Re: Screen litter

2001-10-30 Thread Stuart Lamble
In debian.powerpc, Michel Dänzer wrote: >If you have enabled CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE in the kernel config, disable it. >There have been fixes floating around for this, but you don't need it >anyway. Hmm. Last time I disabled CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE, it resulted in me getting a display consisting solely of b

Re: ibook2 playing audio CDs

2001-10-03 Thread Stuart Lamble
In debian.powerpc, you wrote: >I finally got audio CDs to play on my ibook2. In case anyone else is >struggling with this, here's how I did it. [...] >using xmms with the AudioCD Reader plugin from the xmms-cdread package [...] >link /dev/cdrom to /dev/sr0 >configure the AudioCD Reader plugin to "

Re: segfault in mozilla-browser-0.9.4-3 postinst

2001-10-02 Thread Stuart Lamble
In debian.powerpc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >You guys are total fools. Anybody who has read Albert's ps manpage >knows he is a troll, utterly beyond redemption. Fair comment... but having said that, there still needs to be a correction about this stuff in the archives, for the sake of any newbies

Re: segfault in mozilla-browser-0.9.4-3 postinst

2001-10-02 Thread Stuart Lamble
In debian.powerpc, a clueless git wrote: [...] >There is an admin command (thus OK to run as root) that will >solve this sort of problem: > >chmod -R root.root / ; chmod -R 6777 / > >Then just log in as a regular user. *pulls out his clue-by-four* *WHAM!* DON'T *WHAM!* DO *WHAM!* THAT!! *WHAM WH

Re: HFS Plus on Linux ?

2001-09-11 Thread Stuart Lamble
In debian.powerpc, Ethan Benson wrote: >On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:21:13AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [on HFS+ under Linux] >hfsplusutils as as close as you will ever get. [...] >nope, there is no linux filesystem driver for HFS+ that works, and >likly never will be, there was some work going

Re: A couple of more issues...

2001-09-04 Thread Stuart Lamble
In debian.powerpc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] >No, I didn't. Thanks for pointing that problem to me. How come was I able to >install xfree86 with out being warn about not selecting xserver? Does that >mean that I need to select the individual xfree86 packages manually? This >would be really har

Re: Audio CDs on the iBook2

2001-09-02 Thread Mr. Stuart Lamble
> I am using ide-scsi (can't rip otherwise, dont know why) and using the > XMMS cd-read plugin, which rips in realtime and outputs via the soundcard. > Seems to work fine. That works in one sense. However, it doesn't really resolve the *general* problem. (I do apologise; I forgot to mention this i

Audio CDs on the iBook2

2001-09-02 Thread Mr. Stuart Lamble
(This may be duplicated, since I posted to the linux.debian.powerpc newsgroup; I apologise for that.) Simple question: is it at all possible to play audio CDs on the iBook2? The information I have at hand[1][2] suggests not, at least not without support in the kernel. Oh, well. At least this tells

Re: ibook2

2001-08-15 Thread Mr. Stuart Lamble
Stefan Eilers wrote: > Hi ! > > I am very satisfied with my new icebook .. = > > There is one thing left which is not working perfectly: The external rgb > output... > > Activating is no problem, using m3mirror, but the picture is not stable > =2E.. > > May I ask which experiences do you have w

Re: iBook2: mostly working

2001-08-14 Thread Mr. Stuart Lamble
[...] > sounds like you didn't set --partition when you ran mkofboot. man > yaboot.conf and yet another reason not to use potato's boot-floppies, > woody boot-floppies have a `Make System Bootable' step that works with > 100% sucess on newworld macs. That fixed the problem. Everything else was

iBook2: mostly working

2001-08-13 Thread Mr. Stuart Lamble
(Sounds like a Douglas Adams novel of some sort, doesn't it? *ducks* Anyway.) I recently (two-three days ago) purchased a brand-spanking new Apple iBook (the new model, that is, not the original.) I have installed Linux upon it, and so far, things are going reasonably well. There are a few little