Re: problem with starting up lyx using Qt, compiled with gcc 3.2

2003-02-19 Thread Nirmal Govind
Thanks for the directions. > The question remains: why not simply build against libqt3-dev? You > probably need to get it from sid to build with g++ 3.2 though. The reason I didn't do that was cos the LyX developers mention somewhere in the docs that qt *may* need to be compiled with the same com

Re: Debian comes up with clock 14 hours off

2003-02-19 Thread Craig P Steffen
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > The story so far; in Debian on my iBook, the clock is 14 hours > ahead > > > (it's set correctly in Mac OS X). The problem is consistent and > > > reproducible. [...] > > Do you have multiple Linux partitions? In particular, is /usr on a > > separate partition?

Re: i have powermac 4400 (Old world) while booting becoming an error during loading of root.bin need help

2003-02-19 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:58:51PM +0100, sleon wrote: ... root.bin floppy not accepted ... Probably most list denizens would skip your wordy dialog, it would be better to summarize the problem yourself next time ... I just downloaded and verified the current root.bin works on an oldworld, so th

Re: Booting the Debian installation CD on Powerbook G4 12"

2003-02-19 Thread Segher Boessenkool
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 02:07, paubert wrote: Well, the timebase and decremeter are part of the PPC architecture. I'm not sure things like 4xx implement them "as-is"... It is part of the user-level 32-bit PEM -- they better implement it :) BTW for the "53 MHz PB

Re: What is pbuttonsd ?

2003-02-19 Thread Segher Boessenkool
J Q Private wrote: I do _not_ have pbbuttonsd running. Pardon my ignorance, but I thought I needed pbbuttonsd to get F1 and F2 to change brightness. The PMU handles F1 and F2 itself, unless that function is disabled. Works fine for me. I believe this only works for builtin displays, thoug

Re: apt-get update with unstable main Problems

2003-02-19 Thread Adam Done
Add APT::Cache-Limit "8388608"; to /etc/apt/apt.conf. This will be fixed in the next apt version. Thank you ever s much.. that worked.. weeks and weeks trying to fix it..and it worked perfectly.. Thank you. -Adam -- Adam Done <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: apt-get update with unstable main Problems

2003-02-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Don, 2003-02-20 at 00:45, Adam Done wrote: > > It has been a while since i have written anything to the list but for > some very very odd reason I have not been able to do an apt-get update > to work properly with unstable main. I have tried to use various > sites in the /etc/apt/sources.list

apt-get update with unstable main Problems

2003-02-19 Thread Adam Done
It has been a while since i have written anything to the list but for some very very odd reason I have not been able to do an apt-get update to work properly with unstable main.  I  have tried to use various sites in the /etc/apt/sources.lists and every one I use gives me the same problem as

Re: playing region 2 dvd's on ibook?

2003-02-19 Thread christophe barbe
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:01:35PM -0700, Nirmal Govind wrote: > thanks for the suggestions folks.. will try it out once the DVDs > arrive.. wanted to make sure I didn't buy DVDs that won't play.. :-) I am not sure if it has been made clear that you will not be able to read DVDs region X if you se

Re: airport on tibook: surfing vs. ssh/scp

2003-02-19 Thread christophe barbe
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:03:25AM -0800, Serge Rey wrote: > > For me turning the encryption off fix the problem. > i did see your note on this and tried turning off the encryption on both > the wap and the tibook. the problem is i can't connect the tibook when > encryption is off, only when it is

Re: ppc division by zero weirdness

2003-02-19 Thread Brad Boyer
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 07:25:13PM +0100, Marc Menem wrote: > It seems to me that the ppc doesn't trigger an > error when a division by zero while x86 does. Can > anyone comment on this - what is going on when I > divide by zero on my ppc ? If you do an integer divide on PPC and try to divide b

Re: KDE progress on Alpha & PowerPC

2003-02-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2003-02-19 at 18:49, John Goerzen wrote: > Strangely, this compiled fine for me on powerpc. PIC issues usually only manifest at runtime on powerpc, when the dynamic linker tries to resolve the symbols. > Has the X bug been reported somewhere already? It's not a bug per se, upstream used

Re: iBook and heat production

2003-02-19 Thread gimli
http://bulmalug.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=1511 this site has some usefull info ;) Miguel > Hi! > > I have an iBook2.2 with debian woody, running a 2.4.20benh Kernel. Well, > the iBook is known for its spare use of energy. Certainly true. But of > course the hardware depends on features of the OS t

iBook and heat production

2003-02-19 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! I have an iBook2.2 with debian woody, running a 2.4.20benh Kernel. Well, the iBook is known for its spare use of energy. Certainly true. But of course the hardware depends on features of the OS to support minimal energy usage. While Linux is definitely not bad I got the impression that MacO

i have powermac 4400 (Old world) while booting becoming an error during loading of root.bin need help

2003-02-19 Thread sleon
Here is irc-chat log , that explaines my problem :) My mac is http://www.apple-history.com/frames/?&page=gallery&model=4400 i got images from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian2.2r7/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44 (boot-floppy-hfs.img and root.bin) --> You are now talking on

Re: booting from hard disk of rs6000 43p 150

2003-02-19 Thread Peter Bergner
John F Davis wrote Try 1: setenv boot-file /zImage.chrp-rs6k setenv boot-device /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] boot hd OpenFirmware cannot read Linux filesystems, so this will _never_ work. Your best bet is to install the Yaboot bootloader into a PReP Boot partition (typ

Re: airport on tibook: surfing vs. ssh/scp

2003-02-19 Thread Serge Rey
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:24:00PM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:30:19AM -0800, Serge Rey wrote: > > the issue is more subtle than i realized last night. in galeon directly > > entering www.google.com in the url bar results in a long pause and then > > nothing. but, if

booting from hard disk of rs6000 43p 150

2003-02-19 Thread John F Davis
Hello I'm trying to get my rs6k to boot from the hard disk again Here is my setup: Debian Unstable with custom built tools and kernel from MVista rsync. I have a tftpboot kernel which works with boot net. I want to use this kernel to boot from the disk. I have copied it to my root dire

Re: playing region 2 dvd's on ibook?

2003-02-19 Thread Nirmal Govind
thanks for the suggestions folks.. will try it out once the DVDs arrive.. wanted to make sure I didn't buy DVDs that won't play.. :-) nirmal

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2003-02-19 Thread
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ppc division by zero weirdness

2003-02-19 Thread Marc Menem
Hi, I noticed several times while compiling on a PC a program perfectly running on my ibook that it would segfault because of a division by zero. It seems to me that the ppc doesn't trigger an error when a division by zero while x86 does. Can anyone comment on this - what is going on when I

Re: airport on tibook: surfing vs. ssh/scp

2003-02-19 Thread christophe barbe
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:30:19AM -0800, Serge Rey wrote: > the issue is more subtle than i realized last night. in galeon directly > entering www.google.com in the url bar results in a long pause and then > nothing. but, if i enter some phrases to search in the url bar then the > google search re

Re: KDE progress on Alpha & PowerPC

2003-02-19 Thread John Goerzen
Strangely, this compiled fine for me on powerpc. Has the X bug been reported somewhere already? On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 05:57:27PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mit, 2003-02-19 at 16:54, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > On Alpha, I've been seeing some weird relocation errors [2][3]. I haven't > >

Re: airport on tibook: surfing vs. ssh/scp

2003-02-19 Thread Serge Rey
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:41:31AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 04:41, Serge Rey wrote: > > i've been trying to get the airport card on my g4 tibook to work with a > > linksys wap11. this tibook dual boots with OS X and the card works fine > > with that wap under OS

Re: KDE progress on Alpha & PowerPC

2003-02-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2003-02-19 at 16:54, John Goerzen wrote: > > On Alpha, I've been seeing some weird relocation errors [2][3]. I haven't > tried those packages on powerpc yet (about to). [...] > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=181624 Falk is correct; this will probably fail similarl

KDE progress on Alpha & PowerPC

2003-02-19 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, A nasty bug[1] in the qt headers has been keeping KDE 3 out of all arches other than i386. This is bad, because the Arch: all parts of KDE 3 are already there, so KDE apps were even more broken than on i386. The Qt libs have been fixed (mostly; see the discussion at the end of [1]), so I hav

printing problem

2003-02-19 Thread Partha Pratim Ghosh
Hello, I am having Debian Woody Release installed on an iMac. I have ipx installed and running and so is ncpfs. I have a .nwclient file with permission 600 written with my "SERVER/USERNAME password" information. "slist" shows me a list of all the printers that I should be able to access

Re: Altivec support in gcc

2003-02-19 Thread Guillaume Morin
Dans un message du 18 fév à 22:33, Daniel Jacobowitz écrivait : > That's not what the phrase from the info docs (GCC's info docs, not > glibc's) is trying to say; it's trying to say it doesn't change to > (say) the EABI ABI instead of the SysV one. Ok, sorry for the confusion. > That said, I -thi

Re: airport on tibook: surfing vs. ssh/scp

2003-02-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 04:41, Serge Rey wrote: > i've been trying to get the airport card on my g4 tibook to work with a > linksys wap11. this tibook dual boots with OS X and the card works fine > with that wap under OS X. > > on debian (sid) the connection is made between the card and wap and i'm

Re: Permedia3 console & 2.4.x kernel

2003-02-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:39:01PM -0400, Michael Hackett wrote: > On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 08:52:14 +0100 > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just a quick question. You did rebuild and reconfigure the kernel > > yourself, right, and you did enable the pm3 framebuffer. I think it is > > not

Re: Debian comes up with clock 14 hours off

2003-02-19 Thread furball
hej Michael, > > The story so far; in Debian on my iBook, the clock is 14 hours ahead > > (it's set correctly in Mac OS X). The problem is consistent and > > reproducible. [...] > > Someone asked what time zone I'm in; I'm in Central, GMT-6 hours. > And what does 'date +"%Z %z"' display? Does