Re: [Success!] Airport Extreme

2006-09-01 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 12:43:05PM +0200, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:50:11 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > But anyway I still need to pre-up the interface, even to associate with an > > open network. And I don't think that network-manager knows how to do that > > Well I

G3 (or other non-altivec machines) testers sought

2007-01-14 Thread Sjoerd Simons
Hi, Gstreamer currently has a release critical bug that seems to be only reproducable on powerpc machines without altivec support and even then not always. The best hint to what the problem might be seems to indicate there is an issue in the libvisual altivec detection code[0].. Also

NMU for libvisual breaking gnome on non-altivec powerpc machines.

2007-03-05 Thread Sjoerd Simons
I've just uploaded an NMU of libvisual to the DELAYED/2-day queue on gluck, which works around the issue of the altivec detection causing gstreamer to segv on some powerpc machines without altivec. Which in turn breaks the gnome desktop on these machines. The workaround simply completely disable

Re: Bug#404876: NMU for libvisual breaking gnome on non-altivec powerpc machines.

2007-03-06 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:57:13PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Sjoerd, > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:02:47PM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > > I've just uploaded an NMU of libvisual to the DELAYED/2-day queue on gluck, > > which works around the issue of the

Re: Bug#404876: NMU for libvisual breaking gnome on non-altivec powerpc machines.

2007-03-06 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:24:46PM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > If you prefer, i can ofcourse upload a new version which does clone the bug s/clone/close/ ^ > and we can do some magic to open a new one with the same info, statin

Re: Network-manager issues.

2007-05-21 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:42:16AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Herminio Hernandez wrote: > >Has any one had issues with thier network mananger? I have to constantly > >renew dhcp manually. I am running debian lenny/sid on a powerbook g4. network-manager runs nicely on my powerbook G4. Could you

USB audio issues

2007-07-03 Thread Sjoerd Simons
Hi, When using USB audio devices on my powerbook, the output goes silent after a while (about 30s). I've mailed the linux-usb-users list and filed a bug against alsa. Unfortunately both groups seem to be unclear where the actual problem lies. So i'm hoping somebody here has enough OHCI

Re: No port maintainers?

2007-10-29 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 11:13:28AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 11:04 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > > > > Please add yourself to [0] if you're actively working on powerpc > > issues. > > While I do work on powerpc issues as I encounter them and as time > permits, I can't ta

Do nvidia based ibooks/powerbooks support backlight adjustment via sysfs?

2007-12-02 Thread Sjoerd Simons
Hi, For hal we want to deprecate using the PMU for brighness control if possible. With recent kernels it seems both Nvidia and Radeon have backlight support now. On my powerbook G4 with a radeon this works fine. So i'd like to hear from some people running nvidia based machine how well

Re: sound issues

2007-12-24 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 10:17:01PM -0800, Itai Seggev wrote: > Dear Debian PowerPC list: > > I have an early 2005 Powerbook G4 12". (I see people to this list make > refernces to strange number-hyphenated models, but I do not know how to get > this. If this would be useful, let me know how to find

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-06 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 05:20:14PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: > there already seems to be *heaps* of reversed engineered information > about programming its chipset (from decompiled AP firmware). > > could be off assistance also. Seems like a few weeks ago a project started to write a driver bas

Re: xorg 6.9 experimental powerpc packages available ...

2005-09-13 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:52:37AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Hi, > > They are at : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/xorg > > Please test them out and provide feedback :) It nicely segv's on my albook.. X log and config attached. I tried the xserver-xorg-dbg packages, but it appears th

Re: Experimental PPC build of Avahi

2005-10-25 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:15:08PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm curious as to why the avahi package failed to build in the > experimental autobuilder, see > > http://experimental.debian.net/fetch.php?&pkg=avahi&ver=0.5.2-3&arch=powerpc&stamp=1130048482&file=log&as=raw

Re: experimental Xorg 6.9 packages available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/xorg-x11-6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-1

2005-10-31 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 07:35:51AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello all, > > I have made a powerpc build of the experimental Xorg 6.9 RC1 packages > available at : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/xorg-x11-6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-1 > > with corresponding apt sources : > > deb http://people.d

Re: Ibook G4/Xorg 6.9 TVOUT

2005-11-11 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:57:41AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 01:37:47AM +0100, [ATR]Dj-Death wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Tvout seems to be in a bad state... :( > > The gatos tvout patches seem to not have been merged yet with xorg, just the > tvin. I believe this is the last

Re: New builds for Gnome 2.12

2005-11-14 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 10:45:58PM -0800, Mike S wrote: > I am building gnome-2.12 on testing, and as I am new to building debian > packages, I would like to know if there is someone that I should notify > of a successful build like there was back on Gentoo. Currently I am > compiling gnome-vfs

Re: popup / zeroconf and im

2006-02-07 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:20:22PM +, anthony iles wrote: > I work a lot with mac users, we've been trying to send messages over a LAN, > they seem to have trouble using a winpopup type client. Instead I've been > trying other options like zeroconf/rendezvous - it appears that rendezvous > (ap

Re: snd-aoa status update / automatic driver loading

2006-05-23 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 11:20:29PM +1000, Paul Collins wrote: > Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 10:25 +0300, Eddy Petri??or wrote: > > > >> Any chance for 5,2 ? What is needed for it? Codec only? > > > > I don't know. If you try loading the modules, the kernel

Re: /dev/pmu permissions, again

2006-06-23 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 04:20:55PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 18:02 +0200, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > > > Do you have any advice for me? Thanks! > > Ignore the error. I don't think /dev/pmu should be user-accessible. Not > sure why the gnome-settings-daemon think otherwise.

Re: /dev/pmu permissions, again

2006-06-25 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 02:16:34PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:35 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > > Yeah, either that or gnome-power-maanger should handle the brightness keys > > instead of gnome-settings-daemon.. > > Doesn't it? brightnes

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-10 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 03:17:22AM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:48:39PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > just kill this warning. Debian works just fine without backlight > > control on both my ibook and the g5. And

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-10 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 09:21:08AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 09:03:33AM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 03:17:22AM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > > >

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-10 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 12:43:13PM +0100, Frederic Peters wrote: > Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 09:57:46AM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > > > As said just change the current pmu patch in the package to do > > > > g_warning inst

Re: Disable startup jingle on PowerBook G4?

2005-01-20 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:01:24PM +0100, Pander wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to disable the stpid Apple startup jingle on a PowerBook > G4? Some setting in OpenFirmware? You can use nvsetvol from powerpc-utils to turn down the volume (to 0 if you don't want to hear it at all) Sjoerd -

Re: Getting rid of hotplug & Co. for 2.6

2005-02-16 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:31:52AM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:30, Jacob S wrote: > I understand hal would be even nicer if I used gnome, but the > gnome-vfs-manager is supposed to be becoming a freedesktop project and so KDE > will support the same features RSN... gn

Re: Getting rid of hotplug & Co. for 2.6

2005-02-16 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 04:58:44PM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 19:58 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Hotplug and its colleagues: I confess my lowest instincts get mobilised > > when thinking on this stuff: I slows down the whole boot process so > > much that sometimes I

Re: Wrong permission for '/dev/pmu'

2005-02-23 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:36:49PM +, Ben Hill wrote: > When starting GNOME on my PowerBook, I'm getting a pop-up complaining > about the wrong permission for /dev/pmu. > > I've found a post about it here: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/01/msg00235.html > > ...and added: >

Re: gnome silliness

2005-03-08 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:51:17PM +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 02:37:55PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > > does anyone know why gnome would be demanding 24 bit color. > > i would rather 16bt 800x600 over 24bit 640x480!! > > > > i cant find anytihng in ~/.gnome* /usr/share/

Re: iMic Support

2005-04-26 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 09:48:19PM +0200, congrio wrote: > Apr 26 21:37:01 amargo kernel: usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using > ohci_hcd and address 6 > Apr 26 21:37:01 amargo kernel: usbaudio: device 6 audiocontrol interface 0 > has 1 input and 1 output AudioStreaming interfaces > Apr 26 21

Re: Bug#309350: [2.6.12-rc4] gnome-volume-manager is broken?

2005-05-30 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 09:48:44PM +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: > Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was continuing my experiments with 2.6.12-rc4 and I have noticed > > that USB drives (my iPod shuffle actually) are not automounted > > anymore. > > > > If I boot the good old 2

Re: Trackpad scrolling?

2004-06-03 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:08:29AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Something I've been looking for for a while now is a trackpad driver for the > powerbook that would allow me to scroll on one of the edges of the trackpad. > Someone created sidewinder for OSX, but I haven't seen this for linux.

Re: Apple built-in Bluetooth not appearing in /dev

2004-06-18 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 06:53:53PM -0400, Barry Hawkins wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > List, > I am running a 2.6.5-rc3-ben0 kernel with a sid installation on a > 1.25GHz 15" Aluminum PowerBook G4, which has built-in Bluetooth. > Although bluez-utils installe

Re: Apple built-in Bluetooth not appearing in /dev

2004-06-18 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:17:02PM -0400, Barry Hawkins wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Jun 18, 2004, at 2:36 AM, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > >On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 06:53:53PM -0400, Barry Hawkins wrote: > >>List, > >>I am

Re: Test patch for sleep on Aluminium PowerBooks

2004-11-12 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:51:37AM +0100, Sebastian Henschel wrote: > hello... > > * Federico Gamio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-11-12 09:47 +0100]: > > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 15:49 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 02:40 -0200, Federico Gamio wrote: > > > > > > > One s

Re: gnome 2.8

2004-11-17 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 03:58:23PM +0100, Domingo Fiesta Segura wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:34:20 -0600 > "Ing. Daniel" Magaña Molina wrote: > > > i just install debian sid on my imac but i can not find apt-sources for > > gnome 2.8, i did try the ones that i use for my lap but ther is only >

Re: hotplug: unmounting a firewire external hard drive

2004-12-03 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 05:17:34PM -0800, Adam Done wrote: > Now when I turn on the external firewire burner udev creates a sr0 and > then after using it I turn off the unit (it is a really noisy Lacie) and > then I turn it back on to use it again and udev creates the sr0 again > but after doing th

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-10 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 03:17:22AM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:48:39PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > just kill this warning. Debian works just fine without backlight > > control on both my ibook and the g5. And

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-10 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 09:21:08AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 09:03:33AM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 03:17:22AM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > > >

Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

2005-01-10 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 12:43:13PM +0100, Frederic Peters wrote: > Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 09:57:46AM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > > > As said just change the current pmu patch in the package to do > > > > g_warning inst

Re: Disable startup jingle on PowerBook G4?

2005-01-20 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:01:24PM +0100, Pander wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to disable the stpid Apple startup jingle on a PowerBook > G4? Some setting in OpenFirmware? You can use nvsetvol from powerpc-utils to turn down the volume (to 0 if you don't want to hear it at all) Sjoerd -

Re: Test patch for sleep on Aluminium PowerBooks

2004-10-27 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 03:42:48PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Hi ! > > This is an experimental patch against 2.6.9. It concerns the ATI based > Aluminium PowerBook. The nVidia based ones aren't concerned at all, and > the iBook G4 will have to wait a bit more for me to get the video wa

Re: Test patch for sleep on Aluminium PowerBooks

2004-10-27 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 06:22:55PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 09:07 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 03:42:48PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Hi ! > > > > > > This is an experimental patc

Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-27 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 06:44:34PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > OK; I'll look into that. We do already have three different setups: > > > > > > - iBook: fans for CPU and GPU each > > > - PB 12": one main exhaust fan > > > - PB 17": two separate exhaust fans > > > > No, iBook only has one fan

Re: Test patch for sleep on Aluminium PowerBooks

2004-10-28 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:07:38AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > It works perfectly here, thanks a lot! (1,5Ghz 15" AlBook) > > Ah, someone with a 15" Albook. Can you send me your 'lsprop > /proc/device-tree' output (I'd like to know what the sensor locations are > on that model, and how many

Re: Test patch for sleep on Aluminium PowerBooks

2004-10-28 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:07:38AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > It works perfectly here, thanks a lot! (1,5Ghz 15" AlBook) > > Ah, someone with a 15" Albook. Can you send me your 'lsprop > /proc/device-tree' output (I'd like to know what the sensor locations are > on that model, and how many

Re: Test patch for sleep on Aluminium PowerBooks

2004-10-28 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:38:52AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 16:10 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > > the usb_bus_type struct doesn't have the rwsem member anymore, so that > > doesn't compile.. > > --- linux-2.6.9/drivers/usb

Replacing airport extreme with another mini pci card

2004-03-07 Thread Sjoerd Simons
Hi, I'm looking for a new laptop and a powerbook looks very nice. Unfortunately as you all know, the built-in wlan isn't supported in linux. After some research i found out that an airport extreme is a mini-pci card, so it could theoretically be replaced with a working one. Has any

Re: albook 15": bluetooth stopped working after firmware upgrade to 1.1

2004-04-21 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:58:37PM +0200, Sebastian Henschel wrote: > could someone of you please send me the relevant part of your output of > /proc/bus/usb/devices? with that information, i hope to be able to persuade > hci_usb to treat this device as a bluetooth device again. though perhaps > i

Re: chmod????

2004-04-27 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:02:32AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2004-04-27 00:13:18 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > OK, this one's new to me (of course, all most anything is with > > Debian). I'm trying to tweak the permissions on my cdrom so that I > > can use it as a regular user. I've

Re: chmod????

2004-04-30 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:45:38PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2004-04-27 17:20:01 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:02:32AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > The right way to do is probably to let the group unchanged and to > > > put

Re: ALSA on TiBook IV spitting out garbage?

2004-05-22 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:22:23PM -0500, JUSTIN RANDALL DITTMANN wrote: > Ok, so I compiled a kernel with all the ALSA stuff enabled as a module, and I > can get the mixers to work and the computer DOES play sound... it just plays > garbage (kinda like a heartbeat monitor with ALOT of static). >