Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-15 Thread Kin Chung
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: First of all: Where did DeCSS come from, huh? And secondly, maybe we'll have a better chance with MacOS X, concerning free devel tools and unix style development... I must admit, having had a good look at what is available in the Darwin repository that it does

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:43:08PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: In the European Union, reverse engineering for reasons of interoperability is explicitly allowed. the US is far less sensible unfortunatly. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp39OkGFCiQi.pgp Description:

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-14 Thread Steven Hanley
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:52:39PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:43:08PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: In the European Union, reverse engineering for reasons of interoperability is explicitly allowed. the US is far less sensible unfortunatly. we are also

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 06:20:57PM +1000, Steven Hanley wrote: we are also allowed to reverse engineer and such in .au, however I have never programmed in macos and dont have any macos devel tools, so wouldnt even know where to begin doing the equivalent of strace -f -p `pidof

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
Nope, plese disassemble the control panel that permits you to set this, Seriously, though... are you actually allowed to disassemble the Apple code? The license agreement suggests that one is not licensed to disassemble any of the Macintosh OS code (or is it one of those things

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:28:50AM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: First of all: Where did DeCSS come from, huh? Uh, Norway, IIRC. Somehow the US still managed to get the guy in trouble. And secondly, maybe we'll have a better chance with MacOS X, concerning free devel tools and

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:55:39PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: With MacOS X, strace and ltrace will be available, right? You can probably even strace the Classic process (or whatever it is), and run old apps to see what they do. maybe if you recompile the darwin kernel and drop it in. in the

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-14 Thread Steven Hanley
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:55:39PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: With MacOS X, strace and ltrace will be available, right? You can probably even strace the Classic process (or whatever it is), and run old apps to see what they do. not exactly, well strace will be available in some form, as all

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
on the subject of using the Fn key to access the fucntion keys, I notied one day when I first got my pismo that there was an opion in macos (I think I read it in the little book that came with the pismo) that there is a way to tell macos to reverse the function keys, so the F1-F12 work by default

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-13 Thread David Brown
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 03:58:41PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: on the subject of using the Fn key to access the fucntion keys, I notied one day when I first got my pismo that there was an opion in macos (I think I read it in the little book that came with the pismo) that there is a way

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-13 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Kin Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nope, plese disassemble the control panel that permits you to set this, Seriously, though... are you actually allowed to disassemble the Apple code? The license agreement suggests that one is not licensed to disassemble any of the Macintosh OS code (or

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Kin Chung wrote: Michael Schmitz wrote: Nope, plese disassemble the control panel that permits you to set this, Seriously, though... are you actually allowed to disassemble the Apple code? The license agreement suggests that one is not licensed to disassemble any of

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-13 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
On Friday 13 April 2001 15:58, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: There's a special ADB command to send to the keyboard to reverse them. Now, just tell me what ADB is... I beleive one day, I'll have to write a /proc entry for setting that along with the trackpad tapping features ;) that'd be

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-13 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Philipp von Weitershausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 13 April 2001 15:58, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: There's a special ADB command to send to the keyboard to reverse them. Now, just tell me what ADB is... Apple Desktop Bus. Apple used to use it for all input devices before they

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-13 Thread Grant Hollingworth
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:00:34PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: that'd be great. The tapping 'feature' (I'd call it a p.i.t.a.) really annoys me. Isn't there a way to switch it off now? /sbin/trackpad notap It's in the powerpc-utils package. I put in a startup script and also in

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Another snooze problem I had was this: (TiBook, btw) eth1: Error -19 transmitting packet hermes @ 0xd4a9d000: Card removed while waiting for command completion. I got hundreds of those in /var/log/syslog, and my system slowed to a crawl. I expect it's just something about pcmcia that I don't

Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-12 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Philipp von Weitershausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I mentioned just yesterday in another post: ctrl+alt/option+F[1-6] or ctrl+command/apple+F[1-6], depending if you are using Linux or ADB keycodes. Note that you have to hold the Fn key for F[1-6] to work on a Pismo. derrr... So,

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-12 Thread Colin Walters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason E. Stewart) writes: Yeah, the order is critical, the Fn key *must* be the last key before F{1-6}, otherwise it won't work. It only took me 6 months to figure that one out... Ahhh. That explains why I wasn't able to switch VTs before. Thanks!

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-12 Thread Steven Hanley
All on the subject of using the Fn key to access the fucntion keys, I notied one day when I first got my pismo that there was an opion in macos (I think I read it in the little book that came with the pismo) that there is a way to tell macos to reverse the function keys, so the F1-F12 work by