Re: Poor suspend life on Powerbook G4 (5,2) - Result linux

2005-02-24 Thread Timo Reimerdes
Tonights Result: Sleep from 03:00 @ 94% to 09:00 @ 84 % - linux-2.6.9-sleep7 ---> 6 hours suspend - 10% ---> max 60 hours suspend (thats definately less then under OSX suspend - I can give you a result for that tonight) greetigs Timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Poor suspend life on Powerbook G4 (5,2)

2005-02-23 Thread Timo Reimerdes
> >Can you confirm that OS X allows you to suspend a lot longer ? > I can. It definately lasts longer. If I get the chance and not have to work on the book all the time ;) I'll run a test to give you some numbers. But it should end up with about double!! the life under OSX. It it were less I would

Re: Poor suspend life on Powerbook G4 (5,2)

2005-02-22 Thread Timo Reimerdes
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 08:00 +1100, Cedric Pradalier wrote: >According to Timo Reimerdes, on Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:04:23 +0100, >>Hi, >> >>I was just discussing Linux as an OS on my mac with a friend who is >>running debian on his iBook for ages. He mentioned that when

Poor suspend life on Powerbook G4 (5,2)

2005-02-22 Thread Timo Reimerdes
I am really happy with the way things work. And maybe one day even DRI will run ;) :P greetings Timo Reimerdes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Benh's Sleep patch for a 2.6.10 kernel?

2005-01-31 Thread Timo Reimerdes
plugged in/not in when going to sleep its running like a charm. The Xorg-packages from ubuntu run nicely. However anything beyond the window-shadows is a no-go due to performance issues. greetings, Timo Reimerdes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Ubuntu hoary experiences anyone?

2004-12-17 Thread Timo Reimerdes
Hi, I was asking if anyone got Ubuntu-Linux running and upgraded to hoary? And if the x.org behaves nicely or makes trouble. Just some experience. I had to get some sources out of there to be able to install mplayer-g4. Warty lacked a couple of versions. Also Firefox is version 1.0 in hoary. to

Re: TEST: Sleep patch #7 -- not falling asleep?

2004-12-06 Thread Timo Reimerdes
Hi, I reported about my powerbook not falling asleep sometimes. I figured it could be usb (after a hint from ben) and tried unplugging it before sleep and plugging it in after wakeup. That fooled me for being the reason. It's not. My next guess is pbbuttonsd or gtkpbbuttonsd. I sense something lik

Re: TEST: Sleep patch #7

2004-12-06 Thread Timo Reimerdes
owever: There are really disturbing sounds during resume. It will stop after the computer has complete woken up but till then one has to cover his ears. :/ Any hint on that? Greetings and many thanks to you hard working people! Timo Reimerdes

Re: TEST: Sleep patch #7

2004-12-06 Thread Timo Reimerdes
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 08:07 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 12:18 +0100, eric.bachard wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > > > > > Not really the time, I am always using patch #1 on alubook 1,25GHz SD / > > Debian sid :-)) ... > > Just a question : is your patch only for 2.6.9 or

Re: OpenOffice.org

2004-12-02 Thread Timo Reimerdes
actually I think OpenOffice is included in the common debian-release? All I did was apt-get update apt-cache search openoffice apt-get install openoffice.org (some more packages that I considered usefull) from the same repository I used to install (I think it was uni-erlangen). But I am run

Re: Some problems in the daily use of a Debian System

2004-12-02 Thread Timo Reimerdes
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 23:04 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Il giorno mer, 01-12-2004 alle 19:37 +0100, Pablo Gil ha scritto: > > 2.6.8. I've been told that this a really bad kernel for cd writing as > > well. Is it true? > > I tried many times, but I never managed to burn a data cd using 2.6.8, >

Re: entering sleep mode quietly/non-verbose

2004-12-02 Thread Timo Reimerdes
> Holger (who likes debug infos - but who also likes to turn them off - > sometimes ;) Of course turning debug info on and off is a nice feature to have, but that might have to wait until it's officially in the kernel. And like bootsplash for yaboot or such its probably just graphical nicene

Re: ppc iBook G4 cover and power control

2004-12-02 Thread Timo Reimerdes
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 06:17 -0500, Christopher Molnar wrote: > On Thursday 02 December 2004 06:02 am, Colin Leroy wrote: > > > > > > Probably some sort of hardware protection in case the machine doesn't go to > > sleep. Nothing seems to disable that, apart from Ben's sleep patch. > > Sorry - I h

Re: TEST: Sleep patch #6

2004-12-01 Thread Timo Reimerdes
38 localhost kernel: device-mapper: error adding target to table . . . other than that my boot looks really clean and without any more errors. If you could give me some hints I would really appreciate that. Greetings Timo Reimerdes

Re: Help? Kernel Build Howto for PowerBook G4 (5,2)

2004-11-30 Thread Timo Reimerdes
they all survive and come back properly I am in absolute joy! Does your image include USB-Storage support? I hope it does. (oh ok - I just got your mail - If I'm right everything needed is compiled into the kernel) So. Great Thanks to you. Really! :happy: Timo Reimerdes ps: any idea

Re: Help? Kernel Build Howto for PowerBook G4 (5,2)

2004-11-30 Thread Timo Reimerdes
round. But suspend is something I simply need for everyday university life ;) thx again. Timo On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 00:47 +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Timo Reimerdes wrote: > > Hi, > > > > for about a week now I am using ubuntu linux on my powerbook. It runs > > real

Help? Kernel Build Howto for PowerBook G4 (5,2)

2004-11-30 Thread Timo Reimerdes
ernel config for the sleep-patched kernel? And can someone give me a step by step checklist what to do to get things going? I would greatly appreciate it. thx in advance Timo Reimerdes PS: Here some Information about my computer: my lspci sais: :00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Compute

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Timo Reimerdes
unusually noisy and wont let me sleep. :/ - So I guess it must be more then just a feeling. ;) greetz Timo Reimerdes On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 14:09 +0100, Richard Hult wrote: > Colin Leroy wrote: > > On 26 Nov 2004 at 12h11, Timo Reimerdes wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > &g

Re: Debian or Ubantu

2004-11-26 Thread Timo Reimerdes
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 17:35 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > >>Debian on the other hand may be more complicated than I want. I wasn't [too] > >>encouraged when X took serious tweaking to get it to boot up. > >> > >> > > > >The main advantage for going "straight" Debian is when you need > >somethi

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-26 Thread Timo Reimerdes
On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 11:55 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 09:57 +0100, Richard Hult wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > Today I compiled the 2.6.9 stock kernel + Ben's suspend > > > patch. However I am experiencing a lot of extra heet production as > > > opposed to the 2.6.8.1

Re: Problem with backlit keyboard on aluminium powerbook

2004-09-22 Thread Timo Reimerdes
e metallic keys. However I would like to one day have it all running properly. With everything that works on osx :) some day Timo Reimerdes

Re: X.org Questions

2004-09-13 Thread Timo Reimerdes
On Mo, 2004-09-13 at 01:49 -0400, Chris Anderson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 00:55 -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: > > After looking at screenshots of X.org, it seems to be more graphically > > up-to-date than XFree86. But, I have some questions: > > > > 1) Can X.org be apt-gotten? (otherwise, wh

Presentations on IBook? External Monitors? Beamers?

2004-08-26 Thread Timo Reimerdes
the whole thing for the G4 (ATI Radeon 9600) - but I am not so dependent on using beamers. He is - right now he is using a macosx install on his external drive. But since his suspend works fine, thats the only reason for him to reboot... thx in advance, Timo Reimerdes

Re: 2.6.8.1-kernel on Powerbook G4?

2004-08-26 Thread Timo Reimerdes
running? greetz, Timo Reimerdes

Re: 2.6.8.1-kernel on Powerbook G4?

2004-08-24 Thread Timo Reimerdes
> | It got me thinking - could it help to add > | lines like: > | L tty1 /dev/vc/1 > | L tty2 /dev/vc/2 > | L tty3 /dev/vc/3 > | L tty4 /dev/vc/4 > | L tty5 /dev/vc/5 > | L tty6 /dev/vc/6 > | to the /etc/udev/links.conf? > > I would say that is not the best solution. I am under the impressi

Re: is make-kpkg broken for anyone else?

2004-08-24 Thread Timo Reimerdes
be more specific about those issues? What kind of hardware are we talking about? What sound-problems? I never had any real problems when compiling alsa-powermac-stuff as [M]. greetz, Timo Reimerdes

Re: 2.6.8.1-kernel on Powerbook G4?

2004-08-24 Thread Timo Reimerdes
ot;, NAME="bluetooth/rfcomm/%n" indicating the renaming of tty* to vc/* so adding to /etc/udev/links.conf: L tty1 /dev/vc/1 L tty2 /dev/vc/2 L tty3 /dev/vc/3 L tty4 /dev/vc/4 L tty5 /dev/vc/5 L tty6 /dev/vc/6 got things working again. I am so relieved! thx a lot! Timo Reimerdes

Re: 2.6.8.1-kernel on Powerbook G4?

2004-08-24 Thread Timo Reimerdes
On Di, 2004-08-24 at 16:12 -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > | Problems I have: > | * no working console on local login: "respawning too fast issue" > > I saw this issue on a couple machines (x86) while I was tinkering with > them. It was a little bit frustrating for me because the proble

Re: 2.6.8.1-kernel on Powerbook G4?

2004-08-23 Thread Timo Reimerdes
easier to master *g* I will try the config from here: http://ppcconfdb.sourceforge.net/ with the addition of pcmcia-support. seems to be a good one. will send you all my results ;) promise! Timo Reimerdes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

2.6.8.1-kernel on Powerbook G4?

2004-08-23 Thread Timo Reimerdes
o my university webspace ;) thx and everything - I hope to get this system into a working state when I dont have to sacrifice too much of the functionality I'd have under macOSX but have the freedom and the multitude of applications and configuration-options of debian. greetings Timo Reim

ati 9600 support & suspend

2004-08-11 Thread Timo Reimerdes
some. :/ greetings, Timo Reimerdes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Debian + The new PowerBook G4

2004-07-27 Thread Timo Reimerdes
s still broken on nVidia based models. As mentioned I do not have working suspend here, and I habe the ati radeon 9600 version. Greetings Timo Reimerdes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Creating MacOS-X partitions under debian?

2004-07-20 Thread Timo Reimerdes
Hi, Since the mac-disk-tool is kind of scary (it deleted all my partitions once when I tried to resize) I wondered: Is there a tool under debian to create and resize partitions (was it HFS?). thanks a lot. Timo Reimerdes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: kernel source for PPC? rsync?

2004-07-13 Thread Timo Reimerdes
I am using kernel.org and just patch to the latest available version ;) Still hoping to find suspend and the radeon working some day. On Di, 2004-07-13 at 10:17 +0200, Christoph Ewering wrote: > Hello! > > Could someone tell where to get current PPC-kernel-sources? > At the moment I am using www

wxPython bungled? Torrent wont run properly...

2004-07-12 Thread Timo Reimerdes
it's now officially permitted to download Fahrenheit 911 ;) ) I figured it might have something to do with the wxPython? But I might as well be wrong. Does anyone here use torrent more frequently ore happen to know how to resolve this? Thx, Timo Reimerdes signature.asc Descri

Anjuta broken on PPC?

2004-07-03 Thread Timo Reimerdes
t I am missing or if this is a PPC-related bug @ all? plus... I still have the respawning too fast issue ... guess those things arent related, though. -- Timo Reimerdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: status of sleep for current PowerBooks (Radeon 9700)?

2004-07-01 Thread Timo Reimerdes
guess I just have scruples spamming :P -- Timo Reimerdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: status of sleep for current PowerBooks (Radeon 9700)?

2004-07-01 Thread Timo Reimerdes
pend working here :( I hope those ATI-dudes really chnge their mind, get off their * and give some love to benh ;) -- Timo Reimerdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: respawning too fast...

2004-06-28 Thread Timo Reimerdes
On So, 2004-06-27 at 11:49, Kiko Piris wrote: > On 27/06/2004 at 11:18 +0200, Timo Reimerdes wrote: > > > I got this Problem and according to some board-posts and newsgroups I > > found using google some others do, too. Unfortunately nothing they > > posted helped in reso

Re: respawning too fast...

2004-06-27 Thread Timo Reimerdes
On So, 2004-06-27 at 15:12, Timo Reimerdes wrote: > .config: > > # > # Pseudo filesystems > # > CONFIG_PROC_FS=y > CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y > CONFIG_SYSFS=y > # CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set > # CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS_XATTR is not set > CONFIG_TMPFS=y > # CONFIG_HUGE

Re: respawning too fast...

2004-06-27 Thread Timo Reimerdes
On So, 2004-06-27 at 15:07, Sam Halliday wrote: > Timo Reimerdes wrote: > > On So, 2004-06-27 at 14:17, Derrik Pates wrote: > > > > > > The only time I ever ran into anything like that was when I enabled > > > DevFS, and had the kernel mount it on boot, but d

Re: BootSplash

2004-06-27 Thread Timo Reimerdes
On Sa, 2004-06-26 at 07:44, Sam Halliday wrote: > this would be a very cool thing to have during bootup on a laptop. Actually I'd prefer a nice suspend-support so I wont have to boot ever again ;) -- Timo Reimerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: respawning too fast...

2004-06-27 Thread Timo Reimerdes
0 tty6 This is what I found to be causing the errors. I have no non-X-console :/ and I miss it! -- Timo Reimerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

respawning too fast...

2004-06-27 Thread Timo Reimerdes
Hi, I got this Problem and according to some board-posts and newsgroups I found using google some others do, too. Unfortunately nothing they posted helped in resolvnig this problem. I am shure I just messed up some minor thing when switching to 2.6.x kernels. this is /var/log/syslog- Jun

Re: gDesklets -- Which Work?

2004-06-21 Thread Timo Reimerdes
with debian > and Gnome 2.6? Thanks. > > Ed > > I just apt-get install --reinstalled libsensors3 and that error vanished... they kept on crashing on me, though so I quit using them. -- Timo Reimerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Suspend for the iBook G4

2004-06-16 Thread Timo Reimerdes
d that for a powerbook g4. Guess thats about the same thing ;) If I can help with anything, just let me know - university however keeps my time limited. regards -- Timo Reimerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Low bogomips rate on new iBook

2004-06-04 Thread Timo Reimerdes
") pmac flags : 000a L2 cache: 512K unified memory : 512MB pmac-generation : NewWorld strange - with the 2.6.6 kernel I am currently running (2.6.6-bk4) there was no problem at all. -- Timo Reimerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Trackpad scrolling?

2004-06-03 Thread Timo Reimerdes
s for linux. Seems > kind of strange to me... > I'm shure to watch this thread, a friend of mine is using this festure with his synaptics touchpad for a while and I liked it a lot. Found no way to get it supported on the Powerbook TP. :/ -- Timo Reimerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: powerbook g4 +dual screen

2004-05-17 Thread Timo Reimerdes
e this. *shameonme* I guess I'll use google to look for some info on this "mergedfb" now. Never heard of it before. > Sometimes it would be convenient to activate dual layout, and to have > two distinct screen. > I have used a desktop setup like that for a year, it is reall

powerbook g4 +dual screen

2004-05-17 Thread Timo Reimerdes
#x27;s dri-trunk modules" - Well I am using them, but it still wont work. Anyone experiencing the same Problems? Anyone having a solution? -- Timo Reimerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

latest kernel via rsync? and misc tibook.g4 questions.

2004-05-14 Thread Timo Reimerdes
t a little more of an idea whats going on ;) thx in advance -- Timo Reimerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Kernel Config for TiBook G4 with ati9600

2004-05-11 Thread Timo Reimerdes
onfig" and have done at least 20 compiles with no acceptable result. plz help :( -- Timo Reimerdes

TiBook G4 - ATI 9600 - suspend?

2004-05-07 Thread Timo Reimerdes
Is there currently any way of getting suspend working? I don't need dri and internal airport extreme since I don't play and I have my old PCMCIA wireless card wich works w/o problems. But since I'm doing a lot of moving around on campus and by train it would be quite something to have working susp

Re: Anjuta will not 'make' a project.

2004-05-06 Thread Timo Reimerdes
I have a similar but more severe problem: anjuta keeps telling be every time I try running any command: could not execute command shell any info?