Re: Printer conundrum

2001-01-26 Thread Paul Talacko
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:13:18PM -0600, wes schreiner wrote: Paul Talacko wrote: I have a PowerMac 6500. I also have a Texas Instruments printer (it's The only thing I can think of is to get an ethernet to localtalk bridge (too expensive!!), the other thing is that you can buy a

upgrade stable - unstable doesn´t work

2001-01-26 Thread Michael Flaig
Hello! I want to upgrade from stable to unstable but this doesn´t work. When Debconf will be configured many Perl 5.6 errors with modules are printed on the screen. :( Is the Perl oder Debconf package broken at the moment ? Greets, mfl -- Michael Flaig ... PROLinux (www.pro-linux.de) News,

Re: upgrade stable - unstable doesn´t work

2001-01-26 Thread Bastien Nocera
Quoting Michael Flaig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello! I want to upgrade from stable to unstable but this doesn´t work. When Debconf will be configured many Perl 5.6 errors with modules are printed on the screen. :( Is the Perl oder Debconf package broken at the moment ? Same problems

Re: upgrade stable - unstable doesn´t work

2001-01-26 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:59:14AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: Quoting Michael Flaig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello! I want to upgrade from stable to unstable but this doesn´t work. When Debconf will be configured many Perl 5.6 errors with modules are printed on the screen. :( Is the

Re: upgrade stable - unstable doesn´t work

2001-01-26 Thread Bastien Nocera
Quoting Sven LUTHER [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:59:14AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: Quoting Michael Flaig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello! I want to upgrade from stable to unstable but this doesn´t work. When Debconf will be configured many Perl 5.6 errors with

Re: upgrade stable - unstable doesn´t work

2001-01-26 Thread Michael Flaig
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:01:04PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:59:14AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: Quoting Michael Flaig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello! I want to upgrade from stable to unstable but this doesn´t work. When Debconf will be configured many Perl

Re: upgrade stable - unstable doesn´t work

2001-01-26 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:15:19PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: Hum, ok, that explains it then. I kinda needed X402 anyway. Performance is even better than with 401, impressive. I'm eagerly waiting for pcigart. You can use testing and hand install the XF4.0.2 stuff. (or maybe use testing,

Re: upgrade stable - unstable doesn´t work

2001-01-26 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:24:56PM +0100, Michael Flaig wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:01:04PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:59:14AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: Quoting Michael Flaig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello! I want to upgrade from stable to

jdk-debs, tomcat, cocoon

2001-01-26 Thread Olaf Grewe
Hi, once again: are any jdk-debs for powerpc in the pipeline or will any current jdk still require manual installation in the near future? I'm especially interested in the dependency resolution for the tomcat/cocoon packages in unstable. Most of them are resolved only for i386-systems.

Re: X on G4 with ATI Rage 128 Pro and LCD Panel

2001-01-26 Thread Fabian Jakobs
On Freitag, 26. Januar 2001 01:11, Christian Pernegger wrote: Bootparameters for aty128fb are documented in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/aty128fb.txt /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/modedb.txt Thanks, but these files are not there in my vanilla 2.2.18 source... are those 2.4 only?

Re: RealPlayer

2001-01-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Renaud Dreyer wrote: Is there anyway I can look at RealPlayer streamed media on Debian PPC? It's not a Debian package, but... http://scopes.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html?src=rpbform Just choose the Linux/PPC 2000 version, which is a simple installer. Cool! Maybe we should ask Joey

Re: Old gnucash bug

2001-01-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Nelson Abramson wrote: Good afternoon- What was the resolution on the GNUcash bug that caused (on apparently on PPC machines) GNUcash to automatically truncate all values to an integer? I remember seeing a patch last year, but I am using the newest version in the apt tree and getting

Re: Bug#83434: apt-get install gnome-panel complains about broken packages

2001-01-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Christian Marillat wrote: [Please don't remove the Cc:] Hi, Somebody can fix this bug ? Christian From: Federico Heinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#83434: apt-get install gnome-panel complains about broken packages To: Christian Marillat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 24 Jan 2001

Re: Printer conundrum

2001-01-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Paul Talacko wrote: I have a PowerMac 6500. I also have a Texas Instruments printer (it's rubbish, and I'll never buy another TI product again, but it has around 12,000 pages of printing left in it, so I'll use it until the toner runs out). The problem is this. The printer has two ports

Re: can't compile 2.2.18pre21

2001-01-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Christian Pernegger wrote: mac_hid.c: In function `mac_hid_sysctl_keycodes': mac_hid.c:296: structure has no member named `ppc_kbd_sysrq_xlate' mac_hid.c:303: structure has no member named `ppc_kbd_sysrq_xlate' At these positions, change 'ppc_kbd_sysrq_xlate' into 'kbd_sysrq_xlate'.

Re: [linux-fbdev] Matrox and XFree86 4.0.2 update

2001-01-26 Thread Tom Rini
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:21:59AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: I just checked the Debian binary, and indeed it isn't. IIRC patches existed a few years ago. They did/do exist, but were never completed. Same person who did the matrox accel for Xpmac (and who's name slips my mind right

Re: Bug#83434: apt-get install gnome-panel complains about broken packages

2001-01-26 Thread Christian Marillat
ACPI == Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] FH Debian GNU/Linux PPC (unstable) won't install task-gnome-desktop FH due to a broken dependency or someting regarding gnome-panel and FH gnome-panel-data. ACPI I think this is just because gnome-core and gnome-applets haven't

Re: upgrade stable - unstable doesn´t work

2001-01-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
So X402 will be in woody sometime soon (perhaps the next version) ? I was told that no. It should be as soon as m68k will build the package, don't know what the problem is, maybe there are build problems on m68k, or maybe it takes just time. From what I hear, the module loader needs

Re: Booting 7200 without MacOS?

2001-01-26 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I concur. You need a minimal Mac OS install to run the BootX Extension. This works really well on our intranet 7200/90 (1 * 500Mb disk, one 2Gig disk). Its going like a bomb! Rory On 25/1/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Sharp) wrote: Also, w/o macos, it is *extremely* difficult to boot Linux on

Re: X on G4 with ATI Rage 128 Pro and LCD Panel

2001-01-26 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Fabian Jakobs wrote: On Freitag, 26. Januar 2001 01:11, Christian Pernegger wrote: Bootparameters for aty128fb are documented in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/aty128fb.txt /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/modedb.txt Thanks, but these files are not there in my

Re: Bug#83434: apt-get install gnome-panel complains about broken packages

2001-01-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:39:03AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: I think this is just because gnome-core and gnome-applets haven't been built and uploaded for PPC in a *very* long time. Building those two packages (and their Build-Depends before them) should fix this. If this user has

SCSI sick on 7300

2001-01-26 Thread Bruce McIntyre
Hello, When attempting to install Debian (2.2.17 and .19 so far) at various stages in the install process as well as on restart ( if I was lucky enough to get that far) I have been getting many SCSI errors. I have a Quantum Fireball TM2100s Rev 300Z which i am attempting to dual boot with

Why there is no mol package?

2001-01-26 Thread Charles Brunet
Hi, I wonder why there is no mol package in debian? Is there somewhere I could find it? If not, where could I find how to build a deb package from the source? Thank you, \ Charles Brunet [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Étudiant, génie informatique, Université Laval

PCI Wireless cards?

2001-01-26 Thread Kevin van Haaren
I'm looking to move an old desktop mac to another room and am thinking about making it's network card one of the wireless PCI cards available. Anyone gotten one of these cards to work under debian? Kevin

Re: Why there is no mol package?

2001-01-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
Charles Brunet wrote: I wonder why there is no mol package in debian? Is there somewhere I could find it? If not, where could I find how to build a deb package from the source? I use an alienated RPM. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)\ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc)

Re: Why there is no mol package?

2001-01-26 Thread Ethan Benson
there was an ITP recently, still have not seen a package but keep checking sid: - Forwarded message from Jens Schmalzing [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Jens Schmalzing [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: ITP: mol - the Mac-on-Linux emulator Date:

keyboard problems

2001-01-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
I've got a keyboard problem with the right shift key that I'm hoping for some help on. While running showkey, if I press and hold the right shift key, and then press and release a regular key, and then release the shift key, I get the following: keycode 56 press keycode 56 press keycode 56