Re: X window on a beige g3/266

2004-01-30 Thread Stewart Smith
do you have all the X packages installed. I'm running Debian Unstable, and selected the appropriate tasks (run tasksel) can post my XF86Config-4 if needed - but (from memory) it was pretty simple to get going). On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 07:55, Adrian Crisan wrote: > hello all, > i've been strugling

Re: sound on oldworld pmac...

2004-01-30 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 12:23:07AM -0300, Rolando Abarca wrote: > What's the way to get sound output on an oldworld (7200) powermac? > thanks, Use the "dmasound_pmac" kernel module. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

sound on oldworld pmac...

2004-01-30 Thread Rolando Abarca
What's the way to get sound output on an oldworld (7200) powermac? thanks, funkaster = (person *)malloc(sizeof(person)*curr_age+2);

can't compile 2.4.24-benh

2004-01-30 Thread mammique
Hi all, i go directly into the problem : # mkdir linux-2.4.24-benh # rsync -avz rsync.penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh linux-2.4.24-benh # cd linux-2.4.24-benh # cp /boot/config-2.4.22-powerpc .config note : /boot/config-2.4.22-powerpc is new default sarge installer kernel's config, i tried with o

PReP install

2004-01-30 Thread Drew Roedersheimer
I'm trying to install 3.0r2 on a Motorola MVME2600. I have had all sorts of problems with the default kernel for PReP machines, and replaced the kernels on the install CD with versions I have cross compiled on my own. As such, I've had to change or overwrite a number of files including linux.bi

Re: cups problem

2004-01-30 Thread Jean Bourgois
I have the same problem with an installation on a PIII pc using cups. My printers work from within my linux, but the share for windows computers recognized by my samba don´t work. The printers can be seen in the network neighbourhood but cannot be found when sending a test page. -- Jean Bour

Re: Unable to install/boot debian from G3(beige) desktop

2004-01-30 Thread Mich Lanners
On 30 Jan, this message from J. MacPhail echoed through cyberspace: > Like many G3 users, I am somewhat resentfully dual booting (with > BootX). Sensible or now, the reason I did not try harder with Quik is > the apparent lack of a way to apply OF patches from within Linux. The > indicated progr

X window on a beige g3/266

2004-01-30 Thread Adrian Crisan
hello all, i've been strugling lately to bring back to life my beige g3 under debian after failed to install debian with a "new" 18 gig scsi hard. now i went back to my old hardware config (2 gig scsi + 4 gig ide) and re-run the installation on my beige g3 266. everything fine except that x w

Re: conditionally disabling trackpad?

2004-01-30 Thread Guido Guenther
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:33:19PM +0100, Lucas Moulin wrote: > I saw a kernel patch that does this on kerneltrap.org, but never > bothered to apply it : > http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/645 > > I don't know if this has been ported to later 2.4.X and 2.6.x kernels > though, but I'll sure be using

Re: conditionally disabling trackpad?

2004-01-30 Thread Lucas Moulin
Le Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:00:56PM +0100, Guido Guenther a écrit : >On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 06:01:27PM +0100, stefan kersten wrote: >> is it possible to disable the trackpad in a tibook, e.g. when plugging >> in my usb trackball? it's really annoying to accidently move the >> pointer all the time .

Re: conditionally disabling trackpad?

2004-01-30 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 06:01:27PM +0100, stefan kersten wrote: > is it possible to disable the trackpad in a tibook, e.g. when plugging > in my usb trackball? it's really annoying to accidently move the > pointer all the time ... Something that disables the touchpad "while typing" on the keyboard

Re: XFree86 touchpad driver on iBook

2004-01-30 Thread Colin Leroy
> > Remove the two "+ 1" in function "annihilate_move()" ("why do I need to > > add 1 !?". I have to add them for my pointer to stay still... > > Done. Now it works fine. Do you have an idea what it depends on whether > "+ 1" is needed or not? Er, no idea. I was astonished to see I had to do it on

Re: XFree86 touchpad driver on iBook

2004-01-30 Thread Michael Rex
Quoth Colin Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well on my gentoo it's /dev/uinput ;-) There's a parameter to mouseemu to > specify it. Yes, I've seen this. But I'm lazy so I just changed the sources ;-) >> >Scrollwheel emulation works, but while scrolling the cursor constantly >> >moves from its curre

Re: which kernel-image to use?

2004-01-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 08:47, J. MacPhail wrote: > > Second, my first try at installing ALSA ran into a problem, helpfully > pointed out by insmod, that I was using a gcc of inappropriate vintage > compared to the kernel image. Running "dpkg-deb --info" does not tell > what gcc version was used to

Re: XFree86 touchpad driver on iBook

2004-01-30 Thread Colin Leroy
On 29 Jan 2004 at 19h01, IoGuiX ''JGuillaume de Rorthais" wrote: Hi, > >First of all I had no uinput support in the kernel, so I had to > >recompile it. The documentation to that option says that the device > >file is /dev/input/uinput, not /dev/uinput like mouseemu expects. As > >none of those

Re : G5 Xserver or Sun Blade 1500

2004-01-30 Thread xavier grave
Hi, I have a BiG5 (powermac, not the Xserver version) and it runs under debian GNU/Linux... For the installation I used knoppix + debootstrap + benh kernel Hope it will help... xavier Le 29.01.2004 20:50:33, Paddy de Burca a écrit : Hi, I have a G5 and have not as yet been able to get it

Re: Unable to install/boot debian from G3(beige) desktop

2004-01-30 Thread J. MacPhail
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 05:39:58PM -0800, JT wrote: > Hello compatriots/teachers, > > I'm trying to install debian on a standard Apple PowerMac G3 desktop(233MHz, > internal 4G ATA drive) and I've successfully gotten a network install to the > point where it's time to make the hard drive bootable.

which kernel-image to use?

2004-01-30 Thread J. MacPhail
Compared with the situation a year or two ago, installing ALSA is becoming quite easy, partly thanks to a nice explanation in /usr/share/doc/alsa-source/README.Debian.gz of how to build to match a kernel-image. Both alsa-source and kernel-patch-*-powerpc are in quite good shape! But I had some tr