dmasound 2.4.22-ben2

2003-09-08 Thread Everett Coleman II
hello, I recenly rsync'd the 2.4.22-ben2 kernel and i am having problems getting the sound to work again. I had it working with 2.4.21-ben2 via dmasound. If I can get it working again with out alsa that would be nice =) thanks in advance... powerbook g4 titanium (667MHz) Everett Coleman II -- o

help getting hw-accel OpenGL on Pismo

2003-09-08 Thread John M. Gabriele
I'm running Debian Sid on my Apple "Pismo" Powerbook G3 Firewire. I'm trying to get hardware-accelerated OpenGL working. The Powerbook comes with an ATI Rage 128 Mobility M3, 66 MHz AGP 2x (rev. 02) bus and the card has 8 MB SDRAM. Standard 1024x768 display. glxinfo is telling me that there is n

Re: XFree dramatic memory leak?

2003-09-08 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 06:52, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > I just realized that the daily updatedb run caused this 1G Ti 15" > powerbook to swap (with just some apps open under X). BTW, 2.6 kernels handle this much better than 2.4 kernels. :) > And then I saw that XFree is taking 1.5G virtual mem

Re: 2.4.22-ben2 : backlight (F1/F2) not working on console, little freeze

2003-09-08 Thread Julien BLACHE
Stewart Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i haven't actually tried it, and i don't see why it would make the > buttons work (maybe it will, the place i was at while researching this > issue stopped serving coffee at about that time) but it should at least > stop the error message coming up - whic

Re: Re: Re: 43p-150 booting Debian on chrp

2003-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:43:29AM -0500, Alumbaugh, Tony wrote: > The closets I have gotten to getting the box to boot was with a > zImage.chrp-rs6k file. It would boot (using boot net: or boot floppy), then > ask for the ramdisk to be insterted, but would not recognize the /dev/fd0 > device. >

Re: Re: Re: 43p-150 booting Debian on chrp

2003-09-08 Thread Alumbaugh, Tony
The closets I have gotten to getting the box to boot was with a zImage.chrp-rs6k file. It would boot (using boot net: or boot floppy), then ask for the ramdisk to be insterted, but would not recognize the /dev/fd0 device. So, Yes, if you could build me an image that will boot the system, that wou

Re: 2.4.22-ben2 : backlight (F1/F2) not working on console, little freeze

2003-09-08 Thread Stewart Smith
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 00:04, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Stewart Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you getting a message like "keyboard: unknown scancode e0 4c" on > > your console/in your syslog? > > Exactly. Try the attached patch, should apply to 2.4.22 too. i haven't actually tried it,

2.4.22-ben2 : backlight (F1/F2) not working on console, little freeze

2003-09-08 Thread Julien BLACHE
Hi, Running 2.4.22-ben2 for a few days now, I just realized the backlight keys (F1/F2) do not work on console anymore. Is that known/intended ? I'm also having a little freeze (up to 2s) while launching XEmacs, which is something I never experienced on Linux :( and I've got plenty of RAM... The

Re: Re: 43p-150 booting Debian on chrp

2003-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:59:10AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 09:19:38AM -0500, Alumbaugh, Tony wrote: > > > Sven, > > > Thanks for your help. I downloaded the vmlinz-2.4.22-install as you > > > suggested, but when I tried

Re: Re: 43p-150 booting Debian on chrp

2003-09-08 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 09:19:38AM -0500, Alumbaugh, Tony wrote: > > Sven, > > Thanks for your help. I downloaded the vmlinz-2.4.22-install as you > > suggested, but when I tried to boot my 43p from bootP (boot > > net:,10.31.196.5,,10.31.196.6), I got the

Re: Re: 43p-150 booting Debian on chrp

2003-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 09:19:38AM -0500, Alumbaugh, Tony wrote: > Sven, > Thanks for your help. I downloaded the vmlinz-2.4.22-install as you > suggested, but when I tried to boot my 43p from bootP (boot > net:,10.31.196.5,,10.31.196.6), I got the following error message. Mmm, i don't know what

Re: "Setting Up General Console Font" DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-08 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Thomas Otto wrote: Or, wait to see if somebody else here has an easier way. ;-) I would say you just boot your current system with the parameter 'init=/bin/bash', then do an fsck of the root fs, remount the root parition read-write and try to fix it. Now that sounds a _lot_ easier : you'll

Re: "Setting Up General Console Font" DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-08 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Thomas Otto wrote: We haven't got a boot selector yet. The environment can point to exactly one partition for booting, and if I've read it right it will load the first file on that - it has to be a PReP partition, and since it doesn't have a filesystem I guess there's only ever one file. Alter

XFree dramatic memory leak?

2003-09-08 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
Hi all... I just realized that the daily updatedb run caused this 1G Ti 15" powerbook to swap (with just some apps open under X). And then I saw that XFree is taking 1.5G virtual memory and 800M Res :-( It seems to be growing when one uses 2 displays ... now (after 4 days uptime ) it is already