Re: iBook G3 owners

2005-04-10 Thread Kristian Peters
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Do you have CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK in your .config ? I don't know what's up > with X, what video chip do you have ? Did X broke with the latest kernel > or was it always broken ? Can you try figuing out what kernel version > broke it ? (and please CC

Re: iBook G3 owners

2005-04-09 Thread Kristian Peters
Hi. I own an iBook 2.2 900 MHz and did some testing with your recent patches. Thermal management is somewhat better as before (2.6.8). My iBook isn't getting much hot anymore. btw: I'm using cpudynd to control cpu speed. X doesn't work. I only see some wierd flickering when starting X. Somehow

Re: iBook G3 owners

2005-04-07 Thread Kristian Peters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. First, where can I get the latest bk snapshot of the kernel ? Or is the latest -rc2 enough ? Can anyone send me a working .config to test the patches ? Somehow any of my self-compiled 2.6 kernels won't boot. Don't know the reason... *Kristian

Re: Debian 3.0_r4

2005-03-13 Thread Kristian Peters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael schrieb: > what are they calling the 3.0_r4 release? I am trying to install sarge > and that is the one I am currently downloading. So the question is is > that Sarge, or just another Woody variation? Debian Woody is called 3.0 ! r4 means th

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-18 Thread Kristian Peters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 18.02.2005 um 11:56 schrieb Charles-Edouard Ruault: you can try the Xmodmap file that Bruno sent me. It works like a charm on KDE for my French keyboard. I was getting desperate to have a decent keyboard ! I'm attaching the file. Yes that helped. I

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-18 Thread Kristian Peters
Charles-Edouard Ruault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > thanks for the reply, however i had no luck with your keymap either > Still the same behaviour :( Add a "me too". I tried a lot of things. Nothing worked properly. Does anybody know about other distributions ? Could be interesting how for

Re: debian-powerpc digest ?

2005-02-15 Thread Kristian Peters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 14.02.2005 um 22:35 schrieb Cedric Pradalier: Just a note. On the ibook, the CPU is just in the middle but it usually stay pretty cold. The GPU and hard drive are just below you left palm, and this is what get hot usually. For the harddrive, I thin

Re: debian-powerpc digest ?

2005-02-14 Thread Kristian Peters
Moritz Armingeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Do you mean the archives? They are available since 1997 in > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/ Did you mean that? No. The Wiki page Djoume SALVETTI supplied was ok, but I couldn't find real answers to my problems. Currently the keyboard secti

debian-powerpc digest ?

2005-02-14 Thread Kristian Peters
Hello. I just upgraded from woody to sarge with a fresh new installer cd. The installation works very good. No problems on my ibook 2.2. However. My ibook is *again* getting very hot after a very short time - even with a 2.6 kernel which should have cpu frrequency scaling enabled. So I wanted

Re: Interesting shell prompts (bash or otherwise)

2004-05-30 Thread Kristian Peters
Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > has anyone got an intersting shell prompt or a link or something > > maybe a little more jazzy than... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > i know i just need edit ~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile > im just not very creative today =) What about this: export PS1="

Live-CD for PPC ?

2004-05-24 Thread Kristian Peters
Hello. Does anybody know of a live-cd for powerpc ? (Maybe a ported Knoppix version or a less bloated or less colourful version ?) I want to demonstrate someone that linux is a good alternative to OSX. *Kristian -- :... [snd.science] ...: :: _o) :: http://www.

Re: iBook 2.2 with new board, full of problems

2004-03-06 Thread Kristian Peters
Alberto Viniegra Ilarregui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hi Kristian. > > revision: 2.3 (pvr 7000 0203)do you use same revision? > bogomips: 1785.85 > machine : PowerBook4,3 > motherboard : PowerBook4,3 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh As you can see we both h

Re: First time KDE on an iBook 2.3

2003-12-02 Thread Kristian Peters
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > For the record, that's not completely true. The DRI is only really > needed for 3D hardware acceleration, my packages simply work with newer > Radeons than the official XFree86 packages because they're based on > newer XFree86 code. Is it still true tha

Re: 12" G4 iBook

2003-11-20 Thread Kristian Peters
Guillaume Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > -maltivec allows acces to the Altivec ABI. But gcc cannot perform > auto-vectorization on its own (yet). So compiling -maltivec won't change > anything if the code does not contain Altivec instructions (in the form > of assembly instructions or their C

Re: mplayer updates

2003-10-07 Thread Kristian Peters
Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > the mplayer packagages at: > deb http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-ppc/debian/ mplayer/ > are now built against an external libavcodec. Could someone who uses the > m{player,encoder}-powerpc versions on a non altivec system please let me >

Re: Spam alert

2003-10-02 Thread Kristian Peters
Hello. I've been hammered with those emails since 2 weeks. The reason was most probably lkml (linux kernel mailing list). Some people have not noticed that their windos machines are sending out stuff all the time. The only way to get rid of those junk is to configure fetchmail that it won't fet

What does LIBRARY_PATH do ?

2003-10-02 Thread Kristian Peters
Hello. In order to get glib2 compile and find all the required libraries under OSX I need to declare LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/lib" in my shell and export it. (In /opt all my installed self-compiled packages are located.) Why ? Or a better question: What a function has LIBRARY_PATH ? Under linux and o

Re: Upgrading the iBook's HD

2003-09-30 Thread Kristian Peters
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > They're a lot of web pages about ibook hard disk removing. Soory, I have > no link. But it will be easy for you to find one with google. Some time ago I've found this webpage. I hope it is still there. http://www.powerbooktech.com/knowledge,type

Re: projecting from an ibook

2003-09-21 Thread Kristian Peters
Nirmal Govind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hi.. I tried hooking up the ibook to a projector yesterday using the external > display cable that comes with the ibook.. All I got was a white screen.. the > projector seems to have recognized the input from the computer as it said > "RGB 640x480 Com

Re: ibook problems

2003-09-12 Thread Kristian Peters
Adam Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I just realised that I am able to start X as root, but X > crashes to console when I try and login as a user?? Maybe as user you're not allowed to start X ? You can use login managers such as xdm, gdm or kdm for this. 'dpkg-reconfigure xfree86-common'

Re: Translucent X Windows

2003-08-25 Thread Kristian Peters
"J. Javier Maestro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Mmmm... I understand what you are saying, although my C programming is > still quite *bad* (heh, it suckz big time!). In any case, I'll have a > look.. at the end, my microprocessors and embedded ystems might come > handy!! :-) Maybe Xouvert will

Re: Xine dying on me :-(

2003-08-21 Thread Kristian Peters
"J. Javier Maestro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > s/fonts/sources/ (god, I hate my spanglish!! :-) Ok. Here's the patch against recent 0.91 mplayer. Please apply it in the mplayer-directory: patch -p1 < ../MPlayer-0.91-korseby-ppc.patch After that, do: chmod +x debian/rules # it

Re: Xine dying on me :-(

2003-08-21 Thread Kristian Peters
"J. Javier Maestro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > xine_interface: unknown param 10 > xine_interface: unknown param 10 > xine_interface: unknown param 10 > xine_interface: unknown param 10 > vo_scale: invalid ratio, using 4:3 > vo_scale: unknown aspect ratio (0) in stream => using 4:3 > xiTK WARNIN

Re: Why is my ibook getting so hot ?

2003-08-18 Thread Kristian Peters
Ricardo Javier Cardenes Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > IIRC, -benh kernels have some control over this, but I have not my > laptop nearby and on to check. I have ext3 and I think I configured it > (mount options, at /etc/fstab) to sync every 60 seconds, or so, instead > of every 5 seconds. O

Why is my ibook getting so hot ?

2003-08-17 Thread Kristian Peters
Hello. Compared to OSX my iBook 900MHz is getting really hot. I'm using 2.4.21-ben2 currently, but a vanilla kernel is even worse. According to /proc/cpuinfo temperature is in normal range. There is no big difference if I descale cpu frequency to 400 MHz. Battery will only last for 3,0 hours then

how my keys messed up...

2003-08-17 Thread Kristian Peters
Hello. Now this is really strange... Since I've installed pbbuttonsd I can use the function keys without modifying my own xkeymap on linux. For example: Fn + F3 toggles sound. Back on OSX, F3 alone won't work as before... I also have to use the Function key for this... Fn + F3.. How can a linux

Re: SysRq Keys on iBook2

2003-06-20 Thread Kristian Peters
Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Of course the option has to be set in your configuration before you > compile for it to do anything :) Find out the keycode via "showkey -s" and map it: "setkeycode e05e 84". "dumpkeys" will show the current map btw. That will not work on my iBook but does work

Re: SysRq Keys on iBook2

2003-06-19 Thread Kristian Peters
"Warren A. Layton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Out of curiosity, which keys correspond to the kernel's magic SysRq keys > on an iBook2? In the kernel source docs (Documentation/sysrq.txt), it > states that on PowerPC the SysRq commands can be accessed by pressing > Alt+F13+. Unfortunately you c

Re: X aceleration

2003-06-19 Thread Kristian Peters
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > If /var/log/XFree86.0.log show direct rendering to be disabled, it > should show the reason as well. Otherwise, Isn't DRM disabled for ppc on 2.4 kernels ? So how can I use acceleration for games at all ? *Kristian -- :... [snd.science] ...: ::

Re: 2.4.21-ben ?

2003-06-17 Thread Kristian Peters
Hello again. Sorry Rogério my emailer messed up and I sent that message to you directly. Shame on me. So in brevity: What I really wanted to know is how can I be sure that my -ben5 kernel is the same as on the internet ? Since Bitkeeper trees are like cvs and have every day another content. Or d

Re: Getting a Delete key on an iBook (was: Re: ibook and delete)

2003-06-17 Thread Kristian Peters
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > xmodmap -e "keycode 108 = Control_R" > xmodmap -e "clear Control" > xmodmap -e "add Control = Control_L Control_R" > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

2.4.21-ben ?

2003-06-17 Thread Kristian Peters
Hello. Could someone tell me if the latest 2.4.21-ben is out ? I'd really like to see a patch or something similar against vanilla 2.4.21 because I want to follow changes during releases. Right now only a bk-rsync is possible where I never know what version I'm using. Has somebody tried lowlat