potato + X on iMac Rev A

I am in process of putting Debian 2.2 onto a Rev A iMac and am becoming increasingly confused over its X configuration. Can anyone contribute frequencies for the built-in monitor on this machine? The claimed vertical refresh is a little higher than I am used to entering and scouring apple.com

Re: more mozilla 0.8 fun (java plugin)

That's interesting. I'm running testing and have moz 0.8 currently living in my home directory, installed from a the .tar.bz file at their ftp site. It's a bit flakier than previous milestones for intel, but basically runs OK without trying for applet support. Blackdown's JDK 1.3 (a "final rel

Re: Exhaustive memory test for Macs?

According to yesterday's Tidbits, the utility below will advise whether your installed memory will pass muster with new firmware updates from Apple (which have apparently refused to recognise some DIMMs): Probably this is just some packaged, G4-centric vend

Re: Problems with limited numbers of partitions

... i think your idea that your limited to 15 partitions is erroneous. I have been living under the same impression as the original poster. The following is from the pdisk manual entry: Creating more than fifteen partitions is not advised. There is currently a bug in the

Re: Problems with limited numbers of partitions

On Tuesday, May 22, 2001, at 11:27 PM, Ethan Benson wrote: i don't know for sure, but i know of people who have been running with more then 15 partitions. i don't have a spare IDE disk to test with. Just a quick follow up. I have been in touch with Eryk Vershen, author of pdisk, to seek h

Re: X: Display is Backwards!

On Friday, May 25, 2001, at 12:16 PM, Russell Hires wrote: ... "Wait, Wait!! I'm Backwards!!"... Try putting this in your XF86Config-4: Option "XaaNoScanlineCPUToScreenColorExpandFill" "on" if that doesn't work you can fall back to: Option "Noaccel" Regards

Re: Xfree86-4.0.3 - iMac revA

On Saturday, June 2, 2001, at 07:06 PM, Eric Deveaud wrote: On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: Eric Deveaud wrote: X starts correctly, BUT (yes there's a but) all the text is displayed in a `kind of mirror' mode, ie all letter are reversed. It's a driver bug which will be fixed in

Re: reading linux from MacOs

On Thursday, July 5, 2001, at 10:19 AM, Ethan Benson wrote: another solution everyone seems to have forgotten is MOL. if you run MacOS only im MOL then you can mount afp shares from localhost. I'm right now finalising partitioning of a replacement hard-drive for my early iMac. I haven't run MO

Re: [OT] Network file sharing

On Friday, July 13, 2001, at 05:24 PM, James Tyson wrote: I have NFS and SMB shares on my network for accessing things like my mp3 and DivX archives, (SMB for my neighbor, who uses windows) and I was wondering what I can use to share files on my Linux box to my iBook when I have the misfortu