Re: Newer laptops & CPU speed

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:35:35AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > My ibook G4 boots at low speed. /proc/cpuinfo shows 666MHz and a smiliar > > bogomips value. Nevertheless, the cpu frequency scaler works, i.e. set > > it to performance to be at high speed after boot up, or, as I currently

Re: open messes up the screen

> Well, open is really openvt. It fiddles around with the console to > start up a program on a new virtual console. X doesn't always like > that, but it should work better than that. The vt change should > trigger X to properly cleanup the screen before the switch. I'd > say file a bug. > It's n

Re: MacOSX

Charles, I just completed a dual-boot install on a new 12" Powerbook. Many of the available HOWTOs are out-of-date and did not work for me. What did work: 1. Put in the OS X install disc and use the Disk Utility to partition the drive into two partitions, putting OS X on the second partition. 2

Re: MacOSX & Debian dual boot questions...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tamas K Papp wrote: [...] | | I think if you choose manual partitioning, you need to create a small | (1 MB) bootstrap partition manually for yaboot. There should be space | between the 32k drivers partition (#1) and the HFS (#3). | | I would recommend

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] Re-power USB ports on wakeup

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 8:34 am, Colin Leroy wrote: > Hi list, > > Most of us have problems with USB unresponsive after one out of two > wakeups. This patch fixes it for me; it looks like the port status > isn't automatically updated (to ~PORT_POWER) when sleeping... > > So this patch just unpow

Re: [PATCH] Re-power USB ports on wakeup

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:34:50PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > Hi list, > > Most of us have problems with USB unresponsive after one out of two > wakeups. This patch fixes it for me; it looks like the port status > isn't automatically updated (to ~PORT_POWER) when sleeping... > > So this patch ju

Re: exim4 does not deliver all local messages instantly

if exim gets more than 10 messages in the one smtp connection it will differ them into the queue. This is a good thing in an extremely busy server - especially when queue runs are potentially served by other machines or some sort of cron based queue running is happening. if you can get fetchmail t

Re: sound in new powerbooks

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 22:36 +, Wee-Jin Goh wrote: > Hope that helps, Still silent! When playing an MP3 using totem, I can see the oscillscope running with the music, but nothing is coming from the speakers. I've checked alsamixer, and all looks ok... Cheers, Ben -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ww

Re: [PATCH] Re-power USB ports on wakeup

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 17:34 +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > Hi list, > > Most of us have problems with USB unresponsive after one out of two > wakeups. This patch fixes it for me; it looks like the port status > isn't automatically updated (to ~PORT_POWER) when sleeping... > > So this patch just unpo

Re: Newer laptops & CPU speed

> My ibook G4 boots at low speed. /proc/cpuinfo shows 666MHz and a smiliar > bogomips value. Nevertheless, the cpu frequency scaler works, i.e. set > it to performance to be at high speed after boot up, or, as I currently > do, use the userspace governor and powernowd. All this is without your > p

Re: MacOSX & Debian dual boot questions...

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:43:38PM +0100, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > Ciao Charles Read, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > > > Should I (in OSX) repartition and leave a blank partition (for Debian), > > reinstall MacOSX, then install Debian? > > Right. Or, disable the HFS+ journal, resize the OSX partitio

Re: sound in new powerbooks

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 18:38 +, Ben Hill wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 14:32 +, Wee-Jin Goh wrote: > > > > Have you tried taking a look at alsamixer? With my Powerbook 12", I > > had > > to use alsamixer to unmute some things (can't remember off the top of > > my > > head) and then used al

Re: exim4 does not deliver all local messages instantly

On 15/03/2005 at 16:56 -0500, Tamas K Papp wrote: > I download my mail using fetchmail. When I have a lot of messages, > some of them don't get to the mailbox instantly, but keep sitting in > the queue for a while. runq as root fixes the problem. Any idea why > this is happening, and what I cou

Linux PPC contest

With so much talent on this list, this should be of interest! (from Slashdot...) Robert MacFarlan writes: /"IBM is sponsoring a Open Source developer contest for their Linux on POWER (Linux PPC 64) effort. The contest [1]is designed to award and showcase innovative

exim4 does not deliver all local messages instantly

I download my mail using fetchmail. When I have a lot of messages, some of them don't get to the mailbox instantly, but keep sitting in the queue for a while. runq as root fixes the problem. Any idea why this is happening, and what I could do about it? I am using exim4-lightweight. Tamas --

Re: questions about Airport _Express_, *not* Airport _Extreme_

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 17:36 +0100, mike dentifrice wrote: > > So I allow myself to send it again, with a clearer subject line. It probably didn't help that the body of your message contained 'Airport Express' and 'Airport Extreme' twice each... -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer | Debian (pow

Re: MacOSX & Debian dual boot questions...

Ciao Charles Read, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > Should I (in OSX) repartition and leave a blank partition (for Debian), > reinstall MacOSX, then install Debian? Right. Or, disable the HFS+ journal, resize the OSX partition (works with newest parted and d-i, I guess), reenable the journal and then

Re: [PATCH] Re-power USB ports on wakeup

Ciao Colin Leroy, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > The oops and the kernel version :) Eh :) I didn't write down the oops (it was something about ehci, surprise surprise) since I thought it was reproduceable (shame on me), but I didn't observe it anymore. Will try again, but maybe it was a temporary c

Re: MacOSX & Debian dual boot questions...

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Charles Read wrote: Should I (in OSX) repartition and leave a blank partition (for Debian), reinstall MacOSX, then install Debian? If so how does my Mac know to use yaboot instead of proceeding down OSX's 'boot path'? 1. Run Disk Utility and repartition the disk into "free

MacOSX & Debian dual boot questions...

Hey everybody, I am wanting to install Debian on my PowerBookG4 but I am confused... Should I (in OSX) repartition and leave a blank partition (for Debian), reinstall MacOSX, then install Debian? If so how does my Mac know to use yaboot instead of proceeding down OSX's 'boot path'? I have intal

64 bit PowerPC porting machine available

The University of Augsburg and IBM have provided some of our developers with access to three POWER based machines (OpenPower 720 [1]) to help with Debian's port to 64 bit PowerPC. We have also been given a G5 on loan which can be used for debian-installer, glibc and other work. The G5 is currentl

Re: recommend a firewall

Le Lundi, 14 Mars 2005 15.36, Tamas K Papp a écrit : > Hi, > > I thought it would be a good idea to have a firewall on my machine. I > did apt-cache search firewall, but there are so many... Could > somebody please recommend a firewall program that is reliable, simple > yet easy to administer? I

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[FIXED]Re: kernel 2.6.10 + radeon accel + alsa

--- Begin Message --- Hi, So, i finally found how to enabled direct rendering in opengl. My conf was good but i just needed the xlibmesa-dri package. For people who are interested here follows my XF86-Config-4 file. Antonin. iBook G4 with ATI Radeon 9200 M9+ (Mobility) debian sid (unstable) kernel

Re: [PATCH] Re-power USB ports on wakeup

On 15 Mar 2005 at 18h03, Jack Malmostoso wrote: Hi, > 2) The first time I tried it I booted with the mouse plugged in and on > wake I got a oops and the system was freezed. Happened again right > now on third wake, with mouse plugged in at the moment of sleep. > > Hope this helps, please ask fo

G4 Xserve install problems

Hey all, I'm trying to install Debian Sarge (or woody) on a G4 Xserve without much luck. I've done some re-search and found i need to run the installer via remote console (over serial). I've asked macosx-server mailing list but they haven't told me much. The main problem I'm having is the keyboar

Re: [PATCH] Re-power USB ports on wakeup

> Hi list, > > Most of us have problems with USB unresponsive after one out of two > wakeups. This patch fixes it for me; it looks like the port status > isn't automatically updated (to ~PORT_POWER) when sleeping... > > So this patch just unpowers the ports manually at the end of ehci_suspend. > I

Re: Optimizing boot times

> Yeah, what is it about exim4 that makes it hang there, sometimes taking > as much as 3 minutes to start? Its really annoying. DNS lookups would be my bet. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian & mac classic, en/sc

> > I'd like to run debian on it but only if it supports the EN/SC. > > Has anyone in here already tried this? > > Does anone know if debian supports that Asante stuff? > > Well, you should ask on the 68k list. However, I can answer your > questions. First, if it's an actual Macintosh Classic, it's

Re: sound in new powerbooks

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 14:32 +, Wee-Jin Goh wrote: > > Have you tried taking a look at alsamixer? With my Powerbook 12", I > had > to use alsamixer to unmute some things (can't remember off the top of > my > head) and then used alsactl to store those settings so that they were > remembered on n

Re: [PATCH] Re-power USB ports on wakeup

Ciao Jack Malmostoso, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > Give me half an hour to compile a new kernel. 34m16s, to be precise. Anyway: 1) Works for me (iBook G4, 2.6.11.3 vanilla) if I unplug all usb devices before putting to sleep. I tried only with a mouse, but I guess it's a good test. 2) The first

Re: open messes up the screen

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:09:35AM -0500, Tamas K Papp wrote: > When I type > > open > > in an X terminal (yes, I know, but OS X habits die hard) it messes up > some pixels and colors on the screen. I know open is something > completely different in linux, but it shouldn't have that kind of an

Re: [PATCH] Re-power USB ports on wakeup

Ciao Colin Leroy, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > This patch fixes it for me; Give me half an hour to compile a new kernel. -- On Oct 5 1991, 8.53 AM; Linus Benedict Torvalds said: >I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be >out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows

Re: Optimizing boot times

Ciao ben racher, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > Yeah, what is it about exim4 that makes it hang there, sometimes taking > as much as 3 minutes to start? Its really annoying. That is probably a bad DNS/hosts setup. Adding in /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 as your machine name should help. Google for it, shou

Re: questions about Airport _Express_, *not* Airport _Extreme_

Hi again, I feel that most people disregarded my message as "just another of these questions about Airport Extreme, that have already been answered a zillion times". So I allow myself to send it again, with a clearer subject line. Here are my questions: > I'm wondering what to do with an Airport

[PATCH] Re-power USB ports on wakeup

Hi list, Most of us have problems with USB unresponsive after one out of two wakeups. This patch fixes it for me; it looks like the port status isn't automatically updated (to ~PORT_POWER) when sleeping... So this patch just unpowers the ports manually at the end of ehci_suspend. I don't know if

Re: Optimizing boot times

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:02:10AM -0500, ben racher wrote: > Yeah, what is it about exim4 that makes it hang there, sometimes taking > as much as 3 minutes to start? Its really annoying. If you don't use the MTA for non-local delivery, replace it with a lightweight MTA, such as masqmail. Make s

Re: Help: system crashes on Pismo

Am 15.03.2005 um 16:42 schrieb steinm: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:33:46PM +0100, Rainer Gutkas wrote: Am 14.03.2005 um 15:52 schrieb Tamas K Papp: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:11:16AM +0100, Rainer Gutkas wrote: First I thought it got something to do with connecting via samba to an Windows share whi

Re: Optimizing boot times

Yeah, what is it about exim4 that makes it hang there, sometimes taking as much as 3 minutes to start? Its really annoying. Jack Malmostoso wrote: Ciao Wee-Jin Goh, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: What are they steps I need to take to cut this down? Though Sven and others d

Re: Help: system crashes on Pismo

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:33:46PM +0100, Rainer Gutkas wrote: > > Am 14.03.2005 um 15:52 schrieb Tamas K Papp: > > >On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:11:16AM +0100, Rainer Gutkas wrote: > > > >>First I thought it got something to do with connecting via samba to an > >>Windows share which is actually a

Re: sound in new powerbooks

Hello Wee-Jin, On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:32:08PM +, Wee-Jin Goh wrote: > Have you tried taking a look at alsamixer? With my Powerbook 12", I had > to use alsamixer to unmute some things (can't remember off the top of my > head) ... Yes, I tried alsamixer, but unmuting everything and turning u

Booting without BootX on Wallstreet?

Does anyone know if there is a way to boot linux without having OS9 installed on a G3 Powerbook wallstreet? I tried quick bootlader, but didn't work and cause of only 2 Gigs of Diskspace aditional disk space gets really valuable. By the way does Kernel 2.6.8 work on wallstreet? Sarge installs 2

Re: sound in new powerbooks

Hello Martin, On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:44:55PM +, Martin Habets wrote: > If you have MAC OS installed, maybe you can unmute it there? > (and hopefully preserve that over a reboot...) Yes, I tried this, but it didn't work. I only hear the annoying boot-up sound, but sound does still not work

Re: Help: system crashes on Pismo

Am 15.03.2005 um 16:30 schrieb Tamas K Papp: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:33:46PM +0100, Rainer Gutkas wrote: In the meantime I also do believe that the problem could be of heating too much. I called the guye who does bigger repairs for me on the PB and he said no that can't be he never saw a Pismo o

Re: Help: system crashes on Pismo

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:33:46PM +0100, Rainer Gutkas wrote: > In the meantime I also do believe that the problem could be of heating > too much. I called the guye who does bigger repairs for me on the PB > and he said no that can't be he never saw a Pismo overheating or having > a broken fan

Re: Powerbook G3 and dual-head display

I answered my question. The patch has been submitted and may be available in Xorg 6.8.3 or 6.9.0/7.0.0. One can install a nightly release of the DRI drivers if they wish: http://xrl.us/ffwa On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 02:08:02 -0500, Ian Langworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody have dual-he

open messes up the screen

When I type open in an X terminal (yes, I know, but OS X habits die hard) it messes up some pixels and colors on the screen. I know open is something completely different in linux, but it shouldn't have that kind of an effect, should it? Is this a bug? I wanted to ask before reporting it. Ta

Re: sound in new powerbooks

If you have MAC OS installed, maybe you can unmute it there? (and hopefully preserve that over a reboot...) Just a thought. On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:05:01PM +, Jochen Voss wrote: > Hello Jonathan, > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:52:36PM +0100, Chocron J. wrote: > > Nope, however, the card s

Re: sound in new powerbooks

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 13:05 +, Jochen Voss wrote: > Hello Jonathan, > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:52:36PM +0100, Chocron J. wrote: > > Nope, however, the card seems to be detected correctly, and the > > /dev/ entries get created, my guess is this is an API thing, I think > > we can't unmute i

Re: Newer laptops & CPU speed

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:33:42PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > 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

Re: Help: system crashes on Pismo

Am 14.03.2005 um 15:52 schrieb Tamas K Papp: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:11:16AM +0100, Rainer Gutkas wrote: First I thought it got something to do with connecting via samba to an Windows share which is actually a USB 2.0 Disk, because this only happend when I did this task. But the last crash I di

Re: sound in new powerbooks

Hello Jonathan, On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:52:36PM +0100, Chocron J. wrote: > Nope, however, the card seems to be detected correctly, and the > /dev/ entries get created, my guess is this is an API thing, I think > we can't unmute it... yes, I suspect something similar. If I try to play a sound i

Re: sound in new powerbooks

Nope, however, the card seems to be detected correctly, and the /dev/ entries get created, my guess is this is an API thing, I think we can't unmute it... -- Jonathan Le Lundi 14 Mars 2005 15:03, Jochen Voss a écrit : > Hello, > > I have one of these very new Apple powerbooks. One of the proble

Re: Optimizing boot times

Ciao Wee-Jin Goh, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > What are they steps I need to take to cut this down? Though Sven and others don't suggest it (and I agree with them, even if I use my own kernel), try recompiling your kernel with things builtin instead of keeping them as modules. Remove unnecessary

Re: Newer laptops & CPU speed

Hello Ben, On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:01:04AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 16:01 +, Jochen Voss wrote: > > The last displayed messages are > > > > openpic: external > > openpic: spurious > > openpic: exit > > > > With these messages on the screen the

Re: debian & mac classic, en/sc

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:44:48AM +0100, maximilian thumfart wrote: > I got a Mac classic (MC68000) with an Asante En/SC Desktop Network-Scsi. > > I'd like to run debian on it but only if it supports the EN/SC. > Has anyone in here already tried this? > Does anone know if debian supports that Asa

Optimizing boot times

Hi, I've run out of things to tweak on my Powerbook, so I thought that I'd try to improve the boot times :-) Currently, on my 1.33 GHz 12", Debian takes about 2 minutes to boot. What are they steps I need to take to cut this down? What services can I safely disable (exim4?)? Regards, Wee-Jin --

debian & mac classic, en/sc

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I got a Mac classic (MC68000) with an Asante En/SC Desktop Network-Scsi. I'd like to run debian on it but only if it supports the EN/SC. Has anyone in here already tried this? Does anone know if debian supports that Asante stuff? greetings max -

external hdd

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody! I'm running Sarge with an 2.6.8-powerpc-smp on PowerMac Dual-G4. Since a couple of days I don't get my external usb-hdd working (neither the usb memory stick). I can't remember any changes, new kernel or drivers or something. When I attach