Re: XFree86 on Albook 15?

2004-02-19 Thread Federico Gamio
El vie, 12-12-2003 a las 03:03, Ryan Verner escribió: Hiya, I'm a proud owner of a new 15 1.25ghz (w/ Superdrive) Powerbook Welcome... :) , and although OS X runs beautifully on this, I'm keen to dual boot it with a small Debian install; my previous laptop (15 500mhz Powerbook) absolutely

Request rebuild of cernlib on mips and powerpc

2004-02-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi all, I'm requesting a rebuild of cernlib 2003.09.03-3 on mips and powerpc for the following reasons: - the mips build failed apparently due to the hijack of xfree86 earlier this month, with package dependency errors:

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15?

2004-02-19 Thread Federico Gamio
El vie, 12-12-2003 a las 03:03, Ryan Verner escribió: Hiya, I'm a proud owner of a new 15 1.25ghz (w/ Superdrive) Powerbook Welcome :) I followed various instructions to get it all installed via a later kernel/yaboot, then compiled my own kernel from rsync'ing ben's sources. This all

Security fix and 2.4.24 pseudo -benh packets.

2004-02-19 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, I have built security unstable packages (2.4.22-10 currently in the archive) for the latest security issue. testing user should get those in 2 or 3 days, but can in the meantime install them with : apt-get install -t unstable. Furthermore, i have rebuilt the 2.4.24 packages, which

Re: atyfb broken in linux-2.6.3-rc2-ben1 and later kernels

2004-02-19 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Sebastian Klemke wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:51:07PM +0100, Sebastian Klemke wrote: Current benh kernel (2.6.3-rc2-ben1 and up) just throws me into xmon when trying to initialize the framebuffer console on my iBook Tangerine. I have CONFIG_FB_ATY_GENERIC_LCD set

Re: CUPS 1.1.20final-14 is a kernel 2.6 killer on PPC

2004-02-19 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 00:52, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: I'm on an iMac CRT (rev.D, 333MHz). Today's CUPS upgrade in Sarge manages to kill kernels upon loading: 1) Why do I get this timeout on IrDA port, even though this hardware has

Please advise iBook/Powerbook purchase

2004-02-19 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'm a very happy iBook user on Debian testing. I use the fluxbox and performance is fine for my uses (95% xterms + firefox). However my screen is giving out and I need another machine. The ability for it to sleep and wireless support is a major concern. Apart from that I don't have many other

Fwd: Apple iBook G4 GNU/Linux (Debian) compatibility?

2004-02-19 Thread mike dentifrice
I'm forwarding this mail here, since I got no answer (yet) on [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Forwarded message - From: mike dentifrice [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:17:50 -0500 Subject: Apple iBook G4 GNU/Linux (Debian) compatibility? User-Agent:

Re: atyfb broken in linux-2.6.3-rc2-ben1 and later kernels

2004-02-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
It worked fine until the latest framebuffer merges (of course without CONFIG_FB_ATY_GENERIC_LCD, which did not exist before the merges). In 2.4, CONFIG_FB_ATY_GENERIC_LCD depends on ia32. We should fix that indeed. I found other problems with the new atyfb from James tree (which is what

Re: Solid lockup on latest benh 2.6 kernel + PB 12

2004-02-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 04:47, David Pye wrote: Hi, my dmesg and kern.log seem full of info which floods the useful info you requested. I did spot it mentioning initialising OpenFirmware framebuffer driver. Any idea of how to get the whole dmesg output? Also, I get many copies of this

Re: Apple iBook G4 GNU/Linux (Debian) compatibility?

2004-02-19 Thread Colin Leroy
- sleep mode: whereas previous iBooks had perfect Linux support for suspend, it doesn't (yet?) work on the newer G4. Any information on the development status? In short, is there any hope for a sleep support in the future? Is it scheduled? Etc. not (yet). Missing info about how to reboot the

Re: Apple iBook G4 GNU/Linux (Debian) compatibility?

2004-02-19 Thread Oriol Pellicer i Sabrià
A Dijous 19 Febrer 2004 14:48, Colin Leroy va escriure: I don't know, but I know that there are some USB Wifi adapters that work. Yes, I have this one: http://www.trendnet.com/sp/products/TEW-229UB.htm and it works perfectly with my Ibook G4 14. The drivers are here:

Re: Need testers: G3 @ G4 laptops (powerbooks ibooks)

2004-02-19 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, I've been running your patch for the last 24 hours and didn't notice any issues. Seems to work. Ciao, Viktor Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Hi need people who own those machiens, especially the recent iBook2 models with a G3 CPU and titanium powerbooks with a G4, to test this patch and

Re: iMac things

2004-02-19 Thread Michael Schmitz
Could you try showkey, Iain? The keyboard power button says Keycode 116. The monitor power button doesn't show anything with showkeys. Same as my Powerbook. The monitor power button isn't expected to produce a keycode, I think. Did you get both key down and key up events?? How would I go

Re: iMac things

2004-02-19 Thread Michael Schmitz
Some more comments: The power button. It currently does nothing. How do I trap it? (My lusers are unable to cope with the concept of shutting down, so it has been on the receiving end of some not-so-gentle power-offs.) It would be quite handy to do suspends too. Problem is, I have no

PowerMac 7200

2004-02-19 Thread Tomy Alarie
Hi, i'm new to this list and i want to know if it's possible to install debian on powermac 7200 and how to ? Is there a site which explain that in details ? thanks - e6e9fe46b17fa16d9a250d4189e8f0cd fingerprint Quadra 650 | Debian 3.0r2 | m68k

Re: PowerMac 7200

2004-02-19 Thread Luc Lefebvre
It is possible, I have done it. If I recall correctly, I did it using a set of official debian CDs but had to boot from debian boot floppies to do the install. On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:09:38 + Tomy Alarie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i'm new to this list and i want to know if it's possible

Re: PowerMac 7200

2004-02-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/02/04 16:09), Tomy Alarie wrote: Hi, i'm new to this list and i want to know if it's possible to install debian on powermac 7200 and how to ? Is there a site which explain that in details ? thanks Compatability list is at: http://penguinppc.org/projects/hw/pmac.shtml Installation

Re: PowerMac 7200

2004-02-19 Thread CaRLoS mOGUeL
Hi... It´s on the compatibility list... so, it´s possible ! http://penguinppc.org/projects/hw/pmac.shtml This is a good place to start: http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ Blessings... Carlos. --- Tomy Alarie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i'm new to this list and i want to know if it's

Re: Please advise iBook/Powerbook purchase

2004-02-19 Thread Matthew H. Ray
--- Rory Campbell-Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a very happy iBook user on Debian testing. I use the fluxbox and performance is fine for my uses (95% xterms + firefox). However my screen is giving out and I need another machine. The ability for it to sleep and wireless support is a major

Re: Solid lockup on latest benh 2.6 kernel + PB 12

2004-02-19 Thread David Pye
Hi Ben, I've recompiled using the provided configs, and that nasty IN message is gone. However, the FB freeze still exists, even with video=ofonly. Here's the dmesg attached: However, I've narrowed the cause of this framebuffer hang (happens with rivafb and ofonly video). A long line

Re: Writing a HOWTO about debian on iBook G4 | hardware informations

2004-02-19 Thread Sbastien FRANOIS
Hello It could be interesting to include a preliminary section about the hardware components of this machine or at least a link to an Apple page with that information. I started a such section, let me know if things are missing http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto.html thanks

Re: Solid lockup on latest benh 2.6 kernel + PB 12

2004-02-19 Thread Adam D
On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 05:22, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 12:36, David Pye wrote: Hi, I've got an Albook G4 12 powerbook (NVidia GFX) and I have been experiencing a number of hard crashes since installing the latest benh rsync'd kernel and Debian Sid (same

Re: People with ATAPI problems: possible fix

2004-02-19 Thread Stefan Berndtsson
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi ! Recently, there have been lost of reports of ATAPI issues, typically with CD/DVD burners, where DMA would be disabled for no obvious reasons, with the driver spitting a message about a timeout waiting for dbdma command stop. The

Re: PowerMac 7200

2004-02-19 Thread Rolando Abarca
yes, it's possible. I have recently (last month) installed woody on my 7200/90 and then apt-get dist upgraded it to testing. runs fine. I installed it using boot floppies, but from hard disk and then a net install: downloaded root.bin, linux.bin (I think that's the name of the 2.2.x kernel that

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2004-02-19 Thread Tomas Haynes
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Re: People with ATAPI problems: possible fix

2004-02-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
First impression is that it seems to work. It no longer claims to kill DMA when running growisofs, and it is still active when writing is done. And the actual datas on the written media are ok ? Ben.

Re: PowerMac 7200

2004-02-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 04:09:38PM +, Tomy Alarie wrote: Hi, i'm new to this list and i want to know if it's possible to install debian on powermac 7200 and how to ? Is there a site which explain that in details ? Yes, it is possible, but my wife's PowerMac 7200 was hand-installed by Dan

Re: iBook screen cloning.

2004-02-19 Thread Juan Pablo Mendoza
Hi, Again replaying to myself, in case anyone cares i got the vt switching working with the last BenH 2.6 kernel. So i have the screen cloning working in my ibook g3 800Mhz with a hacked X to hardcode some values from the radeonfb sources and everything works nice. On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 13:23,

Re: People with ATAPI problems: possible fix

2004-02-19 Thread Stefan Berndtsson
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First impression is that it seems to work. It no longer claims to kill DMA when running growisofs, and it is still active when writing is done. And the actual datas on the written media are ok ? At least the parts of the movie I looked at