Re: Suspend to RAM leaves backlight on

2009-01-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-01-14 21:56:24 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > 1. Get the debian source package and build it ourselves. See if that > prevents the issue. > > 2. Try out latest kernels 2.6.27 and 2.6.28 (by building from source) > and see if that prevents the issue. > > What do you think? I'm not su

Re: Suspend to RAM leaves backlight on

2009-01-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-01-14 08:29:03 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I never had a problem with this is Etch. In fact, I just tried this, it > works fine with kernel 2.6.25 in lenny as well. If you can try using > kernel 2.6.25 and confirm that it works for you then we can isolate the > issue to kernel 2.6.26

Re: Suspend to RAM leaves backlight on

2009-01-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-01-13 20:20:05 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I am using powerbook 3,2 with ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2X. Suspend to > RAM works sporadically. The disk spins down but the machine locks up > and leaves the display on. This did not happen in Etch. Probably the same problem as me (I also h

Re: snd-aos not working on a PowerBook6,2 (PowerBook G4 12")

2008-08-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-08-21 22:55:38 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > I agree, but if I understand correctly, the choice was between sound > not working out of the box on some computers, or Debian crashing out > of the box on some others... Couldn't the machine type be detected? > Furthermore, although the infor

Re: snd-aos not working on a PowerBook6,2 (PowerBook G4 12")

2008-08-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-08-19 09:25:26 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > snd-powermac was making the system freeze on G5 iMacs. That's why it > was disabled around Etch release. But the consequence is that sound no longer works on old PowerBooks. :( This way of "fixing" things really sucks. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EM

Re: no sound with alsa

2008-06-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-05-30 09:59:05 -0500, Joe Corneli wrote: > I switched to a "full network install" and sound works there. I > didn't ever figure anything out on the package-by-package level! But perhaps the real problem is still there and your "full network install" did some workaround. Is the udev packag

Re: no sound with alsa

2008-05-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-12-05 11:20:19 -0600, Joe Corneli wrote: > I'm afraid I celebrated too soon. While it is true that > running the udev commands you indicated and reinstalling > alsa-base worked as long as I kept my computer on, when > I turned it off, somewhere it must have changed configuration > files --

Re: Kernel oops with linux-image-2.6.24-1-powerpc 2.6.24-7 after segfault

2008-05-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-05-26 01:21:04 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Note: When I start vlc from bash or pdksh, I do not have this problem. > So, if you want to try to reproduce it, use zsh to start vlc (even > "zsh -f" to make sure rc files do not change anything important). Eventually I

Kernel oops with linux-image-2.6.24-1-powerpc 2.6.24-7 after segfault

2008-05-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Everything is described on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482346 (see the full discussion). Here's a summary: When I start vlc from zsh and interrupt it with Ctrl-C several times, it segfaults, the kernel oops whilst trying to page in memory to write the coredump, and the vlc

Re: no sound with alsa

2007-12-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-11-30 18:46:04 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > The alsaconf script doesn't break sound. It is just unusable for ppc > cards right now. I don't see the difference. > If you have udev running and a kernel >= 2.6.18-rc? then udev should > load your snd_aoa flavour at G4 PB's. Note: do not

Re: no sound with alsa

2007-11-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-11-29 01:25:39 -0600, Joe Corneli wrote: > Vincent: I would be interested to know if you ever resolved the issues > you described at: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/08/msg00038.html > > because I am having the same problem now! > > "Error: Cannot open device alsa09." I

PowerPC builds / tack package

2007-10-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
The powerpc architecture is the only one for which tack isn't built yet: http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=tack What's the problem? When will it be built? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog:

Re: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set on PowerPC

2007-08-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-27 13:14:09 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > software that relies on the oldstyle BSD ptys is dead. > > we didn't want to disable it late in the etch game, > but for lenny the decision is made. It seems that oldstyle BSD ptys have always been disabled in the PowerPC kernels (contrary

Re: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set on PowerPC

2007-08-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-27 11:54:44 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Any one knows why official PowerPC kernels are configured with > >> CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS unset? This makes programs using some pty's > >> fail to work. See bug 430632 for instance. > >It might help if you asked the kern

CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set on PowerPC

2007-08-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, Any one knows why official PowerPC kernels are configured with CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS unset? This makes programs using some pty's fail to work. See bug 430632 for instance. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog:

Re: Bug#407386: linux-image-2.6.18-3-powerpc: No audio out on PowerBook3,2 (regression vs 2.6.17)

2007-01-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-01-26 20:31:45 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 the mental interface of > Vincent Lefevre told: > > [...] > > In fact, installing alsa-base solved the problem. But I've noticed > > that the snd_aoa module isn't loaded. Should

Re: Bug#407386: linux-image-2.6.18-3-powerpc: No audio out on PowerBook3,2 (regression vs 2.6.17)

2007-01-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-01-22 11:46:08 +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > A new snd-aoa driver was mentioned in bug 381658, but I couldn't find > > a NEWS file in /usr/share/doc/linux-image-2.6.18-3-powerpc, so I don't > > know what&#x

Re: Bug#407386: linux-image-2.6.18-3-powerpc: No audio out on PowerBook3,2 (regression vs 2.6.17)

2007-01-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-01-18 10:59:38 +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 03:25:03AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > I upgraded the kernel from 2.6.17-1 to 2.6.18-3 and I no longer get > > sound on my PowerBook G4 (PowerBook3,2). I tried with both ogg123 >

Re: connecting projector to titanium laptop

2006-12-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-12-29 11:39:08 +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone knows when the official kernels will be patched? > > This is rather annoying, it was working in the past. > > It won't be. The current kernel behaviour is

Re: connecting projector to titanium laptop

2006-12-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-12-28 19:58:27 +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > If it's a G4 Ti with a Rage128 card, you need m3mirror and a kernel > patch (if you're running a 2.6 kernel). > > Google for m3mirror.c and look in the debian-powerpc archives for > the kernel patch I posted. Anyone knows when the official kern

Re: Try again : Linux X server issue with Powerbook G4 15'

2006-10-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-24 14:43:33 +0200, Mathieu Rigard wrote: > I have see my /var/log/Xorg.0.log. > I have : > (WW) .../fonts/... directory does not exist (for all my fonts). I had something similar after the upgrade to Xorg on my PowerBook G4 and X couldn't work at all, but this was due to user settings.

Re: No sound with new kernel on old PowerBook G4

2006-09-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, On 2006-09-29 12:41:17 +0300, Emmanuel Galatoulas wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >Now, after using alsa-utils, "-d esd" no longer works with the > >2.6.17 kernel. But it still works with the old 2.6.12 kernel I > >had compiled myself. > I have exact

Re: No sound with new kernel on old PowerBook G4

2006-08-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-08-05 23:34:13 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2006-08-05 11:55:51 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I have an old PowerBook G4 (PowerBook3,2) and recently switched to a > > 2.6.17 kernel with the official linux-image-2.6.17-1-powerpc package > > (until now, I was

Re: No sound with new kernel on old PowerBook G4

2006-08-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-08-05 11:55:51 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I have an old PowerBook G4 (PowerBook3,2) and recently switched to a > 2.6.17 kernel with the official linux-image-2.6.17-1-powerpc package > (until now, I was using a 2.6.12 kernel I had compiled myself). I was previously using &quo

No sound with new kernel on old PowerBook G4

2006-08-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, I have an old PowerBook G4 (PowerBook3,2) and recently switched to a 2.6.17 kernel with the official linux-image-2.6.17-1-powerpc package (until now, I was using a 2.6.12 kernel I had compiled myself). When I want to use ogg123, I now get the error: ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_dri

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and fr.powerpc.mirror.debian.net

2006-03-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-03-17 09:17:11 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > This morning apt-get update run fine, but two packages where missing in > the archive when running apt-get dist-upgrade (xfce4-terminal and zim). > de mirror is ok. I've just seen that mirrors correspond to several machines (several IP addre

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and fr.powerpc.mirror.debian.net

2006-03-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-03-17 00:31:49 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2006-03-16 20:10:01 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > Maybe your previous mirror wasn't updated and you were completely > > outdated ? > > Why outdated? Look at the version numbers. They are exactly the *same*.

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and fr.powerpc.mirror.debian.net

2006-03-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-03-16 20:10:01 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 01:10 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > After the switch to *.powerpc.mirror.debian.net, "apt-get dist-upgrade" > > wants to reinstall many packages: > > > > [...] > > 315 upg

apt-get dist-upgrade and fr.powerpc.mirror.debian.net

2006-03-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
After the switch to *.powerpc.mirror.debian.net, "apt-get dist-upgrade" wants to reinstall many packages: [...] 315 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Inst adduser [3.80] (3.80 fr.powerpc.mirror.debian.net) Inst base-config [2.76] (2.76 fr.powerpc.mirror.debian.net) Inst

Re: ftp.us.debian.org doesn't have binary-ppc?

2006-03-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-03-13 06:20:36 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > I hadn't noticed the issue myself, but upon reading that message and > the message it points to it seems that we should be using > us.powerpc.mirror.debian.net (change us to your country code). I have problems with this too: [...] Fetched 13.

Re: quickcam express and ppc

2006-01-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-01-04 23:30:46 +0100, Antonio-Miguel Corbi Bellot wrote: > Has anyone managed to get working a camera like this under linux-2.6.x > powerpc? I had a Logitech QuickCam Express for a few days and used the spca5xx driver under a 2.6.11 kernel. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <

Re: Linux/PowerPC-specific Firefox 1.5 bugs?

2006-01-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-01-02 18:32:58 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > As a side note, if I do a: > > firefox -remote "openurl(http://www.mozilla.org)" > > it works. Thanks this one was broken too[*] but now it works again! [*] More precisely, I had tried: firefox -remote 'openURL(http://localhost/)' [I'

Linux/PowerPC-specific Firefox 1.5 bugs?

2006-01-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, I've reported the following Firefox 1.5 bugs: * https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321317 Remote interface doesn't work under Linux/PowerPC * https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321994 Firefox doesn't display pages containing MathML Could anyone on

Re: IBMJava doesn't work after installing... - solution!

2006-01-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-01-01 02:15:18 +, David Pye wrote: > On Saturday 31 December 2005 23:33, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > > AFAIK, Mozilla/Firefox and the plugin must be compiled with the > > same compiler. C++ sucks. > > I'm sure that's a troll. > >

Re: IBMJava doesn't work after installing... - solution!

2005-12-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-12-31 14:02:07 +0100, Bartosz Sokolowski wrote: > Strange but it doesn't work for me. JVM in Mozilla and Firefox is > still broken. Any ideas?? Do you get any error when typing "firefox" from a shell? AFAIK, Mozilla/Firefox and the plugin must be compiled with the same compiler. C++ sucks

Re: stock kernel 2.6.12 eth0/eth1 swapped

2005-12-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-12-11 10:18:58 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > just to say that this swapping can be very difficult to diagnose to the > basic user. Coming from the i386 world, I would only expect this to > happen with two similar interfaces. I installed a debian (testing) on my > iMac G5 yesterday (only on

Re: patch for m3mirror and 2.6.14

2005-11-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-11-22 12:30:10 +0100, Peter Plessas wrote: [... original patch ...] > - for (j=0; j + for (j=0; j<1; j++) { [...] > Did change the line > "for (i=j+1; i into > "for (i=j+1; i<1; i++) {" > > but m3mirror does just give me the OpenFirmware splash screen: >

Re: Hwo to get the display on external monitor or videoprojector

2005-10-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-10-07 12:25:54 +0200, Philippe Hupé wrote: > I made the modifications suggested by Peter. But nothing happens. At > boot, my external monitor keeps white. > > Does anybody have an idea? On my PowerBook G4 (PowerBook3,2) with ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02), I use m3m

Re: srcinst: 10 times as large as on x86

2005-09-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-09-22 08:19:18 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:12:29AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Is there are reason why srcinst takes 5 MB on the PowerPC? > > How where the two versions compiled ? I got both from the official binary packages (apt-get

srcinst: 10 times as large as on x86

2005-09-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On x86: dixsept:~> ll /usr/bin/srcinst -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 505676 2005-09-16 16:46:42 /usr/bin/srcinst dixsept:~> file /usr/bin/srcinst /usr/bin/srcinst: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped On the Powe

Re: Two Fingered Scroll (for PowerBook G4)

2005-08-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-08-13 09:38:25 +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 03:24 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Can one do this under Linux? > > > > http://www.mactips.org/archives/2005/08/11/two-fingered-scroll/ > > It can certainly be implemented, I accep

Two Fingered Scroll (for PowerBook G4)

2005-08-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Can one do this under Linux? http://www.mactips.org/archives/2005/08/11/two-fingered-scroll/ -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LOR

Re: Sound in g4

2005-06-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-06-07 22:10:01 +0100, David Pye wrote: > There's a point to these group-ids. > > The correct way to allow yourself to write to /dev/dsp is to add > yourself to the audio group, as a secondary group, *not* chmod the > device. > > This applies to any other devices which are owned by 'specia

Re: fbset -- is there a ``debian way'' to use it at boot?

2005-05-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-05-15 23:17:26 +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > Been looking through the files in /etc/console* but can't see a way > to invoke ``fbset -xres 640 -yres 400'' on all VTs at start-up. Is > there a place that Debian likes this done or should I just whack it > in bootmisc.sh? I've created m

Re: external Display and FBDev

2005-05-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-05-03 18:23:05 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Well, my question is what did you want ? :) I don't understand what you > wanted it to do with both clone and different resolutions ... If you > expected the flat panel to suddently get a better resolution, then no, > there is no black m

Logitech QuickCam Express - /dev/video: No such device

2005-04-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, I'm trying to use the Logitech QuickCam Express on my PowerBook G4. I get the following error: ay:~> gqcam /dev/video: No such device lsmod says: Module Size Used by videodev 11648 0 [...] Should I modify something in the configuration or do I need to compi

Brightness control with keyboard and XWindow

2005-04-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I can do brightness control on my PowerBook G4 with Fn+F1 and Fn+F2, but they generate keypresses of keysym 0 (^@) and confuse applications that get them. xev says that they correspond to keycodes 101 and 212. ay:~> xmodmap -pke|grep '101\|212' keycode 101 = keycode 212 = Is there a bug in the k

Re: [PATCH] pmac: Improve sleep code of tumbler driver

2005-04-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-04-11 10:18:53 +0200, Colin Leroy wrote: > I suppose it also fixes the occasionnal loud static noise that > sometimes at wakeup, for example on iBook G4s. Good :) Could this be related to this bug? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=244467 -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: xterm problem on my powerbook

2005-03-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-03-08 14:59:25 +, Jochen Voss wrote: > It seems therer is none (except changing the eightBitInput setting and > thus to live without the meta key). The Meta key works fine. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog

Re: xterm problem on my powerbook

2005-03-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-03-08 00:02:20 +, Jochen Voss wrote: > Is there any known reason why "XTerm*eightBitInput: false" works on > i386 but not on powerpc? This is due to the CS8 passed to ioctl (this is what I sent to Thomas Dickey in January 2002). Thomas replied concerning this point: perhaps I should

Re: xterm problem on my powerbook

2005-03-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, 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 but then dies > immediately with the following error message. > > xterm: fatal pty error 23 (errno=22) on tty /

Re: Memory problem

2005-02-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-02-12 12:25:27 +1100, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > You can use free. On my ibook most of the used ram is used for caching. "free" doesn't say which processes are taking memory. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <

Memory problem

2005-02-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On my PowerBook (2.6.9-powerpc kernel), top says: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 12457 lefevre 16 0 168m 64m 45m S 0.0 25.6 114:31.11 mozilla-bin 12458 lefevre 16 0 168m 64m 45m S 0.0 25.6 0:00.21 mozilla-bin 12459 le

Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?

2005-01-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-01-02 11:17:33 -0800, shyamal wrote: > I don't believe sound support is available (Debian or upstream > kernels). I plan to buy a Dual G5 PowerMac. But sound support is important for me. Is it possible to get sound via MOL? Otherwise, I'll have to wait... -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: bug in rint() function

2004-12-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-12-13 17:49:30 +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Maybe your bug report would have been more convincing if the test case > results were appended, and did actually show both the bug, and your > proposed fix performing better than generic rint. Yes, you're right. I'll add that... > I ran a qui

bug in rint() function

2004-12-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I filled a bug report and submitted a patch more than a year ago, but there have been no comments: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216800 No one wonders about powerpc-specific bugs in glibc? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessibl

xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-9 for powerpc

2004-12-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Does anyone know when xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-9 binary packages will be available for powerpc? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA

Re: 2nd monitor output

2004-10-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, On 2004-10-25 22:16:31 +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Nice. Tomorrow that bug will be a year old. Happy birthday, Bug#217778! :) I didn't see that! > So please check whether you set video in your kernel command line, and > what the argument is. And please try booting without that paramet

Re: 2nd monitor output

2004-10-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-10-22 08:17:55 +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > This is a bug in the kernel. A patch was posted here a few weeks ago. > > I can't see a patch anywhere in this thread. Do you have a message id? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (thread '

Re: 2nd monitor output

2004-10-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-10-21 14:22:59 +0200, peter plessas wrote: > ok, i have an > ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) > > and using the m3mirror tool i can get an external vga monitor to > display the open firmware startup message: > > ... ok > copying OF device tree...done > Calling quiesce

Re: Videoprojector with PB 15" Alu

2004-09-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-09-08 11:14:28 +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > So here's the oneliner that makes it work again. ISTR that it was more > complicated than that. It's the same for a 2.4 kernel, btw, but it > won't apply because the context changed (in the 2.4 kernel there is a > comment above the for ()). Than

Re: Videoprojector with PB 15" Alu

2004-09-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-09-06 11:26:32 +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote: > I teach and I need to use a videoprojector for my classes with my > PowerBook 15" Alu (Radeon 9600). What I need is simply to project the > screen of my laptop on the videoprojector. On the mailing list I have > found the post > http://lists.d

Should the setmixer package be removed from sarge?

2004-08-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
The setmixer package is dangerous for the ears, at least on the PowerBook G4. See bug 244467. If this bug isn't fixed, shouldn't this package be removed from sarge? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn / RISC OS / ARM, free software

rsync 2.6.2-3

2004-08-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, Does anyone know why rsync 2.6.2-3 isn't available on powerpc? I couldn't find anything useful on http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=rsync -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn / RISC OS / ARM, free software, YP17, Cham

kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc: errors "modprobe.conf: No such file or directory"

2004-08-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I've just installed kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc and I got: [...] Setting up kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc (2.6.7-3) ... cpio: /etc/modprobe.conf: No such file or directory cpio: /lib/modules/modprobe.conf: No such file or directory Is it normal or is it a bug? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Using PCMCIA on PowerPC

2004-07-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-07-30 09:07:23 +0200, Andreas Jaggi wrote: > For Aluminium PowerBook G4, PCIC=yenta_socket Thanks. In fact, yenta_socket was automatically loaded when I rebooted with the adapter + the SD card in the PowerBook: pcmcia_core73108 3 ide_cs,ds,yenta_socket But I'll do the change

Using PCMCIA on PowerPC

2004-07-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I'm trying to use PCMCIA on my PowerBook G4 (I have an adapter to read a SD card in particular), but I can't find anything related to PCMCIA in the log files. /usr/share/doc/pcmcia-cs/FAQ.Debian.gz says: oHow do I setup my Debian system to use PCMCIA cards? First you should obtain and instal

Re: tty on powerbook

2004-07-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-07-09 04:28:01 +0200, nico dreher wrote: > I tried all sorts of combinations: ctrl - alt - f1, fn - alt - f1, etc. On mine: Ctrl-Command-F1 ^^^ the key just before the space bar -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% validated (X)HTM

Re: Problem with ifconfig usb0

2004-07-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-07-07 21:58:54 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Use the correct name for the device? On my Powerbook G3 (Pismo), > when I plug in my USB cablemodem (which also uses the usbnet > driver), it shows up as eth3 (eth2 is the IP-over-1394 device, eth1 > is my wireless card, and eth0 is the integ

Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-07-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-06-30 20:31:44 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > As I said in a previous mail: the sound comes from the right speaker > only and the audio files play twice as fast as the normal speed. > (I tried with ogg123 at least.) I've tried again with kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc 2.6.6

Re: Problem with ifconfig usb0

2004-07-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-07-06 20:15:53 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Note: I'm using the 2.4.18-newpmac kernel. I've just rebooted my machine and there's no problem with kernel 2.6.6. However, if this could work with 2.4.18, this would be great. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Problem with ifconfig usb0

2004-07-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
FYI, here are the latest messages from the /var/log/kern.log file: Jul 6 20:05:53 ay kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2 Jul 6 20:05:53 ay kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x4dd/0x9031) is not claimed by any active driver. Jul 6 20:05:57 ay kernel:

Problem with ifconfig usb0

2004-07-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I have the following error: ay:/home/lefevre# ifconfig usb0 192.168.129.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 up SIOCSIFADDR: No such device usb0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device usb0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device What should I do? No

Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-07-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-07-02 10:18:15 +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Increase the buffer by a factor of 2, and it'll be ok. That's what I > >> did. I never got the other problem you mention, though. > > > > Whic

Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-07-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-07-01 02:35:19 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > No bug, from /usr/share/doc/module-init-tools/changelog.Debian.gz: > > module-init-tools (3.1-pre2-1) unstable; urgency=medium > > * New upstream release. (Closes: #254204) > * Now /etc/modprobe.d/ is processed by modprobe. This means that

Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-07-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-06-30 21:17:29 +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As I said in a previous mail: the sound comes from the right speaker > > only and the audio files play twice as fast as the normal speed. > > (I tried with ogg123 at least

Re: How to configure yaboot for initrd?

2004-06-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-06-30 18:08:42 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > image=/vmlinux > label=Linux > read-only > initrd=/initrd.img 2.4.x kernels (from the kernel-image-* packages) don't use initrd. Is it possible to have something automatical, without having to modify the /etc/yaboot.conf f

Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-06-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-06-30 11:42:48 -0500, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > m3mirror is and has always been a hack that works by mere luck, we need > real proper support for the second head of those chip, and I' don't have > time to implement it, volunteers welcome... Well, this is better than nothing. > dmaso

Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-06-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-06-30 13:35:27 +0200, Jaume Sabater wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:02:14PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >>This is wrong. CRT output (when enabled by m3mirror) doesn't work with > >>2.6 kernels on my PowerBook. Sound doesn'

Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-06-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-06-30 13:31:25 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:02:14PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > This is wrong. CRT output (when enabled by m3mirror) doesn't work with > > 2.6 kernels on my PowerBook. Sound doesn't properly work either (the > &

Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-06-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-06-30 11:19:37 +0200, Jaume Sabater wrote: > - Kernel 2.6 is better in all aspects than 2.4. This is wrong. CRT output (when enabled by m3mirror) doesn't work with 2.6 kernels on my PowerBook. Sound doesn't properly work either (the rate is incorrect). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Sound not working with kernel 2.6.5

2004-06-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-06-01 16:49:07 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I've put > > install sound /sbin/modprobe dmasound_pmac > > in my /etc/modprobe.conf file, but the sound comes from the > right speaker only and the audio files play twice as fast as > the normal speed. Same pro

Re: Sound not working with kernel 2.6.5

2004-06-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, On 2004-05-27 09:50:08 +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > The modprobe utility for 2.6 kernels, from the module-init-tools > package, reads /etc/modprobe.conf, not /etc/modules.conf. I've put install sound /sbin/modprobe dmasound_pmac in my /etc/modprobe.conf file, but the sound comes from the

Re: Sound not working with kernel 2.6.5

2004-05-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-05-23 19:23:43 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:56:03PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I upgraded my PowerBook G4 (first generation) from 2.4 kernels to > > 2.6.5, using the kernel-image-2.6.5-powerpc package. And sound isn't > > wor

Sound not working with kernel 2.6.5

2004-05-19 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I upgraded my PowerBook G4 (first generation) from 2.4 kernels to 2.6.5, using the kernel-image-2.6.5-powerpc package. And sound isn't working. ogg123 says: Error: Cannot open device oss. With the "-d esd" option, I get: Error: Cannot open device esd. /dev/dsp: No such device and ogg123 segfa

Re: chmod????

2004-04-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-04-27 17:20:01 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:02:32AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > The right way to do is probably to let the group unchanged and to > > put yourself in the disk group. > > You should never put yourself in group disk.

Re: chmod????

2004-04-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-04-27 00:13:18 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, this one's new to me (of course, all most anything is with > Debian). I'm trying to tweak the permissions on my cdrom so that I > can use it as a regular user. I've already successfully changed the > group for the cdrom, but now when I ch

Re: Volume control on the PowerBook

2004-04-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-04-15 01:31:48 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > When I use a headset with my PowerBook G4, the volume is always quite > loud, even if it is set to the minimum in gnome-volume-control. Where > does this come from? Well, same problem with nmixer (from the mp3blaster package).

Re: Low battery -> power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-04-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I've done some tests with the 2.4.18 kernel, and I have the same problem. I've noticed that when removing a full-charged battery (either the first one or the second one), a light at the middle of the rear of the machine fluctuates for a few seconds, then switches off; I assume this is because there

Re: cpu temperature on powerbook G4

2004-04-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-04-16 23:51:15 +0200, Tobias Pflug wrote: > I've got a powerbook G4 running 2.6.5 and I'm wondering why I dont > get cpu temperature information in /proc/cpu. > > Thermal Information (tau) is enabled in kernel. > Does it work for anyone on this list ? Any ideas/suggestions ? No problem he

Re: Mozilla Compilation

2004-04-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-04-15 21:57:48 +0200, Quentin Decavel wrote: > My Debian installation had Mozilla 1.0 installed, and I wanted a newer > version, so I downloaded Mozilla1.6 sources (I haven't found any binary > for Debian on powerpc), and tried to compile them. Why don't you use the Mozilla 1.7 branch?

Re: Zombies (defunct processes) with kernel 2.4.18

2004-04-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-04-15 09:29:47 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > So better get a tree-like diagram of your processes (ps axf) and look > for your zombie's parents. Kill those. No, the parents are legimate processes (mozilla and ogg123). They just fork (or start a new thread). With mozilla, you can see a p

Zombies (defunct processes) with kernel 2.4.18

2004-04-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
With kernel 2.4.18 (well, I noticed that I didn't have the following problem for a while, and I was using kernel 2.4.25 at this time), I've noticed that Mozilla and ogg123 leave zombies: ay:~> ps -aef|grep "defunct[>]" lefevre 1836 1663 0 02:34 pts/600:00:00 [ogg123] lefevre 2040 1663

Volume control on the PowerBook

2004-04-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
When I use a headset with my PowerBook G4, the volume is always quite loud, even if it is set to the minimum in gnome-volume-control. Where does this come from? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn / RISC OS / ARM, free software, YP

Re: Low battery -> power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-04-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, On 2004-04-13 18:40:35 +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Vincent, are you running a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel ? The problem occurred with 2.4.25. When I had the same problem in January, I'm quite sure I had 2.4.22. > I noticed the same kind of problem with 2.4 kernels after 2.4.20. It's > impossible to

Re: Low battery -> power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-04-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-04-13 10:29:34 -0600, Sam George wrote: > So I believe you are saying that you have two batteries, and that when Yes I have two batteries (initially both charged, and after I got the problem when swapping #1 to #2, I did the test with #2 only, just to be sure that swapping battries could

Re: Low battery -> power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-04-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-04-13 08:37:51 -0600, Sam George wrote: > Another possibility you perchance did not consider is that your bridge > battery may be dead. The bridge battery sustains main memory while you > switch out the main battery. Unlikely, as it did work when I removed the second battery and put it

Re: Low battery -> power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-04-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-04-13 13:31:23 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Or maybe you just wasn't fast enough flipping the battery... This took just a few seconds. I had prepared the second battery to do the change as fast as possible. I did the same with the second battery only (removing it, waiting for a

Low battery -> power down + clock set back to 1904-01-01

2004-04-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Same problem as before... :( But this time I was using the pbbuttonsd 0.5.10-1 package. To summarize, the battery of my PowerBook G4 got too low and the machine was put into sleep. I closed the lid, changed the battery, but when I reopened the lid, I noticed that the PowerBook was in fact off. And

Re: Beeps due to pbbuttonsd 0.5.9-2

2004-03-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-03-27 08:32:31 +0100, Matthias Grimm wrote: > The heartbeat beep would be activated if pbbuttonsd was configured > to switch off screen instead of entering sleep mode. You work via > VNC which causes that pbbuttonsd receives neither keyboard nor mouse > events and after awaiting the configu

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