Re: OpenOffice 1.01c crashes when opening files

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew Yee-King
if you are using gnome, there is a procedure that kills apps that take too long to start up. so if oo takes too long it may get killed. you can fix this by editing the soffice script ~/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/soffice . all you have to do is put this line at the top of the script: unset

Re: Eject CD

2002-11-23 Thread Marc Menem
eject /cdrom eject: unable to open '/dev/cdrom' you could try eject /cdrom -v the -v switch will describe in detail all the steps performed to eject the device. if it doesn't work, you have to add to /etc/fstab the correct device for your cd drive, mine is /dev/hdb /cdrom

DVD playback suspend and wake issue

2002-11-23 Thread Marc Menem
Hi all, Watching a DVD works using ogle on my 700 MHz Ibook, ogle displays an average of 17fps which is OK for the still scenes, and a little weak for the screen travellings. Anyway here's the problem. after having suspended the ibook, on wake up, the playback works very slowly with a lot

XFree86 and beige G3 ATI card

2002-11-23 Thread Nathan S.
I've been having some problems getting X to start on my biege G3. The video card is an ATI Mach64 Turbo (I think), but the driver ati isn't working for it. I've also tried ati/atimisc, atimisc, and vga, but none of them work. I should mention that I haven't entered the busid or chipset in the

Re: XFree86 and beige G3 ATI card

2002-11-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sam, 2002-11-23 at 17:29, Nathan S. wrote: I've been having some problems getting X to start on my biege G3. The video card is an ATI Mach64 Turbo (I think), but the driver ati isn't working for it. I've also tried ati/atimisc, atimisc, and vga, but none of them work. I should mention

Re: DVD playback suspend and wake issue

2002-11-23 Thread Marc Menem
Watching a DVD works using ogle on my 700 MHz Ibook, ogle displays an average of 17fps which is OK for the still scenes, and a little weak for the screen travellings. Anyway here's the problem. after having suspended the ibook, on wake up, the playback works very slowly with a lot of

Re: DVD playback suspend and wake issue

2002-11-23 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du samedi 23 novembre 2002, vers 18:02, Marc Menem [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: I have a clue, it seems that dma usage is not restored on wakeup: How do I restore dma parameters on wake up ? after wake up [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo hdparm /dev/hdb Since you may

tibook/ cd audio playback

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello I can't play audio cd's in my tibook. how can i fix this? i've tried xmms - play file - /dev/cdrom and /dev/hdc . no luck. i've got: powerbook g4 400 debian testing 2.4.18newpmac (building a benh right now!) charlie mingus cd that i just bought and can't listen to on my normal cd

ibook running with lid closed

2002-11-23 Thread ivc
hi. i got a ibook dual usb 500mhz and i try to make it stay turned on while the lid is closed (with the pmud -k option), but after exactly 4 minutes with the lid closed it automatically shuts down. i stopped pmud and pbbuttonsd and the same thing happened, so i think its something to do with the

Re: end_request: I/O error

2002-11-23 Thread Wm. Josiah Erikson
Wow. Fun. Of course, it turned out that I was wrong, and it was a dead drive. The errors started showing up in MacOS a couple of days later. -Josiah On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 1869542 hda: read_intr: status=0x59 {

mozilla-snapshot 0.0.20021112.18.trunk-1 last working

2002-11-23 Thread christophe barbe
mozilla-snapshot 0.0.20021112.18.trunk-1 was the last working for me. The latest 0.0.20021120.09.trunk-1 fails silently to start. Is it the same for all powerpc users? Christophe -- Christophe Barbé [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Ce que

Re: tibook/ cd audio playback

2002-11-23 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du samedi 23 novembre 2002, vers 18:42, Matthew Yee-King [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: I can't play audio cd's in my tibook. how can i fix this? The classic audio cable which links cd player to sound card is missing : you cannot read cd audio the classical way. You