Re: hd light ibook 900 g3

2004-08-29 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >since i switched to custom kernels (now 2.6.7-powerpc) using the sleep >light to show hd activity doesn't work anymore. I've just installed kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc and now I've got the opposite problem. How do I turn it off? I can't see

Re: hd light ibook 900 g3

2004-07-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:08:49PM -0400, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > I remember some unexpected problem with this config on non pmac > > hardware. Is the code testing for pmacs or something such ? I am not > > sure, but it is possible that it crashed my pegasos, or maybe just > > failed t

Re: hd light ibook 900 g3

2004-07-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> I remember some unexpected problem with this config on non pmac > hardware. Is the code testing for pmacs or something such ? I am not > sure, but it is possible that it crashed my pegasos, or maybe just > failed to compile. Hrm... It's entirely self-contained in the pmac ide driver, so it shou

Re: hd light ibook 900 g3

2004-07-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:34:27AM -0400, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 06:25, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Florian Klinglmueller writes: > > > > > what a pitty i liked that feature, > > > > While it looks nice on the newer PowerBooks and iBooks with their soft

Re: hd light ibook 900 g3

2004-07-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 06:25, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Florian Klinglmueller writes: > > > what a pitty i liked that feature, > > While it looks nice on the newer PowerBooks and iBooks with their soft > white light, I find it quite irritating on older PowerBooks such as > the Lombard and

Re: hd light ibook 900 g3

2004-07-16 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Florian Klinglmueller writes: > what a pitty i liked that feature, While it looks nice on the newer PowerBooks and iBooks with their soft white light, I find it quite irritating on older PowerBooks such as the Lombard and Pismo, which have a fairly large green light. > well seems like i've

Re: hd light ibook 900 g3

2004-07-16 Thread Florian Klinglmueller
> > well seems like i've to make a custom kernel ;) > > Send a patch that modularizes the feature, or adds a switch in /proc > or sysctl or whatever :) > hm, not sure if i'd be able to do sth. like this, but since i want to improve my programming skills, this might be an interesting point to gett

Re: hd light ibook 900 g3

2004-07-16 Thread Florian Klinglmueller
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:38:42AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > since i switched to custom kernels (now 2.6.7-powerpc) using the > > sleep light to show hd activity doesn't work anymore. > > You mean official kernels, don't you? A custom kernel is one

Re: hd light ibook 900 g3

2004-07-16 Thread Lemmit Kaplinski
Hi, enable the following option in kernel config: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC_BLINK It is in Device Drivers -> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello list, since i switched to custom kernels (now 2.6.7-powerpc) using the sleep light to show hd activity doesn't work anymore

Re: hd light ibook 900 g3

2004-07-16 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > since i switched to custom kernels (now 2.6.7-powerpc) using the > sleep light to show hd activity doesn't work anymore. You mean official kernels, don't you? A custom kernel is one that you built yourself. > Is that compiled as a module? It's not compiled into

hd light ibook 900 g3

2004-07-16 Thread float
hello list, since i switched to custom kernels (now 2.6.7-powerpc) using the sleep light to show hd activity doesn't work anymore. Is that compiled as a module? Or what can i have done wrong? thx float -- ---