Re: startx problems on Umax S900

2004-05-25 Thread Paul Mullen
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:36:32PM -0700, dylan wrote: > on 04.5.21 8:10 PM, Paul Mullen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] was reported to have > writen: > > > FWIW, I gave up on trying to get X to play nice with the Twin Turbo > > card. My S900 has the 8 MB version, and I could never get the display to > > st

Re: debian boot CDs & G5

2004-05-25 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > Cool. Why is it in the NEW queue though ? Well, 2.6.6-3 adds tracker packages, 2.6.6-4 adds tracker packages *and* removes the g5 flavour. > And any progress on the mkvmlinuz issue What issue? > On the other side, i still have problem with the initrd, i was able to >

Re: debian boot CDs & G5

2004-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:51:03PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 08:10:59PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > Colin Watson writes: > > > On reflection, considering my lack of ability to test this stuff, I've > > > just taken the easy option and arranged for separate g5 2.6 ima

Re: debian boot CDs & G5

2004-05-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 08:10:59PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Colin Watson writes: > > > On reflection, considering my lack of ability to test this stuff, I've > > just taken the easy option and arranged for separate g5 2.6 images to be > > built. I missed out a build-dependency, but

Re: debian boot CDs & G5

2004-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 08:10:59PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Colin Watson writes: > > On reflection, considering my lack of ability to test this stuff, I've > > just taken the easy option and arranged for separate g5 2.6 images to be > > built. I missed out a build-dependency, but that's fixe

Re: iBook 800Mhz G3 fan on a lot

2004-05-25 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Cedric Pradalier writes: > I think I was not clear, I was speeking of the /etc/cpufreq.conf > file, not of the CPUFREQ_* kernel flags. Ah, sorry for the misunderstanding. > I'm not sure of what should be changed in the pre-built kernel. > They seem good for me. As far as CPU_FREQ is concer

Re: debian boot CDs & G5

2004-05-25 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Colin Watson writes: > On reflection, considering my lack of ability to test this stuff, I've > just taken the easy option and arranged for separate g5 2.6 images to be > built. I missed out a build-dependency, but that's fixed in svn now. Excellent timing :) Two days ago, in revision 2.6.6

Re: debian boot CDs & G5

2004-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 05:36:07PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:19:47PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 07:54:52AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > > Colin Watson writes: > > > > It's not cheap at all. > > > > > > As it stands, it's the price to pa

Mol problem loading OSX partition 2.6.6 kernel

2004-05-25 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'm trying to get mol to load my OSX partition. I've set blkdev: /dev/hda16 -rw startmol --osx --> The volume '/dev/hda16' is locked ... Can't read Elf32 image header Fatal error: drivers/bootx is not an ELF image I am using 2.6.6-powerpc #1 Thu M

Re: iBook 800Mhz G3 fan on a lot

2004-05-25 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Hi Cedric. Thanks very much for your mail. On 25/05/04, Cedric Pradalier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > According to Rory Campbell-Lange, on Tue, 25 May 2004 13:50:06 +0100, > >My new G3 800Mhz has the fan on a lot (and seems pretty hot under my > >left hand). Is this normal? When I'm working late

Re: iBook 800Mhz G3 fan on a lot

2004-05-25 Thread Cedric Pradalier
According to Jens Schmalzing, on 25 May 2004 17:05:30 +0200, >Hi, > >Cedric Pradalier writes: > >> First, I would suggest using cpufreqd, for scaling down to 400MHz >when> you don't need full power. I can send you a working config if >needed. > >Please send it to me instead, or better yet, indica

Re: iBook 800Mhz G3 fan on a lot

2004-05-25 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Cedric Pradalier writes: > First, I would suggest using cpufreqd, for scaling down to 400MHz when > you don't need full power. I can send you a working config if needed. Please send it to me instead, or better yet, indicate what configuration options in the pre-built kernels should be chang

Re: iBook 800Mhz G3 fan on a lot

2004-05-25 Thread Cedric Pradalier
According to Rory Campbell-Lange, on Tue, 25 May 2004 13:50:06 +0100, >My new G3 800Mhz has the fan on a lot (and seems pretty hot under my >left hand). Is this normal? When I'm working late the noise is quite >distracting in a quiet room First, I would suggest using cpufreqd, for scaling down to

Re: update to kernel-image-2.6.6 and usb-mouse

2004-05-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 03:06:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi list: > > I just switched my ibook g3 900mhz from selfcompiled kernel 2.6.1 to > kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc. > > now my usb-mouse (SAMSUNG) is not working anymore. i suppose i need to > load some module but have no idea wich.

Re: Debian on F50...

2004-05-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:15:21AM +0100, Richard Wale wrote: > Howdy, > > I've had a Debian running happily on a 7025/F50 > RS/6000 for a number of years, after follows some > steps posted on this mailing list. Using the rsync > sources from source.mvista.com, I've had both 2.4.x > and 2.6.x ker

Re: update to kernel-image-2.6.6 and usb-mouse

2004-05-25 Thread Florian Klinglmueller
Thx alot, mouse working again! float On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 03:17:43PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > now my usb-mouse (SAMSUNG) is not working anymore. i suppose i need to > > load some module but have no idea wich. > > > > anybody have an idea? >

Re: update to kernel-image-2.6.6 and usb-mouse

2004-05-25 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > now my usb-mouse (SAMSUNG) is not working anymore. i suppose i need to > load some module but have no idea wich. > > anybody have an idea? ohci-hcd and usbhid. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je dju

Re: 2.6.6-powerpc Debian kernel and 802.11b problems

2004-05-25 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Rory Campbell-Lange writes: > After inserting the modules, I'm still getting an error, > though. "eth1 no wireless extensions". Any clues? > > Ahah. eth0 has become the wireless interface, and eth1 is > ethernet. Now everything works. The interface names depend on the order in which the mod

update to kernel-image-2.6.6 and usb-mouse

2004-05-25 Thread float
Hi list: I just switched my ibook g3 900mhz from selfcompiled kernel 2.6.1 to kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc. now my usb-mouse (SAMSUNG) is not working anymore. i suppose i need to load some module but have no idea wich. anybody have an idea? i have attached my lsmod output. thx float Module

iBook 800Mhz G3 fan on a lot

2004-05-25 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
My new G3 800Mhz has the fan on a lot (and seems pretty hot under my left hand). Is this normal? When I'm working late the noise is quite distracting in a quiet room Debian testing kernel: Linux roz 2.6.6-powerpc #1 Thu May 13 19:43:40 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux cpuinfo: processor : 0

Reverse XTerm

2004-05-25 Thread Zach Weinberg
Yesterday night, i ran apt-get upgrade on my Sarge Powerbook 3400. I did not reboot and for the rest of the night, everything seemed to be working fine. But this morning after I'd booted up the machine and loaded X, i opened up XTerm to find that the font was backwards.each letter was reversed.

Re: 2.6.6-powerpc Debian kernel and 802.11b problems

2004-05-25 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 25/05/04, Jens Schmalzing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You are using hotplug to automatically detect your hardware, right? > Seems that it found your Firewire ports and generously assigned an > IP-over-Firewire interface. It doesn't do harm, but

Re: Sarge PowerPC HFS boot from DVD

2004-05-25 Thread Derrik Pates
Ed wrote: I'm trying to boot a DVD created with jigdo from the 5/22 build on an Apple g4. I couldn't get Open Firmware or even a friend's OS X based system to recognize it. When I tried hfstools hmount on my x86 system on either the DVD or the /dev/loop attached iso-image I get: An extra de

Re: 2.6.6-powerpc Debian kernel and 802.11b problems

2004-05-25 Thread Derrik Pates
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: I'm trying to get my airport card working on my ibook 800Mhz G3. It used to work fine, in multiple locations with my 2.4.25 kernel on my ibook 500Mhz! I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong -- I've installed wireless tools. I expected to see "hermes" and "orinoco" listed in

Re: 2.6.6-powerpc Debian kernel and 802.11b problems

2004-05-25 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to get my airport card working on my ibook 800Mhz G3. It > used to work fine, in multiple locations with my 2.4.25 kernel on my > ibook 500Mhz! I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong -- I've installed > wireless tools. I expected to s

Patch for radeon on new iBook G4

2004-05-25 Thread digital . death
Hello to everybody I'm posting a new patch for everybody who has the same problem on the new iBook G4. The first time my iBook booted with linux I had the "flickering screen" problem with a Gentoo live cd. After installing a Debian Sarge beta4 CD, the screen got black because of the old radeonf

2.6.6-powerpc Debian kernel and 802.11b problems

2004-05-25 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'm trying to get my airport card working on my ibook 800Mhz G3. It used to work fine, in multiple locations with my 2.4.25 kernel on my ibook 500Mhz! I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong -- I've installed wireless tools. I expected to see "hermes" and "orinoco" listed in lsmod, but if I try to insmod

Debian on F50...

2004-05-25 Thread Richard Wale
Howdy, I've had a Debian running happily on a 7025/F50 RS/6000 for a number of years, after follows some steps posted on this mailing list. Using the rsync sources from source.mvista.com, I've had both 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels working. 2.6 really made it fly, gnome is now pretty quick to use. I i

Re: Latest suspend to disk patch?

2004-05-25 Thread Guido Guenther
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 04:54:14PM +0200, clemens kurtenbach wrote: > kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x1fca0): In function `do_magic_resume_2': > : undefined reference to `__flush_tlb_global' > kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x1fe54): In function `do_magic_suspend_2': > : undefined reference to `kernel_fpu_end'

Sarge PowerPC HFS boot from DVD

2004-05-25 Thread Ed
I'm trying to boot a DVD created with jigdo from the 5/22 build on an Apple g4. I couldn't get Open Firmware or even a friend's OS X based system to recognize it. When I tried hfstools hmount on my x86 system on either the DVD or the /dev/loop attached iso-image I get: # losetup /dev/loop2

Re: Touching vmlinux.coff, was Re: Current benh-kernel fails to boot (after clock) on iBook G4

2004-05-25 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Sven, On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:25:43PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Ok. So I should ask Benjamin Herrenschmid to fix this and close the > > Debian bug, right? > > Yep. Let me check if the fix is already in the debian package, so you > can also directly send him a patch. That said, i have

Re: Debian kernel-image-2.6.6 install and modprobe.conf problems

2004-05-25 Thread Marc-Olivier Killijian
Hi Jens, Perfect, that was it. The lines producing the errors were: *in 0keep keep *in setserial pre-remove serial /etc/init.d/setserial stop | logger -p daemon.info -t "setserial-module uload" pre-remove serial /etc/init.d/setserial modsave > /dev/null 2> /dev/null *in actions post-install bt

Re: how to open a powermac 8500 ?

2004-05-25 Thread dylan
on 04.5.24 4:07 AM, karim at [EMAIL PROTECTED] was reported to have writen: > Hello, > I need to acces to the mainboard to change the battery or at least test > it because nvsetenv doesn't memorise the parameters. > I can't remove some blocks in it like the big one that maintain the drives. > Than