Benh's Sleep patch for a 2.6.10 kernel?
Can anyone give me a link to this? Is there such a thing? And what would the status of DRI support on ATI 9600 be anyways? Still running ubuntu with benhs great 2.6.9-sleep7 :) Sometimes on wakeup I get really bad, loud static noise but as long as I remember to wakeup with the same USB devices plugged in/not in when going to sleep its running like a charm. The Xorg-packages from ubuntu run nicely. However anything beyond the window-shadows is a no-go due to performance issues. greetings, Timo Reimerdes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Poor suspend life on Powerbook G4 (5,2)
Hi, I was just discussing Linux as an OS on my mac with a friend who is running debian on his iBook for ages. He mentioned that when suspended his iBook lasts about 5 days! Mine will run out of battery power within two and a half days. I am currently running ubuntu-hoary and a 2.6.9-ppc-sleep7 kernel (2.6.9 with the sleep patch from benh). Could a current kernel increase my battery life (under OSX I can suspend alot longer times!)? And could someone mail me a link to either a .config usable for my powerbook? Or even a link to a precompiled image? That would be a blast. Other than that I am really happy with the way things work. And maybe one day even DRI will run ;) :P greetings Timo Reimerdes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Poor suspend life on Powerbook G4 (5,2)
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 08:00 +1100, Cedric Pradalier wrote: >According to Timo Reimerdes, on Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:04:23 +0100, >>Hi, >> >>I was just discussing Linux as an OS on my mac with a friend who is >>running debian on his iBook for ages. He mentioned that when suspended >>his iBook lasts about 5 days! Mine will run out of battery power within >>two and a half days. I am currently running ubuntu-hoary and a >>2.6.9-ppc-sleep7 kernel (2.6.9 with the sleep patch from benh). >> >>Could a current kernel increase my battery life (under OSX I can suspend >>alot longer times!)? >> >>And could someone mail me a link to either a .config usable for my >>powerbook? Or even a link to a precompiled image? >> >>That would be a blast. >> >>Other than that I am really happy with the way things work. And maybe >>one day even DRI will run ;) :P >> >>greetings >> >>Timo Reimerdes >> >> > >You can try to remove usb module before going to sleep. In my experience on >my ibook, I cannot sleep one night with usb module loaded. The main reason was >that usb >device must be alimented to be able to detect device insertion. > >My conclusion is that you should remove usb, ethernet, firewire, sound... I >don't know >which one change anything, but that's worth trying. > >Cedric but unloading all the modules while my sound-applications i.e. are running is probably not gonna work. Keeping them open however is one of the things i like about suspend. :/ Is it possible to properly automate this? The usb module I tried to unload in the lid-event-script. But it wont work. :/ greetings Timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Poor suspend life on Powerbook G4 (5,2)
> >Can you confirm that OS X allows you to suspend a lot longer ? > I can. It definately lasts longer. If I get the chance and not have to work on the book all the time ;) I'll run a test to give you some numbers. But it should end up with about double!! the life under OSX. It it were less I wouldnt mind. But right now I wish to be able to suspend for a whole weekend. ;) Hugs for the sleep-patch, though. :D greetings, Timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Poor suspend life on Powerbook G4 (5,2) - Result linux
Tonights Result: Sleep from 03:00 @ 94% to 09:00 @ 84 % - linux-2.6.9-sleep7 ---> 6 hours suspend - 10% ---> max 60 hours suspend (thats definately less then under OSX suspend - I can give you a result for that tonight) greetigs Timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trackpad scrolling?
On Do, 2004-06-03 at 01:08 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Something I've been looking for for a while now is a trackpad driver for the > powerbook that would allow me to scroll on one of the edges of the trackpad. > Someone created sidewinder for OSX, but I haven't seen this for linux. Seems > kind of strange to me... > I'm shure to watch this thread, a friend of mine is using this festure with his synaptics touchpad for a while and I liked it a lot. Found no way to get it supported on the Powerbook TP. :/ -- Timo Reimerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Low bogomips rate on new iBook
# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7457, altivec supported clock : 1249MHz revision: 1.1 (pvr 8002 0101) bogomips: 1244.86 machine : PowerBook5,2 motherboard : PowerBook5,2 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 15") pmac flags : 000a L2 cache: 512K unified memory : 512MB pmac-generation : NewWorld strange - with the 2.6.6 kernel I am currently running (2.6.6-bk4) there was no problem at all. -- Timo Reimerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Suspend for the iBook G4
On Mi, 2004-06-16 at 16:51 -0400, Brian Robinson wrote: > I was wondering how the suspend project is coming along for the iBook > G4. I am in great need of this since I don't want to system sitting > around without suspend. > > Thanks, > > Brian > > I second that for a powerbook g4. Guess thats about the same thing ;) If I can help with anything, just let me know - university however keeps my time limited. regards -- Timo Reimerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: gDesklets -- Which Work?
On Fr, 2004-06-18 at 22:05 +, Ed Sutherland wrote: > I'm using Gnome 2.6 and trying to get gDesklets to work. The several > desklets I've tried have all complained about 'possible broken sensors.' > Does anyone know for certain which desklets actually work with debian > and Gnome 2.6? Thanks. > > Ed > > I just apt-get install --reinstalled libsensors3 and that error vanished... they kept on crashing on me, though so I quit using them. -- Timo Reimerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
respawning too fast...
Hi, I got this Problem and according to some board-posts and newsgroups I found using google some others do, too. Unfortunately nothing they posted helped in resolvnig this problem. I am shure I just messed up some minor thing when switching to 2.6.x kernels. this is /var/log/syslog- Jun 27 11:07:08 area init: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Jun 27 11:07:08 area init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Jun 27 11:07:08 area init: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Jun 27 11:07:09 area init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Jun 27 11:07:11 area init: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Jun 27 11:07:11 area init: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes - Does anyone here know the short answer? I do not have the same Problem running debian on my i386 right left to me. Everything a-ok there. Thx in advance, Timo
Re: respawning too fast...
On So, 2004-06-27 at 14:17, Derrik Pates wrote: > > The only time I ever ran into anything like that was when I enabled > DevFS, and had the kernel mount it on boot, but didn't have the devfsd > package installed. You sure you didn't do something like that? Maybe try > adding 'devfs=nomount' to the kernel command line when you're booting to > see if that's it. > Actually I did switch from devfs to udev since devfs is being obsoleted by it. So I guess that udev is kind of responsible for refusing the tty's. I checkt my .config and didn't find anything I would suspect to be messed up. 1:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 38400 tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 38400 tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 38400 tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 38400 tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 38400 tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 38400 tty6 This is what I found to be causing the errors. I have no non-X-console :/ and I miss it! -- Timo Reimerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: BootSplash
On Sa, 2004-06-26 at 07:44, Sam Halliday wrote: > this would be a very cool thing to have during bootup on a laptop. Actually I'd prefer a nice suspend-support so I wont have to boot ever again ;) -- Timo Reimerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: respawning too fast...
On So, 2004-06-27 at 15:07, Sam Halliday wrote: > Timo Reimerdes wrote: > > On So, 2004-06-27 at 14:17, Derrik Pates wrote: > > > > > > The only time I ever ran into anything like that was when I enabled > > > DevFS, and had the kernel mount it on boot, but didn't have the devfsd > > > package installed. You sure you didn't do something like that? Maybe try > > > adding 'devfs=nomount' to the kernel command line when you're booting to > > > see if that's it. > > > > > Actually I did switch from devfs to udev since devfs is being obsoleted > > by it. So I guess that udev is kind of responsible for refusing the > > tty's. > > I checkt my .config and didn't find anything I would suspect to be > > messed up. > > have you got /dev/pts support (in pseudo filesystems)? if you disabled devfs, > it > is a common mistake to forget to select pts again (as devfs includes it) > > cheers, > Sam .config: # # Pseudo filesystems # CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y CONFIG_SYSFS=y # CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set # CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS_XATTR is not set CONFIG_TMPFS=y # CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is not set CONFIG_RAMFS=y so I'll try to add CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS_XATTR=y ? -- Timo Reimerdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: respawning too fast...
On So, 2004-06-27 at 15:12, Timo Reimerdes wrote: > .config: > > # > # Pseudo filesystems > # > CONFIG_PROC_FS=y > CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y > CONFIG_SYSFS=y > # CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set > # CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS_XATTR is not set > CONFIG_TMPFS=y > # CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is not set > CONFIG_RAMFS=y > > > so I'll try to add CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS_XATTR=y ? that didnt change anything... running 2.6.7-bk10 now -- Timo Reimerdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: respawning too fast...
On So, 2004-06-27 at 11:49, Kiko Piris wrote: > On 27/06/2004 at 11:18 +0200, Timo Reimerdes wrote: > > > I got this Problem and according to some board-posts and newsgroups I > > found using google some others do, too. Unfortunately nothing they > > posted helped in resolvnig this problem. I am shure I just messed up > > some minor thing when switching to 2.6.x kernels. > > > > this is /var/log/syslog- > > Jun 27 11:07:08 area init: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 > > minutes > > Jun 27 11:07:08 area init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 > > minutes > > Jun 27 11:07:08 area init: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 > > minutes > > Jun 27 11:07:09 area init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 > > minutes > > Jun 27 11:07:11 area init: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 > > minutes > > Jun 27 11:07:11 area init: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 > > minutes > > - > > Those id's are usually the getty's for tty consoles (at least they are > in default /etc/inittab). So your kernel might lack something related to > tty support. > > Does /var/log/kern.log say anything? nothing I am aware of being connected to this issue :/ > > The messages you posted really do not say anything about the cause of > `getty' dying in every respawn, so it could many things. > > If system logs do not say anything, try to run the command in > /etc/inittab from a console and see it's output. > 1:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 38400 tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 38400 tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 38400 tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 38400 tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 38400 tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 38400 tty6 executed at prompt I get no feedback - not on console nor on syslog root:~/# /sbin/getty -L 38400 tty6 root:~/# /sbin/getty -L 38400 tty1 root:~/# /sbin/getty -L 38400 tty2 root:~/# /sbin/getty -L 38400 tty3 root:~/# /sbin/getty -L 38400 tty4 root:~/# /sbin/getty -L 38400 tty5 and: "tail -f /var/log/syslog" stil contains: Jun 28 07:51:38 area init: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Jun 28 07:51:38 area init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Jun 28 07:51:38 area init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Jun 28 07:51:39 area init: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Jun 28 07:51:39 area init: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Jun 28 07:51:39 area init: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes :( no prompt @ console. :/ thx for all the help. -- Timo Reimerdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: status of sleep for current PowerBooks (Radeon 9700)?
On Do, 2004-07-01 at 07:17, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, the M9 is well documented, and should be no problem, the main > point is that his version has a Radeon Mobility 9700 for which little is > known. Well, I am running a Powerbook G4 with the [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] and no suspend working here :( I hope those ATI-dudes really chnge their mind, get off their * and give some love to benh ;) -- Timo Reimerdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: status of sleep for current PowerBooks (Radeon 9700)?
On Do, 2004-07-01 at 13:49, Arne Caspari wrote: > I bet all of you have already told ATI about this, haven't you ;-) > > > -Arne if anyone interested in getting it working hasent... gogogo! I allready thought about a nice cronjob sending them this mail once a month ;) - I guess I just have scruples spamming :P -- Timo Reimerdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Anjuta broken on PPC?
Hi, I just stumbled over a weird problem: Anjuta seems to be somewhat broken in debian-ppc? Any command I want it to execute results in a "cannot execute command: XXX" ... let XXX be "make -k" for example. This renders anjuta pretty useless. Has anyone got a hint on what I am missing or if this is a PPC-related bug @ all? plus... I still have the respawning too fast issue ... guess those things arent related, though. -- Timo Reimerdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
wxPython bungled? Torrent wont run properly...
Hoi,
I have this minor trouble with btdownloadgui (the bittorrent dialog).
It is working fine on my i386 under winslow and debian-linux - but on
the Powerbook it fails to show the progress bar, update the UI properly
and the button disappears, too.
http://www.gtnw.de/~tr/bittorrent.jpg
(since it's now officially permitted to download Fahrenheit 911 ;) )
I figured it might have something to do with the wxPython? But I might
as well be wrong.
Does anyone here use torrent more frequently ore happen to know how to
resolve this?
Thx,
Timo Reimerdes
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Re: kernel source for PPC? rsync?
I am using kernel.org and just patch to the latest available version ;) Still hoping to find suspend and the radeon working some day. On Di, 2004-07-13 at 10:17 +0200, Christoph Ewering wrote: > Hello! > > Could someone tell where to get current PPC-kernel-sources? > At the moment I am using www.kernel.org. > Some rsync-sources? > > Bye, > Christoph > signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Creating MacOS-X partitions under debian?
Hi, Since the mac-disk-tool is kind of scary (it deleted all my partitions once when I tried to resize) I wondered: Is there a tool under debian to create and resize partitions (was it HFS?). thanks a lot. Timo Reimerdes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Debian + The new PowerBook G4
On Di, 2004-07-27 at 14:48 -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > The wireless will be a problem with any current model. The tibooks had > the original airport card, which is well understood. Any albook comes > with airport extreme, which is based on a broadcom chip which is still > mostly a mystery to people, so there isn't a driver at this point. I second that. All my attempts to create something close to a working driver together with some of my friends failed utterly. Probably becase we are all new to the whole device-driver thing ;) - But the external adapter (PCMCIA) I used on my IBM a20p works fine. > > If you want 802.11 networking on a current powerbook, you'll have to > get an external adapter. There are several supported USB and PCMCIA > units that should just work. > > > I haven't messed with 3D graphics but I hear they work using a different > > branch of the X code. Never really had a need for the stuff (on my > > powebook at least). > > The graphics may be a problem. Last I checked, there still wasn't support > for the Radeon 9600/9800 or any nVidia chips for 3D graphics. However, > the basic 2D acceleration works fine on my Radeon 9600 card, and I don't > do much 3D graphics, so I haven't been concerned about it. > Now this is a tough one... 3D graphics isn't even the biggest problem about the radeon... Having no working suspend is te pain. I wish it would be as smooth as the <2 sec wakeup under macOS X. I even tried using macOS but somehow I lack the control I want regarding keymap, look and feel, available applications and the challenge ;) > Most other hardware should work, but it depends somewhat on the exact > model you get. I believe sleep is still broken on nVidia based models. As mentioned I do not have working suspend here, and I habe the ati radeon 9600 version. Greetings Timo Reimerdes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
ati 9600 support & suspend
Hi, I am just asking: is there still Work in Progress on the ati9600 support and the suspend for the Powerbook G4, 15" ? I am really desperately waiting for that ;). So far all I do is write mails to ati... no answer whatsoever. :( I would even use evil-evil binary drivers if there were some. :/ greetings, Timo Reimerdes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
2.6.8.1-kernel on Powerbook G4?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am currently getting lost configuring my kernels for my Powerbook. I wonder - is there a page that collects kernel-configs for powerbooks? Does anyone have a working or at least mostly working config for a Powerbook like mine? Or is anyone interested in creating a config together with me and share it with the world? - - I am running debian testing/unstable on this computer: root:/usr/src/linux # lspci :00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 AGP :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] 0001:01:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 PCI 0001:01:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) 0001:01:13.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller 0001:01:17.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid Mac I/O 0001:01:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB 0001:01:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB 0001:01:1a.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB 0001:01:1b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:01:1b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:01:1b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) 0002:06:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 Internal PCI 0002:06:0d.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Intrepid ATA/100 0002:06:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 FireWire (rev 81) 0002:06:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev 80) root:/usr/src/linux # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7447/7457, altivec supported clock : 765MHz revision: 1.1 (pvr 8002 0101) bogomips: 508.92 machine : PowerBook5,2 motherboard : PowerBook5,2 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 15") pmac flags : 000a L2 cache: 512K unified memory : 512MB pmac-generation : NewWorld - - The frequency is so low due to the running powernowd - so thats ok. Problems I have: * no working console on local login: "respawning too fast issue" * no working suspend (okok - thats something to wait for) * no working DRI (same as suspend and not that important to me) * no working airport extreme (waiting again) ... Questions: * How to get console working again? I can login via ssh but wont get a single prompt locally. I tried google for around a month now... none of the hints helped me. * can anyone provide me with a kernel-config that works? Mine got a little bloated whilst trying to fix the console issue. * does keyboard lighting work on this system? how? NO-Kernel-Question: * what is the best handling for the backlight/volume/keyboard-backlighting keys when running kde? just switched from gnome ;) - - What I would like to get: a working powerbook config and a little page where anyone can take a look. Could put it into my university webspace ;) thx and everything - I hope to get this system into a working state when I dont have to sacrifice too much of the functionality I'd have under macOSX but have the freedom and the multitude of applications and configuration-options of debian. greetings Timo Reimerdes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBKcS578tYjc5G2DgRArnTAJ9gDxvQAAR35F0PdQ4CP4cid231GgCgs8AG 2HflZi9S5Ht1ZyNfIWo2K9k= =hoo3 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: 2.6.8.1-kernel on Powerbook G4?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > So, did you fill a bug report ? and can we then fix the stuff together, > instead of you building your own kernel with your own config file, and then > let the same mess to the next one which is in your case ? > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther Trust me - I would have filed a report, but I am just not entirely shure what is going on here. If I find anything I can put my fingers on. I am relatively new to ppc-linux and the whole building-the-newest-kernel-there-is buisiness. So have mercy on me... My a20p was a lot easier to master *g* I will try the config from here: http://ppcconfdb.sourceforge.net/ with the addition of pcmcia-support. seems to be a good one. will send you all my results ;) promise! Timo Reimerdes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBKjHV78tYjc5G2DgRAoGuAKCWTGy49Nfgo6iMYEAHP5KVAEuTTACgy40B wTtmKxCKM5Zqoe5PTsGrkAs= =VhmU -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: 2.6.8.1-kernel on Powerbook G4?
On Di, 2004-08-24 at 16:12 -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > | Problems I have: > | * no working console on local login: "respawning too fast issue" > > I saw this issue on a couple machines (x86) while I was tinkering with > them. It was a little bit frustrating for me because the problem ws > "intermittent". I eventually figured it out. Sometimes on that > little 486 I would disable devfsd (this was before udev was available) > because cups would take forever to start because devfsd would fork an > excessive number of modprobe processes. Then I couldn't get a local > login because /dev/tty1 (etc.) didn't exist. When devfsd was running, > however, /dev/tty1 was a symlink to /dev/vc/1 and getty would open the > console. Could this be the cause of your problem? Make sure the > device specified in /etc/inittab exists. > For example, this line tells getty to use /dev/tty1 > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 -f /etc/issue.linuxlogo > Likewise, this line says to use /dev/vc/1 > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 vc/1 -f /etc/issue.linuxlogo > (you probably won't have the '-f /etc/issue.linuxlogo' in your > inittab) Thx a lot for this answer. It got me thinking - could it help to add lines like: L tty1 /dev/vc/1 L tty2 /dev/vc/2 L tty3 /dev/vc/3 L tty4 /dev/vc/4 L tty5 /dev/vc/5 L tty6 /dev/vc/6 to the /etc/udev/links.conf? Or would I break my system that way? Not having that wonderfull feature of a non-x-login is getting me a little nervous everytime I update anything. ;)
Re: 2.6.8.1-kernel on Powerbook G4?
yes - that was a working solution: I found the lines in /etc/udev/devfs.rules # tty devices KERNEL="tty[0-9]*", NAME="vc/%n" KERNEL="ttyS[0-9]*",NAME="tts/%n" KERNEL="ttyUSB[0-9]*", NAME="tts/USB%n" KERNEL="rfcomm[0-9]*", NAME="bluetooth/rfcomm/%n" indicating the renaming of tty* to vc/* so adding to /etc/udev/links.conf: L tty1 /dev/vc/1 L tty2 /dev/vc/2 L tty3 /dev/vc/3 L tty4 /dev/vc/4 L tty5 /dev/vc/5 L tty6 /dev/vc/6 got things working again. I am so relieved! thx a lot! Timo Reimerdes
Re: is make-kpkg broken for anyone else?
On So, 2004-08-22 at 22:01 +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > 'ello, > > Trying to compile kernel-source-2.6.8 (Debian package) with make-kpkg. > It seems to compile the kernel fine but make-kpkg dies at the stage of > building the debian/buildinfo file. > worked fine for me. (am running debian unstable and the 2.6.8.1 kernel from kernel.org on a Powerbook5,2 right now and I think I have everything I need working right now except for suspend.) > Is this the case for others? I am desparate to sort out my sound/cpu > frequency issues could you probably be more specific about those issues? What kind of hardware are we talking about? What sound-problems? I never had any real problems when compiling alsa-powermac-stuff as [M]. greetz, Timo Reimerdes
Re: 2.6.8.1-kernel on Powerbook G4?
> | It got me thinking - could it help to add > | lines like: > | L tty1 /dev/vc/1 > | L tty2 /dev/vc/2 > | L tty3 /dev/vc/3 > | L tty4 /dev/vc/4 > | L tty5 /dev/vc/5 > | L tty6 /dev/vc/6 > | to the /etc/udev/links.conf? > > I would say that is not the best solution. I am under the impression > that the debian maintainer added links.conf to udev as an interim > workaround for certain limitations in certain versions of udev and the > kernel. (for example, earlier 2.6 kernels didn't have any sysfs info > for the framebuffer and some other devices like that needed this > "hard-coded" information) If it is an interim solution isn't the Linking way kindof correct? After all - if I got you right - vc/x is the way it is going to be. So the links to tty should not really pose any Problems if things get up-to- date, should they? > The better approach, IMO, is to create the apropriate udev rules so > the files/links are created automatically (instead of statically > through links.conf) or to adjust the inittab to look for the > devfs-style name. I didn't want to touch the rules themselves because I have seen them being updated on several occasions and I wouldn't want to have to readjust them everytime that happens. Since udev is kindof new I wouldn't want to miss an important update either. > What version of udev are you using? At some point the directory > /etc/udev/rules.d was introduced as a way to specify which rules you > want udev to apply. By default it contains a symlink to > /etc/udev/udev.rules which is a set of rules creating traditional > names. On my systems, since I had used devfs for quite some time, I > remove that link and instead put symlinks to /etc/udev/devfs.rules and > /etc/udev/compat-full.rules. The former gives devfs-style names, and > the latter creates the "comaptibility" symlinks like devfsd used to > do. > Interesting - once more I learned something :) thx. > I also changed my inittab to have the following section: > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 -f /etc/issue.linuxlogo > 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 -f /etc/issue.linuxlogo > 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 -f /etc/issue.linuxlogo > 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 vc/4 > 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 vc/5 > 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6 > > With some gettys using the traditional name and some using the > devfs-style name I will have at least one console functioning > regardless of what sort of /dev configuration I boot with. (basically > this is just a safety net in case somehow I boot and the symlinks > aren't there or something) So I could alternatively have changed the tty1 in the inittab to vc/1? And that sould have had the same effect as letting getty look at tty1 linked to vc/1. Hm. Sounds like the "cleaner" approach. Might try that, too. thx again, Timo
Re: 2.6.8.1-kernel on Powerbook G4?
One more question I have (now that everything I know of being supported by the current kernel is working for me) :) Keyboard lighting? Is that working/supported? If yes - how? volume and brightness are controlable via gnome-keyboard settings. But is there a way to get the keyboard illumination running? greetz, Timo Reimerdes
Presentations on IBook? External Monitors? Beamers?
Hi, me again with a question - this time its more for a friend of mine but I hope to find some usefull information in the answers myself: This is the machine I will be referring to: # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 745/755 temperature : 11-13 C (uncalibrated) clock : 499MHz revision: 51.17 (pvr 0008 3311) bogomips: 995.32 machine : PowerBook4,1 motherboard : PowerBook4,1 PowerBook2,2 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh detected as : 257 (iBook 2) pmac flags : 000b L2 cache: 256K unified memory : 256MB pmac-generation : NewWorld # lspci :00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea AGP :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) 0001:01:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea PCI 0001:01:17.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea Mac I/O 0001:01:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea USB 0001:01:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea USB 0002:02:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea Internal PCI 0002:02:0e.0 : Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea FireWire (rev ff) 0002:02:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea GMAC (Sun GEM) The Problem is: When connecing a second Monitor to it the picture is blurred and - now this is the real problem!!! - when connecting a "beamer" no picture is visible at all. Since he is a fellow student presentations is like 75% of what we do. Any hints on what needs to be done? 2.6.8.1 is running smoothly otherwise (except he might have forgotten some module for his external firewire-gd *g*). So - anyone here using his IBook for presentations? Any hint? Myself is more interested in the whole thing for the G4 (ATI Radeon 9600) - but I am not so dependent on using beamers. He is - right now he is using a macosx install on his external drive. But since his suspend works fine, thats the only reason for him to reboot... thx in advance, Timo Reimerdes
Re: X.org Questions
On Mo, 2004-09-13 at 01:49 -0400, Chris Anderson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 00:55 -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: > > After looking at screenshots of X.org, it seems to be more graphically > > up-to-date than XFree86. But, I have some questions: > > > > 1) Can X.org be apt-gotten? (otherwise, where and how) > > Not officially, there may be a repo somewhere that someone else > maintains though. > > > 2) How difficult is replacing xfree with x.org? > > Extract source, apt-get build-dep xserver-xfree86, make World, make > install. Going backwards could possibly be troublesome (perhaps build to > another prefix). > > > 3) Any issues specific to the ppc architecture I should be aware? Thanks. > > I haven't encountered any thus far. > Yet another question: What, except the transparency and the shadow-thingy is of advantage in x.org? is anything done noticably better? is it recomendable? greetz, Timo
Re: Problem with backlit keyboard on aluminium powerbook
On 22. Sep 2004, at 22:25 Uhr, Martino Pizzol wrote: Hi all! I have a powerbook(15" 1.25ghZ) and the backlit keyboard don't work. I use a debian sid with a kernel 2.6.8.1 with the patch pmdisk. I have loaded the i2c_keywest modules but in powerprefs the keyboard tab is disabled, and it doesn't work with pbbuttons. How I can setup the vacklit keyboard? Thanks to everyone and sorry for my poor english! Hi, I have the same troubles but fortunately that feature is not quite as important since I figured that mostly the keys are better visible with the dark letters on the metallic keys. However I would like to one day have it all running properly. With everything that works on osx :) some day Timo Reimerdes
Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade
On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 11:55 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 09:57 +0100, Richard Hult wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > Today I compiled the 2.6.9 stock kernel + Ben's suspend > > > patch. However I am experiencing a lot of extra heet production as > > > opposed to the 2.6.8.1 kernel. I have locked my cpu at the lowest > > > frequency (it is fast enough), and with the 2.6.8.1 the fan was > > > almost always off except with excessive loads. But while using > > > the 2.9.6 the fans have to cool down my albook a lot more. > > > > > > I haven't made any significant change to my kernel config. I have > > > a PowerBook5,4 running at 1,33 MHz (well 666 MHz actually). > > > > I can confirm this on my PowerBook 5,4 1.5GHz. Although the temperature > > rise happened when upgrading from the debian kernel package for 2.6.7 to > > 2.6.8. The idle temperature goes up ~4 degrees celcius, just by booting > > with 2.6.8 or later instead of 2.6.7. A friend with the same model is > > also experiencing this. > > That's weird... I don't have an explanation off-hand. > > Ben. Hm... I havent researched it but I said to a friend of mine about 15 minutes ago "somehow the temperature management seems to get worse". *g* In other words - I had the same feeling. (Running Ubuntu 2.6.8.1 now - preparing to test the sleep patch) Timo
Re: Debian or Ubantu
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 17:35 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > >>Debian on the other hand may be more complicated than I want. I wasn't [too] > >>encouraged when X took serious tweaking to get it to boot up. > >> > >> > > > >The main advantage for going "straight" Debian is when you need > >something that's not supported by the Ubuntu distro, and/or you are > >running a platform not supported by it. Ubuntu is limited to i386, > >"new-world" PPC and AMD64, whereas it seems like there's a Debian for > >just about everything. > > > > > commercial distributions feed the masses, debian is by the > people for the people. so if your running linux on more obscure or outdated hardware here> then other like > minded users (and possibly yourself) are maintaining things > for the hardware because they/you use it. that or a nice > package maintainer is cross compiling, which is just fine > and dandy as well ;) > > you may also find crux usefull, especially if your machine > will be filling a server roll. but, as ive mentioned many > times before - im very bsd = servers , linux = workstations > kind of man. > > Dean I have just recently installed Ubuntu on my Powerbook G4 and was very pleased with the fact that everything except the known issues worked after install: suspend and DRI are a nono (AlBook G4 - ATI 9600) after 1 line in fstab USB sticks work smooth sound's a-ok xserver runs nicely fonts are all available And on top of that - the config files are just like plain, good, old debian ;). So I like it as a starting point. (ps: there is no development stuff on the computer after install - but its available on the repositories) Timo
Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade
Could is be something related to hard-drive activity? Or is the processor just doing more work? did the powernowd change? I used to just keep my laptop running during the night having it right besides my bed. downloading stuff... Never was a problem. But now it keeps activating the fan wich is unusually noisy and wont let me sleep. :/ - So I guess it must be more then just a feeling. ;) greetz Timo Reimerdes On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 14:09 +0100, Richard Hult wrote: > Colin Leroy wrote: > > On 26 Nov 2004 at 12h11, Timo Reimerdes wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > >>Hm... I havent researched it but I said to a friend of mine about 15 > >>minutes ago "somehow the temperature management seems to get worse". *g* > >>In other words - I had the same feeling. (Running Ubuntu 2.6.8.1 now - > >>preparing to test the sleep patch) > > > > > > The fan driver never changed the way it works between its inclusion (around > > 2.6.2 iirc) and 2.6.10-rc2, so it's not temperature management related. > > > > Since 2.6.10-rc2 however, it now works by incrementing fan speed step > > by step according to the temperature. Try it, maybe works better. > > Note that the problem is most likely not related to the fan driver. The > temperature is simply more or less constantly 3-4 degrees higher than > before. If the temperature limit for the fan is raised, it can easily be > seen than the fan doesn't affect this. > > Using cpufreqd or any of the alternatives helps a bit, but only when > idling obviously. > > FWIW, I've tried the new fan driver and it works nicely, although it > doesn't really affect the temperature that much. > > /Richard > > -- > Imendio AB, http://www.imendio.com/ > >
Help? Kernel Build Howto for PowerBook G4 (5,2)
Hi, for about a week now I am using ubuntu linux on my powerbook. It runs really nice for allmost everything I want. Two issues I haven't got to work: Sleep (with the latest sleep patch by benh) which would be s nice Airport Extreme (Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 03)) The Problem I have is: I lost my old kernel-config from debian (yes - stupid me forgot to do a backup) and I cant seem to get a bootable kernel built by using the ubuntu-config and doing a make oldconfig. So: Is anyone here using the same kind of machine? Or something close to it? Do you have a kernel config for the sleep-patched kernel? And can someone give me a step by step checklist what to do to get things going? I would greatly appreciate it. thx in advance Timo Reimerdes PS: Here some Information about my computer: my lspci sais: :00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 AGP :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] 0001:01:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 PCI 0001:01:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 03) 0001:01:13.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller 0001:01:17.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid Mac I/O 0001:01:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB 0001:01:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB 0001:01:1a.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB 0001:01:1b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:01:1b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:01:1b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) 0002:06:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 Internal PCI 0002:06:0d.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Intrepid ATA/100 0002:06:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 FireWire (rev 81) 0002:06:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev 80) and my /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 cpu : 7447/7457, altivec supported clock : 765MHz revision: 1.1 (pvr 8002 0101) bogomips: 508.92 machine : PowerBook5,2 motherboard : PowerBook5,2 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 15") pmac flags : 000a L2 cache: 512K unified memory : 512MB pmac-generation : NewWorld
Re: Help? Kernel Build Howto for PowerBook G4 (5,2)
Hi, One thing that might be nice and save some bandwidth: Give a config only link. :) The sources I have here on my computer. Will compile them myself. I guess the .config is in the sources? *downloads* Airport isn't all that important, since I still have an old pcmcia thing somewhere around. But suspend is something I simply need for everyday university life ;) thx again. Timo On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 00:47 +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Timo Reimerdes wrote: > > Hi, > > > > for about a week now I am using ubuntu linux on my powerbook. It runs > > really nice for allmost everything I want. > > > > Two issues I haven't got to work: > > Sleep (with the latest sleep patch by benh) which would be s nice > > Airport Extreme (Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 03)) > > The airport will never run... > But I have some kerneldebs with sleep support and a patched > therm_adt driver provided, take a look at: > http://people.debian.org/~formorer/ppc/ > and please give me some feedback. I haven't tried the last one > yet, just built them. But in every case the config should work. > > I hope this helps > > Alex > >
Re: Help? Kernel Build Howto for PowerBook G4 (5,2)
Ok, I installed your precompiled kernel. It installed without any problems. I updated the /etc/yaboot.conf and executed ybin. Then the reboot: some error messages about kernel: cdrom: open failed. kernel: device-mapper: : dm-linear: Device lookup failed kernel: device-mapper: error adding target to table kernel: device-mapper: : dm-linear: Device lookup failed whatever that means... gonna research about it in a while. And there was a line about some alsa sound volume resetting that supposedly messed up... but I havent found it in the logs O_o... maybe some spelling error by me on my grep ;) So far so good - everything else works (no usb-stick here so cant test that need-to-have-feature) :/ Startsound greets me on login to ubuntu (must remember to turn that off) Then I closed the lid (my heart beating)... It took the computer a couple of seconds and IT WORKS! Sleep! Then I reopened the lid and was shocked! The bug when the display is all fuzzy and unreaddable was there. X appeared and the error was there, too. Since I used to fix that by killing X (alt-ctrl-backspace) and letting it restart into gdm (need to switch to my beloved text-only-login) I tried to just close the lid again. Sleep. Opening the lid. Wakeup: And *happy* the error was gone. Sound works, the usb-mouse works, the cd-burning works! Wonderfull! Now I'm gonna test it with all my regular applications running. (XChat, Gaim, Evolution, several Gnome-Terminals, Several Times Epiphany, emacs, ...) If they all survive and come back properly I am in absolute joy! Does your image include USB-Storage support? I hope it does. (oh ok - I just got your mail - If I'm right everything needed is compiled into the kernel) So. Great Thanks to you. Really! :happy: Timo Reimerdes ps: any idea about this occasionally messed up display? It's not your kernel - I had that with about every kernel version I had running on this computer, and as well under debian as under the ubuntu.
Re: TEST: Sleep patch #6
Ok,
I mentioned those weird problems about the computer not falling asleep?
It keeps happening. I compiled a kernel with the config from Alexander
Wirt and tried alot of combinations.
The logs really wont help a lot.
USB-Mouse plugged in/out wont change anything, AC plugged in/out wont
change anything, restarting X wont fix it.
Is there a possibility that pbbuttonsd is somehow related to that
problem? I wonder. Might check that out later.
This problem I must fix before I can call sleep working. It's really
annoying.
Do you have any hint on "what needs to be running" or "needs to be set
to X" or anything I could look for?
There are two things I do get during boot:
_
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel: pmac_zilog: 0.6 (Benjamin
Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel: pmac_zilog: Error registering serial
device, disabling pmac_zilog.
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel: pmac_zilog: Did another serial driver
already claim the minors?
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM
disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel: divert: not allocating divert_blk for
non-ethernet device lo
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel: MacIO PCI driver attached to Intrepid
chipset
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel: input: Macintosh mouse button
emulation
.
.
.
_
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel: device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl
(2003-12-10) initialised: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel: md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256,
MD_SB_DISKS=27
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel: hdc: packet command error: error=0x54
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was 100
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel: cdrom: open failed.
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel: device-mapper: : dm-linear: Device
lookup failed
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel:
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel: device-mapper: error adding target to
table
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel: device-mapper: : dm-linear: Device
lookup failed
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel:
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel: device-mapper: error adding target to
table
.
. (20 times " failed"
.
Dec 2 01:41:38 localhost kernel: device-mapper: error adding target to
table
.
.
.
other than that my boot looks really clean and without any more errors.
If you could give me some hints I would really appreciate that.
Greetings
Timo Reimerdes
Re: ppc iBook G4 cover and power control
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 06:17 -0500, Christopher Molnar wrote: > On Thursday 02 December 2004 06:02 am, Colin Leroy wrote: > > > > > > Probably some sort of hardware protection in case the machine doesn't go to > > sleep. Nothing seems to disable that, apart from Ben's sleep patch. > > Sorry - I haven't been following the lists -- Ben's sleep patch? What and > where can I get? > > Thanks, > -Chris > > http://gate.crashing.org/~benh/albook-ibookg4-sleep-6.diff This is the latest one he posted. works nice. (its for the 2.6.9 sources) this is my .config: http://www.gtnw.de/~tr/config-2.6.9 greetz Timo
Re: entering sleep mode quietly/non-verbose
> Holger (who likes debug infos - but who also likes to turn them off - > sometimes ;) Of course turning debug info on and off is a nice feature to have, but that might have to wait until it's officially in the kernel. And like bootsplash for yaboot or such its probably just graphical niceness. But yes... opacity can look a lot more professional *g* greetz Timo
Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 23:04 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Il giorno mer, 01-12-2004 alle 19:37 +0100, Pablo Gil ha scritto: > > 2.6.8. I've been told that this a really bad kernel for cd writing as > > well. Is it true? > > I tried many times, but I never managed to burn a data cd using 2.6.8, > while I made once a audio CD and it worked. > I have used the nautilus-cd-burner plenty of times. No problems whatsoever. running 2.6.9-(benh-sleep6) now. greetz Timo
Re: OpenOffice.org
actually I think OpenOffice is included in the common debian-release? All I did was apt-get update apt-cache search openoffice apt-get install openoffice.org (some more packages that I considered usefull) from the same repository I used to install (I think it was uni-erlangen). But I am running ubuntu now. Here Ooo is definately included and can be installed either during default-install or via apt-get as described above. greetz Timo
Re: TEST: Sleep patch #7
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 08:07 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 12:18 +0100, eric.bachard wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > > > > > Not really the time, I am always using patch #1 on alubook 1,25GHz SD / > > Debian sid :-)) ... > > Just a question : is your patch only for 2.6.9 or is it both usable for > > 2.6.10* ? > > It's not easily applied to 2.6.10* as-is, but I have a 2.6.10-rc* patch > set locally, I should post it soon. > > Ben. Weird thing: my build kernel panics on resume. I'll try Alex's kernel-image to see if I "optimized" something. Will be back later. thx ben!
Re: TEST: Sleep patch #7
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 09:24 +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I provided some kernel debs at: http://people.debian.org/~formorer/ppc. > > Patch #7 is working fine here, thanks Benjamin. > > Alex > Downloaded, intalled, working smoothly. And I like the trick with the brightness-control from further down in the list by Holger Levsen. This is beginning to be really smooth. It has not been crashing on suspend/resume ever since I started unplugging the usb-mouse before going to sleep and pluggin it in AFTER the computer woke up. However: There are really disturbing sounds during resume. It will stop after the computer has complete woken up but till then one has to cover his ears. :/ Any hint on that? Greetings and many thanks to you hard working people! Timo Reimerdes
Re: TEST: Sleep patch #7 -- not falling asleep?
Hi, I reported about my powerbook not falling asleep sometimes. I figured it could be usb (after a hint from ben) and tried unplugging it before sleep and plugging it in after wakeup. That fooled me for being the reason. It's not. My next guess is pbbuttonsd or gtkpbbuttonsd. I sense something like: using the adjust volume keys sometimes keeps the thing from falling asleep? or something other. But it does happen when I use the buttons for sound-adjustment and it does not happen as long as I use the gnome-panel thing. Weird. I'll spend some more attention to that issue. Or can someone confirm similar Problems? I am getting really confused about this. greetz Timo
Ubuntu hoary experiences anyone?
Hi, I was asking if anyone got Ubuntu-Linux running and upgraded to hoary? And if the x.org behaves nicely or makes trouble. Just some experience. I had to get some sources out of there to be able to install mplayer-g4. Warty lacked a couple of versions. Also Firefox is version 1.0 in hoary. to get hoary - simply replace "warty" in your sources.list with... well yeah... "hoary". greetings Timo
Re: Anjuta will not 'make' a project.
I have a similar but more severe problem: anjuta keeps telling be every time I try running any command: could not execute command shell any info?
TiBook G4 - ATI 9600 - suspend?
Is there currently any way of getting suspend working? I don't need dri and internal airport extreme since I don't play and I have my old PCMCIA wireless card wich works w/o problems. But since I'm doing a lot of moving around on campus and by train it would be quite something to have working suspend. I understand that Benjamin Herrenschmidt is still working on those pesky ATI drivers, right?
Kernel Config for TiBook G4 with ati9600
Hi, I am trying to get everything working on my PowerBook here. I am not talking about the dri or suspend function - but everything else. Compiling the latest benh kernel I got by: rsync -avz --delete source.mvista.com::linuxppc-2.5-benh /usr/src/benh-kernel and running udev I have several problems arising lately - alsa wont work anymore and various oter little bugs are really disturbing. I also havent been able to connect a beamer successfully. Since I am not quite shure What else I could try - Is there anyone around who can give me a config to work with? I tried the "pmac_defconfig" and have done at least 20 compiles with no acceptable result. plz help :( -- Timo Reimerdes
latest kernel via rsync? and misc tibook.g4 questions.
Hi, I kept my kernel-sources up-to-date by using this: rsync -avz --delete source.mvista.com::linuxppc-2.5-benh /usr/src/benh-kernel Since there aere so many talks about 2.6.6 being around and no updates in those sources for a week or more, I was wondering if there is another source now? I am really working on getting things running but I still have some trouble ever since devfs was considered obsolete and udev being in charge. (i.e. I have no non-x-console ever since that day and non-alsa-sound wouldn't work for me either) Now I looked up kernel.org but didnt get any smarter from what I saw there. could someone please provide me with the latest rsync line? And if anyone out there has a config that works for the very same machine (the ones I got from links posted here didn't) I would be glad to know of it. cdburning works perfectly * dvd/cd reading works nice too * mplayer hates sdl... xine works wonderfully * x runs nice and smoothly (even without dri) * not working suspend has to be tollerated ;) * debian sid + gnome 2.6 are running like a charm. * backlight control works (is there any clue about as to the kewl keyboard backlighting?) - heres my .config: http://www.gtnw.de/~tr/config.2003.g4.ati9600 - heres my XF86Config-4 http://www.gtnw.de/~tr/XF86Config-4 - heres my dmesg-output http://www.gtnw.de/~tr/dmesg.txt - heres lspci http://www.gtnw.de/~tr/lspci.txt maybe that helps some - and those who want to help get a little more of an idea whats going on ;) thx in advance -- Timo Reimerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
powerbook g4 +dual screen
Hi, I have tortured google for some days now trying to get my old monitor here to work as a second screen. I can start it with a correct XF86Config, but I get weird yellowish look on both screens. I hear that problem has been resolved before, but I didnt find anything except "use Daenzer's dri-trunk modules" - Well I am using them, but it still wont work. Anyone experiencing the same Problems? Anyone having a solution? -- Timo Reimerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: powerbook g4 +dual screen
> I noticed too that these module provoke the yellowish symptom on the > radon 7500 with dual screen (dual layout or xinerama, i.e. with dri > disactivated), nevertheless, the tint disappears with mergedfb or with > single head, i.e. dri activated. > > It seems to me that dri initialization solves > the yellow symptom. Does anyone has a patch for making it disappear > even without dri ? Michael ? I could not find it... > Problem here: There's an ATI 9600 in my powerbook, wich isn't really a supported piece for dri (hopefully yet). So I cannot use this. *shameonme* I guess I'll use google to look for some info on this "mergedfb" now. Never heard of it before. > Sometimes it would be convenient to activate dual layout, and to have > two distinct screen. > I have used a desktop setup like that for a year, it is really nice to have the API's right beside your emacs ;) -- Timo Reimerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
