helping?

2000-11-21 Thread Pete Lypkie
Hi there. I've recently gained access to an imac that i can use at night, and it has woody installed on it. i noticed tonight that there were no perl-5.6 packages available in the archive, so i built the from the source packages...Is there a need for extra compile time? i can't give outside

re: Build request: libjcode-perl, libft-perl

2000-11-21 Thread Pete Lypkie
libft-perl isn't (to the best of my knowlege) in the archives. It depends on libjcode-perl, which is also not in the archives, but I don't know why. S'pose somebody could push the magic button to get the build daemon to make 'em? libjcode-perl is architecture all, and i can install it on my

XFree4.0x and Pismo touchpad

2000-11-21 Thread Magnus Forsberg
Hi! I have some really annoying problems with X11 and the touchpad on my Powerbook Pismo. The first problem is the lack of three buttons. I know from my pre-mac days that one could emulate three buttons, but I assume that only works when you have at least two physical ones. Is there any way to

Re: CHRP boot disks

2000-11-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 21, Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rescue.bin is intended to be dd'd onto a floppy. I think. I don't know much about CHRP booting, I'm afraid. It needs to be a FAT disk with a kernel copied over it. No other files are needed. Do you know why the suse kernel did not work

Re: Installing kernel 2.4.0-test11 on iBook

2000-11-21 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:31:37PM -0500, thus said Charles Brunet: Hi! I'm trying to install Debian 2.2 on my new iBook (the blue one, with Firewire. I don't know how I should call it). I tried to follow most of Hadess' advices. Now I want to compile a 2.4.0 kernel to be able to use

Re: XFree4.0x and Pismo touchpad

2000-11-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
I have some really annoying problems with X11 and the touchpad on my Powerbook Pismo. The first problem is the lack of three buttons. I know from my pre-mac days that one could emulate three buttons, but I assume that only works when you have at least two physical ones. Is there any way to

Re: XFree4.0x and Pismo touchpad

2000-11-21 Thread Magnus Forsberg
See the documentation on the new input layer, linked on BenH's page (penguinppc.apple.com/~benh/). Are you sure the above url is correct? I seem to have trouble connecting to it. I also tried penguinppc.org/~benh, but got the response 403 Forbidden. The other problem with the keypad is that

Re: XFree4.0x and Pismo touchpad

2000-11-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 02:25:16PM +0100, Magnus Forsberg wrote: See the documentation on the new input layer, linked on BenH's page (penguinppc.apple.com/~benh/). Are you sure the above url is correct? I seem to have trouble connecting to it. I also tried penguinppc.org/~benh, but got the

Re: XFree4.0x and Pismo touchpad

2000-11-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
See the documentation on the new input layer, linked on BenH's page (penguinppc.apple.com/~benh/). Are you sure the above url is correct? I seem to have trouble connecting to it. I also tried penguinppc.org/~benh, but got the response 403 Forbidden. Well, in this case try

XFree864.01, G4, Ati Rage Pro 128 Apple Studio 17

2000-11-21 Thread jon ewing
Hello, Just wondered if anyone has got XFree86 4.01 running at 1600x1200 on a G4 with an ATI Rage Pro 128 (the card it was supplied with) and an Apple Studio 17 monitor? If so, how? :-) thanks, jon

Re: XFree864.01, G4, Ati Rage Pro 128 Apple Studio 17

2000-11-21 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Nov 21, jon ewing wrote: Hello, Just wondered if anyone has got XFree86 4.01 running at 1600x1200 on a G4 with an ATI Rage Pro 128 (the card it was supplied with) and an Apple Studio 17 monitor? If so, how? :-) I didn't try it. But it should work with the correct modeline.

starting x

2000-11-21 Thread Frank Escher
i had first the same problems, i tried some things, so i think i found the problem. i have changed the following lines: # # Pointer Section # Section Pointer ProtocolBusMouse Device/dev/adbmouse and please if you want to contact me don´t forget this, i´m a beginner of linux (

apple vs ibm

2000-11-21 Thread Sowmya Shetty
dear sir i want to know the strengths of apple when compared to ibm.please comply as soon as possible.i am a student,require info for a competition. thanking you shravan

Re: CHRP boot disks

2000-11-21 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
Where is the CHRP boot disk image? I looked here but could not find one: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/ images-1.44/ It can not be rescue.bin because that image will not fit on a dos-format'ed floppy. You need to download that file,

Re: XFree864.01, G4, Ati Rage Pro 128 Apple Studio 17

2000-11-21 Thread jon ewing
At 21/11/2000, 15:17, Olaf Hering wrote: On Tue, Nov 21, jon ewing wrote: Hello, Just wondered if anyone has got XFree86 4.01 running at 1600x1200 on a G4 with an ATI Rage Pro 128 (the card it was supplied with) and an Apple Studio 17 monitor? If so, how? :-) I didn't try it. But it

Re: problems starting X

2000-11-21 Thread William Crowshaw
At 2:24 PM -0800 11/20/00, Donnell wrote: Check the Screen section of your XF86Config file. I saw the same thing happen with a powermac clone. The driver was set to accel. Try changing it to fbdev. The screen section of my XF86Config file looks like this: # Server for the Linux Frame Buffer

Re: problems starting X...the gory details

2000-11-21 Thread William Crowshaw
At 4:40 PM -0500 11/20/00, Adam C Powell IV wrote: William Crowshaw wrote: For more clues about my problem, I could post all the gory details startx outputs. My monitor is a simple Apple Multiscan 15. Could you post the gory details? It's hard to do much without them... -Adam P. Thanks for

Re: Searching for X11-Keymap german ...

2000-11-21 Thread Michael Flaig
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:25:30PM +, Hadess wrote: Michael Flaig wrote: Hi! I'm searching for a german X11-keymap that works fine on the Powerbook Firewire. There are 2 things that we would need to know to be able to give you a proper keymap: - the version of the kernel,

Re: XFree4.0x and Pismo touchpad

2000-11-21 Thread Michael Flaig
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 02:41:54PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: See the documentation on the new input layer, linked on BenH's page (penguinppc.apple.com/~benh/). Are you sure the above url is correct? I seem to have trouble connecting to it. I also tried penguinppc.org/~benh, but

Re: Potato revision 1

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:48:35PM -0800, Taro Fukunaga wrote: Taro Fukunaga wrote: Hello, Also I found that several source files in the examples directory are gzipped which caused Make to fail until I ungzippped the files myself. The files are: [EMAIL

Perl 5.6 busted on powerpc [was: Re: Build request: libjcode-perl, libft-perl]

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:53:28AM -0800, Pete Lypkie wrote: libjcode-perl is architecture all, and i can install it on my powerpc machine. have you tried again lately? a side-note: while playing around, i noticed that there was an incorrect symlink in the

Re: CHRP boot disks

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 02:18:05AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Nov 21, Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rescue.bin is intended to be dd'd onto a floppy. I think. I don't know much about CHRP booting, I'm afraid. It needs to be a FAT disk with a kernel copied over it. No other

Re: helping?

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:43:14PM -0800, Pete Lypkie wrote: Hi there. I've recently gained access to an imac that i can use at night, and it has woody installed on it. i noticed tonight that there were no perl-5.6 packages available in the archive, so i built the from the source

KDE2 ?

2000-11-21 Thread Michael Flaig
Hi! I've installed KDE 2 ... (I wanted to see KDE 2 before KDE 2.1 is out ;) ) Not bad ... Great Desktop Environment ... but a little Bit unstable. I saw that the potato packages are old ones ! kde2.0pre ... aren't there any packages more up to date ? thanks a lot... cu, mfl -- Michael

Re: Searching for X11-Keymap german ...

2000-11-21 Thread Andre Berger
Michael Flaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:25:30PM +, Hadess wrote: Michael Flaig wrote: Hi! I'm searching for a german X11-keymap that works fine on the Powerbook Firewire. There are 2 things that we would need to know to be able to give you

Re: problems starting X

2000-11-21 Thread Donnell
What do your device (Section device) and screen (Section screen) sections look like? Could you post them? On Tue, 21 November 2000, William Crowshaw wrote: At 2:24 PM -0800 11/20/00, Donnell wrote: Check the Screen section of your XF86Config file. I saw the same thing happen with a

Re: CHRP boot disks

2000-11-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 21, Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not touching CHRP at this point in time - I'm nervous enough touching powermac for potato, and I have one to test on. Sorry. We'll try to get this right in woody. You can't do worse than the current situation: the CHRP boot disk for

Re: Potato revision 1

2000-11-21 Thread Taro Fukunaga
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:48:35PM -0800, Taro Fukunaga wrote: Taro Fukunaga wrote: Hello, Also I found that several source files in the examples directory are gzipped which caused Make to fail until I ungzippped the files myself. The files are: [EMAIL

Re: Potato revision 1

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:35:36PM -0800, Taro Fukunaga wrote: As I'm still relatively new to Debian, I'm not sure how to find the maintainer of a package. How do I find the maintainer? Only these files were gzipped. The other directories don't have compressed files. You can use apt: