Re: powerbook g4 xfree freezes on startup

2003-10-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 21:01, CK wrote: > > I'm trying to get xfree86 (the dri trunk) running on my > g4 / 867 /radeon9000 15" powerbook but as soon as I type > startx I get weird stripes some plasma anim/lava lamp look > on the display and I have to reboot using the power button ... > > [...] >

Re: Help to reproduce the bug (Was: Re: State of Ruby)

2003-10-02 Thread Aaron Schrab
At 18:54 -0500 02 Oct 2003, Aaron Schrab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 21)frell$ ulimit -s 8192 > 22)frell$ irb1.8 > irb(main):001:0> I've done some additional experiments with this to find out exactly where the stacksize becomes a problem. It's fine as long as the limit on the stacksize is <= 419

Re: Help to reproduce the bug (Was: Re: State of Ruby)

2003-10-02 Thread Aaron Schrab
At 13:17 +0300 02 Oct 2003, Dmitry Borodaenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Copying to debian-powerpc mailing list. (Please Cc: me and/or the bug as > I'm not subscribed.) > > Can anyone here help to reproduce this bug? Ruby 1.8 fails to build > packages with "stack level too deep" error on Debian

Re: Spam alert

2003-10-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Zach Archer wrote: > > > At 8:12 PM -0700 10/1/03, Robert Persson wrote: > > >I have also just subscribed and I am wondering about these emails. > > >I am subscribed to a number of lists so I don't know which one these > > >come fr

Re: Spam alert

2003-10-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Zach Archer wrote: > At 8:12 PM -0700 10/1/03, Robert Persson wrote: > >I have also just subscribed and I am wondering about these emails. > >I am subscribed to a number of lists so I don't know which one these > >come from. Are the Debian lists particularly prone to this sort

Re: linux-2.4.22-ben2-stew1-xfs available

2003-10-02 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Paul van Tilburg writes: > The patch creates a include/asm/ directory.. but make wants include/asm to be > a symlink to include/asm-. So I let the patch go ahead, did a > 'diff -Naur include/asm include/asm-ppc' and there is no difference. > So I guess it is superfluous in the patch? This is

CONFIG_TAU_AVERAGE=y but no temperature in /proc/cpuinfo

2003-10-02 Thread Pander
Hi all, I have kernel 2.4.22-ben2 on my Powerbook G4 12" and have CONFIG_TAU_AVERAGE=y but there is no line with no temperature in /proc/cpuinfo Do I need to do anyhting else to get this info on the processor temperature? Thanks, Pander

Re: linux-2.4.22-ben2-stew1-xfs available

2003-10-02 Thread Paul van Tilburg
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 04:37:50AM +1000, Stewart Smith wrote: > Okay, I admit that the -stew1 part is pure vanity - but hey, that's what > EXTRAVERSION is for, right? > > [snip... patch notes] > > http://www.flamingspork.com/linux/kernel/stew-patches/patch-2.4.22-ben2-stew1-xfs.bz2 I just tried

Re: linux-2.4.22-ben2-stew1-xfs available

2003-10-02 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Stewart Smith wrote: > I have .debs if people are interested, can upload. > > http://www.flamingspork.com/linux/kernel/stew-patches/patch-2.4.22-ben2-stew1-xfs.bz2 Along the same lines, I have a few goodies for hppa and PPC, packaged as debs: deb http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q

powerbook g4 xfree freezes on startup

2003-10-02 Thread CK
hi, I'm trying to get xfree86 (the dri trunk) running on my g4 / 867 /radeon9000 15" powerbook but as soon as I type startx I get weird stripes some plasma anim/lava lamp look on the display and I have to reboot using the power button ... doesn't sound too good ... OSX works ... any hints ? x

linux-2.4.22-ben2-stew1-xfs available

2003-10-02 Thread Stewart Smith
Okay, I admit that the -stew1 part is pure vanity - but hey, that's what EXTRAVERSION is for, right? A patch against stock 2.4.22 which gives you: - benh fixes and features - a fix for that annoying message on console when changing brightness (brightness down seems to generate a newline for me sti

Power management support in ALSA PowerMac audio driver?

2003-10-02 Thread Derrik Pates
I've recently acquired (ok, my employer purchased off eBay) a PowerBook Pismo, which I installed Debian on. I've got pretty much everything running nicely - DVD/multimedia playback, wireless networking, PCMCIA, power management, etc. I'd like to switch to the ALSA driver for sound support, but from

Re: Installing onto external FireWire drive.

2003-10-02 Thread Segher Boessenkool
> Oh, and the yaboot config is a bit of a pain because Apple can't seem to > make up their minds about what to call the devalias for the firewire > controler. On the iBook it's fw, the G4 fwx, I think it's back to fw on the > G5, maybe. It only was fwx on some older systems, for which the built

Re: CPU and Memory usage of XFree86

2003-10-02 Thread Segher Boessenkool
Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 00:42, Nirmal Govind wrote: > > Hi.. I've noticed that the XFree86 process on my ibook is taking up a > > decent chunk of memory and some CPU and this seems to be slowing down my > > machine a bit .. when I do 'top', XFree86 is a process that's consta

Help to reproduce the bug (Was: Re: State of Ruby)

2003-10-02 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
Copying to debian-powerpc mailing list. (Please Cc: me and/or the bug as I'm not subscribed.) Can anyone here help to reproduce this bug? Ruby 1.8 fails to build packages with "stack level too deep" error on Debian PowerPC build server (voltair), but works fine on Fumitoshi UKAI's Cube. See more

Re: CPU and Memory usage of XFree86

2003-10-02 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette matinée ensoleillée du jeudi 02 octobre 2003, vers 09:09, Nirmal Govind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> Don't look at memory usage of X, it is normal that top or ps report >> very high amounts ; X does not really use this memory. Search google >> for "XFree86 3dfx map memory", I think

Re: Spam alert

2003-10-02 Thread Kristian Peters
Hello. I've been hammered with those emails since 2 weeks. The reason was most probably lkml (linux kernel mailing list). Some people have not noticed that their windos machines are sending out stuff all the time. The only way to get rid of those junk is to configure fetchmail that it won't fet

What does LIBRARY_PATH do ?

2003-10-02 Thread Kristian Peters
Hello. In order to get glib2 compile and find all the required libraries under OSX I need to declare LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/lib" in my shell and export it. (In /opt all my installed self-compiled packages are located.) Why ? Or a better question: What a function has LIBRARY_PATH ? Under linux and o

Re: Memory problems

2003-10-02 Thread Nirmal Govind
This is not due to free memory, but to the way the scheduler works. This probably seems related to free memory, as the more processes, the less memory ;-) Kernel 2.6 has a much nicer scheduler. (too bad, sleep still has problems - at least for me). Where do I get the source for the benh 2.6 kern

Re: Spam alert

2003-10-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (01/10/03 21:23), Chris Tillman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:12:26PM -0700, Zach Archer wrote: > > Hi. I started receiving a whole lot of spam last night, shortly after > > subscribing and posting to this newsgroup for the first time. I'm not > > sure which brand of net-annoyant it is,

Re: Spam alert

2003-10-02 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 02 October 2003 04:12, Zach Archer wrote: > Hi. I started receiving a whole lot of spam last night, shortly after > subscribing and posting to this newsgroup for the first time. I'm not (This is not a newsgroup, but a mailing list) > sure which brand of net-annoyant it is, but I'm rec

Re: Spam alert

2003-10-02 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Gary Sandine wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 22:23, Chris Tillman wrote: > > I also gave my ISP an earfull for > > not affering any server side solutions. > > I don't think this particular rash of e-mails would have happened if the > list archives altered e-mail addresses. Too

Re: Spam alert

2003-10-02 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Chris Wenn wrote: > > At 8:12 PM -0700 10/1/03, Robert Persson wrote: > >>I have also just subscribed and I am wondering about these emails. > >>I am subscribed to a number of lists so I don't know which one these > >>come from. Are the Debian lists particularly prone to this

Re: Memory problems

2003-10-02 Thread Colin Leroy
Nirmal Govind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >If you have bought 640 MB of RAM, I suppose you want them to be used, > >this ies exactly what Linux does. Unused memory is used for caching > >purposes. > > > > So I presume that memory is reallocated if I want to start up an app > even though the util

Re: Memory problems

2003-10-02 Thread Nirmal Govind
Vincent Bernat wrote: If you have bought 640 MB of RAM, I suppose you want them to be used, this ies exactly what Linux does. Unused memory is used for caching purposes. So I presume that memory is reallocated if I want to start up an app even though the utilization is 100%.. somehow it j

Re: CPU and Memory usage of XFree86

2003-10-02 Thread Nirmal Govind
Don't look at memory usage of X, it is normal that top or ps report very high amounts ; X does not really use this memory. Search google for "XFree86 3dfx map memory", I think you will find the explanation. Great.. I'll do that.. thanks.. nirmal

Re: Memory problems

2003-10-02 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 02 2003, Vincent Bernat wrote: > If you have bought 640 MB of RAM, I suppose you want them to be used, > this ies exactly what Linux does. Unused memory is used for caching > purposes. Since we're talking about chaches here, excuse my ignorance, but what is the difference between caches an

Re: Installing onto external FireWire drive.

2003-10-02 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 02 2003, Vincent Bernat wrote: > How do you do that ? You mean mounting by UUID and/or label? Using label is as easy as setting LABEL=the_label in the /etc/fstab file, instead of specifying the device (i.e., in the first column of the file). The process is the same for UUIDs instead of la

Re: Spam alert

2003-10-02 Thread Gary Sandine
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 22:23, Chris Tillman wrote: > I also gave my ISP an earfull for > not affering any server side solutions. I don't think this particular rash of e-mails would have happened if the list archives altered e-mail addresses. Too late now, though.

Re: Memory problems

2003-10-02 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette fin de nuit blanche du jeudi 02 octobre 2003, vers 06:41, Nirmal Govind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > Another related qn.. the memory usage statistic using top doesn't show > memory freeing up after I close some heavy duty programs like > Openoffice and mozilla that I had running.. so

Re: CPU and Memory usage of XFree86

2003-10-02 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du jeudi 02 octobre 2003, vers 01:43, Nirmal Govind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> X server memory consumption is a FAQ and has recently been discussed >> here, but the X server should normally never hog the CPU (and it doesn't >> here) unless there are clients flooding

Re: Installing onto external FireWire drive.

2003-10-02 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Pendant le repas du mercredi 01 octobre 2003, vers 19:09, Nick Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > [0] Jiggle the wire: echo scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0 > /proc/scsi/scsi > and hope that's the right device, or try getting rescan-scsi-bus.sh to > run. mount by UUID instead of device

Re: please build xfree86 4.3.0-0pre1v3 from experimental

2003-10-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 08:17:21AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:13:33 -0500 > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can everyone else please attempt a build > > and if the build is > > successful, upload the packages to experimental? > It builds fine (ibook

Memory problems (was Re: CPU and Memory usage of XFree86)

2003-10-02 Thread Nirmal Govind
Another related qn.. the memory usage statistic using top doesn't show memory freeing up after I close some heavy duty programs like Openoffice and mozilla that I had running.. so in effect, the memory usage grows till almost 100% of the memory is used up but it never comes back down.. so I s