Re: Sarge on OldWorld Mac - No root device

2004-09-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Monday, September 27, 2004, at 04:40 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: I've submitted several bug reports on this topic. The developers know about it, and may fix it sometime. It's not as easy to fix as it sounds, because the mesh controller is not on the regular PCI bus, so the nor

Re: install (boot) problem sarge powerbook G3 (wallstreet)

2004-09-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Monday, September 27, 2004, at 03:13 PM, Sebastiaan Molenaar wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 05:42, Rick Thomas wrote: Actually, miboot is a fully-fledged bootloader. The only thing it needs is a very small HFS partition to run out of (just big enough for the initrd image and the compressed k

Boot hangs on stock make-kpkg installation

2004-09-27 Thread peter rooney
Dear Folks, I've tried (and failed) to compile and install a kernel for some time now on a 7600 w/ a G3 upgrade card. Each time, the boot hangs, with the only recovery being a hard power cycle or the 3-finger salute of Cmd-Ctrl-<|. Here are the (typical) steps I have taken: # cd /usr/src/li

Re: Sarge on OldWorld Mac - No root device

2004-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Rick Thomas wrote: > I've submitted several bug reports on this topic. The developers > know about it, and may fix it sometime. It's not as easy to fix as > it sounds, because the mesh controller is not on the regular PCI > bus, so the normal hardware discovery programs never get a chance > t

Problems with 2.6.6 custom kernel and Open Firmware

2004-09-27 Thread Sebastian Tennant
After selecting its label in yaboot stage 2, my self-compiled 2.6.6 kernel, (gcc-2.95, make-kpkg, dpkg -i, based almost entirely on the config from my stable 2.4.18 kernel), hangs in Open Firmware with the following message: "...ok opening display /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATY,BlueStoneParent,

Re: install (boot) problem sarge powerbook G3 (wallstreet)

2004-09-27 Thread Sebastiaan Molenaar
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 05:42, Rick Thomas wrote: > Actually, miboot is a fully-fledged bootloader. The only thing it > needs is a very small HFS partition to run out of (just big enough > for the initrd image and the compressed kernel -- plus the miboot > program itself, of course!). It masquer

iPod mount: Re: hfs+ fs with linux - only ro after some time error

2004-09-27 Thread Nori Heikkinen
hi, i just got a new iPod, and have been happily mounting and unmounting it on my debian box (x86) with the mount command all morning. however, it suddenly stopped working read-write, saying in the logs: HFS+-fs warning: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfsplus is recommended.

Re: General question regarding CPU fan

2004-09-27 Thread Pau Rul·lan Ferragut
On Monday 27 September 2004 00:29, Michael Rex wrote: Hi! > I've been playing around with Linux and my iBook G4 lately to better > adapt the first to the latter and now I have a question regarding the > driver for the iBook CPU fan (the therm_adt746x module). Sure, this is the module I use. >

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12", GeForce FX Go5200

2004-09-27 Thread Guido Guenther
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 02:08:51PM +0200, Djoumé SALVETTI wrote: > Le lundi 09/27/04 Jens Schmalzing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > Once offb has been started, you cannot get rid of it anymore. In > > order to use rivafb, you must build your own kernel and build rivafb > > into it. But beware,

Re: missing udev permissions

2004-09-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
> adb:root:users:0660 > pmu:root:users:0660 > input/event*:root:users:0660 > > I needed them to be able to use "fnset" as user, and pbbuttons-setupenv > suggested them as well. > > Also I'm not sure into which group these files belong as I don't really know > any deeper details about the devices. (

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12", GeForce FX Go5200

2004-09-27 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Zoltan Nagy writes: > That means only software crash not hardware, isn't that? That means the machine tries to initialise rivafb and freezes. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12", GeForce FX Go5200

2004-09-27 Thread Djoumé SALVETTI
Le lundi 09/27/04 Jens Schmalzing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Once offb has been started, you cannot get rid of it anymore. In > order to use rivafb, you must build your own kernel and build rivafb > into it. But beware, last time I tried the rivafb driver it crashed > my machine. I use a pa

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12", GeForce FX Go5200

2004-09-27 Thread Zoltan Nagy
HI Jens, > Use the nv driver for XFree86, not the fbdev driver. I use nv driver. That works fine without the `Option "UseFBDev", but no control on the brightness and of course the pbbuttomd is unable to switch on/off the screen. > > I didn't load the rivafb module. It use the offb driver. > >

Re: Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12", GeForce FX Go5200

2004-09-27 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Zoltan Nagy writes: > I tried to configure the framebuffer in the XF86Configure-4 (please > find attached my configuration file) file but the X system gives the > following error: Use the nv driver for XFree86, not the fbdev driver. > I didn't load the rivafb module. It use the offb driver.

Brightness control on PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 12", GeForce FX Go5200

2004-09-27 Thread Zoltan Nagy
Hi, I jut got a new powerbook and I installed Debian/Sid with the most recent version of the distributed Linux kernel (2.6.8). It works fine but I cannot control the screen brightness. I tried to configure the framebuffer in the XF86Configure-4 (please find attached my configuration file) file but

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