Re: Screen poweroff with an ibook

2002-09-17 Thread A.J. Rossini
> "j" == J Volkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: j> Hello, j> Thanks for the _really_ fast answer :-) j> David Stanaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) schrieb: >> On mysystem, I am using the framebuffer device, and I can use: >> /sbin/fblevel off; read -p "Hit enter..(But you won't s

Re: apt-get install over ssh

2002-09-17 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 10:52:49PM -0700, dylan wrote: > hi- > > while experimenting with some 7100/80 and 8100/80 woody based servers i > found that while attempting to use apt-get install via and ssh > session, apt-get crashes. after proceeding through the first part of the > install: checking

Re: Screen poweroff with an ibook

2002-09-17 Thread J. Volkmann
Hello, Thanks for the _really_ fast answer :-) David Stanaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) schrieb: > On mysystem, I am using the framebuffer device, and I can use: > /sbin/fblevel off; read -p "Hit enter..(But you won't see this)"; > /sbin/fblevel on > Works with my radeon too :-) Thanks, mfG Johanne

Re: Screen poweroff with an ibook

2002-09-17 Thread J. Volkmann
Hello, that was a fast answer *impressed* and even two... David M. Cooke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) schrieb: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 03:05:44AM +0200, J. Volkmann wrote: > > Hello, > > > > as I use my laptop in classes, I sometimes don't use it for 20 or more > > Minutes. Is there a way to turn the

Re: Alsa plays only wav files

2002-09-17 Thread Menaka Lashitha Bandara
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 01:47, Ondrej Certik wrote: > BTW, why was ppc designed as big engian? Just to be > incompatible? No. Networking is Big Endian. And the PPC was designed to be both. There's an instruction in the CPU that'll switch it over to little. > If all the world was little endian, it w

Re: Screen poweroff with an ibook

2002-09-17 Thread David Stanaway
On mysystem, I am using the framebuffer device, and I can use: /sbin/fblevel off; read -p "Hit enter..(But you won't see this)"; /sbin/fblevel on In sawfish you can bind "/sbin/fblevel off" and "/sbin/fblevel on" to shortcut keys ( I used M-F1 , M-F2 ) I don't know if this will work for the rade

Re: powermac 9500 ethernet and 2.4 booting problems

2002-09-17 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 07:59:25AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 16 Sep, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace: > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 06:32:04PM -0400, Andy Bastien wrote: > >> Second question: I can't boot 2.4.anything. I've tried both Debian's > >> 2.4.18-powermac

Re: Screen poweroff with an ibook

2002-09-17 Thread David M. Cooke
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 03:05:44AM +0200, J. Volkmann wrote: > Hello, > > as I use my laptop in classes, I sometimes don't use it for 20 or more > Minutes. Is there a way to turn the screen off manually perhaps with a > key shortcut? If you turn the screen brightness down to zero with the F1/F2 k

Screen poweroff with an ibook

2002-09-17 Thread J. Volkmann
Hello, as I use my laptop in classes, I sometimes don't use it for 20 or more Minutes. Is there a way to turn the screen off manually perhaps with a key shortcut? My laptop is an ibook2 with the radeon (2x USB, 700 MHz). Another thing: Is the ibook able to do a hot-switch of batteries? Thanks i

Alsa and BenH 2.4.20?

2002-09-17 Thread brett-debianppc
Has anybody gotten alsa to compile and or work on a powerbook DVI with a recent benh rsync? I'm running 2.4.20, and I can't get it to even compile. And yes I've deleted isapnp.h -Brett

Re: Kernel compilation fails

2002-09-17 Thread jonas bandi
Replying to my own post: Did a new sync --clean, and now compilation is ok again... sorry jonas jonas bandi wrote: Hi, I just synced the benh kernel and now it fails to compile (the same config compiled before): aic7xxx/aic7xxx.c: In function `ahc_run_qoutfifo': aic7xxx/aic7xxx.c:330: war

Re: Tibook G4 kernel compile fails

2002-09-17 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 10:13:35PM -0400, Mark T. Valites wrote: > Regardless, anyone have a rsync url for the benh tree? Maybe even > the appropriate flags if you're feeling especially generous? rsync -avz --delete rsync.penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh linux-2.4-benh -- Eric C. Cooper

Re: New kernel -> more heat ?

2002-09-17 Thread Vincent Beffara
> >OK. So the answer seems to be to stay out of X most of the time. That's > >fine by me. But I'm still puzzled by the change in behaviour after > >upgrading the kernel (that's the only thing I changed) ... Is there any > >powerpc equivalent of the "Do APM Idle calls when idle" option on x86, > >t

Kernel compilation fails

2002-09-17 Thread jonas bandi
Hi, I just synced the benh kernel and now it fails to compile (the same config compiled before): aic7xxx/aic7xxx.c: In function `ahc_run_qoutfifo': aic7xxx/aic7xxx.c:330: warning: passing arg 1 of `ahc_update_residual' from incompatible pointer type aic7xxx/aic7xxx.c:330: too few arguments t

Re: XFree86 on Macintosh Powerbook

2002-09-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-09-17 at 18:14, Mr.Fletcher wrote: > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > You either need a 1280x854 mode definition for X (fbset -x provides one > > if you're running radeonfb) or > > > > deb http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/debian/dri-trunk/./ > > > > You'll probably want the latter any

Re: m3mirror for iBook 2 ?

2002-09-17 Thread jonas bandi
If you have a radeon chip, you can use the XFree 4.2 binaries from Michel (http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/) to use an external monitor. I attach my XFConfig-4 (for my TiBook) as an example. So how didn't the attachment made it to the Mailinglist. Has to do with my recent brain sur

Re: apt

2002-09-17 Thread José Salavert Torres
El Martes, 17 septiembre, 2002, a las 01:51 PM, Fred Heitkamp escribió: Can apt be used to query just the updated packages for a system so one could choose just to upgrade certain ones? Fred use dselect

Re: XFree86 on Macintosh Powerbook

2002-09-17 Thread Mr.Fletcher
Michel Dänzer wrote: You either need a 1280x854 mode definition for X (fbset -x provides one if you're running radeonfb) or deb http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/debian/dri-trunk/./ You'll probably want the latter anyway. :) I tried doing what you suggested but i encountered quite some

Re: Alsa plays only wav files

2002-09-17 Thread Michael Furr
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 11:47, Ondrej Certik wrote: > BTW, why was ppc designed as big engian? Just to be > incompatible? > If all the world was little endian, it would be much > easier. Actually, all of the world _is_ big endian. One of the only exceptions to this is the x86. Except for this and a

Re: Alsa plays only wav files

2002-09-17 Thread Ondrej Certik
--- Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Die, 2002-09-17 at 17:33, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > You are right, that the problem is endiannes, > because > > I wanted to know what is going on, so I switched > back > > to ALSA and > > modified the Alsa output plugin for xmms, so that > it > > sw

xfree86 4.2.1-0pre1v1 (mips,mipsel,m68k,powerpc,sh4) available at the X Strike Force

2002-09-17 Thread Branden Robinson
[Please direct follow-ups to debian-x.] I hadn't sent an update on these packages, but XFree86 4.2.1 pre-release packages are now available for the five architectures mentioned in the subject line, as well as for Alpha, i386, and SPARC, which were already announced. I still need builds for the fo

Re: New kernel -> more heat ?

2002-09-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>OK. So the answer seems to be to stay out of X most of the time. That's >fine by me. But I'm still puzzled by the change in behaviour after >upgrading the kernel (that's the only thing I changed) ... Is there any >powerpc equivalent of the "Do APM Idle calls when idle" option on x86, >that would j

Re: Alsa plays only wav files

2002-09-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-09-17 at 17:33, Ondrej Certik wrote: > You are right, that the problem is endiannes, because > I wanted to know what is going on, so I switched back > to ALSA and > modified the Alsa output plugin for xmms, so that it > swaps > the endiannes of the data, which goes through it and > --

Re: Alsa plays only wav files

2002-09-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Ondrej Certik wrote: > --- Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Die, 2002-09-17 at 03:35, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > > > > > > Why don't they just put a header on the sample > > that indicates its endianness? > > > IIRC that's how tiff works. > > > > > > > I th

Re: Alsa plays only wav files

2002-09-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-09-17 at 17:47, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > --- Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Die, 2002-09-17 at 03:35, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > > > > > > Why don't they just put a header on the sample > > that indicates its endianness? > > > IIRC that's how tiff works. > > > >

Re: Alsa plays only wav files

2002-09-17 Thread Ondrej Certik
--- Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Die, 2002-09-17 at 03:35, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > > > Why don't they just put a header on the sample > that indicates its endianness? > > IIRC that's how tiff works. > > > > I think endianness is defined with most if not all > audio format

Re: vulnerable to apache/ssl worm ?

2002-09-17 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:05:29AM -0700, Gilger.John wrote: > Thus sproke Jack Howarth: > Subject: Re: vulnerable to apache/ssl worm ? > > Vinai, >No. From what I have read the code the worm executes is i386 > specific. > Jack > > IIRC, the article on CNet said that

Re: Alsa plays only wav files

2002-09-17 Thread Ondrej Certik
You are right, that the problem is endiannes, because I wanted to know what is going on, so I switched back to ALSA and modified the Alsa output plugin for xmms, so that it swaps the endiannes of the data, which goes through it and the ogg/mp3 now plays very well, but wav causes the noise. S

Re: New kernel -> more heat ?

2002-09-17 Thread Vincent Beffara
> > And yesterday I rsync'ed a new benh kernel, compiled it and booted it : > > it works fine except that now the fan _never_ stops, where with the > > previous kernel it only started while running some heavy simulation or > > watching DVDs. > > In my experience the graphics chip and display prod

Re: New kernel -> more heat ?

2002-09-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 22:48, Vincent Beffara wrote: > > I'm the happy owner of a TiBook DVI, and after the usual X11 config > stuff I had no problem running Debian on it. > > And yesterday I rsync'ed a new benh kernel, compiled it and booted it : > it works fine except that now the fan _never_ s

Re: progress with iBook2/Mobility M3 external video?

2002-09-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-09-17 at 12:39, Edd Dumbill wrote: > I decided to test out external video again today on my iBook2 500, which > has Rage Mobility M3 in it. > > After starting X4.2 (Branden's testing packages) and then going back > into console mode m3mirror gave a steady picture on the display (it us

Re: GNOME won't start with startx

2002-09-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-09-17 at 13:20, Will Cicola wrote: > OK, so last night I gutted my systemm and started over with testing, as > reccommended (and I think I fixed the wrapping issue too :). Nope. Your quoting is wrapped, but in the wrong place. ;) > I'm back to testing now, and everything is working

Re: New kernel -> more heat ?

2002-09-17 Thread Lari Kovanen
Vincent Beffara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Howdy. Hi. > And yesterday I rsync'ed a new benh kernel, compiled it and booted it : > it works fine except that now the fan _never_ stops, where with the > previous kernel it only started while running some heavy simulation or > watching DVDs. I ha

Re: m3mirror for iBook 2 ?

2002-09-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-09-17 at 14:16, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > When radeonfb loads, it tries to detect an external > screen. Is it possible to tell it to redo this detection ? It wouldn't be all too useful because it wouldn't use it. ;) It just detects what's connected but only drives one head. -- Ear

Re: Alsa plays only wav files

2002-09-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-09-17 at 03:35, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > Why don't they just put a header on the sample that indicates its endianness? > IIRC that's how tiff works. > I think endianness is defined with most if not all audio formats; that doesn't prevent apps from thinking all the world is little

Re: m3mirror for iBook 2 ?

2002-09-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO La nuit ayant déjà recouvert d'encre ce jour du lundi 16 septembre 2002, vers 23:01, jonas bandi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > If you have a radeon chip, you can use the XFree 4.2 binaries from > Michel (http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/) to use an external monitor. I > attach my XFConfig-4 (fo

Re: apt

2002-09-17 Thread Jesus Climent
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 07:51:29AM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > Can apt be used to query just the updated packages > for a system so one could choose just to upgrade > certain ones? This belongs to debian-users, right? Anyhow, try aptitude. J -- Jesus Climent | Unix System Admin | Helsinki

Re: progress with iBook2/Mobility M3 external video?

2002-09-17 Thread Joakim Andersson
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:39:56AM +0100, Edd Dumbill wrote: > Console mode worked OK on the external monitor for framebuffer depths of > 1 through 8, but corrupted (went twice size) for depth 16. > > The good news seems to be the steady picture. Before I get my hopes up > too much, is this repre

apt

2002-09-17 Thread Fred Heitkamp
Can apt be used to query just the updated packages for a system so one could choose just to upgrade certain ones? Fred

Re: GNOME won't start with startx

2002-09-17 Thread Will Cicola
First off, thanks for the replies! I've been going nuts over this, and it's great to know that there are people out there whoi are willing to help :) OK, so last night I gutted my systemm and started over with testing, as reccommended (and I think I fixed the wrapping issue too :). I'm back to

progress with iBook2/Mobility M3 external video?

2002-09-17 Thread Edd Dumbill
I decided to test out external video again today on my iBook2 500, which has Rage Mobility M3 in it. After starting X4.2 (Branden's testing packages) and then going back into console mode m3mirror gave a steady picture on the display (it used to wobble around), although there was some cruft on the

Re: Beige G3 kernel panic

2002-09-17 Thread Patrik Nyman
I got two replies to my posting, I'll answer them both here, hope it's not confusing. On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:59:42 -0700 Chris Tillman wrote: you un-checked the root ramdisk checkbox Yes. and added "root=/dev/hda8" to the boot arguments box, right? Well, there is a special box for naming

Re: powermac 9500 ethernet and 2.4 booting problems

2002-09-17 Thread Michel Lanners
On 16 Sep, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 06:32:04PM -0400, Andy Bastien wrote: >> Second question: I can't boot 2.4.anything. I've tried both Debian's >> 2.4.18-powermac and several iterations built from the 2.4.19 source, >> and they all do

Re: powermac 9500 ethernet and 2.4 booting problems

2002-09-17 Thread Michel Lanners
On 16 Sep, this message from Andy Bastien echoed through cyberspace: > First question: This beast has two ethernet cards that I haven't been > able to get working; does any know for sure whether these cards do > work? > > The first is a Scitex LANC Fast Ethernet card. I don't know much > about