Re: Bug#322821: libpng12-0: new version breaks pdflatex

2005-09-27 Thread James Ballantine
Johannes Berg wrote: > Upgrade to anything >= 1.2.8rel-1.0.1 and gimp/imagemagick will work. > But at the same time, pdflatex won't work > > So, here's a table > > libpng12-0 versiongimp works pdflatex works > 1.2.8rel-1no yes > 1.2.8rel-1.0.1

Re: sudden power loss on tibook

2005-09-11 Thread James Ballantine
Michael Schmitz wrote: >>appear to be fixed at full CPU speed ('performance' profile), and >>occasionally shut down spontaneously anyway. > > > Odd. Unless cpufreqd would drop the CPU frequency only for a very short > period - anything in the logs about frequency switching? I've been running cpu

Re: sudden power loss on tibook

2005-09-05 Thread James Ballantine
Michael Schmitz wrote: >>>host initiated PMU comms - that would mean we have a lockup happen while >>>talking to the PMU. Otherwise, it might be just any lockup with interrupts >>>disabled (does it happen on the text console as well? Does the cursor keep >>>blinking?) >> >>My system isn't locking u

Re: sudden power loss on tibook

2005-09-05 Thread James Ballantine
Michael Schmitz wrote: Odd. Unless cpufreqd would drop the CPU frequency only for a very short period - anything in the logs about frequency switching? cpufreqd didn't have logging enabled - I've started it up again with full logging and will report if/when there's another shutdown. Not re

Re: sudden power loss on tibook

2005-09-03 Thread James Ballantine
Michel Dänzer wrote: My assumption is that the sudden shutdowns are triggered by some kind of race condition when switching CPU speed. If powernowd switches less often than cpudyn, it may indeed be significantly less likely to trigger. Of course, cpudyn could be configured to switch less often to

Re: sudden power loss on tibook

2005-09-03 Thread James Ballantine
Michael Schmitz wrote: Heh, that might just be Michel's probem. Try powernowd instead of cpufreqd, or maybe just without cpufreqd. I've told mouseemu "-typing-block 0" - is that the same as disabling it? All this does is tell mouseemu to pass through any key event it gets to see. Which isn'

Re: sudden power loss on tibook

2005-09-03 Thread James Ballantine
Michael Schmitz wrote: Do you use cpudyn to control CPU speed? Michel Dänzer brought this up, and that's another known cause of lockups. No, but I use cpufreqd. All my power loss events have occurred while the machine was on AC power, and have occurred while using both 'performance' and 'powe

Re: sudden power loss on tibook

2005-09-03 Thread James Ballantine
Michael Schmitz wrote: Do we have a clear picture of the hardware/software combination this bug is triggered by? In particular: - only tibook? What about iBook or later (Al-) PowerBooks? - running pbbuttonsd (version?), no pmud present? - running pmud (version?), no pbbuttonsd present? - run

Re: sudden power loss on tibook

2005-09-02 Thread James Ballantine
Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: Jesus Climent wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:22:36PM +0200, stefan kersten wrote: i think this has been reported before: on 2.6.11 my 1ghz tibook occasionally suffers from complete power loss, resulting in a hard shutdown. on reboot, the clock is reset.

Re: Modify the brightness without the use of Framebuffer

2005-08-22 Thread James Ballantine
This may be a complete red herring, but I found with my 2003 12" powerbook that if you use the riva fb, you can suspend to disk fine, as long as you switch to a console (ctrl-alt-F1 or whatever) before suspending for the first time. After that you can suspend straight from X with no problems as