Re: Turning Airport card off on iBook

2002-04-28 Thread Michel Lanners
On 27 Apr, this message from Jeffrey Baker echoed through cyberspace: On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 11:16:51PM +0100, Edd Dumbill wrote: I'm going to be travelling shortly, and I expect the airline won't be happy if my iBook is emitting radio signals from the Airport card. Any idea how I can turn

mac powerbook installation question

2002-04-28 Thread jason kahn
hello i am new to debian and want to install v. 2.2r5 on my macintosh g3 powerbook wallstreet from a set of bootable cd's i purchased. i have read the installation manual several times but it is not clear to me how i can boot from the cd's i have. there are files for dists .disk and install

Re: mac powerbook installation question

2002-04-28 Thread marshal
jason == jason kahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jason hello i am new to debian and want to install v. 2.2r5 on my jason macintosh g3 powerbook wallstreet from a set of bootable jason cd's i purchased. i have read the installation manual jason several times but it is not clear to me

RE: Strange Kernel oopsing

2002-04-28 Thread Zach Lowry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, actually, I've found in my experience that i82365 won't work well with quik. It fails to load the PCMCIA subsystem if cards are present on boot up. Now, I wonder if this parameter would work with yenta_socket? Thanks! Zach -Original

XF86Config-4 for 266 MHz iMac

2002-04-28 Thread Tara Piorkowski
I have woody installed on my 266MHz iMac and it's running great, except that I cannot for the life of me get XFree86 properly configured. I have done tons of reading and a fair amount of playing (dpkg-reconfigure, trying to compile Xautocfg, looking for precompleted files, etc.) but cannot get

Re: XF86Config-4 for 266 MHz iMac

2002-04-28 Thread Francois Taiani
Hi Tara, in order to find the correct modeline for your monitor, xvidtune may help you (but you need at least something on your screen, even distorted, and a working mouse first). The problem with the mouse may come from your kernel not being correctly configured (it was my problem). I'm

Re: changing extensions, a little OT perhaps.

2002-04-28 Thread Mark T. Valites
--)) --)) Mark T. Valites Unix Systems Analyst 1 College Circle - 124b1 South Hall SUNY Geneseo Geneseo, NY 14454 585-245-5577 585-259-3471 (Cell) In terminal: for i in *; do mv $i $i.mp3; done I've been close to this. When I did it, I passed the rename to some sed the

Re: XF86Config-4 for 266 MHz iMac

2002-04-28 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:31:33PM -0400, Tara Piorkowski wrote: I have woody installed on my 266MHz iMac and it's running great, except that I cannot for the life of me get XFree86 properly configured. I have done tons of reading and a fair amount of playing (dpkg-reconfigure, trying to

Re: XF86Config-4 for 266 MHz iMac

2002-04-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 21:55, Chris Tillman wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:31:33PM -0400, Tara Piorkowski wrote: I have woody installed on my 266MHz iMac and it's running great, except that I cannot for the life of me get XFree86 properly configured. I have done tons of reading and a

Re: XF86Config-4 for 266 MHz iMac

2002-04-28 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 10:44:59PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 21:55, Chris Tillman wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:31:33PM -0400, Tara Piorkowski wrote: I have woody installed on my 266MHz iMac and it's running great, except that I cannot for the life of me get

RE: Strange Kernel oopsing

2002-04-28 Thread Zach Lowry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 To replay to my own message, there are no parameters to yenta_socket. Is this yenta thing causing me trouble? And why, oh why, won't the i82365 module work right with quik? Is this known? Is it buried somewhere in the archives? It seems silly of me

Re: mac powerbook installation question

2002-04-28 Thread marshal
jason == jason kahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jason hi marshal thanks for your prompt reply. well, i've since jason discovered that the cd's i received are not jason bootable--neither with c pushed down at startup or with jason the cd designated as startup disk. best regards

Debian 2.2r5 on PB Wall Street 266

2002-04-28 Thread Carlo Cosolo
Here I am again to bug you :) 'cause I can't run Debian on anyone of my machines :( Now I'm trying on the PB in subject. All is gone well but, when X starts I get a graphical log window (dbm that I didn't configure as active). I log in but my mouse is stuck, nothing moves and I have to kill

Re: XF86Config-4 for 266 MHz iMac

2002-04-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 12:55:52PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: I just submitted a bug to xserver-xfree86 regarding this. The xserver's calculations seem to be at odds with the iMac's philosophy. Anyway, what I've found and waht has worked for people on the list, is that the hsync has to be

Re: mac powerbook installation question

2002-04-28 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 07:47:59AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jason == jason kahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jason hi marshal thanks for your prompt reply. well, i've since jason discovered that the cd's i received are not jason bootable--neither with c pushed down at

Re: XF86Config-4 for 266 MHz iMac

2002-04-28 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 07:03:42PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 12:55:52PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: I just submitted a bug to xserver-xfree86 regarding this. The xserver's calculations seem to be at odds with the iMac's philosophy. Anyway, what I've found and

Re: Debian 2.2r5 on PB Wall Street 266

2002-04-28 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:08:23AM +0200, Carlo Cosolo wrote: Here I am again to bug you :) 'cause I can't run Debian on anyone of my machines :( Now I'm trying on the PB in subject. All is gone well but, when X starts I get a graphical log window (dbm that I didn't configure as active). I

Re: XF86Config-4 for 266 MHz iMac

2002-04-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 05:39:49PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: That explains it. The xserver is looking for VESA modes, and apparently the iMac is non-VESA for 640x480 and 800x600. Well, that's just stupid. Standards exist for a reason. The xserver seems to prefer keeping the vsync around

Re: mac powerbook installation question

2002-04-28 Thread Derrik Pates
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 05:26:15PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: Snother key combination that might do the trick, rather than C at startup, is Cmd-Opt-Shift-Delete. You can also boot it by breaking into OpenFirmware. (I recently added this section to the manual in my .sig). Except he said he