xscreensaver lcd hack for my pbook g4

I've been using the attached script to have xscreensaver turn the lcd off instead of just the normal blank (turn all the pixels black, but keep the lcd on). I put the script in /usr/local/bin and then added the following to the 'programs:' section of ~/.xscreensaver: "lcd saver" lcdsaver.sh \n\

Re: Can anyone help test CD images?

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:12:58PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:07:45PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > It gets it from the disks-powerpc dir. Boot floppies build snarfs it. > > We should change that :) > > ah ok, what would you suggest doing instead? it does

Re: Can anyone help test CD images?

[please wrap your lines at 72 chars to make your messages readable] On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:39:19AM -0400, Austin M. Brower wrote: > > Yes, the yaboot prompt appeared. I tried debian-novideo and it worked fine. > Can there be more information printed before the yaboot prompt? In the i386 >

Re: New iBook and Debian

Chris Tillman wrote: > > Earthling Michel Dänzer wrote: > > apparently doesn't work in MockOS. Hopefully only a brain dead software > > BTW, did you know there really is a MockOS? > > http://members.aol.com/macdabster/Pages/Shock/MockOS.html I don't know about flash, but this web site required

Re: Slightly newer airport sleep bits for pmud

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:28:40PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > Tom Rini wrote: > > > > Hey all, after talking to someone else, I found out not everyone has their > > airport modules loaded with autoclean, So I've appended my current version > > of the script I use which should work around this.

Re: mozilla - 5 processes using 149Mb

Alan Macdougall wrote: > > On 17/6/01 at 1:45 AM, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Typing "mozilla" at the command line seems to > > > cause 5 separate processes to be started, > > > taking in total 149Mb of memory (accorting to > > > gtop). Given that I only have 64Mb of real RAM

Re: Slightly newer airport sleep bits for pmud

Tom Rini wrote: > > Hey all, after talking to someone else, I found out not everyone has their > airport modules loaded with autoclean, So I've appended my current version > of the script I use which should work around this. What does autoclean really mean BTW? I seem to have loaded most modules

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

Ani Joshi wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > > You're talking about the status quo, Kostas about the way it should be. > > Just because it's not like that now doesn't mean we don't have to care > > about it anymore. > > If he's talking about "the way it should

Slightly newer airport sleep bits for pmud

Hey all, after talking to someone else, I found out not everyone has their airport modules loaded with autoclean, So I've appended my current version of the script I use which should work around this. And I moved it into /etc/power/pwrctl-local since no official kernels support sleep yet on these

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: > I think that the crash in vgaHW is because of isa mem accesses, if this is > the case a better fix will be to mmap the right memory range for the > machines that have one and to handle the lack of one in pmacs. The crash is in readDacData, which rea

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > You're talking about the status quo, Kostas about the way it should be. Just > because it's not like that now doesn't mean we don't have to care about it > anymore. If he's talking about "the way it should be", then totally removing all f

Re: blt package problems ...

Peter Canning wrote: > > Is there any way of poking the unstable auto builder to build > blt-2.4u-3. Bug "#99985: blt: embedded spaces in /var/lib/dpkg/available" > in blt-2.4u-2 is preventing updating or installing any other packages. Its > fixed in 2.4u-3, which got built for x386 in a few day

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >We don't need any more kernel assistance, just to fix the syscall to > >return an error for the AGP bus of Uni-N if we can't do any io there. > > We can do _IO_, not ISA mem. Some cards require IOs accesses to > some VGA registers so we need the sysc

Re: SCSI I/O errors galore, PART II

> Why not faster on the 25-pin connector? Well, every SCSI signal should > have a seperate ground return pin (which means twisted-pair transmission > lines end-to-end). That's not possible on the 25-pin designs, so signal > quality is rather poor. Hence the speed limit... > > Now we only need to fi

blt package problems ...

Is there any way of poking the unstable auto builder to build blt-2.4u-3. Bug "#99985: blt: embedded spaces in /var/lib/dpkg/available" in blt-2.4u-2 is preventing updating or installing any other packages. Its fixed in 2.4u-3, which got built for x386 in a few days. Its been a week, and its

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >The segfault occurred in an inb(), is that also used for ISA mem? > > If you get that for read and not write, then you are probably getting > machine checks, which usually means IO to an incorrect address. Are > you sure your card is answering to VGA IOs ? I'm a bi

Re: SCSI I/O errors galore, PART II

Just to add a bit more confusion ;-) On 20 Jun, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace: >> > Seems in this case it can't. My external disk only runs at 5 MB (of >> > course). >> >> External is different. Since Apple wisely decided on a 25-pin scsi >> cable scheme for externa

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

>The segfault occurred in an inb(), is that also used for ISA mem? If you get that for read and not write, then you are probably getting machine checks, which usually means IO to an incorrect address. Are you sure your card is answering to VGA IOs ?

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

>Hmm you have a point there, i have a feeling that the text/colormap >was not crasing in the isa i/o access but in the isa mem ones, >(we mmap 0xA, i wonder what lives there since isa mem definitely >isn't) RAM. Actually kernel code :( There no way to access ISA mem on most Macs. >We don't ne

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: > > > Since fbdev is handling the console there is no need to restore > > > vga fonts/colormap (i don't know if it is possible to run vgacon > > > under some of the ibm machines, if ye

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Ani Joshi wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: > > > The #ifdef __powerpc__ isn't right (and we can't use os specific > > code in the drivers) so the fix has to go in another layer, > > crippling another os to fix our problems isn't the right solution. > >

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

Ani Joshi wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: > > > The #ifdef __powerpc__ isn't right (and we can't use os specific > > code in the drivers) so the fix has to go in another layer, > > crippling another os to fix our problems isn't the right solution. > > Well, that's not real

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: > > > > > > Since fbdev is handling the console there is no need to restore > > > vga fonts/colormap (i don't know if it is possible to run vgacon > > > under some of the ibm machines, if yes then it

Re: Help

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:52:53PM +0200, robclant wrote: > Excuse me can you tell me where i can find online an POWERPC manual, please? > Thanks. > Valerio "PowerPC Microprocessor Family: The Programming Environments" http://e-www.motorola.com/brdata/PDFDB/MICROPROCESSORS/32_BIT/POWERPC/MPCFPE3

Re: Help

On 29 Sivan 5761, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Excuse me can you tell me where i can find online an POWERPC manual, > please? Thanks. Valerio Are you talking a manual for... * Linux in general? * Linux on PowerPC-based machines? * Debian Linux for PowerPC-based machines? * Programming the PowerPC

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: > The #ifdef __powerpc__ isn't right (and we can't use os specific > code in the drivers) so the fix has to go in another layer, > crippling another os to fix our problems isn't the right solution. Well, that's not really true. There's already lots o

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: > > > > Since fbdev is handling the console there is no need to restore > > vga fonts/colormap (i don't know if it is possible to run vgacon > > under some of the ibm machines, if yes then it is needed there) > > That's my point, e

Help

Excuse me can you tell me where i can find online an POWERPC manual, please? Thanks. Valerio

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Ani Joshi wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > > > > That would be nice, unfortunately it doesn't. For the record,

Re: j2sdkee1.3.0 availability on DebianPPC

At 12:19 AM -0700 6/20/01, Taro Fukunaga wrote: Has anyone been able to get j2sdkee 1.3.0 to work? I develop software using j2ee for a living, and I develop on Debian PPC on my TiBook. You can use the j2ee sdk from Sun to compile your code, but the reference servlet and ejb containers that S

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: > > > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Ani Joshi wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > > That would be nice, unfortunately it doesn't. For the record, here's the > > > > patch against xf-4_1-bran

Re: Booting problem

On 29 Sivan 5761, Lorenzo De Vito wrote: > When I boot the system (a new G4, with a new intallation DebianPPC), > I see always the scandisk starting, why ? I tried with various halt > options: halt, shutdown -Fh now, ecc. but with the same result. Are you saying that your system fscks all the ex

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

Michel Dänzer wrote: > While we're at it: The last other real issue in the r128 driver is mostly > exposed by Xv: the data is moved to the framebuffer word by word, but it > gets swapped depending on the current depth, so the video is broken. Does > anyone have a better idea than to use different

Re: oops

On 29 Sivan 5761, Noah John wrote: > oh, oops.  seeing as i just realised that [EMAIL PROTECTED] was talking > about it, i guess i'm feeling pretty dumb.  sorry all.  I'm a > newbie.. *gently* You might want to consider switching off HTML when posting; the most helpful people on this list often w

Re: SCSI I/O errors galore, PART II

On 29 Sivan 5761, Andrew Sharp wrote: >> that is understandable since all of Apple's oldworld builtin scsi >> was 5MB/s only. > > You mean the drives were only 5MB/sec? I can believe that, but the > MESH controller will do 10MB/sec sync. I say that with a crack in > my voice, because my experie

SCSI I/O errors galore, PART III

My second note elicited a ton of replies. Thanks everyone! I took the easiest suggestion, which was plugging the SCSI hardware into the slower SCSI channel and the result was a successful copy of gobs of files from one machine to another. Instead of the constant throb of orange collision lights on

Re: Can anyone help test CD images?

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:00:19AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:52:47PM -0400, Austin M. Brower wrote: > > > > Holding "C" worked. I did not have to use OF or yaboot or any other > > fiddles. > > good, did the yaboot prompt show up? i added a new image > debian-novid

Re: Can anyone help test CD images?

> > At the risk of offering irrelevant information, sources and objects > > are available in StuffIt form from Benjamin Herrenschmidt, who seems > > to be the author, at . The current > > verison is 1.1.3. > > that is irrelevant inforamation, i am trying to setup the

Re: SCSI I/O errors galore, PART II

> > Seems in this case it can't. My external disk only runs at 5 MB (of > > course). > > > > How to set MESH to 5 MB/s? I'd not object to providing a patch that makes > > it a driver option, if someone can point me to the correct combinattion of > > period and offset to limit the rate. > > Eternal

Re: Booting problem

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:09:05PM +0200, Lorenzo De Vito wrote: > When I boot the system (a new G4, with a new intallation DebianPPC), I see > always the scandisk starting, why ? > I tried with various halt options: halt, shutdown -Fh now, ecc. but with the > same result. i have no idea what scan

Re: Can anyone help test CD images?

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 04:02:18AM -0700, Randolph Fritz wrote: > At the risk of offering irrelevant information, sources and objects > are available in StuffIt form from Benjamin Herrenschmidt, who seems > to be the author, at . The current > verison is 1.1.3. that

Re: Can anyone help test CD images?

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:14:52AM -0400, Noah John wrote: if you want your mail to be read here instead of immediatly deleted then you will have to post in non-html. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpAJkZZRdda3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Ani Joshi wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > > > > That would be nice, unfortunately it doesn't. For the record, here's the > > > patch against xf-4_1-branch I tested: > > > > > > Please try the attached patch.

Booting problem

When I boot the system (a new G4, with a new intallation DebianPPC), I see always the scandisk starting, why ? I tried with various halt options: halt, shutdown -Fh now, ecc. but with the same result.

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Ani Joshi wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > > > > That would be nice, unfortunately it doesn't. For the record, here's the > > patch > > against xf-4_1-branch I tested: > > > Please try the attached patch. This fixes the problem on PCI m

Re: SCSI I/O errors galore, PART II

Michael Schmitz wrote: > > my voice, because my experience with this controller is that it > > doesn't work too dang well. With some drives it just plain can't > > handle the higher speed. But with some drives it can. So it's hit > > Seems in this case it can't. My external disk only runs at

oops

oh, oops.  seeing as i just realised that [EMAIL PROTECTED] was talking about it, i guess i'm feeling pretty dumb.  sorry all.  I'm a newbie..Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Re: Can anyone help test CD images?

well, actually as far as i know, the debian cd does not use bootx.  I personally have not seen it on the disk, but it might be there.  *shrug*  i'm pretty sure it uses yaboot for most machines.. (is this possible on old world rom?  why not?)  ah well.Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http:

Re: SCSI I/O errors galore, PART II

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > > Well, at least the drive info and partition table can be read :-) > > > > > > > > Just my 2 cents, I had the same problems with a 7300 when I setup MESH > > > > to run at 10MB/s. > > > > This problem only ocurred with heavy disk-I/O and it damag

Re: SCSI I/O errors galore, PART II

> > > > Well, at least the drive info and partition table can be read :-) > > > > > > Just my 2 cents, I had the same problems with a 7300 when I setup MESH > > > to run at 10MB/s. > > > This problem only ocurred with heavy disk-I/O and it damaged my > > > file-system. > > > With MESH set to 5MB/s

Re: SCSI I/O errors galore, PART II

Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:41:07PM +0200, Christoph Ewering wrote: > > Hello! > > > > Michael Schmitz schrieb: > > ... > > > > mesh: target 1 synchronous at 10.0 MB/s > > ... > > > Well, at least the drive info and partition table can be read :-) > > > > Just my 2 cents, I

Re: Can anyone help test CD images?

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:07:45PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:44:51AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:37:09AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > also if anyone can make available a *permanent* distribution of bootx > > > > in netatalk f

Re: SCSI I/O errors galore, PART II

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:41:07PM +0200, Christoph Ewering wrote: > Hello! > > Michael Schmitz schrieb: > ... > > > mesh: target 1 synchronous at 10.0 MB/s > ... > > Well, at least the drive info and partition table can be read :-) > > Just my 2 cents, I had the same problems with a 7300 when I

Re: SCSI I/O errors galore, PART II

Hello! Michael Schmitz schrieb: ... > > mesh: target 1 synchronous at 10.0 MB/s ... > Well, at least the drive info and partition table can be read :-) Just my 2 cents, I had the same problems with a 7300 when I setup MESH to run at 10MB/s. This problem only ocurred with heavy disk-I/O and it dam

Re: SCSI I/O errors galore, PART II

> Several people responded to my previous note with good suggestions for > providing more complete information on my problem. Here's a recap of my > situation, with what I hope will be more helpful info from dmesg and > /var/log/messages. Thanks, this should help narrowing down your problem. > her

Re: SCSI I/O errors galore, PART II

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 01:21:00AM -0500, Jamie Hutt wrote: > > I've installed Potato on a Mac 7500, a two-scsi-bus, OldWorld machine. When > I'm doing a large file copy from one Mac to the Debian box via SAMBA (and > FTP too!) the collision lights on my hubs go nuts and the Debian machine's larg

Re: Can anyone help test CD images?

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:07:45PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > It gets it from the disks-powerpc dir. Boot floppies build snarfs it. > We should change that :) ah ok, what would you suggest doing instead? it does seem odd that b-f snarfs it when b-f never even uses it. -- Ethan Ben

SCSI I/O errors galore, PART II

Folks, Several people responded to my previous note with good suggestions for providing more complete information on my problem. Here's a recap of my situation, with what I hope will be more helpful info from dmesg and /var/log/messages. I've installed Potato on a Mac 7500, a two-scsi-bus, OldWorl

j2sdkee1.3.0 availability on DebianPPC

Has anyone been able to get j2sdkee 1.3.0 to work? I downloaded the i386 Linux version and tried to run j2eetutorial/examples/build/ejb/bank's client, but I get this error: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/ejb/EJBObject I cannot find the this class anywhere in m

Re: Can anyone help test CD images?

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:44:51AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:37:09AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > also if anyone can make available a *permanent* distribution of bootx > > > in netatalk format (as a .tar.gz) i think i should be able to modify > > > > What do yo

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > That would be nice, unfortunately it doesn't. For the record, here's the patch > against xf-4_1-branch I tested: Please try the attached patch. This fixes the problem on PCI machines and could possibly fix yours too. It is against th