Jeremy T. Bouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are there any known issues with the latest 2.4.7 kernel source and PPC builds? Specifically with PReP systems? I've got to get something more than 2.2.19 on this machine because I need IPv6 support, but haven't do a PPC kernel build yet and been

Re: kernel Oops

2001-08-01 Thread Ivan il Terribile
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 19:34, Jesse Goerz wrote: This doesn't answer your question but when you rm a 'file' that big why not just use: cat /dev/null sys.img or: cp /dev/null sys.img then just rm it. I have heard it's safer that way. Jesse another cool way, very short, is [EMAIL

Re: offset x screen

2001-08-01 Thread bmcintyre
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:55:19AM +0200, Duncan Sands wrote: I can see a number of differences between our setups: (1) You are using a 2.2 kernel, I am using a 2.4 kernel. (2) You have controlfb using video mode 13 and color mode 2. I am using video mode 18 and color mode 1. (3) I use the

Re: Galeon History problem

2001-08-01 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:23:47PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: Thanks for the warning Ethan. So galeon 0.11.2 expects mozilla 0.9.1, so I don't have a mismatch there. How do I tell what version of Gnome I'm running? Some libraries are versioned 1.2.x and some 1.4.x So do you not see the

Re: Galeon History problem

2001-08-01 Thread Bastien Nocera
Hi, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:23:47PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: Thanks for the warning Ethan. So galeon 0.11.2 expects mozilla 0.9.1, so I don't have a mismatch there. How do I tell what version of Gnome I'm running? Some libraries are versioned 1.2.x and some 1.4.x

Re: kernel Oops

2001-08-01 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 12:34:58PM -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote: cp /dev/null sys.img then just rm it. I have heard it's safer that way. not really from a filesystem corruption/crashing point of view. the main point of that advice is so you don't end up in the situation of deleting a huge file

Re: Galeon History problem

2001-08-01 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Bastien Nocera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:23:47PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: Thanks for the warning Ethan. So galeon 0.11.2 expects mozilla 0.9.1, so I don't have a mismatch there. How do I tell what version of Gnome I'm running? Some

Re: gpm X settings for titanium

2001-08-01 Thread Colin Walters
Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With Xkb, you probably need XkbModel pc104 or any pc variant with Linux keycodes, macintosh_old otherwise. Without Xkb, it should work either way. Yep, pc104 works for me with Linux keycodes. Don't enable AGP GART (we don't have support yet) or DRM in

Icebook Power Managment

2001-08-01 Thread James Tyson
Hi all. I was wondering if anyone else had noticed that the Icebook running linux seems to chew through batteries faster than MacOS does? Is it just my config - have I done something wrong? What configs should I post? Cheers. James Tyson --- Samizdat New Media Solutions

custom boot disks for PReP RS/6000's

2001-08-01 Thread Ben Kinder
Hello, I have successfully installed debian potato on a couple of RS/6000's model 7248 43P/100. I was having problems booting to the PReP boot disks -- they would hang when probing the scsi devices. To install I used a custom kernel (2.2.18 patched for the carolina motherboards and the e15