Re: Need to get data out of damaged iBook

2003-05-14 Thread Jack Moffitt
> As far as I know, there is no sleep patch bug. > > There may be a HW defect on some series of iBooks causing them to > eventually fry on sleep, but afaik, this is not related to a sw bug, > and may happen with OSX as well... It seems that way yes. I apologize for jumping to conclusions but unt

Re: Need to get data out of damaged iBook

2003-05-13 Thread Jack Moffitt
> Actually, this problem happens in Mac OS X as well. If you check the > Apple iBook discussion forums under the Display topic, you'll find > hundreds of users with similar problems. In fact, my iBook has the > exact same symptoms. > > From what I've read, and from friends whose iBooks have h

Re: Need to get data out of damaged iBook

2003-05-13 Thread Jack Moffitt
> Something happened to my iBook 2.2 - stripes started to appear on the > screen and then it crashed. When I turned it off an tried to turn on > again screen was just black. After I took out the battery and left the > computer with no power for some an hour I was able to start the computer > and al

gtk1 apps cause X to segfault

2003-05-12 Thread Jack Moffitt
Lately (I'm not sure how long this has been going on), anytime I run a gtk1 app, X will segfault. This only seems to happen on my powerpc machine and not on my x86 machine. It even happens when running apps remotely (running xmms from my x86 machine on my powerpc machine also segfaults). I'm runn

Re: ibook 2.2 trouble w/ -ben9 kernel

2003-03-28 Thread Jack Moffitt
> > Mh... I thought that ben9 included the sleep patch :-?. At least my > > iBook sleeps without any extra effort (module the sound volume, which > > is somewhat faded, and I have to adjust it manually when it wake up) > > Yes, the sleep code is included in -ben9 When you first posted the sleep p

Re: ibook 2.2 trouble w/ -ben9 kernel

2003-03-28 Thread Jack Moffitt
> In both cases, those are iBook 800's, right ? iBook 800, yes. jack.

Re: ibook 2.2 trouble w/ -ben9 kernel

2003-03-27 Thread Jack Moffitt
> Thinking that it was just a kernel problem, I zapped the PRAM again. > I reverted to my previous 2.4.20-ben2 kernel, hoping to cure the > madness. However, after a few minutes of use, I got the same display > corruption and the system froze completely. > > Zapped the PRAM again and booted into

Re: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9

2003-03-16 Thread Jack Moffitt
> a slight quirk reported by some others.. when it comes back from suspend in X, > there's a screen with some red and black which disappears in a second or two > and the original desktop is restored.. which is fine with me... I have this quirk too. It's not troubling. The sound is not muted on r