Quake and Quake 2 on PowerPC (Might be of topic)

2001-11-13 Thread Patrick R. Klee
Hello, Well I have a working Sid iMac, and I compiled QuakeForge with great sucess and it runs the DOS Quake CD's .pak files. However, I figure there is a Linux .deb for running Quake, the Quake 1 mods, DoE and SoA and Quake 2 (I own all of these) on Debian PPC since Quakeforge works. All

Re: Font advice needed

2001-11-13 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Rory Campbell-Lang writes: > I enjoy working with 9pt Geneva (writing) or 9pt Monaco (coding) in > MacOS. Is there any chance of getting similar display clarity on Linux? Sure, 9pt Geneva (writing) or 9pt Monaco (coding). You have MacOS, so you have these fonts. There are tools to create the inde

Re: Kernel Panic with mac-fdisk: More Info

2001-11-13 Thread Laurent de Segur
Michael, I just came back from work and finally could spend some time on this kernel crash. I tried putting up to 5 sync() and even moving the close_partition() call at the end (making a total of 10 sync()). It still crashes but less frequently with this mod. I tried running the code on x86, bu

Re: Font advice needed

2001-11-13 Thread Laurent de Segur
Rory, Here is the link to help you: http://www.macdisk.com/fontsen.php3 The tool is called TT Converter and let's you convert a mac resource file to a true type file that can be used in Linux. I added a line to my XFree86 config so my apps to find the mac fonts I added in a sub-dir in my ~ dir.

Re: Quake and Quake 2 on PowerPC (Might be of topic)

2001-11-13 Thread Laurent de Segur
> From: "Patrick R. Klee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 13 Nov 2001 00:12:15 -0600 > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Quake and Quake 2 on PowerPC (Might be of topic) > Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > > Anywho. You guys are great. After I get Quake working the laststep

Re: Quake and Quake 2 on PowerPC (Might be of topic)

2001-11-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Patrick R. Klee" wrote: > Anyone know if I can maybe get Quake X11 from stable? Doesn't look like, but try this: http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/quake/ -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software

Re: Kernel Panic with mac-fdisk: More Info

2001-11-13 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I tried putting up to 5 sync() and even moving the close_partition() call at > the end (making a total of 10 sync()). It still crashes but less frequently > with this mod. Another idea: increase the sync delay or number of syncs before the ioctl. > Find below the disasm of the whole function as

Re: Buildd Failures

2001-11-13 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:05:41PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > I found the following probably need to be requeued, since they built > > fine for me using pbuilder and Nov. 12 sid. > > BTW is there a reason against just uploading the built packages instead > of req

Freeware for the AS400: CAT produces a catalog of files in a library.

2001-11-13 Thread David Arbuckle
FREEWARE: AS400 Library Catalog Software (source included.) As thanks for visiting our web site at www.rapidfire400.com, we would like you to have our “CAT” Freeware package. You can use “CAT” to gather information about the files in a library and print reports; by Date Last U

Re: Kernel Panic with mac-fdisk: More Info

2001-11-13 Thread Laurent de Segur
Michael, Forget about my non-sense with the x86 crap. R3 and R4 are pointing to valid strings. I forgot about offsetting values by one when reading addis/addi opcodes as I was getting tired. I just needed a good night sleep. I've increased substantially the number of sync() (a dozen with small lo

Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found

2001-11-13 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:27:46AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > Hello all, > > I tried to install linux on my new ibook. But I got an error message: > ' > Welcome to yaboot version 0.9 > Wrong partition 1 signature > Config file read, 528 bytes > Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC (potato) > boot: > Lo

Re: Quake and Quake 2 on PowerPC (Might be of topic)

2001-11-13 Thread Colin Walters
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Doesn't look like, but try this: > > http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/quake/ Hm, looks like it needs to be recompiled because of the whole libsdl1.2debian thing. Where can I find the "quake-game" package? And where's the source? :)

Re: Buildd Failures

2001-11-13 Thread Stephen R Marenka
I managed to build the following with Nov. 12 sid using pbuilder, so I believe that they can be requeued. xmms-cdread 0.14a-2 pspp 0.3.0-6 kdebase-crypto 4:2.2.1-7 I filed the following bugs. tkchooser 119431 sphinx2 119433 ginac 119464 chess 119475 nec Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenk

Re: Quake and Quake 2 on PowerPC (Might be of topic)

2001-11-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 19:44, Colin Walters wrote: > Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Doesn't look like, but try this: > > > > http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/quake/ > > Hm, looks like it needs to be recompiled because of the whole > libsdl1.2debian thing. Why? It works fine here

Re: Kernel Panic with mac-fdisk: More Info

2001-11-13 Thread Michael Schmitz
> One thing I would like to know: can I drop into the 'mon' and set a break > point in the kernel code, then restart and trace when I hit the break point? > Does kernel trace works on PPC? I'll stfw for these info, but if you can > give me a quick pointer, I'll read and study that. I'll have to re

Can't get java working with Airport Configurator

2001-11-13 Thread Brendan Simon
I am trying to configure my Appe Airport Basestation using the Java Configurator. It requires Java 1.2 but apparently can work with some an extra download (swing library for java < 1.2). I am a java newbie and have never had any success trying to execute java apps :( Apparently the command to r

kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:160! with fsck

2001-11-13 Thread Russell Hires
Hey everyone, I got this error message (kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:160!) from my G3/266 with a stock 2.4.14 kernel, while doing an fsck, recovering from a previous crash on the same kernel. Is there somewhere in a log that I can look to get more info out to the world about this? Thanks! Russ

Re: installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO

2001-11-13 Thread Gordon Paynter
This is a tardy followup to my own post to answer a couple of points that other people have already answered, and to thank those people who are actually fixing the problem - my hat goes off to you. Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it doesn't really matter which partition you temporarily

kdelibs3 upgrade problem

2001-11-13 Thread Russell Hires
Hello, After my nightly "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" I got the following error: apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: kdelibs3 1 packages upgraded,

Re: Bug#119081: nano: On Oldworld PowerPC, nano freezes machine when help is being displayed

2001-11-13 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:02:47AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:41:30PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > > Ok, tell me if you can still reproduce. The ftp server thing tells me > > there's something wrong with that box :\ I've got a suspicion of a possible problem. I was