Re: old apple machines supported ?

2005-02-16 Thread Brad Boyer
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 05:30:45PM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:28, Jorge Salamero wrote: > > Performa 6200 > > I don't remember the 6200, but I'd guess it is similar to the 6100. Yes and no. It is nubus based, but it has a ppc603 instead of a ppc601 and it was a consume

Re: 3 Button Mice?

2005-02-16 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:28:54PM -0500, vze26m98 wrote: > Scanned the list on this topic and read what's in > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/.../mini, but still aren't really sure what's going > on with powerpc 3-button mouse support. > > I'm running a stable Woody distro so far and X/twm. Anyone have a

Re: old apple machines supported ?

2005-02-16 Thread Corrin Lakeland
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:28, Jorge Salamero wrote: > Quadra 650 > Performa 630 These are old (68040 based instead of 601 based). I'm pretty sure they're supported by NetBSD. I don't know about debian. Actually, I don't even remember a quadra 650; a centris 650 and a quadra 840 I remember. B

PowerMac7,3 insists it has 0 batteries and no AC power!

2005-02-16 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Hi, I have a PowerMac7,3 machine (dual G5 970FX). It does not run Linux continously just yet. So I installed anacron as I do for all such computers. This is a stock Debian sarge installation (in particular, I do not compile my own kernel). Over the last few weeks I've noticed the dlocate databas

Re: old apple machines supported ?

2005-02-16 Thread Rich Johnson
On Feb 16, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Jorge Salamero wrote: hi all, i'm in a non-profit organization section for recycling computers[1] and we have the following ppc, i've seen none of them are supported by netbsd but i can't find a supported model list by linux, where can i find it ? wich of these machi

Re: old apple machines supported ?

2005-02-16 Thread Brad Boyer
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 02:28:02AM +0100, Jorge Salamero wrote: > i'm in a non-profit organization section for recycling computers[1] and we > have the following ppc, i've seen none of them are supported by netbsd but i > can't find a supported model list by linux, where can i find it ? wich of

Re: old apple machines supported ?

2005-02-16 Thread teefour
Jorge Salamero wrote: can't find a supported model list by linux, where can i find it ? wich of these machines will work with linux ? Quadra 650 Performa 630 Performa 6200 PowerMacintosh 4400/200 The 4400 should work. Some time ago I had one running linux. No Idea about the others. PowerMacinto

Re: PowerMac7,3 G5 Sound?

2005-02-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 03:30 +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:47:51AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > There is some significant work to do, I suspect, to re-architecture our > > current sound driver to properly deal with dual codecs & clock control, > > among other

Re: PowerMac7,3 G5 Sound?

2005-02-16 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:47:51AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > There is some significant work to do, I suspect, to re-architecture our > current sound driver to properly deal with dual codecs & clock control, > among others. That explains a lot about why it has not be done yet. Maybe it

Re: PowerMac7,3 G5 Sound?

2005-02-16 Thread wrobell
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:47:51AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 18:18 +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any projects that intend to support sound on G5 machines, > > or do everybody really not care? [...] > Note that the Darwin source is availab

Re: 3 Button Mice?

2005-02-16 Thread vze26m98
Hi all- Scanned the list on this topic and read what's in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/.../mini, but still aren't really sure what's going on with powerpc 3-button mouse support. I'm running a stable Woody distro so far and X/twm. Anyone have a favorite USB mouse with three-button support? Best, Charl

old apple machines supported ?

2005-02-16 Thread Jorge Salamero
hi all, i'm in a non-profit organization section for recycling computers[1] and we have the following ppc, i've seen none of them are supported by netbsd but i can't find a supported model list by linux, where can i find it ? wich of these machines will work with linux ? Quadra 650 Performa 63

desktop icons and places menu

2005-02-16 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 01:28 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 04:58:44PM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > What I'd like is GNOME without the nonsense desktop icons. I mean, > > really, who can ever find their desktop buried under all the apps? > > I left a plain-fvwm setup in

Re: Getting rid of hotplug & Co. for 2.6

2005-02-16 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 04:58:44PM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 19:58 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Hotplug and its colleagues: I confess my lowest instincts get mobilised > > when thinking on this stuff: I slows down the whole boot process so > > much that sometimes I

Re: Getting rid of hotplug & Co. for 2.6

2005-02-16 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:31:52AM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:30, Jacob S wrote: > I understand hal would be even nicer if I used gnome, but the > gnome-vfs-manager is supposed to be becoming a freedesktop project and so KDE > will support the same features RSN... gn

Re: powerpc 2.6.10-2 currently in NEW, available on p.d.o

2005-02-16 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:58:28PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:17:25PM +0100, Eugen Dedu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Note: I don't have initrd.img and vmlinux links in /boot, but I have > > initrd.img.old and vmlinux.old (I have installed 2.6.9 and removed it > > afterwards

Re: Linux-PPC, 802.11g, and B&W new world power mac, internal v.90 modems?

2005-02-16 Thread vinai
> I have a PC with an 802.11b wifi card running debian linux. Currently > it's supported by the madwifi project, using the atheros chipset. It > also requires a PCI 2.2 compliant motherboard. Does the B&W g3 have a > pci compliant motherboard? Where can I find information like this > about other ma

Re: Getting rid of hotplug & Co. for 2.6

2005-02-16 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:31:52AM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:30, Jacob S wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:58:45 +0100 > > > > Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ ... ] > > I love both HAL and udev -- they make the computer so much more user > fri

Linux-PPC, 802.11g, and B&W new world power mac, internal v.90 modems?

2005-02-16 Thread Brandon Lewis
I have a PC with an 802.11b wifi card running debian linux. Currently it's supported by the madwifi project, using the atheros chipset. It also requires a PCI 2.2 compliant motherboard. Does the B&W g3 have a pci compliant motherboard? Where can I find information like this about other mac mode

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-16 Thread Julien PERVILLE
Le jeudi 17 février 2005 à 09:46 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit : > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 17:28 +0100, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > i've been struggling for a few days tying to have my keyboard mapped > > correctly on my PowerBook Alu G4. > > I'm running debian sid wit

Re: radeonfb: only 80x25

2005-02-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 12:00 +0100, Martin Lohmeier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > | Not sure,can you enable radeonfb verbose debug and send me the output of > | dmesg ? > > Done. Here is the dmesg > Hrm... I suspect the mode optio

Re: PowerMac7,3 G5 Sound?

2005-02-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 18:18 +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any projects that intend to support sound on G5 machines, > or do everybody really not care? > > I cannot seem to find on google. :( The problem isn't taht nobody cares, but so far, nobody had time/skills/whatever to wo

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 17:28 +0100, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: > Hi All, > > i've been struggling for a few days tying to have my keyboard mapped > correctly on my PowerBook Alu G4. > I'm running debian sid with kernel 2.6.10 and KDE 3.3.2. > After looking on the web i found some info ( mostly

Re: Getting rid of hotplug & Co. for 2.6

2005-02-16 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 19:58 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Hotplug and its colleagues: I confess my lowest instincts get mobilised > when thinking on this stuff: I slows down the whole boot process so > much that sometimes I feel like being on a 2.2 kernel. > > So all I need to know: Can I run

Re: Switching from BootX to quik

2005-02-16 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:00:51PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Wednesday 16 February 2005 13:02, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > This was a common problem with previous, non-initrd enabled quik > > > versions-- are you sure you've got the latest quik from sarge ? > > > > Yes, > > > > pc236:

Re: Getting rid of hotplug & Co. for 2.6

2005-02-16 Thread Corrin Lakeland
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:30, Jacob S wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:58:45 +0100 > > Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only place I see hotplug mentioned in a 2.6 kernel image is that > certain earlier versions _conflict_. I use hotplug with 2.6. Newer version of hotplug split off

Re: Getting rid of hotplug & Co. for 2.6

2005-02-16 Thread Julien BLACHE
Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So all I need to know: Can I run a 2.6 kernel without hal, udev and > hotplug being installed, or with these packages being disabled at boot > time at least? You can, provided your kernel has built-in support for all of your hardware. As for hotplug

Re: powerpc 2.6.10-2 currently in NEW, available on p.d.o

2005-02-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:17:25PM +0100, Eugen Dedu wrote: > Hi, > > Note: I don't have initrd.img and vmlinux links in /boot, but I have > initrd.img.old and vmlinux.old (I have installed 2.6.9 and removed it > afterwards, hence I have only 2.6.8 as "old"). > > I have errors when installing 2

Re: powerpc 2.6.10-2 currently in NEW, available on p.d.o

2005-02-16 Thread Eugen Dedu
Hi, Note: I don't have initrd.img and vmlinux links in /boot, but I have initrd.img.old and vmlinux.old (I have installed 2.6.9 and removed it afterwards, hence I have only 2.6.8 as "old"). I have errors when installing 2.6.10-2 on PowerBook 15" Alu: snoopy:/home/dedu/doc/Euromedia05.retransmiss

Re: powerpc 2.6.10-2 currently in NEW, available on p.d.o

2005-02-16 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:05:55PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 07:33:04PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Hi Sven > > > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:55:09AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I just uploaded the powerpc kernels 2.6.10-2 on : > > > > >

Selinux available on 2.6.10 powerpc.deb [was: powerpc 2.6.10-2 [ ... ]]

2005-02-16 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:55:09AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello, > > I just uploaded the powerpc kernels 2.6.10-2 on : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.10-2/ > I only now realised it, after having a look at dmesg: dmesg | grep -i selin SELinux: Disabled at boot. 2.6.10

Re: Getting rid of hotplug & Co. for 2.6

2005-02-16 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:58:45 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hotplug and its colleagues: I confess my lowest instincts get > mobilised when thinking on this stuff: I slows down the whole boot > process so much that sometimes I feel like being on a 2.2 kernel. > > So all I nee

looking for partnership

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Re: Getting rid of hotplug & Co. for 2.6

2005-02-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 07:58:45PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Hotplug and its colleagues: I confess my lowest instincts get mobilised > when thinking on this stuff: I slows down the whole boot process so > much that sometimes I feel like being on a 2.2 kernel. > > So all I need to know: Can

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 05:28:16PM +0100, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: > Hi All, > > i've been struggling for a few days tying to have my keyboard mapped > correctly on my PowerBook Alu G4. > I'm running debian sid with kernel 2.6.10 and KDE 3.3.2. > After looking on the web i found some info (

Re: powerpc 2.6.10-2 currently in NEW, available on p.d.o

2005-02-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 07:33:04PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi Sven > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:55:09AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just uploaded the powerpc kernels 2.6.10-2 on : > > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.10-2/ > > > > Since they are

Re: Getting rid of hotplug & Co. for 2.6

2005-02-16 Thread Francesco Ciocchetti
Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: So all I need to know: Can I run a 2.6 kernel without hal, udev and hotpt lug being installed, or with these packages being disabled at boot time at least? Please tell me it will work ... :) I'm not a debian user so i'll talk in general. hal,udev and hotplug are nothing

Re: Switching from BootX to quik

2005-02-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 16 February 2005 13:02, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > This was a common problem with previous, non-initrd enabled quik > > versions-- are you sure you've got the latest quik from sarge ? > > Yes, > > pc236:~# apt-cache policy quik > quik: > Installed: 2.1-3 > Candidate: 2.1-3 > Ve

Getting rid of hotplug & Co. for 2.6

2005-02-16 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hotplug and its colleagues: I confess my lowest instincts get mobilised when thinking on this stuff: I slows down the whole boot process so much that sometimes I feel like being on a 2.2 kernel. So all I need to know: Can I run a 2.6 kernel without hal, udev and hotplug being installed, or with th

Re: powerpc 2.6.10-2 currently in NEW, available on p.d.o

2005-02-16 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Sven On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:55:09AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello, > > I just uploaded the powerpc kernels 2.6.10-2 on : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.10-2/ > > Since they are currently held hostage in NEW again :). > > Anyway, everyone can get those and try the

PowerMac7,3 G5 Sound?

2005-02-16 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
Hi, Is there any projects that intend to support sound on G5 machines, or do everybody really not care? I cannot seem to find on google. :( Cheers. -- ((__,-"""-,__)) Aurélien GÉRÔME .---. `--)~ ~(--` Free Software Developer / \ .-'( )`-. Unix Sys & Net Admin [EM

Re: iBook G4: repeatingly connect/disconnect of usb storage device

2005-02-16 Thread steinm
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 08:19:28PM +, David Pye wrote: > On Tuesday 15 February 2005 15:04, steinm wrote: > > Feb 15 12:31:29 localhost kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: over-current change on > > port 2 > > That suggests to me that the amount of current it's trying to pull exceeds > what the USB port is

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-16 Thread Guillaume Florey
Hi, I have got a suisse french keyboard, the special keys works for me like this: } = fn+alt+$ { = fn+alt+à ] = fn+alt+¨ [ 0 fn+alt+è I hope its helps... Greets Guillaume PS: here the part of the XF86Config-4 Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver

French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-16 Thread Charles-Edouard Ruault
Hi All, i've been struggling for a few days tying to have my keyboard mapped correctly on my PowerBook Alu G4. I'm running debian sid with kernel 2.6.10 and KDE 3.3.2. After looking on the web i found some info ( mostly the files located at http://www.linux-france.org/ftp/macintosh/kbd-mac-fr.tar

Re: Switching from BootX to quik

2005-02-16 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 12:10:51PM +0100, Simon Vallet wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:29:57 +0100 > Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I changed to the boot-device and boot-file to > > > > boot-device ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:6 > > boot-file ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:6/boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-pow

Re: Switching from BootX to quik

2005-02-16 Thread Simon Vallet
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:29:57 +0100 Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I changed to the boot-device and boot-file to > > boot-device ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:6 > boot-file ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:6/boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc > > and guess what happened, linux booted!!! Always a pleasing momen

powerpc 2.6.10-2 currently in NEW, available on p.d.o

2005-02-16 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, I just uploaded the powerpc kernels 2.6.10-2 on : http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.10-2/ Since they are currently held hostage in NEW again :). Anyway, everyone can get those and try them out. One particularity i want you to test is the /etc/kernel/postinst.d/* scripts incl

Re: radeonfb: only 80x25

2005-02-16 Thread Martin Lohmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: | Not sure,can you enable radeonfb verbose debug and send me the output of | dmesg ? Done. Here is the dmesg by, Martin - -- Powered by Debian GNU / Linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comm

Re: Switching from BootX to quik

2005-02-16 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:28:33AM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 15, 2005, at 03:02 AM, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > > >I thought that I could always zap pram and boot from cd into macos and > >bootX, but holding down command-option-p-r after reboot doesn't help. > >The screen

Re: m3mirror and distortion (Problem solved -- patch attached)

2005-02-16 Thread James Tappin
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:09:39 + James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JT> I've been trying to get the external monitor output of my G3 iBook JT> (ca. 2002) working. JT> JT> Does anyone know which (if any) of the various kernel patches that JT> are floating around the place are appropriate t