Re: can't boot debian etch beta 2 install cd or stable cd on imac g3 revA 233mhz

2006-07-10 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Matthew Yee-King wrote: > Hello list folk > > I am trying to bring an ancient imac g3 233 back into service but am > having trouble booting the kernel from yaboot. I can boot the install CD > and am presented with the yaboot prompt but when i type install or > install video=ofon

can't boot debian etch beta 2 install cd or stable cd on imac g3 revA 233mhz

2006-07-10 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello list folk I am trying to bring an ancient imac g3 233 back into service but am having trouble booting the kernel from yaboot. I can boot the install CD and am presented with the yaboot prompt but when i type install or install video=ofonly I get something like 'can't boot kernel' (stable) or

pcmcia compact flash card reader

2003-05-31 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello there I'm trying to use a pcmcia compact flash card reader in my tibook 400. I just built a benh 2.4.20-ben10 kernel with the ide-cs module. Unfortunately i get a kernel oops when i stick the card in. the pcmcia card is some cheap generic one i got from maplins. The CF card is an integr

Re: openoffice debs - how to downgrade from 1.0.3-1.0.2

2003-05-19 Thread Matthew Yee-King
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:16:00AM +0100, Matthew Yee-King wrote: > Hello there > > I'm using the debs for openoffice from here: > > http://ftp.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/mirror/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/ > > and i recently ran apt-get upgrade, and got oo 1.0.3. Pr

openoffice debs - how to downgrade from 1.0.3-1.0.2

2003-05-19 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello there I'm using the debs for openoffice from here: http://ftp.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/mirror/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/ and i recently ran apt-get upgrade, and got oo 1.0.3. Problem is now openoffice won't open some nasty M$ office files that it opened fine in OO 1.0.2 . (I'm assu

firewire dv video capture on tibook 400

2003-05-04 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello list folks I am trying to get my jvc grdvl167eg dv camera and tibook 400 talking through the firewire port. My kernel is a 2.4.20-ben8 . I have the ieee1394 modules all loaded cmp 2676 0 (unused) raw1394 8672 0 video1394 14836 0 (u

make-kpkg + patches

2003-03-17 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello I'm trying to compile a benh kernel with the low latency patch from here: http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/schedlat.html I applied the patch, then added CONFIG_LOLAT=y CONFIG_LOLAT_SYSCTL=y to my .config then ran fakeroot make-kpkg kernel_image But this command seems to whack the

Re: divx player

2003-03-16 Thread Matthew Yee-King
thanks for the replies. mplayer does the job. cheers matthew On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:21:53PM +, Matthew Yee-King wrote: > Hello there > > I'm looking for a divx player for powerpc debian linux. > > should i try mplayer? I get the impression that divx decoders are

divx player

2003-03-16 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello there I'm looking for a divx player for powerpc debian linux. should i try mplayer? I get the impression that divx decoders are only available in binary i386 form - is this correct? cheers matthew

Re: emagic emi 6|2m USB audio/midi interface

2003-03-10 Thread matthew yee-king
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:53:47 +0100 Raphaël Haberer-Proust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am thinking about to buy the "emagic emi 6|2m" in order to do some > amateur music production. As I really would like to principally use > linux for that, I would like to know if anybody has experiences with

Re: Management of backlight

2003-03-08 Thread Matthew Yee-King
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 02:14:48PM -0500, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > Hi, > > I have an 17 inch LCD flatpanel and would very much like to control > brightness and turning off the backlighting after a time period on my > desktop machine similar to what pbbuttonsd does for PowerBooks. > > I tried

Re: Management of backlight

2003-03-08 Thread Matthew Yee-King
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 02:10:52PM +0100, David MENTRE wrote: > Hello, > > On an iBook under MacOS X, I've noticed that MacOS X reduces backlight > when the user is inactive and restores backlight as soon as a user press > a key. Is it possible to have similar behavior under Debian 3.0 ? try pbb

trackpad too slippy

2003-03-08 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello I find the trackpad on my tibook to be more difficult to control than it was under macos. Is there a way to emulate the macos trackpad behaviour more closely? I'm using windowmaker. I've tried changing the mouse settings, but it always seems a bit hard to control. cheers matthew

Re: MIDI adapter for TiBook

2003-02-11 Thread matthew yee-king
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:25:42 +0100 Raph HP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > could anybody using MIDI on an apple notebook tell me, what is the > best way to connect MIDI for use under Debian PPC? I have a TiBook III > and I do not know much about MIDI. I would like to be able to connect > a keyboard/

Re: ALSA Strangeness

2003-02-02 Thread Matthew Yee-King
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 17:07:46 -0800 Mark Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Recently, I set up ALSA on my iBook using the debian packages and > make-kpkg. I managed to get everything set up in accordance with Mij's page > this time (ie, make-kpkg modules worked), which is

Re: Woody, alsa-0.9.0rc1 and snd-powermac Problem

2003-02-01 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello > After that I did update-modules with /etc/modutils/alsa written like > this (without and with _options ... _ I found at www.hadess.net by > googling resulting in the same): > > # ALSA native device support > alias char-major-116 snd > alias snd-card-0 snd-powermac > > # OSS/Free Setup >

Re: ALSA on TiBook

2003-01-31 Thread Matthew Yee-King
> I've heard reports that ALSA does work with the Snapper sound device in > TiBooks, but I've not been able to find any documentation on how to do it. I reckon the easiest way to install alsa is to grab all the tarballs from http://www.alsa-project.org/ (this is from memory...) build the drive

Re: How to make the tv output work ?

2003-01-27 Thread matthew yee-king
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:49:17 + matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:47:42 -0500 > > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:23:25PM +0100, Willy Morin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I would like to know how to use the TV output on a > >

Re: How to make the tv output work ?

2003-01-27 Thread matthew yee-king
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:47:42 -0500 > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:23:25PM +0100, Willy Morin wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to know how to use the TV output on a > > powerbook g4 400. Have you got any idea ? In fact I'd like > > to watch dvd on a tv :) > > > > Thank you by advance and a have a nic

Re: OpenGL support?

2003-01-19 Thread Matthew Yee-King
I can probably help you here since i spent last night reading about and fiddling with xfree/ driver acceleration! There are accelerated drivers available for XFree. Have a look around this page: http://dri.sourceforge.net/ This glossary helped too: http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/glossary.html

Re: how can i improve open gl performance on a tibook 400?

2003-01-18 Thread Matthew Yee-King
> This may be too low, 1152x768 @ 60 Hz is 52 kHz here. absolutely right! this works: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Tibook panel" HorizSync 30-100 VertRefresh 55-160 Option "DPMS" Modeline"1152x768" 78.741 1152 1173 1269 14

Re: how can i improve open gl performance on a tibook 400?

2003-01-18 Thread Matthew Yee-King
cheers everyone. glxgears now at 330+ fps . bring it on! i can finally regain some pride in bzflag :) All i had to do in the end was compile r128 DRM as a kernel module and get a decent XF86Config-4 file. I still have a problem though - my display is now stuck at 1024x768. How can i make it d

Re: how can i improve open gl performance on a tibook 400?

2003-01-18 Thread Matthew Yee-King
cheers for the tips. I reconfigured xfree and chose the fbdev xserver driver. I still only got 150 ish fps from glxgears. glxinfo says ...snip... direct rendering: No ...snip... I have read that i need this to be enabled for acceleration to take place. How can i enable it? I tried choosing the

Re: Debian on PowerBook G4 Titanium 15-inch 1 GHz w/SuperDrive

2003-01-18 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Check this link: http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/ hope it helps cheers matthew

how can i improve open gl performance on a tibook 400?

2003-01-18 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello I am trying to play a game that uses opengl or mesa. http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/ The graphics performance on my machine (tibook 400) is too slow to play it. I'm a bit confused by what exactly libmesa, dri trunk, framebuffer etc are. Can anyone suggest how i can impro

Re: /dev/dvd

2003-01-03 Thread Matthew Yee-King
I notice that some media players seem to have altivec acceleration, e.g. mpalyer, videolan. Is it correct to say you need gcc 3 to take advantage of altivec acceleration under linux? cheers matthew On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 08:20:37 -0500 Shawn Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > debian-powerpc@li

Re: howto for compiling of deb packages

2003-01-02 Thread Matthew Yee-King
also have a read of this doc: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html specifically: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-sourcehandling.en.html - matthew On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 18:49:33 -0600 Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 10:52:32AM

WAS benh kernel/ low latency patches NOW ppc audio software

2002-11-25 Thread matthew yee-king
> I can't answer your question about kernel patches, but I'm very > curious about the state of DAW software for Linux, esp. PPC. I hope > you don't mind me asking, but if you can point me to any good software > or tips, I would really appreciate it. Audio work is about the only > thing I'm still d

Re: tibook/ cd audio playback

2002-11-24 Thread Matthew Yee-King
i can play cds fine now i have xmms-cdread installed. strange that it plays the cd but no sound comes out - what sound drivers are you using? i've got alsa 0.9rc5 - matthew > > > I can't play audio cd's in my tibook. how can i fix this? > > > > The classic audio cable which links cd player t

benh kernel/ low latency patches

2002-11-24 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello list folks I am trying to set up my laptop (powerbook g4 400) for low latency audio work. I am using a benh 2.4.20rc3 kernel. Is it possible to apply any low latency patches to this kernel? e.g. these: http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/ cheers matthew

tibook/ cd audio playback

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello I can't play audio cd's in my tibook. how can i fix this? i've tried xmms - play file - /dev/cdrom and /dev/hdc . no luck. i've got: powerbook g4 400 debian testing 2.4.18newpmac (building a benh right now!) charlie mingus cd that i just bought and can't listen to on my normal cd player

Re: OpenOffice 1.01c crashes when opening files

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew Yee-King
if you are using gnome, there is a procedure that kills apps that take too long to start up. so if oo takes too long it may get killed. you can fix this by editing the soffice script ~/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/soffice . all you have to do is put this line at the top of the script: unset SESSION_MAN

Re: flash plugin for woody ppc

2002-11-22 Thread matthew yee-king
Not yet: http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/ cheers matthew On 22 Nov 2002 11:59:55 +0100 Arnaud Bled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > is there a flash plugin for woody ppc ? > > > thanx you very much > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with

Re: Fresh install w/o xfree

2002-11-21 Thread matthew yee-king
hello there is xf86config or you can re-run the debconf system using: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 also garnome is 2.1 ... i found it is pretty cool. (well i prefer windowmaker but if you're into gnome its great!) cheers matthew On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 22:28:49 -0800 Ashifi <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: smb kernel support

2002-11-20 Thread Matthew Yee-King
ic or > too many mounted file systems. > > > Curtis > > > Matthew Yee-King wrote: > > are you talking about windows partitions or windows network shares? > > > > sounds like you mean windows network shares (samba). if so, you need to > > specify the smb

Re: Additional Debian on iBook issues

2002-11-20 Thread Matthew Yee-King
i just got it from here: http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/mirrors/ppclinks.html untarred it and ran the install script you get, as root. then i installed it for each user by running /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/setup as that user. no problem! regards matthew On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:25:

Re: smb kernel support

2002-11-20 Thread Matthew Yee-King
are you talking about windows partitions or windows network shares? sounds like you mean windows network shares (samba). if so, you need to specify the smbfs mount type, not smb, e.g. mount -t smbfs -o username=foo //a_pc/a_share /localmountpoint not /sure/ which packages you'll need. apt-get

Re: alsa drivers

2002-11-18 Thread matthew yee-king
hello Not sure about the problem, but if you want to use alsa, you should cetainly use the 0.9 version as 0.5 is now deprecated. Not sure if they are available from apt-get - i built them from source. but there are 0.9rc5 debs here: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/alsa-utils/ best t

Re: pbbuttonsd - daemon won't start

2002-11-17 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello Jan (i was screwing around with hdparm and lost your reply so i had to find it on the archive. -X68 = bad. :( ) > Do you have an external keyboard connected? nope. just using the built in adb one. > What does /usr/bin/setupenv.sh say? - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/bin/setupenv.

pbbuttonsd - daemon won't start

2002-11-17 Thread Matthew Yee-King
hello i just dumped my yellow dog 2.3 install in favour of a debian testing one :) Its mostly going very well at the moment, but i've just been trying to get pbbuttonsd running. Running the /etc/init.d script fails silently, running it from the command line as root gives this: ERROR: Can't fi

Re: mousewheel emacs

2002-08-23 Thread matthew yee-king
ntrol where it scrolls increasingly (exponentially possibly?) faster if i scroll the wheel faster - matthew On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:45:15 +0100 matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > not sure what you mean - add this line to custom.el? that doesn't work > - do i nee

Re: mousewheel emacs

2002-08-21 Thread matthew yee-king
not sure what you mean - add this line to custom.el? that doesn't work - do i need to put mousewheel.el somewhere? (using emacs20) > (mwheel-install) > > in .xemacs/custom.el works here. >

mousewheel emacs

2002-08-21 Thread matthew yee-king
Hello Not /really/ a ppc specific question, but this my only debian list right now and i guessed that somebody here must have had this problem I can't get mousewheel.el to work in emacs. ( http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs/199910/msg00519.html ) i've included it in my load path but i get:

Re: xinearma / revA tibook

2002-08-07 Thread matthew yee-king
Any estimates as to when the driver will support this? Is it being worked on somewhere? cheers matthew On Mon, 05 Aug 2002 11:16:28 -0700 Evan Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 17:26, matthew yee-king wrote: > >> i&#x

Re: key configuration and sound

2002-08-06 Thread matthew yee-king
> 2) Does somebody know how to configure the sound card of a powerbook > (pismo in my case) ? > > playing /usr/share/sounds/startup2.wav > > give > > sox: Can't open output file 'dev/dsp': No such device > try the alsa drivers: http://www.alsa-project.org/ i'm using them on my powerbook g4.

xinearma / revA tibook

2002-08-05 Thread matthew yee-king
hello! Sorry if this is an old one but... i'm interested in setting up a dual head, non mirrored XFree86 config on a rev A/ rage 128 tibook. firstly, has anyone got an XF86Config-4 that does this for my machine? if not can anyone point me the right way for this info? cheers matthew

Re: CD audio on iBook2 ?

2002-08-02 Thread Matthew Yee-King
hello the problem i believe is that the ibook cd plauer is not connected directly to the soundcard as in a pc. to play a cd, you need to stream the data off the cd and precess it into audio with a program like alsaplayer or xmms. i could not get alsaplayer to work at all on my tibook but that w

gcc3

2002-07-31 Thread matthew yee-king
Hello! I'm probably going to put debian on my laptop (i've recently been converted from redhat/ yellowdog loyalties). just wondering if anyone knows much about gcc3 - for example, i've heard it can generated binaries optimised for altivec. if this is the case, would it be possible to build th