Re: Beryl on iBook g4
On 08-Jun-2007 06:59.13 (BST), Jack Malmostoso wrote: > > With 32MB (Radeon 9200) > > I had to hack around DRI limits to run Beryl at 1240x1024 and then it > > chockes an more than few windows. > As I said, I use compiz and not beryl. I always had the feeling that > Beryl was more cpu and gpu intensive. I suggest you try compiz instead. Actually, I find compiz quite clunky (Radeon 9250 on 1GHz G4 machine). Beryl seems to behave itself much more, but because of the lack of Debian packages and wanting to keep up-to-date with unstable, I use metacity instead. If the iBook has a Radeon M10, that's an r300 series GPU. I found compiz and beryl to be particularly slow on the opensource r300_dri driver, and that's on an Athlon 64 4000+ with a Radeon X850XT. -- rob andrews :: pgp 0x01e00563 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sleep on TiBook, getting Gnome sounds working
[ozymandias G desiderata wrote in newsgate.debian.powerpc] > On another note, I've got sound mostly working on my system. I get > that weird atonal beep from my system after I modprobe dmasound_pmac > (which I have aliased to sound like a good boy, but nothing seems to > notice and/or care except modprobe). [snip] Out of interest, what kernel version are you using with a working sound driver? -- nine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0x8bb5c71e
Re: debian-powerpc: Keyspan USB to serial converter works :)
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I'd just like to let everyone know that I got my Keyspan USB to Serial > converter working last night. Additionally, the Keyspan PDA USB serial converter also works fine under the last kernel I checked (including the USB backport in 2.2.x). -- rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: all sorts of segfaults
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > dist-upgrade to current unstable leads to all sorts of weird segfaults on > a dual G4 running a recent 2.4.2pre kernel here, including with locally > compiled apps. One example I have in mind is gkrellm (who works perfectly > well on another box using a slightly older snapshot of unstable). > libc issue ? I found a lot of trouble with ldconfig causing "Illegal instruction". -- rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pushing up daisies...
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Ethan Benson wrote: > cold boot it and immediatly start holding down the command and power > key, keep them down and see if you here a tone, keep them down long > enough and you should get into OF. =20 Okay, weird stuff happening. In it's unassembled state (-HD, -SO-DIMM), I plugged the keyboard and speaker in, and it worked. Did a set-defaults, printenv to see normal settings, then reset-all. Reassembled, after putting everything back. All screws in place. Bootup - nothing. Retried the backup bootrom thing and this time it's not working...! I'm going to fiddle with it some more and see what happens. I've got a direction now. Thanks for the help! -- rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pushing up daisies...
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Ethan Benson wrote: > > Sucks even more to find there isn't an interrupt switch :( > i think there is, they are just sometimes hard to find. =20 I've pulled the machine completely to bits. There are only two switches on the motherboard, and they're power and reset. > > So I've drawn a blank on that one. > what machine is this again? imacs have two small pinholes inside the > door where all the usb and network ports are. i have no idea on > ibooks or recent powerbooks. =20 It's an iBook. > it has to have one somewhere since apple firmware upgrades require > that you hold it down until you get a tone before the upgrade can be > installed. =20 Last time I did a firmware upgrade it didn't require such an action. -- rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pushing up daisies...
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Ethan Benson wrote: > > Aye, that's what I'd read. Thus bringing the sudden, painful realisation > > to my head. > sucks doesn't it :( Absolutely. Sucks even more to find there isn't an interrupt switch :( > its not the reset switch, its usually next to it. the reset switch > usually is labeled with a triangle symbol. the interupt (or sometimes > called the programmers switch or NMI switch) has a -\/- symbol inside > a circle. There's no such switch noticeable on the case, so I pulled off the keyboard layer, then shed the shielding inside. There's nothing on the mainboard either - no pin headers or anything. So I've drawn a blank on that one. > > Warranty's gone, which is a shame. It ended just before the hard disk die= > > and I had to replace it. > > I'll try this when I get home, thanks for the advice! > good luck I should call Apple this week and see if I can get it repaired. Thanks everyone for the suggestions, anyway! -- rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pushing up daisies...
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Ethan Benson wrote: > i hope your warrentee has not yet expired, because your bootrom has > probably been destroyed. see the netbsd FAQ: > http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#ofw-bugs Aye, that's what I'd read. Thus bringing the sudden, painful realisation to my head. > your only chance is to try and boot the backup rom, to do this > shutdown, and boot while holding down the interupt switch, keep > holding it down for a long time and if it works you should get a OF > prompt where you can run set-defaults. 'kay... the interrupt switch - is this the thing defined as "reset button" on Apple's website? The little button just above the power switch on the iBook? Are most Apple's supplied with backup ROMs? > i would neglect to mention the details of the boot failure if you do > need to send it in for warrentee repair. =20 Warranty's gone, which is a shame. It ended just before the hard disk died, and I had to replace it. I'll try this when I get home, thanks for the advice! -- rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pushing up daisies...
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Leandro Dutra wrote: > > Could very well be completely wrong, judging from what I read here: > > http://bananajr6000.apple.com/1275/proposals/Closed/Withdrawn/ > > 315-it.txt > Sorry, you outsmarted me now. Do you mean somewhere in this text > there's somehing I don't understand to the effect you can use Open > Firmware to make a machine useless by sidestepping Open Firmware itself? > Canny... Not outsmarted, but it's something I don't fully understand either! It's all a bit mad. > I think you will have to stick to leave your motherboard power > starved for half an hour... Doing that now. Thanks for shooting some advice at me ;) -- rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pushing up daisies...
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Leandro Dutra wrote: > Maybe I'm naive, but why then your disk drive and CD would spin? > Aren't they spinned by OpenFirware, or just by having power applied to = > them? AFAIK, they're only spinning up because they have power. > I wouldn't think you could alter the entry point for Open Firmware, but > that you could alter the initialization process after Open Firmware has > started. Could very well be completely wrong, judging from what I read here: http://bananajr6000.apple.com/1275/proposals/Closed/Withdrawn/315-it.txt > Booting from CD, or simply don't booting maybe will do the trick. > AFAIK, the trick is getting to boot without the hard disk attached so > that OF will try the default initialization methods, namely the CD or > floppy. > But maybe I've just misunderstood the method. > Anyway no hurt in trying. Absolutely ;) It's not booting anything. Disconnecting HD does nothing. It's not booting the CD-ROM (even with C held upon startup), and I can't enter OF. Display doesn't power up. Looking a bit grim :( -- rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pushing up daisies...
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Momchil Velikov wrote: > I had a similar problem with my 8500 when I installed NetBSD. Just > remove all power sources, remove battery and wait about 20-30 > *minutes*. That should reset the nvram. Thanks. It's currently sitting powerless now, I'll check it tomorrow morning and see if it's righted itself! -- rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pushing up daisies...
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Leandro Dutra wrote: > > Does anyone know a quick fix (opening the unit is not an > > issue, I replaced > What about opening the machine, disconnecting the power cable from > the hard disk drive, booting from a diskette, and then shutting down the > machine? This should reset the Open Firmware. The iBook doesn't have a floppy drive :/ It's not actually getting as far as booting any media. I think what I've done is set the entry point for open firmware to a location in memory that isn't where OF starts. Since OF can't start, it can't enter the boot code that starts any OS. And since the OF variables are stored in flashrom, resetting it could be a problem. -- rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pushing up daisies...
Seems that there's a certain amount of reading in advance that should be done when playing with open firmware settings. Be warned: Don't type the following commands into your OF, unless you know your machine will survive. Whilst trying to get netbsd booting (was aiming to see about hardware support), I entered "setenv real-base 60" followed by "reset-all" into my open firmware 3 iBook. I was under the impression it was 2.4, judging the version at the top of the OF screen. Any how, now when I hit the power button, it releases the apple noise, spins up HD and CD-ROM, and does nothing more. I've tried cmd+option+PR, cmd+option+OF, removing battery, pressing the reset button, but all to no avail. Does anyone know a quick fix (opening the unit is not an issue, I replaced the HD and am familiar with the insides) for this, or shall I just call the repair centre now? ;) Any suggestion welcome! Rob. -- rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: NEWBIE: key names an OF
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Sebastiaan wrote: > Thanks! You'll know it has worked because the machine powers down after it's done. -- rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: modem not working
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Sebastiaan wrote:
> Nop, already tried that with ppp from woody (is 2.4.0).
> Thanks.
> Sebastiaan
> > > Serial connection established.
> > > ioctl(PPPIOCGFLAGS): invalid argument
> > > tcsetattr: Invalid argument
> > > Exit.
> > dpkg --compare-versions $(v=`dpkg -s ppp| grep ^Version`; echo ${v##*:})
> > lt 2.4.0 && \
> >echo "You must upgrade package ppp to version 2.4.0 or later"
I did notice this with my setup (woody + unstable, ppp 2.4.0-1 under kernel
2.4.x).
If you look in /var/log/debug, there's some funky stuff going on with LCP.
It goes through the entire initialisation but as the ISP end sends the last
few packets to enter data mode the local end sends it's ACK, but somehow
it's: a) not sending it out or b) it's getting corrupt before sendout.
Unhelpfully, 2.2.x crashes for me shortly after initiating a connection.
Suspect I may have to downgrade ppp to use with 2.2.x.
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Re: OT: NEWBIE: key names an OF
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Sebastiaan wrote: > I know I have to press Command+Option+P+R to reset OF. The problem > is: which keys are that? I assume one of them is the Apple key next to the > spacebar. Two keys to the left of space +PR. -- rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Interesting machine check during ppp session.
Hi, I've got a weird problem with PPP connections that's beginning to baffle me. I've got an iBook that I've never, until now, initiated a PPP connection with. Kernel 2.4.x fails to connect (from reading the logs it looks as though the LCP acknowledge packets are being ignored). So I dropped back to a 2.2.18 kernel. With both the rsync linux-pmac-stable (2.2.18pre21) tree from ppc.samba.org, and the vger 2.2.18 kernel, shortly after initiating a connection, any attempt to use the PPP connection causes a kernel panic and immeadiate death. It manages to complete the ppp handshaking and reports the IP address to syslog in the usual fashion. The connection I'm trying to make is to an ISP over a Nokia 7110, via a keyspan usb pda connector and a Nokia DLR-3 data cable. I'm using debian woody + unstable, ppp package ppp-2.4.0f-1. If anyone knows how to resolve this, I'd be very grateful! Thanks, Rob. -- rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please Help - Debian on iBook Install
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, starlett wrote: > I have an Apple iBook with FireWire (Summer 2000 model), and it seems I > run into troube installing Debian. > 1) Potato 2.2r2 CD#1 could not be used as startup - hangs at the > beginning with strange video artifacts. Nothing helps. Pop said CD into drive, and boot with "debian video=ofonly" at the yaboot prompt. -- rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Playing cd on iBook
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > the speaker. I compiled my kernel with DMA sound (so I don't have modules > > to > > load). Sound devices are there. What am I missing? > The latest Apple machines don't have the CD ROM drive connected to the sound > hardware directly, so you need to use software which grabs the audio data and > then plays it. Some people use cdda2wav and a WAV player for that, but I seem > to remember there being a plugin for XMMS, search this list's archive for > more > info. fwir, xmms cvs before the 1.0.1 release had that plugin, but it disappeared for the 1.0.1 release, and hasn't re-returned. Several freshmeat searches have proved fruitless, so I don't think it's been separated into an external archive. Probably worth working backwards through the xmms cvs. On my iBook I use "cdda2wav -D /dev/cdrom -N -e". -- rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.2.18pre17-ben1 issues
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Hadess wrote: > - PPP (version 2.4.0f-1) receives SIGHUP on second attempt of connection > Oct 25 09:15:34 hiro pppd[278]: Sent 68660 bytes, received 393813 bytes. > Oct 25 09:15:34 hiro pppd[278]: Hangup (SIGHUP) > Oct 25 09:15:34 hiro pppd[278]: Exit. > Oct 25 09:15:49 hiro pppd[352]: pppd 2.3.11 started by hadess, uid 1000 > Oct 25 09:15:54 hiro pppd[352]: Hangup (SIGHUP) > Oct 25 09:15:55 hiro pppd[352]: Exit Compile macserial as a module, then after disconnecting, rmmod and insmod macserial again. This has been mentioned before. -- Rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.2.18pre17-ben1 issues
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Hadess wrote: > - Lost interrupts on hard-drive (when battery is running out, or I'm > closing the lid of the laptop) > Oct 26 10:18:23 hiro kernel: ide0: reset: success > Oct 26 10:18:51 hiro kernel: hda: lost interrupt Frequently it doesn't manage a successful ide reset, and hence the hard disk never powers up. The reason is that when the lid shuts, pmud puts the HD into sleep mode. But it doesn't wake it up upon reopen. Either disable pmud or don't close it ;) -- Rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question rsync Kernel tree.
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, jblanche wrote: > when I use the rsync (rsync -avz --delete ppc.samba.org::linux-pmac-stable) > from my kernel dir, I see a lot of files which are not in my local tree. > My kernel 2.2.17 as been download from debian ftp. Coincidentailly, you should be rsyncing the pmac-stable/pmac-devel/pmac-benh trees from penguinppc.org now - not ppc.samba.org. -- Rob off list/ng replies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel image
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Eric Reischer wrote: > If anybody is running an RS-6000 43P that has a 2.4 kernel built, could you > please sent it to me (off list)? I don't have a PowerPC machine to build a > kernel on, and none of the ones offered with any of the distros are working > with my machine. Thanks. Have you tried cross-compiling? -- Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] note: send off-list/newsgroup replies to address listed in this footer!
Re: mixer support on dmasound
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > I'm getting the same thing too, but since I only use xmms, I've resorted to > > setting the preamp to lower the volume. > I'm using dmasound on stock 2.2.15 from kernel.org, and the mixer works fine. > (Tried aumix, gmix, gnome mixer panel applet.) The iBook has only recently gained sound support - the driver in 2.2.15 doesn't support it :/ Neither, for that matter, is there any support in the rsync trees on penguinppc.org (bitkeeper.fsmlabs.com rsync is down). However, it seems the only place that has the iBook-capable driver is at http://students.washington.edu/mpalczew/ - the dmasound.c.gz arc at the bottom. How the support has been done looks fairly simple (fwics). The G3 PowerBooks have a bus called "davbus" with a member "sound". Similarly, the iBook has a bus called "i2s-a" with a member "sound". It looks like the reason this hasn't been synced into the main tree is because the support for iBook sound removes the support for PowerBook G3 sound. > package which makes it work on internal speakers too. If you're interested, > I > can send it. But first try gmix and see if any of the sliders change the > volume > for you. They don't for me - I'd be interested to see your patch ;) -- Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mixer support on dmasound
In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Keun-woo Ryu wrote: > I can't use mixer on my ibook. > Is there anyone uses mixer on dmasound? > Can I control volumn? I'm getting the same thing too, but since I only use xmms, I've resorted to setting the preamp to lower the volume. -- Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
