Re: Getting a cursor in console

2003-12-12 Thread Harvey Ussery
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this helps take a look at the kernel documentation for details, the relevant part is "Software cursor for vga" (file VGA-softcursor.txt) I'm embarassed to say so, but I couldn't find doc specifcally for kernel. I looked in /usr/doc & /usr/share/doc No n

no login prompt and other witty comebacks

2003-12-12 Thread Kim Wroblewski
Starting with debian ppc unstable running 2.4.23 sgi-xfs and ati r128, I upgraded to Xfree86 4.4.0-pre1 compiled with gcc 3.3.2. All of this works. Next I compiled benh-2.6.0-test11 with gcc-3.3.2(but also systematically with every possible combination I can think of; and also gcc-2.95 with the sa

Re: pismo sleeps too well

2003-12-12 Thread Orion Buckminster Montoya
> when I have it on the power adaptor the pismo decides to go to sleep > every 5 minutes. I had a quick look at the documentation but I am > hoping someone else might have been down this track before me :) You wouldn't happen to be running both apm and pmud, would you? At one point either my Wall

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

2003-12-12 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: kernel advice for ibook g3

2003-12-12 Thread Lucas Moulin
Le ven 12/12/2003 à 13:43, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > > Gladto hear that, since I was planning to test this kernel. I've got one > > question though, what about cd burning and usb-storage stuff, since they > > need ide-scsi with 2.4.x ? > > They just work without. :) (usb-storage doesn't need ide-

Re: kernel advice for ibook g3

2003-12-12 Thread Kiko Piris
On 12/12/2003 at 13:43, Michel Dänzer wrote: > (usb-storage doesn't need ide-scsi even with 2.4, does it?) No it does'nt. What it needs is scsi stuff (scsi-generic, scsi-disk, etc.). -- Kiko Please do not reply to the sender address of this email; due to spam and Windows (TM) worms, everythin

Re: kernel advice for ibook g3

2003-12-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 12:04, Lucas Moulin wrote: > Le ven 12/12/2003 à 11:51, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 11:27, florian klinglmueller wrote: > > > > > > requirements: > > > sound*, 3d accel, x*, gnome*, cryptoloop, usb storage*, sleep* > > > (* these things are actualy work

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ryan Verner a écrit: Hiya, I'm a proud owner of a new 15" 1.25ghz (w/ Superdrive) Powerbook, and although OS X runs beautifully on this, I'm keen to dual boot it with a small Debian install; my previous laptop (15" 500mhz Powerbook) absolutely screamed with a Sid install. It's been a while sinc

Re: kernel advice for ibook g3

2003-12-12 Thread florian klinglmueller
hello to all, thx so far (i tend to forget about this) seems all very valuable, will get hands on it monday, and hopefully not forget to thank u again when things are working ;-) ffpx flo pgpOLrQXpTqUR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:34:01PM +1030, Ryan Verner wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 20:28, Colin Watson wrote: > > I rsynced Ben's 2.6 tree from source.mvista.com::linuxppc-2.5-benh and > > built that. http://www.penguinppc.org/ has directions. > > Oh.. heh, he has a 2.6 tree too :-) > > Go figu

Re: kernel advice for ibook g3

2003-12-12 Thread Lucas Moulin
Le ven 12/12/2003 à 11:51, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 11:27, florian klinglmueller wrote: > > > > requirements: > > sound*, 3d accel, x*, gnome*, cryptoloop, usb storage*, sleep* > > (* these things are actualy working with my old 2.4.22-benh kernel) > > This should all work

Re: kernel advice for ibook g3

2003-12-12 Thread Lucas Moulin
Le ven 12/12/2003 à 11:27, florian klinglmueller a écrit : > > first i want to start with kernel. my question: > > what version do you suggest > > i`m running debian unstable > > requirements: > sound*, 3d accel, x*, gnome*, cryptoloop, usb storage*, sleep* > (* these things are actualy working

Re: kernel advice for ibook g3

2003-12-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 11:27, florian klinglmueller wrote: > > requirements: > sound*, 3d accel, x*, gnome*, cryptoloop, usb storage*, sleep* > (* these things are actualy working with my old 2.4.22-benh kernel) This should all work with Ben's 2.6 kernel from source.mvista.com::linuxppc-2.5-benh .

kernel advice for ibook g3

2003-12-12 Thread florian klinglmueller
hello list, i`ve been installing changing around alot on my ibook g3 900 MHZ, mostly due to boredom in the office and mostly without any plan. I want to change that and get things straightened up, since several features (3d accel, cryptoloop,...) are not working. first i want to start wit

Re: m3mirror problem

2003-12-12 Thread Eric Lemoine
> > 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 > > pictures of my desktop. > > > > Is there anything particular I should

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-12 Thread Ryan Verner
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 20:28, Colin Watson wrote: > I rsynced Ben's 2.6 tree from source.mvista.com::linuxppc-2.5-benh and > built that. http://www.penguinppc.org/ has directions. Oh.. heh, he has a 2.6 tree too :-) Go figure. Cheers, I'll try this tomorrow once I'm on a decent connection again.

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:13:35PM +1030, Ryan Verner wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 20:01, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:33:34PM +0930, Ryan Verner wrote: > > > Any other tips, XFree86 related or not, from other Albook users would > > > also be greatly appreciated. > > > > Va

pismo sleeps too well

2003-12-12 Thread david howe
hi folks My Pismo with 2.4.22-powerpc kernel and running unstable has a sleep problem. The Pismo sleeps and wakes up fine when I close the lid but when I have it on the power adaptor the pismo decides to go to sleep every 5 minutes. I had a quick look at the documentation but I am hoping someone e

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-12 Thread Ryan Verner
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 20:13, Ryan Verner wrote: > Interesting. Is all the goodies required in ben's kernel tree present > in 2.6.0-testXX? (forget what's there, but I know that some of the stuff > isn't there in the vanilla 2.4 tree; some hardware support for various > things) I'm dylexic today.

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-12 Thread Ryan Verner
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 20:01, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:33:34PM +0930, Ryan Verner wrote: > > Any other tips, XFree86 related or not, from other Albook users would > > also be greatly appreciated. > > Various people told me on IRC that I needed to run a 2.6 kernel for > XFree

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:33:34PM +0930, Ryan Verner wrote: > Any other tips, XFree86 related or not, from other Albook users would > also be greatly appreciated. Various people told me on IRC that I needed to run a 2.6 kernel for XFree86 to work at all; indeed, once I switched to 2.6 it ran perf

Problems booting 2.6.0 on CHRP machines?

2003-12-12 Thread Richard Wale
Howdy, Has anyone has any success getting a 2.6.0 kernel to boot on a CHRP RS/6000 (in my case a F50)? I've been running debian on a F50 for a while now, and my booting takes the form of : 1) compile kernel to a zImage and burn this onto a CD (or floppy) 2) boot F50, press F8 to get to prompt 3)

XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-12 Thread Ryan Verner
Hiya, I'm a proud owner of a new 15" 1.25ghz (w/ Superdrive) Powerbook, and although OS X runs beautifully on this, I'm keen to dual boot it with a small Debian install; my previous laptop (15" 500mhz Powerbook) absolutely screamed with a Sid install. It's been a while since I've done PPC Debian,

XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-12 Thread Ryan Verner
Hiya, I'm a proud owner of a new 15" 1.25ghz (w/ Superdrive) Powerbook, and although OS X runs beautifully on this, I'm keen to dual boot it with a small Debian install; my previous laptop (15" 500mhz Powerbook) absolutely screamed with a Sid install. It's been a while since I've done PPC Debian,