Re: Booting install disks on G4

2000-07-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:50:18AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear All, > > I've just been searching for a day or so, but not found the solution. > I've downloaded all the files from patato/disks-powerpc/current/powermac > I've downloaded and installed the latest yaboot and i seem to be abl

Booting install disks on G4

2000-07-27 Thread micha
Dear All, I've just been searching for a day or so, but not found the solution. I've downloaded all the files from patato/disks-powerpc/current/powermac I've downloaded and installed the latest yaboot and i seem to be able to boot into a linux kernel (the one called linux from patato) BUT... It a

Re: USB mouse

2000-07-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
> >XFree86 4.01 debs won't be out for a while, and they probably won't > >include the experimental PPC stuff. No idea on the Pismo, but the Lombard [The Pismo doesn't have the braindead OF overlap mapping, so no problem there ...] > If someone wants to make XF4.0.1 debs for PPC, I beleive they s

Re: PowerPC CDs on hold, awaiting new floppies

2000-07-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 10:59:59AM -0700, C.M. Connelly wrote: > "PH" == Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "AT" == Anthony Towns > >PH> I've been told that the current powerpc floppies are >PH> broken, so am not bothering with TC3 images until someone >PH> tells me that they're fixed

Re: PowerPC CDs on hold, awaiting new floppies

2000-07-27 Thread C.M. Connelly
"PH" == Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "AT" == Anthony Towns PH> I've been told that the current powerpc floppies are PH> broken, so am not bothering with TC3 images until someone PH> tells me that they're fixed. So, powerpc folks, when PH> you've fixed them, tell me. AT> These

today's linux-pmac-stable: compilation error

2000-07-27 Thread Sergio Brandano
make -C arch/ppc/kernel make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/ppc/kernel' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__powerpc__ -fsigned-char -msoft-float -pipe -fno-builtin -ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultip

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-27 Thread Andreas Tobler
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Ok, I've pushed a slightly modified version, can you test again ? No luck, unplugging the CD-ROM during boot (while it waits) helps. The book boots without CD-ROM. I commented out the line 641: OUT_BYTE(drive->ctl|2,IDE_CONTROL_REG); Then it boots again. Andrea

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-27 Thread Andreas Tobler
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Interesting... obviously that should not happen. Let me double check the > code. Note that the timeout is set to 10 secs, I suppose you have waited > more than that ? About two minutes. > > Ok, I've pushed a slightly modified version, can you test again ? I resy

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-27 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >A synced tree from about 14:00 results here in a hanger on a wallstreet I. > >-> hdc: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2 >nothing more.. > >I resync again. Interesting... obviously that should not happen. Let me double check the code. Note that the timeout is set to 10 secs, I suppose you have waited

Debian 2.2 Installer kernel image for MCP750

2000-07-27 Thread Eric Valette
If someone give me an FTP access somewhere, I can upload a linux+ramdisk image enabling to install potato on motorola MCP750 via PPCBUG. kernel = 2.2.17pre9 + MCP750 specific patches... -- __ / ` Eric Valette - Canon CRF /-- __ o _.

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-27 Thread Andreas Tobler
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >media bay 0 contains a CD-ROM drive > >media-bay 0 is ide 1 > >hda: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2 > >hdc: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2 > >ide1: unexpected interrupt, status=0x00, count=1 > > Hum... looking at the code again, it appears that the IDE_WAKEUP_DELAY_MS > is n

Re: USB mouse

2000-07-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:03:19PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wanted to say the > following: > > Hadess wrote: > > > - try "cat /dev/usbmouse" and move the mouse, see if any output > > > > I redirected that to a file which was about 2 megs after a few seco

Re: USB mouse

2000-07-27 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >XFree86 4.01 debs won't be out for a while, and they probably won't >include the experimental PPC stuff. No idea on the Pismo, but the Lombard >needs a kernel patch to resolve PCI resource conflicts with 2.2 kernels >that lead to XFree disabling the video chip PCI region, resulting in a >kernel

Re: USB mouse

2000-07-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
Michael Schmitz wrote: > No idea on the Pismo, but the Lombard needs a kernel patch to resolve PCI > resource conflicts with 2.2 kernels that lead to XFree disabling the video > chip PCI region, resulting in a kernel crash when the X server calls on the > frame buffer driver to set color maps. Fo

Re: USB mouse

2000-07-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Thanks, but that's only for 2.2.17preX - I have the mouse working now, > > turned > > out I had to plug it into the other USB socket (the lower one). Is this > > normal > > or a bug? > > It works for me on both ports, even if I "hot-swap" it while X is running. It sometimes did act up on my

Re: USB mouse

2000-07-27 Thread Hadess
Quoting Tuomas Kuosmanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > - try "cat /dev/usbmouse" and move the mouse, see if any output > > > > I redirected that to a file which was about 2 megs after a few > seconds... > > 'file' said it was ASCII text, and the first few pages in 'more' were > empty. > > > > Does t

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-27 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> - First, try increasing the wait_for_ready to a larger value >> line 597: >> int timeout = 5000 (was 2000) >> - Try increasing the IDE_WAKEUP_DELAY_MS definition to a much larger >> > value (1 ?) >> line 102: >> #define IDE_WAKEUP_DELAY_MS 1 (was 1500) > >Those two measures seem to hav

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-27 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>Those two measures seem to have solved the problem for now. I just get >the following message when waking the machine up from pmud: Thanks. Now, I'd like if you could try to get more precise values because those I sent you are really too high. Can you try changing only one of them, and then try

Re: USB mouse

2000-07-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > > I have the mouse working now, turned out I had to plug it into the other > > USB socket (the lower one). Is this normal or a bug? > > It works for me on both ports, even if I "hot-swap" it while X is running. Strange - do you have USB built into the kernel or as modul

Re: USB mouse

2000-07-27 Thread Jon Leonard
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 08:04:59AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:30:41PM +0300, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:03:19PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wanted to say the > > following: [snip -- on detecting if the mouse is live] > > You should probably do > >

Re: IDE-problems

2000-07-27 Thread Andre Berger
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - First, try increasing the wait_for_ready to a larger value > line 597: > int timeout = 5000 (was 2000) > - Try increasing the IDE_WAKEUP_DELAY_MS definition to a much larger > > value (1 ?) > line 102: > #define IDE_WAKEUP_DELAY_MS 1 (was 1500

Re: USB mouse

2000-07-27 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:30:41PM +0300, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:03:19PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wanted to say the > following: > > Hadess wrote: > > > > > > I'm using 2.2.15 (yes, I know about the vulnerability ;), and I can > > > > successfully load the usb-ohci, mous

Re: USB mouse

2000-07-27 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:17:05PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wanted to say the following: > Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > > > Yea the mini logitech works great. The think to do is the input device stuff > > in Ben's kernel page and either compile your own or use his precompiled test > > kernels. They work