Re: Sorted some things out

2002-12-13 Thread Derrik Pates
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:36:12PM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote: > >> PlanB works? Yeah!!! You just made my day :-)) Yes, it does, mostly. I think the fact the the Voodoo3 is all messed up endian wise is causing problems. I need to dig in and see if I can figure out where it is that things are goin

Re: Getting my Alt key back

2002-12-13 Thread Brian Victor
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 07:35:44PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: >On Fre, 2002-12-13 at 02:50, Brian Victor wrote: >> I recently switched from WindowMaker to evilwm, and in the process, lost >> the swapmeta functionality. >I think an X upgrade did that, haven't investigated further. OK, but if I swi

Re: Sorted some things out

2002-12-13 Thread Michel Lanners
On 13 Dec, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through cyberspace: > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 21:47, Michel Lanners wrote: >> On 13 Dec, this message from Derrik Pates echoed through cyberspace: >> [snip] >> > Yay! It's not just me. Thank you very much, Ben - that would really make >> >

Re: Sorted some things out

2002-12-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 21:47, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 13 Dec, this message from Derrik Pates echoed through cyberspace: > [snip] > > Yay! It's not just me. Thank you very much, Ben - that would really make > > my day. With that, this box will be 100% operational. (Even the PlanB > > video in wor

alsa 0.9rc6 problems

2002-12-13 Thread brett-debianppc
Has anybody gotten alsa rc6 to work on a tibook III? Specifically, I'm trying to get usb-audio (for midi) and the powermac alsa driver. The former won't even compile (2.4.20rc4-benh) and the latter compiles but the driver plays sound at 2x speed when using xmms-alsa. Just wondering if anybody ha

Re: Sorted some things out

2002-12-13 Thread Michel Lanners
On 13 Dec, this message from Derrik Pates echoed through cyberspace: [snip] > Yay! It's not just me. Thank you very much, Ben - that would really make > my day. With that, this box will be 100% operational. (Even the PlanB > video in works - though I don't actually have a use for it.) PlanB works

Here we are .......

2002-12-13 Thread CMax Europe
Title: eu.CMAX.com

Re: The life of the batteries in the IBook running linux

2002-12-13 Thread Michel Lanners
On 13 Dec, this message from Sven Luther echoed through cyberspace: >> The point is AFAICT that the battery will self-dicharge at a more or >> less slow rate, and this charge loss will be compensated by regularly >> recharging the battery a bit. >> >> In general, this is considered good practice

Re: Getting my Alt key back

2002-12-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2002-12-13 at 02:50, Brian Victor wrote: > I recently switched from WindowMaker to evilwm, and in the process, lost > the swapmeta functionality. I think an X upgrade did that, haven't investigated further. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFre

Re: Re: New to PPC

2002-12-13 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:52:36AM -0500, Shawn Powers wrote: > is there a "way" I'm supposed to add the "alias eth0 gmac" into the > modules.conf? I just used nano, and typed it in at the bottom, > ignoring the warnings not to modify the file... Should it have gone > in a specific place in the f

[Solved (I think)]New to PPC

2002-12-13 Thread Shawn Powers
I'm not home to test the airport card -- but here's what I did to get both recognized: I changed the "alias eth0 gmac" to "alias eth1 gmac" -- apparently the airport card really really wants to be eth0. So be it. :) I can just write a little script to take eth1 down and bring eth0 up when I go h

RE: Re: New to PPC

2002-12-13 Thread Shawn Powers
First off -- never had such fast responses from a list before, you guys are great. Even a response from Ben of the benh kernel. ;) As I paint myself more and more as a newbie -- is there a "way" I'm supposed to add the "alias eth0 gmac" into the modules.conf? I just used nano, and typed it in at

RE: Re: New to PPC

2002-12-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 16:14, Shawn Powers wrote: > debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org said: > >> benh kernel -- ethernet is broken. (I did add the alias gmac eth0 > >> line to modules.conf, didnt' help) > > > > That should be "alias eth0 gmac" > > My typo -- I remembered what I had done wrong, but I

RE: Re: New to PPC

2002-12-13 Thread Shawn Powers
debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org said: >> benh kernel -- ethernet is broken. (I did add the alias gmac eth0 >> line to modules.conf, didnt' help) > > That should be "alias eth0 gmac" My typo -- I remembered what I had done wrong, but I did actually put it in correctly, and it didnt' work. However

Re: New to PPC

2002-12-13 Thread Bastien Nocera
Hi, On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 14:28, Shawn Powers wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm new to the debian crowd, but have been the sysadmin of many RedHat > servers for years. I have an original 66Mhz bus "snow" ibook, and > desperately want to use debian on it. I assure you I have tried to RTFM > (mailing l

New to PPC

2002-12-13 Thread Shawn Powers
Hello all, I'm new to the debian crowd, but have been the sysadmin of many RedHat servers for years. I have an original 66Mhz bus "snow" ibook, and desperately want to use debian on it. I assure you I have tried to RTFM (mailing list archive, google searches, install guides, etc) for a long time

Re: Sorted some things out

2002-12-13 Thread Derrik Pates
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:48:41AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Known bug on OldWorld SMP with recent kernels, I did't yet have a chance > to work on it, but I will asap. Yay! It's not just me. Thank you very much, Ben - that would really make my day. With that, this box will be 100% ope

Re: xfree86 - Alt key missing [solved]

2002-12-13 Thread Vinai Kopp
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:47:01PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mit, 2002-12-11 at 22:01, Vinai Kopp wrote: > > > > since I upgraded to xfree86 4.2.1-3 (sarg) the left and right Control, > > Command and Alt keys generate the same keycodes: > > > > Contrl_L and Control_R 37 > > Alt_L and A

Re: Sorted some things out

2002-12-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 08:49, Derrik Pates wrote: > Well, I got quik sorted out. Had to specify the partition number there, > and now quik is happy. The tdfxfb driver is kind of broken, but I > managed to fix it for mode setting - I'm still looking at the code, > trying to figure out why (a) depth 1

Re: Sorted some things out

2002-12-13 Thread simonraven
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 02:49:08 -0500, Derrik Pates composed: > > My remaining problem is that using the hardware clock results in lockups > in SMP mode, especially when warm booting. I've just disabled > 'hwclock.sh' and 'hwclockfirst.sh' for now - I have to setup the clock > manually, but the s

Sorted some things out

2002-12-13 Thread Derrik Pates
Well, I got quik sorted out. Had to specify the partition number there, and now quik is happy. The tdfxfb driver is kind of broken, but I managed to fix it for mode setting - I'm still looking at the code, trying to figure out why (a) depth 16 and depth 24 are messed up, and (b) why acceleration pr

Re: The life of the batteries in the IBook running linux

2002-12-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:40:58PM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 12 Dec, this message from Rogério Brito echoed through cyberspace: > > On quinta-feira, dez 12, 2002, at 14:42 America/Sao_Paulo, Michael > > Flaig wrote: > >> on my pismo the battery can't hold 100% charge. When the battery is