Problems booting Sarge from PCI-SCSI attached disk

2004-10-08 Thread Marcin Wołyniak
Hi, I'm new user of Linux on PowerMacs and cannot resolve this issue. Could somebody help? I have problem booting newly installed Sarge PPC from disk attached to PCI-SCSI controller based on Advansys. I have PM 7300 with 2 disks: one connected to internal MESH ctrl & second hdd connected to A

Re: Twin turbo 128+ pci

2004-10-08 Thread Ciorleanu Mihai
i have the same problems with the same card... but only this itime is on a regula g3 white and green mac. what did you do ? is there a way to flash this baby? i put the video card on another macsame output http://www.alpinizem.net/~boris/imsttfb/ thanks Mike.

Re: Battery status not correctly seen - how to fix?

2004-10-08 Thread Julien BLACHE
"Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A little more info about this: the battery level seen just dropped from > 99% to 0% while running on battery, causing a shutdown before I could > plug in the power cable. The result of "cat /proc/apm" is currently > > 0.5 1.1 0x00 0x01 0x03 0x08 0%

Re: Battery status not correctly seen - how to fix?

2004-10-08 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:25:06PM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > On 10/08/2004 11:51 AM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > Since recently, I have been having a problem with battery monitoring on > > my iBook (white, dual USB). It fails to detect that the battery is full > > - in fact, it thinks the b

Re: Battery status not correctly seen - how to fix?

2004-10-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 10/08/2004 11:51 AM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Hi all, > > Since recently, I have been having a problem with battery monitoring on > my iBook (white, dual USB). It fails to detect that the battery is full > - in fact, it thinks the battery is empty, so wants to shut down if the > power cord is

Battery status not correctly seen - how to fix?

2004-10-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi all, Since recently, I have been having a problem with battery monitoring on my iBook (white, dual USB). It fails to detect that the battery is full - in fact, it thinks the battery is empty, so wants to shut down if the power cord is not plugged in! This appears to be a fairly low-level prob

Re: ibm compiler for 64bit ppc

2004-10-08 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, > I have downloaded xlc ibm compiler for suse (trial version) but ppc64 > isn't supported by alien. So I unpacked everythings but I didn't > success in running it (xlc doesn't found 1501-231 message). Does > somebody already have done it ? > > I really want to run it under debian since

2.6.8.1 success

2004-10-08 Thread Russell Hires
Hello all... So I finally got a 2.6.x kernel to boot, and give me a serial console on my Beige G3/266 DT. Of course, I still don't get why I can't have a regular console for my voodoo3 card, but I can boot, and get X working, etc. Networking gave me a bit of trouble, but nothing I can't fix. On

Re: kernel preemption and segfault

2004-10-08 Thread Mathieu Virbel
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 17:36, Vincent Bernat wrote: OoO Vers la fin de l'après-midi du jeudi 07 octobre 2004, vers 16:53, Mathieu Virbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: With kernel preemption, all work perfectly. Without kernel preemption, they are many bugs: - und

Re: kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc-smp-pmac unstable with CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y

2004-10-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/10/04 17:29), Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:22:06AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (30/09/04 03:09), Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Is anybody else running 2.4.x on a PowerMac Dual G4? (I've got a > > > "mirrored > > > drive door" model[1].) > > I've got a dual 45

Re: iMac with 2.6 does not see keyboard

2004-10-08 Thread Sebastian Tennant
On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:08:26 +0200, Mario Frasca wrote: > > so I managed to install the new 2.6.8 kernel and boot it. I > understand that this is more modular, or maybe I should say > module oriented, so I have to load explicitly ethernet (or put > it into /etc/modules). > > my problem is that

ibm compiler for 64bit ppc

2004-10-08 Thread grave
Hi, I have downloaded xlc ibm compiler for suse (trial version) but ppc64 isn't supported by alien. So I unpacked everythings but I didn't success in running it (xlc doesn't found 1501-231 message). Does somebody already have done it ? I really want to run it under debian since I don't wa

Re: kernel preemption and segfault

2004-10-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 06:05:10PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > The situation is going better but it is still not usable. > Can you try isolating a given activity or driver that cause the > stability problem ? It should work, really... I'm not able to isolate a problematic scenario. Bu

Re: PPC64 version of the 2.6.8 kernel

2004-10-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 06:01, Paddy de Búrca wrote: > I have read somewhere that thermal does not work in 64-bit - hence my > fans going at full blast. There is no difference in machine support between 32 and 64 bits, in fact, I don't really maintain the 32 bits kernel anymore for g5s. Thermal c

Re: kernel preemption and segfault

2004-10-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 17:36, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO Vers la fin de l'après-midi du jeudi 07 octobre 2004, vers 16:53, > Mathieu Virbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > > With kernel preemption, all work perfectly. > > Without kernel preemption, they are many bugs: > > - under medium/high load

Re: kernel preemption and segfault

2004-10-08 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Vers la fin de l'après-midi du jeudi 07 octobre 2004, vers 16:53, Mathieu Virbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > With kernel preemption, all work perfectly. > Without kernel preemption, they are many bugs: > - under medium/high load, gcc crash randomly > - mozilla have trouble to render (each r