Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-15 Thread rusty
Hi folks i'm wondering if anybody here knows anything about a near future support for alubook's keyboard backlight. I couldn't found any information about that in the past. Sorry if my english isn't very good, thanks a lot in advance.

RE: Flash plugin for Mozilla-Firebird on ppc

2004-01-15 Thread Colin Charles
On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 03:23, Boehn, Gunnar von wrote: There was once a petition to signup to convince macromedia to create a Flashplayer version for ppc. Maybe this is something we should get done? Maybe you could just email macromedia ? Done before, to no avail :( -- Colin Charles, [EMAIL

Re: 2.6.1-ben1 + XFree86 problem

2004-01-15 Thread Chris Wenn
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 04:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently reinstalled debian on my iBook (12.1 g3 500, r128 video) using the install24 flavour. After upgrading to sid, this left me with a working system with the attached XF86Config-4 Now, on bouncing the kernel

Re: iBook G4 14'' 1Ghz, kernel benh-2.6.0-test11, screen flickering.

2004-01-15 Thread Oriol Pellicer i Sabrià
On dj, 2004-01-15 at 03:50, debppc wrote: Where I can get it??? rsync -avz rsync.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de::linuxppc-2.5-benh . greetings

Re: which video card? (with new computer)

2004-01-15 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qua, 2004-01-14 s 21:27, Derrick 'dman' Hudson escreveu: NVidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra ATI Radeon 9600 Pro ATI Radeon 9800 Pro AFAIK, nVidia is still quite proprietary... few information, a x86-only binary driver... don't know the history on ATi, but my ATi iBook does

Re: 2.6.1-ben1 + XFree86 problem

2004-01-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 08:15, Chris Wenn wrote: Tried... not working... same 'Signal 7' error... Ah, you need to use Option UseFBDev with the r128 driver. -- Earthling Michel Dnzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast|

Re: mac-fdisk and 0x8e partitions for LVM

2004-01-15 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qui, 2004-01-15 s 11:00, Michael Schmitz escreveu: mac-fdisk won't allow me to create a 0x8e partition, thus precluding LVM usage... any solutions in view? Would pmac-fdisk or parted do the job? There's no such thing as a numerical partition type in Apple partition maps. cfdisk

Re: mac-fdisk and 0x8e partitions for LVM

2004-01-15 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qui, 2004-01-15 s 11:55, Michael Schmitz escreveu: Unfortunately I'm no hacker, I am just trying to use LVM on the PowerMac (OldWorld, beige G3). So I can't show you source code. This evening when I get back home I can take note of the error messages and send them, but to sum it

Re: mac-fdisk and 0x8e partitions for LVM

2004-01-15 Thread Simon Vallet
Hi, On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:43:26 -0200 Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You didn't answer my implied question: do you need to keep the Apple partition format, (f.e. because you need to keep MacOS on the machine)? Yes, it is a beige Apple Power

mac53c94.o tainted code !?!? can someone give me some directions...

2004-01-15 Thread Carlos Eduardo Coelho Baptista
Hi everybody, i use a Pmac 8500/[EMAIL PROTECTED] with debian unstable and i always used kernels (both stock and compiled by me) with the 2 SCSI Buses as * (in the kernel) i've just compiled my new kernel , 2.4.24 and it's great , but this time i've compiled support for my external

Re: mac53c94.o tainted code !?!? can someone give me some directions...

2004-01-15 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On jeu, 2004-01-15 at 16:19, Carlos Eduardo Coelho Baptista wrote: today i did this , turned my zip 100 on , and loaded the mac53c94 into kernel... but then the surprise: Jurema:/home/carlos# modprobe mac53c94 Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.24/kernel/drivers/scsi/mac53c94.o will taint

Re: mac-fdisk and 0x8e partitions for LVM

2004-01-15 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qui, 2004-01-15 s 13:05, Simon Vallet escreveu: On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:43:26 -0200 Leandro Guimares Faria Corcete Dutra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it is a beige Apple Power Macintosh G3 which does need BootX. quik and floppy don't boot it without serious hacking, I hear,

Re: mac-fdisk and 0x8e partitions for LVM

2004-01-15 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qui, 2004-01-15 s 12:59, Michael Schmitz escreveu: Yes, it is a beige Apple Power Macintosh G3 which does need BootX. So you do indeed need to keep the original partition format. Without Apple partition support in LVM, you could always try a sick hack: Add a PC style partition table

Re: mac53c94.o tainted code !?!? can someone give me somedirections...

2004-01-15 Thread Colin Leroy
what this means ??? that mac53c94 uses proprietary/closed-source code is this bad at all? mac53c94.c seems to not define MODULE_LICENSE, making it considered as proprietary. Perhaps is that a (cosmetic) bug ? Probably. 2.6 version of this file does define it as GPL. -- Colin Ne disez

Re: mac-fdisk and 0x8e partitions for LVM

2004-01-15 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qui, 2004-01-15 s 14:05, Michael Schmitz escreveu: It does make sense, but not in the sense of actually knowing how to do it! ;-) In other words, gimme references (URLs, HOWTOs etc) and I'll try. That's what I meant by 'if it doesn't make sense, don't try'. I have no

Re: Kernel 2.4.18-powerpc using BootX

2004-01-15 Thread Nathanael Hasbrouck
Dang, hit reply instead of reply to list - sorry about the private mail Brad. On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:46:40PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: I've replaced the original SCSI CD-ROM drive (2-x speed) with a SCSI CD-R/W drive (32-x speed) [[Aside: The MacOS9 CD driver won't talk to this CD-R/W

Re: Powerbook g3 pcmcia in 2.6.1-ben

2004-01-15 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On Thursday 15 January 2004 08:40, Uwe Steinmann wrote: Maybe it helps. I have set include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x800-0x8ff, port 0xc00-0xcff include memory 0x9000-0xA0ff in my config.opts, which works perfectly for 2.4.21 but crashes 2.6.0-test11. It is also a pismo. Thanks --

Re: Debian-installer powerpc status and beta2.

2004-01-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:59:02PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: * Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-14 16:19]: | Subarches that may work, but where nobody tested are : | | - chrp and chrp/rs6k. The problem here is, to boot the system with the default d-i kernel, which doesn't work

Problem with xfree config on albook 15'

2004-01-15 Thread RABARISOA Jaonary
Hi all, I've juste began to install debian on powerbook alu 15'. For this I've use the latest debian-install (2004 / 01 / 14 build). Every things went well until the xfree configuration. I juste can't do right config. It seems that xfree can't detect my video card (an ATI card ). Soo if any

Re: Can I Install AND boot a new Kernel on an OldWorld PMac?

2004-01-15 Thread Rick Thomas
It's worth a try, and I'll try it. But I still think I've got problems once the kernel loads. After all, BootX can do that part OK, and quik isn't going to do anything more than BootX does. What explains the black screen? I tell BootX to load the 2.4.18 kernel, make sure that the use frame

Re: mac-fdisk and 0x8e partitions for LVM

2004-01-15 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi, On 15 Jan, this message from Simon Vallet echoed through cyberspace: On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:43:26 -0200 Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You didn't answer my implied question: do you need to keep the Apple partition format, (f.e. because you need to

Re: Can I Install AND boot a new Kernel on an OldWorld PMac?

2004-01-15 Thread Rick Thomas
It can't be an XF86 configuration problem, since we've never gotten that far. The screen goes black as soon as BootX loads the new kernel, and never returns. I never see the scrolling text messages that Linux usually displays while booting. Rick Rick Thomas wrote: I tell BootX to load

Re: compiler flags

2004-01-15 Thread Mich Lanners
On 14 Jan, this message from Chris Anderson echoed through cyberspace: On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 11:22, Boehn, Gunnar von wrote: Hello everybody, MySQL will soon provide precompiled packages for PowerPC as well. I think they will provide tgz for MySQL 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0 I just spoke to the

Re: Powerbook g3 pcmcia in 2.6.1-ben

2004-01-15 Thread Uwe Steinmann
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:17:08PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 01:25, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, david 'fenrus' syk wrote: Have anyone gotten the one pcmcia-slot in one of the pismo (PowerBook g3, firewire400) machines working with

Re: 2.6.1-ben1 + XFree86 problem

2004-01-15 Thread Chris Wenn
Michel Dnzer wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 08:15, Chris Wenn wrote: Tried... not working... same 'Signal 7' error... Ah, you need to use Option UseFBDev with the r128 driver. Now I get 'Fatal server error: No Screens found' - i have framebuffer support compiled in to the kernel,

Re: 2.6.1-ben1 + XFree86 problem

2004-01-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 02:00, Chris Wenn wrote: Michel Dnzer wrote: Ah, you need to use Option UseFBDev with the r128 driver. Now I get 'Fatal server error: No Screens found' - That's a generic error, more information is required in general... i have framebuffer support compiled in to

Re: Keyboard backlight support in the near future?

2004-01-15 Thread Alexander Clausen
Hi Rusty On Do, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:54:24 +0100, rusty wrote: Hi folks i'm wondering if anybody here knows anything about a near future support for alubook's keyboard backlight. I couldn't found any information about that in the past. I'm working on it, my little program

Re: which video card? (with new computer)

2004-01-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:27:31PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: I'm looking at options for a new computer, in particular one of the G5 workstations. It has the option of one of three video cards : NVidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra ATI Radeon 9600 Pro ATI Radeon 9800 Pro I

Re: mac-fdisk and 0x8e partitions for LVM

2004-01-15 Thread Michael Schmitz
To reiterate: I don't see any solution without making LVM accept Apple partition maps in the first place. Which part of LVM checks the partition type? Can you show me some sample code? Unfortunately I'm no hacker, I am just trying to use LVM on the PowerMac (OldWorld, beige G3). So

Re: mac-fdisk and 0x8e partitions for LVM

2004-01-15 Thread Michael Schmitz
parted should indeed use names on Apple partitioned disks; LVM (from what I gather) doesn't cope with names here. Too bad... I guess not even LVM2? Honestly, I don't know. I've never tried LVM on PowerPC. You didn't answer my implied question: do you need to keep the Apple

Re: mac53c94.o tainted code !?!? can someone give me some directions...

2004-01-15 Thread Michael Schmitz
what this means ??? that mac53c94 uses proprietary/closed-source code is this bad at all? The driver doesn't explicitly declare a license. In 2.6.1, this has been corrected. Ignore. Michael

Re: mac-fdisk and 0x8e partitions for LVM

2004-01-15 Thread Michael Schmitz
This hack is not for the faint of heart, and I cannot stress enough that you need to have a backup of your partition maps (the first few sectors of the disk), as well as a method to restore the maps (booting from floppy, or some such, with another floppy holding the backup) before even

Can't configure network right

2004-01-15 Thread Steven Schlansker
I got my driver issues fixed, now it just won't send any data. Any ping requests other than itself and broadcast return Network is unreachable, and dhclient fails with DHCPDISCOVER, hanging forever waiting for a response. If I ping 192.168.0.255 (this is a local IP), it only shows itself. I

Re: Powerbook g3 pcmcia in 2.6.1-ben

2004-01-15 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Maybe it helps. I have set include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x800-0x8ff, port 0xc00-0xcff include memory 0x9000-0xA0ff in my config.opts, which works perfectly for 2.4.21 but crashes 2.6.0-test11. It is also a pismo. What is the output of /proc/ioports and /proc/iomem on your

Re: Can I Install AND boot a new Kernel on an OldWorld PMac?

2004-01-15 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks Nathanael! That fixed it (sorta! read on...) I tried booting the 2.4.18 kernel using BootX with both the video options off (no video driver and force video settings) and I got the expected familiar scrolling text status messages and a login: prompt. (Whoopee!) I could log in and do