Re: screen blanking different

2001-01-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
t the source, which I haven't done yet. What > framebuffer driver are you using? It should use the console's consw->con_blank() function, which gets routed to VGA text or to fbcon (fbcon_blank()). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uy

Re: modem works!, battery drains fast?

2001-01-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
g his zillion-speed CD-ROM player had to spin up to lightspeed, consuming lots of power. Reducing the speed to single-speed helped a lot. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: screen blanking different

2001-01-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
powerdown are made in the upper-layer code, I guess in console.c or vt.c. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a ha

Re: pmac_set_rtc_time: got 3 byte reply

2001-01-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
rc/linux/drivers/ide' > > Investigating... Add #include to the top of asm-ppc/delay.h. Just did the same for m68k :-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: modem works!, battery drains fast?

2001-01-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Derek Homeier wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > Reducing the speed of your CD-ROM helps as well. I know a friend who > > > played > > > MP3s from CD on his notebook. Everytime he started

RE: X starts, but it displays strange things

2001-01-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
RAGE128 needs line lenghts that are multiples of 64? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But wh

Re: [linux-fbdev] Matrox and XFree86 4.0.2 update

2001-01-25 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
8_FBDev needs a big-endian frame buffer on big-endian machines. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal

Re: X on G4 with ATI Rage 128 Pro and LCD Panel

2001-01-25 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
rtical refresh than Apple says? Should I > paste this into XF86Config? Or will I smoke-test the display? That's normal. Offb doesn't know the real values and fills in some dummies. Perhaps it'd better fill in values so vrefresh is always 60 Hz? Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Re: X on G4 with ATI Rage 128 Pro and LCD Panel

2001-01-25 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
y128fb doesn't support both the Mac `vmode' and the more generic mode options. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical pe

Re: [linux-fbdev] Matrox and XFree86 4.0.2 update

2001-01-26 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Tom Rini wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:38:25PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > > > On 24 Jan 01 at 11:11, Ani Joshi wrote: > > >

Re: X on G4 with ATI Rage 128 Pro and LCD Panel

2001-01-26 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
. Just get the 2.4er sources. Note that modedb hasn't been ported to 2.2 yet. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I c

Re: upgrade stable -> unstable doesn´t work

2001-01-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
ystem we already have? XFRee86 mainly wrote their own system to work around bugs in dl* systems on non-Linux OSses, which is something we don't have to care about. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyon

Re: upgrade stable -> unstable doesn´t work

2001-01-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
e static binary might be worth a shot, I'll contact the guy currently > building XFree4 for m68k. What about Kars De Jong? Is he still there? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EM

Re: upgrade stable -> unstabl e doesn´twork

2001-01-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 06:00:12PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > > > So X402 will be in woody sometime soon (perhaps the next versi

XFree86 4.x

2001-02-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
t's for some other moment Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking t

Re: truecolor on fbdev?

2001-02-12 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
unning at 32bpp if that information is required; > mainly because this was the only one that worked when I was setting stuff up. DirectColor is more powerful than TrueColor and can be made to behave like TrueColor. And that's what X does. More info about the visuals in linux/Documentation/fb/i

Re: mozilla 0.8 from penguinppc and PSM

2001-02-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
works. (the int kernel patch is being > distributed on ftp.kernel.org btw) No, it's on kerneli.org. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations

Re: Troubles upgrading from 200 MHz P2 to 400 MHz G3...

2001-02-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
7;t work on those machines :-( Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to jou

RE: Pushing up daisies...

2001-02-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
dn't believe in Linux) after Steve Jobs killed MacOS for CHRP... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself

Re: mutt problems sending email

2001-02-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
s doesn't work with masqmail (which seems to be the new default MTA). It should work fine with sendmail and exim. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conv

Re: Help with X on iBook?

2001-02-26 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
* . You've been warned. > > > Now I just wonder if we could detect the panel dimensions somehow... >From the OF device tree? And return it to userspace using a new fbdev ioctl()? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- T

Re: debian-powerpc: I can't find pmud

2001-02-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Just use madison on ftp-master. What's this madison thingy? I keep reading about it, but I can't find it in the Debian package search engine, not even in unstable. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Ge

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-03-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
AmigaOS did it as well and Amigas use standard PC floppy drives (only DD, HD is different), it should work on i386 as well. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal co

Re: What does it take to make code endian clean?

2001-03-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
this part of a HOWTO? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists

Re: What does it take to make code endian clean? (fwd)

2001-03-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:16:42 +0100 From: Gjermund Gusland Thorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: What does it take to make code endian clean? Anything I'm missing? Is this part of a HOWTO? N

Re: Help with X on iBook?

2001-03-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
e are no RGB11/11/10 or RGB10/12/10 boards... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm

Re: Help with X on iBook?

2001-03-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Kin Chung wrote: > >From: Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:51:50PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > > should work fine. Anyway, we never trully

Re: Quicktime movies

2001-03-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
ibrary would contain _ia32_ (aka i386) code as well... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I&

Re: XFree86 4.x

2001-03-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
* version of LINUX and/or > xserver? If you so, which one(s). If you have, would you be so kind as to Except for VGA text mode (and vga16fb), I never got anything decent out of that card on PPC. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytter

Re: ppc kernel mailing list?

2001-04-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
i_process_bridge_OF_ranges/g Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to j

Re: Yaboot Config Question

2001-04-10 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
tor) and is 25 times faster than my LongTrail, which was 25 times faster than my Amiga 4000. AFAIK no such machine will exist then (at that price)... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMA

Re: gcc version for kernel compiles

2001-04-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
bigger problem than on UP.) > > AFAIK that should only yet be a problem with gcc-3.0 (which in turn is needed > for ReiserFS yet). And AFAIK ReiserF doesn't work on big endian systems like PPC anyway (yet). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert

Re: Switching consoles (was Re: XFree4 on Pismo)

2001-04-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
that one is not > licensed to disassemble any of the Macintosh OS code (or is it > one of those things which has no force in law?). In the European Union, reverse engineering for reasons of interoperability is explicitly allowed. Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Re: Binutils no longer autobuilding the cross-compiling packages...

2001-04-18 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
ink he was talking about building cross-compilers on the m68k platform, not about cross-compilers to generate m68k binaries. Yes, it's indeed useful to have a cross-compiler for a slow architecture on a fast architecture. But not vice versa, I guess :-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Re: Xclaim VR pro not supported?

2001-04-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
. What does lspci -vv say? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to jo

Re: TiPB X Problems

2001-04-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
e former. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just s

Re: Getting MOL running (was "Re: Power Management et. al.")

2001-04-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
plain X11 over port 6000. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to jour

Re: [Zope] Debian zope2.3.1 installation powerpc

2001-04-25 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
tem (powerpc) > > So python byte-code is NOT cross architecture? According to the Python tutorial it is platform independent. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > IMO the default molrc should look for the rom in /usr/local/lib/mol/something Is that Debian compliant? I'd expect the rom to be in /etc/mol/. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven --

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:32:24AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > IMO the default molrc should look for the rom in > > > /usr/local/lib/mol/something > > > > I

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
to deal with it > themselves. Or make a Debian package of MacOS and put it in non-free? :-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical

Re: I sometimes lose 'q' key in profit of 'a' using mac-fr3 keymap...

2001-05-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
ity here... Don't know how `keycode 0' is related to the new input subsystem though. Perhaps that would solve the whole problem completely. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert P.S. Sorry, can't find Andries mail right now, so you have to ask

Re: Delete key?

2001-05-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
to enable a second such stuff to halt instead of rebooting ? s/-r/-h/ Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself

Re: I sometimes lose 'q' key in profit of 'a' using mac-fr3 keymap... (fwd)

2001-05-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Since I have no Mac this belongs here... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 12:55:36 +0200 From: Duncan Sands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: I sometimes lose 'q' key in profit of 'a' using m

Re: PC parrilel port zip drive?

2001-05-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
you give away that just for a driver? From what I've > seen, they have OSSed the kernel-interfaces of the driver. That's fine with > me. Now try to run their binary-only drivers on a different platform, say on PPC... Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
. The same is true for atyfb (yes, I should add mirrorring/dualhead support for the Mobility in my Vaio :-). > But could it be possible to block this in hardware, and thus force mirroring > only operation ? I suppose yes. > How many different rage 128 mobility are around anyway

Re: Working configuration files needed for X 4.0.3 (FireWire iBook) and linux-kernel-source 2.4.4-1 (FireWire iBook, G4 Cube)

2001-05-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
ty1288fb driver. You can easily verify that by catting /proc/fb. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a ha

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
3 linux/drivers/block/amiflop.c. But I don't think you can easily find out from userspace. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
ot a plain gzipped tarball or lha archive ? Because it's easier to mess up things with tar/lha than with ADF or DMS? Alternatively, let them use gunzip and dd :-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyo

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
t; > > is this now fixed? > CV3D works, at least from the m68k kernel images. Ken did not officially > release the source yet (are you listeing?), but the lastet driver works on > ZorroII (and probably on Zorro3, since he did it). Yep, where are the patches??? Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive

2001-05-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
88% /export/home1 | callisto$ Yes, my /var is too small to upgrade from stable/testing/unstable in one phase... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations wi

Re: output-device OF boot variable for ATI XCLAIM3D+

2001-05-18 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
eo connector, I think). > > I highly doubt that _all_ XClaim boards are Mac-aware... AFAIK ATI Mach64 cards for Mac are called XClaim something, while their PC counterparts are called different (RAGE PRo, All in Wonder, etc...). Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Re: Kernel 2.4.4 Build Probs

2001-05-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
exactly like people complaining about their cable modem download speeds on my ISP's newsgroups... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations wit

Re: Raw I/O doesn't work

2001-05-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
d you should file a bug report. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking t

Re: reiserfs empirical study (very long)

2001-05-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
directory tree copy performance would show > a definite increase. It may be too late now. Until you can prove there's a significant performance difference, I'm afraid Reiserfs will stay little-endian... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geer

Re: reiserfs empirical study (very long)

2001-05-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
e swapped, no file contents. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to jou

Re: reiserfs empirical study (very long)

2001-05-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Wed, 30 May 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > The big endian patches change the code to use little endian ordering > > > for all on-disk structures. IMO this is a mistake, and certainly >

Re: Debian One

2001-05-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
;t registered yet: Hurry, the registration > period ends on May 31st. So when exactly is it happening? The webpage says `From Monday the 2nd to Thursday the 5th 2001' without mentioning the month :-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven

Re: rsync not working in unstable, possibly resolver issues?

2001-05-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
en my machines. Yep, these days lots of sites are not reachable if you have ECN on. E.g. I no longer can reach the website of my bank. But `fortunately' their Internet banking software doesn't work with Linux anyway, so it doesn't harm... Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Re: reiserfs empirical study (very long)

2001-05-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
done > on x86 boxen, as to how far they are towards having this working on linux/ppc > now I dont know. Hmm, I thought we had convinced them to keep on using big-endian for the metadata at Linux Kongress in Augsburg. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- G

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

2001-06-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
ode (not to mention old ISA/VLB chips we don't care about). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself

Re: reiserfs empirical study (very long)

2001-06-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programm

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
ys that do not exist on PC keyboards. Of course these days you can just map the good old Amiga keys to Windows keys :-) But I have to check my mail archive to be 100% sure... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
right? > > i would imagine so. i think this is all PowerMac specific (or does it > bleed into mac68k too?) I think Linux/m68k on Mac can use Linux keycodes these days. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lo

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-07 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
ince we tried that on m68k ages ago and it didn't work out at all, so we reverted and sent the PC/AT keycodes with an old Sojuz into the Sun :-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMA

Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody

2001-06-08 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > I am all for this - APUS not having Linux keycodes yet is not an issue, > > > > it > > > > will keep Amiga keycodes, right? > > > > > >

Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

2001-06-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Last time I tried, it was in a bad shape, that's one of the reasons why I'm still using my old libc5 binary on my Amiga :-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: Upgrade Problem

2001-06-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
e > know. How much free space is there on /var? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But wh

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1 for powerpc at X Strike Force repository

2001-06-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
ces. Beware that > "UseFBDev" doesn't work with generic ones like OFfb, vesafb, vgafb, are there > more? s/vgafb/vga16fb/g And there also exists a vga256fb, which does emulate a real cfb8 frame buffer. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1 for powerpc at X Strike Force repository

2001-06-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
t... And it knows the full geometry of the keyboard (position and size of the keys), which is good for computer games. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert P.S. My favorite computer game is gcc. It doesn't use XKB :-) -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There'

Re: SCSI I/O errors galore, PART II

2001-06-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
ng a patch that makes > it a driver option, if someone can point me to the correct combinattion of > period and offset to limit the rate. It's been a config option since ages. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There

Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

2001-06-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
there since isa mem definitely > isn't) If you just mmap() 0xa from /dev/mem, you'll get RAM on most machines. Corrupting kernel memory can result in a nice kernel crash :-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's

Re: Problems installing on new iBook dual USB

2001-06-25 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
That would be a lot easier and probably faster > > than getting your hands on a sniffa ... ~:^) > > tcpdump IS a sniffer. You may want to try ethereal, unless you know from memory how bootp packets look like. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert

Re: Wine\

2001-06-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Otto Wyss wrote: > [OFFTOPIC] Is there a Mac emulation layer similar to wine? Yes, it's called Mac-On-Linux. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL P

Re: Wine

2001-06-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
-chip emulation, i.e. an emulation of all gates on the chip. That would be overkill for a real-world application. There emulating the behavior of the whole chip is sufficient. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Lin

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
ongTrail) is a gzipped vmlinux with an ELF header, a gzip decompressor, and some glue code between these parts and Open Firmware. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
gzipped) ELF image. For machines where you don't want/have a booter, have a stand-alone program that takes a plain ELF image and wraps it into an executable, or into a ROM image or so. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There

Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?

2001-06-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
27;t use > debian anyway and if he did he wouldn't use kernel-package). Hmmm... /me uses Debian Yes, one day I should try yaboot on my LongTrail, booting from a msdos partition. But I'm a bit afraid to screw my system. Last time I wanted to boot from floppy, it no longer worked. G

Re: distribution of 2.4.x source for PPC (Re: Install on UATA)

2001-06-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
:))) > > that would require rewriting them. which will happen eventually. It's really not that difficult (being the one who did it for Amiboot). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyon

Re: What's the best replacement editor for ae?

2001-06-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
le never knew of it in the first > place ~:^) Ugh, xedit was never meant to be a real editor, it's just an example program to show how to use the Athena widgets. If you want something graphical, you may want to try xcoral. Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Re: X together with dual scan passive matrix PB display

2001-06-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
if atyfb will work then th line which begins with fbo: should when > configured read 'fbo: atyfb frame buffer device etc.'? Yes, and you can also see it in /proc/fb. BTW, it's `fb0' not `fbo' :-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Gee

Re: xdm and Login.app looping

2001-07-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
any of > you know how to fix this? Check out your ~/.xsession-errors Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call mys

RE: JAVA on DebianPPC

2001-07-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
distribute it in source form? If yes, providing a source package can be convenient... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical peopl

Re: BenH TiBook kernels @ debian.jones.dk

2001-07-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
CIA is just the name of the ISA-variant, while CardBus is the PCI-variant. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a

Re: BenH TiBook kernels @ debian.jones.dk

2001-07-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
vailable maximum. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert [*] I work for Sony, so I call them i.Link :-) -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journal

Re: Bug#107484: ADB -> Linux keycodes transition breaks X

2001-08-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
rt :). At any rate, I think we should leave > them available for those who absolutely want to still use ADB keycodes. I use a PS/2 keyboard (my LongTrail has both PS/2 and ADB). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There'

Re: Bug#107484: ADB -> Linux keycodes transition breaks X

2001-08-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > > I'm not sure I understand you. If we add them to the specific keymap > > > > list, to which one?

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
And the duron case is worse, since it wants around 25-30Watts. My Sony VAIO Z600TEK has a 550/700 MHz Mobile Pentium III. With the standard (small) battery (20720 mWh), it lasts about 1.5 hour. With the optional large battery (62160 mWh), it lasts about 4.5 hour. Both at 550 MHz. Gr{oetj

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Sven wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 09:36:05AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Sven wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:08:00AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > > > Battery tech is getting pretty good. My friend got a

Re: root fs becomes ro after sleep!

2001-08-12 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
it could work though. > all? So /etc is the reason why / must be mounted rw. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call mysel

Re: Xpmac on Powerbook 1400c

2001-08-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
o?? Enable Xpmac compatibility mode (CONFIG_FB_COMPAT_XPMAC). But I doubt it'll work, if the frame buffer device doesn't work correctly. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL

Debian for PS3?

2008-02-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
k . libspe2 . libspe2-dev . libspe2-doc o Updated packages (already present in Ubuntu): . spufs support in initscripts (mountkernfs.sh) What do you think? Thanks for your feedback! With kind regards, Geert Uytterhoeven Software Architect Sony Network and So

Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] Debian for PS3?

2008-02-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Kazunori Asayama wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Although it's been possible to install Debian on PS3 since a long time (cfr. > > http://www.keshi.org/moin/PS3/Debian/Live, or you could just use plain > > debootstrap), there's no officia

Re: Debian for PS3?

2008-02-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:09:23PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Geert, will you be at fosdem again this year, we can meet there and > discuss ? Yes I will. BTW, for those who don't already know, there will be a presentation abou

Re: How to install testing version of Debain on PS3

2008-02-26 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
all/powerpc/initrd.gz (alternative, you can boot over the network using TFTP) - After installation, copy to /boot - Edit /etc/kboot.conf to boot /boot/ Good luck! With kind regards, Geert Uytterhoeven Software Architect Sony Network and Software Technology Center Europe The C

Re: Debian for PS3?

2008-02-26 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
. Cell-sdk is a meta package depending/recommending/suggesting packages which all together make up the Cell/B.E. Software Development Kit (SDK). None of these is PS3-specific. They're needed for any Cell platform (i.e. also for IBM Cell Blade (QS20/QS21), and Toshiba Celleb) and to use Cel

Re: Debian for PS3? (fwd)

2008-02-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Apparently Sven's message didn't make it to the list... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:05:23 +0100 From: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian GNU/Linux PPC , Cel

Re: Debian for PS3?

2008-02-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
.org/438479>, old snapshots are no > longer suitable for newer kernels. Note that the dtc sources have been integrated in the Linux kernel sources as of version 2.6.25-rc1. Hence dtc no longer has to be installed separately for building post-2.6.24 kernels. With kind regards, Geert Uytte

Re: How to install testing version of Debain on PS3

2008-02-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
n as soon as it becomes easier to install. I guess that was http://www.keshi.org/moin/PS3/Debian/Live? I think you can still use it. The nice thing about Debian is that you never have to reinstall, just do apt-get dist-uprade ;-) With kind regards, Geert Uytterhoeven Software Architect Sony Network

Re: How to install testing version of Debain on PS3

2008-03-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
: default=linux linux='/boot/vmlinux-2.6.24 root=/dev/ps3da1' Notes: o The actual name of the kernel image may differ, depending on the version of the PS3 LDSK you used. o This assumes you installed Debian on the first partition of the intern

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