Re: PowerBook - touchpad issues

2020-04-04 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > I notice a strange behaviour on my PowerBook (Aluminum, latest model): > the touchpad does not work very well > - without external mouse, sometimes the system comes up and it does > not work > - with an external mouse (which works fine) the mouse migrates in > circl

Re: PowerBook X11 mouse issues

2019-07-09 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Bertrand, Bertrand Dekoninck wrote: Hi Riccardo ! I'm still running Jessie, but I never encountered this on my powerbook. I'm rluctant to upgrade for now, since it really works like a charm with Jessie. Which model do you have ? I got a PowerBook 17" Aluminium, should be one of the lat

Re: PowerBook X11 mouse issues

2019-07-04 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
On 2019-07-05 00:02:47 +0200 Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi! to my big surprise... startx... works at the first attempt! However, the mouse just jumps around. Also attaching an external mouse doesn't help, it continues jumping. with some trickery I am able to "quit" and get back to console, I

Re: Powerbook G3 wheezy upgrade udevd error #02

2011-06-30 Thread Brian Morris
onal keyboard or touchpad freeze up on LXDE for about 10-15 > seconds. However I normally run in console mode, ie gdm autostart disabled. > > hald is installed but not sure if I have udisks-daemon running. > > > Trust this helps. > Kind regards, > > Robert. > > > -

Re: Powerbook G3 wheezy upgrade udevd error

2011-06-26 Thread Risto Suominen
You could check the udev version on the CD: dpkg -l udev And then upgrade (or downgrade) the package from within chroot: apt-get install udev= BTW, you haven't been running earlier versions of Debian on your Lombard? I'm asking, because I have big problems on my Lombard: if I have either hald o

Re: PowerBook 12"

2009-07-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 17, 2009, at 11:41 AM, MAD wrote: Hi Rick So, I have the external WD Firewire drive. The Ubuntu I have is an ISO file downloaded from debian. I burned that to a CD, but I never bought a CD. So on my drive I made a new partition. It is empty and has 50 gb space on it. How do

Re: PowerBook 12"

2009-07-16 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Yesterday I received mail from a Mac consultant who says that certain > PowerPC Mac machines *will* boot from a USB device.  Perhaps your PowerBook > 12" is one of them - I don't know.  I tried it on a grey G4 Desktop and did > not succeed. YMMV

Re: PowerBook 12"

2009-07-16 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Mark, Per Debian email etiquette, my reply is at the end of this email. Scroll down... On Jul 15, 2009, at 22:40 , Rick Thomas wrote: On Jul 15, 2009, at 7:32 AM, MAD wrote: I would really like to start using Linux - I have it already as a VM on my Intel Mac Book Pro, and I think

Re: PowerBook 12"

2009-07-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 15, 2009, at 7:32 AM, MAD wrote: I would really like to start using Linux - I have it already as a VM on my Intel Mac Book Pro, and I think it will make my 12" PowerBook very useful. Is there anything someone from your Debian group could tell me to help? Thanks a lot. Mark Hi M

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-03-16 Thread Rafal Czlonka
m p wrote: > and replace append"=quiet splash" with append"=video=ofonly nosplash" append="foo bar" NOT append"=foo bar" > > Bottom posting list :-}. +1 -- Raf http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-03-16 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Olivier Crouzet wrote: > > Here's the catch: when I enter sudo nano /etc/yaboot/conf it opens a > > window, but its blank where is all the script? I'm clueless. I will > > /etc/yaboot.conf not /etc/yaboot/conf > > Olivier. > Also, after editing '/etc/yaboot.conf'

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-03-16 Thread Olivier Crouzet
> Here's the catch: when I enter sudo nano /etc/yaboot/conf it opens a > window, but its blank where is all the script? I'm clueless. I will /etc/yaboot.conf not /etc/yaboot/conf Olivier. -- Olivier Crouzet -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-03-16 Thread m p
Ok, thanks I will try searching the forums to see if anyone is having similar problem w/ fan. Also, While booting I'm not going directly into login screen after selecting the Ubuntu Partition on my dual boot system. It takes me to a command prompt and I have to enter Linux nosplash and hit enter an

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-03-13 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:20 AM, m p wrote: > Hello, > Thanks for all the feedback. I ended up installing Ubuntu 8.10 using > the alternate CD sucessfully for the first time! Everything seems to > be working, but the fans is almost always on...it seems like ubuntu is > taxing the system more tha

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-03-13 Thread m p
t there > are good instructions on the Debian (or Ubuntu) website for how to do this. > > > ________ > From: m p > Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:50:56 -0400 > To: > Subject: Re: PowerBook G4 12" > Resent-From: > Resent-Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:21:11

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-03-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I don't think, that Linux shows better perfomance than Mac OS X on an > G4, but I didn't measure any benchmarks and who knows ... It's mostly true, except that GNU/Linux gives you more choice in terms of applications and desktop environment, some of which are much more lightweight and adapted to

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-03-11 Thread Manuel Gebauer
p. s. Resource usage isn't depending on the distribution/OS, but rather on your choice of environment. kde, gnome and darwin/aqua are all in the same range here. Go for a more efficient (both in system usage and user interface) flat X installation with a lightweight tiling window manager .. --

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-03-11 Thread Manuel Gebauer
Hi Mp, I don't think, that linux shows better perfomance than Mac OS X on an G4, but I didn't measure any benchmarks and who knows ... I have used debian lenny for some time on a Powerbook G4 12" and went for unstable/experimental last week. Both do nicely. If you are new to linux be prepared f

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-03-10 Thread Michael Fox
Debian (or Ubuntu) website for how to do this. From: m p Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:50:56 -0400 To: Subject: Re: PowerBook G4 12" Resent-From: Resent-Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:21:11 + (UTC) On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:15 PM, m p wrote: > Hello, > I just read your thread on insta

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-03-10 Thread m p
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:15 PM, m p wrote: > Hello, > I just read your thread on installing linux on PB G4. I have a 1.33 > Mhz, 1.25 GB RAM, 64MB nvidia video. I'm completely new to the linux > world and looking for some advice on installing the ideal flavor of > linux on my system. I want somet

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-01-19 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:45:48PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > drivers. The repository had a package for the drivers, however when > > getting the drivers with apt-get the package was suprisingly broken as > > the package attempted to download further data from a external source > > that no l

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-01-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:04:14PM -0800, Logan Airth wrote: > Thank you all for your excellent information. My apologies regarding the lack > of information on my platform. For those that care but about it, I am running > a PowerBook G4, 1.33Ghz. with 60gB HD and the nVidia Geforce Go 5200/ 64mB.

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-01-18 Thread Logan Airth
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:07:16AM -0800, Logan Airth wrote: > > Good morning. I recently acquired a PowerBook G4 12" and I was > > thinking about installing Debian. I have had some experience running > > other flavours of Linux on the x86

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-01-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:07:16AM -0800, Logan Airth wrote: > Good morning. I recently acquired a PowerBook G4 12" and I was > thinking about installing Debian. I have had some experience running > other flavours of Linux on the x86 platform. I have been doing some > research however since the har

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-01-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> "Logan" == Logan Airth writes: > Good morning. I recently acquired a PowerBook G4 12" and I was thinking I finally installed Debian (testing) on my PB 12" G4 a few weeks ago. I followed the directions at http://philobsd.free.fr/Debian/branden.html for how to install without going through

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-01-15 Thread benoar
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:07:16 -0800, "Logan Airth" wrote: > Good morning. I recently acquired a PowerBook G4 12" and I was thinking > about installing Debian. I have had some experience running other flavours > of Linux on the x86 platform. I have been doing some research however since > the hardwa

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Fox
On 15-Jan-09, at 1:07 pm, Logan Airth wrote: Good morning. I recently acquired a PowerBook G4 12" and I was thinking about installing Debian. I have had some experience running other flavours of Linux on the x86 platform. I have been doing some research however since the hardware that I am

Re: PowerBook G4 12"

2009-01-15 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Logan Airth wrote: > Good morning. I recently acquired a PowerBook G4 12" and I was thinking > about installing Debian. I have had some experience running other flavours > of Linux on the x86 platform. I have been doing some research however since > the hardware t

Re: PowerBook G4 has video problems when booted

2009-01-09 Thread Peter Rooney
Shawn, If you're using yaboot, you can edit /etc/yaboot.conf to append something like "video=radeonfb" or "video=atyfb" to your boot arguments. read the man page (could be man 5 yaboot.conf on Ubuntu?) Three warnings apply: (i) make a backup. after editing, run ` ybin -t ' to test your n

Re: powerbook g4 12 xorg.conf problem

2007-12-01 Thread Paul TT
On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:05:07 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a problem with getting my keyboard to full function and > with the resolution of my monitor. > > First i can`t get the apple keys to work as meta keys, and i know > that the monitor supports 1024x768, but i just get 800x600 to

Re: PowerBook G4 and powermanagement

2007-08-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:06:55AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Aug 24 2007, Mark Brown wrote: > > This sounds like #429662 which appears to be caused by Bluetooth > > refusing to suspend. > Would it even interfere with a kernel that *doesn't* have bluetooth > compiled? I don't have any bluet

Re: PowerBook G4 and powermanagement

2007-08-24 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Michel. On Aug 23 2007, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 09:52 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Is it still possible to get DRI working on a Rage 128 Mobility M3? > > In theory yes, though the r128 drivers haven't seen active development > in a while, so it's possible there have be

Re: PowerBook G4 and powermanagement

2007-08-24 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Mark. On Aug 24 2007, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:50:10AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Upgrading to the 2.6.22 (which is in unstable) or compiling my own > > 2.6.23-rc3 (taken from kernel.org) doesn't let me sleep: it > > unfortunately doesn't seem (at least with th

Re: PowerBook G4 and powermanagement

2007-08-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:50:10AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > * suspend to RAM only works with kernel 2.6.21 (I tried the one that is > shipped with Debian). > Upgrading to the 2.6.22 (which is in unstable) or compiling my own > 2.6.23-rc3 (taken from kernel.org) doesn't let me sleep: it

Re: PowerBook G4 and powermanagement

2007-08-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:50:10AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi. I can't comment o Gerfried's problems, but I have two things which > are severely annoying in a recent Debian install: > > * suspend to RAM only works with kernel 2.6.21 (I tried the one that is > shipped with Debian). > >

Re: PowerBook G4 and powermanagement

2007-08-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 09:52 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Is it still possible to get DRI working on a Rage 128 Mobility M3? In theory yes, though the r128 drivers haven't seen active development in a while, so it's possible there have been regressions. Please file bugs in that case, preferably

Re: PowerBook G4 and powermanagement

2007-08-23 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Michel. On Aug 20 2007, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Maybe not doing this hurts when the DRI has been initialized anywhere. Is it still possible to get DRI working on a Rage 128 Mobility M3? And if yes, does it still enables DMA (which I recall is one of the things you told me in the past---when I

Re: PowerBook G4 and powermanagement

2007-08-23 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 20 2007, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 13:52 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > Anyone got any idea for either of this problems? Thanks in > > advance! > > Your kernel is not configured with suspend-to-disk included, but I > can't recommend doing so either. Hi. I can't commen

Re: PowerBook G4 and powermanagement

2007-08-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 15:50 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 03:45:53PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 13:52 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > > The other problem is with casual suspend and multiuser GNOME sessions: > > > When just one user is logged in

Re: PowerBook G4 and powermanagement

2007-08-20 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 03:45:53PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 13:52 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > The other problem is with casual suspend and multiuser GNOME sessions: > > When just one user is logged in through gdm it works like expected and > > great. When another u

Re: PowerBook G4 and powermanagement

2007-08-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 13:52 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > The other problem is with casual suspend and multiuser GNOME sessions: > When just one user is logged in through gdm it works like expected and > great. When another user logs in through the user switch feature of > GNOME (two X11 serv

Re: PowerBook G4 and powermanagement

2007-08-20 Thread Johannes Berg
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 13:52 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Anyone got any idea for either of this problems? Thanks in advance! Your kernel is not configured with suspend-to-disk included, but I can't recommend doing so either. There are bugs with the AGP and DRM code so that X freezes the syste

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-19 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
thanks for the info. It looks like I'm using the same graphics card as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Taking care of the powerpc port (was: Re: PowerBook G4 screen

2007-08-17 Thread Rogério Brito
in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD) Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, Matthias. On Aug 14 2007, Matthias Grimm wrote: > The driver is printed right below the current brightness level. I use > powerprefs 0.8.0 and pbbuttonsd 0.8.1. Debian is a little bit behind > because

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or?OpenBSD

2007-08-17 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 15 2007, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > * As for my graphics card, I am using an ATI chip. This is a fairly old > PowerBook G4. You can see which version of the ATI chip you have using lspci. My iBook G3 600MHz has a Rage Mobility M3. Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey there, Thanks for the response. It is good to know that this is not a debian specific issue. * As for my graphics card, I am using an ATI chip. This is a fairly old PowerBook G4. * Kernel Version: 2.16.18.4-powerpc I will definitely try to do a bit more research about the backlight curve

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-14 Thread Torrance
Hi Amit, I'm not sure what the graphics card is in your powerbook, but I noticed a reduction in brightness compared to OSX when using Debian on my iMac G5 (revA) which has an nvidia device. When I put the question to this list, this is the response I got back: On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 03:

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-14 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Thank you! I did check out pommed and it requires kernel 2.6.22 I think so I will have to compile that and then compile pommed from source. I rather not move into unstable just yet. Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-14 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Thank you for all your help! I guess I'll live with this. I will try reading some more on this issue. Thank's again Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-14 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:32:04 + (UTC) Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed 'powerprefs' from aptitude and followed your instructions. A few > points from the display page. > > * Under LCD Tab: Current Brightness Level: 100% > * Under Options: Simply has framebuffer opt

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-13 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Yves-Alexis Perez corsac.net> writes: > > On dim, 2007-08-12 at 00:22 +, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > I checked out the 'max_brightness' and 'actual_brightness' and both of > > them are > > set to 127. Is it safe to set them up at a higher level? > > If max_brightness is 127 you won't be

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-12 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On dim, 2007-08-12 at 00:32 +, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Also, I've read something about pommed package available in testing > and > unstable. Do you have any experiences with that? >From my own experience, pommed is far simpler, lighter and better than pbbuttonsd. -- Yves-Alexis -- To

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-12 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On dim, 2007-08-12 at 00:22 +, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I checked out the 'max_brightness' and 'actual_brightness' and both of > them are > set to 127. Is it safe to set them up at a higher level? If max_brightness is 127 you won't be able to set it to higher value. -- Yves-Alexis -- T

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-11 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> I think your system uses the new SysFS Brightness interface which has > 128 or maybe 256 brightness steps on your system. You could check this > with the program Powerprefs, go to the display page (light bulb) and > check which "Driver" is currently active in pbbuttonsd to control the > display

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-11 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> If you have the sysfs interface with radeon card, you can try to look > in /sys/class/backlight/radeonbl0/ > > Especially check for max_brightness and actual_brightness. If you want, > you can manually adjust it using: > > echo 127 > /sys/class/backlight/radeonbl0/brightness > > Regards, Tha

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-11 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven, 2007-08-10 at 21:07 +, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > However, I have a small issue with the brightness level. I had OpenBSD > (4.1) and > Mac OS X (10.4) installed at one point and the brightness level was > much higher > than what I have here in Debian. I installed pbbuttonsd and brightn

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-11 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:07:55 + (UTC) Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > However, I have a small issue with the brightness level. I had OpenBSD (4.1) > and > Mac OS X (10.4) installed at one point and the brightness level was much > higher > than what I have here in Debian. I

Re: Powerbook 12" 1.5 GHz, therm_adt746x, thermal issues

2007-05-24 Thread Jones
> if Apple simply also steps the CPU > down temporarily (or even periodically) when the CPU is getting too hot. Possible. I could feel that the PC is getting slow in Mac OS when the fan is running fast(very noisy) Jones 劲爆150万同时在线,众人追捧梦幻西游

Re: Powerbook 12" 1.5 GHz, therm_adt746x, thermal issues

2007-05-24 Thread booster
On 24.05.2007, at 07:05, Jones wrote: Andreas, I am having the same problem with this laptop(mine is 1.33GHz). A walk around solution will be to slow down the cpu speed. (root or using sudo) echo powersave > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/ cpufreq/scaling_governor In my case this CPU spee

Re: Powerbook 12" 1.5 GHz, therm_adt746x, thermal issues

2007-05-23 Thread Jones
Andreas, I am having the same problem with this laptop(mine is 1.33GHz). A walk around solution will be to slow down the cpu speed. (root or using sudo) echo powersave > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor In my case this CPU speed will be halved which is 0.66Ghz. It's n

Re: PowerBook disk drive

2007-05-02 Thread brian
--- "Andrew J. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone tell me why Apple computer hard drives, > at least in laptops, > are very slow? E.g. is the drive or the controller? one reason is that a lower power hd saves battery. > Responsiveness in my > Powerbook still seems rather bad, and fro

Re: PowerBook disk drive

2007-04-30 Thread Julien BLACHE
"Andrew J. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > Can someone tell me why Apple computer hard drives, at least in laptops, > are very slow? E.g. is the drive or the controller? Responsiveness in my > Powerbook still seems rather bad, and from what I can tell it seems to Years ago I upgraded my P

Re: powerbook wakeup/boot display issue

2007-02-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:20 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:00 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > > There seems to be a race condition somewhere which sometimes causes this > > > when setting a video mode. I can usually get back the correct display by > > > forci

Re: powerbook wakeup/boot display issue

2007-02-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:00 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > There seems to be a race condition somewhere which sometimes causes this > > when setting a video mode. I can usually get back the correct display by > > forcing a mode set, e.g. by switching between console and X. > > The p

Re: powerbook wakeup/boot display issue

2007-02-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> FWIW, I haven't heard of this blooming damaging hardware. Still it's > probably a good idea not to leave it indefinitely. :) > > There seems to be a race condition somewhere which sometimes causes this > when setting a video mode. I can usually get back the correct display by > forcing a mode s

Re: powerbook wakeup/boot display issue

2007-01-18 Thread Børge Holen
Thanks for explaining my missunderstanding =) On Thursday 18 January 2007 17:36, you wrote: > > To me, it is bright an flickering. > > Never happens is X starts normal, an do occur if switched to console(fb) > > That's just the PLL data being misdetected, resulting in a flaky PLL > setup. No power

Re: powerbook wakeup/boot display issue

2007-01-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
> To me, it is bright an flickering. > Never happens is X starts normal, an do occur if switched to console(fb) That's just the PLL data being misdetected, resulting in a flaky PLL setup. No powering down the panel output drivers here. To me, the LCD 'blooming' always was an indication of a crash

Re: powerbook wakeup/boot display issue

2007-01-18 Thread Joseph Sanger
Hello again (again), Just thought I'd let you know that UseFBDev = 0 did the trick, I think. Several sleeps, wakeups and boots later and I have not had the "blooming" problem. Many thanks for your help! Joe Joseph Sanger wrote: Hello again, Well it happened again last night on a wakeup bu

Re: powerbook wakeup/boot display issue

2007-01-17 Thread Joseph Sanger
Hello again, Well it happened again last night on a wakeup but I couldn't change terminals - the system hadn't properly woken up. Maybe it had turned the LCD backlight on before everything else and then froze, I don't know. I will try Option "UseFBDev" "0" later, if I remember correctly it is

Re: powerbook wakeup/boot display issue

2007-01-17 Thread Børge Holen
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 20:42, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 19:44 +0100, Børge Holen wrote: > > I've seen this issue quite often.. > > > > To me, it is bright an flickering. > > Oh I think the flickering (where everything is distorted left/right) is > a different issue. Flicker

Re: powerbook wakeup/boot display issue

2007-01-17 Thread Johannes Berg
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 19:44 +0100, Børge Holen wrote: > I've seen this issue quite often.. > To me, it is bright an flickering. Oh I think the flickering (where everything is distorted left/right) is a different issue. johannes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message par

Re: powerbook wakeup/boot display issue

2007-01-17 Thread Børge Holen
I've seen this issue quite often.. My PB5,7 do have the same symptoms... The whole thing corrects itself by changing back and forth from console(running radeonfb) and X, this is often corrected by making the switch once, however... twice and more is know to be needed at times of need ;) If it

Re: powerbook wakeup/boot display issue

2007-01-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 22:49 +0900, Joseph Sanger wrote: > > FYI. it was this forum that got me worried, its about half way down the > page: > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-473838.html > > What do you think? You mean the allegation that the radeon driver killed the GPU of a 'TiBook DVI

Re: powerbook wakeup/boot display issue

2007-01-17 Thread Johannes Berg
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 22:49 +0900, Joseph Sanger wrote: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-473838.html > > What do you think? I don't think that makes sense. The higher the applied voltage is, the more twisted the crystals become and the pixel is black. So how can a white display have any ad

Re: powerbook wakeup/boot display issue

2007-01-17 Thread Joseph Sanger
Hi there, Thanks Johannes and Michel for your replies. I haven't tried switching VTs yet, I'll try when the problem recurrs. FYI. it was this forum that got me worried, its about half way down the page: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-473838.html What do you think? BTW I forgot to m

Re: powerbook wakeup/boot display issue

2007-01-17 Thread Johannes Berg
Hi, > The powerbook sleeps fine I think, but probably about 50% of the time, > on wake-up, the display freezes with a black screen and then slowly > begins to "bleach" white and purple from the top. Obviously I shut down > immediately as this looks dangerous. I've been told that this is comple

Re: powerbook wakeup/boot display issue

2007-01-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 11:20 +0900, Joseph Sanger wrote: > > Forgive me if this has been covered before, there were some messages in > the archive which I couldn't seem to open. > > I am new to Linux and have installed Debian Testing on a dual boot with > OSX. I have a powerbook5,8 (one of the l

Re: PowerBook G4 (5.9) Debian Sound problem

2006-12-02 Thread Steffen Thoss
Steffen Thoss wrote: Paul Collins wrote: Steffen Thoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm new to Linux on the PowerPC and have a problem with the sound on my PowerBook (1.67 Ghz) Modell 5.9. The problem is that the Gnome System sounds are working but all other sound like mp3, DVD sound or radio s

Re: PowerBook G4 (5.9) Debian Sound problem

2006-12-01 Thread Steffen Thoss
Paul Collins wrote: Steffen Thoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm new to Linux on the PowerPC and have a problem with the sound on my PowerBook (1.67 Ghz) Modell 5.9. The problem is that the Gnome System sounds are working but all other sound like mp3, DVD sound or radio streaming don't. Someti

Re: PowerBook G4 (5.9) Debian Sound problem

2006-11-28 Thread Paul Collins
Steffen Thoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm new to Linux on the PowerPC and have a problem with the sound on my > PowerBook (1.67 Ghz) Modell 5.9. > The problem is that the Gnome System sounds are working but all other > sound like mp3, DVD sound or radio streaming don't. Sometimes I just get

Re: PowerBook 5,6 ATI Drivers

2006-08-07 Thread Bernhard Reiter
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:48:08PM +0300, Sammy wrote: > I cannot find any ATI drivers for my PowerBook 5,6 (ATI Radeon Mobility 9700 > RV360). The driver that installs with XOrg flickers the lcd screen very much > especially with gray colors. I am sucessfully using Xorg's "radeon" driver with m

Re: powerbook g4 12 xorg.conf problem

2006-06-05 Thread Eugen Paiuc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" HorizSync 28-49 VertRefresh 43-72 Option "DPMS" EndSection HorizSync 28-96 VertRefresh 43-75 regards, --ee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: PowerBook 12 (Go5000) and X Window System 6.8.2

2006-01-14 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 the mental interface of Triverio M. told: > Hello everybody, > I have just apt-get dist-upgrade my Debian Sarge, but I can't start the > Window > Server. > I have a PowerBook6,8 - 12inches - G4 1,5ghz - nvidia FX Go5200 64 Mb. > I don't know if this is related to Elimar

Re: powerbook 12 freezes on "MMU:EXIT, setup"

2006-01-08 Thread Emmanuel Galatoulas
Triverio M. wrote: Hey guys, thank you so much for your answers. Unfortunately I cannot test kernel 2.6.15-rc6 or rc7 since I don't have a broadband connection to the internet and can't download big files (it's 47,2 MB, too much for my 56k connection). I should have it downloaded from a frie

Re: powerbook 12 freezes on "MMU:EXIT, setup"

2006-01-04 Thread Triverio M.
try passing video=offb on the kernel command line - this will use theopenfirmware framebuffer which should work in any case.This didn't work, unfortunately.I may download kernel 2.6.15, since it seems to work.I couldn't find the 15MB download... can somebody please tell me where it is?(modem is NOT

Re: powerbook 12 freezes on "MMU:EXIT, setup"

2006-01-03 Thread Olivier MATZ
Hi, > Can you test 2.6.15-rc6 ? I tested 2.6.15 and it seems that it works pretty good on my powerbook6,8 (12'). Thanks, Olivier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: powerbook 12 freezes on "MMU:EXIT, setup"

2006-01-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 01:25:05PM +0100, Triverio M. wrote: > Hey guys, thank you so much for your answers. > > Unfortunately I cannot test kernel 2.6.15-rc6 or rc7 since I don't > have a broadband connection to the internet and can't download big > files (it's 47,2 MB, too much for my 56k co

Re: powerbook 12 freezes on "MMU:EXIT, setup"

2006-01-03 Thread Triverio M.
Hey guys, thank you so much for your answers.Unfortunately I cannot test kernel 2.6.15-rc6 or rc7 since I don't have a broadband connection to the internet and can't download big files (it's 47,2 MB, too much for my 56k connection).I should have it downloaded from a friend in a week or two.I have t

Re: powerbook 12 freezes on "MMU:EXIT, setup"

2006-01-02 Thread Guy Yasko
On 2 1 2006, Olivier MATZ verbalised: > Hi, > > > What kernel do you run now? > > Right now I don't run linux (I reinstalled MacOS recently and I > overwrote the partition table). But I tried 2.6.12, 2.6.13, 2.6.13.4, > 2.6.14 and none were working. I think the last kernel I ran correctly > was

Re: powerbook 12 freezes on "MMU:EXIT, setup"

2006-01-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 22:19 +0100, Olivier MATZ wrote: > Hi, > > > What kernel do you run now? > > Right now I don't run linux (I reinstalled MacOS recently and I > overwrote the partition table). But I tried 2.6.12, 2.6.13, 2.6.13.4, > 2.6.14 and none were working. I think the last kernel I ran

Re: powerbook 12 freezes on "MMU:EXIT, setup"

2006-01-02 Thread Guido Guenther
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:51:18PM +0100, Triverio M. wrote: > Thank you everybody. > Unfortunately it is not fixed in 2.6.14: do you know wheter 2.6.15 is > included in Debian Testing (etch) at the present time? > > What will I "lose" disabling nvidiafb? Brightness control, colorful fullscreen

Re: powerbook 12 freezes on "MMU:EXIT, setup"

2006-01-02 Thread Olivier MATZ
Hi, > What kernel do you run now? Right now I don't run linux (I reinstalled MacOS recently and I overwrote the partition table). But I tried 2.6.12, 2.6.13, 2.6.13.4, 2.6.14 and none were working. I think the last kernel I ran correctly was a 2.6.10 But... if is going to work... I'll be happy t

Re: powerbook 12 freezes on "MMU:EXIT, setup"

2006-01-02 Thread Olivier MATZ
Hi Triverio, Triverio M. wrote: > Hello everybody, > I'm Marco, this is the first time I write on this mailing list. > Hope not to seem too stupid, I'm just a new user to Debian. > I've been given the last Debian Etch Testing for PowerPC but when my > PowerBook 12 (G4 1.5Ghz) boots the first cd it

Re: powerbook 12 freezes on "MMU:EXIT, setup"

2006-01-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:51:18PM +0100, Triverio M. wrote: > Thank you everybody. > Unfortunately it is not fixed in 2.6.14: do you know wheter 2.6.15 is > included in Debian Testing (etch) at the present time? It is in experimental and i just uploaded it yesterday and it is currently in NEW.

Re: powerbook 12 freezes on "MMU:EXIT, setup"

2006-01-02 Thread Triverio M.
Hi oliver,I have the same configuration except for the RAM (I have 1.25 GB).What kernel do you run now?I just wanted to update my kernel because of appletouch (included in 2.6.14)... I just can't compile it (with "gcc appletouch.c", it gives me hundreds of errors). Marco - [EMAIL PROTECTED]"Microso

Re: powerbook 12 freezes on "MMU:EXIT, setup"

2006-01-02 Thread Triverio M.
Thank you everybody.Unfortunately it is not fixed in 2.6.14: do you know wheter 2.6.15 is included in Debian Testing (etch) at the present time?What will I "lose" disabling nvidiafb?Do I have to recompile the kernel to disable it? (hope this does not sound too stupid)Thank you so much, guys!Il gior

Re: powerbook 12 freezes on "MMU:EXIT, setup"

2006-01-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 05:18:25PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 04:26:18PM +0100, Triverio M. wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I'm Marco, this is the first time I write on this mailing list. > > Hope not to seem too stupid, I'm just a new user to Debian. > > I've been given

Re: powerbook 12 freezes on "MMU:EXIT, setup"

2006-01-02 Thread Guido Guenther
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 04:26:18PM +0100, Triverio M. wrote: > Hello everybody, > I'm Marco, this is the first time I write on this mailing list. > Hope not to seem too stupid, I'm just a new user to Debian. > I've been given the last Debian Etch Testing for PowerPC but when my > PowerBook 12 (G4

Re: PowerBook g4 12' sleep support

2005-12-24 Thread Guy Yasko
On 21 12 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt uttered the following: > > I have had suspend to disk work -- and quite well at that -- but > > lately (that is, with kernel 2.6.15-rc5/6) it crashes when I try to > > resume. > > Where does it crash ? What message do you get ? Waking up from hibernation wi

Re: PowerBook g4 12' sleep support

2005-12-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> I have had suspend to disk work -- and quite well at that -- but > lately (that is, with kernel 2.6.15-rc5/6) it crashes when I try to > resume. Where does it crash ? What message do you get ? I had a patch a while ago doing some serious cleanup of the suspend code, hooking suspend to ram to /

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