Re: iMac G5 Bugs and new wiki

2006-12-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 21:29 +1300, Torrance wrote: > Hi Michel, > > We've discovered the problem lies with the kernel configuration: the > standard Debian 2.6.18 kernel Switches Users fine. Our custom kernels > however, do not. > > Unfortunately, I'm not sure what exactly isn't configured properl

Re: iMac G5 Bugs and new wiki

2006-12-12 Thread Torrance
Hi Michel, We've discovered the problem lies with the kernel configuration: the standard Debian 2.6.18 kernel Switches Users fine. Our custom kernels however, do not. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what exactly isn't configured properly. My kernel is essentially a standard g5_defconfig, plus firewa

Re: iMac G5 Bugs and new wiki

2006-12-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 15:03 +1300, Torrance wrote: > > 3) Switch User Freeze. The option in the Gnome menu that appears when > logging out, called "Switch User", results in a total system freeze. > The screen becomes a total mess of coloured pixels, and no > kill-xserver command saves us. We are f

Re: iMac G5 Bugs and new wiki

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Hanselmann
Hello Torrance On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 12:48:25PM +1300, Torrance wrote: > But now I am a little confused: to get a brighter screen, is the issue > with the "drivers/video/nvidia/nv_backlight.c" property, or with the > "bl_curve" property? It's the #define in nv_backlight.c. > If its the former,

Re: iMac G5 Bugs and new wiki

2006-12-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 03:03:29PM +1300, Torrance a écrit : >1) Fan control and sound do not work 'out of the box.' We know how to fix >these through a simple kernel recompile, but we were wondering if these > will >be fixed when Etch goes stable? Hi, what a nice summary page ! Soun