Re: acroread

2006-11-07 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi altogether! On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 04:41:32PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 07 November 2006 14:01, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > > > What can you do with acroread that would not work with kdpf for example ? > > Form templates. > > Can you please point out a pdf (or create one),

Re: bluetooth mouses not working in recent Debian bluez-utils

2006-01-12 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi alltogether! On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:29:53PM +0200, Eddy Petrişor wrote: > On 1/12/06, Yves-Alexis Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Eddy Petrisor wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have just seen recently that my bluetooth mouse has stopped > > > functioning (I haven't been using it dail

Re: etch graphical installer does not work on G5 PowerMac?

2005-12-05 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi alltogether! On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 11:34:53PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:12:21AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 08:05 -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > > > > Yes, it is an Nvidia GeForce card, unfortunately that is what Apple > > > s

Re: 2.6.14 USB vs. sleep issues

2005-11-07 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Charles-Edouard, On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:13:02AM +0100, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: [...snip...] > Hi Ben, > i've applied your patch and it seems that when i put my powerbook to > sleep ( by closing the lid ) the kernel just crashes since everytime i > come back, the machine is turned off.

Re: Mac mini, I/O Error on DVD read

2005-11-02 Thread Wolfram Quester
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:35:01PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 22:52 +0100, Christophe Delage wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently bought a Mac Mini and quickly installed Debian Sarge on it. > > However, the kernel do not seem to be able to read DVDs. > > > > mini ~%

Re: apt-get/aptitude: "public key is not available"

2005-09-24 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Wolfgang, On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 05:49:17PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [...snip...] > Fetched 482B in 2s (197B/s) Reading package lists... Done W: GPG > error: http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de mplayer/ Release: The > following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is >

Re: keycode kernel

2005-07-06 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi open_flax, please respect that this is an english speaking list concerning powerpc. On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:50:25AM +0200, open_flax wrote: > Salve > vorrei conoscere i keycode della mia tastiera mappati > dal kernel che prog posso usare? > xev mi da' dei keycode differenti che penso siano

Re: [PATCH] apm-emu displays time till battery is fully charged

2005-06-23 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi all, On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 08:34:08PM +, Joerg Sommer wrote: > Soeren Sonnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Ben & all, > > > > I am using this patch since IIRC kernel 2.8. without trouble, and I > > wonder what is needed to get it included in the kernel ? I posted it on > > the

Re: cpufreq problems

2005-06-23 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Itai, On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:40:10AM -0700, Itai Seggev wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:32:45PM -0700, Mike S wrote: > > Itai Seggev wrote: > > > > >On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:32:24AM +0200, Mickael Royer wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Now i use the 2.6.12rc6 without patch. I can use the tw

Re: White Selection Bars in Thunderbird & Firefox

2005-06-20 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Joe, On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 04:01:51PM -0400, J. De Salvo wrote: > Hi, > > In both Thunderbird 1.0.2 and Firefox 1.0. on Sarge, when I select a > menu or sub-menu item, the selection indicator is completely white and > opaque; no text is visible through the selection. > > Admittedly not a

Re: ppc32: Rework power management take #3

2005-06-06 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Ben, On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 08:43:57AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Normally I use rivafb, but I tried video=ofonly and did not get a > > freeze. I tried it three times and I hope that this is good statistics. > > With 2.6.12-rc2 and riva fb I got the freeze in about 80% of all

Re: ppc32: Rework power management take #3

2005-06-03 Thread Wolfram Quester
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 08:15:03AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Today I applied the two mentioned patches to rc5-git6. There were quite > > a lot of offsets and one time fuzz 2 (hunk 10 in via-pm.c). But still I > > get a freeze on my PowerBook6,2 (12", 1Ghz from Dec. 2004) when I >

Re: ppc32: Rework power management take #3

2005-06-02 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Maxi, On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 04:12:56PM +0200, Maximilian Gerlach wrote: > Hi Wolfi, > I have the same Powerbook model and it's running Ubuntu "unstable"; > Breezy. Suspend to disk works like a charm, even without the new patch > applied. And in X. > Maybe you could try that?! Should I send yo

Re: ppc32: Rework power management take #3

2005-06-02 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi, On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 11:59:14PM +0200, Mickael Royer wrote: > Hi Ben > > > Ok, the patch is now getting "good enough" for wider testing. It applies > > on current "git" tree (or 2.6.12-rc6 when/if that is ever released). > > I have just tested your patch with the 2.5.12-rc5-git5 on the n

Re: Questions about the new powerbook ?

2005-05-28 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Ben, hi Mickael, On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 08:55:19AM +0200, Mickael Royer wrote: > >if you log in your machine remotely while it's in X and do "chvt 1", does > >this work ? > > Yes, it woks well > > >Can you switch to console in general when in X ? > > Yes > > Moreover, when Powerbook is blo

Re: Bug#303551: Help with inkscape bug #303551

2005-05-12 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Lee, hi Michel, On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:32:06AM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Thursday 12 May 2005 04:30, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 21:16 +0200, Wolfram Quester wrote: > > > In bug #303551 it was reported that inkscape segfaults on startup. > &g

Help with inkscape bug #303551

2005-05-11 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi alltogether! In bug #303551 it was reported that inkscape segfaults on startup. strace output and a core file are attached to the bugreport. ltrace outputs nothing and never finishes. gdb however gives > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp $ gdb -c inkscape_ppc_segfault.core > /usr/bin/inkscape > GNU gdb

Re: flakey ibook keyboard

2005-05-11 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Lee, On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 10:37:59AM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > Anyone else have trouble with their ibook keyboard? Mine suddenly takes to > repeating 222s or some other key in X (but 2 is quite common), and I > just discovered that, with the g key xmodmap'ed to: There was a dis

Re: Bug#299442: osdsh: does not start on powerpc

2005-03-18 Thread Wolfram Quester
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:05:43AM -0500, Michel DÃnzer wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 15:19 +0100, Wolfram Quester wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:56:38PM +0100, Loïc Le Guyader wrote: > > > Le 18 March 2005, Wolfram Quester, ? bout, prit son clavier pour &

Re: Bug#299442: osdsh: does not start on powerpc

2005-03-18 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi, On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:56:38PM +0100, Loïc Le Guyader wrote: > Le 18 March 2005, Wolfram Quester, ? bout, prit son clavier pour > taper sur son ?cran: > > The solution is to write int c; instead of char c; > > What about "signed char c;"? Yes, I thought abou

Re: Bug#299442: osdsh: does not start on powerpc

2005-03-18 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi, On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 11:14:47AM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > tags 299442 +help > thanks > > Hi Georg, > > thanks for your bug report. It is a pretty good report even, but since I > have no powerpc machine availabe, I don't really know what to do, so I > tagged the bug as "help", hopin

Re: pbbuttonsd, Fn keys

2005-03-16 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Tamas, On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:57:39AM -0500, Tamas K Papp wrote: > I am using pbbuttonsd, and the F1-F5 keys work as they should. > However, > > 1. I cannot use Ctrl-Alt-F1 etc to switch to a text console - is it > because of pbbuttonsd? Probably you have to press fn additionally. > > 2.

Re: albook g4 + external hard drive

2005-02-10 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Tamas, On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 07:16:17AM -0500, Tamas K Papp wrote: > Hi, > > I about to buy an external hard drive (or an enclosure+hard drive), > either USB or Firewire. > > I would like to ask how to check if this will be supported by Debian, > is there something to watch out for, whether

2.6.10-rc2 and mol

2004-11-25 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi, I recently updated to kernel 2.6.10-rc2 and now mol refuses to work. I use mol-modules-source from unstable and during compilation I get lots of warnings like CC [M] /usr/src/modules/mol/src/kmod/Linux/../build/_dev.o In file included from /usr/src/modules/mol/src/kmod/build/kernel_vars.h

Re: No /dev/pmu

2004-08-19 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi alltogether, On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 08:47:42AM +0200, Sebastian Henschel wrote: > hello matthew... > > * "Matthew T. Atkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-19 07:50 +0200]: > > > > I have no /dev/pmu in a new installation of Sarge. It is causing GNOME > > to complain on startup and pbbutton

Re: problem building kernel, asm error

2004-08-12 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Ropbert, On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:49:53PM +0200, Robert Staudinger wrote: > Wolfi, > > thanks for the info. > Isn't there a workaround for 2.6.7? I mean, how are the original kernels > built? > BTW, did you attach the patch? Maybe it got stripped off by the > mailserver. > Here is the patc

Re: problem building kernel, asm error

2004-08-11 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Robert, On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:54:28PM +0200, Robert Staudinger wrote: > Hello, > > i'm trying to build myself a 2.6.7-powerpc kernel using debians tools on > my G3 ibook. > However, it bails on asm problems as shown in the following log. To > start slowly i'm using the original /boot/con

Re: Latest swsusp patches

2004-08-09 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Arne! On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:16:34PM +0200, Arne Caspari wrote: > Hi all! > > Where are the latest patches to activate software suspend for the 2.6.7 > kernel? > > I can't find them in the archives. It would be very nice if anybody could > repost them. I would put up a website containin

Re: Installing sarge

2004-07-30 Thread Wolfram Quester
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:47:24PM -0700, jon salenger wrote: > Hey, > > The same exact thing happened when I installed from the daily businesscard > ISO > (i'm assuming minimal iso=businesscard). I ignored that message and continued > with the installation, since I knew that there had been a n

Re: 'Alt' key strange behaviour in gnome/metacity

2004-07-08 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi! On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:37:01PM +0200, Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot wrote: > Does any one use gnome-2.6 + metacity (2.8.1-3) and has observed a > strange behaviour in the Alt key when typing, i.e., Alt+Tab to change > focus between windows? > > After upgrading to the latest xfree (4.3.0.dfsg.1

Re: gtkpbbuttons 0.6.2 unofficial package

2004-03-24 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hello alltogether! On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 07:45:07PM +0100, Matthias Grimm wrote: > Am Dienstag, 23. März 2004 18:53 schrieb Wolfram Quester: > > Hallo, > > > Another interesting thing is that I can't switch my display off with that > > new version of pbbutto

Re: gtkpbbuttons 0.6.2 unofficial package

2004-03-23 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Stefano! On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:40:52PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 02:23:44PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > I've just packaged pbbuttonsd 0.5.9. I've forward ported the last 0.5.3 > > and reviewed a bit the old packaging, for more info the changelog is

Re: OpenOffice broken in unstable?

2004-03-22 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Pierre! On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 01:45:57PM +0100, Pierre N wrote: > Hi, > > Just wondering if anybody has the same problems than me. OpenOffice > doesn't start. HD makes noise, CPU goes up, but nothing happens. Printer > admin works fine though... > Yesterday I was working happily with OOo, b

Re: any driver for nvidia geforce fx 5200?

2004-02-16 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi! On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:33:39PM +0100, Hari Seldon wrote: > Hi, > > is there any driver for the geforce fx 5200? I'm trying to config X from > unstable and couldn't manage to make it work. Does nvidia provide a closed > driver for ppc? (couldn't find any on nvidia's webpage). > > Thanks,

Re: Albook fan: status?

2004-01-27 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi alltogether! On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:22:18AM +0100, Colin LEROY wrote: > Hi everyone, > > did you try out the last patch I sent[1] ? > > Can you confirm if it works fine ? > > [1] the latest is this one: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/debian-powerpc-200401/msg00918.html >

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-23 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi, On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:45:09PM +0100, Marco Giordani wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:21:43PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > > the powerbook model perhaps. Try to set "limit_decrease=10 fan_speed=255" > > to see the maximum... > > Ok. On my Albook 15" 1.25GHz: > > fan_speed=128 returns 2

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-23 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi, On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 02:07:25AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > Interesting enough, when I have my endless loops run longer the machine > > crashes. One time it crashed after about 10 minutes, one time after half > > an hour of full fan speed. the first time the heating rat

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-23 Thread Wolfram Quester
> Do you mean it did crash with the last patch (or not?) ? Yup! > If yes, I'll put the limits quite high on the chip (Say 65°C), and start > the fan as it is now (Slow at 50, fast at 58). That ist what I'd suggest though I don't understand the underlying mechanism. Wolfi

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-23 Thread Wolfram Quester
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:06:21AM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > > Interesting. Is our limit too low or is the fan unable to cool > > it down ? In the later case, we probably want to switch to low > > speed (at least) when we go over a first limit... > > Maybe. Yesterday's patch seems to work (with

Re: [latest PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-22 Thread Wolfram Quester
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:55:19PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > > I did that and it worked. The stress test this time was the above loop > > with your chip-friendly extension and a while (true); do echo; done in > > another terminal. The fan startet at 60 centigrades: > > And the parameter you gave

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-22 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi, On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:24:56AM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > Hi, > > > After cooling under 47 centigrade, the fan switches off again. But if I > > try to create higher cpu-load using something like > > while (true); do for i in cpu_limit cpu_temperature fan_speed; do cat > $i; echo; done; d

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-21 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Colin and Marco! On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:34:26PM +0100, Wolfram Quester wrote: > Hi Colin! > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:41:41PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > > > could the ones here with Albooks and an ADT7460 chip for the fans try > > this > > > patch

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-21 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Colin! On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:41:41PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > > could the ones here with Albooks and an ADT7460 chip for the fans try > this > > patch and tell whether it works fine or not ? > > > updated patch (i messed up two registers) here. > -- As I told you in my last email, y

Re: [PATCH] Albook fan driver

2004-01-21 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi, On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:41:41PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > > could the ones here with Albooks and an ADT7460 chip for the fans try > this > > patch and tell whether it works fine or not ? > > > updated patch (i messed up two registers) here. I tried to apply your patch, but it fails wit

Re: Users of new albook 15" and 12", contact me

2004-01-07 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi, On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:43:38AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Title says it all... > > Ben. > Sorry for my late answer, I've been on holidays. I have new PowerBook G4 12": [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7457, altivec supported clock

Using rivafb on new PowerBook G4 12"

2003-12-29 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi alltogether! On my new Powerbook G4 12" I couldn't use the nVidia framebuffer-console with kernel 2.4.23-ben1. I only saw vertical white stripes between booting and the start of gdm or a patchwork image of the X-screen when switching to tty1. The problem was the unknown PCI-ID of the graphics c

New Powerbook G4 12"

2003-12-29 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi alltogether! This patch is against 2.4.23-ben1. With it applied the kernel recognizes my new 12" G4 PowerBook correctly. It changes the line detected as : 287 to detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 12") in cat /proc/cpuinfo. Wolfram Quester --- /home/wol