Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Federico Gamio
El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 21:01, Jamie Wilkinson escribió: > This one time, at band camp, Federico Gamio wrote: > >El mar, 20-01-2004 a las 20:29, Jamie Wilkinson escribi??: > >> This one time, at band camp, Federico Gamio wrote: > >> >Check a new version of lmud > >> >http://isadora.homelinux.net/l

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-22 Thread Federico Gamio
El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 19:58, Vincent Lefevre escribió: > On 2004-01-22 15:22:00 -0300, Federico Gamio wrote: > > Well right now my status with Linux/Debian/PowerBook is: > > > > Distribution: Debian/Unstable using Gnome 2.4 > > Kernel: 2.6.1-ben1 > > USB: Working > > USB cable to conect Motoro

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-22 Thread Federico Gamio
El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 17:31, Michel Dänzer escribió: > On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 19:22, Federico Gamio wrote: > > > > There are only a few things that I am missing: > > [...] > > 3D aceleration (you can't see DVD or avis in full screen) > > You don't need 3D acceleration for video playback, just

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-22 Thread Federico Gamio
El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 16:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > Hi, > > Federico Gamio a écrit : > > El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 05:26, Angel escribió: > > Well, I have an Alu 15" 1.25Ghz with superdrive with Debian and MacOS X. > > I've got the same. > [cut] > > 3D aceleration (you can't see DV

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-22 Thread Federico Gamio
El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 16:27, Jaonary Rabarisoa escribió: > Hi, > I see that you almost managed to run debian perfectly in you albook > 15''. So, I would ask to > you some tips and advice because there are several things that doesn't > work yet in mine. Sure. I put all the files you need at h

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> yes, unfortunately, it powers off the powerbook anyway. > > Last state: > > > gpu: temperature: 57°C limit: 70°C > cpu: temperature: 57°C limit: 50°C Interesting. Is our limit too low or is the fan unable to cool

Re: Low battery -> power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-01-22 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 22:38, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The battery of my PowerBook G4 got too low and the machine was put into > sleep. I closed the lid, changed the battery, but when I reopened the > lid, I noticed that the PowerBook was in fact off. And when I switched > it on (around 21:00), the

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Federico Gamio wrote: >El mar, 20-01-2004 a las 20:29, Jamie Wilkinson escribi??: >> This one time, at band camp, Federico Gamio wrote: >> >Check a new version of lmud >> >http://isadora.homelinux.net/lmud/lmud-0.02-fg-pmu.tar.gz >> > >> >Now if you are on batts it dims

Re: Help port swsusp to ppc.

2004-01-22 Thread Hugang
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:53:26 +1300 Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know nothing about the PPC. Is it a uniprocessor? > > Regards, > > Nigel There is a document abourt ppc, that can download from Moto, It help me to understand what is ppc, cool. http://soulinfo.com/~hugang/tmp/M

Re: Low battery -> power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-01-22 Thread David.Lecomte
Hi ! > The battery of my PowerBook G4 got too low and the machine was put into > sleep. I closed the lid, changed the battery, but when I reopened the > lid, I noticed that the PowerBook was in fact off. And when I switched > it on (around 21:00), the clock was set back to 1904-01-01. Here's a > /

Re: what distribution?

2004-01-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-01-22 20:19:14 -0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > Em Qui, 2004-01-22 às 19:53, Martin Kuball escreveu: > > Should I go all the way to unstable or ist testing a good > > compromise between stability and new features? > > unstable is risky as in may break your system

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-01-22 15:22:00 -0300, Federico Gamio wrote: > Well right now my status with Linux/Debian/PowerBook is: > > Distribution: Debian/Unstable using Gnome 2.4 > Kernel: 2.6.1-ben1 > USB: Working > USB cable to conect Motorola V60i CDMA phone to access Internet by > phone: Working > PCMCIA: Worki

Re: Low battery -> power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-01-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-01-22 19:30:35 -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Most Macs have a small battery on the motherboard for this purpose. > I don't know for sure, but possibly your Powerbook and my iBook > don't have one. My PowerBook seems to have one (as I've said, this is the first time the problem occurs

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Bob Hentges a écrit : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps a dumb question, but why do you think that airport extreme will not be supported in the future? Broadcom don't want to give the specifications. The chipset may give possibilities to do something else than wifi. http://www.ussg.iu

Re: what distribution?

2004-01-22 Thread Paul van Tilburg
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:19:14PM -0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > Em Qui, 2004-01-22 às 19:53, Martin Kuball escreveu: > > Should I go all the way to unstable or ist > > testing a good compromise between stability and new features? > > unstable is risky as in may bre

Re: PCI video adapters?

2004-01-22 Thread david howe
I have had success with a Matrox Millenium card out of a PC, good for MacOS and works for Linux. There are quite a few pitfalls awaiting the unsuspecting on this subject, my experience is that unless the onboard ROM can be changed to talk to the Mac hardware your PC card wont work. Have a look

Re: Low battery -> power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-01-22 Thread Michael D. Crawford
That happens to me on my iBook, but under Mac OS X. I think the Mac hardware must be depending on the battery to keep its hardware clock running while it's turned off. Most Macs have a small battery on the motherboard for this purpose. I don't know for sure, but possibly your Powerbook and m

Re: PCI video adapters?

2004-01-22 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qui, 2004-01-22 às 19:52, Simon Vallet escreveu: > IIRC the beige G3 has a Mach64 (RageII / Rage Pro) -- maybe you'll be > able to find a Rage128 (ATI) ? I _think_ those have a bit more VRAM. Looks like the Radeon is the cheaper available in Brazil, and our secondary Mac market is ridic

Re: what distribution?

2004-01-22 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qui, 2004-01-22 às 19:53, Martin Kuball escreveu: > Should I go all the way to unstable or ist > testing a good compromise between stability and new features? unstable is risky as in may break your system, but testing is risky as in it may take two weeks for a security fix to reach you

Low battery -> power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-01-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
The battery of my PowerBook G4 got too low and the machine was put into sleep. I closed the lid, changed the battery, but when I reopened the lid, I noticed that the PowerBook was in fact off. And when I switched it on (around 21:00), the clock was set back to 1904-01-01. Here's a /var/log/syslog e

what distribution?

2004-01-22 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! I'v recently started to mix some packages from testing into my woody installation. Having encountered no problems so far I would like to go for more. There is a lot of interesting stuff that did not made it yet into stable. But I realized that this will upgrade a lot of installed packages,

Re: PCI video adapters?

2004-01-22 Thread Simon Vallet
Hi, On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:16:05 -0200 Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to buy extra a 4MiB SGRAM SO-DIMM for my Apple Power > Macintosh > G3 beige desktop, but they are too expensive. So the reseller > recommended me a PCI ATi Radeon, but it

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-22 Thread Leigh Brown
Sven Luther said: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:01:15PM -, Leigh Brown wrote: >> BTW I have a 7043-260 which is one of >> the older Power3 machines, I'll send the /proc/cpuinfo this evening when >> I get home. > > Ok, thanks. processor : 0 cpu : POWER3 (630) clock :

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Colin Leroy
On 22 Jan 2004 at 17h01, Michael Schmitz wrote: Hi, > Sure, that's understood. You have to be careful to not let it go to sleep > (hacking an -EBUSY return code in the sleep ioctl code for your kernel, > for instance). Well I tried that (works correctly: nothing happens on `snooze -f` except a

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-22 Thread Bob Hentges
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are only a few things that I am missing: Native Wifi support You already can forgot the airport extreme card : this one will never work (without ugly hacking, I mean) under Linux. Perhaps a dumb question, but why do you think that airport extreme will not be

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 19:22, Federico Gamio wrote: > > There are only a few things that I am missing: > [...] > 3D aceleration (you can't see DVD or avis in full screen) You don't need 3D acceleration for video playback, just XVideo, which the radeon driver should support fine with your graphics

PCI video adapters?

2004-01-22 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
I tried to buy extra a 4MiB SGRAM SO-DIMM for my Apple Power Macintosh G3 beige desktop, but they are too expensive. So the reseller recommended me a PCI ATi Radeon, but it is still more expensive. So my question is, can one use some cheaper card than the ATi Radeon for the Mac?

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Federico Gamio a écrit : El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 05:26, Angel escribió: Well, I have an Alu 15" 1.25Ghz with superdrive with Debian and MacOS X. I've got the same. Distribution: Debian/Unstable using Gnome 2.4 Kernel: 2.6.1-ben1 <...cut...> all this hardware works for me too CPU fr

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-22 Thread Jaonary Rabarisoa
Hi, I see that you almost managed to run debian perfectly in you albook 15''. So, I would ask to you some tips and advice because there are several things that doesn't work yet in mine. I have the same albook 15'' as you. (1,25 ghz, backlight keyboard airport bluethoot). Untill now I've just m

Re: usbfs devmode problem on 2.6.1-ben1

2004-01-22 Thread mammique
Le mer 21/01/2004 à 11:37, Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit : > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 04:22, mammique wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i try to use an usb digital camera on an AlBook under debian unstable > > with kernel 2.6.1-ben1. Gphoto2 works well as root but not as normal > > user, usbfs seems to be moun

Re: Kernel Quest, need pointers to a HOWTO for patching

2004-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 04:22:18PM +0100, christian funk wrote: > > > >Try adding testing sources and then apt-get update and then only the -t > >testing line. no need to modify apt.conf. > > Super! That got that, BUT something is still off :( > > I tried to executed dpkg-buildpackage inside /u

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-22 Thread Federico Gamio
El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 05:26, Angel escribió: > Are apple powerbooks and debian good friends? Sure, and are the coolest device to run Linux :) > I am in a rush of spending 3000 euros on a laptop :), I want to run linux on > it (I have no experience with Mac Os) . Although I've heard wonders of

Re: help for debian power book 17"

2004-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 04:32:13PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Am Don, den 22.01.2004 schrieb Sven Luther um 10:14: > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:19:49PM -0800, Enora Doku wrote: > > > hello, > > > I have a powerbook G4 17" and i tried to install > > > debian. In the begening it gave some pro

Re: Help port swsusp to ppc.

2004-01-22 Thread Nigel Cunningham
I know nothing about the PPC. Is it a uniprocessor? Regards, Nigel -- My work on Software Suspend is graciously brought to you by LinuxFund.org. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:01:15PM -, Leigh Brown wrote: > Sven Luther said: > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:32:39AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > >> El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 09:24, Sven Luther escribió: > >> > Yes, but ths is a more general d-i problem, i understand, and is not > >> the >

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:04:01PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Sure, that's understood. You have to be careful to not let it go to sleep > (hacking an -EBUSY return code in the sleep ioctl code for your kernel, > for instance). ...or just setting "onBattery_sleep = no" in pbbuttonsd conf, if yo

Re: [latest PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-22 Thread Wolfram Quester
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:55:19PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > > I did that and it worked. The stress test this time was the above loop > > with your chip-friendly extension and a while (true); do echo; done in > > another terminal. The fan startet at 60 centigrades: > > And the parameter you gave

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Sleep support (in kernel) might not be working in 2.6 kernels. > > It's been working perfectly here for a long time running > linuxppc-2.5-benh on a TiBook IV. ... might not work on his particular machine, is what I meant to say. Works just fine on the G3 here as well. Michael

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Unless you plan to full duplicate pmud, please leave this feature to pmud > > (it's implemented via pwrctl, there). > > Well, I will provide the ability of enable/diseble this feature. > But I already manage the lcd bright, so you have to disable all of the > lcd features to use pmud (well in m

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 04:18:00PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > That's a PowerBook6,3. Anyway, adding CAN_SLEEP here cause nice crashes > when the ibook goes to sleep and can't resume ;-) Sure it does since there is no sleep support yet, but it keeps pmud from exiting. Just prevent the iBook from go

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> >Which let's pmud exit immediately since this model doesn't claim to > >have sleep support. You'll have to add PMAC_MC_CAN_SLEEP to your That's decided based on PMU version - and he never got as far as reading the PMU version, it dies before. > >PowerBook6,2 in pmac_features.h. The patch should

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-22 Thread Germán Poó Caamaño
El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 09:42, Sven Luther escribió: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:32:39AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > > El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 09:24, Sven Luther escribió: > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:15:33AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > > > > > Do we need to add the rs6k keywor

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 09:26, Angel wrote: > Are apple powerbooks and debian good friends? Very good friends basically. :) The problem is that some hardware components in some recent models aren't friends of free software. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI develop

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 10:20, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Sleep support (in kernel) might not be working in 2.6 kernels. It's been working perfectly here for a long time running linuxppc-2.5-benh on a TiBook IV. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre so

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Re: help for debian power book 17"

2004-01-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 22.01.2004 schrieb Sven Luther um 10:14: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:19:49PM -0800, Enora Doku wrote: > > hello, > > I have a powerbook G4 17" and i tried to install > > debian. In the begening it gave some problems, like > > didn't recogenize hard disk. > > This is more probably a ke

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Colin Leroy
>Which let's pmud exit immediately since this model doesn't claim to >have sleep support. You'll have to add PMAC_MC_CAN_SLEEP to your >PowerBook6,2 in pmac_features.h. The patch should be almost identical to >this one which I use on my 12" pbook: That's a PowerBook6,3. Anyway, adding CAN_SLEEP he

Re: Kernel Quest, need pointers to a HOWTO for patching

2004-01-22 Thread christian funk
Try adding testing sources and then apt-get update and then only the -t testing line. no need to modify apt.conf. Super! That got that, BUT something is still off :( I tried to executed dpkg-buildpackage inside /usr/local/src/ and /usr/local/src/kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc-2.4.22/ but it ra

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:52:58PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > Nope, i've got an iBook G4 :) Which let's pmud exit immediately since this model doesn't claim to have sleep support. You'll have to add PMAC_MC_CAN_SLEEP to your PowerBook6,2 in pmac_features.h. The patch should be almost identical to

Re: Problem raid IBM RS6000 B50

2004-01-22 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-22 11:49]: | On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:43:24AM +0100, Nik(uff) wrote: | > Hi Sven Luther ,thank you very much for your reply. | > | > > I believe that you are not running the debian powerpc kernel on that | > > box. I would be very interested in getting

Re: Kernel Quest, need pointers to a HOWTO for patching

2004-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:10:00PM +0100, christian funk wrote: > > > >apt-get source -t testing kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc > > > No go :( from what I just read in the man it should though! > > Should I maybe change my source.list to include testing and add > APT:Default-Release {"testing" ;}; t

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-22 Thread Leigh Brown
Sven Luther said: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:32:39AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: >> El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 09:24, Sven Luther escribió: >> > Yes, but ths is a more general d-i problem, i understand, and is not >> the >> > question i asked here. Do you know if there are power3/power4 boxes

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > 2.6.1-ben1 from Jan 15 doesn't show this, for me. Did you compile PMU > > support into the kernel? > > > Yep... At least I have a /dev/pmu. I'll look at it ASAP and send you some > more info. Just a thought: did the keyboard backlight daemon start before pmud? Concurrent opens of /dev/pmu shou

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Colin Leroy
> Just a thought: did the keyboard backlight daemon start before pmud? Nope, i've got an iBook G4 :) -- Colin Ne disez pas disez, mais disez dites

RE: best for Linux: iBook or PowerBook?

2004-01-22 Thread Boehn, Gunnar von
Hi, > > The IBook G4 is a 7455. > > Are you sure ? Notice that the only difference between a 744x and the > corresponding 745x is the absence of external L3 cache. In particular, > there is no way to tell which version of the CPU is used from > a software point of view. So, of using a 7445 or a

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > 2.6.1-ben1 from Jan 15 doesn't show this, for me. Did you compile PMU > > support into the kernel? > > > Yep... At least I have a /dev/pmu. I'll look at it ASAP and send you some > more info. /dev/pmu (by devfsd or plain old /dev directory) may be present regardless of kernel pmu support. But

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:32:39AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 09:24, Sven Luther escribió: > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:15:33AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > > > > Do we need to add the rs6k keyword ? Are there any power3/power4 which > > > > are not of chrp-

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:31:22AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 09:23, Sven Luther escribió: > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:15:33AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > > > El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 09:07, Sven Luther escribió: > > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:02:55AM

Re: Help port swsusp to ppc.

2004-01-22 Thread Hugang
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:03:11 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 04:56, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 00:39, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > I see no reason why this would be needed on ppc, only the last > > > step, t

Re: Kernel Quest, need pointers to a HOWTO for patching

2004-01-22 Thread Lukas Ruf
Christian, > christian funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-22 14:10]: > > > > >apt-get source -t testing kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc > > > No go :( from what I just read in the man it should though! > have you run apt-get build-dep kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc from 'apt-get --help' Commands:

Re: Kernel Quest, need pointers to a HOWTO for patching

2004-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:27:49PM +0100, christian funk wrote: > > > > # apt-get source kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc > > > >and build that with dpkg-buildpackage. > > > > # apt-get source kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc > > fails after "Building Dependency Tree... Done" with following statement >

Re: Kernel Quest, need pointers to a HOWTO for patching

2004-01-22 Thread christian funk
apt-get source -t testing kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc No go :( from what I just read in the man it should though! Should I maybe change my source.list to include testing and add APT:Default-Release {"testing" ;}; to apt.conf until I have the patch, and then change it back, or am I asking for

Re: Debian on beige G3

2004-01-22 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qua, 2004-01-21 às 21:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > Finally instaled woody on my (troublesome) beige G3. BUT... > 1. The image does not fit in the screen and the lower part it's not > possible to see it. Is that X or console? > 2. After the first session I enabled start X automat

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:15:33AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > > Do we need to add the rs6k keyword ? Are there any power3/power4 which > > are not of chrp-rs6k lineage ? In particular in what booting is required ? > > It would be very useful if were added a serial console support. Yes, bu

Re: [latest PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-22 Thread Colin Leroy
> I did that and it worked. The stress test this time was the above loop > with your chip-friendly extension and a while (true); do echo; done in > another terminal. The fan startet at 60 centigrades: > And the parameter you gave changes the limit from 50 to 60, so tha fan > starts at a higher temp

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:15:33AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 09:07, Sven Luther escribió: > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:02:55AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > > > El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 07:06, Sven Luther escribió: > > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:00:34AM

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Colin Leroy
> > I've not noticed such a problem yet (with 2.6.1-rc1-ben1). Still need > > > to > > try a more recent one. > > 2.6.1-ben1 from Jan 15 doesn't show this, for me. Did you compile PMU > support into the kernel? Yep... At least I have a /dev/pmu. I'll look at it ASAP and send you some more info.

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-22 Thread Germán Poó Caamaño
El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 09:24, Sven Luther escribió: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:15:33AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > > > Do we need to add the rs6k keyword ? Are there any power3/power4 which > > > are not of chrp-rs6k lineage ? In particular in what booting is required ? > > > > It would

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-22 Thread Germán Poó Caamaño
El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 09:23, Sven Luther escribió: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:15:33AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > > El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 09:07, Sven Luther escribió: > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:02:55AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > > > > El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 07:06, Sve

Re: Kernel Quest, need pointers to a HOWTO for patching

2004-01-22 Thread christian funk
# apt-get source kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc and build that with dpkg-buildpackage. # apt-get source kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc fails after "Building Dependency Tree... Done" with following statement E: Unable to find a source for package for kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc Using apt-setup

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:02:55AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 07:06, Sven Luther escribió: > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:00:34AM -, Leigh Brown wrote: > > > Sven Luther said: > > > > Mmm, if your machine is indeed prep based, please create a prep > > > > partit

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-22 Thread Germán Poó Caamaño
El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 09:07, Sven Luther escribió: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:02:55AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > > El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 07:06, Sven Luther escribió: > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:00:34AM -, Leigh Brown wrote: > > > > Sven Luther said: > > > > > Mmm, if your m

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-22 Thread Marco Giordani
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:24:56AM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > If you have MacOSX installed and if it is possible to read temperatures > values in this OS, you can also check at which temperature the fan starts. Under MacOSX the fan seems to start slowly arount 62 degrees. Maybe MacOSX changes the

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-22 Thread Germán Poó Caamaño
El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 07:06, Sven Luther escribió: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:00:34AM -, Leigh Brown wrote: > > Sven Luther said: > > > Mmm, if your machine is indeed prep based, please create a prep > > > partition like 6.1 says, move the kernel you downloaded from my site to > > > it, an

Re: Kernel Quest, need pointers to a HOWTO for patching

2004-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:26:22PM +0100, christian funk wrote: > >Also, i would be interested in the reasons for you doing a custom > >kernel, and why the prebuilt one is not ok for you. > > First I should say, that I'm very new to Debian (and Linux) so please > feel free tell me, if I'm going i

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > I said that because mine dies at that: > > chk(fcntl(pmu_fd, F_SETFL, &fl) < 0, "fcntl(F_SETFL)"); > > > > (as root) > > No other message before that? Are you using plain old /dev, devfs or > sysfs? > > I've not noticed such a problem yet (with 2.6.1-rc1-ben1). Still need to > try a more re

Re: Problem raid IBM RS6000 B50

2004-01-22 Thread nikp
Hi, Thorsten i,ve used for the installation a kernel image 2.4.2 downloaded through google , and after i've downloaded the kernel file 2.4.24 directly from kernel.org and compiled it on my machine ,with the standard procedur not the debian ones cause with this i had some problems. Thanks Nicol

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-22 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi, On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:24:56AM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > Hi, > > > After cooling under 47 centigrade, the fan switches off again. But if I > > try to create higher cpu-load using something like > > while (true); do for i in cpu_limit cpu_temperature fan_speed; do cat > $i; echo; done; d

Re: Problem raid IBM RS6000 B50

2004-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:43:24AM +0100, Nik(uff) wrote: > Hi Sven Luther ,thank you very much for your reply. > > > I believe that you are not running the debian powerpc kernel on that > > box. I would be very interested in getting access to both your kernel > > source tree, (or info on where yo

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-22 Thread Marco Giordani
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:18:46AM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > ok, thanks. Does it happen when you specify fan_speed=XXX ? (try 128) > Specifying fan speed puts the fan control under manual mode, maybe it yes, unfortunately, it powers off the powerbook anyway. Last state:

Re: Kernel Quest, need pointers to a HOWTO for patching

2004-01-22 Thread christian funk
Also, i would be interested in the reasons for you doing a custom kernel, and why the prebuilt one is not ok for you. First I should say, that I'm very new to Debian (and Linux) so please feel free tell me, if I'm going in the completely wrong direction ;) My goal is to set up a bridge firewa

Re: Problem raid IBM RS6000 B50

2004-01-22 Thread Nik(uff)
Hi Sven Luther ,thank you very much for your reply. > I believe that you are not running the debian powerpc kernel on that > box. I would be very interested in getting access to both your kernel > source tree, (or info on where you got it from and what patch you did > apply, if any) as well as the

Re: Kernel Quest, need pointers to a HOWTO for patching

2004-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:32:12AM +0100, christian funk wrote: > I need to compile a custom kernel foran oldworld pmac. I've looked at > every man page, mailing list and HOWTO I could find, but some things > remain a complete fog! > > 1) Do I need to patch the kernel-sources I get via dselect

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:00:34AM -, Leigh Brown wrote: > Sven Luther said: > > Mmm, if your machine is indeed prep based, please create a prep > > partition like 6.1 says, move the kernel you downloaded from my site to > > it, and launch it from OF. > > FYI The 170 is a 64-bit Power3 CHRP ma

Re: Newbie Question: Installing debianppc

2004-01-22 Thread Alexander G. Schilp
am 21.01.2004 9:53 Uhr schrieb Joerg Stephan unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > david howe (david howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > wrote on Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:20:46 +1100 > with subject "Re: Newbie Question: Installing debianppc" > > Sorry, > > maybe i said something wrong (missed some words): > > i can _n

Re: Debian Installer beta2 working on an OldWorld PowerMac-6500/225

2004-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:15:20AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hardware: > > PowerMac 6500/225 with 128MB of RAM and a 6GB SCSI disk > partitioned as 2.5GB for MacOS, 3.0 GB for Linux root (an > "all-in-one" filesystem) and 500 MB for Linux swap. It also has a > SCSI CD-RW drive and a floppy driv

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > Anyway pmud does not work with 2.6 kernels, does it ? > > > > Sleep support (in kernel) might not be working in 2.6 kernels. pmud will > > perform all other tasks except sleep at the low battery threshold just > > fine, thank you. You can still direct pmud to shut down the machine > > instead

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-22 Thread Colin Leroy
> These are the 2 last saved states when it powers off > > cpu: temperature: 55°C limit: 50°C > gpu: temperature: 54°C limit: 70°C ok, thanks. Does it happen when you specify fan_speed=XXX ? (try 128) Specifying fan speed puts the fan control under manual mode, maybe it could prevent the chip fro

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> >Well, I will provide the ability of enable/diseble this feature. > >But I already manage the lcd bright, so you have to disable all of the > >lcd features to use pmud (well in my case pmud is useless -Alu G4 > >1.25Ghz-). > > Anyway pmud does not work with 2.6 kernels, does it ? Sleep support (

Re: help for debian power book 17"

2004-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:19:49PM -0800, Enora Doku wrote: > hello, > I have a powerbook G4 17" and i tried to install > debian. In the begening it gave some problems, like > didn't recogenize hard disk. This is more probably a kernel issue than a debian-installer one. Please let's take this con

Re: Newbie Question: Installing debianppc

2004-01-22 Thread david howe
I understand :) May I suggest you use the BootX approach. It may not be as "pure" as booting and installing from a cd but it has a good chance of working. david On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:53:08 +0100 Joerg Stephan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > david howe (david howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > wrote on

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-22 Thread Leigh Brown
Sven Luther said: > Mmm, if your machine is indeed prep based, please create a prep > partition like 6.1 says, move the kernel you downloaded from my site to > it, and launch it from OF. FYI The 170 is a 64-bit Power3 CHRP machine. These support the ppc32 and ppc64 kernels, but the 32-bit kernel

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-22 Thread Marco Giordani
Hi, On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:47:43AM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > Can you send the contents of > /sys/devices/temperatures/cpu_temperature > /sys/devices/temperatures/cpu_limit > /sys/devices/temperatures/gpu_temperature > /sys/devices/temperatures/gpu_limit Now: /sys/devices/temperatures/gpu

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 08:07:16PM -0500, Benjamin Alvarado wrote: > Hi, again > > Just a question, how I boot the rs600, I can acces to de firmware, but > with the other boot images I can't boot I am not familiar with rs6k OF, so i can't really say. Also, what other boot images are you talking a

Kernel Quest, need pointers to a HOWTO for patching

2004-01-22 Thread christian funk
I need to compile a custom kernel foran oldworld pmac. I've looked at every man page, mailing list and HOWTO I could find, but some things remain a complete fog! 1) Do I need to patch the kernel-sources I get via dselect (kernel-source-2.4.18-14.1)? I was under the impression that the kernel

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Colin Leroy
> > >Well, I will provide the ability of enable/diseble this feature. > > >But I already manage the lcd bright, so you have to disable all of the > > >lcd features to use pmud (well in my case pmud is useless -Alu G4 > > >1.25Ghz-). > > > > Anyway pmud does not work with 2.6 kernels, does it ? > >

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-22 Thread Colin Leroy
>Well, I will provide the ability of enable/diseble this feature. >But I already manage the lcd bright, so you have to disable all of the >lcd features to use pmud (well in my case pmud is useless -Alu G4 >1.25Ghz-). Anyway pmud does not work with 2.6 kernels, does it ? -- Colin Ne disez pas di

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-22 Thread Colin Leroy
> while (true); do for i in cpu_limit cpu_temperature fan_speed; \ > do cat $i; echo; done; done By the way. This hammers on the chip, you should add a sleep 1 to your inner loop. -- Colin Ne disez pas disez, mais disez dites

Re: Newbie Question: Installing debianppc

2004-01-22 Thread Joerg Stephan
david howe (david howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote on Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:20:46 +1100 with subject "Re: Newbie Question: Installing debianppc" Sorry, maybe i said something wrong (missed some words): i can _not_ boot directly from the CD, because an OpenFirmware doesnt show up, and MacOS boots d

Re: powerbook and debian

2004-01-22 Thread Ryan Verner
On 22/01/2004, at 6:56 PM, Angel wrote: Are apple powerbooks and debian good friends? Mine works perfectly. Getting it running can be fun, but that's what this list is for :-) R -- Signature space for rent.

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