Re: Audio Problems on an iBook

2002-04-25 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Drake Diedrich wrote: >I suspend many times per day, and this would happen about once per week > (the screaming iBook). Removing the audio module on suspend and bringing it > back in on wakeup removes the symptom - as long as you don't mind losing > your audio settings e

Re: Audio Problems on an iBook

2002-04-25 Thread Drake Diedrich
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:59:45AM +0100, Gareth Bowker wrote: > Hi, > I've got an iBook which every so often seems to go a bit haywire in > the audio department. When I open the lid, so the machine comes out of > suspend, most times everything's fine. Every once in a while, I'll get > a load

Alternatives to DPMS OffTime/BlankTime support on PowerBooks

2002-04-25 Thread David Stanaway
Hi all. Currently, I have had to enable keybindings that run: /sbin/fblevel on|off I had to make /dev/fb0 readable by group video (And add myself to that group) for this to work which I am not sure is a good thing. I would like to emulate the [xset s ...] functionality, or the equivalent options

Re: click-doubling

2002-04-25 Thread Thomas Peri
I may have found the cause of the problem. I have a 3-button mouse, and I also had "Emulate3Buttons" enabled in XF86Config-4. I disabled this, and a couple hours later, I haven't had the problem again. Of course, it could happen again five seconds after I send this e-mail, but for now, it lo

Re: Audio Problems on an iBook

2002-04-25 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Well, I think the tas lose it's clock when the machine is asleep. > So all the volumes should be set to 0 before sleep, and the chip > should probably be fully reconfigured on wakeup. Ugh...that's what I was afraid of. Ok, I'll try to free up

Re: click-doubling

2002-04-25 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 25 2002, Thomas Peri wrote: > Has anyone else seen this behavior? I'd say it's the mouse, except for > the fact that it happens in the fluxbox menu, and the fact that it > doesn't happen in either of my MacOSes. No, I have never seen this. Perhaps you could you another wi

Re: please re-add "pgi" to buildd

2002-04-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 04:02:49PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thanks to Jimmy Kaplowitz, the "pgi" package should now be attempted > > by the powerpc buildd (as of 0.9.6.3). Whoever's in charge of it, > > please add it. > > (I'm not "in charge"

Re: Running powerbook with the lid down

2002-04-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>Hmm, that's funny; in my powerbook manual (TiBook 550Mhz) it says you >can run with the lid closed, with a usb keyboard and mouse. :shrug: This depends on the model, along with some more temperature control features MacOS has that aren't fully supported by linux. Note that OS X doesn't support t

Re: Audio Problems on an iBook

2002-04-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> I suspect it is something to do with the mixer settings getting junked >> when the system goes into sleep. It could be a problem with esd also, >> as I am running that. > >So far, that's what I suspect as well. I'll try adding some code in the >next version of the driver to resend the mixer se

Re: Running powerbook with the lid down

2002-04-25 Thread Brett Carter
Hmm, that's funny; in my powerbook manual (TiBook 550Mhz) it says you can run with the lid closed, with a usb keyboard and mouse. :shrug: -Brett > "Michael" == Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Thanks.. thats pretty clear... But why is it discouraged? Michael> Because th

Re: Audio Problems on an iBook

2002-04-25 Thread Brett Carter
Probably not too helpful, but just to chime in, I've had this happen maybe 6 times on my rev B tibook. I'm not running esd, and for me, it's very breif, like a 1 sec 'pulse' of really loud white noise right after wake up my PB. I don't recall it ever happening in OSX -Brett > "Gareth" == Gar

Re: Running powerbook with the lid down

2002-04-25 Thread Siggi Langauf
Hi, On 25 Apr 2002, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 17:39, David Stanaway wrote: > > My TiBook is acting as a web/mail server at the moment and I would like > > to be able to put the lid down when I am not logged in, but at the > > moment this puts the system into sleep mode. > >

Re: Audio Problems on an iBook

2002-04-25 Thread Gareth Bowker
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:23:52PM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > > This comes up on the list once every few months. Last I heard the driver > > maintainer was unable to reproduce it on his TiBook. > > I *still* have not been able to reproduce this despite putting my TiBook > to sleep

Re: Audio Problems on an iBook

2002-04-25 Thread benh
>I *still* have not been able to reproduce this despite putting my TiBook >to sleep several times daily. I wish that we could find a foolproof way >of reproducing this so that I can look into it. It happened to me exactly once, despite putting my tibook to sleep several times a day too and that f

Re: Audio Problems on an iBook

2002-04-25 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On 25 Apr 2002, David Stanaway wrote: > It happens on my TiBook which is a first generation one. It only happens > when I close the lid and keeps feeding back until I mute and unmute the > audio. > > I suspect it is something to do with the mixer settings getting junked > when the system goes in

Re: Audio Problems on an iBook

2002-04-25 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Will Aoki wrote: > It's been happening quite frequently as of late on my 1st generation > iBook2 - it tends to occur at least once a week (most recent was > Tuesday, in a library - gack!), although for me it's a rapid clicking > noise instead of static or a feedback whistle.

Re: Running powerbook with the lid down

2002-04-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Thanks.. thats pretty clear... But why is it discouraged? Because the Powerbooks dissipate part of the heat generated by the hardware via air passing through the keyboard upwards. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Running powerbook with the lid down

2002-04-25 Thread David Stanaway
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 11:49, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 17:39, David Stanaway wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My TiBook is acting as a web/mail server at the moment and I would like > > to be able to put the lid down when I am not logged in, but at the > > moment this puts the system int

Re: Running powerbook with the lid down

2002-04-25 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 17:39, David Stanaway wrote: > Hi, > > My TiBook is acting as a web/mail server at the moment and I would like > to be able to put the lid down when I am not logged in, but at the > moment this puts the system into sleep mode. > > What do I need to do so that this action onl

Running powerbook with the lid down

2002-04-25 Thread David Stanaway
Hi, My TiBook is acting as a web/mail server at the moment and I would like to be able to put the lid down when I am not logged in, but at the moment this puts the system into sleep mode. What do I need to do so that this action only puts the display into energy saving mode? Cheers... -- Dav

Re: Audio Problems on an iBook

2002-04-25 Thread David Stanaway
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 09:18, Will Aoki wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:59:45AM +0100, Gareth Bowker wrote: > > Hi, > > I've got an iBook which every so often seems to go a bit haywire in > > the audio department. When I open the lid, so the machine comes out of > > suspend, most times every

Re: please re-add "pgi" to buildd

2002-04-25 Thread James Troup
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks to Jimmy Kaplowitz, the "pgi" package should now be attempted > by the powerpc buildd (as of 0.9.6.3). Whoever's in charge of it, > please add it. (I'm not "in charge", but) done. -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Audio Problems on an iBook

2002-04-25 Thread Will Aoki
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:59:45AM +0100, Gareth Bowker wrote: > Hi, > I've got an iBook which every so often seems to go a bit haywire in > the audio department. When I open the lid, so the machine comes out of > suspend, most times everything's fine. Every once in a while, I'll get > a load

Re: click-doubling

2002-04-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 12:51, Thomas Peri wrote: > Update: I just tried out another mouse that I had forgotten I had, and > it within five or six clicks, the same thing happened. So it's not a > problem with the mouse. > > Thomas Peri wrote: > > I've been having a strange problem since I installed

Re: 2.4.18 SMP custom kernel woes

2002-04-25 Thread Gordon Grant
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: I've spotted what might be an SMP locking bug in the detect code of the aic7xxx driver, I've sent a mail to Justin Gibbs about it, i'm waiting for a reply. In a separate mail, you are talking about applying a patch, could you forward me that patch please ? It's jus

Re: Audio Problems on an iBook

2002-04-25 Thread Philipp Schmidt
On Thu, 2002-04-25 11:59:45 +0100, Gareth Bowker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > I've got an iBook which every so often seems to go a bit haywire in > the audio department. When I open the lid, so the machine comes out of > suspend, most times everything's fi

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Audio Problems on an iBook

2002-04-25 Thread Gareth Bowker
Hi, I've got an iBook which every so often seems to go a bit haywire in the audio department. When I open the lid, so the machine comes out of suspend, most times everything's fine. Every once in a while, I'll get a load of static come out of the left speaker. Other times, it seems that the

Re: click-doubling

2002-04-25 Thread Thomas Peri
Update: I just tried out another mouse that I had forgotten I had, and it within five or six clicks, the same thing happened. So it's not a problem with the mouse. Thomas Peri wrote: I've been having a strange problem since I installed debian (woody) on my G4 a few weeks ago. Now and then (sev

click-doubling

2002-04-25 Thread Thomas Peri
I've been having a strange problem since I installed debian (woody) on my G4 a few weeks ago. Now and then (several times a day), I'll single-click on something, and it's as if I've double-clicked. It happens in all programs. Here's a small sampling of all the things that happen because of t

Re: Audio encoders optimized for altivec (I have a G4)

2002-04-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 15:48, David Stanaway wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 08:13, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 21:48, David Stanaway wrote: > > > > > > I was wondering if anyone could recommend an encoder for me? > > > > > > I use grip as a front end, and tried oggenc from vorbi