Re: PowerBook G4 and powermanagement

2007-08-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:06:55AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Aug 24 2007, Mark Brown wrote: > > This sounds like #429662 which appears to be caused by Bluetooth > > refusing to suspend. > Would it even interfere with a kernel that *doesn't* have bluetooth >

Re: PowerBook G4 and powermanagement

2007-08-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:50:10AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > * suspend to RAM only works with kernel 2.6.21 (I tried the one that is > shipped with Debian). > Upgrading to the 2.6.22 (which is in unstable) or compiling my own > 2.6.23-rc3 (taken from kernel.org) doesn't let me sleep: it

Re: Re(2): [SOLVED] bcm43xx issues an error message every minute

2007-05-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:00:01PM +0200, Georg Heinrich wrote: > Unfortunately I could not get the fwcutter with apt-get. I needed to download > bcm43xx-fwcutter_006-1_powerpc.deb > instead/ Since it is only useful with the non-free Broadcomm firmware the package is in the contrib archive ra

Re: Different Apple machines, different USB behavior [ was: Re:

2007-05-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 08:00:04PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Sure, apple used to over-power the USB connectors on the older ibooks > and powerbooks, which is why it works. I don't know why they stopped > doing this later on, but apparently they did. Probably when they stopped making USB devices

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 06:34:31PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > But I have another concern. In my experience, some debian source > packages do not build on G5 running the Debian powerpc port because > their ./configure scripts get confused by the "ppc64" string in the > uname output. Depending o

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 01:06:08PM +, Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > AFAIK Sven Luther has not contributed to this thread and seems to be > banned from posting on debian lists. Thus it strikes me that to bring Sven hasn't been banned, he decided of his own accord to take a break for two months:

Re: Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?

2007-01-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:53:59AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > That is porting. There is little porting work in buildd maintenance; all > you ever do is sign successful logs, interpret failures, and file > appropriate bugs (although many buildd maintainers, myself included, > seem to think the

Re: Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?

2006-12-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 01:44:12AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Tuesday 26 December 2006 12:52, Charles Plessy wrote: > > I would like to recommend that only persons who do volunteer to be > > reactive would be listed here. > This mail is bcc:ed to those listed on that wiki page, to see if th

Re: Can't install, no KBD (G4 Cube)

2006-01-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:12:08PM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: [It'd probably be useful to tell the people over on debian-boot about the problems you've seen.] > Oh, I get that all right.Where you lose me is the rationale for > the bootstrap/installer being incomplete in the first place. Wh

Performance problems with DRI on R128

2004-05-15 Thread Mark Brown
I'm having serious performance problems with DRI on the R128 in a G4 Cube using kernel 2.6 and unstable. I can quite happly run without DRI enabled, getting acceptable performance (obviously with no 3D acceleration) but as soon as I enable the DRI module the CPU usage of the X server goes sky high

Re: Please test 2.4.20 packages

2003-03-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:15:09PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Before I prepare a 2.4.20 update for stable, I'd like some people to try > them out and report success. So if you have hardware that plain old 2.4.20 > can handle and don't need -benh9johnhQac37 to get your foobar to baz > prope

Re: tiBook CPU speed

2002-08-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:50:43AM -0400, Michael Furr wrote: > Do you have any plans to try to integrate this with the cpu temperature > detection so that it would automagically downclock when it runs too hot > for too long? Surely that's something that should be done in user space? -- "You gr

Re: Bug#155095: libmm11 1.1.3-7 broken on PowerPC

2002-08-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 07:14 PM, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: The only thing that I can think of is that there is or was a toolchain bug on the powerpc that built the last libmm debs (and the libmm12 deb). If you built them, what versions of the toolchain packages are you running?

Re: Bug#155095: libmm11 1.1.3-7 broken on PowerPC

2002-08-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 06:43 PM, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: I'm a bit tied up with other work now, but I'll see if I can find out what path has assigned to it. I wouldn't worry about it so much if the problem goes away with MMFILE - I do have an upload forcing the shm type to th

Re: Bug#155095: libmm11 1.1.3-7 broken on PowerPC

2002-08-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:43:23AM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > Good idea. MMFILE is probably the safest, although I'm still puzzled as > to why IPCSHM seems to be so flaky. > It proved one thing: that compiling against libmm12 didn't make a > difference :-P I still get the same prob

Re: Bug#155095: libmm11 1.1.3-7 broken on PowerPC

2002-08-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:07:02AM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > I just posted a follow-up to that bug report, complete with some > experimentation results. To summarise, either double your shmmax or > recompile libmm11 with --with-shm=MMFILE. Looks like there's a bug > somewhere WRT I

Re: Bug#155095: libmm11 1.1.3-7 broken on PowerPC

2002-08-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:48:34PM +0200, Rubin wrote: > I've seen this workaround being tried on the alpha platform but as far > as I can see this does not work for powerpc. What changed between > 1.1.3-6 and 1.1.3-7 that breaks php in this case? Maybe a /usr/doc/libmm Nothing. PHP keeps on

Re: airport eth1, onboard eth0 & eth1 Tx error, status 1

2002-05-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:46:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The eth1: timeout messages seem to be a bug in the airport driver. > Mine spits them out all the time (and others when it resets the card) > but still seems to work. I've been able to eliminate them almost IME these messages ha

Re: Dmasound

2002-01-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 05:44:01PM +, rod brookes wrote: > insmod dmasound sound on...reboot sound is off > modprobe dmasound esd sound on...reboot sound is off! > Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong please? Loading a module isn't quite the same as installing a device driver under other

Re: microwindows build status

2002-01-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:42:41PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > libmwdrivers.before it's used, and without someone giving me a log of > the actual failure (which will require dropping that silly redirection > from debian/rules), you're just guessing. Sent by private mail. -- "You grabbe

Re: microwindows build status

2002-01-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 01:33:25PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > I think that's a drastically unfair judgement. I would rather ask > every maintainer to do a few extra steps for the quality of their > packages (or better yet, to improve automated systems to notify > (opt-in) maintainers about

Re: microwindows build status

2002-01-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:18:59PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > What do you mean by "the build report"? Do you mean bug report > 121459? The bug, sorry. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever." pgppEauWGvXT6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: microwindows build status

2002-01-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:21:16PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Please note that I haven't filed any bug of that sort (I rarely do these > days, rather rely on the maintainer to check build status and logs). FYI: It's worth telling to maintainers - a huge proportion won't pay any attention unl

Re: microwindows build status

2002-01-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:21:52PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Please don't. I just tried to build it and got exactly the same error > > as in the build report. > What version of apt do you have installed? 0.5.4. Why? -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or

Re: microwindows build status

2002-01-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 07:10:58PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > I would like to close bug 121459, and rely on powerpc to attempt a > build by the normal process and report a new bug against the current Please don't. I just tried to build it and got exactly the same error as in the build

Re: PowerBook G4

2002-01-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:14:18PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 19:35, Mark Brown wrote: > > As it stands, it's pretty darn fast with just the framebuffer driver - > > unless I try to run something that uses OpenGL I have completely failed >

Re: PowerBook G4

2002-01-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 07:22:44PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > By then it will be perfect. ;) Seriously, XFree86 4.2.0 will be out > which offers very decent support for the graphics chip. The rest of the As it stands, it's pretty darn fast with just the framebuffer driver - unless I try to run

Bug#122283: ilu build failure on PowerPC

2001-12-30 Thread Mark Brown
I've just tried to reproduce this bug on PowerPC and failed. I'm guessing that the failure must have been caused by some failure in some other part of the system (possibly autoconf) which has since been resolved. The referenced build log[1] shows the failure apparently being due to the absence of

Re: cooledit segfault on powerpc (was Re: Help with #123015 on cooledit)

2001-12-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 04:03:52AM -0600, Aaron Schrab wrote: > Another occurrence of reusing a va_list variable. Although in this > case, it looks like it was just an oversight. In addition to fixing That worked. I'm uploading just now. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a da

Re: iBook2 keyboard ...

2001-12-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 06:03:00PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Additionally, this machine seems to periodically time-warp to 1904 -- I > > assume > > that it has no internal battery to power the RTC when the battery and mains > > power is disconnected? > Bingo. Something like ntp is your fri

Re: Potato 2.2_rev4 cd iso not bootable?

2001-12-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:27:29AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:05:20PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cd-images/2.2_rev4.1/powerpc/ > That sounds really good. It's a pity the server wants a username and > password. > Are there any openl

Re: Buildd Failures Update

2001-12-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:28:55PM +, James Troup wrote: > Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When I asked about working on stuff I was told to just upload stuff if > > it built. What's the party line? > I can't/don't/won't speak for Dan,

Re: Buildd Failures Update

2001-12-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:37:49PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > Requeue Needed (builds fine for me) > -- > scsitools - wish should be installed properly. > netdude - no failure log for latest version. > netcfg - no failure log (old - 2001 Jun 18) When I asked about working on st

Re: misc. woes

2001-12-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:45:31PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > In my experience, the Cube doesn't compare too badly with an Athlon 800. > YMMV. It's certainly an awful lot faster than a K6-II/500. I wonder if Albert's running with an OpenFirmware framebuffer only? That would make everything a

Re: Installation on a Cube

2001-12-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:06:14PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:49:59PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: > > There is, however, a workaround, grotty thought it may be. I forked a > > shell and created, initialized, and mounted all of the partitions on

Re: Installation on a Cube

2001-12-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:49:59PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: > There is, however, a workaround, grotty thought it may be. I forked a > shell and created, initialized, and mounted all of the partitions on > the disk by hand. I also had to run mkofboot / ybin by hand from the > shell, as

Re: Installation on a Cube

2001-12-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:14:18PM -0700, Derrik Pates wrote: > When booting, the system should come to a 'boot:' prompt. Type 'debian > video=ofonly' at the prompt, this should force the (admittedly aging) > kernel to use the OpenFirmware console device, which won't be fast, but > will be enough

Installation on a Cube

2001-12-02 Thread Mark Brown
I'm trying to get Debian up and running on a Cube. So far I've been unable to find an installation system which will run on the machine. With both potato and current woody installers I find that the kernel doesn't succeed in displaying anything on the framebuffer which makes the installer kind of

Re: X on the new TiBooks

2001-11-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 07:50:28AM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > At any rate, I'm just happy to have X running at all, even if it's using > the FB driver :-) The performance is certainly more than adequate for what I use X for :-) -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a da

Re: X on the new TiBooks

2001-11-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 11:30:10AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > DefaultDepth depth > specifies which color depth the server should use by default. > The -depth command line option can be used to override this. If > neither is specified, the default depth is driver-specifi

Re: X on the new TiBooks

2001-11-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 12:21:03AM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > work on it some more. In the meantime, I've discovered that the only > reason that my colourmap was screwed up under X using the framebuffer > Xserver was because of the default fb depth (which is 8). When I did > 'fbset

Re: Mac-On-Linux?

2001-11-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 01:29:39AM +, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Mark Brown writes: > > I'd question having the dependancy in the first place, though - > > nothing else with similar needs (lm-sensors for example) does that > > and it is unhelpful if one doesn&#x

Re: Mac-On-Linux?

2001-11-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:02:33PM +0100, Nik wrote: > perhaps mol-modules-source should also provide "mol-modules"? Have you taken a look at the result of using mol-modules-source? The package produced is what's needed to satisfy the dependancy, not the sources for the modules. I'd question h

Re: X on the new TiBooks

2001-11-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 08:36:03PM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > I've got X semi-working on my new TiBook using the fb driver, but the > colourmap is really screwed up. I'm working on extracting the Radeon M6 Sounds like about where I am. Wierd thing is the colourmap was fine when usi

Re: X on the new TiBooks

2001-11-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:27:03AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > The framebuffer device should display any mode passed to it by the X > server. Do you have an 1152x768 mode definition in your XF86Config > (there is no such mode built into the server yet) and use that? I didn't - a couple people s

Re: X on the new TiBooks

2001-11-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 06:31:19PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > I've been trying to get my new TiBook set up for Debian. So far (thanks > to the guide Branden provided) the only real sticking point is X. Has > anyone got any suggestions on how to get the server running? Just to cla

X on the new TiBooks

2001-11-18 Thread Mark Brown
I've been trying to get my new TiBook set up for Debian. So far (thanks to the guide Branden provided) the only real sticking point is X. Has anyone got any suggestions on how to get the server running? Rather than try building and installing the CVS X server I've been attempting to use the fram

Re: debian-powerpc: configuring the airport

2001-11-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 07:49:55PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > basestation and/or vice-versa. I would like something a bit more secure. As someone else said, you can have a Linux PC do NAT for you. As far as the security bit goes, you might wish to consider running IPsec over the wireless n

Icebooks

2001-07-26 Thread Mark Brown
Before I go and do something stupid, does any one have any particular (dis)recommendations about using the newer iBooks with Debian? Looking at the spec and grovelling around on the web it seems they do reasonably well. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."