cpu speed and OF upgrade

2004-03-17 Thread Enrique Morfin
Hi! I have a 1 GHz G4, tibook with osX 10.2.6 and debian woody, but it suffered a video card failure (ATI 9000M). Apple replace the whole board, so all is new. They don't touch the HD (or at least that told me). Today i picked up my box, and can't boot linux. it goes directly to osX, i tryed to b

Re: installing sarge on Motorola PowerStack...

2004-03-17 Thread Johannes Wischert
- Original Message - From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 07:10:05PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote: > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:08:50PM +0100, Johannes Wischert w

Re: IBM RISC600-7248: Boot failure on SCSI: Timeout / Resetting

2004-03-17 Thread Johannes Wischert
- Original Message - From: "Harald Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > When I start on installation process with CD 1 my IBM 7248 > RISC 6000 with debian V 3.0r2 I always get the same error > message repeating till power off: > > SCSI host 0 abort (pid 4) timeout-resetting > SCSI bus is being

Re: Fan control on ibook2

2004-03-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Here's a third patch, which factorizes things a bit more and isn't > reversed as the second one was. Note that I'd like to have the driver split to a separate file Ben.

Re: Fan control on ibook2

2004-03-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 00:04, Colin Leroy wrote: > Hi, > > >First it sets a very high load on the CPU. I wonder if the task is > >correctly scheduled. I'll have a look at that. It's as if the task > >monitoring task was running without yielding the processor... > > No, it just seems to :) You have

IBM RISC600-7248: Boot failure on SCSI: Timeout / Resetting

2004-03-17 Thread Harald Arnold
When I start on installation process with CD 1 my IBM 7248 RISC 6000 with debian V 3.0r2 I always get the same error message repeating till power off: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 4) timeout-resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel mcr53c8xx_reset: pid 4 reset_flags=2 serial_number=XXX

Re: Triple booting OS 9,X Debian

2004-03-17 Thread Derrik Pates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I've tried this once before and wound up with a mess, but does someone know how to get this configuration working. I have OS9 installed from my Titanium software restore disk onto a Panther OS X (They are on the same partition, because the OS9 installer said I neede

Re: Fan control on ibook2

2004-03-17 Thread Alexander Clausen
Hi On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:03:12AM +0100, Michael Flaig wrote: > Hi, > > is you patch ibook specific, or could it also work with the tibook? > I have an tibook 1Ghz, where can i read what sensor chip is integrated? Look for a directory called "fan" in /proc/device-tree/ Alex

Re: installing sarge on Motorola PowerStack...

2004-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 07:10:05PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:08:50PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote: > > > I succesfully booted the Powerstack with this initrd: > > > http://peop

Re: installing sarge on Motorola PowerStack...

2004-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 07:10:05PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:08:50PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote: > > > I succesfully booted the Powerstack with this initrd: > > > http://peop

Re: Fan control on ibook2

2004-03-17 Thread Michael Flaig
Hi, is you patch ibook specific, or could it also work with the tibook? I have an tibook 1Ghz, where can i read what sensor chip is integrated? I think you could email benjamin herrenschmidt your patch, to have it integrated in his kernel tree. kind regards, mfl -- Michael Flaig (PROLinux) <[

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/43P-150 (PPC 604e, CHRP)?

2004-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:25:31PM -0600, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 05:49:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:05:09PM +0100, Patrick wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > Make sure you don't forget the devfs=mount option, or d-i will not work. > > >

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/43P-150 (PPC 604e, CHRP)?

2004-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:23:26PM -0800, Daniel Narkis wrote: > Hi Sven, > > Update on the installation of Sarge on RS6K F50 box > using vmlinuz-chrp-rs6k-di-beta3-2004.03.16 Cool. Rolf, you have the same machine as Daniel, right, could you give his method a try, and report back ? > I put > ht

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/43P-150 (PPC 604e, CHRP)?

2004-03-17 Thread Daniel Narkis
Hi Sven, Update on the installation of Sarge on RS6K F50 box using vmlinuz-chrp-rs6k-di-beta3-2004.03.16 I put http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.25-2/kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc_2.4.25-2_powerpc.deb on a CD and loaded the pcnet32.o from the module: # mkdir /cdrom # mount -t iso9660 -

no Framebuffer on iBook G4

2004-03-17 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, after the boot promt when the kernel prints its first messages, the font is another font then this one I get when the system is booted. It is larger and more readable. I tried to switch the font with the kernel argument "video=radeon,font:8x16" but nothing changed. I have a console with 128x48

Re: Fan control on ibook2

2004-03-17 Thread Cedric Pradalier
Ok, I've done my adm103x module. Thanks a lot to Colin and Frank. Without them it would have been much longer. I first tried to integrate the driver in the adt7c module, according to Colin's patches. But I believe the two chips behaviour does not fit well in a common module. On the

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/43P-150 (PPC 604e, CHRP)?

2004-03-17 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:49:30AM -, Leigh Brown wrote: > Sven Luther said: > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:10:34PM -0800, Daniel Narkis wrote: > >> Hi Sven, > >> > > fwiw just about every PCI RS/6000 and pSeries that I've ever seen has an > in-built pcnet32 ethernet card. > > Any chance of a

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/43P-150 (PPC 604e, CHRP)?

2004-03-17 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 05:49:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:05:09PM +0100, Patrick wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Make sure you don't forget the devfs=mount option, or d-i will not work. > The problem with that, is that if you boot from the SMS menus, or use the defau

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/43P-150 (PPC 604e, CHRP)?

2004-03-17 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 05:49:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:05:09PM +0100, Patrick wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Well, please try : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/vmlinuz-chrp-rs6k-di-beta3-2004.03.16 > > And if it doesn't work, provide feedback on why, a

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/43P-150 (PPC 604e, CHRP)?

2004-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:51:15PM +0100, Patrick wrote: > Apologies for directly replying to you. Was supposed to go to the list > so continuing there. > > On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 17:45, Sven Luther wrote: > [snip] > > > Still unsuccessful so my search continues... Afaik the B50 is the same > > > h

Re: d-i on powerpc/prep (was Re: installing sarge on Motorola PowerStack...)

2004-03-17 Thread Johannes Wischert
- Original Message - From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ok, can you give us the output of lspci and lspci -n, so we can have > more info on your system. > lspci: 00:0b.0 ISA bridge: Symphony Labs W83C553 (rev 10) 00:0b.1 IDE interface: Symphony Labs SL82c105 (rev 05) 00:0c.0 SCSI s

Re: installing sarge on Motorola PowerStack...

2004-03-17 Thread Johannes Wischert
- Original Message - From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:08:50PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote: > > I succesfully booted the Powerstack with this initrd: > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/vmlinuz-2.4.22-powerpc-prep.initrd > > Please try again w

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/43P-150 (PPC 604e, CHRP)?

2004-03-17 Thread Patrick
Apologies for directly replying to you. Was supposed to go to the list so continuing there. On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 17:45, Sven Luther wrote: [snip] > > Still unsuccessful so my search continues... Afaik the B50 is the same > > hardware as my 43P-150 so anything that boots on the B50 should boot on

Re: Problems with keyboard

2004-03-17 Thread Eugen Dedu
Type ctrl+alt+fn+f1 (fn just before f1). HTH, Eugen

Re: installing sarge on Motorola PowerStack...

2004-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:08:50PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote: > I succesfully booted the Powerstack with this initrd: > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/vmlinuz-2.4.22-powerpc-prep.initrd Please try again with : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/vmlinuz-2.4.25-powerpc-prep.initrd

d-i on powerpc/prep (was Re: installing sarge on Motorola PowerStack...)

2004-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
CCing the debian-boot lists, since this is relevant there. On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:08:50PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote: > I succesfully booted the Powerstack with this initrd: > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/vmlinuz-2.4.22-powerpc-prep.initrd I have some problems for the 2.4.25 prep

Re: Resetting OpenFirmware to use gfx card instead of serial console?

2004-03-17 Thread Patrick
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 11:32, Leigh Brown wrote: [snip] > The general way is to power off, unplug (or plug in if not plugged in) > the mouse or keyboard, and power on again. The firmware should detect > the configuration change and prompt on all detected consoles (serial, > GUI) which one to use.

installing sarge on Motorola PowerStack...

2004-03-17 Thread Johannes Wischert
I succesfully booted the Powerstack with this initrd: http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/vmlinuz-2.4.22-powerpc-prep.initrd It boots without problems... It downloads the installer components without any problems but then it complains about not finding the cdrom drivers. In the console i can see

Re: Fan control on ibook2

2004-03-17 Thread Colin Leroy
>>No, it just seems to :) You have a 1.0 load average, that's it ? this >>is due to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, which is needed according to Benjamin; >>however this doesn't eat the cpu power :) >Hmmm. Isn't it a problem in load accounting ? Dunno :-( >I'll try this. Here's a third patch, which facto

Re: Fan control on ibook2

2004-03-17 Thread Cedric Pradalier
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:04:31 +0100, Colin Leroy gracefully wrote: >Hi, > >>First it sets a very high load on the CPU. I wonder if the task is >>correctly scheduled. I'll have a look at that. It's as if the task >>monitoring task was running without yielding the processor... > >No, it just seems to

Re: Fan control on ibook2

2004-03-17 Thread Colin Leroy
> Interesting, maybe you can strip the bits about changing default limits on > ADM*. I put these because on ADT*, the limits are quite high by default. Can you try this patch ? Thanks, -- Colin adm_support.diff Description: Binary data

Re: Fan control on ibook2

2004-03-17 Thread Colin Leroy
Hi, >First it sets a very high load on the CPU. I wonder if the task is >correctly scheduled. I'll have a look at that. It's as if the task >monitoring task was running without yielding the processor... No, it just seems to :) You have a 1.0 load average, that's it ? this is due to TASK_UNINTERRU

Re: Fan control on ibook2

2004-03-17 Thread Cedric Pradalier
Hi, I just tried your patch. It seems to work, at least for acces to the chip, even with a joint driver. Some side effects : First it sets a very high load on the CPU. I wonder if the task is correctly scheduled. I'll have a look at that. It's as if the task monitoring task was r

Re: Problems with keyboard

2004-03-17 Thread Pierre N
It's because by default (I believe) your fonction keys (F1 F2...) are mapped to the volume control, mute... You need to change this setting, I believe fnset does exactly this. Use it as root (sudo fnset) I can switch from one console to another one using alt + F1 (don't even need ctrl anymore), b

Re: Debian ppc64 Port?

2004-03-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 07:03, Mahesh B wrote: > > Is there any way to build 64 bit XFree86 for my system. Is there any > patch for this? See http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg-commit/2004-March/000534.html for example. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI de

Re: Woody on G4 SnakeBite

2004-03-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/03/04 12:21), Massimo Cogo wrote: > Hi All > I want install Debian Woody on a Power Macintosh G4 dual 450 (other spec. on > http://www.theapplemuseum.com/index.php?id=tam&page=personal&subpage=pmg4_gi > gabit&skin=specs). > Anybody knows particular problem? > > Tia. > > Massimo Hi Massimo

Re: About partimage boot disk

2004-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:50:48AM +0100, Gorka Etxebarria wrote: > > Hi again folks. I want to backup my debian installation ´cause i need > to > repartition the hard disk. I worked with partimage in the past, and it worked > very well, but i couldn´t find any bootable image that c

Woody on G4 SnakeBite

2004-03-17 Thread Massimo Cogo
Hi All I want install Debian Woody on a Power Macintosh G4 dual 450 (other spec. on http://www.theapplemuseum.com/index.php?id=tam&page=personal&subpage=pmg4_gi gabit&skin=specs). Anybody knows particular problem? Tia. Massimo ---

Problems with right-click.patch

2004-03-17 Thread Gorka Etxebarria
I recive this when i try to patch: Marimba:/usr/src/linux# patch -p1 < /home/rusty/right-click.patch patching file drivers/input/input.c Hunk #1 succeeded at 63 with fuzz 1. Hunk #2 FAILED at 95. 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/input/input.c.rej patching file dri

Re: About partimage boot disk

2004-03-17 Thread Kiko Piris
On 17/03/2004 at 11:40, Gorka Etxebarria wrote: > On Miércoles, 17 de Marzo de 2004 11:36, Kiko Piris wrote: > > Use tar > > On a mounted filesystem?, could you send me a clue to make this?. Tar on a umounted filesystem will "Cowardly refuse to create an empty archive" ;-) First, switch to runl

Re: About partimage boot disk

2004-03-17 Thread Gorka Etxebarria
On Miércoles, 17 de Marzo de 2004 11:36, Kiko Piris wrote: > Use tar On a mounted filesystem?, could you send me a clue to make this?. Regards, i will go to search documentation about that :-) -- BOFH excuse #266: All of the packets are empty.

Problems with keyboard

2004-03-17 Thread Gorka Etxebarria
Hi, again, i have a good keyboard configuration for my system now, but i have one problem when i want to switch to console1 or other console from X-windows system. On my other machines, X86 arquitecture, i have this action pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1, but in the powerbook i must t

Re: About partimage boot disk

2004-03-17 Thread Kiko Piris
On 17/03/2004 at 10:50, Gorka Etxebarria wrote: > > Hi again folks. I want to backup my debian installation ?cause i need > to > repartition the hard disk. Use tar -- Kiko

Re: Fan control on ibook2

2004-03-17 Thread Colin Leroy
> >You are welcome to consolidate these into a single driver allowing > >userland access to those values & finer thermal control :) A bit > >like Colin Leroy did for the recent models ... > > > > I'll try to make some steps in this direction ASAP. > Thanks for the informations. PS: It may be much

What about L3 cache on first generation alubooks?

2004-03-17 Thread Gorka Etxebarria
Hi folks, i heard in the past that there was problems with level 3 cache support on linux kernel. I append nol3 option to kernel to boot, but i dont hear anything about that issue anymore. Anybody knows anything about this question?. Regards -- BOFH excuse #15: temp

Re: Alsa configuration problem

2004-03-17 Thread Martin Habets
What do you have in /proc/asound/devices ? Do you have the alsa devices in /dev/snd/ ? Martin

Re: Resetting OpenFirmware to use gfx card instead of serial console?

2004-03-17 Thread Leigh Brown
Patrick said: > Apologies if this is too much OT. I am still trying to get my 43p-150 to > boot. A while back I had removed the graphics card (GXT3000) and worked > through the console since then. Last night I put it back in and now > OpenFirmware will no longer ask me if I want to use the console

Re: Fan control on ibook2

2004-03-17 Thread Colin Leroy
> >You are welcome to consolidate these into a single driver allowing > >userland access to those values & finer thermal control :) A bit > >like Colin Leroy did for the recent models ... > > I'll try to make some steps in this direction ASAP. > Thanks for the informations. For kernel 2.6, you ca

Resetting OpenFirmware to use gfx card instead of serial console?

2004-03-17 Thread Patrick
Hi all, Apologies if this is too much OT. I am still trying to get my 43p-150 to boot. A while back I had removed the graphics card (GXT3000) and worked through the console since then. Last night I put it back in and now OpenFirmware will no longer ask me if I want to use the console or the video

About partimage boot disk

2004-03-17 Thread Gorka Etxebarria
Hi again folks. I want to backup my debian installation ´cause i need to repartition the hard disk. I worked with partimage in the past, and it worked very well, but i couldn´t find any bootable image that could boot my powerbook without mounting partitions to make the backup.

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/43P-150 (PPC 604e, CHRP)?

2004-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:17:21AM -, Leigh Brown wrote: > Sven Luther said: > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:49:30AM -, Leigh Brown wrote: > >> Sven Luther said: > >> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:10:34PM -0800, Daniel Narkis wrote: > >> Any chance of a power3 kernel that I could try the inst

Re: Fan control on ibook2

2004-03-17 Thread Cedric Pradalier
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:09:02 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt gracefully wrote: > >> .../... > >You are welcome to consolidate these into a single driver allowing >userland access to those values & finer thermal control :) A bit >like Colin Leroy did for the recent models ... > I'll try to make some

About second button with apple bluetooth mouse

2004-03-17 Thread Gorka Etxebarria
Hi folks, i have succesfuly had running my apple bluetooth mouse under debian very wel, but i like to use second button of mouse in any moment. How could i configure for example CTRL key like in OSX to have second button enabled?. Sorry if my english isn´t very good, it´s too l

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/43P-150 (PPC 604e, CHRP)?

2004-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:49:30AM -, Leigh Brown wrote: > Sven Luther said: > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:10:34PM -0800, Daniel Narkis wrote: > >> Hi Sven, > >> > >> I'm sending you the boot info and the output of > >> /proc/pci. > >> The network card driver I need is: > >> Ethernet controlle

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/43P-150 (PPC 604e, CHRP)?

2004-03-17 Thread Leigh Brown
Sven Luther said: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:49:30AM -, Leigh Brown wrote: >> Sven Luther said: >> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:10:34PM -0800, Daniel Narkis wrote: >> Any chance of a power3 kernel that I could try the installer on? > > Well, there are packages including the power3 kernels, an

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/43P-150 (PPC 604e, CHRP)?

2004-03-17 Thread Leigh Brown
Sven Luther said: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:10:34PM -0800, Daniel Narkis wrote: >> Hi Sven, >> >> I'm sending you the boot info and the output of >> /proc/pci. >> The network card driver I need is: >> Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] >> 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] > > Well, the sym53

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/43P-150 (PPC 604e, CHRP)?

2004-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:10:34PM -0800, Daniel Narkis wrote: > Hi Sven, > > I'm sending you the boot info and the output of > /proc/pci. > The network card driver I need is: > Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] > 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] Well, the sym53c8xx_2 driver should work jus