Re: kernel oops aic7xxx driver (warning attachments!)

2003-07-22 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On 21 Jul 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 14:43, F. Heitkamp wrote: > > I hope know one beats me up too bad for posting this. > > This is a oops I got when trying the aic7xxx driver. > > > > Fred > > Send me machine model, kernel version and lspci -vvv > output (as root

Re: iBook2 cdrom

2003-07-22 Thread Charles R. Twardy
I don't seem to be able to get my cdrom working. Long ago it worked. Now if I type "eject" I get: eject: unable to open `/dev/scd0' I've now compiled a benh kernel using the iBook config, with IDE support and SCSI emulation. Am I missing something on modules.conf? -Charles -- Charles R. Twardy,

Re: Reconfiguring network

2003-07-22 Thread Kent West
Steven Schlansker wrote: How do you reconfigure the network interfaces, for example to use static addresses instead of DHCP? Thanks,. Steven Edit /etc/network/interfaces. See "man interfaces" for details. Here's an example: # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdow

Re: Reconfiguring network

2003-07-22 Thread Fábio Rabelo
dpkg-reconfigure etherconf if etherconf isn't instaled yet : apt-get install etherconf Steven Schlansker wrote: How do you reconfigure the network interfaces, for example to use static addresses instead of DHCP? Thanks,. Steven

Reconfiguring network

2003-07-22 Thread Steven Schlansker
How do you reconfigure the network interfaces, for example to use static addresses instead of DHCP? Thanks,. Steven

Re: Measuring latency on my Apple G3

2003-07-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 22:50, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Michel Dänzer escribio el 22/07/03 21:13: > > What exactly do you mean by 'video performance', anyway? > > Well, a faster and cleaner dragging of windows, in example. Using the same window manager etc. ? 2D acceleration (in particular

Re: Measuring latency on my Apple G3

2003-07-22 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Michel Dänzer escribio el 22/07/03 21:13: What exactly do you mean by 'video performance', anyway? Well, a faster and cleaner dragging of windows, in example. Look at the arch/i386/config.in hunk and merge it into arch/ppc/config.in, or try the attached patch. Then, make oldconfig and so on.

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Frank Murphy
> This does look like a problem: > Xsession: unable to start X session; no /home/steven/.xsession file, no > /home/steven/.Xsession file, no session managers, no window managers, > and no > terminal emulators found. Aborting. Seems that you don't have any X programs installed. I don't know if y

Re: Measuring latency on my Apple G3

2003-07-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:32, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Michel Dänzer escribio el 22/07/03 02:22: > > > Which isn't very surprising, as they can use parts of the graphics chip > > that we don't have specs for, for one. > > Sure. Only I remember having installed Mandrake 9.1, and I think vi

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Steven Schlansker
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 10:31 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: I turned authorization off as you said, and now I get a cooler-looking login screen, along with a little output-only console in the bottom right. When I enter my name/pass, the console prints "(xdm) session opened by uid" and t

Re: X Won't Log In

2003-07-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Frank Murphy wrote: > I found this description on > http://www.imaclinux.net/php/plain_page.php3?caller=imaclinux_g_h.php3+record=5 > > Apple Valkyrie Video (valkyriefb) > > The video chip in the Performa 6400 and the PowerMacintosh 6400/6500 is > codename Valkyrie. It is

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > But Xpmac is unsupported in Debian (which is why you had to compile > > > it yourself), so that means that valkyrie video devices are unsupported > > > in Debian. > > > > Unsupported? The fbdev driver should work with it, at least with > > valkyriefb.

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Re: X Won't Log In

2003-07-22 Thread Frank Murphy
I found this description on http://www.imaclinux.net/php/plain_page.php3?caller=imaclinux_g_h.php3+record=5 Apple Valkyrie Video (valkyriefb) The video chip in the Performa 6400 and the PowerMacintosh 6400/6500 is codename Valkyrie. It is an internal Apple chip, the only acceleration possibl

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Frank Murphy
> > But Xpmac is unsupported in Debian (which is why you had to compile > > it yourself), so that means that valkyrie video devices are unsupported > > in Debian. > > Unsupported? The fbdev driver should work with it, at least with > valkyriefb. Ah OK. So Xpmac is unsupported, but valkyrie device

Re: X Won't Log In

2003-07-22 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 4:48, Steven Schlansker wrote: > Kernel options? Where do I set those? > I set the video driver to the framebuffer one (fbdev I think) but it > doesn't work. (in the real XFree86 that is) - I'll try to set the > video=valkyriefb as soon as someone tells me where I set the k

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Frank Murphy
> I turned authorization off as you said, and now I get a > cooler-looking login screen, along with a little output-only console in > the bottom right. When I enter my name/pass, the console prints "(xdm) > session opened by uid" and the rest is cut off at the edge of the > screen. The screen f

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 18:06, Steven Schlansker wrote: > On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 09:02 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 17:20, Frank Murphy wrote: > >> > >> But Xpmac is unsupported in Debian (which is why you had to compile > >> it yourself), so that means that valkyrie

Solved with fresh(er) kernels [was: Re: Powerbook G4 getting very hot. Solution?]

2003-07-22 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On 17 Jul 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 20:42, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > What I have: > > Kernel: 2.4.18-newpmac > > > > Hardware: > > Powerbook3.5 (version = 3.2) > > 867 MHz > > 768 MB SDRAM > > > > The problem is the machine is getting very hot at the bottom side of

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Steven Schlansker
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 09:02 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 17:20, Frank Murphy wrote: To those who wanted the logs, it was actually at /var/log/xdm.log And, to those who are saying that it's unsupported, the 'real' X server doesn't seem to support valkyrie video de

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 17:20, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > To those who wanted the logs, it was actually at /var/log/xdm.log > > And, to those who are saying that it's unsupported, the 'real' X server > > doesn't seem to support valkyrie video devices. > > The Xpmac seems to only log to the display m

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Steven Schlansker
(I switched X back to Xpmac before all of this) I actually didn't compile it - I found a .deb and installed it using dpkg. I turned authorization off as you said, and now I get a cooler-looking login screen, along with a little output-only console in the bottom right. When I enter my name/pas

Re: X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Frank Murphy
> The Opt-F1,F2,etc trick wasn't working, and neither does this. I think that the Xpmac server doesn't allow this -- trick (but it is Control and Opt and Function key; I assume you typoed that above.) > To those who wanted the logs, it was actually at /var/log/xdm.log > And, to those who are sa

Re:X Won't Log In

2003-07-22 Thread Steven Schlansker
Kernel options? Where do I set those? I set the video driver to the framebuffer one (fbdev I think) but it doesn't work. (in the real XFree86 that is) - I'll try to set the video=valkyriefb as soon as someone tells me where I set the kernel options. Thanks. On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 07:

X won't log in (was Re: Xpmac can't find font 'fixed')

2003-07-22 Thread Steven Schlansker
The Opt-F1,F2,etc trick wasn't working, and neither does this. To those who wanted the logs, it was actually at /var/log/xdm.log And, to those who are saying that it's unsupported, the 'real' X server doesn't seem to support valkyrie video devices. The log follows: Woowoo Xpmac / X Window Sy

Re: kernel SCSI woes

2003-07-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > When I compile the aic7xxx support (either old or new) > > > into the kernel it Oopses. When I compile it as a module > > > it getseither a bus error or: > > > aic7xxx.o: unresolved symbol del_timer_sync > > > aic7xxx.o: unresolved symbol kernel_flag > > > > Are these module load warnings? B

Re: kernel SCSI woes

2003-07-22 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > I have been trying to compile a new kernel for > > my newworld G4 SMP snakebite Mac. > > > > I've finally narrowed down the Oops problem to the > > Adaptec aic7xxx driver/modules. > > > > When I compile the aic7xxx support (either old or new) > > int

Re: Measuring latency on my Apple G3

2003-07-22 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Michel Dänzer escribio el 22/07/03 02:22: Probably a GTK bug, not related to this thread. I know, I know... ;) Which isn't very surprising, as they can use parts of the graphics chip that we don't have specs for, for one. Sure. Only I remember having installed Mandrake 9.1, and I think vide

Re: IBM Servers to Pair Linux, New PowerPC Chips

2003-07-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 09:34:14PM -0400, Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote: > > > Also, to ask my own question, did I hear someone say recently on this > >> list that IBM might use Apple chips in it's PPC machines? Or am I > >> confusing things? > > > >That would be silly: Apple doesn't make chips, it ju