unstable upgrade messed things up

2007-07-12 Thread Bob Lounsbury
is busy. Is another application using it?. I've run alsa-config which didn't change anything. Not sure what to do. I'm pretty new to Linux, so please be descriptive enough that I can follow your advise. Thanks for any help, Bob Lounsbury -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: unstable upgrade messed things up

2007-07-12 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On 12 Jul 2007 20:02:03 GMT, Jack Malmostoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:50:17 +0200, Bob Lounsbury wrote: 1) Under System-Administration-Network no cards are listed, but Network Manager works just fine. In other words I have no problem connecting to wired or wireless

no sound - iBook G3

2007-08-03 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Hi, I've just installed etch, but I have no sound. I've tried googling and looking at list archives, but I'm not sure what needs to be done. I'm pretty new to Linux. I added snd-powermac to my /etc/modules and now the master volume seems to be registering but still no output. When I run Amarok it

Re: no sound - iBook G3

2007-08-08 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On 8/8/07, Johannes Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 12:23 +0200, Andrzej Mendel wrote: I guess that snd-aoa could be the module that you need to load in order to get sound on your machine. I'm not sure if it covers yours, but it is supposed to obsolete snd-powermac, so

Incorrect time

2007-08-22 Thread Bob Lounsbury
A few days the time showed up incorrect, it was fine before. I'm using ntp. This is on an iBook G3 with etch. Any ideas? It's quite annoying. Thanks, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

wireless suddenly stopped

2007-12-03 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Hi, I've had etch installed on my iBook G3 dual-usb for several months and everything has been working perfectly. Except, the other day when I booted up my computer wireless didn't work and when I looked in Desktop-Administration-Networking my wireless card was listed as inactive. So I activated

Re: wireless suddenly stopped

2007-12-05 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Dec 4, 2007 2:39 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 03 2007, at 17:02 -0700, Bob Lounsbury wrote: Hi, I've had etch installed on my iBook G3 dual-usb for several months and everything has been working perfectly. Except, the other day when I booted up my

Re: wireless suddenly stopped [SOLVED]

2007-12-22 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Dec 6, 2007 8:32 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 05 2007, at 19:14 -0700, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Dec 4, 2007 2:39 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 03 2007, at 17:02 -0700, Bob Lounsbury wrote: Hi, I've had etch installed

Re: Very weird results with X.org and fresh sid install

2008-05-30 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there. Here is an old-timer coming back to the list. :-) Since Apple has no love anymore for people with G3 hardware, I figured out that the way to go is to dump MacOS X. I have one major issue before I do that

Re: Very weird results with X.org and fresh sid install

2008-06-02 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Bob. On May 30 2008, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there. Here is an old-timer coming back to the list. :-) Anyways, to fix it I do: dpkg

Re: Very weird results with X.org and fresh sid install

2008-06-02 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, Bob. On Jun 02 2008, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 30 2008, Bob Lounsbury wrote: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg Thanks. Been there, done

Can't get xorg working on iBook - Help please!

2008-12-26 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Has anyone experienced the error in the attached Xorg.0.log file? I've also attached my xorg.conf. I've tried all sorts of changes to the xorg.conf, but nothing works. Thanks /Bob Xorg.0.log Description: Binary data xorg.conf Description: Binary data

Re: Can't get xorg working on iBook - Help please!

2008-12-27 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Michel Dänzer daen...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 10:27 -0700, Bob Lounsbury wrote: Has anyone experienced the error in the attached Xorg.0.log file? I've also attached my xorg.conf. I've tried all sorts of changes to the xorg.conf, but nothing

Re: Can't get xorg working on iBook - Help please!

2008-12-27 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Peter Rooney h...@shaw.ca wrote: Bob, It's alright to be new. I was there once, and still feel that way sometimes. One wag on IRC said that linux on powerpc was a continuous intelligence test. to see the contents of a file displayed in the console, use

Re: Can't get xorg working on iBook - Help please!

2008-12-30 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Michel Dänzer daen...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 11:15 -0700, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Michel Dänzer daen...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 10:27 -0700, Bob Lounsbury wrote: Has anyone experienced the error

Re: Can't get xorg working on iBook - Help please!

2008-12-31 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Amit Uttamchandani amit.ut...@gmail.com wrote: I tried this option and I didn't get any error messages and X seemed to start with the typical X mouse. There were a few of warnings, but no errors (I attached the log). However, now when I try to run

Re: Can't get xorg working on iBook - Help please!

2008-12-31 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Michel Dänzer daen...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 18:00 -0700, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Michel Dänzer daen...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 11:15 -0700, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 2:06 AM

Re: Can't get xorg working on iBook - Help please!

2009-01-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Michel Dänzer daen...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 16:16 -0700, Bob Lounsbury wrote: Just wanted to report that X and gnome are working, although it is very old qt looking and is being displayed at 1360x768 rather than 1024x768 as I have specified

Re: Help! Newbie install problem; simple solution?

2009-01-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 2:01 PM, deleteme delet...@coderelay.com wrote: I have a New World iBook G3, and I'm installing Debian-40r6-powerpc-netinst.iso. Everything went smoothly until the first boot-up of the new system. The log-in screen isn't rendered correctly--the top half is at the bottom

Re: Help! Newbie install problem; simple solution?

2009-01-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 9:06 PM, deleteme delet...@coderelay.com wrote: Thanks--I think you have given me a path forward, but can you work with my newbie-ness for a moment? 1. How would I attach the xorg.conf file? Do I need to redo the install using a CD containing both my .iso file and your

Re: Can't get xorg working on iBook - Help please!

2009-01-05 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:02 AM, James Tappin s...@star.sr.bham.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:58:03 -0800 Amit Uttamchandani amit.ut...@gmail.com wrote: AU AU I also tried using Amit's xorg.conf, but got the same error AU message. At this point I don't think the problem is related to

Re: PowerBook G4 12

2009-01-15 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Logan Airth logan.ai...@gmail.com wrote: Good morning. I recently acquired a PowerBook G4 12 and I was thinking about installing Debian. I have had some experience running other flavours of Linux on the x86 platform. I have been doing some research however

banshee crashing on Lenny

2009-02-13 Thread Bob Lounsbury
Am I the only one using Lenny or experiencing banshee crashing? I searched the bugs and googled for awhile, but nothing is coming up. I just upgraded from Etch to Lenny and now when I try to run banshee I get: b...@bob-ibook:~$ banshee-1 [Info 17:20:25.895] Running Banshee 1.0.0 Unhandled

Re: sound not working lenny (worked under etch)

2009-02-17 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:20 AM, stephen sefick ssef...@gmail.com wrote: ibook power pc the cound does not work and it did under etch. -- Stephen Sefick I assume even under Etch you had 'snd-powermac' in /etc/modules? Maybe running alsaconf, alsamixer, alsactl store will help? Just shots in

Re: sound not working lenny (worked under etch)

2009-02-17 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:13 PM, stephen sefick ssef...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know because I had only had Etch running for about a week before lenny come out, so I had not gotten that far into figuring out the system. I looked in etc/modutils and found bluez . I am not sure if this is

Re: adobe flash

2009-02-18 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Amit Uttamchandani amit.ut...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:24:07 -0500 stephen sefick ssef...@gmail.com wrote: ibook G4 Debian 5.0 Lenny How do I install the flash plug in for ice weasel... Other things that I have noticed are that lenny doesn't

Re: where install the bootstrap partition in the partition table ?

2009-03-04 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:18 PM, mi demur mi.de...@tinet.cat wrote: n° 1 32,3 kB Apple 134,2 mega Espace libre or free space n° 3 42,7 giga hfs+ Apple_HFS_Un 134,2 mega Espace libre or free space n° 5 42,7 giga hfs+ Apple_HFS_Un 134,2 mega Espace libre or free space n° 7 42,8 giga hfs+

Re: where install the bootstrap partition in the partition table ?

2009-03-04 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: n° 1 32,3 kB Apple 134,2 mega Espace libre or free space n° 3 42,7 giga hfs+ Apple_HFS_Un 134,2 mega Espace libre or free space n° 5 42,7 giga hfs+ Apple_HFS_Un 134,2 mega Espace libre or free space n° 7 42,8

Re: where install the bootstrap partition in the partition table ?

2009-03-05 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.cawrote: A /boot partition is not needed (nor used) and is a waste of space for new world apple ppc machines, you only need 800k for an HFS Apple Bootstrap partition and that's it. I suggest (again) reading: A /boot

Re: PowerBook G4 12

2009-03-13 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:20 AM, m p mpcres...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Thanks for all the feedback. I ended up installing Ubuntu 8.10 using the alternate CD sucessfully for the first time! Everything seems to be working, but the fans is almost always on...it seems like ubuntu is taxing the

Re: Debian Etch v4

2009-03-15 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Graham Prout graham.pr...@ntlworld.comwrote: Does anyone have a copy of debian etch v4 i can download please as i need v4 and not v5 that is avalible from there web site. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: PowerBook G4 12

2009-03-16 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Olivier Crouzet olivier.crou...@free.frwrote: Here's the catch: when I enter sudo nano /etc/yaboot/conf it opens a window, but its blank where is all the script? I'm clueless. I will /etc/yaboot.conf not /etc/yaboot/conf Olivier. Also, after editing

airport with wpa

2009-09-06 Thread Bob Lounsbury
I've been searching for awhile and it seems that the original airport card does not have a linux driver that supports wpa. Just wanted to confirm that this is true. If so, I guess I'll have to switch my wireless network to WEP. Thanks, Bob

Re: airport with wpa

2009-09-07 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Geoff Simmons gsimm...@gsimmons.org wrote: Hi Bob, On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 03:16:58PM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote: I've been searching for awhile and it seems that the original airport card does not have a linux driver that supports wpa. Just wanted

Re: airport with wpa

2009-09-07 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.dewrote: * Bob Lounsbury [090906 15:16 -0600] I've been searching for awhile and it seems that the original airport card does not have a linux driver that supports wpa. Just wanted to confirm that this is true. If so, I

Re: File sharing with Apple Snow Leopard

2010-02-13 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Thomas Carlson tcarl...@sharedcup.comwrote: Snow Leopard still uses AFP (which is different than Appletalk, actually) to connect with its own Time Capsule so it should work with Netatalk. Problem lies with password encryption, I think. Accessing through Samba