Re: X Success and New Questions
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:16:38AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > Okay, I finally got X up and running. My mouse works and everything. My > next questions relate to the new input layer, as in, how did this come > about? I know that it's related to the 2.4 kernel, but why does it also > show up in the 2.2 series? How do you know if you have the new input > layer? I know just because of trial and error that I have the new one. > Is woody using the new layer? How do you compile a kernel to use the new > or old layers? It came about because the previous setup was a mess. It's in 2.4, and some versions of 2.2, because USB input devices are pushed through it, as it appears ADB can be in 2.4. It provides a more consistant interface for using input devices. It also tries to move drivers into the kernel, instead of having every device talking it's own protocol, needing X and gpm, etc to support it. There's more information on the main page: http://www.suse.cz/development/input/ Hopefully the input layer will be merged in it's full glory as part of the linuxconsole rework in progress for 2.5,. (linuxconsole.sourceforge.net) You should be able to tell if your kernel supports the input layer by checking if charmajor 13 is registered for input in /proc/devices, or watching the logs for the device attachment/detection messages. In 2.4 kernels there is an "Input core support" section which contains the structure config options. Then you'll heed to enable the input core using drivers for your input devics, probably CONFIG_INPUT_ADBHID aka: Use input layer for ADB devices. I'm not positive about this part because my PMac is powered off at home right now. I greped my x86 2.4 tree to find that. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- QUOTE OF THE DAY: "The problem is that even if what they offer is 90 percent healthy and only 10 percent rat poison, the rat poison is still going to kill you." --Scott Hebner, director of e-business marketing at the IBM Software Group, speaking about attempts to extend open technologies using proprietary technology. pgp5eQINire7B.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FireWire Hard Disk
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:26:50AM +0200, jonas bandi wrote: > Thanks a lot, I got step further now... > > Now I have a rather ignorant question: > > How do I format my firewire-harddisk so that i can mount it in linux? > > I formated it in OsX as DOS-Type. I assume you formatted the drive and didn't partition it. I don't think OSX will let you create a dos partition, and it won't let you put a dos filesystem on a Mac partition. At least in my experiance. > Under linux pmac-fdisk produces the following output: Which is consistant with theere not being any sort of partitioning happening. Oh well, it's not a problem. You just need to mount /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1, or 2 etc. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Obscure? Babylon 5 is OBSCURE?! Christ, you people deserve an Episode 2 filled with a billion clones of 'n Sync, dancing in unison, defeating the Jedi through the power of pop music. - MonkeyBoy on /. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firewire bus after waking from sleep
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:31:43AM +0200, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2002-08-24 11:39:24 +0100, Joss Winn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If I put my iMac to sleep, the CD-RW is useless after waking up > > until I reboot. Scanning the bus with gscanbus or another scanbus > > script can cause the machine to lock up. Hitting "eject" on the drive would probably get you the same effect too. Any sort of bus activity after the sleep seems to be able to trigger it. > > Does anyone have any sugegstions on how to 'restore' the bus after > > coming out of sleep so the burner is useable again? As somebody else mentioned, you have to remove the 1394 drivers before you sleep. I mean all of them, ieee1394, ohci1394, sbp2, maybe sd_mod for good measure. You can then reload them when you wake or want to use the device again. > i have similar problems with a firewire disk - unload the driver (perhps > in the pwctl script) before sending it to sleep works for me. the > firewire drivers seem not to clearly reinitalize after suspend Unless somebody has worked on it the driver(ohci1394) doesn't do anything to properly sleep or resume. It just gets powered off by the PMU then clicked back on, thus it's uninitialized when it wakes. I may try to kludge some sleep support into ohci1394, but don't hold your breath on me having anything that works for a while. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler
Re: Auto-repeat problem: released key not always detected
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:09:35PM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 19 Aug, this message from Vincent Lefevre echoed through cyberspace: > As you have found out ;-), many people have seen this problem, and it > has been around for a long time. > > It is most probably a problem in the ADB driver. Chris, on your iMac, is > that with a USB keyboard? If yes, then it gets stranger... I believe I get it on my x86 too, with a USB keyboard. I'm not positive though. That would place the error somewhere in the input layer, which is used by the current ADB driver and USB, but not by pckeyb. I'll see if I can reproduce it tonight. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary had a crypto key, she kept it in escrow, and everything that Mary said, the Feds were sure to know.
Re: Booting from external FW cdrom
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:16:20PM +0200, BuG wrote: > I'd like to be able to boot from an external FireWire cdrom directly > from openfirmware. > Is it possible? Should be, though I'd advise agains't battling OF needlessly. Holding down C might do it, if not "Option" should. I've not tested this with CDROMs, only harddrives. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "You may remember me from such documentaries as, 'Man vs. Nature -- the Road to Victory!'" - Troy McLure
Re: Volunteer with Mac wanted to verify bug
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:16:08AM +0100, Claas Langbehn wrote: > > ACK. > > it trashes the keyboard. > but there is no need to reboot. > If you can logout of X, then it works again at the login-prompt > of xdm. After a couple hours of trying to find and fidle with the keymaps over ssh (I wasn't trying all that hard) I just closed the lid on mine and put it to sleep. When I woke it back up to try again it was magically working. Somebody fondling /dev/adb? (or whatever the ADB interface is these days) - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Aiee. No wonder people say "Debian -- even Hell freezes faster". :'< - Josip Rodin
Re: OT : How best to prolong iBook battery longevity (not Debian specific)
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 05:00:09PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 10:40:22AM +1100, Tim Bateman wrote: > > > > Sorry this is slightly off topic but given recent discussions re iBook > > battery life I though this is worth asking here given the technical > > knowledge of the audience. > > So should I keep the battery topped up or deep cycle recharge ? > > In general for any battery, deep cycling will provide the longest > life. For the iBook batteries, many have been found defective and I was under the impression that Li-Ion batteries had a serious adversion to deep discharges. Something about coroding the anode/cathode and not being able to recover the charge. If somebody is brave they can test it by checking the max_charge in /proc/pmu/battery_0 before & after a deep discharge. I seem to remember loosing ~200mAH off my old battery from one deep discharge, but the battery was allready performing at less than half capacity anyway so it may have just been a fluke. > will start to be unable to supply enough power to run the machine > after reaching a 30, 50, or 80% charged state. That's probably why you > read that it should not be allowed to fall below a certain number; > many have found these batteries have a 'cliff' they fall off at some The "cliff" is normal Li-Ion behavior, though if it's happening before 0% the monitoring circuit is miscalibrated. > point. If you have one of those batteries, probably nothing you do > will help extend the life :-) but as a workaround, the advice is to > get it charging before the cliff approaches. > > Someone said perhaps Apple was willing to supply a new, improved > battery; I don't know the details. Once they were convinced it was a hardware problem they promptly replaced mine. The max_charge on the battery I've had for the past couple months was 4189. With me avoiding deep discharges it's still 4188. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- As for replacing the firewall...you really need to get rid of the idea that a firewall is some magic security dust. It is nothing more than a router with an attitude. - gclef on /.
Re: OT : How best to prolong iBook battery longevity (not Debian specific)
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 09:36:29AM +1100, Tim Bateman wrote: > That is interesting, thanks. My max charge was 3475 but I have an iBook > 12", is yours a 14" and thus the larger battery ? Nope 12.1, 500Mhz. I don't recall seeing the first battery over 4000 though. My fuzzy memory places it between 3400 & 3800. Maybe Apple improved their batteries and I got a good one as a replacement. I brought it down to about 25% today and it didn't die so if there is a cliff it's not that bad yet. It ran minimally (No screen, clocked down to 400Mhz, very low CPU usage, and hte only filesystem access in a ram drive) from 10:30am to 3:30pm, and was still estimating 1 -1:30 left on the battery. Hmm, I may have to bring it down a bit more and look for a cliff later. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Marx on sex: From each according to his virility, to each according to her need.
Re: ibook2 airport card monitor mode problem
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 09:52:29PM +, Knight Industries 2k wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running a 700Mhz iBook2, Benh 2.4.20. I'm trying to get my airport > card into monitor mode with the orinoco_cs-0.11b patch from here: > > http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html Yup, I've used that. > Everything works fine until I do a make install and then I get this > error: > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > /lib/modules/2.4.20-rc4-ben0/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_cs.o Not a problem, iBook2's don't have pcmcia so that's harmless. > Does anybody know where I could be going wrong? The airport card is > working currently, I'd just like to be able to put it into monitor mode. It should work now, though it may be a little touchy. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Pop quiz: In what country does a cartoon mouse enjoy more legal protection than an individual's privacy?
Re: 10mbit iBook nic
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 04:02:13PM +, Laurens Kraal wrote: > Hi! > Does anyone knows howto set the nic of the iBook to 10mbit? My networks > needs it and the mii-tool i use on an other platform doesn't work.. > Cheers, > Laurens I believe miitool has been depricated. Try ethtool. I'm not sure if it works with the "gmac" driver but I know it works with the sungem driver on at least my iBook. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "So am I to understand that there's been a...Towie-ban?"
Re: comparing x86 and powerpc laptops
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 11:54:52PM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > My price includes tax (which we call GST of 10%). I like PowerPC (I have > an 800Mhz 7451 on an ATX board), but I find it hard to accept that a P4 > 1.6 is similar in speed to an 800Mhz G4, I think it would be rather faster. Gotta get those [EMAIL PROTECTED] blocks done! > Yes.. I just read that iBook has no PCMCIA ports, and no expansion > options - is this correct?? That is very limiting for a laptop overall. USB, 1394, and maybe MiniPCI on the new ones. PCMCIA was dropped for strong reasons to do with it's crapulence (ISA speed and reliability, where do I sign up!) CardBus, maybe. Even then you have to deal with the haphazard nature of PCMCIA/cardbus device drivers what don't even work on half the strains of Windows still in use. That's a very stark contrast to vendor-neutral device classes in USB & 1394. Things could be better, but you still have a much better chance of J-random-device "just working" with USB/1394, on MacOS, XP, or Linux. Anyway, where was I going with this?... > >Wrong, if you look at it really, this is not the case, you pay what you > >get for, and the ibook are rather cheap for the price point. The only > >negative point is that they have smaller screens, but that only means > >that apple can spend more money on other stuff. > > If you read reviews and look at the hardware you are getting, Apple > machines are always going to be less value for money than an x86 > machine. The same tends to apply for laptops. I have taken a better look > at iBooks, and they are really rather poorly speeced for the price in my > opinion. The iBook costs approximately $2700-3000 AUD here (around > 1350-1500 Euro), but for that money, I can get a very powerful x86 > laptop from a good company like IBM or Asus or some other. Oh, that's what I just priced out a couple of ThinkPads. * 12.1" Small form factor (Makes a big difference in price) * base model CPU (PIII 1.066) * 256M of RAM * Minimal HD (20-30G) * DVD/CDR * WiFi Hmm, I think IBM's site bungled my search because now it's showing me the same laptop twice, oh well. I also priced out an iBook & AlBook similarly speced for comparison sake: Laptop: Price (USD) ThinkPad X30: $2,186.00 iBook 800Mhz$1,378.00 AlBook 867 $1,898.00 Apples to apples doesn't look to good for the PC laptop with poor power management under Linux. The ThinkPad does get some browie points for being lighter(3.7lbs vs. 4.9), but it doesn't include the combo drive I'd look at the Asus's you mentioned, and the Sony's, maybe even some HPaqs if it wern't so late. I didn't think BigBlue would come out that far behind. Oh well, maybe they'll be more competetive when I get around to replacing my 500Mhz iBook in 2-4 years. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Randomly selected signature -- > yer money, presumably US $ is backed by what ? Daisy Cutters... silly!
Re: dmasound
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:40:47PM -0700, Ron Golan wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:51:07PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Read the mailing list archive, and look for the iBook2 sound driver. > > It's not in Ben's tree afaik. > > It is now. Sound worked on my ibook2 as of 2.4.10-pre10 but the mixer > is still a problem Did you remember to compile/load i2c-keywest? The tumbler controls the mixer over i2c. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- If ignorance is bliss, is omniscience hell?
Re: dmasound
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:19:40PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Nicolas Lopez wrote: > > > Did you remember to compile/load i2c-keywest? The tumbler controls the > > mixer over i2c. > > Does the i2c-keywest driver provide the necessary support for mixer > control on the DACA sound chip? (And the ability to restore its state > properly on unsuspend?) I don't know. The mixer support is still in dmasound_pmac, it just needs to use the keywest i2c bus to talk to the mixer. I seem to have the impression that the DACA chip(set)s are in older systems using the keylargo chipset. I'm not sure though. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [Hacking on undocumented hardware is like] wiping a camel's butt with your tongue (G. Branden Robinson about the NVidia hardware)
Re: dmasound
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:47:24PM -0700, Ron Golan wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 02:21:14PM -0700, Nicolas Lopez wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:40:47PM -0700, Ron Golan wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:51:07PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > Read the mailing list archive, and look for the iBook2 sound driver. > > > > It's not in Ben's tree afaik. > > > > > > It is now. Sound worked on my ibook2 as of 2.4.10-pre10 but the mixer > > > is still a problem > > Did you remember to compile/load i2c-keywest? The tumbler controls the > > mixer over i2c. > > I do have i2c-keywest loaded. The problem I have with the mixer is > that I have to keep the volume sliders one or two steps above zero so > not to blow out the speakers. It feels like the normal volume range is > mapped into the bottom 5% of the slider. Oh yeah, I noticed that too. I'm guessing the current version of the tumbler support isn't doing any linearization on the amp, which I remembered seeing in the data sheet. Probably either a simple function or a look up table( as in the datasheet for the TI chip) to make the volume control linear. Hmm, I'll look into that tomarrow. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- We still need to do something about quik, ritual goat sacrifice is somewhat tricky to implement in C... - Ethan Benson on debian-boot 5-30-01
Re: dmasound
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 12:37:28PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Nicolas Lopez wrote: > > > I don't know. The mixer support is still in dmasound_pmac, it just needs > > to use the keywest i2c bus to talk to the mixer. I seem to have the > > impression that the DACA chip(set)s are in older systems using the keylargo > > chipset. I'm not sure though. > > Yes, but the KeyWest I2C driver picks up the I2C buses on a KeyLargo based > system (in this case a FireWire iBook), it just doesn't know what then Oh, well that would probably make things easier. > should be done with them. I can try to pound out something that then uses > the I2C bus to control the DACA (try being the key word there), but I > hesitate to do so as anything I do would necessarily be based on the DACA > driver code from Darwin CVS, and I'm not sure of all the license > implications that would entail. I think most of the interesting Tumbler stuff was yanked from darwin. Or at the very least used a reference to the nitty-gritty details of how to talk to the various parts. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Aiee. No wonder people say "Debian -- even Hell freezes faster". :'< - Josip Rodin
Re: Has anyone a working XF86Config-4 for ibook2 with dri enabled?
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:10:17AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 21:26, Thorsten Nicklaus wrote: > > > Without dri enabled X is working. But with it I fail. No sreens found is > > the error. Hmm, "No Screens found" shouldn't be happening, should just give up on DRI and get on with life. > > Section "Screen" > > Identifier "ibook-Screen" > > Device "Generic Video Card" > > Monitor "Generic Monitor" > > DefaultDepth24 > > DRI only works in depth 16 (too little video RAM for 24), but it > shouldn't fail due to this either. Actually, last time I checked r128_dri.c it didn't even try to work with anything but 16bpp mode. I think it would say that nicely in the log too, but I'm not sure. This was a month or two ago, so it may have been implemented by now. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Give a man a password, he'll log in for a day. Teach him to code, and he will hack his way in...
Re: Has anyone a working XF86Config-4 for ibook2 with dri enabled?
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:46:18PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:25:09PM -0700, Nicolas Lopez wrote: > But does the iBook have enough VRAM to do DRI on even 640x480 at >16bpp? Um, yeah. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is less than a 1M framebuffer. There's 8M there. And I just refreshed my xfree86 source tree, r128_dri.c still says: case 8: /* 8bpp mode is not support */ case 15: /* FIXME */ case 24: /* FIXME */ xf86DrvMsg(pScreen->myNum, X_ERROR, "[dri] R128DRIScreenInit failed (depth %d not supported). " "Disabling DRI.\n", info->CurrentLayout.pixel_code); return FALSE; So it wouldn't even try if it did have the vram. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- As sugested, I checked Microsoft's definition of Microsoft. The Encarta Dictionary [msn.com] says "No matches found for: Microsoft" The Encarta Encyclopedia [msn.com], however, has a much more fitting definition: "Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0005', Invalid procedure call or argument, /shared/spot/xmlsearchcore.inc, line 572 " I think that really sums it up!
Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:17:55AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:14:39PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > It might be. On this good ol' PowerBook with a 400 Mhz G3, about a third > > of the frames are skipped or dropped. And as the software seems to be > > improving rather quickly in this area, the new iBooks might soon be well > > enough for smooth DVD playback. > > Are there people actively working on this? The mood I was getting was > that G3's weren't work the trouble. I myself don't have much in the way > of PowerPC assembly brains, or video processing mojo. Don't listen to the nay-sayers. A PII/266 with a Rage128(not pro) can sustain 20fps on DVDs under Linux. There is no good reason a G3/366 can't do the same. And a 500 or 600 should be able to go all the way. That is just using the hardware colorspace, not even using iDCT or motion comp. I have my doubts that Apple is even using those features, because if you try to play a DVD under OS9 or OSX it will make the system unusable. You watch the DVD and that's all you do. Might just be playing scheduling tricks though. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __ (oO) /||\ C'thulhu for President - NOT the lesser of two evils!
Re: iBook2 keyboard ...
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 06:03:00PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 23:58, William R Sowerbutts wrote: > > 2. The keyboard sometimes "misses" events. Most annoying is when it misses a > >"key up" event. Eg, I press and release the right cursor key, but it > > misses > >the "right cursor key up" event and my cursor keeps scrolling to the > > right > >until I hit the key again. No solution for this one yet -- anyone? > > AFAIR this started happening with the new input layer (or Linux > keycodes?). Might give a hint where to look. Right. I get the exact same behavior on my x86 with a USB keyboard. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- However, if you wish, I hereby proclaim that Debian shall release woody before December 31, 2099, or when it is ready, whichever comes first. Happy? manoj
Re: Stable kernel tree
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 11:27:39AM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > :-) I meant the new TiBook :-) If the iBook2 has tumbler as well, then > try rsync'ing today from Ben's tree. It has a functional tumbler driver > that works quite well (I've been working on it so that Ben can concentrate > on other things :-P). I'd be interested in hearing from iBook2 owners as > to how well it works on their hardware. It works great on mine(iBook 2001.0, aka 500Mhz) except it occationally wakes up in a "bad mood" and starts making unplesant feedback noises. reloading dmasound_pmac get it to behave again. This is on an older kernel(2.4.15-presomething) though. The other changes you described sound interesting. If you need a sucker, err, tester just point to to the source. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- < chun-li:#ppclinux> from what ive seen macos people are linux incompatable.
Re: firewire hard drive
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:18:21PM +0100, Herv? MATHIEU wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to install debian on a external firewire hard drive and to > boot it normaly ? I have a powerbook G4. (the openfirmware is updated). Boot is no problem, OF handles it pretty well. Linux, however, does not handle it so well yet. A normal install won't even attempt FW. In order to actually use firewire as a root (AFAIKT) you need to create an initrd of sorts to hang around until the FW drive is initted and detected, then mount it an continue with the boot. I've tried this on a few occations but have yet to put enough effort into it to create a working initrd. The same problems hold true for USB and PCMCIA/cardbus: They need to be detected and inited outside of the kernel before they can be used, which means they can't be used for / (without an initrd) Let me know if you find/make a working system, I have a friend wanting to play with Debian from a USB drive as well as my own uses. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "I'm sorry kids sometimes what's right isn't as important as what is profitable"
Re: USB-modem for ibook - any recomendations
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 05:42:03PM +0100, Georg Koss wrote: > First of all a friendly hello to all! Hola > I ordered an ibook 500 today 8-))). Only a 500? > I need to have a dial-up connection either by 56k or ISDN. As I > read, the internal modem doesn't work - so I'm looking for another solution. If it's one of the older 500MHz models then it hsould have an i2c modem, which does work, minor twitchess aside. > Is anybody aware about external USB-56k modems one can get today (kernel-Docs > acm.txt is written in 1999) or even external ISDN-USB-modems (or > probably any other mobile solution working with the ibook 500). I'm not sure if they are still on the market(or have been redesigned since I last used one) but the Creative ModemBlaster USB worked fine for me almost 2 years ago. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It's just something they made up to scare kids. Like the boogey man, or Michael Jackson. - Bart Simpson
Re: TiBook keyboard/X questions
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 10:17:24AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got sid installed, and X working great on my 550Mhz powerbook G4, > however there's a few things that drive me crazy in X: > 1. I've got the ctrl:nocaps option in my XConfig, and xkb enabled, but > the Capslock key simply does nothing (it doesn't work as caps lock > anymore, but the light still toggles on and off, but it's not a > control key either). That's the "EVIL" Apple ADB keyboard design "feature". There is a patch around somewhere, I think somebody posted a link here a couple weeks ago, that kludges around this. I put it in the kernel on my iBook and tested it a little. It seemed to work, but more importantly, it got the "Caps-lock is the antichrist" guy off my back at LUG meetings :) If you can't find the link to the proper home I think I still have the patch on my harddrive. > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "keyboard" > Option "CoreKeyboard" > Option "XkbRules""xfree86" > Option "XkbModel""macintosh" > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" > EndSection That's how mine looks. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "That vulnerability is completely theoretical." -- Microsoft -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: eth0 link state change
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:25:40AM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > Hey All, > > For about a week now my logcheck emails have been flooded with the > following: > > May 15 07:05:16 amadeus kernel: eth0:Link down ! > May 15 07:05:16 amadeus kernel: eth0: Link state change, phy_status: 0x7809 > May 15 07:05:18 amadeus kernel: eth0:Full Duplex: 0, Speed: 100 > May 15 07:05:18 amadeus kernel: eth0:Link up ! BCM5201/5221 aux_stat: > 0x003e > Any idea why my eth0 link might be going up and down all the time? Is > this a local issue with my laptop, or is it likely an issue with the > router on the other end of the ethernet link? I upgraded the OS on my > cisco router just about the time I started seeing this, so it makes me > suspicious. Check the port on your laptop. I somehow managed to compress the pin on my ethernet port down enough so that they only make intermitant contact at best. A bit of fiddling with a paper clip and how they're back in position making good contact. I thought it was odd because I rarely use the ethernet port (gotta love wireless). If that isn't it you might want to try throwing a small hub/switch between the laptop and the router. Oh, and give the ends of your patch cord a good once-over. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Moses, how do we kill a a giant, stone Abraham Lincoln?" "Um, um, a giant, stone John Wilks Booth?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new iBook 700 LCD / ohci1394 driver.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:15:29AM +0100, William R Sowerbutts wrote: > My initial scheme for installing debian was to put the new iBook into firewire > target mode (hold down "T" as the system boots), connect it up to my old > iBook, and then partition, format, and copy from the old iBook to the new one > over firewire. A good plan. > Using Ben's kernel 2.4.19-pre8-ben0 I didn't seem to be able to get the > ieee1394 driver to recognise the iBook "target". I had the relevant modules > loaded (I think) -- 1394, OHCI1394, SPB2, SCSI, SCSI hard disk -- but > repeatedly plugging the target in produced no response on the old iBook (no > kernel messages) and then rmmod'ing the ohci1394 module caused a kernel > panic. Ooops. The 1394 code in the newer BenH kernels doesn't seem to fondle the scsi layer like it used to. I thought it was a problem too, until I tried running the rescan-scsi-bus.sh I pulled from somewhere. That alerted the SCSI layer that the drive was there, and all is well. As for the oops, I'd suggest throwing "rmmod sbp2 ohci1394 ieee1394" in my /etc/power/pwrctl(right filename?) so I don't have to worry about putting the system to sleep, or having it doze on it's own. I don't know if there is a problem keeping ohci1394 from being able to sleep properly, or if it's just a matter of nobody having done it yet. Anyone care to comment? - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Microsoft is a cross between the Borg and the Ferengi. Unfortunately, they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to do their programming." --- Simon Slavin in asr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot iBook off firewire drive?
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 05:10:17PM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I have one of the recently released iBook 700MHz laptops and would like to try > running linux on it at some point. > > But I don't want to partition my disk and reinstall everything, what I would > like to do is use an external firewire drive and install Linux on that. > > Can the iBook boot off a firewire drive? Yes it can. > Can Linux load this way (using one of the available boot loaders). "Load", yes, boot, not quite. yaboot will happy run from the fw drive, loading the kernel and everything. The problem comes into play when Linux goes looking for it's root partition. IIRC the kernel doesn't actually fire off the processes that would detect and activate the firewire drive until after the root is mounted. Either that or the detection and setup doesn't complete before it tries to mount. Either way it should be posible to do it with a small initrd that just waits for the FW drive to be activated, mounts it as /, then sets the boot occations but have never actually gotten it to work. Or rather, I've yet to actually build the initrd. I've booted from my iBook in target mode on a QuickSilver G4. As I said, the kernel loads and runs just fine, then it stops when /dev/sda10 doesn't exist yet. > How would I go about starting up into Linux? Can I set this as my startup > disk > in Mac OS X and restart? Or would I have to go into OS 9 and use BootX? Startup Disk doesn't see my yaboot partition, no big loss though. Just use the "option" boot menu (Hold down the option key when you power on) to pick Linux. > Thanks, Let me know if you have any luck. There are a few people in town here who would be interested in a working setup. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary had a crypto key, she kept it in escrow, and everything that Mary said, the Feds were sure to know. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
