Re: upgrade of kernel breaks drm/dri?

2003-12-01 Thread Colin Leroy
On 01 Dec 2003 at 08h12, Colin Leroy wrote: Hi, I have exactly the same behaviour on iBook G4. /dev/dri is empty. I have DRI's xfree CVS installed and modules agpgart and radeon are inserted. If I try to create the nodes with mknod (c 226 0), startx removes them... I don't know what to

Re: Yet another G4 iBook newbie

2003-12-01 Thread Colin Leroy
On 30 Nov 2003 at 17h11, Diana Galletly wrote: Hi, Did xf86cfg work for you, or did you find some other better way of generating an XF86Config-4 that behaved sanely? As I said my problem I use Xeasyconf (gentoo tool) then hand-editing, and here it is (attached). -- Colin XF86Config-4

Re : Debian on a BiG5

2003-12-01 Thread xavier grave
Le 28.11.2003 21:06:38, fleny68 a écrit : Le Vendredi 28 Novembre 2003 15:16, xavier grave a écrit : Hi, I have already a BiG4 1Ghz running a debian. Now I have also a BiG5. How can I create a CD to boot such a beast ? This one should do that. parted with hfs and debootstrap are

Re: Debian on a BiG5

2003-12-01 Thread fleny68
Le Lundi 1 Décembre 2003 10:45, xavier grave a écrit : Le 28.11.2003 21:06:38, fleny68 a écrit : This one should do that. parted with hfs and debootstrap are installed. ftp://ftp.crihan.fr/mirrors/knoppix-mib.org/k-mib-ppc-beta-pre5.iso.gz Thanks for this image ! I have tryed to boot it

Re: current mozilla or phoenix debs for PPC?

2003-12-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:13:27PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Consider the following: A good starting point would be the popularity-contest data. Anything used in the last half year gets build. Every package thats not compiled is replaced by a dummy package stating why it isn't

Re: current mozilla or phoenix debs for PPC?

2003-12-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:37:21PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: And the next step, is we take advantage of our large network of user computers. When the above happens, we copy the completed package to the archive ... and end up doing all our packages this way. OK, well, it's probably not

XFS enabled Debian 3.0r2 powerpc installer

2003-12-01 Thread Ethan Benson
Hi, I have built an updated set of XFS enabled Debian boot-floppies for PowerPC. Note that only the `new-powermac' flavor is supported (which pretty much means only NewWorld PowerMacs are supported). I also provide a mini bootable CDROM iso. This version uses 2.4.23 (mainline, but with cryto

DRI on iBook G4

2003-12-01 Thread Colin Leroy
Hi, for information, DRI can work on iBook G4. I don't really know how it worked, but it did using gentoo's emerge xfree-drm. To be precise, i have agpgart in the kernel compiled latest xfree DRI CVS emerged xfree-drm (which applied a few patches, i suspect drm-ioremap to be the needed one).

Re: upgrade of kernel breaks drm/dri?

2003-12-01 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, My problem simply went away *after* I remembered to enable the CONFIG_DRM=y in the kernel config and rebuilt (and then chose the right driver) the kernel. DRM is NOT built into the kernel by default. You must enable it in the kernel config first and then rebuild your kernel. HTH, Kevin

Re: Sleep problems in kernel 2.6 from mvista.com

2003-12-01 Thread Domingo Fiesta Segura
El Lunes, 1 de Diciembre de 2003 05:54, Benjamin Herrenschmidt escribió: It's indeed strange, I would have expected this config to work fine. I've also been trying enabling I2C with similar results. Do you have X running ? Same problem if not ? Does the screen come back up at all or not ?

Re: Yet another G4 iBook newbie

2003-12-01 Thread Guido Guenther
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 04:01:51PM +, Diana Galletly wrote: Since applying the patch I have nasty flickering in console mode which I didn't have before. X (as before) fails to This is because you're using radenfb and not of anymore. The flickering goes away once X started up. All in all

Re: Sleep problems in kernel 2.6 from mvista.com

2003-12-01 Thread Colin Leroy
P.S: I always wondered where the kernel developers or the system daemons (i.e. pbbuttonsd and pmud) developres found the ADB and PMU specs to interact with the respective devices. I'd guess it's by looking at Darwin code. Sorry I can't help more... -- Colin Ne disez pas disez, mais disez

Re: current mozilla or phoenix debs for PPC?

2003-12-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:13:27PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Consider the following: A good starting point would be the popularity-contest data. Anything used in the last half year gets build. Every package thats not compiled is

Re: Radeons and VGA-Out? (was: Re: m3mirror problem)

2003-12-01 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 04:02, Thomas Otto wrote: I don't use it myself (my ibook has an M6), but I've seen it work. I have an iBook2 700Mhz with an 16MB M7 Radeon Mobility, is there anything I can do to make use of the VGA-Out, even if it is only X mirroring? You should find plenty

Re: gconf messed in sid and downgrading

2003-12-01 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 14:07, Jean-Christophe Michel wrote: I made the error of upgrading my sid/gnome two days ago. This changed gconf2 to 2.4 and i lost evolution-mail; one of the messages asked to log out and in again. When trying to login into gnome, i was warned the session didn't last

Re: iBook G4 800MHz configuration

2003-12-01 Thread IoGuiX ''JGuillaume de Rorthais\
Hello, Did you received this last mail (see bottom)? I tried some other things... First I add true in the Option UseFBDev line that I forgot. Then I tried with fbdev module from xserver-xfree86 sid package (a 4.2 I think)...I saw a stable X screen dring 1 second...before X shut with error of

First time KDE on an iBook 2.3

2003-12-01 Thread Lars Noodén
I picked up one of the phased-out G3 iBooks and installed woody successfully by using the Booting from the hard disk method. (The CD wouldn't boot) I've added all the text-based and command line tools that I like and would now like to try getting KDE running. I've used tasksel to try to

Re: iBook G4 800MHz configuration

2003-12-01 Thread David Pye
Hi, If X appeared, it sounds like an encouraging start. It is definitely worth giving us that error because it may be something unrelated to the initial hardware side of things. Let us know what it is David - Original Message - From: IoGuiX ''JGuillaume de Rorthais [EMAIL

time is two hours off since 2.4.23-rc5-ben0, vdr and vdradmin

2003-12-01 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello! I am running vdr and vdradmin on my G3/300 with Siemens DVB-C card (with debian unstable). Because I am still having some problems I often try out new kernels and DVB-drivers. At the moment I am running 2.4.23-rc5-ben0 (rsynced from penguinppc). Now my problem: Since 2.4.23-rc* the

RE: First time KDE on an iBook 2.3

2003-12-01 Thread Pisupati, Ajay
Lars, Please post the entire xserver log. the little snippet does not help. ajay -Original Message- From: Lars Noodén [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:50 PM To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: First time KDE on an iBook 2.3 I picked up one of

Re: iBook G4 800MHz configuration

2003-12-01 Thread IoGuiX ''JGuillaume de Rorthais\
Hello, Thank you for your quick answer ;) Here some files that can be helpful (see attachment)... Please, note that I use the fbdev 4.2.1.1 with XFree86-dri-trunk 4.3.9.12...So maybe my problem is normal... I still try to make it work...Thank for your help :) PS: If you need more

Re: gconf messed in sid and downgrading

2003-12-01 Thread Jean-Christophe Michel
Le lun 01/12/2003 à 19:21, Michel Dänzer a écrit : Second question: why isn't it possible to have a real console (plain screen) with F2 or F3 ? never worked here. Failsafe console is only a quarter screen ;( Doesn't ctrl-alt(-fn)-Fx work for you? No. Just rebuilt last benh kernel, and

Re: time is two hours off since 2.4.23-rc5-ben0, vdr and vdradmin

2003-12-01 Thread Domingo Fiesta Segura
El Lunes, 1 de Diciembre de 2003 20:00, Christoph Ewering escribió: BTW. Where can I get a rsync-source for a 2.6-*-benh? I only have a rsync-source from Monta Vista. I think that's the one.

Re: First time KDE on an iBook 2.3

2003-12-01 Thread Domingo Fiesta Segura
El Lunes, 1 de Diciembre de 2003 19:32, Lars Noodén escribió: [snip] Fatal server error: no screens found [snip] XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0 after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Re: debian on ibook g4??

2003-12-01 Thread Diana Galletly
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, fabrizio messina wrote: some people just installed debian gnu linux on ibook g4? Yes :-) My Xserver even works now thanks to Colin Leroy giving me his XF86Config with that all-important modeline in it. Only problems that I still have involve gnome and friends, and not

Re: Yet another G4 iBook newbie

2003-12-01 Thread Diana Galletly
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Guido Guenther wrote: This is because you're using radenfb and not of anymore. The flickering goes away once X started up. Well, yes, but perhaps only because I can't get to my VTs any more :-) of==OpenFirmware or something else? -- because I don't think I was still using

Re: First time KDE on an iBook 2.3

2003-12-01 Thread David Pye
You need to first configure X Windows. /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Enjoy! :) David - Original Message - From: Lars Noodén [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 6:32 PM Subject: First time KDE on an iBook 2.3 I picked up one of the phased-out

Re: Sleep problems in kernel 2.6 from mvista.com

2003-12-01 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Do you have X running ? Same problem if not ? Does the screen come back up at all or not ? I've been doing some more tests and the results are random. I tried three ways of suspending the machine: 1.- Closing the lid (pmud). 2.- Issuing the snooze command (pmud-utils). 3.- Some code

Re: Configuring for Diskonkey

2003-12-01 Thread Harvey Ussery
Thanks for the tips, Rogerio. A modprobe vfat was apparently all that was necessary to retrieve that fs support from the kernel. After that, I could mount the diskonkey w no problem. The hotplug install sounds like a good idea--I'll give that a try. Thanks again.--Harvey Rogério Brito

Querying apt-get re: available packages

2003-12-01 Thread Harvey Ussery
I've installed DebianPPC3.0(Woody). How do I query apt-get about availability of a pkg I'm interested in installing? I've entered the index of all 7 of my Debian install cd's onto my system--how do I query that database regarding a particular pkg using an apt-get option? I'm imagining some

Re: Querying apt-get re: available packages

2003-12-01 Thread CWenn
Even easier than that - apt-cache search search terms so you can find packages that sound like what you want, or might do what you want... apt-cache show packagename will return more details on a particular package. No need for messy grepping... Chris Chris Wenn Web Administrator Technology

Disappearance of experimental packages in dselect

2003-12-01 Thread Barry Hawkins
I have been trying to get XFree86 4.3 installed on my 17 PowerBook G4. I am using a 2.4.23 benh kernel, and my sources.list is as follows: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main deb ftp://debian.mirrors.pair.com unstable main deb

Re: Installation on PowerBook G4 (M8859/A) 1GHz ATI 9000

2003-12-01 Thread Johnathon Jamison
This can be done, but there are a couple tricks. This is my machine. I found http://www.cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/ which told how to install on the previous version of the G4, but it worked for me. Basically, the steps are this: 1) Install from the woody install CDs. Make sure

Re: Re : Debian on a BiG5

2003-12-01 Thread tom_gall
On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 03:45 AM, xavier grave wrote: Le 28.11.2003 21:06:38, fleny68 a écrit : Le Vendredi 28 Novembre 2003 15:16, xavier grave a écrit : Hi, I have already a BiG4 1Ghz running a debian. Now I have also a BiG5. How can I create a CD to boot such a beast ? This one

Re: upgrade of kernel breaks drm/dri?

2003-12-01 Thread Colin Leroy
On 30 Nov 2003 at 10h28, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: Hi, drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) I have exactly the same behaviour on iBook G4. /dev/dri is empty.