Re: debian-PPC powerbook laptop support.

2006-02-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi David On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:29:14AM -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? [ ... ] > So I am at a decision point. I've already lost about 5 months of data > anyway. > I can for

Re: debian-PPC powerbook laptop support.

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Collins
Yves-Alexis Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 08:18 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >> You probably need the bunch of patches I did to fix some of the worst >> issues with the radeon driver. I just commited them yesterday in X.org >> CVS... hopefully, debian will get

Re: debian-PPC powerbook laptop support.

2006-02-17 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 08:18 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > You probably need the bunch of patches I did to fix some of the worst > issues with the radeon driver. I just commited them yesterday in X.org > CVS... hopefully, debian will get an updated radeon driver when they > finally switch

Re: debian-PPC powerbook laptop support.

2006-02-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 15:23 +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:40:52AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > 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. > >

Re: debian-PPC powerbook laptop support.

2006-02-17 Thread Johannes Berg
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 15:23 +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > Interesting. The last update of Debian X.org (6.9.something) completely > broke my recent 17" PB. Right now I can only work in text mode. It's a bug in the debian xorg, wait until they update and meanwhile downgrade to 6.8.2, or compile

Re: debian-PPC powerbook laptop support.

2006-02-17 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:40:52AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > 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