X server lock up after upgrade to 7.3

2007-10-14 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! I have an Apple iBook G3 (latest model before G4) . I'm running debian unstable on it. Yesterday I upgraded the xorg xserver from something old (think it was 6.9) to 7.3. After that I tried to upgrade KDE. Suddenly while selecting packages in aptitude the system locked up. I could move the

Re: X server lock up after upgrade to 7.3

2007-10-16 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Monday 15 October 2007 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 20:39 +0200, Martin Kuball wrote: > > 6. sometimes I see a lot of the following error messages in > > Xorg.0.log: tossed event which came in late > > mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; droppi

Re: X server lock up after upgrade to 7.3

2007-10-17 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Wednesday 17 October 2007 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 20:45 +0200, Martin Kuball wrote: > > Am Tuesday 16 October 2007 schrieben Sie: > > > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:45 +0200, Martin Kuball wrote: > > > > I tried to send config and log f

iBook and heat production

2003-02-19 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! I have an iBook2.2 with debian woody, running a 2.4.20benh Kernel. Well, the iBook is known for its spare use of energy. Certainly true. But of course the hardware depends on features of the OS to support minimal energy usage. While Linux is definitely not bad I got the impression that MacO

Re: iBook and heat production

2003-02-20 Thread Martin Kuball
I thought that it might be the HD. But then I think that I have less HD activity when running Linux than when running MacOS X. Are there tools to measure disc activity unter Linux and MacOS X? Martin Am Donnerstag, 20. Februar 2003 17:05 schrieb Claas Langbehn: > hello! > > Left to the trackpad

Re: iBook and heat production

2003-02-20 Thread Martin Kuball
I already did this, but the heat is still there. I think HD is much busier running MacOs X than when running Linux. But I will check this again. Martin Am Mittwoch, 19. Februar 2003 22:55 schrieb gimli: > http://bulmalug.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=1511 > this site has some usefull info ;) > > Mig

alsa problems

2003-02-20 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi, I'm having some problems getting alsa to work on my iBook. I have compiled and installed alsa-driver-0.9.0rc7 and the relevant alsa packages from woody. After booting the machine the following modules are loaded: i2c-keywest 7536 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-powermac 3

Re: alsa problems

2003-02-22 Thread Martin Kuball
> error message shown below. > > Regards, > > Pat > > Martin Kuball wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having some problems getting alsa to work on my iBook. I have > > compiled and installed alsa-driver-0.9.0rc7 and the relevant alsa > > packages fro

Re: alsa problems

2003-02-24 Thread Martin Kuball
7;ve changed the > control device naming from pcmCXDXc to controlCx and some applications > are still expecting the old naming system. > -Brett > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 05:09:34PM +0100, Martin Kuball wrote: > > Forget to tell you, that I use devfs. Here are the entries of my /de

Re: alsa problems

2003-02-25 Thread Martin Kuball
I did compile the lib from the alsa sources and it worked. Martin Am Montag, 24. Februar 2003 21:59 schrieb Martin Kuball: > OK, will try to compile the lib from source as I did with the kernel > modules. > > Martin > > Am Montag, 24. Februar 2003 19:32 schrieben Sie: >

iBook in slumberland

2003-02-27 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! I'm still no settisfied with the energy consumption of my iBook2.2. This time I measured the energy spend during sleep mode. When I enter sleep mode from MacOS X the battery will go down by ca 13% in 24 hours. When I enter sleep mode from Linux (snooze) the battery will go down by ca 25& i

Re: where is the tilde ~ on my TiBook?

2003-02-28 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Freitag, 28. Februar 2003 17:59 schrieb Benjamin Swatek: > > I guess it depend where you bought your laptop. I have a US TiBook3 and > > the ~ is just below the ESC small key and need the Shift modifier. > > > > I am not sure to understand why you need this key to start. But if this > > is to ty

Re: iBook in slumberland

2003-02-28 Thread Martin Kuball
I have a ATI MR 7500. Am Freitag, 28. Februar 2003 15:37 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 19:51, Martin Kuball wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm still no settisfied with the energy consumption of my iBook2.2. This > > time I measured the energy

Re: iBook in slumberland

2003-02-28 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Freitag, 28. Februar 2003 15:59 schrieb christophe barbe: > If your iBook is the one with an ATI M7 chip, the additional energy > consumption is easily explained by the fact that the chip is not powered > down when the laptop is put to sleep. It looks like full sleep (the > screen is powered dow

ALSA, i2c and volume

2003-03-01 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! I noticed the following line in dmesg output: ALSA ../alsa-kernel/ppc/keywest.c:79: tumbler: cannot initialize the MCS Can somebody tell what's the problem here? Well, sound seems to work - kind of. After unmuting the master with amixer I can listen to some music. But I'm not able

Re: Sticky keyboard

2003-03-02 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Samstag, 1. März 2003 18:17 schrieb Edward G. Speyer: > Hello all, > > It looks like Mac OS X is coping with iBook2 being hot, but my 2.4.20-ben5 > Woody install isn't. I made the same observation. It's especially on the left half of the case while the right half stays quiet cool. At least the

Re: review wanted of new Debian X FAQ entry

2003-03-03 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Montag, 3. März 2003 01:36 schrieb Branden Robinson: > server uses to listen for events from the keyboard.) This is because the > keyboard was connected to the computer using the Apple Desktop Bus, and not > USB, which has been the bus of choice for Apple machines starting with the Is this tru

Re: ALSA, i2c and volume

2003-03-03 Thread Martin Kuball
t; -Brett > > On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 09:52:10PM +0100, Martin Kuball wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I noticed the following line in dmesg output: > > > > ALSA ../alsa-kernel/ppc/keywest.c:79: tumbler: cannot initialize the MCS > > > > Can somebody tell

Re: review wanted of new Debian X FAQ entry

2003-03-05 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Dienstag, 4. März 2003 15:09 schrieben Sie: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 17:12:37 +0100, Martin Kuball composed: > > Am Montag, 3. März 2003 01:36 schrieb Branden Robinson: > > > server uses to listen for events from the keyboard.) This is because > > > the keyboard wa

mouse button emulation not working on iBook

2003-03-07 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! I have a new iBook with debian woody installed. The other day I played a little bit with pbbuttonsd. I was not able to get it to work. None of the function keys seemed to get through. Well, as a side effect (?) the mouse button emulation has stopped working for me. And I was not able to

Re: linux-2.4.20-ben8 vs. iBook & 750fx CPU

2003-03-13 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Donnerstag, 13. März 2003 01:40 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > On Mit, 2003-03-12 at 23:51, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 22:16, Norbert Lange-Schäfer wrote: > > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Can users of iBook2/700 (with 750FX G3 CPU according to > > > > /proc/cpui

Re: ALSA, i2c and volume

2003-03-14 Thread Martin Kuball
März 2003 01:21 schrieb Vincent Bernat: > OoO En ce début de soirée du samedi 01 mars 2003, vers 21:52, Martin > > Kuball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > I noticed the following line in dmesg output: > > > > ALSA ../alsa-kernel/ppc/keywest.c:79: tumbler: cannot i

TrueType Fonts not working

2003-03-22 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! I have a new iBook with Debian woody installed. The X server is from Michael Dänzer (4.2.99.2) Yesterday I tried to install some TrueType fonts. After adding the directory to the font path I started xfontsel. After that the X server died imediately with signal 11. Martin XFree86.0.log

cdrecord and devfs

2003-05-19 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! I have an iBook 2.2 with debian 3.0. My kernel is 2.4.20-ben10 and I'm using devfs. When I try to run cdrecord (version 1.10) as root I get the following message: # cdrecord -v speed=3 dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd:@ blank=fast Cdrecord 1.10 (powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright

Re: cdrecord and devfs

2003-05-20 Thread Martin Kuball
what file system it refering to? The devfs? Martin Am Dienstag, 20. Mai 2003 01:23 schrieb Gary Sandine: > On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 14:07, Martin Kuball wrote: > > calling cdrecord -scanbus gives: > > > > # cdrecord -scanbus > > Cdrecord 1.10 (powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu)

Re: cdrecord and devfs

2003-05-20 Thread Martin Kuball
I let the kernel mount the dev file system via boot parameter devfs=mount. The permission of the cd device is "brw-rw". I will try strace asap. Martin Am Dienstag, 20. Mai 2003 22:03 schrieb Mich Lanners: > On 19 May, this message from Martin Kuball echoed through cyberspac

Re: cdrecord and devfs

2003-05-21 Thread Martin Kuball
48 schrieb Martin Kuball: > I let the kernel mount the dev file system via boot parameter devfs=mount. > The permission of the cd device is "brw-rw". > > I will try strace asap. > > Martin > > Am Dienstag, 20. Mai 2003 22:03 schrieb Mich Lanners: > > On 19 M

Re: cdrecord and devfs

2003-05-22 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2003 11:50 schrieb Gaudenz Steinlin: > Martin Kuball wrote: > > OK, I tried strace. Here is the relevant line: > > > > open("/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd", O_RDWR) = -1 EROFS > > (Read-only file system) > > > > So cdre

Re: cdrecord and devfs

2003-05-25 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2003 21:47 schrieb Mich Lanners: > On 21 May, this message from Martin Kuball echoed through cyberspace: > > OK, I tried strace. Here is the relevant line: > > > > open("/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd", O_RDWR) = -1 EROFS > > (Rea

can't burn CDs

2003-06-12 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! Some weaks ago I posted a mail about me not being able to burn CDs. Althoug a lot of people tried to help, I'm still not able to burn. To rule out the usage of devfs as possible cause I tried without but that didn't change anything. The only thing I can imagine is that the driver in the ke

can't get lyx 1.3.2 to work on debian woody

2003-09-09 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! Anybody out here tried lyx 1.3.2 with KDE on woody? I compiled it by myself and when I start it I get imediately a SIGSEV with the following stacktrace: #0 0x0f53abb8 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x0f53ab54 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x1002b960 in boost::signals::detail::slot_

Re: help getting hw-accel OpenGL on Pismo

2003-09-09 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Dienstag, 9. September 2003 08:21 schrieb Stewart Smith: > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 10:40, John M. Gabriele wrote: > > I'm trying to get hardware-accelerated OpenGL working. The Powerbook > > comes with an ATI Rage 128 Mobility M3, 66 MHz AGP 2x (rev. 02) bus > > and the card has 8 MB SDRAM. Standa

Re: can't get lyx 1.3.2 to work on debian woody

2003-09-10 Thread Martin Kuball
I don't see why you think it's a similar problem. Anyway I hope to find some time at the weekend to go to te bottom of the problem. Martin Am Mittwoch, 10. September 2003 01:21 schrieb Wolfgang Pfeiffer: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Martin Kuball wrote: > > Hi! > > >

X11: version 4.3 and/or dri-trunk?

2004-07-23 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! Can somebody please tell me if I still need the dri-trunk packages to get hardware accellerated OpenGL if I use the xfree86 4.3 packages? The very reason I'm asking this is because I think I discovered a bug in GL. And before investigating further maybe I should uninstall the dri-trunk pac

Re: X11: version 4.3 and/or dri-trunk?

2004-07-26 Thread Martin Kuball
18:34 +0200, Martin Kuball wrote: > > Can somebody please tell me if I still need the dri-trunk > > packages to get hardware accellerated OpenGL if I use the xfree86 > > 4.3 packages? > > Probably not. > > > The very reason I'm asking this is because I think

Re: X11: version 4.3 and/or dri-trunk?

2004-07-27 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Monday 26 July 2004 15:11 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 15:01 +0200, Martin Kuball wrote: > > Thanks for the answer. I had to remove the dri-trunk package > > because the problem was with the glDrawArrays method in libGL not > > in the hardware specific s

Re: How to boot w/o initrd?

2004-08-29 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Saturday 28 August 2004 00:20 schrieb Matthew T. Atkinson: > > maybe you should leave out the initrd option altogether? > > I did -- I disabled initrd support in my kernel but yaboot.conf > expects there to be one (at least I am pretty sure that is the > problem). The Debian kernel-image packag

internet slow with kernel 2.6

2004-09-29 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! Since I switched from kernel 2.4 to 2.6 (2.6.7) I observed that surfing the internet (via dsl) has become painfully slow. The absolute speed does not seem to be affected. But each individual request (very noticable when a page has many images) seems to take ages to complete. Any idea about

problems with cpu frequency governor

2004-11-23 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! I'v just installed the Kernel 2.6.9 on my iBook 2.2. I compiled in the userspace and ondemand governor. Userspace is the default. I tried to change this by echoing ondemand into /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor But the setting does not change. It stays at userspace.

aptitude does not show new packages

2005-01-08 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi, I now this is not ppc specific, but maybe somebody can give me a short answer. Recently I had a crash of my system and got some scrambled files. Among them was one of the aptitude files from a recent update. I think it was /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates. Since I had no backup of that file I

Re: aptitude does not show new packages

2005-01-09 Thread Martin Kuball
Solved the problem. It seemed to be a problem with the mirror I used. I changed it and it's now working again. Martin Am Saturday 08 January 2005 13:03 schrieb Martin Kuball: > Hi, > > I now this is not ppc specific, but maybe somebody can give me a > short answer. > > Re

Re: internet slow with kernel 2.6

2004-10-01 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! I checked my system and the ipv6 module is loaded. Simply removing it was not possible, because it is in use. Now the output of lsmod is not really helpful to determine how is using it. I just see the number 10. Is this the number of processes using the module? Is there a way to find out be

Re: internet slow with kernel 2.6

2004-10-05 Thread Martin Kuball
I removed the ipv6 module and rebooted. In the logging output I could see that the syslog daemon triggers the load of ipv6. Is it possible to "deconfigure" this behaviour? Besides that I could confirm that the culprit is indeed the ipv6 module. Without it the dsl speed is fine. Anyway, the rea

ibm java 1.4.1 and woody/sarge problems

2004-01-12 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! I installed the IBM Java 1.4.1 on my woody sytem. Soon I found out that I need libstdc++5 to use it which is not yet in woody. I installed it from sarge (together with some other libs that needed to be updated). Now when I start a java program with a gui I get a signal 11 in the X server.

what distribution?

2004-01-22 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! I'v recently started to mix some packages from testing into my woody installation. Having encountered no problems so far I would like to go for more. There is a lot of interesting stuff that did not made it yet into stable. But I realized that this will upgrade a lot of installed packages,

Re: what distribution?

2004-01-24 Thread Martin Kuball
Thanks for all the infos. I run debian on an iBook, so absolute stability and security is not that important to me. I think I will first go to testing and if that works out well, maybe go to unstable. Martin

dist upgrade experiences and problems

2004-01-25 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! I'v just upgraded my woody to testing. Everything went well and the system is still running ;). Soon after I found out that instead of apt-get upgrade I should have used apt-get dist-upgrade. I repeated the step and really he wants to do a lot more work. Among a lot of new packages he wants

Re: dist upgrade experiences and problems

2004-01-26 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Montag, 26. Januar 2004 15:03 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: > Hi, > > Martin Kuball writes: > > I'v just upgraded my woody to testing. > > > > apt-get dist-upgrade [...] wants to remove almost all of the kde > > packages. > > > > So what's g

Re: Personal KDE 3.2 PowerPC packages for Sid (UPDATED and mirrors)

2004-02-12 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! Have you considered using bittorrent for distributing your kde packages? It was not designed with only video and music in mind. It's perfect for large applications, too. Martin Am Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2004 23:22 schrieb Jaime Robles: > El Miércoles, 11 de Febrero de 2004 00:12, Jaime Rob

can't compile kernel 2.4.25 benh1

2004-05-06 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! I'm trying to compile a new kernel for my iBook from kernel source 2.4.25 benh1. I used the following to get the source: rsync -avz rsync.penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh . The compile aborts with this error: make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/src-linux-2.4-benh/arch/ppc/boo

Installing wheezy on iBook G3 hangs

2012-08-22 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi, I tried to install wheezy on an old iBook G3 900 MHz. I downloaded the netinstall image, burned it on CD and booted it. The first glitch came after first hardware detection. The screen went empty and nothing happend any more. Hitting some keys got me running again. But then came the progre

iBook G3 stopped booting after last testing update

2013-01-01 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi, Happy new year to all of you. My old G3 iBook running debian testing stopped booting after the last update. The last two lines of output are: [ok] Cleaning up temporary files [] Setting kernel variables ...[22.330585] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/

Re: iBook G3 stopped booting after last testing update

2013-01-01 Thread Martin Kuball
Hello, I made some progress. After switching update to sequential boot I saw the following exception: machine check in kernel mode caused by (from SRR1=49030): Transfer error ack signal oops: machine check, sig: 7 [#1] the top entry of the call trace is: gem_ioct

Re: iBook G3 stopped booting after last testing update

2013-01-02 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Wednesday 02 January 2013 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > On Die, 2013-01-01 at 21:52 +0100, Martin Kuball wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I made some progress. After switching update to sequential boot I saw > > the following exception: > > > > machine check in ker

Re: iBook G3 stopped booting after last testing update

2013-01-02 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Wednesday 02 January 2013 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > On Mit, 2013-01-02 at 14:40 +0100, Martin Kuball wrote: > > Am Wednesday 02 January 2013 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > > > On Die, 2013-01-01 at 21:52 +0100, Martin Kuball wrote: > > > > Hello, > > >

Re: iBook G3 stopped booting after last testing update

2013-01-03 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Wednesday 02 January 2013 schrieb Martin Kuball: > Am Wednesday 02 January 2013 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > > On Mit, 2013-01-02 at 14:40 +0100, Martin Kuball wrote: > > > Am Wednesday 02 January 2013 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > > > > On Die, 2013-01-01 at 21

Re: iBook G3 stopped booting after last testing update

2013-01-14 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Thursday 03 January 2013 schrieb Martin Kuball: > Am Wednesday 02 January 2013 schrieb Martin Kuball: > > Am Wednesday 02 January 2013 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > > > On Mit, 2013-01-02 at 14:40 +0100, Martin Kuball wrote: > > > > Am Wednesday 02 January 2013 schri

Re: iBook G3 stopped booting after last testing update

2013-01-15 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Tuesday 15 January 2013 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 19:47 +0100, Martin Kuball wrote: > > > > After spending to much time figuring out what's going on, I have at > > least a working system. The error is triggered when laptop-mode is > &

Re: iBook G3 stopped booting after last testing update

2013-01-15 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Tuesday 15 January 2013 schrieb Elimar Riesebieter: > * Michel Dänzer [2013-01-15 09:58 +0100]: > > > On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 19:47 +0100, Martin Kuball wrote: > > > > > > After spending to much time figuring out what's going on, I have at > > > le