Re: 2.6.6 bug while booting on PBG4

2004-05-15 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Pander writes: > Anyone knows how to fix this Are you using the .config you posted earlier? If yes, remove CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y and you should be fine. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!

2.6.6 kernel-image packages (was: PBG4 2.6.6 .config also available)

2004-05-15 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Pander writes: > Here you can also download configuration file to run Linux kernel > 2.6.6 on a PowerBook G4: And here you can download kernel-image and mol-modules packages to run Linux 2.6.6 and mol 0.9.70 on - hopefully - any PowerPC machine: deb http://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.d

Re: Airport Monitor Mode Patches

2004-05-15 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Paul Mullen writes: > What's the current status of the monitor-mode patches for the > Airport (older 802.11b-only cards) kernel module? Six months ago I > was able to apply a patch posted in July '03 by Jens Schmalzing to > the 2.4.23-benh tree, but with partial success. That very patch is c

Re: Video Out IbookG4

2004-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Benjamin Alvarado a écrit : Hi everyone, I want to try to use the video out in a Ibook G4 12", I use this (http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto-5.html#ss5.6) config file, but just don't work, only I can see the next Try starting with the ibook *closed*. Not completely,

hdparm hangs in G4 cdrom

2004-05-15 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, the command hdparm -c1 or -c3 hangs and never returns on my iBook G4 12" CD-combidrive. I'm using the ide driver. And it isn't possible to set the drive on udma2 $ hdparm /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom: HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq=

Re: Re: Fw: debian-installer: Cannot boot the installer on powerpc

2004-05-15 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Clive Menzies wrote: I downloaded the beta4 powerpc installer last night and it has booted fine. Have you looked at the cd to verify that it burned ok? My first try didn't user error ;) The cd is ok... I tried with different iso, the only one that booted was the beta 3.

harddisk corrupt?

2004-05-15 Thread stefan kersten
hi, i'm a bit concerned because of the dmesg output i'm getting lately when accessing certain files (see below). this is on a tibook G4, debian/unstable 2.6.5 (built from stock kernel sources). any ideas what might go wrong? i'm still hoping it's not a hardware error ... thanks, dmesg output:

Re: hdparm hangs in G4 cdrom

2004-05-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i get the same on my clamshell ibook and also my imacdv (obviously it has a dvd rom) i suppose i should have reported it. hdparm works with the harddisks though Dean Joerg Sommer wrote: | Hi, | | the command hdparm -c1 or -c3 hangs and never retur

Re: harddisk corrupt?

2004-05-15 Thread Johannes Mockenhaupt (aka Joe Malik)
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 03:48:14PM +0200, stefan kersten wrote: > hi, > > i'm a bit concerned because of the dmesg output i'm getting lately > when accessing certain files (see below). If it's related to the same files every time it's very likely to be a harddisc/filesystem issue rather than ker

Performance problems with DRI on R128

2004-05-15 Thread Mark Brown
I'm having serious performance problems with DRI on the R128 in a G4 Cube using kernel 2.6 and unstable. I can quite happly run without DRI enabled, getting acceptable performance (obviously with no 3D acceleration) but as soon as I enable the DRI module the CPU usage of the X server goes sky high

Re: harddisk corrupt?

2004-05-15 Thread Paul van Tilburg
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 03:48:14PM +0200, stefan kersten wrote: > i'm a bit concerned because of the dmesg output i'm getting lately > when accessing certain files (see below). this is on a tibook G4, > debian/unstable 2.6.5 (built from stock kernel sources). any ideas > what might go wrong? i'm st

Xwindows Difficulties

2004-05-15 Thread Irena and Richard Jenkins
You've all heard this many times before ... but I really need help with this. I have installed Debian 3.0 (ppc) onto my iMac. I have managed to arrange dual-booting so that the machine boots into 1 of MacOS or Debian ... and all is looking good. However, the exact setup for xfree86 is still e

G3 auto power-up?

2004-05-15 Thread Ron Murray
Me and my beige G3 minitower are getting along quite well now, thanks in no small part to you folks. There are still some odd issues here and there (the console display is still crazy, so I just SSH to it from another box, and X doesn't seem to want to work at all, probably for the same reason)