Hello Benjamin,
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:35:08AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 23:42 +0000, Jochen Voss wrote:
> > Why would this be a good idea?
>
> [some good reasons]
I don't feel strongly about this, so feel free to push whatever approac
Hello Benjamin,
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:23:53AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On the other hand, "Fn" is handled in hardware for ADB keyboards and by
> the kernel (simulating hardware) afaik, in OS X, and I suspect it might
> be a good idea to do the same, that is, have a translation m
Hello,
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 08:34:11AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Can you be more precise ? What is not "working" with the existing code ?
I did not try 2.6.15, but with earlier kernels pressing "fn" was noticed
neither by xev under X11 nor by showkeys on the console. Therefore yo
Hi Michael,
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:42:29AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> - newinput = kmalloc(sizeof(struct input_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
> + newinput = input_allocate_device();
> if (!newinput)
> goto cleanup;
> - memset(newinput, 0, sizeof(struct input_dev));
>
Hello Yves-Alexis,
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:48:45PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> as some people now, the fn-key.patch [0] for powerbooks doesnt work with
> 2.6.14 kernels. I've seen some threads here with people trying to
> correct this patch. Is there any progress ?
Marc-Christian Peterse
Hello,
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:08:05PM +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> Very STRANGE: Note the double http:// in the links above. When I clic
> on them, my firefox under linux redirects to http://www.microsoft.com!!!
nice, works for me, too. We should work on Microsoft internet explorer,
so that
Hello Bejamin,
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 06:01:05PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> It is a technical one. How is userland supposed to differenciate it from
> an external keyboard with a working right control ?
Oh, I didn't think about this. This is of course a problem.
Is it true then that
Dear Stelian,
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 07:37:19AM +0200, Stelian Pop wrote:
> A modified and both technicaly and aestheticaly correct patch was
> already merged in the latest stable kernel. But it requires a modified X
> input driver in order to work.
>
> Wasn't this already discussed in
> http://
Hello Sven,
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:54:43PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> Maybe a big help would be to get it into the debian kernel to start with,
> don't you think ?
This would be great!
Somebody was unhappy because the patch maps the fn-key to the
(otherwise unused on PowerBooks) keycode fo
Hello Elimar,
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 07:40:21PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> OK, the for 2.6.14 revised patch was attached to my previous mail.
> I know your homepage very well ;-) It helped me to got the keys
> working on my PowerBook5,6 in .12. But in .14 there is a new
>
> #define HID_Q
Hello Elimar,
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 07:21:39PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> Has one got a working fn and eject key working on the above
> mentioned kernels?
I assume that this is for an Apple Powerbook. In this case, yes, for
me both keys work with a patched 2.6.13.2 kernel. The eject k
Hello,
I will move into a new house. For the first two weeks or so
I will have no broadband access. Therefore the following question
suddenly became interesting for me:
Did anybody manage to use the internal modem on one of the new
powerbooks? It seems to show up neither in the lspci output no
Hello,
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:59:54PM +0200, Stelian Pop wrote:
> You can map the 'CtrlR' linux keycode to the 'SuperL' X keycode, and I
> believe it will work.
Yes, this is what I do with my keymaps at http://seehuhn.de/comp/powerbook/ .
It works without problem.
All the best,
Jochen
--
htt
Hello Stelian,
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:56:37PM +0200, Stelian Pop wrote:
> I had a few hours to spend and I made it work again.
Thanks a lot! I tried it and it works beautifully for me.
> Should I push this in the mainstream kernel ?
I think that this would be very helpful.
All the best,
Joc
Hello Johannes,
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:51:16AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Can it be a kernel problem, as the fn-key not working correctly ?
>
> Yes, I have a patch for that, but you'll want to do some research into
> this issue before blindly applying it:
> http://johannes.sipsolutions.n
Hello,
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 07:39:05PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Many maintainers (not all, though) are happy if you tell them in a
> good way what's wrong as this help them to figure out where the problem lays,
> a good bug description (and maybe a quick hack to fix it) is often
> enoug
Hi Johannes,
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 03:14:37PM +0200, Johannes H. Jensen wrote:
> Have you had any luck in resolving it yet?
No, none unfortunately.
My only idea is to take the 2.6.12-rc kernels one by one, to find out
in which one it breaks and then to look at the corresponding patch.
Maybe som
Hello Matthew,
Sorry about the slow answer.
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 10:20:37AM +0100, Matthew Denner wrote:
> Matthew Denner wrote:
> > When I apply the X keymapping using 'xkbcomp gb.xkb :0' I find that
> > alt+any arrow key does the 'named' keys (home, end, page up, page down)
> > but fn+any ar
Hi Corsac,
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:50:46AM +0200, Corsac wrote:
> Are you fine with your keymap ? I have a new powerbook, I use 2.6.12
> kernel with fn key and fr keymap frome linux-france.org and I have some
> issues with it ( and @/# are inverted, the function key doesnt work
> very well...).
Hi Bernhard,
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:28:53AM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Also note the difference in interpretation, I have Control_R.
The difference is probably caused by my keymaps
from http://seehuhn.de/powerbook/index#keyboard .
I map the fn-key to Super_L there.
All the best,
Jochen
-
Hello Johannes,
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:43:54AM +0200, Johannes H. Jensen wrote:
> xev output when fn+down (pgdown) is pressed:
> KeyPress event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0xc1,
> state 0x0, keycode 109 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES,
>
> PropertyNotify event, serial 2
Hello Elimar,
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 07:18:31PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 the mental interface of Jochen Voss told:
> > currently I try to switch my laptop to kernel 2.6.12.
> > One of the problems I encountered is, that the fn-key
> > does no
Hello,
currently I try to switch my laptop to kernel 2.6.12.
One of the problems I encountered is, that the fn-key
does not work properly under X11 any more.
I use plain 2.6.12 with the appended patch applied. This
patch is my attempt to port Johannes Berg's fn-key patch
to the kernel version 2.
Hi Wolf,
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 01:18:03PM +0200, Wolf Drechsel wrote:
> "." meant more output, as a
> mount /dev/sda1 -t hfsplus /hfs >& /tmp/hfsmountoutput
> didnt make a reasonable file (how do I do that
> correctly?), I had to copy all from the screen
> and left out the less important l
Hello Johannes,
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:32:53PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Heh, possibly. What about X then? I don't get any x event when I push
> that button.
No idea about X. I noticed that keycodes in X are different from the
one on the console, so there must be some magic going on. Bu
Hello,
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 08:43:08PM +0200, marco wrote:
> Kernel includes, maybe.
> include/linux/input.h:
> #define KEY_FN 0x1d0
>
> There is also a drivers/macintosh/adbhid.c:
> #define ADB_KEY_FN 0x3f
>
> this is the only context I recall for the KEY_FN definiti
Hello Johannes,
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 06:33:45PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 12:31 +0100, Jochen Voss wrote:
> > > So I decided to map it to KEY_FN instead, which almost works. I have a
> > > patch for pbbuttonsd to accept fn as ano
Hi Johannes,
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 04:29:03PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> I've been thinking about the fn key a bit more -- I mapped it to
> control_r which is just a hack and I wanted to change that.
Yes, this feels like a hack.
> So I decided to map it to KEY_FN instead, which almost works.
Hi Johannes,
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 09:20:33PM +0200, Johannes H. Jensen wrote:
> Btw, my numlock button works perfectly with Jochen Voss' XKB keymap.
I am happy to hear this ;-)
All the best,
Jochen
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Hi Sven,
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:47:48PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Ok, i am uploading 2.6.11-1 today or tomorrow, once it hits the archive, it
> would be nice to have all of those issues filled correctly as a bug report
> against kernel-source-2.6.11 with a [powerpc] tag in the subject.
here
Hi,
sorry about the delay. The following is for an March 2005 Powerbook5,6 with
15 inch screen.
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 10:31:14AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> If you have a newer machine, that is a machine released on or after
> 2002, can you please send me the output of:
>
> echo `c
Hello Marco,
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 07:25:14PM +0200, Marco Vignati wrote:
> does anyone knows if there is a way to configure yaboot
> to boot mac os x verbosely?
> (wath is in mac os x is done with the command
> /usr/sbin/nvram boot-args="-v").
I did not try this, but the nvsetenv utility from t
Hello Matthew,
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 09:25:46AM +, Matthew Denner wrote:
> I don't know whether anyone would find this useful but I took Johannes
> patch and have started to provide the 'fn' key within the hid code so
> that it acts as a modifier, rather than maps to right control.
I see tha
Hello Johannes,
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 07:30:12AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Jochen: You might want to add to your page that so far we don't know how
> the acceleration sensor can be queried, it is reportedly I2C but I know
> nothing else.
Yes, now the the machine runs at full speed I may add
Hi Ben,
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 08:45:20AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Have you actually tried the patch ? The previous was just using "reg"
> property for the gpio offset, which is wrong, it should add 0x50 to it,
> which is what read_gpio() does...
Sorry, I probably suffered from hall
Hi Ben,
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 06:28:05PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Hrm... Indeed, the code looks bogus. Try replacing:
>
> reg = (u32 *)get_property(volt_gpio_np, "reg", NULL);
> voltage_gpio = *reg;
>
> With
>
> if (volt_gpio_np)
> voltage_gpio =
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:40:27PM +0930, John Steele Scott wrote:
> cpufreq drivers for ppc only support two speeds at the moment. So if you ask
> for 200MHz, it will still give you 750MHz.
I think that this is a hardware property of the CPU and not a property
of the driver (at least for the
Hello Bejamin,
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 04:08:21PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Another entry could be:
> >
> > awacs PowerBook G4no no
> > (post Feb 2005)
>
> No, this is definitely not an awacs chipset. It's some form of i2s based
> chi
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 04:13:15PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 15:19 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > > Regarding overall pmac ALSA support, is there a table that shows what
> > > works and what is broken for
Hi John,
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 07:50:31AM +1030, John Steele Scott wrote:
> It doesn't show up in Linux, but if you boot into OpenFirmware you might find
> it. In OpenFirmware, try "dev /cpus/PowerPC,[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to change to
> the CPU node,
> and then "words" to show you what commands ar
Hello Michael,
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 09:11:29PM -0800, Michael wrote:
> I did change my /var/apt/sources.list file, or /etc, I forget whether it
> was in /etc or /var, ...
It is in /etc. All the configuration files you ever want to edit
should be in /etc.
> .., and being the fan of wiping and
Hello Sven,
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:47:48PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Ok, i am uploading 2.6.11-1 today or tomorrow, once it hits the archive, it
> would be nice to have all of those issues filled correctly as a bug report
> against kernel-source-2.6.11 with a [powerpc] tag in the subject.
Ok
Hello,
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 01:18:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Well, it still is a kernel/X/whatever bug, not a hardware one, right ?
Just for the record: i see this to, maybe once every 25 times I boot
Linux. And never under MacOS X.
It happens early during boot: the yaboot prompt is st
Hello John,
thank you for your answer.
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 03:45:53PM +1030, John Steele Scott wrote:
> There is not really any proper documentation about this stuff, but
> the source code for Darwin is available on the Apple developer web
> site, so you can see exactly what they do. The pac
Hello Joerg,
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:29:28PM +, Joerg Sommer wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 16:01 +0000, Jochen Voss wrote:
> >
> >> From other people's posts I conclude that bogomips should approxi
Hello,
as indicated by my previous postings I am trying to find out why
Ben's cpuspeed patch [1] crashes my powerbook. An updated description about
my machine can be found at [2].
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/03/msg00554.html
[2] http://seehuhn.de/comp/powerbook/
The pro
Hello again,
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 06:22:30PM +, Jochen Voss wrote:
> The part I disabled is really simple, now. The commands are
> for switching to high speed:
>
> pmac_call_feature(PMAC_FTR_WRITE_GPIO, NULL, voltage_gpio, 0x05);
> msleep(1);
> low_
Hello again, Ben!
you suggested the following change:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:33:42PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> - /* Check for 7447A based iBook G4 or PowerBook */
> - if (machine_is_compatible("PowerBook6,5") ||
> - machine_is_compatible("PowerBook6,4") ||
> -
Hello Ben,
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:45:12AM +, Jochen Voss wrote:
> Can I do something else to help tracking this down?
I am currently in the process of figuring out how your patch crashes
my machine. Since I know of no better strategy I am applying the
patch piecemeal and boot with e
Hi Ben,
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:33:42PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> + /* Look for voltage GPIO */
> volt_gpio_np = of_find_node_by_name(NULL, "cpu-vcore-select");
> + reg = (u32 *)get_property(volt_gpio_np, "reg", NULL);
> + voltage_gpio = *reg;
> if (!volt_gp
Hello Michael,
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:50:02AM -0500, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Why would you assign the return value of a function that returns an int
> to a char, be it signed or unsigned?
Why do you think I would?
I guess the program's author probably did this because the return
value is a cha
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:05:43AM -0500, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 15:19 +0100, Wolfram Quester wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:56:38PM +0100, Lo???c Le Guyader wrote:
> > > Le 18 March 2005, Wolfram Quester, ? bout, prit son clavier pour
> > > taper sur son ?cran:
>
Hello Linjay,
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:30:33AM -, linay long wrote:
> Could you please provide link to the source code for user level
> calls like socket,bind ... which calls kernel functions sys_socket
> and sys_bind etc.
The good thing about free software is, that it comes with the source,
Hello Mike,
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:45:37AM -0800, Michael wrote:
> This may be a dumb question, but is it possible currently to build and
> install glibc and binutils and such on debian?
Sure, every Debian system comes with them pre-installed.
> My passion is towards emulation, and was total
Hello Wee-Jin,
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:32:08PM +, Wee-Jin Goh wrote:
> Have you tried taking a look at alsamixer? With my Powerbook 12", I had
> to use alsamixer to unmute some things (can't remember off the top of my
> head) ...
Yes, I tried alsamixer, but unmuting everything and turning u
Hello Martin,
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:44:55PM +, Martin Habets wrote:
> If you have MAC OS installed, maybe you can unmute it there?
> (and hopefully preserve that over a reboot...)
Yes, I tried this, but it didn't work.
I only hear the annoying boot-up sound, but sound does
still not work
Hello Jonathan,
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:52:36PM +0100, Chocron J. wrote:
> Nope, however, the card seems to be detected correctly, and the
> /dev/ entries get created, my guess is this is an API thing, I think
> we can't unmute it...
yes, I suspect something similar. If I try to play a sound i
Hello Ben,
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:01:04AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 16:01 +0000, Jochen Voss wrote:
> > The last displayed messages are
> >
> > openpic: external
> > openpic: spurious
> > openpic: exit
> >
Hi Ben,
I seem to be suffering from this issue:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : 7447A, altivec supported
clock : 1666MHz
revision: 1.2 (pvr 8003 0102)
bogomips: 829.44
machine : PowerBook5
Hello Tamas,
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:48:42AM -0500, Tamas K Papp wrote:
> Thanks, but maybe I was not clear enough. I know nothing about packet
> filtering. If I use iptables, I am likely to set it up with a lot of
> holes in it, even after reading the tutorials. I was looking for
> something
Hello,
I have one of these very new Apple powerbooks. One of the problems I
encountered is, that sound is not working under Linux.
Since Sven suggested in a recent email that this might be a
configuration problem on my side I want to make sure: did anybody
manage to get sound working on a post-F
Hello Sven,
I tried you new 2.6.11-0.2 kernel packages. Summary of the problems:
no trackpad, no sound, no fn-key. Details about my configuration
(dmesg output etc.) can be found at
http://seehuhn.de/comp/powerbook/2.6.11-0.2/
In addition to the "real" problems below I noticed a small pack
Hello Sven,
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:43:47AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:18:46PM +0000, Jochen Voss wrote:
> > 1) the trackpad does not work :-(
> >
> > Using the trackpad has no visible effect, no input arrives at
> > /dev/input/mice,
Hello again,
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:18:46PM +, Jochen Voss wrote:
> The dmesg output contains the following lines which look like error
> messages:
I mananged to overlook the one which might be most relevant:
PCI: Enabling device 0001:10:1a.0 ( -> 0002)
ohci_hcd 000
Hello Jonathan,
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 02:54:44AM +0100, Chocron J. wrote:
> ... So far, after about 3 weeks of fiddling with the
> various machine's settings, I have kind of acertained that the following
> hardware does not work (even with 2.6.11.2) :
> - Soundcard : it is recognized, but I am
Hello Gabriel,
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:29:33AM +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:18:46PM +0000, Jochen Voss wrote:
> > 3) the "fn" key emits no scan code
> >
> > I tried "showkey -s" on the console. Pressing "fn&quo
Hello Sven,
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 07:49:38PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> I am in the process of uploading a pre-release 2.6.11 debian/powerpc
> kernel to
>
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.11-0.1
>
> And altough it is not yet fully ready to be uploaded (mostly because
> kernel
Hello Colin,
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:27:35PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote:
> On 08 Mar 2005 at 11h03, Jochen Voss wrote:
> > Am I in danger of destroying my hardware in this situation?
>
> Not really, there's a hardware cut-off threshold anyway, but it's quite
> high
Hello,
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:13:09PM +, Jochen Voss wrote:
> the weirdest problem of my new Linux installation on a powerbook is
> the following: "xterm" does not work! It opens a window but then dies
> immediately with the following error message.
>
>
Hello Moritz,
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:00:06PM +0100, Moritz Armingeon wrote:
> On 19:35 Mon 07 Mar , Matthias Schulz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > when i am booting the 2.6.11 kernel, i am missing the
> > /sys/devices/temperature
> > entry. Does anybody know, whether the feature is missing in 2
Hello Vincent,
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:43:35AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
> On 2005-03-03 20:13:09 +, Jochen Voss wrote:
> > the weirdest problem of my new Linux installation on a powerbook is
> > the following: "xterm" does not work! It opens a window b
Hello,
the weirdest problem of my new Linux installation on a powerbook is
the following: "xterm" does not work! It opens a window but then dies
immediately with the following error message.
xterm: fatal pty error 23 (errno=22) on tty /dev/pts/1
Does anybody else see this problem? Is there
Hello,
since yesterday I am proud owner of a shiny new Apple powerbook G4.
My attempts to run Debian on it are summarised at
http://seehuhn.de/comp/powerbook/
My question for now is: is there a simple way to get the keyboard working
correctly
under X11? I have a British keyboard and thus I
Hello Tom,
thank you for your answer.
On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 09:08:13AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> # getfdprm
> DS HD sect=18
> # setfdprm -p /dev/fd0 7
> Usage: setfdprm [-c] [-p] [-y] [-n] drive [geometry]
> Type setfdprm --help to get a more complete help
> # floppycontrol -P
> disk_writabl
Hello,
there is a bug report for superformat from the fdutils
package, which is specific to the powerpc port. As I do
not have access to powerpc hardware I need some help
here. It would be nice, if someone with access to floppy
hardware on a powerpc machine could help me out.
The original bug r
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