Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-02 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Matteo, Matteo Bigoi - Bigo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365647.html > > You have to run mol and use a tunl net device. > > Tomorrow I will try this "strange" method to use a wireless card and I > will post my results! Since when mol has access on t

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-02 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Otavio, Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hello Matteo, >> >> Matteo Bigoi - Bigo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365647.html &g

3rd sensor not shown (adt746x)

2005-09-25 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I've installed TemperatureMonitor.dmg.gz on OS X and it showed me three sonsors. I've took a look on the dmesg output and found this: adt746x: version 1 (supported) adt746x: Thermostat bus: 1, address: 0x2e, limit_adjust: 0, fan_speed: -1 sensor 0: PWR/MEMORY BOTTOMSIDE sensor 1: CPU BOTTOMSI

Re: 3rd sensor not shown (adt746x)

2005-09-26 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Johannes, Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 19:59 +, Joerg Sommer wrote: > >> Where is it? And for what is this sensor? > > The 'where' is answered by a printk in the module. And it isn't there > becaus

Re: 3rd sensor not shown (adt746x)

2005-09-28 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Michael, Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Where is it? And for what is this sensor? >> > >> > The 'where' is answered by a printk in the module. And it isn't there >> > because it doesn't control a fan. >> >> Does "GPU ON DIE" control a fan? And why ommit this information, on

ioreg for linux

2005-09-28 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, OS X has a tool /usr/sbin/ioreg. Is there an equivalent in linux? ioreg shows some more informations about the battery. I would like to get this informations on linux, too. Exists a document how to sniff a program in OS X? Bye, Jörg. -- Der Hase läuft schneller als der Fuchs, denn der Hase l

Re: ioreg for linux

2005-09-30 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Benjamin, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 16:15 +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: >> > In linux, however, you can get battery infos in /proc/pmu >> >> Which doesn't show the battery temperature - do you know if that info >> hides in some unused bits in

Re: serial console

2005-10-04 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello KokHow, KokHow Teh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi; > I have debian linux running on my PQ2FADS-ZU with devfs and serial > driver compiled in. I have read Documentation/serial-console.txt and I have > tried both passing "console=" option as well as without passing that to the > kernel

Re: arm-linux cross compiler

2005-11-17 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello William, William Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm trying to set up a arm-linux cross compiler environment. Are there > any precompiled debs? since i've met various problems trying to compile > from source myself... I don't know of anyone. Bbut the gcc package /should/ offe

temperature sensor powers off ibook?

2005-11-19 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, since two weeks my iBook is often powered off after I went to outdoor with it. This is the first winter since the kernel supports sleep mode for my iBook G4. I don't have any other explanation for this phenomenon than there is a temperature sensor in the iBook that shuts it down (while it slee

Re: temperature sensor powers off ibook?

2005-11-20 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hallo Benjamin, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 12:56 +0000, Joerg Sommer wrote: >> I have nothing changed in the kernel or the kernel itself before this >> problems start and I see it only when I was outdoor. I carry my iBook >>

Re: pbbuttonsd and NoTapTyping option?

2005-11-20 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Matthias, Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:30:31 +0100 (CET) > Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > does anybody use the NoTapTyping function of pbbuttonsd with success? >> > How much would you pay to keep it? ;-) >> >> I don't use that functio

Re: sudden power loss (WAS: sudden power loss on tibook)

2005-11-30 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi Michael, Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The last time it happend is a few weeks ago, but at least on my PowerBook6,8 > it > only happend when the fan had spinning at full speed for some time (due to > high > CPU usage, so it was ok that the fan was spinning so fast). I consid

pbbuttonsd: call pbbcmd in power scripts

2006-01-15 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I want to increase or decrease the backlight level upon plug in and unplug the power supply unit. I achieve this with a script in /etc/power/event.d/. But it seams the script hangs in the call of pbbcmd. Is this possible? If I enable the call I get a message "INFO: Script '/etc/power/pmcs-pbbu

Re: pbbuttonsd: call pbbcmd in power scripts

2006-01-16 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi Matthias, Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:56:00 + (UTC) > Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I want to increase or decrease the backlight level upon plug in and >> unplug the power supply unit. I achieve th

Build the bcm43xx with own kernel

2006-01-27 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I tried to build the bcm43xx driver from the debian package with a self-made kernel, but I failed. Firstly I needed the header files for ieee80211softmac. After building and installing the package I found the include files in /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15.1. The bcm43xx make file searches for

Re: Build the bcm43xx with own kernel

2006-01-28 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Rene, Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Sommer wrote: >> Firstly I needed the header files for ieee80211softmac. After building >> and installing the package I found the include files in >> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15.1. The bcm43xx make file

Re: Build the bcm43xx with own kernel

2006-01-28 Thread Joerg Sommer
Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rene Engelhard wrote: >> > ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'NULL' >> > ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' >> > ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7 >> > ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <[EMAIL P

Re: Build the bcm43xx with own kernel

2006-01-30 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Rene, Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Joerg Sommer wrote: >> Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Rene Engelhard wrote: >> >> > ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'NULL' >> >> >

Re: Build the bcm43xx with own kernel

2006-01-31 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi Johannes, Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:49 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > >> That's pretty weird. Are you sure the kernel is compiled with >> CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS? > > Sorry, CONFIG_NET_RADIO is the one I was after. No, I thought this was a submenu only, n

Re: Build the bcm43xx with own kernel

2006-01-31 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Johannes, Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 00:49 +, Joerg Sommer wrote: > >> No, I thought this was a submenu only, not a config point with real code >> behind. I will rebuild tomorrow. > > There's one file that i

bcm43xx with WPA

2006-02-01 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I tried to use the bcm43xx driver with wpa, but it does not work. I've applied the patch from http://www.mail-archive.com/bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de/msg00480.html and loaded the new module, but wpa_supplicant reports "operation not supported" # iwconfig eth1 eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:

Re: bcm43xx with WPA

2006-02-01 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi Paul, Paul TT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:26:37 + (UTC) > Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I tried to use the bcm43xx driver with wpa, but it does not work. I've >> applied the patch from >> http://www.mail-archive.

Re: bcm43xx with WPA

2006-02-01 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Johannes, Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 15:26 +, Joerg Sommer wrote: > >> I tried to use the bcm43xx driver with wpa, but it does not work. I've >> applied the patch from >> http://www.mail-archive.com/bcm4

Re: mplayer debian package

2006-02-02 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Michael, Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Regarding installation of mplayer-g4: you need to install first >> > mplayer-powerpc then mplayer-g4 (dpkg craps out with a dependency loop >> > otherwise). >> >> I did not have any such problems while installing mplayer-g4. So I am >>

Re: bcm43xx with WPA

2006-02-02 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Paul, Paul TT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:26:37 + (UTC) > Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I tried to use the bcm43xx driver with wpa, but it does not work. I've >> applied the pat

Re: bcm43xx with WPA

2006-02-03 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Joerg, Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to use the bcm43xx driver with wpa, but it does not work. I've > applied the patch from > http://www.mail-archive.com/bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de/msg00480.html > and loaded the new modul

Re: Random hang when waking from sleep on ibook G4 + 2.6.14.3 kernel

2006-02-05 Thread Joerg Sommer
Benjamin Cama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I regularly use the sleep feature of my iBook, and it works quite well > with a recent kernel, thanks to BenH patches. I used to have a > ubuntu-built 2.6.12, but it oopsed when waking from sleep while an USB > peripheral was plugged in (in my case, an USB

Re: Random hang when waking from sleep on ibook G4 + 2.6.14.3 kernel

2006-02-06 Thread Joerg Sommer
Benjamin Cama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So this is basically the same, i think (mine is a 800MHz G4). > The memory upgrade comes from a cheap brand, but i don't think it causes > such crashes (i had about 2 strange crash in 2 years, on MacOS X, that > may have been caused by bad RAM) as this pro

Problems setting up bcm43xx

2006-02-07 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, next try, one level lower. I try to configure my airport extreme with the following section in /etc/network/interfaces: iface wlanhome inet static address 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.255 pointopoint 192.168.0.8 wireless_essid home wireless_channel 2

Re: libdb1-compat vs. libc6

2006-02-14 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello adrian, adrian crisan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi everybody, i'm trying to install xorg-6.8.99.15 on my beige g3/266 > ... however trying to install libdb1-compat "it depends on libc6" and > (obvious) trying to install libc6 errors out because "depends on > libdb1-compat" You must insta

Sysrq for iBook

2006-02-18 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, where is the SysRQ key on the ibook keyboard? What about this patch? http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=968 Should it be applied to kernel.org? Bye, Jörg. -- "Science is the game we play with God to find out what His rules are." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Nasty bug in crm114 -- help needed

2006-03-18 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I've found a bug in crm114: #355721. The strange thing is, the sigseg raises after the return statement and before the stack frame is closed. Does anyone know how a sigseg could happen at this point? What might be the reason? Bye, Jörg. -- Mathematiker beim Kuchenessen (aus dem wahren Leben

Re: Install Sarge on an embedded PowerPC

2006-03-26 Thread Joerg Sommer
Guennadi Liakhovetski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all > > I've got myself an embedded powerpc platform (kurobox) and I'd like to > install Sarge on it. My problem is - the board doesn't boot from CD, the > bootloader is proprietary and I cannot load initrd... So, AFAIU, I cannot > use any

Re: on apple battery life

2005-01-25 Thread Joerg Sommer
Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > IIRC all the new laptops have battery life cycle counted in "number of > recharges". Some PCs have this limit set around 1000 recharges. > > Usually, if your laptop is AC plugged and your battery is full you will notice > some recharge

Questions about Open Firmware

2005-01-26 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, some questions about Open Firmware. Can Open Firmware read a msdos partition table? Is it true, that OF can read ext2? http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_boot.html (Section "Bootloader" or search for ext2) If so, why yaboot needs an extra partition? Bye, Joerg. -- Geld allein macht

d-i: CD/USB image

2005-01-27 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, monday, I crashed my system and needed a rescure system to repair my broken install. I've didn't found the file "boot.img.gz" as named in [1]. Because I didn't have mac-fdisk available I wrote the CD from [2] in /dev/sda. Then I could boot it with "boot pci/usb0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROT

Re: Sleep patch and kernel 2.6.10

2005-01-28 Thread Joerg Sommer
Colin Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Did someone try Ben's patches for sleep support with kernel 2.6.10? I've tried to apply the patch by hand, but there where changed from .9 to .10 which I can't interpret. In radeon_pm.c the radeon_pci_resume() function changed in a way, th

PanelOff in X doesn't work

2005-02-02 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I compiled xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk with UseFWPLL and no I have a cloned screen. But PanelOff doesn't work. For the external screen only I use the following section: Section "Device" Identifier "ATI External" Driver "radeon" BusID "PCI:0:16:0"

performance of xine

2005-02-02 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, IIRC the theme is not new, but was there a solution? I've played a dvd with xine and cpu usage was 100%. With mplayer I get false colors, but it needs nearly 50%. (this was with XV) With xshm my dvd jumps and it isn't a usable quality. BTW: Does xine support OpenGL output? Joerg. -- Comput

Re: performance of xine

2005-02-02 Thread Joerg Sommer
Sebastian Henschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi there.. > > * Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-02 13:06 +0100]: >> >> IIRC the theme is not new, but was there a solution? I've played a dvd >> with xine and cpu usage was 100%. With mplayer I

Re: performance of xine

2005-02-03 Thread Joerg Sommer
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 16:04 +0000, Joerg Sommer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> IIRC the theme is not new, but was there a solution? I've played a dvd >> with xine and cpu usage was 100%. With mplayer I get false col

Note: pbbuttons with IPC problems

2005-02-14 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I've had a very strange problem. gtkpbbuttons and pbbcmd report $ LANG=C pbbcmd query SLEEPKEY ERROR: Problems with IPC, maybe server is not running. $ LANG=C gtkpbbuttons -a /dev/sound/dsp ERROR: Can't create message port for client. The cause was, there were not enough IPC channels. A sim

Re: Help: Logging in to virtual terminal

2005-02-21 Thread Joerg Sommer
Ben Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set up Debian on my PowerBook G4, but can't log into a > virtual terminal. The X settings aren't correct, so I'd like to drop > into the console to edit XF86Config-4. > > I'm getting a virtual terminal login, but when I log in, it hangs

disable sound in gtkpbbuttons

2005-02-21 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, how to disable the sound in gtkpbbuttons? Version 0.6.5-1 want start if /dev/dsp doesn't exist. I use "-a /dev/null", but this is a dirty hack. How do it right? Joerg. -- Damit das Mögliche entsteht, muß immer wieder das Unmögliche versucht werden. (Her

Re: Clock and Sound

2005-02-22 Thread Joerg Sommer
David Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, Hello David, > When i run "alsaconf" and after "alsamixer" i can hear sound perfectly > but if i reboot the system i must run "alsaconf" ... > I try with dpkg-reconfigure alsa-base and choose "save always" but don work. > what happen?¿ Did yo

Re: HELP!... cant boot and cant open CDROM...

2005-02-22 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:00:04AM -0500, Charles Read wrote: >> Hey everybody! >> >> In a REAL crunch here! Was playing around with adding a new firewire >> drive to my PowerMac linux system, wouldnt you know a power outage >> shows up... as a result I

Re: disable sound in gtkpbbuttons

2005-02-22 Thread Joerg Sommer
Jorge Bernal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 21 February 2005 14:20, Joerg Sommer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> how to disable the sound in gtkpbbuttons? Version 0.6.5-1 want start if >> /dev/dsp doesn't exist. I use "-a /dev/null", but this is a

mouseemu replacement in pbbuttonsd

2005-02-28 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, my problem with the touchpad is, while typing hitting on the touchpad and this generates a click and my cursor jumps away. I know mouseemu exists. But pbbuttonsd already watches for key events. Isn't it possible to make it switch the mode of the touchpad, while typing? Joerg. -- "Politics i

Re: mouseemu replacement in pbbuttonsd

2005-03-01 Thread Joerg Sommer
Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:52:44 + (UTC) > Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> my problem with the touchpad is, while typing hitting on the touchpad >> and >> this generates a click

pbbuttonsd: don't dim the display while watching video

2005-03-12 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, how can I tell pbbuttons not to dim the backlight while watching video? It's annoying! Have a nice weekend, Joerg. -- Viele Leute glauben, daß sie denken, wenn sie lediglich ihre Vorurteile neu ordnen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: pbbuttonsd: don't dim the display while watching video

2005-03-13 Thread Joerg Sommer
Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 01:03:43 + (UTC) > Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> how can I tell pbbuttons not to dim the backlight while watching video? >> It's annoying! > >pbbcmd config onac_time

hdparm on iBook G4

2005-03-13 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, today I read a cd with only treble speed. I run hdparm and saw it runs on mdma2. Is this more than udma2? I tried to set the later, but since this all accesses to the cdrom hang and never returned. # hdparm /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on)

Re: Swap

2005-03-19 Thread Joerg Sommer
Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How crucial is a swap partition? The only think I know of it being > used for is virtual RAM memory, am I wrong? Having 896 MB of RAM I > didn't think that I would need one, but I can either use the 512 MB > chunk I left free for that, or make another larg

Re: how to find out which program is using the harddrive

2005-03-19 Thread Joerg Sommer
Tamas K Papp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even though I don't have sleep on my powerbook yet, I am OK with just > closing the lid and letting the screen sleep. However, something is > using the hard disk about every 2 seconds... How can I find out what > it is? echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump;

Re: Optimizing boot times

2005-03-19 Thread Joerg Sommer
Wee-Jin Goh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've run out of things to tweak on my Powerbook, so I thought that I'd > try to improve the boot times :-) > > Currently, on my 1.33 GHz 12", Debian takes about 2 minutes to boot. > What are they steps I need to take to cut this down? What services c

Re: Newer laptops & CPU speed

2005-03-19 Thread Joerg Sommer
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 16:01 +, Jochen Voss wrote: > >> From other people's posts I conclude that bogomips should approximately >> equal clock? > > It depends on the CPU, but on a 7447A, yes. Do you know why it is for i386 nearly the double of

Re: Newer laptops & CPU speed

2005-03-20 Thread Joerg Sommer
Jochen Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:29:28PM +0000, Joerg Sommer wrote: >> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 16:01 +, Jochen Voss wrote: >> > >> >> From other people&#x

Re: pbbuttonsd 0.6.8beta1 has been released for testing

2005-03-25 Thread Joerg Sommer
Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > As consequence of the high number of critical bugs in the last release I > publish a beta release first this time: > > PBButtonsd 0.6.8beta1 > available at: http://pbbuttons.sourceforge.net I'v

Re: changing hostname

2005-03-28 Thread Joerg Sommer
Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 07:57 -0800, Paul J. Lucas wrote: >> But is there a better/canonical way to do this? > > echo blabla > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname man sysctl.conf -- "Any setuid root program that does an exec() somewhere is just a less user f

Re: CPU Frequency -- min save value?

2005-03-28 Thread Joerg Sommer
John Steele Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Matthew T. Atkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Was just wondering, as I mostly use the machine for really simple text >> editing when it's on battery power (taking notes in lectures), is it >> safe to set the lower bound for CPU frequency much lo

2.6.9: sound problem

2005-03-28 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, a cat $foo > /dev/dsp brings me this oops: Oops: kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#2] NIP: 093C LR: D20E2604 SP: CA233DB0 REGS: ca233d00 TRAP: 0400Not tainted MSR: 40009032 EE: 1 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11 TASK = cf9498f0[4633] 'cat' THREAD: ca232000Last syscall: 4 GPR00: 093

problems playing wav with xmms

2005-03-28 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, when I play wavs or use the AudioCD Reader with xmms I get no sound. I hear only a hum and scrape, but no sound. This is with oss and alsa output plugin. Does anyone have the same problem? Could you solve it? xmms: 1.2.10-2 kernel: 2.6.9 (with sleep patch) $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor

cd support for iBook G4

2005-03-28 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I've an iBook G4 (combo drive): $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7455, altivec supported clock : 606MHz revision: 3.3 (pvr 8001 0303) bogomips: 610.30 machine : PowerBook6,3 motherboard : PowerBook6,3 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh dete

Re: cd support for iBook G4

2005-03-28 Thread Joerg Sommer
Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciao Joerg Sommer, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > >> Has anyone better experiences with the cdrom in the g4 ibook? > > I did rip audio cds and dvds with my iBook (with Grip and mencoder), and > when I burn things the burning

Re: CPU Frequency -- min save value?

2005-03-29 Thread Joerg Sommer
John Steele Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Linux kernel driver does not implement this (instruction cache throttling) > at all. Still, I get over four hours on battery on my 12" iBook G4 with 7447A At which backlight level? I'd never reached four hours with my new ibook (I had three and a

Re: pbbuttonsd 0.6.8beta1 has been released for testing

2005-03-30 Thread Joerg Sommer
Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:35:11 + (UTC) > Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > As consequence of the high numb

instruction cache throttling

2005-04-07 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, inspired by John Steele (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ) I searched a little bit with google and found that the instruction cache throttling register is named in the Kernel source (include/asm-ppc/reg.h). A todo note is made in arch/ppc/kernel/temp.c. I here next semester a lec

Re: Mac mini (TV modeline)

2005-04-08 Thread Joerg Sommer
robin putters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 8, 2005 1:10 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Only thing I can't get working is the video output to PAL/NTSC using >> > the optional DVI->Composite/SVHS cable. Does anybody here have a >> > solution for this (modeline for X

Re: instruction cache throttling

2005-04-10 Thread Joerg Sommer
John Steele Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --=-=-= > > Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Hi, >> >> inspired by John Steele (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> <news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) I searched a little bit with google >> and f

Re: dvd hdparm?

2005-04-16 Thread Joerg Sommer
Björn Schöpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > I've got a problem when I try to watch dvd's under KDE. With > xine/Kaffeine sound works fine and I see the film too, only that it is > not so steady. I once experienced this phenomenon when dma-mode was off I have the same problem. I asked on xin

Re: dvd hdparm?

2005-04-18 Thread Joerg Sommer
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I've got a problem when I try to watch dvd's under KDE. With >> > xine/Kaffeine sound works fine and I see the film too, only that it is >> > not so steady. I once experienced this phenomenon when dma-mode was off >> >> I have the same problem. I aske

Re: making mouse event with keys

2005-04-18 Thread Joerg Sommer
Tamas K Papp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > In I11, I would like certain keys (F11, F12) to behave as if I pressed > the mouse buttons 2 or 3. Is it possible? Yes. You need xkbset to switch on Pointer_Buttons for xmodmap. xkbset m xkbset exp =m Afer this, you can do xmodmap -e "keycode 1

Re: dvd hdparm?

2005-04-20 Thread Joerg Sommer
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Which one isn't steady - video or audio? >> >> video >> >> > With alsa, I get audio sync trouble. No such problem with dmasound_pmac. >> >> xine eats up my whole cpu and I get many dropped frames. All what is >> shown is synchronous. > > What's your C

Mount Apple-CDs

2005-04-20 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, how to mount Apple CDs? They are disks with a partition table #v+ $ file -sL /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom: Apple Partition data block size: 2048, first type: Apple_partition_map, name: Apple, number of blocks: 63, second type: Apple_Driver43, name: Macintosh, number of blocks: 56, third type: Apple

[OT] dwl-122 with WPA?

2005-04-20 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, this isn't related to ppc, but on this list some people have the dlink dwl-122 usb wlan adapter. Did someone get it running with WPA? I found with google, it should be possible, but not how. Jörg. -- Was man mühelos erreichen kann, ist gewöhnlich nicht der Mühe wert, erreicht zu werden.

Re: dvd hdparm?

2005-04-21 Thread Joerg Sommer
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> xine eats up my whole cpu and I get many dropped frames. All what is >> >> shown is synchronous. >> > >> > What's your CPU speed? Are you using Xv (video overlay) as output? >> >> 800Mhz, yes I use Xv. > > 800 MHz on a G3 might be too slow (definitel

Re: dvd hdparm?

2005-04-21 Thread Joerg Sommer
Mauro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> I've only just picked up on this thread, but my experience with a >> *600MHz* G3 iBook is that it can't keep up with playing DVDs and xine >> eventually gives up with a message that the CPU is too slow. It is >> however possible to play a DVD on OSX -- so

iBook G4: Mouse pointer jumping

2005-04-23 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I would say, since my update from 2.6.9 to .11 my mouse pointer jumps from time to time. Sometimes I can correct this with going to sleep and wake up, but not every time. Because I have the problems in MOL too, I think this problem liven in kernel. Has everyone else ever seen this problem? Yo

Re: Mount Apple-CDs

2005-04-23 Thread Joerg Sommer
Brad Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 03:48:25PM +0000, Joerg Sommer wrote: >> # mount /mnt/cdrom >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, >>missing codepage or other error >>In some cas

Re: Mount Apple-CDs

2005-04-22 Thread Joerg Sommer
Brad Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:14:21AM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: >> On Wed, 2005-04-20 07:39:07 +0000, Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > how to mount Apple CDs? They are disks wit

Re: iBook G4: Mouse pointer jumping

2005-04-25 Thread Joerg Sommer
Colin Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24 Apr 2005 at 12h04, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Hi, > >> > Has everyone else ever seen this problem? You can't really control >> > the touchpad, the pointer jumps wild to and from and walk around >> > when you away from the touchpad. This is real

Re: instruction cache throttling

2005-05-13 Thread Joerg Sommer
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Do you mean the powersave governor should controll this register too? >> >> > I'm interested to discuss this more. I have been wanting this feature for a >> > while; and even have written some code for it a couple of times, but I >> > tend to

Re: instruction cache throttling

2005-05-14 Thread Joerg Sommer
Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Do you mean the powersave governor should controll this register too? >>> >>> > I'm interested to discuss this more. I have been wanting this

Re: instruction cache throttling

2005-05-16 Thread Joerg Sommer
John Steele Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Did you see a significant difference in battery consumption with >> different ictc values ? > > In my non-scientific messing around, which looked at temperature, not battery > life, it seemed to me

Re: instruction cache throttling

2005-05-16 Thread Joerg Sommer
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 21:11 +0000, Joerg Sommer wrote: >> Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Here is the hack http://www.minet.uni-jena.de/~joergs/ictc/. I don't know >> > if its correct, b

Re: instruction cache throttling

2005-05-17 Thread Joerg Sommer
Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 21:11 +, Joerg Sommer wrote: >>> Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > Here is the hack http://www.minet.uni-jena.de/

Re: instruction cache throttling

2005-05-18 Thread Joerg Sommer
John Steele Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the ICTC. Try some small odd values like 3 or 7 and see what happens. The > information on ICTC usage is from "MPC7450 RISC Microprocessor Family User's > Manual", section 10.3. I found this document: http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/tec

Re: instruction cache throttling

2005-05-18 Thread Joerg Sommer
John Steele Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> I took the false values. It is not only putting the value into the >> register. To enable ictc bit one of the register must be enabled. >> Unfortunately I tried

Battery charge cycles

2005-05-18 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I saw OS X can show the count of charge cycles. Can we have this in Linux too? http://www-astro.phys.metro-u.ac.jp/users/masai/darwin-app.html Jörg. -- Der kommt den Göttern am nächsten, der auch dann schweigen kann, wenn er im Recht ist. (Cato; 234-149 v. Chr.) --

Re: instruction cache throttling

2005-05-18 Thread Joerg Sommer
John Steele Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> John Steele Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I found this document: >> http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/2EF555D341769CE787256E470077DD3D/

Re: Battery charge cycles

2005-05-19 Thread Joerg Sommer
Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2005 13:50:53 + (UTC) > Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I saw OS X can show the count of charge cycles. Can we have this in Linux >> too? > > Pbbuttond

Re: mount a new partition on /home

2005-05-19 Thread Joerg Sommer
Moritz Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes thats true. > You have to login as root unmount your drive! > > umount /home Better: Let /home mounted and mount /dev/root to /mnt. Move then /mnt/home/* to /home and unmount /mnt. Jörg. -- Je planmäßiger ein Mensch vorgeht, desto stärker mag ihn der

clock drift

2005-05-25 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I've an iBook G4 and I observe a clock drift. I don't know if it is new or there for longer time. #v+ $ ntpdate -q server; sleep 5; !ntp ntpdate -q server; sleep 5; ntpdate -q server server 192.168.0.1, stratum 2, offset 1.169256, delay 0.02589 25 May 13:26:31 ntpdate[31805]: step time server

Re: following addresses had permanent fatal errors

2005-05-28 Thread Joerg Sommer
Mauro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone plese take the following target off the mailing list? > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I keep on getting: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > mailed back to me for some time now. > > It's obviously related to this debian mailing list as the headers show: > Lis

Re: iBookG4 pseudo-sleep / 2.6.3 problems

2004-06-08 Thread Joerg Sommer
begin Sébastien FRANÇOIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I have met a problem when leaving my laptop using the new 2.6.3 kernel, it > sometimes sleep, but no in a manner I'd want, it simply shutdown, without > saving anything ... I have not found out yet how long it takes for it to > sto

Re: iBookG4 pseudo-sleep / 2.6.3 problems

2004-07-14 Thread Joerg Sommer
begin Sam George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:57:44 +0200 > Helge Kreutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:33:01PM +, Joerg Sommer wrote: >> > I experienced the same problem at me with a 2.6.6 kernel.

current power consumption

2004-07-14 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, is it possible to get the current power consumtion from /proc/pmu/battery_0? $ cat /proc/pmu/battery_0 flags : 0013 charge : 3789 max_charge : 3930 current: 195 voltage: 12650 time rem. : 2603 I've measured a power consumption of 24 Watt, but I don't know where to fin

nvsetvol = -8

2004-08-21 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, I've booted OS X and left the sound muted while restarting. Now nvsetvol shows -8. # nvsetvol current volume is -8 What does this mean? Bye, Joerg. -- $ cat /dev/random #!/usr/bin/perl -WT print "hello world\n";

Re: nvsetvol = -8

2004-08-23 Thread Joerg Sommer
begin Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 the mental interface of > Joerg Sommer told: > >> Hi, >> >> I've booted OS X and left the sound muted while restarting. Now nvsetvol >> shows -8. >> >> # nvse

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