Booting off Firewire drives on newworld pmacs?

2002-04-11 Thread David Stanaway
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has had any luck booting off a firewire drive. The first thing I tried was to get the ofpath for the device, but that doesn't work: ofpath /dev/sda9 ofpath: Driver: sbp2 is not supported Is there anything else I should try? -- David Stanaway signature.asc Descri

What's the deal with streambuf.h?

2002-04-11 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Hi, I posted this onto gnu.gcc.help but I have not received a reply. A quick search of google has shown that others have experienced this error in the past - even in 2000. This appears to be specific to ppc and perhaps the alpha. I just now tried to compile it on two ix86 machines and it's okay.

Improved cdplay script

2002-04-11 Thread Chris Tillman
I found a bug in the cdplay script I posted here a couple months ago. It didn't handle more than 9 tracks gracefully. Here's a better one: #!/bin/sh cdda2wav -t 1+`cdir | tail -1 | sed 's/^..[^ ]* //'` -D /dev/cdrom -N -e -d0 -I cooked_ioctl -q & -- *--v- Installing Debian GNU/Linu

Re: two sound questions

2002-04-11 Thread Will Aoki
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 12:53:59AM +0200, Theo Gutmann wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 18:53, Thomas Peri wrote: > > Hmmm... ok, did that. But I just discovered that that wasn't what was > > causing that alert. esound, though installed, was not running. *slaps > > self on forehead* How can I ha

Re: two sound questions

2002-04-11 Thread Derrik Pates
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:53:53AM -0600, Thomas Peri wrote: > Another thing: switching to esound has introduced a one-second delay in > xmms between clicking stop and the music actually stopping. Same for > volume. Any thoughts on this? ESD is not well designed. You'll note the audio is not w

Re: two sound questions

2002-04-11 Thread Derrik Pates
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:04:03AM -0600, Thomas Peri wrote: > a) Now that I have working sound (thanks!), I've noticed that when > something's playing in xmms, other sounds (like terminal beeps, and > message sounds in gaim) don't come through. If xmms isn't playing, they > come through fine.

Re: /dev/dsp

2002-04-11 Thread Derrik Pates
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:32:54AM -0600, Thomas Peri wrote: > 1) A constant irritating whine comes from the speaker. The "Speaker" > slide in kmix has the desired effect on the whine's volume, but this > brings up something else I'm not sure about: The volume must've just been up too high. >

prep and boot-floppies (was bugid 141769)

2002-04-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I hope that you will take the time to read the rest. > Hereby I will sent you again my test results sofar for the powerpc. > I hope someone helps me out here. I'm going to skip your potato reports since I'm only concerned with woody. I know you're probbaly just trying

Re: Re: two sound questions

2002-04-11 Thread Christian Walther
[...] > > Another thing: switching to esound has introduced a one-second delay in > > xmms between clicking stop and the music actually stopping. Same for > > volume. Any thoughts on this? > > Same here. esd is using a buffer to store a certain amount of sound data. (Note that with esd you

Re: two sound questions

2002-04-11 Thread Thomas Peri
Weird. I had tried that, and it didn't start esd, so I assumed that wasn't the way to do it. As it turns out, ~/.xsession wasn't getting sourced, and /etc/X11/Xsession (which appeared to be what was supposed to do that) wasn't even checking for it. There was a variable ($STARTUP) pointing at i