apt-get install over ssh

2002-09-16 Thread dylan
hi- while experimenting with some 7100/80 and 8100/80 woody based servers i found that while attempting to use apt-get install package via and ssh session, apt-get crashes. after proceeding through the first part of the install: checking deps and so on it will freeze. the machine then will not

status of libberkeleydb-perl on powerpc

2002-09-16 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Can anyone comment on the status of libberkeleydb-perl on the powerpc platform? I tried to install pop-before-smtp from stable (and also testing) which failed due to the lack of this package. I attempted to apt-get source and build the package that way. It appears to build, but as part of

m3mirror for iBook 2 ?

2002-09-16 Thread Vincent Bernat
Hello ! Is there an equivalent to m3mirror for the new ibooks ? How to use the external screen in the console and in X ? -- /* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */ 2.0.38 /usr/src/linux/arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace.c

Beige G3 kernel panic

2002-09-16 Thread Patrik Nyman
Hi all. I have a Mac beige G3 desktop, 64MB RAM, 20GB IDE hard drive. There's one root partition of 4.2GB at /dev/hda8, and another equally large linux partition at /dev/hda9, and 500MB of swap at /dev/hda10. The rest is for Mac OS. The installation of the base system of Woody ran smoothly,

Debian on 44p170

2002-09-16 Thread Gianmaria Iaculo - NETLABS - Application Service Provider
Hi, does latest debian version run on IBM RS6000 44p 170 model? If true, where i can find the latest release to buy (in Italy)??? Best Regards Gianmaria Iaculo NETLABS

Re: Alsa plays only wav files

2002-09-16 Thread Ondrej Certik
--- Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Son, 2002-09-15 at 21:18, Ondrej Certik wrote: I have installed latest CVS ALSA drivers on my PowerMac 7500/100 (snd-powermac), and aplay functions well, but xmms plays only wav files - using other input plugin (mp3, ogg) causes loud

Atitvout.

2002-09-16 Thread Jesus Climent
Hi. I just found the announcement of atitvout v0.3, located at http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/atitvout/ HAs anyone out there tried it under ibook2 with ATI Radeon M6? Just to know... J -- Jesus Climent | Unix System Admin | Helsinki, Finland. web:

Re: Alsa plays only wav files

2002-09-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 12:56, Ondrej Certik wrote: --- Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Son, 2002-09-15 at 21:18, Ondrej Certik wrote: I have installed latest CVS ALSA drivers on my PowerMac 7500/100 (snd-powermac), and aplay functions well, but xmms plays only wav

Re: Alsa plays only wav files

2002-09-16 Thread Ondrej Certik
--- Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 12:56, Ondrej Certik wrote: --- Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Son, 2002-09-15 at 21:18, Ondrej Certik wrote: I have installed latest CVS ALSA drivers on my PowerMac 7500/100 (snd-powermac), and

GNOME won't start with startx

2002-09-16 Thread Will Cicola
Ack! So I've been running unstable for a while, and decided to I triy to install GNOME 2 using the experimental pacakges (that was really reckless; I know), and fouled the whole thing up. After a long ordeal, I managed to get GNOME working again, but now the only way to get into it is through

Re: Beige G3 kernel panic

2002-09-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:22:35AM +0200, Patrik Nyman wrote: Hi all. I have a Mac beige G3 desktop, 64MB RAM, 20GB IDE hard drive. There's one root partition of 4.2GB at /dev/hda8, and another equally large linux partition at /dev/hda9, and 500MB of swap at /dev/hda10. The rest is for Mac

Re: Debian on 44p170

2002-09-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:59:13AM +0200, Gianmaria Iaculo - NETLABS - Application Service Provider wrote: Hi, does latest debian version run on IBM RS6000 44p 170 model? If true, where i can find the latest release to buy (in Italy)??? Best Regards Gianmaria Iaculo NETLABS Search for

Re: GNOME won't start with startx

2002-09-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 10:16:22AM -0400, Will Cicola wrote: Ack! So I've been running unstable for a while, and decided to I triy to install GNOME 2 using the experimental pacakges (that was really reckless; I know), and fouled the whole thing up. After a long ordeal, I managed to get

vulnerable to apache/ssl worm ?

2002-09-16 Thread vinai
Hi Folks, Are we (on the PPC) vulnerable to the worm that's started making its rounds last week - the one that exploits an opening in the apache ssl module ? I thought I read somewhere that it might be x86 only, but I can't be absolutely sure about that. But I do remember the articles saying

How to use function keys to emulate 3-button mouse?

2002-09-16 Thread John Lubotsky
Running Woody on my Beige G3 with an ADB one-button mouse, I'd like to emulate 3 buttons for use in a window manager. I know instinctively this must be addressed in docs, but I've looked to no avail. Can anyone point me to documentation? Best, John Lubotsky

Re: How to use function keys to emulate 3-button mouse?

2002-09-16 Thread BuG
On (16/09/02 09:12), John Lubotsky wrote: :) Running Woody on my Beige G3 with an ADB one-button mouse, I'd like :) to emulate 3 buttons for use in a window manager. I know :) instinctively this must be addressed in docs, but I've looked to no :) avail. :) :) Can anyone point me to

Re: Tibook DVI (M7) sleep

2002-09-16 Thread brett
I've recently installed GNU/Linux on my Tibook and I've just this weekend started to configure the system a bit. Right now I'm facing the sleep-issue. I've been reading various mailing-lists trying to find out whether I'll have any luck setting it up or not, but so far I haven't found

Re: vulnerable to apache/ssl worm ?

2002-09-16 Thread Jack Howarth
Vinai, No. From what I have read the code the worm executes is i386 specific. Jack

RE: vulnerable to apache/ssl worm ?

2002-09-16 Thread Gilger.John
Thus sproke Jack Howarth: Subject: Re: vulnerable to apache/ssl worm ? Vinai, No. From what I have read the code the worm executes is i386 specific. Jack IIRC, the article on CNet said that it was *Intel* specific. That made me wonder if it affects AMD chips also.

Re: vulnerable to apache/ssl worm ?

2002-09-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 17:49, vinai wrote: Are we (on the PPC) vulnerable to the worm that's started making its rounds last week - the one that exploits an opening in the apache ssl module ? I thought I read somewhere that it might be x86 only, but I can't be absolutely sure about that. But

RE: vulnerable to apache/ssl worm ?

2002-09-16 Thread David Stanaway
This is all beside the point (Anyway, you would do better looking at the CERT advisories, and debian-security-announce advisories). If you are running woody and keep up to date with security.d.o then you are not exposed to this flaw. http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-27.html

Re: Alsa plays only wav files

2002-09-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 15:57, Ondrej Certik wrote: when starting xmms, it stops with an error: snd_mixer_attach: No such file or directory. Remove alsa-xmms, it prevents xmms from starting without ALSA. Which solves the problem. Thanks. But I have no idea how you could dicover

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Re: Beige G3 kernel panic

2002-09-16 Thread Michel Lanners
On 16 Sep, this message from Patrik Nyman echoed through cyberspace: I have a Mac beige G3 desktop, 64MB RAM, 20GB IDE hard drive. There's one root partition of 4.2GB at /dev/hda8, and another equally large linux partition at /dev/hda9, and 500MB of swap at /dev/hda10. The rest is for Mac OS.

Re: Atitvout.

2002-09-16 Thread Michel Lanners
On 16 Sep, this message from Jesus Climent echoed through cyberspace: I just found the announcement of atitvout v0.3, located at http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/atitvout/ Interesting, but... HAs anyone out there tried it under ibook2 with ATI Radeon M6? As you can

New kernel - more heat ?

2002-09-16 Thread Vincent Beffara
Howdy. I'm the happy owner of a TiBook DVI, and after the usual X11 config stuff I had no problem running Debian on it. And yesterday I rsync'ed a new benh kernel, compiled it and booted it : it works fine except that now the fan _never_ stops, where with the previous kernel it only started

Re: m3mirror for iBook 2 ?

2002-09-16 Thread jonas bandi
Vincent Bernat wrote: Hello ! Is there an equivalent to m3mirror for the new ibooks ? How to use the external screen in the console and in X ? If you have a radeon chip, you can use the XFree 4.2 binaries from Michel (http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/) to use an external monitor. I attach

New kernel - less heat ?

2002-09-16 Thread Everett Charles Coleman
I sort of have the same problem as the New Kernel - moer heat? thread except for my fan never starts??? I have a powerbook g4. I compiled 2.4.19 from kernel.org with xfs patch, took the default config that came with the debian powerpc xfs iso, and compiled the kernel. while recompiling (forgot

Re: Tibook G4 kernel compile fails

2002-09-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 22:14, Mark T. Valites wrote: I've been unsuccessfully trying to compile a kernel on my first generation tibook since I received it nearly a year ago. After playing around with lots of yes/no/module choices, I figured I'd try the stock config supplied with the kernel.

Re: m3mirror for iBook 2 ?

2002-09-16 Thread Geert Stappers
At 23:01 +0200 9/16/02, jonas bandi wrote: Vincent Bernat wrote: Hello ! Is there an equivalent to m3mirror for the new ibooks ? How to use the external screen in the console and in X ? If you have a radeon chip, you can use the XFree 4.2 binaries from Michel

powermac 9500 ethernet and 2.4 booting problems

2002-09-16 Thread Andy Bastien
I have two questions, I hope nobody minds if I put both of them in one email. Both are related to a PowerMac 9500 that I'm trying to use with woody. First question: This beast has two ethernet cards that I haven't been able to get working; does any know for sure whether these cards do work?

Re: Tibook G4 kernel compile fails

2002-09-16 Thread Mark T. Valites
agpgart only works or even builds with Ben's tree. How does it fail without? I did not know that... I thought the 2.4.19 kernel would build on the ti since it'd been out for a while. I was under the impression the benh kernels were the bleeding edge kernels kernels that I could survive on a

Re: Tibook G4 kernel compile fails

2002-09-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 19:09, Mark T. Valites wrote: I'm slowly dl-ing the benh source right now, but at this rate it may take a few weeks... If you already have a copy of the linux source, it's a lot faster to move/copy an existing tree into place, and then rsync benh's tree on top of that.

Re: Alsa plays only wav files

2002-09-16 Thread Toby Sargeant
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 08:21:28PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: That's correct. The problem is probably a mismatch between what xmms (or its plugins) _thinks_ the endianness of the PCM data they send to the device is (and thus tells the device) and what it _actually_ is. E.g., this works with

Re: Tibook G4 kernel compile fails

2002-09-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-09-17 at 01:09, Mark T. Valites wrote: agpgart only works or even builds with Ben's tree. How does it fail without? I did not know that... I thought the 2.4.19 kernel would build on the ti since it'd been out for a while. I was under the impression the benh kernels were the

Re: Tibook G4 kernel compile fails

2002-09-16 Thread Rogério Brito
On Sep 17 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: Of course, just not with all the bells and whistles as with benh. This seems to be the opportune time to ask something that I've been meaning to ask for some time now: how frequently are things from benh's tree synced with the stock

Re: Alsa plays only wav files

2002-09-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:56:30AM +1000, Toby Sargeant wrote: On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 08:21:28PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: That's correct. The problem is probably a mismatch between what xmms (or its plugins) _thinks_ the endianness of the PCM data they send to the device is (and thus

Re: Tibook G4 kernel compile fails

2002-09-16 Thread Mark T. Valites
If you already have a copy of the linux source, it's a lot faster to move/copy an existing tree into place, and then rsync benh's tree on top of that. mozilla didn't seem to want to dl the benh source too fast, but wget is moving along a lot faster. Regardless, anyone have a rsync url for the

Re: powermac 9500 ethernet and 2.4 booting problems

2002-09-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 06:32:04PM -0400, Andy Bastien wrote: Second question: I can't boot 2.4.anything. I've tried both Debian's 2.4.18-powermac and several iterations built from the 2.4.19 source, and they all do the same thing. I never get out of MacOS; after clicking on the Linux button