USB ACM and new-powermac boot floppies

2002-05-24 Thread marshal
Hi all, I'm thinking of re-installing Debian on my Powerbook Firewire. Running into space issues due to not partitioning properly. The slight problem is that I'm in Japan, and local phone calls are killer expensive. However, I do have unlimited ISDN connections. But, my Terminal Adapter is a USB

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Josh Huber
"Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You prefer VBscript and ActiveX controls then? That's what you > encourage. Java must run everywhere, else we have no argument > against 100% Microsoft solutions. Ah, of course I don't. I prefer none of those. > What is so bad about Java and Fla

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Josh Huber writes: > Rick Lutowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Yes, it's a _much_ bigger problem than generally realized. >> 1. No Java Plug-in = no Java 2 for browsers >> 2. No Java 2 for browsers = no Java 3D for browsers >> 3. No Java 3D for browsers = no 3D for the Web > > And this is a pro

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 9:44 AM +0900 5/25/02, electric-light-heads wrote: mmm..then which JDK wil be the best to do only text oriented io & claculations? am only planning to use java to do xml > calc > text > csound > jsyn If you are not planning to use any of the UI toolkits (Swing/AWT) you might give gcj a whi

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Rick Lutowski
electric-light-heads wrote: > > mmm..then which JDK wil be the best > to do only text oriented io & claculations? > > am only planning to use java to do > xml > calc > text > csound > jsyn xml = JDK 1.4 More rationale for Java Plug-in Browsers can't stay stuck at 1.1 forever or we all suffer (

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread electric-light-heads
mmm..then which JDK wil be the best to do only text oriented io & claculations? am only planning to use java to do xml > calc > text > csound > jsyn > > Yes, it's a _much_ bigger problem than generally realized. > > 1. No Java Plug-in = no Java 2 for browsers > > 2. No Java 2 for browsers = no Ja

Re: TiBook DVI report/problems

2002-05-24 Thread benh
>Ok, I've got my Powerbook G4 DVI (i.e. powerbook rev C, i.e. powerbook >w/radeon 7500 M7, etc) pretty much setup how I like it. A couple of people >have asked me to give a rundown of what works/what doesn't so here it goes: > >-X4.1: works great, using the fbdev & radeonfb. Gonna try out Micha

TiBook DVI report/problems

2002-05-24 Thread brett
Ok, I've got my Powerbook G4 DVI (i.e. powerbook rev C, i.e. powerbook w/radeon 7500 M7, etc) pretty much setup how I like it. A couple of people have asked me to give a rundown of what works/what doesn't so here it goes: -X4.1: works great, using the fbdev & radeonfb. Gonna try out Michael's

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
> And this is a problem why? IMHO, the web is much nicer without java & > flash. Amen. As satisfying as it may be for us to wallow in our "uphill, both ways, in the snow, img tag the cause of all moral failings" attitudes, it does occur every now and then in my workaday life that I must go

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Franck Routier
Le ven 24/05/2002 à 20:23, Josh Huber a écrit : > > And this is a problem why? IMHO, the web is much nicer without java & > flash. I also don't think java is for client side stuff. Anyway, one can still use Blackdown JDK if java plugin is needed :-) But if you run stuff like Tomcat, JBoss, Jona

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Rick Lutowski
Josh Huber wrote: > > Rick Lutowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yes, it's a _much_ bigger problem than generally realized. > > 1. No Java Plug-in = no Java 2 for browsers > > 2. No Java 2 for browsers = no Java 3D for browsers > > 3. No Java 3D for browsers = no 3D for the Web > > And this

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 14:23, Josh Huber wrote: > Rick Lutowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yes, it's a _much_ bigger problem than generally realized. > > 1. No Java Plug-in = no Java 2 for browsers > > 2. No Java 2 for browsers = no Java 3D for browsers > > 3. No Java 3D for browsers = no 3D

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Josh Huber
Rick Lutowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, it's a _much_ bigger problem than generally realized. > 1. No Java Plug-in = no Java 2 for browsers > 2. No Java 2 for browsers = no Java 3D for browsers > 3. No Java 3D for browsers = no 3D for the Web And this is a problem why? IMHO, the web is

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Rick Lutowski
Franck Routier wrote: > > At 12:06 24.05.2002 +0200, Jeffo wrote: > >Allready adopted it a month or two ago. > >Nevertheless, there is a big probleme : > >NO JAVA PLUGIN. > > > >that's a quite big problem for a notebook used for accessing the internet !! > > Is it ?? Yes, it's a _much_ bigger pr

Re: XF86-Config-4 for Titanium PowerBook

2002-05-24 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 18:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yeah, I'm running sid; the radeonfb is quite fast for 2D, it's accelerated. No, it's not. > I didn't care enough about the features begotten in X4.2 to bother installing > X by hand, I'm willing to wait for the packages. My binaries are

Re: XF86-Config-4 for Titanium PowerBook

2002-05-24 Thread brett-debianppc
Yeah, I'm running sid; the radeonfb is quite fast for 2D, it's accelerated. I didn't care enough about the features begotten in X4.2 to bother installing X by hand, I'm willing to wait for the packages. Let me know if you get it working, though. :) -Brett On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:45:29PM +02

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 12:06 PM +0200 5/24/02, Jeffo wrote: Allready adopted it a month or two ago. Nevertheless, there is a big probleme : NO JAVA PLUGIN. that's a quite big problem for a notebook used for accessing the internet !! Hey, I've already got two JVMs installed because Tomcat crashes constantly under

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Franck Routier
At 12:06 24.05.2002 +0200, Jeffo wrote: Allready adopted it a month or two ago. Nevertheless, there is a big probleme : NO JAVA PLUGIN. that's a quite big problem for a notebook used for accessing the internet !! Is it ?? Franck --- Franck Routier SHC - Support FIH9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: dmasound_pmac and Quake2? No sound

2002-05-24 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 10:23, David Stanaway wrote: > > is there a way around this problem that gets reported by quake2 when I > start it? > > --- sound initialization --- > SNDDMA_Init: Sorry, but your soundcard doesn't support trigger or mmap. > (0100) See http://bugs.debian.org/13

Re: XF86-Config-4 for Titanium PowerBook

2002-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:11:40AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got X running on my new powerbook 667 DVI (with radeon M7). I'm > running the framebuffer; you'll need benh's latest kernel with > radeonfb compiled in & enabled. I've only had my new powerbook a few > days, so this is pret

Re: XF86-Config-4 for Titanium PowerBook

2002-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:11:40AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got X running on my new powerbook 667 DVI (with radeon M7). I'm > running the framebuffer; you'll need benh's latest kernel with > radeonfb compiled in & enabled. I've only had my new powerbook a few > days, so this is pret

Re: Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Jeffo
Allready adopted it a month or two ago. Nevertheless, there is a big probleme : NO JAVA PLUGIN. that's a quite big problem for a notebook used for accessing the internet !! jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iBook and playing DVDs

2002-05-24 Thread benh
>On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 21:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >What about a mixed approach to avoid unnecessary bus traffic: try to read >> >the ring head pointer from memory, and if after a timeout the free >ring space >> >still doesn't seem to be large enough, read it directly from the register. >>

dmasound_pmac and Quake2? No sound

2002-05-24 Thread David Stanaway
Hi there, is there a way around this problem that gets reported by quake2 when I start it? --- sound initialization --- SNDDMA_Init: Sorry, but your soundcard doesn't support trigger or mmap. (0100) Thanks.. -- David Stanaway signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed m

Success with IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC _WITH_ JIT

2002-05-24 Thread Franck Routier
Hi, just to make you Debian people know I had no problem running the latest IBM JDK 1.3.0 for PPC Linux. This JDK includes a JVM _WITH_ JIT, and outperformes by far the Blackdown JVM. The IBM JDK is not free (in the sense of liberté) but is not for sale either... Well, java is not free anywa

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