boot splash : plymouth and ppc

hi folks, Anyone tried the plymouth, the boot splash screen, on ppc? Looking at the readme. {{{ * plymouth 0.7 works only with KMS (kernel mode setting). Make sure to haveit enabled in your initrd with the following lines in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and don't forget to update your init

Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#526872: Fwd: Bug#526872: alsa-utils: please arange to have snd-powerpc module loaded at boot time on PowerMac G4 machines...

hi folks, Elimar Riesebieter a écrit : > * Charles Plessy [090615 08:08 +0900] >> Le Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 03:03:40PM -0400, Rick Thomas a écrit : Fresh-out-of-the-box install of Sid on a PowerMac G4 has no sound and /etc/init.d/alsa-utils gives a flood of error messages. It's alway

why is numlock active when X starts? powerbook 1,6

hi folks, Since a while, the numberlock activates when X starts. When the numberlock is ON **only** the part of the keyboard where the numbers are mapped (keys 789uiojklm,.) are working... You'll agree that is not very useful to login, except if your username and password are only made of numbers.

Re: power off with mac usb keyboard

José JORGE a écrit : > hi, > > I've got the annoying problem that when powering off the system, if the "usb > keyboard wiuth power button" is connected, the system starts again. Has > anyone found a way to prevent this? > > Thanks > > I've the same problem!!! When I've Apple keyboard USB con

problem waking up from sleep, when wlan0 is configured.

hi folks, The kernel hangs when waking from sleep after having configured the wifi interface. If I don't configure the wlan0, it's waking up fine. This behaviour wasn't happening before upgrading to the b43 module for the wifi interface. Another note, since upgrading to b43, when I run top I hap

Re: pasting of formated text

Sebastien G a écrit : > Gerfried Fuchs a écrit : >> Hi! >> >> <http://bugs.debian.org/490010> - there seems to be an endianness >> problem somewhere, but I'm unable to really pin it down. It might well >> be in the X paste buffer area directly affe

Re: pasting of formated text

Gerfried Fuchs a écrit : > Hi! > > - there seems to be an endianness > problem somewhere, but I'm unable to really pin it down. It might well > be in the X paste buffer area directly affected, but it doesn't appear > anywhere else for me than just in pidgin.

Re: xrandr and dvi output

Gerfried Fuchs a écrit : > Hi! > > I recently got an external monitor that has DVI input. Was quite nice, > before I only had an VGA screen. Though, the VGA screen worked > perfectly: I was able to enable the external monitor at any time with > xrandr, enabling it, disabling it, whatever. >

Re: xorg issues with lenny and PowerBook G4 [Revisited]

Amit a écrit : > Hey there, > > I was unsuccessful in installing Lenny a few months ago so I reverted > back to Debian Etch. A few days ago I dist-upgraded to lenny. > Everything works as expected except for xorg. No matter what I tried I > could not get past a blank screen. I expect this is relat

Re: death keyboard on powerbook g4 after an update of xkb-data -> 1.3-1

Thanks Rhonda, Next time I will stay a little bit longer in the #debianppc :) At the end, I had a problem with my number lock on... Sébastien Gerfried Fuchs a écrit : * Sebastien G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-10 04:32:29 CEST]: I'm on a PowerBook5,6 g4 @1667mhz running lenny

Re: death keyboard on powerbook g4 after an update of xkb-data -> 1.3-1

2:32 -0400, Sebastien G wrote: I'm on a PowerBook5,6 g4 @1667mhz running lenny yesterday I upgraded xkb-data 1.2~cvs.20080501.1-1 -> 1.3-1 since then, my internal keyboard is not regoncized by X. Does it still work if you downgrade to 1.2~cvs.20080501.1-1? I have to connect an external keyb

death keyboard on powerbook g4 after an update of xkb-data -> 1.3-1

hi folks, I'm on a PowerBook5,6 g4 @1667mhz running lenny yesterday I upgraded xkb-data 1.2~cvs.20080501.1-1 -> 1.3-1 since then, my internal keyboard is not regoncized by X. I have to connect an external keyboard to be able to use the computer :( I just noticed that when I press the letter "

Re: mouse pointer looks really bad since the last update of xorg in lenny

Michel Dänzer a écrit : On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 22:09 -0300, Sebastien G wrote: Hi folks, I'm on a PowerBook5,6 g4 @1667mhz running lenny and my mouse pointer got hit badly by the last upgrade of xorg to 7.3. It's point to the right and sometimes becomes like a X. I try to

mouse pointer looks really bad since the last update of xorg in lenny

Hi folks, I'm on a PowerBook5,6 g4 @1667mhz running lenny and my mouse pointer got hit badly by the last upgrade of xorg to 7.3. It's point to the right and sometimes becomes like a X. I try to do a "dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg" and restart X. No luck. ideas ? Sébastien -- To

Debian on IBM iSeries

Hello, I am seeking for someone who has experience installing Debian on IBM iSeries. We have an i550 to be precise. Any chance someone I can contact? NOTICE: This email contains privileged and confidential information and is intended only for the individual to whom it is addressed. If you ar

RE: Help Me plz

Can you be more precise on what you are looking for?   From: MARC Torre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 4:14 PM To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Help Me plz   How do i get the java2tm file version 1.3.1 plz help i have spent so much money

RE: Debian on POWER5

Thank you for your answer. So " http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer-64bit-2"; is what I should use as the IPL stream file ? -Original Message- From: Sven Luther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 5:25 PM To: Jean-Sebastien Pilon Cc: debi

Debian on POWER5

Hi list! Is there anyone with experience using Debian on i5 LPARS? I am starting to deploy a part of our infrastructure on the i5 soon and I need to gather as much information as possible. I got training from IBM for running Linux on i5, but they promote Suse Enterprise and Redhat, which does n

keyboard mapping problem on powerbook

Hi, I've a powerbook aluminium with the canadian french keyboard layout. I run Debian testing. Everything was working perfect, I had almost every key in KDE as it was supposed to be the à, ç, è. I think I was using the ca_enhanced. With XFree I'm using the us layout. But now, something has ch

Re: DMA disabled after lost interrupt (on ibook)

(iBook G4) pmac flags : 001b L2 cache: 256K unified memory : 640MB pmac-generation : NewWorld Sebastien pgpnQDQIPveF5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DMA disabled after lost interrupt (on ibook)

e > know if > that helps. > > Ben. > It seems to help, no more 'lost interrupt' message since 4 days :) Thank you for this hack^W beautiful workaround ;) Sebastien pgpKUemOe040B.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DMA disabled after lost interrupt (on ibook)

a ftp/scp. > > Both of you are using Apple shipped hard disk or you replaced it ? We > might have to limit the timings to UDMA/4 on these machines it seems... > > Ben. > It's Apple shipped hardware, i didn't replace the hard drive nor the IDE cable. Sebastien pgpVL32meJp6l.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DMA disabled after lost interrupt (on ibook)

ine ? > > Benh > Yes, exactly same machine and same symptoms. i see these messages since a lng time. it happens when i copy big files or when i do huge & fast files transfert via ftp/scp. Sebastien pgpGeiIXea8kv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: imac shuts down alone

Le 18 mai 2005 à 09:54, Johannes Mockenhaupt a écrit: > Sebastien Mengin wrote: > > I have an Imac running debian sarge 2.4.18. > > Sometimes, when we don't use it for a moment, it shuts down completely > > without any warning. > > Is there any special reason yo

Re: imac shuts down alone

Le 18 mai 2005 à 08:58, Mauro a écrit: > > Might be a problem with the X server on this machine - if the screen saver > > kicks in and starts running code that hangs up your X server, the machine > > might power down after a while (the PMU getting confused because the > > processor isn't handling i

imac shuts down alone

Hi, I have an Imac running debian sarge 2.4.18. Sometimes, when we don't use it for a moment, it shuts down completely without any warning. There is no power management daemon running on this machine. We booted this imac on its macos partition and this behaviour did not occured -- so we guess th

Re: Sound drivers for newer machines: need help

;s fine, just tell me. it returns nothing > I'm especially interested in the various models of G5 based machines. It > seems apple is having all sorts of very different sound HW setups on > those machines, and I'm trying to figure out exactly what is where based > on thos

Re: [PATCH] sleep & cpufreq problems

rashing.org/~benh/ppc32-pmac-sleep-fix.diff > http://gate.crashing.org/~benh/ppc32-cpufreq-gpio-off.diff > > Thanks, > Ben. > Hi Ben ! I apply your 3 patches on 2.6.12-rc1 and my ibook g4 doesn't crash anymore after wakeup when i change the cpu speed. My gratitude is f

Re: Massiv kernel crashes on ibook/G4 1.33 GHz

y clueless. > You may try to clean the contacts of the memory bar. > > Uwe > ok thank you for the information. I will clean the contacts, but I have little hope that it changes something. Sebastien pgpKgeR5LuLE4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

code to flush 16 times more memory :) A bit gross, but it > would > probably tell us if this is the problem. > > Ben. > nothing change, the ibook continues to crash :/ thank you very much for your time Sebastien pgpQy1IiacFZj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Massiv kernel crashes on ibook/G4 1.33 GHz

just to be sure that i'm not in the same case : what is supposed to do the test cd if i have bad memory ? After 20-25 minutes (for the full test) it simply said that all was fine. Is 25 minute a normal time for 640 MB ? thanks, Sebastien pgpEjij2eeIHT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

: 001b L2 cache: 256K unified memory : 640MB pmac-generation : NewWorld > It could be the RAM thing you told me about, or it could be the cache > flushing... I hope that it is not the RAM (apple hardare test run fine without any glitch) thanks, Sebastien pgpp1

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

ke-kpkg clean" I saw : "swap_free:Bad swap offset entry 002378a00" "<2>kernel BUG in pag_remove_rmap at mm/rmap.c:482!" your opinion ? Hardware or software problem ? Thanks, Sebastien pgpBNV7qOxK4w.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

10748 0 - Live 0xe901c000 pc = c0084430 lr = c006424c backtrace: c0040614 c006424c c014dd54 c01670b0 c0167220 c016685c c0170e2c c0168fa0 c003b7f0 c0005adc c0004900 exception:501 [c02afee0] c0005b60 c0005ba8 c0003d98 c02b05d0 3a30 Thanks, Sebastien pgpumWXq2r3ka.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND. Now with CONFIG_XMON: vector: 300 at pc = ea42e644, lr = ea4580e0 msr = 1032, sp = c02afdd0 [c02afd20] dar = 7ca5d874, dsisr = 4000 current = c024a470, pid = 0, comm = swapper mon> it's the first time i build a kernel with CONFIG_XMON, i don't know what to do now :) thanks for your time Sebastien pgpTmm3iTESXS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

way to reproduce this is to do "make-kpkg clean" after weakup, I just see "Oops kernel access of bad area, sig 11" and the ibook freeze without other error message. it happens with a ibook g4 @ 933mhz + 2.6.11 vanilla without extra patch Sebastien NOEL pgpwF2tjGGaAo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: State of ibook G4 sleep support in 2.6.11?

way to reproduce this is to do "make-kpkg clean" after weakup, I just see "Oops kernel access of bad area, sig 11" and the ibook freeze without other error message. it happens with a ibook g4 @ 933mhz + 2.6.11 vanilla without extra patch Sebastien NOEL pgpwbxUbWMdyY.pgp Description: PGP signature

powerbook startup problem - folder with a question mark ???

Hi all, I have a powerbook g4 550 running all the time Debian unstable with kernel 2.6.8-powerpc and OSX sometimes, mainly for spike. For the last week or so, when I start the machine instead of having the yaboot screen appears I get a little folder with a question mark inside... This doesn'

Re: Can't boot linux on IBM 43P-150

ebian root disk but now I can't go further than the boot and root disk (the installation start but no hd and no net card are detected). Is someone know where i can find a kernel for my system ? I need support for IBM SCSI device adapter. Thanks again, Regards, Sebastien Schneider.

Can't boot linux on IBM 43P-150

, rescue from Debian) but without success. The OF is just blinking or return an error... I don't know what to try now... maybe by netinst or something but i guess it won't work anymore.. If anybody has experience on such material please help me ! thank you. Sebastien Schneider.

Woody

Hi, Anybody has a dist of Woody on a powerbook G3 ? I'm looking for its configuration Thanks in advance, S. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Woody on a powerbook G3

If anyone has a woody on a powerbook G3 series "Lombard", I have problems with Xfree 4 configure I'd need some code I don't find. Anybody help ? Sébastien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]