iMac Mini

2005-03-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Ok, Apple finally delivered it ! Thanks all. I'm now installing deb, and will see how to get the remaining bits working. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting to command line from GDM or KDM...

2005-03-02 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 18:44 +, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 18:07, George Wright wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 17:58, Charles Read wrote: > > > Simple one here... how can I get back to the command line once the > > > computer automatically starts GDM? > > Ctrl Alt F1-F6

Re: 2.6.11 again

2005-03-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 19:59 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Hi list, hi kernel gurus, > > i reported some time ago a build error of 2.6.11rc?. I tried the > FTBFS bug-fix from Fabbione: no result. > > Building the kernels with > gcc-3.3 (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8) went well. > > The same c

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

2005-03-02 Thread Uwe Steinmann
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:48:31AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 17:12 +0100, steinm wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 04:44:25PM +0100, steinm wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:21:19PM +, Des Johnston wrote: > > > > > > > > What state is the iBook G4 slee

Re: ***kernal panic on starting Appletalk services***

2005-03-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 17:25 -0800, Kim Cascone wrote: > On Mar 2, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > But that looks like lots of good news for me: It seems the system is > > offering you to boot an "old" kernel: Did you try to type something > > like "Linux", "old" or "Linux:old", wh

Re: ***kernal panic on starting Appletalk services***

2005-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:25:10PM -0800, Kim Cascone wrote: > > On Mar 2, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > >But that looks like lots of good news for me: It seems the system is > >offering you to boot an "old" kernel: Did you try to type something > >like "Linux", "old" or "Linux:

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

2005-03-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > Now with CONFIG_XMON: > > vector: 300 at pc = ea42e644, lr = ea4580e0 > msr = 1032, sp = c02afdd0 [c02afd20] > dar = 7ca5d874, dsisr = 4000 > current = c024a470, pid = 0, comm = swapper > mon> > > it's the first time i build a kernel with CONFIG_XMON, i don't know > what to do now :)

Re: ***kernal panic on starting Appletalk services***

2005-03-02 Thread Kim Cascone
On Mar 2, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: But that looks like lots of good news for me: It seems the system is offering you to boot an "old" kernel: Did you try to type something like "Linux", "old" or "Linux:old", whatever, at the prompt, and then hitting ? If yes: What happened ..

Re: ***kernal panic on starting Appletalk services***

2005-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:28:10PM -0800, Kim Cascone wrote: > > On Mar 2, 2005, at 12:18 PM, David Pye wrote: > > >>this doesn't work either...I can get to the yaboot prompt but when I > >>type in 'linux single' or 'single' or other permutations I get a no > >>such file or directory > > > >Try

Re: ***kernal panic on starting Appletalk services***

2005-03-02 Thread Kim Cascone
On Mar 2, 2005, at 3:17 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: If you've got the ubuntu install CD boot from that, then hit 'tab' at the yaboot prompt. There is an image called rescue (or something very like that) there are: install-powerpc custom-powerpc expert-powerpc custom-expert-powerpc but none of them have

Re: Building a Custom Kernel

2005-03-02 Thread Eric Gaumer
Brandon Lewis wrote: Kernel sources from Debian are already patched. Just apt-get the source for the kernel version you want and those sources will be patched already. Does this include the nubus patch? --Brandon It's a separate patch and there's actually a kernel image for it. kernel-patch-2.4.27

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

2005-03-02 Thread Sebastien NOEL
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:47:29 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > the easiest way to reproduce this is to do "make-kpkg clean" after weakup, > > I just see "Oops kernel access of bad area, sig 11" and the ibook freeze > > without other error message. > > > > it happens with a ibook g4 @ 933mhz

Re: Problems Playing Videos (audio track is choppy) (PB5,4)

2005-03-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 20:58 +, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > 'ello, > > I remember a thread a while ago about playing audio on this machine. > XMMS' ALSA plugin made things play too fat and crackly, The solution > was to configure it with a period time of 500 instead of 50. > > I have always

Re: minimac for benh

2005-03-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 15:28 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > ben machine > did you get the minimac yet? Scheduled for delivery today ... but they got something wrong with the address (of course ...) so it may only get there tomorrow. I'll post an update once I got it. > i just want to express more h

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

2005-03-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 17:12 +0100, steinm wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 04:44:25PM +0100, steinm wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:21:19PM +, Des Johnston wrote: > > > > > > What state is the iBook G4 sleep support in for > > > the latest and greatest (vanilla) 2.6.11 kernel? > > Works,

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

2005-03-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 22:05 +0100, Sebastien NOEL wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:21:19 + (GMT) > Des Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > What state is the iBook G4 sleep support in for > > the latest and greatest (vanilla) 2.6.11 kernel? > > It doesn't work very well for me, i

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

2005-03-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 15:21 +, Des Johnston wrote: > What state is the iBook G4 sleep support in for > the latest and greatest (vanilla) 2.6.11 kernel? It's all there. You may still have a problem with the panel backlight not always coming back, but playing with the backlight key (all the way

Re: Building a Custom Kernel

2005-03-02 Thread Brandon Lewis
Kernel sources from Debian are already patched. Just apt-get the source for the kernel version you want and those sources will be patched already. Does this include the nubus patch? --Brandon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: ***kernal panic on starting Appletalk services***

2005-03-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Kim Cascone wrote: > > On Mar 2, 2005, at 12:18 PM, David Pye wrote: > > >> this doesn't work either...I can get to the yaboot prompt but when I > >> type in 'linux single' or 'single' or other permutations I get a no > >> such file or directory > > > > Try pressing tab instead

Re: ***kernel panic on starting Appletalk services***

2005-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:40:34AM -0800, Kim Cascone wrote: > unfortunately when you start the install from the Ubuntu .iso and drop > into the command line it only offers you a small range of commands to > use: > break > cd > chdir > continue > eval > exec > exit > export > false > hash > help

2.6.10 and FireStarter

2005-03-02 Thread Cedric Pradalier
Hi All, I've been using 2.6.8-powerpc and firestarter successfully for a long time now. Yesterday I tried 2.6.10-powerpc, and the firewall made by firestarter does not work anymore: + I reveive DNS answers. + I can send PINGs out but the answer is blocked. + When I want to access access ntp serve

Re: Building a Custom Kernel

2005-03-02 Thread Ben Hill
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 10:09 -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: > You seem to be on the right track, it's just a matter of properly > configuring the kernel. A > good place to start is by copying the Debian config file located in > the boot directory. Perfect, that's just what I was looking for. :-D Cheers

Re: Problems Playing Videos (audio track is choppy) (PB5,4)

2005-03-02 Thread Moritz Armingeon
On 20:58 Wed 02 Mar , Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > I have always had similar problems playing video, with all video > players. The audio is choppy and video goes out of sync with it after a > pause/resume. Also, it seems to take up a lot of CPU time to simply > play vidoes, which I am surpris

Same G3, new problems....

2005-03-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After taking a few days away from this most disturbing task, I recently tried to install an Alladin Expander file that was sent to me by a very kind person from this group. I burned the file, "install aladdin expander 6.0.1" onto a CD and inserted it into my G3 ppc running OS 8.5. When I tried to

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

2005-03-02 Thread Sebastien NOEL
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:21:19 + (GMT) Des Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: H, > What state is the iBook G4 sleep support in for > the latest and greatest (vanilla) 2.6.11 kernel? It doesn't work very well for me, i get a "oops" after after weakup. the easiest way to reproduce this is to d

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

2005-03-02 Thread Sebastien NOEL
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:21:19 + (GMT) Des Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > What state is the iBook G4 sleep support in for > the latest and greatest (vanilla) 2.6.11 kernel? It doesn't work very well for me, i get a "oops" after after weakup. the easiest way to reproduce this is to

Problems Playing Videos (audio track is choppy) (PB5,4)

2005-03-02 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, I remember a thread a while ago about playing audio on this machine. XMMS' ALSA plugin made things play too fat and crackly, The solution was to configure it with a period time of 500 instead of 50. I have always had similar problems playing video, with all video players. The audio is ch

Re: ***kernal panic on starting Appletalk services***

2005-03-02 Thread Kim Cascone
On Mar 2, 2005, at 12:18 PM, David Pye wrote: this doesn't work either...I can get to the yaboot prompt but when I type in 'linux single' or 'single' or other permutations I get a no such file or directory Try pressing tab instead, and see what happens. nope all I get is 'Linux: old' noth

Re: graphical problem? - radeonfb or hardware problem

2005-03-02 Thread Jesús Roncero
On Wednesday, 23 de February de 2005 12:06, Jesus Roncero wrote: > Hi all > I own an ibook G3 800MHz combo and have been experiencing problems lately. > Here is a summary of the events: > > I got my logic board changed through the logic board extension program .I > took my ibook to repair because I

Re: 2.6.11 again

2005-03-02 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 the mental interface of Matthias Schulz told: > Hi, > > the same happened to me compiling 2.6.11 final with gcc-3.4. Using gcc-3.3.5 > worked fine for me. > > Any solution now? Not yet. The gcc-people didn't show any response to my bug-report :( Elimar -- Alles was vie

Re: ***kernal panic on starting Appletalk services***

2005-03-02 Thread David Pye
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 20:02, Kim Cascone wrote: > this doesn't work either...I can get to the yaboot prompt but when I > type in 'linux single' or 'single' or other permutations I get a no > such file or directory Try pressing tab instead, and see what happens. > but when I type in /dev or s

Re: ***kernal panic on starting Appletalk services***

2005-03-02 Thread Kim Cascone
this doesn't work either...I can get to the yaboot prompt but when I type in 'linux single' or 'single' or other permutations I get a no such file or directory but when I type in /dev or some path its gives me a 'Not a valid ELF image' which means it is able to see a path to something bootable..

Re: ***kernal panic on starting Appletalk services***

2005-03-02 Thread Colin Leroy
On 02 Mar 2005 at 10h03, Kim Cascone wrote: Hi, > I asked on #ubuntu and #debian irc but no-one seemed to know how to > go into 'recovery/single user mode' on ppc Press tab repeteadly when booting, so that yaboot stops its timer when it comes up; then type something like 'linux single' at yaboo

Re: ***kernel panic on starting Appletalk services***

2005-03-02 Thread Kim Cascone
unfortunately when you start the install from the Ubuntu .iso and drop into the command line it only offers you a small range of commands to use: break cd chdir continue eval exec exit export false hash help let local pwd read readonly return set shift times trap true type ulimit umask unset wait

Re: ***kernal panic on starting Appletalk services***

2005-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:14:59AM -0800, Kim Cascone wrote: > I have installed Ubuntu (Warty) on an iBook > set up for dual boot OSX 10.3.x and Warty > everything was fine until I tried to install netatalk via synaptic > packages manager in Ubuntu > after the install it tried to build and config

Re: 2.6.11 again

2005-03-02 Thread Matthias Schulz
Hi, the same happened to me compiling 2.6.11 final with gcc-3.4. Using gcc-3.3.5 worked fine for me. Any solution now? Matt AR lib/lib.a GEN .version CHK include/linux/compile.h UPD include/linux/compile.h CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD .t

***kernal panic on starting Appletalk services***

2005-03-02 Thread Kim Cascone
I have installed Ubuntu (Warty) on an iBook set up for dual boot OSX 10.3.x and Warty everything was fine until I tried to install netatalk via synaptic packages manager in Ubuntu after the install it tried to build and config netatalk and in the middle of this process automatically rebooted the

Re: Building a Custom Kernel

2005-03-02 Thread Eric Gaumer
Ben Hill wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 00:29 -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: Just configure it calling which ever target you like: o config o menuconfig o xconfig o gconfig o oldconfig Then just run: ]$ make-kpkg clean ]$ fakeroot make-kpkg --append_to_version -custom --revision=1.0 --initrd kernel-image

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-03-02 Thread Ben Hill
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 15:01 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > by buzz of course i mean call. im australian, although im on a plane > from new zealand right now. (go look it up on a map) I think we know where you mean... ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Trackpad on new Powerbook5,6 doesn't work

2005-03-02 Thread Ben Hill
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 18:42 +0100, Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote: > Hi! > > I just wanted to add that I have the same problem as John Harrold: > With a very new Alu Powerbook (some BIOS date while booting showed > January 21th, 2005) the trackpad doesn't work with Debian sarge. I have heard that the

Re: Building a Custom Kernel

2005-03-02 Thread Ben Hill
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 00:29 -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: > Just configure it calling which ever target you like: > > o config > o menuconfig > o xconfig > o gconfig > o oldconfig > > Then just run: > > ]$ make-kpkg clean > ]$ fakeroot make-kpkg --append_to_version -custom --revision=1.0 --initrd >

Re: No sound: Deb Sarge on G4 iMac

2005-03-02 Thread Marián Képesi
Hi Harvey, have you solved that soundcard problem? I see the same thing witm my ALI5461 and MEPIS3.3 Thanks a lot! with best regards, marian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Trackpad on new Powerbook5,6 doesn't work

2005-03-02 Thread Thomas Arendsen Hein
Hi! I just wanted to add that I have the same problem as John Harrold: With a very new Alu Powerbook (some BIOS date while booting showed January 21th, 2005) the trackpad doesn't work with Debian sarge. I tried kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc (2.6.8-9) and a vanilla 2.6.11. The keyboard works and it

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

2005-03-02 Thread steinm
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 04:44:25PM +0100, steinm wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:21:19PM +, Des Johnston wrote: > > > > What state is the iBook G4 sleep support in for > > the latest and greatest (vanilla) 2.6.11 kernel? > Works, though I have occasional crashes which may not be related >

Re: PCMCIA

2005-03-02 Thread Alessandro De Zorzi
Rainer Gutkas wrote: Hi there! I'm running debian with a 2.4.18 Kernel for old PPC on an G3 Powerbook can you upgrade to 2.4.27-powerpc or not? I tested with success an PCMCIA Wireless IEEE 802.11b (NetGate) Alessandro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

2005-03-02 Thread Colin Leroy
On 02 Mar 2005 at 15h03, Des Johnston wrote: Hi, > What state is the iBook G4 sleep support in for > the latest and greatest (vanilla) 2.6.11 kernel? Works for me with 2.6.11-rc5. Quite perfectly, apart from the occasional ALSA bug that makes loud noisy static for about one second at wakeup. >

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

2005-03-02 Thread steinm
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:21:19PM +, Des Johnston wrote: > > What state is the iBook G4 sleep support in for > the latest and greatest (vanilla) 2.6.11 kernel? Works, though I have occasional crashes which may not be related to the sleep support. Uwe -- MMK GmbH, Universitaetsstr. 11, 5

State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

2005-03-02 Thread Des Johnston
What state is the iBook G4 sleep support in for the latest and greatest (vanilla) 2.6.11 kernel? For that matter, what state is it in for the debian kernels in testing? Des Johnston -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: minimac for benh

2005-03-02 Thread Philipp Kaeser
ben machine did you get the minimac yet? i just want to express more hero worship at this point in the hope that it will motivate you to write more great code so i can continue to be free of x86's and be super geeky im sure one day ill be able to release some code that will help someone, but for no

Re: minimac for benh

2005-03-02 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi Dean, Ben, FYI: I just got from a long family vacation and I haven't tried the paypal thing yet. So I still owe you $50 (I will figure out how to use it this weekend!). So if you already have a minimac then please put the $50 to whatever else you might need. Sorry for the delay! Kevin On 1

minimac for benh

2005-03-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
ben machine did you get the minimac yet? i just want to express more hero worship at this point in the hope that it will motivate you to write more great code so i can continue to be free of x86's and be super geeky im sure one day ill be able to release some code that will help someone, but for no

Re: Approaches to enabling scanning for AirPort (not Extreme)

2005-03-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
can we please get these scanning patches into the debian kernels upstream into the main linus official would be nice, but if we can settle it into the debian releases it gives us a 'standard' to work from and adds credibility to getting it into the main kernel tree give me scanning and dont make me

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-03-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
The petition is a great place to point that individual once he is willing to listen however the listening part is what's going to take work. I think we need to target a few key individuals rather than shout at the company name. Agreed - if you can use your contact to get any further, I'll buy yo

Re: Which Kernel for Airport Support?

2005-03-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
right? I'm not happy with nvida's proprietary drivers but in my eyes they are better than nothing if you need 3D. Even if Broadcom produces proprietary drivers, it would be a step forward in my opinion. I know we are a small market (Linux PPC users) but I still can't imagine they would pass up t

Re: mol and wlan

2005-03-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
what are the advantages of using mol instead of dual-bool? Running several operating systems simultaneously, and being able to run earlier versions of Mac OS on newer hardware. virtual machines always have advantages and disadvantages over dual booting. mol isnt a true virtual machine as it does

Hard Disk install on a new PowerMac G5

2005-03-02 Thread Francois
Hi all, I'm trying to install debian on my PowerMac G5 (1.8MHz monoprocessor, bought in January 2005, OF version 5.2.2f2) by directly booting from my MacOS hard disk. I've got yaboot from woody [1], and I've downloaded initrd.gz and a kernel image (vmlinux) from the daily build of the netboot inst

Re: backlight control and debian kernel 2.6.10

2005-03-02 Thread Guido Guenther
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 05:51:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 05:56:44PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 05:33:49PM +0100, Djoume SALVETTI wrote: > > > Le mardi 03/01/05 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > > I suppose this means i need t

Re: Getting to command line from GDM or KDM...

2005-03-02 Thread Lee Braiden
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 02:07, Mauro wrote: > Suggesting probably just ctrl-alt and then the fn key doesn't sound like > a correction. It sounds like a "cover all grounds" solution. Thus, my > clarification. Well, yes, I have seen it work both ways, so obviously I'm going to cover both just

Re: Building a Custom Kernel

2005-03-02 Thread Eric Gaumer
Ben Hill wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 18:07 -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: That driver was pulled from Debian kernel sources due to binary blobs in the source. You can patch it back in but I doubt you need to for PPC. Isn't there a package for this though? I thought that code was simply moved to non-f

Re: Building a Custom Kernel

2005-03-02 Thread Ben Hill
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 08:15 +, Ben Hill wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 18:07 -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: > > > > That driver was pulled from Debian kernel sources due to binary blobs in > > the source. You can > > patch it back in but I doubt you need to for PPC. > > > > Isn't there a package

Re: Building a Custom Kernel

2005-03-02 Thread Ben Hill
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 18:07 -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: > > That driver was pulled from Debian kernel sources due to binary blobs in the > source. You can > patch it back in but I doubt you need to for PPC. > > Isn't there a package for this though? I thought that code was simply moved > to non-f