Re: debian freezes on boot

2005-03-13 Thread Michael
Bryan Frechette wrote: Michael wrote: Bryan Frechette wrote: Michael wrote: Michael wrote: Bryan Frechette wrote: Bryan Frechette wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote

Re: debian freezes on boot

2005-03-13 Thread Bryan Frechette
Michael wrote: Bryan Frechette wrote: Michael wrote: Michael wrote: Bryan Frechette wrote: Bryan Frechette wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 00:27

Re: debian freezes on boot

2005-03-13 Thread Michael
Bryan Frechette wrote: Michael wrote: Michael wrote: Bryan Frechette wrote: Bryan Frechette wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 00:27 -0500, Bryan Frechette wrote:

Re: debian freezes on boot

2005-03-13 Thread Bryan Frechette
Michael wrote: Michael wrote: Bryan Frechette wrote: Bryan Frechette wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 00:27 -0500, Bryan Frechette wrote: hi, i just install debian sarge on my

Re: debian freezes on boot

2005-03-13 Thread Michael
Bryan Frechette wrote: Bryan Frechette wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 00:27 -0500, Bryan Frechette wrote: hi, i just install debian sarge on my mac, and it freezes on boot, yaboot freezes and i have to pull the plug on m

Re: debian freezes on boot

2005-03-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 22:29 -0500, Bryan Frechette wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 00:27 -0500, Bryan Frechette wrote: > > > > > hi, i just install debian sarge on my mac, and it freezes on boot, > > > yaboot freezes and i have to pull the plug on mac imac, and

Re: debian freezes on boot

2005-03-13 Thread Bryan Frechette
Bryan Frechette wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 00:27 -0500, Bryan Frechette wrote: hi, i just install debian sarge on my mac, and it freezes on boot, yaboot freezes and i have to pull the plug on mac imac, and i don't know how to make it

Re: debian freezes on boot

2005-03-13 Thread Bryan Frechette
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 00:27 -0500, Bryan Frechette wrote: hi, i just install debian sarge on my mac, and it freezes on boot, yaboot freezes and i have to pull the plug on mac imac, and i don't know how to make it work, its freezes just after saying l

Re: Newer laptops & CPU speed

2005-03-13 Thread Paul J. Lucas
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: + * - All new machines with 7447A CPUs Doesn't the Mac Mini also have this CPU? If so, does this mean that the CPU in the Mini is running slow? - Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

CD-RW

2005-03-13 Thread Michael
I thank you for all your useful suggestions thus far in distributions to get and all. In this eandevor what I am trying to accomplish is getting an os that I ca work on that has a somewhat similar look and feel as OS X, but based on a linux kernel instead of Darwin based on the Unix kernel. For

Newer laptops & CPU speed

2005-03-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Hi ! It seems the new laptops are booting with CPU set to low speed. /proc/cpuinfo outputs the wrong fequency (thinks it's high speed) but bogomips shows that it's running at about half speed. This patch against 2.6.11 (will not apply on 2.6.10) adds proper cpufreq support so that the boot speed i

New Powerbook 12" No HD found (ATA 100)

2005-03-13 Thread Brian W. Carver
Hi, Long-time Debian user. First-time PPC user. I'm following the Debian installation instructions at http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/apple/powerbook.en.php and when I get into the Debian install screens it cannot find my hard disk. This is apparently because the old linux.bin I'

Re: Help: system crashes on Pismo

2005-03-13 Thread Michael Flaig
Hi, what you describe seems to me like a problem with your pismosĀ“s ram. So, I would recommend to check the ram first... or try badmem patch. cya, mike btw. the pismo is known to have problems with the ibm harddrives ... you could check them as well. With smarttools, as the pismo and th

Re: Playing CDs and using headphones

2005-03-13 Thread Tamas K Papp
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:58:59PM +, Wee-Jin Goh wrote: > Also, when I run alsamixer, it shows headphones as off and headphones > detection as off. How do I switch them on? M Tamas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Help: system crashes on Pismo

2005-03-13 Thread Tamas K Papp
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:02:04AM +0100, Rainer Gutkas wrote: > Is it normal that Debian Sarge Crashes after several hours of work? I don't think it is ;-) > It does so on my Pismo. So I prefer working under KDE and every now > and then the System just stops - The screen freeces - no more mous

Re: Playing CDs and using headphones

2005-03-13 Thread Mauro
On Sun, 2005-13-03 at 23:58 +, Wee-Jin Goh wrote: > When I insert a CD to play under Linux, I get no sound at all. Sound > is > working as everything else has sound (gaim, DVD playing, even > simultaneous sound streams). What needs to be configured for CD > playing > to work? I wrote a small Ho

hdparm on iBook G4

2005-03-13 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, today I read a cd with only treble speed. I run hdparm and saw it runs on mdma2. Is this more than udma2? I tried to set the later, but since this all accesses to the cdrom hang and never returned. # hdparm /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on)

Re: pbbuttonsd: don't dim the display while watching video

2005-03-13 Thread Joerg Sommer
Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 01:03:43 + (UTC) > Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> how can I tell pbbuttons not to dim the backlight while watching video? >> It's annoying! > >pbbcmd config onac_timedim 0 >pbbcmd config onbattery_timedim 0 >

Playing CDs and using headphones

2005-03-13 Thread Wee-Jin Goh
Hello, When I insert a CD to play under Linux, I get no sound at all. Sound is working as everything else has sound (gaim, DVD playing, even simultaneous sound streams). What needs to be configured for CD playing to work? Also, when I run alsamixer, it shows headphones as off and headphones detec

Help: system crashes on Pismo

2005-03-13 Thread Rainer Gutkas
Is it normal that Debian Sarge Crashes after several hours of work? It does so on my Pismo. So I prefer working under KDE and every now and then the System just stops - The screen freeces - no more mouse or trackpad support - no more Keyboard - the only thing that seems to be alive is the p

Re: (albook) macchanger

2005-03-13 Thread Devin Carraway
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 04:09:01PM +, Erik Chakravarty wrote: > Does anybody know whether or not there might be any adverse impacts of > running macchanger to alter the MAC address of the network interface in > a new Powerbook G4? I change the macaddr on my tibook quite often without any troub

Re: Debian 3.0_r4

2005-03-13 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 23:19 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > potatoe - way old > woody - 'stable' but old > sarge - 'testing' but new > sid - 'unstable' bleeding edge experimental - bloody bleeding and painful edge -- David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.damog.net/ Before anything el

Re: hda: lost interrupt starting with 2.6.8

2005-03-13 Thread Vince Weaver
hi vince, i am a bit confuse, but i suppose this is self compiled kernels, right ? Can you test the debian kernels and confirm that they have or not this same problem ? /me building with the debian standard gcc. Sorry for the confusion, it now looks like this issue has nothing to do with debian.

Re: hda: lost interrupt starting with 2.6.8

2005-03-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 01:36:19PM -0500, Vince Weaver wrote: > > >hi vince, i am a bit confuse, but i suppose this is self compiled kernels, > >right ? Can you test the debian kernels and confirm that they have or not > >this > >same problem ? > > > >/me building with the debian standard gcc. >

Re: where can I find mplayer for ppc?

2005-03-13 Thread Thomas Deschepper
On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 23:27 +0100, Simon Vallet wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:23:04 -0500 > Tamas K Papp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I tried to install mozilla-mplayer today, and of course it needs > > mplayer-powerpc or mplayer-g4. Where can I find either of these? A > > sources.list lin

Re: (albook) macchanger

2005-03-13 Thread Francesco Ciocchetti
Erik Chakravarty wrote: Hey there Does anybody know whether or not there might be any adverse impacts of running macchanger to alter the MAC address of the network interface in a new Powerbook G4? Is this a firmware level change? How does macchanger work? I I don't know about macchanger , but in

(albook) macchanger

2005-03-13 Thread Erik Chakravarty
Hey there Does anybody know whether or not there might be any adverse impacts of running macchanger to alter the MAC address of the network interface in a new Powerbook G4? Is this a firmware level change? How does macchanger work? Cheers Erik -- _ Erik Chakr

Re: Debian 3.0_r4

2005-03-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
im a sid man myself. but im not running production boxes sid being 'unstable' i think potatoe - way old woody - 'stable' but old sarge - 'testing' but new sid - 'unstable' bleeding edge i think thats right. anyway, often times youll do a system wide update and something minor will break. but usual

Re: debian freezes on boot

2005-03-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 00:27 -0500, Bryan Frechette wrote: > hi, i just install debian sarge on my mac, and it freezes on boot, > yaboot freezes and i have to pull the plug on mac imac, and i don't know > how to make it work, its freezes just after saying loading kernel and > nothing else It wou

Re: Debian 3.0_r4

2005-03-13 Thread Kristian Peters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael schrieb: > what are they calling the 3.0_r4 release? I am trying to install sarge > and that is the one I am currently downloading. So the question is is > that Sarge, or just another Woody variation? Debian Woody is called 3.0 ! r4 means th

Re: hda: lost interrupt starting with 2.6.8

2005-03-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:43:22AM -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

Re: hda: lost interrupt starting with 2.6.8

2005-03-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 02:46:37AM -0500, Vince Weaver wrote: > > >Can you tell me what is the value of CONFIG_NR_CPUS in your .config, > >also, is this file including include/linux/threads.h before > >include/linux/cpumask.h, and finally, send me privately the resulting > >binary vmlinux. > > Th

Re: hda: lost interrupt starting with 2.6.8

2005-03-13 Thread Vince Weaver
Can you tell me what is the value of CONFIG_NR_CPUS in your .config, also, is this file including include/linux/threads.h before include/linux/cpumask.h, and finally, send me privately the resulting binary vmlinux. There is no CONFIG_NR_CPUS in my .config. Is that a problem? My tree is a 2.6.4