kblevel - set keyboard illumination directly

2006-06-19 Thread Paul Collins
I've extracted the keyboard illumination code from pbbuttonsd for my own use. I post it here in case it may be useful to others. I've tried to preserve PowerBook5,8/5,9 support, but I only have a PowerBook5,4 here so I can't test it. Thanks of course are due to Matthias Grimm for writing the ori

Re: suspend-to-disk doesn't work with DRI on albook with ATI Radeon 9600

2006-06-19 Thread ruben
At Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:48:56 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > This looks like you could be hitting > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369167 . I did not try the patch, but I did disable UseFBDev and that did not change anything. > Also beware of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bug

new g5 dual core macs

2006-06-19 Thread Thorsten Johannvorderbrueggen
hello all, does anybody know, if the new g5 dual core powermacs can run linux. i googled around and found only task, who said, that it wont run linux. but there are all 3 or 4 months old. bye thorsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: suspend-to-disk doesn't work with DRI on albook with ATI Radeon 9600

2006-06-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 18:17 +0200, ruben wrote: > > Suspend-to-RAM works just fine, no need to switch to a text console. > Suspend-to-disk after switching to text console, resumes just fine and > works just fine until switching back to X. Switching back to X gives > me a garbled screen (I see the

Re: kblevel - set keyboard illumination directly

2006-06-19 Thread Johannes Berg
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 01:44 +1000, Paul Collins wrote: > I've extracted the keyboard illumination code from pbbuttonsd for my > own use. I post it here in case it may be useful to others. Cool. One thing I would want to add is support for finding the address and bus directly via open firmware ins

Re: new g5 dual core macs

2006-06-19 Thread Johannes Berg
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 18:07 +0200, Thorsten Johannvorderbrueggen wrote: > does anybody know, if the new g5 dual core powermacs can run linux. i > googled around and found only task, who said, that it wont run linux. > but there are all 3 or 4 months old. I have a quad and it's working perfectly.

Re: kblevel - set keyboard illumination directly

2006-06-19 Thread Benjamin Berg
On Mon, 2006-19-06 at 19:08 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 01:44 +1000, Paul Collins wrote: > > I've extracted the keyboard illumination code from pbbuttonsd for my > > own use. I post it here in case it may be useful to others. > > Cool. One thing I would want to add is supp

Re: new g5 dual core macs

2006-06-19 Thread Jason Self
The PowerPC-based Macs run it fine, altough Apple's new Intel dual core machines don't. I hear that's being worked on, but depends on how many developers get access to the new machines. On 6/19/06, Thorsten Johannvorderbrueggen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hello all, does anybody know, if the new

Re: new g5 dual core macs

2006-06-19 Thread Brian Durant
No problems with thermal control? I am still experiencing thermal control problems with my G5 single (PowerMac 9.1). The problem seems to still exist in all Debian based distros. Fedora Core 5 PPC doesn't have the problem anymore, so I don't really get why Debian based distros are still exp

Re: Installing Debian PPC 3.1rc2 Sarge onto a PowerMac 8600

2006-06-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi! From what I can see here, you did everything right (a couple of false starts, but that happens to all of us!) I don't know why - F2 didn't get you a screen with a shell -- it's never failed like that for me. But all's well that ends well, and you found a work- around by dropping to a

Re: Installing Debian PPC 3.1rc2 Sarge onto a PowerMac 8600

2006-06-19 Thread Michael Ladwein
On Jun 18, 2006, at 12:22 AM, TuskenTower wrote: > [...] > After looking at the candidates on the > PPC+oldworld list I chose Debian PPC. Good choice. I have tried several other Linux Distributions that claim to work with my OldWorld PowerMac 9500 but Debian has proved to be the best. > 1. I rem

Re: Tibook Wireless Card dissapeared

2006-06-19 Thread Josh Narins
> Running unstable with 2.6.15 (had sound problem with 2.6.16) > > iwconfig reports "no wireless extensions" > > This line appears ominously in last in the lspci output: > 0002:24:0f.0 Class : Illegal Vendor ID Unknown device (rev ff) > > Good news: the wireless card still works when I

Re: Tibook Wireless Card dissapeared

2006-06-19 Thread Paul Collins
Josh Narins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way I can just tell the pci subsystem that 0002:24:0f.0 is > actually a perfectly valid wireless card, perhaps? I get such a device listed, as well as my wireless card, here on my AlBook. It's probably just some unrelated Apple weirdness. --