Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Alexander Huemer
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:26:32PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:03:21PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:12:40PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > Hi Alexander! > > >

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Alexander Huemer
Hi! On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:12:40PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Alexander! > > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 12:01 +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > > CD-ROM based installation is supported for most architectures. > > > > Again, I don't know if CD

Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Alexander Huemer
Hi I am the proud owner of this ancient machine on which I am attempting to install Debian. This machine is equipped with a Gotek floppy emulator and a ZuluSCSI emulator (for HDD and CD-ROM) for convenience reasons. For reference, this is a 32bit PowerPC machine following the PReP[1] specificat

Re: HELP: test kernel patches on the real thing

2015-04-16 Thread Alexander Alemayhu
> much appreciated! The thread for further information and to discuss this > series > is here: > > https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2015-April/127557.html > I have a iMac G3 M4984. Is my model old enough? I can do some testing in one of the coming days. -- Mit fre

Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2014-09-10 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 06:39:10PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >Hi folks, > > > >I believe the existing debian-ports setup (as an exploder pointing to > >all the different port lists) is not working well at all. It's a > >confusing setup to many peop

Plymouth alternative for PowerPC?

2011-05-18 Thread Alexander Lardner
Hello, Plymouth (bootsplash screen) is only available for i386, I'm on an old PowerPC iMac. Is there an alternative (squeeze)? If not, is it possible to just show a static image over the boot screen, kind of like FreeBSD? Thanks! -Alex

please retry iceowl on powerpc buildd

2008-01-10 Thread Alexander Sack
Hi, the iceowl powerpc built failed because of a misconfigured buildd. Giving it another try should help (as it did for icedove). Thanks, - Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Success with Motorola Powerstack II

2007-03-09 Thread Alexander Baldeck
Christian Walther wrote: The installation works very well, booting from a tftp-Server is no problem, partitioning the disks is none, too. I used the "Guided Partitioning - Entire disk using LVM" method and the Debian-Installer created and configured a PReP Boot Partition (8 Megs). Firewire is wo

Re: Wlan with iMac 500-MHz PowerPC G3

2007-02-25 Thread Alexander Lazarević
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Lazarević schrieb: > I got me a MSI US54SE stick with zd1211b chip. Even after installing the > zd1211-firmware package it did not work. I had to download the latest > firmware from sourceforge and manually copy it to /lib/firmwa

Re: Wlan with iMac 500-MHz PowerPC G3

2007-02-06 Thread Alexander Lazarević
Jack Malmostoso schrieb: > You should try with those devices that have a driver in the main kernel > tree, such as zd1211 and bcm43xx. I got me a MSI US54SE stick with zd1211b chip. Even after installing the zd1211-firmware package it did not work. I had to download the latest firmware from source

Wlan with iMac 500-MHz PowerPC G3

2007-02-06 Thread Alexander Lazarevic
Hi, I successfully installed debian from a weekly netinst CD on an iMac and was impressed how smooth the installation process went. I'm a long time debian user on i386 based hardware, but this is the first time I installed debian on a ppc architecture. The problem I'm facing now is that I would

Re: Kernel Panic... Can't find console

2006-12-12 Thread Alexander Baldeck
De Served wrote: > > dmesg -- http://deserved.servegame.org/serial.txt > > Anybody have any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks. It seems to be as simple as to create that file: mknod /dev/console c 5 1 Or let the kernel load devfs with a statement in the append line: devfs=mount,all Cheers,

Re: acroread

2006-11-09 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Enrique Morfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061109 20:48]: > Now, meybe we need some "pdf-forms writers". IIRC you can create pdf-forms with scribus. I used that feature a couple of years ago; don't know, if everything is supported. Yours sincerely, Alexander --

zImage.prep on 2.6.18 & 2.6.19-rc1-git5

2006-10-10 Thread Alexander Baldeck
Hey all, I've been trying to get an old Motorola Powerstack II working on Linux for the past few days. Everything is working fine except for the fact that I have to use a kernel 2.6.8 or earlier. As I'd like to run newer udevs this is unfortunately an inacceptible state, no uevents and all.

Re: iMac G5 fan control in 2.6.16 vs 2.6.17

2006-09-25 Thread Alexander McLeay
On 23/09/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe they were built-in in debian 2.6.16 ? The windfarm stuff lacks proper auto-load for various reasons (and always did though I might fix it one day) so it's mostly up to the distro to properly configure loading of them. Ah, th

Re: iMac G5 fan control in 2.6.16 vs 2.6.17

2006-09-22 Thread Alexander McLeay
On 23/09/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Make sure the various windfarm_* modules are loaded and that cpufreq support is enabled Ah, that is the problem. Do you know why they might load automatically under 2.6.16 but not under 2.6.17? Thanks for your help. -- Ale

Re: iMac G5 fan control in 2.6.16 vs 2.6.17

2006-09-22 Thread Alexander McLeay
On 23/09/06, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:38:18PM +1000, Alexander McLeay wrote: > I'm running Debian Etch on a rev a iMac G5 (PowerMac8,1) and just > upgraded today from linux-image-2.6.16-2-powerpc64 (vers 2.6.16-18) to > linux-imag

iMac G5 fan control in 2.6.16 vs 2.6.17

2006-09-22 Thread Alexander McLeay
being slowed down, so the computer is very loud. Is this change on purpose/known about? Is there something I can do to make it quieter again? -- Alexander. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing NOW has security updates (was: Re: spam)

2006-08-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
oblem in unstable would take far to long to reach testing? Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: external VGA on iBook G4 with etch

2006-06-20 Thread Alexander Schmehl
> Just commenting it out made it work again. Thanks rene, thanks Bin. Got it working again :) Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: external VGA on iBook G4 with etch

2006-06-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
ntifier "Default Screen" Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV250 5c63 [Radeon Mobility 9200 M9+]" Monitor "COLOR LCD" DefaultDepth24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24

external VGA on iBook G4 with etch

2006-06-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
d to install a package or something similar easy, to get my external VGA port working again? Any hints? Anyone has his external VAG port working on an iBook G4 with xorg 7.0? Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/

Re: vlc

2006-04-15 Thread Alexander Schmehl
libdvdread: Could not open input: Permission denied > libdvdread: Can't open /dev/hda14 for reading > libdvdread: Device /dev/hda14 inaccessible, CSS authentication not > available. Do you have libdvdcss2 installed? If not, run /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh and try

Re: Network boot of RS/6000 CHRP systems

2006-03-14 Thread Alexander Baldeck
Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 06:53:21PM +0100, Alexander Baldeck wrote: Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:30:29AM -0800, Jason Self wrote: Perhaps it's the monitor? Have you tried using it with another machine? On 3/14/06, Maes, Roel <[EMAIL P

Re: Network boot of RS/6000 CHRP systems

2006-03-14 Thread Alexander Baldeck
Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:30:29AM -0800, Jason Self wrote: Perhaps it's the monitor? Have you tried using it with another machine? On 3/14/06, Maes, Roel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear sir, My company just bought a second hand IBM RS/6000 F50 server. When i try to

Re: can not launch xfree86 on debian linux on ibook G3

2006-02-23 Thread Alexander Schmehl
a good idea to state the nature of the problem more detailed... Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: 'gdm could not write to the auth file' -- ubuntuPPC_5.04

2005-10-08 Thread Alexander Wirt
Kim Cascone schrieb am Freitag, den 07. Oktober 2005: > I have two machines (both of which dual boot into Ubuntu 5.04 and OS X > 10.3.9) > - an iBook G3 running Ubuntu 5.04 (all current updates) on a 4G > partition > - an iMac DV G3 running Ubuntu 5.04 (all current updates) on a 5G part This is

Re: nvidia driver on ppc. problems

2005-10-05 Thread Alexander Clausen
Hi, On Mi, Okt 05, 2005 at 09:49:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, how can I switch between two screens? which X configuration should I use? > > Because, I've tried to simply connect the external screen before power up the > machine and it didn't work. To enable the internal output, put th

Re: nvidia driver on ppc. problems

2005-10-03 Thread Alexander Clausen
Hi, On Di, Okt 04, 2005 at 09:04:22 GMT, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 17:58 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1.- external vga/dvi output (can't use a bigger screen or TV) > > Yes, none of the nvidia "free" drivers supports dual head at this point. > Those _are_ suppor

Re: swsusp2 with 2.6.13

2005-09-16 Thread Alexander Strobl
Johannes Berg schrieb: > On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 22:04 +0200, Alexander Strobl wrote: > > >>did i miss something? > > > Which suspend2 version are you trying? Works fine here. > > >>could anybody send my a working version of hibernate.conf? >>is there

Re: swsusp2 with 2.6.13

2005-09-07 Thread Alexander Strobl
Sven Luther schrieb: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:04:54PM +0200, Alexander Strobl wrote: > >>hi all, >> >>after i realized suspend-to-ram does not work on powerbook i tried swsusp2. >> >>i patched the kernel witch the latest release and set the >>supen

swsusp2 with 2.6.13

2005-09-06 Thread Alexander Strobl
hi all, after i realized suspend-to-ram does not work on powerbook i tried swsusp2. i patched the kernel witch the latest release and set the supend-partition to: swap:/dev/hda4 i started "hibernate" - error: "Suspend failed, trying to recover...". (recovery does not work btw.) unloading every mo

Re: suspend-to-ram with 2.6.13

2005-09-03 Thread Alexander Strobl
>>i compiled kernel 2.6.13 on my 12" powerbook (newest model). >>/sys/power/state looks like: "standby mem disk" >> >>i tried: >>echo -n mem > /sys/power/state >>and >>echo -n standby > /sys/power/state >> >>the suspend-process starts and falls back to console with no errors. >> > > > Just curiou

suspend-to-ram with 2.6.13

2005-09-03 Thread Alexander Strobl
hi all, i compiled kernel 2.6.13 on my 12" powerbook (newest model). /sys/power/state looks like: "standby mem disk" i tried: echo -n mem > /sys/power/state and echo -n standby > /sys/power/state the suspend-process starts and falls back to console with no errors. i disabled sound support in th

Re: [patch] therm_adt746x.c

2005-09-02 Thread Alexander Strobl
hi michael, i struggeled with the same problem - the patch works fine! is it possible to setup a minimum speed as default? so the temperature would not rise up that fast. thx, alex. Michael Tautschnig schrieb: > Hi! > > At least on my post-Feb 2005 12" powerbook the therm_adt746x module someti

Re: Few problems with PowerBook(5,7)

2005-07-30 Thread Alexander Wirt
Benjamin Herrenschmidt schrieb am Samstag, den 30. Juli 2005: > On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 11:49 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > Shiv Dayal schrieb am Freitag, den 29. Juli 2005: > > > > > Recently i purchased an Apple Powerbook 17"(5,7) and > > > instal

Re: Few problems with PowerBook(5,7)

2005-07-30 Thread Alexander Wirt
Shiv Dayal schrieb am Freitag, den 29. Juli 2005: > Recently i purchased an Apple Powerbook 17"(5,7) and > installed Sarge 3.1 on it. There are certain problems > which i am not able to fix nor find a solution on net. > Fist problem is that sound doesn't work and there is > no 3D acceleration. I h

Re: Debian 3.1 LinuxTag 2005 on PowerBook G4 (Superdrive)?

2005-07-06 Thread Alexander Wirt
W. Borgert schrieb am Mittwoch, den 06. Juli 2005: > Hi, > > a colleague of mine cannot boot the LinuxTag Sarge DVD on > his PowerBook G4. Any experiences with that DVD on powerpc > platform, good or bad? Many thanks in advance! I installed my Powerbook 5,4 (G4 1,5Ghz) from this DVD as my hardd

Re: Powerbook 12 Debian Sarge Sleep

2005-05-20 Thread Alexander Schmehl
ork perfectly on my new iBook, too. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Sound drivers for newer machines: need help

2005-04-10 Thread Alexander Schmehl
nd: /proc/device-tree/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pulses/rev: No such file or directory > I'm especially interested in the various models of G5 based machines. Sorry, I don't have a G5, just a three week old iBook. Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: powerbook g4 sleep

2005-01-30 Thread Alexander Clausen
On Son, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:17:04 GMT, Djoume SALVETTI wrote: > Le dimanche 01/30/05 Alexander Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > My first goal is to get the VGA output working, > > Are you aware about the job of Guido Guenther? > Yes, I am. I'm trying

Re: powerbook g4 sleep

2005-01-29 Thread Alexander Clausen
Hi there... On Sam, Jan 29, 2005 at 11:44:57 GMT, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > Ciao Christopher Molnar, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > > > Has anyone figured out how to put a powerbook g4 to sleep when closing > > the cover so you do not have to reboot anytime you close the cover for > > more than a mi

Re: TEST: Sleep patch #7

2004-12-06 Thread Alexander Wirt
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: I provided some kernel debs at: http://people.debian.org/~formorer/ppc. Patch #7 is working fine here, thanks Benjamin. Alex

Re: TEST: Sleep patch #6

2004-12-01 Thread Alexander Wirt
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: (As usual, I'm cross posting several lists, please don't reply to all of them, and CC me as I'm not subscribed to all of them neither) Ok, here's the 6th version of the sleep patch for ATI based albooks & iBook G4. Other machine users, please test too as it may caus

Re: Help? Kernel Build Howto for PowerBook G4 (5,2)

2004-11-30 Thread Alexander Wirt
Timo Reimerdes wrote: Hi, for about a week now I am using ubuntu linux on my powerbook. It runs really nice for allmost everything I want. Two issues I haven't got to work: Sleep (with the latest sleep patch by benh) which would be s nice Airport Extreme (Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.1

Will Debian's "native" PowerPC compiler run on "vanilla" Linux 2.6.8-rc4 on MPC 8275 (PQ2FADS-VR) ?

2004-10-06 Thread Povolotsky, Alexander
Hi, Will Debian's "native" PowerPC compiler (similar to gcc version ?) run on "vanilla"rLinux 2.6.8-rc4 on MPC 8275 (PQ2FADS-VR) ? Also does Debian have a PowerPC perl package ? and would it run on "vanilla"rLinux 2.6.8-rc4 on MPC 8275 (PQ2FADS-VR) ? Also did anybody at Debian tried running "Cer

FW: lmbench results (with and without "kernel preemption") for Li nux 2.6.8-rc4 on MPC 8275 (PQ2FADS-VR) ?

2004-10-06 Thread Povolotsky, Alexander
> Would anybody at Debian be interested to discuss my lmbench results > attached below (comparing "vanilla" Linux 2.6..8-rc4 kernel with and > without "kernel preemption" option running on PQ2FADS-VR with MPC 8275) ? > > Thanks > -Original Message-

Re: Disable trackpad while typing on alubook.

2004-09-29 Thread Alexander Clausen
Hi, On Mit, Sep 29, 2004 at 03:57:16 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a way to disable the trackpad while typing on a powerbook? > I've done a little hack in the kernel in order to achieve this, but maybe > there is already a way to do this in userspace. try http://honk.physik.uni-kon

Re: 2.6.8 kernel issues

2004-09-17 Thread Bradley Alexander
ole wasn't on... As usual, thanks for all the help... > Ken -- --Brad ==== Bradley M. Alexander | IA Analyst, SysAdmin, Security Engineer| storm [at] tux.org Debian/GNU Linux Developer

Re: 2.6.8 kernel issues

2004-09-17 Thread Bradley M Alexander
1 root root 0 Sep 17 07:16 /proc/fb [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /proc/fb 0 ATY Rage128 -- --Brad ==== Bradley M. Alexander | IA Analyst, SysAdmin, Security Engineer| storm [at] tux.org

2.6.8 kernel issues

2004-09-16 Thread Bradley M Alexander
-- --Brad Bradley M. Alexander | IA Analyst, SysAdmin, Security Engineer| storm [at] tux.org Debian/GNU Linux Developer | storm [at] debian.org Key fingerp

Resizing PPC partitions

2004-09-13 Thread Bradley Alexander
to Linux. What have others done to resize their drives? Thanks, -- --Brad Bradley M. Alexander | IA Analyst, SysAdmin, Security Engineer| storm [at] tux.org Debian/GNU Linux Developer

[OT] Hardware upgrades

2004-09-06 Thread Bradley Alexander
Bradley M. Alexander | IA Analyst, SysAdmin, Security Engineer| storm [at] tux.org Debian/GNU Linux Developer | storm [at] debian.org Key fingerprints: DSA 0x54434E65

Re: 2.6.8.1-kernel on Powerbook G4?

2004-08-27 Thread Alexander Clausen
Hi ben, On Don, Aug 26, 2004 at 05:51:06 GMT, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Can I have Alex email to add a proper Signed-off-by: line on the > patch please ? > My addy is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alex

Re: SE-Linux packages available

2004-08-09 Thread Alexander Solla
On Sunday 08 August 2004 04:01 pm, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > NOTE: > I have only a limited free transfer rate of 1 GB for each consecutive ~4 > weeks for these packages ... I'll have to remove them for each single > transfer period as soon as the download rate is coming close to 1 GB in > that

Re: "Debian Within a Darwin System"

2004-08-02 Thread Alexander Solla
On Sunday 01 August 2004 07:13 pm, Gregory Seidman wrote: eat if Debian chose to begin supporting > > I can't see Debian supporting MacOS X directly, since I believe there is > some bad blood between Apple and Debian. Darwin, however, is a > reasonable BSD to support, and any work done there could

Keyboboard Illumination on Powerbook 5,4

2004-06-26 Thread Alexander Wirt
k, neither automatically nor manual. Has anybody an idea to get it working or where to look in pbuttonsd (I have the last release) or in the kernel source? Thank you very much Alexander Wirt

Clamav on PPC RS/6000 running woody

2004-06-10 Thread Alexander Rau (work)
Hi: Has anybody installed clamav successfully on this platform? I am running into problems, configure gives me the following error: "Please install zlib and zlib-devel packages." zlib is installed. I also tried apt-get and installed clamav but there is no clamd deamon present after install. A

Clamav on PPC RS/6000 running woody

2004-06-10 Thread Alexander Rau (private)
Hi: Has anybody installed clamav successfully on this platform? I am running into problems, configure gives me the following error: "Please install zlib and zlib-devel packages." zlib is installed. I also tried apt-get and installed clamav but there is no clamd deamon present after install. A

RE: apt-get install smtpd fails

2004-06-08 Thread Alexander Rau (private)
I tried apt-get install exim4 E: Couldn't find package exim4 How would I get it installed? Thanks AR -Original Message- From: Cedric Pradalier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 4:43 PM To: Alexander Rau (private) Subject: Re: apt-get install smtpd fails Yo

apt-get install smtpd fails

2004-06-08 Thread Alexander Rau (private)
Hi: I am trying to install smtpd. I am getting the following error. Setting up smtpd (2.0-5) ... Stopping Mail Transport Agent: sendmail. cp: cannot stat `/lib/ld-linux.so.2': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing smtpd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error

Re: Live-CD for PPC ?

2004-05-24 Thread Alexander Solla
Yes, there's a live Knoppix for PPC available. Check out: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3646 Looks like it's a dead project though--that link is over a year old and Knoppix PPC is still an alpha. Alex

Woody Crippled my iMac

2004-05-22 Thread Alexander Solla
Hi everybody, I tried to install Woody on an old (2001) iMac. The installation went fine, until I was asked to reboot. When I rebooted, yaboot said that it could not load hd:3, /vmlinux, for it is an "Unknown or corrupt filesystem." I tried booting from the installation disc, but that failed.

Re: Fan control on ibook2

2004-03-17 Thread Alexander Clausen
Hi On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:03:12AM +0100, Michael Flaig wrote: > Hi, > > is you patch ibook specific, or could it also work with the tibook? > I have an tibook 1Ghz, where can i read what sensor chip is integrated? Look for a directory called "fan" in /proc/device-tree/ Alex

please respin mozilla-thunderbird on powerpc buildd

2004-03-12 Thread Alexander Sack
ildd/mozilla-thunderbird-0.5/build-dir/mozilla/netwerk/build2' [/snip] Please someone give the package another chance & reschedule it on the buildd Thx Alex -- PGP messages preferred. | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Alexander Sack | : :' : The univers

Re: MSNBC_Auto_Response: Thank you for contacting TODAY with Katie Couric and Matt Lauer

2004-03-03 Thread Alexander Winston
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 12:27 -0500, Belinda Lazarony wrote: > I am very excited to share a new and powerful concept with you. I am a RN > in a NICU in the Northern Virginia/ DC area. I have had the opportunity to > see what the newest technology in ultrasound can do for new parents. > Especially

Re: PBButtonsd: Support for ambient light sensors

2004-02-18 Thread Alexander Clausen
Hi Matthias On Di, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:13:29 +0100, Matthias Grimm wrote: > > Some time ago there was a thread here that discussed an deamon > supporting the ambient light sensors of recent Powerbooks. I was > asked to implement this feature in pbbuttonsd and so did I. > Thanks a lot! Works OK

Re: rivafb on 12" pbook

2004-02-02 Thread Alexander Clausen
On Mo, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:33:53 +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:18:55PM +0100, Alexander Clausen wrote: > > Yes, I see those "IN from bad port" messages, and no, the patch didn't > > help, still only a black screen. > And you do have

Re: rivafb on 12" pbook

2004-02-02 Thread Alexander Clausen
On Mo, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:35:14 +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 07:57:18PM +0100, Alexander Clausen wrote: > > On my pb 17", it's even worse (same pciid). When I start up Linux, > > the screen turns black. The backlight seems to be on, though. X

Re: rivafb on 12" pbook

2004-02-02 Thread Alexander Clausen
Hi Guido On Mo, Feb 02, 2004 at 06:45:18 +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 05:35:18PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: > > I'm having trouble getting 2.6.2-rc1-ben1 to work on my 12" pbook On my pb 17", it's even worse (same pciid). When I start up Linux, the screen turns black.

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-27 Thread Alexander Clausen
Hi On Sa, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:56:41 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 00:22, Alexander Clausen wrote: > > On Fr, Jan 16, 2004 at 05:39:48 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > > It seem to be fairly easy to drive over i2c,

Re: Newbie Question: Installing debianppc

2004-01-22 Thread Alexander G. Schilp
ot.bin in your systemfolder and rename it to ramdisk.image.gz remove the CD start bootx activate the checkbox No video driver click on Options --> a new box will open use specified RAM Disk --> choose... choose the correct file in your systemfolder click ok and then click on Linux Alexander

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-20 Thread Alexander Clausen
On Di, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:20:58 -0300, Federico Gamio wrote: > Check a new version of lmud > http://isadora.homelinux.net/lmud/lmud-0.02-fg-pmu.tar.gz > > Now if you are on batts it dims the lcd to save power. > > Enjoy > Nice :) But we really should try to cook up a patch for pbbuttonsd, becau

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-18 Thread Alexander Clausen
On So, Jan 18, 2004 at 01:23:26 +0100, Andreas Jaggi wrote: > I've got coded a quick'n'dirty daemon for changing keyboard backlight, > based on lmu.c. > > Its at http://waterwave.ch/weblog/stuff/lmud-0.01.tar.gz > > Try it an turn of the light in your room :-) > Hey, nice thingy ;) > > If it d

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-17 Thread Alexander Clausen
Hi On Fr, Jan 16, 2004 at 06:56:23 -0300, Federico Gamio wrote: > Hi, > > Well I can't make lmu work. > I have kerenl 2.6.1-ben1 with i2c-dev support and /dev/i2c-0 with mayor > and minor 89,0 > When I execute as root lmu then I have this result: > # ./lmu > left sensor:0 > right sensor: 0

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-16 Thread Alexander Clausen
On Fr, Jan 16, 2004 at 05:39:48 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > It seem to be fairly easy to drive over i2c, somebody is already hacking > something afaik. > Yes, that somebody is me ;) I've got the i2c read/write parts ready, it's only lacking automatic detection of the i2c bus number

Re: [patch] Brightness control on 12" albook

2004-01-16 Thread Alexander Clausen
On Fr, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:39:10 +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > So how exactly does the patch work fine for you? On what type of riva > card? > Its a GeForce4 440 Go 64M. The framebuffer console never worked, but backlight control worked, at least for my first boot. When I tried to boot today,

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-15 Thread Alexander Clausen
Hi Rusty On Do, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:54:24 +0100, rusty wrote: > > Hi folks i'm wondering if anybody here knows anything about a near > future > support for alubook's keyboard backlight. I couldn't found any information > about that in the past. > I'm working on it, my little prog

Re: [patch] Brightness control on 12" albook

2004-01-14 Thread Alexander Clausen
Hi On Di, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:06:45 +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: > The patch at: > > http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-ppc/kernel/rivafb-backlight.diff > implements brightness control for 2.4. The scaling is not perfect but > works. I "ported" the patch to 2.6, it works fine here (t

Re: Re: swap ctrl<->caps lock problem

2003-12-31 Thread Alexander Meyer (spot-media AG)
input_sync(&ahid->input); return; + } else { + break; + } #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_PMAC case ADB_KEY_POWER_OLD: /* Power key on PBook 3400 needs remapping */ switch(pmac_call_feature(PMAC_FTR_GET_MB_INFO, --snap-- hth, ali. --

Sound in iBook

2003-12-02 Thread Alexander Dryakhlov
I just installed Woody on my blueberry iBook. I'm just having problems with the sound. Well, it's nonexistent under Linux. And when KDE starts, for example, it reports that it will be sending the sound output to nill device. Could someone recommend a "working" configuration for this particular t

Re: Rip CD with an iBook G3

2003-11-28 Thread Alexander Winston
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 10:13, Lucas Moulin wrote: > Hi all, > > I got a iBook G3 900 and I wanted to know if there's any graphical > software to rip CDs, because a lot don't work due to the special kind of > cdrom drive that's in this computer. Is there any, or should I use > cdparanoia or somethin

Re: Netscape 4.7x for Debian/PPC?

2003-11-09 Thread Alexander Winston
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 20:46, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Nov 09 2003, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > And with this in > > /etc/privoxy/user.action > > { \ > > +hide-user-agent{Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)} \ > > } > > / > > > > > > every site will think I'm on IE and NT ... :) >

Re: Netscape 4.7x for Debian/PPC?

2003-11-09 Thread Alexander Winston
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 15:23, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > Greetings, > > There is a favorite web site that unfortunately has hardcoded their scripting > to > specifically respond only to IE 5.x or Navigator 4.7x, so I was wondering if > there ever was a release of Netscape 4.7x for Linux/PPC? Try

RE: Getting Dual Independent Heads to work on Debian(sid) on iBoo k

2003-06-12 Thread Alexander Stohr
Title: RE: Getting Dual Independent Heads to work on Debian(sid) on iBook I dont really know driver or chipset in detail, but its the way that it needs programming so that the timing for the LCD does match. black or striped or whatever effects do indcate wront timing for the flat pane display.

Re: installation on powerbook 17''

2003-06-10 Thread Alexander Clausen
Hi, On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:50:28 -0400, Panagiotis G. Sebos wrote: > Hello, > > I recently got a 17'' powerbook and looking into > installing linux on it. > > Has anyone installed debian in the 17''? > I installed using the iBook kernel image from http://www.ppckernel.org/kernel.php?id=2

Re: battery of ibook2

2002-11-26 Thread Alexander Stagun
I called Apple Germany. The next day I got a new battery per mail: Problem solved. iBook 600 CD Radeon (purchased 05/2002) If you need further information concerning the exchange procedure with Apple Germany, feel free to send my a PM (in german). Regards -- Alexander Stagun

Re: PowerMac 7300/200 + gtcd - CD = freeze

2002-11-22 Thread Alexander Shumakovitch
SI cable, that would put > your SCSI disk also on the slower bus. This is a nice idea, thanks! I'll try this. 5MB/sec should be enough even for a 12X CD drive, shouldn't it? To find another cable is also not a problem. Thanks for the info! --- Alexander.

PowerMac 7300/200 + gtcd - CD = freeze

2002-11-21 Thread Alexander Shumakovitch
way. The box has 128MB of RAM and the kernel is custom compiled 2.4.19. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Just an appropriate reference would suffice, of course. Thanks, --- Alexander

Airport card on a powerbook

2002-11-21 Thread Bradley Alexander
this program is using version 15. Some things may be broken... How can I get the version 13/version 15 issue synced and get the two cards talking to each other? Thanks, -- --Brad Bradley M. Alexander| D

Re: pmu driver

2002-11-14 Thread Alexander Stagun
ess again. So it was definitely a hardware (i.e. battery) problem. When I called Apple Europe (actually in Germany), I told them, I did reset the PMU/PRAM and booted the Hardware Test-CD. So they finally agreed that it must be the battery and sent me a new one -- I did not mention the Linux on my ibook though. Regards, -- Alexander Stagun

Re: pmu driver

2002-11-13 Thread Alexander Stagun
these LEDS? The LEDs indicated the same sudden level decrease. Additionally, I could reproduce that behaviour under Mac OSX. So now I think, this rather is a hardware issue. I called Apple and they will send me a replacement battery. We will see then, if it was just a bad battery. Regards -- Alexander Stagun

Re: pmu driver

2002-11-07 Thread Alexander Stagun
t (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Power), but to no avail. Regards, -- Alexander Stagun

MountX?

2002-11-01 Thread Alexander Stagun
MountX. Is MountX also deprecated? Are there any alternatives? Regards -- Alexander Stagun

changing partition type

2002-09-20 Thread Alexander Stagun
56.0k) /dev/hda9 Apple_HFS MacOS X ( 9.9G) /dev/hda10Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap (800.0k) /dev/hda11Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap(512.0M) /dev/hda12Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root( 8.2G) Regards -- Alexander Stagun

Re: getting a printer working

2002-09-14 Thread Alexander Stagun
spooling system (CUPS, lpd, lprng etc.) and filters. Take a look at http://www.linuxprinting.org Regards -- Alexander Stagun

Re: module installation at system boot ?

2002-09-14 Thread Alexander Stagun
en adding a file with what I thought were correct entries to > /etc/modutils. But neither try worked at boot up ... Putting that modules in /etc/modules should load them during boot up. Perhaps those modules need some options or a specific load order? Regards -- Alexander Stagun

Re: 2 problems

2002-09-13 Thread Alexander Stagun
at automagically. You can force X11 forwarding on the client side with "ssh -X". Regards -- Alexander Stagun

Re: Can't find the alsa module snd-powermac

2002-07-26 Thread Alexander Stagun
ght now, though also it has some problems. Cheers -- Alexander Stagun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing Window Maker

2002-07-24 Thread Alexander Meyer
> I entered this command, and /usr/bin/wmaker is > selected, however Sawfish along with Gnome still > starts after rebooting the machine. Also, how > would disable the Gnome desktop along with setting > Window Maker as the window manager? you have to put wmaker(or /usr/bin/wmaker) into your .xin

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