A few questions from an iMac G5 user...

2006-12-01 Thread Torrance
see Adobe's recently released source code making its way into sid? 4) Is it possible to brighten the screen on an iMac G5. It looks darker and duller than OS X, but besides altering the gamma settings, there seems no way to brighten the screen. Cheers, Torrance

Re: A few questions from an iMac G5 user...

2006-12-02 Thread Torrance
hope to have more options available though. I know, it is weird. Last time I checked the US hadn't put any trade sanctions on New Zealand!! Thanks, Torrance On 3/12/2006, at 12:26 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: 1) Is it possible to enable either sleep or suspend functions for

iMac G5 Bugs and new wiki

2006-12-09 Thread Torrance
filed as bugs; the Debian bug system is too difficult for us newbies to understand as it requires us to know the packages we are filing the bugs under. Thanks in advance, Torrance

Re: iMac G5 Bugs and new wiki

2006-12-12 Thread Torrance
defconfig, plus firewall support. I've attached the config file, and would be most interested if anyone can spot the problem. Torrance On 12/12/06, Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 15:03 +1300, Torrance wrote: > > 3) Switch User Freeze. The option in

Re: Default I/O Scheduler for Etch

2006-12-14 Thread Torrance
Hi Brian, Yes, this is the case. Check out the kernel config file in /boot and you'll see the kernel has been compiled with CFQ as default. Torrance On 15/12/2006, at 12:06 AM, Brian wrote: Can anyone tell me if the default scheduler for Etch (specifically Etch-Testing) is CFQ? I

Constantly Switching Gnome Theme on Fresh Install

2007-03-04 Thread Torrance
_ So what's going on? It's bringing my system to a halt. Not sure if its a ppc-specific issue or not. Torrance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Constantly Switching Gnome Theme on Fresh Install

2007-03-04 Thread Torrance
Wow, yes, that worked! And such a quick reply. :) Thanks very much, Torrance On 3/5/07, Ananda Samaddar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is a known bug in Gstreamer that only affects non-Altivec PowerPC machines. You need to get upgraded libvisual packages from here:

Re: [FYI] hibernate on G5

2007-05-19 Thread Torrance
abled? I'm interested to test out the suspend-to-disk functionality! I have EXPERIMENTAL=y already set. Thanks, Torrance On 5/18/07, Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Recently, I wrote some patches to allow hibernate (aka suspend-to-disk) to work on G5 machines and at one po

Re: [FYI] hibernate on G5

2007-05-19 Thread Torrance
Also, assuming the kernel is compiled correctly, how does one run the new suspend-to-disk scripts? I tried using hibernate which failed, complaining there were no known methods available. However, this could also simply be a result of not properly compiling the kernel. Torrance On 5/20/07

Re: [FYI] hibernate on G5

2007-05-20 Thread Torrance
On 5/20/07, Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, the regular applies. If you have SMP then you need to enable CPU_HOTPLUG, and then you should be able to enable SOFTWARE_SUSPEND. Ah, thank you. Except now when I attempt to suspend-to-disk the screen gets messed up with colours, th

Re: [FYI] hibernate on G5

2007-05-20 Thread Torrance
task... done Shrinking memory... done (0 pages free) Freed 0 kbytes in 0.06 seconds (0.00MB/s) Suspending console(s) Unfortunately at this point the system locks up, the text above remains on the screen, and after a short while the fans spin up to full speed. I'm not sure what's going on.

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-14 Thread Torrance
at 03:03:29PM +1300, Torrance wrote: 4) Screen too dim. The default backlight brightness in Debian is noticably dimmer than in MacOS X. So far, we have not been able to work out how to fix this. What kind of graphics chip do you have? You should be able to upload a new backlight curve if y

Re: fonts in xorg

2007-08-31 Thread Torrance
And yeah, it's not powerpc specific. Torrance On 1/09/2007, at 1:19 AM, Gustav Gepard wrote: Hi I'm trying to get better font resolutions on websites that I visit. Many fonts seem hard and pixilated, such as on Debian's home page. How can I optimise xorg for better font ren

CD Drive Issue Installing on iMac G5

2005-11-22 Thread Torrance
Hiya everyone, I'm a total newbie to Linux/Debian and I'm trying to install Sarge on my iMac G5. I'm getting past the initial installer screens, setting the language, country, keyboard, etc. HOWEVER, just before it attempts to run the rest of the installer of the CD it comes up with an error claim