Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread david howe
g'day all I wrote to the list a couple of weeks ago about requirements for using the video input capabilities on an AV mac, i did receive some nice pointers including the reference to planB. As yet I haven't actually got around to implementing the web cam (which is where I was generally heade

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread david howe
g'day all I wrote to the list a couple of weeks ago about requirements for using the video input capabilities on an AV mac, i did receive some nice pointers including the reference to planB. As yet I haven't actually got around to implementing the web cam (which is where I was generally headed)

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-14 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, > I've just updated the installer image to have no POWER4+ optimization, > but the language chooser seems to be broken. I've no idea why. Nice, it gets a lot further on POWER3 now :) It stops right here: time_init: decrementer frequency = 93.748235 MHz time_init: processor frequency = 375

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Friday 14 January 2005 10:26 am, Sean Jewett wrote: > Has anyone managed to get the planb driver to work (or better yet, with > the v4l stuff)? If so, how? What kernel, what distro, what phase of the > moon? Yes. I have a working planb setup on an 8500/250 604e machine, running a custom comp

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread SR, ESC
Le ven 2005-01-14 a 16:11:30 -0500, Sean Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > since v4l works with everything else) is fixed. > > Note, I spent an afternoon with a friend trying to hack the driver to no > avail. It's not that we've not looked at the source or tried to fix the > source. It jus

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-14 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, > I've just updated the installer image to have no POWER4+ optimization, > but the language chooser seems to be broken. I've no idea why. Nice, it gets a lot further on POWER3 now :) It stops right here: time_init: decrementer frequency = 93.748235 MHz time_init: processor frequency = 375

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread Sean Jewett
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, SR, ESC wrote: > why are you bothering with 2.4.18? FYI, the kernel stuff on that site > is ancient history. Because I've tried every current 2.4 kernel to NO avail. At one point 2.4.18 w/ the patch worked (apparently) and because there is DOCUMENTATION that states that 2

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread SR, ESC
Le ven 2005-01-14 a 15:53:28 -0500, Sean Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > > Has anyone managed to get the planb driver to work (or better yet, with > the v4l stuff)? If so, how? What kernel, what distro, what phase of the > moon? > > I have beat my head with Debian and now Yellow Dog to no a

Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread Sean Jewett
Has anyone managed to get the planb driver to work (or better yet, with the v4l stuff)? If so, how? What kernel, what distro, what phase of the moon? I have beat my head with Debian and now Yellow Dog to no avail. My last ditch effort was to install YDL 2.3 and then install the RPM's Michel

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Friday 14 January 2005 10:26 am, Sean Jewett wrote: > Has anyone managed to get the planb driver to work (or better yet, with > the v4l stuff)? If so, how? What kernel, what distro, what phase of the > moon? Yes. I have a working planb setup on an 8500/250 604e machine, running a custom comp

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread SR, ESC
Le ven 2005-01-14 a 16:11:30 -0500, Sean Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > since v4l works with everything else) is fixed. > > Note, I spent an afternoon with a friend trying to hack the driver to no > avail. It's not that we've not looked at the source or tried to fix the > source. It jus

Re: Xserve G5 disks

2005-01-14 Thread John Koskie
Hi, Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't work. Anyways, for now I am successul net-booting with the disks removed, so solving the disk issue is not pressing. To answer your question, the Xserve is rather loud. It seems like there is some minimal fan control, but much less than when running

Re: AGP support on PowerMac G5?

2005-01-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 18:05 -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was having a hard > time getting X to work, until I found out that it aparently is required > to run using the fbdev driver. Has there been any work on getting X to > run natively?

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread Sean Jewett
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, SR, ESC wrote: > why are you bothering with 2.4.18? FYI, the kernel stuff on that site > is ancient history. Because I've tried every current 2.4 kernel to NO avail. At one point 2.4.18 w/ the patch worked (apparently) and because there is DOCUMENTATION that states that 2

Re: AGP support on PowerMac G5?

2005-01-14 Thread Paddy de Búrca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pat, There is currently work in progress regarding AGP. This work can be followed on the https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev mailing list. There is also a https://ozlabs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc64-dev list for those 64-b

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread SR, ESC
Le ven 2005-01-14 a 15:53:28 -0500, Sean Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > > Has anyone managed to get the planb driver to work (or better yet, with > the v4l stuff)? If so, how? What kernel, what distro, what phase of the > moon? > > I have beat my head with Debian and now Yellow Dog to no a

Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-14 Thread Sean Jewett
Has anyone managed to get the planb driver to work (or better yet, with the v4l stuff)? If so, how? What kernel, what distro, what phase of the moon? I have beat my head with Debian and now Yellow Dog to no avail. My last ditch effort was to install YDL 2.3 and then install the RPM's Michel

Re: Powerbook white nights!

2005-01-14 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arnaud Vandyck wrote: | Hi all, | | I tested sleep7 patch with excellent results fro some times now. But I | don't know why my laptop won't sleep now. I update (sid) nearly everyday | but I don't remember removing something (of course!). | | What pack

Re: Xserve G5 disks

2005-01-14 Thread John Koskie
Hi, Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't work. Anyways, for now I am successul net-booting with the disks removed, so solving the disk issue is not pressing. To answer your question, the Xserve is rather loud. It seems like there is some minimal fan control, but much less than when running

Re: AGP support on PowerMac G5?

2005-01-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 18:05 -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was having a hard > time getting X to work, until I found out that it aparently is required > to run using the fbdev driver. Has there been any work on getting X to > run natively?

Re: AGP support on PowerMac G5?

2005-01-14 Thread Paddy de Búrca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pat, There is currently work in progress regarding AGP. This work can be followed on the https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev mailing list. There is also a https://ozlabs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc64-dev list for those 64-bit

Re: Powerbook white nights!

2005-01-14 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arnaud Vandyck wrote: | Hi all, | | I tested sleep7 patch with excellent results fro some times now. But I | don't know why my laptop won't sleep now. I update (sid) nearly everyday | but I don't remember removing something (of course!). | | What packag

Re: TEST: Sleep patch #7

2005-01-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Let me just add that powernowd works fine with sleep patch #7 here > > Be cautious! It seemed to work fine for me. Only when I do a large > compile immediately after reboot, the system gets instable. Can you try > this: > > Start a Linux kernel compile; suspend the compile with Ctrl-Z; suspend

Re: iBook2 doesn't resume properly after sleep

2005-01-14 Thread Charles R. Twardy
I just found another workaround offered at Ubuntu: turn off HAL before suspend and restart on wake. This has the advantage of allowing CD/DVD polling. They have a patch for it. The patch: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/attachment.cgi?id=507 The bugreport: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi

Re: AGP support on PowerMac G5?

2005-01-14 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Thursday 13 January 2005 20:10, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Patrick> So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was > Patrick> having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out > Patrick> that it aparently i

Re: TEST: Sleep patch #7

2005-01-14 Thread Arne Caspari
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: So my configuration is: iBookG4 800 Mhz running on 600 Mhz, cpufreqd disabled. Firewire is enabled ( no devices attached ) Sound is enabled ( no audio streams open ) USB is enabled ( no devices attached ) This seems to run rather stable. So it seems that enabling

Re: TEST: Sleep patch #7

2005-01-14 Thread Arne Caspari
Michael Schmitz wrote: Let me just add that powernowd works fine with sleep patch #7 here Be cautious! It seemed to work fine for me. Only when I do a large compile immediately after reboot, the system gets instable. Can you try this: Start a Linux kernel compile; suspend the compile with

Re: TEST: Sleep patch #7

2005-01-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Let me just add that powernowd works fine with sleep patch #7 here > > Be cautious! It seemed to work fine for me. Only when I do a large > compile immediately after reboot, the system gets instable. Can you try > this: > > Start a Linux kernel compile; suspend the compile with Ctrl-Z; suspend

Re: iBook2 doesn't resume properly after sleep

2005-01-14 Thread Charles R. Twardy
I just found another workaround offered at Ubuntu: turn off HAL before suspend and restart on wake. This has the advantage of allowing CD/DVD polling. They have a patch for it. The patch: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/attachment.cgi?id=507 The bugreport: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi

Re: iBook2 doesn't resume properly after sleep

2005-01-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 01/14/2005 04:07 AM, Charles R. Twardy wrote: > Thanks Kevin! That solves the problem on my iBook2. I haven't checked > other cd/dvd functionality yet. Does it just disable the polling at > wakeup, or all auto-polling? Unfortunately I think it disables all auto-polling of the CD-ROM, so you wi

Re: AGP support on PowerMac G5?

2005-01-14 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Thursday 13 January 2005 20:10, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Patrick> So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was > Patrick> having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out > Patrick> that it aparently i

Re: TEST: Sleep patch #7

2005-01-14 Thread Arne Caspari
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: So my configuration is: iBookG4 800 Mhz running on 600 Mhz, cpufreqd disabled. Firewire is enabled ( no devices attached ) Sound is enabled ( no audio streams open ) USB is enabled ( no devices attached ) This seems to run rather stable. So it seems that enabling cpufr

Re: TEST: Sleep patch #7

2005-01-14 Thread Arne Caspari
Michael Schmitz wrote: Let me just add that powernowd works fine with sleep patch #7 here Be cautious! It seemed to work fine for me. Only when I do a large compile immediately after reboot, the system gets instable. Can you try this: Start a Linux kernel compile; suspend the compile with Ctrl-Z

Re: iBook2 doesn't resume properly after sleep

2005-01-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 01/14/2005 04:07 AM, Charles R. Twardy wrote: > Thanks Kevin! That solves the problem on my iBook2. I haven't checked > other cd/dvd functionality yet. Does it just disable the polling at > wakeup, or all auto-polling? Unfortunately I think it disables all auto-polling of the CD-ROM, so you wi

Re: Sleep patch: inclusion?

2005-01-14 Thread eric.bachard
[ -> Giuseppe : sorry, I just see address was wrong after click on "send", so I directly send you what was for debian-powerpc list ...] Hi, Not really the time, but what Ii have oobserved since ~ one month is nearly the same as you see yourself, so I can confirm. Giuseppe Lavagetto a écrit

Re: Sleep patch: inclusion?

2005-01-14 Thread Giuseppe Lavagetto
Il giorno ven, 14-01-2005 alle 09:43 +0100, Colin Leroy ha scritto: > Hi Ben, > > First, happy new year :) I hope your holidays were fine. > > Do you still plan on including the sleep patch in 2.6.11? > > I came across a problem, but it is quite hard to trace and reproduce, > because it only hap

Re: Debian on a Dual G5?

2005-01-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:17:32PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sven> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:34:54PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad > Sven> wrote: > >> > >> If you have a newer machine (a PowerMac7,3 with the 970FX G5 > >>

Re: iBook2 doesn't resume properly after sleep

2005-01-14 Thread Charles R. Twardy
Thanks Kevin! That solves the problem on my iBook2. I haven't checked other cd/dvd functionality yet. Does it just disable the polling at wakeup, or all auto-polling? I'll check the bugreport you noted when I'm next able, and post this workaround to the various sites I've consulted. (Several rele

Re: 43p-140 install issues (the end ?)

2005-01-14 Thread Philippe Guyot
On Thursday 13 January 2005 18:10, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > But I realized one thing while trying to isolate the problem: Changing > > size/place of partitions with cfdisk needs a reboot for beeing > > ackowledged by the kernel.I'll see if there is already a bug report > > for that. > > Try r

Sleep patch: inclusion?

2005-01-14 Thread Colin Leroy
Hi Ben, First, happy new year :) I hope your holidays were fine. Do you still plan on including the sleep patch in 2.6.11? I came across a problem, but it is quite hard to trace and reproduce, because it only happened twice (in a few dozens sleep/resumes): the keyboard wouldn't respond after a r

Re: Sleep patch: inclusion?

2005-01-14 Thread eric.bachard
[ -> Giuseppe : sorry, I just see address was wrong after click on "send", so I directly send you what was for debian-powerpc list ...] Hi, Not really the time, but what Ii have oobserved since ~ one month is nearly the same as you see yourself, so I can confirm. Giuseppe Lavagetto a écrit : >

Re: Sleep patch: inclusion?

2005-01-14 Thread Giuseppe Lavagetto
Il giorno ven, 14-01-2005 alle 09:43 +0100, Colin Leroy ha scritto: > Hi Ben, > > First, happy new year :) I hope your holidays were fine. > > Do you still plan on including the sleep patch in 2.6.11? > > I came across a problem, but it is quite hard to trace and reproduce, > because it only hap

Re: Debian on a Dual G5?

2005-01-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:17:32PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sven> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:34:54PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad > Sven> wrote: > >> > >> If you have a newer machine (a PowerMac7,3 with the 970FX G5 > >>

Re: iBook2 doesn't resume properly after sleep

2005-01-14 Thread Charles R. Twardy
Thanks Kevin! That solves the problem on my iBook2. I haven't checked other cd/dvd functionality yet. Does it just disable the polling at wakeup, or all auto-polling? I'll check the bugreport you noted when I'm next able, and post this workaround to the various sites I've consulted. (Several rele

Powerbook white nights!

2005-01-14 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Hi all, I tested sleep7 patch with excellent results fro some times now. But I don't know why my laptop won't sleep now. I update (sid) nearly everyday but I don't remember removing something (of course!). What package did I remove? What did I do?! What do I need to sleep?.. $ uname -a Linux oz

Re: 43p-140 install issues (the end ?)

2005-01-14 Thread Philippe Guyot
On Thursday 13 January 2005 18:10, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > But I realized one thing while trying to isolate the problem: Changing > > size/place of partitions with cfdisk needs a reboot for beeing > > ackowledged by the kernel.I'll see if there is already a bug report > > for that. > > Try r

Sleep patch: inclusion?

2005-01-14 Thread Colin Leroy
Hi Ben, First, happy new year :) I hope your holidays were fine. Do you still plan on including the sleep patch in 2.6.11? I came across a problem, but it is quite hard to trace and reproduce, because it only happened twice (in a few dozens sleep/resumes): the keyboard wouldn't respond after a r