Re: airport in /etc/network/interfaces

2002-09-22 Thread christophe barbe
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:33:54PM +0200, jonas bandi wrote: > As already has been said in a earlier post, you have to get the actual > WEP key. You cant use the password apple uses (from which they calculate > the WEP key somehow). You can get the WEP key with the apple aiport > configuration u

sid XFree packages status compared to Daenzer's ones

2002-10-08 Thread christophe barbe
Since Branden upload of XFree 4.2 in unstable a few days ago, I have seen in the changelogs that Michel Daenzer has passed to Branden a few patches and I am wondering if we can now use the sid packages. I am particularly interested by the status for the ATI mobility radeon 7 which comes with the T

Re: sid XFree packages status compared to Daenzer's ones

2002-10-08 Thread Christophe Barbe
Thanks for the clarification, I will let your apt source in my TiBook page. > > Otherwise said, is there still bits not passed to Branden? > > Sure, improved (and working on powerpc) 3D and 2D acceleration and > XVideo, hacks for working DDC on latest TiBooks, ... and possibly new > bugs. :) I d

Re: Mozilla plugins

2002-10-09 Thread christophe barbe
Just want to point the obvious: They have a powerpc plugin that works perfectly under MacOS-X. So basically that's nearly a zero-effort for them to provide the community a linux/powerpc binary. Proprietary sucks, let's wait the free plugin. Christophe On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:58:46AM -0700, Pe

Re: sid XFree packages status compared to Daenzer's ones

2002-10-09 Thread christophe barbe
; On Mit, 2002-10-09 at 00:51, Christophe Barbe wrote: > > > > Related question, is it possible to use the S-video output with this > > hardware ? > > I'm afraid no - not yet, anyway. All attempts at this I've seen rely on > a BIOS. > > > --

Re: sid XFree packages status compared to Daenzer's ones

2002-10-09 Thread christophe barbe
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 06:33:41PM -0400, christophe barbe wrote: > I just found atitvout (which is for the ati rage mobility): >http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/atitvout.html > but it is x86 only. > > Don't know what is x86 only. Perhaps the use of the

Re: OT: Re: Mozilla plugins

2002-10-11 Thread christophe barbe
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:04:44AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Not that it means anything here exactly: I always wondered why > > there was a Flash player for OS/2 too. Maybe IBM payed for it? > > It's made by a German company I think. > > > > Is OS/2 used more in Germany? > > OS/2 is st

ext3 issue on powerpc with benh kernel

2002-10-12 Thread christophe barbe
Since I installed linux on my TiBook a month ago, I see (in gkrellm) and hear a nearly periodic io activity on the hard-drive. Even when there is no particular activity I have this. Because it prevents the HD to go in a less power-consuming state, I decided to investigate. I have the same unwanted

Re: ext3 issue on powerpc with benh kernel

2002-10-12 Thread christophe barbe
On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 06:30:07PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO Lors de la soir?e naissante du samedi 12 octobre 2002, vers 18:03, > christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > > Is it a known issue with ext3 on powerpc ? > > This issue is not powerpc speci

unsupported apple hardware and darwin

2002-10-17 Thread christophe barbe
Just wandering if there is something to do for unsupported features, such as suspend mode for the ati M7 chip, using the open-source bits from Apple. I don't know what is open and what is not in MacOS-X. I guess the drivers for the ATI cards are not open-source. Is the kernel open-source and if y

Re: Ibook/TiBook performance/battery life

2002-10-30 Thread christophe barbe
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 06:08:10PM +0100, Claas Langbehn wrote: > > How > > is the boot up time? Same for powerbook also. > > The booting up time is about the same compared with an > ordinary computer. > But I usually don't have to boot the iBook a lot, > since the powermanagement works fine. Y

Re: XFree86 config for tibook 667

2002-11-01 Thread christophe barbe
If I understand correctly we own the same laptop. My linux experience is here: http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/ The remaining problems for me are: No Suspend/Resume No TV out and external screen The HD never spin down (I have ext3 which keeps using the HD every 5 seconds)

Re: XFree86 config for tibook 667

2002-11-01 Thread christophe barbe
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 09:54:36PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Fre, 2002-11-01 at 18:56, Christophe Barb? wrote: > > Le ven 01/11/2002 ? 12:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a ?crit : > > > excellent! so far i have been very impressed with my > > > laptops performance but have not had a chance to look > >

Re: Canon IXUS v2 and Linux

2002-11-01 Thread christophe barbe
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:19:28PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Fre, 2002-11-01 at 19:50, Claas Langbehn wrote: > You can try putting the debian directory from the source package > (apt-get source gphoto2) in the snapshot source, adding a new entry to > debian/changelog and maybe changing other

Re: Canon IXUS v2 and Linux

2002-11-01 Thread christophe barbe
You can use the current package and the usbid option to make gphoto2 believe that you own a IXUS v. Christophe On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 07:50:12PM +0100, Claas Langbehn wrote: > Hi, > > I need to get a "Canon IXUS v2" digital camera running. But it seems as > if gphoto2 2.1.0-9 does not support t

Re: Canon IXUS v2 and Linux

2002-11-01 Thread christophe barbe
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:25:37PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Just apt-get source gphoto2, then adds manually the Canon IXUS v2 to > the list of supported devices (in some .h file), then > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot to get your new .deb. > > The Canon IXUS v2 is already supported by the curr

Re: XFree86 config for tibook 667

2002-11-02 Thread christophe barbe
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 02:37:13PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Sam, 2002-11-02 at 05:45, eric wrote: > > > > I rebuilt my kernel and now i'm booting to a mon> prompt before it gets > > to a login prompt, and after i do an x from there i hit a kernel panic. > > unfortunatly i didn't specif

Re: Canon IXUS v2 and Linux

2002-11-02 Thread christophe barbe
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:03:33AM +0100, Claas Langbehn wrote: > > > > > The Canon IXUS v2 is already supported by the current gphoto2, but > > > gphoto2 is not aware of it. > > Right. > > > > > It is not the cleaner solution since you should customize the version > > > of the .deb, but I think

Re: Canon IXUS v2 and Linux

2002-11-02 Thread christophe barbe
Ok you trigger a known bug. I know where it segfaults but i am not able to find where the real problem occurs (long before the segfault). This unexplained bug has disappeard in current cvs. I will try to work on the package for the upcomming release this week and keep you informed. Christophe On

Re: VGA Out

2002-11-02 Thread christophe barbe
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:46:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > there are howto's for things you didn't even know existed in *nix :) > just get yourself to http://www.tldp.org/ and go to the individual (or single) > list of howtos, then search with the browser's search in page function. Do y

Re: New Ibook out today- possible problems?

2002-11-07 Thread christophe barbe
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 12:49:28AM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > On Nov 07 2002, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > ATI finally replied ;) > > That's lovely! :-) That's a great news! > It would be nice if they released the specs for hardware > decompression of DVDs, but I don't k

Re: Configuring sound on G4 PowerBook

2002-11-08 Thread christophe barbe
http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/ Christophe NB: I never tried the softmodem. On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 12:02:51PM -0800, Gilger.John wrote: > This has probably been explained several times on this list, but searching > the archives didn't turn up anything with the search words I used

galeon-snapshot and powerpc

2002-11-12 Thread christophe barbe
I see a bug in galeon-snapshot which is so obvious that I am wondering if it is powerpc specific. I can get the menu from a right click in the web page. Can someone tell me if it works for him on a powerpc with the current debian package: ~$ apt-cache policy galeon-snapshot galeon-snapshot: In

Re: galeon-snapshot and powerpc

2002-11-12 Thread christophe barbe
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:30:47PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 18:03:56 -0500, christophe barbe composed: > > I see a bug in galeon-snapshot which is so obvious that I am wondering > > if it is powerpc specific. > > > > I can get the men

Re: galeon-snapshot and powerpc

2002-11-12 Thread christophe barbe
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:28:05PM -0600, David Stanaway wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -p galeon-snapshot ... > Version: 1.3.0.20021103-1 ... > I get the same behaviour (No context menus), and this is kinda > frustrating. Good to feel not alone. I believe the bug is still there in the last pa

Re: evolution 1.2

2002-11-14 Thread christophe barbe
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:58:50AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > With some trickery (see bugs #164791 and #168993), I managed to build it > on powerpc and put the result up at > > http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/evolution_1.2.0-1_powerpc.deb > http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/libcamel0_1.2.0

xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk_2002.11.06-1 on TiBookIII

2002-11-15 Thread christophe barbe
I upgraded yesterday from: xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk_2002.10.02-2 to: xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk_2002.11.06-1 Since then I was getting random X shutdown. It seems to be triggered by AA font display rendering. Since I have downgraded, everything is fine. Unfortunately there is nothing in the

Re: xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk_2002.11.06-1 on TiBookIII

2002-11-16 Thread christophe barbe
/status Christophe On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:16:35PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Fre, 2002-11-15 at 17:46, christophe barbe wrote: > > I upgraded yesterday from: > >xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk_2002.10.02-2 > > to: > >xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk_2002.11.06-1 > &

Re: TiBook 867mHz + ATI Radeon 9000

2002-11-17 Thread christophe barbe
For the mouse pointer problem, you could try to turn off the X hardware pointer. Christophe On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 12:55:31PM +0100, Raph HP wrote: > Hello, > > I just bought the TiBook from the new series, it comes with a ATI Radeon > 9000. I'm using the newest dri-trunk stuff from people.deb

Re: New sources.list line for Mac-on-Linux

2002-11-19 Thread christophe barbe
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 06:11:12PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > However, I now have nothing else in sources.list. Is there a simple > way of recovering the original other than by editing by hand? apt-setup -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F6

Re: Debian on iBook startx problem

2002-11-19 Thread christophe barbe
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:42:35PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Ok, i followed your instructions, but nonetheless, I get a grey screen > with the mouse. Nothing else. > > Curtis Looks like your X is working but nothing is launched. What do you want to run on X? gnome2, kde, ... ? You can try

ATI Releases New Linux Drivers

2002-11-21 Thread christophe barbe
I just see the following news on Slashdot: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/11/21/1623202.shtml?tid=104 ATI Releases New Linux Drivers I just want to let you know and I wonder if it this can bring us resume/suspend on M7 and friends. Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG

Re: ATI Releases New Linux Drivers

2002-11-21 Thread christophe barbe
After reading the comments on /. the news is not really good. The released drivers appeared to be close source x86 only (and doesn't even supports the libc6 in debian/sid). Christophe On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:08:01PM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > I just see the following news on

Re: ATI Releases New Linux Drivers

2002-11-21 Thread christophe barbe
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:21:27PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 23:08, christophe barbe wrote: > > I just see the following news on Slashdot: > >http://slashdot.org/articles/02/11/21/1623202.shtml?tid=104 > >ATI Releases New Linux Dr

Re: ATI Releases New Linux Drivers

2002-11-21 Thread christophe barbe
> I didn't now RSN but I like it. I didn't know RSN but I like it. -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément. Nicolas Boileau, L'Art poé

mozilla-snapshot 0.0.20021112.18.trunk-1 last working

2002-11-23 Thread christophe barbe
mozilla-snapshot 0.0.20021112.18.trunk-1 was the last working for me. The latest 0.0.20021120.09.trunk-1 fails silently to start. Is it the same for all powerpc users? Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Ce qu

Re: kernel radeonfb with iBook2 800mhz

2002-11-26 Thread christophe barbe
I have a TiBook3 which has a M7. Sometimes the fb (or the X screen) is like out of sync (it's horizontaly out of sync like the old tv scrambling systems). Basicly under X I see 3 partial pointers. Is your problem similar? For me it occurs sporadically and I get the display correct again byt switch

Re: pmud on new (Nov 2002) iBooks

2002-12-03 Thread christophe barbe
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:35:16PM +0100, ERDI Gergo wrote: > [please CC replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > I've installed pmud from Debian unstable on a Nov 2002 iBook (iBook3?). I > expected it to Just Work out of the box, however, it doesn't: when I close > the lid, the thing goes to sle

Modem on TiBook3: chipset ?

2002-12-06 Thread christophe barbe
I can't find which chipset is used in my TiBook3 (1280x854). Apparently it's not a Conexant modem. Has anyone an idea what kind of modem it can be? Is there a driver for this (certainly) winmodem? Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F6

Re: Considering moving to Debian PowerPC

2002-12-27 Thread christophe barbe
I have debian on the same laptop. This page should help you: http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/ Everything works fine except: No resume/suspend yet (that's the big limitation) No TV out No VGA out (or I missed something) Christophe On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 06:05:53PM +1100,

Re: Considering moving to Debian PowerPC

2002-12-27 Thread christophe barbe
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 11:58:17PM +, Miguel Sousa Filipe wrote: > Well.. I just saw this in freenode IRC network: > > ~ iBook3 suspend patch: http://people.debian.org/~hafre/radeonfb.c.diff > > I guess suspend is now possible in linux! :-p I just tried this patch on my Tibook3 and unfortuna

Re: Considering moving to Debian PowerPC

2002-12-28 Thread christophe barbe
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 09:56:56AM +0100, Claas Langbehn wrote: > > >Everything works fine except: > > > No resume/suspend yet (that's the big limitation) > > > No TV out > > > No VGA out (or I missed something) > > > > Thanks to all who replied. I now have a good idea of where I stand. It

Re: Considering moving to Debian PowerPC

2002-12-28 Thread christophe barbe
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 02:19:42PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > Actually, it seems to disable the code which actually puts the chip into > D2 suspend mode (which might mean the chip wastes power during sleep) > and restores a couple extra registers which should probably be handled > by other code

Re: Considering moving to Debian PowerPC

2002-12-28 Thread christophe barbe
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 03:01:45PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Sam, 2002-12-28 at 14:30, christophe barbe wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 02:19:42PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > > Actually, it seems to disable the code which actually puts the chip into > > > D

Re: Considering moving to Debian PowerPC

2002-12-29 Thread christophe barbe
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 02:15:34PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 00:58, Miguel Sousa Filipe wrote: > > Well.. I just saw this in freenode IRC network: > > > > ~ iBook3 suspend patch: http://people.debian.org/~hafre/radeonfb.c.diff > > > > I guess suspend is now poss

Re: Thanks Christophe!

2003-01-01 Thread christophe barbe
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:06:10PM -0800, J Q Private wrote: > Your TiBook page worked perfectly for my TiBook 667! Don't forget to send a mail to ATI to gently ask them to provide the doc to get the resume/suspend working. > The new source is > deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer ./ Fixed, th

Re: Thanks Christophe!

2003-01-02 Thread christophe barbe
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 01:25:11AM +1100, Andrew Nesbit wrote: > >Don't forget to send a mail to ATI to gently ask them to provide the > >doc to get the resume/suspend working. > > This is a good idea. Any particular email address we should be sending > to, and is there anything in particular tha

Re: eth0: switched to forced 10bt

2003-01-06 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 04:28:48PM +, Miguel Sousa Filipe wrote: > | Why do you want it up when it's not in use? > > Simple.. to detect when I connect it to a cable and to automatically run > dhcpcd > or dhclient to fetch for a network config. > Basically, in my university i have to jump from

Re: Thanks Christophe!

2003-01-10 Thread christophe barbe
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:59:12AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:06:10PM -0800, J Q Private wrote: > > Your TiBook page worked perfectly for my TiBook 667! > > > > Too bad I had tried Branden's page, MiJ's page, and > > someone else's first. > > If you'll let me know

Re: Airport: Tx excessive retries

2003-01-12 Thread christophe barbe
Is the problem going away if you disable encryption? Christophe On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 09:47:31PM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote: > Hi all, > > For roughly two weeks now, I've had serious problems with the Airport > card in my first-gen TiBook. > > It will find the base station OK, get the 'usual

disabling DRI ?

2003-01-12 Thread christophe barbe
I am trying the nearly-suspend/resume stuff now that it has the blessing (kind of) of Ben and that ATI sucks. I have tried the patch against 2.4.20-ben1 and the no-patch-needed 2.4.21-pre3-ben0 and get nearly the same result. The video chip is in a bad state when I resume the laptop. I have colored

Re: disabling DRI ?

2003-01-12 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:46:43AM +0100, David R?hr wrote: > > I was assuming that not installing the DRI kernel module was enough to > > disable DRI but know I am not sure. Especially since the X log said > > stuff like: > >(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI > > > > What do I have to do to d

Re: disabling DRI ?

2003-01-13 Thread christophe barbe
Has someone got a TiBook3 config where X is working correctly right after the resume? Christophe On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 08:24:36PM +0100, Martin Karger wrote: > christophe barbe wrote: > > > > >I tried and got a slightly better result but I have still to reboot t

Re: Airport: Tx excessive retries

2003-01-13 Thread christophe barbe
rely more on SSH, IMAPS, HTTPS and friends. Christophe On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:03:46PM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 12 Jan, this message from christophe barbe echoed through cyberspace: > > Is the problem going away if you disable encryption? > > Hmmm, indeed, it seems

Re: disabling DRI ?

2003-01-13 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 08:24:36PM +0100, Martin Karger wrote: > christophe barbe wrote: > > > > >I tried and got a slightly better result but I have still to reboot to > >get a clean X. > > > > no need for a reboot. just kill the xserver with [strg]+[alt]+[b

Re: Airport: Tx excessive retries

2003-01-14 Thread christophe barbe
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:16:48AM +0100, Michael Flaig wrote: > > By the way, I have no real trust in the wlan encryption (which AFAIK is > > not very effective) and rely more on SSH, IMAPS, HTTPS and friends. > > Hi! > > OK, but many other Protocols are unencrypted and vulnerable to spoofing >

gnome instability since yesterday update

2003-01-16 Thread christophe barbe
Yesterday I have made an apt-get upgrade of debian/unstable. This upgrade included the new gtk libraries and the new gcc stuff (My last upgrade was before that gcc 3.2 hit unstable). Since this upgrade I have a lot of instabillity always with the same result: X shutdown. For example if I launch gnu

[FIXED] gnome instability since yesterday update

2003-01-16 Thread christophe barbe
is happy) Christophe -- christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: external vga + ibook2 [OpenFirmware command?]

2003-01-19 Thread christophe barbe
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 09:53:32AM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > I can deactivate my lcd display with m3mirror, but > > I can't activate the crt. > > The CRT needs to be activated by OpenFirmware. Start your ibook with > the lids closed. Looks like something that could be useful for the M7 chi

Re: external vga + ibook2 [OpenFirmware command?]

2003-01-20 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:42:15AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > That would allow TiBook3 owners to do presentation under Linux (next > > week I will boot MacOS-X to do a presentation (What's a shame). > > You need to have it plugged during boot so OF can detect the display. > Also you

Re: external vga + ibook2 [OpenFirmware command?]

2003-01-20 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:14:54PM +0100, Santiago Fernandez wrote: > By the way, is TV output supported in new iBooks (the one with the M7 > chip)? AFAIK no. There is a atitvout program but it relies on a BIOS call which is of course x86 specific. > External VGA works great (once linux has det

Re: external vga + ibook2 [Modeline]

2003-01-20 Thread christophe barbe
Are today VGA monitor able to provide to the OS the modeline? If yes, what stantard provide this feature, VESA? Thanks, Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas a

Re: external vga + ibook2 [OpenFirmware command?]

2003-01-20 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:28:13PM +0100, Santiago Fernandez wrote: > > > By the way, is TV output supported in new iBooks (the one with the M7 > > > chip)? > > > > AFAIK no. There is a atitvout program but it relies on a BIOS call which > > is of course x86 specific. > > It's a pity. I love wat

Re: More external VGA weirdness

2003-01-20 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:10:11PM +0100, Josef Spillner wrote: > Thanks to some of the hints, I got a mirror setup (both CRT + LCD) to work > properly on an iBook. > I'll give a presentation on Wednesday so that's pretty cool. > > Here's the way to go: > - startup normally > * booting with c

Re: How to make the tv output work ?

2003-01-27 Thread christophe barbe
Try m3mirror at http://penguinppc.org/~benh/ Christophe On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:23:25PM +0100, Willy Morin wrote: > Hi, > I would like to know how to use the TV output on a > powerbook g4 400. Have you got any idea ? In fact I'd like > to watch dvd on a tv :) > > Thank you by advance and a ha

Re: resuming after suspend still doesn't work with my ibook2.2

2003-01-27 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 12:37:32AM +0100, ERDI Gergo wrote: > > [ Please CC replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > > Hi, > > I've read in the archives of debian-powerpc that by using the drm-trunk > packages and linux-2.4.20-ben3, it should be possible to resume after > suspending an iBook 2.2. Howeve

Re: How to make the tv output work ?

2003-01-27 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:42:20PM +, matthew yee-king wrote: > > i was looking into that a while back. As far as i know, m3mirror only > > drives the vga output, not the svhs. You are right, sorry for my mistake. There is a 'atitvout' tool but unfortunately it's x86 only because it relies on

Re: dhcp-client v pump

2003-01-29 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:22:46PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > It seems that dhcp-client works with 2.2.x kernels but is broken with > 2.4.x kernels - is this a bug? ~$ uname -a Linux philly 2.4.21-pre3-ben0 #1 Sun Jan 12 18:23:37 EST 2003 ppc unknown unknown GNU/Linux ~$ apt-cache policy dhcp-

Re: Configuring XFree on a TiBook

2003-01-30 Thread christophe barbe
Basic X support is easy as long as you use the good X server. Basically you need the one from the DRI project which is kindly packaged for debian by Michel Daenzer. The screen resolution should not a problem. You can read my experience with nearly the same laptop at: http://cattlegrid.net/~chri

Re: Video out on powerbook

2003-02-11 Thread christophe barbe
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:27:07PM -0500, Andrei Smirnov wrote: > > I bought a powerbook G4 last summer and installed Debian. Unfortunately > till now I can't get the video signal out to the external multimedia > projector in Debian, although it all works well with Max OS X (Jaguar). > > I wond

Re: Video out on powerbook

2003-02-11 Thread christophe barbe
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 06:20:45PM -0500, Andrei Smirnov wrote: > > Also you could check my recent mail: > >Date: 06 Feb 2003 12:37:22 -0500 > >Subject: m6mirror kind of (m7mirror) > > I made a serach for m6mirror in debian-laptop, and in all debian archives, > but could not find any match

Re: Video out on powerbook

2003-02-12 Thread christophe barbe
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:57:37PM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 06:20:45PM -0500, Andrei Smirnov wrote: > > > Also you could check my recent mail: > > >Date: 06 Feb 2003 12:37:22 -0500 > > >Subject: m6mirror kind of (m7mirror

Re: airport on tibook: surfing vs. ssh/scp

2003-02-19 Thread christophe barbe
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:30:19AM -0800, Serge Rey wrote: > the issue is more subtle than i realized last night. in galeon directly > entering www.google.com in the url bar results in a long pause and then > nothing. but, if i enter some phrases to search in the url bar then the > google search re

Re: airport on tibook: surfing vs. ssh/scp

2003-02-19 Thread christophe barbe
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:03:25AM -0800, Serge Rey wrote: > > For me turning the encryption off fix the problem. > i did see your note on this and tried turning off the encryption on both > the wap and the tibook. the problem is i can't connect the tibook when > encryption is off, only when it is

Re: playing region 2 dvd's on ibook?

2003-02-19 Thread christophe barbe
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:01:35PM -0700, Nirmal Govind wrote: > thanks for the suggestions folks.. will try it out once the DVDs > arrive.. wanted to make sure I didn't buy DVDs that won't play.. :-) I am not sure if it has been made clear that you will not be able to read DVDs region X if you se

Re: playing region 2 dvd's on ibook?

2003-02-21 Thread christophe barbe
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:07:16PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > It is useless with linux players : they do not ask the drive for the > key to decrypt the disc. A RPC-1 drive always give unconditionally the > key to decrypt the disc. A RPC-2 drive does not. Your RPC-2 drive can > be zoned or not.

Re: Strange fn-key behaviour on TiBook III

2003-02-21 Thread christophe barbe
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:20:40PM +0100, Raph HP wrote: > on my TiBook III the fn-key is acting in a strange way. When I got this > computer a few months ago, I had to use the combination fn-alt-ctrl-FX > in order to switch from X to console X. But then, I only had to press > alt-ctrl-FX without t

Re: computer suspends unexpectedly

2003-02-21 Thread christophe barbe
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:07:35PM -0700, Nirmal Govind wrote: > I just upgraded to testing from woody and there seems to be some > problem.. my computer (ibook2) just suspends (screen switches off) if > there is no activity for a couple of minutes.. I haven't setup pmud.. > and I can't get it to c

Re: airport on tibook: surfing vs. ssh/scp

2003-02-23 Thread christophe barbe
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 09:09:35AM -0800, Serge Rey wrote: > i tried this last night on my tibook. upgraded OS X and the airport > firmware went from 8.4 to 8.7. > > however, booting back into linux i see the browsing problem with some > pages not loading still remains. (and the firmware is 8.7 ac

Re: airport on tibook: surfing vs. ssh/scp

2003-02-24 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 05:37:02PM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote: > Well, I can explain in a few words what's up with MTU-related problems. > > MTU is the maximum size of a frame you can send out on the network (be > it Ethernet, wireless, whatever). This is a limit on the physical (or > rather, MAC

Re: iBook in slumberland

2003-02-28 Thread christophe barbe
If your iBook is the one with an ATI M7 chip, the additional energy consumption is easily explained by the fact that the chip is not powered down when the laptop is put to sleep. It looks like full sleep (the screen is powered down) but it is not. That's better than the TiBook situation with the s

Re: where is the tilde ~ on my TiBook?

2003-02-28 Thread christophe barbe
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:36:41PM +, Benjamin Swatek wrote: > Hi! > > I'm a newbie to this list, linux and debian, but I'm trying to install > debian on my tibook. > now i found "Debian GNU Linux on a TiBook III" on the web, which seems > to be a good help to get debian running, but to work

Re: iBook in slumberland

2003-02-28 Thread christophe barbe
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:43:32PM +0100, Martin Kuball wrote: > Is there hope that the problem will be solved in the future? I have no idea. IIRC ATI promised to provide some help to Ben but I guess they have a good reason to make us wait. The problem is that in my mind ATI was the most linux-fr

Re: TiBook M7 sleep works!

2003-02-28 Thread christophe barbe
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:04:21PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got a tibook 667 DVI, the latest X stuff seems to "work" as far as > sleeping goes. The trick is, you must disable DRI, which isn't a big > deal for me right now, I'll give up 3D accel so my machine doesn't crash > when some

Re: TiBook M7 sleep works!

2003-03-03 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:54:03PM +0100, Clemens Mangler wrote: > Hi! > i have an iBook 2.2 (nov 02) with a M7 and a DRI xserver and resume > works! > when opening the lid the screen looks messed up for a second, but then > everything is ok! Yes. Suspend/resume is known to work on M7-based iBook

Re: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9

2003-03-14 Thread christophe barbe
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 06:49:44PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Ladies & Gentlemens The long awaited new power management > code coming right from the ATI labs is here ! Finally :) That's s good. After updating to ben8+patch, suspend is working on my TiBook3. The sound is o

Re: Has anyone tried the m6mirror tool?

2003-03-17 Thread christophe barbe
As mentioned in the mail, Jessy was using a M6-based laptop. http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200302/msg00103.html I wonder if the recent patch from Ben improve the situation concerning the VGA output (and the TV out). Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9

2003-03-17 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 05:03:27PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > Putting fblevel 0 in the /etc/power/pwrctl(-local) sleep function seems > to do the trick, and also seems to hide the garbage on wakeup. :) Looks interesting. I have no idea which of the pwrctl_* functions to modify for a TiBook3. Al

Re: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9

2003-03-17 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 05:15:28PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > willow% cat /proc/cpuinfo > > cpu : 7455, altivec supported > > clock : 667MHz > > BTW, I assume you know how to switch to the full clock? You are kidding, right? Do you mean the 667MHz can run at 800MHz saf

Re: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9

2003-03-17 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:18:16PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > fblevel 15 is far too high. Copy /etc/power/pwrctl to > /etc/power/pwrctl-local, then remove every action in -local (just keep > the structure of the file) and insert your commands as you > wish. -local is called with the same argume

Slow DVD playing [Was: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9]

2003-03-21 Thread christophe barbe
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 02:41:20PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > I wouldn't think so. The dynamic power management (which actually makes > the difference between the fan staying on all the time and not here BTW > :) might have an impact, but it seems to work perfectly here. Is DMA > enabled on the

Re: Slow DVD playing [Was: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9]

2003-03-21 Thread christophe barbe
Le ven 21/03/2003 à 10:30, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > As Jamie pointed out, someone needs to verify that the sleep patch makes > the difference. I will try to do that this evening after work. Christophe -- christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Slow DVD playing [Was: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9]

2003-03-21 Thread christophe barbe
this morning about what I tested yesterday. Thanks, Christophe On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:33:19AM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > Le ven 21/03/2003 ? 10:30, Michel D?nzer a ?crit : > > As Jamie pointed out, someone needs to verify that the sleep patch makes > > the difference. >

Laptop and sleep

2003-03-24 Thread christophe barbe
Now that we have suspend/resume on M7-based laptop, I would like to get some tips on how to make the laptop smart enough to wake up happy. I am mostly always connected to the internet by the Airport. I use to close the lid when leaving work and open it at home and vice versa. The problem is that i

Re: Laptop and sleep

2003-03-24 Thread christophe barbe
is available anf ifdown when no wlan is available. I used to use the ifplugd package to so something similar for wire network. Thanks, Christophe > Ben. -- christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Laptop and sleep

2003-03-24 Thread christophe barbe
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:11:57PM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > I have not exactly the same setup (both wireless for me) but it should > work too. I will try again tonight. My conclusion (perhaps wrong) was > that it was not possible to ifdown if a wlan was present but not the one >

airport and wlan scan

2003-03-25 Thread christophe barbe
I have tested the Moustafa Youssef patch to add the scan feature to the orinoco driver. The patch can be found at: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~moustafa/morinoco/morinoco.html This seems to add the scan feature to the airport driver. I have yet to find a place with multiple wlan. The output looks l

Re: airport and wlan scan

2003-03-26 Thread christophe barbe
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:57:12AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Interesting patch, did you ask the orinoco driver maintainer > (David Gibson) is he intends to merge that with the driver ? I will definitively ask him. The patch seems old (2001) but apply cleanly and seems to work perfectl

Re: airport and wlan scan

2003-03-26 Thread christophe barbe
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 08:37:01AM +0100, Mich Lanners wrote: > Hmm, shouldn't be too hard... let's see > > First, ifconfig up the interface (don't use ifup - you don't want all > the fancy config...). Then, use iwlist, and get a list of available > ESSID's to identify nearby networks. Based o

Re: Debian on a Powerbook 12"

2003-03-26 Thread christophe barbe
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 06:08:08PM -0600, Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: > Thanks a lot. I preordered a new 17inch PowerBook, and while they certainly > aren't completely the same in terms of hardware, I'm sure plenty of this will > still be relevant. :) Lucky you. That said I don't expect the 17

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