Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-01 Thread Paul William
Which Post? I can't seem to find it at http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/06/threads.html#00026 Cheers Paul Sam Halliday wrote: Paul William wrote: Mine is also 0:16:0 :( is your iBook relatively new? does lspci reveal a Radeon Mobility 9200 M9+ if so... check out the posts i

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-01 Thread Paul William
I only bought the ibook a few weeks ago. Only took a few weeks to get sick of osx / miss my debian desktop ;) Sam Halliday wrote: Paul William wrote: Mine is also 0:16:0 :( is your iBook relatively new? does lspci reveal a Radeon Mobility 9200 M9+ if so... check out the posts i made las

Re: X Configuration

2004-07-01 Thread David Ramsey
Yeah, it's up to date. I'm running unstable, and I have the newest version. --- Sean Schertell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just a stab in the dark -- and don't blame me if > this trashes your > system ;-) But if I were you, I'd make sure your > x-windows is up to date. > > apt-get update;

Re: X Configuration

2004-07-01 Thread Sean Schertell
Just a stab in the dark -- and don't blame me if this trashes your system ;-) But if I were you, I'd make sure your x-windows is up to date. apt-get update; apt-get install x-window-system On Friday 02 July 2004 10:25 am, David Ramsey wrote: > Hey guys, I wrote earlier about an X Window > In

X Configuration

2004-07-01 Thread David Ramsey
Hey guys, I wrote earlier about an X Window Installation. I followed your advice and 'startx' works without issue now. Thanks to everyone for their help. Anyways, I wonder if you guys might could do me one more favor. When I do start X, the screen is flickering and is displayed in very strange

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external monitor on 15" titanium

2004-07-01 Thread Ric Otte
I have successfully installed Debian on my 15" titanium powerbook, and almost everything is working fine (X, ext mouse, ext keyboard). I do have a couple of questions. 1. Does anyone know how to get an external monitor working with this? I'd eventually like to be able to close the lid and use th

Re: No 'startx' or 'xinit' command!

2004-07-01 Thread Systems administrator
Earlier today [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I earlier posted about how to install X-Windows, but I've since found a web page telling me the best way to do it. I installed the following packages from unstable: xserver-xfree86, xlibmesa-dri, xlibmesa-gl, & xlibmesa-glu Everything

Re: No 'startx' or 'xinit' command!

2004-07-01 Thread Alain Perry
Le ven 02/07/2004 à 00:37, David Ramsey a écrit : [snip] > However, I don't know how to start X-Windows, because > the commands "startx" and "xinit" do not exist! Does > anything know what is wrong? Am I missing something > obvious? Going there: http://packages.debian.org/ and typing either sta

No 'startx' or 'xinit' command!

2004-07-01 Thread David Ramsey
I earlier posted about how to install X-Windows, but I've since found a web page telling me the best way to do it. I installed the following packages from unstable: xserver-xfree86, xlibmesa-dri, xlibmesa-gl, & xlibmesa-glu Everything seemed to go fine (apt-get returned no errors), and I have an

Its dangerous to my Powerbook G4 1Ghz 17" first generation run debian on it

2004-07-01 Thread rustyBOFH
Hi folks,today i had an extrange expererience with my alubook, it was reboot suddenly without any reason. Then surfing the web i saw this from the yellowdoglinux homepage: " - PowerBook 17" While video, sound, ethernet, and the primary functions are enabled with a set of beta

X Installation Question

2004-07-01 Thread David Ramsey
I was just about to install X-windows on my new Debian PPC system, and was wondering if the instructions I found were still up-to-date (I don't think the page I found them from has been updated for a while), or if people are doing something else. By the way, I have a 15" Powerbook 867 Mhz Combo Dr

Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-07-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-07-01 02:35:19 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > No bug, from /usr/share/doc/module-init-tools/changelog.Debian.gz: > > module-init-tools (3.1-pre2-1) unstable; urgency=medium > > * New upstream release. (Closes: #254204) > * Now /etc/modprobe.d/ is processed by modprobe. This means that

Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-07-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-06-30 21:17:29 +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As I said in a previous mail: the sound comes from the right speaker > > only and the audio files play twice as fast as the normal speed. > > (I tried with ogg123 at least.) > > Increase the buffer

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-01 Thread Sam Halliday
Paul William wrote: > Mine is also 0:16:0 :( is your iBook relatively new? does lspci reveal a Radeon Mobility 9200 M9+ if so... check out the posts i made last week as i encountered and fixed this... turns out you need the use the radeonfb (not the OS one) on bootup, and that requires the 2.6.

Re: status of sleep for current PowerBooks (Radeon 9700)?

2004-07-01 Thread Timo Reimerdes
On Do, 2004-07-01 at 13:49, Arne Caspari wrote: > I bet all of you have already told ATI about this, haven't you ;-) > > > -Arne if anyone interested in getting it working hasent... gogogo! I allready thought about a nice cronjob sending them this mail once a month ;) - I guess I just have sc

Re: Loading therm_* modules in d-i on Macs

2004-07-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 02:32:34PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Am Mit, den 30.06.2004 schrieb Colin Watson um 2:40: > > It'd be rather nice if the new debian-installer could load the > > therm_adt746x or therm_windtunnel modules, and register them so that > > they're automatically loaded by th

Re: kernel selection: powerpc, power4 or power3?

2004-07-01 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Not necessarily related to the original question, but well: How do I get a 750-optimized kernel for this iMac? I've noticed a new subarch menu since 2.6.7, but the 750-enabled subarch option seems to be for something competely different than this powermac. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant

Re: status of sleep for current PowerBooks (Radeon 9700)?

2004-07-01 Thread Carsten Milling
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:11:14AM +0200, Timo Reimerdes wrote: > On Do, 2004-07-01 at 07:17, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Well, the M9 is well documented, and should be no problem, the main > > point is that his version has a Radeon Mobility 9700 for which little is > > known. Actually, it's not y

Re: Loading therm_* modules in d-i on Macs

2004-07-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 30.06.2004 schrieb Colin Watson um 2:40: > It'd be rather nice if the new debian-installer could load the > therm_adt746x or therm_windtunnel modules, and register them so that > they're automatically loaded by the installed system. > > I can take care of the d-i implementation, but wh

Re: kernel selection: powerpc, power4 or power3?

2004-07-01 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> And it's better that way, IMHO. Low level MMU code is especially > critical, it should not be cluttered with conditionals and/or > indirect calls. > > The only clean slution might be boot-time linking of the right > functions in the right place. I do something similar on ppc64, where I have a f

Re: status of sleep for current PowerBooks (Radeon 9700)?

2004-07-01 Thread Arne Caspari
Reply to the mail from Timo Reimerdes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Do, 2004-07-01 at 07:17, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Well, the M9 is well documented, and should be no problem, the main > > point is that his version has a Radeon Mobility 9700 for which little is > > known. > > Well, > I am runnin

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-01 Thread Paul William
Mine is also 0:16:0 :( James Tappin wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 16:37:35 +1200 Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PW> Hi all, PW> PW> My first post on this list :) I am following the instructions at PW> http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto-5.html#ss5.2 PW> PW> to get X

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-01 Thread James Tappin
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 16:37:35 +1200 Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PW> Hi all, PW> PW> My first post on this list :) I am following the instructions at PW> http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto-5.html#ss5.2 PW> PW> to get X going on my ibook G4 (1ghz). X gives me the fol

Re: status of sleep for current PowerBooks (Radeon 9700)?

2004-07-01 Thread Timo Reimerdes
On Do, 2004-07-01 at 07:17, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, the M9 is well documented, and should be no problem, the main > point is that his version has a Radeon Mobility 9700 for which little is > known. Well, I am running a Powerbook G4 with the [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] and no suspend working

Re: kernel selection: powerpc, power4 or power3?

2004-07-01 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 06:40:19PM -0500, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 15:48, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 07:27, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > > No, -power3 is for POWER3 processors, used in older IBM RS/6000 systems. > > > Similarly, -power4 is for POWER

Re: How to configure yaboot for initrd?

2004-07-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:54:06AM -0700, David Ramsey wrote: > I just (sucessfully!) installed Debian, and wanted to > ugrade the kernel. I decided to apt-get the kernel > image provided by debian, but apt-get halted the > installation and told me that I needed to configure my > bootloader for in

Re: status of sleep for current PowerBooks (Radeon 9700)?

2004-07-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:37:58AM +0530, Nagarjuna G. wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 20:24, Carsten Milling wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm considering to retire my old TiBook and replace it with new a 15" > > AlBook. From what I hear most things linux seem to work fine on > > these. However, sleep do