About the new powerbook trackpad

2005-03-09 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Hi list, I was reading about the people having trouble with the new powerbook's trackpad, and found this software: www.ragingmenace.com/software/sidetrack Maybe this could help sorting things out. HTH. -- Best regards, Jack Linux user #264449 Today powered by MacOSX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: hda: lost interrupt starting with 2.6.8

2005-03-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 10:43 -0500, Vince Weaver wrote: > Hello, > > Starting with kernel 2.6.8 my iBook2 hangs during boot. > 2.6.7 runs perfectly. > > With the same config I had on 2.6.7 it just hangs at > adb: starting probe task... > > But with the default debian kernel config it gets f

Re: Powerbook5,6 longer list of what does not work...

2005-03-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 02:54 +0100, Chocron J. wrote: > Hi list ! > > I read the initiated by Antonio-M Corbi Bellot, and I am afraid that the list > he provided is incomplete. So far, after about 3 weeks of fiddling with the > various machine's settings, I have kind of acertained that the follow

Re: pre-release 2.6.11-0.1 debian/powerpc kernel.

2005-03-09 Thread Colin Leroy
On 10 Mar 2005 at 00h03, Gabriel Paubert wrote: Hi, > What I'd like, but I don't have a new PowerBook, is to > make fn modify the trackpad behaviour to a scrollwheel. > There is a small MacOS X application that does > this and it's quite nifty. Mouseemu lets you do that, but with another key

sound on albook

2005-03-09 Thread Tamas K Papp
I just installed a sarge netinst daily image, it works fine but there are a few problems: - sound is not working, there is no /dev/dsp, I am using the standard 2.6.8 kernel from testing, what should I do, recompile the kernel, get a more recent one, etc? - how can I have the Command/Apple key beh

2.6.8 kernel compile failing on PowerMac G4/350

2005-03-09 Thread Dan Jonsen
I am running Sarge (official test release 2004-11-18) on a PowerMac G4/350 (new Jan 2000). I believe this is the machine with the motherboard from the blue & white G3s with a G4 just stuck in there ("Yikes" motherboard?"). A couple days ago, I upgraded the kernel using the kernel-image-2.6.8

Re: will linus work on ppc dev now?

2005-03-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
It has nothing to do with IBM's involvement. In fact, if you look closely at the DRI lists, you'll see some IBM folks involved ;) im not saying they arent involved. my point was more they ship ppc based servers - so core stability would be my goal if i was them not bells and whistles. DRI for r300

Re: Re: kernel 2.6.10 + radeon accel + alsa

2005-03-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 00:16 +0100, AMAND Antonin wrote: > > First, thanks for your answer, but it seems that direct rendering is set > to No. The top of the output of something like LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo should provide more information about the problem. -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer

Powerbook5,6 longer list of what does not work...

2005-03-09 Thread Chocron J.
Hi list ! I read the initiated by Antonio-M Corbi Bellot, and I am afraid that the list he provided is incomplete. So far, after about 3 weeks of fiddling with the various machine's settings, I have kind of acertained that the following hardware does not work (even with 2.6.11.2) : - Soundcard

Re: will linus work on ppc dev now?

2005-03-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > Linus is mostly using the G5, not really using it for developpement of > > ppc/ppc64 specific support, this is still in the hand of the good old > > team lead by Paul Mackerras :) > > i was thinking also that its not the 'port' thats the problem but more > the lack of specs to support periph

Re: kernel 2.6.10 + radeon accel + alsa

2005-03-09 Thread Antonin AMAND
Mauro a écrit : As I beleve I asked before, for what computer model? What video card is it? Can you provide relevant XF86Config file info? You might have to run at 16 rather than 24 default depth (I did). Experiment. You're not trying to get acceleration on a nvidea(sp?) card are you? Thanks

Re: Re: kernel 2.6.10 + radeon accel + alsa

2005-03-09 Thread Mauro
On Thu, 2005-10-03 at 00:16 +0100, AMAND Antonin wrote: > Hi, > > First, thanks for your answer, but it seems that direct rendering is set > to No. > > I'm afraid i'm lost about what I should do next. > > If you have any lead... > > thx. > > Antonin. > As I beleve I asked before, for what co

Re: pre-release 2.6.11-0.1 debian/powerpc kernel.

2005-03-09 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:18:46PM +, Jochen Voss wrote: > Hello Sven, > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 07:49:38PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > I am in the process of uploading a pre-release 2.6.11 debian/powerpc > > kernel to > > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.11-0.1 > > >

Re: Re: kernel 2.6.10 + radeon accel + alsa

2005-03-09 Thread AMAND Antonin
Hi, First, thanks for your answer, but it seems that direct rendering is set to No. I'm afraid i'm lost about what I should do next. If you have any lead... thx. Antonin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: will linus work on ppc dev now?

2005-03-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
This is ooold news... I think Linus has been using the G5 as his main machine for about a year or so. I don't know about the impact of that for ppc64, but I think it's been about zero for ppc32 so far. As I recall (and I think maddog said this in a speech) the only reason why Linus ported Linux to

Re: will linus work on ppc dev now?

2005-03-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 15:08 -0600, Sean Jewett wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 08:01 +1100, david wrote: > > > According to > > > http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/0,39023165,39183867,00.htm > > > > > > The ppc community looks like it has added some develo

Re: will linus work on ppc dev now?

2005-03-09 Thread Sean Jewett
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 08:01 +1100, david wrote: > > According to > > http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/0,39023165,39183867,00.htm > > > > The ppc community looks like it has added some development muscle to its > > linux component.. > > This is ooold news..

Re: Upgrade to Unstable: Problems with USB Wifi Adapter

2005-03-09 Thread Ben Hill
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 22:42 +0100, Moritz Armingeon wrote: > Sarge. But I had something similiar on sarge, too. That's why I > answered. You're using sid do you mean? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.seigan.org PGP Key fingerprint = 4309 1C58 5143 AFAC F69E 11CD 76FD 56D4 1223 E387 -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Upgrade to Unstable: Problems with USB Wifi Adapter

2005-03-09 Thread Moritz Armingeon
On 21:18 Wed 09 Mar , Ben Hill wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:59 +0100, Moritz Armingeon wrote: > > Sorry, then I don't know any further :-( In my case, it looks that > > way: > > That's what it used to look like to me too! :-( > > Are you using sid or sarge? Sarge. But I had something sim

Re: kernel compiling for power pc

2005-03-09 Thread Ben Hill
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:58 +0100, Rainer Gutkas wrote: > Am Mittwoch 9. März 2005 21:26 schrieb Ben Hill: > > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:14 +0100, Rainer Gutkas wrote: > > > After requesting how to get an orinoco driver monitor support I've > > > comiled the kernel-source-2.6.8 package with the orin

Re: Upgrade to Unstable: Problems with USB Wifi Adapter

2005-03-09 Thread Ben Hill
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:59 +0100, Moritz Armingeon wrote: > Sorry, then I don't know any further :-( In my case, it looks that > way: That's what it used to look like to me too! :-( Are you using sid or sarge? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.seigan.org PGP Key fingerprint = 4309 1C58 5143 AFAC F69

Re: will linus work on ppc dev now?

2005-03-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 08:01 +1100, david wrote: > According to > http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/0,39023165,39183867,00.htm > > The ppc community looks like it has added some development muscle to its > linux component.. This is ooold news... I think Linus has been using the G5 as his main machine

Re: will linus work on ppc dev now?

2005-03-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
benh still gets my vote as favourite ppc developer hmm i think im getting a complex here Dean david wrote: According to http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/0,39023165,39183867,00.htm The ppc community looks like it has added some development muscle to its linux component.. -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.

will linus work on ppc dev now?

2005-03-09 Thread david
According to http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/0,39023165,39183867,00.htm The ppc community looks like it has added some development muscle to its linux component.. -- David Howe http://www.qednet.biz

Re: Upgrade to Unstable: Problems with USB Wifi Adapter

2005-03-09 Thread Moritz Armingeon
On 20:28 Wed 09 Mar , Ben Hill wrote: > Sorry, correction, I get: > > message=lnxreq_ifstate > ifstate=enable > resultcode=implementation_failure Sorry, then I don't know any further :-( In my case, it looks that way: kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4

Acard 6260M support?

2005-03-09 Thread Nathan Raymond
Hi, Does the Debian 3.0r4 installer kernel support the Acard 6260M ATA/66 controller? It's supported by OS 9, OS X, and even by NetBSD, as documented here: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#peripherals "Acard ATP-850/860 controllers (such as Sonnet Tempo ATA/66 and Acard AEC-6210/626

Re: Upgrade to Unstable: Problems with USB Wifi Adapter

2005-03-09 Thread Ben Hill
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 20:25 +, Ben Hill wrote: > > I'm tweaking my DWL122 with wlanng-ctl. What happens if you do: > > > > $ wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable > > I get: > > wlanctl-ng: No such device Sorry, correction, I get: message=lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable resultco

Re: kernel compiling for power pc

2005-03-09 Thread Eric Gaumer
Rainer Gutkas wrote: After requesting how to get an orinoco driver monitor support I've comiled the kernel-source-2.6.8 package with the orinoco patch applied. result: kernel panick on boot before there was a thousand times the message:modconf error- couldn't open /lib/modules/modules.dep no such f

Re: kernel compiling for power pc

2005-03-09 Thread Ben Hill
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:14 +0100, Rainer Gutkas wrote: > After requesting how to get an orinoco driver monitor support I've comiled > the > kernel-source-2.6.8 package with the orinoco patch applied. How did you compile the kernel? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.seigan.org PGP Key fingerprint = 4

Re: Upgrade to Unstable: Problems with USB Wifi Adapter

2005-03-09 Thread Ben Hill
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:25 +0100, Moritz Armingeon wrote: > Hi Ben > > On 20:05 Wed 09 Mar , Ben Hill wrote: > > > > I'm pretty sure the root of the problem is in; > > > > # ifup wlan0 > > > > Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) : > > SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation no

Re: Upgrade to Unstable: Problems with USB Wifi Adapter

2005-03-09 Thread Moritz Armingeon
Hi Ben On 20:05 Wed 09 Mar , Ben Hill wrote: > > I'm pretty sure the root of the problem is in; > > # ifup wlan0 > > Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) : > SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported. I'm tweaking my DWL122 with wlanng-ctl. What happens if you do:

kernel compiling for power pc

2005-03-09 Thread Rainer Gutkas
After requesting how to get an orinoco driver monitor support I've comiled the kernel-source-2.6.8 package with the orinoco patch applied. result: kernel panick on boot before there was a thousand times the message:modconf error- couldn't open /lib/modules/modules.dep no such file or directory

Re: Upgrade to Unstable: Problems with USB Wifi Adapter

2005-03-09 Thread Ben Hill
I'm pretty sure the root of the problem is in; # ifup wlan0 Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.seigan.org PGP Key fingerprint = 4309 1C58 5143 AFAC F69E 11CD 76FD 56D4 1223 E387 -- To UNSUBS

Re: pre-release 2.6.11-0.1 debian/powerpc kernel.

2005-03-09 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Sven, On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 07:49:38PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > I am in the process of uploading a pre-release 2.6.11 debian/powerpc > kernel to > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.11-0.1 > > And altough it is not yet fully ready to be uploaded (mostly because > kernel

Re: errors when compiling 2.6 kernel source

2005-03-09 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 09 2005, Michael Schmitz wrote: > are there any SMP capable machines with SWIM3?? Yes, there are. For instance, the ld mac that I have here is a PowerMac 9500/180MP with 2 604e processors. Quite slow for almost anything to be done, but I hope that I will be able to upgrade it in the no

Re: errors when compiling 2.6 kernel source

2005-03-09 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Looks like it hasn't been touched in ages, then. BenH should correct me if > > I'm way off base, but you basically need to replace, at a minimum: > > > > save_flags(flags)+cli() by local_irq_save(flags) > > restore_flags(flags)by local_irq_restore(flags) > > sti()

Re: Upgrade to Unstable: Problems with USB Wifi Adapter

2005-03-09 Thread Ben Hill
When I plug the device in, /var/log/messages has: Mar 9 17:56:58 localhost kernel: ohci_hcd 0001:10:1b.0: wakeup Mar 9 17:56:58 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 Mar 9 17:56:59 localhost kernel: prism2_usb: no version for "p80211netdev_rx" found: kernel tainte

Re: errors when compiling 2.6 kernel source

2005-03-09 Thread vinai
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Michael Schmitz wrote: Looks like it hasn't been touched in ages, then. BenH should correct me if I'm way off base, but you basically need to replace, at a minimum: save_flags(flags)+cli() by local_irq_save(flags) restore_flags(flags)by local_irq_restore(flags) sti

Upgrade to Unstable: Problems with USB Wifi Adapter

2005-03-09 Thread Ben Hill
I've just upgraded to sid, but my D-Link DWL-122 USB wifi adapter has stopped working as it was under sarge. When I plug the device in, /var/log/messages shows it's loading the prism2_usb module. I still have alias wlan0 prism2_usb in my modules, but it's no longer associating with the network aut

Re: errors when compiling 2.6 kernel source

2005-03-09 Thread Eric Gaumer
Michael Schmitz wrote: I tried compiling a 2.6 kernel from sources (2.6.11 from kernel.org to be exact), and I got the following: What's causing this ? That looks like the swim3 driver. Last I heard, it hadn't been updated when some of the other parts of the kernel changed. Looks like it hasn't be

Re: pre-release 2.6.11-0.1 debian/powerpc kernel.

2005-03-09 Thread Paul J. Lucas
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Sven Luther wrote: I am in the process of uploading a pre-release 2.6.11 debian/powerpc kernel to http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.11-0.1 And altough it is not yet fully ready to be uploaded (mostly because kernel-source-2.6.11 needs cleaning up a bit yet), i would

Controlling Powerbook fan speed

2005-03-09 Thread Wee-Jin Goh
Hello, Is there anyway to control the fan speed on my Powerbook? I'd like to set it so that it comes on sooner rather than later (i.e. turn it on at a lower temperature)? Regards, Wee-Jin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

hda: lost interrupt starting with 2.6.8

2005-03-09 Thread Vince Weaver
Hello, Starting with kernel 2.6.8 my iBook2 hangs during boot. 2.6.7 runs perfectly. With the same config I had on 2.6.7 it just hangs at adb: starting probe task... But with the default debian kernel config it gets further, but during the ide-pmac initialization just generates a long strea

Re: errors when compiling 2.6 kernel source

2005-03-09 Thread vinai
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Michael Schmitz wrote: I tried compiling a 2.6 kernel from sources (2.6.11 from kernel.org to be exact), and I got the following: What's causing this ? That looks like the swim3 driver. Last I heard, it hadn't been updated when some of the other parts of the kernel changed. Look

Re: Best way to create a swap partition

2005-03-09 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I tried using fdisk. Contrary to fdisk on x86/alpha I could not change Don't - use mac-fdisk, or parted. > the partition type of an existing partion. So I deleted an unused one > and tried to recreate it. But I am never asked for a partition type, I > always get a "Linux native". When I use "C"

Re: errors when compiling 2.6 kernel source

2005-03-09 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > I tried compiling a 2.6 kernel from sources (2.6.11 from kernel.org to > > be exact), and I got the following: > > > > What's causing this ? > > That looks like the swim3 driver. Last I heard, it hadn't been updated > when some of the other parts of the kernel changed. Looks like it hasn't bee

Re: [Netboot] Ethernet Driver on 1.8GHz G5?

2005-03-09 Thread Francois
> > I've never compiled a netboot enabled kernel before. Is there an > > howto available to help me start? (Or should I switch to a simpler > > approach, if there is one?) > > No, I don't distribute kernels anymore. The iMac G5 patches haven't been > merged yet, but I think there are some debian

Re: [Netboot] Ethernet Driver on 1.8GHz G5?

2005-03-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 09:07 +, Francois wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 22:48, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 17:04 +, Francois wrote: > > > > > > thanks for your help. I've tried again and I've explicitly selected > > > sungen, but with no success. The strange thing

Re: pre-release 2.6.11-0.1 debian/powerpc kernel.

2005-03-09 Thread Djoume SALVETTI
Le mardi 03/08/05 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I am in the process of uploading a pre-release 2.6.11 debian/powerpc kernel to > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.11-0.1 > > And altough it is not yet fully ready to be uploaded (mostly because > kernel-source-2.6.11 n

Re: [Netboot] Ethernet Driver on 1.8GHz G5?

2005-03-09 Thread Francois
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 22:48, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 17:04 +, Francois wrote: > > > > thanks for your help. I've tried again and I've explicitly selected > > sungen, but with no success. The strange thing is I do see an Ethernet > > device in the pci tree (from /pr

Re: Orinoco Dirver with monitor support

2005-03-09 Thread Paul Mullen
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:59:05AM +0100, Paul Puschmann wrote: > > So my request again if anybody got Orinoco standalone monitoring wireless > > drivers compiled for PPC and Kernel 2.6.8 could you please email them to me? > > > I used the kernel-patch from www.kismetwireless.net and compiled th