Re: 3 kernel related questions

2003-04-24 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 24 2003, Mich Lanners wrote: > - Input layer > - Linux keycodes (and not old-style ADB keycodes) > - no standard serial support (only Mac-style ports) - if you have a mac, use the mac-specific RTC code, not the general one on the kernel; you kernel can oops on boot otherwise. -- =-=

Re: Petition for a Flash plugin for Linux on PPC

2003-04-24 Thread Brett Carter
> You can always educate them, but you can neither tell how many times > it will take them for being educated nor whether they will accept > to change their tools. The only sure things in life are death and taxes. :) > You cannot modify properly PDF or html. You cannot format properly > text fil

Problems with DRI (missing /dev/dri/card0)

2003-04-24 Thread Reto Stalder
Hi there, I have some problems with DRI. There are the following entries in /var/log/XFree86.0.log: (II) Module shadow: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.99.2, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation, version 0.1 (**) RADEON(0): Disabling page flipp

Re: 3 kernel related questions

2003-04-24 Thread Mich Lanners
On 23 Apr, this message from dylan echoed through cyberspace: > 1> i have downloaded the source for a kernel (2.4-benh-2.4.20-ben10) > that has been optimised for old-world SCSI-based machines such as the > 8500 from: > > http://www.ppckernel.org/kernel.php?id=24 That's a good kernel choice. >

Re: 3 kernel related questions

2003-04-24 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 24 Apr, this message from Brad Boyer echoed through cyberspace: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:11:24PM -0700, dylan wrote: >> 3> is there any real support for the PlanB video input with a 2.4 >> kernel ? i would like to use this 8500's built-in video digitizer for >> some real work... but no

Re: floating point used in kernel

2003-04-24 Thread Peter Bergner
:: oana :: wrote: i get this in dmesg: floating point used in kernel (task=c01a9420, pc=c0004028) We had a similar problem with the ppc64 kernel (which inherited the ppc kernel's FP unavailable exception handler). Our problem was 3rd party modules which were not built with -msoft-float. We we

Re: Howto: german keymap for X11

2003-04-24 Thread Benjamin Swatek
On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 16:02, Benjamin Swatek wrote: > Hi! > > Great!! > Thanks a lot, it works!! > > Thanks > > benjamin > > On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:57, Claas Langbehn wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > > To get the german keymap working with X11, do the following: > > > > 1.) Edit your XF86config-

Re: XFree86 not sleeping using -ben10 on a powerbook3,5

2003-04-24 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Il mar, 2003-04-15 alle 14:10, Giuseppe Sacco ha scritto: > Il mar, 2003-04-15 alle 13:16, Benjamin Herrenschmidt ha scritto: > > On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 12:32, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > > > Il mar, 2003-04-15 alle 11:15, Benjamin Herrenschmidt ha scritto: > > > > On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 10:27, Giuseppe

Re: ATI MACH64 - wrong colors

2003-04-24 Thread Johan en Katrien Dewaele
Hi Marco, I also have a Macintosh PPC 4400 - I'm running mostly Woody + some packages from testing, and sometimes Mac OS 7.5.3 on it ;-). Kernel 2.4.18 homebrew. I have X running 15 bpp - 640x 480 (the Apple-screen I got only gets to this resolution) But I do remember that I also had trouble get

Re: Important keyboard problem (^[[B sent indefinitely)

2003-04-24 Thread Edward G. Speyer
On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I was using emacs on my Titanium, and suddenly the machine behaved as > if the Ctrl key were permanently pressed. > [...] > Did anyone have the same problem or a similar one? (I remember that > at least another user had a similar problem.) Has it been

Re: 3 kernel related questions

2003-04-24 Thread Brad Boyer
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:11:24PM -0700, dylan wrote: > 3> is there any real support for the PlanB video input with a 2.4 kernel ? i > would like to use this 8500's built-in video digitizer for some real work... > but not too sure if it is even worth pursuing... There is a driver for PlanB, and i

Re: floating point used in kernel

2003-04-24 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 00:23, :: oana :: wrote: > hi. > > i'm running sid on a pismo with the 2.4.20 kernel compiled using > make-kpkg with the benh + debianlogo patches applied. > > every 30 minutes or so (sometimes even more frequently) the machine > stops responding for about 30 seconds to eter

3 kernel related questions

2003-04-24 Thread dylan
thanks to everyone who helped me with the shutdown madness that i was experiencing! i have 3 (perhaps bone-headed) questions about kernel compilation for an 8500. 1> i have downloaded the source for a kernel (2.4-benh-2.4.20-ben10) that has been optimised for old-world SCSI-based machines such