Re: Firewall tools don't play nice with each other

2002-04-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 10:46:37PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > I don't know exactly where to put this, so I thought I'd start here, since > this is my "home" debian-linux list. > > I've been playing with the various firewall too

Re: X-Windows & NewWorld Macs

2002-04-20 Thread Richard Chan
I have a similar setup...recent developments in XFree86 means that things are really looking up for the GeForce2 MX card and VGA/ADC outputs. XFree86 4.2 (xf-4_2-branch) works on VGA using "nv" driver. This driver definitely does not detect the ADC (see posting below). You'll have to compile it yo

Re: fickle backlight goes off permanently

2002-04-20 Thread Ali Bahar
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 09:53:54PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 20:38, Ali Bahar wrote: > Again though, what you're experiencing may not be the same problem I > had; but it sure sounds like it. Thanks much. I do hope it'll get fixed. I'll see if the driver authors might be

Firewall tools don't play nice with each other

2002-04-20 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I don't know exactly where to put this, so I thought I'd start here, since this is my "home" debian-linux list. I've been playing with the various firewall tools that are a part of debian, and I'm surprised by something: None of them confl

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 10:47:43PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > On Apr 20 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Related, I just finished hacking on a mini-iso.sh script to make it > > work for powerpc. > > Humm... > > Did you read my earlier message about a bootable CD? :-) Is > it

Re: fickle backlight goes off permanently

2002-04-20 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 20:38, Ali Bahar wrote: > - this does not happen under osx. Weird. I've never used MacOS X, so I don't know if the problem I had with my first TiBook was really hardware or not. Regardless, they *did* replace the motherboard (since my MAC address changed), so I assume t

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 20 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > Related, I just finished hacking on a mini-iso.sh script to make it > work for powerpc. Humm... Did you read my earlier message about a bootable CD? :-) Is it working well? > cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/powerpc-specials/mini-iso.s

Re: Reinstalling Debian Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 08:51:46PM -0400, Haroon Dar wrote: > I have a PowerComputing PowerCenter 132 "oldworld" and i got Debian installed > with the boot-floppy-hfs.img, driver-1, ""-2, rescue and root floppy > disks. I want to reinstall Debian over and i can't get the same disks boot > th

Re: Making a bootable CD for newworlds?

2002-04-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 09:45:12PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > On Apr 05 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 04:21:24AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > > > I would like to thank everybody that replied. I have now read > > > a good deal of documentation on generating the boota

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:40:27PM -0700, Jonathan wheeler wrote: > Hello, > > New to the list, and i was wondering if anyone has had any sucess with a dual > boot of OS X and Debian. Everyone i have talked to say they have tons of > trouble with open firmware. I've looked around on the net, and

Reinstalling Debian Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Haroon Dar
I have a PowerComputing PowerCenter 132 "oldworld" and i got Debian installed with the boot-floppy-hfs.img, driver-1, "    "-2, rescue and root floppy disks. I want to reinstall Debian over and i can't get the same disks boot the installation. Do you what the problem is?

Re: XFree86 with Radeon problems

2002-04-20 Thread Tim Moss
Apparently, on Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 08:23:46PM -0400, William C Brennan wrote: > Folks, > > I'm trying to get my new G4 Quicksilver 800MHz to run XFree86. This > machine comes with an ATI Radeon 7500 card. I've tried lots of > options and searched over the list archives to get hints at what to

Re: Making a bootable CD for newworlds?

2002-04-20 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 05 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 04:21:24AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > I would like to thank everybody that replied. I have now read > > a good deal of documentation on generating the bootable CD, > > but I still have some questions: > > > > 1 - A

Re: fickle backlight goes off permanently

2002-04-20 Thread Ali Bahar
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 08:25:27PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 18:05, Ali Bahar wrote: > > > the backlight of my ibook has become increasingly fickle over the last > > 10 days. It turns off with slight movements or with slight tilts of > I had what sounds like the same pr

Re: fickle backlight goes off permanently

2002-04-20 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 18:05, Ali Bahar wrote: > the backlight of my ibook has become increasingly fickle over the last > 10 days. It turns off with slight movements or with slight tilts of > the screen, and does so permanently: fblevel, or /sbin/backlight, do > not undo it; only a reboot does. I

XFree86 with Radeon problems

2002-04-20 Thread William C Brennan
Folks, I'm trying to get my new G4 Quicksilver 800MHz to run XFree86. This machine comes with an ATI Radeon 7500 card. I've tried lots of options and searched over the list archives to get hints at what to do, but no success. Since I'm at a total loss at what to do (this XFree stuff has al

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Philipp Schmidt
On Sat, 2002-04-20 17:28:20 -0300, Rog?rio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Apr 20 2002, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > > my iBook does not recognize the harddisk properly when booting of cd > > or having a cd in the drive > > Which iBook do you have? I'm no

Re: X-Windows & NewWorld Macs

2002-04-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 20:53, Cameron MacFarland wrote: > > I'm having trouble getting x-windows to run on my NewWorld Mac. > Specifically it's a Quicksilver 733Mhz with a NVidia GeForce 2MMX. My > problem seems to be the video card. I found an older message which said > to download and compile

Re: fickle backlight goes off permanently

2002-04-20 Thread Ali Bahar
Of course, the graphics card is an ATI Rage Mobility M128. ali -- "Current version is 0.0.3 (seems to be stable)." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fickle backlight goes off permanently

2002-04-20 Thread Ali Bahar
Unless if you're ineterested in the control mechanism of an ibook backlight, this post may not interest you. Hi, the backlight of my ibook has become increasingly fickle over the last 10 days. It turns off with slight movements or with slight tilts of the screen, and does so permanently: fbleve

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 20 2002, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > my iBook does not recognize the harddisk properly when booting of cd > or having a cd in the drive Which iBook do you have? I'm not with my iBook here, but I'd like to test mine to see if it has this (weird) behaviour... []s, R

Re: Flash

2002-04-20 Thread Eric Leblond
Le sam 20/04/2002 à 22:08, Rogério Brito a écrit : > On Apr 20 2002, Riccardo Gusso wrote: > No, since it includes binary code. But there is somewhere a > GPL'ed flash player. I don't know how well it works, though. Don't seem to work very well, looks like there's a lot of browser cra

Re: Flash

2002-04-20 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 20 2002, Riccardo Gusso wrote: > Does the Flash player for linux/x86 works with linux on powerpc > machines too? No, since it includes binary code. But there is somewhere a GPL'ed flash player. I don't know how well it works, though. []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Philipp Schmidt
On Sat, 2002-04-20 11:25:33 -0600, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Anyone know for sure if the kernel on this netinst CD will have the drivers > for > the Apple Airport? I know some time ago the only way to get these working > was to > compile a benh kernel

RE: Really would appreciate some help...

2002-04-20 Thread Zach Lowry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > On Apr 20 2002, Zach Lowry wrote: > > Stilll no go. pcmcia_core loads, but ds and i82365 give errors. I > > suspect that this is due to IO addressing, or interrupts, but I'm > > too Mac-stupid to know what to do. > > Take what I am saying wi

Re: Really would appreciate some help...

2002-04-20 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 20 2002, Zach Lowry wrote: > Stilll no go. pcmcia_core loads, but ds and i82365 give errors. I > suspect that this is due to IO addressing, or interrupts, but I'm > too Mac-stupid to know what to do. Take what I am saying with a huge grain of salt, but isn't i8 a control

X-Windows & NewWorld Macs

2002-04-20 Thread Cameron MacFarland
Hi, I'm having trouble getting x-windows to run on my NewWorld Mac. Specifically it's a Quicksilver 733Mhz with a NVidia GeForce 2MMX. My problem seems to be the video card. I found an older message which said to download and compile the driver from the NVidia website but I can't seem to do t

Re: Flash

2002-04-20 Thread Derrik Pates
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 06:24:52PM +0200, Riccardo Gusso wrote: > Does the Flash player for linux/x86 works with linux on powerpc machines too? No. x86 binaries will _not_ work on PPC systems. -- Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Dist

Re: Installation woes on PB2400c

2002-04-20 Thread Philipp Kaeser
hej, > However, I've run into a few qwirks. My first problem is the floppy > problem which has been posted here before, an "fdflush 515" error. No > biggie, doesn't seem to matter to much on woody. Potato, however, > won't read the driver disks. Yes, I've made more disks, and yes, > they're differ

Re: Macintosh Microphone Jack - how do I make a recording?

2002-04-20 Thread Elizabeth Barham
David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, if you want input from a tape player, a normal > microphone/headphone connector will be fine. It's only that if you > try to use an unamplified (normal) microphone that you'll run into > trouble. Yes this is what I have in mind to do - just por

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Nate Duehr
Anyone know for sure if the kernel on this netinst CD will have the drivers for the Apple Airport? I know some time ago the only way to get these working was to compile a benh kernel, but I'm sure the world has moved on since then... it was quite a while ago. I have a machine that has an older v

RE: Really would appreciate some help...

2002-04-20 Thread Zach Lowry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Hello! > > If anyone could help me out here, I'd really appreciate > it. I still > can't get PCMCIA to work under Woody. I've set up the config.opts > as per the PCMCIA HOWTO, and the other Powerbook-centric howto. > Stilll no go. pcm

Flash

2002-04-20 Thread Riccardo Gusso
Does the Flash player for linux/x86 works with linux on powerpc machines too? Bye. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Ali Bahar
> New to the list, and i was wondering if anyone has had any sucess with a dual > boot of OS X and Debian. Everyone i have talked to say they have tons of > trouble with open firmware. I've looked around on the net, and i can't seem > to find anything about it either :( maybe i have not looked h

Re: Macintosh Microphone Jack - how do I make a recording?

2002-04-20 Thread Elizabeth Barham
vinai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you're looking for an adaptor that will let you use regular mics on a > mac with a Plaintalk port, take a look at Griffin's NE Mic, at: > > http://www.griffintechnology.com/audio/index.html $20 isn't too bad a price but I plan on just hooking up a tape

Re: X & No keyboard input with new kernels

2002-04-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 22:47, Thomas Seyrat wrote: > On April 19, 16:05 (-0400), Colin Walters wrote: > > I have a first-gen tibook too; I've put my XF86Config put up at: > > http://people.debian.org/~walters/debian/XF86Config-4 > > Couldn't anyone do the same thing for the latest Ti with Radeon

Re: Status of XFree86 4.2 on G4 PowerMAC Nvidia ADC ?

2002-04-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 15:18, Richarc Chan wrote: > XFree86: 4.2 (self-compiled) using nv driver > [Funny story: make World compiled everything but nv_drv.o; I had to manually > go into the nv directory to compile it. Haven't looked into this prob yet.] The nv driver isn't built by default on PPC

Really would appreciate some help...

2002-04-20 Thread Zach Lowry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! If anyone could help me out here, I'd really appreciate it. I still can't get PCMCIA to work under Woody. I've set up the config.opts as per the PCMCIA HOWTO, and the other Powerbook-centric howto. Stilll no go. pcmcia_core lo

Re: Macintosh Microphone Jack - how do I make a recording?

2002-04-20 Thread vinai
Hi On 19 Apr 2002, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Thank you Katsunori - that helps some but I'd like to digitize tape > recordings (for medical transcription). I was of the notion the > macintosh microphone jack was just like any microphone-input but I > suppose not. Do you know if adapters for this t

Re: Status of XFree86 4.2 on G4 PowerMAC Nvidia ADC ?

2002-04-20 Thread Richard Chan
On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 19:55, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > The nv driver isn't built by default on PPC yet. xc/config/cf/xfree86.cf > would have to be modified to change that. > Aaaah - that explains it - looks like it can be fixed with XF86ExtraCardDrivers in my host.def. BTW XFree86 CVS now has tw

Re: Macintosh Microphone Jack - how do I make a recording?

2002-04-20 Thread Katsunori Tanaka
Hi, > Thank you Katsunori - that helps some but I'd like to digitize tape > recordings (for medical transcription). I was of the notion the > macintosh microphone jack was just like any microphone-input but I > suppose not. Do you know if adapters for this type of thing are > available? Unfortuna

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
On Samstag, April 20, 2002, at 08:16 Uhr, Janne Karjanlahti wrote:  >One more thing, does anyone know where i could get a bootable net install image for mac? or if one even exists? Try these: http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/ Daniel --- Quarkness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Macintosh Microphone Jack - how do I make a recording?

2002-04-20 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:23:54PM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Katsunori Tanaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The microphone jack on such Macintosh is similar to standard > > microphone jack but slightly different. Apple's "PlainTalk" > > microphone will fit for your Mac. It has three-p

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
New to the list, and i was wondering if anyone has had any sucess with a dual boot of OS X and Debian. It depends... If you have a newworld machine that can use yaboot, its quite easy to set up dual boot or even triple boot (OS9/OSX/Linux), see http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/yaboot-

Re: dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Janne Karjanlahti
Jonathan wheeler kirjoittaa lauantaina, 20. huhtikuuta 2002, kello 08:40:Hello,   >New to the list, and i was wondering if anyone has had any sucess with a dual boot of OS X and Debian. >Everyone i have talked to say they have tons of trouble with open firmware. I've looked around on the net, >

dual boot - OS X & Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Jonathan wheeler
Hello,   New to the list, and i was wondering if anyone has had any sucess with a dual boot of OS X and Debian. Everyone i have talked to say they have tons of trouble with open firmware. I've looked around on the net, and i can't seem to find anything about it either :( maybe i have not look