Re: 3 kernel related questions

2003-04-25 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 24 2003, Mich Lanners wrote: - Input layer - Linux keycodes (and not old-style ADB keycodes) - no standard serial support (only Mac-style ports) - if you have a mac, use the mac-specific RTC code, not the general one on the kernel; you kernel can oops on boot otherwise. --

mach kernel question

2003-04-25 Thread dylan
hi-- after the recent success compiling a new kernel for this old 8500, i have decided that it is time to do some tweaking on the mach kernel running an 8100. can anyone tell me how compiling a mach kernel is different than a standard vmlinux binary? thanks again! dylan

mplayer and rtc

2003-04-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
Hello ! Documentation of mplayer says to use the command echo 1024 /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq to allow the use of RTC by mplayer. However, this doesn't work with Apple RTC. Is there some way to achieve the same result ? -- I WILL NOT FAKE SEIZURES I WILL NOT FAKE SEIZURES I WILL NOT FAKE

iBook and different network configurations

2003-04-25 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, I'm sorry if this question also apply to the debian-laptop list. There are many network environment configuration tools in Debian and I don't know any of them except from netenv. Which one would you advice? Thanks in advance. -- Jérôme Marant

Re: Installer showing way too much free space

2003-04-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
On 11 Apr, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace: On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:08:44PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I go to Partition Hard Drive, from the 3.0 .iso image, the default number of blocks is: quote size of 'device' is 1073741825 blocks:

Re: iBook and different network configurations

2003-04-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette matinée ensoleillée du vendredi 25 avril 2003, vers 09:51, Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: There are many network environment configuration tools in Debian and I don't know any of them except from netenv. I am using whereami which is doing some kind of detection of the

reseting the pram = breaking stuff?

2003-04-25 Thread florian
hey! i have some issues with the battery of my powerbook. somehow its not recharging... some people gave me the tip to reset the pram. i just wonder if it would break anything concerning debian? thanks! ciao! florian

Re: Building of extended nbd fails on ppc

2003-04-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
The build process stops at the following line: (By the way, I'm using kernel-2.4.20-ben10 on an iBook v2.2) gcc -o enbd-server enbd-server.o socket.o logging.o alarm.o file.o\ select.o fileserver.o db.o stream.o ioctl.o ipaddrfile.o pidfile.o\ interface.o lockfile.o md5.o lock.o shmem.o

Re: Building of extended nbd fails on ppc

2003-04-25 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 10:39:11AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: The SMP_ISYNC is just a plain isync on SMP systems. On non-SMP systems it should be safe to use these functions. On SMP systems, the isync might prevent this (privileged instruction, perhaps -- BenH??). Maybe only the SMP_ISYNC

Re: iBook and different network configurations

2003-04-25 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
OoO En cette matinée ensoleillée du vendredi 25 avril 2003, vers 09:51, Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: There are many network environment configuration tools in Debian and I don't know any of them except from netenv. I have used laptop-netconf for quite a long time. You can specify

Re: iBook and different network configurations

2003-04-25 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Vincent Bernat [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OoO En cette matinée ensoleillée du vendredi 25 avril 2003, vers 09:51, Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: There are many network environment configuration tools in Debian and I don't know any of them except from netenv. I am using

Re: iBook and different network configurations

2003-04-25 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Daniel Kleine-Albers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are many network environment configuration tools in Debian and I don't know any of them except from netenv. I have used laptop-netconf for quite a long time. You can specify a mac address, which is specific for every network

Re: iBook and different network configurations

2003-04-25 Thread christophe barbe
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 09:51:39AM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: Hi, I'm sorry if this question also apply to the debian-laptop list. There are many network environment configuration tools in Debian and I don't know any of them except from netenv. Which one would you advice? Thanks in

Re: reseting the pram = breaking stuff?

2003-04-25 Thread svallet
some people gave me the tip to reset the pram. i just wonder if it would break anything concerning debian? I don't think so, except if you have some boot parameters in there. I don't know how yaboot is working (or if you use yaboot at all), but with quik you have to reconfigure your boot

Re: reseting the pram = breaking stuff?

2003-04-25 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 10:29:13AM +0200, florian wrote: hey! i have some issues with the battery of my powerbook. somehow its not recharging... some people gave me the tip to reset the pram. i just wonder if it would break anything concerning debian? That would cause it to start up in

/etc/power/pwrctl-local for an iBook 2.2 (cpufreq adjustement)

2003-04-25 Thread David MENTRE
Hello, For those that would find it useful, here is the /etc/power/pwrctl-local script (don't forget to make it executable, chmod 755) I'm using on my debian iBook 2.2: - use powersave mode (reduced cpu frequency) on battery, performance mode on ac - set fblevel off and do filesystem sync

Re: iBook and different network configurations

2003-04-25 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à christophe barbe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I guess it depends on whether or not you use wireless or not. If no, you have plainty of good solution available. Yes, I don't have any wireless device. ifplugd is a software that detect when you plug a cable to your ethernet interface

Re: PBG4 12 and video=ofonly

2003-04-25 Thread Georg Koss
Hello again! On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 07:45:19PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 23:49, Georg Koss wrote: Using PBG4 12 with Woody. It contains a Nvidia Geforce 420 Go graphic adapter. First, XFree CVS should fix the above problem. Then, if you get my devel

RSBAC support on PowerPC?

2003-04-25 Thread Ricardo Javier Cardenes Medina
Anybody with a working RSBAC enabled kernel on PPC machines? It gives me weird errors when I try to set attributes on the filesystem (no problems so far with i386 machines). Thanks, Ricardo

Re: Problems with DRI (missing /dev/dri/card0)

2003-04-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Don, 2003-04-24 at 20:48, Reto Stalder wrote: I have some problems with DRI. There are the following entries in /var/log/XFree86.0.log: [...] drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open

Sound problem

2003-04-25 Thread North London John
Hi, I'm using a G3 graphite slot-loading 600mhz CRT iMac, and have been using Yellow Dog 2.3 and Mandrake 8.1 and 9.1. I'm going to put Debian on this box soon, but want to check one detail out first. With all the distros I've so far used on this machine, I get an awful hiss of static from

Re: Sound problem

2003-04-25 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 07:10:34PM +0100, North London John wrote: Hi, I'm using a G3 graphite slot-loading 600mhz CRT iMac, and have been using Yellow Dog 2.3 and Mandrake 8.1 and 9.1. I'm going to put Debian on this box soon, but want to check one detail out first. With all the

OF boot to MacOSX?

2003-04-25 Thread Paul Reilly
I'm halfway thru installing woody on a 12 PBG4, dual booting with MacOSX. I've installed a new yaboot 1.3.10, but now by default the system goes in to linux. I've tried putting a macosx=/dev/hdc12 in my yaboot.conf, but it doesn't seem to work. How can I boot in to OSX ? Is there a open firmware

Re: OF boot to MacOSX?

2003-04-25 Thread emorfin
Hi! I'm halfway thru installing woody on a 12 PBG4, dual booting with MacOSX. I've installed a new yaboot 1.3.10, but now by default the system goes in to linux. I've tried putting a macosx=/dev/hdc12 in my yaboot.conf, but it doesn't seem to work. How can I boot in to OSX ? Is there a open

Re: /etc/power/pwrctl-local for an iBook 2.2 (cpufreq adjustement)

2003-04-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2003-04-25 at 16:43, David MENTRE wrote: - [...] do filesystem sync when going into sleep AFAIK, the kernel does that before sleep anyway. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \

Re: (WW) RADEON(1): Only one monitor detected, Second screen will NOT be created

2003-04-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2003-04-23 at 09:38, Zeno R.R. Davatz wrote: (WW) RADEON(1): Only one monitor detected, Second screen will NOT be created Try Option MonitorLayout LVDS,CRT (or LVDS,TMDS if the external display is a flat panel connected via a digital connector). -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \

Re: OF boot to MacOSX?

2003-04-25 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 08:51:06PM +0100, Paul Reilly wrote: I'm halfway thru installing woody on a 12 PBG4, dual booting with MacOSX. I've installed a new yaboot 1.3.10, but now by default the system goes in to linux. I've tried putting a macosx=/dev/hdc12 in my yaboot.conf, but it doesn't