How about the new MacBook
Hi all, One more thing : MacBook pro is out :-) The specification seems to be great, up to 4 time faster the the powerbook, intel dual core, isight, ... Hmm It's exiting me But, how about debian on it, only install the x86 version or need to do some little hack before ? Regards, Jaonary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mkvmlinux installation problem
Hi all, I've done an apt-get updata and apt-get upgrade last night. I use the unstable branch of debian on a powerbook 15, 1.25 Ghz. The update process gone well but during upgrage the system hang when installing the new kernel version (2.6.14-7) and mkvmlinux 18. It stay on GET mkvmlinux. I tryed to let the processing run but after an hour, it still in GET mkvmlinux state. Jaonary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unable to localize GDM
Hi all, I noticed something strange after a fresh installation of gdm and gnome. At the fisrt time, it displays all message in french (as my computer uses french locales) as I expected. But after one reboot, gdm never wants to speak french :-( I just don't understand what's wrong. I tried to chang the language in the setting box but there's nothing to do. Best regards, Jaonary.
Re: gdesklets uses 100 % of my cpu
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 09:32:28PM +0100, Domingo Fiesta Segura wrote: Are you (both) using the mail checker desklet? If yes remove it; I've seen that desklet eating up all the CPU when is not properly configured. In fact there's a problem with the mail checker desklet. I removed it and it works better now. It sill uses about 15 % of the cpu even when I do nothing.
gdesklets uses 100 % of my cpu
Hi all, I'd like to know if some of you managed to run gdesklets-daemon without any trouble in a ppc laptop with Debian/Sid. Here it works but also uses 100 % of the CPU. Then, the system get hot rapidly and becom very slow. :-( Best regards Jaonary
Re: Test patch for sleep on Aluminium PowerBooks
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 wakeup code right. It will add sleep (suspend-to-ram) support for these machines. It's based on various tested bits but is untested on these machines in it's current form, so let me know. Ben. Hi, I've tested this patch with the kernel in unstable tree and it works fine here. My system is a powerbook 15, 1,25Ghz with an ati radeon M10 9600. However, I noticed that there is a problem with the sound when I run the kernel 2.6.9. I noticed also that with wmaker, the screen becom very messy befor suspend or resum. Thank you Jaonary
Re: APM and backlight keyboard with kernel 2.6.8-1
Thanks for the tip, apm is now working on my pb :-). I'm gonna try too compile the kernel 2.6.9 with Ben's patch. Regards, Jaonary
Re: Frech keyboard with xfree
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:52:34PM -0400, Sébastien Mengin wrote: Le lun 25 oct 04 à 23:30, Sven Luther a écrit: the console is not major problem, but this is still utterly broken in X, and there is very little chance that it gets fixed nextly, unless either some french mac user knowledgeable in X fixes it, or enough people bother the X strike force to get it fixed (or both). One might use the .deb packaged by a french debian user here : http://www.lamenagerie.com/boite/informatique/extrasoft/xfree86-xkb-macfrnew_0.0.20010103_all.deb Thanks for your reply. I finally install this xkb symbol and it's seems to work perfectly when I'm not using gnome as a lot of people say here. I hope this bug will be fixed sooner. I wanna help and do something for that but I don't understand what's happen inside X and Xkb :-( Regards
APM and backlight keyboard with kernel 2.6.8-1
Hi all, I've juste finish to install Debian on my albook 15. I've used debian-installer and the bluit-in kernel 2.6.8-1. Now, I want to run a battery manager such as wmbattery but it says that the kernel doesn't not support APM. Then, I wanna know whether I shoud rebuild the kernel or is there another way to put apm on ? More over, the backlight keyboard doesn't work here. It seems to me that this problem was already solve, so I've missed. I have pbbutton installed but the backlight keys do not work :-( Finaly, I wanna know how to get the latest version of linux kernel (2.6.9 - 2.6.10) , in order to compile it on my debian box. I wanna test the patch that Ben for the suspend. Thanks a lot. Best regards, Jaonary
Frech keyboard with xfree
Hi all, I've just finish to install debian on my albook 15 :-) . I've used debian-installer pre-rc2 for this and the installation was successfull. The only problem is the keyboard under xfree. With the consol, it's all right. The keyboard behave just as in mac os x. But, under xfree I couldn't get the right configuration. Here is my XFree config file : Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option Xkbrule xfree86 Option XkbModel macintosh Option XkbLayout fr EndSection A few months ago I used the xkblayout from here : http://www.linux-france.org/macintosh/clavier_rpm3.html for consol and X keyboard layout. So, before doing the same thing, I'd like to know whether this keyboard layout is now supported by debian and how to set it under xfree ? Best regards
about installing debian on powerbook alu 1.25 ghz
Hi all, I'm thinking to install debian on my powerbook alu 15'' with an ati radeon M10 graphic card and I would like to know wath are the things that I have to install absolutly in order to get most of the stuff working: - xserver? - french keyboard? - power managment? - backlight keyboard? - kernel? - airport ? (I have a doubt on it) - sound Thanks in advance for replaying, -- Jaonary RABARISOA 27 rue des loges 78600 Maisons Laffitte
Re: Debian on PowerBook G4
Have you try the debian Installer. I used the beta 4 version to install debian on my powerbook, and it works well. You can get it in the debian installer web sit. I don't know the addresse but you can do google - debian installer. Le 10 mai 04, à 11:33, Gilly Bates a écrit : I have try 2 different kernel files and in each of them (in the readme file) says that it has an ata100 support. and my image file for the CD if the current debian version r.02 from debian.org and I am sure it has ata100 support. but if u can find out where u got this image, I really like to try it...btw. is it possible that the new g4 powerbook has something different inside? I have check my documentation and it says the I got a ata100 drive insidebut as u can seelinux dont get it :/ hmmm... On 10.05.2004, at 11:05, Timo Reimerdes wrote: On Mo, 2004-05-10 at 09:22 +0200, Gilly Bates wrote: hi, since jesterday I am trying to install debian on my powerbook g4 (the new 1 with 1.33GHz) so I have download the iso file from debian.org for powerpc and have burn it, but I just cannot boot from the CD. I have find some tutorials online where it says I need to copy the root.bin, linux.bin, yaboot and yaboot.conf to my root directory and boot from the open firmaware as: boot hd:3,yabootand this is working well, I boot the kernel and I can set everything fine till the part where I need to make a linux partition! There I got the message, that there is no harddrive attached on this computer. You need to get an install cd with ATA-100 support in the kernel I had the same problem and now it works fine Only problem: since this is the radeon 9600 I have suspend and dri wont work. :( I dont recall where I got that boot-cd from, but I found one. If I find it again I'll post the link here. I have also try in the console mac-fdisk -l and it shows me just the ramDrive and the cdrom. I have 10Gigs free space on my harddrive wich I want to use for linux, but how can I make a patiton when he cannot find my harddrive?! so what can I do now? romano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Timo Reimerdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Envie de discuter en live avec vos amis ? Télécharger MSN Messenger http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/m la 1ère messagerie instantanée de France
Re: powerbook and debian
Hi, I see that you almost managed to run debian perfectly in you albook 15''. So, I would ask to you some tips and advice because there are several things that doesn't work yet in mine. I have the same albook 15'' as you. (1,25 ghz, backlight keyboard airport bluethoot). Untill now I've just managed to install debian/sid (kernel 2.6.1) but I can't run most of my hardware. Here are my status: Xfree working sound not working backlight keyboard not working CD-R I don't know (probably not working) Automatic managment of Keyboard Backlight and LCD Bright with light condition : not working Blutooth not working CPU frequency change I don't know Thanks for your help Le 22 janv. 04, à 19:22, Federico Gamio a écrit : El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 05:26, Angel escribió: Are apple powerbooks and debian good friends? Sure, and are the coolest device to run Linux :) I am in a rush of spending 3000 euros on a laptop :), I want to run linux on it (I have no experience with Mac Os) . Although I've heard wonders of the apple powerbook 15 with the superdrive I am a bit hesitant on how easy it would be to run debian on it. Well, I have an Alu 15 1.25Ghz with superdrive with Debian and MacOS X. I don't use MacOS X (well, I start it once a week to apply security patches or show how it looks to somebody who want to know more about Macs :) The instalation process is not as easy it can be, but part of that dificult is understand the new architecture of Macs (this is my first Mac) So, you can install Debian, you will have a lot of fun doing that :) Well right now my status with Linux/Debian/PowerBook is: Distribution: Debian/Unstable using Gnome 2.4 Kernel: 2.6.1-ben1 USB: Working USB cable to conect Motorola V60i CDMA phone to access Internet by phone: Working PCMCIA: Working (I have an 3com wifi card) Fan Control: Working Keyboard Backlight: Working Automatic managment of Keyboard Backlight and LCD Bright with light conditions: Working DVD: Working CD-R: Working DVD-R: Works (but not tested) Bluetooth: Working CPU frequency change: working Sound: Working In case installation is easy/feaseble, what would be the bad side (if any) of running debian on a powerbook Well, you will be part of minority of minority, but everybody want's to be member of a select club : There are only a few things that I am missing: Native Wifi support 3D aceleration (you can't see DVD or avis in full screen) External monitor Modem Sleep support If you can't live without of one of these things, well, you have MacOS :) I am very happy with this notebook, and my next linux notebook will be another mac (I hope G5 or something better) Federico Thanks for any comments, Angel -- My software never has bugs. | ASCII Ribbon Campaign /\ It just develops random features. | For Standards-Complaint Email \ / Public GnuPG key avaible at: http://www.keyserver.net X 1024D/203E154B 2003-10-03 Federico Gamio [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Key fingerprint = 0B9E 3A19 C88B EBAC 5422 C05F 76B5 B922 203E 154B sub 2048g/32D2F465 2003-10-03 _ Envie de discuter en live avec vos amis ? Télécharger MSN Messenger http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/m la 1ère messagerie instantanée de France
I can't get the right config (keyboard, yaboot)
Hi all, My machine : powerbook 15'' alu , 1,25ghz, french azerty keyboard. I managed to install debian sarge with the debian-installer beta 2 without pain but the xserver didn't work at this time. To get xfree working I followed Luis Sanjuan sugestion : - swiching to kernel 2.6 - upgrade to sid - install xfree-dri-trunk ( http://libertonia.escomposlinux.org/story/2004/1/12/143137/349 http://libertonia.escomposlinux.org/story/2004/1/16/175324/141) Now the xserver works fine. My problem is to get the right keyboard config. In fact, I can't have some keys such as tilde or pipe ... I noticed that when I'm not using the xserver but the consol I just have to type loadkeys mac-fr-ext to get the right keykoard. Then I can get for eg the tilde like in original mac french keyboard : option + n or the pipe : shift + option + L. But when I run an x session these keys no longer work. Here is my X config file: Section InputDevice Identifier Generic keyboard Driver keyboard Option Xkbrules xfree86 Option Xkbmodel macintoch Option Xkblayout fr The other problem is that when I start the system I always have to open the Open Firmware in order to boot debian with boot hd:9,yaboot. If I don't do this, my system will boot automaticly with mac os X. I've already run the yabootconfig command and ybin. And every thing seems goes well. Here is what I have in yaboot.conf: macosx=/dev/hda13 boot=/dev/hda9 device:/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: partition=1 root=/dev/hda11 timeout=30 install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot imag=/boot/vmlinux label=linux append=video=radeonfb read-only Big thanks for those who can give me some tips and suggestions. Greetings _ Envie de discuter en live avec vos amis ? Télécharger MSN Messenger http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/m la 1ère messagerie instantanée de France
Openfirmware yaboot
Hi all, Is it possible to configure Openfirmware so that it can boot directly debian. When booting I always have to open OF and type boot hd:9,yaboot otherwise my machine boot directly with mac os 10.3 Thanks _ Envie de discuter en live avec vos amis ? Télécharger MSN Messenger http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/m la 1ère messagerie instantanée de France
