Re: Getting rid of hotplug & Co. for 2.6

2005-02-16 Thread Francesco Ciocchetti
Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: So all I need to know: Can I run a 2.6 kernel without hal, udev and hotpt lug being installed, or with these packages being disabled at boot time at least? Please tell me it will work ... :) I'm not a debian user so i'll talk in general. hal,udev and hotplug are nothing

Re: (albook) macchanger

2005-03-13 Thread Francesco Ciocchetti
Erik Chakravarty wrote: 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? I I don't know about macchanger , but in

Re: Playing WMV 9

2005-04-10 Thread Francesco Ciocchetti
TeÃfilo Ruiz SuÃrez wrote: >Hi. > >Is there any codec to play .wmv files in Linux/PPC?. I've installed >almost everything from the marillat's ppc repository but xine still >gives me that "videoCodec missing" message. > >Thank you in advance, > > I don't think so ... on linux/i386 they are played

Re: external Display and FBDev

2005-04-29 Thread Francesco Ciocchetti
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 01:20 +0200, Carsten Friede wrote: > > >>Hi. >> >>Just for fun, I switched my CRT on the external video connector of my >>iBook G4. After trying several options in the XF86Config-4, I disabled >>"UseFBDev". Bingo! It works! >> >> > >Yes,

Re: external Display and FBDev

2005-04-30 Thread Francesco Ciocchetti
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >No, you are already using radeonfb I think, it's just can't do dual >display, so you need to configure X not to use it. That is basically not >using "UseFBDev" option :) > > > Yep , i tried it. I tried to set false to UseFBDev and enabling Clone mode ... but had no

Re: external Display and FBDev

2005-05-03 Thread Francesco Ciocchetti
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >>... >> >> > >The config file options for clone changed a bit. You need to specify >CRT2Position "Clone" and MergedFB "true" in your device section. Have a >look at the radeon.man man page in the source of the ATI driver in the >X.org source tree (in xc/programs/

Re: external Display and FBDev

2005-05-03 Thread Francesco Ciocchetti
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> >>Well, if you want clone, it can't be anything different :) What do you >>expect ? If you want dual head, you use Xinerama (or MergedFB, but >>MergedFB will want edges with the same resolution as well). >> >> >> Ok, i knew i was wanting too much :) Btw, thank

Re: external Display and FBDev

2005-05-03 Thread Francesco Ciocchetti
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 10:18 +0200, Francesco Ciocchetti wrote: > > >>Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> >> >> >>>>Well, if you want clone, it can't be anything different :) What do you >>>>expe

Re: Mirroring X and console on external VGA

2005-05-22 Thread Francesco Ciocchetti
Giuseppe Ottaviano wrote: Hi, I own an iBook G4. Is it possible to mirror everything that is displayed on LCD on the external VGA interface, including X, framebuffer and MOL? Even if I have to disable the LCD... (Maybe some openfirmware trick?) Thanks, Giuseppe For console or Mol i don't

Re: compilation errors on PB12" under heavy load

2005-06-09 Thread Francesco Ciocchetti
Kasper Jordaens wrote: >hello, > > >I've been recently compiling a lot on my Powerbook 12" 1.33Ghz. >Very often my compiles end up in errors like: > > > > It seems the 'well know bug' of PPC/Preemptible Kernel. Have you preempt enabled in your kernel? Disable it and try compile again. This prob

Re: compilation errors on PB12" under heavy load

2005-06-09 Thread Francesco Ciocchetti
Kasper Jordaens wrote: >hello, > >the problem also occurs in console (right now I'm compiling in the >console, it's going ok for about 30 minutes) I do have pre-emptible >kernel enabled though. >Recompiling a kernel is impossible because of : > >make all >[...] >LD .tmp_vmlinux1 >mm/built-in.

Re: compliation errors under heavy load

2005-06-09 Thread Francesco Ciocchetti
Bernhard Reiter wrote: >On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:42:27PM +0200, Julien Pervillé wrote: > > >>I experienced the stability problem when doing heavy >>compilation on this ibook g4. The culprit was the preemptible kernel >>option. I first suspected bad memory, but this laptop is working fine >>