XFree86_4.3.0-0pre1v1 for PowerPC?

2003-08-05 Thread Wes Morgan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are there Debian packages for XFree86_4.3.0-0pre1v1 for powerpc available anywhere? Wes Morgan - -- "We need to consider the reality of what God wants and how broken the world is, and the gap between them, and let a healthy discontent take over our

Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Hardware

2003-08-05 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 01:38:14 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > the only way might be to make the OF-booting market so > big that it'll be cheaper for the manufacturers to do so. Simple: do AMD x86-64 or IPF 64 use OF? If yes, piece of cake; if not, forget it. -- _ Leandro Guimarã

Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Hardware

2003-08-05 Thread Segher Boessenkool
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: What we would need now is for somebody to port uBoot's emulator to some userland app in Linux, and actually try to see if we can get an x86 typical Radeon card to boot in a Mac or not... While that might be a reasonable short-time plan, what we *really* need is for

Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Hardware

2003-08-05 Thread Segher Boessenkool
Jeroen Roovers wrote: As I said before, if your Mac has Open Firmware, you can (theoretically, which means I've read about it :-) use a serial It works fine. Do note to use 57600 baud on newer machines, not 38400 as the Apple technotes say. connection to get to a boot prompt, and if Linux is

Re: problem with sound driver in iBook2

2003-08-05 Thread Segher Boessenkool
Michel Dänzer wrote: Yes, I was just looking what happens. Deep inside I was hoping that recording capability might perhaps be added with not too much effort. How about Darwin, couldn't we borrow some code of their driver, or is this code not freely available? I doubt it, but as Segher pointed

Re: Meta Alt oh my!

2003-08-05 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 22:23:21 +0200, Frank Murphy wrote: >> No, it is not. My point is exactly that xmodmap and altwin:meta_win >> aren't taking effect in :1, only in :1. > > So, did you do the above xev on display :1 or :0? Or are they the same on > both? xev gives the same result

Re: VGA output on ibook ?

2003-08-05 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette soirée bien amorcée du mardi 05 août 2003, vers 22:17, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > Since I've bought my Ibook ( a [EMAIL PROTECTED], with radeon M6LY), last > year, I hope to use the vga output a day, with a videoprojector, for > example... Check the archives, t

Re: Some sound doesn't work yet

2003-08-05 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce début de soirée du mardi 05 août 2003, vers 21:16, Frank Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > Yeah, sound on Linux is too complicated. ALSA now supports audio stream > mixing, so hopefully the arts/esd stuff will fade away (except that some > people will still want network independant

VGA output on ibook ?

2003-08-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everyone, Since I've bought my Ibook ( a [EMAIL PROTECTED], with radeon M6LY), last year, I hope to use the vga output a day, with a videoprojector, for example... Using a Debian sid distribution, I can have this feature enabled with an old 2.4.20-ben10 kernel, but not with the more recent

Re: Meta Alt oh my!

2003-08-05 Thread Frank Murphy
> > So, when you run xev and press the left key, you get > > something like this: > > > > KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x221, > > root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 71770797, (2,148), root:(574,566), > > state 0x8, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES, > >

Re: Meta Alt oh my!

2003-08-05 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Ter, 2003-08-05 às 20:41, Frank Murphy escreveu: > Normally to XFree, I'd think. Unless it's a packaging problem. They're > responding pretty well to Bugzilla these days (with enough information). But > it has to be an X bug, of course. Let me consider it a little bit more, and will d

Re: Some sound doesn't work yet

2003-08-05 Thread Frank Murphy
> I'm just messing about at the moment - trying to find ones that work. > Kaboodle and Noatun got installed automatically with KDE 3.. They play MP3s > and wavs fine, but when playing mpeg movies, the sound displays the endian > problem... Different drivers for the different file-types I guess(?)

Re: Meta Alt oh my!

2003-08-05 Thread Frank Murphy
> > Hmm. That it only works on display :0 seems like a bug. > > Any way to confirm it's a bug? Should I report it to XFree or > Debian? Normally to XFree, I'd think. Unless it's a packaging problem. They're responding pretty well to Bugzilla these days (with enough information). But it h

Re: Some sound doesn't work yet

2003-08-05 Thread Tim Froggatt
> Try to install SDL. I found more or less the same problems running > applications directly against oss/alsa as you do on the SB Live!, but > when I went through the SDL sound wrapper it worked. libsdll is already installed apparently. Is it possible to get all programs to go through an SDL wra

Re: Conexant modem on ibook

2003-08-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> As a workarround, I simply rmmod the 3 modules after finishing the > connection with ppp and everything works very well. This is a known issue, though it's not fixed in the latest version neither (seem to not be that simple due to the way this driver is designed...). BTW, a quick way to rmmod

Re: Conexant modem on ibook

2003-08-05 Thread Kiko Piris
On 05/08/2003 at 14:38, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Note that the current version of the driver is a bit hackish as > it contains a mismatch between the soft modem core in the driver > and the firmware that gets downloaded to the modem. This was done > to work around a problem with the newer f

Re: WANTED: 1280x854 and 1440x900 modelines for PowerBook G4 for inclusion in Debian XFree86 packages

2003-08-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 05:46:31PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > As of XFree86 4.3.0, the XFree86 X server doesn't have any built-in > modelines for the display modes used by the 17" PowerBook G4 and more > recent 15" PowerBook G4s. (To my knowledge, all other models of > Macintosh use standard

Re: Conexant modem on ibook

2003-08-05 Thread Jérôme Marant
Quoting Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi du mardi 05 août 2003, vers > 13:37, Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > > I downloaded the linux driver for the conexant usb modem from the > > conexant site, but I didn't manage to make ppp work with

Re: Conexant modem on ibook

2003-08-05 Thread Jérôme Marant
Quoting Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Note that the current version of the driver is a bit hackish as > it contains a mismatch between the soft modem core in the driver > and the firmware that gets downloaded to the modem. This was done > to work around a problem with the newer fir

Re: Conexant modem on ibook

2003-08-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Note that the current version of the driver is a bit hackish as it contains a mismatch between the soft modem core in the driver and the firmware that gets downloaded to the modem. This was done to work around a problem with the newer firmware, but can cause other issues or misbehaviour. I talked

Re: Newbie (to ppc), but glad to be here.

2003-08-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 05:07, Jeff Feige wrote: > Boy, I've sure noticed that the PPC support is lacking compared to i386, > but I'm sure all of you know that already. > > I'm running Debian (Woody) on a Snow 500MHz (Flower Power motherboard is > what's reported in dmesg) CRT iMac. I have been f

Re: Conexant modem on ibook

2003-08-05 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi du mardi 05 août 2003, vers 13:37, Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > I downloaded the linux driver for the conexant usb modem from the > conexant site, but I didn't manage to make ppp work with it. > Has anyone already started a ppp successful PPP

Conexant modem on ibook

2003-08-05 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, I downloaded the linux driver for the conexant usb modem from the conexant site, but I didn't manage to make ppp work with it. Has anyone already started a ppp successful PPP connexion with those drivers? Thanks in advance. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant

Re: FW: Kernel Panic: no init found

2003-08-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/08/03 19:26), deFreese, Barry wrote: > OK, I am ready to throw this PowerBook G3 (firewire/Pismo whatever) out the > fricking window. For some reason it will not boot from the Debian "Woody" > CD or anyother cd (including MacOS) for that matter. Actually I think the > device alias for cd: i

Re: Some sound doesn't work yet

2003-08-05 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Tim Froggatt wrote: How do I select oss or esd output? Does each application have to specifically support them, because I haven't found any options? Usually it's autodetected. Arts/esd is used if possible, if not the application will try oss. But it's on an app to app basis :-( I've foun

Re: Newbie (to ppc), but glad to be here.

2003-08-05 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 23:07:24 -0400, Jeff Feige wrote: > 3. Since the cdrom drive doesn't seem to have analog audio hooked to > the sound card, how do you guys deal with playing CDs? Totem. -- _ Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra +41 (21) 648 11 34 / \ http://br.geocities.

Re: Some sound doesn't work yet

2003-08-05 Thread Frank Murphy
> However, when playing some sounds I just get lots random noise (a bit like > white noise, but less soothing). This happens to the sound-track on mpeg > videos when I'm watching them on Kaboodle or Noatun (the media players from > KDE 3.1). And also when I try to play MOD files (that's an old 80s

Re: Newbie (to ppc), but glad to be here.

2003-08-05 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:07:24PM -0400, Jeff Feige wrote: > Boy, I've sure noticed that the PPC support is lacking compared to i386, > but I'm sure all of you know that already. > > I'm running Debian (Woody) on a Snow 500MHz (Flower Power motherboard is > what's reported in dmesg) CRT iMac.