Re: Troubles with gnome 2.6

2004-04-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 01:11, Brady Jarvis wrote: > rusty wrote: > > El Jueves, 29 de Abril de 2004 06:01, Dean Hamstead escribió: > > > >>ive been able to get gnome-2.6 to install having tweaked > >>my sources.list file and then using > >>using the apt-get gnome-desktop-environment method > > > >

WAN cards

2004-04-29 Thread Ken Treis
Does anyone have experience using Frame Relay cards on PPC? I am planning on using an XServe as a BGP router, and one of my peers will be connected via frame relay. I presume that, if the drivers are written right, the Sangoma WANPIPE cards should "just work". But I've seen some drivers that h

Re: Troubles with gnome 2.6

2004-04-29 Thread Brady Jarvis
rusty wrote: El Jueves, 29 de Abril de 2004 06:01, Dean Hamstead escribió: ive been able to get gnome-2.6 to install having tweaked my sources.list file and then using using the apt-get gnome-desktop-environment method Me too, on a alubook 17 First generation. however, after login

Re: iBook r128 hardware acceleration.

2004-04-29 Thread Greg Hamilton
You are completely correct. I just rebooted into YDL and using the same resolution, bit depth, window manager, etc. I get around 400 fps. No idea what I was thinking. On 29/04/2004, at 8:51 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 08:11, Greg Hamilton wrote: Anyway, so that's all work

GRUB2 adds powerpc support

2004-04-29 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! I've just uploaded version 0.6+20040429-1 of grub2 to experimental, which adds support for powerpc. Note that the code is highly experimental. It was written by Marco Gerards in upstream and only reported to work on his computer. Feel free to have a look and hack it up. -- Robert M

Re: Troubles with gnome 2.6

2004-04-29 Thread rusty
El Jueves, 29 de Abril de 2004 06:01, Dean Hamstead escribió: > ive been able to get gnome-2.6 to install having tweaked > my sources.list file and then using > using the apt-get gnome-desktop-environment method Me too, on a alubook 17 First generation. > however, after loging in at gdm,

Re: pbbuttonsd script interface - future?

2004-04-29 Thread Matthias Grimm
Am Mittwoch, 28. April 2004 18:27 schrieb Michael Schmitz: > AFAIK the wakebay utility isn't needed anymore with recent kernel > versions (I'll double check to make sure). The 3400 hacks are still > needed, though. Do you know from which kernel version on the tool wakebay isn't needed? I then can

how to boot a 43P-150

2004-04-29 Thread Bertrand CHAMBONNET
Hi there, I'm sorry, but i can't find floppy or cd images that can boot on an IBM 43P-150 CHRP thank's -- Bertrand CHAMBONNET Departement Genie Mecanique - IUT "a" 133 Av.de Rangueil 31077 TOULOUSE Tel : 05 62 25 87 28 Fax : 05 62 25 87 45 --

Re: iBook G4 suspend

2004-04-29 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 03:50:08PM +0200, Arne Caspari wrote: > Note also that this is after I re-inserted an "#ifdef CONFIG_X86" in > include/linux/suspend.h > since it says "asm/suspend.h: No such file or directory" otherwise. Argh, it seems subversion is as dumb as cvs when it comes to new file

Re: Xeasyconf?

2004-04-29 Thread Sam George
On 2004 Apr 28 , at 09:24, Ed Sutherland wrote: I've been trying the dpkg way (xeasyconf fails with many unresolved errors) to configure xfree. The system blanks the screen and comes back with the dreaded "no screen found" error. I need a working XF86Config-4 file for an iMac. Here are my respon

Re: iBook G4 suspend

2004-04-29 Thread Hugang
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:21:06 +0200 Arne Caspari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using kernel 2.6.5 on an iBook G4. Is there any way to get this > machine into any suspend mode? > > Since pmud does not work on this machine, is it possible to use any > suspend-to-disk method? I found no option in

Re: backlight control on NV chips

2004-04-29 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 03:29:38PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Good news - nvbrightness more or less correctly sets the backlight level. > Minimum brightness isn't switching the backlight off, though, not by a > large margin. Should it? No it shouldn't. I removed the code to turn of the backlig

Re: iBook G4 suspend

2004-04-29 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 02:13:49PM +0200, Arne Caspari wrote: > Would this patch also work for vanilla 2.6.5 or should I get benh's kernel > source? I didn't try 2.6.5 vanilla, let us know if it works ;) Cheers, -- Guido signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: backlight control on NV chips

2004-04-29 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > > Interesting. Does adjusting the brightness works at all with rivafb ? > > > > I though it only did full on vs full off ? > > > I posted a patch for this a while ago. > > > > Either I missed it or my memory is failing me ;) > > I remember the patch but it didn't help on my rivafb machine (80

Re: iBook G4 suspend

2004-04-29 Thread Arne Caspari
Reply to the mail from Arne Caspari ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Reply to the mail from Sylvain Joyeux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > It applies cleanly on vanilla here > > > Compile fails for me with > "No rule to make target `arch/ppc/kernel/pmdisk.o', needed by > `arch/ppc/kernel/built-in.o'. Stop.

Re: iBook G4 suspend

2004-04-29 Thread Arne Caspari
Reply to the mail from Sylvain Joyeux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > It applies cleanly on vanilla here Compile fails for me with "No rule to make target `arch/ppc/kernel/pmdisk.o', needed by `arch/ppc/kernel/built-in.o'. Stop. Am I missing something? Thanks, -Arne >

Re: iBook G4 suspend

2004-04-29 Thread Hugang
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:45:15 +0200 Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 09:21:06AM +0200, Arne Caspari wrote: > > I am using kernel 2.6.5 on an iBook G4. Is there any way to get this > > machine into any suspend mode? > Could you try the attached patch, it should all

Re: iBook G4 suspend

2004-04-29 Thread Sylvain Joyeux
It applies cleanly on vanilla here -- Sylvain

Re: iBook G4 suspend

2004-04-29 Thread Arne Caspari
Reply to the mail from Guido Guenther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 09:21:06AM +0200, Arne Caspari wrote: > > I am using kernel 2.6.5 on an iBook G4. Is there any way to get this > > machine into any suspend mode? > Could you try the attached patch, it should allow for suspend to

Re: pbbuttonsd script interface - future?

2004-04-29 Thread Guido Guenther
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 09:20:40PM +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote: > here is version 3 of the script system for comments. I have integrated most > of > your suggestions. hdparm comes with a script in /etc/apm/event.d already, so we can probably use this one (one piece less to maintain). Cheers, --

Re: pbbuttonsd script interface - future?

2004-04-29 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 03:18:03PM -0400, Chris Hanson wrote: > Another thing to think about is whether D-BUS ought to be used for > this purpose. Several recently designed event frameworks have been > built around this, including udev and hal. Yes, I was about to suggest dbus for notifying the lo

Re: iBook G4 suspend

2004-04-29 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 09:21:06AM +0200, Arne Caspari wrote: > I am using kernel 2.6.5 on an iBook G4. Is there any way to get this machine > into any suspend mode? Could you try the attached patch, it should allow for suspend to disk. Cheers, -- Guido Index: kernel/sys.c ===

Re: Xeasyconf?

2004-04-29 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Thu, 2004-04-29 13:41:45 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-04-28 11:24:09 -0400, Ed Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I say "yes" to the

Re: Xeasyconf?

2004-04-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Wed, 2004-04-28 11:24:09 -0400, Ed Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I say "yes" to the framebuffer (have also tried "no") > > Say yes if your virtual consoles do run on framebuffers, no otherwise. > Use "dm

Re: Xeasyconf?

2004-04-29 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, 2004-04-28 11:24:09 -0400, Ed Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I select the "ati" drive. That might be right. > I select "ATI Technologies Rage 128 Pro TR" as the video card ID. Don't. Either the ati driver detects your hardware, or it doesn't. > I

Re: iBook G4 suspend

2004-04-29 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I am using kernel 2.6.5 on an iBook G4. Is there any way to get this > machine into any suspend mode? See the patch I posted to this list a few weeks ago for suspend to disk. (http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/debian-powerpc-200404/msg00116.html) Usual disclaimers apply (works for me,

Re: iBook r128 hardware acceleration.

2004-04-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 08:11, Greg Hamilton wrote: > > Anyway, so that's all working a treat now. However, when I run the > glxgears demo the frame rate is about half what I get running the same > demo on the same machine under Yellow Dog Linux, which I have installed > on separate partition. Ab

Re: Troubles with gnome 2.6

2004-04-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 10:28, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Dean Hamstead wrote: > > > > however, after loging in at gdm, i have a long wait > > and then although gnome 2.6 has started, the underlying > > window manager has not. > > > > a ctrl-alt-f1 later and im looking through w

Re: Troubles with gnome 2.6

2004-04-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 05:14, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Em Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:20:48 -0400, Brady Jarvis escreveu: > > > Are you still using the unstable sources too? > > I do, but nautilus is lost for lack of shared-mime-info... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo

Re: iBook G4 suspend

2004-04-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 17:21, Arne Caspari wrote: > Hi! > > I am using kernel 2.6.5 on an iBook G4. Is there any way to get this machine > into any suspend mode? > > Since pmud does not work on this machine, is it possible to use any > suspend-to-disk method? I found > no option in the kernel c

Re: Troubles with gnome 2.6

2004-04-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Dean Hamstead wrote: > ive been able to get gnome-2.6 to install having tweaked > my sources.list file and then using > using the apt-get gnome-desktop-environment method > > however, after loging in at gdm, i have a long wait > and then although gnome 2.6 has started, the unde

iBook G4 suspend

2004-04-29 Thread Arne Caspari
Hi! I am using kernel 2.6.5 on an iBook G4. Is there any way to get this machine into any suspend mode? Since pmud does not work on this machine, is it possible to use any suspend-to-disk method? I found no option in the kernel configuration for this :-( Thanks, -Arne

Re: iBook r128 hardware acceleration.

2004-04-29 Thread Greg Hamilton
OK, so just say a bloke upgraded his kernel, verified that it worked and then forgot to change the default image in yaboot.conf, then maybe he'd be a little puzzled when DRI didn't work. And eventually perhaps he'd cotton on that he was running an old kernel with no module for his video card an

Re: booting from cd now that yaboot is installed

2004-04-29 Thread Greg Hamilton
Add 'enablecdboot' to yaboot.conf, forget to run ybin, reboot, swear, run ybin, etc. On 29/04/2004, at 3:14 PM, Dean Hamstead wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 now i have debian on my imac, how do i get it to boot from a cd! i take it i can do it somehow in OF or yaboot

Re: booting from cd now that yaboot is installed

2004-04-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 right there in the yaboot.conf man page ~ enablecdboot ~ This option adds an entry to the multiboot menu to boot from the ~ CDROM drive. Dean Dean Hamstead wrote: | now i have debian on my imac, how do i get it to

aterm ~/.Xdefaults not working

2004-04-29 Thread dotto
I have read a lot of good things about aterm, but I haven't been able to get my configuration to load. I've written a ~/.Xdefaults file in my home directory, but I still get a default aterm. Has this changed recently? Thanks, Derek

booting from cd now that yaboot is installed

2004-04-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 now i have debian on my imac, how do i get it to boot from a cd! i take it i can do it somehow in OF or yaboot Dean -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org i