On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Claus wrote:
> >: If someone more insightful has some time to spend on this, this should be
> a
> >: very useful addition to powerpc-utils (essentialy a powerbook-util, of
> course,
> >: but there probably isn't such a package).
>
> plus 'vmode' and 'sndvolmix', quite use
> Maybe that's a good opportunity to suggest to add the fnkeys tool, as well.
> Unfortunately, that app doesn't exist yet :o(.
> A while ago, I was asking for a way to switch the setting of the F[1-12]
> keys combined with the Fn-key on the powerbook in Linux
> (default F-keys <-> default backlig
>: >
>: If someone more insightful has some time to spend on this, this should be a
>: very useful addition to powerpc-utils (essentialy a powerbook-util, of
>course,
>: but there probably isn't such a package).
plus 'vmode' and 'sndvolmix', quite useful on my oldworld PB.
These apps are in
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > to poke around on the FTP site. If someone knows of a PPC or PowerMac
> > > specific utils package, I'd appreciate a hint.
> >
> > powerpc-utils sounds like a good candidate, right now all it has is
> > clock, mousemode and nvsetenv.
>
> Argh -
>> Similar issues happen with things like mirroring & multihead. Some chips
>> can do mirroring only (I have code for mach64 to do that), so in this
>> case, a single ioctl is enough to enable/disable it.
>
>You have code for mirroring on mach64? Do share :-)
Works with LT-G (wallstreet), not test
> >fblevel uses the PMU_IOC_SET_BACKLIGHT ioctl; unless the ix86 guys
> >(and others) implement that one I don't see the point in adding fblevel to
> >fbutils ?
>
> We need some new fbdev ioctls to handle backlight and other things like
> video mirroring, etc...
>
> This is not simple. For exampl
>> Or fbutils.
>
>fblevel uses the PMU_IOC_SET_BACKLIGHT ioctl; unless the ix86 guys
>(and others) implement that one I don't see the point in adding fblevel to
>fbutils ?
We need some new fbdev ioctls to handle backlight and other things like
video mirroring, etc...
This is not simple. For examp
>Argh - what I looked for was mousehack not mousemode, that's why I didn't
>find it.
>
>We could perhaps even take fblevel out of pmud and add it to
>powerpc-utils... does display brightness setting by fblevel also work with
>other LCD displays on desktop machines?
>
> Michael
Currently, t
> > > We could perhaps even take fblevel out of pmud and add it to
> > > powerpc-utils... does display brightness setting by fblevel also work with
> > > other LCD displays on desktop machines?
> >
> > that really fits more with fbset, but if its archetecture specific
> > powerpc-utils might be b
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 06:32:33PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > > to poke around on the FTP site. If someone knows of a PPC or PowerMac
> > > > specific utils package, I'd appreciate a hint.
> > >
> > > powerpc-utils sounds like a good candidate, r
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 06:32:33PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > to poke around on the FTP site. If someone knows of a PPC or PowerMac
> > > specific utils package, I'd appreciate a hint.
> >
> > powerpc-utils sounds like a good candidate, right now all it has is
> > clock, mousemode and nvs
Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
> > > Please do - I couldn't remember to what conclusion we came, if any.
> >
> > It'll be in 1.1.3-3, building now. Might make stable...
>
> powerpc-utils already was in stable before? I asked about incuding pmud
> late in the freeze and was shot down ...
AFAIR powerpc
> > Please do - I couldn't remember to what conclusion we came, if any.
>
> It'll be in 1.1.3-3, building now. Might make stable...
powerpc-utils already was in stable before? I asked about incuding pmud
late in the freeze and was shot down ...
Michael
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 06:22:40PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > If Debian had a decent way to search distributions other than ix86, I'd
> > > have looked up a suitable package to add the trackpad tool to. The way the
> > > search engine is organized now it just plain sucks, and I've got no t
> > to poke around on the FTP site. If someone knows of a PPC or PowerMac
> > specific utils package, I'd appreciate a hint.
>
> powerpc-utils sounds like a good candidate, right now all it has is
> clock, mousemode and nvsetenv.
Argh - what I looked for was mousehack not mousemode, that's why
> While you're at it, could you add the "-a" command-line switch to
> /etc/default/power default config in pmud ? (Switches on apm logging at
> /etc/power/apm)
I'll do that in the next release.
Michael
> > If Debian had a decent way to search distributions other than ix86, I'd
> > have looked up a suitable package to add the trackpad tool to. The way the
> > search engine is organized now it just plain sucks, and I've got no time
> > to poke around on the FTP site. If someone knows of a PPC or Po
Quoting Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 12:41:40PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > > I don't know, this was a honest question. The source for trackpad
> should
> > > > be in the pmud source package (look at the contrib dir) but the
> tool
> > > > really has not
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 12:41:40PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > I don't know, this was a honest question. The source for trackpad should
> > > be in the pmud source package (look at the contrib dir) but the tool
> > > really has nothing to do with pmud and should be in some other package.
>
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 12:41:40PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > I don't know, this was a honest question. The source for trackpad should
> > > be in the pmud source package (look at the contrib dir) but the tool
> > > really has nothing to do with pmud and should be in some other package.
>
> > I don't know, this was a honest question. The source for trackpad should
> > be in the pmud source package (look at the contrib dir) but the tool
> > really has nothing to do with pmud and should be in some other package.
>
> If got the Source Package. You only need one c file and compile it.
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 02:41:54PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > See the documentation on the new input layer, linked on BenH's page
> > > (penguinppc.apple.com/~benh/).
> >
> > Are you sure the above url is correct? I seem to have trouble connecting
> > to it. I also tried penguinppc.org/~b
> > See the documentation on the new input layer, linked on BenH's page
> > (penguinppc.apple.com/~benh/).
>
> Are you sure the above url is correct? I seem to have trouble connecting
> to it. I also tried penguinppc.org/~benh, but got the response 403
> Forbidden.
Well, in this case try ppclinux
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 02:25:16PM +0100, Magnus Forsberg wrote:
> > See the documentation on the new input layer, linked on BenH's page
> > (penguinppc.apple.com/~benh/).
>
> Are you sure the above url is correct? I seem to have trouble connecting
> to it. I also tried penguinppc.org/~benh, but g
> See the documentation on the new input layer, linked on BenH's page
> (penguinppc.apple.com/~benh/).
Are you sure the above url is correct? I seem to have trouble connecting
to it. I also tried penguinppc.org/~benh, but got the response 403
Forbidden.
> > The other problem with the keypad is th
> I have some really annoying problems with X11 and the touchpad on my
> Powerbook Pismo. The first problem is the lack of three buttons. I know
> from my pre-mac days that one could emulate three buttons, but I assume
> that only works when you have at least two physical ones. Is there any way
> t
Hi!
I have some really annoying problems with X11 and the touchpad on my
Powerbook Pismo. The first problem is the lack of three buttons. I know
from my pre-mac days that one could emulate three buttons, but I assume
that only works when you have at least two physical ones. Is there any way
to ach
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