can't get X to work on ibook

Hi.. I just got the new ibook (released in Nov) which has the ATI Radeon 7500 32MB card (12.1" screen). I've seen some posts on this list from others who haven't been able to get this card to work properly but have been able to get X to work.. I can't even get to that point unfortunately.. this is

Re: can't get X to work on ibook

> You should probably post your config. You want to enable the > framebuffer, to start with I believe. For the pci bus ID, use lspci > and then convert from binary to decimal. > > e.g. > > 00:10.0 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RL > > equals 0:16:0 > I checked using lspci a

keyboard not responding!

Hi.. I'm still trying to get X to work on my ibook (the new one released in Nov.). I rebooted (after trying to get X to work for a while) and now the keyboard doesn't work... no response on the screen to any key presses.. I read the keycodes problem at http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes a

Re: keyboard not responding!

> > The keycodes problem causes the wrong keys to appear, not none. > Have you checked your keyboard cable? I'm using an ibook so there's no cable right? nirmal

Re: keyboard not responding!

> > /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz" but that didn't work either.. I > > haven't upgraded to the benh kernel yet so I'm running Woody as of > > now.. please let me know if you have any ideas on how to get the > > keyboard to work... > > How do you start X? > Well, I can't get to that point actual

Re: keyboard not responding!

> > Are you talking about the console login prompt or the xdm/gdm login > box? The console prompt itself.. since I wasn't able to do anything (since xdm/gdm was having problems cos of the video card), I used the install CD, executed a shell from the install program, mounted the Linux partition on

Re: keyboard not responding!

> The interesting question is if the keyboard works _somewhere_, e.g. in > MacOS X, OF, ... and whether you're aware of the usual caveats related > to ADB vs. Linux keycodes. > Yes, the keyboard does work in Mac OS X and in Linux too when I finished the install from the CDs and logged in using t

Re: Report of success on iBook3 in woody/sid with video, dri and airport OK

> You can find it at ppc.bkbits.com > I used the commands > #bk clone bk://ppp.bkbits.net/linuxppc_2_4_benh/ > then > #bk commit Hi, I'm trying (again) to get debian installed on my ibook3 (Nov 02).. I installed woody but don't have the bitkeeper program bk. Can someone tell me how I can downloa

Re: Report of success on iBook3 in woody/sid with video, dri and airport OK

> now, but this was not so until I updated the kernel module radeon.o, > obtainable by adding > > deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk/ ./ > > to sources.list and apt-getting drm-trunk-module-src (use to rebuild > radeon.o). Gary.. can you please outline the steps involved in rebuildi

Re: Report of success on iBook3 in woody/sid with video, dri and airport OK

Sandine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 21:50, Nirmal Govind wrote: > > > Gary.. can you please outline the steps involved in rebuilding and > > updating kernel module radeon.o? Currently, when I start X using > > "X", it crashes with a blan

KDE hangs on startup

Hi.. I had almost everything working fine on my ibook3... X was working fine and KDE used to startup fine.. then I tried installing pmud and it kind of screwed up some things I think.. right now, when KDE starts up, it hangs while trying to "initialize system services". That's the second flashing i

Re: KDE hangs on startup

I forgot to mention.. this hanging occurs only when I startx as myself.. if I try startx as root, everything works just fine.. nirmal

Re: EVERYONE HELP ME!!! PLEASE!!!

The last time something like that happened to me (on a PC though), it was my hard disk dieing.. so I'd say at the worst you'd probably have to get a new hard disk.. and again, this is the worst case scenario.. hopefully it won't be this bad... I'm pretty sure it won't be your "computer" (i.e. CPU e

drm message while X starts up

Hi.. I get the following two messages when I start kde as a normal user. If i start KDE as root I do not get these messages. I can't get KDE to work as a normal user so I'm wondering imf this has something to do with it (from /var/log/XFree86.0.log): (II) RADEON(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved con

Re: drm message while X starts up

> That's related to DRI. That wouldn't have anything to do with starting > KDE. What happens when you try starting KDE? Are you using a display > manager (GDM, KDM, WDM, XDM, etc.), or running startx/startkde/etc. at I don't use a display manager.. I login at the prompt and then use startx.. when

Re: drm message while X starts up

> Is your /tmp directory set with the right permissions? It should be > owned by root, mode 1777 (a+rwxt). If not, fix it, and try again. Yes, that looks alright.. I just checked and it's drwxrwxrwt.. when KDE starts and hangs at the initializing system services point, if I ctrl-alt-delete and get

Re: drm message (FIXED!)

Hi.. I finally got things working.. I found that my kde startup script was redirecting tmp and socket to /dev/null and when I checked the permissions, /dev/null was not a character device.. so I deleted it and recreated /dev/null and KDE's up and running again! Thanks everyone for your help.. nir

suspend + disabling trackpad + audio CD

Hi.. I have three qns.. I have an ibook3 and I've finally got everything working almost... a few qns: 1. Is the suspend/standby feature going to be fixed soon? Is there any workaround to this for the time being? 2. Is there a way in which the trackpad is automatically disabled if a mouse is detec

Re: suspend + disabling trackpad + audio CD

> Ben has said that he's working on prying the info out of ATI, but who > knows who long that'll take... Great.. thanks for letting me know.. hope they agree soon... > use something else. I always used XMMS with the xmms-cdread plugin > installed - it'll read the PCM stream from the disc and play

libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13) & liba52-0.7.4

Hi.. where do I get debs for liba52-0.7.4 and libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13)? I'm trying to install videolan for playing dvd's and it needs these libs.. I have libc6 but it's not >13.. I searched around but couldn't find >13 debs.. or do I need to compile it from source? Thanks, nirmal

Re: libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13) & liba52-0.7.4

> OTOH, the stock woody version doesn't play encrypted dvd's. If your X > isn't as squirrelly as mine those lines in your sources.list should > let you install and compile from the source package and get around > your versioning problems. (I'm using liba52-0.7.3 on x86 - my > laptop's at home and

disabling trackpad

Hi.. how do I disable the trackpad? Any way of setting it so that it will only be disabled if a mouse is connected/detected?? Thanks, nirmal

remote session can't acess X

Hi.. I'm trying to login to a remote Sun machine and start off an application which would start the application's main window on my local machine. I ssh'd into the machine and started the app but I get an error saying "Cannot connect to X server" .. I did enable remote hosts using xhost but no luck

Re: remote session can't acess X

Thanks everyone.. ssh with the -X option works well and I'm able to start the appln. remotely... nirmal

OT: caring for the ibooks

Hi... sorry this is off topic but thought the users on this list might know the best.. how does one take care of the ibook to ensure that it doesn't get scratched on the outside? I usually carry my laptop around a lot.. I have the new ibook3 which has sort of a "glass" exterior and I just noticed t

Re: OT: caring for the ibooks

Thanks folks for the tips.. they were very helpful. nirmal

autodetecting printers?

Hi.. is there a program in debian that autodetects printers connected to the network? I plug my ibook into the network at school and there are a whole bunch of printers on that network which are at various locations in the building.. in Mandrake, printerdrake used to autodetect all these printers o

Re: autodetecting printers?

I forgot to add.. autodetection if I'm using Cups for printing... I noticed printtool but that requires getting rid of Cups I guess... Thanks, nirmal

openoffice.org-bin?

Hi.. I'm trying to apt-get openoffice.org but inspite of having added the sources mentioned on http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice/mirrors.html I get the error saying that openoffice.org-bin isn't installed. Why is it that this one is not on the mirror? And what's the right place to get this from

ibook3 modem under linux

Hi.. does anyone know if the modem that comes with the ibook3 works under Linux? Secondly, can someone point me to a howto on using the modem to go online under Linux? Have only used ethernet to go online till now but might have to use the modem while traveling.. Thanks, nirmal

fan in ibook3

Hi... I have an ibook3 (w/ benh kernel) and the fan in this machine seems to run quite often and with a pretty loud noise.. and it turns on even if the machine is idle and if it's not doing any heavy work.. is there any way to control the behavior of the fan and is this advisable? I've noticed that

airport on ibook2

Hi.. I'm trying to get airport to work on my ibook2.. I have the benh kernel and have airport, orinoco and hermes modules which load fine.. however, after booting up, if I try "iwconfig eth1", I see that the ESSID is empty and the card hasn't picked up the wireless network yet.. airport module is s

Re: airport on ibook2

Thanks Claas... I disabled eth0 and now the wireless network is picked up.. however, when I try to start KDE with startx, it gets to "Initializing System services" and hangs.. any ideas? Thanks, nirmal

upgrading packages

Hi.. how do I go about upgrading packages which have dependencies and which are necessary for other programs.. for e.g. I'm trying to upgrade my version of gcc from 2.95 to 3.2 but if I download the individual gcc, g++, g77 etc. packages and try dpkg on them I get lots of unmet dependencies like bi

problem with starting up lyx using Qt, compiled with gcc 3.2

Hi.. I'm trying to get LyX (www.lyx.org) working on my ibook with the benh kernel.. LyX uses Qt as a frontend so I downloaded and compiled qt 3.0.7 with gcc 3.2.1. I then compiled lyx with gcc 3.2.1.. compile goes fine but when I startup lyx I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/opt/lyx-1.

Re: problem with starting up lyx using Qt, compiled with gcc 3.2

> Why didn't you simply install libqt3-dev? The LyX developers have it in the INSTALL file that it might be necessary to use Qt compiled with the same compiler as LyX... so I compiled both of them... > Indeed, but the undefined symbol smells like Qt to me. Is it picking up > the libqt.so.3 you b

playing region 2 dvd's on ibook?

Hi.. is it possible to play region 2 DVDs (from the UK for instance) on the ibook under debian? Thanks, nirmal

Re: problem with starting up lyx using Qt, compiled with gcc 3.2

Thanks a lot.. I checked and it was using the wrong libqt.so.3 from the /usr/lib directory instead of /usr/local/qt/lib.. I guess I have to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH? How do I do this for lyx to use the lib in /usr/local/qt/lib without affecting the path to other libraries? Currenly LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Re: playing region 2 dvd's on ibook?

thanks for the suggestions folks.. will try it out once the DVDs arrive.. wanted to make sure I didn't buy DVDs that won't play.. :-) nirmal

Re: problem with starting up lyx using Qt, compiled with gcc 3.2

Thanks for the directions. > The question remains: why not simply build against libqt3-dev? You > probably need to get it from sid to build with g++ 3.2 though. The reason I didn't do that was cos the LyX developers mention somewhere in the docs that qt *may* need to be compiled with the same com

viewing linux partition on OS X?

How do I view my linux partition from OS X? There's a utility called explore2fs with which I used to be able to copy my linux files into windows while I was booted up in Windows.. is there a similar utility for OS X that lets one copy files from the linux partition? Thanks, nirmal

upgrading to KDE 3.1

I'm trying to upgrade to KDE 3.1 using the following deb address: deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1/Debian stable main But I can't seem to get apt-get to install kde using "apt-get install kde".. what's the right way to do this? Thanks, nirmal

computer suspends unexpectedly

I just upgraded to testing from woody and there seems to be some problem.. my computer (ibook2) just suspends (screen switches off) if there is no activity for a couple of minutes.. I haven't setup pmud.. and I can't get it to come back up without rebooting the machine using Ctrl-Command-Rebootbutt

Re: upgrading to KDE 3.1

Thanks for the tip John.. I finally managed to install kde3 but I must say that it took me quite a few tries before I got it right.. nirmal

tetex deb doesn't install

I'm trying to setup tetex again after I upgraded to testing from woody.. but there seems to be some problem with teh install... below are the messages I get.. please let me know what I need to do..thanks.. nirmal Selecting previously deselected package tetex-base. (Reading database ... 77870 files

Re: tetex deb doesn't install

> > kpsewhich is in tetex-bin, I'd start by filing a bug against that > package. I downloaded the 2.0.1-2 versions from the pool and all tetex packages installed fine.. Thanks, nirmal

CD burning speed in ibook2

I was trying to burn some audio files onto a CD-R from my hard disk using xcdroast. The speed it was showing was around 4X while the writer is supposed to write onto CD-R's at 16X and CD-RW's at 8X.. is this a limitation of the xcdroast or is there some other setting I need to tweak beside setting

CD burning speed in ibook2

I was trying to burn some audio files onto a CD-R from my hard disk using xcdroast. The speed it was showing was around 4X while the writer is supposed to write onto CD-R's at 16X and CD-RW's at 8X.. is this a limitation of the xcdroast or is there some other setting I need to tweak beside setting

suspend on ibook2?

Hi.. I read on a couple of websites that some people were able to get their suspend to work on ibook2... if you've been able to do this, can you please report what version of dri-trunk, pmud etc. you're using... Thanks, nirmal

problems while upgrading kernel

Hi.. I just tried upgrading the kernel on my ibook2 from 2.4.20-ben1 to ben8 (so that I could get suspend working).. looks like I have a whole bunch of other problems to solve now: 1. The keyboard mapping has all gone bad again.. I remember I had this problem when I first installed Debian onto my

Re: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9

Hi.. I finally managed to upgrade my kernel properly.. So suspend works great on teh console.. while booted up in X, when it comes back from suspend, the screen is all dark with some colors etc... I switched to a console and back and the screen returned to normal.. think somene else also reported

Re: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9

> > Make sure /dev/apm_bios exist and APM emulation is compiled in your > kernel. Tha way, X will suspend itself properly. > Thanks a lot Ben.. I compiled APM emulation and now it works great! well.. with a slight quirk reported by some others.. when it comes back from suspend in X, there's a sc

problem after upgrading to unstable

Hi.. I upgraded to unstable.. I'm now having trouble starting up opera.. I'm using opera shared QT version 6.12.. this is the error I get when I try to start it up: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/lib/opera/6.12-20030305.2/opera /usr/lib/opera/6.12-20030305.2/opera: relocation error: /usr/lib/opera/6.12

modem installation on ibook2

Hi.. I'm trying to get the modem working on my ibook2.. I got the modem detection utility from Marc Boucher's website and that says that there's no Connexant modem. I have the USB modem module acm and I also modprobe'd macserial.. am I missing something? Is there some documentation on the procedure

pdf viewer that shows hyperlinks?

Hi.. is there a pdf viewer for powerpc that shows the hyperlinks, contents menu etc. in the document? gv, xpdf and kghostview don't seem to be able to handle this.. and acroread isn't available for ppc.. any others? Thanks, nirmal

Re: pdf viewer that shows hyperlinks?

> qemu works with acrobat reader 5 here quite nicely. you just need to > supplement the X libs a bit. Can you elaborate a little on this? I have qemu installed but it gives an error when I try to start Acrobat 5: Error loading /usr/local/bin/acroread The log file is empty.. I do have the binf

ibook trackpad

Hi.. I'm having trouble with the trackpad in the ibook 2.. it's very jumpy so I can't seem to control it well.. and it also seems extra sensitive unlike most other trackpads I've used.. is this something to do with the driver or so? I'm running a benh kernel downloaded a couple of months back..

Re: ibook trackpad

Yes, that's true.. it works OK on OS X.. and "inaccurate" is exactly the word I was looking for.. :-) Wonder if there's any solution to this? Thanks, nirmal On Sat, 10 May 2003 11:50:48 +0100, John Leach wrote: > The trackpad on my own 15" PowerBook G4 seems to be rather jumpy. > Describing it

re-installing OS X fails... (slightly OT)

Hi.. I'm trying to donwgrade my OS X from 10.2.* to 10.1.* (since I only have the latter CD on me right now) so that I can change my Mac partition from UFS to HFS+ in order to run maconlinux.. however the install hangs with a smiley face and a spinning disc every time no matter how I try to start t

boot partition messed up after re-installing OS X

Hi.. I just reinstalled OS X on my Mac partition and now when I boot I get a question mark for a second and then it shows me the screen where I need to hit x for OS X or l for booting Debian... my original bootstrap partition was on hda9 and Mac OSX on hda12, Debian on hda14... now it seems like

Re: ibook trackpad

Thanks for the info on xset David.. I'll give it a try.. Jule - the problem you mention is something that bothers me too.. before you know it. you're typing somewhere else in the document! I wonder if there's some option to disable the trackpad if an external mouse is detected... I almost alway

Re: boot partition messed up after re-installing OS X

> but only because it's the first partition with a bootable file. When > you re-run ybin, it will become re-blessed and be found more quickly. Thanks Chris.. I ran mkofboot by itself and all's well now... thanks a lot.. Finally setup maconlinux and it works great! nirmal

Re: can not launch xfree86 on debian linux on ibook G3

Don't you also need to get the dri-trunk modules of Daenzer? (I had to when I installed it but don't know if the newer benh kernels need this or not.) Please check one of the installation websites.. just search on google for "install debian ibook" and you should be able to get to those.. nirma

program for backing up data

Hi.. is there a free program for backing up specific folders on the hard disk onto a CD or external hard disk? I mean something that doesn't overwrite files that haven't changed etc. and only makes the necessary addition/deletion/replacement... would be even better if there was something that creat

Re: program for backing up data

Thanks for all the suggestions folks.. I quickly checked out all of them.. the problem I have is that the directory I want to backup is around 1.5GB or so and currently I use tar and then gzip to compress it into a single file which just manages to fit on a 700MB CD. rsync doesn't seem to be able t

ibook and sleep

Hi.. I have the ibook2 and benh kernel 2.4.20-ben10 .. when I put the ibook to sleep by closing the lid, the display and the backlight go off, then come on again and then go off.. is this the same behavior in the latest kernel too? Please cc me on the reply.. thanks, nirmal

Re: ibook and sleep

Thanks for the files Michel.. I saved them in the appropriate folders, changed permissions to 755, stopped the pmud daemon and restarted it. Still have the same behavior where the display goes off, then on and then off (and to sleep).. am I missing some step or do I have to reboot or so? Thank

devel kernel

Hi Ben, I read a post of yours on debian-powerpc which said that the devel kernel tree had the Ardis HFS+ support. I just rsync'd the devel tree and in the help for the HFS+ support, it says that full read support exists. Ardis HFS+ is supposed to have write support too, is the Help missing thi

Re: devel kernel

> What tree did you rsync exactly ? Just checking the Configure.help entry, > it seems it's the old one and wasn't updated. Hi Ben, I rsync'd the rsync.penguinppc.org::benh-devel kernel.. so it's just the help file that's old and write support exists then? thanks, nirmal

Re: devel kernel

> > Yes. I'll fix that > Great! Thanks Ben.. nirmal

Re: ibook and sleep

> Does /etc/init.d/pmud-utils status work? (is pmud-utils installed?) Yes, that was the problem, didn't have pmud-utils.. so I got it to work in 2.4.20-ben10.. I then upgraded to Ben's current benh-devel kernel (21-rc3-ben0) and now if I close the lid, the display goes off just once but when it

problem with USB pen drive

Hi.. I have a USB pen drive and I used to mount this using mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/USBPen. However, I recently got a digital camera and setup the usbdevfs in /etc/fstab. Now, when I plug in the USB Pen drive, it gets recognized as a device in /proc/bus/usb/002. How do I get my machine to no

connecting a Mac to a PC

Hi.. does anyone know how I can connect my ibook running Debian PPC to a PC running Windows XP so that I can transfer files between the two? Is there a USB cable that can do this? Does the twisted ethernet cable work between a Mac and a PC? Any help would be greatly appreciated.. Thanks, nirmal

Re: connecting a Mac to a PC

> run a ssh-server on the debian box (it should be running per default - > check with: ps ax |grep sshd) I have the sshd server running.. > get a ssh client for the windoze box (i use pscp - search using google) > start the client an the windoze box and transfer your files I connected the two

GUI for wireless networking

Hi.. is there some sort of a GUI that shows the available wireless networks in the area? Reason I ask is I have a few networks at my workplace and they have varying signal strengths.. so I need to often switch my wireless ESSID based on where I am and how strong each signal is.. any tool that c

weird problem - ibook power management

Hi.. I'm experiencing a weird problem.. usually when I close the lid of my ibook (w/ benh10 kernel and the power management enabled in the kernel), the computer goes into standby.. and when I open the lid, it comes back up.. sometimes (and I can't seem to identify a pattern) after the ibook is c

Re: weird problem - ibook power management

> I'm afraid there may be a problem with the PMU. I had similar symptoms > on the previous PowerBook before I had to send it in to get the PMU That doesn't sound good.. thanks for the info.. will google and see if there's any way that it can be taken care of w/o sending it back to Apple.. nirmal

crash!

Hi.. my system just hung while I was typing a message in knode.. The relevant messages from syslog seem to be the following: Sep 7 10:09:28 ibook kernel: SysRq : HELP : loglevel0-8 reBoot tErm kIl l saK showMem showPc unRaw Sync showTasks Unmount Sep 7 10:09:31 ibook kernel: SysRq : Emergency S

Weird wireless problems

Hi.. I'm using an Apple Airport card on my ibook (800Mhz, Nov 2002).. I have a Netgear router at home that is connected to a cable modem.. I'm having a weird problem where the signal strength randomly goes down to 0% from around 40%... the only solution I've been able to find is this - if I clos

Re: Weird wireless problems

Thanks for your reply Ben.. > I don't know if the signal stenght can be trusted in OS X :) I see... > is interpreted as a "low" signal. I think OS X will easily put 4 bars even > with a rather weak signal That's interesting.. I'll check on the Apple message boards and see if anyone knows of a

Re: Weird wireless problems

> The problem is we don't really know what value returned by the card's > firmware is 100 % ;) Very tricky situation huh.. > or maybe you just use a tool to measure network speed at certain > positions (in the worst case just copy some file over the network) Yes, I can certainly find the averag

Even more weird! - ibook wireless users please note (was Re: Weird wireless problems)

This is probably the most bizzarre computer thing I've seen.. turns out that the signal strength is a function of the angle (wrt the keyboard) at which the lid of the ibook is placed.. If I open the lid all the way, to the maximum possible angle, the signal strength goes all the way to 0. If I b

projecting from an ibook

Hi.. I tried hooking up the ibook to a projector yesterday using the external display cable that comes with the ibook.. All I got was a white screen.. the projector seems to have recognized the input from the computer as it said "RGB 640x480 Computer Input".. but just a white screen. Does anyone

Re: projecting from an ibook

> If you are interested (of course it's true for everyone interested), I > can send you, as examples, two XF86Config-4 : one for xinerama, and one > for mirroring in 1024x768x16bits Hi Eric.. yes, I'm very much interested.. can you please send them over? Also, how does one use xinerama? And secon

weird problem with CD-drive eject

Hi.. I've started experiencing a weird problem with the Combo drive in my ibook.. for some reason, it keeps getting ejected.. I think the Shift key triggered it but once it starts, an eject "process" seems to be constantly running (I can see this with top, the PID keeps changing every second or

Re: weird problem with CD-drive eject

Does this persist over a reboot? If not, maybe the key that initiates the eject (using something like acme, ikeyd, ... ?) was 'stuck', either physically or due to the infamous kernel bug, and kept autorepeating? Well, I did reboot but it came back.. none of the keys were stuck.. what I noti

[Fwd: Re: weird problem with CD-drive eject]

Sorry if this is a repost.. I sent this yesterday but it hasn't shown up on the archive yet.. Does this persist over a reboot? If not, maybe the key that initiates the eject (using something like acme, ikeyd, ... ?) was 'stuck', either physically or due to the infamous kernel bug, and kept auto

CPU and Memory usage of XFree86

Hi.. I've noticed that the XFree86 process on my ibook is taking up a decent chunk of memory and some CPU and this seems to be slowing down my machine a bit .. when I do 'top', XFree86 is a process that's constantly at the top of the list.. the process itself, when I do a ps shows up as: /usr/

Re: CPU and Memory usage of XFree86

Michel Dänzer wrote: X server memory consumption is a FAQ and has recently been discussed here, but the X server should normally never hog the CPU (and it doesn't here) unless there are clients flooding it with requests. If there are no suspect clients, does the CPU hogging prevail over an X s

Memory problems (was Re: CPU and Memory usage of XFree86)

Another related qn.. the memory usage statistic using top doesn't show memory freeing up after I close some heavy duty programs like Openoffice and mozilla that I had running.. so in effect, the memory usage grows till almost 100% of the memory is used up but it never comes back down.. so I s

Re: CPU and Memory usage of XFree86

Don't look at memory usage of X, it is normal that top or ps report very high amounts ; X does not really use this memory. Search google for "XFree86 3dfx map memory", I think you will find the explanation. Great.. I'll do that.. thanks.. nirmal

Re: Memory problems

Vincent Bernat wrote: If you have bought 640 MB of RAM, I suppose you want them to be used, this ies exactly what Linux does. Unused memory is used for caching purposes. So I presume that memory is reallocated if I want to start up an app even though the utilization is 100%.. somehow it j

Re: Memory problems

This is not due to free memory, but to the way the scheduler works. This probably seems related to free memory, as the more processes, the less memory ;-) Kernel 2.6 has a much nicer scheduler. (too bad, sleep still has problems - at least for me). Where do I get the source for the benh 2.6 kern

error while compiling 2.6

Hi. I'm trying to compile the 2.6-test6 kernel that I got from rsync.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de::linux-2.5-benh/ .. I'm getting the following error when I do a make (after make xconfig). Thanks, nirmal In file included from include/linux/gfp.h:4, from include/linux/slab.h:1

Re: error while compiling 2.6

The copy at rsync.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de misses at least numa.h Try 'source.mvista.com::linuxppc-2.5-benh' instead. Uwe Thanks Uwe.. I read on this list that the copy at the mvista mirror was test2 .. has this been updated yet? nirmal

Re: error while compiling 2.6

Thanks... I downloaded from mvista and tried compiling. Compile fails at the following point: CC drivers/net/pcnet32.o drivers/net/pcnet32.c: In function `pcnet32_probe1': drivers/net/pcnet32.c:1777: error: initializer element is not constant drivers/net/pcnet32.c:1778: error: initialize

Re: error while compiling 2.6

Known bug. Simply a forgotten closing } in an if clause in pcnet32_probe1. See if you can spot it in the source, or look up a patch on linuxppc-dev. Aah.. thanks for the tip.. figured out the missing } .. and the compile continues.. :-) Thanks, nirmal

kernel error while using external USB storage

Hi.. I got a kernel error while I was backing up some files onto an external USB hard disk.. I was able to recover by hitting x.. here's the message from syslog.. any ideas on why this happened? I'm using benh-10... Thanks, nirmal -- Nov 4 21:16:31 ibook kernel: Assertion failure in do_get_wr

Re: iTunes can't authorize computer...

Hi Greg.. I checked my linux setting with iptables -L and here's what I get: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt sourc

Re: iTunes can't authorize computer...

Sorry folks.. please ignore the earlier message.. it went to the wrong list by accident.. nirmal

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