Re: Some problems with a radeon 8500

2006-02-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 15:32 +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > If I kill the X server (by stopping gdm (/etc/init.d/gdm stop)) the > fonts on the console (with radeonfb) become completely unreadable, if I > restart X it's readable again. This only happens when you stop X from the console, right

Re: debian-PPC powerbook laptop support.

2006-02-16 Thread Johannes Berg
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 10:40 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Note that I'm currently running x.org CVS HEAD with DRI from Mesa CVS > HEAD on one of these machines and 3D acceleration seems to work fine :) Great. I've just been to lazy to compile it all :) Maybe I will now that I have the qu

Re: debian-PPC powerbook laptop support.

2006-02-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 19:22 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 19:10 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > Airport? > > > > nope. > > I should've elaborated on that: it doesn't always work reliably (though > on the older powerbook you have it has a better chance). > > Also: you do l

Re: debian-PPC powerbook laptop support.

2006-02-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> a bit maybe, TV out doesn't work and I don't see linux doing two > different things on the different displays and setup is a bit strange > sometimes. Dual head actually works ... somewhat ;) The main problem currently is that X doesn't do any proper dynamic reconfiguration so switching between

ipt_geoip

2006-02-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
hey all not strictly a powerpc questions, however, is there a deb package containing the 'ipt_geoip' kernel module? most likely i would imagine it being part of a greater netfilter package or source deb anyone? Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Test version of the glibc built with gcc-4.0

2006-02-16 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi PowerPC users! I am currently trying to switch the compiler used to build the glibc to gcc 4.0 on all the architectures. PowerPC is one of the architectures still using gcc 3.4. gcc 3.4 is used to workaround some gcc 4.0 bugs, but it seems that now gcc 4.0 is working correctly on PowerPC. I am

Re: debian-PPC powerbook laptop support.

2006-02-16 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 19:10 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > Airport? > > nope. I should've elaborated on that: it doesn't always work reliably (though on the older powerbook you have it has a better chance). Also: you do loose at least some 3D acceleration (I run without r300 driver completely)

Re: debian-PPC powerbook laptop support.

2006-02-16 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 11:29 -0600, David Smoot wrote: > What (if anything) do I give up by blowing out Mac OS X entirely and > going to Debian-PPC on my powerbook? > Airport? nope. > Sleep / power management? nope. > Bluetooth? nope. > External Monitor support? a bit maybe, TV out doesn't wo

debian-PPC powerbook laptop support.

2006-02-16 Thread David Smoot
What (if anything) do I give up by blowing out Mac OS X entirely and going to Debian-PPC on my powerbook?Airport?Sleep / power management?Bluetooth?External Monitor support?I have a 1.67GHz powerbook 15" with 1 gig ram purchased in April of last year.  I had the unit set up as dual boot debian to h

Mac Question

2006-02-16 Thread msmith
I got your email by googling a question thought maybe you could help me out. Please read below. Any help is greatly appreciated. I got a mac's it's a lap top. It's a 1.42 GHz Power PC G4; 512 level 2 cache. 512MB of DDR SDRAM' supports up to 1.5GB with a 60 GB hard drive. Anyway my questio

Some problems with a radeon 8500

2006-02-16 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Hi, I have some problems with my Radeon 8500 on my Macintosh G4. I'm now under dapper but I had the same problem with a debian sid. If I kill the X server (by stopping gdm (/etc/init.d/gdm stop)) the fonts on the console (with radeonfb) become completely unreadable, if I restart X it's readable

Re: G3 imac, networking, 2.6.12 kernel

2006-02-16 Thread Rich Johnson
On Feb 16, 2006, at 3:44 AM, Hans Ekbrand wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:30:14AM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: [...] And the answer is "bmac". This problem has been around since at least 2.6.7. FWIW, the installation still fails with linux-image-2.6-15-1-powerpc as neither hotplug nor u

Re: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew

2006-02-16 Thread Roger Leigh
Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > >> Ok, does not using NTP fixes it ? > > Try this patch. With this the values from gettimeofday() or the VDSO > should stay exactly in sync with xtime even if NTP is adjusting the > clock. > > This patch still has quite

Re: G3 imac, networking, 2.6.12 kernel

2006-02-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:44:26AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:30:14AM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: > [...] > > And the answer is "bmac". This problem has been around since at > > least 2.6.7. > > > > FWIW, the installation still fails with linux-image-2.6-15-1-po

Re: G3 imac, networking, 2.6.12 kernel

2006-02-16 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:30:14AM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: [...] > And the answer is "bmac". This problem has been around since at > least 2.6.7. > > FWIW, the installation still fails with linux-image-2.6-15-1-powerpc > as neither hotplug nor udev can probe this particular machine. >