Re: kernel config problems

2004-04-19 Thread gm c
--- simon raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On sam, 2004-04-17 at 12:07 -0700, gm c wrote: > > I have a g3 powerbook firewire. I have been configuring kernels > (not > > the deb way though) with out problems on stable. I am trying an > > unstable install and want to use a 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernel.

Tips for a PPC newbie?

2004-04-19 Thread Sean Schertell
Hi fellow Debianers, This is my first post to the list. I switched to Debian from Fedora about 2 months ago on my x86 box and just couldn't be happier -- what a joy to use debian with apt-get after Fedora with RPM hell. So now of course, I'm ready to wipe Yellow Dog off my TiBook and get Debia

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2004-04-19 Thread ArtistGuyASG
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Re: G3 iBook resume kernel oops - help appreciated.

2004-04-19 Thread Ian McKellar
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 16:50, James Duncan wrote: > Whenever I resume from sleep on my iBook, I get the folloing error > message. I am running Debian unstable with pbbuttonsd & powernowd. I > have searched the archives but can't see anyone with a similar problem. > Any help would be *very* wel

Re: (subtitle: Britannia Rules the Waves)

2004-04-19 Thread Derrik Pates
Ashesh Datta wrote: I suspect Mr David Pye is living in the past, still hankering for Britain's long lost colonies, but he should harbour no such hope about Iraq (Churchill tried that in the 1920's but had to give up despite gassing the Shiites in the South and putting hapless Indian troops on th

G3 iBook resume kernel oops - help appreciated.

2004-04-19 Thread James Duncan
Whenever I resume from sleep on my iBook, I get the folloing error message. I am running Debian unstable with pbbuttonsd & powernowd. I have searched the archives but can't see anyone with a similar problem. Any help would be *very* welcome. radeonfb: suspending to state: 2... radeonfb: swi

Re: swsusp/pmdisk status on ppc?

2004-04-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 21:23, Christian Jaeger wrote: > At 23:54 Uhr +0200 19.04.2004, Michel Dänzer wrote: > >On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 14:54, Christian Jaeger wrote: > > > (BTW kernels 2.6 are less responsive on this laptop than 2.4 was, and > >> there's a strange slowness in line-buffered output to

Re: Re: (subtitle: Britannia Rules the Waves)

2004-04-19 Thread Ashesh Datta
on 18/4/04 1:46 pm, David Pye at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > b) This is an English list, so writing in English would be appreciated. I suspect Mr David Pye is living in the past, still hankering for Britain's long lost colonies, but he should harbour no such hope about Iraq (Churchill tried that i

Re: swsusp/pmdisk status on ppc?

2004-04-19 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 23:54 Uhr +0200 19.04.2004, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 14:54, Christian Jaeger wrote: > (BTW kernels 2.6 are less responsive on this laptop than 2.4 was, and there's a strange slowness in line-buffered output to gnome-terminals, do you see this too?) Yes, see Soeren Sonne

2.6.5, SCSI, & ext3: what am I doing wrong?

2004-04-19 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, Thanks for all the help on getting 2.6.5 running, I feel I'm close. No more white screenss, and the kernel starts up fine. But it can't recognize the ext3 filesystems I use for /usr and /var. All important partitions on this system run off of two disk drives attached to an Adaptec 29

Re: swsusp/pmdisk status on ppc?

2004-04-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 14:54, Christian Jaeger wrote: > > (BTW kernels 2.6 are less responsive on this laptop than 2.4 was, and > there's a strange slowness in line-buffered output to gnome-terminals, > do you see this too?) Yes, see Soeren Sonnenburg's posts about his. -- Earthling Michel Dä

Re: GNOME 2.6 and /dev/pmu

2004-04-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 14:31, Lucas Moulin wrote: > Le Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:24:11AM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > >> So you're getting this message too ? > > > >No, my user account has permission to access /dev/pmu. > > How did you do that ? Added your user to some group or modified the > p

Re: pbbuttonsd script interface - future?

2004-04-19 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 08:01, Matthias Grimm wrote: > Are two modes (minimum power consumption, maximum performance) enough or > do we need an additional custom mode? Makes such a mode sense? Will it be > used > by the user? 1. maximum performance 2. low power consumption (but usable!) 3. quiet

Re: swsusp/pmdisk status on ppc?

2004-04-19 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 19:17 Uhr +0200 19.04.2004, Christian Jaeger wrote: - another time, suspension worked but it took a long time in the "waiting phase" between writing processes to disk and writing the rest to disk (as far as I understand that). It took about a minute just waiting iirc. Then it finished. Resum

Re: Mozilla problem ?

2004-04-19 Thread qdecavel
Hi again I went a bit on the Internet to find the solution to my Mozilla problem (it works for Firefox too) : I just needed to go in the Preferences, Advanced, Keyboard Navigation, and to turn off the "Find as you type" option. However, my main problem with Gnome is still there : each time I

Re: swsusp/pmdisk status on ppc?

2004-04-19 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hm, sadly it's not that stable yet: there are at least three ways it can break currently: (- processes can't be stopped: that's the known "problem" with swsusp I've read about, someone seems to have worked out a scheme to find out the hierarchy of system calls to stop the processes in the righ

Mozilla problem ?

2004-04-19 Thread qdecavel
Hi, I have Mozilla 1.5.3 running with Gnome 2.4 on a Linux kernel 2.4.25. While the clicking doesn't show any problem, as soon as I try to type a URL, Mozilla freezes and doesn't want to quit unless I force it. I tried to uninstall and reinstall it, but the problem remains, and with Firefox t

Re: swsusp/pmdisk status on ppc?

2004-04-19 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 15:51 Uhr +0200 19.04.2004, Michael Schmitz wrote: Nope, pmdisk doesn't need exclusive access to the first swap partition, just enough space to save kernel state (during suspend, all user processes are frozen and swapped out, so memory used by processes doesn't count here). Ah, this means, u

Re: swsusp/pmdisk status on ppc?

2004-04-19 Thread Michael Schmitz
> At 11:07 Uhr +0200 19.04.2004, Michael Schmitz wrote: > >mol will work, and the key to avoiding swap collision is swap priorities > >(as I've explained before). pmdisk uses the first swap partition, so you > >need to make sure the second swap partition has the higher priority. > > Ok, but I guess

Re: pbbuttonsd script interface - future?

2004-04-19 Thread Tobias Pflug
> Are two modes (minimum power consumption, maximum performance) enough or > do we need an additional custom mode? Makes such a mode sense? Will it be > used by the user? powernowd does a good job at regulating powerconsumption/performance based on system load.. Think thats a nice solution. Sor

Re: swsusp/pmdisk status on ppc?

2004-04-19 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 11:07 Uhr +0200 19.04.2004, Michael Schmitz wrote: mol will work, and the key to avoiding swap collision is swap priorities (as I've explained before). pmdisk uses the first swap partition, so you need to make sure the second swap partition has the higher priority. Ok, but I guess if the sum

Re: GNOME 2.6 and /dev/pmu

2004-04-19 Thread Lucas Moulin
Le Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:24:11AM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : >> So you're getting this message too ? > >No, my user account has permission to access /dev/pmu. How did you do that ? Added your user to some group or modified the permissions ? > >> Is there any way to tell acme code to not sho

pbbuttonsd script interface - future?

2004-04-19 Thread Matthias Grimm
Hi, Today I would ask for opinions and ideas about the future of pbbuttonsd's script interface. To become more flexible and maybe share development and infrastructure with other powermanagement systems (like apmd) for sure the script environment and maybe the interface must be reformed. I have

Re: swsusp/pmdisk status on ppc?

2004-04-19 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > ) and so just did echo -n disk > /sys/power/state (with X running). It > worked, and came back again and restored everything fine, except for one > or two things: > > - sound broke: clicking on wmmixer made everything (at least X, mouse > movements) freeze for about 2 seconds each time. xmms sa

Re: GNOME 2.6 and /dev/pmu

2004-04-19 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > that everytime I log in GNOME, I get a dialog box saying : "permissions > > on /dev/pmu are broken". Permissions are set as follows : > > > > $ ls -l /dev/pmu > > crw---1 root root 10, 154 2004-04-14 16:48 /dev/pmu > > > > I'm using GNOME up-to-date, kernel 2.4.25-ben1, gdm to

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ALSA fails on powerbook alu

2004-04-19 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Hi all, I've never been able to set up alsa on my laptop (pb G4 alu 15") but I really want it now as I'd like to make some music (edit waves, mp3, midi, etc)... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo modprobe snd-powermac FATAL: Error inserting snd_powermac \ (/lib/modules/2.6.5-rc3-ben0/kernel/sound/ppc/snd

Re: debian-installer on a G5 Part II

2004-04-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 07:18:36PM -0700, Scott McMahan wrote: > After sub-partitioning the partition I left for > debian, I got an error message about No NewWorld boot > partition was found even though partition 2 was set up > as one. A drop into the shell to manually run > mac-fdisk on /dev/scsi