Re: 2.6.6 bug while booting on PBG4

2004-05-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 03:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have had this problem in both the 2.6.3 and 2.6.5 kernels as well. I > haven't > been able to figure it out, but it's only a mild nuisance. It eventually > boots > fine after a couple of force checks. > > Quoting Pander <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Linux vs Mac OS 10.3(Panther)

2004-05-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 01:37, Sylvain Joyeux wrote: > > It works for me. > It does not for some of my code Have you reported the problem to Paul ? Ben.

Re: Re: X problem on ibook G4

2004-05-14 Thread Andrew Gibson
d'oh my bad:) X is now working on my ibook 2004. I had forgotten that I had commented out "UseFBDev" in my XF86Config-4 file. So the patch from Ben does work. I am happily writting this from KDE:) I'll be posting my config steps to soon. cheers Andrew --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Pierre

Re: Re: X problem on ibook G4

2004-05-14 Thread gibson_andrew_guard-ppclist
Pierre: According to Ben, you don't need to patch in the section @@ -2129,7 +2131,31 @@ in radeon_base.c it's for a seperate problem apparently. That avoids the need for making new definitions but...I found I still can't get things to work...I'm still trying though and when I get my setup worki

backlight control on old iBook tangerin under X

2004-05-14 Thread Sebastian Klemke
Hi! Dimming the backlight of my display (old iBook tangerine) does not work under X since I switched to a new 2.6 kernel (I'm right now running 2.6.3-rc3-ben0). Using the brightness buttons I can dim the backlight but changes only have an effect on the framebuffer console, not in X. Under X, it ad

Re: Problems with /dev/dsp

2004-05-14 Thread Diana Galletly
On Fri, 14 May 2004, Johannes Mockenhaupt (aka Joe Malik) wrote: > Just iBooks, Powerbooks have a line-in and the regular notebooks I've > seen had one as well. Problem was eventually solved using my semi-dead Sony VAIO under WinXP. Ick, but it works. Now I have only the problem of kwave decidi

Re: Airport Monitor Mode Patches

2004-05-14 Thread Paul van Tilburg
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:03:51PM -0700, Paul Mullen wrote: > Are there any plans to roll the monitor-mode driver patches into the > main kernel tree at some point in the future? If not, why? I guess so, but it'll take some time. Ben pointed me to: http://www.ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd The

Re: Airport Monitor Mode Patches

2004-05-14 Thread christophe barbe
I have a preliminary kernel module package that replace the stock orinoco/airport drivers with those from the savannah project: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/orinoco/ You can find my package at: http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/tmp/ I should update the source but the current on

"Blacklisted" USB Core

2004-05-14 Thread Paul
Lately (last month or so) I've noticed that whenever hotplug pays attention to the USB bus on my PowerBook G4, usb.agent says "usbcore: blacklisted" several times. Restarting hotplug via /etc/init.d/hotplug results in the following sent to syslog: May 13 01:21:01 sting kernel: usb.c: USB disconnec

Airport Monitor Mode Patches

2004-05-14 Thread Paul Mullen
What's the current status of the monitor-mode patches for the Airport (older 802.11b-only cards) kernel module? Six months ago I was able to apply a patch posted in July '03 by Jens Schmalzing to the 2.4.23-benh tree, but with partial success. The resulting kernel compiled fine and monitor mode wor

Re: Fw: debian-installer: Cannot boot the installer on powerpc

2004-05-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/05/04 20:56), Laurent Bigonville wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've sent a few days ago a bug report (bug #248234) about the fact that > I cannot boot with the last daily build > of the sarge installer on my g4, nobody answers ... I would like to > know if a

Pre-install partitions & dual boot

2004-05-14 Thread Eric D. Hedekar
Hi there, I just recently had my Mac OS9.1 crash on me and my 2gig hard drive is no longer bootable. After some research I've been told to format the drive and reinstall. Seeing however that I've already gotten my friend to mail me a new 9.1gig hard drive ready to boot OS9.1 and the fact that I'v

Fw: debian-installer: Cannot boot the installer on powerpc

2004-05-14 Thread Laurent Bigonville
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've sent a few days ago a bug report (bug #248234) about the fact that I cannot boot with the last daily build of the sarge installer on my g4, nobody answers ... I would like to know if anybody else has the same problem? >Yesterday, I had proble

Re: Problems with /dev/dsp

2004-05-14 Thread Johannes Mockenhaupt (aka Joe Malik)
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 10:05:18AM +0100, Diana Galletly wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2004, Johannes Mockenhaupt (aka Joe Malik) wrote: > > iBooks don't have a line-in, there's only a headphone jack > > Hohum. Is this true of laptops in general, or just iBooks, do you > happen to know? Just iBooks,

Video Out IbookG4

2004-05-14 Thread Benjamin Alvarado
Hi everyone, I want to try to use the video out in a Ibook G4 12", I use this (http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto-5.html#ss5.6) config file, but just don't work, only I can see the next ... ok copying OF device tree...done Initializing fake screen: ATY,Via_A Calling quiesce ..

Re: 2.6.6 bug while booting on PBG4

2004-05-14 Thread dotto
I have had this problem in both the 2.6.3 and 2.6.5 kernels as well. I haven't been able to figure it out, but it's only a mild nuisance. It eventually boots fine after a couple of force checks. Quoting Pander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > I've discovered a bug in the boot process of Linu

2.6.6 bug while booting on PBG4

2004-05-14 Thread Pander
Hi all, I've discovered a bug in the boot process of Linux 2.6.6. After rebooting the machine by holding down the on/off button for a few seconds, the machine boots oke. But after it has been switched off after a halt for a while, the same behavious occurs. The kernel stops after these lines

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Addendum: Sites don't let me in, because my system is non-MS -- Solution? [was: Re: Linux vs Mac OS 10.3(Panther)]

2004-05-14 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 17:17, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [ ... ] > So with privoxy installed what one can do is this: Writing something > like this to > /etc/privoxy/user.action > > { \ following from "+hide-user-agent" until "(DinoOrg, Inc.)} \" is one single line: Jus

Re: Powerbook G4 12" backlight

2004-05-14 Thread Guido Guenther
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:57:04PM +0100, David Pye wrote: > However, it seems that, based on some other posts about turning backlights > off, that it might be possible to turn off the backlight when the lid is > closed, even if not sleep or suspend. I like to leave mine downloading with > the

latest kernel via rsync? and misc tibook.g4 questions.

2004-05-14 Thread Timo Reimerdes
Hi, I kept my kernel-sources up-to-date by using this: rsync -avz --delete source.mvista.com::linuxppc-2.5-benh /usr/src/benh-kernel Since there aere so many talks about 2.6.6 being around and no updates in those sources for a week or more, I was wondering if there is another source now? I am rea

Sites don't let me in, because my system is non-MS -- Solution? [was: Re: Linux vs Mac OS 10.3(Panther)]

2004-05-14 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 09:49, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: > Cedric Pradalier wrote: > > According to Albert Cahalan, on 13 May 2004 11:31:39 -0400, > > > >>On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 11:30, Rob Latham wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 06:22:39PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > >> > forget abou

Re: Linux vs Mac OS 10.3(Panther)

2004-05-14 Thread Cedric Pradalier
>> >> Also, the realplayer 8 is distributed for most ppc linux >architecture.> It does not work as a plugin, [ ] > >Not being sure what exactly you mean with plugin: But I have this in >Mozilla preferences --> Helper Applications: > >MIME Type: audio/x-pn-realaudio >Extension: ram ra rm > >I

Re: Linux vs Mac OS 10.3(Panther)

2004-05-14 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 20:07, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > According to Albert Cahalan, on 13 May 2004 11:31:39 -0400, > >On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 11:30, Rob Latham wrote: > >> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 06:22:39PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > > >> > forget about streaming video and flash > >> > >> mpl

Powerbook G4 12" backlight

2004-05-14 Thread David Pye
Hi, I've got an Nvidia-based 12" G4 albook. I'm well aware that in the forseeable future sleep etc, will not be possible on these machines. However, it seems that, based on some other posts about turning backlights off, that it might be possible to turn off the backlight when the lid is close

iBook and TV-out

2004-05-14 Thread Sandro Stricker
Hallo, I'm planning to buy an iBook as my next notebook. But I need to know if the TV-out interface is working under linux or not. That is very important for me, because I want to watch my movies on the TV. Bye, Sandro

Re: Turning fan on in Pismo

2004-05-14 Thread Uwe Steinmann
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 04:44:25PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Try changing HZ back to 100 and see if the instability goes away. > > Is include/asm-ppc/param.h the right place to do it? > > I thought it was a config option but with a clean build, changing it there > might be enough already

Re: X problem on ibook G4

2004-05-14 Thread Pierre Evenou
Selon Colin LEROY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Try to define them in include/video/radeon.h this way: > > #define GRPH2_BUFFER_CNTL0x03f0 > > #define NB_TOM 0x15c > > Here's a real patch in case it would help. > > -- > Colin Sorry, but CRTC_H_CUTOFF_ACTIVE_EN is a

Re: X problem on ibook G4

2004-05-14 Thread Colin LEROY
> Try to define them in include/video/radeon.h this way: > #define GRPH2_BUFFER_CNTL0x03f0 > #define NB_TOM 0x15c Here's a real patch in case it would help. -- Colin radeon.h.patch Description: Binary data

Re: X problem on ibook G4

2004-05-14 Thread Colin LEROY
> same troubles with 2.6.6. I tried the patch from Benjamin Herrenschmidt > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/05/msg00221.html) Huh, I was sure I had seen this patch in bitkeeper's changelog, but I must have been mistaken... I probably saw it on this list ;-) > but build failed (NB_TOM

Re: X problem on ibook G4

2004-05-14 Thread Pierre Evenou
Selon Colin LEROY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I'm sorry about this new thread, I saw there are already a lots of > discutions on > > this subject but none of them solve my problem : I really can't make X > working > > on my new iBook G4 !(PowerPC G4 1.2, Radeon M9+, debian sid) > > > > I use debia

Re: Linux vs Mac OS 10.3(Panther)

2004-05-14 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Cedric Pradalier wrote: According to Albert Cahalan, on 13 May 2004 11:31:39 -0400, On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 11:30, Rob Latham wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 06:22:39PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: forget about streaming video and flash mplayer and mplayer-plugin make streaming video a litt