vlc

2006-04-14 Thread caleb storms
ok, on my ongoing search for better video i managed to get vlc installed from source however, now i get basicly the same kind of error i got before all that. This is what i'm getting when trying to play any file from my hardrive be it avi or mpg VLC media player 0.8.4a Janus libdvdnav: Using dvdn

Re: 7447A strange problem with MSR:POW (WAS: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1)

2006-04-14 Thread Becky Bruce
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 12:07 -0700, Paul Mackerras wrote: Becky Bruce writes: Actually, I think the problem is that the code linux is using to turn on nap mode is not guaranteed to put the processor in nap mode by the time the blr in ppc6xx_idle occurs. Thanks, Becky. This patch fixes it f

Re: Monitor never suspends on G4 Mac Mini with Sony Flat Panel

2006-04-14 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "Pancho" == Pancho Horrillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pancho> On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 08:30:31AM -0700, Shyamal Prasad Pancho> wrote: Pancho> I have attached xorg.conf, config-2.6.16.5 (vanilla Pancho> linux), and a list of installed packages in my mac Pancho> mini. Pl

Re: 7447A strange problem with MSR:POW (WAS: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1)

2006-04-14 Thread Paul Mackerras
Olof Johansson writes: > Where is cr0 set now -- you took the dot off of rlwinm? transfer_to_handler does mfspr r11,SPRN_HID0; mtcr r11 before jumping to power_save_6xx_restore. The rlwinm. was wrong anyway since it was setting cr0.eq based on all the *other* bits in HID0, not HID0_NAP (doh!).

Re: 7447A strange problem with MSR:POW (WAS: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1)

2006-04-14 Thread Becky Bruce
He's being sneaky - there's a copy of HID0 in the CR at this point from the caller, and bit 9 is the position for NAP. -B On Apr 14, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Olof Johansson wrote: Hi, On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 12:07:23PM -0700, Paul Mackerras wrote: Becky Bruce writes: Actually, I think the proble

Re: 7447A strange problem with MSR:POW (WAS: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1)

2006-04-14 Thread Paul Mackerras
Becky Bruce writes: > Actually, I think the problem is that the code linux is using to turn > on nap mode is not guaranteed to put the processor in nap mode by the > time the blr in ppc6xx_idle occurs. Thanks, Becky. This patch fixes it for me. Comments, anyone? Paul. diff -urN powerpc-me

suspend-to-disk success on powerbook 6,8

2006-04-14 Thread Guy Yasko
I have been looking into the suspend-to-disk problems I've been having since the 2.6.14.3 kernel. I've been doing the compile-boot-hibernate-reboot routine, and it looks like something changed after 2.6.15-rc4 (maybe later, but I'm still working on it.) I also looked at the problems people using

video

2006-04-14 Thread caleb storms
hey all, I was wondering i'm running debian test on a g4 and video playback is not what i'm used to in linux. the programs i'm used to don't seem to be here like vlc and mplayer, i did get vlc from unstable but it won't play anything but dvd it seems. The problem is that the picture stops and ju

Re: Monitor never suspends on G4 Mac Mini with Sony Flat Panel

2006-04-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 16:14 +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > I disabled the automatic light dimmer within pbbuttonsd, that fixed the > > problem with my PB. > > On a maybe related note: I found that pbbuttonsd doesn't correctly > discover the i2c device for the keyboard illumination anymore. That

Re: 7447A strange problem with MSR:POW (WAS: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1)

2006-04-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 15:00 -0500, Becky Bruce wrote: > He's being sneaky - there's a copy of HID0 in the CR at this point > from the caller, and bit 9 is the position for NAP. It's a trick I learned from Darwin :) They do that regulary when code is very cpu-feature dependant, like cache code fo

Re: 7447A strange problem with MSR:POW (WAS: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1)

2006-04-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 12:07 -0700, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Becky Bruce writes: > > > Actually, I think the problem is that the code linux is using to turn > > on nap mode is not guaranteed to put the processor in nap mode by the > > time the blr in ppc6xx_idle occurs. > > Thanks, Becky. > >

Re: Gnome 2.12 doesn't show icons of removable media on desktop

2006-04-14 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:10:11 +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote: > Any hints? Which package I should file a bug to? Nautilus? gnome-vfs? fam? > I don't know. How this mechanism works is no longer clear to me so any > tips, hints, clues are appreciated. It is an unlucky combination of udev+kernel+gnome-v

Re: 7447A strange problem with MSR:POW (WAS: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1)

2006-04-14 Thread Olof Johansson
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:19:36PM -0700, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Olof Johansson writes: > > > Where is cr0 set now -- you took the dot off of rlwinm? > > transfer_to_handler does mfspr r11,SPRN_HID0; mtcr r11 before jumping > to power_save_6xx_restore. The rlwinm. was wrong anyway since it was

Re: 7447A strange problem with MSR:POW (WAS: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1)

2006-04-14 Thread Olof Johansson
Hi, On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 12:07:23PM -0700, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Becky Bruce writes: > > > Actually, I think the problem is that the code linux is using to turn > > on nap mode is not guaranteed to put the processor in nap mode by the > > time the blr in ppc6xx_idle occurs. > > Thanks,

Re: 7447A strange problem with MSR:POW (WAS: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1)

2006-04-14 Thread Becky Bruce
On Apr 13, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: The above code should really look like this: mfmsr r7 ori r7,r7,MSR_EE orisr7,r7,[EMAIL PROTECTED] sync isync mtmsr r7 isync label: b label

Re: 7447A strange problem with MSR:POW (WAS: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1)

2006-04-14 Thread Becky Bruce
On Apr 13, 2006, at 5:20 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: (For those who haven't followed the beginning, current git locks up at boot on most recent powermacs. It was tracked down to a weird problem with the idle code. My latest experiments seem to show something dodgy with MSR_POW). Help from

Re: G4-cube console switching problem

2006-04-14 Thread Rich Johnson
On Apr 13, 2006, at 9:23 PM, Olof Johansson wrote: On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:17:04PM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: How do I switch text-consoles with an Apple Pro Keyboard. Neither cmd-ctl-F(n) nor opt-ctl-F(n) do anything. I can switch _from_ the gdm using cmd-ctl-F(n)...but I can't get back!

HOWTO: m3mirror & recent 2.6 kernels

2006-04-14 Thread Julien BLACHE
Hi, For those of you still relying on m3mirror for slideshows, here's how to make it work with a modern 2.6 kernel. Edit arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c, then, in prom_check_displays() add a break; statement at the very end of the for() loop. As usual, the idea is that only the first display mus

Re: Problems with touchpad and sleep on an iBook G4

2006-04-14 Thread Magnus Rosenbaum
Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote: > To make it short: this is reproducible in all cases. If you use the > touchpad to wake up the computer or before the wakeup is complete, the > touchpad didn't work after wake-up. I cannot reproduce this. The trackpad works fine if I wake the iBook by touching the

Re: pbbuttonsd time settting

2006-04-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Jeremiah Benham wrote: > > I want to know if there is a way to update the date or system time to > > the hardware time when waking up from suspend to disk? > > I use the hibernate-script package to control suspend to disk. It sets the > system clock after resume. I tried it only with pbbuttons an

Re: Monitor never suspends on G4 Mac Mini with Sony Flat Panel

2006-04-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I disabled the automatic light dimmer within pbbuttonsd, that fixed the > problem with my PB. On a maybe related note: I found that pbbuttonsd doesn't correctly discover the i2c device for the keyboard illumination anymore. That's with 2.6.16. Maybe something similar happened in your case.