[ANN] New XFree86 PPC 4.0.2 tree

2000-12-30 Thread Ani Joshi
I have recently updated my XFree86 tree to 4.0.2 with my updated drivers. Here are some notes which will be usefull: * Accelerated drivers which are now "ppc safe" in my tree include: ATI Mach64 ATI Rage128/Pro/Mobility 3Dfx Banshee 3Dfx Voodoo3 3Dfx Voodoo

Playing cd on iBook

2000-12-30 Thread Charles Brunet
Hi! I compiled kernel 2.4.0-test13-pre3 . I'm using potato distribution. X is not installed yet. My console is now able to "beep!". I installed cdtool. When I try to play a cd, I can heard the cd spinning, but no sound come to the speaker. I compiled my kernel with DMA sound (so I don't have modul

screen blanking different

2000-12-30 Thread Steven Hanley
All anyone know why when the screen blanking comes on on my new pismo... in console it goes completely black, as if the screen is no longer backlit (or aty least not as much (the apple on the back of the screen is not glowing as much) in X it stays backlit and very bright? can I change the X be

Re: more colours with atyfb?

2000-12-30 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > > > "Adam C Powell IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Speaking of >8 colors on atyfb, the 15- and 16-bit colormaps on my > > > Mach64 VT (Motorola StarMax 3000/160 = pmac 4400 clone) are jacked > > > up, both in t

Re: available battery level indicators?

2000-12-30 Thread Steven Hanley
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 07:18:16PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > gkrellm is independent of GNOME, as is its pmud plugin. yes I realised this later, I think I had confused it with some battery meter I saw mentioned on freshmeat a day or two ago. > Bastien Nocera has written an APM compatibility l

Re: more colours with atyfb?

2000-12-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > "Adam C Powell IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Speaking of >8 colors on atyfb, the 15- and 16-bit colormaps on my > > Mach64 VT (Motorola StarMax 3000/160 = pmac 4400 clone) are jacked > > up, both in the console and X, 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-pre12. Tux is in > > ug

Re: more colours with atyfb?

2000-12-30 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Adam C Powell IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Speaking of >8 colors on atyfb, the 15- and 16-bit colormaps on my > Mach64 VT (Motorola StarMax 3000/160 = pmac 4400 clone) are jacked > up, both in the console and X, 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-pre12. Tux is in > ugly shades of orange, pink and green, and

Re: available battery level indicators?

2000-12-30 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
You can also use wmapm, as long as you have apm compatibility in pmud (an option, I don't remember where...) There's a command-line option for wmapm to tell it which fifo to use, and you can tell it to use /etc/power/apm. Cheers, Patrix. -- "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom t

Re: available battery level indicators?

2000-12-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
Steven Hanley wrote: > I know about gkrelm (or whatever it is called) with the pmud plugin, however > as it is a gnome panel applet I dont know if it will run without gnome, will > it? gkrellm is independent of GNOME, as is its pmud plugin. > Are there any other pmud supported battery status th

Re: more colours with atyfb?

2000-12-30 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Steven Hanley wrote: > All > > What can I do to get my display to use 24 bit (or 32 or 16 or 15) rather > than 8 bit colour? (pismo still) Speaking of >8 colors on atyfb, the 15- and 16-bit colormaps on my Mach64 VT (Motorola StarMax 3000/160 = pmac 4400 clone) are jacked up, both in the console

Re: Mouse setting in X

2000-12-30 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Cole Stewart wrote: > PS/2 seems to work, how do I get 3 button emulation working? http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Franz.Sirl/inputppc.html Read it carefully, it should answer all of your questions. (In particular, note that the keycodes in button emulation are *not* the standard ADB keycodes.)

Re: more colours with atyfb?

2000-12-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 02:46:37PM +1100, Steven Hanley wrote: > All > > What can I do to get my display to use 24 bit (or 32 or 16 or 15) rather > than 8 bit colour? (pismo still) the console does not support more then 8 bit color. (rather it has no more colors then that.) > I tried adding >

Re: framebuffer problems on revA iMac

2000-12-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:56:18AM +1100, Mark Hepburn wrote: > > I'd expect it to work with `video=atyfb' and `video=128fb', and even without > > these since they will be autoprobed anyway. > > > > Mine is working now with a 'video=atyfb' option and no colon; might make a > difference > that t