Converting from YDL to Debian/Yaboot and Partitions
Hey all, I am going to be embarking on switching to Debppc from YDl and have a few questions I want to clarify: Deb instructions specify a 800k boot-strap partition as the absolute first partition on the harddrive, yet YDL specifies a 10mb(admited overkill) boot strap partition as first partition _after_ Mac OS partitions. Since they both use Yaboot, wont the partition structure from the existing YDL install work? If not, I was not aware you could put something like OSX on first and still be able to leave a tiny partition unaffected at the beginging of the disc for use as a boot strap partition. Could someone clarify this for me? Or point me at a better install reference than: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/install Having just checked the Yaboot how to, it would seem the later is correct and that it need only be the first of the linux partitions, and not the first of the whole disk. Yaboot howto says the bootstrap only takes up 800K, but doesnt say one way or another that the partition need be a set size. So I guess this comes down to a single question: is there a size limitation to the boot-strap partition? Since mine, for YDL, already exists, but is bigger than 800K, will it still be ok to use with Debian? Thanks John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Flash
Is there anything in the near future that says we( the ppc linux community) will ever get Flash that works? Mostly I have just chosen to ignore sites that use flash and don't provide an alternative.just sorta figured I need em, if thats how they are gonna make their website. Unfortunately, I have recently switched from skiing to snowboardingand litteraly every snowboarding site and manufacturer uses flash...I mean pretty much ALL of them. Which is making my life less than ideal. So, is there any hope at all?? Any? thanks John
tiBook2 radeon vid ststus?
Anyone(Ben?), have some resources as to getting the radeon mobility video working on the new tiBooks? Any place for patches to XFree or the kernel,...or both? thanks John
Re: iBook2 touch pad mouse
I may be speaking too soon.so forgive me, BUT, just invoking: trackpad notap Has caused the whole thing to behave very nicely. No more jitteryness and jumping around. I am going to be truely happy if this actually cures my iBook2's retched trackpad. Thank you very much. j On Thursday 06 December 2001 11:07, Josh Huber wrote: Daniel Lamblin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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), Indeed, it is: powerpc-utils: /sbin/trackpad Of course, I'm not sure if this is in potato, but who runs potato anyway? :)
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
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
HFS+ status
I just wanted to confirm via list knowledge: There is no way to write to an HFS+ file system currently in linux? The whole hpxx tool set and the funky way they work is because there is no current support for mounting an hfs+ file system from within the linux kernel? Thanks John
Benh's kernel and Firewire
I remember a bit of a ways back Ben saying he was thinking of gathering up all the patches someone hadand putting them into his kernel. Did that ever happen? Last time I checked, loading a FW module was just a really good way to shut down my iBook2 really fast and reset the hardware clock. Has anything changed? Is there someplace where a person can get someones latest FW patches to apply to a kernel? I have a firewire webcam hooked up to a telescope I would like to use...as well as a firewire harddrive on the way. Thanks all John NYC
Re: segfault in mozilla-browser-0.9.4-3 postinst
Don't know if it was covered before.but I have had problems with Mozilla installs because of ownership of files. Try: chown -R root.root path_to_mozilla_directory For some reason, if it still has the original, and on most systems unknown, user and group from build time. It seg faults. Once it is chowned, it should run fine as any user. J On Tuesday 02 October 2001 07:45, Ethan Benson wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 07:36:50PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok. I lied, galeon only works for root. If I try to run it as a you should not even be trying that, ever. Advice is good, reasons are even better. Why shouldn't I run it as root? no X program should ever be run as root. period. root is for system administration ONLY not for random web browsing and daily use. you should be root as little as possible. chmod -R go=rX /etc/gconf That's one of the things I tried. No luck same error. i have 3 separate machines and cannot reproduce this problem. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset=us-ascii; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:
iBook2 sound: Thanks all
After noticing the dmasound thread just recently, I pulled a new rsync of benh's kernel; compiled, and voila!, sound works without the funky set_deq and tumble and keywest hand compiles, YEA!(thanks, btw, to those who hacked out those scripts that got us though till now though). Even the mixer is working.well sorta. Like it mentioned in the dmasound thread, its not very linear. All volume is in the bottom few % of the control. So I just thought I might post and say thank you to whoever has been doing the work for sound on iBook2's! also, to ask a favor? When someone fixes the linear volume prob, Can you post it? thanks again John H
iBook2 agp: Thanks also
Hey all again, As a bonus to sound working, Xfree 4.1, rage 128, and agp are all working now too. Woohooo! Or it least it seems...maybe: Every thing loads, no more unrecognized stuff. Unfortunately, glxgears still only gets about 60fps and glxinfo still dumps the X server. Anyone got any ideas of where to look next? thanks John H NYC
Re: iBook2 agp: Thanks also
On Thursday 27 September 2001 05:15, Michel Dänzer wrote: John Hughes wrote: As a bonus to sound working, Xfree 4.1, rage 128, and agp are all working now too. Woohooo! Or it least it seems...maybe: Every thing loads, no more unrecognized stuff. Unfortunately, glxgears still only gets about 60fps That's not hardware accelerated, or you'd get over 300 fps. and glxinfo still dumps the X server. It doesn't here... Anyone got any ideas of where to look next? If you're trying with agpgart, you should without (it's still experimental). Oh well, no love from the kernel. It doesn't want to compile the r128 code wtihout the agp. Maybe next month. =) Thanks again for the help though. John -- make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4benh/drivers/char/drm' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4benh/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -D__powerpc__ -fsigned-char -msoft-float -pipe -ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple -mstring-c -o r128_drv.o r128_drv.c In file included from r128_drv.c:108: drm_memory.h: In function `r128_ioremap_agp': drm_memory.h:340: warning: unused variable `i' drm_memory.h:340: warning: unused variable `err' drm_memory.h:339: warning: unused variable `flags' drm_memory.h:338: warning: unused variable `agpmem' drm_memory.h:337: warning: unused variable `area' drm_memory.h:336: warning: unused variable `pt' In file included from r128_drv.c:110: drm_vm.h: In function `r128_vm_shm_nopage': drm_vm.h:178: warning: unsigned int format, long unsigned int arg (arg 3) drm_vm.h: In function `r128_vm_dma_nopage': drm_vm.h:303: warning: unsigned int format, long unsigned int arg (arg 4) drm_vm.h: In function `r128_mmap': drm_vm.h:511: structure has no member named `agp' drm_vm.h:513: structure has no member named `agp' make[4]: *** [r128_drv.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4benh/drivers/char/drm' make[3]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4benh/drivers/char/drm' make[2]: *** [_subdir_drm] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4benh/drivers/char' make[1]: *** [_subdir_char] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4benh/drivers' make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
1394 and benh kernels?
Is/are any of the recent firewire patches in benh's kernel? Anyone know(Ben?)? I am buying a cheap web cam(~$100-120) for modification for use with a telescope, and am considering getting one of the firewire models instead of usb.(iBot, ADS PYROcamnothing special). Speaking of which...anyone playing with those under ppc? John H NYC
Re: ibook2 + i2c-dev + sound question
This is what I have running on mine by way of modules for sound. I also had to modify dmasound_core.c to take unsigned input. i2c-keywest 4864 0 (autoclean) i2c-dev 5120 0 (autoclean) i2c-core 14816 0 (autoclean) [i2c-keywest i2c-dev] tumbler 2144 0 (autoclean) (unused) dmasound_pmac 33792 0 (autoclean) dmasound_core 13200 0 (autoclean) [dmasound_pmac] soundcore 5008 3 (autoclean) [dmasound_core] Hope this helps a bit j
Re: ibook2 + i2c-dev + sound question
Anyone got a location on Olaf's patcheshome site? Looked in the archives...but they don't seem to be searchable. While I can wander through them for an hour or two...I thought someone would have a quick loc on the appropriate place. Thanks jH On Thursday 30 August 2001 06:16, Bastien Nocera wrote: Don't use that, it's old and not clean. Olaf's patches also include sleep fixes. John Hughes wrote: This is what I have running on mine by way of modules for sound. I also had to modify dmasound_core.c to take unsigned input. i2c-keywest 4864 0 (autoclean) i2c-dev 5120 0 (autoclean) i2c-core 14816 0 (autoclean) [i2c-keywest i2c-dev] tumbler 2144 0 (autoclean) (unused) dmasound_pmac 33792 0 (autoclean) dmasound_core 13200 0 (autoclean) [dmasound_pmac] soundcore 5008 3 (autoclean) [dmasound_core] Hope this helps a bit j
ext3
Anyone know if it is considered stable and safe on ppc? I have heard ext2 is upgradeable so to speak to ext3 on the fly. I have a 17gb filesystem I don't really want to have to fsck on my ibook2 J
JRE and Mozilla Pluggin
Does anyone know if Blackdown has gotten a pluggin working for mozilla yet? Most of the readmes seem to state thay havent, but I seem to recall someone on the list saying they were useing a blackdown jdk _with_ the pluggin. Thanks for any available info. John
Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian
On Thursday 02 August 2001 01:19, Sven wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 06:43:42PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: I have to second Bastien, Its right under say a celleron 300a for performancemaybeand thats a big maybe. That said, its still plenty huh, on what do you base this affirmation ? or do you compare it with an overclocked celeron 300 to 450 or something such ? or is it a desktop system with a faster system, faster disks, etc, ... or are you using intel optimized programs for benchmarking ? comparing a 500Mhz G3 to a 300MHz Celeron hardly seems right to me, but then i did not really do any tests. Hmmm, nothing truely official I guess test wise. I own a dual PII 233, k6-266, PII300, Cell 300a(over clocked at times, but not at the moment), Athalon 800, PIII 450, Sparc 20(dual 55mhz), U1 170. I have owned and gotten rid of quite a few more...including a number of laptops. Upon which I have run linux on all of them. My opinion...and yes, let me emphasize _opinion_, is that my iBook2 _seems_ to perform at about the level of a Cell 300a desktop across a wide range of tasks. But I would probably give the edge to the Celleron. I would like to state that this does not disapoint me at all. As I said I have owned several laptops and they all perform at about 50% or less than what an equivilantsp? desktop would. I think the iBook2 is great, it may be the best money I have ever spent on a computer. Just dont expect it to be some super fast super computer. John
Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 12:24, Bastien Nocera wrote: Noah John wrote: the ibook is definatly a good purchase. from what i gather, some sound still doesn't work. However, what i really meant to say was: G3 500 MHz vs. i386. is about an 800-933 MHz P3 is about a 733 MHz Athlon or P4 is about a GHz celeron (celeron has no b-side cache). You certainly have benchmarks to prove that ? The G3 in the iBook has only 128k of L2 cache, and it is slower than my iMac G3 400 (which has 512k of this same cache). If you want a powerhorse of a laptop, get a TiBook, or an x86 laptop. The x86 will give you a crappy architecture, and not much battery life. In the end the iBook's performances are more than enough for playing mp3s, playing quake3 in macos, do hacking, and a bit of GIMPing. DVD playback should be possible if we get a version of libmpeg2 that's a tad bit faster. I have to second Bastien, Its right under say a celleron 300a for performancemaybeand thats a big maybe. That said, its still plenty strong for most everything I do. And I really do get 4-5 hours of battery life during normal useage. As far as dvd playback goes...its works for me just fine. Every so often it hickups.and we sure could use a more efficientsp? libmpeg2 librarybut I am not disapointed by how well it behaves. Especialy now that Ihave a 512mb module in it. But if you are looking for some powerhouse number cruncher...well, the iBook2 isn't it. John
Re: Icebooks
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 05:18, Bastien Nocera wrote: Hi, Maybe I didn't post loud enough. I released a kernel for the iBook2 with the sound driver *as well as* a package containing the dmasound_core patch with the rest of the files for the driver. Now, if we can close this discussion that brings up nothing... Relax B, some of us have kernels we have patched together from a bunch of different sources and aren't all that fond of the idea of replacing and re-tweaking a new one. Thank you for your hard work, but all I wanted was the fix to sound core. Thank you Yves for the post on it. John
Re: Icebooks
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 09:19, Bastien Nocera wrote: John Hughes wrote: On Tuesday 31 July 2001 05:18, Bastien Nocera wrote: Hi, Maybe I didn't post loud enough. I released a kernel for the iBook2 with the sound driver *as well as* a package containing the dmasound_core patch with the rest of the files for the driver. Now, if we can close this discussion that brings up nothing... Relax B, some of us have kernels we have patched together from a bunch of different sources and aren't all that fond of the idea of replacing and re-tweaking a new one. Thank you for your hard work, but all I wanted was the fix to sound core. Thank you Yves for the post on it. OK, I'll say that once more (until you understand): The fix to the dmasound_core (the patch to the sources) is in the tumbler-driver package I mentioned. http://hadess.net/files/ppc/ibook2/tumbler-driver.tar.gz Cheers My appologies for not seeing what you had written properly. Do try to relax though. Being that wound up just isn't good for your health. Thank you again. John
Re: iBook2 memmory amount incorrect
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 01:23, Olaf Hering wrote: Just got a 512mb memmory module, installed it, and booted. Well, everything seems to be okexcept that linux only sees 510mb total...when it should be 640mb. If someone wants any info from iBook2, just let me know off list...or on I guess, and I will send whatever you want. btw-2.4.7benh kernel from about a week ago or so. There is a highmem option in general options, enable it and tell us how it works. I'll try it, but I was under the impression that the himem setting was for 2gb ram. I have several machine with 512mb that don't have this problem. I will recompile anyways just to see though. John
Re: Icebooks
On Monday 30 July 2001 01:46, Yves wrote: I agree with that. I have swapped the translators of dmasound_core.c on my icebook, and I can now listen music with xmms, at high volume (well with set_eq 1...). Do you have the hacked dmasound_core.c file? or a patch that does it? I looked through it, but am not a programmer and was not sure what to change. Thanks John
Re: Icebooks
On Saturday 28 July 2001 02:15, James Tyson wrote: Ok, the .c's compiled just fine...but the .cpp file is not playing nice. I tried replacing gcc with g++ and cpp, but neither seem to have much effect. Thanks for the continued help. John The set_deq.cc isnt a module, it's a applet to set the mixer volume. g++ -o set_deq set_deq.cc it takes an argument, a float 0 = x = 1 where 1 is full volume and 0 is off. Wow, it works!! sorta. Well, you're right, I got beep. As far as anything elsewell, I am figuring it is normal at this stage in the driversbut I will mention it just to make sure what I am seeing is the same as anyone else: when I play an ogg or mp3 the sound is extremely distorted. It is till very clearly the music I am expecting, but it sound a lot like the inputs are being over driven. I have used set_eq to lower the volume...works great. Shouldn't be hard to script up a little widget to run it until there is something better. Is there someplace I should check(the place I got the drivers from??) to see if they have been updated at all? Is there a mini-mailing list of sorts? Thanks again for the help and pointers. John H
Re: Icebooks
On Thursday 26 July 2001 07:47, James Tyson wrote: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4-benh/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__powerpc__ -fsigned-char -msoft-float -pipe -ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple -mstring -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.4-benh/include/linux/modversions.h -c -o tumbler.o tumbler.c Ok, the .c's compiled just fine...but the .cpp file is not playing nice. I tried replacing gcc with g++ and cpp, but neither seem to have much effect. Thanks for the continued help. John
Re: Icebooks
On Thursday 26 July 2001 12:34, Mark Brown wrote: Before I go and do something stupid, does any one have any particular (dis)recommendations about using the newer iBooks with Debian? Looking at the spec and grovelling around on the web it seems they do reasonably well. Its a bit more work, and sound and the modem don't work as they are dependant on I2C buswhat that means I am not all that sure. this is my first mac. There are people working on it. Hopefull soon sound at least will be a reality. Everything else is really amazing. Decent performanceincredible battery life. Usb, cdrom,dvd,cdr,airport,10/100,Xfree 4.1 acceleration of video card all are workign well. If you are not new to Linux then I whole heartedly endorse the new iBooks. If you are new..it could pose a very steep learning curve. John Hughes
Re: Icebooks
On Thursday 26 July 2001 04:20, James Tyson wrote: My modem appears to work fine under Linux. Also, I am testking Jack's alpha sound drivers, and it seems to work reasonably just now. Ofcourse, no mixers or anything flash like that at this stage, but it's a start. You are talking about the iBook2's yes? How are you accessing the modem? What are you compiling into the kernal to get access to it? Where are the sound drivers? Are they accessable? I was aware of that kind of support for firewire iBooks.but not iBook2's because of the Tumbler audio chipset that runs in conjunction with I2C bus. Please, can you send me more info? Thanks John Hughes
Re: Icebooks
On Thursday 26 July 2001 06:33, James Tyson wrote: The modem seems to work file, I am using 2.4.6-benh as my kernel, and this is what I see in dmesg: PowerMac Z8530 serial driver version 2.0 tty00 at 0xc98da020 (irq = 22) is a Z8530 ESCC (cobalt modem) tty01 at 0xc98e1000 (irq = 23) is a Z8530 ESCC pointing minicom at /dev/ttyS0 seems to be a modem (atleast I can type ATZ and it says OK). My .config file is attached (ignore the wierdo networking shit, I have been working on wierd shit for work). Hmm, go figure, I had it compiled in as a mod, but never bothered to look in the macintoshdevices directoryalways in just char. I seem to have a blind spot to the word macintosh =). Too much time on Sun and x86. Loaded it and it works great. Thanks for the help on that. The URL for the drivers is: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~pfh/ibook/sound.html ). Let me know if you need any help, and if anyone on the list is interested in helping, I am sure that Jack would like to see some patches. Ok, got the source files.but compiling them to modules is something I don't have experience withcompiling raw .c files that is. If you have time, can you send me some guidlines? please? I should have figured it wouldn't be so easy as gcc -o tumbler.o tumbler.c ;-). Thanks you again for the info and help and your time. John Hughes
Question regarding BenH kernels(and others for that matter)
situation: certain features in a BenH kernel are deemed stable and worthy, and so(this part is guessing if you can't tell) they are shipped off to be included in the supper spiffy and stable ppc kernel (TM) so that all can enjoy the benifits of this great and stable kernel and not have to live in beta kernel land. Ok, so I have pretty much figured out that the destination kernel is not the one on kernel.org. So, where is the home of the Stable PPC Linux Kernel? Thanks dimes
Re: sleep with TiPB on 2.4.6 broken
Thought I might just jot this down and send it just as a quick confirmation/reference: iBook2 benh 2.4.6 (1.5 weeks old) no apm_emu /etc/power/level; contains 1 2 (--dont even know if thats the proper format??) without airport mods loaded, but not on: closed lid 8pm--opened lid 9am; 3bars battery left and everything running just fine. with airport mods loaded and on(network working fine): close lid-- open lid 1 hour later; everything running and working. **will try sleeping in console tonight as per problems from some users problems with TiPB. Thanks to BenH and all working on this stuff. My iBook2 is the best computer I have ever owned due to your efforts and support(hollis,slice,mutex, etc). John Hughes NYC (dimes)
Re: Taking the plunge with an ibook
On Monday 02 July 2001 10:50, Adrian Cox wrote: Having been working on embedded PowerPC hardware for quite a while, I'm now thinking of getting an iBook as my next laptop. Got one, its great, running nothing but linux(ydl 2.0 + benh 2.4.6) I've done a bit of searching around, but I could do with confirmation from somebody who's got one: 1) The RGB output port. Is this just good old VGA, or is it something else (like the RGB with PAL timings my DVD player produces)? Apple's site is very vague on this one. 1a) And can you use it under Linux yet? Can I output 800x600 if faced with a video projector that won't do 1024x768? It comes with a special dongle the is standard vga. There are boot time options for turning it on. I've only played with it once, but the console worked fine. X on the other hand didn't. Prolly just a config thing, but I haven't had the time to work it out. 2) Any problems with the ethernet and USB? I'll need to use a USB mouse and USB serial adapter, and to run embedded systems as diskless clients of the iBook. With the 2.4.X kernels, my intellimouse(laser thingie) works just fine, so does my microtech card reader(ibm micro drive reader). And lastly: 3) Any of the other peripherals (audio, firewire, modem) likely to be a source of trouble? Sound doesn't work, an it will prolly be a little bit before it does. argh. Thanks for any help you can give... John
Re: iBook2 and Sound
On Thursday 28 June 2001 08:02, you wrote: Thought I might update here. Since a reboot, XFree 4.1.0 seems to have done the trick with dvd playback. omi_gtk is now crystal clear and no longer tinted a funny blue. It works great!too bad theres no sound. Arghh. Can you please tell me how you got it to work in the first place? I've built it from CVS and nothing happens when I click the play button... I guess I should preface this a bit. My current, get work done install is a YDL 2.0 with the latest updates and a 2.4.4-b3 kernel from Slice on irc(not quite sure who Slice is really, but he seems to be a YDL developer. I have been thankfull for his help). Booting I have appended the following: append=hdb=scsi so that linux see's my cdr/dvd drive as scsi. Re-linked /dev/cdrom from /dev/hdb to /dev/scd0 and also linked /dev/dvd to /dev/scd0. I compiled the XFree 4.1 soources(went without a hitch). That said, I got the latest sources for oms, omi, libcss. Compiled libcss(run ldconfig), compiled oms(run ldconfig), then omi. omi_gtk only seems to run as root.not entirely true, but as a user it only runs for about 2 seconds then seg's. If you want some configs or anything just let me know. John Hughes NYC
Re: iBook2 and Sound
On Monday 25 June 2001 06:17, John Hughes wrote: I am using oms/omi from livid. Its free. Its also not perfect as there is some blue tinting and kinda a funny verticle lining on screen. That being said, I didn't expect it to run at all, so I figure I am quite ahead of the game. Thought I might update here. Since a reboot, XFree 4.1.0 seems to have done the trick with dvd playback. omi_gtk is now crystal clear and no longer tinted a funny blue. It works great! too bad theres no sound. Arghh. Ok, does anyone know who I have to speak with specifically to help with this? I am not a c progrmmer, but 6 years as a Sun and Linux systems administrator has got to be usefull for something. I can attempt stuff, compile, try to debug, etc.etc.etc. So if someone out there is working on this, can you drop me an email? thanks John Hughes
Re: new ibook?
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 02:29, Peter Meilstrup wrote: I am shopping around for a new laptop and I think the new ibook looks pretty sweet. If I do get it I would want to run debian on it most of the time, so I have a few questions about the status of hardware support. Power Mgt -- Are the power management functions (sleep, charging, backlight control, etc.) supported? It seems to be with the 2.4.4-b3 sources I got from a YDL developer.so I am guessing its made it to Benh's kernel(it could be one of Benh's kernels for that matter). Either way, it works for me. with the /etc/power/levels file set '1 2'. I get quite a decent amount of life out of my batteries. Sleep works just fine too. Video -- it's a Rage Mobility 128 chip; I assume this is supported in the latest Xfree86? Is there the ability to switch from the internal display to the external (RGB/composite) connectors? Worked with 4.0but I compiled 4.1 without a hitch. With 4.1 the ati128 is supported AND accelerated plus support for DRI. Sound -- I heard this wasn't working; I have a USB audio converter so I can do without it for a while. I hear its cause of the new tumble sound internals. Sure hope it gets working soon. ***If there is anything a developer want me to try, I certainly will. Also: cdr works dvd works airport works 10/100 nic works usb works and the vga out works(at least in consol) if you boot with an option of: video=aty128fb:crt:1,lcd:1 I suppose you could do that all the time with a yaboot.conf append, but I don't know if that would add battery use or not. John Hughes
iBook2 and Sound
Anyone know if someone has gotten this working yet? Its quite funny, I've gotten the dvd player to work(of all things), yet I have no sound. John Hughes
