Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Anyway, I do have this machine working now, although not everything is > to my liking. Unlike older picture-books, for example, this one has a > WinModem. Ugh. And the sound chip is supported, but only by the ~ > ALSA > driver (the OSS version is too broken to be used). Gre

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > But the camera is cool, and works beautifully (once you get XFree86 > > happy) thanks to Andrew Tridgell. (If I could just coax the X server > > into giving my a YUV overlay I could play DVD's with this thing). > > Start at http://www.core.binghamton

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3 [slightly off-topic]

2000-12-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Ion Badulescu wrote: > > If it's the same bug that locks up the ATI chipset on my Dell laptop, > then you can safely enable DPMS if only enable the standby mode, > not the others (suspend and off). The panel gets turned off anyway, > even in standby. Yup, same bug, and yes,

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-02 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:09:25PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > NOTE! Getting the 2.4.x kernel up and running is the easy part. The > machine also has a very recent ATI Rage Mobility chip in it, and you > need the newest XFree86 CVS snapshot to make it work (along with a > one-liner patch from

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-02 Thread Alan Cox
> Anyway, I do have this machine working now, although not everything is > to my liking. Unlike older picture-books, for example, this one has a > WinModem. Ugh. And the sound chip is supported, but only by the ALSA > driver (the OSS version is too broken to be used). The OSS ymf_sb legacy dr

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3 [slightly off-topic]

2000-12-02 Thread Ion Badulescu
On 1 Dec 2000 21:09:25 -0800, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even then XFree86 does something bad with DPMS, and will lock up the > graphics chipset when it tries to shut down the flat panel display. > Solution: don't enable DPMS is XF86Config. That's an XFree86 problem, > but happ

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <90a065$5ai$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Anyway, I do have this machine working now, although not everything is >to my liking. Unlike older picture-books, for example, this one has a >WinModem. Ugh. And the sound chip is supported, but only by the

Can CMS be upgraded? -- Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-01 Thread Miles Lane
If I buy one of these machines for testing, will I be able to upgrade the processor's Code Morphing Software with the new version when it's ready? I hear the new CMS code will almost double the battery life. Thanks, Miles - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam J. Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, alas, it appears that linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3 freezes hard >while reading the base address registers of the first PCI device >(the "host bridge"). Actually, I think the problem is some kind of >system manag

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:"Adam J. Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Well, alas, it appears that linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3 freezes hard > while reading the base address registers of the first PCI device > (the "host bridge"). Actually, I th

Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-01 Thread Adam J. Richter
Minutes after slashdot ran their article saying that the Transmeta recall was limited to about 300 Fujitsu computers, I ran to Fry's and bought a Sony PictureBook PCG-C1VN. Thank heavens for those extended Christmas hours I thought, while praying that the statements about the Crusoe probl