ibook display died!!

2003-12-08 Thread Nirmal Govind
Hi.. the display in my ibook (800 Mhz G3, Nov 2002) just died and I have no idea what caused it.. I can hear it boot up properly but nothing shows up on the screen... initially, the screen just froze while I was on linux and then I had to remove the battery to get it to reboot but now I don't get a

Re: iBook G4 800MHz configuration

2003-12-08 Thread IoGuiX ''JGuillaume de Rorthais\"
Hello, Mmmmh...yes, sorry, I tested lots of things, but my xserver still failed... :( Certainly I didn't make something(s), but I really tested and follow lots of instructions... Before explain some of my actions, here my situation now: when I launch "XFree86 -xf86config XF86Config-4.radeon",

Re: PPC Kernel Newbie

2003-12-08 Thread Nathanael Hasbrouck
On Monday 08 December 2003 19:00, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I have rolled 1000 kernels on my x86 machines, and have one last PPC > machine to finish. Where do I get the standard kernel sources? Do I use > the same sources from kernel.org? I personally usually use rsync instead of bkbits, you ca

Re: also sound and lost cpu

2003-12-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 11:38, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > Hi Ben, > > I also seem to be having sound troubles with 2.6.0 that do not happen with > 2.4.23. I have buyilt 2.6.0-test11 with i2c-keywest built in and not as a > module so I can't try the rmmod trick. > > I will rebuild and revert to

Re: CloneMode problems on iBook G4

2003-12-08 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 15:31, Colin Leroy wrote: > > I'm trying to use my ibook's mirror mode. I plugged a Sony 210ES screen to to > VGA adapter after boot and before X starts (else I get an openfirmware > screen). > The problem is that the CRT screen is set up with a mode like 320x240. > > An

also sound and lost cpu

2003-12-08 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi Ben, I also seem to be having sound troubles with 2.6.0 that do not happen with 2.4.23. I have buyilt 2.6.0-test11 with i2c-keywest built in and not as a module so I can't try the rmmod trick. I will rebuild and revert to keeping it a module. The real issue is that I have run into one of m

Re: PPC Kernel Newbie

2003-12-08 Thread Sebastian D.B. Krause
Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have rolled 1000 kernels on my x86 machines, and have one last PPC > machine to finish. Where do I get the standard kernel sources? Do I use > the same sources from kernel.org? Yes, they just build normally on ppc as well. Or you use some speciali

Re: minor sound issues on iBook with 2.6.0-test11

2003-12-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> On system boot, alsa is started without any error; but when I try to > play any sound, no sound at all comes out from the laptop: I launch play > somefile.wav and it gives no errors at all complaining about devices or > anything, it just does not make any sound at all. I noticed the same proble

PPC Kernel Newbie

2003-12-08 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I have rolled 1000 kernels on my x86 machines, and have one last PPC machine to finish. Where do I get the standard kernel sources? Do I use the same sources from kernel.org? I usually use the "Stable" version for all of my other machines, and have never had a problem.. Please excuse the newbie q

Re: IBM RS/6000 B50 problems

2003-12-08 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Olaf Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-08 20:50]: | On Mon, Dec 08, Thorsten Sauter wrote: | | > But I can play with the cdrom a little bit. | | just put the zImage.*chrk-rs6k on an ordinary iso and do a | | boot cdrom:filename mykerneloptions | | no need for yaboot. but how can I load th

Re: minor sound issues on iBook with 2.6.0-test11

2003-12-08 Thread Kiko Piris
On 09/12/2003 at 09:42, Stewart Smith wrote: > the pc speaker module would be just for the PC Speaker - that not very > good speaker found in all Intel/AMD boxes since year dot. Poor sound, > not very wide range, but enough to produce beeps. It's got nothing to do > on other systems - so is useles

Re: minor sound issues on iBook with 2.6.0-test11

2003-12-08 Thread Stewart Smith
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 02:46, Kiko Piris wrote: > It's not a muted channel issue. There's a channel called "pc speaker" > (which I had enabled). > > I saw something in syslog that I had missed before: > > When I load pcspkr module, this two lines appear: > > | Dec 8 16:35:49 [kernel] input: PC S

Freezing problem with beige G3 tower during I/O

2003-12-08 Thread Brian Adam Pike
I've got a beige G3 tower that I've been trying to install debian on. I can get it installed, but it tends to freeze hard (no kernel messages, no nothing) when doing intensive I/O. I thought it could be a hardware problem, so I disconnected all the PCI cards and drives except for the hard drive a

Re: IBM RS/6000 B50 problems

2003-12-08 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Dec 08, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > But I can play with the cdrom a little bit. just put the zImage.*chrk-rs6k on an ordinary iso and do a boot cdrom:filename mykerneloptions no need for yaboot. -- USB is for mice, FireWire is for men! sUse lINUX ag, nÜRNBERG

Re: IBM RS/6000 B50 problems

2003-12-08 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Leigh Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-08 11:30]: | Pah. Not at all, just somebody's misguided coding. The patch at the | end would make things a bit less confusing for those without a text | LCD display. ok. :-) | I think you need to make a bootable CD using yaboot. I've heard that | CHRPs

Patch for M3 external monitor for 2.6 kernel

2003-12-08 Thread Antonio Messina
Hi all! Sorry for my poor english :-) I have an iBook 2002 (dual usb+fw+aty128) which have the problem, just discussed on the list, on the external CRT (solved with http://stampflee.com/kernel/aty128fb-m3fixes.diff). I tested 2.6 benh kernel (test11), and i tried to modify the patch to solve th

Re: Getting a cursor in console

2003-12-08 Thread Joe Malik
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:45:02PM -0500, Harvey Ussery wrote: > I installed DebianPPC3.0(Woody) on an 800Mhz iMac 17"LCD. When working > in Debian in a console, either from the command line or within a text > editor (nano), I don't have a cursor marking the point of input. This is > a little di

Re: trouble using IBM 1.4.1 jdk for ppc on Debian

2003-12-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:20:20AM -0500, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > Hi, > > > Nope, setting JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE to any value from 0 to 8 doesn't seem > > to help. Setting JAVA_COMPILER=NONE worked, but there is not JIT then. > > The code in the JIT looks in /proc/cpuinfo and parses it to try to

Water Resources Forums

2003-12-08 Thread Tim Johnson
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Re: minor sound issues on iBook with 2.6.0-test11

2003-12-08 Thread Kiko Piris
On 08/12/2003 at 14:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > this is a known problem that is yet unfixed. A workaround is to add the line > > postinstall dma_pmac insmod i2c_keywest && rmmod i2c_keywest > > to /etc/modutils/alsa and run 'update-modules' as root. This will > automatically > do the relev

Re: trouble using IBM 1.4.1 jdk for ppc on Debian

2003-12-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 09:51:36AM -0500, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > Hi, > > If you search the archives here you will find a mail I sent to Ben and a few > others a while back that describes an environment variable you can set to > force the JIT to recognize your processor (lie to it and tell i

Re: trouble using IBM 1.4.1 jdk for ppc on Debian

2003-12-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 09:34:54AM -0500, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > Hi, > > Make sure you have the very very latest version of the IBM jdk 1.4.1 for > p-series. A previous version had a "bug" that created illegal instruction > when using the JIT for some processor types it could not identify.

Re: trouble using IBM 1.4.1 jdk for ppc on Debian

2003-12-08 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, > Nope, setting JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE to any value from 0 to 8 doesn't seem > to help. Setting JAVA_COMPILER=NONE worked, but there is not JIT then. The code in the JIT looks in /proc/cpuinfo and parses it to try to detect processor type. Is there some strange restriction on your processor ty

Re: trouble using IBM 1.4.1 jdk for ppc on Debian

2003-12-08 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, If you search the archives here you will find a mail I sent to Ben and a few others a while back that describes an environment variable you can set to force the JIT to recognize your processor (lie to it and tell it is is a 604e system). I have a dual G4 machine and it now works fine. I t

Re: trouble using IBM 1.4.1 jdk for ppc on Debian

2003-12-08 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, Make sure you have the very very latest version of the IBM jdk 1.4.1 for p-series. A previous version had a "bug" that created illegal instruction when using the JIT for some processor types it could not identify. The very latest version of the IBM JDK no longer has that problem on my mac

Re: trouble using IBM 1.4.1 jdk for ppc on Debian

2003-12-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:41:43AM +0100, Frank Routier wrote: > Sure, > > you can find it here : > > https://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/lxdk/lxdk-p > > To go there, you can also go to www.ibm.com, follow developpers - java > technology - IBM jdk > > Latest 1.4.1 version (SR3 ?) works fine on m

Re: minor sound issues on iBook with 2.6.0-test11

2003-12-08 Thread news . malik
> Hi, > > I've compiled Ben's 2.6.0-test11 this week for the first time on my > iBook (2.3, g3 900MHz, w/ radeon M7). > > I have a couple of minor issues with it. Let me explain: > > 1.- alsa start on boot > > On system boot, alsa is started without any error; but when I try to > play any sound

minor sound issues on iBook with 2.6.0-test11

2003-12-08 Thread Kiko Piris
Hi, I've compiled Ben's 2.6.0-test11 this week for the first time on my iBook (2.3, g3 900MHz, w/ radeon M7). I have a couple of minor issues with it. Let me explain: 1.- alsa start on boot On system boot, alsa is started without any error; but when I try to play any sound, no sound at all come

Re: Sleep problems in kernel 2.6 from mvista.com

2003-12-08 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 21:51, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Aaron Schrab wrote: > > At 21:36 +0100 07 Dec 2003, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Aaron Schrab wrote: > > > > At 11:34 +0100 07 Dec 2003, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: IBM RS/6000 B50 problems

2003-12-08 Thread Leigh Brown
Thorsten Sauter said: > I'm trying to install Debian Stable (or unstable) on a new IBM RS/6000 > B50. But I'm unable to boot any kernel (or the installation system). > As I know, the Debian boot-floppies doesn't support this hardware type > directly, so I have create my own floppies: > 1. downloade

IBM RS/6000 B50 problems

2003-12-08 Thread Thorsten Sauter
Hi PowerPC gurus :-) I'm trying to install Debian Stable (or unstable) on a new IBM RS/6000 B50. But I'm unable to boot any kernel (or the installation system). As I know, the Debian boot-floppies doesn't support this hardware type directly, so I have create my own floppies: 1. downloaded the res