ibook2.2's thermal control dilemma

2005-01-16 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
hi guys, i own an ibook2.2 witch has adm1030 thermal control chip. i've used for a while the kernel module written by cedric pradalier, but now he suggest to use lm-sensors. However i2c-keywest does not support lm-sensors, a little patch is needed: --- i2c-keywest.c.orig 2004-07-24 22:39:04.

Bug#292974: fonts and remeber workspace not working on ppc

2005-01-31 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
Package: fluxbox Version: 0.9.11-1 Severity: normal Tag: sid I've upgraded fluxbox from 0.9.9-1 to 0.9.11-1; as i've logged out and restarted with new fluxbox the fonts are invisible and the remember workspace does not work. I'm not investigating for further bugs since i've downgraded to 0.9.9-1.

Re: QEmu and Wine

2005-01-31 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:39 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > Cool! That is what I need, I think. Could you please tell me how to do > > this? Thanks. > > Look at this URL : > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117774&highlight=qemu+flash> I've tried that solution and it's really far away

user mode linux on ppc32

2005-02-04 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
Hi all, some days ago lynuxworks.com guys made an announcement about their port of uml on ppc32; after that Jeff Dike has received this work, you can read his article on usermodelinux.org (there's also a patch for uml on ppc64). As you can see in Jeff's article the code he has received is a 28MB t

Re: OOo crash on startup

2005-02-15 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:53 PM, Niklaus Giger wrote: > > Has anyone else had this error with OpenOffice? debian package version ? > > but recently it just dies every time I try to start it. have you updated/modified anything ? > On my system openoffice.org-bin 1.1.3-1 is installed, which sho

Re: Approaches to enabling scanning for AirPort (not Extreme)

2005-02-24 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 01:14 PM, Eric Gaumer wrote: > Or I can send you the patch if you'd like to build your own kernel. You can find the original work here: http://www.kismetwireless.net/download.shtml The patch for the vanilla kernel is under "Orinoco Driver Patches for 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 & 2.6.

Re: Approaches to enabling scanning for AirPort (not Extreme)

2005-02-27 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:38 PM, Barry Hawkins wrote: > I applied this patch, and kismet seems to work now, but after using > kismet my wifi card sometimes goes into a seizure. During the kernel > build, I noticed some warnings when the wireless drive was being > compiled; the lines are attached

Re: 1.67GHz PowerPC G4 Trackpad

2005-02-27 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:28 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > It doesn't appear to be a standard USB HID device, but rather an Apple > home made stuff. Do you know if it's still synaptics-based? You have investigated on hardware or you have read about somewhere? luca -- Beware of programm

Re: Airport Extreme via QEmu

2005-03-05 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 06:12 PM, Maximilian Gerlach wrote: > So - the only thing left is to find someone familiar with qemu, kernel > developing, too much time and an Airport Extreme ;) Don't you think that it's easier start writing a wrapper for darwin's KEXTs ? Maybe you could also have some s

Re: Debian unstable, blackdown j2re1.3 and Mozilla

2004-07-05 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 05:29 PM, Ivo Marino wrote: > Any more specific informations regarding this topic? there was a previous discussion, you can find the more interesting message of that thread here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/11/msg00162.html Luca -- BOFH excuse #372: Fo

therm_adm103x

2004-07-06 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
hi, i'm successfully controlling my ibook2.2' fan using Cedric Pradalier's patch on kernel 2.6.7 vanilla. Does anybody knows if that patch will become part of the official kernel tree ? TIA Luca -- BOFH excuse #372: Forced to support NT servers; sysadmins quit. Linux Registered User #

Re: javaplugin mozilla

2004-07-16 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:25 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > I can't get the javaplugin to work with mozilla. > Any hints? read this message and the following thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/11/msg00153.html Luca -- BOFH excuse #372: Forced to support NT servers; sysadmi

bad shading with eterm debianized

2004-07-28 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
hi, i've installed Eterm 0.9.2-8 and the shading works bad: the background is shaded in a bad way fading to blue. then i've tried to recompile eterm 0.9.2 downloaded from eterm.org and now everything is fine, but i haven't understood where the problem is. An "E" guy told me something about incompa

Re: "Debian Within a Darwin System"

2004-08-04 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:41 AM, Derrik Pates wrote: > making virtualization solutions like VMware not work. this guy has booted opendarwin with vmware, but it has troubles with the network interface: http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/hackers/2004-July/004491.html you can find the list of s

hwclock

2004-08-08 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
hi guys, i cannot get working hwclock on my ibook 2.2 with 2.6.7. i've seen some threads in the archives from 1999 to 2003 saying different things: - hwclock doesn't work, try clock form powerpc-utils - clock is obsolete it should be useful have hwclock support - on 2.4 there is a /dev/rtc compat

libsensors keywest configuration

2004-08-17 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
hi guys, i'm trying to configure lm-sensors over an ibook 2.2 . sensors-detect find successfully ADM1030 device over uni-n 1 bus, but i cannot find any doc about configuration of this bus in "sensors.conf". has anyone already configured lm-sensors on such bus? thank's a lot Luca --

Re: libsensors keywest configuration

2004-08-20 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:06 PM, Luca Bigliardi - shammash wrote: > sensors-detect find successfully ADM1030 device over > uni-n 1 bus, but i cannot find any doc about configuration > of this bus in "sensors.conf". i've found the solution (thanks to lm-sensors guys!):

installing debian on mol

2004-09-08 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
hi, does anyone has installed debian on mol ? I've tried with Branden's instructions (installing debian without using any physical media) and also with the iso of woody-powerpc (not burned). In the first case i've added these pseudofiles: pseudofile:"yaboot" /home/shammash/mol/firstboot/yaboo

cracks on xmms

2004-09-15 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
hi, i've the latest xmms from unstable running on ibook 2.2 . Sound is configured with alsa and oss-emulation. When i play an mp3/ogg/wav with xmms i ear some "cracks". Cracks are more frequent with alsa plugin than with oss plugin. Tuning a few plugin options reduce the cracks, but the don't disap

Re: hwclock can't access /dev/rtc: solved

2004-12-01 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 11:39 AM, peter plessas wrote: > Well, after a boot into OSX and back to debian the time is correct now! I don't think that this is a good_solution(tm), it's better to modify your scripts that load/store the time using /sbin/clock from powerpc-utils instead of hwclock. Ma

clock and hwclock (was: Re: hwclock can't access /dev/rtc: solved)

2004-12-03 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:47 PM, Joerg Sommer wrote: > This script is named hwclock.sh, which is part of util-linux. I think > it's not easy possible to remove hwclock from util-linux or replace it on > ppc by clock. a possible solution could be done starting from this old thread: http://lists.d

Re: clock and hwclock (was: Re: hwclock can't access /dev/rtc: solved)

2004-12-05 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 08:18 PM, Joerg Sommer wrote: > > a possible solution could be done starting from this old thread: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/1999/09/threads.html#00254 > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/1999/10/threads.html#0 > > Interessting, especially that

Re: clock and hwclock (was: Re: hwclock can't access /dev/rtc: solved)

2004-12-10 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:20 AM, Joerg Sommer wrote: > Is clock now deprecated? Can it be removed from powerpc-utils? I don't know if it's deprecated, I can only say that hwclock seems to do the same work (here in mac newworld). luca -- BOFH excuse #372: Forced to support NT servers; sysadmin

ibook 2.2 doesn't use whole battery

2004-12-16 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
hi all, i've a problem with the battery of my ibook 2.2 : In battery mode every time the charge percentage reaches 35-38 % the level falls to 0% (and pbbuttonsd suspend the machine). I've seen the same behaviour in the battery leds (they pass from 2 leds to 1 when you check). Do you think it's an

Re: XMMS and alsa output on sid (goes too fast)

2004-12-20 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 02:12 PM, Bobby Holley wrote: > did anyone ever find a solution to this problem? I'm having the same issue > (command line mp3 players like mpg321 work fine but xmms 1.2.10 with alsa > plugin 1.2.10 sounds crackly and is too fast). Try disabling preemption from your kern

Re: Skype & qemu || mol

2004-12-23 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:06 AM, Cristo Saulo BolaƱos Trujillo wrote: > has any one tried to emulate skype for linux i386 under ppc ? i've tried one or two month ago with qemu-i386 , i've got lots of segfaults. maybe it works emulating a whole i386.. luca -- BOFH excuse #372: Forced to sup

ibook2.2's thermal control dilemma

2005-01-16 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
hi guys, i own an ibook2.2 witch has adm1030 thermal control chip. i've used for a while the kernel module written by cedric pradalier, but now he suggest to use lm-sensors. However i2c-keywest does not support lm-sensors, a little patch is needed: --- i2c-keywest.c.orig 2004-07-24 22:39:04.

[patch] adbmouse && synaptics

2005-07-28 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
Hi, i've written a little patch to have synaptics xfree/xorg driver running with adb touchpads. It's working on my ibook2.2, please let me know if it work also for you. The patch is for 2.6.12-rc4, but should apply to any recent kernel. http://www.artha.org/shammash/ppc/adb_syn/adb_synaptics_0.1

Re: [patch] adbmouse && synaptics

2005-07-29 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 07:51 PM, micron wrote: > I'm using an ibook G4 (cat /proc/cpuinfo says PowerBook6,3) with kernel > 2.6.12-3. > I've successfully applied your patch, installed latest synaptic version from > apt-get and followed your instructions. > > But I'm unable to start XFree because:

Re: [patch] adbmouse && synaptics

2005-07-30 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 08:54 AM, micron wrote: > Yes, it's configured. I was using it also before applying your patch. can you send me the output of "cat /proc/bus/input/devices" ? luca -- Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. -- Leonard Brandwein http://sha

Re: [patch] adbmouse && synaptics

2005-07-30 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 07:38 AM, Bin Zhang wrote: > I tested it following your instructions. It works on my ibook g4 > 1.2Ghz with debian_kernel_source_2.6.12 and xfree86-driver-synaptics > package > (but not very well, I think I should change some touchpad options.). Yes, you have to play a lo

Re: [patch] adbmouse && synaptics

2005-07-30 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 04:09 PM, Bin Zhang wrote: > > Yes, you have to play a lot with them. > > > Yes. But it is not easy to find the best options. :) i know, try first using synclient in a couple of remote shells > No error. The power_button does the sleep, but close the ibook does not. I t

pbbuttonsd, synaptics and sleep on lid close

2005-08-07 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
Hi, below you can find a little patch for pbbuttonsd that partially solve the incompatibility with mouses (in absolute mode) managed by synaptics x module. With this patch you don't need anymore to change "/dev/adb" in "/dev/null" in pbbuttonsd.conf Now i'll try to know why mouse movements are

Re: pbbuttonsd, synaptics and sleep on lid close

2005-08-10 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:58 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > > But if reading /dev/adb couldn't find the device, what would Luca's patch > > change? > > Hmmm. Maybe Luca doesn't have a new model with USB actually, and I just > thought so. Yes, my previous (kernel) patch was for touchpads on the adb

Re: pbbuttonsd, synaptics and sleep on lid close

2005-08-10 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 08:35 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 19:33 +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote: > > > Have a look at event_handler() in input_manager.c. You will see that > > only keyboard events and relative mouse events are processed. Any > > other event will be ignored. > >

mol modules and 2.6.9

2004-10-21 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
mol-modules-source 0.9.70-8 does not compile for 2.6.9, i've attached a little patch that fix the problem. HTH Luca -- BOFH excuse #372: Forced to support NT servers; sysadmins quit. Linux Registered User # 286841 diff -Naurp src/netdriver/sheep.c src_ORIG/netdriver/sheep.c --- src/netd

Re: PBG4 2.6.9 sound module config

2004-10-27 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 08:11 PM, Guido Guenther wrote: > It reverts some of the recent changes which broke volume adjustment on > my pbook. hi, i've got an ibook 2.2 with PowerMac Snapper (Dev 24) and i'm getting nearly the same problem. I'm going to try your patch, however i'd like to know if a