Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Building OSX GCC For Linux Target

2007-06-01 Thread Ralph Giles
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 04:00:03AM -0700, Joel Beaudoin wrote: > I did a couple of searches and haven't found anything on this. I have > Linux running on my MBP and the development environment there is > fine, but I would like the option of building for Linux using an OSX > hosted GCC toolch

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] firewire/usb2 audio

2007-02-13 Thread Ralph Giles
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:04:20PM +0100, yann wrote: > i am looking for a firewire/usb2 soundcard minimum 2in4out which runs > under linux. under 300eu. If you find one, let us know. If you find one that even tries to implement the usb2 hi-speed audio profile, let xiphmont at xiph.org know so

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] mactel-osd: OSD for the special keys on mactels similar to pbbuttons

2006-12-17 Thread Ralph Giles
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:32:42PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: > It is provided by the libsmbios-dev Debian package. I will further note that the package in ubuntu edgy is broken, providing no symlink from libsmbios.so.1 to libsmbios.so. I had to do this manually to build the daemon. -r -

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] 3D acceleration on MacBook Pro

2006-12-02 Thread Ralph Giles
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 04:11:06PM +0100, Florian Marchal wrote: > I downloaded the corresponding ATI driver and built the debian packages > according to some howto on the web. The built process itself seems to > run smoothly. I can successfully load the "fglrx" module into the > kernel. But as so

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] MacBook (black) and RAM limitation

2006-12-01 Thread Ralph Giles
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 08:45:36PM +0100, Noèl Köthe wrote: > "667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 2GB" > > I read it as 2gb max total ram. But I may be wrong. I'd read the specs that way too. However, sometimes the specs say that because of a hardware limitation, somet

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] boot problems with 2.6.18

2006-11-28 Thread Ralph Giles
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:37:26AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, this has nothing to do with i810. With fbdev, you have no video > overlay, no hardware GL accelleration, not even 2D accelleration, > right? Correct. Maybe I'm old school, but I didn't notice much of a problem as long as

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] boot problems with 2.6.18

2006-11-27 Thread Ralph Giles
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 07:46:32AM +0100, Tino Keitel wrote: > Not only for the proprietary video drivers. The i810 Xorg driver > (needed in minis and macbooks) needs na VESA BIOS, too. Or has that > changed recently? I've been using the fbdev driver. It's been painful since the ShadowFB stride

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] naive question: read linux partion from OSX

2006-11-27 Thread Ralph Giles
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 02:04:41PM -0800, Jay Lewis wrote: > I have rebooted to verify, and for the record, kernel 2.6.17.13 (and > later I assume) *is* able to write to journaled HFS+ filessytems. Odd, it still doesn't work for me now that I've got 2.6.18.3 working (but the built-in isight work

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] boot problems with 2.6.18

2006-11-27 Thread Ralph Giles
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:27:29PM +0100, gimli wrote: > I have added a missing patch to 2.6.18 for booting using elilo. > It was broken from 2.6.17 to 2.6.18. Thanks! That fixed the problem. I guess most people are using the legacy bios then? -r ---

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] boot problems with 2.6.18

2006-11-27 Thread Ralph Giles
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 01:38:06PM -0800, Jay Lewis wrote: > I am inherently suspect of the legacy boot stuff. I suppose those who > use it have their reasons, but I'm all for moving ahead and leaving the > old bios behind! Well, me too, but it's occasionally useful for the proprietary video dr

[Mactel-linux-users] boot problems with 2.6.18

2006-11-27 Thread Ralph Giles
Speaking of using 2.6.17.6, I've not had any luck updating to 2.6.18. All of the builds I've tried, with 18, 18.1, 18.3 plus the then-current mactel-linux patch set have hung on boot. In efi, before changing the screen from the refit menu, and with the legacy bios boot through I get a "Hard Dis

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] naive question: read linux partion from OSX

2006-11-27 Thread Ralph Giles
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 02:04:41PM -0800, Jay Lewis wrote: > I have rebooted to verify, and for the record, kernel 2.6.17.13 (and > later I assume) *is* able to write to journaled HFS+ filessytems. Yay, thanks for confirming. I was still on 2.6.17.6, where writing doesn't appear to work, even wh

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] naive question: read linux partion from OSX

2006-11-24 Thread Ralph Giles
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 04:48:17AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ Good to see this being worked on again. The last time I tried it, it didn't work on my macbookpro, although I've used it for years on my G4 powerbook. Now, if we could just get Journaled H

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Firewire iSight

2006-11-19 Thread Ralph Giles
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 02:52:45PM -, Martin J. Smith wrote: > Has anyone had any luck getting the Apple iSight (firewire version) working > with linux on their machine? Or even the built in iSight cameras? The external firewire iSight is supposedly supported by libdc1394 and the coriander c

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Switching from PC to Mac

2006-11-19 Thread Ralph Giles
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 08:45:54AM -0500, Andy Szekely wrote: > OS X - 200gb > Ubunto - 30GB > Other - 20GB Seems reasonable. Depends what you're going to do in each OS of course. It's also easier to read the MacOS volume from linux than the other way around, so I find it more convenient to hav

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Alternative to the Mac Mini?

2006-11-03 Thread Ralph Giles
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 09:17:59AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > For those who like the Mac Mini because it's small and quiet rather than > because it runs Mac OS X, you may want to check out www.system76.com which > features a similar machine (named Koala Mini) delivered with Ubuntu. Thanks for

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] MBP possibilities

2006-10-11 Thread Ralph Giles
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 08:31:50PM +0200, Noèl Köthe wrote: > - x.org needs the binary ATI driver It also works unaccellerated with the fbdev driver (but it's broken in 7.1) and with the vesa driver if you boot through the legacy bios (also required by the ATI driver, I think). I've found the p

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] 1. MBP Xorg gives device error (KS)

2006-09-19 Thread Ralph Giles
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 08:43:49AM +0200, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: > Are you sure you really used the generic ATI driver? AFAIK the ati > driver provided with x.org does NOT (yet) support the x1600 card. I've never gotten the xorg ati driver to work with my 15" macbook pro. The vesa and fglrx dr