Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz
Hi Michel, On 11/25/07, Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 13:17 -0500, P Kapat wrote: > > > > I became a bit more adventurous and tried out the experimental ati > > driver... Hotplugging a VGA monitor seems to work (on my iBook G4 - > > powerbook 6,5) exactly as hotplugging should, that is without any > > "xrandr --output --DVI-0 --auto" command - wow that is just insanely > > cool > > This is by accident though, not by intention - there's currently no > mechanism implemented to automatically enable/disable outputs on > hotplugging. Well, a rare and pleasant accident then > > The low contrast issue that I had mentioned in my earlier > > mail, is almost solved now, I can see the light colors fine - but it > > is still not "pleasing"... > > If you can't solve this, please bring it up on the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. hmm, i'll try this out for a while and see... > > For the iBook, I am using Option "MacModel" "ibook" ... > > You shouldn't need it at all, iBooks should be autodetected now. > Autodetection isn't perfect for PowerBooks with DVI connectors yet > though, hence the above advice. You are right, everything works fine even after removing the options line. I am not aware for these details, and I just found out about this option after some googling... Anyway this is even better... > > A load of warm greetings to all the coders on this.good work guys. > > RandR 1.2 support in the radeon driver was mostly implemented by Dave > Airlie and Alex Deucher. Thanks to Dave and Alex on this. -- Regards PK -- http://counter.li.org #402424
Bug#452909: hal: there is big regressions about the pmu support
Package: hal Version: 0.5.10-2 Severity: normal Due to the last upload of hal, there is regression in the support of pmu. None of them seems complicated to fix as I was able to find workarounds without prior knowledge of hal and dbus stuff.. The symptom was that I was no longer able to suspend to ram using kpowersave. I used qdbusviewer to interacts with hald and also executed hals in a console. I found that /usr/lib/hal/hal-system-power-pm-is-supported reports to hal that my computer cannot suspend to ram. This is wrong. Since the regression, I was able to suspend my computer using: /usr/lib/hal/hal-system-power-pmu sleep I believe that /usr/lib/hal/hal-system-power-pm-is-supported should be fixed to at least say yes when an hal helper is able to do the job. So I have added: dbus-send --system --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal \ /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SetPropertyBoolean \ string:'power_management.can_suspend' boolean:true dbus-send --system --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal \ /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SetPropertyBoolean \ string:'power_management.can_suspend_to_ram' boolean:true to my /etc/rc.local to enforce hal to believe that my computer can suspend to ram. Now kpowersave offers the command. Yeah !!! Second problem, /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-suspend-linux is not able to suspend to ram my computer. There the problem is that hal apparently only supports pm-utils. Again, adding those some lines solved the problem: if [ $HAL_PROP_POWER_MANAGEMENT_TYPE == "pmu" ] ; then if [ -x "/usr/lib/hal/hal-system-power-pmu" ] ; then /usr/lib/hal/hal-system-power-pmu sleep RET=$? else unsupported fi else [...] fi My computer is an iBook G4 with those informations: cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 666.666000MHz revision: 0.2 (pvr 8003 0102) bogomips: 36.73 timebase: 18432000 platform: PowerMac machine : PowerBook6,5 motherboard : PowerBook6,5 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh detected as : 287 (iBook G4) pmac flags : 001b L2 cache: 512K unified pmac-generation : NewWorld So I submit this report to debian as I know that other debian users have the problem. I do not really have time to forward it to hal bug tracking system, even if I think that the regression is theirs. Do not hesitate to ask for more informations. So, I do not know what you can do, but it had to be reported. Thanks for your work on hal. Thanks in advance for your attention. Best regards -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (2, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-powerpc Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.1.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii hal-info 20071030-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f ii libc62.6.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat11.95.8-4XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.3-1The GLib library of C routines ii libhal-storage1 0.5.10-2Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libhal1 0.5.10-2Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-7 userspace USB programming library ii libvolume-id00.114-2 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii mount2.13-10 Tools for mounting and manipulatin ii pciutils 1:2.2.4-1.1 Linux PCI Utilities ii pm-utils 0.99.2-3utilities and scripts for power ma ii udev 0.114-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii usbutils 0.73-4 Linux USB utilities Versions of packages hal recommends: ii eject 2.1.5-6ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz
Thanks Jörg, On 11/25/07, Jörg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > bottoom edge of the external monitor. How do I get back to 1024x768 > > resolution on the external display? > > xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1024x786 Hey that works.. thanks.. -- Regards PK -- http://counter.li.org #402424
Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz
Hi Jörg On Sun, Nov 25 2007, at 10:14 +, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Hello P, > > P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do I get back to 1024x768 resolution on the external display? > > xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1024x786 Ahhh, that 'mode' option - what it does, that is - was what I was missing when I was looking for it last night .. :) Thanks .. Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer Key: 0xE3037113 http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113&fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz
On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 13:17 -0500, P Kapat wrote:
>
> On Nov 23, 2007 8:49 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hotplugging a VGA monitor to an alubook 5,8 with a fresh ati driver
> > works ... minor mouse isues, as of yet, but working :) ... details
> > below ..
>
> I became a bit more adventurous and tried out the experimental ati
> driver... Hotplugging a VGA monitor seems to work (on my iBook G4 -
> powerbook 6,5) exactly as hotplugging should, that is without any
> "xrandr --output --DVI-0 --auto" command - wow that is just insanely
> cool
This is by accident though, not by intention - there's currently no
mechanism implemented to automatically enable/disable outputs on
hotplugging.
> The low contrast issue that I had mentioned in my earlier
> mail, is almost solved now, I can see the light colors fine - but it
> is still not "pleasing"...
If you can't solve this, please bring it up on the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] list.
> > On Fri, Nov 23 2007, at 09:55 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > >
> > > The kernel doesn't matter for this. With xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.7.19x
> > > (so far only available in experimental), external displays with a VGA
> > > connector should work with all Radeon {Power,i}Books. Displays with a
> > > DVI connector can be trickier; depending on the PowerBook model and
> > > driver version, Option "MacModel" "powerbook" or "powerbook-duallink"
> > > may help for those.
>
> For the iBook, I am using Option "MacModel" "ibook" ...
You shouldn't need it at all, iBooks should be autodetected now.
Autodetection isn't perfect for PowerBooks with DVI connectors yet
though, hence the above advice.
> A load of warm greetings to all the coders on this.good work guys.
RandR 1.2 support in the radeon driver was mostly implemented by Dave
Airlie and Alex Deucher.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com
Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz
Hello P, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 23 2007, at 09:55 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: >> > Note that hotplugging a monitor per se isn't expected to have any direct >> > effect; something like >> > >> > xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto > > I don't actually need to do this, but if I do (note for my case: the > output is VGA-0 instead of DVI-0: "xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto"), I > get a higer resolution (1280x1024) external monitor display; where my > iBook's LCD is 1024x768 max. This projects the iBook's LCD screen to > the 1024x768 block on the upper-left corner of the 1280x1024 external > monitor - resulting in empty-but-accessable strips on the right and > bottoom edge of the external monitor. How do I get back to 1024x768 > resolution on the external display? xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1024x786 Have a nice day, Jörg. -- Erfahrung heißt gar nichts. Man kann seine Sache auch 35 Jahre schlecht machen. (Kurt Tucholsky) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
