Re: 12" PB less supported than 15", 17" ?

2003-12-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Is this the only obstacle to sleep? Is it possible to put the rest of > the machine to sleep while leaving the graphics chip active? No, we have no control on what happens to the graphics chip. It's shutdown by the PMU. When we wakeup, if the gfx chip is dead, there's nothing much we can do.

Re: trouble with radeon framebuffer driver

2003-12-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > Would this be equivalent to setting panel_yres from the kernel command > line? I tried that, and the radeon driver seems to be used in favor of > the OF one, but the display is unreadable. > > If you have a known EDID block I could start playing around with using > it as a default. No, EDID

Re: Actiontec USB Wireless Success [was Re: 12" PB less supported than 15", 17" ?]

2003-12-11 Thread David Pye
Hehehe I'm glad to hear you got it working at last! :) Enjoy the hardware! David On Thursday 11 December 2003 22:46, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:13:18PM -0600, I wrote: > > > I have a small usb wireless dongle for 802.11 when I need it, and > > > > What kind?

Actiontec USB Wireless Success [was Re: 12" PB less supported than 15", 17" ?]

2003-12-11 Thread Orion Buckminster Montoya
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:13:18PM -0600, I wrote: > > I have a small usb wireless dongle for 802.11 when I need it, and > > What kind? A friend gave me his Actiontec "802.11b USB Wireless > Adapter" (model # 802UI3, I guess) and I couldn't get it to work. > What are you using? I'll buy one toni

Re: MOL + MAC_OS_X + Virtual PC

2003-12-11 Thread Nathanael Hasbrouck
On Thursday 11 December 2003 03:57, Gunnar von Boehn wrote: > Hello everybody, > > First of all Many thanks for MOL - > its a great piece of software. > > > I have MOL installed on an iBook running in Yellow Dog Linux (3.0). > The MAC OS X 10.2.8 installation runs fine in MOL. > > > I wanted to us

Re: 12' PB less supported than 15', 17' ?

2003-12-11 Thread ben
Thanks for putting me straight, I think I was getting a little overly pessimistic there! ;) B. > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 11:33, B. Bogart wrote: >> the radeons above 9200 are not supported by X. :( Since ATI has not >> released specs on the r300 chips. >> >> nvidia chips have x86 only binary driv

Re: Kernel hangs during boot on PowerBook G4 17 1GHz

2003-12-11 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Dec 11, 2003, at 1:03 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Thanks for taking the time to reply. Yes, you nailed it; an nVidia-based 17" albook. I briefly got past the issue I had posted and experienced three different types of segmentation faults and weird hangs. Is there another

Re: trouble with radeon framebuffer driver

2003-12-11 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 06:03:46PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 10:26, Graham Wilson wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 10:03:41AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On a boot where it fails, can you send me a tarball of > > > /proc/device-tree/[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: 12" PB less supported than 15", 17" ?

2003-12-11 Thread Michael Shields
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 11:06, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: [...] >> If you want to run GNU/Linux right now, don't get the 12". If anyone >> wants to trade me a decent, recent iBook for my 12", I will seriously >

Re: m3mirror problem

2003-12-11 Thread Antonio Messina
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:14:25 +0100 Eric Lemoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does not work on my ibook/m3. First: the patch creates a weird vertical > line under X on my LCD. Second: it doesn't help on CRT either, the > screen is still shaking and, worse, it is doubled - I get two overlapped > pi

Re: 12" PB less supported than 15", 17" ?

2003-12-11 Thread Colin Leroy
Hi, > I have one of the new G4 iBooks at hand on loan from Apple at the > moment, I'll let you know if I can get things to work on it. good news :) I downloaded some Darwin code to see if i could find interesting bits regarding sleep and cpufreq control, as I have an ibook g4 too, but I couldn't

Re: 12" PB less supported than 15", 17" ?

2003-12-11 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On jeu, 2003-12-11 at 01:45, David Pye wrote: > Admittedly sleep would be nice. I can't imagine using a laptop that can't go to sleep. That is one of the reason I love laptops: bring your computer everywhere and don't waste time bringing back you workspace. That is one of the reason I never switc

Re: m3mirror problem

2003-12-11 Thread Eric Lemoine
> > I'm trying to mirror my iBook2 video for presentation (Debian > > testing/unstable, 3.0r1, Kernel 2.4.18-newpmac). > > Downloaded m3mirror from Benh's page. > > With the FB device I get a 60Hz image that flickers a lot. If I try to > > "upgrade" to 75Hz I get a melange of colours... if I open a

Re: pcmcia problems

2003-12-11 Thread Kiko Piris
On 10/12/2003 at 18:40, dylan wrote: > since i have compiled support for this module into the kernel there should > be no need to load a module methinks. I tried commenting out the line in > /etc/pcmcia/config-4 where it specifies the loading of that module upon > restarting pcmcia services, a

Re: 12" PB less supported than 15", 17" ?

2003-12-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 17:57, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 11:33, B. Bogart wrote: > > the radeons above 9200 are not supported by X. :( Since ATI has not released > > specs on the r300 chips. > > > > nvidia chips have x86 only binary drivers > > ati drivers are also x8

Re: trouble with radeon framebuffer driver

2003-12-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 10:26, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 10:03:41AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 07:32, Graham Wilson wrote: > > > However, this does not happen all the time. It has been consistent for > > > the past few days, but before that the

Re: 12" PB less supported than 15", 17" ?

2003-12-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 11:06, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: > > My G3 iBook has died a premature death due to video card failure > > and I am seeking to replace it with a Powerbook. I have read that Airport > > Extreme is not supported due to driver license issues, is that correct ? > > Br

Re: 12" PB less supported than 15", 17" ?

2003-12-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 11:33, B. Bogart wrote: > the radeons above 9200 are not supported by X. :( Since ATI has not released > specs on the r300 chips. > > nvidia chips have x86 only binary drivers > ati drivers are also x86 only. Wow, don't go too fast :) XFree 2D will work fine, including

Re: Kernel hangs during boot on PowerBook G4 17 1GHz

2003-12-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Thanks for taking the time to reply. Yes, you nailed it; an > nVidia-based 17" albook. I briefly got past the issue I had posted and > experienced three different types of segmentation faults and weird > hangs. Is there another kernel version I should try, or am I doomed > with this