Re: Gnome vs. KDE with ALSA

2005-06-19 Thread Mike S
jason kahn wrote: hi mike i use gnome on debian sarge witha g4 titanium powerbook (1ghz processor) and just installed alsa: alsa base and alsa mixer. i can now use alsa with pd (a sound application) but i cannot seem to use alsa with anything else (cd players, etc). furthermore, with an initia

Re: Gnome vs. KDE with ALSA

2005-06-19 Thread Mike S
Mike S wrote: Mike S wrote: This is an opinion question, I am wondering who on this list uses Gnome and who uses KDE, I like the simplistic look of gnome, which is why I switched to gnome, but however one thing that is really important to me is sound. Googling it, I have found very little

Re: Gnome vs. KDE with ALSA

2005-06-19 Thread Mike S
Mike S wrote: This is an opinion question, I am wondering who on this list uses Gnome and who uses KDE, I like the simplistic look of gnome, which is why I switched to gnome, but however one thing that is really important to me is sound. Googling it, I have found very little literature on th

Re: Gnome vs. KDE with ALSA

2005-06-19 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi Mike, On 6/19/05, Mike S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please correct me if I am wrong, but in my searching I have concluded > that sound will not work in anything in gnome, unless you have the > proper device set in Desktop > Preferences > Multimedia Systems > Selector, which I gather sets the

Re: Gnome vs. KDE with ALSA

2005-06-19 Thread Mike S
jason kahn wrote: hi mike i use gnome on debian sarge witha g4 titanium powerbook (1ghz processor) and just installed alsa: alsa base and alsa mixer. i can now use alsa with pd (a sound application) but i cannot seem to use alsa with anything else (cd players, etc). furthermore, with an initia

Re: Gnome vs. KDE with ALSA

2005-06-19 Thread jason kahn
hi mike i use gnome on debian sarge witha g4 titanium powerbook (1ghz processor) and just installed alsa: alsa base and alsa mixer. i can now use alsa with pd (a sound application) but i cannot seem to use alsa with anything else (cd players, etc). furthermore, with an initial install of sarge (

Gnome vs. KDE with ALSA

2005-06-19 Thread Mike S
This is an opinion question, I am wondering who on this list uses Gnome and who uses KDE, I like the simplistic look of gnome, which is why I switched to gnome, but however one thing that is really important to me is sound. Googling it, I have found very little literature on that subject, and

Re: Suspect apt-get

2005-06-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 09:59:14PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 09:29:47PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > there happens something stupid with apt-get here: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>tty8 ~ $ apt-get source xffm4 > > Reading Package Lists... Done

Re: Suspect apt-get

2005-06-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 09:29:47PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Hi list, > > there happens something stupid with apt-get here: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>tty8 ~ $ apt-get source xffm4 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Unable to find a source package for xffm

Suspect apt-get

2005-06-19 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi list, there happens something stupid with apt-get here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>tty8 ~ $ apt-get source xffm4 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Unable to find a source package for xffm ^

Re: Porting ppc Linux to Xbox 360?

2005-06-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:19:34AM -0400, Brady Jarvis wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > I'm not boycotting Microsoft. I never did. Boycotts, if my memory > > serves me well, were something that the German Nazis were practising > > when they

Re: Porting ppc Linux to Xbox 360?

2005-06-19 Thread Lee Braiden
On Sunday 19 Jun 2005 14:09, Leandro GuimarĂ£es Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > > Apple clone manufacturers > > I thought they were all long dead... URLs? Never mind; I figured some of these were still going, since they supported PPC before, and new ATX-based PPC boards would presumably just ma

Re: Porting ppc Linux to Xbox 360?

2005-06-19 Thread Brady Jarvis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > I'm not boycotting Microsoft. I never did. Boycotts, if my memory > serves me well, were something that the German Nazis were practising > when they were trying to get Jews out of business, before they killed > them (" "Deuts

Re: Porting ppc Linux to Xbox 360?

2005-06-19 Thread Leandro GuimarĂ£es Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Sun, 19 Jun 2005 00:54:57 +0100, Lee Braiden escreveu: > sticking with PPC, there are custom PPC boards I never found one I'd buy to use as a PC. They are usually outrageously expensive unless bought in quantitities, and (or) severily limited in performance and functionality. > Appl

2.6.11-2-powerpc

2005-06-19 Thread Cedric Pradalier
Hi all, I've just given a try to 2.6.11 in testing on my ibook 800. 2.2 (rev2) Everything works fine so far (sleep, sound). I used to have problem with firewall and pppoe but this seems to have been solved. I just want to know if there is some rationale against activating detection of read-only

Re: Porting ppc Linux to Xbox 360?

2005-06-19 Thread david
2c Frankly I hope microsoft burn in hell, but thats my personal view ;) My other personal view is that I will never buy their products. But if someone else cracks their protection and everyone ends up using their boxens as Linux media centres, then hooray for the good guys... I just hope Son

Re: Porting ppc Linux to Xbox 360?

2005-06-19 Thread Pascal Chenevas-Paule
Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hi all Powerpc on Mac is gone. I'm looking for another ppc computer for the day when the Titanium IV that I have currently will be gone down the river. I learned that Xbox 360, which will be available "this holiday season in Europe, Japan, and North America"

Re: Porting ppc Linux to Xbox 360?

2005-06-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 11:37:31AM +0100, David Pye wrote: > On Sunday 19 June 2005 11:24, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > I'm not boycotting Microsoft. I never did. Boycotts, if my memory > > serves me well, were something that the German Nazis were practising > > when they were trying to get Jews

Re: Porting ppc Linux to Xbox 360?

2005-06-19 Thread David Pye
On Sunday 19 June 2005 11:24, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > I'm not boycotting Microsoft. I never did. Boycotts, if my memory > serves me well, were something that the German Nazis were practising > when they were trying to get Jews out of business, before they killed > them (" "Deutsche, kauft nicht

Re: Porting ppc Linux to Xbox 360?

2005-06-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 12:23:42AM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Sunday 19 Jun 2005 00:02, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Are there chances that those maintaining today's ppc branch of the > > Linux kernel, and the rest of the ppc linux system, might want to turn > > Xbox 360 to a full fledged PPC L

Re: White Selection Bars in Thunderbird & Firefox

2005-06-19 Thread Alfredo Pironti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Anyone else experiencing this? Is it a known problem? If not, any > thoughts or suggestions? Don't know if it is a known issue, but a friend of mine has the same problem on an PC notebook (he's got an old ati card, and he experiences a lot of graphic