Re: Powerbook6,8 issues

2005-11-14 Thread Leonardo Lanzi
Hi, you can use xscreensaver from sarge... It still works. Leonardo Juan Pablo Mendoza wrote: Hi, I just reinstalled debian and I can confirm it, running xscreensaver makes the flickering, stoping it stop the flickering. Also my sound problems are fixed, not really sure how, I reinstalled deb

Re: Powerbook6,8 issues

2005-11-13 Thread Juan Pablo Mendoza
Hi, I just reinstalled debian and I can confirm it, running xscreensaver makes the flickering, stoping it stop the flickering. Also my sound problems are fixed, not really sure how, I reinstalled debian and installed the 2.6.14 kernel (i had 2.6.13 before). On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 17:41 +0100, Ant

Re: Powerbook6,8 issues

2005-11-13 Thread Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot
El sáb, 12-11-2005 a las 22:15 -0600, Juan Pablo Mendoza escribió: > display worked fine in ubuntu) tomorrow I will reinstall debian and > try > some new things, like the xscreensaver downgrade Antonio suggested > (how > the hell can xscreensaver be causing that, I don't know) then maybe Please, a

Re: Powerbook6,8 issues

2005-11-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Symbol drmGetClient from module /usr/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o is > unresolved! > Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/local/, removing from list! Doesn't sound good (the unresolved symbol). I'd say your X is busted, either gentoo has a busted version or you are missing some

Re: Powerbook6,8 issues

2005-11-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> I found this: > > http://web.inter.nl.net/users/be-hold/BeOS/NVdriver/ > http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/haiku/haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/graphics/nvidia/ > http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/haiku/haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/accelerants/nvidia/ > > They seem to have support for 'coldstartin

Re: Powerbook6,8 issues

2005-11-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> So we have no hope ? :'-( Nothing ? Nada ? no ugly hack ? no dirty > workaround ? maybe not shutting down the nvidia chip completly ? > something ? The shutdown of the chip is under control of the PMU which I don't think can be told to not do it (or if it can, I don't know how). It's probably p

Re: Powerbook6,8 issues

2005-11-12 Thread smarthur
i have been successfully running gentoo and Xorg on my 15" aluminum powerbook for quite some time now. however, after i ran emerge --update world a few days ago, X refuses to start up. i tried recompiling my kernel and going over my xorg.conf file, but can't find anything amiss. when i run startx,

Re: Powerbook6,8 issues

2005-11-12 Thread Juan Pablo Mendoza
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 09:39 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > The most annoying thing for me: The laptop doesn't suspend at all, I > > still have my old ibook g3 with a radeon m7 and the sleep support is a > > feature I'm very attached too. I'm a experienced C developer (no kernel > > experi

Re: Powerbook6,8 issues

2005-11-12 Thread Juan Pablo Mendoza
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 09:39 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Random lines flickering in the screen when i use the keyboard in Xorg > > (tried the default Xorg from sid and the experimental 6.9 packages) it's > > really anoying and I'm afraid they are damaging the panel in someway. > > It's

Re: Powerbook6,8 issues

2005-11-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 15:38 -0600, Juan Pablo Mendoza wrote: > Hi, > > I recently started working in a new company and they assigned me a brand > new Powerbook 12" (PowerBook6,8) 1.5GHz with a (f*cking) nvidia NV34M > GeForce FX Go5200. > > I installed debian unstable and have some problems with

Re: Powerbook6,8 issues

2005-11-12 Thread Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot
El sáb, 12-11-2005 a las 15:38 -0600, Juan Pablo Mendoza escribió: > I installed debian unstable and have some problems with it: > > Random lines flickering in the screen when i use the keyboard in Xorg > (tried the default Xorg from sid and the experimental 6.9 packages) > it's > really anoying a

Powerbook6,8 issues

2005-11-12 Thread Juan Pablo Mendoza
Hi, I recently started working in a new company and they assigned me a brand new Powerbook 12" (PowerBook6,8) 1.5GHz with a (f*cking) nvidia NV34M GeForce FX Go5200. I installed debian unstable and have some problems with it: Random lines flickering in the screen when i use the keyboard in Xorg