Re: Trouble with XFree
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:31:33PM -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: I used dpkg-reconfigure xfree86-common several times choosing different options but I couldn't get X to load. I think it should work with even the simple setting of ati xserver and a 17 monitor. Any suggestions on how to get around a no screens found error? There's already a Section Screen in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. I've attached part of my /var/log/XFree.0.log file that I think is relevant. If I should forward the whole thing, just let me know. Thanks, -- -- Grant Bowman [EMAIL PROTECTED] The attached XF86Config-4 works on my iMac. YMMV. -- *--v-- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For PowerPC -v* | http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks- | | (pause for breath)powerpc/current/doc/install.en.html| | debian-imac: http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net | |Chris Tillman[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | ** # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by Dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config manual page. # (Type man XF86Config at the shell prompt.) Section Files #FontPath unix/:7100# local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc #FontPath /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic #FontPath /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi EndSection Section ServerFlags EndSection Section Module Loadddc LoadGLcore Loaddbe Loaddri Loadextmod Loadglx Loadpex5 Loadrecord Loadxie Loadbitmap Loadfreetype Loadspeedo Loadtype1 Loadvbe Loadint10 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbDisable Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel macintosh Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/input/mice Option Protocol ImPS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Device Identifier Rage 128 Driver ati Option UseFBDev true BusID 0:16:0 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier iMac monitor HorizSync 30-60 VertRefresh 50-75 Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device Rage 128 Monitor iMac monitor DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes 1024x768 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 15 Modes 1024x768 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 800x600 1024x768 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Default Screen InputDevice Generic Keyboard InputDevice Configured Mouse EndSection Section DRI Mode0666 EndSection # end of XF86Config
Patches for laptop owners
Hi, Has anyone on this list any idea if patches to enhance usability for *book laptop users already exist ? In particular, I am looking for the following : - An emacs friendly keyboard remapping where caps lock acts as the ctrl key (and LED stays off) and the right 'enter' key becomes 'alt' (this enter key is really useless.) - A patch that would disable the track pad drag area for a short delay just after hitting the keyboard keys (variable but half a sec. would be nice to start with.) I find too many often while typing that the cursor jump around when the palm of my hand comes too close from the track pad. These features would definitely boost my productivity by a big factor. Thanks for your help in advance. Laurent
Re: Patches for laptop owners
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:38:20PM -0800, Laurent de Segur wrote: - An emacs friendly keyboard remapping where caps lock acts as the ctrl key (and LED stays off) and the right 'enter' key becomes 'alt' (this enter key is really useless.) XkbOptions ctrl:nocaps -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | It tastes good. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Bill Clinton http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpMa1C9hY7Lu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Fwd: failed install : bf 3.0.17 ppc (powermac)]
Chris Tillman wrote: ... First try: using an USB floppy drive... Doesn't seem to be supported. Might be nice if it were written in the woody install manual. Nobody's tried it before, AFAIK. I'm not too surprised, those floppies don't work very well even with MacOS, they have very special drivers. I've added a note to the manual. Thanks. 2nd try: network boot hmmm, boot enet doesn't work, some google search + reading, works with boot enet:0 -- patch in install manual ? got that one too. Idem It seems I didn't find the right image to load through tftp (dhcp + tftp + logs + tcpdump everything was find) but I keep getting a freeze in openboot during the tftp. What image am I suppose to use? linux from the powermac folder should be it I'm pretty sure that's the one I used. I will give it another try to night. 3rd try: yaboot Last just because I though a had only hfs+ partitions. Did some reading in d-powerpc, and I didn't get a clear picture about yaboot booting over hfs+. Is it supported or not ? No, you can put your kernel on hfs+ but why would you want to... the kernel can't read it. H, I think my mac partitions are hfs+ and yaboot works. Hence my question. I will check that tonight too. ... ... the G4 is frozen (no response from the keyboard, the cdrom stop). After some tests I gave a try with mem=512M and it works. Seems to be a kernel bug here, but it might be nice if the solution were documented. If you try it with append=video=ofonly instead of mem=512M does it work also? No, it freeze all the same. seems ok, but at the end base-config keep telling me that one package failed to install. Retry -- no. Leaving base-config give you don't mention which package. Yep, because nothing give me the information and dpkg -l shows all the package correctly installed. ... If someone shows interest you'll have to attach the whole log for it to make any sense. I know. I will try another install tonight. Expect some more feedback. Last remark, I didn't find fsck on the rescue disk. Any reason ? e2fsck is there. My mistake, I though we had fsck on the i386 root floppy. I just checked and it is not. e2fsck is find with me. Thanks for your answers. Fab
Re: Patches for laptop owners
On Dec 4, Laurent de Segur wrote: - An emacs friendly keyboard remapping where caps lock acts as the ctrl key (and LED stays off) and the right 'enter' key becomes 'alt' (this enter key is really useless.) This is a big problem on most (all?) Apple laptops, because they have ADB keyboards whose caps-lock keys do not send keyup events. This is a limitation of the hardware. If you search through the list archives you can find some fairly kludgey kernel patches that provide partial workarounds. In any case, if you want to change your keyboard map it it quite simple with xmodmap or xkb. Read the man pages.
Re: [PATCH] Minor changes to control/imstt/platinum/valkyrie/atyfb
Tom Rini wrote:
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:16:04PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Martin Costabel wrote:
Paul Mackerras wrote:
Martin Costabel writes:
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So please try `cmode 1' instead of `cmode 16'.
These bits of code are always different still I think. Valkyriefb for
example parses 'cmode:{8,15,16}' and does CMODE_8 or CMODE_16. I
_think_ the userland tools did both 0/1/2 and 8/15/16/32 (24?).
I'll be happy to let my 6400 play the guinea pig, but I have to excuse
him until next week; I'm not at home right now.
--
Martin
Dual booting OSX and Debian on G3 beige
Hi all, This is a repost of a saga that I am currently looking for help on uk.comp.os.linux. Apologies to anyone who has already seen this. The machine in question is a beige G3 oldworld machine. I have OSX installed and I then did this : I downloaded the first 2 disks for woody and did an FTP base install of that. Woody's installation appears to be more advanced that potato's when it comes to quik. It changed the boot-command and boot-device in my open firmware for me. However, a reboot just got a message scrolling saying can't OPEN: can't OPEN: I now have the following in /etc/quik.conf init-message=Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC (woody) default=Linux timeout=100 root=/dev/hda7 ## Do not point image= to a symlink, quik can't follow symlinks image=/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19-pmac label=Linux read-only /boot/vmlinux-2.2.19-pmac does exist. Running quik produces the following warning : Warning: prior partition (entry 6) is bootable Rebooting the system with the boot-device and boot-command set to what debian set them to at install time (boot-device /pci/mac-io/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0, boot-command begin ['] boot catch 1000 ms cr again boot) produces: 0 can't OPEN: ok 0 If anyone can help I would _much_ appreciate it. I can't help but feel I'm close. I have both OS's on the machine, I just can't boot debian :( If anyone knows of somewhere else I could ask this question, I would appreciate that information as well! TIA, -- - Wayne Pascoe | If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | riddle them with bullets. http://www.penguinpowered.org.uk |
Re: kernel: make config for ibook2
On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 10:48, Chu Tan wrote: I have used make config and recompiled benh's kernel for my ibook 2. However, after booting up, the keyboard wasn't working. Does anyone knows the kernel options that are responsible for making the keyboard works? Assuming you are running woody and/or sid, you most likely need to disable CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES. As a workaround, you can pass keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 to the kernel. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
Re: Patches for laptop owners
On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 11:44, Matt Brubeck wrote: This is a big problem on most (all?) Apple laptops, because they have ADB keyboards whose caps-lock keys do not send keyup events. This is a limitation of the hardware. If you search through the list archives you can find some fairly kludgey kernel patches that provide partial workarounds. In any case, if you want to change your keyboard map it it quite simple with xmodmap or xkb. Read the man pages. Or you can stick in a regular PC USB keyboard, AFAIK. Though I like the feel of the apple keyboards, they are nice to type at after I got used to them. Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: ::
Re: Patches for laptop owners
Try to implement that in user space please - you should be able to react to keyboard events via /dev/input/something, just have a small daemon disable the trackpad for a short period following a key event. This might require routing mouse events through another user space daemon like gpm that can easily be 'blanked' by the key events. Putting this in the kernel might annoy a lot of people (I prefer to have the option to move the mouse while pressing modifier keys or mouse emulation buttons, for instance). Well, what Apple does in Darwin is to trigger a timer after a keypress or release (that is a keyboard action) and to ignore a tapping state change of the trackpad until this timer expires (typically a few milliseconds). This avoids spurrious trackpad taps on those new over-sized trackpads when typing on the keyboard. It could be easily put in the kernel, but not before we have a way to simply configure and turn it on/off, along with other trackpad features, via the yet-not-written /proc/bus/adb interface ;) Ben.
Re: Patches for laptop owners
Putting this in the kernel might annoy a lot of people (I prefer to have the option to move the mouse while pressing modifier keys or mouse emulation buttons, for instance). Well, what Apple does in Darwin is to trigger a timer after a keypress or release (that is a keyboard action) and to ignore a tapping state change of the trackpad until this timer expires (typically a few milliseconds). This avoids spurrious trackpad taps on those new Maybe Apple does this. Having 'seen' some of their design decisions (meaning having fun working around them in the driver code) I'm more willing to assume this is a Bad Thing :-) Plus the user was complaining about the pointer moving, not spurious trackpad taps - which can be gotten rid of by simple 'trackpad notap' anyway. over-sized trackpads when typing on the keyboard. It could be easily put in the kernel, but not before we have a way to simply configure and turn it on/off, along with other trackpad features, via the yet-not-written /proc/bus/adb interface ;) I disagree. It's of course always possible and sometimes even easy to put workarounds for broken hardware design or slightly nonstandard user preferences in the kernel. But anything that can equally well be handled in user space really belongs there. Don't get me started on /proc/bus/adb :-) Michael
Re: what is libc6 2.2.4-6.0.1 in ppc?
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:02:42AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: Recently when I was upgrading sid system (ppc), dpkg complained that locales 2.2.4-6 depended on glibc 2.2.4-6 but there was no such file. In fact there is only libc6 2.2.4-6.0.1 now. What is this libc6 2.2.4-6.0.1 and why there is no associating locales? If this is already known problem, I'm very sorry. I uploaded it? Ack! I uploaded it! I'm sorry! I'll try to get this corrected soon. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
Re: Trouble with XFree
On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 06:31, Grant Bowman wrote: (==) ATI(0): Chipset: ati. (**) ATI(0): Depth 8, (--) framebuffer bpp 8 (--) ATI(0): ATI 88800GX-F graphics controller detected. (--) ATI(0): Chip type 4758 GX, class 0, revision 0x03. (--) ATI(0): 16-Bit ISA bus interface detected; sparse I/O base is 0x. (--) ATI(0): ATI Mach64 adapter detected. (WW) ATI(0): Unknown RAMDAC type 0x9A detected. (==) ATI(0): RGB weight 666 (==) ATI(0): Default visual is PseudoColor (==) ATI(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (II) ATI(0): Using Mach64 accelerator CRTC. (EE) ATI(0): Linear aperture not available. (II) UnloadModule: ati (II) UnloadModule: atimisc (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/atimisc_drv.o (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. The driver fails to recognize the RAMDAC and (maybe as a consequence) set up a linear aperture, so it aborts initialization of the Screen. What machine and graphics card is this? Not that I can likely be of much help, you'd probably best contact Ani Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
Re: kernel: make config for ibook2
I have used make config and recompiled benh's kernel for my ibook 2. However, after booting up, the keyboard wasn't working. Does anyone knows the kernel options that are responsible for making the keyboard works? Did you build in support for the OHCI USB controller, and for HID devices? I believe the iBook2's keyboard is actually USB, not ADB, so if you didn't build in proper support, you'll get a perfectly functional system that you can't interact with, just as you describe. :) No, all apple laptops use ADB (or some kind of ADB emulation done by the PMU for recent models, but it appears like ADB to the kernel). Make sure CONFIG_ADB and CONFIG_ADB_PMU are both set, you may want also the power management and backlight support. In my recent kernels merge with marcelo, I added a pmac_defconfig to avoid those questions ;) Ben.
No offb in kernel-image-2.4.16-powerpc
Greetings, First, thanks (Dan?) for a brand new 2.4.16 binary kernel image. I think everything in it works that didn't before, and will convert to ext3 soon. Cool! I've built openafs for it, will test soon, and upload if it works (can't test openafs-mp, sorry). Unfortunately, like 2.4.12, although CONFIG_FB_OF=y, it behaves as if there is no offb! Here's what I get from dmesg, line 10 for both is the same: Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdb6 keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 video=ofonly In 2.4.8, lines 42-47 read: devfs: boot_options: 0x0 MacOS display is /bandit/MacPicasso540 Using unsupported 1600x1200 MacPicasso540 at 82400100, depth=16, pitch=3200 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 200x75 fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on /bandit/MacPicasso540 input0: Macintosh mouse button emulation In 2.4.16, 43-44 have: devfs: boot_options: 0x0 input0: Macintosh mouse button emulation No search for the MacOS display, attempt to start offb, etc. at all! Note 2.4.12 had the same behavior. Is this a known problem? If not, consider this a bug report. Since my video card (MacPicasso 540, Cirrus Logic GD5480, no, clgenfb doesn't work) is unsupported, this is a showstopper for me, and may render new kernels unusable for many other as well... If I have some time, I'll try checking Makefiles etc., then stick a couple of printks in the offb init code, build, and see what happens, but may not be able to until January. :-( Thanks, -- -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe! http://lyre.mit.edu/%7Epowell/The_Best_Stuff_In_The_World_Today_Cafe.ogg
Re: no DHCP with 2.4
Stefan Werner wrote: Did I forget an option when building the kernel? Do I need some extra kernel modules for DHCP? Get kernel-image-2.4.16-powerpc, it works as both DHCP client and server for me. Zeen, -- -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe! http://lyre.mit.edu/%7Epowell/The_Best_Stuff_In_The_World_Today_Cafe.ogg
PCMCIA lockups on 2.4.17-pre2-ben0
Me again. Powerbook G4 1st gen. Cisco Aironet card in the PCMCIA slot. The powerbook is still locking up during wakeup under 2.4.17-pre2-ben0. The lockup happens before the PCMCIA card is powered up. That is, when the machine hangs the card's LEDs are off. Also, the hang occurs before the X display is fixed. Those of you with this hardware know what I mean. I'm also getting lockups at shutdown time. The lockup happens right after PCMCIA modules get unloaded. It feels like the problem is definitely in the PCMCIA code. -jwb
mol and woody and 2.4.10-ben0
I'm sick of rebooting my machine so that I can do some filemaker work or see emails on our office's appletalk-only mail client. I thought I might be better off running these apps in mol. I'm running 2.4.10-ben0 on a Lombard powerbook. Does this have support for the mol modules, or do I have to do my own compile? Also, I have two Macintosh HFS+ partitions on my hard disk. Will mol be able to use these? I had a brief look at the mol website, but this wasn't clear in the documents. Thanks for any advice Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.campbell-lange.net
iBook2 touch pad mouse
Hi all, Does anyone here use an iBook2 with a wm other than Gnome or KDE? If so, what do you do about mouse settings.hrmm, I mean, filtering. I am not sure I am communicating my problem. Ok, my problem: the track pad on my iBook2 has always been extremely sensitive and erratic. It jumps arround, and is nealy unuseable. What can I do about this? Thanks. John
Re: iBook2 touch pad mouse
On Dec 5, John Hughes wrote: the track pad on my iBook2 has always been extremely sensitive and erratic. It jumps arround, and is nealy unuseable. What can I do about this? There were several comments in the MacInTouch iBook2 reader reports about trackpad issues, notably in the fifth page of reports: http://macintouch.com/ibook2001pt5.html
debian (sid)
Can someone explain to me why is there the need to upgrade to sid which is still in development? I find that deb packages for potato are not really up to date. Eg. qt is in v2.0, kde is not available. Can I download the source for KDE and compile it for my ibook? Is there a different source for ppc arch? Thanks, Chu
Re: iBook2 touch pad mouse
Hi On Wednesday, December 5, 2001, at 10:22 AM, John Hughes wrote: Does anyone here use an iBook2 with a wm other than Gnome or KDE? If so, what do you do about mouse settings.hrmm, I mean, filtering. I am not sure I am communicating my problem. Ok, my problem: the track pad on my iBook2 has always been extremely sensitive and erratic. It jumps arround, and is nealy unuseable. What can I do about this? I am using Enlightenment 16. It is usable for me, although it is more sensible than I'd like it to be. IIRC Gnome sets the mouse speed with a small, independant program (I should look it up in the gnome startup scripts) that can be run with other WMs as well, so you might want to use that one as a workaround. Stefan
Re: kernel: make config for ibook2
Hi, On Wednesday, December 5, 2001, at 03:47 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: I have used make config and recompiled benh's kernel for my ibook 2. However, after booting up, the keyboard wasn't working. Does anyone knows the kernel options that are responsible for making the keyboard works? Assuming you are running woody and/or sid, you most likely need to disable CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES. As a workaround, you can pass keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 to the kernel AFAIR the disabling CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES is considered the workaround and keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 is the solution. However, Chu, you did not write that wasn't working means: Doesn't it work at all or do you get a very weird keymap? If you have a completely non-functional keyboard, you need to include support for ADB input devices in your kernel (the keyboard appears as ADB device, the Trackpad as a USB device). If you have the weird keymap, adding keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 to the kernel parameters (a good place to do that is /etc/yaboot.conf). I ran into the same problem, and adding this line fixed it for me. Stefan PS: Sorry Michael for getting this mail twice - I didn't see that the list server does not set the reply-to: to the list address.
Re: debian (sid)
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:53:55AM -0800, Chu J Tan wrote: Can someone explain to me why is there the need to upgrade to sid which is still in development? I find that deb packages for potato are not really up to date. Eg. qt is in v2.0, kde is not available. potato is the stable release so the most recent packages don't always get in there. you don't need to upgrade to sid though, you can upgrade to woody, which is very far in development. for the rest you can compile yourself. have a look on the websites for individual packages requirements. but upgrading to woody should save you that. grts, sisi Can I download the source for KDE and compile it for my ibook? Is there a different source for ppc arch? Thanks, Chu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iBook2 touch pad mouse
I should mention that under OS9 its ok, and under OSX its is nearly perfect. So I can only guess that it is how gpm( et. al.) is handling the signals from it. It really is a horrible experience having to use the track pad, I am hoping someone has a cure for this. Thanks John On Wednesday 05 December 2001 01:43, Matt Brubeck wrote: On Dec 5, John Hughes wrote: the track pad on my iBook2 has always been extremely sensitive and erratic. It jumps arround, and is nealy unuseable. What can I do about this? There were several comments in the MacInTouch iBook2 reader reports about trackpad issues, notably in the fifth page of reports: http://macintouch.com/ibook2001pt5.html
Re: kernel: make config for ibook2
On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 19:04, Stefan Werner wrote: On Wednesday, December 5, 2001, at 03:47 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: I have used make config and recompiled benh's kernel for my ibook 2. However, after booting up, the keyboard wasn't working. Does anyone knows the kernel options that are responsible for making the keyboard works? Assuming you are running woody and/or sid, you most likely need to disable CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES. As a workaround, you can pass keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 to the kernel AFAIR the disabling CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES is considered the workaround and keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 is the solution. No, it's the other way around. keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 is only needed because the kernel defaults to ADB keycodes with CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES=y. (the keyboard appears as ADB device, the Trackpad as a USB device). At least on this Pismo the trackpad is an ADB device too, I have no reason to believe it's different on an iBook2. Not that it matters with /dev/input/mice. :) PS: This list doesn't set the Reply-To: because that is considered harmful. I can handle two copies of one post fine. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
Re: debian (sid)
Can someone explain to me why is there the need to upgrade to sid which is still in development? I find that deb packages for potato are not really up to date. Eg. qt is in v2.0, kde is not available. If you want up-to-date packages but don't want to deal with the vagaries of unstable, I recommend upgrading to testing. The testing distribution automatically filters out versions with release critical bugs or broken dependencies, so it elimininates much of the hassle of tracking sid.
Re: mol and woody and 2.4.10-ben0
On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 01:04, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: I'm running 2.4.10-ben0 on a Lombard powerbook. Does this have support for the mol modules, or do I have to do my own compile? You have to build them yourself. Very easy with the mol-modules-source and kernel-package packages. Also, I have two Macintosh HFS+ partitions on my hard disk. Will mol be able to use these? Yes, it will even load the MacOS ROM off them directly. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
Re: kernel: make config for ibook2
Thanks guys... as a first time mac user, I did not know that the keyboard is connected through ADB ports. After enabling ADB support, it works great. Chu - Original Message - From: Stefan Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:02 AM Subject: Re: kernel: make config for ibook2 Hi, On Wednesday, December 5, 2001, at 03:47 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: I have used make config and recompiled benh's kernel for my ibook 2. However, after booting up, the keyboard wasn't working. Does anyone knows the kernel options that are responsible for making the keyboard works? Assuming you are running woody and/or sid, you most likely need to disable CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES. As a workaround, you can pass keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 to the kernel AFAIR the disabling CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES is considered the workaround and keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 is the solution. However, Chu, you did not write that wasn't working means: Doesn't it work at all or do you get a very weird keymap? If you have a completely non-functional keyboard, you need to include support for ADB input devices in your kernel (the keyboard appears as ADB device, the Trackpad as a USB device). If you have the weird keymap, adding keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 to the kernel parameters (a good place to do that is /etc/yaboot.conf). I ran into the same problem, and adding this line fixed it for me. Stefan PS: Sorry Michael for getting this mail twice - I didn't see that the list server does not set the reply-to: to the list address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Buildd Failures Update
While working through the failure logs Build Environment Issues strace - builds with 2.4.16 and current sid. kannel - builds with libssl-dev 0.9.6b-4 from current sid. Requeue Needed (builds fine for me) -- scsitools - wish should be installed properly. netdude - no failure log for latest version. netcfg - no failure log (old - 2001 Jun 18) Should be Dep-Wait? -- gide: libgbf-dev (gnome-build) emacs-dl-canna: emacs20-dl-dev (emacs20-dl) As always my latest notes are at http://marenka.net/buildd/wkgppc.txt. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpgDFxd33TPO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Buildd Failures Update
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:37:49PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: Requeue Needed (builds fine for me) -- scsitools - wish should be installed properly. netdude - no failure log for latest version. netcfg - no failure log (old - 2001 Jun 18) When I asked about working on stuff I was told to just upload stuff if it built. What's the party line? -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever. pgpxRhJYrLwDJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Buildd Failures Update
On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 21:15, Mark Brown wrote: On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:37:49PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: Requeue Needed (builds fine for me) -- scsitools - wish should be installed properly. netdude - no failure log for latest version. netcfg - no failure log (old - 2001 Jun 18) When I asked about working on stuff I was told to just upload stuff if it built. What's the party line? apt-get install dput, configure it for scp and then dput changes file. :) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
Re: Buildd Failures Update
Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:37:49PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: Requeue Needed (builds fine for me) -- scsitools - wish should be installed properly. netdude - no failure log for latest version. netcfg - no failure log (old - 2001 Jun 18) When I asked about working on stuff I was told to just upload stuff if it built. What's the party line? I can't/don't/won't speak for Dan, but in general, uploading stuff because it `works for you' (aka 'human auto-building') is, IMNSHO, bad practice. If something doesn't auto-build cleanly, it should be fixed. If it was a problem with the buildd, then the buildd should be fixed. If it was cosmic rays, it should be retried (or whatever). If you fix it by building it by hand, that's okay now, but when the next upload comes along (and assuming it wasn't cosmic rays (which it rarely is)), it's simply going to fail again and you may not be around to play human auto-builder that time round. -- James
Re: iBook2 touch pad mouse
One thing I did was to get a 3 button mouse for the iBook right after installing Debian. On the list of things I'd like to see happening, is an option to disable the trackpad when the USB mouse is inserted and re-enable it when the mouse is plugged out. Maybe this is something that already exist. Not sure. Another thing I did to cure the epilepsy of the trackpad in Linux was to cut a Palm Pilot transparent protection screen that I sticked on top of the trackpad. This layer makes it less sensitive to my finger tip, but I agree with you, the behavior of the cursor was almost perfect under OS X before I got rid of the latter. Maybe they have some sort of corrective algorithm that gets rid of totally erronous input. Just speculating... LdS - Original Message - From: John Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matt Brubeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:07 AM Subject: Re: iBook2 touch pad mouse I should mention that under OS9 its ok, and under OSX its is nearly perfect. So I can only guess that it is how gpm( et. al.) is handling the signals from it. It really is a horrible experience having to use the track pad, I am hoping someone has a cure for this. Thanks John On Wednesday 05 December 2001 01:43, Matt Brubeck wrote: On Dec 5, John Hughes wrote: the track pad on my iBook2 has always been extremely sensitive and erratic. It jumps arround, and is nealy unuseable. What can I do about this? There were several comments in the MacInTouch iBook2 reader reports about trackpad issues, notably in the fifth page of reports: http://macintouch.com/ibook2001pt5.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Buildd Failures Update
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:28:55PM +, James Troup wrote: Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I asked about working on stuff I was told to just upload stuff if it built. What's the party line? I can't/don't/won't speak for Dan, but in general, uploading stuff because it `works for you' (aka 'human auto-building') is, IMNSHO, bad practice. If something doesn't auto-build cleanly, it should be That had been my original thought. fixed. If it was cosmic rays, it should be retried (or whatever). If you fix it by building it by hand, that's okay now, but when the next upload comes along (and assuming it wasn't cosmic rays (which it rarely is)), it's simply going to fail again and you may not be around to play human auto-builder that time round. It would also be useful to have a more general way of attaching notes to the buildd logs. Something like what QA has at standard.debian.net might not go amiss. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever. pgp22qWBYy9cZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Sound broken in KDE again
Sigh... I upgraded from 2.4.15-pre6-ben0 to 2.4.17-pre2-ben0 and now I get this from KDE on startup: Error while initializing the sound driver: SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT failed - Invalid argument and sound in KDE is broken. Ideas? -- John
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Re: 2.4.x kernel crashing
That machine has a Mach64 chip, right? I forgot to include an important detail: I'm actually running with a Voodoo3 card. if before running X, you set the VT X runs on to the same depth (using fbset) you have configured in X. You'll have to find out yourself. I guess I've got more reading to do! I'll have to figure this part out. If that was the only problem... when you're in xmon, bad things have happened and everything is interrupted. Only when you exit xmon (by entering 'x') does the system continue to run. So there is no filesystem access in xmon. Typing 'x' could be bad anyway, since the whole system is down. At least it would allow for an orderly shutdown? I've got another question related to this: could it be a hardware failure on my computer's part somewhere? The kind of failure that a 2.4 kernel would see, where a 2.2. kernel wouldn't? Thanks for the help! Russell
m3mirror...
So, what kernel does one need to make this function on an older tibook? I have stock 2.4.14 (I use this computer for work and need relatively stable kernels). Would upgrading to .16 fix it? ./m3mirror crt:1 lcd:0 open(/dev/fb0, O_RDONLY) = 4 ioctl(4, 0x40044001, 0x7d48)= -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) ATI Rage M3 mirror tool, v0.1 error getting mirror value: Invalid argument (I changed my sources to use perror just for the heck of it) Kerplonk... Any ideas? Thanks, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/
Re: m3mirror...
On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 16:47, David N. Welton wrote: So, what kernel does one need to make this function on an older tibook? I have stock 2.4.14 (I use this computer for work and need relatively stable kernels). Would upgrading to .16 fix it? m3mirror has always worked fine for my on Ben's kernels. Try those instead of kernel.org. If you need a really solid kernel I suggest 2.4.13. -jwb
Re: Dual booting OSX and Debian on G3 beige
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:31:46AM +, Wayne Pascoe wrote: Hi all, This is a repost of a saga that I am currently looking for help on uk.comp.os.linux. Apologies to anyone who has already seen this. The machine in question is a beige G3 oldworld machine. I have OSX installed and I then did this : I downloaded the first 2 disks for woody and did an FTP base install of that. Woody's installation appears to be more advanced that potato's when it comes to quik. Yes, potato didn't really work at all. There were some quik and dirty patches made for woody. It changed the boot-command and boot-device in my open firmware for me. However, a reboot just got a message scrolling saying can't OPEN: can't OPEN: I now have the following in /etc/quik.conf init-message=Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC (woody) default=Linux timeout=100 root=/dev/hda7 ## Do not point image= to a symlink, quik can't follow symlinks image=/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19-pmac label=Linux read-only /boot/vmlinux-2.2.19-pmac does exist. Running quik produces the following warning : Warning: prior partition (entry 6) is bootable Ah hah. You have run quik before, when partition 6 was the root partition. Rebooting the system with the boot-device and boot-command set to what debian set them to at install time (boot-device /pci/mac-io/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0, boot-command begin ['] boot catch 1000 ms cr again boot) produces: 0 can't OPEN: ok 0 If anyone can help I would _much_ appreciate it. I can't help but feel I'm close. I have both OS's on the machine, I just can't boot debian :( If anyone knows of somewhere else I could ask this question, I would appreciate that information as well! What's happening is what quik is warning you about when you run it. By default, quik finds the first bootable partition on a disk and tries to mount it as root, and find a kernel there, etc. You have a boot block on partition 7 also, the quik.conf shows you had partition 7 mounted as root when you ran the Make Bootable step. One option for the short term, is to boot partition 7 directly. To do that, you would change the boot device to be just the same, except at the end change @0:0 to @0:7 . For me at least, that forces it to ignore the boot blocks on partition 6. What's on partition 6? Can it be deleted and re-initialized? (It must be deleted and become free space before the boot block won't be recognized any more.) If you don't delete partition 6, you'll always get that warning. But if it works that way, you might not care. -- *--v-- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For PowerPC -v* | http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks- | | (pause for breath)powerpc/current/doc/install.en.html| | debian-imac: http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net | |Chris Tillman[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | **
Re: iBook2 touch pad mouse
On Dec 5, John Hughes wrote: the track pad on my iBook2 has always been extremely sensitive and erratic. It jumps arround, and is nealy unuseable. What can I do about this? Although you're addressing the pointing ability of the trackpad, I should like to mention that I particularly found the click-on-tap feature under linux to be detremental to my X usage. In order to solve this I downloaded the trackpad 0.1.0 rpm for yellow dog linux, and used alien to install it on my system. Its pretty minimal and there's probably a different way of getting the same functionality these days (or else I expect it would be in the debian package system), but I always use trackpad notap before I start X due to the fact that otherwise I'll usually be typing in a terminal or something and suddenly I'll have inadvertently clicked on something like another window. Which can really waste time after the 50th time it happens; damn thumbs. -Daniel
