Re: ext3 issue on powerpc with benh kernel

2002-10-13 Thread Peter Meilstrup
On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 01:30:30PM -0400, christophe barbe wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 06:30:07PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: A new feature will be added for 2.4.20 which will allow to increase this delay at mount time. The benh kernel is a 2.4.20pre9, is it already in there? Yes,

Re: Key repeat (kernel Bug?)

2002-10-13 Thread simon . raven
On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 23:22:54 +0100, William R Sowerbutts composed: It's a kernel bug, either in the kernel's input layer, or the ADB keyboard driver. The kernel fails to send a key release event. I have a patch which turns the ADB caps lock key into a PC-style caps lock key so that it

Automatic snooze on idle?

2002-10-13 Thread Claas Langbehn
Hi, Christophe's thread abour Ext3 made me think a bit more... When being on battery power, I could put my CPU to low speed to save some power. That should work with pmud. But is there a way to put the machine into snooze, when it is idling for a given time? I think that it should check for

Re: Automatic snooze on idle?

2002-10-13 Thread Charles R. Twardy
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Claas Langbehn wrote: }But is there a way to put the machine into snooze, when it is idling }for a given time? I think that it should check for input devices' idle I think pmud already does this, but last I heard if you have ext3 it won't (because the journal flush is seen

Re: Automatic snooze on idle?

2002-10-13 Thread Claas Langbehn
On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 11:03, Charles R. Twardy wrote: }But is there a way to put the machine into snooze, when it is idling }for a given time? I think that it should check for input devices' idle I think pmud already does this, but last I heard if you have ext3 it won't (because the

Re: ext3 issue on powerpc with benh kernel

2002-10-13 Thread Claas Langbehn
On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 06:53, Peter Meilstrup wrote: A new feature will be added for 2.4.20 which will allow to increase this delay at mount time. The benh kernel is a 2.4.20pre9, is it already in there? Yes, use the commit=seconds option when mounting. Great, but how many seconds

Re: iBook2 (700Mhz-14) : XFree very *very* slow

2002-10-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Son, 2002-10-13 at 10:13, Michael Zender wrote: --- Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sam, 2002-10-12 at 23:37, Michael Zender wrote: I followed the instructions from www.hispalinux.es/~data/ and i succeeded in having Xfree working. BUT, it is very slow: at least

ibook2 radeon dri

2002-10-13 Thread J. Volkmann
Hello, I have an ibook2 with the radeon here and tried to get dri to work. So I did the installation after http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/iBook/x118.html. 1. Installed XFree 4.2 with the branden debs. 2. inserted the drm modules. But when I try to compile the modules with make -f Makefile.linux

Re: ibook2 radeon dri

2002-10-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Son, 2002-10-13 at 15:55, J. Volkmann wrote: I have an ibook2 with the radeon here and tried to get dri to work. So I did the installation after http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/iBook/x118.html. (BTW I'm a bit disappointed that it _still_ tells to set a ModulePath) 1. Installed XFree 4.2

Re: ibook2 radeon dri

2002-10-13 Thread Jesus Climent
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 04:05:47PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Son, 2002-10-13 at 15:55, J. Volkmann wrote: I have an ibook2 with the radeon here and tried to get dri to work. So I did the installation after http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/iBook/x118.html. (BTW I'm a bit

Re: ibook2 radeon dri

2002-10-13 Thread J. Volkmann
Wow, that was a fast answer :-) Michel D?nzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) schrieb: On Son, 2002-10-13 at 15:55, J. Volkmann wrote: 1. Installed XFree 4.2 with the branden debs. DRI won't work with those, you need my dri-trunk debs. OK. So I entered an deb

Re: Automatic snooze on idle?

2002-10-13 Thread Rob Latham
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 11:14:18AM +0200, Claas Langbehn wrote: It should also act like a screen saver but it should snooze the whole machine instead of only screen saving. http://www.cymes.de/members/joker/projects/pbbuttons/pbbuttons.html ==rob -- Rob Latham

Re: ibook2 radeon dri

2002-10-13 Thread J. Volkmann
Hello, Many thanks to all, it now works :-) Thanks also for the help in IRC. mfG Johannes pgpYzwBpgF4oi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem installing 2.4 kernel on powerpc

2002-10-13 Thread William C Brennan
Setting up kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc (2.4.18-1) ... depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18-powerpc/pcmcia/serial_cs.o(...) What should I do (if anything) about those unresolved symbols? Well, do you have any pcmcia hardware on that computer? If you don't,

install from MacOS

2002-10-13 Thread Gregory Seidman
I've used Debian on x86 a fair amount, and like it, but I use MacOS X on my home machine. After innumerable frustrations with Fink, I came to the conclusion that if I want Debian package management on my Mac I need actual Debian. At nearly the same time, I became aware of Mac-on-Linux, which

Re: install from MacOS

2002-10-13 Thread Claas Langbehn
Hi, I think that is imposssible. you need to partition it with linux. You should get Lord Sutch's 1-CD set. That is great. And you can change the apt sources to whatever you want after installing a basic system. Therefore say after rebooting No in tasksel and in dselect. then run apt-setup and

Re: install from MacOS

2002-10-13 Thread vinai
Take a look at this guide by Branden Robinson. It is listed as being for an iBook, but I think it will work on any of the New World Macs. I was also able to install Debian 3.0 a few weeks ago by using just a ramdisk and kernel on my Old World 8500.

Re: install from MacOS

2002-10-13 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 13 2002, Gregory Seidman wrote: I came to the conclusion that if I want Debian package management on my Mac I need actual Debian. The exact same conclusion that I reached. The fink project has some problems in my view as a user (perhaps I've been spoiled by

Re: Problem installing 2.4 kernel on powerpc

2002-10-13 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 13 2002, William C Brennan wrote: Well, do you have any pcmcia hardware on that computer? If you don't, then you can remove any pcmcia packages that you have installed (you can see which ones they are with the command dpkg -l | grep -i pcmcia). Actually, I have no

Re: Key repeat (kernel Bug?)

2002-10-13 Thread Segher Boessenkool
i get that too. i'll be scrolling down, or whatever, and it keeps scrolling down. only if i'm scrolling down, though, which i find strange. It happens for me on other keys, too. And it misses the shift/ctrl/whatever release sometimes, too. It's just that you keep key-down pressed more often

Short battery life on Powerbook Prismo

2002-10-13 Thread marshal
Hi all, I have this 2 year old Powerbook G3 Firewire. For MOST of the 2 years, it's acted as a desktop (constantly plugged in, I put it to sleep before bed, etc.) but I do occationally want to lug it around. Of course, I'm running Debian on it. So the yesterday, I decided to bring it to work.

Re: Short battery life on Powerbook Prismo

2002-10-13 Thread Brian D. Hicks
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:09:44AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the yesterday, I decided to bring it to work. Unfortunately, the battery died, or at least went low enough for pmud to put the computer to sleep, in around 45 minutes, maybe even less. I just wondering if this is a

Re: Short battery life on Powerbook Prismo

2002-10-13 Thread marshal
Brian == Brian D Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:09:44AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the yesterday, I decided to bring it to work. Unfortunately, the battery died, or at least went low enough for pmud to put the computer to sleep, in