Re: TV-Out on a Powerbook5,6

2005-09-23 Thread Erik Chakravarty
Powerbook5,6 (ATI > > Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10])? > > No. I asked the same question a while ago -- here's the answer: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/06/msg00569.html > > johannes -- ______

EXT2 Filesystem driver for OSX

2005-11-24 Thread Erik Chakravarty
The ext2 driver by Brian Bergstrand http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ for OSX is incompatible with Tiger as Apple have changed the kernel interfaces. Beware before you upgrade if you need this!!! Work is underway to port to Tiger... code is available from CVS - anyone anyone tested it ye

Re: bcm43xx finally working, with encryption too!!!

2006-01-23 Thread Erik Chakravarty
Broadcom 43xx driver & softmac working here on a 2004 Albook 15" I had to set 'iwconfig eth1 rate 11M' to even ping my router - it seems that this card will not operate at full 54M speed. DHCP does not seem to be working - I read reports of people running scans before running dhclient eth1 but th

Surprise, surprise...

2006-01-24 Thread Erik Chakravarty
Apple's benchmarking tests for the new Intel-in-Mac lines are total bullsh*t. http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/01/23/intel_macs_25pc_faster/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Upgrading Xorg & r300 driver stability

2006-01-29 Thread Erik Chakravarty
Hi Is it now safe to upgrade a PowerBook 5,4 to xorg 6.9.0-dfsg-1.4? Video card is ATI Mobility Radeon M10 Is it necessary to disable DRI to prevent lockups? Cheers Erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gphoto 2

2006-02-12 Thread Erik Chakravarty
make sure you have permissons on your USB device. try running gtkam with sudo and see if that works. On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 08:44 +1100, david wrote: > Hi all > > I have a mini mac, running sarge. The standard 2.6.8 kernel makes no > sound, so I have installed the stock 2.6.15 kernel from >

Apple iSight

2006-02-24 Thread Erik Chakravarty
Is anyone using this webcam? What's the support status? Thanks Erik -- Erik Chakravarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apple iSight

2006-02-24 Thread Erik Chakravarty
wrote: > According to Erik Chakravarty, on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:37:47 > +, > >Is anyone using this webcam? What's the support status? > > > > > > > > Worked well with coriander the last time I tried... > > > > -- > Cedric > > -- To UNS

Re: Apple iSight

2006-02-24 Thread Erik Chakravarty
touch with the maintainers of the iSight audio drivers http://lsight.sourceforge.net/ and will not hold my breath for any progress soon. On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 12:08 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 10:50 +, Erik Chakravarty wrote: > > But video only, no s

Re: [edlug] Planet & People Society Event - Call for Volunteers

2006-02-24 Thread Erik Chakravarty
I'm a new list member of edlug (12 months), I'm a second-year Psychology/Philosophy student at Edinburgh Uni and I run the following: Debian/PPC (dual-boot OSX) on Apple PowerBook G4 15" with Apple iSight working under coridander / gnomemeeting - 3D graphics and internal wireless all set up. CUPS

Re: [edlug] Planet & People Society Event - Call for Volunteers

2006-02-24 Thread Erik Chakravarty
apologies - this was sent to the wrong list - please ignore On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 03:49 +, Erik Chakravarty wrote: > I'm a new list member of edlug (12 months), I'm a second-year > Psychology/Philosophy student at Edinburgh Uni and I run the following: > > Debian/

Re: adding plugins to web browsers

2006-03-14 Thread Erik Chakravarty
If you want to upgrade to Xorg, change your apt-get sources (/etc/apt/sources.list) from sarge to unstable and run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. Note this will upgrade all packages from the stable sarge release to the newest versions which have not been as thoroughly tested. Make sure yo

ATI Radeon 9600 & GATOS for TV-out

2006-05-11 Thread Erik Chakravarty
Has anybody tried using GATOS to provide S-Video out on a Radeon Mobility 9600? http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ -- ___ ERIK CHAKRAVARTY [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: keyboard backlight on PB 5,4 and question about modem

2006-06-26 Thread Erik Chakravarty
After modprobing i2c-dev, you need to /etc/init.d/pbbuttonsd restart too... If you run powerprefs you should see that the Keyboard Illumination tabs are activated. If the tabs are greyed out it means pbbuttonsd doesn't see that you have a backlight available. It might be worth checking your k

(albook g4) DVD writing

2005-02-27 Thread Erik Chakravarty
Anybody have any success with this? -- _ Erik Chakravarty (0452958) 07720 850521 x83085 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

(albook) macchanger

2005-03-13 Thread Erik Chakravarty
Hey there Does anybody know whether or not there might be any adverse impacts of running macchanger to alter the MAC address of the network interface in a new Powerbook G4? Is this a firmware level change? How does macchanger work? Cheers Erik -- _ Erik

Re: (albook g4) DVD writing

2005-03-21 Thread Erik Chakravarty
at 07:50 +, David Pye wrote: > On Monday 28 February 2005 02:30, Erik Chakravarty wrote: > > Anybody have any success with this? > > Yes, works fine here. > > David -- _____ Erik Chakravarty (0452958) 07720 850521 x83085 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

HELP! Can't mount my hard disk :-0

2005-05-13 Thread Erik Chakravarty
reate the character devices so I can mount the disk and sort out my kernel images. Thanks a lot Erik - ERIK CHAKRAVARTY (+44) 7720 850521 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HELP! Can't mount my hard disk :-0

2005-05-13 Thread Erik Chakravarty
n Fri, 2005-05-13 at 17:13 +0100, Erik Chakravarty wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me quickly what the major and minor numbers for my > > main ext3 > > partition should be if it's hda6? I have to create the character > > devices so I > > can mount the disk and sor

Re: 2.6.12-rc4 lots faster than any kernel before?

2005-05-15 Thread Erik Chakravarty
type: MOUSE) (II) Server_Terminate keybinding not found (II) Generic Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded No core pointer Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices The touchpad works fine with the stock 2.6.11-powerpc kernel in the Debian/PPC repository. On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 13

Re: 2.6.12-rc4 lots faster than any kernel before?

2005-05-15 Thread Erik Chakravarty
Never mind I see you have disabled CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2 OK let's try again. :-) On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 13:36 +0100, Erik Chakravarty wrote: > This kernel breaks my touchpad > > X won't start - > > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux > No su

Re: 2.6.12-rc4 lots faster than any kernel before?

2005-05-15 Thread Erik Chakravarty
. Sound appears to be working fine, suspend is fixed and yes, the HDD blink is cool. Good job guys. Erik On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 13:21 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:12:34AM +0100, Erik Chakravarty wrote: > > Hi Wolfgang > > > > Could you pleas

Overkill debugging output

2005-05-15 Thread Erik Chakravarty
ioctl, cmd: 0x703, arg: 42. [ 3268.993955] i2c-dev: i2c-4 writing 3 bytes. [ 3268.993958] i2c_adapter i2c-4: master_send: writing 3 bytes. How do I switch this off? -- __ ERIK CHAKRAVARTY (0452958) mobile: (+44) 7720 850521 email: [EMAIL

Re: 2.6.12-rc4 lots faster than any kernel before?

2005-05-15 Thread Erik Chakravarty
cpu freq setting from userspace to performance, and > > switched on PS2 mouse support. > > What machine ? No mac has PS2 mouse hardware, enabling that is asking > for trouble... > > Ben. > > -- ______ ERIK CHAKRAVARTY (0

Re: 2.6.12-rc4 lots faster than any kernel before?

2005-05-15 Thread Erik Chakravarty
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 00:00 +0100, Erik Chakravarty wrote: >> PowerBook 5,4 >> >> >> My XFree86 config has corepointer set to /dev/psaux. The new kernel >> config has PS2 disabled, so /dev/psaux was not available I'm assuming >> that's why it would

Touchpad control on a PowerBook

2004-11-01 Thread Erik Chakravarty
the Eject key, then when I hit it again the touchpad is reenabled. Is this possible with pbbuttonsd? Thanks -- _____ Erik Chakravarty (+44) 7720 850521

Re: Touchpad control on a PowerBook

2004-11-04 Thread Erik Chakravarty
move a window with Alt/Meta+MMB and Alt/Meta+RMB > > respectively. > > Are you sure of it ? mouseemu should not lock the trackpad when modifier > keys are down (ctrl, alt, command, shift). What keys are "MMB" and "RMB"? > > -- > Colin > Ha

Installing K2.6.9 with sleep patch #5

2004-11-26 Thread Erik Chakravarty
the initrd.img file which I cannot find in the tree. Is there a separate "make" required to build this image? (I didn't have this issue on i386 but this is the first ppc kernel I have tried to build - sorry for the ppc newbie question :-) ) Cheers --

Unable to boot OSX

2005-07-01 Thread Erik Chakravarty
x27;s wrong. Erik -- _________ ERIK CHAKRAVARTY mobile: (+44) 7720 850521 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DRI / 3D acceleration (G4 AlBook)

2004-10-12 Thread Erik Chakravarty
Hi I'm a new member of this list. I recently got sarge up and running on my 2004 G4 PowerBook. Most of the hardware seems to be working OK - but has anyone got DRI/3D hardware acceleration working on the ATI Mobility Radeon 9700? -- - Erik Chakravarty (+44)

Software Suspend

2004-10-13 Thread Erik Chakravarty
;t have to keep rebooting. Thanks ----- Erik Chakravarty (+44) 7720 850521