Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
hassle ati for specs.! ;) Dean Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 22:53 -0700, Carlos Sosa wrote: I will gladly help testing your drivers on my ibook2.2 ibook2.2 700mhz G3 256ram Airport Oldschool Dual USB(i think its 1.1) Firewire DVD/CD-RW combo. i apologize about my bad

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 22:53 -0700, Carlos Sosa wrote: > I will gladly help testing your drivers on my ibook2.2 > > ibook2.2 > 700mhz G3 > 256ram > Airport Oldschool > Dual USB(i think its 1.1) > Firewire > DVD/CD-RW combo. > > i apologize about my bad english, i am Mexican. As I said, I do _NOT_

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Carlos Sosa
I will gladly help testing your drivers on my ibook2.2 ibook2.2 700mhz G3 256ram Airport Oldschool Dual USB(i think its 1.1) Firewire DVD/CD-RW combo. i apologize about my bad english, i am Mexican. El jue, 27-10-2005 a las 15:34 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt escribió: > > > id go the ibook ov

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> id go the ibook over the pismo, mine has a cd/dvd combo (no burning > though as far as i can tell). although its not powerfull enough > to play a dvd. ben is working on ati drivers arent you ben? > Yah, well, I definitely don't have time to try to reverse engineer that decoder thing myself.

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
i have a ibook dual usb g3 500 10gig hdd airport (classic or whatever. orinoco on a fancy bus) dual usb (1.1) single firewire 10/100 ethernet 56kmodem (that only half works... but modem? who cares) r128 chip also - works fine though. 1024x768 ive also fully upgraded the ram to 643744kb (lol, /pro

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 01:04 -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 27 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I need to dig out my venerable Pismo and have a look... > > Are the Pismo's this good that you all mention it with high praises? I > would like to know, since I'd love to substitute a failin

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 27 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > I need to dig out my venerable Pismo and have a look... Are the Pismo's this good that you all mention it with high praises? I would like to know, since I'd love to substitute a failing x86 notebook and I'm short of cash... Thanks, Rogério Brito.

Re: 2.6.14-rc5 uploaded to experimental available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Steicke
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 04:47:57PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:23:50PM +0800, Russell Steicke wrote: ... > > I installed linux-image-2.6.14-rc5-powerpc-smp from there, on a dual > > G5 powermac, and it fails to boot. Here's a manually transcribed copy > > of the boot mes

Re: experimental Xorg 6.9 packages available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/xorg-x11-6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-1

2005-10-26 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Sven Luther wrote: > Sure, it is a ramdisk kernel, and you need something like yaird to generate > the ramdisk, and not forget to configure yaboot to use it. Ok, thank you. I've tried it, and it doesnt work. I attach outputs from glxinfo and Xorg.0.log. As a side note, i've tried to build my own

Re: experimental Xorg 6.9 packages available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/xorg-x11-6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-1

2005-10-26 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Sven Luther wrote: > Sure, it is a ramdisk kernel, and you need something like yaird to generate > the ramdisk, and not forget to configure yaboot to use it. Ok, thank you. I've tried it, and it doesnt work. I attach outputs from glxinfo and Xorg.0.log. As a side note, i've tried to build my own

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ less Xorg.0.log > > > (WW) R128(0): Video BIOS not detected in PCI space! > > > (WW) R128(0): Attempting to read Video BIOS from legacy ISA space! > > > (WW) R128(0): Video BIOS not found! > > > (WW) R128(0): Static buffer allocation failed -- need at least 9216

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:22:03AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 19:47 +0200, Peter Plessas wrote: > > Hi, dear fellows, > > > > Having problems getting DRI to work in Xorg on my Pismo. > > > > Full files are here: > > mona.mur.at/peter/xorg.conf > > mona.mur.at/pet

Re: experimental Xorg 6.9 packages available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/xorg-x11-6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-1

2005-10-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:21:56AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >>> > >>>You know about : http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5, right ? > >>> > > I cant manage to run the linux-image-2.6.14-rc5-powerpc kernel. > "/dev/hda2, can't mount root filesystem" (or somethin

Re: !!!attn Re: 2.6.14-rc5 uploaded to experimental available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5

2005-10-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:23:20AM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: > didnt install for me on ibook dual usb (g3 500) > > see output... (im pretty sure its this 'unknown pci device' > weve been hearing about) > > --- > > Selecting previously deselected package yaird. > Unpacking yaird (from .../yaird

Re: iMac G5 and fan control

2005-10-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 11:44 -0300, Eduardo Trápani wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any news about the fan control in the iMac G5? It's on all the time > by default and it's a bit noisy for a desktop :(. > > Eduardo. > > PD: I read the other messages on the subject, I just wondered whether there

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 19:47 +0200, Peter Plessas wrote: > Hi, dear fellows, > > Having problems getting DRI to work in Xorg on my Pismo. > > Full files are here: > mona.mur.at/peter/xorg.conf > mona.mur.at/peter/Xorg.0.log > > Here are the interesting parts of the Xorg.0.log: > > > [EMAIL PROT

Re: 12'' Aluminium G4 PowerBook dilemma

2005-10-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> good display clarity (I mainly use aterms on fluxbox though) That should be ok, though if the dispay is a 6 bits panel, you may want to add option "FBDither" "true" to the "Device" section of the nv driver in xorg.conf > wireless networking (I expect to have to buy a wireless adapter)

!!!attn Re: 2.6.14-rc5 uploaded to experimental available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5

2005-10-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
didnt install for me on ibook dual usb (g3 500) see output... (im pretty sure its this 'unknown pci device' weve been hearing about) --- Selecting previously deselected package yaird. Unpacking yaird (from .../yaird_0.0.11-8_powerpc.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-2

Re: experimental Xorg 6.9 packages available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/xorg-x11-6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-1

2005-10-26 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Sven Luther wrote: >>> >>>You know about : http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5, right ? >>> I cant manage to run the linux-image-2.6.14-rc5-powerpc kernel. "/dev/hda2, can't mount root filesystem" (or something like this). I think i'll build my own kernel based on 2.6.14-rc5, but i can't a

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Rainer Gutkas
Hi! I don't know if it helps, but I'm running Ubuntu-Breezy on my Pismo and XORG works just fine, so I atteched my xorg.conf file. But I sure hope that this is some help for you. Best regards, Rainer Peter Plessas schrieb: Hi, dear fellows, Having problems getting DRI to work in Xorg on m

Re: g5 install

2005-10-26 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 26/10/05, Enrique Morfin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > What kind of problem is that? What can i do? > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerToday > >[19 Oct 05] secure apt [WWW] won't work with any > > debian CDs as it cannot > >validate them; this breaks all CD images except

12'' Aluminium G4 PowerBook dilemma

2005-10-26 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Sorry to repost. I'm in a serious dilemma. I rather stupidly bought a G4 powerbook as it was at a reduced price and thinking it had ok debian/linux support. I'm wondering if I should try and take this back to the shop, swap it with a colleague's G4 ibook or soldier on to try to make it work, foll

Re: experimental Xorg 6.9 packages available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/xorg-x11-6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-1

2005-10-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:24:57PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:21:25PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > I am using 2.6.14-rc5, and indeed, i hear you need something as near to > > 2.6.14 > > as possible. > > Ok, that's why. > > > > > >

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-26 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:16:35PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > hum, sorry but how i do that ? Just being root and go to /mnt/mypartition ? > > Step by step, very verbose, from Oct 2003, but might probably still > be valid: > >

Re: [PATCH] PowerMac install page has outdated information

2005-10-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 07:40, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > Could some one please apply this patch to the PowerMac install page? Committed. Thanks for your patch. Cheers, FJP pgpXCi7QQaVJh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: experimental Xorg 6.9 packages available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/xorg-x11-6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-1

2005-10-26 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:21:25PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > I am using 2.6.14-rc5, and indeed, i hear you need something as near to 2.6.14 > as possible. Ok, that's why. > > > You know about : http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5, right ? > Yeah, but, I pr

Re: g5 install

2005-10-26 Thread Enrique Morfin
> > What kind of problem is that? What can i do? > > Mmm, indeed, that is a problem listed on : > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerToday >[19 Oct 05] secure apt [WWW] won't work with any > debian CDs as it cannot >validate them; this breaks all CD images except > businesscard and

Re: g5 install

2005-10-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:06:44PM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: > > > What kind of problem is that? What can i do? > > > > Mmm, indeed, that is a problem listed on : > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerToday > >[19 Oct 05] secure apt [WWW] won't work with any > > debian CDs as it

Re: experimental Xorg 6.9 packages available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/xorg-x11-6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-1

2005-10-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:50:58PM +0200, [ATR]Dj-Death wrote: > Le mercredi 26 octobre 2005 à 21:39 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:34:24PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > > > I have made a powerpc build of the ex

Re: experimental Xorg 6.9 packages available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/xorg-x11-6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-1

2005-10-26 Thread [ATR]Dj-Death
Le mercredi 26 octobre 2005 à 21:39 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:34:24PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > Sven Luther wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I have made a powerpc build of the experimental Xorg 6.9 RC1 packages > > > available at : > > > > > > > [snip

Re: experimental Xorg 6.9 packages available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/xorg-x11-6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-1

2005-10-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:21:25PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:34:24PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > > Sure, works fine. On Pegasos though, which is using only pcigart though. I > > tried tuxracer, glxgears, not much else i think, alt

Re: experimental Xorg 6.9 packages available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/xorg-x11-6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-1

2005-10-26 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:34:24PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > Sure, works fine. On Pegasos though, which is using only pcigart though. I > tried tuxracer, glxgears, not much else i think, altough i was compiling > quake3. > It doesnt work here, but I'm really not su

Re: experimental Xorg 6.9 packages available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/xorg-x11-6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-1

2005-10-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:34:24PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have made a powerpc build of the experimental Xorg 6.9 RC1 packages > > available at : > > > > [snip] > > > I am running them and they seem to work nicely with my Radeon 9800 Pro AIW

Re: 3d acceleration on pci radeon 9200 mac edition?

2005-10-26 Thread Andrzej Mendel
Dnia 26-10-2005, śro o godzinie 11:30 -0700, derek o napisał(a): > That is good to hear,thanks for the help I appreciate it. > Derek > > On 10/26/05, Kelner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Dnia 26-10-2005 o godz. 10:47 derek o napisał(a): > > > Hello,I was wondering if it is possible to get

Re: experimental Xorg 6.9 packages available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/xorg-x11-6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-1

2005-10-26 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Sven Luther wrote: > Hello all, > > I have made a powerpc build of the experimental Xorg 6.9 RC1 packages > available at : > [snip] > I am running them and they seem to work nicely with my Radeon 9800 Pro AIW, in > all cases i have tested. Only thing missing is the tv-out support, and i need >

Re: 3d acceleration on pci radeon 9200 mac edition?

2005-10-26 Thread derek o
That is good to hear,thanks for the help I appreciate it. Derek On 10/26/05, Kelner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dnia 26-10-2005 o godz. 10:47 derek o napisał(a): > > Hello,I was wondering if it is possible to get 3d acceleration under > > linux for the pci radeon 9200 mac edition graphics car

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-26 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 12:21:25PM +0200, kohzak wrote: [ ... ] > > > >>i'm running osx Panther and Debian etch on my ibook 12 G4. > >> > >>I would like to know if it will be a problem to install Tiger. > >>Will it erase my dual boot ? > >> > >> > > > >yes > > > > > > > >>Wi

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 07:47:53PM +0200, Peter Plessas wrote: > Hi, dear fellows, > > Having problems getting DRI to work in Xorg on my Pismo. What Xorg version, self compiled or debian package, and maybe you should ask on debian-x too ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Xorg and DRI on Pismo

2005-10-26 Thread Peter Plessas
Hi, dear fellows, Having problems getting DRI to work in Xorg on my Pismo. Full files are here: mona.mur.at/peter/xorg.conf mona.mur.at/peter/Xorg.0.log Here are the interesting parts of the Xorg.0.log: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ less Xorg.0.log (WW) R128(0): Video BIOS not detected in PCI s

Debian Sarge for PowerPC on QEMU -- preinstalled image & HOWTO

2005-10-26 Thread Vesselin Peev
Hello, To those who would like to try/use a full-fledged Debian or GNU/Linux in general on PowerPC, but lack PowerPC hardware. Just released: A preinstalled disk image of Debian Sarge PPC, the "stable" distribution: http://www.oszoo.org (download section) (The HOWTO used for installing it: http:

Re: 2.6.14-rc5 uploaded to experimental available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5

2005-10-26 Thread Eduardo Trápani
I tried to install the ppc64 version and at the end of the installation I had this error message: You already have a NoLOADER configuration in /etc/.conf Install a boot block using the existing /etc/.conf? [Yes] There was an error with running , a log file is available in file /var/log/_log.1648

Re: g5 install

2005-10-26 Thread Enrique Morfin
> > Hi! > > > > I want to install osX and debian on a g5 (just one > > disk). > > > > The partition table can be similar to a tibook?: > > > > hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple > > hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap > > hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap > > hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root

Re: 2.6.14-rc5 uploaded to experimental available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5

2005-10-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:09:20PM -0300, Eduardo Trápani wrote: > I tried to install the ppc64 version and at the end of the installation I > had this error message: > > You already have a NoLOADER configuration in /etc/.conf > Install a boot block using the existing /etc/.conf? [Yes] > There wa

Re: g5 install

2005-10-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:06:15AM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: > Yesterday I tried: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso > > > Oct 23 and Oct 22. > > both failed :( > > both of them with the same problem: > > It all began great (i

Re: Compiling kernel for ppc64

2005-10-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:41:49AM -0300, Eduardo Trápani wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way to compile the kernel for an iMac G5 without having to > upgrade the whole box to testing? Can't you just use the prebuilt kernels from : http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5 ? You will need t

Re: 3d acceleration on pci radeon 9200 mac edition?

2005-10-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:47:28AM -0700, derek o wrote: > Hello,I was wondering if it is possible to get 3d acceleration under > linux for the pci radeon 9200 mac edition graphics card. Should work without problem. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: 2.6.14-rc5 uploaded to experimental available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5

2005-10-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:23:50PM +0800, Russell Steicke wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:03:03PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just uploaded 2.6.14-rc5 packages to experimental, which are a test run > > before 2.6.14 gets released and the corresponding packages go to unstable

Re: Installing Lame

2005-10-26 Thread Andrzej Mendel
Dnia 26-10-2005, śro o godzinie 12:26 +0100, anthony iles napisał(a): > Hi there, > > I'm running Debian Sarge / OSX dual boot on a G3 > Pismo. > Apart from expressing my solidarity with all other > Pismo users running Debian, I'd like to ask if anyone > can help with a small problem I have inst

iMac G5 and fan control

2005-10-26 Thread Eduardo Trápani
Hello, Is there any news about the fan control in the iMac G5? It's on all the time by default and it's a bit noisy for a desktop :(. Eduardo. PD: I read the other messages on the subject, I just wondered whether there was anything new to test. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Compiling kernel for ppc64

2005-10-26 Thread Eduardo Trápani
Hello, Is there a way to compile the kernel for an iMac G5 without having to upgrade the whole box to testing? Thanks, Eduardo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6.14-rc5 uploaded to experimental available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Steicke
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:03:03PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello, > > I just uploaded 2.6.14-rc5 packages to experimental, which are a test run > before 2.6.14 gets released and the corresponding packages go to unstable. > Since they are NEW i have made them available under : > > http://pe

Re: Installing Lame

2005-10-26 Thread Cedric Pradalier
According to anthony iles, on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:26:35 +0100 (BST), >Hi there, > >I'm running Debian Sarge / OSX dual boot on a G3 >Pismo. >Apart from expressing my solidarity with all other >Pismo users running Debian, I'd like to ask if anyone >can help with a small problem I have installing

Installing Lame

2005-10-26 Thread anthony iles
Hi there, I'm running Debian Sarge / OSX dual boot on a G3 Pismo. Apart from expressing my solidarity with all other Pismo users running Debian, I'd like to ask if anyone can help with a small problem I have installing lame encoder. I use Audacity to edit audio files. To export as mp3 or aiff

3d acceleration on pci radeon 9200 mac edition?

2005-10-26 Thread derek o
Hello,I was wondering if it is possible to get 3d acceleration under linux for the pci radeon 9200 mac edition graphics card. Thanks, Derek