Starting X on PPC RS6K box running 2.4.25

2004-03-29 Thread Daniel Narkis
Hi, I have a problem starting X on RS6K F50 box. I've used vanilla 2.4.25 sources and compiled support for Matrox cards. When I selected "Use kernel framebuffer device interface? Yes" in dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 -startx ended on errors. See XFree86-with-fb.log When I selected "kernel fb

Re: ReiserFS on Powerbook?

2004-03-29 Thread Mathieu Segaud
Brady Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Everything I have read on installing GNU/Linux on Powerbooks deals with > either Ext2 or Ext3, with no mention of ReiserFS. I know there are power > management issues with Ext2 vs. Ext3, but I have never

dpi setting

2004-03-29 Thread Lucas Moulin
Hi everyone, I've been wondering what the correct setting is for my iBook for some time now. I own an 12" G3, and don't really know if I should set it to 75 or 100 dpi. Using the DisplaySize option to let X find out gives me 105x105 dpi. What are you using ? Cheers, -- Lucas Moulin "When one ma

Problems with install on Power Mac G3 minitower

2004-03-29 Thread Ron Murray
I've been having lots of problems getting woody installed on a Power Mac G3 minitower (300MHz processor, 128M RAM). Being an oldworld box, I can't boot it from CD. I tried installing from floppies, but that tended to mostly crash just after checking disk partitions on initial kernel load. I

ReiserFS on Powerbook?

2004-03-29 Thread Brady Jarvis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Everything I have read on installing GNU/Linux on Powerbooks deals with either Ext2 or Ext3, with no mention of ReiserFS. I know there are power management issues with Ext2 vs. Ext3, but I have never had luck with Ext2...So, I went ahead and installed

Re: linuxppc-benh hfs mount error

2004-03-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Roman Zippel a écrit : Hi, I played a bit with your config and by enabling CONFIG_LBD I can finally reproduce the problem (why has that everyone enabled???). Yes, I have now CONFIG_LBD is not set The problem is a bug in , which causes different sector_t definitions. Now it works !! Th

Re: hardware-monitor needs build on powerpc

2004-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:14:18AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 10:25:35PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > This is the last thing preventing the new lm-sensors and > > various depending packages from making it into 'sarge'. > > hardware-monitor is now arch: any, and can b

Re: Dual display with Gnome 2.4

2004-03-29 Thread Vicente Herranz Pérez
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 08:57:22AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 04:00, Vicente Herranz Pérez wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've an Aluminium Powerbook G4 with a 15" display and an ATI Mobility > > Radeon 9600 graphic card. It works properly right now, buy I decided to > >

Re: PREEMPT on PPC

2004-03-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 21:29, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > What else are you using ? I suspect something like MOL may have troubles > > > with preempt for example... > > > > Not using that regularly. Not sure what's special about my setup, XFS > > maybe? > > > > What about this: > > > > -CONFIG_TASK

Re: PREEMPT on PPC

2004-03-29 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > What else are you using ? I suspect something like MOL may have troubles > > with preempt for example... > > Not using that regularly. Not sure what's special about my setup, XFS > maybe? > > What about this: > > -CONFIG_TASK_SIZE=0xc000 > +CONFIG_TASK_SIZE=0x8000 Nope, that's what my

Re: PREEMPT on PPC

2004-03-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 20:43, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 03:55, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Note that I'm not sure how tightly the problems are tied to swap; after > > > they start, they seem to persist even when swap is no longer used. It's > > > just the best criterion I'

Re: PREEMPT on PPC

2004-03-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 03:55, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Note that I'm not sure how tightly the problems are tied to swap; after > > they start, they seem to persist even when swap is no longer used. It's > > just the best criterion I've been able to identify so far. > > Weird. I just can't

Re: PREEMPT on PPC

2004-03-29 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Note that I'm not sure how tightly the problems are tied to swap; after > > they start, they seem to persist even when swap is no longer used. It's > > just the best criterion I've been able to identify so far. > > Weird. I just can't reproduce any of your problems, neither on the > tipb with h

Re: G5 install media

2004-03-29 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Yves Combe wrote: > Eric Deveaud a écrit : > > OK it work's but just a question before my 3 workmate kills me. > > is there such news about the fan support ? > > > > or should I have to put the machine to the server room ? > modprobe therm_pm72 just one word from my workmate:

Re: hardware-monitor needs build on powerpc

2004-03-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 10:25:35PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > This is the last thing preventing the new lm-sensors and > various depending packages from making it into 'sarge'. hardware-monitor is now arch: any, and can build on every arch. It just need to be removed from the autobuilder not