Re: mozilla-firefox: crash on extension installation

2004-05-31 Thread Rob Latham
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 12:37:38PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: Anyone else suffering from this? yes, lots of people are. fixed upstream, so whenever the mozilla-friefox 0.9.0 is released and a debian package shows up, then we can go extension-crazy again. ==rob -- Rob Latham

Re: 802.11g on an ibook?

2004-05-28 Thread Rob Latham
I missed some important wlanctl-ng commands, causing me some frustration when things apparently didn't work : ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: 802.11g on an ibook?

2004-05-18 Thread Rob Latham
with the usb DWL-122 from D-Link. It's pretty unstable under os x, but it's rock solid under linux. ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: Linux vs Mac OS 10.3(Panther)

2004-05-13 Thread Rob Latham
turnaround, if you ask me : ) you can't run valgrind heh. yes you can. http://valgrind.kde.org/related.html reports Paul Mackerras has an experimental port of Valgrind 2.1.0 to PowerPC/Linux http://ozlabs.org/~paulus/valgrind-2.1.0-ppc.tar.bz2 It works for me. ==rob -- Rob Latham

X support on 2004 ibook (radeon 9200)

2004-05-12 Thread Rob Latham
this problem? Thanks ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: Old airport card and new iBook G4

2004-05-04 Thread Rob Latham
: I'm using 2.6.3-benh2 and the latest linux-wlan-ng (from source, not from debian packages). Follow the linux-wlan-ng README and everything should work. ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: ibook G4 questions

2004-05-04 Thread Rob Latham
lock. It just fakes the keypress events so that xmodmap can actually switch them. ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: Debian linux on Titanium 400MHz Powerbook: Screen too large?

2004-04-11 Thread Rob Latham
and the aforementioned 1152x768. That will get you DRI for the all-important fast GL screen savers. ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: 2.6.0-test9 kernel on xserv

2003-11-20 Thread Rob Latham
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 12:37:57AM -0800, Adam Done wrote: The root=/dev/hda9 is the actuall root partition now (i had switched the hds from hde being the first drive to hda to the first drive) shot in the dark. try root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 ==rob -- Rob Latham

Re: java with mozilla-firebird mozilla

2003-11-08 Thread Rob Latham
compiled with gcc3.2. But as far as I can tell, no such jre exists for the powerpc, though some people seem to have made unofficial .deb's for x86. No debs, but check out the 'contrib/linuxppc' directory on any OpenOffice.org office mirror. ==rob -- Rob Latham

Re: swap ctrl-caps lock problem

2003-09-01 Thread Rob Latham
.html for a couple of years now and it works well enough (have to hit caps lock if it gets into a ctrl-lock state ). I don't know if this patch still works with the 12 powerbooks, since i don't have one of those : ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: Ardis HFS+

2003-07-14 Thread Rob Latham
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 07:27:58PM -0500, Rob Latham wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:27:16AM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: If you use my devel tree (2.4.21-rc3 right now), it is included and works (rsync.penguinppc.org::benh-devel). I'm curious about your definition of 'works

Re: 2-4-21-rc3-benh0 - hfsplus

2003-07-14 Thread Rob Latham
. ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: how to access hfs partition?

2003-05-07 Thread Rob Latham
yours was one of the few hfsplus kernel projects for a while, do you had any relation to this new patch? ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: viewing linux partition on OS X?

2003-02-21 Thread Rob Latham
copy files from the linux partition? nope. one option might be to set up mac-on-linux and then nfs mount or scp files between os x and linux. ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: is gnome 2 closer to OS X than 1.4 ?

2003-02-14 Thread Rob Latham
is also keeping apple's X11 from starting. http://lists.linuxppc.org/mol-general/200210/msg00084.html As for the acceleration questions, the mac-on-linux lists are exceedingly helpful. ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

pbuilder and dpkg remapping table

2003-02-13 Thread Rob Latham
in archtable. at this point i gave up... is this a bug in dpkg, or i it operator error? thanks ==rob -- Rob LathamWoodridge, IL USA

Re: pbuilder and dpkg remapping table

2003-02-13 Thread Rob Latham
bandaid, i rebuilt dpkg, adding powerpc-none powerpc powerpc to the archtable file, but i'm rather surprised that i would be the only one to run into this problem... thanks ==rob -- Rob LathamWoodridge, IL USA

Re: pbuilder and dpkg remapping table

2003-02-13 Thread Rob Latham
confused and reports 'powerpc-none'. if i unset CC and rerun dpkg --print-architecture, then it reports 'powerpc'. thanks for the help. ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: pbuilder and dpkg remapping table

2003-02-13 Thread Rob Latham
gcc confused it. for the record, it wasn't hte chroot that was getting confused, but rather the -none confused the process of finding the Release file from the mirror. thanks ==rob -- Rob LathamChicago, IL USA

Re: How to make the tv output work ?

2003-02-03 Thread Rob Latham
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:49:17PM +, matthew yee-king wrote: So does this mean you have smooth dvd playback on a tibook 400 ? what software you using? mplayer and recent versions of xine all work fine for my g4 400. ==rob -- Rob Latham

Re: Automatic snooze on idle?

2002-10-13 Thread Rob Latham
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 11:14:18AM +0200, Claas Langbehn wrote: It should also act like a screen saver but it should snooze the whole machine instead of only screen saving. http://www.cymes.de/members/joker/projects/pbbuttons/pbbuttons.html ==rob -- Rob Latham

Re: fPIC used to build packages

2002-04-10 Thread Rob Latham
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 12:04:40AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: It's probably considered a bug on any architecture, our policy requires shared objects to be built with -fPIC. mpich does not provide shared libraries. all you get is libmpich.a ==rob -- Rob Latham

Re: Caps Key

2002-03-26 Thread Rob Latham
:( Does anyone have a caps key reliably functioning as a ctrl and if so how ? yup the patch is part one. it makes the caps-lock key remapable. you still have to use xmodmap to do the swapping. ==rob -- Rob LathamWoodridge, IL USA EAE8 DE90 85BB 526F 3181

Re: Making a bootable CD for newworlds?

2002-03-18 Thread Rob Latham
, with my choice of tools etc). http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html#macppcimage but instead of the mkhybrid command, use mkisofs -hfs -part Since at least the last two debian releases have *not* booted on newworlds, maybe you shouldn't use debian-cd as a reference : ==rob -- Rob Latham

Re: XFree86 screensaver on iBook2: Power down the LCD?

2002-03-16 Thread Rob Latham
on briefly every 10 minutes. ==rob -- Rob LathamWoodridge, IL USA EAE8 DE90 85BB 526F 3181 1FCF 51C4 B6CB 08CC 0897

Re: filesystem for shared disk

2001-11-26 Thread Rob Latham
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:27:54PM +0100, Fabian Jakobs wrote: Hi, I am planning to by a new HDD and would like to reserve one partition as shared disk between MacOS 9/X and Linux. Is there a filesestem that is read- and writable under both systems? msdos if you can call it a file

Re: iBook internal modem experiences?

2001-11-24 Thread Rob Latham
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 12:07:55AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: 3) I *still* can't get the modem to work using pon/pppconfig, even with a 2.4.14+benh(2001-11-21) kernel. I set the timeout to 5 seconds, and it dutifully does so, twice. ATZ expect (OK) alarm AT expect (OK) alarm

Re: iBook internal modem experiences?

2001-11-22 Thread Rob Latham
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 08:31:13PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: I've grepped the list archives of this list and cannot find anyone else with my specific problem. pppd and chat can talk to either of /dev/ttyS{0,1}, but no OK is returned after ATZ or AT is sent. did you try ATZ1 ? that works

Re: ext3 anyone?

2001-11-14 Thread Rob Latham
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:39:01PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: Laurent, The conversion went fine for me. I built my own yaboot 1.3.5 debian packages and after installing them used ybin to install the new yaboot on my bootstrap partition. does anyone know why yaboot 1.3.5 hasn't hit unstable

xine 0.5.2 and performance

2001-09-03 Thread Rob Latham
improvements after all. Michel: did you just use the stock compiler optimizations when you built your xine debs ? thanks ==rob -- Rob Latham: linux A-Team Bethlehem, PA USA EAE8 DE90 85BB 526F 3181 1FCF 51C4 B6CB 08CC 0897

Re: Mac-on-Linux

2001-07-20 Thread Rob Latham
such a version will hit debian. ==rob -- Rob Latham: linux A-Team Bethlehem, PA USA EAE8 DE90 85BB 526F 3181 1FCF 51C4 B6CB 08CC 0897