build failure of 2.6.3-ben2

2004-02-21 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
I've just rsync'd from source.mvista.com::linuxppc-2.5-benh and tried to build a kernel for my tibook, and I'm getting the following error: willow% make ... CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x46d68): In function `start_request': :

Re: build failure of 2.6.3-ben2

2004-02-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Disable CONFIG_LBD Ben.

Re: Kernel Backtrace 2.6.3-ben1

2004-02-21 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 the mental interface of Benjamin Herrenschmidt told: > On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 04:51, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>tty8 /source/gnupg $ dpkg-source -x gnupg_1.2.4-3.dsc > > dpkg-source: extracting gnupg in gnupg-1.2.4 > > Bad page state at prep_new_page > > fl

Re: Kernel Backtrace 2.6.3-ben1

2004-02-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> That only happens in 2.6.3-(rc?)-ben1. 2.6.2 works well from vt`s > and X. I am running fbgetty, maybe that causes the backtrace? As > well i have CONFIG_GEN_RTC=m CONFIG_GEN_RTC_X=y. Well, how often does it happen ? Is it 100% reproduceable ? What is fbgetty ? Ben.

Re: iBook screen cloning.

2004-02-21 Thread Christophe Lejeune
Hi, I am reading this discussion with interest. Do you thing this have a chance to work with an ATI Rage card ? Hoping not being completely out of topic... Thank for your work ! Christophe -- Christophe Lejeune http://www.smess.egss.ulg.ac.be/lejeune/ Gnu/Linux Debian (unstable) with 2.4.20-

Re: build failure of 2.6.3-ben2

2004-02-21 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >Disable CONFIG_LBD Sweet, thanks :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~jaq

Re: Kernel Backtrace 2.6.3-ben1

2004-02-21 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 the mental interface of Benjamin Herrenschmidt told: > > > That only happens in 2.6.3-(rc?)-ben1. 2.6.2 works well from vt`s > > and X. I am running fbgetty, maybe that causes the backtrace? As > > well i have CONFIG_GEN_RTC=m CONFIG_GEN_RTC_X=y. > > Well, how often does it

xcdroast-scsi bus

2004-02-21 Thread Adrian Crisan
hi all, i have an external scsi cd/rw yamaha (club mac) attached on my beige g3. if i don't turn on the external cd/rw at the boot time when i start xcdroast is giving me this message "Something on the SCSI-Bus has changed. Please check your writer and reader configuration in Setup" and on t

Modem

2004-02-21 Thread Luis Miguel Cabezas
Hi. I have a ibook G4 800Mhz Radeon 9200. I don´t know if my modem is compatible with Debian. Any people with the same ibook have been using the modem?? Thanks and sorry for my english.

Re: xcdroast-scsi bus

2004-02-21 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 09:42:47AM -0500, Adrian Crisan wrote: > How can I fix this? I mean to have the cdrw turned on after boot and > be seen by my debian system. Thanks, _adrian_ You shouldn't do that. The built-in SCSI controller on this (and every other with onboard SCSI) Macintosh is not des

iBookG4 pseudo-sleep / 2.6.3 problems

2004-02-21 Thread Sébastien FRANÇOIS
Hello, I have met a problem when leaving my laptop using the new 2.6.3 kernel, it sometimes sleep, but no in a manner I'd want, it simply shutdown, without saving anything ... I have not found out yet how long it takes for it to stop, I will keep you informed seb __

Re: iBook screen cloning.

2004-02-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 23:55, Christophe Lejeune wrote: > Hi, > > I am reading this discussion with interest. > Do you thing this have a chance to work with an ATI Rage card ? > Hoping not being completely out of topic... The Rage 128 M3 ? (There are a bunch of different chips called "Rage") So f

Re: Kernel Backtrace 2.6.3-ben1

2004-02-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 00:28, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 the mental interface of > Benjamin Herrenschmidt told: > > > > > > That only happens in 2.6.3-(rc?)-ben1. 2.6.2 works well from vt`s > > > and X. I am running fbgetty, maybe that causes the backtrace? As > > > well i ha

Re: iMac things

2004-02-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 01:28, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > 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 t

Re: iBook screen cloning.

2004-02-21 Thread Christophe Lejeune
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: The Rage 128 M3 ? (There are a bunch of different chips called "Rage") So far, nothing is implemented by Owen's hack for M3s. According to lspci, it is an ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) 00:10.0 VGA compatible controller:

Re: Kernel Backtrace 2.6.3-ben1

2004-02-21 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 the mental interface of Benjamin Herrenschmidt told: > On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 00:28, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 the mental interface of > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt told: > > > > > > > > > That only happens in 2.6.3-(rc?)-ben1. 2.6.2 works well from vt`s

Re: Airport Extreme Linux support [was: Apple iBook G4 & GNU/Linux (Debian) compatibility?]

2004-02-21 Thread mike dentifrice
Colin Leroy a dit: > > - 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). Mis

Re: USB wireless stick [was: Apple iBook G4 & GNU/Linux (Debian) compatibility?]

2004-02-21 Thread mike dentifrice
Oriol Pellicer i Sabrià a dit: > 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".

Re: Kernel Backtrace 2.6.3-ben1

2004-02-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> I have set > # CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set > and under heavily switching from X to console and using some console > progs like mplayer, mutt and vim it seems to be ok now ;-) But why > is CONFIG_PREEMPT=y recomended for desktop systems like mine? CONFIG_PREEMPT isn't recommended at all, at least

Installing Debian using debian-sarge-netinst.iso (powerpc)

2004-02-21 Thread sebyte
Hi all. First of all, apologies if this is not the correct mailing list for a newbie-ish question. (I have done some reading! ). As debian-sarge-netinst.iso is under development and I am trying to use it to install Debian on a PowerPC, (Apple G4), I thought debian-powerpc and debian-boot were p