Re: What's killing my MOL?

2001-04-23 Thread Tovar
This part of the discussion should probably move to the mol-general mailing list. See http://lists.maconlinux.net/. That's a commercial LINUX site. I think you meant: http://lists.maconlinux.org I tried to subscribe to that mailing list, but have yet to get an answer. A search

Re: xine debs

2001-04-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Michel Lanners wrote: Other point: performance. I am getting around 70 dropped frames out of each block of 200... Which makes DVD useable, but impossible to really _watch_ a movie. What are others getting? This is on a G4/400 TiBook. I get about the same on a

Re: powerbook G3 XFree86 4.02

2001-04-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
Daniel Bondurant wrote: I am having trouble configuring XFree86 4.0.2 on a Powerbook G3. Pismo or an older one? In particular, which graphics chip? In doubt, post the output of 'lspci|grep VGA'. I posted my XF86Config-4, yaboot.conf, and XFree86 log here: http://ames.iowalab.com/~bondu/

Re: Getting MOL running (was Re: Power Management et. al.)

2001-04-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:52:03AM -0700, Tovar wrote: It works great on the local X server, an amazing hack! It just doesn't work remotely, probably because of the bitmap mapping magic to achieve X Windows compatability. I'm not complaining it not working, i would

Re: xine debs

2001-04-23 Thread Fabian Jakobs
Am Sonntag, 22. April 2001 00:38 schrieb Michel Dänzer: http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/xine/ Built with patches from Henry Worth (thanks!). The vlc from Jonas (thanks as well) also basically works but sound is choppy on my Pismo/400. PS: These will also play DVDs they try to keep you

Re: powerbook G3 XFree86 4.02

2001-04-23 Thread Craige McWhirter
You are in luck :) I know a URL that steps you through this (I have it working on a Beige G3 - not much help). When I'm in the office tomorrow I'll forward the PowerBook URL to you. It's quite good. If you want to play while you wait, use: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to reconfigure

Re: xine debs

2001-04-23 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 05:27:35PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Other point: performance. I am getting around 70 dropped frames out of each block of 200... Which makes DVD useable, but impossible to really _watch_ a movie. What are others getting? This is on a G4/400 TiBook. Has

Re: xine debs

2001-04-23 Thread Nick Bailey
Michel Lanners wrote: On 22 Apr, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace: http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/xine/ Built with patches from Henry Worth (thanks!). Heya! Finally a DVD player that is useable under Linux ;-) I had experimented with OMS as well, but it

Re: xine debs

2001-04-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
Fabian Jakobs wrote: xine_init: audio thread created Illegal instruction Are you running a kernel from Paulus' tree? If yes, try Ben's . Paulus' is very bleeding edge. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)\ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \

Re: xine debs

2001-04-23 Thread Michel Lanners
On 22 Apr, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through cyberspace: Other point: performance. I am getting around 70 dropped frames out of each block of 200... Which makes DVD useable, but impossible to really _watch_ a movie. What are others getting? This is on a G4/400 TiBook. Has

Re: xine debs

2001-04-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Another thing is that there is now infrastructure for motion compensation, apparently an Intel guy is working on a DRI based driver for that for the i810/5 chipset. Am I right to assume that the M3 has such capabilities and when used they would solve all our problems? :) I think the ATI chips

Re: Getting MOL running

2001-04-23 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Ethan Benson writes: the color was screwed up (everything in macos had a yellow tinge over it, like the gamma was wrong) That's due to different byte-ordering and persists in mol 0.9.57. The only combinations the X video driver handles correctly is 8bit MacOS on a 16bit Xserver.

Re: PPC packages

2001-04-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
Alan Hourihane wrote: Using the compilefarm we now have PPC based DRI packages online. NOTE: I have absolutely no idea whether these work or not. Feedback is most definately welcome. I've been wanting to report this for a long time but never came around to it. With a self-built trunk just

Re: xine debs

2001-04-23 Thread Fabian Jakobs
Am Montag, 23. April 2001 13:49 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: Another thing is that there is now infrastructure for motion compensation, apparently an Intel guy is working on a DRI based driver for that for the i810/5 chipset. Am I right to assume that the M3 has such capabilities and when

Re: Getting MOL running (was Re: Power Management et. al.)

2001-04-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:30:42AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: Mozilla is still kind of a native X app while MOL will probably shove pixmaps over the wire like hell. X isn't very effective for that. Might be better over SSH with compression.

Re: Sample XF86Config-4 ?

2001-04-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
Craige McWhirter wrote: If anyone is running XFree86 4 one the Beige G3's in anything 256 colour and = 1024x768 would you be able to drop me a copy of your XF86config-4 file? I can't provide such an XF86Config (nobody?) but we might be able to help if you provide a little more information

Re: xine debs

2001-04-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
Fabian Jakobs wrote: Am Montag, 23. April 2001 13:49 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: Another thing is that there is now infrastructure for motion compensation, apparently an Intel guy is working on a DRI based driver for that for the i810/5 chipset. Am I right to assume that the M3 has

floppy boot on a 7200/90

2001-04-23 Thread Landry BRUNEL
Hello, I've just installed the last debian distrib on a 7200/90. It includes the 2.2.19 kernel and a quik.conf. I have no macos partition (so no bootX) and I didn't managed to get the nvram tuned to boot debian directly after many tries and nvram reinit. I've found a floppy on the bootX

Re: Compiling kernel 2.4.3 on iBook/Debian2.2r2

2001-04-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Grant Miller wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 08:21:41AM +0200, Jean-Noel Colin wrote: Hi I am trying to compile kernel 2.4.3 downloaded from www.kernel.org. I made a make menuconfig to select the configuration and that ran make vmlinux, I get the error messages

Re: Xclaim VR pro not supported?

2001-04-23 Thread Andy Wettstein
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 10:51:23AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Andy Wettstein wrote: I'm trying to set up a blue g3 that has an xclaimvrpro reported like this from the kernel: Using unsupported 1024x768 ATY,XCLAIMVRPro at 8100, depth=8,pitch=1024 Console:

RE: Re: powerbook G3 XFree86 4.02

2001-04-23 Thread Daniel Bondurant
# lspci | grep VGA 00:11.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT Pro (rev dc) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 09:26:36 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Debian, XFree86 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.4.3 ppc)

Re: xine debs

2001-04-23 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:18:03AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: PS: Sorry about the broken X dependencies - I really shouldn't build packages with Branden's test packages installed. How can I fix the packages I uploaded, just upload the same version again or do I have to make a minor bump NMU?

Re: Sample XF86Config-4 ?

2001-04-23 Thread Craige McWhirter
Michel, thanks but after many weeks of floundering I eventually got this to work properly (Monday, to be precise). So I now have XFree86 4 working properly on my beige G3. I'm going to eventually post my config on the web for future Beige G3 sufferers. For the archives, it will be at

Audio CD's on tibook?

2001-04-23 Thread David N. Welton
Anyone got audio cd's working with the tibook? How do they function? They seem to work ok under MacosX, but the CDROM player is not reported as CDDA capable under Linux. I guess I could go fool around with macosx/darwin and see if I can get a system call tracer working etc etc, but it could be

Re: Call for info: slave drives bootable from OpenFirmware (OldWorl d)

2001-04-23 Thread David N. Welton
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you happen to have any, ahem, other operating systems, that uses, say, HFS+, which linux doesn't handle well right now (afaik), you can use this partition not only as a bootstrap, but also as a place to exchange files between Linux, and the other

Re: Audio CD's on tibook?

2001-04-23 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
No luck for me either. The Gnome CD player won't recognize any audio CD I put in the drive. I believe there was a thread earlier that mentioned that the drive in the G4 isn't hooked up to do its own audio out, that you need to read audio data from the drive and play it yourself... On 23 Apr

Re: Audio CD's on tibook?

2001-04-23 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Wilhelm Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No luck for me either. The Gnome CD player won't recognize any audio CD I put in the drive. I believe there was a thread earlier that mentioned that the drive in the G4 isn't hooked up to do its own audio out, that you need to read audio data

Re: Audio CD's on tibook?

2001-04-23 Thread David N. Welton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason E. Stewart) writes: If it's anything like the pismo, then grab xmms and the xmms-cdread plugin. That will enable playing from the cd. You probably want to get esound and esound-common for the output backend. Hrm - gives me 'no cd in drive' or some such. -- David N.

g3 powerbook going to sleep

2001-04-23 Thread Daniel Bondurant
is there anyway to keep a g3 powerbook from going to sleep if the lid is closed. It turns itself off after 30 min of no activity. I am running the powerbook as a portable demo server, and I need to keep the top closed. thanks