G4 macmini power button usable?
Hi everybody. [Please, kindly CC to me, since I'm not subscribed.] I would like to be able to use G4 macmini's power button in an ACPI-like fashion (e.g., to shut down the beast in an orderly manner). showkey does not see it as a key, ergo, cannot configure pbbuttonsd to use the signal... :-( Any ideas? Thanks! -- Pancho Horrillo To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: G4 macmini power button usable?
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:55:11AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 09:34 +0200, Pancho Horrillo wrote: showkey does not see it as a key, ergo, cannot configure pbbuttonsd to use the signal... :-( Actually, if it's supported, the number is 116 (IIRC) Oh, that would be the power button at the keyboard. No problems with that one. I was referring to the power button at the macmini chassis proper. Thanks anyway! johannes pancho. -- Pancho Horrillo To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Monitor never suspends on G4 Mac Mini with Sony Flat Panel
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 08:30:23PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad wrote: Hey Pancho, The more I look at this the more I think your monitor is a little different. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/sbin/ddcprobe | grep name monitorname: SDM-S204 but your xorg.conf lists the monitor as being an SDM-S204E. Could you confirm? $ ddcprobe | grep name monitorname: SDM-204E The Force serves you well... But after trying out your xorg.conf changes (mostly AGP parameters) I'm still not able to put this monitor to sleep. Still working on it though ;) Good luck! [warnung: ze rest is offtopik!] Pancho P.S.: I'm from spain; where are you from? Your name sounds Pancho like hindi? I'm in Redmond, Washington, USA (home of you know who, but I have nothing to do with you know who except that many of my friends do work there). But, yes, I was born in India so your guess about my name is a good one. The name is actually a Bengali name and not a Hindi one. I was born close to the state of West Bengal and my parents picked a local name for me (I understand and speak Spanish much better than Bengali, but that is not saying much about my Spanish skills at all :) Cool. Hey, I also speak Spanish much better than Bengali! :P Cheers! Shyamal Have fun, buddy! pancho. -- Pancho Horrillo To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Monitor never suspends on G4 Mac Mini with Sony Flat Panel
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:20:20PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad wrote: Hi folks, Hi! I have a very straight forward Debian etch installation on a G4 Mac Mini. Same thing I have. One issue with X (xorg) is that the monitor (a Sony flat panel, SDM S204) never seems to go into the sleep state. The screen seems to blank and all, but the monitor continues to run at full power. Same monitor, too. If I issue an 'xset dpms force standby' (or sleep etc.) the screen blanks, but the monitor continues to run at full power. 'xset q' shows DPMS being on. xset dpms etc... works for me, i.e. the monitor goes to low power mode. Under Mac OS X I do not have this issue, the monitor goes into a low power state when the screen blanks. No macosx in my box... From xorg.conf, some relevant bits: Section Monitor Identifier SDM-S204 Option DPMS HorizSync 28-75 VertRefresh 57-63 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device ATI Technologies, Inc. RV280 [Radeon 9200] Monitor SDM-S204 Same lines here. The only other data point I have is this: I used to have this monitor hooked up to a dual G5 tower and I had the same problem when running Linux. So perhaps it is the monitor. Both systems were running a 2.6.16-1-powerpc[64] kernel. Custom-compiled linux-2.6.16.5, but have had no problems regarding this issue with several other 2.6.x linuxes, either debian and custom. Any ideas on how to fix this? Do you use DVI or plain vga cable? I have another box (an intel with a radeon 9250) connected to the same monitor, through the vga port. Once I select that input (vga), I cannot go back to the DVI one, where the mac mini is connected; I have to power off manually the monitor (hard switch), because it freezes! I'll supply you with any cfg files you may want to examine. Just ask. Best regards, Shyamal Have fun, pancho. -- Pancho Horrillo To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Monitor never suspends on G4 Mac Mini with Sony Flat Panel
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 08:30:31AM -0700, Shyamal Prasad wrote: Cool - some one with exactly the same configuration :) Yeah! :) Are you running stable or testing? testing Pancho Do you use DVI or plain vga cable? DVI With the cable that came with the monitor? Just a wild idea... Could you please send me your xorg.conf file and the kernel config you are using so I can try exactly the same configuration. I presume you built your kernel off the source package in unstable? I have attached xorg.conf, config-2.6.16.5 (vanilla linux), and a list of installed packages in my mac mini. Please note that the aforementioned config-2.6... builds a REALLY monolithic kernel, with all the functionality I need built in, and no modules at all. You've been warned :-). Also, is there any chance you could try the stock 2.6.15 kernel in testing to see if you can recreate my problem? I'd like to know if this is just me or there is a problem with the kernel configuration. Just tried it (linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc), and no problem at all! $ xset dpms force standby does the trick in X, and pressing power button (thanks to pbbuttonsd) does it in plain console. Note: I have a happy hacking pro keyboard, which has mac keys (vol up down, power, mute, eject), although only power works reliably for me; still working with the others... Won't you by chance have the same keyboard? :) Cheers! Shyamal May the Source be with you. Good luck! pancho. P.S.: I'm from spain; where are you from? Your name sounds like hindi? -- Pancho Horrillo To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli config-2.6.16.5.bz2 Description: Binary data xorg.conf.bz2 Description: Binary data installed_packages.bz2 Description: Binary data
How can I get rid of the starting bong! (G4-mac mini)?
Hi! Mi G4 mac mini, following apple tradition, starts with a noisy bong!. This is a real nuissance for me; I've talked to him, but to no avail... Googling I found this app, for MacOS X: http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~arcana/software.en.html but no MacOS X is installed in my mac, only etch. Next step is asking to them about how the app works (I got their email); but I tought of asking here first, and maybe coordinate efforts, etc. Obvious stuff I tried: . The bong sounds even if headphones are plugged. Through the internal speaker, I mean. . Tried to press [mute] key before pressing the power button, but this is a usb happy hacking, not an ADB mac keyboard... . Tried setting the volume to 0 before shutting down the beast. No avail. Speakerectomy apart, do you know any way to disable this bong? Any OpenFirmware variable that can be set? (I've looked for it, too, but no luck either). I tell you that this is troublesome for me: I live in an old building; the walls are very thin..., and due to the (bad) architecture of the building, the bong can be heard by, virtually, everyone. Specially at night. I can hear clearly the conversations of at least three different neighbours... Thank you, Pancho. -- Pancho Horrillo To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I get rid of the starting bong! (G4-mac mini)?
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:45:30PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 15:39 +0200, Pancho Horrillo wrote: Mi G4 mac mini, following apple tradition, starts with a noisy bong!. This is a real nuissance for me; I've talked to him, but to no avail... nvsetvol 0 It works! Danke. johannes -- Pancho Horrillo To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trouble getting mac mini builtin modem to work
Hi everybody! I am trying to get the built-in modem of my mac mini to work (if only for nostalgic purposes :), but no luck so far... This is what linux sees: Linux venus 2.6.15.6 #1 PREEMPT Tue Mar 7 21:37:17 CET 2006 ppc GNU/Linux ttyS0 at MMIO 0x80013020 (irq = 22) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Serial port ttyS1 at MMIO 0x80013000 (irq = 23) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Serial port The devices appear nicely (thanks, udev :) in /dev: crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 64 2006-03-09 08:06 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 65 2006-03-09 08:00 /dev/ttyS1 And now the tricky part... I've tried minicom on both serial ports, and with the whole bunch of baud rates, but no luck. No response at all from the ports. Which makes me think that, perhaps, the built-in modem is not connected to any of these serial ports? If so, why on earth would apple add two serial ports connected to nothing but air (there are no serial connectors in the rear plate)? :-) Hey, legacy stuff in mac? :-P Indeed, I have no idea whether the built-in modem is a softmodem or not. Anybody has experimented with this? any ideas would be very appreciated. Nice piece of hardware, this mac mini. Working in almost complete silence is priceless for me... And thanks to the contributors of this list; with the info I gathered from here I got it working with no hassle, even the sound mixer issue was solved in this list! Thank you, Pancho. -- Pancho Horrillo To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: HFS/HFS+ mounting problems: HFS-fs: Filesystem is marked locked, mounting read-only.
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:45:36PM +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 07:40:22PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Mr. Data! At this document, http://www.e-vse.com/csi/doc/hfs/Release%201.0A/HFS%20Provisional.pdf look for the WAKEUP command. It says (quote): 'Certain parts of the HFS are necessarily single-threaded. If problems occur, it is possible that HFS can be left in a _locked_ state with one or more partitions and/or subtasks left in an undenning wait state. The WAKEUP command will free all of outstanding waits that currently exist for HFS. Use this with caution blah blah blah...' Note that the aforementioned WAKEUP command belongs to CSIHFBAT utility, which I take must belong to MacOS X (wild guess). Still no luck with that hint. The only information I already found some time ago is refering to the same problem here: Sorry to read that. http://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug/2005-July/041620.html Otherwise, I am now using MacOSX to transfer things to my iPod. If you are willing to disable the code that forces the read-only mount at linux kernel, I can send you a patch. Cheers, Bona nit! -- Jesus Climent info:www.pumuki.org Unix SysAdm|Linux User #66350|Debian Developer|2.6.14|Helsinki Finland GPG: 1024D/86946D69 BB64 2339 1CAA 7064 E429 7E18 66FC 1D7F 8694 6D69 The fool looks at a finger that points at the sky. --The Sacré-Coeur Boy (Amelie) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] El Pancho. -- Pancho Horrillo To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli signature.asc Description: Digital signature
