Re: problem with latest experimental ati driver

2007-10-15 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-15 18:32:07 CEST]: > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 17:40 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > * Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-15 10:55:46 CEST]: > > > Assuming it switches to a lower resolution, does Option > > > "LVDSBiosNativeMode" "off" help? > > >

Re: Kernel for Sonnet in a 7500 with Sarge?Re: Correct Linux Kernel for Sonnet G4 in PowerMac 7500 with Sarge?

2007-10-15 Thread Peter Rooney
Dear Jeffrey, Whoah! that machine! Patience while i dig it out. Someone on #debian-powerpc (simonrvn?) quipped that linux on oldworld hardware was like taking a continuous I.Q. test. I may be able to answer more questions later. peter Jeffrey Rolland wrote: > > Yes, I tried the default ke

Re: Correct Linux Kernel for Sonnet G4 in PowerMac 7500 with Sarge?

2007-10-15 Thread Ralf Saalmüller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello at Debian, however, one old 8500 i had to turn up the bright and contrast all the way and then could barely still see the console at night with all the lights out. however(2) once Xwindows started it was fine. I noticed that this alters with

Re: Correct Linux Kernel for Sonnet G4 in PowerMac 7500 with Sarge?

2007-10-15 Thread Jeffrey Rolland
On 9 Oct 2007 at 17:18, brian wrote: > > --- Jeffrey Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, all! > > > > I just upgraded my old Power Macintosh 7500 to have > > a Sonnet Crescendo/PCI G4 > > Processor Upgrade Card. The Mac was a dual boot Mac > > OS 8.6 / Debian Linux "Sarge" box. > ≈ > >

Re: problem with latest experimental ati driver

2007-10-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 17:40 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-15 10:55:46 CEST]: > > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 10:29 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > > That said, after upgrade to the latest version of the package in > > > experimental, 1:6.7.195-2, I am unab

Re: problem with latest experimental ati driver

2007-10-15 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-15 10:55:46 CEST]: > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 10:29 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > That said, after upgrade to the latest version of the package in > > experimental, 1:6.7.195-2, I am unable to start nexuiz anymore. Well, I > > can start it, but the disp

Re: Radeon / PowerPC (iBook G4) / Help sought with weird colorization of External LCD

2007-10-15 Thread Jarrod @ HappyAtJamos
Hi Michel Michel Dänzer wrote: It looks like xcalib uses the XFree86-VidModeExtension extension, which Yeah I can confirm that. only exposes a single CLUT for each X protocol screen. RandR 1.2 exposes the CLUT of each CRTC individually, see the *CrtcGamma* requests in /usr/share/doc/x11pro

Re: problem with latest experimental ati driver

2007-10-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 10:29 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > I have been using 1:6.7.192-4 for quite a while now, am quite happy > with managing the external monitor through xrandr (though I haven't > found out yet how to set a specific frequency, only a specific mode), Use xrandr --rate to cho

problem with latest experimental ati driver

2007-10-15 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! I have been using 1:6.7.192-4 for quite a while now, am quite happy with managing the external monitor through xrandr (though I haven't found out yet how to set a specific frequency, only a specific mode), and sometimes I have to restart X11 multiple times to not get display errors wh

Re: Radeon / PowerPC (iBook G4) / Help sought with weird colorization of External LCD

2007-10-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 00:47 +0900, Jarrod @ HappyAtJamos wrote: > > As far as the colours go though, correct me if I'm wrong but the new Xrandr > setup uses one set of "gamma gear" (CLUTs?) for *both* screens. > Would this indeed be the case? > > Which means I can no longer specify corrective pr

Re: X server lock up after upgrade to 7.3

2007-10-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 20:39 +0200, Martin Kuball wrote: > > 6. sometimes I see a lot of the following error messages in Xorg.0.log: > tossed event which came in late > mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping. These are new symptoms of a GPU lockup. Disabling the DRI shoul

Re: grub-of unresolvable dependency on powerpc-ibm-utils

2007-10-15 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
Hi, On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 09:32:25PM -0700, Nick Schmalenberger wrote: >I tried to install grub-of 1.95+20070828-2 but it depends on >powerpc-ibm-utils 1.0.6 which does not seem to be available anywhere in >debian. Is this known, is it a typo? I can file a bug report if >necessary. Thanks very m